Any ideas how to get JACK-RACK instances to start up more quickly?
I've now got 4 of the things going for my standard live keyboard setup, and it takes forever for each instance to process the entire list of LADSPA plugins present... it's kind of like waiting for GIMP start up....
-ken
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>> From: Simon Wise simonzwise(a)gmail.com>
>> To: Norval Watson norv2001(a)yahoo.com.au>
>> Cc: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 10:35:34 PM
>> Subject: Re: [LAU] New film: This is Art..
>>
>> Norval Watson wrote:
>>
>> > The
>> > contemporary artists whose works we filmed would probably raise
>> > copyright issues if I "went commercial" with a film like this.
>>
>> and possibly the museums would also, over those and the older works!
>>
>> Simon
>
>I have very little understanding of copyright law but I thought it might be OK
to use stuff if the artist/author had been dead for 50 years or more? Maybe the
museums could claim copyright on the picture frames? ;)
>Norv
>
>
Check out this site... http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/about/copyright-issues.html
It depends on the country you are in ... But it interestingly states..
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"There may be two copyrights: copyright in the artistic work (for example, a
painting) and copyright in the photograph of the artistic work. You will
generally need permission from the owner of copyright in the artistic work unless
the copyright has expired. It is unlikely you need permission in relation to the
photograph, if the photograph depicts nothing but the artistic work and is
indistinguishable from other photographs of the same work. Otherwise, you will
generally need permission from the owner of copyright in the photograph."
In other words, when someone photographs a painting of Van Gogh in a museum,
producing a picture that is indistinguishable from other photographs of the same
work, this cannot be considered an original art creation:
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/about/copyright-issues.html
Before going further...I have read the FAQ.
Over the past couple of months, I have been settling into a very nice
new AMD quad core machine with Gentoo/amd64. Generally, I've been
extremely pleased with Gentoo, and I plan on staying on this OS.
One question I have which is not entirely Gentoo-specific regards
DBUS-aware Jack versus regular Jack (and other various Jacks):
Since my system has been compiled to have absolutely no
PulseAudio whatsoever, do I need DBus support for Jack at all? From
what I've gathered from threads here, the only thing DBus support is
used for in Jack is as part of some mechanisms of trying to tell
PulseAudio when to pull out of the way (via DBus). There are USE flags
of 'classic' and 'dbus' available for the live ebuild of Jack in the
Pro-Audio overlay...although if 'classic' means no DBus, I'd presume
you'd get that by just turning the 'dbus' knob off, so I'm not sure what
'classic' does. It's not described.
Is there any disadvantage to Jack-DBus? What about Jack-Midi? I've
always dealt with my MIDI hardware using regular Alsa Midi, and I've
seen messages suggesting Jack-Midi support is not necessary.
Also, I'm new to the whole live ebuilds thing. I see that the overlay
offers Ardour, Jack, and many other things in the form of direct CVS
snapshots. It seems that these are prefered, however, it looks like
they often require unmasked versions of dependency programs. Should I
be afraid of that? For example, the live ebuild for Ardour seems to be
trying to pull in a version of aubio that is masked for amd64, though I
didn't see a bug in the bug database explaining why. Should I simply
unmask any package that is demanded of a program in the overlay on the
basis that overlay programs are basically bleeding edge anyway?
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+ UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
Hello!
How many MB of .wavs can I burn into an audio-cd? 700MB for an 80min disk or
800MB for an 80min disk? To be clear I speak of MB in .wav files, where the CD
will be a CDDA.
Thanks for any good answer.
Best,
Julien
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>I thought Ubuntu had a solution for my audio problems when it was said to be
>specially packaged for multi-media and the only distribution with an
>off-the-shelf RT kernel. Every time I run Rosegarden there is a warning
>message that the kernel timing is not good enough. So I determined to
>install the UBuntu Studio with the RT kernel.
>
>What happened ? It didn't recognize my Soundblaster Audigy. It is not clear
>how to configure.
>
>Debian had it much better.
>
>Couldn't there be more agreement on audio configuration for Linux ? Is
>anyone working on a standard ? Shouldn't they be ?
>
>How about an agreed upon place to specify which sound card to use ...and
>which driver.
