Linux-audio-user May 2007

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by Michael Nelson

Hi all, I'm thinking of building a new workstation, aiming for a (very) low price and decent performance. So far, I have acquired an Athlon64 3200 and 2Gb of RAM, and bought an NVidia NForce4 board and Antec power supply on eBay. I've spent just under £35 Sterling so far! I already have a couple of second-hand RME cards - a DIGI96/8 PAD and DIGI9636, which set me back £77 between them. So, I still need some media to boot from, and a graphics card - which must be PCI Express. I'm interested in using a CompactFlash-to-SATA adapter, and booting from a CF card. Does anyone know what the speed/reliability would be like? I imagine/hope that I'd be able to fit everything I need for a desktop and audio workstation onto 4GB or so? I can do without full-blown KDE or GNOME. I'll probably get a SATA RAID card, and a couple of drives later for file storage. Finally, the graphics card... What do you recommend? Is there anything to avoid? I'd much rather use open source drivers, but don't really have enough money to get a Matrox PCI-E card at the moment. Thanks for any advice, Michael Nelson -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail

17 years, 10 months

best cheap mic(s) for acoustic / vocal recording?

by Loki Davison

On 4/11/07, Arnold Krille <arnold(a)arnoldarts.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 schrieb Mike Taht: > > I am selling my house deep in the santa cruz mountains, and I think the > > things I'm going to miss most is the birdsong and other sounds of the > > wilderness around me. So, I keep thinking, I should pick up a good mic > soon > > (stereo mic, or matched pair) - either buy, borrow, or rent for a few days > > - and record it all, so I can recreate the ambiance and memories of this > > place one day in the future. > > I bought the Studio Projects C4 (Matched Pair) which might not be the best > but > at least good for the price. You could also go for a pair of AKG C1000 which > cost about double. > > My C4s are good (ie. I used them) for environmental recordings (I conserved > the noise of outside of my old flat in the middle of the city), live > recordings of concerts, drum overheads and micing of acoustic instruments. > They have two kinds of mic capsules to provide omni-directional and cardioid > characteristics. The (in my edition) shipped stereo-boom(?) is a bit to > short > to get the official 17,5cm for env-recordings but its still usable... > > BTW: http://www.studioprojectsusa.com/index.html lists the C4 with 504€, I > got > mine (new) for ~300€... > > Have a nice day, > > Arnold > > -- > visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ > --- > Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send > me > to all your contacts. > After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your > administrator to do so... > Thread hijack so i changed the name... I want to record acoustic guitar and vocals. Price limit is < AUD$300 so i'm thinking of 2 behringer c-2's ($75!!) and stereo mic pre or a single SM Pro mic 1 condenser and pre. Are cheap condensers better than sm57/58 of the same price? Any recommendations? Loki

17 years, 10 months

Linux stickers for laptop

by Ken Restivo

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have just gotten the news that I've got another live show to play on May 19th. If things go well, instead of borrowing the guitar player's Korg Triton (as I had to do for the last show), I will be playing my new Linux laptop. I want to plant a huge Tux sticker right in the center of the laptop cover. It's a barebones so it has no markings of its own; I get to put on my own. I've seen a logo of Tux wearing headphones too, which I'd like to find. Where might I purchase stickers of this type, suitable for laptop application? I want to stand up and be proud, and "represent", as the young folks say these days. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGMpYee8HF+6xeOIcRAr75AJ9YdXApEGBeIfFBR3kKucdW1zQF/ACg2Fl6 amv3MV71RU3cQzsUxeFrrjs= =rMWz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

