Linux-audio-user October 2011

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Re: [LAU] New blog about Recording on Linux

by Jeremiah Benham

Peter, I very much enjoyed your music. Jeremiah Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&T Peter Crighton <petecrighton(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >Finally I am getting around to answering here… > >Thanks for all your answers and interest in my blog! >It's a pity that it is not readable without JavaScript, but as >Blogger's new Dynamic Views (which apparently rely heavily on >JavaScript) were one big motivation for me starting this blog, I will >not change it for the time being. > >Jeremy, thanks for your link. I didn't know it beforehand. > >Kevin, I do make a lot of music myself, including prog. I play mainly >bass and guitar and sing. You can find more info about that on >http://www.petercrighton.de/en – direct link to some recordings: >http://music.petercrighton.de > > >Peter > >2011/10/4 Aaron L. <elmastero74(a)gmail.com>: >> Just went through Peter's tutorial. >> >> Great stuff. Took me a couple of tries to get it right (NOTE: you have to >> have the wave files in the same dir as the xml file)........even though your >> website explained that very plainly. >> >> Anyway, thanks for this. >> >> -Aaron >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin(a)linuxuse.de> >> wrote: >>> >>> Am 01.10.2011 11:04, schrieb Tony Austin: >>>> >>>> Is JavaScript so bad? Why turn it off? >>> >>> Java Script is great, it is, in itself, not bad at all but a useful method >>> to make a better website. >>> >>> BUT: as it is powerful, it is abused on a regular basis. So to turn it off >>> on any new site never being visited before is indeed a good idea. >>> >>> So for any website-distributor I recommend the following steps to make a >>> site rock in the users client: >>> >>> 1.) present your site in HTML5+CSS3 as cool as possible >>> 2.) provide extra-benefit using UNOBSTRUSIVE JS >>> 3.) Tell the users explicitly that there is more and better content if JS >>> ist turned on. >>> >>> Your page fails at least to meet 1.) and 3.) >>> >>> Try to find a way to tell visitors at least, that they need to allow JS on >>> the site. But this is second best: present plain HTML5+CSS and tell the >>> users that JS can give more is better... >>> >>> >>>> I am happy to have it on all the >>>> time and the worries are much less under Linux. It's not Java or ActiveX >>>> after all. >>>> >>>> On 1 October 2011 10:34, Arve Barsnes<arve.barsnes(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 1 October 2011 08:53, Lorenzo Sutton<lsutton(a)libero.it> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 10/01/2011 04:14 AM, Ken Restivo wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 03:00:02AM +0200, Peter Crighton wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello list, >>>>>>>> I just wanted to let you know that I started a new blog about >>>>>>>> Recording on Linux: http://linux-recording.blogspot.com/ >>>>>>>> The first entry (well, not counting the introduction here) is about >>>>>>>> using the Analogue Drums Big Mono drumkit with Hydrogen. Let me know >>>>>>>> what you think about the blog, any constructive criticism is much >>>>>>>> appreciated! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *sigh*, Google, doesn't anyone use HTML anymore? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This is what that website looks like with JavaScript turned off: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://storage.restivo.org/misc/blogger.jpg >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm sure it's a fantastic blog, but, I dunno what Google has done to >>>>>>> it. >>>>>> >>>>>> If truth be told it seems a problem with this particular blog (which by >>>>> >>>>> the >>>>>> >>>>>> way seems a very cool idea ;) - other blogspot blogs seem to work with >>>>>> JavaScript turned off. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not a blogger user so I'm not sure what google puts in when you >>>>> >>>>> create a >>>>>> >>>>>> blog and what it leaves to the user. Maybe, the massive use of >>>>>> JavaScript >>>>>> comes in for recently created ones? >>>>>> >>>>>> That said. Yes it seems that google is pushing more and more for the >>>>>> use >>>>> >>>>> of >>>>>> >>>>>> JavaScript see e.g. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/no-javascript-no-google-navigation… >>>>>> >>>>> It seems that, without allowing javascript from blogblog.com this >>>>> particular blog doesn't work at all. Is that also owned by Google? >>>>> >>>>> Arve >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Linux-audio-user mailing list >>>>> Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >>>>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Linux-audio-user mailing list >>>> Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >>>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-audio-user mailing list >>> Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> >> > > > >-- >Peter Crighton | (mainly) Progressive Rock musician based in >Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany >http://www.petercrighton.de >_______________________________________________ >Linux-audio-user mailing list >Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user

