Linux-audio-user July 2008

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by Kjetil S. Matheussen

jack_capture ============ jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack. It's default operation is to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file, but it can do a number of other operations as well. Normal URL: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D Note that the above link doesn't seem to currently work because of something which seems to be www upgrade at Notam. But this link does seem to work for now: http://old.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D 0.9.10 -> 0.9.17: ----------------- *Made sure the process thread won't continue sending data when jack_capture is told to quit. This led to a race conditions when recording too many channels at once (which was 256 channels on my machine). *Added the jack_capture_gui script, based on code by Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen's. *Replaced sh by bash to make it work in ubuntu. *Fixed exact port name match and gen_setformat. Thanks to Gabriel J.L. Beckers for reporting the bugs. *Increased the time the console meter is displayed in red from 50ms to 2000ms. (when the recorded jack value is equal to or higher than 1.0.) *Added the -dBr argument to specify reference level when using the console dB meter. *Added the -mr argument to specify reference level when using the meterbridge meter. *Added peak indicators to the console meter. Code to do so taken from meterbridge by Steve Harris. *Updated --help and README with the new options. *Added option "-mt" to change meterbridge type. Current valid options are vu (default), ppm, dpm, jf or sco. It's not necesarry to specify "-mb" if using "-mt". *Added option "-dB" to get a dB meter for the console meter. *Added examples how to record ogg and mp3 files using the -ws option. *Decreased default buffersize from 60 to 20 seconds. (I even had trouble provocing underruns using a minimal 0.05 seconds long buffer, so 60 seconds was obviously overkill) *Fixed message and error printing to stderr when vu meter is running.

17 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] bassguitar

by Edgar Aichinger

Am Wednesday 02 July 2008 schrieb Loki Davison: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Martin Horn <martin.horn(a)ostec.org> wrote: > > Where are you buying from? > > > > There is a czech company named BACH Guitars. The gits are really cheap and > > at least as good as the typical Harley Bentons and even the Epiphones you > > can buy on Thomann. I bought a 335 copy from them for 300 Euro and its > > really good quality. Shure the pickups are not the best, but for the price > > the wood and mechanics are really good quality. I think better than an > > Epiphone 335 copy. I don't know about the basses but I would give it a try. > > You can buy a bassgit on ebay and send it back if you don't like it. The > > best would be to go there and check out for the best guitar in stock but the > > guy selling them lives in south of east germany and I don't know where > > you're coming from... > > > > Just check it out: > > > > http://search.ebay.de/_W0QQsassZhomophonieQQhtZ-1 > > > > Martin > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:18 AM, schoappied <schoappied(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm searching for an (second hand) cheap bassguitar. Do you have > >> suggestions for me? Which brands are 'good' in a low price class? > >> Where should I be alert for when buying one? > >> What about a amplifier? Do I need one, or can I play it using Linux? > >> > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> > >> /D > >> > > Bass shopping guide: > > Just try one at a pawn shop, etc and if you like it buy it. Reviews, > etc on the net are a waste of time usually. It's how it is for you, > not someone else. Not saying the reviews are a good source of making > you feel better about the bass you bought ;) Of course, maybe if you > are looking for an instrument, you can't go wrong with a Fender P or J > Bass. It's really not that much money in the whole computer music $$$. > It's also a nice simple instrument that does the job at hand. I play a > washburn tarus t24 that i am very happy with and is quite cheap. $650. > > Loki > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > Not being a bass player, I still second that. Guitars are made from wood, and especially with cheap instruments there can be huge differences between instruments of the same brand/type. You have to play, hear and feel it yourself to judge. A friend of mine recently got a very nice cheap telecaster copy, from a series of ten in the shop it was the only good one, and he got it even cheaper because some kids had made scratches to the surface when trying them out... Edgar

17 years, 7 months

[LAU] tablature support in lilyond

by rosea

Hi, There is a discussion about more tablature-notation functions in Lilypond, like bend, slides, pull off etc. Are you a guitar, bass or other string player, and maybe a software developer too? Maybe you can offer you knowledge to lilypond and help develop these tablature features! Or maybe you like to see such features in lilypond and would give your support and let the devs of lilypond know that you also like to see those tablature features! If so, subsribe to the lilypond-user mailinglist and give your support. Roos

17 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] Large live recrodings ?

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

Arnold Krille: > As the transfer from memory to hd is _the_ slow point of the setup, > cache-misses or hits don't influence that at all. And when you are not > calculating anything (apart from 64bit to 32bit double-to-float), you don't > access the cache. DMA is the keyword. Still it doesn't make saving to disk > faster than your disks and controllers speed. And I am pretty sure that there > is _no_ compression involved in that part, otherwise this would seriously > affect data-integrity if the controller did an unwanted compression. Okay, but I'm also thinking about the HD cache and the cache between the OS and the disk. I don't know how it works exactly though, but I thought that maybe it didn't write to disk as often if the cache is constantly filled with zeros. > Is that enough back-up for my "bombastically spilled out" argumentation? Sure, much better argumentation. > A double (or float) to transfer to disk is still a double (float) to transfer > to disk regardless wether the value is 0, close to zero or something close to > INFINITY... Yes, but no doubles or 64 bits are involved in this process, only 32 bit floats.

