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12 years, 4 months

Fwd: The SuperCollider Algostep Remix Competition

by Dan S

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: SuperCollider Symposium London <info(a)sc2012.org.uk> Date: 2012/2/6 Hi, To celebrate the SuperCollider Symposium 2012 we're announcing a very special competition about music and code. Music made by computers, for computers. A competition for dance music producers and hackers everywhere. We want you to take algorithmically-generated dance music and rework it. Submissions will be judged by three hand-reared computer algorithms, for the chance to win one of three Novation Launchpads. Full details: http://bit.ly/x4YS37 Best sc2012 http://www.sc2012.org.uk/

12 years, 4 months

[ot-ish] Ubu Web electronic music resources

by James Morris

Was just looking at Ubu Web and thought some might be interested in this: "This new section of Ubuweb is devoted to technical resources concerning the practice of electronic and experimental sound. This is a place for information about actual methods and techniques, with little writing on aesthetics alone. It takes the form of technical/historical articles, interviews, books, small-press magazines and patents." http://www.ubu.com/emr/

12 years, 4 months

harmonySEQ 0.16

by Rafał Cieślak

Hello everyone, I have released a new version of harmonySEQ. For those of you who haven't yet heard about it: long story short it's a live loop-based MIDI sequencer, that manages a set of independent sequencers - keeping them synchronized - and can be particularly helpful at performances, as it reacts on user-defined triggers and can, for example, switch the base chord of a whole composition or substitute one pattern with another on-the-go, with a single keypress (be it a computer keyboard or an external MIDI controller). If you are interested in the full list of features, visit http://harmonyseq.wordpress.com/ This release brings some ground-breaking changes. Not only there is a fully-featured piano-roll interface, but this version also welcomes a full support for complex polyrhythms, and a brand-new type of internal sequencers - control sequencers that output MIDI control events and allow to easily synchronize synthesizer's parameters with the melody. More information on the release can be found at http://harmonyseq.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/harmonyseq-0-16-released/ I'm pretty sure some of you may find harmonySEQ useful. I hope you'll like it! Regards, Rafał Cieślak

12 years, 4 months

crossover dsp for jack?

by Mac

Hi, Has anyone seen or used a dsp that functions as a crossover that works with jack? I've looked at Brutefir, but it doesn't look like it's seen much activity since 2009 or so. Regards, Mac

12 years, 4 months

Time to move along

by Jeremy Jongepier

Remixing Leigh's (Pneuman) track is simply taking me too long and the baby's due next week so I'm just releasing this remix. It's not finished though but I will probably never finish it, for the moment I have enough of all the quirks of the software I'm using. Here's the remix, hope you like it. Actually it's not really a remix but basically a complete new song. http://downloads.autostatic.com/music/pneuman-move_along_dj_autostatic_remi… So sorry Leigh that I probably won't finish it but it just doesn't work. Every time I wanted to work on this the track sounded differently again (probably because of some rogue plug-ins, I suspect some of the Calf ones), or the session didn't start up because JACK doesn't like some apps loading simultaneously or too quickly one after another and there were also some stupid actions on my side like deleting complete tracks or buses of which I thought I didn't need them anymore resulting in a complete mess. Next project I will make a backup of my Qtractor session every single time I have worked on it. Ok, what did I do? Well, I tried remixing one of Leigh Dyer's (Pneuman) tracks, namely Move Along. http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/releases/movealong/movealong.… My goal was to create a nice dance-able electro tune out of it. So I had to speed everything up quite a lot (from about 85 to 125BPM I reckon) but Rubberband did the job marvelously. It even changed the vocal samples in such a way that they just sounded very inspiring so it was really fun to find the right sounds that could go with the vocals. And I wanted to alter the melody in some parts so enter Zita-AT1 from Fons. With this track I learned all the ins and outs of this great tool and ended up with vocal parts that Fons will probably despise but hey, it IS an autotuner after all! So thanks Fons! Amazing tool, especially when you feed it MIDI stuff, it does wonders then. Next I added a vocoder to the vocals for the chorus, the MDA one which I like best compared to the other ones available. I wanted to try the TAL one but somehow my setup doesn't like Juce based plug-ins. I'm having a faint hunch that those plug-ins aren't real-time safe which may sound weird but they seem to work better with a generic kernel. On a real-time kernel they lock up my system within half an hour. All the samples were fed into Qtractor by Hydrogen. Hydrogen is a great sampler but the 0.9.5 version I used is so unreliable. One of the main reasons I don't pursue this remix is Hydrogen. Reordering, adding or deleting instruments, ah ah, don't even try, very often Hydrogen stalled then and if it did work the JACK graph wasn't updated properly. And because of this behavior and trying to troubleshoot it I had moments when I thought, wtf am I doing? I want to make music, not filing bugreports or troubleshooting my own system. One day my session didn't start up anymore. It really took me too long to find out I had to raise the number of available JACK ports. Default is 256 but this project uses way more ports than that. Qtractor... Yeah, I cursed at that one every once in a while too. But that was also because of the other apps I used that just don't work that well with Qtractor, specifically seq24. I really need to ditch seq24 and start looking at alternatives like HarmonySEQ. seq24 is dead and staying with JACK 0.118.x just because of seq24 is just plain silly. But Qtractor proved itself again, dozens of tracks, dozens of plug-ins, no biggie. Automation is still a tad fiddly but if I find a good way to express what the actual issues are I'm sure Rui will improve it faster than you expect. Plug-ins, well, for softsynths I used some zynaddsubfx DSSI's and the MDA JX10 VST, a lot of compressors (SC3, SC4, linuxDSP Pro-Dynamics, Invada stereo compressor), the obligatory Calf Vintage Delay for the crash, Calf Saturator for the vocals and drums in the chorus, a lot of different reverbs, the MDA vocoder VST for the chorus and a distortion somewhere, I think for the MDA JX10. And I worked a lot with inserts for the vocals (to feed them into Zita-AT1) and the bass synth (sidechain compression). Besides the plug-ins I used Zita-AT1 (two instances, Zita-AT1 doesn't like getting fed overlapping samples so I split those between the two instances), Yoshimi (in some cases the zynaddsubfx DSSI and Yoshimi sounded differently), Hydrogen, seq24 and Zita-DPL1 as the limiter on the Master bus. Sample-wise I used a lot of Leigh's original stems, like the crash, the piano, the vocals, a kick here and there and some bass parts. For the chorus I used some samples from a Sequential Circuits DrumTrax samplepack. I got the kick from some blog, http://www.boyinaband.com/. Like I said, the track isn't finished. The chorus lacks energy because of unbalanced levels and missing stuff in the lower regions, some of the samples click because they are being processed in real-time by Hydrogen and I wanted to use some cutoff filtering in the bridge but had such a hard time setting it up in Qtractor that I dropped that idea. And the mix is too dry and needs more compression, it's just too tame. So, time to move along. I probably won't be making any music for some weeks, my girlfriend is 39 weeks pregnant so I'll become dad again very soon. Also I have a different busier job for which I also try to study a bit at home. Luckily it's fascinating stuff (Asterisk & Kamailio, so VoIP telephony with SIP) and being the only one at that company with a solid Linux background is very gratifying also, but also very demanding. But new stems are coming my way, next project will be a remix of a The Cut/Up track (http://www.reverbnation.com/thecutup). And I'm also working on some acoustic stuff, so something completely different. Despite our little family growing I do hope to release more stuff in 2012. Best, Jeremy

