Linux-audio-user October 2014

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by Patrick Shirkey

Hi, Something for Halloween. Raul is a Vampire who is driven by his unquenchable passion in the dead of night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KJTGA4S0zQ This is a re-edit of an earlier private work titled "Rauls Redeption" by Volker Allert, http://volkerallert.eu, a renown physical effects creator for the Hollywood film industry. All audio recorded with Linux tools and edited in Blender on Linux of course. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

11 years, 2 months

[LAU] MOD mailing list and IRC channel

by Gianfranco Ceccolini

Hi Linux Audio Users and Developers Last week the MOD Duo kickstarter campaign was successfully funded and we’re now heading towards turning the Duo into a reality! As most, if not all, of our software is related to Linux Audio we would like to have the community involved in the development as much as we can. To do so we created a mailing list and registered an IRC channel. The mailing list located at http://portalmod.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/developers and the IRC channel is #portalmod at freenode. We’re soon to start discussions regarding the ControlChain (our LV2 hardware communication protocol) and also methods of optimizing the plugin graph cpu usage and we’d like to have as many people involved as we can. Of course the discussion is not limited to those topics and any thing regarding the MOD can be discussed at such places. Hope to see you guys on our lists. Best wishes to everyone Gianfranco The MOD Team

11 years, 2 months

[LAU] ANN: SEAMUS 2015 -- Call for submissions

by Ivica Bukvic

Apologies for x-posting: The SEAMUS 2015 conference will be held at Virginia Tech during March 26-28, 2015. The conference theme is "Emotion and Electroacoustic Music." The submission deadline is October 31, 2014. Please see http:// <http://seamus.music.vt.edu/main/>seamus.music.vt.edu <http://seamus.music.vt.edu/main/>/main/ <http://seamus.music.vt.edu/main/> for further details on the conference, and http:// <http://www.seamusonline.org/>www.seamusonline.org/ <http://www.seamusonline.org/> for further information about SEAMUS. Any questions regarding the conference may be directed to seamus@ <seamus(a)music.vt.edu>music.vt.edu <seamus(a)music.vt.edu>. Best, Ico

11 years, 2 months

[LAU] [OT] loudspeaker enclosure design software, testers welcomed.

by Benoît Rouits

Hello, A long time i didn't post here, and now for something a bit OT: I just finished to write a tiny Qt based software for DIYers on loudspeaker enclosure design, under Linux. It is inspired by the discontinued gspeakers Gtk+ based software. For the moment it has basic only features, but it is usable, though there is a long TODO. I you are interested, (and if some debian packager is around here, [whisling] ;-) you can checkout the svn tree and try it yourself: $ svn co https://dbx.gtmp.org/svn/qspeakers/ [*] $ cd qspeakers; qmake -config release && make && sudo make install (it will install in /usr/local/..) There is a 4 or 5 speakers DB for a start, but it won't be visible if qspeaker is not _installed_. After installation, first run will copy the DB into ~/.local/share/data/Herewe/QSpeakers so that you can edit it with your own speaker's Thiele-Small parameters. Thank you for trying ! - Ben [*] thanks to Mid', a friend of mine, who gave me some space on his server.

11 years, 2 months

Re: [LAU] hdsp firmware load problem

by Chris Caudle

> From: Iain Mott <mott(a)reverberant.com> > I tried another slot (there are only 2 pci slots on the mother board), > but the same thing happens. It required about 3 boots to get the > firmware to load. I hope it's not a problem in the RME PCI card itself. You could try checking whether the PCI card is detected in the cases where the firmware is not loaded. It is PCI and not PCIe? Compare the output of lspci in the good vs. failing case and verify that the PCI card is detected, because the driver will never load and attempt to find the external interface if the PCI part of the interface is not detected. -- Chris Caudle

