Linux-audio-user November 2007

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by Paul DeShaw

Greetings, I wish I'd said something earlier, but the Bellevue Linux User's Group, in Bellevue, Washington, is going to have some computers set up with 64 Studio and Ubuntu Studio, for just some informal exploration/messing around; I'll be doing some kind of informal presentation--the blind leading the blind, I know, but there was no one else. If any of you live nearby, it would be great if you could drop by an lend some expertise. They meet in the Bellevue Barnes & Noble bookstore, 626 106th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA (425) 451-8463, starting at 7 PM. It looks like the music presentation will be sometime later, maybe 8:00. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

18 years, 1 month

[LAM] smells of soy, huh? - 30z

by James

http://dikdug.googlepages.com/ev30-the_smells_of_soy.mp3 Thought I'd share another song with the list. You know, every time I think of using Windows software to make music, I shudder... This one is generally just a beat (specimen) track, with 303 overlay (nekobee) and PHASEX arp strings to carry it along. 99 BPM, and cc-by-sa-nc if any1 chooses to use. Is part of a 30 day song project. Details, and continuing updates are at http://everamzah.wordpress.com Mmmmusic can also be streamed from http://last.fm/music/everamzah/30z Thanks for LISTening, and uhhh haha I crack myself up, MUCH THANKS to the people who write Linux audio software, test, use, contribute... -- james/everamzah

18 years, 1 month

well, some music for a short film...

by Marcos Guglielmetti

Hi all! I am making some music for a short film: http://www.musix.org.ar/ogg/corto/instrumental_rocktangoarabe2.wav.mp3 http://www.musix.org.ar/ogg/corto/rarara_mezcla1.wav.mp3 http://www.musix.org.ar/ogg/corto/ale_sin_teatro_folklore_con_VOZ_m5.ogg http://www.musix.org.ar/ogg/corto/ale_sin_teatro_folklore_instrum_m4-1.ogg http://www.musix.org.ar/ogg/corto/tango_arabe_tormentoso.ogg This song is hard to mix: http://www.musix.org.ar/ogg/corto/desocupado_mezcla2.ogg I was trying to lower the voices... but when I lower them or when I raise the other tracks, I can not understand the lyric (the people will not understand the lyrics ). I think that I will have to face the mix process in another way: studying the instrument's harmonics using Jamin or gnome_wave_cleaner... and giving each instrument some place into the harmonic ranges... any tip? Well, "enjoy it" if you can. PD: all songs recorded using Rosegarden or Ardour 0.99.3, zynaddsubfx or DSSI Synths, condenser mic, acoustic guitar, hydrogen, etc., Musix GNU+Linux 1.0. -- `&' # Marcos Guglielmetti, co-director de # Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre para artistas _#_ http://www.musix.org.ar (#) / O \ + archivos: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix ( === ) Ecología: http://autosus.wordpress.com `---' Personal: http://marcospcmusica.wordpress.com "La libertad está en ser dueños de la propia vida." Aristóteles

18 years, 1 month

Realtime Vocoder

by Ricardo Lobo

Hi People, I'm trying to discover a realtime vocoder? Anyone? I found this vocoder: http://www.sirlab.de/linux/descr_vocoder.html I think everyone know this one, but for some reason I can't get it to work in Ubuntstudio!! Any ideas on why? thanks in advance, lobo

18 years, 1 month

Recording help

by Michael Petersen

I can't figure out how to record in any form. I have a hammerfall 96/52 card. I also have an intel card on the board but I removed the module (sudo modprobe -r snd_hda_intel) because I don't use it for anything on Linux. I am using the newest Ubuntu Studio and everything appears to work except when I record I get no sound signal. I can play sound in ardour, audacious, audacity, rezound, rtcmix using either native alsa or jack. Please help me to figure this out. Here is the info for the card: pmstudio@sphere:~/m/sounds$ cat /proc/asound/card0/rme9652 RME Digi9652 (Rev 1.5) (Card #1) Buffers: capture f6000000 playback f6200000 IRQ: 20 Registers bus: 0xfd000000 VM: 0xf88aa000 Control register: 4008 Latency: 1024 samples (2 periods of 4096 bytes) Hardware pointer (frames): 0 Passthru: no Clock mode: autosync Pref. sync source: ADAT1 ADAT1 Input source: ADAT1 optical IEC958 input: Coaxial IEC958 output: Coaxial only IEC958 quality: Consumer IEC958 emphasis: off IEC958 Dolby: off IEC958 sample rate: error flag set ADAT Sample rate: 44100Hz ADAT1: No Lock ADAT2: No Lock ADAT3: No Lock Timecode signal: no Punch Status: 1: off 2: off 3: off 4: off 5: off 6: off 7: off 8: off 9: off 10: off 11: off 12: off 13: off 14: off 15: off 16: off 17: off 18: off 19: off 20: off 21: off 22: off 23: off 24: off Thanks, Mike

18 years, 1 month

dssi synths -nogui?

by Josh Lawrence

Hello all, Can whysynth and hexter be started without the gui? It would be neat if one could have the engine only running, no X, etc. The patch selection could be done via a script. I've read the man page on whysynth, and did not see anything related to this. Thanks, -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

18 years, 1 month

CPU friendly hardware

by Joshua Boyd

I'm looking to replace a M-Audio 2496 PCI with either a USB or FW interface. The hardware is marginally fast enough as it is, so I'm concerned that actually switching may push things over the edge. In particular, I've tried using a Line6 PODxt as a USB output interface, but periodically (particularly when playing video or flash) I get loud bursts of noise, that I interpret as being the computer failing to keep up with feeding it. Maybe my interpretation is wrong. Might FW be more CPU efficient, or do I really just need another PCI card?