12 years, 4 months

What does "Engineered by" really mean in liner notes

by "Bearcat M. Şandor"

Folks, I'm anal about my audio tagging and i like to enter the names of the people who worked on an album. If i see "engineered by" does that mean recording engineer, mixing engineer or mastering engineer? Or does that mean all three usually? -- Bearcat M. Şandor Cell: 406.210.3500 Jabber/xmpp/gtalk/email: bearcat(a)feline-soul.net MSN: bearcatsandor(a)hotmail.com Yahoo: bearcatsandor AIM: bearcatmsandor

12 years, 4 months

Using espeak with a vocoder program?

by "Bearcat M. Şandor"

Hey folks, I grew up in the 80s in the USA and i still feel that vocoders are one of the coolest sounding things ever. Most voice synthesis programs for Linux are looking to make them sound as realistic as possible. I want to go the other way. Is there a way i can use espeak that will make it sound like it's going through a vocoder? I've looked for different voices to do this and i'm not finding anything. Making my computer talk to me with the voice of a Cylon from the old Battlestar Galactica show or perhaps GlaDOS for something more recent would be great. Any ideas at all? A different list perhaps? I'll be using this for audial system notifications. Thanks, -- Bearcat M. Şandor Cell: 406.210.3500 Jabber/xmpp/gtalk/email: bearcat(a)feline-soul.net MSN: bearcatsandor(a)hotmail.com Yahoo: bearcatsandor AIM: bearcatmsandor

12 years, 4 months

Mic for accoustic (bass) guitar

by jonetsu

Hi all, What would be a good microphone for recording both acoustic steel string guitar and acoustic bass guitar ? In the $200-250 range. I currently have a M-Audio Pulsar and am looking for a recording that has more of everything I hear from the instruments which does not currently gets in the recording. The recording sounds like a digital compressed version that doe snot have all the warmth and nuances heard in the room. Would upgrading to a $200-250 microphone help ? Or would any difference be made only with much more expensive microphones ? I basically would like to record as much what my ears are getting when playing. The recording tool is Ardour, with all plug-ins found in a Fedora 15/CCRMA install. Thanks for any suggestions/comments!

12 years, 4 months

Easiest way to add Freeverb to Ardour ?

by jonetsu

Hello all, Freeverb3 is not part seemingly of the Fedora15/CCRMA x86_64 package sources. What would be the easiest way to add it ? Freeverb's web site only has a rpm for OpenSUSE and some source packages. Thanks.

12 years, 4 months

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Linux-audio-user February 2012