Linux-audio-user January 2015

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by Hermann Meyer

The guitarix project aims to replace the current factory presets, as they are outdated over the last development decade. We would like to ask all guitarix users, to submit us there presets so that we could select the best of them to create a new factory preset bank. As you all know, that will be the most helpful task for "beginners". Export your preset banks is a easy task, just drag it from the preset window and drop it on your desktop, file-browser, or just into the attachment selector of your mail client. Please send me in private or upload it in the guitarix forum. Those, which presets get selected will receive a free copy of our latest development source code. :-P Thanks in advance hermann

11 years

[LAU] a little more piano music

by Dave Phillips

Greetings, The Maiden And The Nightingale, by Enrique Granados : http://linux-sound.org/audio/maidenandnightingale.ogg http://linux-sound.org/audio/maidenandnightingale.flac MIDI file rendered in Bitwig Studio 1.1.4 with the Modartt Pianoteq VST plugin. Best, dp

11 years, 1 month

[LAU] Fwd: MusE 2.2.1 released

by Robert Jonsson

MusE 2.2.1 - 2015-01-28 Hi All! We've just released version 2.2.1 of MusE. To make way for bigger things we decided to release a minor update with some additions and some bugs fixed. Have fun! Fixes and improvements include: - Optimizations to lv2 rtfifo - Fix for potential crash on startup due to defaultStyle - Updated Czech translation from Pavel Fric - Added explicit link library to simpledrums, didn't appear on some systems - Added some new keyboard shortcuts, duplicate tracks, edit track name - Make it possible to mute/solo lots/all of tracks at once For more information and additional changes see the full changelog at: https://github.com/muse-sequencer/muse/blob/muse_2_2_1/muse2/ChangeLog News section: http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/News Download: http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Download Demos page: http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Demos Forum: http://muse-sequencer.org/forum/ Keep on Rocking! The MusE Team

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[LAU] MMA 15.01 the "Foggy Day in Wynndel" edition

by Bob van der Poel

A stable release, version 15.01, of MMA--Musical MIDI Accompaniment is available for downloading. In addition to a number of bug fixes and optimizations, MMA now features: - Works with Python 2.7 or 3.x - Number of minor bug fixes - TRIGGER function - STICKY tracks which override grooves - ORNAMENT enhancements and fixes Please read the file text/CHANGES-14 for a complete list of changes. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca -- **** Listen to my FREE 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, 1 month

[LAU] Choose different fonts for Ardour 3 Bar and Beat Number?

by Artem Vakhitov

Hi, Is it possible to choose different fonts for Bar and Beat number in Ardour 3? The "1 2 3 4 2 2 3 4 3 2 3 4 4 2 3 4" sequence that I'm getting at certain zoom levels when the same font is used for both looks confusing and even made me suspect a bug at one moment when I mistook beat numbers for bar numbers. Cheers, Artem

11 years, 1 month

[LAU] Opinions on missing voice patches.

by Will Godfrey

If a MIDI message is received calling for a voice bank that doesn't exist what do people think should happen? Leave everything exactly as it is Chose a bank closest numerically to the one called for Switch to a default bank Any of the above with a warning message -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

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[LAU] test message

by Chris Bannister

Hi, Just testing. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X

11 years, 1 month

[LAU] Free Art made with GNU/Linux: Sebkha-Chott's 6th album (was: [Sebkha-Chott] New album: first sample + guests list)

