Linux-audio-user July 2004

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[linux-audio-user] A little scared of Debian, was Fresh PC waiting for basic installation - Advice?

by Alejandro Lopez

Dear All, I had just decided to give DeMuDi a try, I had decided this for simplicity because now there's a beta available which comes as a single CD, that's single instalation for OS (Debian) + music studio. But I've just come accross this article: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=831 entitled "An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0". They say things like you are supposed to know the name of your drivers (name of the files, not the name of the hardware to be supported that usually comes as a description in a database!). I've been very dissapointed to read this. I know that people here who have recommended it say they had it running in little time and effort, but is that due to you having quite some background? I have installed Debian years ago, then Redhat recently. I've found Debian installation a nightmare compared to Redhat, but I always thought it was a matter of evolution with years. I don't know what to think anymore, the article says pretty scary stuff actually in the areas that have traditionally been grey in Linux (compared to our friend Windows). Do you share these views and experiences? Will I need to figure out the names of my files during install and stuff like that? (I definitely recall having to do that with Debian but that was years ago.) Many thanks. Yours, Alex _________________________________________________________________ Descarga gratis la Barra de Herramientas de MSN http://www.msn.es/usuario/busqueda/barra?XAPID=2031&DI=1055&SU=http%3A//www…

20 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 10, Issue 42

by Brian Redfern

photoshop works under wine, a lot of stuff works under wine, but if you look at cinepaint, it actually kicks photoshop's butt in terms of image quality (which is why its used professionally in film editing), so often times it turns out that the open source alternatives are better than commercial software. The only thing I have to dual boot for is to use flash, but I believe that it runs under cross-over office, so there's just fewer and fewer reasons to have to dual boot back to windows.

20 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-user] how good are soundfonts and where do I find them?

by Atte André Jensen

Hi Being new to soundfonts I baically needed a decent piano soundfont for arranging stuff for my students, but after shopping around, I thought it maybe could be taken a step further. So my question is: Are soundfonts good enough for "real" music production? And where can I find nice ones to download? I guess I'm looking for imitations of real instruments, mostly piano, accoustic drums and bass, but expressive strings and other orchestral sounds would also be nice. So far I found the "FluidR3 GM.SF2" (142M), how does that compare to what's outthere? I also found alot of .sfArk sounds but it seems they are in som kind of windows-only compressed format. I downloaded the sfarkxtc_lx86.tar.gz but it complains "This file was created with sfArk V1, and this program only handles sfArk V2+ files. Use sfArk instead." on all the .sfArk-files I downloaded. Is there a linux utility that will uncompress those files? I run debian/unstable and plan on using fluidsynth and rosegarden if it matters... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk

20 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-user] So, what can I do about copy protection on a CD?

by Mikhail Ramendik

Hello, I've finally found another CD player and tested the CD in question. It played with no distortions! Therefore, the very frequent clicks, which I thought could be just clipping, are after all the results of playing a copy protected CD on a computer with digital playback :( I ripped it with cdparanoia, bnut cdparanoia found no errors, and the sound was the same as when playing on the computer. Of course I can borrow the CD player, take the analog output and re-degitize, or search for a computer with spdif in and player with spdif out. Are there any otehr ways of tackling the protection, so I can hear the music copy that I bought on the device of my choice? Yours, Mikhail Ramendik

20 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-user] 96K

by Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen

Matthew Barber: > > ->My impression is that the more maths an audio professional knows, the > more > sure the audio professional is that higher sampling rates is a > bad thing. (unless you are recording sounds that is later going to be > downsampled a lot of course) > > Perhaps its impossible for us non-skilled-mathematicians to > understand properly why 96 kHz is a bad thing...<- > > > > One thing 96K provides is plenty of headroom for aliasing if you're > doing some kind of novel synthesis technique that tends to generate tons > of high partials... the 24 bits are nice, too. > I was actually just thinking about 96kHz for recording/playback, not processing. I guess I lost the context of the discussion. --

20 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-user] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.6.2

