Linux-audio-user September 2010

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PulseAudio in realtime or high-priority mode

by Jonathan E. Brickman

Anyone using Pulse in realtime or high-priority modes? Experiences, anyone? I have a nice stable system in which Pulse sends all to Jack which then sends to ALSA, and am wondering if I should perhaps just use Pulse to take external inputs. Or is there a straightforward way to get one Jackd patchbay to handle input from two or three different whole audio devices? J.E.B.

14 years, 7 months

(Done in Linux) this is jazz

by James Morris

http://jwm-art.net/art/audio/this_is_jazz.ogg recorded live in my imaginary smoke-filled basement in the wee early hours ;-)

14 years, 7 months

Another direction

by Folderol

Having re-discovered the guitar, I've been getting some practice in. I don't know what the style I like is called, but it consists of picking a sort of melody from the lower strings with the thumb, then using fingers over the other strings to play arpeggios. After much practice, I was able to get through a 4-5 minute 'song' without a break or significant mistake. Once I had that sorted I moved over to the synth and produced some backing and a couple of 'verses' of lead. When I put that up on one of the music collaboration websites, a friend very quickly came back with complementary guitar line, along with a very nice guitar lead for the middle verse, after which I was then able to work out and add a subdued (synth) bass line. And there it stayed for a while. I couldn't think of where to take it. I just knew it wasn't 'complete'. It also didn't have a title, and finding that turned out to be the catalyst, because as soon as he heard it my friend came back with lyrics, half sung half spoken. All that was needed was a bit of tidying up and here is our complete collaboration. I hope you like it. http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Gone_Fishin.ogg -- 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, 7 months

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #2 - September 2010

by Jeremy Jongepier

Dear all, I've just published the second Monthly Round-Up covering the month of August: http://linuxaudio.org/node/115 Thanks to Robin for giving me access to the linuxaudio.org site so I can now publish the Round-Ups directly on linuxaudio.org. And thanks to the people at LinuxMAO (linuxmao.org) for providing so much valuable information. Best, Jeremy

14 years, 7 months

anyone good at musescore?

by alexander

Is there a way to change where accents are being placed by default? Dunno if it's a bug but as it is now they pop into existence right in the middle of the notelines and it's really annoying having to move them(making drum exercises) specially since they often sit below other notes making it more or less impossible to effectively select them. Thanks in advance!

14 years, 7 months

ubuntu maverick + jack

by maex＠firstfloor.org

hello i recently switched my os from debian squeeze to ubuntu maverick. ok. since years i am useing the nice edirol ua-25 sound device without any problems so far. but, ubuntu changed this. its seems jack on maverick isnt able to handle a second sounddevice. at least the ua-25 isnt supportet at all and the jackd response with an error message: -jack was stopped with exit status 255 -post shutwodn error 256 -could not connect to jack sserver as client - overall operation failed. trying to get pd running with alsa for instance, results in some io stuck, no sound s playing. the fundamental integration of the pulseaudio server seems to work well for the very basic of buildin soundsupport, but at least for me its an unbreakable barrier for a further useage of this distro. has anyone a idea how to be able to run jack with a second and external hardware? or simply change the distribution,... to osx ;-). m

14 years, 7 months

Terrasoniq Phase X64 USB audio interface?

by Hannes Rohde

Hi all, I just received my new toy, a Terrasoniq Phase X64 USB sound interface. Of course it does not work plug-n-play in Linux, just as expected :-) But maybe it's still possible to get it to run with a little more effort - does anyone here have a hint for me? uname -a: Linux orbit 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:21:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux cat /proc/asound/cards: does not see it, only my onboard intel sound dmesg: [32404.720016] usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 [32404.871290] usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice lsmod does not show the snd-usb-audio module lsusb -v: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a4a:5b01 Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x0a4a idProduct 0x5b01 bcdDevice 1.00 iManufacturer 1 MUSONIK GmbH iProduct 2 MUSONIK GmbH PHASE X64 USB iSerial 3 no serial number bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 80 bNumInterfaces 2 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x40 (Missing must-be-set bit!) Self Powered MaxPower 0mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 0 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 1 bNumEndpoints 3 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT bmAttributes 5 Transfer Type Isochronous Synch Type Asynchronous Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x009c 1x 156 bytes bInterval 1 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 4 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x04 EP 4 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 4 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 0 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 1 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 5 Transfer Type Isochronous Synch Type Asynchronous Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 4 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x86 EP 6 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes bInterval 1 Device Qualifier (for other device speed): bLength 10 bDescriptorType 6 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 bNumConfigurations 1 Device Status: 0x0001 Self Powered Do you see any chance to get this working? I can use all hints and ideas you might have... Cheers + big thanks in advance Hannes

