Linux-audio-user June 2009

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Re: [LAU] Audio Distribution Proposal...

by shane richards

>>Can we ?prime this pump? with a conservative but very useful distribution? >I've tried Ubuntu Studio, Studio64, Musix, and Fedora/CCRMA. I agree with >pretty much >everything you said in your post. My favorite, because it's worked so >flawlessly for >me, is Fedora/CCRMA. I have a long history of working with RedHat >professionally so >I'm tilted in favor of RPM based distributions. > >-Scott Another approach that I´ve been thinking about, would be a general LAU repository covering the different distros that we all use. LAU/Fedora, LAU/*buntu, LAU/whatever... I know that many of us here have some pretty cool scripts, setups, custom guis made in python-qt or TK, or x/k/gdialog, rebuilds of standard apps to support Jack (libxine or mplayer come to mind), some of us keep up with different trees in a project (I always use the new_fx_and_sample_fun branch of Hydrogen, for example). So...something along the lines of the Ubuntu ppa´s, but keeping out of the distros´ official channels, to avoid all the stupid political crap that go with such distros. (Which would also allow people to include scripts to add wine-based stuff without fear and lothing), A small "base" area that does the relevant tweaks for the distro (A link to a known good kernel, install the rt_irq script, install necessary tweaks for Jack)...the rest all personal stuff to go on top. As far as the "base" stuff goes, I don´t give a **** about wallpapers, icons or some audio distro´s "perfect" desktop - I´m a KDE guy so half of these audio distro´s work is useless to me (imagine all that work being redirected at finding and packaging every single jack app out there, instead) All it would require desktop wise would be XDG compliance - a .menu, and and .desktop files to create a new submenu (keeping out of the now ridiculously bloated "Multimedia" menu ("Categories=AudioVideo"), instead, have a "Categories=X-Linux-Audio-User". If what I just wrote is completely incoherent, I blame jetlag (and 20 hours stuck in a damn waiting lounge), sorry... - Shane

16 years, 8 months

[LAU] Cheap ADAT soundcard?

by Giorgio

Hi, does anybody know a cheap supported PCI soundcard with ADAT? (no break out box/cable) Thank you very much Giorgio

16 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] Audio Distribution Proposal...Lots of good stuff in this read!

by Ronald Stewart

We moved Transmission up to 9.04 because 9.04 works on so many netbooks out of the box. That way Indamixx can run on most netbooks on the market :) Also, 8.04 didn't do so hot for network manager and 9.04 is ready for 3G and such. 2.6.29.1 is much improved and Free Ekanayaka works in his super tuned RT so we can squeeze everything from Atom. Thnx Free!!! Newer gnome too! I believe these were the most compelling arguments. Again, Linux and the Linux community has been a true blessing for a Mom and Son small time operation. The next big step that I personally want to take is the ability to colab with 64studio and create a Linux Audio community type 'fund' so that we can contribute financially to JACK, ALSA and Mixxx to name a few. We just have not had enough sales of Indamixx yet to date. Ideally I would like to see a percentage of USB key sales to go to this fund. Without JACK, ALSA and others such as Ardour and Mixxx the concept of Indamixx as a product (a compilation of pro audio related applications with real time OS) couldn't stand a chance. Atleast TMHO. I think the real story here is how a bunch of strangers have put together an audio OS that rivals the big boys! and we did win Remix Magazine 'Most Inovative' Product of the Year 2009. This is a huge win for Linux Audio and Linux community that a group of rag tag strangers around the world can pull it off versus all the other solutions out there on the planet. All along the way I have thanked the Linux community for making my personal dream come true (affordable mobile DAW). I can't take any of the credit except to get up every morning for almost 5 straight years and that was God doing it :) I think I have met the most peopel on the team. Daniel James, Free Ekanayaka, Paul Davis, Rui Capela, and Jorgen Aase but the rest of the contributors such as John Emmas, Albert Santoni, Garth Dahlstrom, Stephen Fairchild, Cosmo, Patrick Shirkey and others I have never met! Of course I give big shout outs to Dave Phillips (aka Yoda as I like to call him) and Paul Davis (aka Obi Wan as I like to call him) on all my manuals and marketing materials. Maybe one day one of these tech bloggers will slow down for a moment to write about this incredible reality story of Linux and the community but maybe its just not big enough news? I know that it's pretty substantial that we are for sale at retailers such as Musician's Friend but just not big enough news I guess? I am seriously thinking about making spoof web commercials calling my self 'The Real Steve Gates' "I am not Stevbe Jobs or Bill Gates, I am Steve Gates" Maybe that will stir the pot to get noticed a bit... and we can have lots of fun too! Did someone say 'I am not a PC commercial? Thank you Ronald Stewart Creative Director Trinity Audio Group Inc. 9854 National Blvd. #322 Los Angeles CA 90034 310-733-9285 ronaldjstewart(a)gmail.com www.indamixx.com www.trinityaudiogroup.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Bill Allen <bill(a)k2bea.org> wrote: > Thanks for the info. I'm surprised that Transmission is based on 9.04. I > know you're working with 64Studio on this, but the current beta 3 release of > 64 studio is based on 8.04. I wonder why the differece of base? > > On Jun 5, 2009 3:14 PM, "Ronald Stewart" <ronaldjstewart(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, ( I am resending this because I included a photo and got bounced ) > > Transmission was built for Samsung Q1 Ultra as Indamixx product. > > Transmission is now for Samsung Q1 Ultra and Intel Netbooks. > > We decided a while ago to focus on the Mobile DAW market (mainly Trinity > DAW). > > I personally was looking for an affordable mobile device that was small but > could perform like a portable pro tools device. > > We focused on small screens and low power processors from the beginning. > > Thank God for Netbooks becasue we cut our teeth on 500Mhz 256 RAM from > 2005-2008 > > Transmission 3.0 is Ubuntu 9.04 at the base and then all the goodies built > on top of that. > > The ISO is currently for sale on CD and we are at pre-order stage for the > USB stick. > Anyone interested you can find this here: > www.amazon.com/indamixx > > 64studio and I are working on a future release that is a suped up trial > version that we can give away on the website. > > I have the Indamixx Scion that I would like to Twitter and let Netbook > users know they can go to a destination in Los Angeles and I can load their > machines with trial version of Transmission so everyone can turn their > netbook into a mobile recording studio. Linux really makes all this > possible for us. > > Thank you > > Ronald Stewart > Creative Director > Trinity Audio Group Inc. > 9854 National Blvd. #322 > Los Angeles CA 90034 > 310-733-9285 > ronaldjstewart(a)gmail.com > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > With any kind of development tool, you have to know how it works and >> to what extent it can help ... >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user >> mailing list > Linux-audio-user... >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > >

