Hi,
> yes, a number of us are looking for an answer to
> that question! afaik,
> xjadeo is the only real solution at this point. it
> does work very well,
> though!
I had xjadeo working on RH9 for awhile. I've built a
new FC3 machine and can load a file but when jack
transport rolls it's xjade only plays the first couple
of frames and then it stops.
It doesn't crash. I can relocate transport to 00:00:00
and xjadeo relocates to that position.
Has anyone else seen or solved this issue?
ron
> -p
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OK, I checked with my friend, and what he ctually needs is an equivalent
to Megafont in Linux. ¿Someone can give me a clue on it?
Cheers, Damian-
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September'
because it actually tells you something. -- Groucho Marx
hi all
i've just redesigned my website, and have been able to release a whole
bunch of quality stuff under a Creative Commons license
http://www.machinehasnoagenda.com
... i especially recommend Problem Pony for anyone who is into old
bluegrass, blues, vocal harmonies ... Nathan is a brilliant producer of
sample-based electronica founded in eastern folk music ... East is an
instrumentalist crossing Sonic Youth and Dirty Three ... Zombie Army
makes soundtracks for non-existent horror movies ... a couple more ....
i've cottoned on to a really good server with heaps of space, so i'm
probly going to get a whole linux audio stream happening from there, too
- if you've got music you need hosted just let me know ;)
here's a link to the RSS feed (i don't think it's enclosure-enable yet) ...
anyway, i've only just gotten it up so there's a few things to do yet ...
enjoy the Free music!
shayne
Regarding-
> Hi all,
>
> I'm plaaning to get a new home PC that could also be used (along with
> software development) for creating and recording music.
>
> What I'd like to do: sequence MIDI external sounds (synth module(s)),
> add accoustic guitar and flute, record everything to wav and/or Ogg
> Vorbis formats (using original external synths sounds). Optionally, to
> be also able to choose from a palette of SoundFonts (as I did with
> my current PC, using a SB Live! card and MusE).
>
> What I'd like to get as PC: an Athlon 64bit based mobo, 2 GB RAM, some
> 250 GB disk storage. graphics card not that important as it's not used
> to play games (why not on-board graphic ?). Operating system: in the
> end most likely handmade Linux based on LFS (Linux From Scratch) but for
> starters SuSE 9.3 64-bit, or any other that's good enough.
>
> Now, is there some strong allergic reaction between a Linux Audio
> setup and 64-bit CPUs ? Are 64-bits platforms recommended for audio
> purposes or is it better to wait a few more years ? If it's OK, which
> mobo would you recommend ?
> Which audio/MIDI card would you recommend for such a setup ?
> Which speakers system could deliver good sound quality. I presently
> have some Creative I-Trigue speakers and I'd hate doing any quality
> stuff with it implying listening closely over and over again to
> sequences and sounds. Is it possible to connect regular sound system
> quality speakers to PC sound cards ? What speaker setup would you
> recommend for driving both the external synth(s) and audio sound card ?
> Is a mixer needed ?
> Thanks a lot for any advice/suggestion/hint !
> Cheers,
> Al
Here's a system I spec'd out for recording in the studio and on location.
speakers are not included in this list, but I think the best price for money
are the event TR8XL speakers. Incredible. They sound comparable to the
Mackies or NS10s. I've done direct comparisons. The system is built with
these parameters in mind:
1 - It must be somewhat portable (I play in Manhattan)
2 - It must be Linux friendly for Gentoo, FC3, and Ardour/Jamin/Jack
3 - It must have 24/96 I/O
4 - The audio hardware must have stand alone audio/adat converison functionality
5 - The audio hardware must be cross platform able
6 - The audio hardware must have multiple mic preamps included
7 - It must be a RAID system
8 - The audio hardware must be able to "no latency" harware monitoring
9 - It must be expandable/scaleable
System:
Motherboard Asus K8N $82.75 1 $82.75
Processor AMD 64 3400 $177.95 1 $177.95
Case 2U Rackmount $99.00 1 $99.00
Power supply Included in Case $0.00 1 $0.00
Ram DDR400 1 GB $80.00 2 $160.00
Hard disk Segate 80Gb $48.00 3 $144.00
CD Burner $37.00 1 $37.00
Video Card GeForce FX 5200 256MB $69.00 1 $69.00
Subtotal $769.70
Audio ST Audio DSP3000 $799.00 1 $799.00
Audio ST Audio ADC&DAC3000 $679.00 1 $679.00
8 space Rack Case Musician's Friend House Brand $89.00 1 $89.00
KVM rack unit ???
Power Supply ???
$2,336.70
I figure, why F around?
Matt
Hi all.
Ok I am pretty much at a loss here... but hopefully someone with a little
more linux midi experience can point me in the right direction.
The short problem statement: aconnect doesn't appear to connect virmidi
ports to Timidity ports.
Using gentoo, 2.6.11 kernel. All ALSA drivers and libraries are version
1.0.9.
Timidity is version 2.13.2.