13 years, 3 months

Neil Modular Tracker news

by Vytautas Jancauskas

It has an envelope editor to graphically edit value columns: http://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/news/envelopeeditor Also a proof of concept custom GUI for its' LFO machine: http://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/news/lunarlfo You can, of course, donate at http://goo.gl/qtf2S. If you are not sure what Neil is read up here: http://goo.gl/vmvyP. Cheers, Vytautas. -- "Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't care much where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

13 years, 3 months

Re: [LAU] [OT] Message on Italian Wikipedia

by Ralf Mardorf

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 20:03 +0000, linux-audio-user-request(a)lists.linuxaudio.org wrote: > Message: 27 > Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:54:45 +0200 > From: fred <f.rech(a)yahoo.fr> > Subject: Re: [LAU] rme express cards > To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > Message-ID: <4E8CB605.70003(a)yahoo.fr> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > > >> Greetings from Berlusconistan, > > Hey, here it's Sarkozystan, my bro Message: 27 Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:54:45 +0200 From: fred <f.rech(a)yahoo.fr> Subject: Re: [LAU] rme express cards To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org Message-ID: <4E8CB605.70003(a)yahoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >> Greetings from Berlusconistan, Hey, here it's Sarkozystan, my bro Hm? Chaplin didn't have a name for France, but he already found names for Italy, Austria and Germany: "Tomanien (engl. Tomania = „Germania“ / Deutschland; sowie Anspielung auf Ptomain = Leichengift) Bakteria (engl. Bacteria = Italien) Osterlitsch (deut. Untertitel „Osterlich“, engl. Austerlich = „Austria“ / Österreich) Anton Hynkel (engl. Adenoid Hynkel = Adolf Hitler, ironischerweise sollte später Hans Hinkel die Filmpropaganda der Nazis leiten) Feldmarschall Hering (engl. Field Marshal Herring = Hermann Göring) Dr. Gorbitsch (engl. Dr. Garbitsch = Dr. Joseph Goebbels, US-engl. garbage = Müll) Bretzelberg = Salzburg" ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_gro%C3%9Fe_Diktator )

13 years, 3 months

New blog about Recording on Linux

by Peter Crighton

Hello list, I just wanted to let you know that I started a new blog about Recording on Linux: http://linux-recording.blogspot.com/ The first entry (well, not counting the introduction here) is about using the Analogue Drums Big Mono drumkit with Hydrogen. Let me know what you think about the blog, any constructive criticism is much appreciated! -- Peter Crighton | (mainly) Progressive Rock musician based in Mainz/Wiesbaden, Germany http://www.petercrighton.de

13 years, 3 months

[OT] Message on Italian Wikipedia

by Fons Adriaensen

Absolutely OT, but of interest to all concerned about freedom of information: As of today, consulting the Italian Wikipedia will redirect you to the Italian version of this page: <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011/en> To put this in context, the law proposal referrred to is just the latest attempt by the government to silence all voices reporting on the many scandals that its leader, Silvio Berlusconi, is involved in, ranging from corruption of judges and witnesses to using the services of under-age prostitutes. Greetings from Berlusconistan, P.S.: Happy birthday Rui ! -- FA

13 years, 3 months

Let's talk about your Fireface 400 and linux

by Aaron L.

>From the ffado site (for those playing along at home): After far too many delays (both technical and logistical,for which I > apologise), practical progress has finally been made on the FFADO RME > driver. > > In short, the driver is now ready for wider testing, although there are > some important limitations and cautions to keep in mind before proceeding. Read > more <http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/1974> for the details. > > - If a non-zero verbose level is selected using the "-v" option, a 0 > dBFS 1 kHz sine wave will be output on the left phones channel. This is to > facilitate debugging of audio timing. *If you have headphones or > monitors connected to the phones output, please do not activate verbose > debug mode without taking appropriate precautions*. > - The level produced from the phones (aka monitor) output is very high > from this device and the front panel "ph" level control does not affect the > level being sent by the computer. *Use headphones with extreme caution > to prevent inadvertent hearing damage*, especially during initial > testing and/or if no software volume control is in operation. > - You will need the latest subversion snapshot of FFADO. > - Ffado-mixer support is still rather limited and contains only a small > number of controls (now the streaming system seems to be working I expect to > expand this soon). In particular there is no user access to the onboard > mixer controls: however, ffado sets these to a 1-1 mapping which should do > for testing. > - Meaningful testing is probably limited to the Fireface400 for the > moment since that is the interface I have been testing with. I will test > with with a FF800 in due course - most likely after I've got a more complete > ffado-mixer working for the ff400. In the meantime, it is almost certain > that the driver will not run with a FF800 yet. > - I've been testing exclusively with jack1 and the old kernel firewire > stack. In theory jack2 should work just as well, but I have seen reports > over the last couple of weeks which suggests that there may be a problem > with ffado in the latest jack2. YMMV. Similarly the new kernel stack should > work but I have not personally tried this yet. > > To provide feedback on your experiences please subscribe to ffado-devel and > post your findings there initially. If extended discussion is required we > can take things off-list if appropriate. > > My testing to date has been mostly with 48k and 44.1k rates. I have fired > 96k and 192k up and had them work for short periods of time so hopefully > that's a good sign. Finally, for initial tests it is probably wise to stick > with fairly large latencies: I've been using "-p 1024" and "-n 4" options > when starting ffado via jackd. > I'm assuming that all of these issues still stand ^^. I'm curious about one thing, however. What does this statement mean, exactly: In particular there is no user access to the onboard mixer controls: > however, ffado sets these to a 1-1 mapping which should do for testing. > Thanks!