16 years, 8 months

[LAU] Invada Studio Plugins (LADSPA & LV2) updates

by Fraser

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, Just a quick note to advise there are new versions of the Invada Studio Plugins available. These releases are mainly a bugfix releases. LADSPA (version 0.3.1) * Added karmic package * Fixed a bug where compressor release couldn't go past 2s. * Eliminate DC offset from Tube. * Updated ER reflection process in line with LV2 version. More information & tarball download: http://www.invadarecords.com/Downloads.php?ID=00000263 Ubuntu packages: https://launchpad.net/~invada/+archive/ppa LV2 (version 1.0.1) * Fixed multiple errors in RDF files. * Fixed missing linker libs in makefile. * Improved host compatibility. * Disabled tool-tips while widgets are active.. More information & tarball download: http://www.invadarecords.com/Downloads.php?ID=00000264 Ubuntu packages: https://launchpad.net/~invada/+archive/ppa Regards, Fraser https://launchpad.net/invada-studio -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKKimQNZroiEh4erwRAi9jAJ4gphnlQurfpVbyP9TmRSSxE1gbiwCeIBox i78wj63ZqA8NqQhwvHLzrbA= =a7zP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

16 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] Audio Distribution Proposal...

by Bill Allen

Thanks for the info. I'm surprised that Transmission is based on 9.04. I know you're working with 64Studio on this, but the current beta 3 release of 64 studio is based on 8.04. I wonder why the differece of base? On Jun 5, 2009 3:14 PM, "Ronald Stewart" <ronaldjstewart(a)gmail.com> wrote: hi, ( I am resending this because I included a photo and got bounced ) Transmission was built for Samsung Q1 Ultra as Indamixx product. Transmission is now for Samsung Q1 Ultra and Intel Netbooks. We decided a while ago to focus on the Mobile DAW market (mainly Trinity DAW). I personally was looking for an affordable mobile device that was small but could perform like a portable pro tools device. We focused on small screens and low power processors from the beginning. Thank God for Netbooks becasue we cut our teeth on 500Mhz 256 RAM from 2005-2008 Transmission 3.0 is Ubuntu 9.04 at the base and then all the goodies built on top of that. The ISO is currently for sale on CD and we are at pre-order stage for the USB stick. Anyone interested you can find this here: www.amazon.com/indamixx 64studio and I are working on a future release that is a suped up trial version that we can give away on the website. I have the Indamixx Scion that I would like to Twitter and let Netbook users know they can go to a destination in Los Angeles and I can load their machines with trial version of Transmission so everyone can turn their netbook into a mobile recording studio. Linux really makes all this possible for us. Thank you Ronald Stewart Creative Director Trinity Audio Group Inc. 9854 National Blvd. #322 Los Angeles CA 90034 310-733-9285 ronaldjstewart(a)gmail.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > With any kind of development tool, you have to know how it works and to > what extent it can help ... > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user > mailing list > Linux-audio-user... > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user

