Linux-audio-user March 2006

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[linux-audio-user] Re: Making music a product

by Maluvia

Hi Carlo! >I'm wondering... I do have an urge to be able to support myself from >music. Be it from earning money from it or be it from receiving free >food, shelter, clothing and goodies in a soon-to-come free society. Amen, Brother! >So I'm wondering, the golden rule sayeth 'do onto others as you would >have it done onto you', so it appears that music that is made to be >traded for shelter and clothing ought to contain messages that let the >receiver be able to produce more shelter and clothing. > >IE: Inspirational messages that actually improve people's internals, >rather than just a spacy trip. > >Of course all knowledge that comes to us from inspirationland is >inherently good and valuable, but perhaps it is a good idea to spread >knowledge that is good RIGHT NOW. Hammy hammy. Listen and eat more. > >So I have come to believe that there is an inherent difference between >'day job' music and 'full fledged musician' music, where the former art >has mainly the function of recreation for the artist, while the latter >has that function for the audience. (not black and white, just >_primarily_, or _as a tendency. Both can have both functions, I am >talking about the intention. > >How can we use this to lead happier, more fulfilled lives? > >Carlo I like bringing in that perspective, as those are very important questions. Being an occultist - I've got to go metaphysical on you to give my answers. This is my alternative scenario to having to make a lot of money from music: Use music to change the world we live in - to change people's consciousness - to *create* a world where money is no longer necessary. That's a different approach to bringing about the same end - and assuredly, the better one. I believe that music coming from an inspired place can alter people's consciousness - can move them, awaken them, trigger them, inspire them and empower them. And this doesn't have to be through explicit words in the form of lyrics - it can be just in the intent - *where* the music is coming from - how it makes people *feel*. That is the incredible power of music - that it acts on a subconscious and a superconscious level - it gets around the intellect and all the judgements it holds that keep us stuck. Music is a magical potency. Music can free the mind. And now that you all realize how way out there I am, I will take this even a step further - because I think this is something of profound importance to humanity and to the future: I have no doubt whatsoever that the present order of things must collapse - it is going to go down in flames, and sooner rather than later, I think. Which leaves the question - what then? What kind of life will be worth living in the aftermath - in the ruins of a scorched and sterilized planet? As an occultist, I am well aware of the incredible power of Sound - both to destroy and to create - and to heal. I believe through the intelligent use of sound and music, that even such a ravaged earth can be healed - the radioactive fallout rendered harmless, new life brought forth - and the hearts and minds of those left to rebuild can be healed and expanded as well. A musician - when truly inspired - is also a magician. I've no doubt that is why the bards of old were so honored - and perhaps will be again someday. (Apologies for the lengthy reply - but some things just can't be answered in 6 lines.) To the future bards of the world! - Maluvia

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] "Multimedia Ubuntu"

by Dana Olson

Just as an FYI to those of you who might be interested in this... I have it on good authority that Mark Shuttleworth has been working towards hosting a multimedia-oriented derivative of Ubuntu, set for Dapper+1 release time. I should know more on Monday, after his conference call. My own speculation is that it will be called "Mubuntu" given this: Domain name: MUBUNTU.COM Administrative Contact: Troup, James hostmaster(a)canonical.com Dana

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Freecycle 0.6alpha is out!!

by Predrag Viceic

Freecycle 0.6alpha is out!! Freecycle (http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com) is a beat slicer running on GNU/Linux platform using the QT toolkit, providing amplitude domain and frequency domain beat matching / zero crossing algorithms. It exports sliced audio chunks and generates a MIDI file which can be used to play the sliced loop, or you can jam with it as soon as you’ve made slices using a midi keyboard or sequencer. Freecycle also exports AKAI S5000/S6000/Z4/Z8 .AKP files to be used with your favorite sampler, SoundFont files, and supports slice drag and drop to/from or inside Freecycle. It can process the audio inline using LADSPA effects, as well as apply envelopes to separate slices. This new release replaces the PortAudio and PortMidi support with Alsa and alsaseq. PortAudio and PortMidi are still supported on systems without alsa. As a minor feature, Freecycle now provides the "Bark scale" for spectrogram plotting, which enhances the visibility of the audio wave in the frequency domain. Some bugfixes and minor optimisation as always.. http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freecycle/freecycle-0.6alpha.tar.… Cheers, Predrag Viceic