It is probably worth mentioning that I have loaded the virmidi and intel8x0
cards in different orders (slots) and the same issues appeared. Currently
the virmidi device is card 1, and intel8x0 (nforce3) is card 2.
only relevant output from dmesg:
May 12 16:07:11 hedleytop intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49416 usecs
May 12 16:07:11 hedleytop intel8x0: clocking to 47439
May 12 16:07:33 hedleytop intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49433 usecs
May 12 16:07:33 hedleytop intel8x0: clocking to 47456
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I fire up the timidity soft synth:
/usr/bin/timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Listing of cards and devices available:
bash-2.05b# cat /proc/asound/devices
1: : sequencer
11: [0- 3]: raw midi
10: [0- 2]: raw midi
9: [0- 1]: raw midi
8: [0- 0]: raw midi
0: [0- 0]: ctl
33: : timer
50: [1- 2]: digital audio playback
57: [1- 1]: digital audio capture
48: [1- 0]: digital audio playback
56: [1- 0]: digital audio capture
32: [1- 0]: ctl
bash-2.05b# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [VirMIDI ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI
Virtual MIDI Card 1
1 [nForce3 ]: NFORCE - NVidia nForce3
NVidia nForce3 with AD1981B at 0xe0002000, irq 11
bash-2.05b# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 1: nForce3 [NVidia nForce3], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia nForce3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: nForce3 [NVidia nForce3], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia
nForce3 - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Input ports listed:
bash-2.05b# aconnect -i
client 0: 'System' [type=kernel]
0 'Timer '
1 'Announce '
client 64: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-0' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 0-0 '
client 65: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-1' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 0-1 '
client 66: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-2' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 0-2 '
client 67: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-3' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 0-3 '
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Output ports:
bash-2.05b# aconnect -o
client 64: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-0' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 0-0 '
client 65: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-1' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 0-1 '
client 66: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-2' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 0-2 '
client 67: 'Virtual Raw MIDI 0-3' [type=kernel]
0 'VirMIDI 0-3 '
client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user]
0 'TiMidity port 0 '
1 'TiMidity port 1 '
2 'TiMidity port 2 '
3 'TiMidity port 3 '
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Playing directly to Timidity works and sounds great. Timidity runs
at about 50% processor utilization.
aplaymidi -p 128:0 /root/Necromancer.mid
Then I try to connect my virtmidi port and play through it.
aconnect 64:0 128:0
aplaymidi -p 64:0 /root/Necromancer.mid
Doesn't give any errors, appears to play, yet no sound! Timidity only
uses about 5% processor this time. Something apparently is happening,
but I have no idea what =) It appears to behave the same when playing
to an unbound/unconnected virmidi port as well
("aplaymidi -p 64:0 /root/Necromancer.mid" - same effect)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
my .asoundrc (not sure if this is helpful, as sound pretty much works
for most everything else, but could help?)
#/etc/asound.conf start:
# define the default device
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
# define the "dsp0" device
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
# define the slave pcm dmixer device
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:1,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 8192
rate 44100
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
# define the "dsnooped" device for capturing
pcm.dsnooped {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:1,0"
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_size 8192
rate 44100
}
}
# define the "duplex" device for full duplex operations
pcm.duplex {
type asym
playback.pcm "dmixer"
capture.pcm "dsnooped"
}
# define the "dsp1" device and slave "duplex" for full duplex operations
pcm.dsp1 {
type plug
slave.pcm "duplex"
}
# define the "dmixer" control device
ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 1
}
# define the "dsp2" for folks who don't want to play friendly with dmix
pcm.dsp2 { type hw card 0 }
#end.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Hedley
----- Original Message -----
From: lanas <lanas(a)securenet.net>
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:44 am
Subject: [linux-audio-user] New hardware choice
> Hi all,
>
> I'm plaaning to get a new home PC that could also be used (along
> withsoftware development) for creating and recording music.
>
> What I'd like to do: sequence MIDI external sounds (synth
> module(s)),add accoustic guitar and flute, record everything to wav
> and/or Ogg
> Vorbis formats (using original external synths sounds).
> Optionally, to
> be also able to choose from a palette of SoundFonts (as I did with
> my current PC, using a SB Live! card and MusE).
>
> What I'd like to get as PC: an Athlon 64bit based mobo, 2 GB RAM,
> some250 GB disk storage. graphics card not that important as it's
> not used
> to play games (why not on-board graphic ?). Operating system: in the
> end most likely handmade Linux based on LFS (Linux From Scratch)
> but for
> starters SuSE 9.3 64-bit, or any other that's good enough.
>
> Now, is there some strong allergic reaction between a Linux Audio
> setup and 64-bit CPUs ? Are 64-bits platforms recommended for audio
> purposes or is it better to wait a few more years ? If it's OK, which
> mobo would you recommend ?
I have been using an AMD 64 3500+ on an ABIT AV8 motherboard. The
system is extremely stable and very fast, and everything is supported in
the distribution I am running. I am not running a 64 bit distro though,
as I have not had any good luck with audio apps under a 64 bit distro.
