Linux-audio-user September 2012

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by James Stone

Sorry Louigi for spamming your inbox.. meant to send this to the list! Latency isn't a problem for me. I'm not interested in real time recording with this app. It's great for step recording etc. And the killer feature is being able to run it on my phone! On Sep 4, 2012 11:04 AM, "Louigi Verona" <louigi.verona(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, it is known very well, especially in the tracking scene. > Tracking scene, as well as demoscene, is a little bit alien to releasing source, > since often it is a competitive environment for the devs. Not sure if SunVox author > is keeping it proprietary for this reason or for others. > > I don't see it working with JACK though, which gives me considerable latency. > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:53 PM, James Stone <jamesmstone(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:51 AM, James Stone <jamesmstone(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Just a heads-up on something new I found: Not free software, but a >> > cool multi-platform tracker nonetheless: >> > >> > http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ >> > >> > A bit like Buzz/Neil in some ways, but nice because I can also run it >> > on my android phone and share tracks composed on the phone with my >> > computer, as well as with people using Windows and iphone/ipad etc.. >> > >> >> Apologies - I notice this had been mentioned on the list before but I >> never saw the messages! >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > > > -- > Louigi Verona > http://www.louigiverona.ru/

13 years, 1 month

Sunvox tracker

by James Stone

Hi all, Just a heads-up on something new I found: Not free software, but a cool multi-platform tracker nonetheless: http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ A bit like Buzz/Neil in some ways, but nice because I can also run it on my android phone and share tracks composed on the phone with my computer, as well as with people using Windows and iphone/ipad etc.. James

13 years, 1 month

Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]

by Patrick Shirkey

On Sun, September 2, 2012 6:18 am, SxDx wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> >> The East West Choirs sing your lyrics. It's not another Ahhhh or >> Ohhhh >> sample ;). >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI5Gg2-mhmU > > any technical info on that? free software doing the same, research papers > (easily available), anything? > As an aside, one possible way of dealing with this issue is to create your own voices for applications like orca. If you want a quick and easy way to get started with that process you can run "AT Distro" in a virtual machine. http://atdistro.com Otherwise you can go direct into orca too. As orca is scriptable it is possible to create a singing voice. With some careful tweaking of the voice parameters you might be surprised at how realistic it can be made to sound. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

13 years, 1 month

question about audio interface

by Gabriel

Hey everyone, can someone remind me where i can get the list of known usb audio interfaces that work with linux and ubuntu? And maybe someone can tell me if the Roland UA-55 Quad-Capture does work with a linux system? Best regards Gabriel Simão

13 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)]

by Patrick Shirkey

On Mon, September 3, 2012 6:46 am, SxDx wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> >> To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >> Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 11:25:26 PM >> Subject: [LAU] Synthesized voices [was :Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)] >> >> >> On Sun, September 2, 2012 6:18 am, SxDx wrote: >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> >> >> The East West Choirs sing your lyrics. It's not another Ahhhh or Ohhhh >> >> sample ;). >> >> >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI5Gg2-mhmU >> > >> > any technical info on that? free software doing the same, research papers >> > (easily available), anything? >> > >> >> As an aside, one possible way of dealing with this issue is to create your >> own voices for applications like orca. >> >> If you want a quick and easy way to get started with that process you can >> run "AT Distro" in a virtual machine. >> >> http://atdistro.com > > thanks for pointing that out. I tried a bit, it's slow > in qemu (expected). But it seems orca uses espeak, and > the voice is not realistic. You can create your own voices so the default voice should not be used as the reference for a singing voice. Even then I was amazed by how close to real it sounded for chanting emulation. > What we hear in the video > above is much more realistic and I wondered how they do > that. Seems it's not public knowledge. > TTS is a huge research area. Some people are putting their work online. http://gitorious.org/lauloid http://stephane.magnenat.net/music.html IIRC there is some very advanced open source voice synth software originating in France. I can't recall the name of the institute who sponsors the development but I'm sure there are others on this list who know of it. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

