Hello Linux audio users,
I am making a new album, and the first three tracks are up. It is
algorithmic acid made with Pure Data on my Ubuntu GNU/Linux laptop.
<http://sciencegirlrecords.com/chr15m/squeakyshoecore/>
Here is a blog post with some more information about the Pure Data
patches I made to create the music. The patches are GPLv3, but I have
not got the latest version online yet. If you want to follow the
development of this album, subscribe to this tag on my blog:
<http://mccormick.cx/news/tags/music>
Thanks for listening.
Cheers,
Chris.
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http://mccormick.cx
Hello, for sometime now I've been playing with sooperlooper and
rakarrack; yesterday I recorded this 30 minute jam:
http://soundcloud.com/nareto/take10
there are some xruns at one point: don't hurt yourself with high
volumes or headphones
basically it's me playing guitar and a djembe with a piezo disc on it
through said software.
I know, it's quite harsh! I really like to experiment these
unconventional things.
Thoughts, suggestions, criticisms are welcome!
regards,
renato
I needed some new "radio" for background listening via
http://kmid2.sourceforge.net/ , and now I have it :
http://nielsmayer.com/npm/smythe-midi.tgzhttp://members.shaw.ca/smythe/archive.htm
For personal use, educational and noncommercial use only:
.......
Century old player pianos rolls are dying. While their target player
pianos can be repeatedly restored into perpetuity, the rolls cannot.
It is important therefore that the content of these rolls be captured
in computer form in hopes of extending their life into the foreseeable
future. The process of scanning music rolls first generates a very
large file, basically containing hundreds of thousands of pixels. That
initial .CIS file can then converted into a .MID music file as a
byproduct of the process. The files available here are the final
relatively small .MID files which may be "played" through most any
computer's sound card, an electronic keyboard, or in solenoid equipped
pianos such as Disklavier, PianoDisc, PianoMation, and Pianocorder.
All are Midi Type 1 files, with identifying data imbeded within the
"info" area through the use of CakeWalk. As an aid for owners of such
pianos who wish to use my midi files, Carol Beigel has assembled a
very useful web site for this purpose:
http://www.carolrpt.com/MIDItools.htm
The midi files downloadable from here are made available solely as a
convenience for personal enjoyment. They should not be used for
commercial purposes.
........
Note this is a lot of music:
gnulem-226-~/Music> ll smythe-midi.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 npm npm 48309966 2010-07-08 13:48 smythe-midi.tgz
gnulem-228-.../Music/smythe-midi> ll *.mid *.MID DUPLICATES/*.mid
DUPLICATES/*.MID | wc -l
3973
A cut and paste sampler from the A's
And They Called It Dixieland 1062S.mid
An Evening At Home - 61863S.mid
Angela Mia (1928) 75393W.mid
Angel Food Rag - 69 S.mid
Angels' Serenade 0213S.mid
Angel's Serenade 1193S.mid
Angels' Serenade 6069W.mid
Angry (1925) 3247S.mid
Animal Crackers (1926) - A2157-1.mid
Annabelle - 2356 S.mid
Annie_Laurie-241A.mid
A Precious Little Thing Called Love - 4583S.mid
April in Paris 104945D.mid
April Showers (1921) 6133W.mid
April Showers March 09364S.mid
Arabesque #1 [Debussy]D.mid
Arabesque #2 [Debussy]D.mid
Arabesque 51004a.mid
Arabesque, A Flat Major, Op 45, No. 1 1198W.mid
Arabesque_No_1-088BRD.mid
Arabesque No 1 E Major 69901A.mid
Arabesque_No_2-087BRD.mid
Arabesque No 2 - 5808 D.mid
Arabesque No 2 E Major 63503A.mid
Arabesque Op 18 56166A.mid
Arabesque Op.59 No.2 - 67776D.mid
ARABESQUE_op_7_no_1_in_E-minor-0218BRD.mid
Araby (1915) 32264S.mid
Are You Lonesome Tonight (1926) 1123S.mid
A-Ripper - 301813S.mid
Arkansas Blues (1921) 136S.mid
Arlequine Op 53 - 2539 R.mid
Armentiers March 017783S.mid
Arms of America March - 80533S.mid
Army Air Corps March - 7656S.mid
At Sundown - 713362D.mid
At The Devil's Ball - 308 S.mid
At The High Brown Baby's Ball - 893 S.mid
At The Jazz Band Ball (1918) 8630S.mid
At The Old Plantation Ball (1915) 86500S.mid
Auf Wiedersehn 102185d.mid
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
PS: everything sounded just great till this one: 5th Symphony 1st 2nd
Mvmt - 5030D.mid
Apologies in advance for any coarse language.
