Greetings,
Something to start the week. While reading from PH's A Composer's World
this morning I discovered this passage:
"If there is anything remaining in this world that is on the one side
basically aristocratic and individualistic and on the other side as
brutal as the fights of wild animals, it is artistic creation. It is
aristocratic, because it is the privilege of a very restricted number of
people. If it could be democratized, it would lose its quality as an
art, become reduced to a craft, and end as an industry. In many branches
of our musical life we already have reached this lowest, industrial
phase, as we let musical democracy have its unbridled way."
Prophetic or just dyspeptic ? Comments welcome...
Best,
dp
Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music in the room
above my garage. I had fixed the room up to look like a bar. Suddenly, I
remembered that I had an old Radio Shack boom box in one of my closets with
some built in microphones that went straight to the cassette tape. I
looked around and tried to find a chromium tape, but since I couldn't find
one, I had to settle for the dolby noise reduction that was build into the
tape deck. Last week I had remembered the tape and used my old computer
with a SoundBlaster card, so I had the idea of putting the analog audio on a
computer. The old computer uses a Celeron processor with about 125 mb of
memory - it had linux on it so it would run at all. I think it was
something like RedHat 6.X or 7.X, but I'm not sure. In searching thru the
applications that might have something to do with sound, I found one called
'Audacity', which I could use to take the analog tape outputs and put them
in the computer. It pretty much filled up the hard drive. I was really
happy to see that it seemed to have worked, so I made an MP3 so I could put
it on the web (plus, I needed the space back on my hard drive). Since it
was recorded above my garage, I decided to put it on garageband.com.
Here is the link:
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E
(you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems like it skips a lot
when I try to play it from GarageBand).
I'd be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this list
about how you think it sounds.
-Mike Mazarick
PS - Do I remember correctly that Paul Hindemith was a bebop jazz player?
I can't remember if he played sax or guitar.. I was surprised he stopped
by and said "Hello". I thought he had died on the bandstand of a heart
attack while on a gig a long time ago.
Hi,
It's that time of year again.
I am calling for image submissions for the "Most Loaded Desktop"
competition.
Deadline: 30 June 2009
You can see previous years winners at this address.
http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/index.php?t=1
Since it has been almost 3 years since the last competition was run this
time round we should be able to officially retire the current reigning
champion from Tim Orford.
The competition is open to everyone who has the motivation to submit an
image of their desktop running as many audio and multimedia apps as
possible. The winner is selected by page views once the shots are put
live to the competiton page so the sooner you submit the more chance is
that you clicks will add up to the highest total.
The winning receives a prominent spot on the lau guide
http://lau.linuxaudio.org and we may even organise a real physical prize
this time.
The rules are that there are no rules. If you can take screen shots of
the apps that you run on your system and present the final image in a
convincing layout then you will probably be the winner. Last rounds
winner was Tim Orford and he stated clearly that he could not actually
run all the apps he displayed at the same time. Still all the opengl eye
candy looked great and that's what people wanted to see.
There must be a couple of people who could get a 16 or even 32 screen
shot compiled now that several of us have quad core/8GB machines to work
with. I have 8 screens running on my dual core/4GB rig at the moment but
can I can get 16 screens filled with apps if I try?
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Hi,
new version available, you can get it as source or from my debian
sid/experimental repo.
More info: http://cryptomys.de/horo/Connie/index.html
I'm working on a second test model with individual control of each stop and
some other changes, kind of poor-man's-hammond (jehova), but (at the moment)
without all the hammond special effects (leakage, click, random phase of
wheels, vibrachorus etc.).
Critics and hints are welcome, I need input for improvement.
I've cleaned the source code and separated user interface and tone generator -
you can add a qt- or gtk2-interface (some day...) but I'm going for the real
hardware, see: http://cryptomys.de/horo/V-USB-MIDI/index.html
Changelog:
2009-06-24
connie 0.4.1 (summer in the city)
Created a second organ model (test): 9 stops, percussion and vibrato.
Cmd line args:
-a : autoconnect to system:playback ports
-d : german QWERTZ keyboard
-f : french AZERTY keyboard
-t Num : organ type, 0 = connie (default), 1 = test
Modularized the source code.
Cleanup of user interface.
Ciao
Martin
I guess I must have misread the Audacity web site and the manual because
a moderator on the Audacity Forum just enlightened me to the fact that
Audacity is NOT an audio editor (as 99.9% of the users falsely believe)
but an 'Editorial Production Environment Manager'! </sarcasm>
Audacity leaves *a lot* to be desired when it comes to making loops
to wit: having to hit stop or pause so Audacity can 'pick up' the loop
start and/or stop markers that were moved during playback makes crafting
loops very painful - I'd go so far as to say useless actually.
can anyone suggest an audio editor (on Linux) that edits loops in real-time?
thanks in advance!
Well, as promised, I finally got around to flipping over the tape, but the
tape got caught up on the capstans and unwound. I had to find a pencil
and get it all wound back up so I could get it put on the computer and
converted to an MP3.
Here's the most recent one I had promised earlier:
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1C0ZGg
If anyone is interested, I'd be glad to describe the recording process in as
great and gory a detail as you can stand.
-Mike Mazarick
PS - plus I'll take a little less 'artistic license' with my description
;)
> Are you serious!!??
I'm as serious as I am normally -
;)
> Any chance of a picture of how it was recorded?
Sure, some people who were at the party posted some pictures.
I'd be glad to furnish them. Here they are:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/raycodringtonparty/pool/http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2054294
<http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2054294&id=66106565> &id=66106565
One of my favorites is here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36535750@N04/3552362333/in/pool-raycodringtonpa
rty
(not everyone in the picture got to play, but all of them are great
musicians)
I will say that it was a party "for musicians, by musician".