16 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] Dave Smith Instruments Evolver synthesizer Editor

by sonofzev＠iinet.net.au

On Thu Jun 4 11:50 , Alex Norman sent: >A while ago I started work on a graphical editor for the Dave Smith >Instruments Evolver synthesizer. I wanted something that was FLOSS and >something that I could use with Linux without the need for Wine. > >It is not totally complete but most of the functionality for editing individual >patches is implemented. > >You can read about and download it here: > http://www.x37v.info/projects/evolver_editor/ > >If you wish to work on it, you might try the github repository: > http://github.com/x37v/evolver-editor/tree/master > >At the moment the git repository is at the same state as the download provided >from my web page. > >TODO: > Improve help docs. > Implement all the non implemented sysex settings. > Make GUI more beautiful. > Implement librarian functionality. > >Hopefully someone here finds this useful. > >-Alex Norman >_______________________________________________ This is making me seriously consider buying one. And makes me wonder if it ould it possibly work for the Poly Evolver (it is effectively 4 evolvers in one box with some extra routing options)??

16 years, 8 months

[LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.4.2 (flaunty demoness) is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! Greatest thanks goes to Mathias Krause aka gizzmo, who contributed with the fundamental code to the new MIDI controller mapping functionality that now widens the Qtractor horizon with regard from generic control surfaces. Being the Behringer BCF2000 [1] a notable example, control feedback is fully supported so that those fancy motorized faders, knobs and lights, actually reflect the whole mixing and editing session state. Some pre-made files are here provided for your conveniency: "bcx2000.qtc" [2] is to import into Qtractor (View/Controllers...) and a couple of presets goes into your BCF2000, "Qtractor_Mixer_1-8.syx" [3] and "Qtractor_Mixer_9-16.syx" [4], respectively for the first and second set of eight channel/track strips. Ah, the previous hardwired support for the JLCooper-like controls, provided by the Tascam US-224 and US-428 (via us428control), is now optional. You can have it back by just adding this file, "usx2y.qtc" [5], to the controllers map. That's it: Qtractor 0.4.2 (flaunty demoness) is out! Release highlights: * MIDI controller mapping (mixer) (NEW) * Audio/MIDI multi-clip merge (NEW) * Multi-clip selection export (NEW) * Improved snap precision on drag/moving clips (FIXED) * and some other asorted fixes (see change-log;) Description: Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ on top of Qt Software's Qt4 framework, having JACK and ALSA as its main infrastructures and Linux as native and exclusive platform. Specially suited to the lone-wolf composer, arranger and (re)creative music-maker personal home-studio, it still hopes to evolve as a fairly featured desktop audio/MIDI workstation or at least, a prototypical part of it ;) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.2.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.1) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.2-1.rncbc.suse111.sr… - binary package (openSUSE 11.1) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.2-1.rncbc.suse111.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.2-1.rncbc.suse111.x8… - binary package (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.2-1.rncbc.ubuntu804.… - user manual (outdated) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-user-manual.pdf Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Features: - Multi-track audio and MIDI sequencing and recording. - Developed on pure Qt4 C++ application framework (no Qt3 nor KDE dependencies). - Uses JACK for audio and ALSA sequencer for MIDI as multimedia infrastructures. - Traditional multi-track tape recorder control paradigm. - Audio file formats support: OGG (via libvorbis), MP3 (via libmad, playback only), WAV, FLAC, AIFF and many, many more (via linsndfile). - Standard MIDI files support (SMF format 0 and 1). - Non-destructive, non-linear editing. - Unlimited number of tracks per session/project. - Unlimited number of overlapping clips per track. - XML encoded session/project description file. - Point-and-click, multi-select, drag-and-drop interaction (drag, move, drop, cut, copy, paste, delete, split, merge) - Unlimited undo/redo. - Built-in mixer and monitor controls. - Built-in connection patchbay control and persistence (a-la QjackCtl). - LADSPA, DSSI and native VST plug-ins support. - Unlimited number of plug-ins per track or bus. - Plug-in presets, programs and chunk/configurations support. - Audio/MIDI clip fade-in/out (linear, quadratic, cubic). - Audio/MIDI clip gain/volume, normalize and export. - Audio clip time-stretching (WSOLA-like or via librubberband), pitch-shifting (also via librubberband) and seamless sample-rate conversion (via libsamplerate). - Audio/MIDI track export (mix-down, merge). - Audio/MIDI metronome bar/beat clicks. - Unlimited tempo/time-signature map. - MIDI clip editor (matrix/piano roll). - MIDI instrument definitions (a-la Cakewalk(tm)). - MIDI controller mapping (mixer). - JACK transport sync master. - MMC control surface enabled. - MIDI Song Position cueuing support. - Configurable keyboard shortcuts. Change-log: - The MIDI clip editor (piano-roll/matrix editor), the main track view as well, have been subject to usability fixing, the most notable avoids clearing current selection as much as possible when updating view contents (eg. changing zoom levels does not reset current selection anymore). - MIDI tracks channel bank/program and controller stuff are now only issued when the respective bus connections have changed, seldom on every playback start. - MIDI controller mapping infrastructure, with file based configuration management (see View/Controllers...), is now in place, following an original contribution from gizzmo aka Mathias Krause. - Plugin chain buffer reset on playback start/stop is not guarded by a momentary plugin de/activation anymore. - Clip export may now be applied to multiple clips, sharing common refactored code and same semantics as merging of current selected clips. - Improved, may be just fixed yet again, audio track export synchronization and reliability. - Clip merge is now featured both for audio and MIDI tracks (see Edit/Clip/Merge...). - Improved, or better said, fixed (again) the precision of multi-clip final positioning as result of drag/move and paste operations in main track view (as in bug #2741611). - MIDI track program number is now listed in 1-128 range, in an attempt to be consistent with corresponding MIDI track dialog drop-down list. - MIDI editor snap grid lines get slight different color then regular beat divisions. - Reset local tempo map cursor on newer MIDI file imports in a tentative to fix incidental but random crashes. URLs: [1] http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/BCF2000.aspx [2] http://www.rncbc.org/datahub/bcx2000.qtc [3] http://www.rncbc.org/datahub/Qtractor_Mixer_1-8.syx [4] http://www.rncbc.org/datahub/Qtractor_Mixer_9-16.syx [5] http://www.rncbc.org/datahub/usx2y.qtc Cheers && Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

