Linux-audio-user February 2007

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[linux-audio-user] Exporting Muse tracks to an audio file

by linuxmedia4＠netscape.net

Hi, When I need to record drum parts, I use Muse that triggers samples in Hydrogen or Specimen. Unfortunately, in this situation, Muse's 'Bounce to File' function doesn't allow me to export to an audio file (to use in ecasound) because this only works with Muse's built-in soft synths or soundfonts loaded into Muse (unless I overlooked something). Muse's 'simple drums' works pretty good and allows me to use the 'Bounce to File' function. But then I can't use multilayered drum samples. The solution would be to record in Hydrogen, and then export it to an audio file. But I just can't work with 'pattern based' sequencers because it's too limiting. I record all sequences with Muse because I can just press 'Record' and record for as long as I need to. Anyways... does anyone have any idea how to get Muse's 'drum tracks' to a stereo audio file so I can use it in ecasound? My Echo IO card doesn't have a 'capture function' like my SB Live card used to (so I can capture whatever comes through the card). I don't think 'timemachine' will work because I would have to find exactly were the 'beginning' starts in the resulting audio file. With the 'capture function' in the SB Live card, I would use ecasound to start recording everything coming through the card... but ecasound and Muse were synced (via jack) so it would start recording perfectly at the necessary point. With 'timemachine' you press 'Record', and then go to Muse and press 'Play' and meanwhile, you have a lot of dead space in the front of the resulting audio file. Any help would be appreciated... Thanks, Rocco

17 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] FA-66, slackware, freebob, thinkpad R40 - cracks on recordings

by mea

Hello from Prague, I bought the firewire soundcard Edirol FA-66. Yesterday morning I compiled freebob, recompiled jack and within half an hour I already saw all 6 inputs and outputs in qjackctl. What? Recording on linux is hard? Pha! I thought but unfortunately my moment of victory didn't last long. On all recordings there is a strange cracking sound, not all the time, but every couple of seconds. No xruns though. Before I bought this device I used to record through the internal soundcard of my thinkpad R40, running all programs as root and this 'sort of' worked. So I thought I should first of all make sure all my apps can run as user. After a lot of reading (I spent all day on this yesterday before I decided to consult this list) I figured the best approach for me would be to use set_rlimits, because slackware doesn't have PAM, and I never patched a kernel before. As I understand these are the 3 possibilities for programs to run in realtime right? Well, in short I can now run qjackctl, jack and ardour as user without xruns, but this weird cracking is still on the recordings. To make sure it was not an ardour issue I tried sooperlooper, and the noise is still there. I suspect the trouble is probably freebob, because I didn't have this issue before and maybe I should have written on their list, but I am not completely sure and I found very useful information here before, so here I am, asking for any advice, because I don't know what to do anymore. Here is some more information about my setup> Thinkpad R40, Pentium4, 512MbRAM Slackware 10.2 uname -r 2.6.13 jackd version 0.102.20 tmpdir /tmp protocol 16 Ardour/GTK 0.99.3 (built using 1.4.1 with libardour 0.908.2 and GCC version 3.3.6) Gscanbus - Edirol SelfID Info ----------- Physical ID: 0 Link active: Yes Gap Count: 63 PHY Speed: S400 PHY Delay: <=144ns IRM Capable: Yes Power Class: +15W Port 0: Connected to parent node Port 1: Not connected Init. reset: Yes CSR ROM Info ------------ GUID: 0x0040AB0000C33B81 Node Capabilities: 0x000083C0 Vendor ID: 0x000040AB Unit Spec ID: 0x0000A02D Unit SW Version: 0x00010001 Model ID: 0x00010049 Nr. Textual Leafes: 2 Vendor: ROLAND DG CORPORATION Textual Leafes: EDIROL EDIROL FA-66 AV/C Subunits ------------- Unknown: 1 Unknown: 1 Thank you in advance, Best wishes Martin Alaçam

17 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] donations or sponsoring?

by Leonard Ritter

from http://www.leonard-ritter.com/donations_or_sponsoring I keep bouncing an idea in my head, thinking about how to strengthen the bonding between open source software developers and software users. How is a beginning open source project funded, usually? Most of the time not at all. The site features a donation button, and users are encouraged to donate. As an user, if you like an application very much, and would like to support its development, you might want to donate. However a donation has neither a direct connection to advancement of development, nor does it give you a right to influence the priorities of new features and bug fixes. It gives you no certainty that the application is still going to be developed - what if the developer is being hired for a more lucrative job? There is simply no contract, just a requirement of trust. As an open source developer, how are you going to sustain and finance ongoing development? You can not rely on ongoing donations. You also need to care for fund raising. You have only a small understanding of how many users deem your application to be important. There is no dependency between you and your users, meaning that the choices you make might not necessarily be choices embraced by the community. Again, there is no contract, just a requirement of trust. How to ensure a long-time interdependency between users and developers? Since a long time, the IT world knows multiple answers to this question: service contracts. A company using an open source product commercially would buy a service contract, which includes a warranty for the program and allows the company to prioritize bug fixes and addition of new features. In exchange, the company funds development. Of course, these contracts are of high volume, with a lot more money involved than what an average user would be able to spend. However an industrially used program has also less companies interested in it. My suggestion is to move this to the private software user / open source developer level. Users would be able to subscribe to a sponsoring contract, being able to choose the amount of money they want to pay per month or per year, starting at e.g. EUR 1/month or EUR 12/year. In exchange, each user has a right to get his bugs fixed within a period of 14 days, and also earns a right to influence the priority of new features suggested by the community. The low pricing will make sponsoring attractive and thus increase the number of sponsors. The more importance the project gains, the more developers will get out of this deal, the more dependent they get on subscriptions, the more bugs will be fixed, and the project will not be abandoned. Since most users will have the same problems, the amount of work required will not necessarily increase. Payment could be handled by Paypal, which also supports subscriptions. What do you think? -- Leonard Ritter -- Freelance Art & Logic -- http://www.leonard-ritter.com