It was an Appreciation for Ray Codrington - a local jazz musician
that is a favorite of many of the jazz guys in the local area.
There were about 120 people there, 97% were musicians. At any given
time, there were about 80 people.
I noticed that Julien Claassen has said he had listened to
Eddie Harris while growing up. One of Eddie's jazz classics is a
song called "Freedom Jazz Dance". Ray Codrington was the
trumpet player on that recording done back in the mid 60s.
One thing I will seriously share is that this really is my first
Linux audio piece, and I am figuring out how to make it all work.
There are probably a few steps I left out or didn't
completely describe.
;)
However, let me flip the tape over and see if I can somehow get
another song loaded up on Garageband... I'll point to it when
it becomes available.
-Mike
I built Sineshaper 0.4.2 from the tarball. No problems with the build, and
running it as, jack-dssi-host -v sineshaper.so results in an audio connection
in qjackctl, and the midi connection is there, so that I can connect my midi
keyboard, but no GUI for Sineshaper is opening. See output below.
djmons@debian:~$ jack-dssi-host -v sineshaper.so
jack-dssi-host: Warning: DSSI path not set
jack-dssi-host: Defaulting to
"/usr/local/lib/dssi:/usr/lib/dssi:/home/djmons/.dssi"
jack-dssi-host: Looking for library "sineshaper.so" in /usr/local/lib/dssi...
found
jack-dssi-host: instance 0 on channel 0, plugin 0 is
"sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00"
jack-dssi-host: registering osc.udp://debian:14911/dssi
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 8 is MIDI bank 0
program 8, named 'Nasty'
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 7 is MIDI bank 0
program 7, named 'Cosineshaper'
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 6 is MIDI bank 0
program 6, named 'Noisy'
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 5 is MIDI bank 0
program 5, named 'Clean'
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 4 is MIDI bank 0
program 4, named 'Soft'
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 3 is MIDI bank 0
program 3, named 'Bright'
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 2 is MIDI bank 0
program 2, named 'Woodpecker'
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 1 is MIDI bank 0
program 1, named 'Tremolo pad'
jack-dssi-host: sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00 program 0 is MIDI bank 0
program 0, named 'Default'
jack-dssi-host: OSC URL is:
osc.udp://debian:14911/dssi/sineshaper/ll-sineshaper/chan00
checking sineshaper_gtk against ll-sineshaper
checking sineshaper_gtk against sineshaper
jack-dssi-host: trying to execute GUI at
"/usr/local/lib/dssi/sineshaper/sineshaper_gtk"
host: Ready
This is on a Debian Etch install, with KDE. I installed libglademm, and gtkmm,
which were necessary to compile Sineshaper, and since then I've been
installing all the glade, and gtk stuff I can find in synaptic, but cannot
get Sineshapers GUI to open.
Any suggestions as to what I'm missing?
Thanks for any help
Nigel.
Kim Cascone:
>
> I guess I must have misread the Audacity web site and the manual because
> a moderator on the Audacity Forum just enlightened me to the fact that
> Audacity is NOT an audio editor (as 99.9% of the users falsely believe)
> but an 'Editorial Production Environment Manager'! </sarcasm>
>
> Audacity leaves *a lot* to be desired when it comes to making loops
>
> to wit: having to hit stop or pause so Audacity can 'pick up' the loop
> start and/or stop markers that were moved during playback makes crafting
> loops very painful - I'd go so far as to say useless actually.
>
> can anyone suggest an audio editor (on Linux) that edits loops in real-time?
>
Snd-ls does that. Press ctrl to change start and end points.
Emiliano Grilli:
>
> I don't use snd much but I see it has a lot of potential (snd-ls comes
> to mind) - it also give me sporadic xruns, but not as much as rezound.
>
Yes, plain snd has unfortunately some problems with xruns in jack,
but snd-ls should play properly...
Howdi,
New to list, relatively new to audio stuff, long time GNU/Linux user.
Backtraced the lists and saw some talk of KDE4. I got lumped with
this when Debian unstable pushed it out (4.2.2) a couple of months
back. I'd be wary of recommending anyone - with a working 3.5.x
system - to upgrade unless they really need something on 4.x I've
just found it a bit too unstable for comfort, even with the 4.2.4
upgrade. Even leaving aside the audio-complications you'll get with
phonon and gstreamer stuff.
My first question to the list is pretty easy. I think I want an
application that lets me 'pause' an audio track but holds onto
whatever it was playing at that time - in order to try to reverse
engineer the notes. I'm sure this isn't an uncommon thing, but
no idea what magic words to search for in feature lists. I could
possibly do it by zooming into a waveform and making my own
mini-loops, but this seems a very arduous approach.
cheers,
Jedd.
SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time
audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an
interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network
client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
The new release, 3.3.1, includes various minor updates to 3.3 (the
most signficant changes being for mac users). Here are some
linux-relevant items from the changelog:
* 2009-05-18 LID support for setting "MSC" state as well as "LED" on
devices - ds
* 2009-05-18 enabled control rate versions of Ball, TBall and Spring - mb
* 2009-05-xx various improvements to ubuntu-debian packaging scripts - ds, am
* 2009-06-17 small fix to SConstruct to allow for new Debian X11
location when compiling on linux - mb
* 2009-06-19 Blip ugen: prevent sound blowup by never letting numharm
be less than 1 - fo
* 2009-06-21 Fold, Clip and Wrap can now modulate the low and high inputs.
Source packages for linux can be found at
http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads/
Ubuntu debs are on launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~supercollider/+archive/ppa
Best,
Dan
--
http://www.mcld.co.uk