17 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] Large live recrodings ?

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

David Forsyth: > > At this point, I'd be happy to do an 8 track recording. For important > live recordings I would not use a laptop, but instead a decent desktop > with a RAID 0 array of at least 3 SATA2 disks for the audio files, with > the system on another disk. > I think that is complete overkill. I just tried recorded 128 channels of 32bit/44100hz at once, without problem. And my machine is 5 years old 2Gz barebone, using only a single PATA ide disk. This was using jack_capture, and only recording silence (ie. non-connected jack ports). Maybe the silence makes a difference.(?) 256 channels did not work very well though.

17 years, 7 months

[LAU] ffado and Motu Traveler

by Raphaël Bollen

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my Motu Traveler to work on Linux but... The ffado mixer is working correctly, I can tune the settings of the Traveler but when I start jackd, it crashes 2 seconds after. I've tried different settings frames/period etc. but I always get the same behaviour. Does someone have suggestions of what I could try next? -- Raphaël. Here is the output when I start jackd: jackd -R -d firewire -v4 no message buffer overruns jackd 0.112.0 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. SSE2 detected 04886716167: (ffado.cpp)[ 99] ffado_streaming_init: libffado 2.0.900-1268 built Jul 1 2008 21:43:54 04886904852: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[ 510] discover: driver found for device 0 04886905183: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[ 547] discover: discovery of node 0 on port 0 done... 04886905191: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[ 555] discover: Discovery finished... 04886905210: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1045] showDeviceInfo: ===== Device Manager ===== 04886905216: Debug (Element.cpp)[ 109] show: Element DeviceManager 04886905220: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1053] showDeviceInfo: --- IEEE1394 Service 0 --- Iso handler info: Dumping IsoHandlerManager Stream handler information... State: 2 04886905233: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1063] showDeviceInfo: --- Device 0 --- 04886905237: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1066] showDeviceInfo: Clock sync sources: 04886905254: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1075] showDeviceInfo: Type: Internal , Id: 0, Valid: 1, Active: 1, Locked 1, Slipping: 0, Description: Internal sync 04886905259: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1075] showDeviceInfo: Type: ADAT , Id: 1, Valid: 1, Active: 1, Locked 1, Slipping: 0, Description: ADAT optical 04886905264: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1075] showDeviceInfo: Type: SPDIF , Id: 2, Valid: 1, Active: 1, Locked 1, Slipping: 0, Description: SPDIF/Toslink 04886905268: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1075] showDeviceInfo: Type: Erratic type , Id: 3, Valid: 0, Active: 0, Locked 0, Slipping: 0, Description: SMPTE 04886905273: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1075] showDeviceInfo: Type: WordClock , Id: 4, Valid: 1, Active: 1, Locked 1, Slipping: 0, Description: Wordclock 04886905278: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1075] showDeviceInfo: Type: ADAT , Id: 5, Valid: 1, Active: 1, Locked 1, Slipping: 0, Description: ADAT 9-pin 04886905282: Debug (devicemanager.cpp)[1075] showDeviceInfo: Type: AES , Id: 7, Valid: 1, Active: 1, Locked 1, Slipping: 0, Description: AES/EBU 04886943583: Debug (motu_avdevice.cpp)[ 980] prepare: Preparing MotuDevice... Handler type................: Transmit Port, Channel...............: 0, 1 Buffer, MaxPacketSize, IRQ..: 200, 616, 100 Speed, PreBuffers...........: 2, 0 Min ISOXMT bufferfill : 7999 Last cycle, dropped.........: -1, 0 Handler type................: Receive Port, Channel...............: 0, 0 Buffer, MaxPacketSize, IRQ..: 400, 616, 85 Last cycle, dropped.........: -1, 0 04887356461: Debug (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 603] getPacket: (0x80832b8) dropped 3100 packets on cycle 199 (last_cycle=5098, dropped=0, skipped: 0) 04889449791: Warning (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 898] waitForPeriod: Timeout while waiting for activity 04889449800: Warning (IsoHandlerManager.cpp)[ 226] Execute: Timeout while waiting for activity 04890449816: Warning (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 898] waitForPeriod: Timeout while waiting for activity 04890459018: Warning (IsoHandlerManager.cpp)[ 226] Execute: Timeout while waiting for activity 04891449842: Warning (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 898] waitForPeriod: Timeout while waiting for activity 04891469020: Warning (IsoHandlerManager.cpp)[ 226] Execute: Timeout while waiting for activity 04892329008: Fatal (IsoHandlerManager.cpp)[ 274] Execute: (0x807d680, Transmit) Handler died: now: A9E6D856, last: A1E678DD, diff: 98322297 (max: 98304000) 04892329025: Warning (StreamProcessor.cpp)[ 108] handlerDied: Handler died for 0x8083848 04892449866: Warning (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 898] waitForPeriod: Timeout while waiting for activity 04892449890: Debug (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[1022] waitForPeriod: Xrun on XMIT SP 0x8083848 due to ISO side xrun 04892449897: Debug (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[1026] waitForPeriod: Xrun on XMIT SP 0x8083848 due to buffer side xrun 04892449901: Warning (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 614] alignReceivedStreams: xrun while aligning streams... 04892449905: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 583] syncStartAll: Could not align streams... 04892449916: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892449920: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892449923: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892449927: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892449933: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892449936: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892449939: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892449942: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892449947: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892449951: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892449954: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892449957: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892449962: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892449965: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892449968: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892449972: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892449977: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892449980: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892449983: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892449986: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892449991: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892449994: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892449997: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892450007: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892450014: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892450017: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892450020: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892450023: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892450028: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892450032: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892450035: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892450038: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892450043: Error (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 652] prepare: Incorrect state, expected E_Initialized, got 3 04892450046: Fatal (IsoHandler.cpp)[ 713] enable: Could not prepare handler 04892450049: Error (StreamProcessor.cpp)[1097] scheduleStartDryRunning: Could not start handler for SP 0x8083848 04892450052: Error (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 334] startDryRunning: Could not put SP 0x8083848 into the dry-running state 04892450055: Fatal (StreamProcessorManager.cpp)[ 692] start: Could not syncStartAll... 04892450078: Fatal (IsoHandlerManager.cpp)[ 274] Execute: (0x807d798, Receive) Handler died: now: AA2F65FE, last: A22EC124, diff: 98335962 (max: 98304000) 04892450089: Warning (StreamProcessor.cpp)[ 108] handlerDied: Handler died for 0x8080a08 04892460300: Fatal (ffado.cpp)[ 204] ffado_streaming_start: Could not start the streaming system firewire ERR: Could not start streaming threads: -1 DRIVER NT: could not start driver cannot start driver jackd watchdog: timeout - killing jackd Aborted (core dumped)

