Linux-audio-user September 2009

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by Patrick Shirkey

Hi, If I have one card for audio which jack is running on and working and a seperate device as the midi i/o how can I get the midi signals into jack apps? The midi device shows up in the alsa seq tabs in qjackctl and it is connected to a jack app but the signals are not being received afaict. Cheers. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

14 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] [Zynaddsubfx-user] zyn and the art of software maintenance

by Grammostola Rosea

adam faranda wrote: > When It disconnects from jack is Zyn getting zombified? > > yes $ yoshimi Yoshimi 0.008 Sample Rate = 48000 Sound Buffer Size = 64 samples Internal latency = 1.33 ms ADsynth Oscil.Size = 1024 samples jack client reports error: jack_client_thread zombified - exiting from JACK

14 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] off topic (was: Re: ableton live in vmware)

by cunnilinux himself

> I feel that cleanly integrating a sampler interface with existing apps will provide a competitive Linux based solution. i don't think so :) what makes existing win/mac solutions unbeatable are thousands of VSTs with thousands of presets working just out of the box. in fact, there is no more real need to learn anything. just pick some amount of VSTs, run them in some all-in-one application, use some ready presets, and you've done. so, why run all that VST stuff on linux with extra emulation layer if one can run it all directly on win/mac? imnsho, linux could be _really_ competitive solution if it had the same single-buttoned interface with a huge button "yes" a.k.a. "proceed" :-D -- sex, bike, open source!

14 years, 8 months

Radio: Winfried Ritsch at ORF1

by Florian Faber

Tonight Winfried Ritsch (IEM Graz, Austria, http://www.iem.at) is featured in the ORF OE1 program at 23:03 CET. You can listen to it online here: mms://apasf.apa.at/oe1_live_worldwide (just drop the url at mplayer, 'mplayer mms://apasf.apa.at/oe1_live_worldwide') Flo -- Machines can do the work, so people have time to think. public key DA43FEF4 x-hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net

14 years, 8 months

As promised!

by Folderol

Inspiration is a very strange thing. On this occasion there were a number of quite separate things going on in my world. It was early spring and someone had commented on magnificant sunrises there were seeing. My reply was that lately it seemed all my sunrises were just shades of grey. Someone else commented that it sounded like a song title. At that time I had just devised a new voice patch for my favourite synthesiser, and had recorded just a few chords. Quite unexpectedtly I played a few notes that exactly fitted the phrase 'All of my sunrises are shades of grey'. Some six months previously, I had gone to the funeral of a very dear friend and had been deeply touched by how alone his widow suddenly looked. This must have been going round in the back of my mind, and once triggered by that phrase, and the sad melody, the entire song was written and the music substantially recorded in one day. Normally a composition takes months for me to develop. My next problem was singing. I collaborated with a friend who did a very good job, but have always wanted to sing it myself. It has taken about two years to get up to my current standard. This is not good, but I think is just about listenable. http://www.musically.me.uk/music/All_Of_My_Sunrises.ogg All of my sunrises are shades of grey, Now that I'm on my own. There's no laughter, No joy now, You left me behind. Gone where I can not say. So all of my sunrises are shades of gray, Now that you've gone away. All of my sunrises are shades of grey, You were the only one. In our springtime, We'd run through, The meadows and streams. Oh how we loved to play. Now all of my sunrises are shades of grey, The meadows have all turned to clay. All of my sunrises are shades of grey. We loved each other so. We were honest, And faithful, Through trials and pain. Though we were poor, we stayed. But all of my sunrises are shades of gray, No riches would help me today. All of my sunrises are shades of grey, I said goodbye in tears. Though our children, Are with me, I know they must go. They have their own lives too. So all of my sunrises are shades of grey, There's nothing for me, without you. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk

14 years, 8 months

jucetice with energyXT

by Patrick Shirkey

Hi, Is anyone here using the jucetice linuxvst plugins with energyXT? From my reading so far it looks like I have to use jost to host them and connect to that. Cheers. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

14 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 31, Issue 22

by laurence alexander

> Message: 14 > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:01:13 +1000 > From: Loki Davison <loki.davison(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [LAU] Recording of my new band. > To: LAU <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org> > Message-ID: > <ec9314860909132301i68b45e04x234d40c72cbf1f0(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hey all, > > Thanks everyone for the help getting the recording stuff > for my band. > We have now recorded quite a bit of stuff, just simple jam > recordings > in Ardour. Here is one of the covers we did, of The > Magnetic Fields. > Using 3 mics, 2 on guitar in x-y and one on vocals. Tell me > what you > think of the vocalists singing too, and well, my guitar > playing ;) > > http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~loki/The_Turncoats-The_Book_Of_Love.mp3 > > Loki > Really impressed with this. Didn't see the original discussion on this, but what hardware setup did you go with in the end? LCAUK

