Linux-audio-user January 2012

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Re: [LAU] [Rosegarden-user] MIDI card for Linux

by Ralf Madorf

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 12:00 +0000, linux-audio-user-request(a)lists.linuxaudio.org wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:30:14 -1000 > From: david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> > Subject: Re: [LAU] [Rosegarden-user] MIDI card for Linux > To: linux-audio-user <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org> > Message-ID: <4F02AE86.9020507(a)hawaii.rr.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > > Abrolag wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:12:36 -0900 > > Christopher Howard <christopher.howard(a)frigidcode.com> wrote: > > > >> I know this isn't a Linux support forum, but are any of the Linux > users > >> happy with a particular sound card that provides incoming MIDI > support? > >> I have an old CASIO keyboard with standard IN/OUT MIDI ports, and > wanted > >> to try streaming MIDI into Rosegarden. > >> > > If you can still get hold of the M-audio 2496 card grab it quick. > I've had one > > for ages and it's been flawless. They have a very good reputation > both on the > > audio and MIDI sides. > > I second that. I have 2 here, they work very nicely. > > -- > David > gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com > authenticity, honesty, community Regarding to MIDI jitter not only the MIDI device seems to be important. It's the combination of the mobo, MIDI device and software settings. Using e.g. HPET for the sequencer timer could improve this issue. Regarding to Linux drivers for the MIDI device, Envy24 cards are supported. Sometimes there's the need to do some editing to get audio working, when pulseaudio is installed, but this has got no impact to MIDI. I own 2 TerraTec EWX 24/96 PCI cards for MIDI usage only + a card from another vendor PCIe for MIDI and audio. The TerraTec cards have less jitter and as mentioned before, pulseaudio isn't an issue for MIDI only. I bought one of my TerraTec cards for less than 30.00 EUR at Ebay. So +1 for Envy24 cards for MIDI only. Happy new year to everyone! Ralf -- FWIW I also own a Swissonic USB MIDI. On my machine jitter is that low, that it "should" be inaudible. I anyway advice against USB devices.

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[LAU] Update: ALSA Looback - Jack bridge

by James Warden

Hello, I have found the time to update my old WIKI page describing how one can use the ALSA Loopback device to bridge ALSA only apps to Jack. I have added : - a little information here and there - detailed some asoundrc examples - added an alternative setup which uses a mix of the Loopback device (for ALSA playback) and input of a second soundcard (onboard chip) for ALSA capture. Read on if you are curious or want to tailor your asoundrc in the case that you are using this trick. Cheers! J.

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[LAU] Yoshimi 0.060.12

by Jeremy Jongepier

Dear all, Thanks to Will (folderol) for pointing out a keyshift/microtonal issue for which there was a patch available. I've applied the patch and released it as Yoshimi 0.060.12. http://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi/files/0.060/yoshimi-0.060.12.tar.bz2 Best, Jeremy

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Re: [LAU] [Rosegarden-user] MIDI card for Linux

by david

Abrolag wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:12:36 -0900 > Christopher Howard <christopher.howard(a)frigidcode.com> wrote: > >> I know this isn't a Linux support forum, but are any of the Linux users >> happy with a particular sound card that provides incoming MIDI support? >> I have an old CASIO keyboard with standard IN/OUT MIDI ports, and wanted >> to try streaming MIDI into Rosegarden. >> > If you can still get hold of the M-audio 2496 card grab it quick. I've had one > for ages and it's been flawless. They have a very good reputation both on the > audio and MIDI sides. I second that. I have 2 here, they work very nicely. -- David gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community

