Linux-audio-user January 2013

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[OT] digital mixer losing its presets after battery replacement

by Dave Phillips

Greetings, The subject says it all. I recently had a tech replace the batteries in two Yamaha DPM11 mixers. As expected, all presets were lost, but I was able to restore them by a direct sysex transmission from one unit to the other (before that one's battery replacement). Alas, the transmitted data doesn't "keep", i.e. when the machine is turned off the battery appears to be draining its charge, because the presets are gone when I power up again. Grrrr. Also, simplesysexxer seems to receive and transmit a bulk dump with no problems, but the units do not respond correctly. The first preset gets copied, then I receive an error code "cE". I could make good use of the machine's error code definitions now, but the only service manual I found available on the net is from a private dealer who wants too much money for it. I'll try contacting a retired Yamaha tech in Toledo OH, but does anyone on these lists have an idea what I should do ? Btw, the units work fine now, they just don't keep their presets. Any & all assistance greatly appreciated ! Best, dp

11 years, 3 months

Anybody using a RME HDSPe AIO in the meantime?

by Ralf Mardorf

Hi :) is anybody else using a RME HDSPe AIO in the meantime? Regards, Ralf

11 years, 3 months

controlling time stretch in VLC

by Federico Bruni

Do you know if it's possible to have a better control of time stretching in VLC? I know that I can use - and + to change the speed, but I cannot control the _amount_ of speed. Do you know if it's possible? Actually, I'm a happy user of Stretchplayer, which allows to set the speed at a specific percentage. But Stretchplayer runs only on Linux and I want to recommend a similar software to some friends who use Windows. VLC is the first option, since it's Free. Otherwise, I know that there is Transcribe (closed source). Any advice appreciated -- Federico

11 years, 3 months

CAPS 0.9.3 and 0.4.6

by Tim Goetze

CAPS 0.9.3's guitar amplification contains four new tonestacks, distortion asymmetry dependent on output power and other sound improvements. The modulation of the mono chorus has been smoothened, and the Plate default parameters have been restored to be nearer the more reverberant response of the older versions. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html There's also a 0.4.6 release, stamped 'obsolete', containing all the plugins that were in 0.4.5 but did not make the cut to 0.9. There are no duplicate plugin IDs, and the library is differently named, so both versions can co-exist on one system. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#Older_Versions

11 years, 3 months

MIDI note input by rhythm?

by Angel de Vicente

Hi, my first post to the list. I hope MIDI issues are appropriate for it. I'm an amateur classical guitar player and I'm starting to use the computer as a "partner" to play duets, trios, etc. At the moment I just enter a score in either GNU Denemo or Rosegarden, then just tweak a little bit the tempo and the velocities to make it more musical and then I play along with that. But the whole thing is very time consuming, so I'm looking for an alternative way for note input. I am hoping for something like the following: 1. I just enter the notes, regardless of the duration of each of them. 2. Then I go into a second phase, where (using the PC keyboard or a MIDI keyboard) I just worry about the rhythm (the note durations). Every time I press a new key in the keyboard the program would play the next note from the ones entered in step 1. and record its duration. I don't care about how the score will look with these durations. I just want an easy way to create a more musical accompaniment. This way, at this step I only have to worry about the durations of each note. 3. The same idea, but for velocities, so I could easily create piano, fortes, crescendos, etc. Is there any MIDI editor that would let me do something like this? If not, do you think it could be easily implemented? If so, I could perhaps contribute with some programming, but I would need some pointers as to where to start (I have never done any music/MIDI programming, though I have plenty of experience programming in other fields). Thanks, -- Ángel de Vicente http://www.iac.es/galeria/angelv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADVERTENCIA: Sobre la privacidad y cumplimiento de la Ley de Protecci�n de Datos, acceda a http://www.iac.es/disclaimer.php WARNING: For more information on privacy and fulfilment of the Law concerning the Protection of Data, consult http://www.iac.es/disclaimer.php?lang=en

11 years, 3 months

PistonFunkMachine! - FASTER! HARDER! LONGER!

