Linux-audio-user May 2014

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by Jonathan E Brickman

Right now I'm using Fluidsynth running a soundfont which I customized a good bit, but it's just not quite what I want; I want it recognizably a string section, 88-key range, rumbly power in the low, smooth but a definite bit of fuzz in mids and highs. I'll take any technology, and will do payware, as long as it runs well on 64-bit Arch Linux. Anyone got a recommend? -- Jonathan E. Brickman Ponderworthy Music | jeb(a)ponderworthy.com<mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com> | (785)233-9977 | http://ponderworthy.com

11 years, 7 months

[LAU] Music made with fun thanx to linux

by Set Hallström

Hi! Recently i traded my earfull portastudio against memories of happy unafortable OSystems some years ago, and then i made this: https://soundcloud.com/sakrecoer/sets/music-made-with-linux I may hope you like it like i do, but i know life is full of inexpectations :) With wishes of happy week endings, -- Set Hallström AKA reSet Sakrecoer http://sakrecoer.com

11 years, 8 months

[LAU] audio recording of my set at LAC 2014 (streaming, download)

by Renick Bell

I'm really glad that I had a chance to perform at LAC this year. Thanks to everyone in the audience! Here's a link to a streaming version on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/renick/live-at-the-linux-audio-conference-2014-karls… If you prefer, here are direct download links in a variety of formats: ogg: http://renickbell.net/sound/renick-bell-live-lac-2014.ogg flac: http://renickbell.net/sound/renick-bell-live-lac-2014.flac mp3: http://renick/renickbell.net/sound/renick-bell-live-lac-2014.mp3 I'll put a video online after I've had a chance to edit it. Best to everyone, Renick -- Renick Bell - http://renickbell.net - http://twitter.com/renick - http://the3rd2nd.com

11 years, 8 months

[LAU] My debut EP, "Indigo"

by William Light

Hey everyone, I've posted up a number of my songs here over the years, and I'm very pleased to announce the availability of my first EP. I've posted a few of these songs here already, but these versions are updated and mastered, and, of course, there's plenty of new material as well. The digital album is available for purchase for a modest 4eur from my Bandcamp site at http://visinin.com/album/indigo-e-p. If you'd prefer to stream it or if you have another digital store which you prefer, there are links to other stores from my Soundcloud page at https://soundcloud.com/visinin/sets/indigo-ep. Thanks again for the support and encouragement over the years. -w

11 years, 8 months

[LAU] New MOD Website

by Gianfranco Ceccolini

Hi everybody Still recovering from the LAC2014 trip but already with news, here’s the link to our new website (including english version) www.portalmod.com The video that was shown at the MOD presentation is right in the frontpage. Even better, the plugin library can now be navigated in the same way as in the MODs interface. On top of it, there’s a dashboard section where visitors can try the interface without audio. Hope you all enjoy. Cheers Gianfranco Ceccolini

