Linux-audio-user July 2003

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[linux-audio-user] Short-term broadband connection -- what to download?

by BartonBosch＠aol.com

I have a broadband connection for the next couple of weeks. I am in the process of downloading the CCRMA ISOs, so that I can do some music composition, sound editing and whatever else I discover. My primary interest at this point is in writing audio and midi based music with MusE/Rosegarden and then recording it, not necessarily in real time, to wav or another audio format. Any suggestions as to what software I will wish I had downloaded after I am back at 56k? Audio samples are an obvious necessity. Other than the nskit drum samples, and the soundfont packages, what else might I want to look into? And what other categories of software would be useful? Thanks, Barton

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] thanks

by Maarten De Boer

hello, i just wanted to say that, for years in a row, being subscribed to the linux-audio-* lists has been a real pleasure. they are by far the lists with the best signal/noise ratio, highest response rate, and in general best atmosphere of all the lists i have been subscribed to, even when [OT] issues cause some discussion. thank you all for your contribution! maarten

21 years, 5 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] soundcard that supports soundfonts ?

by Reuben Martin

>To play soundfonts, would you go for a soundcard that can load them into >its own RAM or for another solution ? Try FluidSynth. It's a midi softsynth that loads SF2 font libraries. I think Timidity can load SF2 fonts as well, but I've only used it for GUS patch sets.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] soundcard that supports soundfonts ?

by Vincent Touquet

To play soundfonts, would you go for a soundcard that can load them into its own RAM or for another solution ? regards, Vincent

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] GM soundfont

by Maarten de Boer

Hello, I am looking for a good free soundfont to use with my SB Live! I've been looking at the Hammersound page, but there are a lot of dead links, and also several sfark files that may be good, but I don't think there is a way to open sfark files under linux. Thanks for any suggestions and links. Maarten

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] ZynAddSubFX 1.4.2 released

by Nasca Paul

Hi. I released ZynAddSubFX 1.4.2 on http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net News: - (small) tutorials - added full-featured, advanced formantic filters - added mixer panel which lets you to see/change most important part settings, and shows a vu-meters for each part - you can choose to process the instrument's kit items only with one Part effect (eg. you can make a instrument kit that contains a reverberated piano and flanged strings) - enabled to launch more instances in Jack - when is launched first time, it searches for default.bnk_zyn file into /usr/share/zynaddsubfx and /usr/local/share/zynaddsubfx directories (useful for binary packages for Linux distributions) - bugfixes For those that you don't know, ZynAddSubFX is a poweful software synthsizer for Linux and Windows. Paul. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] USB-MIDI

by Atte André Jensen

What's the best/easiest/cheapest way to connect one or more keyboards to a laptop? My own plans was one of the USB-keyboards, but: *How well is USB-MIDI supported under linux in general? *Which keyboards is known to work under linux? *Is the response faster than with MIDI? -- peace, love & harmony Atte

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

by Ismael Valladolid Torres

Michel Dänzer escribio el 22/07/03 02:22: > Probably a GTK bug, not related to this thread. I know, I know... ;) > Which isn't very surprising, as they can use parts of the graphics chip > that we don't have specs for, for one. Sure. Only I remember having installed Mandrake 9.1, and I think video performance was somewhat better. Maybe I am wrong and memory cheats... > Beware that at least the low latency patch needs fiddling with > arch/ppc/config.in to actually be enabled (check with grep LOLAT > .config), and that the preempt patch (which I assume you mean by R. > Love's) actually made things worse for me when I tried it on PPC a while > ago. This may have been fixed in the meantime though. You're right! First line in the patch file says: arch/i386/config.in | 3 + So the patch to the config.in file is only applied automatically for the i386 architecture. Indeed CONFIG_LOLAT_SYSCTL was not in my .config, so should I paste this manually into arch/ppc/config.in? Would this be enough? And about the preempt, patch, well, it seems I still have enough tests to perform so I can spend my holydays safely. > YMMV IJLUW (indeed, just like using Windows!) ;) Regards, Ismael

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: Measuring latency on my Apple G3

by Ismael Valladolid Torres

Michel Dänzer escribio el 21/07/03 13:09: > First of all, you mentioned in another post that you use x11perf to > create X11 stress. Are there also problems with real world apps? "Real world" apps work properly (except for the Gnome theme manager which displays garbage). I only find video performance using Linux a lot lower than using any of the Mac OS's. > Also keep in mind that neither the vanilla 2.4 kernel nor the X server > were designed for low latency. Have you tried the low latency and/or > O(1) scheduler kernel patches, and not running the X server with > negative nice values if you are? Both of those patches (A. Morton and R. Love's ones) were applied to my kernel. I don't know about running the X server with different nice values, which advantage would I get? (I am using gdm as my X session manager). > Last but possibly not least of all, the dmasound driver has been less > prone to dropouts in my experience than the ALSA driver. I should try with pure OSS. Let's not forget that the latency test suite is using the OSS compatibility layer of ALSA. Thanks a lot. Any feedback is still very useful. Regards, Ismael

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Measuring latency on my Apple G3

by Ismael Valladolid Torres

Hi, I am trying latencytest-0.42-png.tar.gz for measuring latency on my Apple G3 (Debian/Sid PowerPC). Of course I am enabling USE_GENERIC_TIMER and tuning my hard disk using hdparam before tests. But, results show a very poor performance. Indeed, any X11 stressing involves a raise of the latency and lots of dropouts. I can't blame hardware. Apple hardware is top-class, and this same machine features under 1,5 ms of latency using CoreAudio on Mac OS X. So, whether the PowerPC kernel or X11 are not fully optimized, or the latencytest application is not reliable on non-Intel platforms. Any ideas? Sorry for crossposting... ;) Regards, Ismael

21 years, 5 months

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Linux-audio-user July 2003