Linux-audio-user March 2006

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[linux-audio-user] Gentoo and Tascam US-122 USB audio interface

by Tobiah

I compiled support for my US-122 right into the kernel. Gentoo seems to have installed alsa-{lib,utils,tools} as dependancies for other things. It didn't install alsa-driver, but I would guess that the kernel driver is enough. Is that true? lspci shows: Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1604:8006 Tascam US-122 Audio/Midi Interface without fw) But I don't get a device for the unit, and the USB light on the unit does not light up, although the power light does. Information on USB audio seems fairly scarce out there. I'm not sure what to do next. Thanks, Tobiah

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] sphinx3 speech recognition (anyone used this)

by Julien Claassen

Hi all! I just tried to get in sphinx3, cmu's speech recognition system. I downloaded the offered an4 and rm1 databases to train a model. But it fails me. I have a tutorial, acompanied by some perlscripts. They prepare thet data (computing mel cepstra format from audio-signals, training models, building tress). But while building tress (if anyone's got the same tutorial), it fails in directory 07. Any ideas on that? Anyone having experience with it? I start to get desperate for help! 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

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Linux Sampler Akai support

by Ismael Valladolid Torres

I was seriously thinking of getting a cheap hardware sampler, given prices they are showing up on eBay currently. I only owned an Akai S2000 for a couple of hours in the past (seriously!) and obviously never got used to working with one of them. Of a hardware sampler I like the ability of tweaking programs while making them sound. It's the way to create bizarre sounds which is the utility that fancies me most from this instrument. On the opposite, software samplers usually requires you to load a separate application to create the programs from samples available as .wav files, something good for programming a realistic cello sound but not for using these shits as synthesizers. Anyway I am thinking of giving a try to Linux Sampler. I've always found strange that Linux Sampler focus on Giga support. There are lots of commercial Akai CD-ROMs and lots of soundfonts available on the net. I was simply wondering on how is the Akai support implemented in Linux Sampler. Does it read Akai CD-ROMs or some intermediate step converting samples is required? More widely, how are you open sourced people managing transfers of samples between formats (Akai and Giga to SF2 or DLS and such)? Few applications I remember in the past for Windows were not only closed source but also commercial and pretty expensive. Any answer very welcome. Cordially, Ismael -- m�, myself et moi http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt/

18 years, 8 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USB audio interface for Linux?

by ico

>===== Original Message From Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric(a)zhevny.com> ===== >Frank Barknecht wrote: >> Hallo, >> Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: >>>What other options are there for someone stuck with a laptop with crappy >>>onboard sound (all of them these days)? >> This could change however: With Intel pushing "hda" audio and also > ^^^^^^^^^^^ >What's that? It's simply a better fidelity onboard soundchip. It really does not mean a thing without a proper insulation of the audio hardware... Move along, nothing to see (hear?) here ;-) Ico

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] What is currently the best USB audio interface for Linux?

by ico

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] Partitioning for audio

by Josh Lawrence

Hello all, I'm about to build a machine strictly for recording audio. I've looked around the web for suggestions on how to partition the disks, and have found a lot of useful information. At the risk of beating a dead horse, I would like to get some suggestions from this list as to how you partition your disks. A little background - recording will be simple, nothing major, and mostly for my own enjoyment. It is doubtful that any of it will see the light of day. Mastering will be minimal. The machine will have two hard disks, so I will need to spread out the work between the two. Finally, I'll be running Ubuntu. Not sure what audio interface yet, though. Bottom line, this is for personal use on a not-optimal machine, but I want to make the best of it and learn in the process. To Dana - we need to post a summary of these responses on the Ubuntu Studio website. Might be helpful to those like me in the future. -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Poor sound quality with some music

by Martin Kuball

Hi! I'm using onboard sound with NVidia CK804 chip with the snd_intel8x0 alsa driver and have the problem that some of my music sounds really bad when played. Let me give an example. I have a cd with a song I like. It sounds good when played directly from the CD via the internal audio connector. Now I rip the song with cdparanoia to a wav file. When I play this file it sounds realy bad. I don't know how to describe it but I think it's some kind of droning. When I play the file using my usb audio device it's sounds fine. To a certain extent I have this bad quality with a lot of my music files. But what I notices is that I have never had this with sound in a video. Now I wonder if this might be some problem with music having (normally) 44100 Hz sample rate and video sound 48000 Hz. Is this possible? Maybe even a known problem? Martin

18 years, 8 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] looking for a crossover plugin...

by Lee A. Azzarello

----- Reuben Martin <reuben.m(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have been looking and cannont find a LADSPA crossover plugin. 1 > channel in, two out, arbritary crossover frequency. Is there such a > thing? I do this with Pure Data all the time. There are copious built in objects: hip~ - high pass filter lop~ - low pass filter bp~ - band pass filter biquad~ - raw filter -lee

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] Linux Audio Conference 2006: Register now!

by Frank Neumann

Hi all, this mail is just to inform you that registration for the 4th International Linux Audio Conference (or "LAC2006" for short), APril 27th-30th, in Karlsruhe, Germany, is possible as of now by visiting our web page at http://lac.zkm.de and clicking on the link "Registration" on the left. Like last year (and the years before), registration is free and is only necessary because we need to prepare nametags, make estimations about room sizes/required chairs and want to learn a bit about our audience. That's all, honestly! :-). Information given there will NOT be used for any kind of selling, spamming or otherwise abusing. Also, the preliminary conference program has been published a few weeks ago, available through the same link give above. Thanks for registering in case you plan to come! Greetings, Frank Neumann Goetz Dipper LAC2006 organization team

18 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-user] More about consolidation of the Linux audio online resources (was: linuxdj...)

by ico

Hi all, A couple days ago I sent an e-mail on this topic due to some initial positive feedback, yet not much has happened since... (it may very well be that a lot of people are very busy with LAC preparations (-: ). At any rate, please allow me to reiterate what I've mentioned before in hope that this time it may elicit some fruitful discussion on this IMHO very important topic. Best, Ico BEGIN-OLD-MESSAGE It appears to me that there were at least a few members of the LAD/LAU list who have expressed interest in having LAD site somehow integrated in the Linuxaudio.org. I believe that this would be a very encouraging step towards consolidating online LA resources into one site which would IMHO ultimately make LA users' lives a lot easier as well as make the overall LA scene look more professional to the outsiders/potential adopters. I see this kind of an idea as a first step towards a much more demanding goal--integration of other online resources, i.e. Dave's LA software page. I could see this integration happening via a single Wiki page that would contain detailed info/screenshots/documentation/mailing-list and other pertinent info for every LA software available out there. Naturally, linking these lists is also a possibility, yet the very thought of having one place with unified appearance that would provide all the necessary info, including documentation, application-specific mailing lists etc. seems IMHO truly inspiring. Such a project obviously bears a huge overhead. I can also see devs objecting to the redundancy of information that may be already available on their software's dedicated website. The solution to both problems would be asking devs and/or their project maintainers/helpers to assist with the generation of their software's Wiki page which should adhere to certain predetermined standards and then also providing a link to their original project's page. Yes, there would be some redundancy, but a vast number of projects could greatly benefit from such a consolidation, including one of the most important, yet often neglected aspects--proper documentation. For this reason, I would like to use this opportunity to possibly elicit a discussion on this matter and hopefully get the ball rolling :-). END-OLD-MESSAGE

18 years, 8 months

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Linux-audio-user March 2006