by ORL

Hi! Below is the first newsletter of the year for Sebkha-Chott, and it announces the new album MOQUETTES & TAPIS which will be released in Autumn. This album has been recorded using Debian GNU/Linux, has been/is/will be mixed using Debian GNU/Linux, and the same goes for the mastering, as well as cover conception, publication, and video clips edition/production. On a musical point, it will go on with that kind of Rock In Opposition Sebkha-Chott usually plays, which means all and nothing, but you've got to know that this album is conceived as a "concerto" between heavy and naughty (if not even crappy) machines, "almost-baroque" ensemble (including cymbalum, 10-strings acoustic guitar, violin, bass sax...), and a "traditionnal" rock line-up with two basses which will play the Rock In opposition/avantprog parts. You might check the teaser here: http://vimeo.com/sebkhachott/moquettesettapis-teaser1 And as you will see, many softwares used are credited inside! ;) Hope you'll enjoy! Aurélien www.sebkhachott.net -------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : [Sebkha-Chott] New album: first sample + guests list Date : Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:04:19 +0100 (CET) De : Sebkha-Chott - Tupac Promo <tupac.promo(a)sebkhachott.net> Pour : orl(a)ammd.net Hey yo! Tupac Promo here! *ZEROLIX*. *New album MOQUETTES & TAPIS announced or Autumn* *UNOLX*. *First sample from upcoming album in a video clip* : http://vimeo.com/sebkhachott/moquettesettapis-teaser1 *TRIOLIX*. *A new web site, soon: http://www.sebkhachott.net* *ZEROLIX*. *MOQUETTES & TAPIS* The new Sebkha-Chott album will be released for Autumn, and will be called: *MOQUETTES & TAPIS* (Carpets & Tapestries) Preorders will be available online on 1st of April [1]. [1] http://www.sebkhachott.net *UNOLIX*. *First sample of MOQUETTES & TAPIS* The first sample of MOQUETTES & TAPIS is diffused within a video clip, and announce all the guests which will be fearuting on this album [2]. [2] http://vimeo.com/sebkhachott/moquettesettapis-teaser1 *TRIOLIX*. *A new website* A new Sebkha-Chott website will be out on 1st of April, too, you might check at www.sebkaachott.net ===================== *Tyrant's bulletin* == Dear Patriot Aurélien (anglais) So what? Before Christmas, you were waiting for us to fill up your mailbox, and we didn't come... Then, you thought we'd be takking opportunity with your New Year, and spam you like a tuffed turkey, bu no Ohrelander tried and broke your imap. Then soldiers of moron violence did kill Charlie Hebdo, and you thought the Tyrant would shout "Je suis Charlie"... But the Tyrant has been french when he was a teenage, he read Charlie by that time, and he didn't feel that those elling they were Charlie really had something to do with Charlie in most case. And what for are they shouting? For free speech? What freespeech are we talking about? The free speech which fired Siné from Charlie Hebdo? The free speech Richard Malka is spreading against Muslims and their habits? In Ohreland all religions are equally hated, and reporters don't have free speech, so that they're in no danger. So, no, we didn't react, we didn't join the concert, and didn't use that event to make our promo, we weren't Charlie, we never were, we are much more Hara Kiri, and most of all we're no soldier of violence and hatred... So, say it again, Dude: democracy is shit. Look what it gives when the most numerous wins and walks blindly, hu? You should better follow a wise diktat like mine, oh for sure. Actually, speaking about Diktat, Kour and so on, we're now working on converting the Kourt into a GANG, so that the message should be clearer! OK, we have said enough about occidental international news, I hope you made a minute of silence to commemorate the 30 children of Pakistan school killed several weeks ago, hu? In Ohreland, the children don't go to school, so no danger. They go to the factory, but not in the way you think: they're manager, counter-master, cookies taskforce leader, and so on, and as they will end up on the chain, they don't think one second about being naughty to their colleagues. So Ohreland wasn't in the streets, and you know why? Because everyone in Ohreland, as well as prestigious guests, were recording acoustic and mysterical things for the new Sebkha-Chott album, the 6th, called Carpets & Tapestries, or Moquettes & Tapis. Oh yes, when some are walking, we are working hard, we produce, and we invite, and look, cause the list is long like a dream, the non-exhaustive line-up for this album: *Kour Sebkha-Chott* - Wladimir Ohrelianov II - Basses / Guitars / Cymbalum / Vocals - Nots Awful Mitzahal Jaquie - Drums / Piano Toy / Vocals - Nots Awful Mitzahal Michel - Basses / Guitars / Flute / Vocals - Tupac Promo - Vocals / Promo - Yasser A Rafaal - Violin - Xplicit Copain Content - Guitars production - Miss OSX Tofu - Drums / Management *AMMD* - Souv Ponk - Bass sax (http://www.baronsfreaks.org) - Yüla Slipobitch - Daf / Derbouka (http://www.yula-s.net) - Merouman - Guitar - Mimetic Archangel - Bass - AMMD Choir - Vocals (http://www.ammd.net) - Substantif Lambert - Recording / Mixing *Hôtres* - Yom - Clarinet (http://www.yom.fr) - Fred Gastard - Bass & soprano sax (http://www.triojournalintime.com) - Mathieu Metzger - Sopranino sax (http://anthurus.free.fr) - Gabriel Yacoub - Vocals (http://www.gabrielyacoub.com) - Ike Willis - Vocals / Thing Fish (http://www.ikewillis.com) - Mister HD - 10-strings acoustic guitar - Deep Hervert - ??? - Capt'ain Biftek - ??? And why did we call all these people, you're wondering? To drink a glass? To share some Azim bread? No, it's because this new album, which is a concerto for Öttoskooter and Coal Chamber Orchestra, I remind you, and which will mix Öttoskooter subtilities with baroques loudnesses, all being mashed up with Rock-In-Opposition flyovers, this album, I said, has a much wider goal: *MAKE PEOPLE LOVE EACH OTHER BY CULTURAL CONFRONTATION* and make them love me and my almighty Saint Trinité à Deux Doigts sans ongle. And that's under this banner that the anniversary tour will happen, with thematic phases along the year: - April (France) - workshop about klezmer nazi, sionnist zeuhl and the influence of the couple Bechett/Wagner in Magma's music, directed by what's left of Igor Stravinsky. - Autumn - TBA - conferences on using a rooster costume to fish with worms, and concomittences of the kefieh and pig-nose, under the artistic and arbitrary control of Yasser A Rafaal. - Autumn (2) - TBA - workbenches on using Armenian Paper in Turkish closets, and discussions about the term "genocide" when dropping 3 cubes isn't enough. Well, that's pretty much, and already enough, your eyes probably are tired, so you might want a bit of entertainment, when the lights on, it's less dangerous, look: http://inkei.net/anus/a/Donald_Duck!Daisy_Duck!20150126 (clic on the left button, it means "my eyes are tired in Japanese) Never would have thought that Daisy.... May the Kourt be with you, behind you, upon you, by you and your neighbours. [A] W.O.II [A] Apply this aphorism as a way of life, and Sebkha-Chott's Kourt's promo plan will be realised without cutting any more tree! == *End of the bulletin* ======================= See you for the Ne[XXX]t Epilog! -- Tupac Promo (Communication Director for Ohreland Revival and Sebkha-Chott's Kourt) www.sebkhachott.net -- If you don't want to know how everyday's like at the Sebkha-Chott's Kourt, answer to this mail with unsubscribe in he subject, and listen to the contractual quadri-dozen of words-describing-what-you-are-if-you-give-up-Sebkha-Chott.