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Re: [LAU] makesfz.sh

by Dan MacDonald

Happy 2012 list!!! On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein(a)vait.se> wrote: > On Saturday 31 December 2011 14.48.58 Dan MacDonald wrote: > ... >> I do expect someone here will have wrote such a script and added bells >> already so may they be so kind as to share it so then we may add it to >> the LinuxSampler online resources or get it bundled with the app >> itself? > > You are right, I've done a half finished one in Perl where the purpose was > to chew the NDK from it's file structure . But it did not stop there, it > also detect the pitch and velocity on chromatic samples and makes a lot > of other small things as well... > > ...and, I'm not telling the whole truth (sorry): I've done most of the > needed internal functions, but have not put all together in a complete > script or program yet, I guess I need an effective day or so plus a > peaceful period before finishing it, the past 3-4 years has been terrible > in almost any imaginable way and the script/program is around one year > overdue now. And will I make it public? -Of course, when it's ready > enough. That sounds great Jostein although it sounds like total overkill for my very basic requirements for such a script. Shortly after I posted to this list yesterday I realised I was (amazingly) being lazier than normal and indeed it only took me 10m to write just the script I required which I have now shared with the Linuxsampler community here: http://bb.linuxsampler.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=667&sid=cfbd2bff56d89d82c678… Just in case that board goes bye-bye the script is short enough to paste in this message too: -------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # makesfz.sh reads all wav files in the current dir and creates an .sfz file # for use by Linuxsampler named after the folder containing them. # by Dan MacDonald 2012 key=0 rm -f ${PWD##*/}.sfz for wavs in *.wav do echo "<region>" >> ${PWD##*/}.sfz echo "sample=$wavs" >> ${PWD##*/}.sfz echo "key=$key" >> ${PWD##*/}.sfz echo "lovel=0 hivel=127" >> ${PWD##*/}.sfz echo "" >> ${PWD##*/}.sfz key=$(($key+1)) done

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[LAU] Yoshimi 0.060.11

by Jeremy Jongepier

Dear all, I've just uploaded a new release of Yoshimi to SourceForge. This is basically a maintenance release as Yoshimi fails to build with the latest version of FLTK (1.3). Thanks to Frank Kober for pointing this out and for providing a patch. I've also applied the Legato pedal patch from Kristian Amlie. This patch is so simple and clean, you wonder why it wasn't implemented earlier. Thanks Kristian! http://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi/files/0.060/yoshimi-0.060.11.tar.bz2 And a happy New Year! Jeremy

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[LAU] New arrangement and mix

by Folderol

... of a 3 year old tune. The original is: http://www.musically.me.uk/music/In_Search_Of_The_Lost_Tribes.mp3 and the latest version is: http://soundcloud.com/soft-sounds/in-search-of-the-lost-tribes/download This is not fixed yet. I'm hoping for suggestions. That's also why I've put up just mp3s as I'm casting a wide net :) -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

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[LAU] Have some free music!

by Aurélien Leblond

>Time for some harmless selfpromosion ;) five new songs since I last posted. > >http://sharpattack.bandcamp.com/ Very nice! I really like the drums! A guess it's a "real" drummer? You're not using a programmed drummachine like Hydrogen (I still ask the question because the answer could be surprising!) Aurélien

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[LAU] USB-Audio and XHCI (USB 3)

by Aurélien Leblond

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone managed to run a USB 2 soundcard on a USB3 (XHCI) port? I'm running the kernel 3.2 rc7. With the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra (USB 2): The output of dmesg is this: [ 475.094595] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [ 475.108605] usb 3-1: config 1 interface 3 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x7 has invalid maxpacket 8 [ 475.108615] usb 3-1: config 1 interface 3 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x87 has invalid maxpacket 8 [ 475.108958] xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep [ 475.109328] xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep [ 475.109879] xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: WARN: short transfer on control ep [ 475.110564] xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: ERROR: unexpected command completion code 0x11. [ 475.110585] usb 3-1: can't set config #1, error -22 The snd-usb-audio module is not probed automatically, and if I modprobe it manually, no sound card is detected. The error message is described in this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679944 but if I understand well, kernel wise, everything is "ok" and the issue lies in Alsa The output of lsusb is: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 050d:0307 Belkin Components Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0408:1af1 Quanta Computer, Inc. Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c51b Logitech, Inc. V220 Cordless Optical Mouse for Notebooks Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0763:2080 Midiman M-Audio RunTime DFU The Edirol UA-25Ex (USB 1) works fine, I get a few warnings in dmesg but the sound card is detected and functional... Let me know if I should provide any more info, or outputs, anything that can help. Kind Regards, Aurélien

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[LAU] Anyone in London/Edinburgh during New Year?

by Louigi Verona

Hey guys! Heading up to London and Edinburgh for New Year (28 Dec - 5 Jan). In case anyone wants to meet up with a fellow linux musician, do drop an email ;) Cheers! -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/

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Linux-audio-user January 2012