The Clear Channel patent is one of the 10 that the EFF is asking the US
Patent Office to re-examine. There's a short article in Wired about it:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64038,00.html
While the 10 are worrying, I think the Seer Systems and Acacia patents
are particularly worrying from the point of view of free, open systems.
Greg
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Heyall,
Once again, I see there's always somebody to urge you to reveal your plots ,-)
Good, I'm now compelled to spawn something!
I've got two months left to achieve our goal: building a free gig library from
scratch using the University of Iowa Musical Instrument Samples.
Hopefully, I got a copy of GigaStudio 24 bundled with my soundcard, so I won't
have to wait for LS-Edit!
I had already started a thread on a french forum, AudioFanzine, entitled
"Création d'instruments multisamplés: FAQ / Howto / Wiki / Exemple (MIS)":
http://fr.audiofanzine.com/apprendre/mailing_forums/index,idtopic,62701.html
KvR and Northern Sounds will follow...
Let me put it into a nutshell... some consistent links:
1) Some clues about the differents formats...
- Instrument Editor Tutorial (2,563 Mo) @ Tascam:
http://www.tascamgiga.com/software_downloads/giga-edit-help.chm
- GigaStudio / Sampler @ Chicken Sys:
http://chickensys.com/support/software/translator/giga/
- SoundFonts @ Chicken Sys:
http://chickensys.com/support/software/translator/soundfont/
Let's have a ride definitely with the Giga file format, unless consistent
statements are issued in favor of SoundFonts...
2) Sound On Sound Magazine articles:
- EXS24 WORKSHOP Multisampling With EXS24...:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Aug02/articles/exs24.asp
- ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES Creating Orchestral Music With Sampled Instruments:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar99/articles/orchestra.htm
- PERFECT PIANO LOOPS:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/jul94/pianoloops.html
- FONTASTIC VOYAGE Creating Personalised AWE32/64 Soundfonts:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997_articles/jun97/soundfonts.html
3) Some useful tools:
- GigOGG & GigFLAC, for file-sharing:
http://www.amberfisharts.com/gigogg/
- The "To-Be-Wined" FREE version of Chicken Systems Translator!
http://www.chickensys.com/downloads/translator_free.php
4) A partially-working download accelerator alike, thanks to compressed files:
http://peroxide.cobaltgroup.com/~jmccaig/
(bearing in mind misc instruments have been updated or released on the
"official" site: Bass Clarinet, Bb Trumpet, Tuba & Viola!)
The remaining facts:
1) Batch sample slicing for note per sample unity.
Except for GigaEdit, I'd like to use mostly opensource software tools: Audacity
for edition, Octave / Scilab for "scientific slicing"...
I intend to use Octave or Scilab to cut the notes perfectly (once true silences
are met: a term on the matrix of zero amplitude) with one single command (just
by launching the m-file). I can remember that Matlab has a caveat with 16-bit
"wavwriting": the unity amplitude cannot be written due to 2^16 multiples
unadequation therefore a warning is prompted... I don't really know if it has to
be considered as an offence...
2) Looping or time-stretching?
To my ears, looping sometimes adds another kind of uninvited LFO, while
time-stretching may seem unatural... Any Time-Streching challenging opensource
piece of software?
3) Amplitude and frequency normalization...
Any opensource Antares AutoTune-like clone known over there? Or "on the road
again" with scientific software?
4) The more the merrier?
Should we benefit from using the most available sampled notes for precision or
less for RAM/ROM/CPU-ease? 44100 Hz seems to be a bit short for pitchshifting...
5) Space, the final frontier!
I've set up a free 100 MB account with PhpExplore installed (a simple php ftp
client with multiple users managment) that will unfortunately be useful only for
beta-testing... This account could be used as an alternate mirror, hosting
GigOgg compressed files for low-bandwidth connected people or testing purpose,
only if regular uncompressed (or GigFLACed) files can be accessed somewhere else.
Should I look forward to seeking help from The University of IOWA, LinuxSampler
or P2P forces?
Cheers,
Christian
Need this. Very often, first starting to play is full of scratch. Simple stop
and restart using qjackctl most always clears it up. It is as if period of no
usage demotes the priority and only a restart fixes it.
Ideas?
Does anybody know how to override the -d switch used with arecord? I simply
want to start recording and exit when I want with ctrl+c. For now I have to
estimate the time I want to record and that is not always possible, hence
very difficult to set the -d switch.
Greetings,
Hans
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Hi,
I have been using cvs snapshots of Ardour with jack 0.98.1. Works fine.
Sampo
Quoting Tommi Sakari Uimonen <tuimonen(a)cc.hut.fi>:
> > > My distro (SuSE 9.1) comes with JAMin 0.8.0, Ardour
> > > 0.453.1 and jackd
> > > 0.94.0. Is this combination okay for mastering live
> > > CDs?
> >
> > Ah, no. You'll need JACK 0.98.? and a recent Ardour. I
> > have no experience with Suse but often notice people
> > on this list discussing it. I'm sure someone could
> > help you upgrade if there are any issues.
>
> I think the recent Ardour needs cvs from JACK.
>
> Instructions for getting JACK cvs:
> http://jackit.sourceforge.net/download/
>
> Tommi
>
Hello,
If you really just need snippets I would suggest not using jack for
recording them. You could for example create a script which starts arecords
for both/all cards at (almost) the same time.
