Linux-audio-user February 2008

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[LAU] Steinway_IMIS2.2 soundfont (no loops fix)

by Roberto Gordo Saez

This is Steinway_IMIS soundfont, version 2.2. ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sf2/Steinway_IMIS2.2 This version fixes the issue with loops. I hope this is the good one and there are no more remaining major bugs. Marcos is a little busy right now, so he asked me to make this fix. He is thinking to make other improvements, so expect more updates soon.

2 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-user] Sub-harmonic generator? (LADSPA or VST)

by Tim Howard

Hello, Does anyone know of a good plugin that will generate subharmonics? I would like to put a little more low frequency "oomph" into my bass track. Preferrable LADSPA, but VST would work, too. Thanks for any help! -TimH

9 years, 4 months

[LAU] [ANN] TapStart 0.1 released

by Arnold Krille

Hi all, following a basic rule for open source project "publish early and often" I release the very first (but quite feature-rich) version of TapStart to the public. TapStart is a basic tempo-measurement where you tap some beats and get the (averaged) tempo displayed. But there is more to it: - TapStart also updates the jack-tempo (if a running jack was found during startup) and can even start the jack transport after a defined number of taps. This is implemented for using this thing in jam-sessions to get a click/drum-computer to play in a tempo not known before. - TapStart can also send OSC-messages with the tempo/delay-value as argument to any gives host and path. You can find more information on its page at http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/?q=TapStart ofqf (http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/?q=node/573) is needed for the osc-part and has to be installed beforehand. The direct-link to the source package is: http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/files/downloads/tapstart/tapstart-0.1.tar.gz ofqf: http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/files/downloads/ofqf/ofqf-0.1.1.tar.bz2 Have fun, 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...

17 years, 4 months

[LAU] Call for conference

by Benjamin Coudrin

Hi, There is a Free Software event in south of France this summer. We would like to make a place for libre audio and libre culture, which includes conferences and workshop around the tools (softwares), the diffusion (medias, communities, ...), the licences, the users (examples of audio studio using free technologies, examples of libre artits, ... ) So don't hesitate to send your propositions Here is the official call for conference : >From 1st to 5th July 2008, the Ninth Libre Software Meeting(9th LSM) will take place in Mont-de-Marsan, in south of France. Hundreds of conferences, workshops and showings will be programmed. To maintain the interest of the public, it is important for LSM to renew the content of different themes. So, if you participate in a new or unknown project, if you wish to share your passion and your libre software experience, we will gladly welcome you during LSM 2008. We start a large call for communications on the following axes : - thematic conferences - all subjects are interesting, particularly those we have not thought about ... - projects or libre softwares presentations - workshop animations (development, initiation, ... ) To propose to the public a rich and various content, please send your propositons, suggestions and ideas before February 8th to appel2008 at rmll.info *Contacts :* (program directors) Nicolas Ducoulombier : nicolas at ldd.fr <nicolas%20at%20ldd.fr> Christophe Merlet : redfox at redfoxcenter.org<redfox%20at%20redfoxcenter.org> The definite programme, theme list, conferences and contributors will be highly influenced by the feedback we will get from this call for contributions. Do not hesitate to participate and give worthy projects wide visibility. -- Benjamin Coudrin benjamin.coudrin(a)gmail.com (+33)6.09.11.00.83

17 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] ffado tools and presonus firebox

