Greetings,
Since I'm no longer writing monthly articles for the Linux Journal and
I'm no longer maintaining the site at linux-sound.org, I've decided that
you lucky LAUyers will get to read what I think is fresh and new in the
world of Linux audio software. Gods willing and the creek don't rise,
I'll put occasional notices here about recently-announced apps and other
softs that might be of interest to Linux audio-type folk.
Today it's ScoreDate :
http://www.mindmatter.it/scoredate/
"It is an open source software written in Java that helps musicians to
learn music reading. It is suitable for any skill, from beginners to
professional users. From slow training to first sight reading."
And Jeff Hubbard's work with his LibModSynth :
http://libmodsynth.sourceforge.net/
"LibModSynth is a library of high quality audio DSP modules built with
sound quality, CPU efficiency and interoperability in mind. The library
is designed to make writing plugins easy, even if you have little or no
experience programming in C, C++ or Qt."
Jeff's used his library to write some nice DSSI plugins, so now's the
time to lobby for DSSI support in Ardour3. :)
And finally Dave Robillard has released LV2 1.0 and a batch of Paul
Keller's MDA plugins for it :
http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2-1.0.0.tar.bz2http://drobilla.net/software/
Remember, you'll need most of Dave's software - suil, sord, serd,
sratom, probably others - for a complete LV2 system. Be sure to read his
notes on installation and configuration.
Best,
dp
On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 12:00 +0000,
linux-audio-user-request(a)lists.linuxaudio.org wrote:
> [LAU] poll : Advertising vs Linux Audio
Hi :)
to many hardware companies already add to their advertisings that their
hardware is Linux compatible, that they do care a lot for Linux. The
truth usually is, that their hardware is able to work with flaw and even
that just with some releases of some Linux distros.
Should such companies get support by the community?
For good reasons advertisings anyway might be not allowed: "hosting: our
current host vt.edu does not allow advertising" - Robin
IMO that's good!
Regards,
Ralf
--
At the moment I can't read that thread completely, since the discussion
seems to be very long.
OT:
Pardon, I didn't read and answered private mails for more than a month.
I'll do it ASAP.
Besides, I compared AVlinux 5.0.3, Kernel 3.0.23-avl-7-pae threadirqs
with Kernel 3.0.23-rt40, also PAE, but optimized to AMD, for work with
internal MIDI, using it's default JACK1 and a RME HDSPe AIO. FWIW since
editing nv-linux.h didn't help, I used the FLOSS nv driver. I run JACK1
with -Z and sample_rate=48000, frames_period=256. Clients still get lost
and there are tons of audible glitches, that are shown as xruns, so
serious audio work is impossible, the only good news is, that there's no
difference between the default threadirqs kernel and the kernel-rt.
Someday I'll report about the result, when using different versions of
JACK.
I see what you did there
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Stuzz <stuzz78(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:20:00 +1000, Vytautas Jancauskas <unaudio(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I compiled a little list of music people composed using
>> Neil<https://sites.google.com/**site/neilsequencer/<https://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/>
>> >
>>
>> https://sites.google.com/site/**neilsequencer/music/music-by-**
>> other-people<https://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/music/music-by-other-people>
>>
>> As you can see, Neil can be of good use to people who make electronic
>> music
>> using the computer alone. Enjoy the tracks and if you are in to that kind
>> of thing musically check Neil out.
>>
>>
> Finally, a thread not about advertising!!
>
> Regards
> Stuzz
> http://stuzz.bandcamp.com
>
--
"Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please,
which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't care much where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
Hi,
Some of you may know that we are having a discussion on the Consortium
mailing list at the moment about the role of advertising in the Linux
Audio Community. Specifically the discussion is focused around the
possibility of having some paid ads on a *couple* of the subdomains that
are hosted at Linuxaudio.org.
The views for and against appear to be very polarised. I would like to
know what other people who may not be monitoring the Consortium list have
to say about this topic.
One camp feels that advertising is an evil blight on humanity and should
be avoided "where ever" possible. Although that appears to be a flexible
"where ever" due to having supported advertising by some supportive
companies in the past.