17 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] ardour and mp3?

by Matt Price

hi, just starting to use ardour2 for production (thanks everyone for the help) and running into a little frustration with the mp3 files from my recorder. ardour of course doesn't import from mp3; I can, I suppose, convert the files to mp3 one at a time when I want to, but I wonder if there's a more fluid way of e.g. converting files when they're uploaded, or at least converting all files in a particular folder or something. are there other people out there who have to deal with a similar situation? thanks, matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto matt.price(a)utoronto.ca

17 years, 2 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] A Simple Plan

by oktyabr＠linux-studio.org

17 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Commercial "clone" of ZynAddSubFX?

by Ken Restivo

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I looked at this and went, huh? http://www.zebrasynth.com/ At first glance, it looks like a closed, commercial, aggressively copy-protected clone of ZynAddSubFX (with a much slicker GUI)? Wish there were a way to approach all the talented hackers who are unfortunately wasting their time working on trying to crack it, and instead get them a copy of the Zyn source, to revamp it from scratch and make it RT-safe. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFw+mZe8HF+6xeOIcRAnNAAKDebkBipozmn+5QzWfXEusOl0JXAgCeOIlI 7pPeqlDYXzcJK39eKKj6yxE= =QBbp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

17 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden 1.5.0 released

by Chris Cannam

ROSEGARDEN 1.5.0 RELEASED The Rosegarden team are happy to announce the release of version 1.5.0 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ This release contains a number of new features, notably audio time-stretching support, and many usability improvements particularly in the matrix view. This is also an interesting release from a developer perspective, because the source code has been completely reorganised into a new directory structure with a far more consistent file naming and organisation scheme. Thanks to all involved with the project for their hard work on this tedious business. Finally, we have also changed the build system again, from scons to cmake. Please read the README and INSTALL files before building. Hopefully this should be the last change of this nature for the foreseeable future. Changes: * Add timestretching for audio segments (ctrl-drag the edge of the segment) * Add import and sample-rate conversion helper for arbitrary audio file types * Add helpful context help to status bar in track and matrix editors * Various improvements to the usability and friendliness of the matrix editor: do a better job of remembering settings, make the snap-to-grid behaviour more intuitive and pleasing, make better use of cursor changes, add quick-copy by dragging with Ctrl pressed, fix several bugs * Add tempo tapping to tempo dialog (thanks to FNPave) * Further fixes and enhancements to Lilypond export (thanks to Heikki) * New Invert, Retrograde, Retrograde Invert editing functions (thanks to Heikki) * Make transport window remember its previous location * More helpful warning dialogs on startup if something fails to start properly * Change build system from scons to cmake (thanks to Pedro) * Reorganise code into a new directory structure with a far more consistent file naming and organisation scheme (thanks to everyone) For more information about Rosegarden and what it can do for you, please see http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden is Free Software under the GNU General Public License. Chris

17 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Tapeutape question

by Julien Claassen

Hi Flo! Does Tapeutape support exclusive groups? Like you'd use them for the hihat section of drumkits. So if I have the open hihat sounding and press the closed hihat, the open hihat stops. 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

17 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Still on the look out for _GOOD_ sampled drums

by Julien Claassen

Hi all! I still have one problem: I don't have any acoustic drums I REALLY, TRULY love. I have one hardware synth with drums, which are ok in the mix )sometimes at least) and I have both the naturalstudio kits version 6 and version 7 as a soundfont. But they don't really satisfy me neither. They both sound a bit odd in the mix, they don't really fit in the room. The version6 is good and hard, but has a very short release on the snaredrums and I disagree with the bassdrum a bit and the version7 has good release, but sound a bit to soft. Even with some compression and other FX-processing I can't get them to sound really crunchy. So you see my being choosy and what I generally disagree with. I'm looking for a drumkit in eitehr sf2 or .gig format, which sounds very raw (no ambiance, no or very subtle FX-processing), not too soft in its attack, has good velocity layering and nice basic sampled instruments. If possible it would be nice if it had a few more cymbals (I like them :-)). Does anyone have experience with sampled drumkits, finding them, any good locations to start looking... Any kit on mind, which you think is very good for rock, jazz, a bit of metal or the like. Please give me a hint. For I found nothing except the hardware eDrums, which are very expensive, demand, that you can play real drums and demand a lot of real room to put them. All of that, I don't have. :-) 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

17 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] A Simple Plan

by Chris McCormick

Hi, <http://sciencegirlrecords.com/chr15m/music/CD005/Chris%20McCormick%20-%20A%…> Made in Modplug tracker (GPL) and PdVST running under Wine on Linux. Enjoy. Best, Chris. ------------------- chris(a)mccormick.cx http://mccormick.cx

17 years, 2 months

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Linux-audio-user February 2007