Edit: looks like I did not sent this to the list like I intended.
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 19:31:50 you wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:23 PM, drew Roberts <zotz(a)100jamz.com> wrote:
> > I think I saw mention that this was to be a straight By project. This
> > will likely cut down the opportunities for film & TV licensing. BY-SA
> > would retain most of these opportunities while still making the album
> > Free (libre)
>
> All my previous albums have been BY-SA.
Indeed:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/paniq_(2)
can't post the relevant link for libre.fm as the site seems to be having
problems right now.
> This one is going to be BY on
> purpose.
Certainly your call and I am happy to have more BY music in the world.
If I ever get back to the Midnight Freedom Show and you ever get any songs
with vocals that fit, I would be happy to consider them.
http://www.y98radio.com/node/178
> Film, TV licensing, I want them all to be able to benefit
> from it. After all, they are using my music, which almost makes them
> good people by default, independent of what they do with it.
> Sometimes, SA is simply impractical. I don't want anyone asking me for
> permission to do this or that.
>
> Unconditional love, my friend. It's rare, and there should be more of it.
Edit: libre.fm seems to be back up so here is that link:
http://alpha.libre.fm/artist/paniq
all the best,
drew
Edit: looks like I did not sent this to the list like I intended.
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 01:12:03 you wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:40 AM, drew Roberts <zotz(a)100jamz.com> wrote:
> > Actually, this patronage does not *have* to be independent of commercial
> > interests. You might be able to think of ways to have commercial
> > interests be you patrons and *still* put out you music libre and even
> > gratis.
>
> Why would I want to do that?
I have no idea. I didn't say you or anyone else would want to do it. Just that
it might be possible.
However, on a quick thought now, perhaps because private individuals do not
kick in enough and commercial interests (perhaps non-standard music ones)
will while still not getting in the way of what you are trying to do. Say the
corner grocer wants to be a patron at a lever which will get his store
mentioned on the album? (Pick a business that you like and support if you
don't like your or have a corner grocer.)
all the best,
drew
Just a couple of days since 2.8.8, and Ardour 2.8.9 is available from
http://ardour.org/download
Why? It turned out that the infamous mute bug (which caused the mute
button to do nothing) was actually not fixed in 2.8.8 (or prior
versions where this has been claimed). This has been one of the worst
regressions of recent versions of Ardour, and I mistakenly blamed
packagers and distributions for it. Thankfully ardour.org member
the_CLA spent time with me on IRC and we finally proved to my
satisfaction that the bug was really in Ardour. Its now fixed,
hopefully forever.
In addition, a new Ardour user on OS X pointed out two rather
unfortunate problems that have now been fixed:
* If a plugin has existing presets, the preset selector in the
plugin editor window would steal key events, possibly causing an
unintentional (and unrecoverable) reset of the plugin state (very
annoying)
* All canvas items except for the text used to label and regions
could have their color adjusted. These two exceptions have now been
added to the set of things that can be tweaked by, for example, a
color-blind user, or someone who just wants dark colors for tracks and
white text on region names.
Many thanks to the_CLA and Maurits Lamers for patiently getting me to
understand these 3 bugs.
This morning when I turned on my computer it started playing
stuff on Pandora, but more slowly and at a lower pitch than
normal. I wondered if this was just a problem with Pandora, so I
checked my own song files with Amarok. Again, that music plays
more slowly and at a lower pitch than I'd expect. 1-2 days ago
this very same computer played at the right pitch and speed.
What could have gone wrong? The built-in (only) sound card's
clock is now running more slowly? Some system wide configuration
changed for the sound system, and it now slows things down?
If it's a configuration thing, then I didn't intend to do that,
nor did I even touch the configuration. This computer runs
PulseAudio on Mandriva 2009.1. The driver is snd_intel8x0.
Any ideas folks?
Thanks....
--
Kevin
Hi everyone,
perhaps you know me as "paniq". For 10 years, I'm releasing good and
free music on the web.
My wife and I, we are currently organizing an album project called
"The most remarkable album on this entire planet". Most likely
remarkable because it will sound awesome, maybe also because the album
is entirely funded by fans, but most importantly, because the album
will be completely made with free software, in this particular case:
Ubuntu Linux and the Linux Audio infrastructure.
We hope the album will always be remembered for showing that selling
copies isn't the only way to produce great work, and that the power of
free software can indeed outsmart commercial software. Furthermore,
our aim is to contribute to the treasure of free works, because we
believe that financial interests interfere with quality, truth and
honesty in art, and we wish to set an example.
Since our launch last week, we have raised 50% of the basic production
cost from our closest friends and fans, but we are not quite there
yet. To make donating more attractive, we have thrown in some rewards
such as early downloads, a final CD, access to video logs and being
added to the album's booklet.
We hope you'll like our idea and will support us, financially or
through telling your friends.
Love,
Sylvia & Leonard
Hi everyone,
I've been try to compose for several months/years now and i'm never pleased
with the mix and with the synth sounds. My use of effects and filters are
more or less random. I'm self-educated here but not very well ;-).
More, each time I listen to my tracks on a new system, it sounds different.
So I'm willing to learn some mixing techniques (and some synth techniques as
well). I'd like to have a better understanding of sound mixing and synth. A
little studying will do me good.
Do you know any good book references about these subjects, french or english
? Of course if they tackle the subject of free audio software as well I
would just be great.
