Hello list:
I wanted to get the lists's idea of what would take to create the
*ultimate* digital recording rig with Linux. What software is there
that would be comparable to Windows' Sonar? What about in terms of
sound card, which one do you recommend (price range < $1,000)?
Thanks in advance,
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Bruce wrote:
> I was just watching the talk on Protege at zkm 2006 and a bit of a crazy
> idea occured to me. In addition to storing qualities of each instrument
> like
> lead, string, percussive etc, a spectral profile could be generated for
> each
> instrument and stored in the database. Then, you could take each channel
> of
> your recording and pipe them (individually) into an app which would
> analyse
> their spectral content, and then suggest alternative patches to make the
> 'whole' sound like some idealised mix (there would be a selection of
> these,
> based on Genre perhaps). It would be like a magic button which would make
> a
> track sound immediately better.
>
> Any thoughts ?
Just three. I'm not being snippy, just providing the canonical response.
1: This isn't an original idea. It rears it's ugly head every so often.
2: There is no practical way to define the parameters that determine
what an "ideal" mix would be.
3: Even if you could, you wouldn't want to. Any endeavour that can
be completely reduced to a deterministic algorithm is no longer art.
The study of *how* to define ideal might be instructive for fleshing out
your own ideas of what sounds good, but you don't want to eliminate the
possibility of other options. In fact, there are so many, that it's
impossible to define. (Though imprecise guidelines are a possibility.)
If I had to wish for a magic button, I'd ask it to do something that I
*wasn't* able to do -- like Whirled Peas or such. ;)
Good luck with that!
Phil M
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Hi all,
as it is LAC time, it's also release time :) .
Simple Sysexxer is a GUI sysex tool comparable to Sysexxer, but it's
based on Qt4 (no KDE dependency) and ALSA only (no OSS dependency).
Theoretically it should also build and run on Mac OS X, but I didn't try
it yet.
Feedback and bugreports are always welcome.
Information and source code:
http://www.christeck.de
Best regards
ce
Hi guys, I wonder if anyone is using linux audio for re-mastering. My
old band back in the early 90s did some awsome stuff, but it was all
on crappy tapes, and I'd like to clean it up and put it out for free
on archive.org, but the "noise removal" plugin in audacity certainly
isn't up to snuff, it has too much "chipmonking" going on. My friend
told me about fft, where you same the tape hiss, and then use that to
remove hiss without "chipmonking", but he's using protools for that,
while I'm running only linux audio.
Hi,
I'm designing integrated home automation/entertainment system based on Linux
and other open source apps. I have several possible sound sources (like
Festival as speech synthesis, music players, VOIP or
ordinary telephony applications, intercom) and several sound destinations
(rooms in my house - can be either remote desktop running some network audio
client or separate output on multichannel local audio card). Now I'd like to
implement
'virtual' audio router/mixer in software that can be dynamically controlled
from other program language (Perl is preffered in my case). I'd need to
combine several audio sources to each sound destination (like big software
switching/mixing/routing black box), dynamically change volumes, add/remove
chains etc...
Some possible scenarions:
- when internet voice call comes in, then I connect to certain channel on
audio card for
certain room (route two way audio stream that comes from Internet to certain
audio destination/source)
- when watching TV (sound going to some audio card output), speech synthesis
would like to announce something (I'd like to volume down TV audio and mix
speech, and then go with TV volume to normal level)
- from one room I'd like to talk to another...
If I think ideally - best would be to have range of "virtual" sound
destinations, that could be dinamically routed,mixed to physical devices. As
far as my novice knowledge goes I was thinking of using Alsaplayers as
music/wav players (they have software volume control) , Festival as speech
synthesis, some softphone for IP telephony (that could output to ecasound or
Jack) and every other valuable suggestion for software package I get. I
don't know much of Jack, maybe its also part of solution....
Any other advice in apps to use, more info or any other opinion would be
more than grateful. Also if anyone made some effort or thinking in this
direction - it'll be of great help...
Thanks in advance,
regards,
Rob.
someone posted a link to this list in the last few months to a web
page with frequency response charts for a large number of reel-to-reel
recorders, using various methods of calibration. it was comprehensive
and impressive, and i have comprehensively lost that link.
it's an incredible rhetorical tool for the digital vs. analog
controversy - i've spent about half-an-hour searching the archives for
it, and just can't find it. if whoever sent that, or someone else who
noticed it, could send me that link again, i'd be very much obliged.
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Hi,
I am looking to get one of the sound blaster cards
that has alsa supported wavetable-synth.
(I'ved used AWE32 , and cheap Live! cards well.)
What I want now is one that works with a 3.3 voltage
pci slot.
These would be ones that have the "notch" towards the
outside part of the card. Or, one that has two notches
signifying that its 3.3 or 5 volt pci compatible.
Does anybody know of an Live!/Audigy version
of the card the works in a 3.3 sloy and alsa supports
the wave-table ?
thanks,
paul w
Hi,
I have just uploaded a mix I've been sitting on for a while. It's not
original tunes but is mixed with ardour and their is even some remixing
going on too.
It's Dub style so not for everyone.
http://djcj.org/audio/kotau/dub-session-kotau-1.mp3
It's 25 mins long so I can't be f'd doing an .ogg version too. If it was
an original composition I would.
Cheers.
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"Anything your mind can see you can manifest physically, then it will
become reality" - Macka B
Ecmd is one of several programs available to automate
multitrack recording, playback, mixing, and effects
processing using Ecasound.
Version 0.81 has several important bugfixes and
simplified configuration.
Download from http://ecmdr.infogami.com
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Changelog for version 0.81, 2006.4.27
Configuration file is now part of the main program file
for easier installation.
Non-functioning transport controls bug fixed, after
an embarrassing post to Ecasound list blaming Ecasound.
Global version radiobuttons under **Tracker** menubutton
now show correct versions
Global versions selection updated correctly
after loading a different session or creating
a new one.
Position indicator now zeroes following a change in
global version number.
Set mark button had been overwritten. Fixed.
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