Linux-audio-user September 2006

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[linux-audio-user] finally... my 1st themes made with Linux

by perlanegra proyect

hi everybody... hare I am again, after a long long time of to appear here, I've made my first audio work with GNU/LInux... I have to suffer commercial software because of my job, but this summer I've had some spare time to make a serious work with Linux. They are a pair of raw electro themes with no time effects, "dogma sound" like I say... The links are here: http://perlssdj.blogspot.com/2006/09/xtatik-ep-new-electro-single-made-with… I think Jack is an amazing tool 4 audio creation, I find it very interesting, and very versatile, I feel very comfortable with it now. I've used Ardour too and it's a good tool, but I have a dude... wich software do I need to mix audio 4 video with GNU/Linux ? I'm working on a video and I'd like to mix the sound with free software, maybe should I use Cinelerra? I think I've read something about audio plugins there, but can't remember the details... If somebody can help me, I'd be very pleased to hear u, thanx enjoy the themes, and be free to remix them, they have a CC No Commercial- Share alike, so, u can use them 4 personal projects... May the power be with U... C'ya on the net... ;) (any kind of comment is good, thanx) PerlssDj -- ... visit always http://perlssdj.blogspot.com 4 cool stuff !!...

18 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-user] FreeBob compiling problem

by Steven Walker

I'm trying to compile FreeBob from the tarball source. I've got all the dependency libraries install, with one exception. The FreeBob configure script is looking for libiec61883 version 1.1.0, but the latest "official" release is 1.0.0. I tried modifying the configure.ac file to look for 1.0.0, but my autoconf seems to have perl issues - the @INC array doesn't point to the right directories. You can see I'm quickly getting pulled into the quicksand! Should I: a) continue to fight with autoconf to try to generate a configure script b) install Subversion and try the SVN route c) something else? System is Fedora 4 w/CCRMA TIA, Steve

18 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-user] Intel Core 2 Duo users already?

by Drucer Ninetynine

Hello again, anybody out there who is already using Intel Core2Duo systems? Share your thoughts! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 7 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, 7 months

[linux-audio-user] That Windows feeling...

by lanas

... but on the bright side, I got some things working, so it's nice to know that things do work to some extent using the hardware (M-Audio 1010LT, M-Audio DX4 speakers, Pulsar mic + phantom power) I bought and the computer (AMD X2 dual-core, MSI K8N Neo4/SLI mobo, 4GB RAM, GeForce 6600) I got. To get it working I tried some distros since the SuSE Nerd 3 page on how to install a Jacklab system has not the right URLs for YaST. So I tried the 64Studio. This one would not boot after install. I still have to look into that but I want results first, so that's for later. I also tried Musix GNU+Linux Live CD but this one did not recognize the sound card. Results first, so this one is out the door. Then I tried CCRMA. So I downloaded and installed Fedora 5, x86_64 version. Wrong. CCRMA does not seem to have and x86_64 packages. At least not in the mainstream docs. Go back to get another DVD. Luckily, the line has good throughput. So I installed Fedora 5 i386 and followed the CCRMA steps. This finally gives results, I can run jack and connect some ins/outs, make drum beats with Hydrogen, make one sound with this zyn[...] soft synth. MuSE will run, and so Ardour. So basically now all I have to do is to learn how to use this stuff (and connect a MIDI keyboard and connect my preamped accoustic bass guitar). It would be that if only Fedora would have nice fonts. It does not. The screen feeling is set a few years back. Then it tells me that the screen is 1600x1200 but the other screen resolution app is right: it's only 1024x768. Even tough it knows the right monitor model. No way to easily throw this one in 1600x1200. So I want to boot back into my main SuSE system. And although I've taken care to tell the Fedora installer about the other boot partitions, it throws the system into the grub prompt when trying to boot SuSE. So it's back to booting from the SuSE DVD, chroot into the right partition and re-initialize grub. I'd thought that by 2006, big guys like the Fedora team would have resolved this. SuSE certainly did (64Studio not !). It's this feeling about systems and flakiness that I almost forgotten not working with Windows for several years. So for now 1024x768 will do so that I learn a bit more about actually how to work with audio (as opposed to configuring systems and software packages) and perhaps derive a bit of fun in the process, but this is certainly not a long term solution. Al

18 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-user] those funky drums

by juuso.alasuutari＠tamperelainen.org

First I'd like to thank all the helpful people on this list, it's valuable to have support like this when starting out with Linux audio. I was especially happy when I was told about Naturalstudio's free drum kit, it's great. Now to get back to the drum business. I personally can't imagine any sound better for drums than that heard on 70's funk records. As good as the ns kit is, I can't help wondering if there are tools out there that would bring out the funk in it. Are there any LADSPA plugins or other software someone could recommend to me? I'm guessing I need something that emulates old tape EQ's and compressors, right? Thanks again, Juuso ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through L-secure: http://www.l-secure.net/

