Linux-audio-user October 2016

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by Lorenzo Sutton

Dear list, I recently made a video of a demo improvisation with Yoshimi featuring selected sounds from the Will Godfrey Collection. I guess it might be interesting for people on the list. https://youtu.be/kzBy5tnDoBw Lorenzo. PS: Thanks for Will who provided hints about the sounds and very useful suggestions about the video.

6 years, 11 months

Patterns on a Silk Cloth Lit by the Morning Sun that Reflects off of a Newly Printed Map of Australia

by Louigi Verona

Hey everyone! A release of an old recording. http://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=music&t=silkcloth This was performed live with a LADSPA or Rakarrack Vocoder. -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.com/

6 years, 11 months

Synthfest UK

by Will Godfrey

Somewhat off-topic, but I thought people here might be interested in what the 'other' lot are up to. Last Saturday I was at this event from 11am to about 5:30pm. This is a new event organised by the Sound On Sound magazine. As I've got to know a good number of the people there over the years, I was keen to see them as much as all the gear that was on show. The whole event was heavily analogue orientated. The hardware covered a *huge* range, from a couple of refurbished original 1960s modulars, to the new mini-moog and the latest thing from the likes of Yamaha, Korg, Presonus. One that was especially interesting (to me) was a Eurorack synth, with interchangeable modules, that due to a well thought out back-plane, could be run in a variety of parallel or series configurations without patch cords. There was also quite a lot of novel bespoke kit, especially in the realm of sequencers and trackers. Something I've not come across before was an OSC->CV unit. Combined with the greater stability of modern modulars that promises to be very interesting. There were some very interesting talks. One in particular was on how synths came about... *before* Bob Moog! There were a few names I recognised, but just as many unsung heroes I was totally unaware of. Of the commercial synths I noticed a disappointing trend. While there was a jaw-dropping range of sounds, I found it harder to select these than I do with my old SY35, and I was hitting information overload quite a bit. For me, this was also a problem with the multi-rack modulars. Probably with more time and familiarity I would have managed better, but very little was switch-on-and-play. Another thing was the black theme that seems to be almost universal these days. I think it's fairly well known I don't much like this. However, it dawned on me that on a real item there are subtle position, depth and especially parallax cues that you simply don't get when trying to do the same with a GUI. There didn't seem to be much there by way of software (but then it was a hardware orientated show). What I saw was all Apple based. Interestingly I didn't see *any* tablets. If they were there, they were well hidden! I was pleased to get a few enquires from those that know me as to how I was getting on with Yoshimi, and a couple were very complimentary about Lorenzo's recent demo. -- 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.

6 years, 11 months

Hi everybody and issue with MIDI

by José San Martín

It's the first time I write to this list. Hi, I'm Kiko from Argentina. I play guitar and try to produce my music with FLOSS. I have a Fishman Tripleplay MIDI controller and I can connect it through ALSA with almost any problem, unless it sounds "flat", all the velocity messages are 64, without dynamics. When I see all the MIDI messages, there are changes in CC30, in channel 8, could be the velocity info that is not routed well. Maybe the VST midiconverter3 from Piz midi plugin collection can rout it to velocity, but I can't load it in linux. Any clue? Thank you all, sorry for my tarzanian english, I do my best.

6 years, 11 months

Looking For Some ZynAddSubFX Powered Tracks

by Mark D. McCurry

Hello there LAU, I'm trying to update the old demos on the ZynAddSubFX site and I thought it would be great to replace the old demos with songs from the LAU community. Can anyone post some links to some of their favorite tracks that make good use of Zyn? Ideally they'd be on something like soundcloud so they could be gathered onto a playlist on the project page, but if not it should be fun to hear what people have been making. --Mark

6 years, 11 months

Zyn presets collection: get them while they are online

by Louigi Verona

Hey everyone! For a while I was hosting Zyn presets in an effort to create a larger database. The project did not go too far, but there are some presets there. As I am going to remove this section from the website next week, I wanted to make an announcement here so that anyone who wants can get presets for themselves while they are online. The link: http://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=misc&t=zyn Thanks for all authors who have emailed me with their presets. -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.com/

6 years, 12 months

How to compile Ardour and ZynAddSubFX on Windows 64-bit

by Jeremy Carter

I've put together some detailed instructions for compiling my favourite software, Ardour and ZynAddSubFX, on Windows. They are tested and working on Windows 10 64-bit. https://github.com/defcronyke/ardour/tree/win64-mingw-msys/mingw https://github.com/defcronyke/zynaddsubfx/tree/win64-mingw64-msys2/doc/win6… It's not easy as neither projects would build on Windows without patching many files, but I'm hoping these instructions will help Windows users as well as anyone who's interested in adding better Windows support to these projects in the future. Let me know what you think of them, and if you try them, let me know if they work for you. Now enough documenting, it's time to actually use the software! Regards, Jeremy Carter

6 years, 12 months

Laptop sound problems

by Bill Purvis

Hi, I set up my laptop to initiate Calf Plugin (Fluidsynth) and Qjackctl at login. When I then login, I get no sound from various apps. The preferences->Sound->test sound also produces nothing. Running Totem, just hangs - no output and the progress bar stays at 0. I've now disabled Calf and Qjackctl at login and it all works again. Can anyone explain what is going on? Output from aplay -l: $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 (this is with it working, but it looked the same when not working) Thanks, Bill -- +----------------------------------------+ | Bill Purvis | | email: bill(a)billp.org | +----------------------------------------+

6 years, 12 months

Announcement: new Yoshimi patches

by J. C.

Hi everyone, I just released a set of Yoshimi patches, including some instruments and patchsets (performance or combin to some hardware users). You can download them here: https://freeshell.de/~silvain/software/jg_yoshimi_patches-0.1.tar.bz2 My first ten instruments and 3 patchset! At this point: a HUGE thank you to Will Godfrey for the tireless and tremendous work he's put into Yoshimi over the past few years and in particular the efforts he's put into the new commandline interface over the past few weeks. It's simply amazing! Still a little rough, but with complete access to all parameters. Will: you're a jewel! <3 I can only say, that Yoshimi is a treasure trove of sonic possibilities. I've never seen such humungous and complex oscillator block before. Enjoy and I'd love some feedback. :) Best wishes, Jeanette

6 years, 12 months

Re: [LAU] Laptop sound problems

by Ralf Mardorf

Please don't reply off-list. On the list there are several subscribers who maintain an Ubuntu flavour, that AFAIK by default combines jackdbus and pulseaudio, they could help you much better than I could do, since I categorically refuse pulseaudio. On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:29:34 +0100, Bill Purvis wrote: >Thanks Ralf, but it was all working with jack in place before I set >this up. Pulseaudio is latest version from LAU so I don;t see why >there should be a problem. You should mention what pulseaudio version, jackd version etc. you are using, since "latest version from LAU" is not really useful. Perhaps mentioning the distro and it's release could be also helpful. I never used pulseaudio and never ever will use it, I don't have it installed, so I only could provide a link: http://www.jackaudio.org/faq/pulseaudio_and_jack.html Regards, Ralf

6 years, 12 months

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