17 years, 10 months

Announde: DSP02 - Music composition software for children

by andersvi＠extern.uio.no

-------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- Delivery-date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:20:10 +0200 Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:20:09 +0200 From: asbjorn blokkum flo <a.b.flo(a)notam02.no> To: Anders Vinjar <andersvi(a)extern.uio.no> Subject: DSP NOTAM Nedre gate 5 N-0551 Oslo Norway *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * Contact Information: Company name: NOTAM email address: admin(a)notam02.no NOTAM Web site address: http://www.notam02.no/notam02/english.html DSP2 Web site address: http://www.notam02.no/notam02/prod-prg-dsp02-e.html Telephone: (+47) 22 35 80 60 Fax: (+47) 22 35 80 61 *NOTAM releases DSP02 Version 1.1.1 free music composition software for children. * Oslo, Norway May 30, 2007. NOTAM, the Norwegian production centre for work with sound, has released a new version (1.1.1) of NOTAMs DSP02 software for Mac OSX, Windows, Linux and web-based use. The new version of DSP02 brings performance improvements and user interaction enhancements as well as support for Intel Mac. For educators, composers, musicians, and others working with children, who are looking for a creative, student-oriented method for teaching sound creation and manipulation. DSP02 delivers a simple, user-friendly way of mixing, editing, and sound processing in one package. *DSP2 as a tool for learning* DSP02 is designed for a non-linear approach to composition, and allows students to develop compositions free from musical conventions and stylistic blueprints. The creative impulse is at the center of the tools, which through easy interactivity allows free, non-restricted exploration of what the software tools can be used for. DSP02 is published on a website which also contains a large number of help- and tutorial texts, as well as musical examples and tasks that can be developed by using the provided samples library. This makes the website into a comprehensive educational tool for composition with electronic sound. /DSP02 is particularly well suited for young composers from 5th to 10th grade. / DSP02 includes a large number of synthesis and sound processing tools for various types of sound design, traditional and non-traditional, such as sound editor, mixer, FM synthesis, additive synthesis, time stretch, 4 types of filters, chorus/vibrato/flanger, ring modulation, harmonizer, reverb, delay, formant synthesis, guitar string synthesis, spectral sieve, spectrum shift, and different algorithms for machine composition. *DSP02 is free, and can be downloaded for OSX, Windows and Linux from: *http://www.notam02.no/DSP02/en/index.php?page=317 DSP02 - for educators, composers, musicians, and others working with children, looking for an easy way to learn sound creation and manipulation, DSP2 delivers a simple and user friendly way of working with sound synthesis, sound manipulation and mixing in one package. *For more information, visit their web site at: *http://www.notam02.no/notam02/prod-prg-dsp02-e.html -------------------- End of forwarded message --------------------

17 years, 10 months

Octaver or fuzztone effect

by robert lazarski

Hi all, I always liked Adrian Belew's song "Big Electric Cat" , and after hearing it again I'd like to see how close to that sound I can get. Doing some googling, Here is a quote from Guitar Player jan.'84: AB describing his onstage/studio equipment p.80- ...number 3 is my Foxx[Tone Machine]fuzztone. That's the sound in "Big Electric Cat" and "Paint the Road". "i always use it w/ the high octave sustain switch on. its my favorite effect, and not an easy one to find these days. i'm also daisy-chaining the Foxx-tone into an MXR 10-band graphic equalizer so that i can eq it." I'm actually a keyboard player with a korg triton classic and some relatively good guitar sounds ;-). I found some schematics for building a cheap fuzztone, but I've got plenty of excuses for trying to do this in software first ;-). Any ideas? Robert

17 years, 10 months

Release announcement, Musix GNU+Linux 1.0 R1 Stable

by Marcos Guglielmetti

Thanks to the support of the Ututo Proyect, FSF, Ourproject, and to the usual collaborators, the Musix project has just released Musix GNU+Linux 1.0 R1 Stable, a new version of the 100% Free Software Multimedia Operating System for artists and general users. http://www.musix.org.ar/en/download.html After 2 years of hard work, the Musix project team is proud to announce the release of the first stable version of Musix. Musix is a 100% Free Multimedia Operating System derived from Knoppix and Debian/Stable, designed for artists as well as general users. Musix is specialized in audio and music production, but it also includes high quality software for graphics, video edition and many other tasks. This new release includes the Linux Kernel 2.6.21. The documentation was updated and many important applications were upgraded (among those: Ardour 2.0.0.2, Rosegarden 1.5.1 and the Musix's Control Panel). Some new programs were also installed (MScore, Nekobee and more). Many bugs were corrected and some new functionality added. The start-up system has been improved, (the "knoppix" boot argument and other options were added). The graphical artwork in the user interface and the functionality were improved: now it is really easy to change colour themes. KDE and GNOME applications look almost identical using the same colour palette and icon theme (crystalsvg). Now applications like The GIMP (GTK2) and Rosegarden (KDE) appear user-friendlier. Software featured in Musix 1.0 R1 includes: Ardour 0.99.3 & Ardour 2.0.0.2 (audio sequencer), Rosegarden 1.5.1 (audio/midi sequencer), Cinelerra (video edition), Bluefish (web design), The GIMP (image manipulation), Inkscape (vectorial graphic design), Blender3D (3D rendering and animation), Musix Control and more. Regards, -- `&' # Marcos Guglielmetti # Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre _#_ http://www.musix.org.ar/en (#) / O \ + archivos: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix ( === ) Ecología: http://autosus.wordpress.com `---' Personal: http://marcospcmusica.wordpress.com

