Linux-audio-user June 2003

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[linux-audio-user] mundobeat for linux!!!

by asif moosa

hi. i had been using mundobeat as my metronome in windows and ever since migrating to linux i have been unable to find a comparable metronome. cane anyone help me find one for linux. thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Rosegarden vs. Note Edit

by Bearcat M. Sandor

Hi folks, I'm a kde user and musician. I've looked at both programs and am unable to determine what the major differences are between the two. What makes one better than the other? I'm trying to figure out which one to install. I'd install both, but it;s a bit of work. What are th major feature differences between the two? Note edit seems all-round better for score handling.. Thanx, Bearcat M. Sandor

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: [Agnula-Users] MOTU

by Daniel James

> I've just dug out my copy of Sound On Sound Feb 03' as it featured > an article about the Agnula project (as you probably know). It > say's that the MOTU Micro Express, Midi Express XT, and Midi Time > Piece AV work with ALSA. I got this information from the ALSA soundcard matrix. How well those drivers work, I don't know. I made a point of mentioning MOTU hardware as it seems popular amongst mac/windows studio owners, but in the Linux audio community the M Audio and RME cards seem to be favoured - probably because of a more sympathetic attitude to driver development from those companies. Cheers Daniel

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] ANNOUNCE: Ardour 0.9beta1 Slackware 9.0 packages available

by Luke Yelavich

Hi all With the release of Ardour 0.9beta1 on Sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ardour, Slackware 9.0 packages are now available for immediate download. Download links, as well as md5sums, can be found at http://www.audioslack.com/packages/ardour. It is also worth noting that http://www.audioslack.com will hopefully become a repository of binary packages of Audio software to be used on the Slackware Linux Distribution. Please check out the site if you are interested in helping out. Your help would be much appreciated. Please feel free to contact me if you have any site suggestions, or have any problems with the packages on the site. I don't offer specific package help, but am willing to lend a hand with the installation and configuration of packages posted there. Regards Luke ---------------- Luke Yelavich AudioSlack Founder and main package maintainer Audio software packaged for the Slackware Linux Distribution http://www.audioslack.com luke(a)audioslack.com

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Device for simple stereo dubbing?

by Joseph Zitt

Stepping gingerly back into the pond... I have a desktop Mandrake 9.1 system, on which I'd like to do rather simple audio stuff (nothing particularly audiophile or performance-oriented for now). It has an onboard soundcard which plays sufficiently well, but records quite badly, with most things that I record from cassettes and the occasionaly DAT distorting quite badly. I have a Roland UA-30 USB Audio device, but so far I've found that plugging it in when the system is running crashes the machine completely, and that the machine fails to finish booting when I boot it up with the device already hooked in. Is it worthwhile getting another soundcard? Would something as simple and inexpensive as a Soundblaster 16 PCI be sufficient? I'm not all that sure what software I have running at the deep level, since I've installed enough stuff that has pulled in other things via dependency catching in urpmi that I'm not clear, for example, on whether I'm using ALSA or not. For the user-end apps, I've been using Audacity and Gnusound to record and edit and XMMS for most playback.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] alsa configuration with emu10k1 (sound blaster PCI512)

by Michael Tench

I'm having trouble configuring alsa drivers, dmsg returns a line which says : EMU10K1/Audigy soundcard not found or device busy where it locates the card it returns: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.19, 23:04:08 Jun 24 2003 PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device 00:09.0 IRQ routing conflict for 00:09.0, have irq 11, want irq 7 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8071 found, IO at 0x3100-0x311f, IRQ 11 ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x5452:0x4123 (TriTech TR A5) I'm trying to configure alsa drivers in the hopes that I will be able to fix problems with full-duplex recording

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] L.A.W. distro V1.1 released

by jacob robbins

Version 1.1 of the Linux Audio Workstation distro has been released! This release, named "message in a bottle", features: -- Verified on Redhat 9, 8.0, and 7.2 -- CVS'd at Sourceforge as law-distro -- iso image at http://www.newyorkmusicunion.com/LAW-audio-distro -- Upgraded to ALSA 0.9.4, alsaplayer 0.99.75 -- L.A.W. documentation page for each audio app -- Now works with graphical or text system login You can go to http://newyorkmusicunion.com/LAW-audio-distro and check it out jacob robbins.....

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] novation remote 25

by Eric Dantan Rzewnicki

Is anyone successfully using this controller keyboard with linux audio apps? I just got one and wondered if anyone had experiences to share. I might be sending mine back. I haven't turned it on yet, but some of the buttons stick very badly. There are 4 function buttons on the right side, F1-F4. F3 and F4 are stuck down completely. F1 and F2 come back up if you wiggle them a little. I've never owned any type of keyboard before, but this just doesn't seem right. Besides build quality issues, has anyone tried one of these with any linux audio software? Thanks, Eric Rz.

