Hi List,
This is a question what is the best way to make a lage amount of pdf files (hundreds of GB, more to come) and make them available for a Local Area Network of users to print and edit them. Make them searchable and get the file easily and send them per mail to print.
There is currently a Windows solution including completly unfree tools so that not every computer can even do the work we are supposed to do because of license restrictions (at least its all legal). The current windows-based database is slow in access and has a heavy lag to snyc files, sometimes even hours.
I don't have access to the servers so I can't check whats going on, but I want to know if there isn't a Linux way :)
Where I work we prepare lots of notation for print and finally print them. There are sadly no source files: We get generated pdf files from various software from all OS and we produce scans of existing material. There are few meta information like Composer, Title and a serial number.
Actual Questions:
1) What Database/Way and Frontend would you use to handle pdf files? (Filesizes per file >200 kb <200 MB, Multiple files per project/musical piece )
2) Do you know any free PDF editor besides "PDFEdit" (which seemed fine from screenshots and descriptions, but first tries were not successful)
Always this unfree binary crap,
Nils
So here I am once more...
Hello everyone. First of all, advance apologies to people awaiting the
next instalment of Lovatnet, which I posted in October – this isn’t it.
Among other things, since that time I’ve been busy on a big project,
collaborating with a friend – that will make an appearance at some
point far in the future as there is much work still to do and work is
currently on hold.
To keep myself busy in the meantime, I decided to pick up an idea from
about 12 years ago, which was thrown together (it doesn’t deserve the
word written) on my old four-track with electric piano, bass, guitar and
the drum machine on a Hammond organ (so obviously not a proper Hammond,
sadly.
I’ve had vague ideas in the past few year about doing something with the
piece, but never got anywhere with it. I decided in December to try,
once and for all, to get somewhere with developing it and it seems that
in the past few months the time was right; the writing then turned into
recording and mixing and so, three months later, here we are. I’m not
even sure the original idea really deserved so much effort throwing at
it, but it’s been fun progging it up a bit and hopefully turning it into
something a little more interesting – it’s good to recycle :-)
It’s a short piece of instrumental symphonic progressive rock, the
opening section of what will be a longer piece – this part is finished
and I have a vague idea what the next section will be like, I just need
to put the work into writing and developing it. And after that, well,
who knows… but as always with me, don’t hold your breath.
I don’t think the mix could have been what it is without a few recently
discovered effects that came to be of critical importance (thanks to
Dave Phillips for the heads-up in LJ!), notably the EQ10Q and the Calf
and Invada compressors especially, without which some desired sounds
would have been impossible to achieve.
It’s turned into a bit of a monster really: if I counted correctly late
last night, the Ardour session has 50 active tracks and 28 busses, it
takes a good minute or so to load – even the mixing has become overblown
and pretentious, excellent! :-P It’s been an enjoyable pass-time and an
interesting and useful learning process though.
As always, general thanks to all Linux devs, but particular gratitude to
those involved with Ardour, Hydrogen, Linuxsampler, Wine and all the
LADSPA and LV2 plugins.
Full, geeky details of instrumentation and equipment etc are below for
anyone who might be interested.
I’ve done no post-processing/mastering beyond limiting to raise the
overall level a bit. I give you Beyond Triple Point (part 1):
FLAC (14.6 MB):
www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_Part1_16-03-10.flac
OGG-10 (7.4 MB):
www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_Part1_16-03-10.ogg
And much as it pains me... MP3 (6.2 MB):
www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_Part1_16-03-10.mp3
Anyway, I hope you might perhaps enjoy it, short as it is.
Q
CAUTION! EXCESSIVE, SUPERFLUOUS & NERDY INFORMATION AHEAD
OS: Ubuntu Studio 9.10
Software: Ardour, Hydrogen, Linuxsampler (Jsampler with Fantasia
front-end), Cantabile Lite VST host running under Wine for B4 VST and
Oddity, all others run standalone.
Effects: EQ10Q has been used extensively as have the Invada and Calf
compressors. Also: SWH plugins; TAP Reverberator; C* plugins, mainly the
amp and cabinet sims; Matrix Spatialiser; some other effects from the
Calf suite.
Mics: SE Electronics SE2200A and AKG D3700 through a Focusrite Platinum
TwinTrak Pro (also used for DI) into an M-Audio Audiophile 24/96
Drums: Native Instruments Battery Studio Drums
Bass: Squier Vintage Modified Fretless Jazz Bass
Acoustic guitar: Freshman FA300 JEM
Acoustic 12-string guitar: Freshman FA1DC12
Lead guitar: Yamaha SA503 TVL
Rhythm guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio
FX: Behringer EM600 Echo Machine
Amplification: Marshall JCM2000 TSL601
Pianos: Sampletekk White Sister; White Grand
Mellotron – Cello, Mk II Violins, English Accordion: GForce M-Tron Pro
Leslie (Mellotron processing): Native Instruments B4 II VST
Hammond: Native Instruments B4 II
ARP Solina: GForce Virtual String Machine
Trumpets and horns: BOB Orchestral Brass
ARP Odyssey: GForce Oddity
Bells: PMI Anvils & Churchbells
Glockenspiel: oops, not sure... either PMI Orchestral Instruments or
Prosonus Orchestral Percussion
We're almost done with a 12-track, 40-minute-long CD, recorded partially in Ardour and mixed entirely in Ardour.
We should probably get it mastered. However, "pro" mastering houses want like $500 for a CD. We haven't made that much money in a year. I think we spent a total of $80 on recording it. So, not likely that we'll be justify big bucks to get it mastered.
I suppose I could run it through Jamin myself, and just hope for the best, but I don't know squat about mastering.
