On Sat May 9 21:11 , Brent Busby sent:
>I've already avoided getting sucked into that in my life with FreeBSD.
>I use only '-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe' and nothing else.
>
>If I were to go to Gentoo, I wouldn't be seeking compiler optimizations
>so much as freedom to keep consistent things that distros change their
>minds about just as soon as you think you've found one with policies you
>like. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse...I used to think they were each
>mistakes in a learning process until I finally realized that at the
>particular time I liked each one, it was because of something they were
>each respectively doing right at the time. They just change their minds
>and you have to go looking for a new "least evil choice."
>
>I think one possibly overlooked advantage of a source-based distro is it
>might give you a platform where you can adopt a policy of your own for
>how things are going to be and expect that it will stay the same long
>enough for you to enjoy it. I don't know, I'm still trying to decide
>though, and I am open to all kinds of ideas.
>
This is what I find. I happily use Gentoo as a DAW with the use of the Pro-Audio
Overlay. I have been doing this for a number of years. Viewing this list I
believe I am still on the right choice as I seem to have less issues than many
other people. This is primarily around the use and inclusion of libraries, level
of customisation and ability to keep personal policies as you mentioned. The only
optimisations I use are the predetermined --march=CPU flags. I recently updated
a core 2 system to a Phenom II and along with re-compiling the kernel simply did
an emerge -e system && emerge -e world and over night had re-optimised my system
for the new architecture.
I've seen some excellent threads lately on studio recording which reminded me of a
problem I'm having which I'd like to pose to the list...
My snare mic is way too hot while recording. I have the preamp turned all the way
down and it's still coming through nearly saturated. First of all, is this normal for
a dedicated snare mic? Second, should I skip the preamp altogether and plug directly
into my Echo Audio Audiofire12? Final recordings actually sound really good after
minimal mixing. I only add a slight reverb to the final mix, but otherwise it's got a
great studio sound.
Any tips to give my snare track more headroom?
My kit:
Dell XPS 1210 (1GB RAM, 7.2kRPM drive)
Fedora 10: CCRMA
Ardour+Jack
Echo Audio Audiofire12
(http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Echo-AudioFire12-12Channel-Fir…)
Nady PRA-8 Mic Preamp
(http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/Nady-PRA8-Mic-Preamp?sku=185277)
CAD PRO-7 7-Piece Drum Microphone Pack
(http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/product/CAD-PRO7-7Piece-Drum-Microphon…)
-Scott
Howdy!
Simple as it could be,
Qsynth 0.3.4 released!
Description:
Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around
the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a
softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage
a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the
excellent FluidSynth. FluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser
based on the Soundfont specification.
Website:
http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth
Download:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.4.tar.gz
Weblog:
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qsynth is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- Command line option parsing has been slightly refactored to allow
custom override through extraordinary fluidsynth option settings (eg. -o
name=value; fixes bug #2781579).
- Main form layout has been given a little bit more slack space, just
to accommodate some longer text label translations (eg. German).
- Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
- Saved channel presets are now effectively loaded on engine startup.
- Russian translation added (thanks to Alexandre Prokoudine).
- Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes.
- Qt Software logo update.
- Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions.
- Slight optimizations to the output peak meters refresh rate.
- MIDI and audio device names are now user selectable options through
respective drop-down lists on each engine setup dialog.
- New knob style: Skulpture.
Cheers && Enjoy!
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hi,
Just installed Ingen to check it out. Is Ingen the same kind of app like
AMS is? Are there instrument patches for Ingen? How do I get sound from it?
Thanks in advance,
\r
Hi guys (and gals),
I plan on using the K-System [1] and Fons Adriaensens jkmeter [2] with
my monitors once they arrive but I'm unsure about the calibration of
the monitors.
Basically I want to know which kind of sound level meter is sufficient.
From what I gathered there are many standards and two categories:
1) The kind you find in bars and clubs, affordable (<100 Euro), mostly
don't comply to any standard, frequency response up to 8kHz, +-2dB,
feature the required C-weighting and slow speed.
2) The kind that complies to all kind of standards and is immensely
expensive.
It would be easy to get my hands on one of the cheap kind, but would it
be sufficient? If not, which standards should the meter comply to?
Information on the requirements (from [1]):
83 dB SPL, per channel, C-Weighted, slow speed
Improved measurement accuracy if narrow-band pink noise is used
There are many sources of inaccuracy when determining monitor gain when
using pink noise. Using wideband (20-20 kHz) pink noise and a simple
RMS meter can result in low frequency errors due to standing waves in
the room, high frequency errors due to off-axis response of the
microphone, and variations in filter characteristics of inexpensive
sound level meters. For the most accurate measurement, use narrow-band
pink noise limited 500-2kHz, whose RMS level is -20 dBFS. This noise
will read the same level on SPL meters with flat response, A weighting,
or C weighting, eliminating several variables.
For even more accuracy, a spectrum analyzer can be used to make the
critical 1/3 octave bands equal and reading ~68 dB SPL, yet totalling
the specified 83 dB SPL.
Best regards,
Philipp
>Hi LAU,
>
>Right now, I'm optimizing my system for audio work, and have experienced some
>problems.
>
>First, this is my system: Kubuntu 9.04 with 2.6.28-3-rt (noacpi nosmp (the
>system freezes w/o nosmp, possible because of the nvidia x-driver)), jack
>1.9.2 running on an Athlon64 X2 6400+, 3.2 GHz with 8 GB RAM and a MSI K9N SLI
>Platinum MB. The Soundcard is a Delta 1010 from M-Audio. All in all, a decent
>Audio HW I believe.
...
I had much more success by adding the 64Studio repos and using the 2.6.29 kernel - and most other stuff, actually - from hardy-backports. I've tried the ubuntu -rt kernels from both Intrepid and Jaunty 32 and 64bit and they were horrible - system lock-ups, apps crashing, sync problems, MIDI problems, zombied apps, irq problems, no smp, etc, etc, etc.
Yoy will need to compile your own NVIDIA drivers (takes 5 minutes to compile and install). You should be able to run with smp and acpi again. :)
- shane
Hi
I'd like to remove dc offset from a bunch of .wav files. It seems the
sox effect dcshift does this, but I cannot figure out how to use it. The
following has no effect:
sox test.wav test2.wav dcshift 0
Anyone go a clue how to use this? Alternatively, is there another
commandline tool that does this?
--
Atte
http://atte.dkhttp://modlys.dk
Hello all!
Does anyone of you know a place where to look if I needed access to a system
in the UK? Some place, where one could login via ssh on a scattered but
regular basis? So it shouldn't be too expensive.
I'm asking because several public information and entertainment sources do
IP checking and offer selected content only. But because I'm so curious
always, I'd like to at least take a look at the whole lot. :-) Oh would a
proxy work? Perhaps some ideas there? I'm interested in streaming media
consumption.
I'm gad for any ideas, tipps and occasions.
Kindest regards and thanks
Julien
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