Linux-audio-user February 2011

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by Chip VanDan

In a complete and utter fervor today with some newfound extra cash I impulsively purchased an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra, with the hopes and prayers that it would "just work" on my Ubuntu Studio 10.04 system. My confidence was quickly shattered when I got it home, plugged it in, and did some research on it. There is a multitude of links out there with people that have had problems with it in Linux, and a few have gotten it to work, but I have no idea how. So before I go back to the store I figured I'd reach out to the group to see if anyone had any up-to-date information about this equipment, or if they had any suggestions about something good I could exchange it for that might "just work". I need at least 3 inputs (XLR & Quarter Inch) and cannot spend much more than the $299 I got this M-Audio Fast Track Ultra for. For reference sake, I'm having the exact same problem as referenced on this forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=884329 but I don't really understand the directions on how they fixed the issue. -- Christopher "Chip" Van Dan http://www.van-dan.com

14 years, 1 month

help with Rock band 3 pro guitar (fender mustang) aseqdump dumps

by Guto Maia

Hi, I was searching on google in order to understand a littlebit more about my mustang pro guitar. I wanna to use it on linux. I saw the thread posted by:Nathanael Anderson http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-audio-users/msg74773.html I was wondering about his progress... -- Guto Maia @gutomaia

14 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] Stereo width - how to control Matrix Spatialiser was: Harrison Mixbus ... now available on Linux!

by S C Rigler

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Ben Loftis <ben(a)harrisonconsoles.com>wrote: > > There are several plugins that can mono-ize the master output. SWH's > Matrix Spatializer should do the trick. Or I think Invada has a nice > plugin. > > Once you've got the plugin inserted and set-up, you can just > middle-mouse-click on the plugin to toggle it on and off. ( Kevin in the > video didn't mention this) > > Ardour3 has a mono button for this purpose... > > > -Ben > > In case there's anybody else reading this list who is as confused as I was: The Matrix Spatialiser plugin (and others I'm sure, too) has no obvious way to control its value through the gui when used in Ardour or Mixbus. There is just a text label that says "Width" with a number next to it and no obvious way to manipulate the number. At first I took the roundabout way and used automation to alter the value. Then I had my genius moment of the day and realized that right or left clicking on the number would increment the value (use a control or shift modifier for bigger increments). For some reason this plugin won't store presets but that's not a huge concern for me since there is only one value to change. I hope this helps make somebody's day easier. --Steve

14 years, 1 month

Fwd: [Mixxx-devel] Mixxx Debuts as #1 Free App in the Mac App Store

by Gabriel M. Beddingfield

LAU Friends: Recently the Mixxx devs worked together to get a version of Mixxx into the Mac App store... and they debuted at #1! Way to go Mixxx devs! Peace, Gabriel ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Mixxx-devel] Mixxx Debuts as #1 Free App in the Mac App Store Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 12:14:36 am From: Albert Santoni <alberts(a)mixxx.org> To: "mixxx-devel" <mixxx-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Hi guys, This was definitely not the next email I was expecting to write to you. Mixxx 1.9 became available for download through the Mac App Store on Thursday, and we have quickly become the #1 Top Free App (Overall!) in the USA, Germany, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Greece, Chile, and probably more countries. We're also the #2 app in Brazil, Canada, France, UK, and I expect we will take the #1 position in at least those countries. http://mixxxblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/mixxx-debuts-as-1-free-app-in-mac- app.html I think I owe the community a more detailed blog post about this whole situation at some point. Open source deserves to be at the top, and that's where you took us. Congratulations, Albert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel -----------------------------------------

14 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] Jack fallback to alsa when firefire device off?

