Linux-audio-user September 2010

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by Folderol

Well, it's nearly 2am but my latest creation is still buzzing round in my head and simply won't let go :( The is a development of my entry to the current KVR contest. The percussion intro (which, with variations pretty much runs on through the whole tune) is from the toy instruments we are supposed to use. I used the following soundfont samples: Magical Music Box Cathedral Toy Organ Cimealong Just as the tune proper starts I use the kick drum from the P51f soundfont, this is timed to coincide with what sounds like someone hitting a saucepan - that's because it's exactly what it is :o In the middle quiet passages I introduce more P51f - I'm quite pleased with the way this turned out. I usually struggle with percussion. The synth sounds are all ZynAddSubFX - bet that surprised you :) The background pad is 'Smooth' First phrase is 'Beyond' + 'Soft Voyager' Next comes 'Overdrive', then 'Steel Wire' The rich, rolling bass is from 'Ethereal' The very last sound to come in, on the last phrase is 'Super Square' Qsynth channels carrying all the percussion were passed through an instance of jamin, and Zyn. was passed through a separate instance. The two were then simply passed on to timemachine to record in one sweep. Rosegarden was the sequencer. Due to the truly random nature of the sound of 'Overdrive' it actually took me 7-8 tries to get exactly the right effect over the whole piece. The very last step was to pass the recorded whole through Audacity where I shaved 2dB off the spikes with the fast lookahead limiter, restored to 0db, then trimed the start and end. So here is the final result: http://www.musically.me.uk/music/No_More_Time_For_Toys.ogg P.S. Please ensure you have a good bass response to get the best from that 'Ethereal'. Quite high volume wouldn't go amiss either :) -- 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.

14 years, 10 months

Re: [LAU] [PlanetCCRMA] linuxsampler, qsampler

by Jonathan E. Brickman

I have been using JSampler Fantasia on F13 for a number of months now, with complete success. I use the LinuxSampler web-site package for JSampler Fantasia, controlling the F13 standard 'linuxsampler' package. J.E.B. > hi, > > I tried to launch linuxsampler on fc12 last week (just to see what it > does). It seems it was hoping to find some plugin directory which wasn't > there. Since getting it to work was low priority for me I didn't spend > much time trying to figure it out. > Oded > > > >> On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 09:15 +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to run qsampler/linuxsampler. >>> >>> I first start jack, using qjackctl. >>> Then I start qsampler. >>> For a short time the qsampler screen appears, but almost >>> immediately it crashes and exits with a segmentation error message. >> Hmmm, yes, I'm seeing the same problem (last couple of days). >> >>> Anyone having more success on Fedora 13 ? >> I just released a package of the current svn of qsampler that has that >> bug fixed (maybe it has other problems but it seems to be working fine >> for me). >> >> -- Fernando >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PlanetCCRMA mailing list >> PlanetCCRMA(a)ccrma.stanford.edu >> http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/planetccrma >> > _______________________________________________ > PlanetCCRMA mailing list > PlanetCCRMA(a)ccrma.stanford.edu > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/planetccrma

14 years, 10 months

DIY MIDI controller

by Igor Brkic

Hi to all! I just wanted to share my latest project with everyone. It's a DIY MIDI (foot)controller based on arduino and that runs on Linux. Hardware part consist of a arduino and a few keys and knobs. But software part is more interesting. It creates new alsa MIDI device and allows you to bind any number of MIDI messages to any control. So, for example, I can bind few keyboard chords to keys on a footboard and play it as a background while playing guitar. If anyone wants to know more: http://hyperglitch.com/articles/ctrlr Cheers! Igor

14 years, 10 months

OT: Live SuperCollider drone performance

by micromoog

Hi all, Here's a live SuperCollider ambient/drone performance I did last night at the gallery/performance space Open Lot, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It's about half an hour, and was a live collaboration with two artists -- an abstract oil painter and a video artist. I used pure SuperCollider running on Ubuntu. http://lawrencecrow.bandcamp.com/track/open-lot-2010-09-16 micromoog (Lawrence Crow)

14 years, 10 months

ardour keyboard shortcut for activate all

by Thomas Hedegaard

Hello Does anyone know if theres a keyboard shortcut for activating/deactivating all in the plugin section of the mixer? Thanks Thomas Hedegaard

14 years, 10 months

re Subconscious Affecting Music

by david

I asked a friend of mine, who's rather intellectual about music, about the book someone mentioned in this thread, of ancient Greek thought on the effect of music on the mind: > I have heard of it, and read about it, but that isn't the work one > would cite if you were looking for a scientific study of the effects > of music on the subconscious mind. > > I am not familiar with the literature, but I am aware that there has > been a lot of nonsense written on the subject. -- David gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community

