Linux-audio-user April 2012

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by Josh Lawrence

hi all, I've been playing with the non session manager, and like it very much. is it possible to add command line arguments to the executable name? I've tried playing with something like: ghostess $somestuffhere fluidsynth-dssi.so …which seems to fail. any ideas? thanks! Josh -- Josh Lawrence

12 years, 11 months

lac repercussions

by Robin Gareus

All right! While LAC is waning, there's a few things we should announce: Most importantly Krzysztof Gawlas won our LAC soundtrack competition. You'll hear his piece as soon as we get the video archive of the conference online which will likely be next week-end. Thanks to everyone who submitted a soundtrack. For all who did not tune into the live-stream of the closing-ceremony: LAC2013 will take place at IEM, Graz; in spring 2013. If you have been at LAC and took picture or video recordings, we'd like to hear from you - please send us a link to lac(a)linuxaudio.org greetings from CCRMA, robin

12 years, 11 months

First gig with GNU Linux

by Nicola Pandini

Finally: my first gig with GNU Linux! It took place 2 weeks ago, and I'd like to share my experience with you. It was basically a "reading" with live music where I played an electronic percussion (Drum Kat) and a Dan-Bao (a Vietnamese mono-string instrument). I used LinuxSampler for the drums samples, and Pure Data to change the drum-set presets, manage the scenes (show info, metronome, monitoring, notes) and to apply a reverb to the Dan-Bao. To be able to achieved this, I must thanks all the devs of Pure Data and LinuxSampler (many thanks to Grigor Iliev), and obviously this list for the tips and ideas. A little note about LinuxSamples possibilities: I played 8 drum sets (all loaded in the lscp), with a total of 92 channels (every drum instrument has his own fx send), and 4 instances of ladspa Calf Reverb... not bad, don't? :-) -- Nicola

12 years, 11 months

Re: [LAU] EMail To Tascam - HARDCORE COLD HARD FACTS

by Ronald Stewart

maybe I got up on the wrong side of the bed today but here is the cold hard facts and truth about the musical instrument business and Linux Audio. First, I have sat down with Tascam TOP DECISION MAKERS for over 30 hours in 7 years with TOTAL FACE TO FACE conversations along with Alesis, Akai, M-Audio, AVID, and EVERY OTHER manufacturer on EARTH!!! Plus I have dealt with Guitar Center, Musicians Friend, and SamAsh buyers for nearly 4 years. Second, Tascam sucks and what you and ALL OTHERS WHO WRITE THIS LONG FELT STORY ABOUT THE POTENTIAL of Linux Audio users need to know and DO is SUPPORT companies that do support Linux Audio. I suggest Echo Audio because they work with Linux and FFADO and others to make a great user experience for Linux Audio. There are others like Harrison, RME (kinda) and some class compliant supported devices Edirol, Lexicon, M-audio etc. that are Linux friendly NOT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE but because of the STEVE JOBS affect of Apple. In fact Linux is not a priority and neither was Apple until the brute force MARKET SHIFT in Apple lately. Linux is 1% and Apple is at best 7% and the only reason why ANY of these companies are working with Apple is because you CANNOT get into an Apple store or their ECOSYSTEM UNLESS you are class compliant. Until 2 years ago companies like m-audio and all the rest had their own driver mickey mouse way of making things work. Thank GOD that Apple finally kicked butt enough to straighten out the musical instrument companies bot because they are "great guys" but because of MONEY!!! Now you and everyone else can take this info as fact or not. BUT and HOWEVER, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to build products in Linux for Linux for YEARS!!!! With tens of thousands of dollars spent I can tell you from my checkbook and WALLET that I maybe moved the ball from the one yard line to the nine yard line. >From experience just go with companies who care about Linux and the user experience and who PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS!!!! Support those programs, software, hardware etc. instead of writing 'heartful letters' in hope of response. I guarantee you that the decision makers at these companies ARE NOT THAT SMART in fact if they were Apple would hire them. These 'others' are there because they SUCK at their jobs and decision making abilities and that is why if you ever go to a trade show you will see that companies like FILL IN THE BLANK do not make new and cool stuff but wait for a GREAT product to come along and then KNOCK IT OFF so that everyone else benefits. The worst part of this is that users go and buy their garbage keeping us in the INSANE LOOPS OF CRAPPY STUFF THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! EXAMPLE the monome cool product with buttons and now their are lame copies by ALL THE BIG BOYS and sadly thats the one a lot of people buy to keep this CRAPPY party going. Period end of story.... if you thinnk you know better then send me your receipts of all the money you spent to challenge and debunk THIS HARD CORE FACT!!! BIG REQUEST can someone post this response somewhere so every time this subject comes up I don't have to keep spelling it out :) Thank you Ronald Stewart Indamixx On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Gerald Mwangi <gerald.mwangi(a)gmx.de>wrote: > ** > Hi guys, I sent the following mail to TASCAM (to the pre-sales > information). Hope to move something in their thinking. > Regards, > Gerald > > > Hello, > I'm deciding whether to buy the US-1800. Since I run Linux (Ubuntu) with > jack and ardour (www.ardour.org ), I need to know if the device is USB > 2.0 audio class compliant or if there are plans for a dedicated driver. Or > at least plans to publish sufficient information to the linux audio > developers (linuxaudio.org). If nothing is planned in that direction, I > will switch to the Firewire solutions from Focusrite, since Focusrite > actively supports the linux audio developers! It's not that much work to > disclose some information. And you'll have some 500+ linux musicians BUYING > YOUR PRODUCTS! Afterall, your a hardware vendor, not a software vendor. > Regards, > Gerald Mwangi > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > >

