Linux-audio-user July 2018

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[LAU] [ANN] The QStuff* Summer'18 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! The Qstuff* Summer'18 release is out! Grab it while it's hot! * QjackCtl 0.5.3 * Qsynth 0.5.2 * Qsampler 0.5.2 * QXGEdit 0.5.2 * QmidiNet 0.5.2 **QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface [1]** QjackCtl 0.5.3 (summer'18) is out! QjackCtl [1] is a(n ageing but still) simple Qt [7] application to control the JACK [8] sound server, for the Linux Audio [12] infrastructure. Website: https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.3.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.3-32.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.3-32.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.3-4.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qjackctl/code https://github.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git Change-log: - Portuguese (pt) translation added (by Heitor Rocha). - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permisssive license (FSFAP). - Improved Graph rubberband add (Shift) and toggle (Ctrl) multiple (de)selections. - Added user preference option: Setup / Misc / Buttons / Replace Connections with Graph button (on main window). - Added a zoom slider control to the Graph view status bar. **Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface [2]** Qsynth 0.5.3 (summer'18) is out! Qsynth [2] is a FluidSynth [10] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt [7] framework using Qt Designer. Website: https://qsynth.sourceforge.io http://qsynth.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.2.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.2-13.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.2-13.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.2-3.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qsynth/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsynth.git Change-log: - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permisssive license (FSFAP). **Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface [3]** Qsampler 0.5.2 (summer'18) is out! Qsampler [3] is a LinuxSampler [11] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt [7] framework using Qt Designer. Website: https://qsampler.sourceforge.io http://qsampler.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler/files - source tarballs: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.2.tar.gz - source packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.2-26.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.2-26.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.2-3.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qsampler/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsampler.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsampler.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsampler.git Change-log: - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permisssive license (FSFAP). **QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor [4]** QXGEdit 0.5.2 (summer'18) is out! QXGEdit [4] is a live XG instrument editor, specialized on editing MIDI System Exclusive files (.syx) for the Yamaha DB50XG [14] and thus probably a baseline for many other XG devices. Website: https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.2.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.2-13.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.2-13.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.2-3.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qxgedit/code https://github.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git Change-log: - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permisssive license (FSFAP). - Corrected default handling of MULTIPART > Main > Control > Volume and also MULTIPART > Control > Pitch Bend > LFO ... - Fixed for some g++ >= 8.1.1 warnings and quietness. **QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast [6]** QmidiNet 0.5.2 (summer'18) is out! QmidiNet [6] is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA-MIDI and JACK-MIDI) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [15] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI [16] for Windows. Website: https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.2.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.2-15.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.2-15.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.2-3.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidinet/code https://github.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git Change-log: - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permisssive license (FSFAP). - Fixed for some g++ >= 8.1.1 warnings and quietness. License: All of the Qstuff* are free, open-source Linux Audio [12] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [13]) version 2 or later. References: [1] QjackCtl - A JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net [2] Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface http://qsynth.sourceforge.net [3] Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface http://qsampler.sourceforge.net [4] QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net [5] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net [6] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net [7] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [8] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [9] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [10] FluidSynth - A SoundFont Synthesizer A real-time software synthesizer based on SoundFont 2 specifications http://www.fluidsynth.org [11] LinuxSampler - The Linux Sampler Project A modular, streaming capable, realtime audio sampler http://www.linuxsampler.org [12] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [13] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [14] Yamaha DB50XG http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/may96/yamahadb50xg.html [15] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [16] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN http://nerds.de See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1923 Enjoy && have fun! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

7 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] AVL2018 first impressions

by Ralf Mardorf

On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 15:51:03 +0000, Dale Powell wrote: >Plus no matter what your language you're still going to want to type >track names etc with the keys on your keyboard where you expect them >to be! Indeed, Robin missed this. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL= However, my keyboard for good reasons is a German keyboard. So as already pointed out by my previous mails (just the second came through the list, but the first mail is quoted by the second), as soon as you correct the keyboard layout for your user session, the password most likely will work everywhere.

7 years, 7 months

[LAU] [LAD] [LAA] Guitarix 0.37.3 released

by Hermann Meyer

Guitarix release 0.37.0 Guitarix is a tube amplifier simulation for jack (Linux), with an additional mono and a stereo effect rack. Guitarix includes a large list of LV2 and LADSPA plugins, and support LADSPA / LV2 plugs as well in it's racks. The guitarix engine is designed for LIVE usage, and feature ultra fast, glitch and click free preset switching and is full Midi and remote controllable (the Web UI is not included in the distributed tar ball). From the changelog: * add support for zita-convolver4 * implemented "Thick Distortion" plugin by Viacheslav Lotsmanov * switch to use libcurl for download online presets * point online help to reddit/guitarix (guitarix forum is closed) * add direct output unit for drumsequencer (bypass rack) * add overdubbing to live looper * add direct output support to live looper (bypass rack) * add midi channel selector, fix bug #64 Refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.org Download Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ enjoy regards hermann

7 years, 7 months

[LAU] Faust conference: IFC 2018 videos are now online!

