Hi,
I just move out to singapore (Is there some people staying in singapore
in this mailing list?), and i only have a laptop now. Before, i had a SB
Live card, and i would have a new card, for my Laptop (better than my
old one, or at least alike). I need about 1-2 sound input, 1-3 sound
output, and 1-2 midi I/O USB sound card. Or maybe PCMCIA. But i would it
working with ... linux. And i cannot find any good sources who tell me
which external sound card work pretty well. I'm mainly using jackd and
pd.
Someone could maybe report a good experience with this kind of hardware,
and advice my a specific external sound card.
Regards
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Arnault Teissier <roswel(a)assonetworx.com>
Association Networx
I just installed jack-rack and find the mouse wheel behavior a bit odd.
The sliders are horizontal, and turning the wheel 'up' (away from you)
decreases the slider value, and vice versa.
This seems backwards to me. What does everyone else think? This is one
of those things that will *have* to work the same way in every app,
otherwise it's maddening for users, so we had better agree on it now.
Alternatively, there has to be one place where this behavior can be set
for all apps. What is not acceptable is for 50% to do it one way and
50% the other.
What is really needed is a set of human interface guidelines for Linux
audio apps. Better to do this now, while much of the code is not
mature, than later, and have a bunch of different apps which work,
except that the widgets work completely different from one app to
another for no good reason other than that person A felt like doing it
like this and person B like that. You can talk about freedom all you
want but the users do not care about this kind of thing, it just looks
like the left hand is not talking to the right. Professional users
(rightfully) demand a consistent interface, unless there is a good
reason (extra functionality) not to provide one.
I would like to start putting these guidelines together. A good place
to start is to document the behavior of the most popular and mature
existing apps. Any suggestions are welcome.
Lee
There are two slightly different ways in which ALSA addresses sound
cards. One is more directly: hw:0, the other indirectly: plughw:0.
If jack cannot talk to the hardware directly (hw:0 or equivalently
via82xx), it can probably talk to it using plughw:0. (If via82xx is
the second card, then plughw:1 and so on.)
A suggestion was made to "try -r 48000." I believe that doing this
will cause a 44100 file to be sent to the card at an incorrect rate.
Data need to be sent to the card at the rate of the file, but if
the hardware cannot do it, using plughw is required, using the rate
of the file, not the card rate. Sending a 44100 file at 48000 will
cause pitch shifting upwards by about 1.5 semitones.
Somebody please correct me if I've misspoken here, but this is
definitely the way my Terratec EWX 2496 functions.
Regards,
Dave.
I'm in troubles with Jack:
# jackstart -R -P1 -dalsa -dvia82xx -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -m -P
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 44100
creating alsa driver ... via82xx|-|1024|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
configuring for 44100Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open via82xx for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open via82xx for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
Sorry. The audio interface "via82xx" doesn't support any of the hardware
sample formats that JACK's alsa-driver can use.
ALSA: cannot configure playback channel
cannot load driver module alsa
My Machine:
Debian Sarge Kernel 2.6.8 with realtime-lsm modules
Via82xx ( VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) )
Alsa modules are loaded with the default configuration by www.alsa-project.org
documentation.
--
Lorenzo
Hi,
I wonder if anyone knows of a software based MIDI-argeggiator?
Something that could take a simple MIDI input and do what most (fun...)
hardware synths can do? I especially like the Nord arpeggiator. Would be
interested in what others like or dislike about this sort of feature.
Post back some answers if you know of something fun. I'm doing a
tune with some software synths and want something to add some pop to my pop.
thanks,
Mark
This is pretty minor, but...
I am using the midisport 2X2. If I leave it plugged in at boot time, it
loads its firmware via fxload, which causes alsa to be initialiazed and
load its driver. Then in the boot sequence (this is on Mandrake10.0)
the normal init for alsa & sound cards is encountered. The alsa driver
says "alsa is already running" and does not load drivers.
My workaround is to unplug the midisport before booting, and then plug
it in after alsa loads the sound card drivers (but sometimes I
forget...). What would be the best way to change things such that I can
just leave it plugged in and still get alsa to load properly ?
dssi-vst is a DSSI wrapper plugin for VST plugins. It enables any
compliant DSSI host to use VST instruments and effects. It requires
Wine, liblo-0.9, dssi.h, and the Steinberg VST SDK headers to build.
http://sf.net/projects/dssi/http://www.winehq.org/http://plugin.org.uk/liblo/http://www.steinberg.net/steinberg/ygrabit/index.html
dssi-vst is self-contained code, it doesn't use vstserver or libfst.
There's no very compelling reason for that, and there's nothing
inventive about it, but it works quite well for me with all two of
the existing DSSI hosts.
dssi-vst is licenced under the GPL with an additional exemption to
cover the non-redistributability of the Steinberg SDK headers. This
means it is technically not Free Software in the Debian/FSF sense.
Again, see the README for more details.
Chris
Hi all
this may have come up before, but I couldn't find anything quite relavent to
what I would like to do.
I would like to send data from one machine that is using JACK clients to another
machine, which would use the JACK icecast client to broadcast the data in OGG
format. I would prefer to send the data from the first machine as pure PCM, and
let the second machine do the encoding to OGG and broadcasting.
What JACK client would be most appropriate between the two machines for sending
and receiving data in PCM format?
Thanks for any suggestions.
--
Luke Yelavich
http://www.audioslack.com
luke(a)audioslack.com
> Hi Mark:
>
>
> Google is your friend:
>
>
> http://www.mutopiaproject.org
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> dp
I'm too embarrassed that google didn't occur to me in
this matter. It's like forgetting my wife's birthday!
I'm going to remove that sig line now.... :-}
Thanks!
Mark
Mark Wilson wrote:
>>Does anyone know what happened to mutopia.org? They
>>used to have public domain scores formatted with
among
>>other things, Lilypond. I think they also had midi
>>files.
>>Now the website just has a big logo, with promise of
>>the 'rebirth' of mutopia coming soon, but that's
been
>>up that way for awhile now.
>>Any first- or second-hand knowledge out there?
>>--Mark
>>
>>=====
>>--
>>Seek professional help! Ask a librarian.
>>
>
>
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Snd-ls v0.9.1
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Released 17.8.2004
Contains
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Snd v7.6 from 2.8.2004
About
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Snd-ls is a distribution of the sound editor Snd. Its target is
people that don't know scheme very well, and don't want
to spend too much time configuring Snd. It can also serve
as a quick introduction to Snd and how it can be set up.
Install
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1. Edit the file config.scm, for configuration settings.
2. Run ./build
3. Run ./install as root.
Its not necessarry to uninstall any previously installed versions of
Snd. Snd-ls should not interfere with already installed versions.
After installing, the name of the executable is "snd-ls".
To uninstall, run ./uninstall
Required packages
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guile
gtk-2
jack
libsamplerate
ladspa
liblrdf
fftw3
(guile-devel, gtk-2-devel and liblrdf-devel is also needed at runtime)
Changes
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0.9.0 -> 0.9.1:
-Official announced.
-Upgraded SND from 20.7.2004 to 2.8.2004
-Huge amount of testing at Notam by 14 unexperienced guinea pigs for
a whole week; many bugs fixed.
Links
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Snd: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/
Guile: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
Credits
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Snd is made by Bill Schottstaedt. This small package is put
together by Kjetil Matheussen / Notam, with consulting
help from Bill Schottstaedt.
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