12 years, 11 months

Guitarix release 0.22.0

by Andreas Degert

After two beta releases, we are proud to announce the final release "drag-on-fly" guitarix2-0.22.0. Guitarix is a tube amplifier simulation for jack, with effect modules and an additional stereo effect chain. Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ You can find some screenshots and explanations of the new version in https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/guitarix/index.php?title=EnhancedUI Things that changed since the beta2 release: * many small fixes and enhancements * compile fixes for several environments * convolver unit * fixed crash * presets like for other rack units (instead of the old "favourites") * for beta users: parameter scaling for Vibe unit changed. if you stored a preset with Vibe settings you'll have to adjust the values (sorry). * if you see corrupted graphics in screen animations: it is probably a video driver bug. You can try to set Option "EXAPixmaps" "off" at the end of the device section in xorg.conf (location depending on system, e.g. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ati.conf). Announcement text from the beta releases: Many things changed in the user interface. You can move rack units by drag and drop (reflecting the signal flow), store individual settings for each rack unit and use preset banks with several settings for the whole rack. It's easy to take our "factory presets" and make your own customized bank, or make your own from scratch and share it on the Guitarix forum. There is a new "live play mode" with only the info you need on stage (it's fullscreen, no other penguins around), and a preset picking mode with a foot switch (midi or usb, or if you don't have one even the space bar of your keyboard) and the strings of your guitar to switch settings. Rack units are now put into categories, and two new ones are a noise gate for high noise levels and a univibe emulation. Thanks go to the developer of abGate and the nice guys from Rakarrack who helped porting their univibe code and made the inclusion of it possible. This is already too long, please check it out and give feedback if you find a problem, this version is still beta. Please refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ please report bugs and suggestions in our forum: http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/ here you can find a couple of examples produced by guitarix users: http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=83 have fun _________________________________________________________________________ For extra Impulse Responses, guitarix uses the zita-convolver library, and, for resampling we use zita-resampler, both written by Fons Adriaensen. http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/index.html We use the marvellous faust compiler to build the amp and most effects and will say thanks to : Julius Smith http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/ : Albert Graef http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html#Faust : Yann Orlary http://faust.grame.fr/ ________________________________________________________________________ guitarix development team