Thanks for your help !
jy
More acoustic Cargo Cult science:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a73p6EORPyY
Very funny-- kind of like a British MythBusters. But, unlike the MythBusters, not very scientific.
Where to start? The frequency is supposed to be sub-sonic, so "turn down your TV"... assuming you're on a home theatre system and your TV has subwoofers. And the sound is supposed to resonate with the digestive system, so they wear earphones to protect themselves-- that'll work great. Also, the sound they played sounds like it's in the low-midrange, not subsonic at all.
As they say over there across the pond: complete bollocks.
-ken
I want to create an animation for a track my band recorded and I'm
wondering how to get it in sync. It's a straight 4/4 piece but we
weren't playing to a click track so the tempo varies slightly. Most
of the advice I get is "Open it in Audacity (or similar) and eyeball
the beats from the waveform" but it would be very cool if there was an
app that could read the audio and spit out the beat times. Is there?
Regards,
Jeremy Henty
--
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Yesterday I found a very interesting project (through the pianoteq
website) which seeks to 'transcribe' player piano performances to midi:
http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/rebirth.htm
Now I'm looking for something that allows me to play back those
performance easily, all in a row. It would be nice if it could be hooked
up to anything, so it would just need to play back the midi, without
reproducing any sound itself. I simply want to listen to all those
performances.
Any recommendations?
--
Regards,
Philipp
--
"Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Finally, its June and Ardour 2.8.8 is finally here.
Although this is primarily a bug-fix release, some of the "bugs" fixed
are so pervasive and significant that they could almost count as new
features. In particular, automation editing has finally arrived at a
place that people with experience on other DAWs may consider actually
usable. Issues with alignment of new and existing recorded material
are addressed too, and there are lots of other bug fixes for issues
small and large (including 3 or 4 crashing bugs). Thanks to motivation
provided by the Mixbus project, there are also yet more improvements
to AudioUnit plugin handling on OS X. Anybody using Ardour 2.8.7 or
earlier should upgrade to enjoy increased stability and better
functionality.
This is the last feature-adding release of the 2.8 series. The next
release of Ardour will be version 3.0-alpha1 (unless notable
regressions are discovered in 2.8.8).
IMPORTANT FIXES
Dramatic improvements to automation editing so that it more or less
works as anyone might expect. DOWNSIDE: for this release, the display
of automation data is not updated in realtime while in write/touch
mode. This will be fixed in a future release.
Correct very strange and erratic punch recording behaviour that would
create regions on tracks that were not record enabled
Fix crash when zooming canvas repeatedly
Fix handling of files larger than 2GB that could cause very slow
reload of existing sessions (speedup was from 9 minutes to 30 seconds)
Subtle but important change that may fix issues with recording not
placing material in the correct location on the timeline
Correctly order signal processing after adding a send (fixes issues
with placement of recorded material)
Regions overlapped by 2 other regions will now no longer semi-randomly
fail to be audible during playback
Region exports and bounces now use region fade in and fade out curves.
USEFUL FIXES
Save & recall port insert latency values
JACK Latency = 256 menu option now works
Importing files with the "Sequence files" option now works
Cleanup LV2 "external gui" extension support
Clear solo state when deleting a route that is soloed
Notify user that deleting a route will save the session state
Ellipsize long names in the track/bus inspector
Force exported AIFF files to be big-endian
Anchor the crossfade start and end points so that they cannot be edited
Correctly retain MIDI bindings for global transport controls
Do not burn 100% of a CPU's available cycles if disconnected from JACK
Put the fixed size columns (check marks) on the left side of the
mixer's track and group lists for easier access to their functionality
Fix strange behaviour when dragging region(s) towards time zero
Rationalize track selection and range selection
Make selecting a range in mouse range mode work even if there is
already a time selection
When splitting N-channel regions to mono regions, each new region
shows up as its own region, not a child of the original
Clearing an automation track of data no longer generates an error when
next loading the session ("Cannot reconstitute XML history node ...")
HANDY NEW FEATURES
Include links in Help menu to the tutorial and reference manuals
switch from ctrl-drag to alt-drag for "drag-selection-as-region"
change automation track selection model slightly so that auto tracks
are highlighted as expected. only show range boxes when the automation
will actually get edited. clicking an automation track should show the
editor-mixer for the parent track
Configurable behaviour when an N channel track plays a region that has
less than N channels (silence or replicate the last channel). Default
is silence.
OS X ONLY
Significantly updated version of the GTK GUI toolkit in use, which
fixes a number of issues including...
Multiple monitors now supported correctly
Various fixes for handling AudioUnits, particularly UAD
Use Apple's ExtAudioFile API for file types not otherwise handled on
OS X (MP3, AAC and others)
Use libsndfile to try to get timestamp info because Apple has no API for this
Do not categorize AU plugins using the "subtype" property because its
meaningless. Use "type" instead which is coarser but has a clear
meaning.
Added a shortcut to Volumes (external disk drives) when opening a session
Add option to enable/disable translation on OS X
Remove automation mode selector from AU plugin view window, since it
doesn't do anything useful
Correctly handle AU parameter types, so that more parameters are
available for automation
If a plugin has a Carbon-based editor, properly close that window when
deleting the plugin (e.g. when closing the session)
TRANSLATION UPDATES
Spanish (Pablo Fernández)
French (Raphaël Doursenaud)
CONTRIBUTORS
Carl Hetherington, Lucus, DHess, Ben Loftis and Old Man Davis