11 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

by Aurélien Leblond

> My question/answer: "How much are you willing to do to make it happen?" Well I'm not exactly sure anymore to be honest, I didn't think my message would start such a rant! But after reading all the answered, two things seem to stand out: 1. A lot of the FOSS music software are not for the general public. I wouldn't agree myself (I mean, Ardour, Hydrogen or Yoshimi are as straight forward as a music software can be)... And for that, nothing much I/we can do but participate to the code (which I do when I can), make donations (which I do every year), provide feedback, provide bug reports, etc, etc, etc... And obvisouly use the software and produce some tunes! Which I do too: http://soundcloud.com/a-violent-whisper (Although now I realise that nowhere I say that it's completely recorded/produced with only FOSS softwares!) 2. More interrestingly, the "appeal to famous artists" didn't seem to be well received... What seems to come out though is that although the FOSS community seems to be good to produce software, we don't seem to be good at advertising it :) - Ardour has...49 followers on facebook... Nothing on the wall... - Hydrogen...94...and one entry on the wall... - Couldn't find a # tag for any of these on Twitter... I know I know, we are not advertisers, we are developers! But what if a small group of us (and yeah, including me :)) would do that? How do we go about that? We have loads of website/tools to share code and software (sourceforge, svn, git, etc..), but none to organise ourself into a community to create some kind of organised campagn of advertisement on social networks (or other tools)! What I have in mind is what was done by ThisOneIsOnUs... what they did for their production is exacty what we do every day for FOSS software... Any ideas? > -Mike Mazarick > > PS - sorry for the top posting, but I thought it better in this instance > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Aurélien Leblond [mailto:blablack@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 11:07 AM >> To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org >> Subject: [LAU] An appeal to famous artists? >> >> I'm writing this post because of a few experiences I had over the >> years into world of amateur music production (but I'm sure it does >> applies to every artistic domains). >> >> I'm an amateur musician and a Linux enthusiast, and even though I work >> as a developer, my professional activity doesn't directly have >> anything to do with both these >> domains (although in the case of Linux this is quite a shame, but >> that's another subject). But one thing I am surrounded with at work is >> fellow musicians. >> >> I have setup a pretty nice home studio in my flat: electronic drumkit, >> alright USB sound-card, good quality speakers, electric guitar, pretty >> big guitar fx board, USB >> keyboard with a lot of knobs, few synthesizers and......a laptop >> running Ubuntu, Ardour, Hydrogen, AlsaModularSynth, Yoshimi, LV2, etc, >> etc and etc... >> >> A few of these colleagues came to my place to play music, and all of >> them were impressed by the level of investment, and invariably the >> first question that comes >> up is the price of all the hardware and software... So when I >> explained that I gathered the hardware over the last few years and >> that the software is free, I always get >> that little wink and smile: >> - “haaaa 'free'? Bittorent yeah?” >> - “no no no...not THAT free... I'm using Linux, and I'm trying to make >> a point of using only free software in my music production... Actually >> it's not free as you think it is, >> I do try to make some donations every year, blablabla...” >> And invariably, I get “the look” (you all know which one I'm talking >> about)... >> >> As the sessions go on and my colleagues see the different software in >> actions, they always start to make the comparison with what they use >> in other OS: “Wouah I >> can't do that with my drum machine! And this software Ardour is pretty >> cool, and I really like the sound of this synthesizer! What is it? >> AlsaModularMix you say? >> Well it looks weird but I like it!”... >> >> Then as the conversation goes on on gears and software, it generally >> goes like this “oh, I bought this synth because Trent Reznor from Nine >> Inch Nails is using it >> and I wanted to get that sound...”, “this guitar fx? Bought it because >> the guys in Slayer are using it and I love” (yes all my mates and >> myself are metal heads!). >> >> So I started to think... And I thought a little bit more... All the >> people I know in the music world, we always use references to known >> artist: “Trent Reznor uses this, >> The Edge uses that, Brian Eno has this synth, etc”. There is even a >> website that list the gears used by famous guitar players. >> >> I have a couple of friends back in my home country who are trying to >> build up a recording studio... They work 100 hours a week recording >> and promoting local bands, >> they eat pasta because the money is tight.......but they spent I don't >> know how much into brand new Macs and software licenses... >> >> I can hear you from here already “WHY DID YOU NOT TELL THEM ABOUT >> LINUX???” >> >> Well......I did: >> - “Yeah RIGHT! Every known musicians use Macs! They are designed for >> artists!” >> Really? Who decided that? Aaaaaaahhhhh yeah I forgot, Apple is very >> good at advertisement... See that little illuminated apple at the back >> of every of their laptops? >> That sticks out well when Trent Reznor posts pictures of his studio, >> or when you see pictures of ?uestLove on stage... >> >> - “Linux and stuff... It's for free... It must sucks... I mean you >> need loads of research and money to create the software to play >> music...” >> Really? >> >> - “It's not stable enough...” >> Ok, I give you that... But we have come a long way... And I bet that a >> good Ubuntu setup without alpha or beta versions of any software would >> be stable... >> And obviously the user base on proprietary software is bigger, so more >> testers, more feedbacks... But hey, look at my laptop, pretty stable >> no? >> >> - “It's too complicated... with these command lines and all...” >> Hmmm yes and no there... Yes setting up a Linux machine with a low >> latency kernel is quite complicated... But remind me how much did you >> spent to setup your >> Mac? And yeah you are right, we used command lines in Linux... But YOU >> don't have to! When was the last time you saw a Linux machine? Ah >> yeah, when I >> show you my Mandrake machine 10 years ago... Well we came a long way >> since that time, you should check it again! I mean playing, recording >> and producing >> music on a computer IS a complicated business, whatever OS you use. >> >> - “And when it doesn't work, who do I ask?” >> Hmmmm, when Cubase doesn't work, what do you do? Oh yeah, you google >> your issue and you browse around forums to find a solutions... >> Actually when you have an issue with your mac in general, is it Apple >> or a dude on some forums who gives you the solution? >> >> So I thought a little bit more... In the world of artists (I thinking >> here especially about music, but it is probably right in other >> artistic domains), brands are created >> because artists use them, no? >> >> And SERIOUSLY, in the world of music, the Open Source world certainly >> have brilliant tools! And the Open Source certainly has to speak to a >> lot of artist if they >> knew about it? The sense of freedom, the sense of sharing? Isn't it >> what Bob Marley or Rage Against the Machine were singing about? >> >> Trent Reznor (yes, I am a big fan) has been releasing music under >> Creative Common licenses... He let the people decide how much they >> wanted to pay for >> some of his albums (remind you of something? Donations?). He let fans >> record all the concerts of his last tour, let them mix it, cut it, >> produce it, package it and >> sale it (check out ThisOneIsOnUs). He even provided the tracks of some >> songs for the fan to have fun and mix them differently... Surely a guy >> like that would >> understand the value of Free Software. And where there is one, there >> might be others... >> >> (Sorry for the long introduction but) What I am getting at is this: >> Should we make an appeal to artists to produce something using only >> Open Source software? >> What do you guys think? Isn't it the best time to promulgate such a >> message, with the social media and all? And if yes, what would be the >> best way? >> >> Or am I completely wrong? And there is something in the big picture I >> didn't see? > > >

