Linux-audio-user February 2006

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by Adam Sampson

Hi all, I've enjoyed listening to all the bits of random music people post to this list -- so here's something of mine: http://offog.org/music/how-will-they-know-v1.ogg All done with Ardour (and a bit of TAP Chorus). Comments welcome. :) -- Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> <http://offog.org/>

19 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-user] lmms + vst

by rheise＠it.uts.edu.au

I have just downloaded and compiled LMMS with vst support, and would like to try it with the MrRay73 plugin. When I double-click on the MrRay dll, it takes a number of minutes to load. Is this normal? I am also using the latest debian unstable release of wine. Thanks, Ryan

19 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-user] Drum beats library

by rheise＠it.uts.edu.au

Hi, Does there exist an extensive library of drum beats for Hydrogen, or plain midi, or something else that works on Linux? Thanks, Ryan

19 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-user] Connecting to external midi device

by Adrian Blockley

G'day all, I am trying to connect to an external midi device (casio CTK-900 keyboard) through a cheap soundcard (Cmedia 3738 chip) with midi interface. I have managed to get this working under Windows XP and can at least get Midi files to play through the keyboard, so in principal it could also work in Linux but I haven't quite managed to get this working. Sound in general works fine and I have now successfully managed to connect to the software synth, Timidity, using Rosegarden and aplaymidi. I have tried a number of things but can't get the connection to the harware synthesiser to work. Alsa config in modules.conf: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore ## alias sound-slot-0 snd_cmipci options snd-cmipci id="first" mpu_port=0x330 # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss cat /proc/asound cards produces the following: 0 [first ]: CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6 C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6 (model 55) at 0xd000, irq 10 running lsmod produces a lot of output which I won't copy just yet but it does include the line: snd_mpu401_uart 6400 1 snd_cmipci I am using qjackctl to run jack using the following command: /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p512 -n2 -i2 -o2 linux kernel = 2.6.15-nitro2 (Gentoo) aconnect -io produces the following: client 0: 'System' [type=kernel] 0 'Timer ' 1 'Announce ' client 16: 'MPU-401 MIDI 0-0' [type=kernel] 0 'MPU-401 MIDI 0-0' client 17: 'OPL3 FM synth' [type=kernel] 0 'OPL3 FM Port ' client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user] 0 'TiMidity port 0 ' 1 'TiMidity port 1 ' 2 'TiMidity port 2 ' 3 'TiMidity port 3 ' Running aplaymidi --port 16:0 mysong.MID produces no output or error message but the following is printed using dmesg: cmd: 0xff failed at 0x330 (status = 0xff, data = 0xff) cmd: 0x3f failed at 0x330 (status = 0xff, data = 0xff) My guess is that the midi i/o port address is wrong. Now i don't understand a great deal about PCI but my guess is that the midi i/o port address on the sound card probably isn't 0x330 (please note I've also tried 300, 310 and 320). Are other addresses possible? I've tried using the Windows device manager to find out what address port I should be using but i can only find the address of the sound card and not the mpu401. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong or where to proceed from here (my thoughts are another sound card but I am trying to avoid doing that just yet...)? Cheers Adrian -- "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't." Adrian Blockley 32 Darwinia Loop Canningvale WA, 6155 Ph: 08 9256 1953 Mobile: 0405 609 990

19 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-user] asoundrc and aplay

by conrad berhörster

Hello all, i'm want to use the asoundrc for my music production. I've read the docs under http://alsa.opensrc.org/. While testing the funktionality, i came into the first problem. when trying the examples. if i try aplay test.wav everything went fine. but after aplay -D hw:0,0 test.wav or aplay -D hw:1,0 test.wav // this is the onboard soundcard i get Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:901: Channels count non available and no sound will be played googling doesn't really enlightened me. any hints ? sizu c~ BTW: is there a way to search the LAU archive. Haven't found that.

19 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-user] Obituary for Pete Bessman

