Linux-audio-user December 2012

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by Ralf Mardorf

On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 12:12 +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > One of C.Parker famous quote is "Master your instrument, master the > music, and then forget all that bullshit and just play" > but...according to this thread it seems that many are locked at the > first step ;-) Many musicians aren't audio engineers, so for musicians playing in the pedestrian zone nowadays it's a wise message, but for musicians that want to survive these days, it's just ignorant and scornfully against the audio engineers. Thinking about the abilities of different recording techniques isn't nonsense. Thinking about what customers want, especially those who are willing and able to pay a lot of money, IOW esoteric audiophiles isn't nonsense. If you make good music and you or somebody else record it, that even esoteric audiophiles are satisfied, that IMO is a good thing and always better than to work for the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson and other bad things. If you don't make it your business, then I agree, it's nonsense to take care about other people. You have to walk a tightrope, regarding to ethics, if you want to live from music. Sometimes you have to do less good things, but it's better to stop this business instead of working for people you condemned or learn to respect those customers. Regards, Ralf

13 years

LinuxSampler SFZ problem and MIDI map question

by Julien Claassen

Hello Everyone! First the SFZ problem: there is something wrong with upper and lower case letter in paths. I have a version of the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra. I had to change pathnames for the Strings - violin.sfz to only have lowercases. At least on the direcdtory levels. I checked the original file against the original pathnames, and for that it worked. So is there a bug? The question regarding MIDI maps. I'd love to create a MIDI instrument map to compreise a lot of my currently used instruments. Only, there are a couple, which will need more then one sampler channel. I don't want those channels to have anything loaded, when that program isn't used. So what do I do for those? Example: program 1 piano, program 2 drumkit (four channel), program 3 harpsichord (only one channel again). As I understood the ondemand policy, the instruments on channels 2, 3 and 4 will only be loaded, as long as nothing else is loaded on these channels. So I'd have to do something to them, for the rest of the drumkit to unload. Some of these pianos or other instruments are HUGE! Any idea, how to work around this? Warm regards Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html

13 years

LMMS Jack support

by Jose Miguel Vega Lopez

Hi guys! I hope you are having a great christmas, is my first time here in the list so i hope yo answer me. Question: Why when i am using Renoise with Jack i get good latency but when using LMMS with jack my latency is horrible??? Thank you very much for your attention guys, greetings from Colombia!

13 years

[ANN] Qtractor 0.5.7 - The Hotel Sierra is open, come on in!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, Yeah. Not much to tell about the times I'm afraid. But let me wish you all a merry and great new year, following the one which end is nigh. Just in case you wanna party, feel welcome, by all means: Qtractor 0.5.7 (hotel sierra) is open, come on in! Release highlights: * LV2 Options and Buf-size support (NEW) * Location markers/bar (NEW) * MIDI editor line-drawing (NEW) * Punch & loop recording compatibility (FIX) * Untangled LV2 UI parameter communication (FIX) * Dropped libSLV2 support, honoring libLILV for good (FIX) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.x8… - quick start guide & user manual: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Loop and punch in/out ranges may now get set simultaneously, may even overlap each other. However, punch in/out range recording will always prevail over any loop recording takes. - LV2 Worker/Schedule now supporting multi-instance vs. single-UI scenarios. - LV2 Options and Buf-size extension support added. - Fixed an off-by-one-tick bug on MIDI file input which was leaving spurious zero-length runt notes at the end of a MIDI clip, if a note-on coincides with the ending/split point (on ticket issued by Jonathan H. Pickard, thanks). - Good old SLV2 library support for LV2 plug-ins (libslv2) is now irrevocably deprecated, or better said, completely wiped-out from the LV2 host code, now considered extinct. - LV2 UI parameter updates are now asynchronously detached from the source GUI widget thread, in attempt to improve cross-GUI-toolkit responsiveness, specially focused on LV2 plugins with a GTK based UI (eg. amsynth, triceratops, etc.). - Make sure LV2 UI parameters (input control ports) get updated when loading a genuine LV2 state preset. - Improved the (custom) tempo spin-box widget signal(ing) processing and dispatching. - Show proper pointing cursor and location tool-tip while dragging any of the time ruler markers (including latest location markers/bar). - On saving as an archive/zip session file (suffix .qtz) include only those files that are actually referenced by live clips arrangement. - Ongoing integration of location markers infrastructure (time-scale and MIDI-file support). - Free-hand/linear retouching of event values, while on the MIDI clip editor's view pane below the main piano-roll (eg. note velocities), is now possible provided the target events are selected, otherwise the usual painting edit sub-mode applies (cf. menu Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw). - The MIDI clip editor now senses which target view pane has focus for general selection commands (cf. Edit/Select/None, All, Invert, Range) whether the main piano-roll or the event value (velocities) view. - Mouse middle-button clicking is back in business on main track-view and on MIDI clip editor views (piano-roll) as an immediate play-head (re)positioning command or merge/reset the edit-head/tail cursors if Shift/Ctrl keyboard modifiers are pressed. - Formerly protected, class qtractorClip::FadeFunctor is now public in an shot-in-the-dark attempt to fix clang builds (as reported by Jekyll Wu, thanks). - Override all sub-classed widgets mouse-pointer event handlers to be isolated from base widget style and/or window management. Enjoy!-- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

