Greetings all,
I'm planning on ordering a laptop this weekend for writing music and
such while away from my desktop.
Now, while I'm budgeting for around about 500 euro, my gut tells me
that I won't be getting fantastic hardware for that money.
"But wait Andrew! We don't know what you'll be using this for!" I hear
you say, so I'll just quickly outline what I plan on doing:
In short, I don't need a tremendously amazing audio card, with high
quality mic preamps coming out its wazoo, as I'll be working
exclusively in the digital domain
(linuxsampler/bristol/zyn/yoshimi/ams) via an externel midi
controller.
In addition to that, I'd rather not have a windows OS pre-installed on
it, but rather it be powered by linux from the get go (ideally) or
just a hunk of pre-assembled hardware.
RAM I guess is a moot point, the more the better.... but 1GB would be
a minimum..
Should I provide more info, or is what I'm asking outside the range of
what's commercially available? (I dread the thought of having to build
a laptop from scratch, to be perfectly honest)
Andrew.
Hi
I have inherited an old eee900. It needs a new battery, but with that I
hope to use it for synth engine (like Ken Restivo) and more.
However, before I get a new battery, there's a problem that I hope some
here could help with. Every once in a while it's like X kind-of stalls
or freezes for 10-20 seconds or so. If it's generating audio I seem to
remember that that's not being interrupted in any ways. It's like it's
waiting for a slow disk or something. It's now running arch, but I had
various ubuntus running on it before, and I seem to remember that it's
always behaved like that.
Any clues what this could be or how to approach the problem. Can you
recognize this from your eee, Ken?
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Atte
http://atte.dkhttp://modlys.dk
On 03/24/2011 10:21 AM, Nick Copeland wrote:
> Have you had a look at name resolution? Put files before DNS in your nss
> switch and make sure your IP addresses are listed in the hosts file, it
> might have issues to resolve itself every now and then.
>
> Long shot, one of many things to look at.
Will have a look. But since other laptops running either arch or ubuntu
never showed this problem and all are setup/maintained at me + I don't
recall having "done anything" about this on any of the other laptops, it
seems unlikely.
But thanks anyways, any input is appreciated, really!
--
Atte
http://atte.dkhttp://modlys.dk
Has anyone had any luck installing the naspro ladspa-lv2 bridge?
(http://naspro.atheme.org/naspro-bridges/installation) I'm trying to set
it up so I can use LADPSA plugins with ingen.
I have downloaded and installed the 3 parts of naspro you need (core,
'bridge it', and bridges). Have also tried to install the dynamic
manifest lv2 plugin (http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/dyn-manifest/), but had
some problems with installation of this and had to copy the files
manually. (It looks like the files are correct, but the makefile hasn't
been updated to reflect a name change.)
When I run lv2_list, I get this error at the beginning:
andy@monkey:~$ lv2_list
ERROR: slv2_world_load_dyn_manifest: Failed to open dynamic manifest
library `/usr/local/lib/lv2/naspro-ladspa.lv2/ladspa.so'
http://drobilla.net/plugins/dirghttp://drobilla.net/plugins/float
I've also had problems with the swh lv2 plugins - they seem to compile
and install ok but aren't picked up by ingen or lv2_list.
Does anyone have any idea what is worth trying next. I would really like
to get this working so I can get going with ingen - it looks like a
great program but the range of lv2 plugins is a bit limited.
cheers,
andy baxter
Hi,
I am thinking about a possible design for the second version of the
position sensing drum pad I have been working on, and I have a question
about latency. I am working around the assumption that 10ms latency is
about the worst it can get before people start to notice it in practice,
so I am thinking of building the pad in a way where the normal latency
is about 1ms, but it degrades to between 10-15 ms in the very worst case
(many simultaneous strikes and pressure variations across the pad).
Allowing this level of degradation would make it possible (I think) to
use an arduino rather than a faster processor, which would be nice.
So the question is, where does this 10ms figure come from, and is it a
reasonable working value? I have picked it up somewhere but I'm not
exactly sure where.
Thanks for any replies.
andy
Hi all,
Thanks for the nice replies regarding my first perl program :)
I don't have a www connection at home now, so sorry for the late reply.
I modified my first version a bit and also made a second version with a
different usage.
Now I have listdir<https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalfrush/installed-apps/tapeutape/li…>which
should be copied to the directory containing the samples. Run it from
there.
https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalfrush/installed-apps/tapeutape/li…
The other version is
dir2tap<https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalfrush/installed-apps/tapeutape/di…>which
should be placed in your tapeutape preset folder and has usage like
this: dir2tap /path/to/dir. It then saves thisfolder.tap into the folder
where it was executed from.
https://sites.google.com/site/experimentalfrush/installed-apps/tapeutape/di…
Now by default the minnote, maxnote and rootnote value are rising from 0 to
127. If you need to load more that 128 wavfiles, replace the ==note==
variable in the source to a default numeric value between 0 and 127.
