Linux-audio-user May 2013

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[LAU] Trouble getting Tascam US-122 to run

by Julien Claassen

Hello everyone! i just installed a Tascam US-122 on an Ubuntu 13.04 system. I followed the guide given in the ALSA Wiki. Installing the fxload and firmware packages and creating the udev rule as noted on the wiki page. But even after restarting the device didn't show up? Would it be necessary to enter the corresponding usx2y module somewhere? Or what else might it be. This is not my own system, but since I preparedit, I thought it best to send the original e-mail, so you know what has been done so far. Warm regards Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html

12 years, 8 months

[LAU] New dronings

by Louigi Verona

Hey fellas! It's been a while since the official "droning" project count has stopped at 200, so I decided to finally change it with the addition of 14 more tunes. As I have been told, people notice that I began exploring more rhythm-based forms and this is certainly true, however, there are classic drones in the new recordings as well, so you drone lovers don't give up your hopes just yet ;) http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=music&t=droning Cheers and enjoy the music! -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/

12 years, 8 months

[LAU] Distro upgrade vs: new install

by Len Ovens

Normally, I do new installs rather than upgrade. It means for sure I have gotten rid of old stuff. But I was testing upgrades and thought I would share what I found. First off I was using UbuntuStudio. I was looking for things like metas not being included and yes that was so. I also found the generic kernel was getting dragged in as well as the low latency kernel. (actually that was what I set out to test) Anyway, I have an older machine and video card and have had some problems running some applications like Mixxx for example. It was suggested to me that I probably had problems even playing videos smoothly too. As happens I was testing Studio Metas installed on top of kubuntu. And was playing a video and it looked just fine. This was a fresh kubuntu install. when I tried the same thing with the updated (from 12.04 to 13.10) the video was skippy, jittery, not good at all. But on a fresh ubuntustudio install it was fine. Same video, same player, same kernel, same (supposedly) distro. The audio which was going through pulse->jack at 48000 and p64, was fine, not xruns or other artifacts. So, fresh installs are still the best, no change from 1995. Really, Hard drives are cheap. One of the least expensive bits one can buy. Better to put a second drive in the machine, put a new install (or better try three or four to see which works best with your HW/work habits) and copy your old home (or parts of it) over... or just put symbolic links in. Or, shrink a partition and load the new version in a small partition and link to the old home. This may be the only way with a laptop. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net

12 years, 8 months

[LAU] "Another Reality" LP - made entirely with Linux Audio software

by Louigi Verona

Hey everybody! I am happy to present to you "Another Reality" LP. Not much text, let the presentation video speak for itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frwuaQIdrrI If you have issues with Flash, please get the video here: http://www.disc-shelf.com/lp/AR_final.mp4 The album in all its entirety is here: http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=music&t=another_reality Enjoy! -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/

12 years, 8 months

[LAU] FW: audio format

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Got this email a couple days ago and it appears that the author wishes to share this with the FOSS community. Please forward comments to Pierre (copied here). Best wishes, Ico From: pierre jocelyn andre [mailto:temps.jo@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:28 PM To: ico(a)linuxaudio.org Subject: audio format Hello, sorry for my poor English, can you look behind this link audio format. http://letime.net/vocale Regards

12 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] Desktop recorders - was "Another Reality" LP

by Len Ovens

On Tue, May 28, 2013 2:06 pm, Louigi Verona wrote: > I myself would love to test it. Does anyone know of a PPA for 12.04? It would be good if I can forgo the compilation process. My quick search revealed no 12.04 debs. re: xvidcap PPAs. The last one seems to be for 11.10 (Oneiric). It may be close enough to run. I will try booting 12.04 later and try it. you can DL the deb file and run dpkg on it to install. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/i386/xvidcap/1.1.7-0.2ubuntu12 Has a link to the deb file for i386, but there is a 64bit page there too. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net

12 years, 8 months

[LAU] 3.8 Kernel and USB - (was Trouble getting Tascam US-122 to run)

by James Stone

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:25 PM, J. Liles <malnourite(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc(a)rncbc.org> wrote: > >> >> >> i'm a (not so happy anymore) owner of a us224 which does all the same >> path as your us122,,. >> >> i am sloppy and the systems i use this lovely piece of h/w is not what >> you'd call the latest and greatest >> >> so (my) the state of things at the time of this writing, is the following: >> >> - on 3.4.x-rt it still works but only like a plain usb1 device (-r48000 >> -p128 -n3); good old and awesome, special fast and low-latency rawusb/hwdep >> mode of operation is dead. or it seems so >> >> - on 3.8.x-rt it doesn't work at all; always nagging the device's being >> used by something else (and no, it's not pulseaudio:); and if you dare to >> use jack1 then, well, it just crashes the whole show (kernel oops) >> >> only tested with preempt_rt though (thus the -rt suffix above)... >> >> i know this does not help in anything but at least you're not alone :) >> >> cheers >> > > > This is a known issue with the 3.8 kernel. It's breaks not only tascam but > lots of other USB audio devices as well. Register your discontent with your > distro, I guess. > > > Ah - I was about to post a separate thread about this - can't get my focusrite saffire to start at less than 512 on a 3.8 kernel.. Will go down to 64 on 3.5. Where do I report/add to this bugreport? James

12 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] replaying prepared backing tracks

by steve

Sent from Samsung tabletJoel Roth <joelz(a)pobox.com> wrote:steve wrote: > Hi guys, > > For some time I have been preparing backing tracks using Ardour 2/3 etc. Mixing down to mp3 for live performance. We are having reliability problems during playback. > > I have tried my netbook (Tosh nb200) my tablet (Samsung 10.1) & an ipad(not to hand, not mine) > > The playback fails at random point (if at at) & will often then replay satisfactorily. The mp3s are created on a 64bit machine using Ubuntu studio as the base setup & converted to mp3 in Audacity on the same machine. > > I am lead to the belief that it is not the playback machine athough not completely due to the randomness. > > My thoughts are:- > > mp3 conversion > mp3. > 64bit conversion > > Doesn't need to be mp3. flaac would be my choice. it does need to be fast loading with random access (tablet is ideal). Don't mind spending money. You don't mention what players are subject to this stopping. Since you have all your mp3 material already, why not try all of the half-dozen mp3 players available? I've always had good luck with mplayer, but there is vlc, and even ffmpeg (or avconv as it's being rebranded) can play mp3 files. I've always found .wav file playback to be more stable than mp3, and seeking behavior is better. The processor doesn't have to do much, at the cost of storing a bit more data (One hour costs 1 GB, roughly.) Greetings, Joel > Steve > > > Sent from Samsung tablet > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- Joel Roth

12 years, 8 months

[LAU] wiki consolidation linuxmusicians.com & linuxaudio.org

by Robin Gareus

Hi all, Just a quick head's up: linuxaudio.org and linuxmusicians.com have joined forces. Today Arnout and me have started to consolidate the wiki: http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com has been merged into http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/ Many thanks to all who have contributed to and helped maintaining the content over the past years! Your efforts are very much appreciated. There are still a few open ToDo items to be sorted out. In case you would like to help, please see http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/migrationprogress Cheers! robin

12 years, 8 months

[LAU] JACK on PicUntu devices (mini-pcs)

by Perry Kivolowitz

JACK does not appear to run on this platform (yet). There will be hardware with audio I/O in the not too distant future. It would fantastic to have JACK there too.

12 years, 8 months

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Linux-audio-user May 2013