14 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] [alsa-devel] Terratec EWS88D (ice1712) optical stuck on ADAT (no IEC958 optical i/o)

by Niels Mayer

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Alan Horstmann <gineera(a)aspect135.co.uk>wrote: > > May be helpful to use alsamixer (command-line pseudo graphical) - that > should > present all the controls the driver provides. Certainly I found that to be > the most useful way of understanding/operating the underlying controls. > (Which envy24control etc operate on top of). > It's hard to cut and paste from alsamixer(1) which is why I used amixer(1) and scripting to show what happens in alsamixer(1). The controls of interest, 'IEC958 Input Optical' 'IEC958 Input Optical' 'ADAT External Master Clock' 'ADAT Output Optical' 'ADAT Through' 'Enable ADAT' -- all appear in alsamixer(1) and they're all "stuck" at the current settings. Using either 'm' or 'space' or any other means that would normally change a boolean value for other ALSA properties do nothing for the above values in alsamixer(1). Basically, it appears that the property toggles, and then flips right back to the previous state (because that's what ALSA says it's at). Similarly, when set from the commandline, the ALSA result indicates the value stays the same: amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' true numid=95,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=off > I am fairly sure that the ice1712 driver has no run-time mechanism for > enabling/disabling the paired digital streams that are ADAT on EWS88D, and > go > to/from the AK4524 codecs on most other versions. Seems like there's something of it in the code, and certainly the Windows drivers and the hardware itself support this functionality. See also http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kernel.git;a=blob_plain;f=sound/pci/ice… static struct snd_kcontrol_new snd_ice1712_ews88d_controls[] __devinitdata = { EWS88D_CONTROL(SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER, "IEC958 Input Optical", 0, 1, 0), /* inverted */ EWS88D_CONTROL(SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER, "ADAT Output Optical", 1, 0, 0), EWS88D_CONTROL(SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER, "ADAT External Master Clock", 2, 0, 0), EWS88D_CONTROL(SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER, "Enable ADAT", 3, 0, 0), EWS88D_CONTROL(SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER, "ADAT Through", 4, 1, 0), }; It's almost like set/get aren't handling "boolean" correctly... And also, this "invert" thing looks suspect -- explanation??? static int snd_ice1712_ews88d_control_get(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol) { ... int invert = (kcontrol->private_value >> 8) & 1; ... } static int snd_ice1712_ews88d_control_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol, struct snd_ctl_elem_value *ucontrol) { ... int invert = (kcontrol->private_value >> 8) & 1; ... } > With the DMX6fire, which > normally has 3-pairs, I added a different register value used at start-up > so > that 2 channel are not active (and picking up 'static' noise), but the > other > ice1712's enable all 4 pairs always. > > It is possible that the functions and controls have been coded from > data-sheets and never debugged on real hardware, or at least not in every > respect. Perhaps others may know? > Hoping somebody knows. Or knows of some magic command or patch I can use to switch these inputs. -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com

14 years, 7 months

ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.2

by Stefan Westerfeld

BEAST/BSE version 0.7.2 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.2 are available for download at: http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/ This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU LGPL that runs under unix. BSE-ALSA is an ALSA driver for BSE. The "Bedevilled" portion of the names has no religious background, refer to the About page for more details: http://beast.gtk.org/about A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as screenshots can be found at: http://beast.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots/index.html The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in our forums like the Beast Bugzilla or the mailing list, all of which can be reached through http://beast.gtk.org/. TRANSLATORS: Please help us to improve the BEAST translation, just download the tarball, edit po/<LANGUAGE>.po and email it to us. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.2: * Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL, use AS-IS license for examples * Module changes and additions: ArtsCompressor - Relicensed to LGPL with permission from Matthias Kretz BseContribSampleAndHold - Relicensed to LGPL with permission from Artem Popov DavXTalStrings - Use deterministic random numbers for unit tests BseNoise - Improved random number generator * Switched to autogenerated ChangeLogs * Error bell can be muted in beast preferences dialog * Added multisample creation/editing command line tool: bsewavetool * Support adjustable volume, pitching and drum envelopes in .bsewave files * Added Retro Acoustic drum kit [Tim, Stefan] * New loadable Instruments/Effects: - BQS Bass Drum E8012 [Tim, Stefan] - BQS Slow Hum [Stefan, William DeVore] - FSM Fresh Water Bass instrument [Krzysztof Foltman] - FSM Growl Bass instrument [Krzysztof Foltman] - FSM Synth String Sweep [Krzysztof Foltman] * Added support for loading 32bit and 24bit PCM-format WAV files * Added support for gcc-4.4 and automake-1.10 * Added support for guile-1.8, guile-1.6 remains as minimum requirement * Various fixes, improvements and much improved test coverage. * Bug fixes: #452604, #468229, #344388, #451086, #450724, #454121, #491552, #450490, #441936, #336766, #433431, #474332, #474244, #456879, #456408, #424897 [Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld] * Migrated translation support to use awk, sed and po/Makefile.am. * Updated German translation [Mario Blättermann] * Updated Italien translation [Michele Petrecca] * Updated Occitan translation [Yannig Marchegay] * Updated Brazilian Portugues translation [Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle] * Updated British English translation [David Lodge] * Updated Spanish translation [Jorge Gonzalez] * Updated Slovenian translation [Andrej Znidarsic] * Updated Danish translation [Joe Hansen] * Updated French translation [Bruno Brouard] * Added Norwegian bokmal translation [Kjartan Maraas] * Added Ukrainian translation [Maxim V. Dziumanenko] Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.2: * Fixes for automake-1.10 builds * Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

