Hi All!
So some time has passed since this topic last came up, there is some new
firmware for the Motu 1248.
I'm still using version 1.2.8+1178, as this is the last version that didn't
break my setup (xruns, channel shifting etc).
Did anyone try the recent firmware update?
How did it go?
Cheers
Moshe
Hi, all. I'm considering replacing my M-Audio Delta 1010 an Mackie Big Knob
monitor controller with an RME Babyface Pro so that I have preamps available
at my desktop without breaking out my big mixer, and hardware volume control
for my monitors.
I know a few folks here have the Babyface Pro (Hi, Fons and Brent!) and
I'm curious as to whether you're all still happy with it. I've been reading
that in the class-compliant mode, which is required for Linux use), that
various features are not enabled.
My biggest concern is about phantom power, as I'd seen a mention that
PP is only settable from the TotalMix software, which is a no-op in CC mode.
I'm also interested in any "gotchas" or anecdotes about living with this
unit under Linux.
Thanks!
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I'm delighted to announce new releases (made last Friday) of Sonic Visualiser and two related desktop applications from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London:
Version 4.0 of Sonic Visualiser, a free, cross-platform, open source application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files, is now available. The main change in this release, and the reason for the major-version bump to 4.0, is the addition of a "boxes" layer used to annotate and export time-frequency regions. (Refer to https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/doc/reference/4.0/en/#boxes for a description of the boxes layer.) See the home page at http://sonicvisualiser.org for more information and downloads.
Version 2.1 of Tony, a free, cross-platform, open source application for high quality pitch and note transcription from solo vocal recordings, is now available. This is what you might call a "consolidation release" - it is almost unchanged from 2.0 in terms of features, but it is updated to fix some compatibility issues that have arisen since 2.0 came out and to prepare the codebase for a future feature release. See the home page at https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/tony/ for more information and downloads.
Version 1.0 of Sonic Lineup, a free, cross-platform, open source application for comparative simultaneous visualisation of multiple audio files containing versions of the same source material, is now available. See the home page at https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/sonic-lineup/ for more information and downloads.
Chris
I remember last time on a VST which I found nice to play around with,
don't remember the name, but it was a monk which sing when you push and
move the mouse.
While I work on the code of my new X11/cairo toolkit, I give this a shoot.
I'm using the SFFormantModelBP from the faust physmodels.lib, and wrap a
UI around so that it comes near to what I remember and have a lot of fun
while moving the mouse around on it.
Then I adding midi support (modwheel for the vowel), so that it may
become a tad more the fun.
HOOOHEEEHAAA, here you go:
https://github.com/brummer10/Xmonk.lv2
The end is near! Fortunately only the end of our preparations.
Only four days left until this year's Sonoj Convention.
For the spontaneous among you there is still an opportunity to sign up
and visit. Just enter your name on https://sonoj.org/register.html .
Considering the many mails you've received so far, it can be assumed
that you're currently in Antarctica and therefore can't actually
participate.
Therefore now for the last time (this year):
Please help us finance our non-profit event by donating an amount of
your choice. We accept bank transfers and PayPal:
https://sonoj.org/donate.html
And finally I would be happy to see you during the two days in our video
stream. There will be a chat this year (it already exists), so you can
ask questions and comment.
The stream is on the Sonoj page, or here:
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/sonoj2019
Best regards,
Nils
Sonoj Convention
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:26 PM Thomas Brand <tom(a)trellis.ch> wrote:
>
> On 2019-10-25 16:16, Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:45 PM Thomas Brand <tom(a)trellis.ch> wrote:
> >> I've tons of Amiga Disks (Sample Disks named ST-01 ... ) and Modules
> >> archived. If anybody has the tools to read them back and eventually
> >> convert to 21st century, I'd happily provide these disks.
> >
> > As in "physical 3.5" floppies"? Might not be necessary to go the
> > "hardware route" to get the data back (at least for the samples), as
> > they are still available on good old aminet:
> > http://aminet.net/search?name=st-&path[]=mods/inst
> >
> Indeed, those. Remaining the 3.5" modules, which is a funky mix of
> ripped (MKII action replay) and hand-crafted/unreleased tunes..
Just in case the ".ch" in your mail address correctly implies that
you're in Switzerland:
There will be the "Vintage Computer Festival" in Zürich in ~1 month:
https://vcfe.ch/doku.php
That might be a place to find people who still have the needed hardware.