13 years, 1 month

Terminal ederol u a 25 and avid m box mini soundcard and ardour errors

by trahern culver

hey all first off i when i tried to start ardour it gave me an error message saying it couldn't start jack because of several possible reasons it also said some thing about memory allocation in the message does any one know what this problem is and how to solve it? Secondly i inputted the below command into terminal for my ederol u a 25 and avid m box mini sound cards and got the below results: ed command inputted for ederol and avid sound cards: jackd -d alsa -d hw:UA25 -n 3 -p 128 -r 48000 u a 25 output results: sound-warrior@the-megga-machine:~$ jackd -d alsa -d hw:UA25 -n 3 -p 128 -r 4800 jackdmp 1.9.8 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. Copyright 2004-2011 Grame. jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10 Cannot lock down 82241434 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory) audio_reservation_init Acquire audio card Audio1 creating alsa driver ... hw:UA25|hw:UA25|128|3|4800|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit configuring for 4800Hz, period = 128 frames (26.7 ms), buffer = 3 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 24bit little-endian ALSA: use 3 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 24bit little-endian ALSA: use 3 periods for playback Cannot use real-time scheduling (RR/10)(1: Operation not permitted) AcquireSelfRealTime error avid m box mini output results: sound-warrior@the-megga-machine:~$ jackd -d alsa -d hw: Avid Mbox Mini -n 3 -p 128 -r 4800 jackdmp 1.9.8 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. Copyright 2004-2011 Grame. jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted Cannot create thread 1 Operation not permitted JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10 Cannot lock down 82241434 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory) audio_reservation_init Acquire audio card Audio0 creating alsa driver ... hw:|hw:|128|3|4800|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit ATTENTION: The playback device "hw:" is already in use. Please stop the application using it and run JACK again Cannot initialize driver JackServer::Open() failed with -1 Failed to open server sound-warrior@the-megga-machine:~$ does any one know what these errors given by terminal mean? and how to solve the problem? Your help with these problems would be most welcome kind regards trahern.

13 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24) - Once again free samples, this time more uplifting

by Devin Anderson

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Florian Schirmer <florian.schirmer(a)native-instruments.de> wrote: >> Is there someone who knows more about these formats? Even if it is not >> possible to write a sampler engine (it would not be the first >> [partly]binary, closed format loaded by open source software) maybe there is >> at least a way to get all the needed information to convert/correct them by >> hand or individual scripts. > > Besides the technical problem there is also a legal problem involved here. > To protect the IP of sample developers the instruments sold by 3rd party > developers are encrypted. > > My guess would be that using something like Autosampler to capture a certain > snapshot of a library and convert that into something that your favorite can > read is by far the most promising solution. But of course this depends on > what you're looking for. I haven't heard of Autosampler until now, but this seems like an appropriate time to bring up synthclone: http://synthclone.googlecode.com/ ... which has some similar features, is free, and has a plugin API that allows a programmer to add missing functionality. -- Devin Anderson surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/ psinsights - http://psinsights.googlecode.com/ synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/

13 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24) - Once again free samples, this time more uplifting

by Brett McCoy

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Florian Schirmer <florian.schirmer(a)native-instruments.de> wrote: > On 31.08.2012, at 02:06, Nils <list(a)nilsgey.de> wrote: > > Sadly many of those instruments are in .nki or .nk* format which is the > Kontakt Player or Kontakt Something Fullversion format. > The wave samples are (often? by design?) there as plain files, but it is > hard work to guess how they should be arranged and what is needed. As far as > I know the kontakt format has more features, such as scripting, than sfz, > which is currently the "Linux sample flagship". I hope I am wrong here. > > > No, you're correct. As i've written in my other mail to LAD, todays sample > libraries are much more than samples and the respective mapping on keys / > velocity layers. Scripting and all the advanced engine features is what > makes the difference. Just extracting the samples and mapping information > from a Kontakt library will end up in very disappointing results. This is what we have discovered with free libraries like Sonatina -- the mappings are there but not much else (not even velocity layers), many of the instruments don't even seem to work correctly with MIDI CCs. They work OK in Linux Sampler, but are still pretty weak compared to what is available commercially. -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world." -- Jelaleddin Rumi

13 years, 1 month

{music} Fan vet

by Robert Jonsson

Good morning folks, Don't see much music here lately so I thought I would send a long one a finished recently. In swedish this time too ;) Oh, all Linux ofcourse. It's called Fan vet (translates to something like: Damned if I know) and is available here. http://spamatica.se/thecharlesdarwinevolutionexperience/ And the direct link: http://archive.org/download/TheCharlesDarwinEvolutionExperience/thecharlesd… Hope you like it. More music with acoustic drumming will hopefully come during fall. Regards, Robert

13 years, 1 month

Re: [LAU] g t k client to control the jack audio server?

by Chris Caudle

> From: "S. Massy" <lists(a)wolfdream.ca> > Unfortunately not. This particular poster is blind and uses the Orca > screen-reader to access his computer and the GUI. Orca mostly works with > GTK-based applications OK, thank you for clarifying. So, what is desired is not a GTK application per se, but an application which works correctly with the Orca screen reader software. The Orca wiki (which has a disclaimer of being out of date) has this to say: Orca works with applications and toolkits that support the assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI).... Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, SWT, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, Mozilla, and WebKitGtk. According to the AT-SPI entry in wikipedia, support for AT-SPI is included in: GTK+ 2, Java/Swing, the Mozilla suite, StarOffice/OpenOffice.org and Qt 4. So it appears that the possible solutions to the problem would be a GTK application for starting and controlling jack (as originally requested), a Java/Swing application to do the same, or help Rui make any changed needed in qjackctl so that the AT-SPI support in Qt4 is utilized. Possibly a variation on a GTK application would be something like PyGTK which uses the GTK framework but from a language tailored to fast development. -- Chris Caudle

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Linux-audio-user September 2012