Linux-audio-user May 2012

linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org

113 participants
106 discussions

by Louigi Verona

Hey guys and gals! Want to share an experiment I did, sort of a proof of concept of how one can do random house (or whatever) music with a gap-less audio player. The post and the example ogg file here: http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=writings&t=linux&a=linux_random… -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/

13 years, 7 months

[LAU] [Music made with linux] Modlys: 13

by Atte André Jensen

Hi It's been quiet from me for too long. I'm working hard on a new album, from which I'd like to share the first finished track, called "13". http://soundcloud.com/atte/13-1 Any constructive criticism, comments and/or praise are welcome. Enjoy! -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk

13 years, 7 months

[LAU] Finally, some prog rock for you!

by Ken Restivo

I am very happy to report that my old friend Bob has finally released a record that he's been working on for 21 years. And... it's prog-rock! Not my style of music, but one that I know is near and dear to the hearts of Linux Audio enthusiasts. So here it is at last: http://pronstar2.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-mind I played Linux keyboards on quite a few of the tracks. It's been a year or two since the sessions so I don't remember exactly what I played on what. I do recall doing some Beatrix, including a few heavily overdriven to get a Deep Purple kind of sound, some Specimen with Mellotron samples (it's prog rock, you GOTTA have Mellotron!), and also Fluidsynth with clav samples through a hellacious jack-rack of plugins. I can say with certainty that I think that many, if not most, people on this list will enjoy many, if not all, of the tracks. Enjoy the Linux keyboard lovin' too. -ken

13 years, 7 months

[LAU] jack2 creates 4 threads

by mkrause

Hi List, i switched my system to use jack2 (1.9.8). As i wanted to make sure, that SCHED_FF is used and threads got the right priority i took a look at ps: I can see, that jackd includes now 4 threads. Only one of them is using SCHED_FF with higher priority. Is that correct? regards, Mathias XS Embedded GmbH Peterzeller Strasse 8 D-78048 Villingen - Schwenningen Telefon +49 (7721) 4060 - 478 Fax +49 (7721) 4060 - 499 www.xse.de Mathias.Krause(a)xse.de :::::::::: based.on.visions :::::::::: XS Embedded GmbH Geschäftsführung: Michael Maier, Rainer Oder Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Freiburg i.Br., HRB 705237 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Peterzeller Strasse 8, 78048 Villingen-Schwenningen USt-Id Nummer: DE268786819 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by return e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

13 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] using linux to manage your gigs?

by Frits van der Holst

Hi Josh, Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 15:16:11 -0500 > From: Josh Lawrence <hardbop200(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [LAU] using linux to manage your gigs? > To: Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > Message-ID: <C5C4E607606C41A99DB1BF3A36D3B4CE(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > hi list, > > this is one of my busiest times of the year for gigging; I'm usually > playing at least once a week, and sometimes multiple times a week. there > are a couple of things I'm frustrated about: > > * my song lists are all on paper. they have no information about the song > at all. it would be nice to be able to sort by key, genre (rock, pop, r&b, > motown, etc.). it would be nice if calling up the song called up the chord > chart, which brings me to my next point? > > * I looked through many presentation softwares, chord chart management, > etc. they all seem focused on the church crowd. I need something > *simple*. I choose a song, and the chart that I have available for it > (either text or pdf or whatever) is displayed in a split window. > > ok, that's what I want, and no one gets what they want. :) so, I'm open > to any and all ideas. what do you use? do you manage your set lists with > linux? chord charts? I tried the whole "thinking outside the box" and > looked for maybe some file management software, but I got overwhelmed > quickly. any and all ideas are welcome. > I am kind of in the same problem. Having a folder full of .txt, .pdf, or tiff, or .png files all holding chord structures, sheet music etc.. Stuff for one band, stuff for another band, stuff for lessons etc.. Organizing with sub folders for genre or type is simply not enough. I am playing around with Tellico a generic collection manager with some templates for all kinds of collections (stamps, coins, files, etc..). It's fairly easy to make your own collection with fields for, for example, key, genre, type etc.. It allows for having (file) URL's so when you have found what you need in the catalog you can open the file directly. Tellico is in the Ubuntu repositories. Hope this helps. Frits van der Holst

13 years, 8 months

[LAU] Digits VST for Linux

by Louis Gorenfeld

Hi all! I just released my phase distortion VST, Digits, for Linux and I thought you guys might be interested in it. It's closed source, but otherwise free. Please let me know how it works out. I'm open to feature requests too (besides a full-featured GUI-- that's in the works, but it's going to be slow going). It can be gotten at: http://www.extentofthejam.com Cheers, Louis

13 years, 8 months

[LAU] Ardour: delay in audio when recording

by jonetsu

Hello, I have some synth tracks recorded. Now I want to record some acoustic bass. So I set Ardour's option to monitor using Ardour and I put on headphones so the mic will only pick up the acoustic bass. Problem is, there is a slight annoying delay between the sound I hear from the bass itself and the sound relayed in the headphones. Machine is x86_64 and system is Fedora 15. Kernel is from Fedora. Maybe monitoring using hardware (the first option) might give better, delay-free results. How can this be set up when the system has an M-Audio 1010LT card and a pair of M-Audio speakers connected as system 1 and 2 outputs ? Any suggestions/hints about how to monitor acoustic instruments would be very much appreciated. For the time being I play the recorded tracks through the speakers at very low volume while recording the acoustic bass but the speaker sounds leaks into the mic - not so good at all, but gets things done. Cheers.

