Hi,
I have a young bright-eyed, bright-eared 12-year old composition student
working on a ASUS EEE-PC netbook. On my advice he switched over to Ubuntu
from Windows to do our work. I figured since I'm a veteran Linux user (since
1997!!!) I could help him if he had issues.
He's trying to compose some "musique concrete" style things right now using
Ardour, and of course, jack. Mostly it goes smoothly, but he does run into
crippling issues more frequently. Two things I want to mention:
1) Ardour works fine as it should 90% of the time, except on a netbook, the
windows fail to maximize correctly to available screen real estate (1024x600
I think), e.g., when you scroll down, you get the lowest ardour track
leaving video trails, and basically it looks like a huge GTK bug of some
sort---the interaction with the pointer of course becomes impossible. On my
EEE-PC Arch Linux system I can confirm the same behavior. I know 600 pixels
is not a lot to work with when you have all those tracks, but there
shouldn't be video freezes and trails of graphical widgets. Seems to me to
be a really obvious bug.
2) My student is reporting that at least on his Ubuntu machine, he's having
a problem getting sound consistently out of Ardour: sometimes, he says, the
mixer seems to randomly disconnect the tracks from the "Master Out" bus, and
sometimes he reports that jack misbehaves and that he cannot reconnect to
it. I'm going to try to get to the bottom of it, but I can report that I've
experienced similar things on rare occasions (Ardour 2.8.7, and jack 0.118.0
on Arch, maybe Ubuntu has other destructive aspects?), although I'm much
more able to hack around it, as a Linux beginner, and without my tech
support, unfortunately he's had to open Windows and finish his assignments
in Cakewalk. Which is of course MOST unfortunate for the cause of great
Linux audio software advocacy!
In talking to his Dad today, apparently, taking my advice and doing a 'sudo
killall jackd' and restarting jackd and ardour may have worked--I have to
confirm this w/Patrick. But this is not an ideal way of working......
Has anyone experienced similar things?
Best,
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.comhttp://www.untwelve.org
I've been exploring jack session support in yoshimi. There's a very first
cut at <http://www.graggrag.com/yoshimi/yoshimi-0.059-pre0.tar.bz2>.
I'd be ever so grateful if anyone with an interest in the yoshimi-jack
session alliance could give it a run, and let me know where it explodes,
dissolves your keyboard, or demonstrates other non-compliant behaviour.
I've only just got it to the point where I'm starting to poke it about
from an SM, so please don't set expectations too high just yet. Save
session and load session seem to work. I'm not getting the jack midi
connections back though, so I'm still puzzling over that one.
cheers, Cal
Hello again list!
I've managed to rectify this problem. It turns out that net.ipv6.bindv6only
was set to 1 in /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf. The quick fix for this is to
set it 0. :/
Andrew Coughlan.
Brent Busby wrote:
> Anyone have any comments about the new 10.x series (QT4) Rosegarden? Is
> it a regression, or do you think it's better? I'm talking about the
> program itself, not the QT4 toolkit.
I haven't used it yet. I look forward to using it. I use it for
notation, so I'll see how that goes!
I think in some cases what appears as a "regression" or "lack" in the
program (something it used to do, but now doesn't) may well be due to
missing stuff in QT4. I hear that KDE4's printing capabilities are
lacking many features, compared to KDE3, because QT4's printing
capabilities aren't as good as those of QT3. Give'em time ...
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
Anyone have any comments about the new 10.x series (QT4) Rosegarden? Is
it a regression, or do you think it's better? I'm talking about the
program itself, not the QT4 toolkit.
--
+ 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
Hey list,
Can anyone else reproduce this?
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java -jar /home/andrew/bin/Fantasia-0.9.jar
06-Jun-2010 23:46:30 org.linuxsampler.lscp.Client setSoTimeout
INFO: Unable to set timeout
java.net.SocketException: Socket Closed
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.setOption(PlainSocketImpl.java:201)
at java.net.Socket.setSoTimeout(Socket.java:1017)
at org.linuxsampler.lscp.Client.setSoTimeout(Client.java:188)
at org.jsampler.task.Global$SetClientReadTimeout.exec(Global.java:265)
at org.jsampler.task.EnhancedTask.run(EnhancedTask.java:57)
at net.sf.juife.AbstractTask.invokeAndWait(AbstractTask.java:180)
at net.sf.juife.TaskQueue.processTheQueue(TaskQueue.java:176)
at net.sf.juife.TaskQueue.start0(TaskQueue.java:147)
at net.sf.juife.TaskQueue.access$000(TaskQueue.java:43)
at net.sf.juife.TaskQueue$1.run(TaskQueue.java:140)
I recently upgraded to latest debian testing packages and have been using a
custom built 2.6.30 kernel from before I upgraded.
I then upgraded the software on my system and have now gotten that error
that renders Fantasia unusable (it cannot connect to the linuxsampler
backend) and java -version reports:
java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8) (6b18-1.8-1)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode, sharing)
Thanks,
Andrew
I'm updating packages on a studio machine that's been fairly stable with
Jack 0.116.2, just to catch up with what's been going on. Jack's been
up to all kinds of stuff since then though.
There's Jack with DBus, Jack without DBus, Jack that does realtime by
default, Jack that needs '-R' for realtime, Jack specialized for
multiple processors, Jack that runs on multiple processors but isn't
specialized for it...there's probably a plain old Jack somewhere too.
I know Jack's been a busy guy, and all work and no play make Jack a dull
boy, but all these choices and options are enough to make someone go get
a bottle of Jack and get jacked up just thinking about it.
I'm running Gentoo with the Pro-Audio overlay, and it looks like there
are versions from both the 0.x and 1.x series available. What's
recommended these days for someone with four AMD cores, RME hardware
(via PCI-E, no firewire), and has always worked fine with the 0.x series
even on SMP? (And I have no PulseAudio, and don't plan on getting any.)
Sorry about the silly questions... As you can see, I don't know Jack.
--
+ 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
Hey all,
I used to produce some dubstep songs (totally synthesized) using various
proprietary solutions,
but I'm recently attracted to the bass frequencies again.
Hence I'm looking for a good synth for bass, with plenty of assignable
LFO's, Portamento, and... sounding good!
I've a little experience with MX44, another little bit with AlsaMod Synth, a
bit of a giggle with ZynSubAdd, a play around
with the recent Yoshimi, but I'm not convinced of any really heavy bass yet.
Chances are that I've not got the right settings for the synth, Just
wondering if there's any dubstep guys out there using linux synths,
or if anybody has any PD dubstep patches?
Cheers, -Harry
Hi all,
I have a "M-Audio MidiSport USB 2x2" that I can see in qjackctl . I
have a file X999_OS138.mid that I need to transfer from midi out of
the midisport to the midi in of the jomox. How can I do that? Jomox
only has a Windows and Mac program to do it, and furthermore, they
list the midi sport as having problems with their program. I can put
the jomox in a state where its ready for the transfer.
- R
KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with KDE4 user interface, based on the
ALSA sequencer.
Changes in 0.10.0
* Custom patterns, with graphic editor and import/export as text (RFE
#2517833)
* Show banks, programs and note names from an instrument definition file
in .INS format
* Main window layout options: standard tool bar, hide action buttons
* New German translation, thanks to Rene Landert
* Updated Spanish, Czech and French translations
Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v2
More info
http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kmetronome.shtml
Sources
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/files/kmetronome/0.10.0/
Regards,
Pedro