13 years

Re: [LAU] Pro Audio? OT rant.

by Ralf Mardorf

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)rocketmail.com> To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: Re: [LAU] Pro Audio? OT rant. Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:20:08 +0100 On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 12:01 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote about Behringer: > Better save your money some time and then > buy some real equipment. I don't like Behringer regarding to the bad build quality, but I use it, since for poor people it's impossible to get better equipment, for all the needed gear. One disadvantage of the Eurorack mixers, also could become an advantage. They are smaller than e.g. the original Mackie mixers. So for a home studio with less room, it might provide what's most important. Assumed you're producing on a format used by studios you know, than you can do everything that's needed at home, after that you take the HDD and visit a friend (or pay a studio) to finish the production. Regards, Ralf

13 years

Lack of smpte support simply sux

by Eric Steinberg

I know that there's an old tool for reading ltc under jack, but it's dead dead dead. MLT has no way to read VITC. Why is this? It very much eliminates linux usability for professional tasks, like syncing dual system sound and picture. Am i missing something? Is (are) there tools for doing that? I'm glad that bwf files snap to proper location in Ardour, but there's no way to nudge picture to match and limited format support.

13 years

Re: [LAU] Pro Audio? OT rant.

by Ralf Mardorf

On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 21:19 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:06:02PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > The same here, but I only own one. I'm pissed off about the XLR sockets > > and my ADA80000 gets boiling hot. It's not mounted to a rack. It's on a > > shelf and there put on a holder, so there's headroom above and below the > > ADA. > > Keep it there with an ice bag on it, or given the current European > meteo, just put it outside. I once saw 4 ADA8000s built into a 4U > portable rack producing fumes and a funny smell before dropping into > mortal silence, the four of them almost at the same time. Wasn't really > funny because renting the anechoic room where that happened was more > expensive than all of them together. I know one audio engineer who died of a smoke intoxication, by less smoke from a car radio's cable. He thought that the little bit of smoke was harmless and go to late to the hospital. Perhaps we all just had good luck. Just because of a little bit smoke, I never went to a hospital. I never ever would mount my ADA to a rack. Yes, outside it's cold, but unfortunately it's also moist and (no joke) fine dust from the street already is an issue inside my flat. So it's not off-topic, the ADA can get very hot and we should be careful, turn it off, when we leave the room to take a rest.

13 years

New/old music made with Linux - The Boring Bits

by Julien Claassen

Hello everyone! I decided to do some house keeping and in that process stumbled across these forgotten pieces. I hadn't released them before. It's a collection of unused audio logos, background music and trailers. It also includes my first ever recordng on Linux, back in 2000. http://juliencoder.de/nama/boring/ Although it resids in the Nama folder and is linked from the Nama music page, only the most recent candidates were actually recorded with Nama. I hope you can enjoy a few of these or might even find a use for them. Some of these aren't fully produced. This is to say, they aren't mixed and fine tuned as much as it would normally happen. Feedback is welcome. If you think, you may find a good use for one of them, do let me know. At the moment I'm keeping them free as in beer. But that is simply to know, what's up with them. Unless the project of inaccessibility or the "we hate Terry Pratchett front" comes knocking, I don't see any reason, why not to pass them along. Warmly yours Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html

13 years

Re: [LAU] Pro Audio? OT rant.

by Ralf Mardorf

On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 00:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 22:55 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:47:48PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 15:07 +0000, Ben Bell wrote: > > > > > > > Maybe the design's changed? > > > > > > Or European version vs overseas version? > > > Here it's 230 V +/-10% 50 Hz > > > > There is no 'design'. Behringer (and others) will just put > > in whatever the Chinese market has to offer this week. If > > they find a PSU that costs 5 cents less than the one used > > before they'll take it. The user will do the quality check. > > > > Ciao, > > The mixing console's PSU board has the name Behringer, a revision number > and IIRC also a printing with the values of the components. But the > voltage of some components was borderline. The quality of the board is > excellent, the components are elCheapo. The mixer has got Alps faders. But my mixer has got the first Alps faders I ever used, that are bucking when doing a fade.

13 years

ADAT devices

by Ralf Mardorf

Mytek Digital 8x192 ADAT Card Mytek Digital 8x192 ADAT DIO Card, ADAT-Card, two lightpipe inputs and thomann outputs provide 8 channel of 24 bit I/O at 44.1-96k and 4 channels at 176.4-192k http://www.thomann.de/gb/mytek_digital_8x192_firewire_adat_card.htm Of Course, that are two ADAT IOs. So I was mistaken regarding to 44.1 and Paul regarding to 192. It's not important for me, since I make mistakes and never claimed something else, but perhaps embarrassing for Paul, who often is wrong and does abuse people who know better. However, this information might be useful, since the price range is ok, OTOH I don't know how much a complete Mytek system is.

13 years

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Linux-audio-user December 2012