Hi folks,
I'm trying to build an audio logger, that can record from six different
sources to separate files. I've been using the program rotter, and I
thought it was working but have discovered that jackd crashed and recording
was interrupted. Unfortunately this was not reflected by qjackctl, which is
what I use to launch jackd. The qjackctl display showed that jackd was
running, right down to the flashing "RT", but when I tried to launch
meterbridge it complained that the jack server was not running. The
instances of rotter that I launched were still running, but were making
files of just a few bytes, with no audio in them. Is this a bug in
qjackctl? I am using Arch, on a Pentium 4, and using a firewire interface
(Edirol FA-101).
-Steiny
(415)819-2009
Hello everyone
It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of the Taijiguy
GigaTron, a Mellotron sample set in Giga format.
The set is very kindly being hosted by the Linuxsampler team and can be
found here:
http://www.linuxsampler.org/instruments.html
The samples were made by Bernie Kornowicz (aka taijiguy on the KVR Audio
forums). The samples were recorded over a number of years and are freely
available from taijiguy's site[1].
Some of these samples were packaged in SFZ format with his permission a
couple of years ago[2]. Other KVR members have packaged the samples in
Kontakt and other formats[3].
With Bernie's kind permission, I packaged the samples into Giga format
using Linuxsampler's Gigedit. As the samples are his copyright and I
have merely packaged them, the Giga file cannot be released under any
sort of free licence, but is (and must remain) free of charge.
Each note of each sound is individually sampled, with no looping, in
order to preserve the essence of the Tron. A low-pass filter is mapped
to the modwheel to emulate the Mellotron's tone control. The Giga file
is keyswitched to allow fast selection of the different sounds:
"M400 Violins" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins
"M400 Violins Yes EQ" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins
"M400 Violins Smooth Ryder EQ" -- EQ'd Mk II Violins
Cello
String Section
Mk II Violins
M300A (violins)
M300B (solo violin)
Mk II Brass
GC3 Brass
Mk II Flute
Woodwind2
Combined Choir
My thanks go to taijiguy for his wonderful samples, for sharing them and
for his kind permission to package them; to the Linuxsampler team for
the wonderful software, for fixing a libgig bug that was hindering
me, not to mention also for generously hosting the Giga file; to Ryder
Duncan for his perseverance in trying to replicate the fantastic sound
of the M400 Three Violins[4]; to the developers and maintainers of a
number of Linux audio apps which I've made use of in the production of
this sample set.
Finally, for assistance with road testing, thanks go to my tame keyboard
player: some say he gets violent when not surrounded on three sides by
synths and that he can transmit midi control changes using telepathy...
all I know is, he's called Julien ;-) A technical demo of the sounds is
on the LinuxSampler website, but a musical demo of many of the sounds
can be found here:
http://juliencoder.de/nama/dream_of_the_old_land.ogghttp://juliencoder.de/nama/dream_of_the_old_land.mp3
Enjoy.
Q
[1] www.leisureland.us/audio/MellotronSamples/MellotronSamples.htm
[2] http://realmusicmedia.net/Mellotron.html
[3] www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=304393
[4] http://ryderduncan.com/themusicalbox/?p=33
Hey, list,
So, I'm in the market for monitors with a budget of approx $1000 (CAD in
my case) and I've been trying to do my homework about the better known
models and brands in the last couple of days, mainly thanks to SOS's
excellent series of reviews. I need small monitors, both because the
room I work in is small accoustically, and because my actual space
real-estate is very limited. Anyway, it suddenly occured to me to ask on
this list what my fellow Linux Users are favouring these days.
Cheers,
S.M.
--
Hi!
A video of Sebkha-Chott live performances in 2010.
Sebkha-Chott's setup onstage uses:
- jackd2
- FFADO (2 Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 daisy-chained)
- ardour2
- AMS (4 of them)
- Tapeutape
- SooperLooper (timebase master)
- seq24
- QLC (for lights)
- Lives (for VJing)
- Mididings
- Qmidiroute
- ladspa plugs
everything go through the machine, which also manages the in-ear monitors.
The recording, mixing and mastering were done on B4GSTUD, the studio
of the AMMD, which uses:
- jackd2
- ALSA (RME HDSP 9652 and HD24XR)
- ardour2
The video editing and so on was done with kdenlive
I think I didn't forget anything
Here it is:
www.youtube.com/sebkhachott
or straitghly to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTF1k93BaOk
--
Aurélien
Hi,
Once I had jack-rack racks with names like 'Lennon' and 'tube amp' in
it, but can't find them online. Where those patches coming from you
Noack? Can't remember it...
Regards.
\r
Hi all,
My band just finished up production of a live recording, all done
using (Arch) Linux, mixed with Mixbus. I wrote a little blog entry
highlighting some of the details, in case anyone might find it useful:
http://obsoleteaudio.org/blog/1395
-sean
Is there a JACK-capable vocal remover or vocal eliminator tool for linux? i.e. for karaoke applications.
My daughter seems to be much more interested in singing along with dance-pop tracks than in creating her own.
Thanks.
-ken
Hi,
first of all, I know that it looks like an Ardour-specific question, but
it's not. Not fully, at least :-)
I'd like to publish the music I make not only in MP3, but also in a way
that anyone can download and modify it at will. Ideally, there would be some
kind of "bundle export" in Ardour that I could use to create an archive that
included all the audio files and the metadata of the project. But I've
searched and didn't find anything similar. Does it exist?
