Linux-audio-user September 2016

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by Stefan Westerfeld

spectmorph-0.3.1 has been released. Overview of Changes in spectmorph-0.3.1: ---------------------------------------- * Added plugins for LV2 and VST api. * New instruments: bassoon, cello, bass-trombone, reed-organ. * Added different templates to get standard morph plans quickly. * LV2|VST|JACK will start with default plan now (instead of empty plan). * Standard instrument set location (~/.spectmorph/instruments/standard): - plan templates can refer to instruments in that directory without storing any absolute path (index will be instruments:standard) - in almost any case, loading instruments isn't necessary anymore * Resize MorphPlanWindow automatically if operators are removed. * Changed time alignment during morphing: - morphed sounds should starty at the beginning of the note (no extra latency) - Start marker for instrument notes no longer necessary - SpectMorphDelay plugin no longer necessary * Some improvements for building new instruments: - make some smenc parameters configurable (--config option) - improvements to soundfont import - new fundamental frequency estimation for tune-all-frames - support global volume adjustment (instead of auto-volume) * Various bugfixes. What is SpectMorph? ------------------- SpectMorph is a free software project which allows to analyze samples of musical instruments, and to combine them (morphing). It can be used to construct hybrid sounds, for instance a sound between a trumpet and a flute; or smooth transitions, for instance a sound that starts as a trumpet and then gradually changes to a flute. Also interpolating between two samples of the same instrument (different attack velocity of a piano) could be interesting. SpectMorph is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 3 SpectMorph is still under development. This means: * the fileformat is not yet stable - instruments or morph plans may not work with newer versions of SpectMorph * the algorithms for synthesizing sounds are still under development - newer versions may sound different To sum it up: if you compose music using SpectMorph, don't expect newer versions to be compatible in any way. Integrating SpectMorph into your Work ------------------------------------- In order to make music that contains SpectMorph, you currently need to use Linux. There are four ways of integrating SpectMorph sounds into music you create: - LV2 Plugin, for any sequencer that supports it. - VST Plugin, especially for proprietary solutions that don't support LV2. - JACK Client. - BEAST Module, integrating into BEASTs modular environment. Links: ------ Website: http://www.spectmorph.org Download: http://www.spectmorph.org/downloads/spectmorph-0.3.1.tar.bz2 There are many sound samples on the website, which demonstrate morphing between instruments. -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

9 years, 5 months

[LAU] Tascam us-366

by Max

The school bought against my recommendation the tascam us-366 because it came in a bundle offer with a microphone. Any chance that I will get this model to run at all or is it a brick on linux? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tascam+us-366&ia=images

9 years, 5 months

[LAU] [ANN] Vee One Suite 0.7.6 - The Eleventh beta release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello again! The 'Vee One Suite' aka. the 'gang of three' old-school homebrew software instruments, respectively synthv1 [1], as a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer, samplv1 [2], a polyphonic sampler synthesizer and drumkv1 [3] as yet another drum-kit sampler, are here released on their eleventh beta iteration, joining the so called Qstuff* End of Summer'16 release frenzy [10]. All still available in dual form: - a pure stand-alone JACK [4] client with JACK-session, NSM [5] (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA [6] MIDI input support; - a LV2 [7] instrument plug-in. The common change-log says: - MIDI RPN/NRPN running status and RPN NULL reset command are now supported (input only). - The core engine implementation is now delivered as a shared object library, common to both the JACK stand-alone client and the LV2 instrument plug-in. - Discretely fixed MIDI Controllers catch-up algorithm. And here they come again! **synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer [1]** synthv1 0.7.6 (eleventh official beta) released! synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.6.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.6-29.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.6-29.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.6-29.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/synthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/synthv1.git **samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler [2]** samplv1 0.7.6 (eleventh official beta) released! samplv1 is an old-school polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.6.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.6-29.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.6-29.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.6-29.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/samplv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/samplv1.git **drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler [3]** drumkv1 0.7.6 (eleventh official beta) released! drumkv1 is an old-school drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumkv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.6.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.6-25.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.6-25.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.6-25.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/drumkv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/drumkv1.git Licence: The Vee One Suite are free, open-source Linux Audio [9] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [8] version 2 or later. References: [1] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/ [2] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/ [3] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/ [4] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org/ [5] NSM, Non Session Management http://non.tuxfamily.org/nsm/ [6] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [7] LV2, Audio Plugin Standard, the extensible successor of LADSPA http://lv2plug.in/ [8] GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [9] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [10] The QStuff* End of Summer'16 Release http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1696 See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1699 Enjoy && have (lots of) fun ;) -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 5 months

[LAU] Being back

by J. Claassen

Hi (to the old hands in particular), just wanting to say: Hi there, I'm back, if a little changed. As some might guess, I've been quietly active all the time, just wanting to stay hidden. Best wishes, Jeanette

