Linux-audio-user August 2005

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[linux-audio-user] Hydrogen advice needed: how to achieve this sound?

by Hans

Hello everyone, I'm new to drums and drum machines, trying to work with Hydrogen. Want to do some home recording with bass and guitar. Need a cool drum groove to play with and try to make that from scratch (love to learn :-). Take a listen to this and you will know what I am talking about: http://hit.tweakdsl.nl/hh-beat.mp3. It's a little less than 500kb in size. It's the hi hat that I want. The rhythm isn't so complicated, just a beat on every count. What I can't get is the same sound as the recording. It's lush (not quite a closed hi hat, I presume) and has a long decay. So far I've only achieved a mechanical sound. So the questions.... Q1: is what I want at all possible with Hydrogen? Q2: can this be done with the standard GM drum sounds? Q3: if not, what kind of samples/drumkits should I be looking at? Q4: apart from delay, are there any other effects I should use? Q5: or is my approach to simplistic and should I try more complicated patterns with more sounds at the same time (e.g. open and closed hi hats)? Hope you guys can give some advice or insight. BTW, the clip is from the song Amerimacka (feat Notch) by Thievery Corporation. Cheerio, Hans Debian GNU/Linux testing, Athlon 2500+, SB Audigy 1

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] RE: I just want to EQ the quiet parts

by philicorda

> Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:47:10 -0700 > From: Mike Jewell <mj405(a)oneupaudio.com> > Subject: [linux-audio-user] I just want to EQ the quiet parts > To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu > Message-ID: <1125082030.31648.30.camel(a)localhost.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi LAUs, > > I'm pretty new to all this but have been using Audacity with plugins, > etc and have recently been experimenting with Ardour and Jamin. > > What I want to do is EQ the "quiet" parts only of a wav file. The file > is a tape recording of some source (probably LP) done on a cheap > recorder. There is lots of rumble that is mostly noticeable (of course) > in the quieter spots on the track. Playing with Jamin's 30 band EQ > shows that filtering out a band or two around 200 Hz helps a LOT but > this wrecks the bass in the louder "musical" sections. What I would do is... Render a couple of versions through Jamin. One with the severe 200hz cut for the quieter sections, and one with settings that work well on the louder bits. Then, line them up in Ardour so they start at exactly the same time and cut/crossfade between them so the bass cut version is only used where it's needed. Longish crossfades should make the changeovers inaudible. > > Is there something like a noise gate that, instead of silencing > everything below a certain threshold, would apply a given EQ to it > instead? With all the cool Linux Audio tools out there, it seems like > there must be some way to do this. (Maybe Jamin can and I just don't > see it.) I guess you could use the spectral gate in freqtweak to do this. It does tend to change the sound a little (It's not really meant for this kind of thing) though considering the quality of the source it could well be acceptable. Just stay away from the delay, feedback and warp settings or you'll be playing with it all night... :) If Jamin had inverse ratios for the compressor sections then you could do some expansion. Perhaps if you ask the authors they will look into it? > > Thanks, > > Mike > Mike Jewell > One-Up Audio

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] usb controller keyboards

by Emanuel Rumpf

Hello all Which of these USB Controller-Keyboards are known to work with (debian) linux? Is one recommendable for any reason? I could not find most of them in the alsa sm (soundcard matrix). Is the matrix up-to-date? Edirol PCR M1 - (yes) Evolution (MAudio) MK-425C - (?) MAudio o2 - (?) MAudio Oxygen8 - (?) Alesis Photone25 - (?) Emu XBoard25 - (?) Thank you, Emanuel

18 years, 8 months

[Fwd: [linux-audio-user] Choice of Resamplers]