by Dan MacDonald

FASTER! HARDER! LONGER! Is the aptly titled debut album of PistonFunkMachine! Its apt as the bulk of it was recorded over the last three days of 2012 barely weeks after the bands inception and before having played live together properly. Please give it a listen at http://pistonfunkmachine.bandcamp.com/ Ricky, chief PFM! song meister and I have played and recorded with various bands over the last 15 years and in Ricky's case this is the 22nd album he has recorded but it is the first album any of us have recorded entirely in a professional studio. We funded this ourselves so we're hoping we can sell a few copies and at least break even but we're selling it so cheap we're almost giving it away. I have been heavily involved with the Linux, and especially the Linux audio community for a number of years now so its with regret I have to confess we didn't make much use of Linux or free software in the recording of this album, although it still played a part. The studio we used was based around REAPER so to save myself any potential import/export headaches with the two tracks (most of 'Hard so hard' and all of 'When you're around') for which I had pre-programmed drums I created them using REAPER running under wine. REAPER is officially supported and runs very well under Linux/wine but I'm more interested in seeing the real, native Linux port get finished. Until then I'll continue to keenly follow MusE, qtractor and Ardour - projects which will surely get used in the recording of future PFM! tracks. The other, bigger Linux connection for this album is the artwork which originates from Hiroshi Seo's fantastic Ubunchu! manga that I modified and coloured using good ol' GIMP. We are very grateful to Seotch and Ubuntu Magazine Japan for letting us adapt and use his wonderful artwork. We hope you enjoy listening to FASTER! HARDER! LONGER! and we are especially grateful to those who support us or provide feedback! Dan http://pistonfunkmachine.com/

11 years, 3 months

Marian Trace Out 8/16?

by Marije Baalman

Hiho, has anyone tried the Marian Trace Out 8/16 soundcard on Linux? http://www.marian.de/en/products/trace_out_816 In the ALSA sound card matrix I see the Trace D4 supported, but I don't know how similar these cards are... sincerely, Marije

11 years, 3 months

avw.lv2 0.1.2: Here they are!

by Aurélien Leblond

Hello everyone, I just released today a new version of the avw.lv2 plugins. As a reminder, this project started as a porting of the Alsa Modular Synth internal modules to LV2 plugins: VCO, LFO, VCF, etc... Teamed up with Ingen, they can be used to create modular synths or analog drum machines (but the list is not exhaustive!). But in the latest versions, the suite saw the addition of a few other plugins not coming from AMS: - a (very basic) DownSampler that can be used as a filter to degrade the sound - a Granulator which is a granular effect for real time audio - interesting for VCOs, but as well for vocals, guitars or even drums - a Beat Repeater and a Beat Slicer: the Beat Repeater would repeat a certain number of beats, where the Beat Slicer would repeat randomly beats in a bar - again I find them pretty interesting for drums and guitars They can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/avwlv2/files/avw.lv2-0.1.2.tar.gz/download SVN: svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/avwlv2/code/trunk avw.lv2 GIT: git clone https://github.com/blablack/avw.lv2.git For Ubuntu users, a PPA is available: https://launchpad.net/~blablack/+archive/music-prod Finally, although I have been tested these plugins extensively and wrote them to be easy and straight forward to use, please please please provide any ideas, feedbacks, bug reports, anything to improve them! Hope you enjoy them! Aurélien

11 years, 3 months

debugging conflicts Pulseaudio/Jack

by Federico Bruni

Hi I've chosen the option 3 (route PulseAudio to JACK while JACK is running) of this guide: http://jackaudio.org/pulseaudio_and_jack BTW, http://trac.jackaudio.org/ is down since yesterday. It used to work fine in the past but I'm having an issue just after using Stretchplayer (and therefore jack). I'm on Debian testing (Gnome 3.4.2). I can't see anymore the audio applet. In Settings»Audio I see that there's no output device. The applications that are trying to use Pulseaudio are listed but of course no sound is produced. jackd is not running. pulseaudio-module-jack is installed and my ~/.pulse/default.pa contains the following lines: load-module module-native-protocol-unix load-module module-jack-sink channels=2 load-module module-jack-source channels=2 load-module module-null-sink load-module module-stream-restore load-module module-rescue-streams load-module module-always-sink load-module module-suspend-on-idle set-default-sink jack_out set-default-source jack_in How can I debug this problem? Thanks in advance -- Federico

11 years, 3 months

GEMA - Was: Re: Radium Compressor V0.0.1

by Ralf Mardorf

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:58:07 +0100, Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt(a)gmx.de> wrote: > What you write neither funny nor true. Please stop. The "discussion" already stopped. It would be interesting to get some true information about the GEMA. I never claimed that it's true, I always said that I need information. Any explanations are welcome. Explanations, not links to AGBs (general business terms). Regards, Ralf

11 years, 3 months

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Linux-audio-user January 2013