Linux-audio-user September 2006

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Where to, linux audio ( was Re: [linux-audio-user] WINE and ASIO )

by David Baron

On Monday 25 September 2006 19:12, linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu wrote: > > One thing that bothers me though, is why are Linux peeps playing with M$ > > apps instead of funneling that energy towards replacements in native > > Linux? > > What a strange thing to say. The majority of the Linux audio software out > there is capable of far more than offering simple feature replacements for > commercial windows applications. Have you even looked into the options? > (http://linux-sound.org/) Rosegarten is almost there. Ardour for all-audio work is very nice once one figures out its interface. Muse is fun is soft-synths are the objective. The new LMMS and others are moving along. One thing, though: Many of us started out in M$ or Macs. A lot of good work is in formats of Cakewalk, Steinberg, Protools, etc. The real move to Linux will require interoperability and this is simply not there. New projects, once I have equvilatent quality hardware with Alsa support ($), can be done quite fine in Linux. All else remains on the "other" partition. While wine-asio (I have also proposed a jack-assio [SIC] which would be native) will enable some apps to try to work with an emulation layer, do not expect realistic (that is real-time) operation. I have only one audio-app which cuts the grade under wine and that is the har-bal demo (no M# code, according to the author, maybe that's why).

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Realtime kernel does not boot

by Dominic Sacré

Hi, I'm having problems booting realtime kernels on two different machines. One is an IBM Thinkpad X21 with a 700MHz P3, the other one is a desktop machine with an AMD Duron, also at 700MHz. Apart from the fact that both machines are about the same age, they don't seem to have much in common. However, both fail to boot at the same point. On both machines, the last messages of the kernel of are along the lines of: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:0b.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:01:00.0 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:08.1 NET: Registered protocol family 2 Then it just stops. I've tried many different kernel versions (2.6.17-rt8, 2.6.17-rt5, even as far back as 2.6.13-rt14), to no avail. I also tried turning ACPI and APIC on/off, which didn't help either. Now I'm at a loss... The same kernels boot just fine on a more recent machine. What else can I try, or how do I find out where exactly (and why) it hangs? Is anyone successfully running a realtime kernel on a similarly old machine? Thanks, Dominic

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Waveform to image file..?

by Johannes Mario Ringheim

I've got an interesting question from an English teacher here in Norway. He's wondering if his students could upload wavefiles to a server, and get back an image of the wavefile in a webpage. They want to compare the waveforms of different sounds in the English language. So what I'm thinking is that if some commandline soundapp could feed the waveform to ImageMagick, or something like that, and then the user could request the image through a webpage. Any thoughts on that approach? Is there other ways of achieving this with free software? Thanks for any thoughts. I've got ssh-access to a Debian server on wich I can install and run apps, and it's got a LAMP stack I can use. -- Ringheims Auto - Fri musikk for bilstereo! http://ringheimsauto.org

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: WINE and ASIO

by Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen

Ken: > > Dave Phillips wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > Recently I tested Robert Reif's ASIO driver for WINE. It works okay > > for some small test apps (asiosiggen and asiodump). I also tested it > > with NI's FM7, the app opens fine but I got no sound from it. I even > > loaded and played a MIDI file as a demo but still got no joy from the > > audio. > > > > I'm curious to try other ASIO-driven apps but I need some > > recommendations for light-to-middle weight programs for testing. > > Free/shareware is best, but feel free to suggest commercial apps too. > > I don't use Win/Mac music apps and I have no idea where to start. > > > > Best, > > > > dp > > > > > I've played alot with M$ music apps, and the best in my opinion were > Reaktor and Kontakt2 sampler. Reaktor is what I wish Csound could > become. The pre-built synths people have made were/are amazing. > > One thing that bothers me though, is why are Linux peeps playing with M$ > apps instead of funneling that energy towards replacements in native Linux? > > > I can no longer support commercial software and the bizness model for > personal reasons, but I wish that Linux had a bit more to offer as far > as music creation goes. > Thats just ridiculous. Please investigate a bit more before saying something like that. If what you wrote about Linux' lack of music cration and stuff above was correct, I would never have used Linux, but instead windows. I don't even know where to start arguing against what you say. If I start mentioning some softwares, like snd or pd, that are much better to windows alternatives or runs better in (and is developed primarily in) linux than windows/macosx, I would just forget a lot of programs and systems.