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: Marketing Free Music

by Maluvia

Hmmmm . . . . . . . . . . . . Lots of interesting ideas and an abundance of enthusiasm! Random First Thoughts: I've got to be honest - the 'Free Music' label makes me cringe. Two reasons - one personal, the other practical. Personal level: I *really, really* want my husband to be able to quit his stupid day-job flipping omelets and make music full, or nearly full-time. (If you're going to try to make a living at that, you've also got to spend a lot of time doing "self-sufficiency"-type things to provide for yourself what you can't afford to buy.) That 'Free Music' term just tells me we'll never be able to accomplish this - he can distribute an abundance of beautiful music to the world, freely - but forget ever getting anything back for it. That's just how it *feels* to me, and that is *really* depressing. Practical level: I have gotten from your posts Carlo, that you also want to encourage a culture of tipping/donation to go along with this movement. If you're going to address this from a psychological/subliminal/marketing standpoint - as you have been doing admirably - you must admit that using the term 'Free' so relentlessly in your marketing strategy psychologically works against the donation part of it. I mean, from the user's standpoint, it creates a cognitive dissonance of: "Well is it free or isn't it?" "They say it's so great and wonderful because it's free, but I'm morally obligated to pay for it too?" "Which is it?" Confusing your end-user/consumer is not good marketing strategy. I think most people will simply take you at your word that it is 'Free' and run with it - not feeling in the least obliged to donate - and possibly resent that whole aspect of it. (I know that to Stallman disciples the 'free' word is mandatory, but this is entertainment we're talking about here, and besides - as I keep saying, to make sense to me, the 'free' has to extend to *everything* or it just doesn't work.) I agree with Cesare that we could come up with a better term - I don't know - Open Music? Global Music? People's Music? Creative Commons Music? Direct Music? Shoot - I'm just not feeling very inspired today, but you know what I mean: a term that holds all the positive connotations of being freely accessible (at least to those with internet access), disconnected from the industry, made with wonderful open-source tools, freedom-of-*choice* about what they can listen to, the rich diversity and abundance of this global music, being part of a whole new global village where we support and empower one another outside the strictures of corporatocracy, etc. BTW, if we do come up with a good strategy to get people to donate/tip for the music, then we definitely need to share the wealth: All music made with open-source tools should have nice, big attractive sidebar buttons to take people to the project sites' donation page to encourage donations for the software tools that make this all possible. Or better still - how about taking a page from many commercial artists that say "10% of the proceeds go to benefit . . . . ('Save the whales', 'Save the rainforest', 'Campaign for Peace', 'Earthquake Relief' , etc.) We could say that "_% of the proceeds of all donations go to the OSS community" as support for the open-source tools that make this music possible. (I actually had the whacked-out idea at one point that we should pay Paul some kind of 'royalty' from our CD sales - but given the likely number of such sales, I quickly realized that would be an insult. :) ) Also wanted to mention one other aspect to this that we are going to try: Don't limit it just to downloadable music - make the CD/DVD-Audio an option as well - perhaps link it to the donation feature such as: "You can download these tracks for free - play them on your computer/portable player, share them with others, but if you would like to listen to this music in the best resolution and have a permanent copy of it you can buy it on CD for _$" Or alternatively - "$15 donation gets you the full CD with lots of bonus features, $20 gets you a DVD-Audio or DVD-Video with performance videos, multi-channel, pics, interviews, etc." Or for those who don't want to mess with CD production, it could be some other 'value-added' content: posters, T-shirts, mugs, bumper-stickers, calendars - lots of possibilities. Just something to give an incentive to donate. Gotta go drink some tea and do some yoga to get my brain more in gear. ;) Later, Maluvia

