Just bringing the news...
http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/News/?action=view&url=the-first-carla-20-be…
Carla 2.0 is a full rework of the first Carla release.
It's currently under development with a planned release later this year.
Today the first beta is released, and we'll show you what to expect when
the final version arrives.
To download binaries or source code, jump into the KXStudio downloads
section. [1]
If you're using the KXStudio repositories, you can simply install
"carla-git" and "carla-plugins-lv2" instead.
Bug reports and feature requests are welcome! Jump into the Carla's
Github project page for those. [2]
DISCLAIMER: This is a beta release! Although all features mentioned here
are working right now, they may be incomplete, have bugs or even eat
your cat!
You've been warned. ;)
See the top link for some highlights + screenshots.
See you in LAC! :D
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[1] http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/Downloads
[2] https://github.com/falkTX/Carla
Microlabel
Hi everyone
Microlabel <https://github.com/xaccrocheur/microlabel> is a small CMS
that I made to present my music <http://opensimo.org/microlabel/> and
make it available to everyone.
Features
* Baseless : Just drop your correctly tagged music files in the MUSIC dir
o and Microlabel will build one index page
o and one page per album
* Easy link sharing : Copy / paste the link, and the file will play on
click
* Nice URLs
* Displays Youtube videos
* Displays musicians latest tweets
* Displays any image found in the album's dir as a gallery
* Full Valid HTML / JS / CSS (No flash)
* Multilingual interface
Please let me know if it is of any use, or if there are bugs, or
features that you would like implemented.
Please, let your music fly.
Cheers,
Phil
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Philippe Coatmeur
* http://opensimo.org/adamweb/
* https://github.com/xaccrocheur
* http://opensimo.org/microlabel/
Almost a week ago, I finally got around to ordering Firewire, in the form of the Behringer FCA202. And I have to admit that I am quite shocked with how well this unit, the least expensive new Firewire interface of which I am aware, is working. I had not before heard of any expression "Once you try Firewire, you don't go back," but certainly I won't be going back by choice. It was a simple lock-and-load, no adjustments other than telling the modules to load at boot and setting the Jack driver to firewire, and the result was astonishing, beautiful quality sound, zero hiccups, no problems at all, all load levels. And I don't have to worry about its USB A port! Yahoo!!!!!
And it is interesting, it is by way of this FCA202 that I learned that although the Zitas were working, there was additional latency occurring in the jack-to-zita offload. It was audible but barely, which presumably means something like 4-6ms. My testbed for that is playing a MIDI keyboard in piano mode while simultaneously sending the MIDI data to drive the synth; I play live like that fairly often, and although the tiniest difference in attack is acceptable, the Zita method was giving me a bit more, which I brought to almost-AOK by giving the Zita process 80-level priority in schedtool, but which the FCA202 knocked out of the park. I played through the FCA202 this morning, and it was astonishing, the detail of the tone quality, in both highs and lows. And I haven't even tried 96 kHz yet :-) I do not know frankly know whether my Yoshimis and Fluidsynths will play ball well with 96 kHz, I do not know whether it is a very tested configuration.
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Jonathan E. Brickman
Ponderworthy Music | jeb(a)ponderworthy.com<mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com> | (785)233-9977 | http://ponderworthy.com
Anyone know how well Firewire interfaces perform, when connected to a USB 2.0 port (or even a USB 3 port?) using something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/CE-Compass-Firewire-Female-Adapter/dp/B00B1OQUS0/ref=…
I suppose one of those could possibly solve the USB timing problems; anyone have experiences?
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Jonathan E. Brickman
Ponderworthy Music | jeb(a)ponderworthy.com<mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com> | (785)233-9977 | http://ponderworthy.com
Is there such a thing as a "silence signal" in Jack? In the real world obviously not, silence is the absence of sound pressure, but in Jack shouldn't it be possible to fill the channel with 48 kHz (or whatever) of zeroes? And more importantly, does anyone have an easy way to do this??? (Or is it already being done?) I am hearing some faint things in my output that I cannot explain, and a 'silence generator' (if the concept in fact makes sense) would help me figure this out.
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Jonathan E. Brickman
Ponderworthy Music | jeb(a)ponderworthy.com<mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com> | (785)233-9977 | http://ponderworthy.com
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014, Jonathan E Brickman wrote:
> Thanks! Do you know of any good such devices which are not very pricey? I
> found a few out there after reading your post, but they seemed all to be in
> the high-port-count and higher-cost ranges.
Cheapest Audio plus midi has got to be the old ens1370 based cards... free
if you can find it. Best 16 bit sound for the price. If you don't have a
pci slot, then the next price range is going to be USB devices... because
most new systems don't have a FW plug, so an adaptor is required. Also,
USB covers more people's systems so scale brings prices lower too. USB
midi ports can be had for less than $30. And of course there are lots of
USB audio solutions out there including built right into the mic stuff,
again under $100. USB audio is much more picky about system tuning for low
latency.
Assuming you already have a FW port, it is a better solution than USB, but
even a 2+2+midi FW unit will cost more than the USB 2+2+midi unit. The
Focusrite line starts with the pro 14 at $260. They call it 8in and 6 out,
but I only see 6 physical inputs (and two of those are s/pdif i/o so only
4 i/o for analog) at $260... yet they sell the 2i2 for usb for $150 or so.
Presonus is the same, their "Firestudio mobile" is similar features and
price to the pro 14 and the price matches too. (just note that it seems to
need breakout cables to get at all the ports... including MIDI) Their
audiobox USB (2+2+midi) can be had for $140.
So, yes FW costs more, but works better/easier. In the end you have to
decide how important moneywise these things are to you. The presonus USB
has been very good and stable... except in USB3 ports on Intel USB3 ports
which are... broken at least for low latency audio (Intel agrees).
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
I realized there was a possibly significant gap in my knowledge of hardware, so I searched, and found that there have been a few Firewire devices with both audio and MIDI. The questions I have are (a) are any of them known to work well with current Linux, and (b) how is the MIDI supported on the backend, is it ALSA?
J.E.B.
Hi,
I recently started using ALSA Jack plug-in bridge and have this issue: My
laptop's sound card has 4 outputs: 1->L, 2->R, 3->Unused?, and 4->"woofer".
When any of the ALSA programs I use (flash player, for example) connect to
Jack, they expose 2 outputs and auto connect to the sound card's 1st and
2nd output. I would like them to auto connect so that the 4th output (the
woofer) is also used. right now, every time I hit play on grooveshark, for
example, I have to go to patchage an make connections from output 1 and 2
in alsa bridge client to 4th output in the sound card.
Is there any way to make this automatic? perhaps by marking outputs 1, 2
and 4 as "default" or "autoconnect"? Maybe there is a hook that detects new
clients and I can write a script that connects alsa clients the way I want?
Now that I think about it, this should not apply only to alsa bridge client
but any jack client!
Regards,
Rafael.
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Rafael Vega
email.rafa(a)gmail.com
Hi there.
The ingen patches in this page are no longer available:
http://objectivewave.wordpress.com/ams-lv2/
I'd like to try them.
Can someone re-upload them please?
Thanks!
PS: UbuntuOne will go offline and stop working very soon
