Thomas Vecchione wrote:
>
> I already gave my experience with it above, I am curious to know what
> you didn't like about it. I am not a great musician by any stretch of
> the imagination but I have enjoyed mine, especially given the price.
>
>
I didn't like the keys feel, but that is personal. Compare it to other
devices in your price class (Fatar, Alesis whatever) and just feel which
you do like the most.
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From: Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Subject: Free Yamaha grand piano soundfont
To: freepats(a)opensrc.org
Another free soundfont for the free sotfware community, this time
resembling a Yamaha Disklavier Pro piano. Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 license. Enjoy!
52 samples at 44100Hz, 16bit. Size 45.5MiB.
Example music rendered through the soundfont:
- Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 13, "Pathétique", 1st movement
(Ludwig van Beethoven)
http://zenvoid.org/audio/beethoven_sonata_op13_pathetique_m1_20080808.ogg
- Für Elise (Ludwig van Beethoven):
http://zenvoid.org/audio/beethoven_fur_elise_20080808.ogg
I've added a reverb to those music files in order to please to
my friend Aaron ;-)
The soundfont is here:
http://zenvoid.org/i/audio.html
There will be more releases, I will try to improve quality. I'm
working in loops (currently there are no loops) and more layers.
It is built from the Zenph Studios Yamaha Disklavier Pro Piano
Multisamples for OLPC. The OLPC project recently released a
collection of samples under CC-BY license; in particular, this
multisampled piano is very good.
According to Dr. Richard Boulanger, there will be a complete
General MIDI soundfont released soon under CC-BY license! It
will be probably a small soundfont, optimized for the OLPC
project, and good for embeded or normal desktop usage (I think).
I hope it could be used as the default General MIDI soundfont in
most GNU/Linux distributions. Very good news. Of course, high
quality samples will still be wanted for specialized
distributions and professional audio composition.
A few notes about the reverb:
I've added a very nice convolution reverb to the example music
with Jconv, using impulse responses from the Promenadikeskus
concert hall in Pori, Finland. While doing it, I've noticed the
lack of free impulse responses :-( It has been discussed
before in the LAU list; some publicly available IR files are
restricted to non-commercial usage or come with very weird
conditions. I couldn't found unrestricted, free IR files. AFAIK
some of them (either made by individuals or organizations) are
not being commercially exploited in any way, so maybe some
authors will be willing to relicense under free licenses when
contacted... sadly, it seems a common fact of our modern culture
to forbid everything by default, without a good reason.
If anyone knows about original and free impulse responses
(really free, as freedom, and with a known free license or clear
license terms attached) please let me know.
hi,
I've been trying to get a fully working setup for linux audio for a
really long time. Partly my delay was not having the right gear, I
spent 6 months trying to get one soundcard that wasn't supported (though
the list had said it was) working and then, with help I've been able to
get some sound out of my system now with a Presonus Firebox.
Still I have problems, partly I guess because I'm not a techie, but I've
been stubborn enough to keep trying all this time. Anyway the point I'm
at now is that I can boot up into the realtime kernel - I need to go
into a failsafe gnome session as then flgrx doesn't start up (it's
really greedy with processing power, but when I'm not making audio it is
very useful and looks great), and compiz-switch only turns off the
effects, it doesn't free up the processor.
I open the Ubuntu Studio Controls and enable raw 1394. What percentage
should I put the memory lock at?
I run a little start up script
> jackd -R -dfreebob
because for some reason I can't start the Firebox/freebob with
qjackctl. But after running the script I can start qjackctl and jack is
already running. I then start up some applications, they all appear in
the ALSA tab, nothing appears in the MIDI tab and sometimes the audio
ports are visible in the Audio tab and sometimes not, it seems random.
So sometimes I'm able to link the apps to my soundcard, and sometimes not.
I've been able to do a few things, link my midi keyboard to a synth to
jack rack and record it in Ardour. Record some guitar with a microphone.
But the whole system is so unstable that it's almost unusable. Every
2-5 minutes the system will crash.
Perhaps my whole system is not up to spec, i've got a laptop with 1 gb
RAM, and 1.7ghz M processor, it's a few years old but it should still be
kick-ass enough to run a stable system. It is 32-bit though and it
sounds like others are running more stable systems on 64-bit computers.
I'll get one when this laptop dies, but i hope that won't happen for
years and years to come.
Anyway I just want to make some sound. I've invested so much time and
money so far.
I really want to make music using these great open source apps and
contribute by raising linux audio's profile in the process.
What, if anything am I doing wrong and how can I have a fully stable
system on this laptop?
Is it even possible?
Should I switch back to Windows until Presonus help out the FFADO people?
