Hello!
Is the site http://www.alsa-project.org really down for some days now?
Seems like it is, unless my Internet connection has a problem.
And in any caser, is there a mirror out somewhere? I want to set up alsa
but can't, because all the docs are on that site.
--
Sincerely yours, Mikhail Ramendik
Hi
This is my first post to this list. I have been working with both windows and
mac for years as a hobby studio technician with some education in then field.
My day-work is teaching music in secondary school and at the teacher trainers
college here in Stavanger Norway. However I have converted to Mandrake Linux
for my office computer on which I'm at present finishing the first half of
my phd on, but I have been reluctant to try it for music.
After having read about the agnula project and found Thac's RPM's
(http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.1.html) for mandrake plus having heard on the
PCDAW(a)yahoogroups.com mailing list that a few people actually do work
solemnly on linux for studio work I'm tempted to follow. I'll probably lurk
here for some time first, but a few questions:
I have installed rosegarden from thac's RPMs and it seems to be working. Looks
a lot like Cubase which I know well. The problem is that my trident card
(we're now talking about my office box, I have a staudio C-port system on my
music box) apparantly is not supported for interal midi in alsa. I don't know
if that's the reason, but when I start rosegarden I get the message
"sequenzer exited" and then rosegarden starts, but of course with no sound
from midi. This is what is in the sequenszer configuration section: "
"-malsa_seq". Brahms starts fine, but of course no sound.
How would I go about getting softsynths to work? I know Jack is the way. Arts
is installed by KDE. Do I have to disable that? Are there any step by step
instructions or automated setup programs to fix this for me? And is it
possible to use VSTi's under Jack via the vst-server? If it is - how? And
what is the simplest jack patchbay program to use?
I plan to try rosegarden for composing and Ardour for multitracking
eventually.
That was quite a few questions. PLease be gentle as I'm not a very
linux-literate user. Point and click is sort of my thing, but I love to learn
and is quite stubborn..
Hope for some input
Best regards
Ketil Thorgersen
Mark wrote:
>Ron,
>
>There I found jSynthLib, which says it handles SysEx on its
>documentation page. Don't know I'd want to be tied to Java though.
>
>http://www.overwhelmed.org/jsynthlib/
>
>Anyway, I think you'll probably find something pretty nice pretty
>quickly if you look in this basic patch librarian area.
>
I downloaded jsynthlib about a week ago because I need to install a newer os into the Andromeda here.
I haven't found the time to even try jsynthlib on something simpler first, but it seems like it would be great if it works.
Ron, could you post to the list if this works? I would really appreciate it.
Tracey.
Hi Chris
I meant hardware, so what was suggested was correct.
Luke.
At 02:00 AM 4/12/2003, you wrote:
>I thought the original poster was asking for a software equivalent of
>the controllers in keyboards like those.
>
>Which would be quite a neat thing although perhaps hard to operate in
>real-time. I don't know of one, though I'm sure someone is about to
>pop up and tell me I could build one with pd.
Greetings:
Once again I've updated the Linux soundapps sites. All sites are
current and can be accessed via these URLs :
http://linux-sound.org (USA)
http://www.linuxsound.at (Europe)
http://linuxsound.jp/ (Japan)
Many thanks to Frank Barknecht for his assistance with linuxsound.at.
Many thanks also to all my site providers: the mirrors have been donated
by their respective owners as a service to the community, for which I am
most grateful.
Enjoy !
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
Congratulations to Dave Phillips for outstanding round up of softsynths
in May 2003 Linux Journal.
Now if we all voted with e-mails to Linux Journal, perhaps we could
influence the editors to open up a monthly column on audio with Dave on
the masthead.
Again, many thanks and fine job Dave.
Best wishes,
Lloyd R. Prentice
Hello!
Is there a soft synth for Linux that can be on a par with Gigastudio,
preferrably even be able to use Gigastudio samples/instruments?
(For now fluidsynth works fine for me, but I'm thinking of a possible
future. If I start on Linux, I want to be bale to go all teh way to pro
level on Linux as well).
--
Sincerely yours, Mikhail Ramendik
Greetings:
I'm writing to the lists in the hope of finding someone who can advise
me on contacting someone in charge of www.linuxsound.at in Austria. The
former contact was Georg Hitsch, I've written to him but as yet have
received no reply. The site is still on-line, but for some reason I can
longer log in to update it. Thus only the US and Japanese sites have
been updated recently.
Any assistance will be vastly appreciated.
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
Currently listening to: King Sunny Ade, "Ja Funmi"
Hello!
I want to work with fluidsynth, researden, etc. Seems like I need to
install jack.
But, I use KDE, and it installs arts.
Is there a way to make them work together, and without an increase in
latency at that&
--
Sincerely yours, Mikhail Ramendik
I would like purchase a very simple and straight forward USB<->SPDIF
converter and do full duplex streaming (i.e. record sound from SPDIF output
device, process the sound in Linux and play it back to SPDIF device in
real-time).
Would LOVE to know if anyone can recommend any of such devices (esp. from
personal experience, for example Edirol/Roland UA-1D or Opcode DatPort
appear to be such devices - only do they work on Linux...)
USB<->SPDIF converter *must* work in *full duplex* mode (with ALSA generic
USB driver or any other if such is available for Linux).
If you do have something to recommend, then I would like to stretch your
patience and ask you a question regarding the device/model of your choice:
considering, that USB<->SPDIF converter is capable of recording SPDIF
signal - I presume that it is capable of syncing to incoming input (i.e.
otherwise clicks would occur).
Also, given that the device is capable of playing to SPDIF device - it is
assumable that USB<->SPDIF converter has its own internal clock (i.e. not
recording anything, just playing signal back to say a DAT machine which will
need to sync to the signal produced by USB<->SPDIF converter, etc.).
Would I then be correct in thinking that if such is the case - then there
would be some way of controlling whether to use internal clock or to sync to
external signal - or would be such decision made automatically whenever
deciding to record - USB<->SPDIF converter will lock to incoming signal (in
such a case - it is important to know it, because problems could arrise if
for instance single DAT machine was used as AD/DA box *and* set to sync to
incoming signal - this way DAT machine would try to sync to USB<->SPDIF
converter, whilst USB<->SPDIF converter would be trying to sync to DAT
machine... pitch shift anyone?)
Kind regards,
Leon.