9 years, 5 months

[LAU] Test, please ignore

by J. Claassen

9 years, 5 months

Re: [LAU] yoshimi, zyn and Ardour (was: Re: How to compile Yoshimi)

by David Jones

On Sep 17, 2016 02:45, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:03:41 +0100 > Bill Purvis <bill(a)billp.org> wrote: > > > I tried using Yoshimi because it got frequent mentions on this list, > > and was available from the > > Mint repositories. I've since downloaded and compiled the latest > > version and think that it's a > > nice piece of work. If I ever get time to try out Zyn I may switch to > > preferring that, but for > > the moment, Yoshimi sound good, though I also use the Calf plugins as > > they support a decent > > General Midi patches. > > I compiled yoshimi because I thought zyn was no longer supported. So I > tried zyn yesterday. First of all I must say I do not program synth > sounds, at least not yet. I will adjust some parameters to fit a piece > but I'm certainly not creating sounds. I use synths as in using a > guitar. I am not making guitars, I am playing instead. > > Because of this, I found the sound selections provided with zyn quite > interesting. Especially the Italian sounds, but also others. The rest > I find is identical to yoshimi. So because of this broader choice of > sounds I will use zyn. > > It also seems they are working on a major 3.0 update, which brings the > next two comments. Yesterday I played zyn for about 45 minutes, > improvising. During those times I might record ideas as they > spontaneously happen, or I might just forget about then and enjoy the > spur of the moment. This means I run the synth inside a host, Bitwig > or Ardour (Mixbus 32C) (1). The keyboard can be any, this time it was a > Novation mini Launchkey. > > While playing it happened about 3 times that the audio output simply > vanished. I look at Ardour's screen, nothing happens, move the mouse > here and there, and then the sound comes back. In those times what I > described yesterday using yoshimi happened: when the audio came back, > the track's VU meter did not show anything while the master bus VU > showed the audio. Then it came back to normal, with all VUs showing > the audio being played. > > The other thing is that by 2-3 times I recorded some audio. This went > fine but, when the recording was stopped and I wanted to quickly get rid > of what was just recorded - as I always do using other synths in Ardour > - by pressing spacebar to stop the recording, then quickly pressing > Ctrl-z to get rid of the recorded region, followed by quickly hitting > the 'home' key to get back at the beginning, ready to record again, > Ardour stalled, for seconds. > > This means that zyn has the ability to stall Ardour, for any reason. > Which is not looking good. Such an application should not have the > capability to do this by any means. Having recently lost a complex > project in Bitwig due to Bitwig crashing, I am wary about this kind of > suspicious interaction. > > The last time the audio stopped was because Ardour has vanished from > CPU existence. > > All in all, zyn has a nice set of sounds, which makes me prefer it > but, it has problems at the systemic level which I hope will be > addressed in the upcoming major version. Strange thing though, to know > about this upcoming version one has to register on the web site. Why > isn't it public ? > > (1) When improvising, one nice feature I found was in Pianoteq's > ability to memorize the keys being played at all times, available for > recall if one wishes it. I see that zyn has a record option that > surely 'sounds' the same, although it has to be enabled and it asks for > a wav file which means it is not about recording MIDI data. Using MIDI > data would be lightweight. Yoshimi can record audio, too. I prefer to record MIDI in Rosegarden, tho. My experience was first with Zyn. Years ago. Zyn and RT didn't get along. Yoshimi did from the first time I used it. I have both installed. Yoshi can use Zyn's sounds. I think both need a UI overhaul. ;) David W. Jones gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com

9 years, 5 months

[LAU] How to compile Yoshimi

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

Hello, The INSTALL file is straightforward. ccmake isn't. What it does is that it shows a screen with options. Options seems OK, so what is the next step to go on with the compilation ? ENTER does not do it as it toggles a selected option. (On the side: why is configuring/making like this - wasn't the plain ol' configure all right ?) Cheers.

9 years, 5 months

Re: [LAU] yoshimi, zyn and Ardour

by David Jones

On Sep 18, 2016 21:32, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy(a)autostatic.com> wrote: > > On 09/18/2016 09:32 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > > On 09/18/2016 07:58 AM, david wrote: > >> Is it still limited to the rigid fixed size windows, or are the windows > >> resizable? > > Sorry, should've been more clear. The window of ZynAddSubFX will be > resizable. > > Jeremy About time. Zyn/Yoshimi are both tiny things at modern resolutions. And I hope the controls within it will similarly be freed of their pixel constraints. David W. Jones gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com

9 years, 5 months

Re: [LAU] yoshimi, zyn and Ardour

by David Jones

On Sep 18, 2016 06:00, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:04:59 +0100 > Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk> wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 20:01:57 -1000 > > david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > > > > I like the multiple windows. It's a very Linux way of doing things. > > > I hate trying to crowd everything into one window where I can't see > > > two different windows of the UI at the same time. > > > This is also my preference for almost everything. With most apps I > > keep the 'home' window pinned for all screens and spread the others > > across all four. It makes for a very uncluttered workplace with no > > distractions and everything in context. > > I use Linux for both work code development and at home for years and do > not have a single application that has multiple windows, with main > windows to be pinned down while others are opened. Libreoffice has an > option for a floating navigation window but then it can also be > incorporated into the main window. > > Of course, I use multiple desktops. I use them since maybe 15 years > now. One console has the email client, another one has Mixbus 32C. A > synth in Mixbus will be moved to its own desktop so that it's easy to > switch between the synth and the DAW. Renoise will be on its own > desktop, Bitwig also, so on so forth. > > So I do not see what your "almost everything" would be. > > > Whoever thought that a tabbed > > filer window was a good idea can't make much use of them :( > > The tabbed options in Zebra2, for one, are certainly very useful and > easy to access. Except that you cannot see the contents of 2 different tabs simultaneously. David W. Jones gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com

9 years, 5 months

[LAU] Dereverberation

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Hi all, Does anyone have access to an easy to implement (as in code) dereverberation algorithm assuming one has access to the room impulse response? I am looking for a way to clean-up recorded audio signal in order to improve signal clarity (e.g. speech). Any info on this topic is most appreciated. Best, -- Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Associate Professor Creative Technologies in Music ICAT Senior Fellow Director -- DISIS, L2Ork Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts – 0141 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 www.performingarts.vt.edu disis.music.vt.edu l2ork.music.vt.edu ico.bukvic.net

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Linux-audio-user September 2016