13 years, 3 months

Re: [LAU] rme express cards

by Ralf Mardorf

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 20:03 +0000, linux-audio-user-request(a)lists.linuxaudio.org wrote: > Message: 19 > Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:24:25 +0200 > From: Peter Plessas <plessas(a)mur.at> > Subject: [LAU] rme express cards > To: Linux Audio User <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org> > Message-ID: <4E8CAEE9.2040500(a)mur.at> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Dear List, > > anyone having experiences with the RME express cards with > Multi/Digiface > under Linux and Alsa? Thanks for a quick update! > > best, Peter No Multi/Digiface here, but the HDSPe AIO does work for Linux on my machine.

13 years, 3 months

Re: [LAU] [OT] Message on Italian Wikipedia

by Marco Donnarumma

What is more sad is the fact that Wikipedia had to speak this way to make every single italian what's going on in 2011. As if they couldn't see it before. Before, I mean, since about 20 years or so. No kidding, B. is there since then, doing the same things all the time. M > On 05/10/2011 10:17, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > Absolutely OT, but of interest to all concerned about freedom > > of information: > > This is so depressing. > > > > > As of today, consulting the Italian Wikipedia will redirect > > you to the Italian version of this page: > > > > <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011/en> > > Very good move by Wikipedia. Hopefully all of those ignorant, arrogant, > greasy portaborse [1], so-called journalist et. sim. will get into panic > mode as they cannot find any more cut-n-paste material... > > > > > To put this in context, the law proposal referrred to is just > > the latest attempt by the government to silence all voices > > reporting on the many scandals that its leader, Silvio > > Berlusconi, is involved in, ranging from corruption of judges > > and witnesses to using the services of under-age prostitutes. > > sob. > > -- Marco Donnarumma Independent New Media and Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing) The University of Edinburgh, UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com | http://www.thesaddj.com | http://www.flxer.net Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net