18 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-user] Connecting a MIDI keyboard

by lanas

Folks, What looked simple is not. I have this Yamaha Psr-260 keyboard. I want to use it to play the ZynAddSubFX synth (one of these days I'll know how to write that name I guess, if only by multiple repeated tries). So I start a MIDI cable from the OUT of the keyboard and connect it to the IN MIDI jack of the M-Audio 1010LT card. So far so good I guess. Then I start jack using Qjackctl, and press the green button. I also start the ZynSubAddFX synth (looks like a Polish name, guess that was the spiritual connection) and it shows up in the jack connect dialog box, which looks like this: Readable Clients / Output Ports + 14LMidi Through - 16:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI 0:M Audio Delta 1010LT MIDI Writable Clients / Input Ports - 129:ZynSubAddFX 0: ZynAddSubFX So I connect the last two entries together. The Zyn synth panel shows MIDI channel 1 selected. Jack uses the ALSA driver. I play a few notes on the keyboard and only the built-in Yamaha sounds are resounding, no Zyn. If I use the Zyn virtual keyboard, I can hear the software synth all right. The mic input of the 1010LT works fine, as well as the rendering of sounds made by Zyn and Hydrogen. So I presume the card is OK. Maybe the MIDI cable is not, so I changed it. To no avail. Systems are Fedora 5 CCRMA and Studio64. Is there something else to be done in order to use a MIDI keyboard to trigger sounds created by the Linux box ? Or should I start to think that the keyboard itself is somehow damaged ? Al

18 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-user] Rlimits-aware PAM on Debian etch

by Ismael Valladolid Torres

Right now libpam-modules version available for Debian etch is 0.79-3.1. Does anybody know if this version is rlimits-aware or if it needs to be patched? Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres "Il est vain de pleurer sur l'esprit, il suffit de travailler pour lui." Albert Camus http://digitrazos.info/ http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ OpenPGP key ID: 0xDE721AF4

18 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-user] Favorite way to browse the list

by lanas

Folks, E-mail at home can be retrieved by two systems, so it happens that sometimes I do not read replies (or miss them for some time) because they are on the other machine that I don't use much. So, what would be the nicest http way to browse this mailing list messages (with thread-following option) out there on the internet ? Thanks, Al

18 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-user] Success Report: FreeBob on Dynebolic (with HowTo)

by Carlo Capocasa

Took me quite a while, but I was successful at setting up my Roland FA-101 firewire audio interface on Dynebolic! CHIMES AND MAJESTIC TRUMPETS I downloaded libfreebob from subversion. At the time of writing, libfreebob SVN requires three libraries, libraw1394 1.2.1+, libieee61883 1.1 and libavc1394 0.5.3. These are all newer than the versions shipped with dyne. The first two are in the 'video' module, presumably because of firewire being common among digital video cameras. The last is in the dyne /usr tree. In order to be able to make permanent modifications to the system, I created a dynebolic SDK. -- dynesdk makesdk cp /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/hd1/1/dyne/SDK/cdrom -R -- Then, I set development mode for 'video' module and deleted the old versions of the libraries inside. -- dynesdk devel video rm -R /opt/video/lib/libraw1394* rm /opt/video/lib/pkgconfig/libfraw1394.pc rm -R /opt/video/include/libfraw1394* rm -R /opt/video/lib/libieee61883* rm /opt/video/lib/pkgconfig/libieee61883.pc rm -R /opt/video/include/libieee61883* dynesdk squash video -- Next, I removed the third library. No mode setting was necessary as this is part of the core system, which will be 'checked out' with a single dynesdk command when all modifications are complete. -- rm -R /usr/lib/libavc1394* rm /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libavc1394.pc rm -R /usr/libavc1394* -- Third, I installed the latest release of libraw1394. I used release versions wherever possible, and this was one of the two cases where it worked out. Downloaded 1.2.1 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libraw1394 -- tar -xvzf libraw1394-1.2.1.tar.gz cd libraw1394-1.2.1 ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install make dev -- Next, I installed the latest SVN of libieee61883 and built it. -- svn checkout svn://svn.linux1394.org/libiec61883/trunk/ libiec61883 cd libiec61883 autoreconf -f -i -s ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install -- And the latest release of libavc1394. -- tar -xvzf libavc1394-0.5.3.tar.gz cd libavc1394-0.5.3 ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install -- Now, finally, libfreebob from subversion can be installed: -- svn co \ https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freebob/branches/libfreebob-1.0 \ libfreebob cd libfreebob autoreconf -vis ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install -- You can test by running tests/test-freebob discover in the build directory. There should be several pages of output and some information on your device printed somewhere. If it doesn't work out, please go ahead and post here! Now, the latest subversion of jack is necessary in order to properly support freebob, since there were some freebob API changes recently. Note I did not uninstall jack 100.0.0 but trusted the new jack to overwrite since it is installed in the same prefix. -- svn co http://subversion.jackaudio.org/jack/trunk/jack jack cd jack ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --with-default-tmpdir=/tmp make make install -- Well, that's it! Test with the following: jackd -d freebob If jack stays running you were successful! Once you have a running jack, you need the latest QJackCtl in order to bring FreeBob support to ease of use: (When prompted for a password after CVS login, simply press return) -- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@qjackctl.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qjackctl\ login cvs -z3 \ -d:pserver:anonymous@qjackctl.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qjackctl co \ qjackctl cd qjackctl make -f Makefile.cvs ./configure --prefix=/usr make make install -- Now set up QJackCtl according to your favorite parameters: Freebob backend, and probably something along the line of 64 frames per period and 2 periods per buffer. Also set the number of input and output channels to match your sound card. If in doubt, you can run -- jackd -d freebob jack_lsp -- and count the number of channels. And now for that piece of special dyne magic that makes dyne unique in the operating system world! -- dynesdk mkusr dynesdk mkinitrd dynesdk mkiso -- ... and you have a bootable CD image with freebob working. Actually, before you do this, you might want to install some additional software, such as ZynAddSubFX. Stay tuned! I will be releasing a modified version of dyne to suit my needs as a musician, and it might just suit your needs as well. It smells of softsynths and stability, ladies and gentlemen! Thanks for taking the time to read this Carlo PS: Pieter, your help was invaluable, thank you.

18 years, 7 months

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Linux-audio-user September 2006