Are there any Linux-based mastering engineers around (i.e. on this list) who'd want to take on a project like this, for a rate that we might be able to actually justify?
-ken
Is there an up-to-date "order of build" or howto for lv2? i.e., if
you want everything including the kitchen sink with lv2, what should
you build, and in what order?
--
Josh Lawrence
http://www.hardbop200.com
Hi
I don't understand the CC license at all. I could dig through a jungle
starting with google, and I *have* read and understood the basics
regarding CC. I'm hoping for some personal experiences in plain
language. Here goes:
1) What's the advantages for the artist with CC compared to "All rights
reserved".
2) What's the disadvantages for the artist with CC compared to "All
rights reserved".
3) What's the advantages for the consumer with CC compared to "All
rights reserved".
I assume there's no disadvantages for the customer with CC...
Thanks in advance for any input.
--
Atte
http://atte.dkhttp://modlys.dk
Hi folks
Ive finally managed to migrate lenny to squeeze.
I started the migration because (among other things) ardour seemed to
be available only for squeeze and not lenny but got stuck for many
reasons
In the process I gathered that debian-multimedia is not necessary for
squeeze -- so currently its removed from my sources.list
So my questions
1. Is this (no debian-multimedia) a right choice?
2. Is there some (small set of) umbrella packages like ubuntu-studio?
3. Any docs recommended for the noob? I want to study jack and ardour.
Thanks
Rustom
Hey all,
It was quite a while ago that I emailed the list with some questions
about the best way to package my voices for ZynAddSubFX for download
on my website, and I finally got around to actually doing it now. I
don't email often, but I certainly benefit from reading all the
interesting emails, so this is my way of giving back to the community.
Feel free to take the voices and do whatever you want with them, just
don't claim them as your own or sell them (unless of course you modify
them to your liking, then they are yours).
Go to http://www.airlynx.sitesled.com and scroll straight to the
bottom of the page and you'll see a text link that says ZynAddSubFX
voices.
Alternatively you can use the http://airlynx.co.cc shortcut
Thanks to all the awesome people here!
Christopher ("Chip"/"Airlynx") VanDan
p.s. Let me know what you think
Hi,
I can't choose new devices with Audacity. When I try, Audacity
immediately crashes. I think I need to change my device because
I don't get any input signal when I record, nor does playback
make any sound. I'd prefer a different behavior, and I'm hoping
that someone here has helpful suggestions.
For what it's worth, I'm running on hardware that worked just
fine with Mandriva 2007.0. I say that as I think I can rule out
hardware troubles.
I very recently got Amarok's playback to make sound on this
system once I disabled Pulse Audio on the sound cards, and
selected the Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 card connected to my
computer speakers.
/proc/asound/cards contains:
0 [pcsp ]: PC-Speaker - pcsp
Internal PC-Speaker at port 0x61
1 [AudioPCI ]: ENS1371 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0xa800, irq 19
2 [M1010 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 1010
M Audio Delta 1010 at 0xa400, irq 18
3 [M1010_1 ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 1010
M Audio Delta 1010 at 0x9400, irq 17
I want to use device #1, the ENS1371, in the above list. When
I bring up the the Audacity Preferences "Devices" configuration
dialog the default settings are an OSS host with /dev/dsp as the
playback device and /dev/dsp1 as the recording device. In the
"Interface" section of the dialog there's a line saying:
Using: PortAudio V19-devel (built Oct 20 2009 10:02:01)
The dialog provices me with thes choices.
OSS
playback
/dev/dsp
/dev/dsp3
recording
/dev/dsp1
/dev/dsp3
ALSA
playback
pcsp: pcsp (hw1:0,0)
Ensoniq AudioPCI: ES1371 DAC1 (hw1:1,1)
M Audio Delta 1010: ICE1721 multi (hw3:0)
front
default
dmix
recording
Ensoniq AudioPCI: ES1371 DAC2/ADC (hw1:1,0)
M Audio Delta 1010: ICE1721 multi (hw3:0)
default
If I alter the playback or recording devices, then simpling
clicking on "OK" for the dialog is enough to cause Audacity to
crash.
After trying Audacity, I started to try with Ardour, then ran
out of time. I left QJackCtl running, which means that today I
get additional choices in Audacity as I write this help request.
Those choices are:
JACK Audio Connection Kit
recording
alsa_pcm
system
playback
alsa_pcm
system
It turns out that I _CAN_ choose the JACK default alsa_pcm
devices and click OK and have Audacity continue to run. I don't
know if it plays or records as I'm far from the computer now.
Maybe the answer is to alter the default card of my three cards
to be the Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 card. I remember doing this
kind of thing before in /etc/modprobe.conf to get the modules to
load in the order of my preference. Would anyone recommend for
or against that?
When Audacity starts, it complains with these lines:
Expression '*idev = open( idevName, flags )' \
failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 811
Expression 'OpenDevices( idevName, odevName, &idev, &odev )' \
failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 857
Expression 'PaOssStream_Initialize( stream, inputParameters, \
outputParameters, streamCallback, userData, streamFlags, \
ossHostApi )' failed in 'src/hostapi/oss/pa_unix_oss.c', line: 1234
When Audacity crashes, it complains with this line:
audacity: pcm_params.c:2348: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
Any suggetions? Anybody?
Thanks....
--
Kevin
I've seen a few Java programs out there, which, while not actually
written for Jack/Alsa, would probably be usable. What's out there
that's recommended/good for this though? Is there anything that will
work directly with Jack (and use a RME/Hammerfall as an interface)?
I have an analog 30-band stereo graphic equalizer already that I could
use in conjunction with this, if that would help.
--
+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ 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