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Resume

by Renato Fabbri

´ve been using linux and learning about its possibilities as a DAW. I intend using it as my plataform for live performances and migrate to it for composing too, and it is more and more certain that I will, but, for that, it is important to compare it a little with other plataforms... and.. i´m freaking out, man!!!! too much stuff!! please help!! Distro running, apps running, tests going, thats not the prob, just need some comparinsons (i am sorry to send some silly quests, i promess myself that i´ll build a basic guide for musician linux newbies): -what is ardour oposed to cubase? can it do everything as well? -what is snd oposed to sound forge(please v8)? can it do everything as well? more? -I´ve heard about linux/jack/alsa not working well above 48KHz. Seems waaky to me, but..? and 24 bit? -Linux and Vst do well? -Can I get some midi out of ardour, process it in PD and send it to a softsynth through jack connections in real time? -Can I get 4 audio input channels, process in PD, send just one or two to process with LADSPA plugs and send them out? -What are the favorite softsynths? I just ran addsubsyn, very good. Any other good ones? thanx, alot ref __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 8 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Need cheap USB-MIDI interface

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

On Monday 20 March 2006 15:40, Josh Lawrence wrote: > I need a cheap USB-MIDI interface, something that works > out-of-the-box. I was thinking about the M-Audio Midisport Uno, but I > see from this page: > > http://usb-midi-fw.sourceforge.net/ > > that a firmware loader is required. Anyone have any suggestions for > something in that price range, but is plug and go? Edirol UM-1: http://www.edirol.net/products/en/UM-1/ http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=midisport+uno&btnG=Search Regards, Pedro

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: Rosegarden 1.2.3 and another GNU+Linux audio apps, live presentation.

by Marcos Guglielmetti

Rosegarden 1.2.3 and another GNU+Linux audio apps, live presentation. http://www.musix.org.ar/img/charla-cheLA-2006-03-17/ Hi, just some photos. -- Marcos Guglielmetti Coordinador del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux (www.musix.org.ar) Mirrors: (www.musix.distrux.net) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) (www.k-maleon.com/musix)

18 years, 8 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USB audio interfacefor Linux?

by lee＠rockingtiger.com

it is decidedly old school now but I have an emagic emi 2|6 and it works well. The kernel in debian testing supports it on bootup and jack does as well. Jack does not support it in Debian stable, which you can read about on this lists's archives by searching for my name. -lee -----Original Message----- From: ico <ico(a)vt.edu> Subj: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USB audio interfacefor Linux? Date: Mon Mar 20, 2006 20:06 Size: 527 bytes To: linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu,linux-audio-user@music.columbia.edu Hi all, I am in the process of considering a portable USB audio interface. Having checked the alsa matrix, I am a bit at a loss what may be the best option. Things I am looking for are as follows (they are listed in no particular order): 1) USB interface 2) Preferrably USB 2.0 capable 3) Audio and MIDI capability 4) High fidelity (higher the better) 5) More inputs/outputs, the better 6) Preferrably has some preamp inputs 7) Obviously must be supported in Linux/Alsa 8) Price not an issue Any ideas? Best wishes, Ico

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] rezound, test disk and subsonic filter

by badgers

Hello, I am new to this list. Please excuse my post if it is not on topic. I am trying to do the following: create a test disk that has tracks 30 sec in length each track will be a specific hz frequency 25 hz 30 hz 35 hz 40 hz and so on.... Once I figure out what the lowest frequency my car system can reproduce cleanly, I would like to try and filter out everything below that frequency. So lets say my sub hadles 30 hz and above. I would like to "process" my music to remove everything below 30 hz. I was playing with rezound and the TAP plug-ins but I was not able to get a clean break at a given frequency. any help is apprecitaed. thank you for your time and have a good day. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/rezound%2C-test-disk-and-subsonic-filter-t1308910.htm… Sent from the linux-audio-user forum at Nabble.com.

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Subscribing LAU

by Christoph Eckert

Hi, what is the current place to subscribe to LAU? I know there has been a transition to the servers of Paul Davis (thanks a bunch), but what's the status of redesigning and relaunching the http service? Best regards ce

18 years, 8 months

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Linux-audio-user March 2006