And if it doesn't, what could I use as a substitute? I figured I could
export all the audio in FLAC, and I could share the Hydrogen file for the
drums, but what about the effects, and the automation? I don't think the
"Right Way" is to export audio with effects applied, because (IMHO) part of
the fun is applying effects that weren't in the original mix. But I'm a
complete newbie in this field, and I don't know if it's how people usually
do it.
Thanks in advance.
--
Roberto Suárez Soto
Hi all :)
any recommendations for a distro?
It shouldn't ignore settings in xorg.conf.
It shouldn't use PulseAudio, or if it does use PulseAudio, then at least
it should be enough, if the user set up /usr/share/alsa/cards to be able
to use his audio card(s).
Not that important, but an advantage if this should work too, at least
the 32-bit version should be able to work with common proprietary 32-bit
apps such as lightscribe apps.
Less important are audio and MIDI repositories and kernel-rt, I will
build several apps and the kernel myself, but the environment to do this
should cause less or no issues.
For Suse I experienced that 32-bit apps as lightscribe are ok on a
64-bit install, but Suse has several disadvantages for my palate.
For Ubuntu I experienced that it has less to do with Linux anymore, the
reason why I'll switch to another distro. Don't get me wrong, I still
make only good experiences when using the Ubuntu Studio repositories,
but this isn't a help when the Ubuntu desktop is slow, the mouse doesn't
work properly, etc..
I've got a absolutely stable and MIDI jitter free Ubuntu MIDI and audio
worksattion, regarding to audio apps, but it was very time consuming to
set it up and until now even the mouse wheel isn't working. The same
mouse does work with Suse OOTB.
At the moment I still try to fix an Ubuntu Studio Natty install, but I
won't waste my time any longer.
Anyway, I prefer a .deb distro to a .rpm distro, but this isn't that
important. A distro where it's easy to get rid of PA without cheap
tricks would be cool.
Important is that I prefer PCI, PCIe, parallel port PS/2 to USB gear.
My favorite distro was 64 Studio.
I'll try to keep Ubuntu, as my distro, just for emergency cases I'm
looking for another distro. At the moment there are Suse 11.2 64-bit,
Edubuntu + Ubuntu Studio packages Maverick 32-bit and Ubuntu Studio +
Edubuntu packages Natty 64-bit on my machine installed. I prefer using
GNOME2.
My machine:
ASUS M2A-VM HDMI
NVIDIA 7200 GS (I could switch to an on-board ATI Radeon X1250-based
graphics, if this would be better when using a new distro)
4 GB RAM
SATA drives only
2 TerraTec EWX 24/96 (UPS didn't deliver a RME HDSPe AIO + ADAT device
last week, I should get it on Monday, but I'll keep the TerraTec cards
for MIDI)
A CTR-monitor, hence xorg.conf by default would be nice, not only
regarding to mouse issues.
Cheers!
Ralf
Hello everyone
Finally, I get to post some new music and more than just a short,
isolated part.
Parts 1 and 2 have been posted before, but for the first time are now
together as intended and with the added context of the third section.
All three parts are complete, but it's a work in progress insofar as
Parts 4 and beyond are yet to be completed (or even started in most cases).
It's just raw mixdowns with a little light limiting to raise the volume,
no post-processing besides that.
The titles are just vague working titles at the moment.
Beyond Triple Point [9.29]
(i) Theme From Our Old World
(ii) Vale Fanfare: A Change of State
(iii) Recrystallisation
FLAC (56.5 MB):
www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_parts_1-3_30-05-11.flac
OGG (ogg7 | 14.0 MB):
www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_parts_1-3_30-05-11.ogg
MP3 (320 kbps | 21.7 MB):
www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_parts_1-3_30-05-11.mp3
The drummer spent a while woodshedding before we did the third section;
I think it was worth it but I swear if I hear the name Bruford again
he'll be on the receiving end of his timp mallets! The guitarist has
been his usual lazy-arsed self and hasn't bothered to practice (guitar,
bass or flute) and seems to think just buying new pedals and an EBow is
sufficient. Okay, so he's contributed an interesting part or two, but
he's still a lazy sod ;-)
I seem to have been on a year-long analogue hardware binge and between
synth noodling, redundancy, job-hunting and the time constraints of a
new job, have managed to write, record and mix the new section.
So, between all these excuses -- and necessary guitar amp repairs! --
release is several months later than was originally intended. In the end
though, it's been enormous fun and I think most, if not all, of the new
toys were played with in this new bit.
All tracked in Ardour and mixed with the usual LADSPA and LV2 plugins
(mostly EQ10Q, Invada and Calf) -- as always, a massive "thank you" to
all the devs.
I managed to grind my quad-core, 4 GB RAM machine to a halt during
mixing and even after lots of bounce-downs the CPU load was over 80% in
places: kitchen sinks are nice though, so I included a choice of them!
It's self-indulgent because it's pretentious. It's pretentious because
it's prog -- enjoy!
Cheers
Q
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*Contains greater than 50% new music by running time.
NEW MUSIC NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
This product is a significant source of Mellotron.
Contains 250% RDA of Mellotron.
Contains 65% RDA of odd time signatures.
Contains no software or digital synthesizers and no preservatives.
Best before: 1977.