17 years, 10 months

New LS-0.4.0 troubles under Debian etch

by Julien Claassen

Hi! I've got a rpoblem again, and I wonder how this is, for on my old system it worked. So I'm doing something wrong or the system is.But where. I compiled all the tarballs just fine (libgig-0.3.1, liblscp-0.5.1 and LinuxSampler itself. I start it, connect via telnet. And then do the following: CREATE AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE JACK CREATE MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE ALSA ADD CHANNEL LOAD ENGINE GIG 0 SET CHANNEL AUDIO_OUTPUT_DEVICE 0 0 SET CHANNEL MIDI_INPUT_DEVICE 0 0 LOAD INSTRUMENT "historic.gig" 0 0 SET CHANNEL VOLUME 0 0.5 then I connect Jack and MIDI ports and everything is still fine, but immediately, when I touch the first key LS tells me: gig::Synthesizer: Invalid Synthesis Mode: 41 With another gig it told me the same with synth mode 40. What is going on? Where to look first? 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, 10 months

soundfonts in dssi

by Atte André Jensen

Hi Is it possible to play soundfonts with a dssi-plugin? I read that fluidsynth could be compiled as a dssi plugin, but couldnt figure out howto... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://atte.dk/compositions

17 years, 10 months

Re: Mammut 0.59

by David Baron

1. To compile it, I had to fix a call in prefs.cpp. Note that this application uses Juce so build and install that first! 2. Tried it. The wonderfully musical startup screen triggered das_watchdog repeatedly. At least I was able to stop it thanks to this goodie. Was running on 2.6.21-rt7 kernel. Most syths and stuff will run after a fashion but I guess a 575mhz PIII is not up to Alley-Oop.

17 years, 10 months

Announce: MAMMUT v. 0.59

by andersvi＠extern.uio.no

-------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- Delivery-date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:20:01 +0200 Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:20:00 +0200 From: asbjorn blokkum flo <a.b.flo(a)notam02.no> To: Anders Vinjar <andersvi(a)extern.uio.no> Subject: mammut NOTAM Nedre gate 5 N-0551 Oslo Norway *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* Contact Information: Company name: NOTAM email address: admin(a)notam02.no NOTAM Web site address: http://www.notam02.no/notam02/english.html Mammut Web site address: http://www.notam02.no/notam02/prod-prg-mammut-e.html Telephone: (+47) 22 35 80 60 Fax: (+47) 22 35 80 61 *NOTAM releases Mammut version 0.59 free sound processing software. * Oslo, Norway May 30, 2007. NOTAM, the Norwegian production centre for work with sound, has released a new version (0.59) of NOTAMs Mammut software for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux. The new version of this unique frequency-based sound processing software brings performance improvements and major user interaction enhancements. For composers, sound designers, experimental musicians or producers looking for a new approach to sound creation and manipulation, Mammut delivers a unique way of working with sound in the frequency domain. Mammut will do a frequency analysis of your sound in one single gigantic FFT analysis (no windows). These spectral data, where the development in time is incorporated in mysterious ways, may then be transformed by different algorithms. An interesting aspect of Mammut is its completely non-intuitive sound transformation approach. Different transforms can be applied to the spectrum, such as nonlinear stretching, spectrum shift, convolution, filtering and permutation. Mammut is a somewhat unpredictable program, and the user must get used to the idea of loosing control over the time axis. The sonic result is often surprising. However, Mammut is also ideal for standard operations like filtering, spectrum shift and convolution. The no-window approach gives ultimate sound quality. *Mammut version 0.59 features: * - A new approach to sound creation and manipulation in the frequency domain - Unique single gigantic FFT analysis method. - Stretch: Non-linear stretching of the frequency axis. - Wobble: Alternately stretch and contract the frequency axis - Multiply phase: Multiply all phases with the value you specify - Derivate amp: Replaces the amplitude spectrum with its derivative (slope). - Filter: Optimal bandstop filter. The ultimate in cut-off performance! - Invert: Splits the spectrum into regions with specified size, and turn backward. - Threshold: Removes all partials below a given amplitude threshold. - Spectrum Shift: Optimal spectrum shift, with no window artifacts. - Block Swap: Selects randomly positioned regions of the spectrum, and interchange. - Mirror: Reflects the whole spectrum around the frequency you specify. *For more information, visit their web site at: *http://www.notam02.no/notam02/prod-prg-mammut-e.html *Mammut is free, and can be downloaded from: *OSX: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/macosx/ Windows: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/windows/ Linux: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/ Mammut: for composers, sound designers, experimental musicians or producers looking for a new approach to sound creation and manipulation in the frequency domain. -------------------- End of forwarded message --------------------

17 years, 10 months

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Linux-audio-user May 2007