11 years, 2 months

[LAU] [ANN] QjackCtl 0.3.12 released, feat. JACK Pretty-names aliasing

by Rui Nuno Capela

Again, a classic needs no introduction... QjackCtl 0.3.12 is now released! Change-log: - JACK client/port pretty-name (metadata) support is being introduced and seamlessly integrated with old Connections client/port aliases editing (rename) (refactored from an original patch by Paul Davis, thanks). (EXPERIMENTAL) - Application close confirm warning is now raising the main window as visible and active for due top level display, especially applicable when minimized to the system tray. - Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available. - Translations install directory change. - Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS. - Missing input/output-latency parameter settings now settled for the D-BUS controlled JACK server and firewire back-end driver. Website: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.12.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.12-21.rncbc.suse131.… - binary packages (openSUSE 13.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.12-21.rncbc.suse131.… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.12-21.rncbc.suse131.… Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: QjackCtl is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/826 Enjoy && Have fun! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

11 years, 2 months

[LAU] I made a thing (for ogg vorbis concatenation)

by Ken Restivo

I made this one-off hack based on the vorbis lib sample code, for concatenating ogg files. The README has more details: http://github.com/kenrestivo/thrashcat That itch is now scratched; but others might find it useful too, so here it is. -ken

11 years, 2 months

[LAU] Dishonest marketing and the term "Open Source"

by Johannes Kroll

Hello all! Keith McMillen has marketed their QuNeo controller as "Open Source" on Kickstarter and other places (google "quneo open source"), while actually it is not "open source" for any reasonable definition of the term. Editor software source code, which is crucial for using the device with Linux, has only reluctantly been released to a closed group of beta testers. People are understandably disappointed. What do you think? The following is from Keith McMillen forum: http://forum.keithmcmillen.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=651&start=140#p9641 > Currently, the Linux version of the editor crashes when I try to > update presets. Of course, the source code for the editor still isn't > released and there is no officially supported Linux version, so I > don't expect this to be fixed any time soon. As I don't use or have > Windows, this turns my QuNeo pretty much into a pretty expensive > plastic brick. I can't even use it as a doorstop because it is so > thin. > > Keith McMillen have lied about the QuNeo being open source on > Kickstarter right from the start, and used the "open source" tag for > marketing. Yet no part of the product is open source: Not the > schematics; not the firmware; not the editor. Apparently there was to > be an SDK for the QuNeo which hasn't materialized yet, either. > > I believed the marketing and paid for an open source product; > something I could hack and modify. I did not get what I paid for. The > QuNeo is a closed-source brick, just like lots and lots of other > controllers on the market. > > This has been discussed for months (years?) now, with no result. It > seems obvious that Keith McMillen never intended to fulfill their > "open source" promise from the start. > > I am advising my musician friends not to buy from Keith McMillen. It > is likely they will get scammed.

11 years, 2 months

[LAU] Ardour: Taking out bits of a song

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

Hello all, I have a project in Ardour which has much more iterations of verses than the fnal project wil have, for the sake of explorations, improvisations, etc. Is it practical to work on the structure itself or should I redo all the tracks from scratch with a new count of verses ? By 'practical' I mean are there tools and tricks that would make it easier to take out one verse made out of say, 7 tracks ? The project is in sync with the metronome, if it helps. I can see that it is possible to select one verse across all the tracks and then delete it. Since I do not know that much all that Ardour can do, I'm asking here if there are better ways to do that using specific Ardour commands that might be better to the task than selecting with a mouse on a finer-grained display of the tracks. Is it also possible to store a cut-out verse somewhere persistently to use it later ? - thanks for any comments and suggestions ! Cheers.

11 years, 2 months

[LAU] hdsp firmware load problem

by Iain Mott

Hi List, My system (with ubuntu 14.04) is loading the hdsp firmware for an RME Multiface only 50% of the time on start up. It's like flipping a coin. I've not been able to figure out how to fix it. I've saved the dmesg printout from a successful boot (good) and an unsuccessful (bad) here: http://reverberant.com/tmp/dmesg_good.txt http://reverberant.com/tmp/dmesg_bad.txt and the keyword to search for is "hammerfall". I was having trouble with the NVidia driver some time back and perhaps there's a conflict there but I don't know. If anyone can help - please do! Cheers, Iain

11 years, 2 months

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Linux-audio-user October 2014