Each Sunday, my church's band records the service. The recording is done
to an IBM Thinkpad laptop via a 16-channel USB device of some sort
that takes in raw audio signals and digitizes them while they pass
through to the mixer. The laptop receives the digitized audio as data
over USB, where it's recorded to the hard drive.
Oh, we also have an audio processor box of some sort that does a bit of
compression or some other processing on just the voices. I don't know if
the input that the computer is getting has gone through the audio
processor before getting to the computer or not. The guy who's doing the
mixing says he adds compression, typically.
If you listen to a few of the recordings here:
http://www.clanjones.org/stnicks/music/
You can get an idea of some of the quality we're getting now.
Our former drummer and saxophonist, who has a hearing loss of some sort,
mixes the raw tracks down to what you hear there. He's doing it under
Windows XP, I forget what program he uses. He's offered to make the
tracks available to me for mixing, but I don't have the disk space or
time to do it ... I'm the only Linux user in the bunch, the rest are
still enslaved in the Matrix ;-)
We've been told by many people that the sound people hear from the main
speakers is fine - but us in the band have no idea what it sounds like.
The guy doing our mixing says he is trying to mix it to match what he
hears from the mains.
Anyway, suggestions? My experience with recording anything was back in
the early 70's in a garage band environment!
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David
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authenticity, honesty, community
Hi,
I'm having trouble with communication between Ardour and my
Behringer BCF2000 control surface. I don't think this is an
Ardour issue, which is why I'm posting here.
With ardour version 2.0rc1 these lines in my ardour.rc file get
everything to work great:
<MIDI-port tag="mcu" device="/dev/snd/midiC3D0" type="alsa/raw" mode="duplex"/>
<Option name="mackie-emulation" value="bcf"/>
Ardour version 2.0.2 alters my ardour.rc file to this:
<MIDI-port tag="mcu" device="ardour" type="alsa/sequencer" mode="duplex"/>
This was on the ardour mailing list:
> the default port name "mcu" is now an ALSA sequencer port and
> will need to be explicitly connected to the hardware port where
> your BCF2000 is plugged in. you can use qjackctl's MIDI tab in
> its connect dialog to do this.
Qjackctl shows these (and more) ports in its MIDI tab:
BCF2000:BCF2000 MIDI 1
BCF2000:BCF2000 MIDI 2
ardour::mcu
The ardour list also recommends:
> You need to connect one of these two:
> BCF2000:BCF2000 MIDI 1
> BCF2000:BCF2000 MIDI 2
> to this:
> ardour::mcu
Well, I tried every combination of inputs and outputs I could
think of, but it didn't work. I was further coached on the
ardour list:
> the first thing to check is that MIDI messages are getting through.
>
> Windows->Options Editor->MIDI->trace input (for the mcu port)
>
> then move the faders, and check in the terminal window where
> you started ardour.
When I try that test, then there is nothing in the xterm where I
started ardour. When I try ardour version 2.0rc1 with the card
specific device in ardour.rc, then I get quite a bit of trace
information in the xterm.
At long last to my question; how can I further debug my MIDI
connection between the BCF2000 and ardour? I'd really like to
keep pace with releases of ardour, but until I fix my system that
seems impossible.
Thanks much folks!
--
Kevin
Hi guys,
I'm trying to setup a `proof of concept' sound processing system on my
machine, using Linux. The system should cater rock/metal bands. Now I need to
know where to start and what to look at. There's so much documentation and so
many software out there that I'm getting confused and don't know where to
start. I have around a month to set up the system, so as to give a
presentation and a live demo at a local community event.
I generally prefer to know my theory properly before practically implementing,
so please tell me what background knowledge I should ideally have to
implement such a system.
Any links, hints, pointers etc. very much appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
P.S. I'm using Gentoo and have access to the pro-audio overlay. Also, since
this is just a proof of concept type project, I won't be spending on
hardware. I have a Sempron64 2500+ machine with 1GB of RAM and plenty of hard
disk space, although on 7200 rpm PATA. I think I can borrow a Creative SB
Live 5.1 sound card from my boss for the project.
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hi all,
i've came across jack.osc & midi.osc as jack-transport/midi to osc
converters ... however both urls that i found on the web are down
(http://www.alphalink.com.au/~rd/ & http://slavepianos.org/rd/f/207983/)
is there any place, where these apps can still be downloaded?
thanks, tim
--
tim(a)klingt.org ICQ: 96771783
http://tim.klingt.org
Question: Then what is the purpose of this "experimental" music?