Honestly, when will people stop going 'Oh this windows app doesn't work in
linux, so I won't bother looking for native alternatives etc etc'. They're
two completely different OSes, last time I checked! Heck, even Mac OS X has
more in common with linux than windows does, and I'm not seeing people going
'Why can't I run Ableton on this Mac? Ugh it sucks big time, I won't bother
with it!'.
Andrew.
Hi
We have this event at Access Space next week which might interest some
on the list
Cheers
Jake
SONIC EVENT 1
Friday 23rd of July 2010 6.00pm - 9.00pm @ Access Space - FREE
Performances by artists in and around the South Yorkshire region using
Free and Open Source Software and recycled technology:
Alo Allik - f(x) - an audiovisual exploration of 3-dimensional
continuous spatial functions using SuperCollider and OpenGL
http://tehis.net
Neal Spowage - Ghetto Bastard - a performance with recycled
technology: a bastardised radio cassette player utilising radio
static, interference, body resistance, acoustic feedback and
mechanical noise.
www.nealspowage.com
Monika Dutta and David Mutch - Kindle - performance premier of
new work created with Pure Data, video and live animation inspired by
climatic concerns, alternative energy and the light and vistas of
East Yorkshire's coastal region.
www.foggedfilm.org
Access Space, 3-7 Sidney St, Sheffield S1 4RG, UK
t: 0114 249 5522
w:www.access-space.org
e: jake(a)access-space.org
--
Cheers,
Jake
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Jake Harries
Digital Arts Programme Manager
ACCESS SPACE
Unit 1, AVEC Building
3-7 Sidney St
Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK
t: +44 (0) 114 249 5522
w: www.access-space.org
Reg. Charity 1103837
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Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council England.
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http://loss.access-space.org/
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http://audiotools.lowtech.org
Drumstick is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface using
Qt4 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for
MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for SMF and WRK file
processing are also included. This library is used in KMetronome, KMidimon
and KMid2, and was formerly known as "aseqmm".
Changes:
* Removed the precompiled headers build option
* Fixed a bug that affected users running dumstick-based applications with
realtime priority enabled. There is a related problem in glib-2.22 that has
not yet been fixed (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599079).
This issue prevented to execute FluidSynth from inside KMid at startup in
those affected systems.
Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v2 or later
Project web site
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick
Online documentation
http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/docs/
Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/0.4.1/
Hey,
I'm afraid I have no idea what's causing this nor am I familar with the code
of the app! (I had to google to find the 'delete rakarrack.prefs' solution
that worked for me) So I can't be of much help, I'm afraid!
Andrew
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM, teza <tsaliou75(a)orange.fr> wrote:
> Le 13/07/2010 03:41, Josep Andreu a écrit :
> > sed/set_fonts/'s/^/\/\//' rakarrack.cxx> lololo ; mv lololo
> rakarrack.cxx
> >
> Hi all, fine we're getting there, manage to compil it, can run it until
> I hit knob "Fix on" then close down with this message.
>
> teza@teza-laptop:~$ rakarrack
>
> rakarrack 0.5.8_Equinox - Copyright (c) Josep Andreu - Ryan Billing -
> Douglas McClendon - Arnout Engelen
> Try 'rakarrack --help' for command-line options.