13 years, 3 months

[ANN] Qtractor 0.5.1 - The Bravo Yankee return!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy, Summer is now long gone, obviously fall has already begun. As winter looms on the horizon the year steadily marches into its due end. (oh crap!...) Today marks the day of this second public release while on the TYOQA age. It also marks yet another birthday of mine. One more year's gone, one less to go. Be happy! I hope you'd like my party as soon you get over from yesterday's bitten fruit showtime. Now's the time... Qtractor 0.5.1 (bravo yankee) is out! Yes, it's "bravo" alright, not "beta" nor anything else. Despite any previous existing codename. Now, it's all dumb-down easy to predict any next release codenames, a matter of convergence and fact that just chalks one less of a burden on me :) Believe it or not, this is the best and, allegedly, the most stable release ever. Ain't them all? ;) Release highlights: * Linked (aka. ref-counted) audio/MIDI clips (NEW) * Aux-Send pseudo-plugin (NEW) * Direct-access plugin parameter slider (NEW) * MIDI file player (NEW) * Automatic time-stretching of audio clips on tempo-map changes (FIX) * Improved native Linux VST support (FIX) * Improved JACK-Session support (FIX) * Improved generic plugin form (FIX) * MIDI-fx plugin support (NEW) * Audio bus/ports auto-connect option (NEW) * First translation call (Czech) (NEW) Cheers! Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.1-4.rncbc.suse114.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.1-4.rncbc.suse114.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.1-4.rncbc.suse114.x8… - from the paleolithic shelves: user manual: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-user-manual.pdf Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Change-log: - More LADISH support: SIGTERM signal is now trapped for graceful application close. - Improved paste-repeat snap precision when dealing with large repeat counts. - Czech (cs) translation added, by Pavel Fric. - Added a few snap-to-beat divisors (unusual Beat/5, Beat/7, Beat/9 and Beat/10) for completeness sake. - Such a simple change of mind with a visual twist: the "A" track automation button/menu has now been - moved to the right-most, as it belongs ;) - Auto-connection of dedicated audio outputs is now optional for default audio master bus, metronome, player and MIDI instrument plugin dedicated audio outputs. - Finally, after a pitiful large brain-dead period, generic plugin forms are now showing all possible controllable plugin parameters featuring a paged, tabbed dialog, whenever applicable. - Special hack/fix for JUCE based native VST plugins, which are the most actually found with a GUI editor, skipping explicit shared library unloading and thus avoiding some mysterious crashes on session close and/or application exit. - Support for MIDI-fx plugins (native VST and/or LV2) is now implemented and functional (intra-chain only). - Instrument plugin bank/program selection was found broken or dead in the water, specially on VSTi, now finally fixed again. - VST plugin parameter value display on generic form is now back in business (were dead regarding value changes). - All plugin's provided GUI editors are now honored by being popped up first, instead of the usual but good old generic plugin form. - Long overdue implementation of a dedicated MIDI file player is now accessible from the MIDI files widget; one can play the whole SMF or just a single track or channel. - Update to a newer VeSTige header, probably fixing an old 32 vs. 64 bit mismatch. - Avoid JACK session filenames/paths to be ever shown; also avoid all buses ports (re)connections when JACK sessions are (re)loaded, given the fact that session management will take care of just that; more also, untitled/default session names are now also picked up to match current LADISH project name, obviously given by LADISH_PROJECT_NAME environment variable, whenever present (as suggested by Nedko Ardaunov). - Paste-repeat floating selection has been fixed (was showing only the last repeated selection). - Coherence of tempo changes on audio and MIDI clips, whether automatic time-stretching is in effect, has been slightly improved, hopefully fixed. - Bold attempt to get linked (aka. ref-counted) audio and MIDI clips into practice (EXPERIMENTAL). - Main track view now showing all clips above the grid. - Added support for both new and older (deprecated URI) lv2_external_ui extension (by Nedko Ardaunov). - Following yet another great idea, and implementation, by Holger Dehnhardt, who already brought us the new aux-send insert plugin, thanks again, the so-called direct access control option is now featured for any plugin parameter right from plugin listings eg. mixer strips. - General resource consumption and management has been slightly improved, due to internal buses allocation optimization. - Fixed nasty crash-bug that was severely affecting all sessions that had at least one insert (pseudo-)plugin on any audio input bus. - All automation curve nodes are now relocated whenever disparate session sample-rate is detected on load. - New aux-send/insert pseudo-plugin is now introduced, allowing to route any track audio output to any other audio output bus besides the nominal one -- thanks to an original implementation from Holger Dehnhardt. - New immediate edit/loop-range settings from current clip extents, accessible on the main menu (Clip/Range Set, Loop Set) and from MIDI clip editor menu as well (File/Range Set, Loop Set). - MIDI Names XML files (*.midnam) may now be imported into MIDI instrument definitions. (EXPERIMENTAL) - Avoid cursor reset while editing MIDI events list (fixes bug #3380259, reported by Frank Neumann). - Just some typos fixing (patch #3378382 by c-korn). - Track view automation curve editing mode has been slightly fixed, now allowing for other previously existing point-and-click mouse operations. - Default automation curve mode is now preserved (following a suggestion by Alexandre Prokoudine, thanks). Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

13 years, 3 months

Linux news in the current KWR Newsletter

by Jostein Chr. Andersen

Hi, In this week's newsletter, somewhere in the noise, it also says: "Togu Audio Line Native Linux VST Plug-ins updated". Well, I'm not a fan of using VSTs in Linux but I like to know what's going on, so of curiosity, I followed the links that showed up and ended here and there and not everywhere: http://distrho.sourceforge.net/ http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/KXStudio:Applications And what did I find on the distrho file area? I found 64-bit stand alone version of the Arctican and TAL Plugins! They might be crap, but I don't think so, and I will test it now. And even more native free and commercial (and combinations of both) plugins, programs and goodies for Linux will come from everywhere - Life is good! :-) Jostein

13 years, 3 months

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Linux-audio-user October 2011