This way you wouldn't get the distortion created by jack correcting sync
problems. Syncing these samples in a multitrack would be a breeze if you
create an impulse -type sound which is recorded by all cards (i.e. clap your
hands, turn mixer on...). You can also do an impulse in the end of the
recording to measure the drift between the cards. This data would allow you
to precisely correct the drift by using resampling.
The distortion created by jack could be as bad as one clip per
period*buffersize samples. I don't think that will be acceptable for
anything, but I haven't tried this so it's probably worth trying out if you
really need to do your recordings in a RT environment.
Sampo
Quoting Jos Laake <jos(a)radiks.net>:
> I'm gonna restart this thread, because I'm pretty sure there's a real
> answer lurking out there. :-)
>
> To reiterate:
>
> I realize that the idea of using two soundcards for multitrack
> recording is fraught with sync problems. To be really clear,
> I just don't care. I'm capturing snippets of this and that,
> samples, room moises, etc. If there's a bit of drift, so what?
> What I'm really after is track separation of different audio sources.
> I understand the problems. I don't think they will seriously apply
> to the somewhat non-standard usage I have in mind here.
>
> Peace,
> ~Jos~
>
I have found an amazing archive of tracker XI instruments at
http://www.kiarchive.ru/pub/misc/sounds/samples/ft2/
I was wondering if others were aware of this resource, and also if anyone
knows who made the samples in the first place and what their copyright
status is? I have emailed the maintainer of the archive but he is yet to
reply.
I have a cleaned up version of the archive (with all the files unrar-ed)
which is big but maybe would be worth uploading somewhere else if this is
allowed? It would be a shame for this resource to disappear completely.
James
R Parker wrote:
> --- lau(a)hippie-online.de wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'd like to know if there is a tool to create live
>>CDs under Linux.
> If you're running JACK, then master with JAMin. I
> recently built a mastering demo session that perfectly
> demonstrates what I consider the best way to aproach
> the audio mastering part of your task. Unfortunately,
> there were issues within Ardour so the demo needs to
> be replaced.
I took a look at the JAMin homepage and - wow! - this looks really
promising, but also quite complicated. Up till now I did not run JACK -
in fact I do not understand what it really does (besides lowering
latency which should not help in offline CD mastering?).
> I think Jeremy Hall fixed the automation path and
> names stuff so Ardour should be usable for building a
> new session. I'll try to create a new Demo tomorrow.
> If that demo can be opened on any computer without
> manually editing the session file, then a link for
> download can be made available from
> jamin.sourceforge.net.
>
> If you're interested in Ardour (source) -> JAMin ->
> Ardour (return bus) then I'll try to keep you up to
> date on my progress with a demo session.
Return bus?! I am going to take a look at the documentation on the JAMin
homepage. I hope then I will understand what you are talking about...
My distro (SuSE 9.1) comes with JAMin 0.8.0, Ardour 0.453.1 and jackd
0.94.0. Is this combination okay for mastering live CDs?
Thanks for your help,
HippiE
I tried to send this on Saturday but I got a bounce from the list
saying:
> Your mail to 'linux-audio-user' with the subject
>
> problems compiling jack_fst/galan 0.3.0 beta 6
>
>Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>
>The reason it is being held:
>
> Message has a suspicious header
Any Idea how to fix this? I would love to have been able to work on this
problem weekend.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Allen
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:57 PM
> To: A list for linux audio users; A list for linux audio users
> Subject: problems compiling jack_fst/galan 0.3.0 beta 6
>
> Thought I would spend the weekend jumping on the fst badwagon.
>
> I got libfst compiled and installed correctly (VST headers and all).
> However jack_fst seems to choke. This is the error I am getting
(ignore
> the man running as root behind the curtain):
>
> [root@soundbox jack_fst-1.2]#make
> make all-am
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Vst/jack_fst-1.2'
> if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0
-
> I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0
-I/usr/include/pango-1.0
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-
> I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include
-I/usr/local/include/vst
> -MT jfst.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/jfst.Tpo" \
> -c -o jfst.o `test -f 'jfst.c' || echo './'`jfst.c; \
> then mv -f ".deps/jfst.Tpo" ".deps/jfst.Po"; \
> else rm -f ".deps/jfst.Tpo"; exit 1; \
> fi
> jfst.c: In function `main':
> jfst.c:258: error: `JackThreadInitCallback' undeclared (first use in
this
> function)
> jfst.c:258: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> jfst.c:258: error: for each function it appears in.)
> jfst.c:258: error: syntax error before "jack_thread_init"
> make[1]: *** [jfst.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Vst/jack_fst-1.2'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> I did a quick search of the archives and nothing like this pops up.
There
> are a couple of mentions of it crapping out on the headers (whch I had
but
> I fixed by setting the libfst Makefile to point to the correct
location of
> pkgconfig on my machine). I know I am doing something dumb, but
seeings as
> the only thing I have ever compiled from scratch on my linux box is PD
and
> its externasl from CVS, I am in a bit of unclear water for me.
>
> On a whim I grabbed the source for galan 0.3.0 beta 6 (which has the
fst
> stuff built in). This built and installed correctly, or so it seemed.
When
> I run galan I get an error:
>
> libfst.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
>
> However in the Makefile for galan the FST_LIBS variable points to the
> directory (/usr/local/lib) where libfst.so resides. Did libfst not
compile
> correctly?
>
> thanks in advance
> m.
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Does anyone know of any Linux tools that can create DDP (Disc
Description Protocol) images?
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