Linux-audio-user February 2013

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by John Murphy

I've installed Ubuntu Studio 13.04. It has a real time version of the latest kernel and I quite like the XFCE desktop, although I'm more used to KDE. It boots from Grub in about seven seconds, which is remarkable. But I use one installation for all and I really need proprietary Nvidia drivers. Preferably version 310. I've tried installing 'nvidia-current' which provides v304, but doesn't work. An 'apport' problem is mentioned in the (Synaptic) details during install and the 'Nvidia Settings' widget reports no working driver installed and to try running 'sudo nvidia-config' (or something like that) which I tried. Even tried copying a known good xorg.conf from my currently working KDE (12.04). On a previous attempt I tried most variations of 310 and something from an xorg-edgers ppa. I've had similar problems before, requiring various blacklisting of Nouveau and certain framebuffer drivers, but before I try that; is there some other possible reason why ubuntu-studio 13.04 or XFCE isn't likely to work with (closed) nvidia drivers? Anyone got it working with 310.n driver who could provide hints? Thanks. -- John.

11 years, 9 months

Re: [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

by Ralf Mardorf

On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 14:28 +0000, James Harkins wrote: > Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@...> writes: > > > > > I would advice this short book for all those interested in a copyright > debate.http://mises.org/document/3582Although the book is called "Against IP", > the first part gives a very thorough and fair overview > > of both sides. The arguments there are much deeper than the usual "artists > will starveand we will have no music". > > I just read through it on a flight. I admit, the first sentences gave me cause > to read it skeptically, by using the term "libertarian" but not as a pejorative. > > Conspicuously absent from his account is the situation of people who earn their > entire living by producing intellectual content. He tries to dismantle concepts > both of intellectual "property" and of contracts to protect an author's labor, > but has no answers: it's a purely negative exercise. He invokes "fairness" but, > in his view, if you write a book and I use materials that I own to reproduce the > text and sell it, profiting from work that I couldn't have produced on my own, > this is "fair." It's a silly conclusion: If I sell a copy of someone else's > work, I could charge roughly the price of, say, a printed novel. If I sell a > sheaf of blank paper for the same cost, it would be fraud. My profits from > selling the copy depend on the value added by another's work. I didn't do the > work myself and I haven't paid for it, but I'd be earning profit based on it. He > has no answer for this. In fact, he simply pretends this scenario either doesn't > exist, or is insignificant. Effectively, he denies that the original author made > any meaningful contribution to the goods from which I'm profiting: It's MY blank > paper, and if I want to use it to copy your work, too bad. My material rights > trump your non-material labor. (Typical libertarian claptrap, blindly following > principles all the way through to stupid results.) > > In his defense, he is quite good at reductio ad absurdum argumentation, > extending copyright or contractual protection into situations where the result > really is mad. But he assumes artistic creation is the same, without arguing > why. That's important. Reductio ad absurdum works by analogy. If the analogy is > false, then the absurdity proves nothing. > > I wanted to be impressed. I'm not a big fan of copyright myself, and I hoped > this would provide some strong counterarguments. Unfortunately, merely declaring > that the artist's labor has no value worth protecting does not make it so. > > I also think the opposition to "reward" that you expressed on your site needs to > explain why governments and other organizations are slashing arts funding, if it > really is inevitable that societies will provide fair funding for essential > human activities. > > I don't think copyright is the answer, but it's also a mistake, I think, to > discard every economic protection of an artist's work because the current forms > of that protection are flawed. "It's a hard problem, so let's not try." I'm not > buying it. In the past I made tons of illegal copies and later I bought the recordings and software. Today, no joke, we have informers who sue people in Germany. I don't make illegal copies anymore, but I also don't buy commercial music and software anymore. If somebody wants me to buy software I'll test it as long as I want and without limits. If somebody wants me to buy vinyl, but there are tons of licenses that are enforced in a brutal way, I don't want it even as a donation. The books that are interesting for me are scientific books, hard to get, coping does cost more than a book, but the books are already impertinent expensive. I only own a few of such books. There's no need to make knowledge that expensive, it's poor greed of some scientists, that are more than just rich. In my country the graduation often depends to the richness of the parents and seldom to the skills of the pupils. Since a lot of people in Germany stopped consuming and using things that cost too much money, I'm not a freak regarding to this issue, we get nice new laws. The current law is regarding to broadcasting. For each habitation the resident needs to pay a large amount of money for radio, television and computer radio and television, even if you don't own a radio, television or computer, antenna, Internet connection. If you aren't homeless you have to pay. You can't imagine the radio and television broadcasts that are produced with this money. I won't listen or watch most of it for free, much less I want to pay for that crap. I like to watch TV, I'm missing watching TV, but most of this "intellectual content" is crap. Testing with illegal copies and after it's tested not to use it anymore or to pay for it, for sure fed more hungry people than the way it's done today. Today most people are poor and just a few people are rich and rich also does mean to be able to get more knowledge. In many areas in Europe 1/4 of the people don't have work or a good education, the other people who have got full time jobs often still needs to get welfare to have enough to survive. There isn't one day without annoying mails from this "click and pay to use my apple" account. I won an iPad, I'm using it, but I neither buy applications, nor do I use illegal software. I don't have a problem with copyrights and strange licenses, but it would be fair that people don't try to enforce to get money from people who aren't interested in their "intellectual property", I also don't pay for goods that I don't own. Why do I pay a collecting society, IOW why do I have to pay the "intellectual property" of other musicians, when I buy empty tapes to record my own "intellectual property"? I don't have the impression that consumers rip of artists, coders etc., I've got the impression that some artists, coders etc. rip of the consumers and especially the people who don't consume their stuff. When I sold my work, I also delivered the ownership of this work. When I sold a graphic, it would have been unethically for me to still own nearly all rights for the usage of this graphic. Always take a look who gets how much money, buy what law, usage of what license ever and what gets the customer for the money. Btw. staff sometimes gets less money, staff sometimes pays the development, not the boss, but all ideas from the staff, that the boss enables to make billions, is owned by the boss. Copyright laws and ideas about such laws usually are unbalanced.

