Hello,
Lenovo has their last generation of laptops with Firewire/IEEE 1395 on
sale. www.lenovo.com . I just talked to a sales rep & she told me the ones
that are on sale have Firewire but it will be discontinued this month. I
might try to get a T410--thanks for the discussion.
Paul in Seattle
Hi list,
I made a little program to load all files in a folder into a .tap file
for Tapeutape.
It's my first Perl program so don't expect too much.
Page : https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalfrush/installed-apps/tapeutape
Download direct:
https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalfrush/installed-apps/tapeutape/li…
How to use it:
1. Put the 'listdir' file in the directory where the samples are.
2. Execute the file and find a file named 'thisfolder.tap' in the same
directory as the samples.
3. Open thisfolder.tap in Tapeutape and edit at wish.
The samples are imported as 'new instrument' in a 'new kit' in a 'new
setup'. The work this thing does is loading every sample and creating
all these instruments. I didn't automate assignment to midi note
ranges or instrument naming (yet).
PS: You can rename the file 'listdir' to anything you want.
PPS: It loads .wav files now, but if you want it to load another type,
just change the line that reads:
@files = <*.wav>
to
@files =<*.flac>
or whatever type of audiofile you want it to load.
(There's more you can change, just read the 'listdir' with a
texteditor and you'll see.)
I thought it may be useful to some people here,
contributions/improvements are welcome off course.
Greetings
Peter
Some of you might recall me asking for help on shell scripting in order to
automatically reset the default QjackCtl preset on each system startup. Well
I solved it in an extremely simple way and I thought I'd just share the info
for anyone else wanting to do the same sort of thing. So if you switch
between 2 or more different soundcards or Jack settings and want your system
to automatically start with the same setting, or connected to the same
soundcard each time, this is how:
Just write a shell script as simple as this and either save it in your
"Startup" folder, or select it using a startup manager like Autostart:
[CODE]qjackctl -p presetname[/CODE]*
i.e. "Start QjackCtl with the preset called 'presetname'"*
QjackCtl will now automatically load on startup with the preset
"presetname". It's as simple as that. For anyone wanting to use this method,
make sure you do the following:
- Get rid of any previous settings which cause QjackCtl to startup
automatically on system startup.
- The above script is the only auto-start command needed and it should go in
a shell script file which is specified in Autostart, and set the "Run On"
option to "Startup", *not* "Shutdown" or "Pre-KDE startup" (or whatever your
distro/environment specific options are).
- In QjackCtl settings, you can enable "start JACK audio server connection
on application startup" to not only have QjackCtl load with a particular
preset, but to start the audio server straight away, seamlessly with that
preset too.
- Remember to change "presetname" to whatever you named your desired default
preset as.
Hope this saves someone else (probably a beginner like me) tearing their
hair out as much as I did.
-Dan
> I wonder how we could evangelize Linux Audio more effectively to the
> outside world?
>
> - Mark
Mark
I address some of the issues still plaguing Linux Audio in an article I
wrote almost two years ago,
http://ow.ly/1s687Z
many of these issues, such as the clusterf*ck that is Pulse Audio as
well as the convoluted layers upon layers of Linux audio, have either
not been resolved or just gotten worse
and as I see it prevent many from adopting Linux as a serious audio
production platform - unless you are willing to pop the hood, roll up
your sleeves and get your hands dirty
mind you this is if one is NOT using one of the better distros such as
AVLinux or PureDyne (both of which works pretty much out of the box) and
are attempting to multi-purpose their environment - by sharing
administrative and music making tasks with a distro like Ubuntu
but other than the complexity of disentangling various messes that arise
with xruns, tweaking conf files and testing various kernels I'm very
pleased with my current setup -- now if I could only get my xruns under
control! ;)
Is there a lightweight, fast, not-extravagant-with-screen-real-estate (i.e. will work in 1024X600) piano-roll sequencer?
I just need MIDI only. I don't want a tracker, I need piano roll.
I know Rosegarden pretty well, and like it, but it slows to a crawl on my little EEE. Likewise Seq24, I've used it a lot in the past, but it is unusably slow on this little guy. And I'm not diving into Ardour3 yet.
Seems like piano-roll MIDI sequencing, which as been around since CakeWalk in the days of 20Mhz 16-bit Intel 286 PCs and Vision in the days of 16Mhz 68000 Macs, could be accomplished with great speed on a 1.6Ghz 32-bit machine (or . Maybe there's a Linux program out there which does it, but I just haven't found it yet.
Something pretty much like that should be around for Linux. Or should I fire up a 68000 emulator and Mac ROM and run EZ-Vision, or my 68000 Atari emulator and run SMPTETrack?
-ken