11 years, 1 month

[LAU] New here but not really, actually

by ORL

Hi! I was until recently on this list under the name tyranorl, but my mail address went down, and I didn't reply soon enough. Well, here it is, I'm back in there. The occasion to present myself : I'm Aurélien, working in the AMMD[1], a french Freak and Free Arts (and artists) Coo[r]p. We produce free arts using free softwares and hardwares and do develop some of them. By now, we've produced several albums (both digital or physical) using Debian GNU/Linux, have 5 shows available by now using GNU/Linux on stage, and do also some teaching about it in several schools for sound/lights/video guys as well as for teenagers wanting to record their own band. I also play bass, guitars, vocals, and program the machines in Sebkha-Chott[2][3][4], for which I do also develop a bit of softwares and hardware solutions (free also, obviously). Sebkha-Chott is really kind of a laboratory of what can been experienced on stage for us. That's it! See you soon. Aurélien [1] http://www.ammd.net [fr] [2] http://www.sebkhachott.net/pro [fr] [3] http://twitter.com/TupacPromoSC [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebkha-Chott

11 years, 1 month

[LAU] Merging Midi with "VAST Programmer" and controller keyboard

by Iain Mott

Hi list, I'm playing around with a no-longer-developed java-based editor for Kurzweil syths called "VAST Programmer" (VP) and I have a question about MIDI on my Ubuntu Studio 14.04 in order to use a MIDI keyboard together with the editing software. My MIDI hardware includes: A Behringer UMX490 USB controller keyboard Kurzweil K2000R Synth Hammerfall DSP Multiface I. Editing with the VP, which works by sending and receiving system exclusive messages, requires that the K2000R's MIDI in and out are connected to the out and in of the Multiface. The UMX490 therefore needs to be connected to the computer via USB. Both the UMX490 and the Hammerfall DSP multiface show up in Qjackctl under the ALSA tab as both readable and writable clients. When VP starts for the first time it asks the user to select from a list of available MIDI in and outs. I selected the HDSP which is displayed as "DSP [hw:0,0,0]". VP then opens and allows me to edit the K2000. VP does not show up in qjackctl however and once connected to the HDSP I can no longer make a connection between the UMX490 (readable client) and the Hammerfall DSO (writable client) in order to play the synth. The HDSP seems to be fully occupied. It seems that I need a type of "MIDI merge" function to have the editor and keyboard functioning at once. I remember back in the 80s(!) little hardware boxes existed for this, but there must be a way of doing this software. Can someone please send suggestions? **** If anyone googles this and wishes to run VP on Linux, note that it was necessary to create the directory "/etc/.java/.systemPrefs/com" and make it user-writable with "sudo chmod 777 /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/com" in order to get it to run. VP can be downloaded from here: http://www.tangentcats.com/Downloads.htm To run, expand the zip file, enter into the main directory of the resource and enter: java -Xms256m -Xmx256m -jar "vastp.jar" You'll also need a "VAST" type Kurzweil syth connected via MIDI for it to run. There's a MIDI "Midi Compatibility issue" patch on the download page that didn't work for me - the GUI was sized strangely and unusable.

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Linux-audio-user January 2015