11 years, 9 months

a question on Lenovo laptop

by Djého Youn

Hi, I know that there are tons of questions regarding to which laptop to buy, compatability...etc. so, 'sorry to add up but, I almost made my mind to buy a Lenovo laptop (G580 i7-3529M/8G/500GB), as there are too many models and I don't want to spend all my time to research... It's sold 699 euros here in Germany and the spec seems to be decent enough. (Honestly, for my music, it's 'too much'...but I also do some 3D, postprod things...) But only one thing that bothers me, is that on the website, they say its mic/headphone connection availability will depend on 'software settings'... http://www.mediamarkt.de/mcs/product/LENOVO-G580-i7-3520M-8GB-500GB,48353,3… what the hell do they mean by 'software settings'??? It might sound a bit strange for most of you but... I do not own external soundcard and I'm not planning to. I don't like the 'warmness' of most of the soundcard produces (because of its preamps, I guess) and it's easier to produce glitch sound on onborad 'shit' sound card. and even if I'll buy a external dsp card one day in order to have more in/outputs, I still want to have this quick and dirty option of onboard soundcard...you know what I mean..;) so, it'll be a disaster if I can't use built-in headphone/mic connections... Do you guys have any idea what they mean by, 'software setting'?? Do any of you own a lenovo laptop of this kind and had any issues with onboard soundcard, and some evil fucking windows configuration software concerning mic/headphone connection? I do own a old lenovo thinkpad and I never had any problem with onboard connections. I didn't need to configure anytthing, jack/alsa, straight-forward...but it's old T61 model and I assume that now it's a whole different biz... finally, if ever, some of you think that it's totally stupid decision to spend 700 euros on this machine, and you have better idea on what to buy, I'll be always thankful to your advices!!! here's what I use: Jack/ALSA Supercollider 3.4 (thinking on upgrading to 3.6 when new machine comes) Audacity Blender Sonic Visualizer FFMpeg Ubuntu 10.10 but I'll upgrade to 64bit 12.04 LTS when new machine comes. thanks a lot!! -- Jae Ho YOUN http://jaehoyoun.com http://advancedsituation.com/