16 years, 8 months

[LAU] Building a DAW

by Ricus Vincente

I'm trying to talk the guys I work with, into building an inexpensive DAW for the analog studio that I currently work in. Right now we're old school analog EVERYWHERE. The only digital gear in the room are a few PCM 90's, and my Masterlink that I bring when I mix. We have a 2" 16-track machine, which sounds AWESOME, but at $250 per reel, a lot of our clients can't afford tape anymore. We really only need 16 in and 16 out. So my thoughts are to build a fairly powerful PC to run one of the multimedia flavored linux distros, putting four Delta 44 cards in it, and running Ardour. I am a free software user, but I haven't used it much for audio production, and I'm not a super linux hacker or anything. Would configuring a system like that be particularly difficult? Once the DAW is up and running, we would only need to buy two 16 channel snakes to break in and out of our patch bay. Best, Rich...

16 years, 8 months

[LAU] Option to jackd to get ALSA MIDI stuff?

by Ken Restivo

I remember discussion of giving an option to jackd (was it "-X"?) in order to get it to show all the ALSA MIDI stuff in JACK MIDI. I've tried it on jackd 0.116 and neither "-X" nor "-x" are recognized options. Then there's also this separate thing "a2jmidid", which seems to work well, but I'm not sure if I need it if I can find this elusive jackd option. -ken

16 years, 8 months

[LAU] Dave Smith Instruments Evolver synthesizer Editor

by Alex Norman

A while ago I started work on a graphical editor for the Dave Smith Instruments Evolver synthesizer. I wanted something that was FLOSS and something that I could use with Linux without the need for Wine. It is not totally complete but most of the functionality for editing individual patches is implemented. You can read about and download it here: http://www.x37v.info/projects/evolver_editor/ If you wish to work on it, you might try the github repository: http://github.com/x37v/evolver-editor/tree/master At the moment the git repository is at the same state as the download provided from my web page. TODO: Improve help docs. Implement all the non implemented sysex settings. Make GUI more beautiful. Implement librarian functionality. Hopefully someone here finds this useful. -Alex Norman

16 years, 8 months

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Linux-audio-user June 2009