Linux-audio-user August 2006

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[linux-audio-user] Commercial audio software on Linux

by Davy Wentzler

Hello, First of all, this is my first post here on the list. I'm in the process of porting my audio hard disk recording program 'Audio Evolution' from AmigaOS4 (running on PowerPC) to wxWidgets. This will allow me to release it more easily on other platforms like Windows and Linux. Although using wxWidgets means that a big part of the program is portable, some other parts like audio and plug-ins (think LADSPA, JACK) would have to be written specifically for Linux. Now comes the big question: since this is commercial software (with a price between 35 and 45 euro), would it be worth the effort to release it on Linux? I think most Linux users are used to open-source and free programs and I saw some already nice looking programs like Ardour and MuSe. I would like to hear from you if there would be any interest? Here you can see a picture of the current state of my port to Windows: http://www.audio-evolution.com/pics/ae5b.png Looking forward to some constructive discussion. Kind regards, Davy -- Davy Wentzler Audio Evolution http://www.audio-evolution.com

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] kernel packages - Debian

by Josh Lawrence

Hello, Quick question: can I use deb packages of custom kernels built on my main desktop machine on my laptop? Both machines are Intel-based machines, but my laptop is much slower, and building a kernel will take much, much longer. Thanks, -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

18 years, 5 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] M-Audio Fast Track Pro setup

by Mathias Friman

----Ursprungligt meddelande----- From: Lee Revell rlrevell(a)joe-job.com Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:05:27 +0200 To: A list for linux audio users linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] M-Audio Fast Track Pro setup > Use plughw:x,x, not hw:x,x. Probably the device does not support mono > natively. > > If this fails, post the output of "aplay -v -D plughw:1,0 test.wav" etc. Okay, so that worked. =) Thanks a bundle. Now to the next piece of the puzzle, how do I link these plughw:1,0 and plughw:1,1 into Jack? And how can I link the capture-device? According to the specification here: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackPro-focus.html the device seems to have a bit more to give than two playback ports and one capture? Should I just ignore the fact that in Linux, one cannot get proper support for this device, or is it something, anything, that I can do to complete the feature-set? :) I have a MidiSport 2x2, as previously stated, which required a firmware to function. Does something similar exist for the M-Audio Fast Track Pro? I've roamed the internet, without any luck. All tips are helpful! =) Regards, Mathias

18 years, 5 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Audicle Source Released (was: all your face...)

by Ge Wang

Hi Dmitry! > To build it I had to comment line 83 in chuck.y: Ah, thanks for the info! > Finally, great news! > Runs fine, though I haven't done anything with it yet :) Cool. The thing is still very experimental - the visualization provide a lot of potentially useful information, like the real-time FFT waterfall during synthesis, and the timing statistics. Overall, it's better used to visualize/perform rather than to write programs with - the command line chuck with your editor or the miniAudicle is probably much smoother for that. If you want, check the docs and let us know if they actually make sense. http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/doc/ http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/doc/faces/ Finally, there was a thread from months ago talking about beta-testing the thing on linux, I wonder if people are still interested. Well, thanks again and keep on chuckin' Ge!

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] [ANN] Csound 5.1.00.0 beta1 ("alternative" version) release

by Istvan Varga

Source and binary packages, and documentation can be downloaded from here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=167991 Change log and release notes are attached. You can subscribe to the new mailing lists created for this project at these pages: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/csound5-devel http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/csound5-user

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: Music: Ringheims Auto - "Kanskje No"]