> zombified - calling shutdown handler
> X I/O error
> teza@teza-laptop:~$
>
> Thanks for helping
> Regards
> Teza.
>
>
>
>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:29:07 +0200
Daniel Mack <daniel(a)caiaq.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:16:52AM +0200, Renato wrote:
> > > Yes. I think i can hack something that emulates a MIDI interface,
> > > using ALSA or JACK.
> > >
> >
> > So you're thinking of writing it in C or similar (i.e. not pd or
> > sc)?? If you manage to get it working, I'd be interested to see the
> > code...
>
> Just pondering ... Wasn't there a tool around which could map
> arbitrary input mesages to any other action? Wouldn't it be easier to
> just amend that tool so it can send MIDI messages?
>
> Daniel
Yeah, Gizmod.
http://gizmod.sourceforge.net/
With it you can easily write python scripts that
"translate" HID events - for example change your mouse clicks in typing
a key combo (ctrl+alt+something) or whatever. You could additionaly use
some python midi libs and you should be good to go.
I had abbandoned that way because I didn't know python, and as a
musician I preferred to invest my time in learning something more
music-specific (supercollider) hoping that I could more effectively use
that language even for other music-things.
A more ambitious project would be to write an app that recognizes *any*
connected HIDs and gives you some possibilty to generate some MIDI out
of them. That way one could hook up his joystick,mouse,Audio Kontrol,
Rig Kontrol, fire up the program and control MIDI apps. It would be
cool.
BTW there is an app for gaming, qjoypad, that does something similar:
it detects any joysticks and lets you "remap" buttons and axis
movements to keyboard (PC keyboard) and mouse events, so that you can
control with your joystick even games that don't have native joystick
support. It has also a nice and effective GUI, and the ability to save
profiles.
I haven't looked at the code, but I guess it wouldn't be too difficult
to remove the "joystick filter" (having it list all HIDs, not just
joysticks) and adding MIDI support through some library.
I asked the dev some time ago about adding MIDI output support but he
didn't seem interested.
Whatever you end up doing, Pedro, definitely keep me updated ;)
cheers!
renato
> I'm not sure if I got all your questions right, but I'd summarize the
> situation as follows.
>
> - The Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 is fully supported by Linux. It
> can playback and record audio just like under Windows or Mac OS X.
Great!
> - It can also receive and send out MIDI messages over the standard 5-pin
> connectors. The userspace interface is standard ALSA MIDI.
Awesome :)
> - The LEDs are controlable via the ALSA mixer/control interface (see the
> amixer command line control interface for example)
But aren't the LEDs dependent on the hardware switches?
> - The three buttons and the wheel are exported as Linux input interface,
> just like the buttons on the Rig Kontrol 2 and 3. You would need to
> write your own software to actually use them (which is easy), or write
> some mappings for existing software (which should even be easier).
> Renato explained that nicely in his reply to your post.
Yes. I think i can hack something that emulates a MIDI interface,
using ALSA or JACK.
> - Don't let the NI manuals confuse you. What NI says about the buttons
> producing MIDI events only refers to their own mapping application. We
> transport button events etc. via a propietary kernel interface on OS X
> and Windows, and the NI mapping application takes this information and
> can optionally feed faked MIDI messages into the MIDI stream.
> The Linux driver itself doesn't do anything like that, but you're free
> to write a similar application that does the same thing under Linux.
Yes, that's what I had in mind :)
> - There are currently no devices ready for purchase that comply to the
> USB audio class version 2 standard.
So, I assume this one is not standard... well, otherwise it'd be using
usb-audio instead, no?
> This is mainly because the
> standard wasn't implemented in any operating system until some months
> ago. That situation has changed for ALSA and Mac OS X recently, and
> so we can expect to see more devices in the future. They'll be all
> supported then without any special driver. Stay tuned for a brave new
> world ;)
Great :)
> Hope that answers (most) of your questions. If you want any more
> information, please let me know. Feel free to forward this mail to the
> LAU mailing list.
Thanks a lot for your very detailed answer!
Cheers,
Pedro