I've had very good luck with the Planet CCRMA 32 bit distribution of
Fedora Core 3, using the Planet CCRMA edge kernel, and the CCRMA audio
packages.
> Which audio/MIDI card would you recommend for such a setup ?
I am using the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 with good results. You might
consider one of the M_Audio Delta series if you will be recording the
guitar and flute as they have a greater variety of inputs and are not
insanely expensive. None of these cards will offer zero latency, but
they will offer much lower latency than your SB-Live card. With an AMD
64 chip and 2 gig of RAM, you can plenty of software synths to sequence
your midi through soundfonts so you won't need the hardware player on
the SB-live card. I should mention that certain soundfonts sound
screwed up through one of the soundfont soft-synths I've used in Linux.
Alan
Hi all,
I'm plaaning to get a new home PC that could also be used (along with
software development) for creating and recording music.
What I'd like to do: sequence MIDI external sounds (synth module(s)),
add accoustic guitar and flute, record everything to wav and/or Ogg
Vorbis formats (using original external synths sounds). Optionally, to
be also able to choose from a palette of SoundFonts (as I did with
my current PC, using a SB Live! card and MusE).
What I'd like to get as PC: an Athlon 64bit based mobo, 2 GB RAM, some
250 GB disk storage. graphics card not that important as it's not used
to play games (why not on-board graphic ?). Operating system: in the
end most likely handmade Linux based on LFS (Linux From Scratch) but for
starters SuSE 9.3 64-bit, or any other that's good enough.
Now, is there some strong allergic reaction between a Linux Audio
setup and 64-bit CPUs ? Are 64-bits platforms recommended for audio
purposes or is it better to wait a few more years ? If it's OK, which
mobo would you recommend ?
Which audio/MIDI card would you recommend for such a setup ?
Which speakers system could deliver good sound quality. I presently
have some Creative I-Trigue speakers and I'd hate doing any quality
stuff with it implying listening closely over and over again to
sequences and sounds. Is it possible to connect regular sound system
quality speakers to PC sound cards ? What speaker setup would you
recommend for driving both the external synth(s) and audio sound card ?
Is a mixer needed ?
Thanks a lot for any advice/suggestion/hint !
Cheers,
Al
--- Paul Winkler <pw_lists(a)slinkp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 06:44:44AM -0400, lanas
> wrote:
> > Which speakers system could deliver good sound
> quality. I presently
> > have some Creative I-Trigue speakers and I'd hate
> doing any quality
> > stuff with it implying listening closely over and
> over again to
> > sequences and sounds. Is it possible to connect
> regular sound system
> > quality speakers to PC sound cards ?
>
> Yes, but you'll need an amplifier (or self-amplified
> speakers).
>
> I'm a big fan of the PSB Alpha B home stereo
> speakers, I think
> it's the best bargain around in bookshelf speakers.
> If you dig around you can find them for under US
> $200 / pair, and at that
> price they sound better than most studio monitors in
> the under-$1000 range.
> (Of course you have to add the price of an amp too;
> I just use my old
> home stereo amp.)
>
> I wouldn't mind a pair of Mackie HR624's, I like how
> they sound
> and they're probably more accurate, but those are
> $900 / pair and I've heard
> rumours of reliability issues (it didn't help that
> when I went to check
> them out, one of the demo units was broken).
I've heard those reliability rumors. What the heck let
me add to the them. We've owned a pair of Mackie
monitors for three or four years. I use them so often
I can't recall the model number. I hate them. Mostly
because of reliability.
They have a gazillion dollars worth of protective
circuits and armed monkeys inside but booom they blow
up.
We bought them because they sound damned good. I was
watching ebay for Alesis M1Active monitors. I've got a
pair of those that I've abused to no end for five
years. Never a problem. I'd like to replace the Mackie
garbage with another pair of M1Active or whatever they
have now.
ron
> Paul Winkler
> http://www.slinkp.com
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Regarding-
>> are the event TR8XL speakers. Incredible. They sound comparable to the
> Mackies or NS10s. I've done direct comparisons.
>
>That's a bit confusing, as the Mackie monitors I've heard
>(624 and 824) sound nothing at all like the old Yamaha NS10s.
>The Mackies have good bass extension and a reasonably accurate
>midrange. The Yamahas had no bass extension and a strongly exaggerated
>midrange. <rant>It's a good thing Yamaha finally discontinued the NS10 or
>people would probably still be buying the horrible things.</rant>
>
>I did kinda like the older Event 20/20p for the price, I
>haven't heard the new models but historically they've made some nice
>bang-for-the-buck systems. The only thing I didn't like about the
>20/20 compared to the Mackie 624 was a hint of "plastic"-sounding
>resonance in the midbass, and a very slightly harsh treble that might
>be annoying after a long day of mixing. But I could certainly get work
>done on it, and the price is/was a heck of a lot lower.
I agree here. What I meant to say is that the Events are comparable when
considering usability over time. I think all monitors have thier quirks and
you have to know your speakers and how they sound.
Matt