11 years, 9 months

Creative Music Coding Lab at STEIM (Amsterdam) - Feb 20

by Marije Baalman

In the past year STEIM has hosted both SuperCollider and Max/MSP meetups. This year, we have decided to open up the concept to include a larger variety of programming languages that are used to create our music! Why this choice? Because creativity in code isn't bounded to any specific dialect. By sharing our though processes among the many varieties of coding for sound we will end up learning so much more! What will the lab be? - a place for creative music coders to show their work in progress - a place to ask questions, discuss concepts with fellow music-programming-performers - an informal stage to livecode and jam with others - an opportunity to start new collaborations - a possibility to learn about other obscure programming languages to make noises - a forum to discuss interactions between programming environments --- but most of all, it will be what you, the attendees make it to be! We're looking forward to see all these Chuck'ists, SuperCollider'ists, Max patchers, PureData patchers, Overtoners, Fluxa'ers, CSound'ers, Extempore'als, Impromptu'ers, and all of you coding in other tongues! When: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 7:00 pm (and then monthly) Where: STEIM Concert Space, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam http://steim.org/event/creative-music-coding-lab-1/ Attendance is free, there will be free coffee and tea available. Do let us know if you plan to come (mail me off-list), so we have a rough idea who to expect. sincerely, Marije Baalman PS, please spread the word too!

11 years, 9 months

Fwd: Re: Ubuntu-Studio 13.04 Nvidia drivers?

by Kaj Ailomaa

Sorry, I seem to have not sent to the list the first time. ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Kaj Ailomaa" <zequence(a)mousike.me> To: gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com Cc: Subject: Re: [LAU] Ubuntu-Studio 13.04 Nvidia drivers? Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:09:12 +0100 On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:41:06 +0100, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > Perhaps the closed driver needs to be installed when X is not running? > Try from a text login? > This is only required if installing the driver from nvidia's own site (at least it was like that a long while ago)

11 years, 9 months

How do you play bass intensive audio ?

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

Hello all, Just got recently a CD from Massive Attack. 'Mezzanine'. This does not play nice in all audio settings. Got a 'massive' lot of low bass sounds. Same in the car, in the Linux 1010LT audio station. Is there a way to deal with these CDs ? (OK, all this sounds like a stupid question - just apply EQ ... )

11 years, 9 months

Re: [LAU] How do you play bass intensive audio ?

by Ralf Mardorf

PS: I often heard CD releases of vinyl or remastered CDs that simply had a bad sound quality. It's impossible to fix something that is missing with an equalizer. The sound quality of CDs by hook or crook is borderline, so a CD doesn't forgive a bad mix. Note, that a lot of this 90s music was produced for vinyl and without loudness war mixing, so it's likely that they made loudness war remixes, or they remixed the bass to be ok on a mobile phone.

11 years, 9 months

(very) Basic help to get 1010LT card going (mudita24 ?)

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

Hello all, I now see that I was spoiled by using Fedora and CCRMA. Everything worked. jackd (qjackctl) Ardour, playing any audio file (with vlc for instance). I have now switched to Linux Mint (KDE version, 64-bit, Nadia) and nothing works. I get the 1010LT card using lspci: 05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller (rev 02) So that's a good sign. But then I start mudita24 and everything single vu meter is flanked with the '(off)' mention. When I play an audio file using vlc, no vu-meter is moving. What's wrong ? I'm not even comtemplating using jack and Ardour at this point, just getting basic sound working. /usr/bin/pulseaudio is running. Is this the culprit ? Thanks for any advice and suggestion, it's greatly appreciated !

11 years, 9 months

Sample rates

by Bob van der Poel

I'm still exploring my new USB interface (Presonus audiobox usb). In the manual it says that it has a bit depth of 24 and internal frequency selectors for 44.1 and 48. Now, if I have an app like audacity set to 48K does it (or jack?) send a message to the box to enable 48 (or 44.1)? If that is the case, I assume that using 44.1 or 48 should have the identical latency issues? 48K should send a bit more data back to the computer? I did another test recording this evening. No xruns. I think that fixing ulimit so that jack can allocate memory fixed the problem. -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

11 years, 9 months

Re: [LAU] Audiophile 24/96 volume weirdness

by Julien Claassen

Hello Q! I don't think this problem is related to a config file on a home partition. I someties get the same issue with a few of my soundcard channels. I have got an MAudio Delta 1010 LT. The relevant config for this should still be asound.state (or similar) in the /etc directory (I know the exact name has changed with more recent ALSA versions). I first noticed that problem, when experimenting with suspend to disk. I'm not sure, if that was the reason for it starting or if it just conincided with some minor bug in the ALSA version of that time. Sorry, that I can't be of more help. Warm regards Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html

11 years, 9 months

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Linux-audio-user February 2013