Linux-audio-user August 2018

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by Karen Lewellen

Hi folks, I almost put Linux in the subject line, holding off because there may be non-computer suggestions as well. When I do a gig I much prefer live musicians. However, once in a while I am in a setting where backing tracks prove most productive. What i find recently though is that trusting the playback abilities of a location may be unwise indeed. So...the question. Ideas on simple as in compact tools, stand alone units, computerized or not, that give me the means of performance playback. Include ideas for amplification so sound carries too. Using a built in laptop speaker does not cut it if that makes sense smiles. I am in Canada with u. s. access. Thanks, Kare

7 years, 4 months

[LAU] All videos online, website going to read-only mode

by Linux Audio Conference

Dear Linux Audio community, we're sending this mail to let you know about the availability of the remaining videos from LAC2018. You can find them on media.ccc.de [1] and on the dedicated event pages linked to in the schedule [2]. We hope you had a great time at the conference and if you couldn't be there physically, this is now the time to have a look at much of what has happened in Berlin this year. In other news, the website [3] is going to read-only mode shortly. See you at future LACs! [1] https://media.ccc.de/b/conferences/lac/lac18 [2] https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2018/pages/schedule/ [3] https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2018/ -- Linux Audio Conference team

7 years, 4 months

[LAU] "Remastered" an accordion recording, want an opinion

by David Kastrup

Hi, I put up an accordion recording originally in April on Youtube at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3encjdVuoWg>. It's been an (I think) improved version over a previous recording but gained no upvote and/or comments as opposed to the previous recording where I tampered with the recording using compression, EQ, and reverb. Now it can be that it's the same people who already commented/voted before who listened to it but since I replaced the old video in a playlist, this is sort of troubling: am I doing people a favor? So I worked a bit on it with compression/reverb again and put up <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd9O7qfPJuo>. Apart from the remastering (with constant settings throughout the recording) and a tiny shift in time to better sync to the video this is identical. The original recording was reduced to 75%L/R (since it was strongly separated left/right) which was the only kind of processing, I think the remastering was 80% (to compensate a bit for the washing out by reverb). Would you think that I am better off using the latter version? Does it differ on playback device (headphone/speakers)? Seems a bit like cheating... Thanks for any feedback! -- David Kastrup

7 years, 4 months

[LAU] Berlin Linux Audio meeting @ c-base 2018-08-14

by Daniel Swärd

Hi all. After previous discussions we decided to switch the meeting time to the second Tuesday of the month. That is tomorrow on the 14th. If the weather is nice (report said it might be rain) I suggest we'll stay outside, otherwise we'll meet in the mainhall as usual. I'll be there from 20:30. Location: c-base, Rungestraße 20 Cheers /Daniel

7 years, 4 months

[LAU] DrumGizmo 0.9.16 Release

by Bent Bisballe Nyeng

DrumGizmo 0.9.16 Released! DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that has been recorded with a multimic setup. This is mainly a bugfix release. If you encountered timing issues when using the humanizer features of 0.9.15, this is the release to get. It also optimizes the resampling and a bunch of other stuff. For the full list of changes, check the roadmap for 0.9.16 [1]. And now, without further ado, go grab 0.9.16 [2]!!! [1]: https://www.drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=roadmap:features_roadmap#version… [2]: http://www.drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=getting_drumgizmo

7 years, 4 months

[LAU] Is there a LAU music directory?

by hollundertee＠gmx.net

Hi, is there some way to find music made on Linux other than to go through this mailinglist? I found https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/music_made_with_linux but that seems to list only a fraction of what must be out there. Regards, Philipp

7 years, 4 months

[LAU] [Music] Jam393 - an improv

by jonetsu

Hello, This is a quite calm and tranquil piece overall. Acoustic guitar and piano are at forefront with synth textures weaving in and out. A piano improv starts by the 2/3 of the piece. This is basically a jam, there's no title. It just happened. The piano improv was the 2nd take from scratch. Enjoy. You might have to put volume a tad higher. If so, please do not forget to bring it down after the piece, and if soundcloud segues into another piece. It will segue into a quiet one, but not at the same volume. Cheers. https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/jam393

7 years, 5 months

[LAU] New browser chiptune live-coding environment

by Chris McCormick

Hi all! (sorry for x-post) Speccy is a browser-based livecoding environment for making procedural chip tunes in ClojureScript. https://chr15m.github.io/speccy/ Video: https://youtu.be/IZtCSfd9G_A Source & doc: https://github.com/chr15m/speccy Here are some synths to paste into the editor to get started: ; blippy synth (sfxr {:wave :square :env/decay 0.1 :note #(at % 32 {0 24 3 29 7 60 12 52 19 29 28 52})}) ; donk bass (sfxr "1111128F2i1nMgXwxZ1HMniZX45ZzoZaM9WBtcQMiZDBbD7rvq6mBCATySSmW7xJabfyy9xfh2aeeB1JPr4b7vKfXcZDbWJ7aMPbg45gBKUxMijaTNnvb2pw" {:note #(or (at % 57 {5 35 27 34}) (at % 32 {0 24 6 29 18 21 26 12}))}) ; hi hat (sfxr {:wave :noise :env/sustain 0.05 :env/decay 0.05 :vol #(sq % [0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1])}) ; snare (sfxr "7BMHBGCKUHWi1mbucW62sVAYvTeotkd4qSZKy91kof8rASWsAx1ioV4EjrXb9AHhuKEprWr2D4u4YHJpYEzWrJd8iitvr23br2DCGu7zMqFmPyoSFtUEqiM64" {:note 36 :vol #(at % 16 {4 0.5 12 0.5})}) Enjoy! Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx

7 years, 5 months

[LAU] M-Audio Fast Track Pro: unreliable, distorted recording

by Lewis Pike

I'm the (un?)lucky owner of an M-Audio Fast Track Pro USB audio interface and I'm having some serious problems getting this device to record audio reliably under Linux. I've been using arecord and occasionally Audacity for all of my testing. My problem is this: Recording a take works about 80% of the time. In the remaining ~20% of cases, the captured audio is extremely loud with severe digital distortion. Once this problem shows up, it persists for any subsequent takes. The only way I've found to make the problem go away, at least temporarily, is to power-cycle the Fast Track Pro. I considered the possibility that this particular device might be defective, but it seems to work wonderfully under Windows. I'm calling out to other Fast Track Pro users in the hope that someone out there has encountered the same problem and better still, found a solution. Any suggestions at all would be greatly appreciated! .lewis

7 years, 5 months

[LAU] Change of day for monthly Berlin meetings?

by Daniel Swärd

Hi all. During the LAC there were some discussion on that we should change the day for the monthly Berlin meeting and that we should change it to the first Tuesday of the month. What do you say? The first Tuesday of the month? If so, I'll ask to have the c-base calendar updated. Cheers /Daniel

7 years, 5 months

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Linux-audio-user August 2018