14 years, 7 months

Terratec EWS88D (ice1712) optical stuck on ADAT (no IEC958 optical i/o)

by Niels Mayer

I just scored a nice Terratec EWS88D for $20.00. :-) ( http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/EWS88D_Board_L.jpg missing midi cable though (*)) It works nicely with Linux and http://mudita24.googlecode.com , although it's missing some important controls to turn off the ADAT parts of the card. Alas, it wouldn't help to support them in mudita24, as I cannot get them to change values through standard ALSA tools like amixer(1) and alsamixer(1). Therefore, the question: is what is it about snd-ice1712 that prevents the mixer control values detailed below from changing, and is there anything I can do to fix it? (sometimes you want to use this card in it's dual IEC958 optical + spdif I/O config, other times, you want to use the optical for ADAT and the spdif for IEC958, which is the only configuration I can get currently.) The results from amixer(1): http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/terratec-ews88d-amixer.txt Results of "cat /proc/asound/EWS88D/ice1712": http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/terratec-ews88d-ice1712.txt My attempts at changing optical port from ADAT to IEC958. Nothing happens: ///// ///// ///// ///// ///// ///// ///// ///// coggie-7-~> foreach i ( 'IEC958 Input Optical' 'IEC958 Input Optical' 'ADAT External Master Clock' 'ADAT Output Optical' 'ADAT Through' 'Enable ADAT' ) foreach? amixer cget iface=MIXER,name="$i" foreach? end numid=95,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=off numid=95,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=off numid=97,iface=MIXER,name='ADAT External Master Clock' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=on numid=96,iface=MIXER,name='ADAT Output Optical' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=on numid=99,iface=MIXER,name='ADAT Through' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=off numid=98,iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=on coggie-10-~> amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' off numid=98,iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=on coggie-11-~> amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' false numid=98,iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=on coggie-12-~> amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' off numid=98,iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=on coggie-13-~> amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' 0 numid=98,iface=MIXER,name='Enable ADAT' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=on coggie-14-~> amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' on numid=95,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=off coggie-15-~> amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' true numid=95,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=off coggie-16-~> amixer cset iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' 1 numid=95,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Input Optical' ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw------,values=1 : values=off ///// ///// ///// ///// ///// ///// ///// ///// FYI, for more info on this board: ftp://ftp.terratec.de/Audio/EWS/88D/Manual/EWS88D_Manual_GB.pdf ftp://ftp.terratec.de/Audio/EWS/88D/TechnicalData/EWS88D_GB.pdf Relevant snd-ice1712 sources: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kernel.git;a=blob_plain;f=sound/pci/ice… http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kernel.git;a=blob_plain;f=sound/pci/ice… Also, I'm running on Fedora12 ( 2.6.32.21-166.fc12.x86_64 ) which seems to have a somewhat odd mix of ALSA drivers and runtime: coggie-17-~> drumstick-sysinfo ALSA Sequencer System Info, version: 0.5.0 Compiled ALSA library: 1.0.23 Runtime ALSA library: 1.0.23 Runtime ALSA drivers: 1.0.21. Numeric ALSA compiled library: 10017 Numeric ALSA runtime library: 10017 Numeric ALSA runtime driver: 10015 Will Fedora13 or "runtime ALSA drivers: 1.0.23" remedy this situation? (Probably not EWS88D is a pretty old card and I don't see any changes related to it recently). The target machine for this card will actually be running Fedora13, however, that machine hasn't been decommissioned, wiped, or setup for that purpose yet.... Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: (*) Anybody know where to find/build a 9-pin MIDI cable for the EWS88D? Will the RME HDSP9652 cable fit/work? http://www.bananasmusic.com/productdetail.asp/pid_3970/productname_RME-BOHD…

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Linux-audio-user September 2010