18 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] Using (psindustrializer) samples in Specimen

by Martin Ahnelöv

> Am Dienstag, 6. November 2007 schrieb lanas: > > Folks, > > > > Loading a .wav file in Specimen, either produced by psindustrializer > > or downloaded from Freesounds results in it being triggered by a single > > C note of an external MIDI keyboard. Is it possible to spread a > > sample across at least one octave ? I reckon that spreading can > > affect sound quality negatively but in the case of industrial sounds > > this can be considered an additional effect. It would be just great to > > use a sample over several notes, like in Linux Sampler for instance. > > Is there a way to do that with Specimen ? > > That's a basic function for a software sampler i'd say. See the "ruler" area > above the virtual keyboard, where a small yellow square marks the original > key? left of this square, use left mousebutton to define the lower limit of > your mapping zone, right of it do the same for upper limit with right > mousebutton. It seems it's not possible to use a keyboard range completely > outside the original key... On a related topic... Is it possible to use several samples in one "channel"? Like, if you want to put a whole drumkit in there, or maybe a guitar.sample for every octave, thus lowering the number of tracks you need in the sequencer? Gasten

18 years, 1 month

Delta 1010 PCI in PCI-X slot

by Alex Norman

I have a dual boot machine here, if I have my Delta 1010 (PCI card) in a PCI-X slot windoze sees it but when I boot up linux and do lspci I don't see it. I have one PCI slot but it is being blocked by my graphics card [which is 2 slots wide].. I'd really like to get this sound card into this box.. So, do the linux drivers not support PCI-X for these cards? If they do, has anyone here had success with this solution? Thanks, Alex Norman

18 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] MIDI keyboard compatability

by Edgar Aichinger

Am Mittwoch, 7. November 2007 schrieb david: > Edgar Aichinger wrote: > > Am Montag, 5. November 2007 schrieb david: > >> David Griffith wrote: > >>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, ANDERSON GREGORY wrote: > >>> > >>>> I am looking to buy a MIDI keyboard controller but I am > >>>> having trouble coming up with a site that has > >>>> compatibility info on it. Could someone point me in the > >>>> right direction? > >>> Any MIDI keyboard will work as long as you have a MIDI interface that > >>> works. Trickiness comes into play with USB/MIDI keyboards. Those are > >>> essentially USB/MIDI interfaces tucked into a keyboard. As > >>> previously-discussed here, USB/MIDI devices may or may not work with > >>> Linux. Roland/Edirol and Korg are two brands known to work. > >> When ALSA isn't fighting over which sound card to load in which order on > >> my system, the E-MU Xmidi1x1 works just fine. It only needs the > >> snd-usb-audio driver on my system. > >> > >> But that's just the USB<>MIDI interface, can't give advice about > >> professional keyboards. > >> > > > > I had also had problems with the loading order of soundcards. Everything > > was fine when I hotplugged or switched on my usb midi devices, but when I > > had them on during boot the soundcard order got scrambled. > > Doesn't make any difference on mine! My only USB audio device is bus > powered. > > > Now (in openSUSE > > 10.3), I explicitely configured ALSA via YaST to load snd-usb-audio twice, > > resulting in this config file (/etc/modprobe.d/sound): > > > > options snd-emu10k1 enable=1 index=0 > > options snd-ice1712 enable=1 index=1 > > options snd-usb-audio enable=1,1 index=2,3 > > > > # WL76.vIcU+IM+7DC:SB Audigy2 ZS > > alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 > > # bSAa.PVFZbfE_QN2:M-Audio Delta 1010LT > > alias snd-card-1 snd-ice1712 > > # uniq.unknown_key:USB Audio > > alias snd-card-2 snd-usb-audio > > # uniq.unknownkey0:USB Audio > > alias snd-card-3 snd-usb-audio > > I tried something along those lines, was only successful in killing two > USB devices, including the USB<>MIDI adapter. > > > Note that the comments are YaST specific identifiers and not needed for other > > distros. > > Thanks. Why twice? > I don't know, honestly. Because that way it worked. I have a MidiSport 2x2, and an Axiom USB/MIDI controller keyboard. The MidSport needs it's firmware loaded, which udev does during boot. Either this, or the undefined loading order (partly udev, partly alsasound, init running it's scripts in parallel) leads to mess when I don't specify it twice. If someone knows better, please explain... Edgar

18 years, 1 month

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Linux-audio-user November 2007