13 years, 8 months

[LAU] Box under £400

by Sciss

hi, I don't know if this is the best place to ask, as it's more of a hardware question... I will need to get a good + cheap + reliable machine to sound installations. I can invest _max_ £400 (EUR 500) and I need to get hold of the machine latest by August. Unless a miracle happens and a new Mac Mini model is announced, dropping the prices of current models by at least £150, I am looking for something comparable of the i5 2.3 GHz Mac Min, Linux based. It can't be desktop size, it really should be a portable thing, size factor/ weight not much larger than first gen Mac Mini. The nettops seem all underpowered for computation expensive realtime apps. I came across this : http://www.zotacusa.com/zbox-giga-id72-plus.html -- but seems like a new model or so, can't find any retailers or pricing info, at least not in the UK. Minimum specs would be i3 2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB HD. Will be audio only, so I guess graphics card doesn't matter. And of course, it needs to run Linux audio -- my stuff will use SuperCollider and various things on the Java VM. How about audio interfaces? I guess there is no chance I can connect a MOTU 828 Mk II to any of these boxes? The Z-Box looks interesting saying that it has 8-channels digital audio output via HDMI. I have no clue how to get that to 8 analog line signals, but maybe there is a cheap way? Will there be a problem getting Jack to talk to this kind of interface? Thanks for your suggestions, I hope it's not off topic! Best, .h.h.

13 years, 8 months

[LAU] Transmittance#2.1 telematic performance

by Luka Prinčič // Nova deViator

sorry for ><, please >>. in this performance we use Linux for everything - sound and video and streaming, etc: Pure Data, low-latency kernels, SuperCollider, GEM, ffmpeg2theora, icecast, etc... Most kindly welcome to saturday night live. ;-) Dear friends, We are happy to announce another online/offline telematic performance "Transmittance" (versioned at 2.1), which is scheduled to happen this saturday @ TROUBLE festival in Brussels, and, of course, ONLINE at http://transmittance.si Please join us online or offline at 23:30 CET (if central european is not your timezone, check here: http://goo.gl/XxBKs). This performance is created through interaction with online audience. Participation is possible for anyone with a modern browser (recomended are Firefox and Chrome). This particular edition is a derivation of Ljubljana's performance from last december and will include Matija Ferlin, Maja Delak, Jakob Leben, Luka Prinčič, Maja Šorli, a local collaborator from Brussels Samuel Volson on camera and, of course, online audience. fb RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/114544962016904/ trouble: http://www.halles.be/fr/program/174/Trouble login on saturday at http://transmittance.si About Transmittance =================== Transmittance explores collaboration which is local, global, networked and broadcasted. It involves an artistic group of performers, visual artists, musicians and computer programmers to research performative possibilities of streaming, broadcasting and telepresence forging new types of performance and audience. With focus on critical and socially-aware artistic languages this work is based on asking questions about body, self and society - opening non-dualistic perspectives. The project tries to rethink the notions of spectatorship and spectacle, ways of watching and seeing and the audience as spectators from the outside. In framework of free telepresence technologies it is a quest to open new spaces of visibility for performance and new media art and while critically deconstruct also actively bypass power structures that have a hold on physical spaces of artistic representation. Emphasis is made on creative use of free and open source software and its impact on artistic process and collaboration. Local free software experts, media activists and theoreticians are invited to initiate discussion on ethical aspects of information technology, art and media to motivate a better understanding of technological possibilities for artists and performers and encourage appreciation of artistic approach by programmers and technologists. The project develops a specific method of improvised performance which allows compositional freedom beside specific prepared scenes at the same time and in the process collide different specifics of various artistic media (performance art, expanded cinema, sound art, new media realities). Transmittance is proposed by Maja Delak & Luka Prinčič and is available as research, educational and/or performance model including a preparation time and performance event that is streamed on-line. -- production by Emanat Institute http://emanat.si built with free software and open standards

13 years, 8 months

[LAU] Amp profiling/modelling

by Giorgio - Audiophilo

Hi everybody, I've read of those new devices like Axe FX or Kemper. Did anybody try one of them? What do you think of amp profiling/modelling? Cheers -- Giorgio Baù *Sound engineer* T.Rex Studio www.trexstudio.com

13 years, 8 months

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

Linux-audio-user May 2012