by Pete Bessman

To Whom it May Concern, Mr. Bessman was found in the early AM of Sunday, February 19, dead in his basement, with a folded up and buttered frisbee lodged in his throat. He etched his suicide note into his back with a steak knife (don't question it), explaining that a 40 hour work week and a 16 credit load at college had left effectively no time for hacking in the past seven months. Feeling disgusted with himself, he decided to end things the honorable way. As a parting gift, he uploaded a work-in-progress track to http://gazuga.net/stuph/caves.ogg. Little explanation is offered as to the nature and origins of this track, but that the deceased was found wearing a "SEGA does what Nintendon't" t-shirt may give us a clue into the mystery of this tune. Considering that the deceased's bloodstream was coursing with methandrostenalone, it is likely that this song came about during a brief fit of rage --- but being a complete and hopeless nerd, this was expressed with dorky bitpop, as opposed to wanton violence and destruction. Relatives believe the track was composed entirely by the deceased, with percussion and synth provided by Specimen --- the project which, by having gone so long sans update, drove a rather morbid soul to a predictable end --- and with live guitar and bass combined together in Ardour. The estimated amount of time invested in the track is around 2 hours. They further relate that the deceased intended to reanimate and terrorize the locals as a zombie, which is why his remains were unceremoniously cremated and dumped in a port-a-poopie. His sole friend, a certain humanoid calling himself Mr. Falcon, provided some interesting commentary --- once he had been properly restrained and sedated, that is. "That fucker never stays dead," said the bereaved. "This one time, at a LAN party, he got so pissed off cuz he was losing that he ran outside screaming 'VALHALLA AWAITS,' and then curbed himself. We're not sure how he pulled that off, but we were kinda glad for it, considering that we didn't have to listen to constant accusations of being 'fucking haxors' any more. But whaddya know, I saw him a week later, arguing with a clerk at a grocery store because he thought he was getting ripped off on rutabagas. He's a Jew, you know. Or rather, if you didn't know, you should be able to guess." The bereaved then began to speak incoherently about "the cleansing," and of a giant, three eyed ape that would descend from the heavens and force the vegetarians to eat fillet mignon. We're not really sure what that was all about, but we take it that it won't belong before the "deceased" resurfaces. It is for this reason that we advise against excessive celebration, since the resultant letdown that will surely arise when Mr. Bessman shows up again might cause a stroke in the poor soul who thought he wouldn't have to hear any more crude penis jokes. Technically speaking, Mr. Bessman is survived by no one, although we thought it worth mentioning that he had a doll named "Zirp" that is constructed of old scabs and reproductive fluids. For CBS News, this is Dan Rathers, saying "Nobody can touch the integrity of my journalistic standards."

19 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-user] ingo molnar patch on mandriva's kernel

by emanuele ..:: www.rumoridifondo.com ::..

yes, mandriva has it's realtime kernel (the kernel multimedia) but i still have xrun when i play soft-synth with a big chord and fast arpeggios. so i think that mandriva's kernel is not really patched with -rt. but maybe it's just an error on configuring my computer or something wrong with some hardware. another doubt is that i don't manage to change irq handler with "chrt" command because i don't have that command and i don't know how get it. in the qjackctl window i don't how configure the priority because i don't know what irq handler priority my soundcard have. as you can see, i'm at the beginning with linux and linux and audio! :-) i thought it was easier setting a working daw with mandriva... bye emanuele > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Oggetto: > Re: [linux-audio-user] ingo molnar patch on mandriva's kernel > Da: > Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> > Data: > Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:24:30 -0500 > A: > A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu> > > A: > A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu> > > >Why are you building your own kernel, there should be precompiled -rt >kernel packages for every distro by now. > >Lee > >

19 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-user] Rosegarden 1.2.3 debs?

by Jon Hoskins

Hey all, I'm struggling with Scons, trying to build from source. Has anyone seen debian packages for this yet? Thanks in advance!

19 years, 1 month

Re: [linux-audio-user] Obituary for Pete Bessman

by Pete Bessman

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:38 +1100, Conrad Parker wrote: > seriously fucking good zombie rock dude. > > I like both mixes. I like them as separate mixes, make one that's purely > the rock without the disco elves, make the other that's tripped out. > > kfish. You're right. This could work well in either direction. I'll see about splitting it off into a really face-crushing industrial metal version, and a super slick and shiny funk fest of a version. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net "So this baby seal walks into a club."

19 years, 1 month

Re: [linux-audio-user] favorite window Manager for making music?

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

Brian Dunn: >So you guys helped me pick a distro, and i'm pretty >happy with it. Lets here the verdicts, what window >manager? Gnome 2.12 is what i've been using, but it >isn't the most stable. Sometimes i can't logout and i >have to switch to a vt and kill it. The absence of >easily configurable menus has me sticking all my music >apps in a "drawer," where those without icons apear as >big feet that must be mouse-overed until i get >tool-tipped to even know that program it is. I could >work around/live with it but then i resized one day >with <ctrl>+<alt>+- to read some fine print and all o' >the sudden the horizontal refresh was busted like an >old television. the whole screen was cycling to the >left at a dizying pace and my muse cursor disapeared. >Even after killing X and restarting this nonsence was >still going on and i hate having to reboot my machine. > So now i'm playing with e16... before i invest in >realy figuring out how to use it, what do any of you >using a jack studio setup with like MusE and Ardor and >the like prefer? I have used fvwm the last 10 years and has always been very satisfied. For about a year, though, I used gnome/sawfish, because I was able to configure it like I want, but later gnome became less configurable, and I went back to fvwm, and I don't see any reason to change. Sometimes, though, I need the gnome-menues to find some certain program. So I have configured fvwm to pop up the gnome-menues when I press Alt+F1. I could also just run the program "gnome-panel", which does the same thing. I agree though, fvwm is ugly. But you get used to it. :-) (And its completely configurable anyway, so it can be changed to look like whatever.)

19 years, 1 month

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Linux-audio-user February 2006