Linux-audio-user May 2008

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Re: [LAU] best distro for audio on intel mac?

by Michael Bohle

Am Thu, 8 May 2008 14:41:23 -0700 schrieb Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org>: > I can't possibly be the only person on Planet Earth using Linux and > Free Software for all my music in a production (gigging, performing) > environment though. Someone please jump in and point out others who > are. you're not alone for sure -there are maybe 1000 linux audio user worldwide -an exclusive club and a special kind of art of an elite of electronic musicians - so be proud that you are special. For the eeepc I've made a stripped down JAD and I use this computer regularly as musical notebook for small sketches or live jamming. But for "bigger" productions I need this proprietary junk... it didn't hurt the music, because at least the music is free from an OS... it is just music. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Michael Bohle Vorsitzender jacklab e.V. D-27572 Bremerhaven | Am Baggerloch 20 Phone/Fax: +49-471-7004937 Mail: opendaw(a)jacklab.org www: http://jacklab.org Bürozeiten: Mo. - Fr. 12:00 - 18:00 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung

16 years, 7 months

System Restore...

by Russell Hanaghan

Hiya! So while Dave warmed up the crowd on the M$ related questions... ...and at the risk of being stoned in the Linux public square, is there *any* form of the System Restore function that follws the model of the ~other~ OS? One of my former direct reports, a wiz kid sys admin in the Bay area all ready gave me the standard smart a$$ response; (Er, yeah! It's called a "RE-INSTALL" ...lemme spall it for yah again!! ha ha ha ha) So after I got up off the floor from gut level laughter.. (NOT!), I continue to believe that for nooby converts, and maintaining it's customization ability via the Linux model, would be a very useful tool!!! I have spent many hours recently setting up a custom audio distro that will be remastered and available as a live CD. I'm no Linux sys admin...I figure stuff out any way I can, take longer than most to get it just how I like it....and then I say..hmm, just one more thing I'd like to change....and I bjork the window manager or some such thing. To re-install at that point kills MANY hours of fruitfull work and I'm old enough that I don't need cliche lessons! :) Thoughts? Oh, please choose smooth edged stones under 16oz in weight! Russell

16 years, 7 months

best distro for audio on intel mac?

by iain duncan

Are any of the audio distros usable on an intel mac? And if not, anyone have opinions on the best way to get an audio tweaked dual boot going on an intel mac book pro with a presonus Firepod? Iain

16 years, 7 months

AES/EBU I/O (HDSP9632)

by Jacob

Hi, has anyone used the AES/EBU in/outs (with breakout cable) of the HDSP9632 successfully under Linux? Or has anybody another (better) recommendation which PCI/PCIe card to use for AES/EBU (electrical and format) digital IOs. Since I need it for an 'always on' (ok, maybe one reboot per year;) installation, reliablility is most important. Thanks a lot in advance, Yours, Jacob

16 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] ubuntustudio

by Geoff King

> very basic, since the goal is to get it up and running. A good tweaking > guide would be very welcome. > > Best Regards, > Philipp > I agree a tweaking page would be useful. I'll try to make some sense of my notes and get a draft document together. Geoff

16 years, 7 months

ESI RomI/O USB-Midi-Device to Rosegarden Input

by CC-Band

how do i have to set set input(recording)-device in rosegarden to record midi from ESI RomI/O usb-midi-device? i use a yamaha dd-14 e-drum. the metronom playpack to the dd-14 works perfectly with "20:0 ESI ROMIO MIDI 1 (duplex)" (Midi-Geräte verwalten, Vorschau abspielen, Gerät -> Verbindung - sorry, my Rosegarden is german ... (i'll try to translate: playback, device, connection) at "Aufnahmegeräte" (recording devices) i can only chose "20:0 ESI ROMIO MIDI (duplex)" but this does not work. i wonder, why i can not chose "20:1 ESI ROMIO 2 (write)" as i could at "Vorschau abspielen" (playback). maybe this would be the right on, wouldn't it? what is wrong? tnx mike cx

16 years, 7 months

.AVI to music file

by millward

How do you strip the audio track from an .AVI file ? I'd like the resulting audio track to be burned onto an audio CD. The only good thing about the .AVI video file is the audio track. This is on a LInux Ubuntu or Slackware system with a half-gig of memory. I'd upgrade the memory but this machine is getting too old to throw money at. I'd rather save to get a new machine sometime this fall.

16 years, 7 months

.AVI to music file

by millward

16 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] ubuntustudio

by Geoff King

> On Tue, 2008-29-04 at 11:40 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > > Malte Steiner wrote: > > > On a new machine I thought I give Ubuntustudio a try and it seems that > > > the lowlatency performance is much worse when the one of 64 Studio > > > (booted from a live cd) on the same machine. So it needs some tweaking, > > > are there any advices with UbuntuStudio? I read some past threads and > > > they deal for instance with changing the priorities of jackd and the > > > audioapplications but that improve the situation only slightly. I really > > > wonder about the magic of 64 Studio... > > > On the Ubuntuforums, which are a great resource even for Debian related > > > stuff anyway, there seems no talk about lowlatency settings, it concerns > > > only a minority. > > > > Why don't you go directly to the source? > > > > http://ubuntustudio.org/support > > I imagine because he's hoping to get third party opinions? I am too. > > Iain > I tried 64 Studio live cd a few months ago and had a similar experience. I did get better performance with 64 Studio than ubuntustudio (gutsy at the time). I'm currently using ubuntustudio hardy since I like the some of the other non-audio features it provides and share the computer with my wife. But if you are truly into only audio and need the lowest latency, 64 Studio may be better. I've done many tweaks to ubuntustudio to get it to do both jobs (from memory): -Install with the rtirq script (I think I got the package from either the 64 Studio or debian archives and had to change something to make it work). Learn about what this does. -Tried to uninstall or turn off programs that I don't use or need such as trackerd, bluetoothd, powernowd, apmd and acpid on my desktop. -Usual memory tweaks (shmmax) -Try not use artsd or pulseaudio and stick with jackd for most things. Turn off system sounds and select alsa as gnome audio resource. -Had to manually install the jack-alsa plulgin to get amarok to work. There is an ubuntuforums page about this. Not sure which helped the most, but I get pretty good performance now. There is a lot of information available, on the web, but it takes some trial and error to get it right. Plus sometimes you just can't get the latency down really low depending on your hardware. Good Luck, Geoff

16 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] [LAA] Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) released!

by Florian Schmidt

On Friday 02 May 2008, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > Greetings, Be earthed, greetling! > After another quarantine period, I am pleased to announce (yet) another > maintenance release of my flag-ship toy, Qtractor, an Audio/MIDI > multi-track "bedroom" sequencer for the techno-boy (and girl:). Heh, i'm not techno but i still like how QTractor is coming along :) > - Drifting correction among audio and MIDI engines is now back, > but avoided while recording or should it be while looping? > (EXPERIMENTAL REGRESSION) Hi, does this fix the issue that when i record to my previously recorded material the newly recorded material does not line up with the previously recorded material although i play totally in time? Ah well, gonna check it out anyways. The feature is called latency compensation in ardour and is a must have for any digital recorder IMHO.. Just up the buffer size in jackd to like 2048 and record two tracks with yourself clapping and try to get them in sync :) While you might succeed to clap in sync to the previously recorded track (unless you're seriously rhythm impaired) they will not sound in sync when it comes to playing them back.. Regards, Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org

16 years, 7 months

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Linux-audio-user May 2008