Greetings:
I'd like to buy a MIDI keyboard, not a synth, just a keyboard. I'm
looking for something with at least these capabilities:
2 to 3 octave key span (small is good)
octave up/down transposition
velocity-sensitive
mod and pitch bend wheels
sends program change
aftertouch sensitive (channel AT is fine)
sends MIDI volume (cc #7)
Of course I'd also like to spend not very much money. So, is there
something out there that fits my needs ? Which inexpensive MIDI
keyboards are popular with LA* people ?
Best,
dp
James,
I also like the metallic sounds, but I can hear their compression too clearly.
Perhaps others won't hear it. Never know these days...
Overall nicely done. Thanks for posting the URL. Personally, I would like
to see people post something about their work flow --- sources of sounds,
medium recorded to or assembled into, effects processing, etc. The stuff
behind the scenes.
Regards,
Dave.
Hi,
Just a reminder for anyone in the UK - we're meeting up at the Trinity centre
in Bristol on Saturday 10AM for the first gathering of Open Source Multimedia
Users in the UK. More details here:
http://fave.org.uk
irc.freenode.net#fave
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
On Friday 19 August 2005 13:30, linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu
wrote:
> > Problem in -1, -2 and Demudi kernels. Is this going to fixed?
>
> I just installed A/DeMuDi-1.2.1 and it works with -3
Debian Sid is up to -5. Still does not work.
Thanks Fernando for the patch!
I had a little supprise once I installed the patched pam from source:
after shutdown I couldn't get back in!
I used a rescue disk though and fixed pam by removing all occurances of
the $ISA variable in each of the files in pam.d, as I was getting
/var/log/messages about pam not being able to find some of the .so files.
My next questions are:
1. Why won't pam do what it needs to with this $ISA variable?
2. Now that I have a running RT kernel and a patched for rlimits pam
with all users having "realtime" permissions; how should I start jackd
and pd to take advantage of these changes?
I run:
nice -5 qjackctl (starting jackd with a priority of 89 as that seems to
be as high a priority as qjackctl will let me pass)
nice -5 pd
But my latency values are about the same as running:
qjackctl (and jackd at 0 priority)
pd
...?
Thanks for the continued help!
-thewade
Hello everyone,
Mike's mail reminded me I have a persistent problem in K3B when burning
audio CDs.
I want to burn CDAs with no pause between the tracks. I pop up the
"Properties" window on the tracks, sets the padding to 0 sec. which
should do the job. In fact, the burning process is OK. The CD is indeed
readable...
However, the problem I encounter is that the CD is burnt as a two track
CD. My Walkman doesn't manage to skip to a track with a higher number
than 2. What is wrong here?
May it be related to the fact I burn CDAs in DAO mode (I was once told:
"If you want no pause between your tracks, you'll have to burn it in DAO
mode")? Must I burn them slower than 8x (a thing my burner seems unable
to do)?
Has anyone experienced the same problem?
Does anyone know where it can come from?
This reminds me of another question (-:
Is there an audio CD extractor able to rip the whole CD as a unique
track? I think there was one in Win which could even provide the .cue
file with track time indexes which was a really nice feature... That
would be great if it existed in Linux, which I don't doubt (-:
Cheers,
Jé
Just a suggestion: I think it would be useful if
people specified what license they are releasing their
compositions under when posting them to the list.
I've come across some really nice tunes here, but it's
unfortunate that sometimes we might not know the
extent to which the author wants us to use/distribute
them etc.. And granted, some people specify the
licenses on their website, but others don't.
Anyone else think this is a good idea?
P.S. Maybe there's a specific policy already that I'm
not aware of?
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I'm connected to a group which holds regular talks on a wide range of
topics. I've long thought that a talk about audio processing with Linux
would be very interesting, but I'm a novice at this.
Would anyone on this list be interested in speaking?
Information on the group and (I think) a list of previous talk is at
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Thanks,
Michael
Summary:
Test MIDI phrase #1 for auditioning patches or synths:
http://home.earthlink.net/~davidrclark/linux_audio_users/mmp1.mid
Demo of audition MIDI phrase for eight very different patches from a
Roland XV-3080 is at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~davidrclark/latest.mp3
-----------------------------
MIDI Test Phrase 1 is a modified arpeggiated phrase that ranges over
five octaves with velocities from 64 to 127, contains both long and
short notes, some overlapping, some not (to provide some idea of both
chord and solo performance), which I have now tested using three
hardware synths, several software synths including Nasca O. Paul's
ZynAddSubFX and Fluidsynth, using hundreds of patches and soundfonts.
This phrase does *not* have modulation, aftertouch, pitchbending or
other variations of this sort. This first phrase is anticipated to be
the basis of a set of phrases. I have already found this test phrase
to be much more useful than I had anticipated in revealing strengths
and weaknesses of patches and synths as well as for exploring large
synths which offer hundreds or thousands of patches.
The MIDI file is completely clean of any controller, including volume,
panning, patch selection, etc. so you should be able to just use it to
play the same patch as previously chosen or the patch you manually
choose on an external synth. I stripped out all of the FF 7F
sequencer- and system-specific messages by hand, so please do let me
know if you see any problems along those lines or errors I may have
introduced into the MIDI file.
This MIDI file is being released as "software" under GPL-2 so you can
use it in the manner described in that license. This is an original
work, so is unencumbered by royalties, etc. Please feel free to
exchange samples with colleagues or use this in any way prescribed by
GPL-2.
The demo uses my binaural image audio software rather than the stock
reverb on the Roland XV-3080, so it's intended primarily for
headphones. This demo is also released as "software" under GPL-2.
Each audio section is a single patch, not performances, but some have
multiple tones.
Sections (please do listen to these with headphones for much better
results):
1) 128 Voice Piano, preset A-001
2) Upright Piano, D-002 (degraded piano)
3) Computer Clavinet, A-033
4) Bluesy OD Guitar, D-037
5) Big BPF, C-103
6) Symphonique, C-044 (sounds a little dark to me)
7) Ice Blasts, F-126
8) Forest Moon, F-115
Hope you enjoy and Regards to all,
Dave.