Linux-audio-user May 2011

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101 discussions

Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

by Ralf Mardorf

Hi all :) thank you for the qualified advices. I need to take a walk now and then a shower to calm down (I'm still pissed off), but until now switching to Debian is worth the effort. The GNOME2 performance of Debian stable is much better than of Ubuntu. Pulse Audio is not installed by default :). I only needed to correct /etc/default/rcS, regarding to a wrong UTC setting, that perhaps was wrong, because of my fault. I had to add repositories and copied some from a forum, I thin it out and command most out. What repositories should I use to set up a stable DAW? Btw. my list is attached and I will compare it with your suggestions I already received later. Is there a repository including JACK2 from svn? Until now it's an upgraded, minimal system, just a stable install, excepted of Evolution and dependencies, those are from testing. At 16:40 my RME HDSPe AIO, KORG NANOKONTROL, an ADAT device and some other stuff was delivered :), now, more than two hours later, neither the new gear is unpacked, nor Debian stable is set up as an audio/MIDI workstation. But the only really annoying thing is, that I had to reboot Ubuntu Natty, because I wasn't able to adopt the Evolution files for Debian's Evolution. OT for LAU, but perhaps somebody knows what to do: After copying # cp -pr /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.local/share/evolution /home/spinymouse/.local/share # cp -pr /media/natty/home/spinymouse/.gnome2/accels/evolution /home/spinymouse/.gnome2/accels Evolution started with a manager to set up Evolution AND TO IMPORT FILES, so I deleted what I copied before. Unfortunately there was no option to import files, Evolution tried to force me to set up a new account. This is completely idiotic, because it should be possible to simply copy the files for equal versions of Evolution, from one to another install. Does anybody know how to import account settings and emails, resp. what files I need to copy? Best, Ralf PS: To be fair. In several years using Linux audio/MIDI, Ubuntu Maverick is the first completely working audio/MIDI workstation that fit to my uncompromising needs, regarding to the usage of hardware MIDI. But it's a no go that I'm unable to use the mouse wheel, that the DE performance is less good etc.. For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf, hopefully it will keep in good shape ;). I suspect many issues regarding to the way X is handled today.

14 years, 1 month

QMidiArp 0.4.0 released

by Frank Kober

Hello all, Work is underway, mainly stimulated and supported by Nedko Arnaudov, to make this animal handle JACK MIDI natively. It is far from being finished, so it is not time for this today, but since January, some other handy features have sneaked in making it worth to give an update. Playhead cursors, waveform-recording MIDI LFOs, some new MIDI controllables and a finer step sequencer control by the keyboard are the main new features coming with QMidiArp 0.4.0. Enjoy! ---------------------------------- qmidiarp-0.4.0 (2011-05-28) New Features o All modules now have a playhead cursor o LFOs can record controller data by a MIDI-learnable Record button. o Seq modules handle note events at the input for triggering o Spanish translation thanks to Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas (plcl) o Czech translation thanks to Pavel Fric o Functional doxygen documentation available by "make doxygen-doc" o New SVG icon and desktop file QMidiArp is available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidiarp/files/qmidiarp/0.4.0/qmidiarp-0.4.… Project page http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/ Git repo (developers welcome) git://qmidiarp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/qmidiarp/qmidiarp

14 years, 1 month

A new issue installing Debian stable - Was: Adding PPPoE to a net install (on Debian users mailing list only)

by Ralf Mardorf

On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:10 +0200, I wrote: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pppoeconf/pppoeconf_1.19_all.deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rp-pppoe/pppoe_3.8-3_amd64.deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.5-4_amd64.deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpcap/libpcap0.8_1.1.1-2_a… Next reboot to download http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/modconf/modconf_0.3.11_all.deb After installing those 5 packages I was able to set PPPoE by pppoeconf, but when I run apt-get update I was asked to insert a CD. Perhaps there are no entries for repositories? I'll take a look. Isn't there a way just to use another media to install Debian stable, but downloading 8 DVDs or more than 50 CDs? Is it enough to download the first CD or DVD? Netinst is a PITA. -- Ralf PS: Pardon, but because I need help, I'm cross-posting, since nobody does help :(.

14 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] Switching the distro

by michael noble

Hi Ralf, I switched from openSUSE to Arch, with a short stay in Ubuntu. I find it is a best of many worlds kind of distribution (binaries plus option to self build via clear scripting, config files centrally located in text files, good documentation, most if not all linux audio apps available). There are some niggliing frustrations, but I think those are issues with my system setup. Overall, very happy. On May 29, 2011 7:55 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:

14 years, 1 month

Gil Scott-Heron, R.I.P.

by Burkhard Wölfel

Gil Scott-Heron is dead. Listen to his music more than ever! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaiFd9YQzEc

14 years, 1 month

ambdec: loading preset from command line / script

by acousmetre

Hello, Perhaps I'm missing something but I can't figure out how to start ambdec and automatically load a particular speaker preset. There's the -p command line option to set the path of the preset directory and this can also be set in a .ambdecr file - but is there a way to explicitly load a preset on startup of ambdec? I hope there is a way! Cheers, Iain

14 years, 1 month

JACK 0.120.2 released

by Paul Davis

Jack 0.120.2 is now available. http://jackaudio.org/downloads/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.120.2.tar.gz This is primarily a bug fix release, though some of the bugs are important. Fixes/Changes * Fix issues with stack initialization in client threads that stole large chunks of the stack from applications. * if the ALSA backend finds that a device is busy, try to tell the user what application(s) are using it. * Reimplement the jack_cycle_wait/jack_cycle_signal() API for OS X, where in previous versions it was completely non-functional. * extended documentation for the transport API data structures. * extended documentation for the JACK Session API * more useful warning message when duplicate port registration is attempted * fix logic for setting up device parameters in the ALSA backend (fixes JACK startup on some ALSA-supported devices that would report "impossible sample width (1) discovered" during startup).

14 years, 1 month

script for audio setup

by Renato

Hello list, I remember some time ago I found a nice script on the linuxaudio wiki which would check your system for common tweaks used for audio work and tell you what you were missing (like hard disk tuning, kernel etc.) however I can't find it anymore - could someone point me to it? cheers renato

14 years, 1 month

[ot] connecting breakout box and headphones

by James Morris

Hi, I want to connect a breakout box for use with headphones. The headphones themselves have a mini-xlr connector (for connecting the cable to them) and breakout box has 1/4" mono jack outputs. To connect the two I currently use: 1) 2 x 1/4" Jack to Phono connectors 2) Twin Phono to 3.5mm stereo Jack cable 3) 3.5mm female to female coupler 4) 3.5mm jack to mini-xlr Does anyone know where I could get either (delivery to UK): A cable to connect directly from breakout box 1/4" - or - A better (ie consisting of fewer components) configuration of cables/adapters? I'm thinking this can't be a uncommon scenario? Cheers, James.

14 years, 1 month

Request for advice

by jim

I have a laptop running linux. I'm guessing there's some sequencer software that works and some USB to midi gizmo that will let me control some external midi device. Is there? hopefully, jim

14 years, 1 month

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Linux-audio-user May 2011