The other camp thinks that advertising can be a useful way for the Linux
Audio Community to promote brands that support Linux Audio and by
association increase the general public awareness of the viability of
using Linux Audio as a business platform and another way to potentially
raise funds which can be used to advance the entire platform.
Do other people here have any strong opinions on the usefulness of
advertising in the Linux Audio community?
Should it be avoided like the plague or does it have some value that can
be integrated provided we set some boundaries?
Cheers
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vytautas Jancauskas <unaudio(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [LAU] Music made in Neil
To: James Mckernon <jmckernon(a)gmail.com>
I'm not sure what you mean by stable :) As for actually crashing I almost
never have it do that, and if I do, I fix it quickly. Other people do
report it crashing so maybe I have just learned to unconsciously walk
around dangerous situations. I think it is stable enough to make complete
tracks in. It is probably not yet stable enough for live work. It also
depends greatly on which machines you use. If you use only time tested
stuff you are unlikely to run in to any problems. Also the file format is
xml based and everytime you save a backup is made. So even if the file gets
corrupted it can be restored either by restoring from backup or editting
the xml back to sanity. I think Neils main advantage is that you get a lot
of working synthesizers and effects. So it is more or less an all inclusive
deal. In fact being able to instantly use it to make complicated music
without installing anything else is a design goal (even though it is
probably contrary to UNIX philosophy).
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:48 AM, James Mckernon <jmckernon(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These pieces are great! Thanks for demonstrating the capabilities of Neil
> - a program I have long been interested in checking out, but haven't yet
> got around to. (I am, as you suggest, an electronic musician making music
> purely with my computer.)
>
> I currently use Renoise, which I think is a great tracker, but I feel it
> lacks one thing which I would love to have: a more flexible (modular?)
> approach to signal routing. For that reason, I'm interested in trying out
> Buzz-like trackers. I spent some time using Buzztard, but unfortunately I
> eventually came to feel that it hasn't yet reached a sufficient level of
> stability for serious work. May I ask how stable Neil currently is? I'll
> certainly consider giving it a try at some point, in any case.
>
> Cheers,
> J
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Vytautas Jancauskas <unaudio(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I compiled a little list of music people composed using Neil<https://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/>
>>
>> https://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/music/music-by-other-people
>>
>> As you can see, Neil can be of good use to people who make electronic
>> music using the computer alone. Enjoy the tracks and if you are in to that
>> kind of thing musically check Neil out.
>>
>> --
>> "Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please,
>> which way I ought to go from here?"
>> "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
>> "I don't care much where--" said Alice.
>> "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Linux-audio-user mailing list
>> Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
>>
>>
>
--
"Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please,
which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't care much where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
--
"Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please,
which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't care much where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
I compiled a little list of music people composed using
Neil<https://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/>
https://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/music/music-by-other-people
As you can see, Neil can be of good use to people who make electronic music
using the computer alone. Enjoy the tracks and if you are in to that kind
of thing musically check Neil out.
--
"Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please,
which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't care much where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
Folks,
As you probably know, last week LV2 1.0 was finally released after
some 6 years of work.
I asked several people for an interview on the topic. Some declined,
but some agreed. The whole thing is splitted into three parts, because
it's bloody enormous.
Part1: interview with David Robillard and Louigi Verona: http://bit.ly/JGmEW5
Highlights: what's next with LV2, chances of LV2 in the web and on
mobile devices, GPU-side audio processing, what's good and what's
missing from musician's point of view etc.
Part 2: interview with Mike Start and Rui Nuno Capela: http://bit.ly/JGmHB9
Highlights: technical advantages and disadvantages of LV2, how easy it
is to make multiAPI plug-ins etc.
Part 3, a review of available LV2 bundles and standalone plugins, is
currently in the works.
Enjoy, if you can :)
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
Unfortunately I was unable to attend this year, but thanks to everyone
involved I have been able to view the presentations via video [1].
Dave's trip down memory lane certainly stands out [2][3], however I'd
love to see/hear more of the music night.
Brendan
[1] http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/program
[2] http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/video.php?id=27
[3] if I see at a bus stop prepare to have your picture taken...