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] totally confused about my hard synth

by robert lazarski

Hi all, What I've got: 1) Korg triton 2) Midisport 2x2 - installed and working 3) Suse linux 10.1 4) Rosegarden 1.4 5) Midi files I learn songs from What I want to do: Imagine a 16 channel live sound board . I want to take some of the channels from a midi file - from I change tempos, mute channels like I do with timidity - and mix those midi file channels with my triton to one Left / Right stereo output. Sometimes I just dump a midifile to ogg and loop it in audacity - and from there I'd like to mix audacity output to one Left / Right stereo output. Am I from mars or is this sane ? ;-) . Robert

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] bristol problem

by Atte André Jensen

Hi I just compiled latest bristol, and have the same problem as others that the gui window is all white. If I start without jack it seems to be ok (didn't test it, since I really need jack) but with jack I get the all white gui window. However it seems to open ok, it appears in jack, both with midi and audio, and the output looks ok also: atte@ajstrup:~/software/bristol/bristol-0.9.5/src$ ./startBristol -jack -2600 spawning midi thread parent going into idle loop connected to :0.0 (81492f0) display is 1024 by 768 pixels Window is w 1024, h 768, d 24, 0 0 0 Using DirectColor display masks are ff0000 ff0000 ff0000 Initialise the arp2600 link to bristol: 814e800 midi sequencer Opened listening control socket: 5028 Client ID = 129 Queue ID = 0 Device name did not parse, defaults 128.0 hostname is localhost, bristol port is 5028 Connected to the bristol control socket: 5 bristolengine already active Accepted connection from 0 (3) onto 2 (5) created 16 voices: allocated 16 to synth engine MIDI channel 0 spawning audio thread registering jack interface Rescheduled thread: 95 initialising one arp2600 done create interface: 81490c0, 814e800 Found port alsa_pcm:playback_1 Found port alsa_pcm:playback_2 Default connection bristol:out_left to alsa_pcm:playback_1 Default connection bristol:out_right to alsa_pcm:playback_2 Found port alsa_pcm:capture_1 Found port alsa_pcm:capture_2 Default connection alsa_pcm:capture_1 to bristol:in Any ideas? This is under debian/unstable... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk | quartet: http://www.anagrammer.dk | compositions: http://www.atte.dk/compositions

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Distros these days? What a mess!

by iainduncan＠telus.net

Gaaah! I haven't had to install a new linux in ages, and now am faced with doing so. Is it just me, or is the state of linux pro audio on the major distros a total mess right now? Fedora core 5 seems to require MUCH tweaking to get any audio working and has a lot of alsa weirdness preventing serious work, Ubuntu just plain doesn't work with numerous cards ( including mine! ) and gentoo took a giant step backwards by rushing a broken and not ready 2006.1 installer out the door negating all the advantages they used to have. Am I the only one who feels like getting pro audio working these days is *harder* than two years ago??? It seems to me that in the race to make a distro that has everything working out of the box, we now have a bunch of things that are really screwed up for those of us with unusual needs, and now they are much harder to untangle. =( Any recos for a distro that must: - be decent for development - allow easy integration of from source apps with the distro - be realtively straightforward for audio kernel recompiles Thanks Iain

18 years, 2 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Distros these days? What a mess!

by bubar

little and very short Linux Audio User paper : http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/bubar/SoundsIn20070 (Mandriva-Linux is a little and completly independant distribution. All works from it are GPL license only, professionnal solution like Pulse too. Mandriva have a really 100% gpl version of distribution -not bloody blob closed into kernel-packages... And have "commercial" version, to support developpement, where it is simple to kick-out any blob...because apart packages ;) ) Independant but ever respect "alaletter" RedHat upstream choice. Mandriva integrate contributors works directly, not apart distro. If you are contributor, it is very simple to have svn access and society cluster'build full access. Club forum and documentation are provided free from charge.

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] It seemed like a good idea at the time.

by Folderol

A while ago, having reorganised and rationalised my internet access (I now have broadband cheaper than my old dialup) it occured to me that any possible future changes would be a lot easier if I had my own domain. Well after some searching around for ideas, I zeroed in on the idea that I wanted something that would make a statement about my musical aspirations. To my surprise the domain 'musically.me.uk' was free so I grabbed it immediately. In the cold light of dawn however I wondered if doing so was maybe just a teensy weensy bit egotistical. I then thought maybe it would be useful to set this up a a links site (not that I have a clue about how to do that). However there were two logistical problems that became immediately apparent. The first is the 'uk' bit which rather limits potential guests. The other is that there do seem to be an embarrassingly high number of such sites, including our very own LAM. Not sure what I'll do with it now. As I said, it seemed a good idea at the time. Hmmm, that could be the title for a new tune :) -- Will J G

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] New music on my new website

by Lilli Chiffon

Hello the list I started my personal website to show my work, it's my first time. There are pictures, movie, lyrics and music ! Of course i done under linux, unfortunately the music is made under W?@"!$ except two or three tunes made on analogic sytem and mixed on debian. There are teaser in .mp3 but full songs in .ogg. Tell me your opinions and your advice (include the rendering on your browserand your screen). Here's the link : http://lesondumur.free.fr/ And for the music : http://lesondumur.free.fr/musique/index_chansons.html This work is still in progress. Thank by advance. Cheers, P'tit Louis

18 years, 2 months

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Linux-audio-user September 2006