>
>Bob
>
I've just read these articles .. and well this all just frustrates me.. It took
me a very short piece of time to learn... (way back 10 years ago)....Linux is not
windows and Linux box is not an Apple box
Linux is not a corporation that can control how everything will work.
Apple controls the hardware it works on.. yet I've seen with many 3rd party audio
devices... it doesn't work very well.. and just like every other OS MAC OS
updates break the drivers for many of these devices.
Windows again, works basically out of the box but suffers the same issues but
never works really well.......
Linux takes work... Your initial choice of distro may not work as you
expected.... but with a bit of sweat and a bit of tears and possibly trialling a
couple or more distros.... and here research is the best prevention to
problems... before buying hardware research other users experience.. (that would
apply to Windows, OSX and even your primary applications not just linux anyway).
Once this work is done (as your experience with Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and finally
Debian shows) you should be left with a stable and reliable platform..
What I've noticed is with the distros that try to be "out of the box" this is
where the problems seem to occur most. I see 2 main reasons for this...
1. They don't meet the users expectations... not everything is going to work
right out of the box. This makes people upset.
2. Like Windows and OSX, they relinquish control from the user in order to
achieve the "user friendly" label of not requiring much work.. but this means
when work is needed, it is often harder to do.
Another trap which I have also fallen in myself is being an early adopter of
hardware.. Most hardware vendors are not involved in writing drivers for linux,
this means it requires developers who are most often donating their time to
develop them. The result is it takes longer for drivers to be released and
stabilise (in most cases)... Buying the latest motherboard or laptop with the
latest chipset will often result in pain .. most often with audio as there seem
to be very few contributors relative to other areas...
Part of me would love to see the Microsoft monopoly smashed by Open source... but
the reality is Open source is by it's nature diverse with many options. It is
also mainly the result of contributions... It has no head or tail has an almost
insane number of different options... Which means commercially it probably can't
do this.. However, some of us are or have been zealots and have told everyone we
know linux is the best thing since sliced bread, this has resulted in many people
believing that Linux is something it is not....
We really should be saying something a bit less glamorous...
"Linux is like life.. you get out what you put in and nothing in life comes
without work (for free)... but I've put in the work any it works fantastically
FOR ME"
Hello all,
I'm thinking about finally upgrading from my cheap soundblaster+mic to
something of a little higher quality. I'm thinking along the lines of an
external firewire/usb box and some kind of low-cost mic.
I'd use it primarely for vocals, but I'd like the recording interface to
support 2-channel, for possible some piano recordings/etc. I also don't want
to spend very much, and would plan to get it used, on ebay.
What do you guys use or recommend?
Thanks!
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Hi,
i'm running Ubuntu UNR on a Medion akoya E1210 and everything works just
fine. I use my Hercules MKII with Mixxx, the drivers installation went ok
and the device is recognized by the software and every pot/fader works
perfectly. Unfortunately Mixxx itself seems quite unstable because it
happens that if a song is playin' on one deck and i load another one on the
other deck the software hangs, i can still see faders/pots moving but no
sound at all.
Any hint?
Thanks
Giorgio
Hi all!
Is there any way to "tear" the Ardour mixer away from the main Ardour
window? I can do View - Editor Mixer, but I can't separate it from
everything else.
Thanks!
--
Josh Lawrence
http://www.hardbop200.com
Hi all,
I've been in and out of these lists, maybe posting a couple of times, but I
wanted to just give a shout out to you all.
Briefly, I am a pianist/organist/synthesist/composer, and have been using
Linux since the old days of 1997, when the only real distro out there worth
installing was Slackware!!!! I've been a Linux addict since, currently I've
settled on Arch Linux, I've done all the major brances except RedHat/Fedora
in my 12 years as a Linux geek since it's simplicity, modularity, stability
and high performance seem to meet well with my audio needs....
ALL of the music I've written was either produced/recorded or synthesized on
a Linux system using all free software, check it out at
http://www.akjmusic.com/works.html
I also started a microtonal music series, here in Chicagoland (Evanston, IL
is where I live), it's a big passion of mine, check that out at
http://www.untwelve.org
That's all for now...but I'll be back to make an announcement of a pending
software release....
Cheers!
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.comhttp://www.untwelve.org