by Pieter Palmers

Hartmut Noack wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pieter Palmers schrieb: >> Hartmut Noack wrote: >> >> Please don't advertise using ffado towards unexperienced users. > > Allright - this I understand also but if users with some skill use it it > generates feedback that you might have a use for? And everybody is well > aware, that there is no support for an unreleased software. Plus: if > others share their experience with ffado, it can help you a lot to build > a documentation. And: if people out there use their interfaces with > Linux it could make some HW-vendors think about sending you their boxes > for testing. > >> We can't >> cope with the RTFM type of support that would generate. > > And you dont need to - everybody, that does not understand, that unpaid > devs do not have the time to offer support for a software that is > labeled experimental/unsupported can be savely ignored I guess... Unfortunately this is not what my experience is. A lot of users are disappointed if you tell them that they are on their own since the software is experimental. > >> FFADO is >> currently only for users that already sort-of know what they are doing, >> and who we don't have to help setting up their system. > > But I am glad to offer help by spreading my experience with the > software. I dare to say, that I am some sort of a user, that knows, what > he does but still it took me about 2 h to find out, that the stuff in > test/ is so important and can do such tricks like switching sync - a > feature, that is absolutely vital, since with it I can have 6 > In-channels with my Firebox instead of 4... At this moment the project's strategy is to get a release out ASAP with support for the devices of cooperative vendors. The idea is that it's too cumbersome to support devices we don't have access to. Having a released will hopefully accelerate vendor support for us. Unfortunately for you Presonus is not on the 'supportive vendors' list yet. > > wich does not work btw ;-) > > $ ./progs/libffado/tests/test-ffado -n 1 SetClockSource 80 > > Type: Sync Syt Match , Id: 80, Valid: 1, Active: 0, Description: > Sync Stream Input > Type: Compound Syt Match, Id: 79, Valid: 1, Active: 0, Description: Syt > Match > Type: Internal , Id: 78, Valid: 1, Active: 1, Description: > Internal (CSP) > set clock source to 80 > Could not set clock source > > it worked for ID 79 but with no usable effect. > > Anybody out there who knows what could be wrong? Judging from the output, the firebox doesn't support the standardized method of selecting the sync source. Which is very unfortunate since that means we need info from presonus to figure out how it should be done. What might work is that you have a valid spdif source connected before you start jack, or maybe before you power up the firebox. It might auto-select SPDIF when there's a valid signal. I know the quatafire works like this. > >> Keep in mind that all time spent on support is not spent on development. > > Thanks a lot for your great work - freeBoB works just great for me and I > respect your policy regarding support for ffado. All I want is to help > others, that feel a strong itch to use their machines with Linux but > decide to do not, because they cannot alter settings like clock-source. The settings and configuration part of ffado is the section that needs the vendor support the most. It's sort off a chicken and egg problem. As I mentioned before, our current strategy is to focus on devices that we have access to, in order to get things moving. FFADO might (partially) work with other devices since it's designed to be as broad as possible. But it might not, and then you're sort-off on your own. On the long run things should resolve themselves. The best thing you can do is harass the vendors a bit such that they realize (think?) we're not a bunch of insignificant freaks. I've been advising strategy this a lot over the last year and I'm starting to see the results of that. Getting a decent (released) version is a real priority since I'll probably be visiting the Musikmesse in Frankfurt again this year, and I really want to have something solid there. Face-to-face communication with the vendors should work better than email. Greets, Pieter

17 years, 9 months

[LAU] two LinuxSampler demos

by Dave Phillips

Greetings, A brace of demos for an article on LinuxSampler : http://linux-sound.org/audio/eg-maidenandnightingale.ogg http://linux-sound.org/audio/sw-form1.ogg Just a little piano music, sequenced long ago and revived for Mats Helgesson's free Maestro Grand piano GIG. Beware of extreme dynamics in the Wolpe piece ! Best, dp

17 years, 10 months

[LAU] [ANN] Minicomputer 1.0 softwaresynthesizer released

by Malte Steiner

Version 1.0 of Minicomputer softwaresynthesizer for Linux is now available under GPL 3. It is a standalone application which can be interfaced with Midi and generate electronic sounds in realtime through Jack. It can produce 8 different sounds at once but each is monophonic. Although its a subtractive synthesizer, no existing hardware is emulated and the sound is synthetic, don't expect a piano from this. Each voice features 2 oscillators going into a morphing formant filter and a flexible routing with loads of modulators which can go into audio range. Everything is calculated sample accurate so it take its share from the CPU. I am going to show it at the clubnight at LAC in Cologne next week and demo it in March at the Musik Messe in Frankfurt. Website inclusive sounddemos and manual is at http://minicomputer.sourceforge.net/ Cheers, Malte -- Malte Steiner media art + development -www.block4.com- next event: 29.feb Notstandskomitee live at Linux Audio Conference Cologne, Germany