-Ben
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:45 PM Thomas Brand <tom(a)trellis.ch> wrote:
> I've tons of Amiga Disks (Sample Disks named ST-01 ... ) and Modules
> archived. If anybody has the tools to read them back and eventually
> convert to 21st century, I'd happily provide these disks.
As in "physical 3.5" floppies"? Might not be necessary to go the
"hardware route" to get the data back (at least for the samples), as
they are still available on good old aminet:
http://aminet.net/search?name=st-&path[]=mods/inst
-Ben
Hey everyone!
My music "career" started with mod music. Nope, not the music and fashion
subculture from the late 1950s, but this mod music
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file>, when people used programs
called "trackers" to produce stuff. It was either this or buying expensive
hardware.
Although people associate MOD music scene mostly with chiptunes, it was
much more than that, and has its own pantheon of musical gods
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_chart&query=topartists> who
produced tracks ranging from synth pop
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=35280> to
jazz
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=135135>,
from orchestral
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=120901> to
realistic folk instrumentals
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=155605>.
Immersed in this music, I severed my link to the mainstream idea of songs
with their standard verse/chorus, and endless drivel about relationships.
That link has not been restored. My mind was opened to music that was so
unlike anything I'd heard before that it felt a bit like walking through
that door in the wall. (Is this H.G. Wells reference
<https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/do…>
too obscure? :) )
My heroes were Elwood, DRAX, Awesome. Who even knows these names? I once
created a Wikipedia page for Elwood and it stayed up for many years, but
recently I discovered that it was removed. And yet Elwood
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules&query=69004>
is a legendary musician and producer in the MOD scene, who has inspired and
awed several generations of fellow tracker musicians.
Some names have gotten enough traction to stay on Wikipedia. Purple Motion
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonne_Valtonen> is one clear example.
Several producers, famous today, started out using trackers. Here is
an incomplete
list <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tracker_musicians>. It mostly
lacks artists who made their names in the tracking scene, but did not
become notable outside of it.
It's been a while since I went on a nostalgia tour, but due to my recent
project of putting out an album of old tunes called "Only Slightly
Embarrassing"
<https://louigiverona.com/?page=projects&s=music&t=slightly_embarrassing>,
I decided to cross further into the continent of "back in my days", which
brought me straight to ModArchive <https://modarchive.org/>. Eventually, I
was convinced that I should try making more tracked works, at the very
least because my early works were so shitty that I felt I had to make up
for that.
Long story short, I realized that MOD music is the true Open Source Music.
I mean, think about it. The most widely used software today is GPLed (
OpenMPT <https://openmpt.org/>). The modules you release are open source
too, just like JavaScript. You open your XM or IT file and inspect how the
tune was created. And you learn.
And there is surely stuff to learn. Not all of it is even tracker-specific.
People had no EQs, no compressors, no reverbs. And yet so much of tracked
music sounds just incredible
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=134387>.
How did they do it? It turns out, there are ways.
Of course, all of that leads to a bit of self promotion. I would like to
draw your attention to the two tunes that I've written in the past month
with OpenMPT and which you can download and see how they were made. (Or
don't. You can instead explore ModArchive's Top Favorites
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_top_favourites>.)
- Lid
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=186854>
- Twizzy II
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=186855>
You can just use an Online Player to listen to them in a browser, or you
can use almost any modern player to play them. Audacious, VLC, for example.
An interesting thing is that the MOD scene has its own cultural backdrop:
it is primarily melodic oriented, and having melodies means a lot. If you
don't like melodies, you go for trance. I am putting out minimal house,
rominimal even. So, I am sure I will get little love.
But for those of you who enjoy this style of music, I think you might like
these. I am personally very happy with the sound and how both of these
turned out. And yet - no EQing, no nothing. Just volume envelopes, volume
levels and panning work. **a little proud**
It's somehow interesting to me that this is open source minimal house
music. Not a lot of those out there.
p.s.: fuck my tracks, listen to this
<https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=34427>
Louigi Verona
https://louigiverona.com/
DrumGizmo 0.9.18 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 release is primarily a bugfix release but a few new features also
managed to sneak in.
Highlights:
* Sample selection algorithm now behaves a lot better when using a
small sample set.
* Error reporting has been drastically improved when loading
drum-kits.
* Sample normalization option has been added.
As usual read the detailed description of all the new shiny features,
including some audio samples [1].
And now, without further ado, go grab 0.9.18!!! [2]
[1]: https://drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=changelog:drumgizmo-0.9.18
[2]: http://www.drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=getting_drumgizmo