11 years, 8 months

[LAU] Session Management

by Aurélien Leblond

Hi guys, I was wondering something these days. What's the "good/right" session management these days? (disclaimer: I know I know... good/right... not the right words... but you all know what I mean!) I can see that ladish has not been developed for a while... Last commit on the SVN is almost a year old... the website ladish.org is gone... Is that considered a dead project with no future? Is there some other format/protocol more recent to use? I'm asking because I can't really find any recent info to enlighten me. Last thing I found is this: http://lwn.net/Articles/533594/ but it actually confuses me more than anything else. As usual, thanks in advance for the info! Aurélien

11 years, 8 months

Re: [LAU] Session Management

by Len Ovens

On Sun, 1 Jun 2014, Ross Hamblin wrote: > On 01/06/14 03:15, Len Ovens wrote: >> On Sat, 31 May 2014, Harry van Haaren wrote: >>> >>> I would love to see NSM be used as "the session management" system, >>> and I've >> >> It would help if it managed to get packaged in debian (and other >> formats). There is a debian bug for this (Bug#681576) which includes the >> whole non series of stuff. It doesn't seem to have moved since 2012. >> Without packages it is unlikely that NSM will be "the" system. I, for >> one, hope someone (who knows what they are doing) will do the >> packaging... There is a whole group of people who will not use things >> till that happens. >> >> This is not meant to be fault finding (there is no fault to find), just >> pointing out reality. > > Not sure if this is any help but the non- suite including NSM is > available through kxstudio repos. > It is working well here in Ubuntu Studio. Yes, I am aware of the kxstudio PPAs and have in the past downloaded the non-apps from there. One of the problems I have had with doing that, is that the depends all point back to the same PPA set. This meant that almost my whole audio setup was replaced including jackd and some of the other session management tools. In fact one of them autostarted for me not when I started Jackd, but when I started one of the jack based applications. I am not sure this is a bad thing of itself for the end user, but for me this is not an option as I try to help people with UbuntuStudio set their system up and it helps if I can shadow what they are doing with the same versions of application. I also do not know what the current set of kxstudio apps are like. They may have changed and my comments may well be out of date. Generally good quality stuff anyway. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net

11 years, 8 months

[LAU] Gentoo Pro-Audio overlay: Jack downgrade?

by Brent Busby

It seems a recent 'emerge --sync' is wanting to downgrade my Jack...or is it? It looks like some dependency of FluidSynth is steering me toward the Jack package included in main Gentoo, version 0.121.3-r1, and trying to remove my 1.9.9.5-r1 package from Pro-Audio overlay. However, I know there are some differences in numbering scheme for Jack depending on whether it's the SMP or non-SMP supporting version, and also there's the DBus versus daemon thing. My current Jack (before emerging) is SMP with DBus (it can be controlled with the jack_control comamnd). Should I be concerned about this? What correlation does 0.121.3 from main Portage have to 1.9.9.5 in the Pro-Audio overlay, and is this really a downgrade? ebuild UD~] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3-r1::gentoo [1.9.9.5-r1::proaudio] USE="3dnow%* alsa mmx%* oss%* pam%*(-mixed%)" ABI_X86="(64%*) -32% (-x32)" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="(-python2_7%*)" PYTHON_TARGETS="(-python2_7%*)" 1,059 kB [...] WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit:0 (media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.9.5-r1::proaudio, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit[abi_x86_64(-)] required by (media-sound/fluidsynth-1.1.6-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for [...] village:~# equery list -o -p jack-audio-connection-kit * Searching for jack-audio-connection-kit ... [--O] [ ] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3:0 [--O] [ ] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3-r1:0 [--O] [M ] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3-r2:0 [I-O] [ ] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.9.5-r1:0 [--O] [M ] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9.9.5-r2:0 [--O] [ -] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9999:0 [--O] [M-] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-1.9999-r1:0 [--O] [ -] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-2.9999:0 [--O] [M-] media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit-2.9999-r1:0 -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky

11 years, 8 months

[LAU] Music in Italy

by Egor Sanin

Hi folks, This is a bit OT, but I'm planning to visit Italy in late June of this year (probably just Rome) and was wondering if anyone has suggestions for concerts/workshops/conferences/exhibitions/installations that have something to do with experimental music, if there is a Linux twist that is even better. Also, I can offer my meagre skills of live poetry reading mixed with live electronics, if there are any venues for that sort of thing that are interested in attracting amateur performances. The nature of it would be something like this: http://integer0.users.sourceforge.net/pages/processed-poetry.html Please pardon the shameless plug. Feel free to message me off-list, or if it is of general interest of course we can have the discussion on LAU. Many thanks.

11 years, 8 months

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Linux-audio-user May 2014