21 years, 5 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Documentation: (was: recording multiple input audio streams )

by cliffw＠easystreet.com

Small subject alteration. Paul Perkins said: > Well, the WIKI page on ALSA config files at > > http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=.asoundrc > > has evolved to where it is beginning to sound useful. But it doesn't take you > all that far, and it needs explanations of basic terms like "pcm" (in its > peculiar ALSA meaning), "slave", and "plugin". The "detailed" material on > plugins it references > (http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html) is just a > list of plugin names and plugin argument names, padded with some boiler-plate > text that rarely adds anything that isn't implicit in the names. > I have to say, this has been an issue for me also. Things have improved muchly in the last year, but there still is a way to go. There's a lot of translation needed between Those-Who-Read-The-Source and Those-Who-But-Point-n-Click. I'd like to contribute to the documentation. One thing i've been bothered by. (Maybe this doesn't bother LISP hackers, i dunno) Not enough example .asoundrc files. The few I find are always useful to me, but i can't find very many. Maybe people don't want to pollute the list, maybe everybody else is smarter than me, who knows. I'll make an offer: Mail me (cliffw(a)easystreet.com) your .asoundrc file + name of hardware. If you have a quick example of What It Does For You, email me that too. I'll attempt to boil off the excess and add something useful to the wiki. cliffw > I don't measure the power of a computer or of software by what it can do. I > measure power by how much faster or better I can do what I want to do with > the computer or software, than without it. Including the learning time. By > this definition, good documentation makes software more powerful, and > documentation that requires a lot of hunting around and trial-and-error to > make sense of, makes software less powerful. > > As for how far I am willing to go, that depends on what I expect to find when > I get there. I'm a pretty good C and Python programmer with a smattering of > C++ and Java, I'll edit fstab, modules.conf, XF86Config, and so on with vi > when I have to (but these days count it as a bug in the distribution when I > do have to). I use Linux for pretty much all my computer activities these > days, except music recording / synthesizing / effects / mixing. I'd like to > use Linux for that as well, but it just doesn't seem to be ready yet. When > Ardour is stable it might be time for me to make another attempt to switch > over (from the evil empire os). Music is enough of a challenge for me, I > don't need to be on the software bleeding edge at the same time. > > On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:55 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > Paul Perkins wrote: > > > On Friday 20 June 2003 01:30 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > >>Paul Perkins wrote: > > >>>... and I'm still waiting for the day when someone explains ALSA > > >>>configuration files > > >>>in a way that I can understand.... > > > What don't I understand? I would like to see each concept that the ALSA > > > configuration file language is intended to be able to express, and then > > > the syntax used to express that concept. Then some examples with clear > > > explanations of why each thing in the config file was put there. As in a > > > good programming language tutorial. What I've seen instead is a lot of > > > chunks of strange-looking syntax "explained" by saying "try stuffing this > > > in <some file somewhere>, and good luck." Which leaves me blundering > > > around in the dark, hoping to get lucky :-). > ... > > "Don't bend the > > spoon... Let the spoon bend you..." > > Maybe if I had any idea what you mean by "let the spoon bend you" I would also > find the ALSA documentation crystal clear ;-). > > Paul Perkins > sigmotto: Liberty is theft. > > > >

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] New powermacs?

by Ivica Bukvic

Hi all, Just heard the news (rumors) of new Macs that are going to hit the streets on Monday. Seems like Apple is finally going to catch-up with the PC world: there's talk of using IBM's PowerPC 970 64-bit CPU's. Makes me wonder what repercussions this will have on the whole LAD/LAU community, considering that they supposedly will have built-in optical audio I/O and with the recent announcement of Trolltech to make OS X Qt GPL-ed, leaves less and less advantages in Linux's favor (apart from the obvious untouchable open architecture and perhaps faster growing user-base -- according to recent news, can't remember where I exactly I read it tho, sale of factory-built Linux boxes should surpass Apple's this year, and that does not even include people with home-built machines and dual-booters). Please don't get me wrong. I am still in favor of Linux, obviously due to its open architecture. But at the same time I am becoming a bit weary of having to "hack" my advanced audio settings rather than use user-friendly tools. That, coupled with still anemic direct vendor hw driver support has really made me pay closer attention on Macs (as scary as that sounds). Yet, I feel such a sense of accomplishment when my Linux purrs just right with my desktop being uniquely configured and tailored to my needs. After all, I am a geek. :-) And the inner struggle goes on... Anyone care to comment or (please) dissuade me from potentially making a costly mistake? ;-) Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico

21 years, 5 months

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Linux-audio-user June 2003