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?
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> 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
Thanks to everyone who shared tips on how to use Ardour. I see that up
to now I haven't used much of it really and the recent tips on hardware
monitoring are great and I'm still experimenting.
At the beginning of a new session I've added a hardware monitor track
with 4 outputs PCMs 1 to 4. I'm still not doing much with it at the
moment and noticed that in the mixer window there's a fader for it
along with a space at the bottom containing 4 green dots numbered 0 to
3. When dragging them in the square space the mix would slightly move
sideways. That seems useful. But what about the orange squares
located at each corner of the space ? They also can be moved but seem
to change nothing - what is their purpose ?
Cheers.
Hello all,
Basically, what are the auditioner and click outputs in Ardour for ?
I'm currently relying on a 'primary' track to give sync to the rest of
the tracks inasmuch as it's recorded first and everything else gets
recorded against it. Quite often it is an acoustic guitar track.
Problem is with this approach is that if the guitar track has to be
redone, then it's starting all over again, especially when there are
solo guitar bits. The click output could maybe provide something like a
base sync but I'm quite allergic to click sounds as I find them
distracting, let alone finding the right rate. Maybe daydreaming, but
is there some kind of responsive momentaneous switch that could be hit
by the heel and whose output could trigger a non-obstrusive
sound/sample of some sort, dedicated to its own track ? It is so easy
to tap the heel while playing to keep the tempo: it's be nice if it
could serve as input for click track of some sort.
Anyways, what is the auditioner Ardour output for ? It is not shown in
the track/bus list and there's no bus assigned to it.
And, any suggestion for creative click track use (and Ardour click
track output/assign of audio file for click ?), or how to redo a base
track when everything depends on it, would be appreciated.
Cheers.
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
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.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> David Adler writes:
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Robin Gareus wrote:
>>>
>>> It might have to do with Arch's compiler[-flags] and how jack2 uses
>>> unions .. or scoping: JackGlobals vs Engine-Parameters.. although I
>>> don't have an explanation.. all seems good.
>>
>> Compiler flags (for 32bit) are, (from unaltered /etc/makepkg.conf):
>> CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector
>> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
>
> Don't use -O2 nor -O1, use -O0
>
> I'm aware of at least one *compiler* bug that causes jackdbus to
> misbehave. Yes, i analyzed the generated assembly. Affected are both
> i32 and amd64 targets. Atm the only reports are from Arch users. The bad
> machine code is created for th control api implementation, in parts that
> use unions (jack parameter values).
Symptoms disappear when using -fpermissive and/or -O0 (instead of -O2),
with no changes in the source files.
So is this then an upstream or a downstream issue?
Nedko, does your advice to use -O0 only concern Jack or everything?
I'm compiling lots of software here, usually -O2 usually doesn't seem
to cause problems.
best,
david
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.