17 years, 10 months

[LAU] [ann] LAC2008 -- The final countdown

by Frank Barknecht

LAC2008 -- The final countdown The Linux Audio Conference 2008 is prepared. The organisation team of LAC2008 is looking forward to welcoming the international Linux audio community in Cologne. The conference is taking place at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) from February 28 to March 2, 2008. For detailed information visit the LAC2008 website at http://lac.linuxaudio.org The Conference Participants of LAC2008 will experience four days crammed full with presentations of new developments in Linux audio software. 20 talks by international experts are planned. The Soundlab of the Academy is delighted to have Miller S. Puckette from San Diego as a keynote speaker on Saturday. Admission to all presentations is free. Remote visitors can follow the entire paper session plus selected extras by means of our audio and video streams and can participate via IRC channels. The Concerts There will be three concerts at the "Stadtgarten" in Cologne. Two of these are "classical" concerts with a mixture of experimental, improvised or taped music all made using Linux as main platform. A third one, the "Club Night" will be an allnighter focusing on electronic music with a club background. Artists from the USA and Canada, Austria, UK, Poland and many other countries will play at these events. The Exhibition The exhibition at LAC2008 will present sound art by students of the Academy of Media Arts plus site-specific works by invited artists. The Workshops Learning is fun: the LAC2008 will host several exciting workshops for your Linux audio brain training pleasure held by experts in the respective fields. Topics include hardware hacking with a custom Arduino board and software soldering using Pure Data and SuperCollider. Additionally, space is available for adhoc workshops and self organised meetings. Further details including a full timetable is available on http://lac.linuxaudio.org Make noise, Tux! -- Frank Barknecht and Martin Rumori Chairs of LAC2008

17 years, 10 months

[LAU] need a little space

by Gene Poole

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17 years, 10 months

[LAU] Going from window to linux

by JiNN

Hi everyone, I have recently been thinking about going to linux on my DAW. I currently use fruity loops and run a winxp pro sp2, with a bunch of VST. There have been a couple of issues which made me try to seek another O/S for my audio. Number one is that I like to run a lot of VST, and I also like to have my project from sequencing to pre mastering all in one project. This, of course means a lot of CPU since i try to do as much as possible without rendering it to .wav and back, since this takes time, especially for little changes when mixing. Another issue is the windows 2gig ram application limit. I hit this a couple of times and was left in a dead end as to what to do. Vista is probably out of the option right now since I hate how much garbage is in there and how much cpu it needs just to run. So I am thinking to switching to linux, but would like to ask a couple of question. If someone can spare a couple of minutes and pass your opinion on these subjects/questions, i would appreciate it very much. 1) How is VST adaptors for linux? I was reading there a couple of them. Has anyone had trouble with them? 2) I assume linux is a lot better with RAM than windows, and was curious if there are any people who are on this list that actually switched over and could tell me if they really could "do" a lot more in linux with the same hardware specs than in windows. Does linux have some sort of application RAM limit? 3) What is everyone's favority sequencer for linux? I know there are a couple of them. Which one is your favorite? 4) I have never used linux before. Would it be better for me to install linux first and after im comfortable try audio on it? 5) I assume there are DirectX adaptor also. Correct? 6) Audio drivers? I currently own the t.c. electronic konnekt8 audio interface and going from whats on the website they dont have linux drivers? Could i use AISO4ALL? I used those drivers on windows with no problems before, anyone have any problems with them on linux? I guess this is all for now. There are many more questions which i have, but i will do the research for those. If someone can also point em to some good resources on the web on linux audio i would def appreciate it. Thanks Mike

17 years, 10 months

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Linux-audio-user February 2008