Linux-audio-user September 2011

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OT: Moogs, beer, hippies, and TV

by Ken Restivo

I am sorry, but I had to post this. Really I did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QBcrliFNk -ken

14 years

Focusrite Saffire 6 USB Audio Interface

by Aurélien Leblond

> Any issues or happy stories about this Saffire USB interface? I'm > planning to buy one usb interface soon. Sorry never tried this one... > Also any reliable USB audio device with pre-amps. The Edirol UA-25Ex is very good and very well supported in Linux. Mine has served me well for years. One thing though: if your USB port is of type EHCI, check exactly which version you have (using lspci) and google it before! I'm saying this because I changed laptop few months ago, and some EHCI USB ports have a bug that makes Jack/Alsa and USB 1 soundcard not working at all... I'm now using a M-Audio Fast-Track Ultra (USB2, so I don't have issues with EHCI anymore), but it's not 100% supported yet (although the Alsa developers are working on it)... Hope this helps! Aurélien

14 years

Drum "smasher" glitch plugin

by harryhaaren＠gmail.com

Hey All, I was quite fond of a certain VST plugin called Glitch: http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/ Its essentially a drum "stretcher", "retrigger", "shuffler", "gater" etc.. all in one. Pretty cool stuff, load it up and you've got a much more entrataining drum loop! The plugin works under FST, but latencies on my system make it impractical for live use. So I'm searching for alternatives... any suggestions? All native linux suggestions welcome! Cheers, -Harry

14 years

Qjackctl does not display my laptop microphone input

by Paul Berry

All, Hoping someone cane give me a lead with this one. I have a Lenvo T60 laptop with OpenSuSE 11.2 installed. I'm trying to process an external signal plugged into the laptop's microphone input but when I run Qjackctl the program does not list anything under Readable Clients/ Output Ports. I know the microphone input works because I can listen to signals plugged into it and I can control the volume etc. Capture is selected with my mixer so I know that it the signal is captured and I can record it with Audacity for example.. I know Qjackctl is working because when other programs such as AlsaModularSynth or Rosegarden are run all the various inputs and outputs appear in Qjackctl's Connections window. So why doesn't Qjackctl see my laptops external microphone input? Thank you very much for any help. Paul

14 years

Re: [LAU] Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 55, Issue 25

by Ralf Mardorf

On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 12:00 +0000, linux-audio-user-request(a)lists.linuxaudio.org wrote: > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:35:56 -0700 > From: Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> > Subject: [LAU] OT: Moogs, beer, hippies, and TV > To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > Message-ID: <20110924063556.GQ13316(a)aieee.restivo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I am sorry, but I had to post this. Really I did. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QBcrliFNk > > -ken IMO it's better to do a commercial similar to this one, instead of uphold current "cultures". "Because you know if you play New Kids on the Block albums backwards they sound better. "Oh come on, Bill, they're the New Kids, don't pick on them, they're so good and they're so clean cut and they're such a good image for the children." Fuck that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fucking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in puddles of their own vomit! I want someone who plays from his fucking HEART!" — Bill Hicks "Raise your freak flag high" - Unknown ;) Cheers! Ralf

14 years, 1 month

Qsynth 0.3.5/Fluidsynth 1.1.3 effects not working

by Andrew C

Hey all, I'm trying to get the reverb/chorus effects working on the above versions of Qsynth/fluidsynth and the Fluid soundfont, but turning them on and fiddling with the parameters yields no noticable change in the sound. Are the effects bugged or am I just Doing It Wrong? Thanks, Andrew.

14 years, 1 month

Concert with low delay realtime linux audio spatial processing

by Giso Grimm

Hi all, I would like to announce a concert with low delay Ambisonics processing of acoustic instruments, the signal processing using linux audio (many components are written by Fons (ambdec, jconvolver) or based on code from Fons and Jörn (panning methods)): Harmony of the Spheres Cosmology and Number Aesthetics in 16th and 20th century Music for Viola da Gamba Sunday, Sep. 25th, 4pm Haus im Park, Züricher Str. 40 Bremen, Germany You can find more information here: http://www.orlandoviols.de/?dlink=0 Composers of the programme are Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, John Cage, Lee Santana, Christopher Tye, Nicholas Strogers and Mr. Picforth. More concerts with this programme are scheduled and planned in December. Sincerely, Giso (If you would like to hear this programme near your place, please contact me off-list via info(a)orlandoviols.de)

14 years, 1 month

Electronic Drum Rataplan

by Robin Gareus

Hi, I'm looking for a way to make a good sounding rataplan on an electronic snare-drum. I'm not looking for the typical army-snare but rather the funky style: just hit the snare and keep applying pressure to the stick so that it bounces a few times. Some kind of electronic equivalent of http://gareus.org/_media/pub/misc/wirbel3.mp3 I tried short sequences of 64th or 48th notes in hydrogen (various drum-kits) and seq24 (general-midi jazz-kit) - to no avail. Do I miss a specific sound-font? Is there a trick (echo/slap-back/reverb)? I would not say no to Csound or supercollider synth. Anything that I can trigger with MIDI is fine. Thanks in advance for any hints, robin

14 years, 1 month

lowest usable latency from a USB 1 device?

by Ralf Mardorf

Regarding to the price, pardon, but are you serious? > 300 US$!? For my PC it's no problem to go over 10m for USB 2. For what usage are you thinking about "up to 100 m (328 ft.)"? C'mon ;). Nice question, anyway, I suspect that this never ever will work for any kind of live performance. Your flat is that large? Helge Schneider cut his ermine cape when the Ferrari catch it, while he was in a hurry, running through his flat.

14 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] ubuntu vs arch

by Ralf Mardorf

> Message: 23 > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:32:30 -0400 > From: Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> > Subject: Re: [LAU] ubuntu vs arch > To: Atte Andr? Jensen <atte(a)email.dk> > Cc: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > nouveau driver doesn't work for my machine too. Nvidia proprietary and xorg nv, even xorg vesa are ok. Funny digest from my xorg.conf ... Driver "nvidia" #Driver "nv" #Driver "nouveau" #Driver "vesa" Here the proprietary seems to be the best choice.

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