17 years, 7 months

[LAU] Which USB MIDI device for Ubuntu *and* Mac OS X?

by James Cameron

G'day, Can anyone suggest a USB MIDI device compatible with both recent versions of Ubuntu (e.g. 8.04) and Mac OS X, for use with Rosegarden and GarageBand? -- James Cameron mailto:quozl@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/

17 years, 7 months

[LAU] Layla3G supported well?

by Brad Fuller

Anyone have the Layla3G? If so, is it supported well in alsa? -- Brad Fuller www.bradfuller.com

17 years, 7 months

[LAU] Laptop Sound Adapter for Ripping my Vinyl Album Collection

by Kevin Cosgrove

I'm gonna bite the bullet and rip all my music to play it around the house via my computers. I've got really good music gear for the job in my home studio. But, my turntable and record collection is just about as far from there in my house as is possible. I don't want to move either set of gear. Instead I want to get sound adapter for a laptop I've got and do the ripping at the location where my turntable resides now. My laptop has USB. I don't know if it's USB1 or USB2. But, I can get a cardslot to USB adapter for cheap, if need be. I'm planning to store my digital music losslessly, in either FLAC or WAVPACK. I want the music to sound as good after being ripped as it did on my pretty good home stereo via the turntable. I know I need at least 2 channels, but I'd go with 4 channels on the adapter, if it didn't cost me double. What would you recommend as a sound adapter for this job, and why? Thanks.... -- Kevin

17 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] Host 128.173.232.121 is unreachable via http or smtp ports

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Thanks Ron for the info, we are already aware of this issue and are working on it as fast as we can. As unlikely as it sounds, it appears we've had a major thunderstorm that has knocked out several buildings on campus, including the building hosting our server. Unfortunately, I've been out of the country and unaware of this occurrence until it was brought to my attention yesterday. Let me say that this is a very unusual and very much unexpected occurrence. That being said, based on this unfortunate development we will look to invest into better UPS asap to minimize any potential downtime in the future. As of 4:58PM the server should be back up and running. Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy) Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio Virginia Tech Dept. of Music - 0240 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 (540) 231-5034 (fax) ico(a)vt.edu http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Fox [mailto:rfox@aloha.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:08 AM > To: ico(a)vt.edu > Subject: Host 128.173.232.121 is unreachable via http or smtp ports > > Aloha Dr. Bukvic, > > I've been trying to reach the www.linuxaudio.org and > lists.linuxaudio.org websites for a few hours without success. I'm > sending this just in case you aren't aware of the situation. > > Mahalo, > Ron Fox

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Linux-audio-user July 2008