12 years, 11 months

Re: [LAU] TASCAM Pre-Sales Support Request - Reference: 9L5UWM3B

by Gerald Mwangi

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen at TASCAM, Thank you for your reply. I guess I (and a couple of others) will probably be satisfied with other (linux friendly ) vendors (e.g ECHO Audio). yours sincerely, Gerald Mwangi On Sa, 2012-04-14 at 03:20 +0000, TASCAM Pre-Sales Support wrote: > 2012-04-13 20:20:03 > Hello Gerald Mwangi, > Thank you for contacting TASCAM. > Our customer support representative, NFaison, has written > the following response to your message: > > > Gerald, > > The US-1800 has dedicated drivers for Windows and Macintosh only. > We appreciate the extra information. > > Thank you for your interest in TASCAM products. > > > Below is a copy of the message that you submitted: > > Support Reference Code: 9L5UWM3B > Support Request Type: Pre-Sales Information > Product: US-1800 > Your Question: > Hello, > I'm deciding whether to buy the US-1800. Since I run Linux (Ubuntu) with jack and ardour (www.ardour.org ), I need to know if the device is USB 2.0 audio class compliant or if there are plans for a dedicated driver. Or at least plans to publish sufficient information to the linux audio developers (linuxaudio.org). If nothing is planned in that direction, I will switch to the Firewire solutions from Focusrite, since Focusrite actively supports the linux audio developers! It's not that much work to disclose some information. And you'll have some 500+ linux musicians BUYING YOUR PRODUCTS! Afterall, your a hardware vendor, not a software vendor. > Regards, > Gerald Mwangi > > If you have any additional questions, please visit the TASCAM support > page at http://tascam.com/contact/ and submit another question. > ========================================================================= > > Follow us on Facebook: > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tascam/156388484378789 > > And on Twitter: > http://twitter.com/TASCAMpro > > ========================================================================= > Your privacy is important to us. > This message and any other communications we share with you are bound by > the terms of our Privacy Policy, which can be located at: > http://tascam.com/company/privacy/ > ========================================================================= > Copyright (C) 2012 TEAC Corporation. All rights reserved. >

12 years, 11 months

phasex: wave select modulation?

by Renato

Hi, I'm playing around with phasex and I'm wondering, what exactly is "wave select" modulation, and how do "Wave LFO" and "Wave Amt" parameters affect it? It does make some great harsh sounds, but I'd like to have a glimpse into what is actually happening... cheers, renato

12 years, 11 months

percussion sounds

by Emanuel Rumpf

Before I forget, or am too busy with other stuff, I'm releasing this bundle of more than 100 free percussion sounds. https://sourceforge.net/projects/rumpf-kit/ Hope they are useful to anyone. I'm still planning to create hydrogen and sfz mappings. Feel free to create your own, if you cannot wait. -- E.R.

12 years, 11 months

Fwd: Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 supported in Alsa 1.0.25?

by Clemens Ladisch

-------- Original Message -------- Hi, I'm currently looking at USB2.0 audio devices and trying to find out if the Focusrite Scarlett 18i6 (or 8i6) will work or even "work out of the box" on Linux and to what extend. I've found several pieces of information on this, but no definitive answer: The wiki page at http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/current_audio_gear has it listed, someone says it doesn't work. There is a discussion on alsa-user ( http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg27770.html ) about the inner workings of the USB driver and the Scarlett's peculiarities. One of the last mails has the word "Success!" in it :) but I don't know if this means there is now a working driver. The Alsa changelog for version 1.0.25 mentions the device, but again, no information about the state of support: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Detailed_changes_v1.0.24_v1.0.25 The soundcard matrix on alsa-project.org doesn't list any Focusrite devices. Has anyone experience with this? If I install Alsa 1.0.25 (or even just wait for Ubuntu 12.04), will it work? Mirko

12 years, 11 months

Re: [LAU] [Music] Piano piece

by Q

On 10/04/12 21:04, Dan MacDonald wrote: > Nowt wrong with yer pianar playin' lad! > > Lovely stuff Q - this real is some of the best quality music I've heard > from this list - again! > > More please! > > danboid > Now then, tha comment's fair tickled me and med me feel grand. Ah'm glad tha thowt it fair ter middlin'. 'Appen thanks are due fer t' listenin' but doan't hold thy breath fer onnything new ;-) Q

12 years, 11 months

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Linux-audio-user April 2012