14 years, 8 months

Room acoustic sound analysis

by Russell Hanaghan

Hello LAU, While I have not been active on this list in a long time, I have been watching from the side stage and it's nice to see the string of various information and experience still flowing thru the LAU community. I'll get to my questions as they relate to the subject title in a sec but firstly, a little back ground on some significant changes I have going on and how they may relate to the furthering of open source audio... I have left the corporate grind and world of regular income for purposes of pursuing my all time passion. I have not a pot to piss in nor a window to pitch it out of in terms of capitol and am largely doing it on faith! My core products are fretted instrument and amplifier / music related electronics repair, recording and demos, small PA system rentals and also working as a musician for hire, primarily doing my solo thing. In another post I will speak to my dilemma of being unhappy using Sonar 8 on Windows Vista and looking for some possible encouragement to consider going totally open source! I have rented a large warehouse type space (2600'sq) in the Nth Cali foothills and within there are several spaces dedicated to the various products I alluded to. The main room that we do live music in is a good size, approx. 30'w x 40'l with 17' ceilings. It's predominantly drywall and stud construction and also with a 17'x10' metal roll up door. It has a concrete floor with industrial carpet covering it. I have just described something of an acoustical nightmare, likely only topped by an aircraft hangar with corrugated iron walls and roof! :) We have been doing some live stuff thru a PA in this room and it's a sure fire way to reveal how the room reacts. The room produces some high freq (2k - 5k) boosts as well as some 150 to 400hz bumps. While I have implemented some baffles to reduce live high freq bounce, these only serve to deaden the room and not change tonal characteristics. How I go about changing the mechanics of the room will be dictated largely by economics but in order to assess this, I'm looking to to some spectrum analysis. Has anyone set up a laptop and microphone and open source apps and performed this to some success? I need a tone generation source as well as an analysis tool. It needs some bias adjustment for mic and sound card inherent response I should think. That said, it does not need to be a perfect tool. If I can get some form of reliable, self referenced measurement, that would give me something more than the guess work I am currently using from my head and my ears. TIA for your input and ideas. Russell

14 years, 8 months

Lilypond's midi output.

by Philippe Hezaine

Hi all, As it's an audio related question, I try here. In two words, for a good reason of mine I've been pushing the Lilypond's midi output on its limitations. I cannot get more than 30 output tracks! depite the fact I only use the channel 10. I can understand it from Lilypond. But I'm wondering why this happens. Is it a simple missing implementation of a port which will be relatively easier to solve or a deeper issue on the midi? More. Here is a cut of midicomp. You see at the beginning that Lilypond encodes 61 tracks (60 + the control track) MFile 1 61 384 MTrk 000:00:000 Meta SeqName "control track" 000:00:000 Meta Text "creator: " 000:00:000 Meta Text "GNU LilyPond 2.12.2 " 000:00:000 TimeSig 4/4 18 8 000:00:000 Tempo 600000 000:00:000 Meta TrkEnd TrkEnd MTrk 000:00:000 Meta TrkName "" 000:00:000 ProgCh ch=10 prog=0 000:00:000 Meta InstrName "drums" 000:00:000 Meta TrkEnd TrkEnd MTrk 000:00:000 Meta TrkName "mar" 000:00:000 ProgCh ch=10 prog=0 000:00:000 Meta InstrName "drums" 000:00:000 Param ch=10 con=7 val=85 000:00:000 On ch=10 note=c3 vol=127 000:01:000 Off ch=10 note=c3 vol=64 000:02:000 Param ch=10 con=7 val=67 000:02:000 On ch=10 note=a4 vol=127 000:03:000 Off ch=10 note=a4 vol=64 Each track has its empty copy. Has someone an explanation? Cheers. -- Phil. Superbonus-Project (Site principal) <http://superbonus.project.free.fr> Superbonus-Project (Plate-forme d'échange): <http://philippe.hezaine.free.fr>

14 years, 8 months

The age old question... open source vs the other...

by Russell Hanaghan

Hi folks, As briefly mentioned in another post by myself, I have started a business. Among the the services offered, we are providing demo production and recording services. In a couple of small projects, and also getting reacquainted with my DAW stuff, it has dawned on me that Sonar Producer 8 (x64) and Windows Vista (x64) has become very complicated for what I want to do. While it's great to claim the availability of all those bells n whistles, they dont serve the purpose, art or business necessarily other than to make it cumbersome and complicated to use. I am running a Delta 1010LT, which is hardly a pro card, yet capable of reasonable sound and flexibility. The box is an AMD x64 3ghz dual core, ASUS mobo with 2g RAM and Nvidia graphics card. Not exactly a heavy weight pro DAW either but also, not without balls! The thought has entered my mind that maybe I go full Open source. I'm reminded from my time with Ardour that the routing layout is a LOT more conducive to how I like to work, as is JACK. I have the need for solid midi playback and flexible editing also and Muse was my preference because of the layout. I'm eager to see how Ardour 3 unfolds on this end...but the main focus is to try and simplify things and focus on better work flow and less learning curve, more art! I have spent a reasonable amount of time with Linux and open source as some of you know. I'm a single, small gradient above "basic user", not a dev of any kind. While I expect to have bugs and issues, I need it to be a reliable platform just the same. If you have a recommendation, tell me what distro and version you have Ardour, Jack, etc running on that you can trust your art to! What version of Ardour / JACK is running stable...do you have Wine / VST working reliably? If you had a single shot at recording an all time super hit piece of ART, would you trust your platform to capture it safely and recreate it cleanly? There is a chance this business may seek a grant based on an educational foundation...to teach kids, etc how to record, produce, etc. It would be a nice thought to tell them "We use Open source platforms". It is a noble gesture if nothing else, but help me to see if it's reasonable to make it a reality. If this part of the business is successful, I assure you the proceeds get shared in the donation buckets of those who put all the effort into writing and improving the applications that even make this conversation possible! thanks for your thoughts and input. Russell

14 years, 8 months

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Linux-audio-user September 2009