Also, each Instrument now gets the name of its loaded .wav file. Editing
this will be less work than editing "new instrument".
Renato wrote:
> 1) save to "currentdir".tap instead of thisdirectory.tap. I.e. if I run
> the script in the directory drum_machine I should end up with
> drum_machine.tap
I suppose that's a name that needs to be given only once, so give the name
you choose when you edited thisfolder.tap with Tapeutape itself. Thanks for
the request anyway, I'll see how to implement that.
> 2) assign midi notes, with a range of 2-3 notes for each (for drums I
> think that's enough?)
Now the range is just one note, this way I also make sure no more than 128
files are loaded at once, because if note="129" is written in the .tap file,
it crashes Tapeutape when you click on that instrument. It's possible to
assign a note range to each sample, but that would take 3 extra variables:
the min note, max note and total number of files loaded for the check. This
is another good feature request, useful for Florent too I guess.
Have a nice day.
Peter
Hi everyone,
Last week, I tried to make an announcement by sending it to
linux-audio-announce(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
But somehow my message is not getting through.
Does anyone know what the problem could be?
My mail client is mutt, and is configured for
gmail with imap.
Greetings,
lievenmoors
Hi all,
This past week I attending a concert of an acappella vocal group that
would using a DBX-120A sub-harmonic synthesizer to double the bass
singer's voice. It sounded amazing, and a little Googling has
revealed that this rackmount unit is quite popular. Is there anything
in the Linux world that does the same thing? I am not a programmer,
so it would need to be somewhat easy-to-use (trying to fend off the
"just make one in puredata!!!" comments here :), lv2 would be awesome
too.
Thanks,
Josh
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Josh Lawrence
www.hardbop200.com
Ways Ahead
First International Csound Conference
September 30 - October 2 2011, HMTM Hannover, Germany
Incontri, the Institute for new music at the University of Music, Drama
and Media Hannover, is proud to host the first International
Csound Conference. Csound, more than 25 years after its creation, has
changed in many ways during the years, and so has the situation of
computer music in general. What is the role of Csound in current
electronic music practice, teaching and learning? What are the
challenges, potentials, and perspectives of the ways ahead? This meeting
looks to provide discussion between developers and users, and to show
aspects of the Csound Language in papers, workshops, installations, and
a concert.
CALL FOR PAPERS
As this conference is mainly focused on the present situation and
further development of Csound, papers which discuss this topic in regard
to the technology, the community, the documentation or the ways of
learning, are mostly welcome. But you are also encouraged to send any
paper which deals with any Csound related content.
Papers should be about 4-8 pages. Please use the templates found here:
http://www.incontri.hmtm-hannover.de/uploads/media/CsoundConfTemplates.zip
Please upload your paper at
www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=csndc2011 . If you have no
easychair account, you will be asked to create one first.
Paper draft submission: June 15
Notification of acceptance: July 15
Final Paper submission: September 1
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Please describe the topic on which you like to hold a workshop, and what
you need (time frame, technics, optimal number of participants, etc).
Please upload your description in html format at
www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=csndc2011 . If you have no
easychair account, you will be asked to create one first.
Workshop draft submission: June 15
Notification of acceptance: July 15
CALL FOR MUSIC
There will be a concert on october 1st with pieces which were made
mainly with Csound, either fixed media or with live electronics (maximum
eight speakers). In addition, sound installations can be performed
during the conference in the foyer of the HMTMH. Please send your
suggestions by ordinary mail to Joachim Heintz, HMTM Hannover,
Emmichplatz 1, D-30175 Hannover. Each submission must contain:
1. A CD or DVD with the files to be played at the conference (aiff or wav).
2. A CD with a stereo mixdown of your work.
3. A short presentation of the piece.
4. A short biography of the creator(s).
5. A signed copy of
- http://www.incontri.hmtm-hannover.de/uploads/media/ConcertAgreement.pdf or
-
http://www.incontri.hmtm-hannover.de/uploads/media/InstallationAgreement.pdf
in which the creator(s) agree(s) to the condition for the
concert/installation.
Our abilities to perform Videos are rather poor; so if you submit works
containing images you must accept compromises in performing them.
Submission deadline: July 1
Notification of acceptance: August 1
The Csound Conference is held by Incontri, the electronic studio in the
institute for new music at HMTM Hannover, Germany, in cooperation with
the institute of journalism and communication research, with kind
support from the following institutions:
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer elektroakustische Musik, Germany
Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA
National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Ireland
Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway
University of Bath, UK
www.incontri.hmtm-hannover.de/de/elektronisches-studio/csound-conference
