Linux-audio-user February 2010

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[LAU] little blues

by teza

Hi, I would like to thanks you all for all your nice comments on my music. Thanks from Frogland Regards Teza

16 years

[LAU] 70 minutes in renoise

by Atte André Jensen

Hi I'm working hard to keep up with rpm2010. Today I decided to record my renoise session (or at least the first 70 minutes of it) with recordMyDesktop (hence my eagerness yesterday to get it working with jack, thanks for the help!). So here it is, 70 minutes of tracking from scratch, I had no plans, no intensions, no ideas before, just going with the flow. The track is not finished, I like to listen a few days later with fresh ears, change stuff, add stuff, remove stuff etc. http://www.archive.org/download/TheMakingOfsong3FromRpm2010ByModlys/song3.a… NB: It's actually quite intimidating to invite you all like this, please be gentle with me, ok? I'm simply posting in the hope it can inspire someone, and hopefully give more people an idea of what a tracker can do in 2010. NB2: I apologize for the quite annoyingly out-of-tune vocal sample. I quickly decided *not* to stop the flow and fix it. Bear with it (it has a certain atmosphere, though), I'll fix it later... -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk

16 years

[LAU] [OT?] was: CENSORING....

by Natanael Olaiz

Hi, I was a system administrator of a computer that had a (legally!) licensed version of M.x/MS., which includes an anti-piracy system (the logo was a dog, IIRC). To me was simpler to use a cracked version, because any change on the system (thing that usually happened in that PC) requires to contact the vendor (C.cl.ng 74) to ask for a new phrase to use it. Once I needed to use in a weekend, but I couldn't receive a key until the next week! Even if you buy the program, even if they don't give you the code, you are still not even the owner of the executable. :( And I did just a google search... It looks like there is a lot of unhappy legal users of programs that complains about the software vendors that uses that technologies [1] [2] There you can read similar things, like: "So now, the dongle is causing paying customers more trouble than the people illegitimately aquiring the software!" Or in [3]: "P.C. doesn't stop piracy; any copy-protection system can, and will be, defeated. What P..E does do is prevent legitimate users of software products from using products which they've paid for."... But something specially caught my attention of that site is the start: "*Updated: A PA.. Anti-Piracy official has officially requested that we remove an image of the i.ok product...*". That's from 2007 (and I don't think they had any NDA). Some companies have exactly the same (stup.d) behavior today than 3 years ago (the year of the censured mail), that's sad. :( Best regards, Natanael. PS: I don't want to cause problems to anyone, so I didn't used any name. But what I wrote/quoted is what I always thought about that anti-piracy systems. And I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one. PS2: Thanks to all the linux developers to give to the users free alternatives! [1] Fair use <http://forums.dontcrack.com/index.php?showtopic=1450> [2] Dongle terror <http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=92977> [3] Developer to Users: Boycott iI.ok and P.-.CE <http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/12/03/developer-to-users-boycott-ilok-an…> <http://www.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=92977>* *

16 years

[LAU] midi mtc sync from network to midi box on linux

by Donovan Nye

hello all, I am thinking about using a linux box to relay midi sync from my control room to players in my live room via a network connection. control room is about 50' or so from the live room so the network seems like the best solution. I have a local gigabit network between the rooms so I don't think bandwidth will be an issue. I am looking at a network to midi util like multimidicast running on a linux box in the live room to capture the udp midi beats from my os x server in the mix room. The linux/relay box would be connected via usb to a 4x4 midi box (or 8x8 if needed) and ideally it would pass the mtc from the network to the midi outs on the midi box and then players in the room could use traditional midi cables to sync up. Realtime linux seems like the right choice for this as it would be nice to just use it like a lights out server on the network and manage it from my laptop. It seems like jackd is what I would use to pull this off with audio but I am not sure about the midi. and also not sure about the network to alsa to jack to midibox latency. Has anyone else done something like this for a cheap but reliable sync solution? thanks!!

16 years

[LAU] BWF timestamp from command-line?

by plutek-infinity

greetings! does anyone know of a command-line utility which will output the timestamps of BWF files? libsndfile-info doesn't seem to do it, unless i'm missing something.... thanks in advance.... cheers! -- .pltk.

