Linux-audio-user April 2022

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27 discussions

Steinway_IMIS2.2 soundfont (no loops fix)

by Roberto Gordo Saez

This is Steinway_IMIS soundfont, version 2.2. ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sf2/Steinway_IMIS2.2 This version fixes the issue with loops. I hope this is the good one and there are no more remaining major bugs. Marcos is a little busy right now, so he asked me to make this fix. He is thinking to make other improvements, so expect more updates soon.

2 months

Raspberry PI and PISound

by worik

Is anybody out here in LAU land have experience with PISound? https://www.blokas.io/pisound/ I have just bought one and am having quite sever teething problems with it. It keeps freezing for ~45 seconds when running X and I cannot get it to use the full display. cheers Worik -- If not me then who? If not now then when? If not here then where? So, here I stand, I can do no other root(a)worik.org 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 Aotearoa (New Zealand)

4 months, 3 weeks

LinnStrument on Linux

by Thomas Poulsen

Dear list, I recently bought a LinnStrument from Roger Linn Design: http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html It is a great isomorphic midi-controller, and as such it is immediately recognized on Linux. The distinguishing feature of the LinnStrument is that it senses 3 degrees of freedom on each note: x-direction, y direction and z-direction (pressure). The x-direction is mapped to pitch-bend, and y-direction to CC74. A cool feature is the "slide", where the pitch-bend is used to slide between all notes in a row. To allow individual pitch and CC74 values for each note, it sends each note on a separate midi-channel ("MPE"): http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/implementing-mpe.html Bitwig has added support for this, and there is 20 presets in version 1.3.11, where this is used (tag: linnstrument). The LinnStrument controller is not recognized automatically on Linux in version 1.3.11, but it can be configured manually, and then it works fine. Note that both midi-in and midi-out has to be configured, if not there is no sound! It should look like this: https://ibin.co/2msBJVgpKtf9.png Now I would like to also use it with the free Linux synths. Here's what I have been able to make work this far. Synthv1: PME works reasonably well: I can play polyphonic in MPE mode, but it tends to miss the "note off"s. I can get the slide to work, by setting <param index="36" name="DEF1_PITCHBEND">2</param> <param index="78" name="DEF2_PITCHBEND">2</param> is a preset. Zynaddsubfx: I can not get MPE to work. Sending only on one channel, and setting PWheelB.Rng to 2400 cents, I cant get the sliding to work, but only when playing with one finger. If I enable MPE on the LinnStrument there is only an occasional sound, when it happens to send on the channel, that Zyn is listening on. I'll love to hear if other LinnStrument users have been able to do more with any of the free synths on Linux. All the best, Thomas

8 months

irqbalance and searchable list archive?

by Peter P.

Hi list, I am trying to find out if running or disabling the irqbalance service will improve or degrade audio performance on my four cpu x230 laptop? I was furthermore trying to search this list's archive, but could not find a search engine at https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Is there any? Thank you! P

1 year

New LSP Plugins Look Great

by Brandon Hale

Hello all, I just wanted to make a thread to appreciate the new LSP audio plugins' guis. I was using my computer and loaded a plugin and didn't even know I had gotten an LSP audio plugin update on Arch. I was shocked to see how nice they look, these plugins look and react extremely nice. I was happy to also see they have scaling features. Overall, great job to the LSP audio plugin team and thank you for the great plugins, Brandon Hale

1 year, 1 month

CollisionDrive v0.1 released

by Hermann Meyer

CollisionDrive is modeled after the Horizon Devices Precision Drive(*), a modern overdrive pedal with a built-in noise gate. Besides the usual Volume and Drive controls, the CollisionDrive features Attack and Bright controls. The Attack control manipulates the response of the pedal, turning it down simultaneously softens the overdrive attack and increases the sustain. The Bright control gives you even more flexibility. It can add presence to darker sounding amps, or remove buzzing when needed. The Gate control sets the noise gate threshold. In the plugin interface, this control lights up to indicate that the noise gate is active. (*) 'Other product names modeled in this software are trademarks of their respective companies that do not endorse and are not associated or affiliated with this software. Horizon Devices Precision Drive is a trademark or trade name of another manufacturer and was used merely to identify the product whose sound was reviewed in the creation of this product. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.' Release: https://github.com/brummer10/CollisionDrive/releases/tag/v0.1 Pre-build Binary: https://github.com/brummer10/CollisionDrive/releases/download/Latest/Collis… Project Page: https://github.com/brummer10/CollisionDrive regards hermann