14 years, 10 months

jack-dssi-host and client names

by Julien Claassen

Hello everyone1 Is there a chance to tell jack-dsi-host, which client name to use. I find a name like: hexter DX7 emulation (v0.6.2):hexter DX7 emulation (v0.6.2) out_1 rather cumbersome. But I didn't see no options with my jack-dssi-host for naming. Kindly yours Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

14 years, 10 months

Other Places

by Folderol

I wonder how many people here submit music to either non-Linux sites, or at least ones that are poorly represented. I maintain and artists page with occasional entries on :- http://www.muzic.com These people are linked with the Internet Archive. Unfortunately they insist on mp3 files, but nevertheless it's a place to strut your stuff, as they say. I don't always mention that my tracks are composed on Linux systems - don't want to scare people off :) Another site I contribute to is :- http://www.kara-moon.com/forum/ Anyone is free to browse the forum, but you need to register to submit anything. This is a *very* friendly group. You get a lot of support and suggestions, and there is nearly always a couple of multi-person collaborations in progress. There are about 3-4 of us that use Linux, and it's just no big deal. Sometimes we get asked questions by the curious - in which case we answer of course without trying to evangelise! Finally, I also make postings on :- http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=14 This is the KVR music cafe. It is a popular site and has a *very* fast music turnover of just about every style imaginable. Sadly I think I'm the only Linux player on there :( I particularly enjoy the monthly themed contest. It forces you out of complacency as you never know what the theme will be. This month is easy actually. The tune can be what you like but must include at least one child's toy instrument (samples are accepted). Also, this month you have to write at least 10 reviews of other artists work :) -- 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.

14 years, 10 months

USB sound card via Express Card adapter

by Joan Quintana

Due to lack of bandwith with my internal USB bus, like we are discussing in another thread, I ordered a Trust SuperSpeed 2 Port USB 3.0 Laptop Express Card. $ lsusb -v ... 1a:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation Device 0194 (rev 03) (prog-if 30) Subsystem: NEC Corporation Device 0194 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at f0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd Kernel modules: xhci ... $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0582:00e6 Roland Corp. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:6406 Microdia Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:0084 Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub I have a new USB bus, and my Edirol UA25-EX is the only device working in bus #3 $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xf0a00000 irq 22 1 [Generic ]: HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic HD-Audio Generic at 0xcfedc000 irq 17 2 [UA25EX ]: USB-Audio - UA-25EX EDIROL UA-25EX at usb-0000:1a:00.0-3, full speed $ cat /proc/interrupts | grep usb 16: 91 84 83 88 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, ohci1394, xhci_hcd:usb3 23: 10112 40 2241 34 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2 I have my device working on IRQ 16. everything seems all right, so I start JACK, and I have this error. --- $ /usr/bin/jackd -p1024 -t2000 -dalsa -dhw:2,0 -r44100 -p256 -n2 -Xraw jackd 0.118.0 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details Memory locking is unlimited - this is dangerous. You should probably alter the line: @audio - memlock unlimited in your /etc/limits.conf to read: @audio - memlock 2937420 no message buffer overruns JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. SSE2 detected apparent rate = 44100 creating alsa driver ... hw:2,0|hw:2,0|256|2|44100|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:2 configuring for 44100Hz, period = 256 frames (5.8 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 24bit little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 24bit little-endian ALSA: use 2 periods for playback ALSA: cannot set hardware parameters for playback ALSA: cannot configure playback channel cannot load driver module alsa --- I suppose that the problem is not JACK related, is ALSA related: $ aplay -v -D plughw:UA25EX /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:1053: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 16 CHANNELS: 1 RATE: 48000 PERIOD_TIME: (125011 125012) PERIOD_SIZE: [6000 6000] PERIOD_BYTES: (12000 12002) PERIODS: (3 4) BUFFER_TIME: 500000 BUFFER_SIZE: 24000 BUFFER_BYTES: 48000 TICK_TIME: 0 Another thing: the device is listed in $ cat /proc/bus/pci/devices | grep xhci and not in $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices Aany ideas? Thanks in advance, Joan Quintana

14 years, 10 months

new 64 bit adobe flash player for linux available

by Niels Mayer

This was previously a problem as they had only released 32 bit version of latest flash player. Today, a 64 bit one became available: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer_square_p1… http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html To install, tar xvzf and then sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Niels http://nielsmayer.com

14 years, 10 months

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Linux-audio-user September 2010