Here it is again, the never ending question. Neuros is no longer making
anything that I would want to buy (I don't want one of the last of the
line 80GB players for various reasons). What players out there are
Linux/Ogg compatible. I'd like something about 20GB with USB that
appears as a removable disk. If it's supported by Rockbox that would be
a plus. Anybody got anything that is still commercially available that
does this (I can't find a new iRiver H120 anywhere - I don't want to buy
used). TIA.
Jan
--
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to
skid in sideways, chardonnay in one hand, chocolate in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming 'WOO HOO, what a ride'"
Hello,
I am using snd-ls 0.9.7.12. I have searched through documentation, and fail to
see how I can define the end point of a selection started with C-space. Am I
missing something? I would like to move the cursor into position, press
C-space, move the cursor to a new position, and press some key to have the
selection end there. I am expecting to see a high-lighted selection at the end
of that process.
How do I do this? It's such a simple thing, yet I can't find any info anywhere?
BTW, I am not an emacs user. Perhaps things would be clearer to me if I was.
(I'd be terribly interested in a vim-like snd, BTW, if anyone knows anything).
thanks,
Forest
Hello.
I encounter a weird and irritating problem which seem to concern
TAP plugins.
Sometimes there seem to be a bad wire in my hardware, quite
everything start to sound with lots of cracks, turning all the sound
system to be unusable. After hours and hours investigating, I notice that
when I turn off all TAP plugins, things reintegrate normality. For example
Zynaddsubfx often, not always, produces rains of CRR CRR CRR when playing
a sequence together with an Om patch which uses TAP reverb or TAP pink
noise. Turning off the Om patch produces immediatly a normal sound in
Zynaddsubfx (and also deleting the TAP plugins from the patch)...
The worse thing is that some of my mixes have become completely
unusable in Ardour. I intensively use the TAP reverb on some tracks,
everything worked fine around September and before, even if there were
occasionnaly, and randomly, some of these noises. But now there are some
mixes I just can't play anymore without turning off all the TAPS
reverbs. I even encounter tons and tons of xruns...
I regularly upgrade my gentoo system and the kernel, *everything
works really fine* but this precise point which seems to get worse and
worse. I have *not* upgraded Ardour (0.99.3 version). I know that
softwares like jack-rack complains when one try to use TAP plugins, saying
they are not real time, but those plugins seemed to function normally
before with lot of other softs... And it would be really a pity to stop
using them.
Two questions : am I alone to encounter this issue, and what kind
of debug information could be of a help ?
My setup is dual Opteron, 2 Go RAM, SATA Drives, RME Multiface II,
Gentoo 2006.1, kernel : 2.6.18.1 #1 SMP PREEMPT and Alsa Version
1.0.12rc1 provided with this vanilla kernel, normally patched for real
time.
Thanks in advance for any kind of help,
Y.
In this article I'm going to tell a bit about my past experience with
song formats (advantages and problems), how it influenced my choices
when extending the goals of Aldrin and what this will mean for the
future of Aldrin, and collaborative music composition on the internet in
general.
http://www.leonard-ritter.com/modules_collaboration_and_aldrin
--
Leonard Ritter
-- Freelance Art & Logic
-- http://www.leonard-ritter.com
Hi all!
There's a new piece online at:
http://www.juliencoder.de/songs/hippie_heart.ogg
It's a bit of a roller-coaster, all in all rather calm and harmonic. I touch
a bit of progrock there and synth-music and a bit of completely weird - and
probably senseless - ethnic there.
The website now has fixed colours and the line-height of the lists is
increased. Please could someone validate the look of it? Beside it's now valid
xhtml/1.0.
The main link for the English version is:
http://www.juliencoder.de/en/main.html
Thanks for any feedback! It's highly appreciated!
Kindest regards
Julien
--------
Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles)
======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ========
http://ltsb.sourceforge.net
the Linux TextBased Studio guide
======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: =======
http://www.juliencoder.de
Aldrin is an open source modular sequencer/tracker, designed to be 1:1 compatible to Jeskola Buzz.
We're proud to announce the release of Aldrin 0.7 (Vulture), featuring Automation, MIDI controller support, preliminary user help documents compiled by Phed (thank you a lot!), support for song info texts, preset editing, the all new M4wII synth, support for user interface extensions and the usual set of bugfixes.
http://www.leonard-ritter.com/announcement_aldrin_0_7_vulture
--
Leonard Ritter
-- Freelance Art & Logic
-- http://www.leonard-ritter.com
There has been created a historical free game for Linux named 0 A.D
and it is currently in the advanced stages of development and it needs
your help!