by Johannes Mario Ringheim

Johannes Mario Ringheim wrote: > By the way, would you please mail me the sample of the clap-snare? It's so > nice:) Here you go, a few bars of the drumtrack with the clap solo: http://ringheimsauto.friwebteknologi.org/ting/klapp_kanskjeno01.wav I see there's been a debate on this recently, but have to mention: The clap+snare I sent you is made of one Rick James clap (the guy who made "Superfreak"), and a snare from some obscure german 7" with a guy called Alec something. In fact, most of the track I posted is made of samples from records. Sometimes just a bassdrum or clap, sometimes long takes lasting for 30 sec+. My reasoning is this: I heard (from a friend) that the guy who made "The grey album", wich was the acapella from Jay-Z's "Black" album mixed with The Beatles' "White" album, got sued by The Beatles' company. The Beatles lost, because Danger Mouse who made "The grey album" didn't earn any money from it. Now, I don't know if this story is true (....?), and couldn't find it mentioned on the wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album) as I was flying by, but I guess if I GOT sued, and I hadn't earned any money from it, they wouldn't have by far as good a case as if it was released as an ordinary album with many copies sold. I will investigate this further, but right now my eye is hurt and reading is a bit of a struggle... My solution (compromise) is using the CC by-nc-sa on works of mine that contain uncleared samples. If I got sued at least I hadn't used it commercially to earn money or allowed others to do so. This is a compromise, and having just heard the story about Danger Mouse through the grapevine, I've figured that for me personally I'm willing to take the chance. If you're willing to do that also go ahead and use the Rick James clap. ....Hell, it's just a clap... (Could be fair use, btw, but I dunno...) -- Ringheims Auto - Fri musikk for bilstereo! http://ringheimsauto.friwebteknologi.org

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Advice on desktop/platform

by Jonty Needham

Dear All, I'm running Suse 9.3 on a reasonable machine. (1.6GHz AMD athlon, 512MB ram). My studio at the moment consists of Rosegarden, Hydrogen, zynaddsubfx, qsynth and Ardour(when I don't get CPU overflows). I've been using KDE, and upon reccomendation I tried FVWM as it's lighter, but I had the same number (lots!) of xruns and problems. It did run slightly better; I had 9 extra megs of ram free but realistically I want no xruns. I'm not running a patched kernel as I'm unable to find out what patches SUSE needs to run that conflict with the realtime patches. My kernel is 2.6.11 atm. Any advice? Apologies as this is really trivial; it's just that I have very little idea what to do about it. -- Jonty Needham <jmn20(a)bath.ac.uk>

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] customize equalizer for XMMS?

by Florin Andrei

Here's the background: I'm using XMMS-1.2.10 on Fedora Core 5 to listen to various things, mostly MP3 streams from Internet radio stations. I've a nice pair of cans, Grado SR125, that are used for listening. http://www.gradolabs.com/product_pages/sr125.htm The SR125 cans are nice, in fact, they're very analytical and quite revealing. Not exactly best for listening to 128k streams, but hey, that's what I got, that's what I use. The problem: The Grado cans are a bit too harsh for my ears. I very much prefer the Sennheiser HD600 but I'd rather keep the HD600 at home and drag the SR125 at the office to take a beating. The frequency response graph for the SR125 shows some peaks in the mid-high range, which are probably part of the cause for the harshness, and also a cliff in the low frequencies: http://www.headphone.com/products/headphones/all-headphones/grado-sr-125.php I would like to re-create the negative of that graph in an equalizer and apply it somewhere in the chain. I looked at the equalizer that comes with XMMS but there doesn't seem to be a way to create a graph that's so fine-grained. There's only a limited amount of controls that cannot seem to be tweaked. How do I create such a detailed equalizer graph and apply it to XMMS? This machine does not run JACK and I do not intend to change that. I'd like to keep it as simple as possible since, after all, the primary purpose of the system is to do work, not listen to music. Is there any player that can play MP3 streams and has a better equalizer? Any other ideas? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] OT - O'Reilly article on Pandora Music Service

by Brad Fuller

A bit off Linux Audio, but not far. Just published, an article by me on the Pandora Radio Service. This includes a bit of behind the scenes technical aspect (3rd page). If you have any comments, please post them there (or here.) I'd really like to know how people like the Pandora service compared to others like Last-FM and how music-recommendation services work for them. You can find it here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2006/08/17/inside-pand… Hope you like it. brad -- brad fuller sonaural: www.sonaural.com personal: www.bradfuller.com

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] A little bit more

by Folderol

Some of you night owls might like to take a peek at http://www.folderol.ukfsn.org/updates.shtml My latest one is so new the bits are still warm :) Hope you like them. -- Will J G

18 years, 5 months

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Linux-audio-user August 2006