by Stefan Westerfeld

BEAST/BSE version 0.6.2 is available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.6/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.6/ This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound generation back-end separated from all GUI activities. Outstanding new features include support for skins, many sample file formats, MIDI file import abilities, an improved piano roll widget, the track editor which allows for easy selection of synthesisers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.6.2: * Rewrote scrollbar sizing, so tracks and parts are easily resizable * Lots of small GUI enhancements and fixes * Added CPU usage information view * Enabled tooltips on menu items * Rewrote logging, messaging and error reporting system * Fixed attack time handling in SimpleADSR * Added support for 1/32, 1/64 and 1/128 notes and quantization steps * Added skin and row highlighting support to the pattern editor * Adjusted skins (pacified some of the more disturbing ones) * Added British English translation [Gareth Owen] * Added Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] * Added Brazilian Portuguese translation [Raphael Higino] * Updated Catalan translation [Xavier Conde Rueda] * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Dutch translation [Tino Meinen] * Updated Croatian translation [Robert Sedak] * Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador] * Updated Russian translation [Alexandre Prokoudine] * Updated Portuguese translation [Duarte Loreto] * Updated Albanian translation [Laurent Dhima] * Various sfidl fixes [Stefan Westerfeld, Tim Janik] * First steps taken towards mixer infrastrukture * Fixed user configurable debugging support * Lots of adaptions to GLib/Gtk+-2.4 -- -* Stefan Westerfeld, stefan(a)space.twc.de (PGP!), Hamburg/Germany KDE Developer, project infos at http://space.twc.de/~stefan/kde *-

20 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-user] CD printers

by Daniel James

As we're on the subject of graphics today, does anyone have experience of CD printers (the kind that print directly on to the disc surface) under Linux, either thermal or inkjet? I think there's an Epson inkjet one, which should be OK for a driver, but there's also a really cheap USB thermal printer available, under the TDK brand I think. It seems to me that these would be ideal for an independent record label producing CDs 'on demand' using a Linux box. We have all the tools required to make good recordings, but they don't look too good with the name scrawled in marker pen on the disc! Cheers Daniel

20 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-user] Delta 1010LT problems still...Desperate!!

by Russell Hanaghan

Still have some light "snap, crackle and pop" problems here. They don't seem to be related to X-runs. I set Qjackctl in "Soft mode" but don't know if that matters? I have run this thing 8 ways 'till Sunday! Forget 96kHz! It does it intermittently with Chorus on a single mixer channel in Ardour patched in Qjackctl from the Mic preamp in 1 of the 1010 to the Ardour channel with Chorus LADSPA plugin and then out to output 5 of the card and into my mixer. I also run reverb in another channel with dedicated I/O's from the sound card as I do with a delay. I have raised the buffer rates and tried different (lower) sample rates. etc. I have /tmp setup as tmpfs although Gnome system monitor does not always show that it is there? I'm using the "default" setting in Qjackctl. I have not been able to get a .asoundrc setup for HW:0 that gives me the 8 ins and outs. Would this be part of the problem? This is on an Asus A7V8X-MX SE Mobo with 2500 Athalon XP. 512M Ram...Delta is the ONLY card in the PCI slots. Onboard audio disabled. ALL unnecessary peripheral stuff turned off in BIOS. Delta on IRQ 10 with nothing but system devices on prior interrupts. All in Mandrake 10.0 running the tried and tested 2.4.22mm kernel. All being run as root. It is close in terms of quality but for this intermittent popping. I have 2 gigs Saturday and am running out of ideas. Desperately yours, ;/ Russell

20 years, 6 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] Finale for Linux

by Polashek, Matthew

It's the reason I keep a Mac around the house. Oh that and Pro Tools. When is Ardour going to be interoperable with Pro Tools again?...... Matthew > ---------- > From: RickTaylor(a)speakeasy.net > Reply To: RickTaylor(a)speakeasy.net;A list for linux audio users > Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2004 2:27 PM > To: A list for linux audio users > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Finale for Linux > > On 08-Jul-2004 Them wrote: > > } Don't count on it happening. And you don't need it on Linux anyway. > } > } I think Rosegarden or NoteEdit are good contenders, and don't cost you > } $500.00. And Rosegarden works with JACK and LADSPA plugins, whereas > } Finale does not. And Finale can't do LilyPond. Finale's PostScript > } output option is a piece of junk, IMHO. > > It is sort of universally recognized as the best. IEEHO > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: RickTaylor(a)Speakeasy.Net > Date: 08-Jul-2004 > Time: 13:24:09 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- > > > > **************************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. ****************************************************************************

20 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-user] Freeverb (packaged with CMT) and Ardour beta17.1

by Russell Hanaghan

I have used Freeverb a lot in previous implementations of the CMT LADSPA package and the last version of Ardour I was using was beta 11.1 I think. I am using Arodur beta 17.1 now and all other LADSAP plugs, including those in the CMT package, seem to be working fine but the response of Freeverb has changed...the reverb time is now very short and won't seem to adjust beyond a shortish plate type reverb. Before you could get super monsterous reverb tails if wanted. Has anything changed in the Freeverb module? Is there something new in the Ardour package that might be causing this? I notice some new panning thingys and such. ANY help would be much appreciated. I tried every other reverb out there...Tom's (TAP-Plugs) comes close but Freeverb is the smoothest most realistic I have heard for my needs. Thanks R~

20 years, 6 months

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Linux-audio-user July 2004