by Albert Graef

Hi everybody (and sorry for crossposting), as some of you may have noticed, IFC 2018 (the very first International Faust Conference) took place at the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz/Germany this week. It was a great conference IMHO, and if you couldn't attend, you can find videos of all the presentations and the Faust award on our YouTube channel now: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAr7dIdjRWkyZfeBU1nzOQg (If you have a YouTube account, please subscribe to the channel, then we might be able to get a nicer link in the future -- I think we need 100 subscriptions to be eligible for that.) All the videos are in a single playlist which is (mostly) in 1-1 correspondence with the program at http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de/#program. Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yvbWtD0asY&list=PLS2hQ1I9cbi4WFVhcBIuD259B… Apologies for the subpar audio quality in some spots! While most of our equipment was working really well and our stream team (Sebastian and Wingel) did a marvelous job, our wireless mikes turned out to be rather crappy -- we'll do better next time. ;-) Enjoy! :) Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany Email: aggraef(a)gmail.com WWW: https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef

7 years, 7 months

Re: [LAU] reducing xruns (System configuration)

by Max

On 18.07.2018 19:58, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > /etc/init.d/rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 441 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/29-mei_me 527 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/31-iwlwifi 8 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/0 18 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/1 24 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/2 30 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/3 36 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/4 42 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/5 48 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/6 54 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/7 > grep RTIRQ_NAME_LIST /etc/default/rtirq # RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="rtc snd usb i8042" # old RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="snd usb i8042"

7 years, 7 months

[LAU] Are there benefits to running a USB 2.0 audio interface on a newer version port?

by hollundertee＠gmx.net

Hi, I've started to live stream a bit during the last year and just now added headphones to the mix. I started to wonder whether my audio interface can actually supply enough power to both a condenser mic and a pair of headphones. I figured out that newer USB standards allow for more power hungry devices, but does that in any way help with a USB 2.0 device? My interface is the same old Edirol UA-25 that I've been using for a couple of years now. It is USB 2.0 and bus powered. It needs to supply a Røde NT-1A with phantom power and drive my new AKG K702s at the same time. I noticed that I need to increase the output gain a fair bit to get a good level (roughly at 50%-60% whereas I have it at 20% with speakers). The rig I run this on I built last year, it is based on a ASUS PRIME B350-PLUS which provides USB 2.0, USB 3.0 as well as USB 3.1 ports (although I can't tell which USB 3.1, way to go on that naming scheme, my only explanation is they ran out of numbers). I don't have other gear to compare, do you think the UA-25 can handle it properly? Is it any help to plug it into a USB 3.0 or 3.1 port? Best Regards, Philipp

7 years, 7 months

[LAU] New soundset for Prophet-12 (Linux-edited)

by Jeanette C.

Hey hey, it's not strictly on-topic, but I did organise and name all the sounds on my Linux machine, using a self-written set of commandline tools. Alas, they're still in a sorry state. :( http://juliencoder.de/sound/Jeannys_Genius-Prophet-12-1.0.zip Four soundsets (uploadable to every internal bank(s)), HTML documentation, including browsable lists of patches by soundset, sound type, sound colour, genre and synthesis method. As pleasant a software synthesizers are and as powerful as they may be, sometimes a "custom taillored" hardware UI makes sound design and performing a more pleasurable experience. I hope that someone can/will enjoy them. Best wishes, Jeanette -------- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s And when you say those words It's the sweetest thing I've ever heard <3 (Britney Spears)

7 years, 7 months

[LAU] My first public videos

by Tim

I talk about music but have never posted any of mine here. I hope you would enjoy a peek at how this Linux coder plays: A slide guitar song I wrote showing advanced technique: https://youtu.be/XR9Xpc5Qdec Guitarists: Learn the advanced technique I used in that song: https://youtu.be/kPNFTMIDswk Must see the prerequisite advanced technique behind it all: https://youtu.be/t7FRp-zbdUo Be sure to watch all my videos, I hope you'll get a kick, I also teach how to use a whammy bar properly: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdyItNKEiieq1bZisUleToQ Made on Linux. Tim. MusE Sequencer project.

7 years, 7 months

[LAU] Jack, onboard souncard and headset

by Alf Haakon Pietruszka Lund

Hello list, I encountered a small but annoying problem on my Toshiba Sattelite p850 running an updated version of Ubuntu Studio 16.04 LTS: I'm currently in a location without my regular external soundcard available and wanted to do some project editing in Ardour. Running Ardour through jack outputs sound to my onboard speakers, however it would be convenient to listen through my headset while doing this. But speakers and headset turns silent as soon as I connect the headphone jack. I'd be thankful for any input that might point me in the right direction. Regards, Alf

7 years, 8 months

[LAU] Joining DTS audio from split files

by Bearcat M. Şándor

Hey folks, I have a set of 3 vob files that contain dts audio. There is no 'chapter' info in these files. There should be multiple break points, but the person that made them just made 3 files of reasonable length. What i'd like to do is join them and then resplit them where the breaks should be. My eventual aim is to turn them in to wavpack files. I can't find a good commandline method using ffmpeg, sox or cat to smoothly join them as vob files, w64 files or wavpack files into one. Has anyone done this successfully and can point me in the right direction? -- Bearcat M. Şándor Feline Soul Systems LLC Voice: 872.CAT.SOUL (872.228.7685) Fax: 406.235.7070

7 years, 8 months

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