1 year, 1 month

Updates of zita-audiotools and zita-jacktools

by Fons Adriaensen

Hello all, zita-audiotools-1.3.0 and zita-jacktools-1.6.0 are now available at <http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/downloads/index.html>. If you have previous versions, installing these updates will require some extra work. This is for two reasons: * The python package names have changed: audiotools -> zita_audiotools jacktools -> zita_jacktools * The setup.py files now use setuptools instead of the deprecated distutils, and will install a python 'egg' directory. This requires the following actions: * Before installation, remove all traces of any previous versions from your python site-packages directory. Then just make; sudo make install; sudo make clean. * In existing applications, the import statements must be modified to refer to the new package names. Thanks to Marc Lavallée for both suggesting the name change and testing the new releases. Ciao, -- FA

1 year, 1 month

[OT] Missing some LAU emails (initial messages)

by Lorenzo Sutton

Not sure if this is something only on my end, but I seem to have missed some recent 'initial' message threads from LAU such as "New Software: Tembro, All-in-one instrument (Sampler or Rompler)" [0], "[music] Pick me up" [1], "Lost soundfont" [2] Interestingly I did then correctly receive thread responses to these. I did check my spam and no trace in there (and LAU is in theory whitelisted since a while). I'm wondering if this might be some setting on my side (including ML settings, although I didn't change anything recently), some gmail quirk? I use Thunderbird as a client but I don't think that is relevant (or is it)? Any tip or help appreciated :-) Thanks! Lorenzo [0] https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/2022-April/114981.ht… [1] https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/2022-April/114987.ht… [2] https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-user/2022-April/114998.ht…

1 year, 1 month

Setting HDMI as default in asoundrc and getting Firefox to use this default

by Joel Roth

Hi Wise Ones, I'm trying to set HDMI as the default output in asoundrc. I have quite a few possibilities, listed here by aplay -L hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=3 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0 Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=7 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 1 Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=8 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2 Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=9 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 3 Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=10 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 4 Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=3 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0 Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=7 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 1 Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=8 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2 Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=9 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 3 Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=10 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 4 Hardware device with all software conversions default:CARD=PCH HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=PCH HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog Front output / input surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog 2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=1 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 1 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=2 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=3 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 3 HDMI Audio Output hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=4 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 4 HDMI Audio Output dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC662 rev3 Analog Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=3 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0 Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=7 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 1 Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=8 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 2 Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=9 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 3 Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=10 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 4 Direct sample mixing device By trial-and-error (how else to do it?) I find the following commands generate audio output to a TV connected via HDMI. aplay -D plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=7 ~/music/tmh.wav aplay -D hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=7 ~/music/tmh.wav I would prefer a setting with dmix, but the following fails: aplay -D dmix:CARD=PCH,DEV=7 Playing WAVE '/home/jroth/music/tmh.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo aplay: set_params:1343: Sample format non available Available formats: - S32_LE Attempting to translate a working example to asoundrc, I find aplay (without -D option) produces sound output at the TV with the following: pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 7 } However even after restarting firefox, it doesn't play to this output. I tried adding a ctl stanza: ctl.!default { type hw card 0 device 7 } This doesn't affect aplay, but firefox doesn't output to headphones or HDMI with this setting in asoundrc. I welcome any suggestions to get firefox to default to the asoundrc setting. TIA, Joel -- Joel Roth

1 year, 1 month

Re: [LAU] New Software: Tembro, All-in-one instrument (Sampler or Rompler)

by Laborejo Software Suite

Hello list, >Any way to tell it once and for all to NOT autoconnect to system:* ? >FA In Tembro Git, and all my other programs, I replaced autoconnect with a default-off setting (in the menus) to autoconnect the mixer etc. ports on startup. Nils

1 year, 1 month

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