Answer: No purposes. Sounds.
John Cage
> On 5/22/07, carmen <_(a)whats-your.name> wrote:
> > On Mon May 21, 2007 at 07:49:07PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:34:37AM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Cool. How does one add an "Artist Connection"? I notice that
> > > > thorwil and Cesare have added theirs.
> > >
> > > I did? Havn't logged into my account there since months.
> >
> > same, first they deleted my group, second its impossible to submit
> songs with mplayer - theres an old patch floating around that
> segfaulted the hell out of everything...
>
> xmms2 has a last.fm plugin. Not sure what it does, but the plugin
> configuration asks for your login password... I assume it's meant to
> submit songs. I'll run some tests if I get 5 minutes.
Rhythmbox does also have a last.fm-plugin. It's ment for sending the
tags to the last.fm server so your profile gets updated while you
listen.
ASFAIK, you press the little (very very tiny text) saying "Upload music
and videos" under the last.fm-logo, or visit last.fm/uploadmusic/ .
- Martin
Dear list,
On paper, the spec of the E-mu 0404 looks a lot better, for
the same price, than the Edirol UA-25, which I was thinking
of buying... but I'm not seeing any evidence that it works
in Linux. Has anyone experience or insight (e.g. about
chipset) on the 0404?
Peter C
Well, it's been over 2 (3?) years since last release, but rtmix refuses to
die ;-). Thanks solely to Robin Gareus and his heroic work in making rtmix
gcc4 compliant, I am releasing rtmix version 0.76. Apart from compile error
fixes (courtesy of Robin), there have been a few cosmetic tweaks, but most
notably, the source is now released under a 100% GPL-compliant license. That
being said, the code is still a dirty hack, the internal event cue
occasionally still misbehaves (albeit only in very complex situations), and
unfortunately native alsa seq is still MIA (uses old unix dev access). OTOH,
the thing does work as advertised, has been used, and continues to be used
in my works without a hitch. Apart from oss midi, rtmix supports networking,
OSC, and other goodness making it rather practical for on-screen
coordination as well as interaction between performer(s) and computer.
For more info on what really rtmix is please consult the HTML documentation
included with the tarball (or see online documentation info below). The
tarball (5MB) comes with source, documentation (some statements in it are
likely a bit outdated, so please take those parts with a grain of salt),
tutorials, and precompiled binary on Ubuntu 6.10 (i686, qt3, gcc), so if you
have these a simple "make install" should do it (installs in
/usr/local/rtmix and binary in /usr/local/bin). For a "simon" tutorial with
sounds you will also need sounds zipfile (11MB-ish) which are downloadable
from the same folder (just browse the folder).
To download latest RTMix click here:
http://ico.bukvic.net/Linux/RTMix/rtmix-latest.tar.gz
Online documentation:
http://ico.bukvic.net/Linux/RTMix/RTMix-docs/
Complaints to: /dev/null
Future roadmap:
Rtmix in its current state is a project in a need of a total rewrite. This
is primarily due to the fact that despite the fact rtmix appears to do the
job in 99.9% of instances, the code is an ugly hack which makes its
maintenance and perhaps more importantly expandability exponentially
difficult. That being said, I am looking forward to one of the upcoming
summers when I will dig into the code once again and rebuild the darn thing
from the ground up the way it was meant to be all along. Until then, this
version should prove an adequate substitute.
Enjoy!
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, CHCI
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-1137
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
ico(a)vt.edu
http://www.music.vt.edu/people/faculty/bukvic/http://ico.bukvic.net
I have uploaded my first recording to
http://www.myspace.com/davidlcraig and am very
interested in what people here think. I played
into my Digitech GNX-3 and audio connected it to
my replacement Delta 1010. That is hosted in a
Netfinity server running Debian/Sid. I used Ardour
to resync the WAV files and then rerecorded the bass
part. Finally I editted out the count-in, exported
the mix to a WAV file, and used lame to encode the
MP3. All the effects come from the GNX-3. All the
tracks are uneditted--I don't believe in punch-ins.
--
May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!
Dave Craig
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was.
You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then.
Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'"
--from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg
Hi everyone!
I still have the problem: If I try to create more than 2 jack-devices,
LinuxSampler just quits. did anyone else ever experience that problem? Is that
problem known to the LS-crowd? Is it possibly just a restriction, for I get no
error or is it a real bug?
I'd be happy about some answers, for it'd be really a great help in
recording and processing my tracks.
If there's anything I can do to assist in isolating the problem, just tell
me what to do!
Kindest regards
Julien
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