Linux-audio-user April 2006

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Re: [linux-audio-user] Digigram VX Pocket firmware help

by Hamish Low

Asbjørn wrote> DeMuDi is Debian-based. And Debian does not ship proprietary firmware. Did you get the firmware from elsewhere? The vxpocket modules are in Alsa 0.9.1 onward. I downloaded the latest stable ALSA files from one of the alsa mirrors and tried to follow the instructions. I've also just realised that I was trying to follow the instructions on for the VXpocket 440 when I have the VXpocket V2. The ALSA Soundcard page only links to the 440 page - though it looks like the instructions are the same. Have you already tried re-compiling the kernel? Hamish Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com

18 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-user] MIDI tools in latest wine, success and ...

by David Baron

Latest and greatest Jammer Pro6 works in latest wine from Debian Sid. No more phantom subclassed buttons! Fantastic. Caveats: 1. MIDI timing seems unsteady. 2. Button on a pop-up dialog that would repaint and replay the MIDI on the main view does not work. See below. Ntonyx Style Enhancer 4 will also install and play in wine! Caveats: 1. NONE of the icons display--just gray boxes. (Their desktop link icon sometimes does not display under Win98, sometimes it does. I do not know what they are doing different than anyone else here.) 2. Button on a pop-up dialog that would repaint the main view and alter MIDI play if be playing hangs up. I suspect threading problems in the Wine emulation for both dialog-main problems but not sure. Threading problems may also be effecting MIDI play timing. NOTE: ALL such programs need be run emulating NT,W2K or XP. Wine does NOT support thunking. Question: The new setup dialog (run wine with no argument an click configure) apparently is not using the ~/.wine/config file. What does it use? I note provision for more than one sound "driver" in that dialog--right now I only have OSS (what I chose in ~/.wine/config because others did not work). So: Are all the sound libraries on winelib as they were or do I need to download separate alsa and jack, etc, packages to activate these options? (Using jack might solve the timing issues.) Question: Dx8 (or other) is required by some programs and their installation does not find it. How do I get past this test and let wine do the rest?

18 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-user] Smack 0.3 Released.

by Loki Davison

Hi all, Smack 0.3 is now out. Smack is a drum synth, 100% sample free. It's built with LADSPA plugins and the Om modular synth. 11 new drums in this release thanks to contributions from Thorsten Wilms. These are mostly covering a harder sound though include some nice metallic percussion, shakers and snares. You need cvs om to use this release. Get it at http://smack.berlios.de/ Cheers, Loki

18 years, 11 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Advice on FC5

by Tim Howard

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 08:42 -0700, Tim Howard wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I need some advice (OK, a lot of advice) on what to do with my Linux > > installation. > > > > Right now I am running FC3 + PlanetCCRMA, and I'm enjoying it a lot. > > I'm using Ardour, Hydrogen, and a few other JACK compliant apps. > > However, I have a few reasons for wanting to reinstall and/or upgrade > > my distro. > > > > #1 I recently got some new hard drives which I would like to install. > > #2 FC5 has just been released, and I'm curious to see what it's like. > > #3 I tried to upgrade glibc on my current installation, and I <ahem> > > "broke" it. I have pieced it back into a functioning system again, > > but I doubt it will ever quite be the same. > > > > My first question is: Do I want to go to FC5? I don't think > > PlanetCCRMA has anything for it yet, but I'm thinking of running it > > OOTB. Is it usable for some simple use of JACK and friends? I hear > > that it wouldn't have low latency. Is this true, and does that affect > > me if I'm only recording one or two tracks at a time? > > > > Any help on this would be appreciated! > > The kernel that comes with FC5 is not going to give you the best > performance. I'll release stuff in (hopefully) a week. I do have a > kernel and the low level support stuff but there's a Festival happening > here at CCRMA in a few days and I won't have _any_ time till it's over. > > Stay tuned to the Planet CCRMA mailing list... > -- Fernando > Thanks a bunch, Fernando! I just realized last night that my system (FC5 OOTB + Jack and Ardour) has about 42ms of latency, which I don't think qualifies as low latency... I do really like FC5, though. We'll stay tuned for a kernel release! -TimH

18 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-user] Midi problems with Yamaha PSR-273

by Esa Linna

Everything seems to be allright with midi, module snd-seq-midi is loaded, Rosegarden says Midi OK, audio OK. ZynAddSubFx works when using notation editor, but can't get PSR-273 keyboard to produce sound via midi. I turned "PC mode" on from Yamaha, as the guidebook tells. QSynth tells that using alsa_raw failed, could that be a problem? Qjackctl shows these: Readable / output ports: 62:Midi Through 64:Audigy MPU-401 (UART) Writable / input ports 62:Midi Through 64:Audigy MPU-401 (UART) 65:Emu10k1 WaveTable Soundcard : Audigy2

18 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-user] Advice on FC5

by Tim Howard

Hello everyone, I need some advice (OK, a lot of advice) on what to do with my Linux installation. Right now I am running FC3 + PlanetCCRMA, and I'm enjoying it a lot. I'm using Ardour, Hydrogen, and a few other JACK compliant apps. However, I have a few reasons for wanting to reinstall and/or upgrade my distro. #1 I recently got some new hard drives which I would like to install. #2 FC5 has just been released, and I'm curious to see what it's like. #3 I tried to upgrade glibc on my current installation, and I <ahem> "broke" it. I have pieced it back into a functioning system again, but I doubt it will ever quite be the same. My first question is: Do I want to go to FC5? I don't think PlanetCCRMA has anything for it yet, but I'm thinking of running it OOTB. Is it usable for some simple use of JACK and friends? I hear that it wouldn't have low latency. Is this true, and does that affect me if I'm only recording one or two tracks at a time? Any help on this would be appreciated! Thanks, -TimH

18 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-user] snd and AC3

by Brad Fuller

Is there a way that I can play back AC3 files with snd? Or with any audio editor?

