Linux-audio-user August 2006

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[linux-audio-user] so.... u wish to hear something completely horrible

by Andrew Lewis

It's a mash-up of other artists stuff, so it can be considered non-free/probably copyright infringement - if you are the artist or their representation, please don't sue! http://xzghgh.za.org/ladiesnitenoizfest/part1.ogg ^^ There's a part2 azwell, which isn't quite as good.... This was all done with TerminatorX, completely live and un-edited. I'm using TerminatorX to make some mixes of my original material too (which I'm sorry to say at this point - was made mostly with 'that other OS', but my Linux stuff is coming along). I'm very interested in GDAM but at this point, haven't managed to get it to make noise yet. ;( Also interested in using TerminatorX to make original compositions. Yesterday was women's day in South Africa, thus the night before was 'Ladies Nite'??? Artists I should credit (those of which I can remember in any case): part1: Kevin Blechdom, Minibosses, Dev/Null, Xanopticon, Maldoror part2: Radiohead, Gold Chains & Sue Cie, Nirvana, Vladislav Delay, Some bollywood music I forget :\ Completely unrelated to linux music or this post but plz checkout this very xcellent artist: http://computertruck.parishq.net/ And this great artist who introduced me to him: http://www.goto80.com That will be all, Andrew

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Very short composition

by Tim Howard

Hello all, Here is my first ever piece of Pure Linux Audio to be released to the general public. But before you get too excited, I should say that this just started out as a test to see what I could do, and I ended up kind of liking it. :-) Here are the links: http://www.banjoboy.ms11.net/music/test2b.ogg http://www.banjoboy.ms11.net/music/test2b.mp3 Please give me some feedback! I would love to learn ways to produce better music with these programs. This is an instrumental piece with no name. The drums are by Hydrogen (actually, I just used the GM_kit_demo2.h2song included in the package... I'm such a cheater! ;-P) Additional "percussion", bass, and the choir sound were courtesy of ZynAddSubFX, and the electric guitars were processed with some custom patches in Om. And of course, the whole thing was recorded and mixed in Ardour and mastered with Jamin. Many thanks to all the developers involved with these programs! They are top notch. You are our heroes. Seriously. -TimH

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Some Random Thoughts

by Folderol

I'm wondering how other people on here get their ideas and develop them. To kick off with my own experiences, sometimes an idea comes at exactly the right time so clearly that I can work on it immediately and get it substantially complete in one day. More usually it develops slowly and may take weeks or even months before I am happy with it. Do any of you run several projects at the same time? Dropping them for a while if you go stale on them. Do you look back on them and fiddle with them sometimes when they are already 'complete'? Sometimes it's a chord pattern that sets me off, other times it's a melody line. There seems to be no clear priority. Does anyone else find that an idea gets so bogged down you end up scrapping it completely? Although my website is quite a recent innovation for me I've been recording my work in one form or another for about 15-20 years now, and seem to find that I only *really* like about 10% of what I've produced. What about the rest of you? I'm sometimes surprised by the opinions of friends, both positively and negatively. Some really go a bundle on pieces I produced early on that almost makes me cringe. Sometimes I get a negative comment on something I think is really good. I've found it impossible to actually predict the response of friends and family. The unkindest cut came from my brother a long time ago, when he described my work as "OK I suppose, but it's not as if it's real music." -- Will J G

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] A lot of progrock/artrock online

by Julien Claassen

Hi all! I've just brought the first version of my website online. at: http://www.juliencoder.de You can find my website. Please could you also try to aid me in my request, presented on the index site? I've searched for the componist of these pieces for over six years. My very own selfmade music you can find at this specific url: http://www.juliencoder.de/en/music_main.html I hope you enjoy it. Feedback, suggestions and criticism is welcome! 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 ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] M-Audio Delta 1010LT - Alsa 1.0.11 - only Output on ch1 and 2

by acker＠indisgrace.de

Hi everyone, and sorry for my bad english ;) : i have a problem using my new M-Audio Delta 1010LT Card with Debian Sid - Kernel 2.6.17-2 and Alsa 1.0.11. When playing soundfiles with XMMS (using OSS or Alsa Output plugin) i only get sound on output 1 + 2. I installed the envy24control mixer and there the monitor tab shows only peaks on 1 + 2. When using the 2.6.16-2 kernel (i don't know the alsa version used here) and playing soundfiles with XMMS (OSS output plugin) - every output shows peaks and works. Can anyone help, please!? Greets, Acker

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] RME multiface gain, matrix and/or asoundrc and an array of confusion.