by Brad Fuller

David, I didn't find your posts offensive. They may have been misplaced in the wrong mailing list, but I read them. Maybe a little forward as to why you were sending the messages (like your message here) would have been appropriate to start off your msgs. If you did, I missed it. I can see why others may have been offended --- w/o an introduction, it looks like an attack. But, even at that, it was just your opinion. And, that's healthy. I just think you needed a little forward to your analysis and everything would (probably) have been fine. that's my 2cents brad -- Brad Fuller (408) 799-6124 ** Sonaural Audio Studios ** (408) 799-6123 West San Jose (408) 799-6124 Cambrian ________________________________ Hear us online: www.Sonaural.com ----- Original Message ----- *From:* davidrclark(a)earthlink.net *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2005 3:35:28 PM Greetings all, I was just contacted by Erik de Castro Lopo who requested that I go edit a bunch of my files. It appears that Erik is planning to do some sort of comparison between what I've done and what he has done. This would be an inappropriate response to my claim regarding the misuse of Smith's method for bulk conversions at constant rates, so I'll take care of it right away: 1) If you INSIST on using something in Linux audio for resampling and you don't really understand the issues involved, then you should definitely use Erik's program(s) rather than anything I wrote because you're a lot less likely to have very serious errors; however, 2) You really shouldn't use EITHER of these for anything as valuable as, for example, an audio library. Once again, you'd probably be better off acquiring a new library or re-recording the sources. If you cannot do that, then you should probably get with a professional engineer who does this all the time, then *thoroughly* test the results. Anything wrong may suddenly pop up later on, and you may not consider that it could be the resampling step that caused it. You probably won't see anything more from me on resampling, because I'm not really interested in it. My recent posts were merely a very belated reply to abusive demands made long ago on this forum, and *only* because I started feeling sorry for those who may be misled into damaging their audio files, not because I felt obligated to the jackasses who heaped abuse on me. Regards to all, Dave. P.S. LAU is on my spam list, so I haven't seen anything posted recently. I will post announcements once in a while, but I'm really tired (just like Noah) of abuse, personal attacks, and misrepresentation by the Illuminati (not limited to Lee R) of what I regard as very much like a cult. Think about the many parallels to one of those "spaceship" cults, and you'll see why I say that. Certainly not all who read/post here buy into this cult mentality, but a significant percentage have.

18 years, 8 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Around the wiki.freeaudiosoftware.org - forum

by Shayne O'Connor

Christoph Eckert wrote: > Hi, > > > >>you'll be at the ribbon-cutting won't you > > > just to improve my english: What does »ribbon-cutting« mean? I only know > what a ribbon-controller is :) . > > it's like at the opening of some building or event, someone will come along and "cut the ribbon" to officially open it. shayne

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] I just want to EQ the quiet parts

by Mike Jewell

Hi LAUs, I'm pretty new to all this but have been using Audacity with plugins, etc and have recently been experimenting with Ardour and Jamin. What I want to do is EQ the "quiet" parts only of a wav file. The file is a tape recording of some source (probably LP) done on a cheap recorder. There is lots of rumble that is mostly noticeable (of course) in the quieter spots on the track. Playing with Jamin's 30 band EQ shows that filtering out a band or two around 200 Hz helps a LOT but this wrecks the bass in the louder "musical" sections. Is there something like a noise gate that, instead of silencing everything below a certain threshold, would apply a given EQ to it instead? With all the cool Linux Audio tools out there, it seems like there must be some way to do this. (Maybe Jamin can and I just don't see it.) Thanks, Mike Mike Jewell One-Up Audio

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Around the wiki.freeaudiosoftware.org - forum

by COCHARD Yves

Hi! You probably already thought about it, and you probably have good reasons not making it... I'm speaking about a forum. I feel that this tool vould be really really useful to help around... The idea is closed to the freeaudiosoftware in the sense it would "answer" to questions related to all linux distributions, bsd, ... I feel that they got some advantage on mailing list, am I wrong? (like topic "well" separeted,...) Any of you have some interest of it? I won't do it and manage it alone, but I'm able to take part in it (even start it actually)! But this idea could also somehow take over this mailing list... :-( -yc- -- « La musique offre aux passions le moyen de jouir d'elles-mêmes. » Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Le Gai Savoir.

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Comparison of score renderers?

by Mikhail Ramendik

Hello, I would like to compare ABC and Lilypond. Are there any comparison resources available? And perhaps some classical scores are available both in ABC and in Lilypond, so that the complication of the source and the quality of the results could be compared? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] JackMix 0.1.0 released

by Arnold Krille

Yes, after more than a year there is another JackMix release! If you just want to download it: http://dillenburg.dyndns.org/~arnold/node/267 (also has some comments and install-instructions) You don't know what JackMix is? - It aims to be a mixing-console for your computer. It uses Jack, the professional sound server and does pure mixing, no effects or routing (there are other good apps for that). For more info read http://dillenburg.dyndns.org/~arnold/wiki/goto/JackMix:intro This new release includes a dir where I did some first tests with OSC, which I plan to use for communication between the mixer-server and the gui(s). Until now its just a lib and two test-apps in that dir. If you want, you can take a look at it... Some other concepts[*] are about to find their way into JackMix real soon, which implies another phase of heavy rewriting (and not so many releases). Have a nice day, Arnold [*] Reading "Design Patterns" is truly inspiring... -- visit http://dillenburg.dyndns.org/~arnold/ --- Wenn man mit Raubkopien Bands wie Brosis oder Britney Spears wirklich verhindern könnte, würde ich mir noch heute einen Stapel Brenner und einen Sack Rohlinge kaufen.

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Unofficial announce: Allo

by Juhana Sadeharju

Allo, a clone of early speech synth. The chip was used in Vic20 and other homecomputers. http://www.funet.fi/~kouhia/allo20050819.tar.gz Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

18 years, 8 months

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Linux-audio-user August 2005