16 years

[LAU] 2 keyboard independet live voice change

by Folderol

Waffly amblesome idea Today I tried an experiment with 2 instances of Yoshimi each fully populated with 16 different voice patches. These were then linked to 2 instances of the new Rosegarden 'Thorn' each with 16 tracks designated to the appropriate Yoshimi channels. These instances were in turn linked via MIDI to separate hardware keyboards. Now, with Rosegarden, whichever track is highlighted that is the one that plays through from MIDI input to output. This selection can be quickly changed using the cursor keys or the mouse. When playing live, this is not like a normal program change because there is no cutoff of existing notes. This has a number of interesting possibilities. The first is that by using two keyboards you can get a fantastic range of instruments without breaking your performance. The second one is that your can set up drones! Using a voice with a slow attack behaviour, if you hold down a note, then switch away to a different track Rosegarden will carry on playing that note (because it didn't get a note off). You now play against that drone with a different instrument (different track), and when you want to cancel it, simply switch back to the original track and briefly tap the same key. Finally, with a carefully placed computer keyboard and some fast button pushing you can get the effect of two different instruments playing together whilst apparently maintaining a third one with (say) a simple chord progression. Now, without in any way detracting from Rosegarden :) what would be interesting would be some form of program/script that could be set up so that multiple incoming MIDI streams could be redirected to different channels of different synths, each with a single (user definable) dedicated key press. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

16 years

[LAU] Portable Digital Recorders

by Kevin Cosgrove

Hi there, I'm interested in getting a portable digital recorder, something that can run on batteries or ac power (presumably through a wall-wart?), that has built-in stereo mics, and something which will take 2-4 line external inputs. I've seen a lot of such things come on the market in recent years. Many have SD or SDHC cards for their audio memory, which is fine with me as I have an SDHC card reader in my computer. If I get one with a USB interface it's my _requirement_ that it operate with Linux over USB. The same would go for firewire, though I haven't seen any of those. Some units record only in lossy compressed format only, while others have uncompressed formats available. I would prefer the uncompressed format to be available. I'd also need at _least_ 4 hours of stereo 44.1kHz at at least 16-bit, with something like 24-bit being more desired by me. I'll be doing remote recordings, then bringing the audio home to chop up with Audacity and/or Ardour, then authoring the result to CDs. So, what works well with Linux and works well in general? Thanks people! -- Kevin

16 years

[LAU] wrong adress

by Dragan Noveski

hallo list, every time i send an email to the lau, i get an 'Returned mail: see transcript for details' from 'MAILER-DAEMON(a)homemail.com' which says that the email address: babua(a)sensonline.net does not exist. is someone else experiencing this? and if so, any chance someone delete this address from the list, so that the messages send to the list do not go to 'babua'. or is this some other kind of error...? cheers, doc

16 years

[LAU] recordmydesktop with jack support

by Atte André Jensen

Hi I call recordmydesktop like this: recordmydesktop -x 1 -y 25 --width 990 --height 690 --use-jack output_01_left outpur_01_right -o out.ogv But I get: recordMyDesktop is not compiled with Jack support! Ok, I uninstall the ubuntu version, grap the source and comfigure with --enable-jack=yes atte@vestbjerg:~/software/recordMyDesktop/recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1$ ./configure --enable-jack=yes It even prints this after configure: **************************************** Audio driver that will be used: ALSA Compile with Jack support: Enabled **************************************** Great, call the newly build recordmydesktop exactly like above and get the same: recordMyDesktop is not compiled with Jack support! Anyone experienced this and/or has any advise to offer? -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk

16 years

[LAU] Lashstudio release 4

by Marius Stoica

Hi, I would like to announce the 4th release of lashstudio module. This new release adds two more applications to the usual lash-centred suite, they are: dino sequencer and specimen sampler. Lashstudio is a quick and dirty, LASH centered, suite of applications. It is packed as a squashfs module for Puppy Linux. Endlessly playing around with linux audio applications, I was thrilled when I realized that some of these applications can be used with LASH (LASH being a nice feature of linux audio, trying to wrap many applications at once). Also an ardent Puppy user, I found that Puppy offers a great environment for running audio and midi applications without the imminent need for special system configurations or to patch the kernel for real-time capabilities. So, I tried to figure out a LASH only setup with synthesizers, samplers and effects, midi sequencers, audio recording and other sound and midi apps. After some time of compiling and testing, the first lashstudio sfs module was born and it looked like a great way of tasting the speed, the practicality and the power of linux audio apps and of Puppy Linux altogether. So, the adventure continues with more fun! Download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/lashstudio/files/lashstudio-r4/lashstudio-… Webpage: http://lashstudio.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Marius

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Linux-audio-user February 2010