by Dan Capp

This was my question in IRC – and thanks to those investigating on my behalf. I’m a total Linux newbie. Let me do my best to explain: I’m on KXStudio, where all audio goes through Jack (as I understand it). When I switch my firewire device (Phonic Firefly) on, jack recognizes it straight away and runs all audio through it instead of my onboard PCM. That’s great! However, if I want to turn my firewire device off and have all sound go through the onboard PCM again (and subsequently my built-in computer speakers), this doesn’t work! When I turn the firewire off, jack simply stops completely and I have to ‘force restart’ a couple of times to get sound out of my speakers. It’s not the end of the world – I just wondered if it’s fixable as Windows was able to automatically switch between my firewire and onboard cards with no problem. I’m a graphic designer by trade and if I’m just listening to music I don’t want to use my firewire device to do so. But if inspiration strikes spontaneously I just want to switch my firewire on, lay down some recordings, then turn it off and go back to using onboard audio… preferably. Sorry if my terminology’s off – just say if I can explain myself better. - Dan Capp

14 years, 1 month

no-os laptop

by Renato Budinich

Hello, how hard is it to get a no-os laptop or linux-preinstalled in europe? In particular thinkpads? Also, what about getting refunds for the windows os - is it possible and what companies are easier to deal with? renato

14 years, 1 month

Any LAU or known Linux artists going to be at Ultra Music Festival?

by david

They're advertising themselves as the "World's Premiere Electronic Music Festival": http://www.ultramusicfestival.com/ -- David gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community

14 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] Can't get sound from minicomputer

by Mike Cookson

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:33:10 +0000 письмо от Jeremy Salwen <jeremysalwen(a)gmail.com>: > Honestly, this is exactly what has been happening to me. I find that if I > keep twiddling all the controls and messing around with everything for ~5-10 > minutes, it will eventually just start working, although it will still kind > of be broken, as the notes won't go off when I release. I think it might > just be that you have to wait a long time for it to work, as I can find no > pattern in what I mess with affecting how long it takes to start working. > > Jeremy > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Mike Cookson <cook60020tmp(a)mail.ru> > wrote: > > > > I've been having major issues too. Part of what you have to do > is copy > > the preset txt files from minicomputer to your .minicomputer > > > directory. Then the present and multi buttons should do something. > > I replaced files in ~/.miniComputer with factory, now i have some making > > sence presets. But still don't have sound. > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > Got it. Though on first attempt to start it again jackdbus was frozen... When i started it, i just connected ports, then activated programs and got sound without to wait. It seems, that gui is not enough to do all settings.

14 years, 1 month

Can't get sound from minicomputer

by Mike Cookson

Minicomputer is launched by command "minicomputer", connected mix ports to card and virtual keyboard (vmpk) to synth. Now in gui: set mix and both aux volumes in amp to max, pan to middle, and (again) volume of both oscillators (between their frames and filter frames, right?), and still don't have sound.

14 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] Jack fallback to alsa when firefire device off?

by Mike Cookson

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:42:26 -0500 письмо от Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>: > 2011/2/17 Mike Cookson <cook60020tmp(a)mail.ru>: > > > > > There is not mistake. Each way has advantages and disadvantages. As for > me - when i work with pro audio software, i don't like to lost jack-less > applications, like web browser. > > I think you missed my point. I didn't say that you should lose audio > from such applications. I said that introducing a layer of the > complexity of PulseAudio in order to do this, when there are other > options available seems like a mistake to me. I cited my specific case > where I listen to a variety of non-JACK-aware audio applications all > day, via JACK, but without using PulseAudio because I don't need any > of the (fairly cool) PulseAudio features or its complications. Yep, probably, it is not necessary very much, since there is jack backend for alsa. But objects and ports, it creates, have useless names. If two or more alsa apps are started, and then i launch patchbay, i can't associate them with apps. For some apps i don't need to have ports in patchbay at all, and connecting them to pulseaudio has value. jack2-simple-config utility, shipped with kxstudio, allowes to disable pulseaudio at all, though i have it - just to be safe :] (of course, not as alsa-to-jack bridge... just to be safe)

14 years, 1 month

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Linux-audio-user February 2011