Or until I can afford a new system...
It seems I spend all my time messing around with things trying to make
it work, making enough progress here and there to make it seem like I'm
getting somewhere when I'm not really getting any music made.
Anyway, I fully see the massive potential that linux audio has, far
beyond the limitations of proprietary software, and respect to the
people who are working on the applications.
Any advice appreciated.
Hamish
Hi,
I'm trying to learn to play piano. I have learned 'Let it be' from The
Beatles. What are more good popular music songs for beginner pianist?
And are those sheets available on the internet?
Thanks in advance,
Hi Everyone,
After a few crazy weeks since the release of Indamixx I am finally
writing all LAU informing them about Indamixx.
Most of you already know about the project hopefully, but here is a
link to the press release.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2100/1/prweb1120234.htm
I just want to thank all of you for supporting and putting up with me
over the past three years :)
I especially, want to thank
Dave Phillips (Yoda or Obi Wan.. you pick!)
Paul Davis
Rui Capela
Daniel James
Free Ekanayaka
Dominic Mazzoni
Comix
Adam and Albert at Mixxx
Stephen Fairchild
The project turned out way better than I ever imagined....
Thank you
Sincerely,
Ronald Stewart
www.indamixx.com
310-733-9285
Peder Hedlund:
>There's something fishy going on in .18 and onwards.
>In .17 I can do
> jack_capture -c 2 -p system:capture_9 -p system:capture_10
>to record the spdif on my Audiophile 2496.
>In >= .18 I get a segfault, the only thing I can run is
> jack_capture -c 2 -p "system:capture*"
>to record the 1 and 2 ins.
>
>I'm running jack-0.112.0-svn2557 non-realtime with 2048 fr/per on OpenSUSE
>11.
>
Thanks for the report. 0.9.28 is just put out.
Please cc me next time. :-)
Since I'm reading the list in digest mode it takes some
time before reading the messages.
>And a trivial note: once you've started the GUI there seems to be no
>way of ending it apart from Ctrl-C or killing the process.
You mean jack_capture_gui?
Well, it should stop if you press Ctrl-C.
David, Dave, and all others,
Thanks for helping to get me started in the world of midi. David thanks for the product suggestion and the info about horse power for driving a keyboard.
I was wondering if we could get started with something as simple as a keyboard with midi ports and an inexpensive USB adapter, and it looks like we can.
Dave thanks for the references, I think I have read all of your articles but I'm going to reread them, and the other sources you pointed to as well. Actually, good to hear from you. I had the privilege of meeting you at the University of Toledo when you came up to give advice on setting up a Hip/Hop studio on campus with the TALUG Linux users group. Now I'm in a new church with a new Linux audio need, so thanks for responding.
David, what distro are you using to run Rosegarden. I have a Fedora 8 install on that 1Ghz machine right now, but it seems as if Fedora does not pull in Rosegarden with the needed dependencies because they don't install Jack server which it needs.
Thanks to everyone who has encouraged this pursuit. It is nice having help readily available.
----------------------------
| Steve |
| mowestusa(a)yahoo.com |
| mowestusa.nixsyspaus.org |
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> --- On Thu, 8/14/08, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com>
> > Subject: Re: [LAU] Looking for Resource Help with
> using Midi in a Church and School
> > To: "linux-audio-user"
> <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org>
> > Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 3:31 PM
> > Dave Phillips wrote:
> > > mowestusa wrote:
> > >> and we do have a Pentium 1Ghz with 512megs
> of
> > ram, would that be enough to get us started if we buy
> an
> > midi interface, and I have no idea which one?
> > >>
> > > More memory would be good, and you can probably
> use
> > one of a MidiSport
> > > or similar USB interface. Be sure to check here
> before
> > you spend your
> > > money ! This list includes people who can tell
> you
> > whether your choice
> > > is good or not, you would be wise to hear them.
> :)
> >
> > Rosegarden works very well on my laptop (1.5GHz
> Pentium M
> > processor with
> > the same effective performance as your 1GHz Pentium,
> 768MB
> > RAM). Drives
> > my Yamaha keyboard through an E-MU Xmidi1x1 port (USB
> MIDI
> > port adapter).
> >
> > No 100% CPU usage problems like some other poster on
> the
> > list mentioned.
> > (I couldn't reply to that note because the
> poster's
> > mail client put his
> > reply below something that my mail client considers
> the
> > start of a sig -
> > so replying didn't include his reply in the note!)
> I
> > seem to recall that
> > those problems are actually due to some problem with
> one of
> > the
> > supporting graphics libraries of QT, but I don't
> know.
> >
> > --
> > David
> > gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
> > authenticity, honesty, community
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