by we are

hey there crew. just wondering if there is someone out there that could enlighten me to the ways of the RME multiface. i have been using it for a few months now. i thought that these question would arrive in time, alas, i am still confused. for starters, i have been using peter todd artical in linux journal. some of this is useful but other bits simply don't help at all. my main problem is the gain settings. i can't seem to have consistant gain for different applications. my input gain is really realy low for the line (analog) inputs and i can't seem to find a way to boost them. when i record in ardour, the waveform is really small and i end up having to normalize every clip/track to get a decent volume. this is the same issue with PD. when i try to boost the gain on using the command as written by peter todd i get errors. ie amixer -c 1 cset name=Chn,index=1 32768 amixer: Cannot find the given element from control hw:1 the other issue is that when i use media players like audacious, xmms, mplayer etc. the output gain is a huge amount louder than PD and Ardour and other such audio apps. this is really confusing. as for routing the I/O's for live audio usage. i can't seem to workout a simple and effective way to route the sound for performance. ideally i would like to be able to have pd own the card. at the moment all the inputs are directed routed and mixed to the subsequent output ie analog in 1 goes to analog out 1, ananlog in 2 goes to analog out 2. what would be great is a matrix like the one in windoes...... any help would be awesome. thanks as always. tom

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Ardour: trying to add a "bus" causes a crash?

by Sylvain Robitaille

Hello folks ... I've just started working once again on a mix project, after a long break over the summer, and am encountering a problem I don't recall seeing before. When I try to add a bus to the session ("Session -> Add Track/Bus"), it causes Ardour to crash (many thanks to the Ardour developers for adding intelligent crash recovery! I haven't lost any real work thanks to that.) I can add a "track" without any problem, but what I'm after here is a "bus". I _think_ I'm doing this right. The project presently has 16 tracks, and the master bus, and I want to add a bus to use to connect post-fader sends from selected tracks, as an effects bus (with the effect inserted as a pre-fader plugin on the bus). I already have a (not connected) post-fader send on one of my tracks, ready to connect to the bus I'm trying to create. The system is Slackware-10.2 (with a customized kernel, and upgrades as released by Slackware), on an AMD Athlon64 (running in 32-bit mode) with 2GB RAM (no swap used as yet, so I'm not expecting lack of memory to be a problem). I've been running Ardour-0.99.2, but when I encountered this problem I upgraded to Ardour-0.99.3 to see if the upgrade would resolve the problem (it didn't). Jack is jack-0.100.0 (hrmmm... I see new versions of that are available, but it doesn't seem to me as though Jack would be the culprit here; I'll upgrade if it's believed I should, though ...) Anyone have any ideas? Feel free to point me to documentation I should have found (I've already checked the Ardour online manual and "how do I..." forum, but it is of course possible that I missed something that should have jumped out at me), or to tell me there's a better way to get what I'm after (the equivalent of a post-fader "aux" send and return on a hardware mixer). It occurs to me that I can add a stereo track, insert (pre-fader) the plugin I want, connect its output to the master track, and set it to record-enable (all tracks for the project are already recorded, so that won't interfere), and connect the other track sends I want to it. It feels like a work-around, but it might at least permit me to continue ... (comments on this would be appreciated ...) Thanks in advance for any help ... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca Major in Electroacoustic Studies Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts / Music Department Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Audio quality

by lanas

Folks, I've decided to go with 'making sounds using the Linux box' vs. hardware synths. What I've heard so far is quite good. So, the box is making the sounds. Now, the hardware output of that box should be quite good, not ? It's useless to have 512-bit (!) sound quality if the actual output to the speakers is crappy (notwhitstanding the quality of said speakers). Thus, what are the recommended sound cards out there (since there are no other way, right ?) to output the nice high-res samples produced by the Linux box ? Cheers, Al

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Re:Ardour: trying to add a "bus" causes a crash?

by Sylvain Robitaille

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Spencer Russell wrote: > Do you have JACK set to playback only? I did, yes, since I'm presently mixing already recorded tracks. > If I recall, I had this problem with saved sessions. A new session > would work, I think, but once I saved it and opened it again, I > couldn't add a bus if JACK was set to playback only. If you set JACK > to full duplex the problem should go away. Indeed it did! Thank you _very_ much! > I guess not a lot of people run Ardour with JACK on playback only. Could be. Perhaps I don't need to change Jack's configuration based on whether I'm tracking or mixing? (I do have a few saved configurations, for example, because some projects I'm working on were recorded by others with a different sample rate than I normally like to work with, and it's a lot easier, and sounds better at least on my system, to just adjust Jack than it is to resample the tracks.) Alright, then ... on with the mix! :-) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca Major in Electroacoustic Studies Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts / Music Department Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] RME Multiface II report

by Dmitry Baikov

Hi! Want to share my yet short technical experience with new Multiface II and Linux. 1) alsa-firmware-1.0.11 works perfectly, with both .11 and .12 drivers 2) alsa-firmware-1.0.12 does not work (trying to resolve it on alsa-dev) 3) 64x2(a)44.1k works perfectly on stock 2.6.17-gentoo-r6 with patched pam (gentoo is slow adopting here). Didn't tried heavy load, though. 4) 64x2 @ 96k does not work at all. jackd gets killed by watchdog. seems it can't start playing. 128x2 @ 96k works perfectly. 5) if multiface box was power-cycled, firmware can't be loaded again, hdsploader gives: Upload firmware for card hw:0 Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:0 : Device or resource busy. I have cardbus version, so the solution is to reinsert the card. I suppose with pci you'll need a reboot. 6) More of a question: why alsamixer does not support hdsp? hdspmixer functionality do not look too complex for alsamixer. Hope this will help someone. Best regards, Dmitry.

18 years, 4 months

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Linux-audio-user August 2006