Take a look at the progress of this game and judge for yourselves:
http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/
They currently are needing:
artists
programmers
musicians
And i thought there might be quite a few of those on this list!
If you won't help this game will be released much later then hoped, so
please help if you can.
Hi.
Using a global reverb in the final stage of a mix, especially when
using Jamin in Ardour, may improve tremendously the global quality of the
sound. But I wonder what kind of reverb can be used to obtain the most
neutral and most efficient effect, considering that, by definition, I
don't know on what audio system my mix will be heard.
I know such a question implies subjective preferences, and
depends on the kind of music being mastered. But I imagine some advices
could be given to avoid the most common mistakes, also :
- What's the best kind of reverb to use ? A plate one ? I am
mostly satsified with the gverb plugin, but maybe a plate one would be
more efficient, regarding to the immense type of existing audio systems. I
find the TAP reverbs far too agressive for being used in this final stage,
am I wrong ?
- Are there typical setups for this kind of use (length, tail,
damping) ?
- What's the best place to put this reverb ? On a bus of Ardour,
at the output of Jamin, or directly on the master track, after the return
of Jamin ? Or during another step, after having bounced all the mix through
Jamin on a dedicated track ?
- Are there some things to take care of, not to get too many
things blurred, especially reverbs applied during the mix only to some
instruments ? For example, if I use a special, somewhat strong, reverb on
a snare, is there a special way to setup this reverb, or the global one,
for it and the snare itself not to get drowned in a sea of blurred and
vague background noise ?
- More generally, is this kind of practice very common in
mastering, or is it better to do such a thing before this final step ?
Of course I know I can try and try myself to get the best kind of
result, and also search Google to find tons of contradictory practices :),
but I would really welcome some advices as I'm not yet really
professionnal in mastering :).
So thank you very much in advance,
Y.
Folks,
http://freewheeling.sourceforge.net/
I am pleased to present FreeWheeling 0.5.3. This is a new release with
significant new features, and it has been ported to Mac OSX.
FreeWheeling now runs under PC Linux as well as PPC and Intel Macs, all
with the same fluid interface.
I have begun to work with developers to help guide FreeWheeling's
evolution. There are fantastic possibilities and many stones that remain
unturned. Help is needed, in any form you can give.
Where is FreeWheeling going? I see it becoming a tool for communities
working with improv, for solo artists to flesh out material, and for
performance. I hope that, with a new community of Mac users, these
possibilities will become more real.
List of Changes
-------------------------
2006-11-21 v0.5.3
Many thanks to Danni Coy, who has contributed very significantly to
this release. Actually, he did most of the work!
New Features
------------
* MAC OS X support
FreeWheeling is now cross-platform.
A universal binary is now available for both Intel & PPC Mac
platforms.
* Multiple Audio Formats
(Contributed by Danni- Thank You!)
Save and load loops and live streams in
OGG, WAVE, AU, and FLAC.
* OGG encoding quality setting in configuration
* More flexible MIDI control of external synths.
- Combination patches allow you to split one MIDI controller
into a range of zones. This allows you to control several
different sounds or softsynths from one MIDI control source.
A combipatch defines the zones, as well as the output MIDI
port and channel that each zone sends to. You can also send
MIDI program and bank change messages for each zone, allowing
you to switch programs on external synths.
All of this functionality is integrated into the patch browser,
so you can seamlessly control other synth apps and
sound modules from within FreeWheeling.
See 'examples/combipatchdemo.xml' for an example
configuration.
- Added 'suppressprogramchanges' option for patch banks
With suppressprogramchanges=1, no MIDI bank and program change
messages are sent when patches are changed within a patch bank.
This is useful when you have a softsynth loaded with patches on
different channels and you merely want to switch channels-
each patch is mapped to a different channel, but you don't want
program change messages being sent to mess up your patches.
Use this for banks of Linuxsampler channels.
- Added 'separatechannels' option for patch banks
With separatechannels=0, patches mapped to different channels
appear in the same patch bank. With this option, you can have a
collection of several patches on different channels that appear
together in one list for browsing. This is useful for sampling
synths where your patches are pre-loaded onto channels.
With separatechannels=1, the old behavior is used.
The old behavior splits each channel into a separate bank.
This works well for DSSI softsynths, where many synths run on
the same port, but each channel accesses a different synth and
different set of patches.
Fixes
-----
* MIDI thread now runs at high priority FIFO, rather than
low priority FIFO-- this may improve MIDI performance,
and hopefully will not affect stability.
* Fixed configuration bug that broke 'CTRL+click' loop renaming.
All the Best, and Happy FreeWheeling,
-JP Mercury