Anouncing version 0.6.0 of FreqTweak.
http://freqtweak.sourceforge.net
New in this release are spectral filter Modulators, which can animate
and modulate any of the filters automatically in several ways.
If you thought FreqTweak was fun before, be prepared for hours of
audio mayhem. See the webpage (and the software) for details.
Just in time for the ZKM/LAD conference in Karlsruhe :)
Please report any problems compiling this release on your various
platforms to me, and as always report any bugs or feature requests to
freqtweak-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net (you must subscribe first).
Enjoy,
Jesse Chappell
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FreqTweak is a JACK-based application for FFT-based realtime audio spectral
manipulation and display. It provides several algorithms forprocessing audio
data in the frequency domain and a highly interactive GUI to manipulate the
associated filters for each. It also provides high-resolution spectral
displays in the form of scrolling-raster spectrograms and energy vs
frequency plots displaying both pre- and post-processed spectra.
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hello,
i am trying to record impulse responses from
my studioequipment to correct it's phase and freq responses
with e.g. DRC and bruteFIR.
I heard the best idea would be to take log sine sweeps
for the measuring?
it would be great if someone more experienced than me
knows of a good method to create sweeps (or chirps) of equal
freq.response with linux software?!
or maybe some other tips and tricks about audio impulse response
measuring with linux?
peace
mart
Hi guys,
I was wondering if someone could recommend a good way of recording RealAudio streams so that they ultimately end up on disk as .wav or .mp3 or .ogg files.
I looked at Jack, but RealPlay isn't listed as one of Jack's compatible applications.
I looked for a RealPlay plugin for XMMS (someone said he used that plugin and XMMS's Disk Writer plugin), but I couldn't find it anyway.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Christian
Hi,
as the onboard soundchip on my Epox 8RDA3+ (CMedia 9739) doesn't work
very well, I'm looking for a cheap soundcard which can handle 5.1 sound.
It should run under Linux (Debian Sarge, Kernel 2.6) and Win98, and I
want to be able to play AC3 sound (that can be done in software, right?).
I've already looked around and found several cheap 5.1 cards, but I have
doubts about their Linux compatibility... Can you tell me something
about these cards:
Creative Soundblaster 4.1 Digital
Creative Soundblaster live 5.1 Digital
Typhoon Acoustic Six 5+1
Terratec Aureon 5.1 Fun
Is any of these cards well supported by Alsa, and can I play 5.1 and AC3
sound with it? I've already nearly decided for the SB live 5.1 Digital
but then noticed that it's not that well supported...
Or is there any other card which you could recommend? I don't want to
spend too much, it should definitely stay below 50 EUR, but I don't have
high expectations (playing MP3s and games, watching movies, getting
system sounds...).
Thanks in advance for your help,
Oliver Gerlich
Hi there.
I have a Boss BR-532 digital multitrack, which saves my songs onto SmartMedia
cards. I can then get these files onto my PC using a USB card reader. So far
so good.
Two questions:
1) Probably a long shot, but does anyone have any clue as to how I might
convert the files from the BR-532's internal format to WAV or whatever? I can
do this using a Windows GUI program supplied by Boss (runs fine under wine),
but the interface is rather fiddly and limited. Any chance I might be able to
do this eg. with some kind of command line / scriptable tool? Cursory
Googling hasn't revealed a lot about the file formats to me - they're
described as 'MT2', 'LV1', and 'LV2' (in decreasing order of sound quality).
I usually use LV2 (for that much sought after lo-fi sound...).
2) Once I've got my WAV files, can I just drag them into Audacity / Ardour etc
and assume they'll stay synced? Or is some kind of additional syncing used to
keep tracks aligned?
Thanks for any help.
[sorry if people get this message more than once - technical probs]
On Thursday 22 April 2004 11:04, Joe Button wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I have a Boss BR-532 digital multitrack, which saves my songs onto
> SmartMedia cards. I can then get these files onto my PC using a USB card
> reader.
...
> does anyone have any clue as to how I might
> convert the files from the BR-532's internal format to WAV or whatever? I
> can do this using a Windows GUI program supplied by Boss (runs fine under
> wine), but the interface is rather fiddly and limited.
As an aside, in case it helps anyone else, I had to put this in
~/.cxoffice/dotwine/config to get the file converter prog to recognise my
local copy of the files as a windows drive:
[Drive Q]
"Path" = "/home/joe/br532/hd"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Memory card"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
So now I can copy my SmartMedia card's contents into /home/joe/br532/
rm -rf /home/joe/br532/hd/
cp -a /mnt/hd /home/joe/br532
and card's contents then show up as drive Q in the nasty Windows converter
thingy. Of course it would be possible to just make '/mnt/hd' drive Q and
work directly from the card, but this way I get to back everything up at the
same time.
Probably not very interisting to most of you, but maybe oneday some will find
this in the archives and be eternally grateful...
Last weekend, I finally got ALSA installed and working. I
guess the third week is a charm.
My thanks to everybody on the list who helped me get on the
right track.
The Debian package archive had alsa-utils, but they appear to
have not yet been updated. I got the most recent one from the
alsa-project web site and it appears to be fine. The only slight ill
effect I noticed was that all the man pages ended up in a directory
that Debian Linux doesn't normally use in the man hierarchy, but the
fix was a simple matter of copying the files in to the preferred
directories.
amixer works properly as far as I can tell. Is there a
listing anywhere of the purpose of the simple mixer controls? A few
of them aren't obvious as to what they do.
By turning on the mono-output switch, I even patched sound
card sound to the tiny speaker that is local to the P.C. That hasn't
been possible since my wife had Windows NT on this system and I
remember hearing sound through that speaker.
Another interesting thing I noticed was that the Capture
switch on Simple mixer control 'Master Digital', seems not to prevent
recording of audio.
The whole effort was well worth the time and hats off to all
those who have written the ALSA software.
One thing I discovered by accident is that /dev/dsp now works
in full duplex. It used to be that if it was used for recording, one
couldn't play any audio through the sound card without a "device busy"
message and an immediate stop to the program. Now, /dev/dsp for
capture appears to be different from /dev/dsp for playback. That is
impressive.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
I never saw it as a vendetta, just more of a "this thing stole months of
my life away, please don't let it steal months from yours"
:)
m.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-audio-user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
> user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Josh Steiner
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Quattro USB
>
> i really just need to point out that frank seems to have a personal
> vendetta against the quattro. it does violate the USB spec in a minor
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> Not having purchased the Quattro yet, can you or anyone else
> reccomend the
> Quattro, or is there a better USB multi-input unit out there
> that I should
> look at?
>
I would recommend against USB audio devices. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would swear they've had nothing but positive experience with USB devices, but just the same they are a nightmare. The USB audio specs are are defined in a manner that create a real mess for people who write the drivers for them.
>From the jack dev list:
"USB spec defines the isochronous data packets for the fixed
time length (1ms). and, obviously, 44100Hz cannot be split by 1ms in
integer."
Also, read this:
http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/jackit-devel/2003-Sep/0167.html
I would strongly recommend using a PCI device if at all possible.
-Reuben