18 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: [Alsa-user] VxPocket and hotplug - need help getting it working

by Asbjørn Sæbø

(I am cc-ing the linux audio user list, in the hope of broadening the audience and reaching someone able to help me sort this out.) On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:02:56PM +0100, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: > I am trying to get a Digigram VxPocket sound card working, and really > need some advice on how to proceed. > [Rest of previous post far below.] In addition to what I have done before (see below), I have now created a /etc/pcmcia/vxpocket.conf according to the description at the bottom of the alsa-project page for the vxpocket card. And I have added the necessary lines to /etc/modutils/alsa-base, and run update-modules. The visible results of this is that * The vx-* modules now seem to be loaded at boot * The card is still not recognized by alsa (it is not listed in /proc/asound/cards, and alsaconf does not find it). * cardinfo no longer says "unsupported card", but "empty". It does however list "IO 0x100-0x10f" and "IRQ 5" (or "IRQ 9d" or "IRQ o"(?)). * "cardctl info" and "cardctl ident" hang when they come to the socket containing the card. * Restarting the pcmcia service gives the following error messages: snegle:~# invoke-rc.d pcmcia restart Shutting down PCMCIA services: /etc/init.d/pcmcia: line 173: kill: (4040) - No such process done. Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[4540]: watching 2 sockets cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x100-0x4ff: Device or resource busy cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x800-0x8ff: Device or resource busy cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xc00-0xcff: Device or resource busy cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xc0000-0xfffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: Input/output error cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xa00-0xaff: Device or resource busy done. I am beginning to suspect that I am up against some pcmcia bug. And I am, at least for now, out of ideas of what to try next to get this card working. Suggestions, advice and tips are very welcome! Asbjørn -------------------------------------------------------------------- > The system is an ASUS L5000-series laptop running DeMuDi 1.2.1. The > kernel is 2.6.12-3-multimedia. > > So far, I have installed the pcmcia-cs package and the hotplug package. > (Do I need both of these? Do they conflict in any way?) > From what I have read of documentation, it seems that with 2.6-kernels, > hotplug is the way to go. Does having the "cardmgr" running interfere > with this? > > I have also downloaded the alsa-firmware corresponding to the alsa > version installed (1.0.9). (DeMuDi does not distribute this firmware.) > I ran "./configure --disable-loader", "make" and "make install". > This resulted in a set of files being placed under > /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, among them, it seems, files related to the > vxpocket cards. > > The PCCard system itself seems to be working. At boot, a Yenta card bus > bridge is found. And "cardinfo" seems to notice that the card is > present, but only says "unsupported card". > > "alsaconf" does not find the card. Trying to load the snd-vxpocket > module gives no errors, and the module seems to be loaded afterwards > (see below), but the card is still not found by "alsaconf". > > I have tried to run "vxloader" (is that depreceated?), which gives the > message "no VX-compatible cards found". > > Where do I go from here? How do I get the card to be recognized? And > what do I do to get the firmware uploaded to the card? > > > With kind regards > Asbjørn Sæbø > > > > snegle:~# lsmod |grep vx > snegle:~# modprobe snd-vxpocket > Restoring ALSA mixer settings ... done. > snegle:~# lsmod |grep vx > snd_vxpocket 4288 0 > snd_vx_cs 14080 1 snd_vxpocket > snd_vx_lib 36480 1 snd_vx_cs > firmware_class 10624 1 snd_vx_lib > pcmcia 28480 10 snd_vxpocket,snd_vx_cs > pcmcia_core 52628 4 > snd_vx_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic > snd_pcm 96580 4 > snd_vx_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss > snd 58404 12 > snd_vx_cs,snd_vx_lib,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer > snegle:~#

18 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-user] Progress

by Folderol

Hello, 'smee again. After an epic battle with my computer again (but you don't want to hear about that) I've been able to do some updates to my site. Oh rats! Is it REALLY 1:20am? Ghost train is now oggificated and the level increased a little. Awakening The Avenger has a drum track, although I really am not very happy with it. Some of the instruments have also been re-balanced slightly. There are also a couple of new ones. The Devil's Tea Party should send shivers down your spine if I've done it right, and Childhood Past will hopefully evoke wistful memories and make you all go 'Ahhhhhh'. This, at over 7min, is also probably the longest individual track I've composed. Now that I have a decent sound card I'm starting to do something I've wanted to for quite some time; that is combine the best voices and effects of my external synths with beautifully clean sounds I can get from ZynAddSubFX As usual the url is: http://www.folderol.ukfsn.org Enjoy! -- F

18 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-user] Audio Kanotix

by Renato Fabbri

I am having some problems compiling jack and some apps for Kanotix, has anyone some advice (paths etc). btw, good sa ref __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 11 months

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Linux-audio-user April 2006