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USB interface for backing up old tracks mastered on cassette

by Jordan Muscott

Greetings everyone, my first post to LAU for about 15 years :) I'm looking for a USB interface for use with my Lenovo G500 laptop running Slackware 14.1.At this stage I'm primarily interested in backing up some old tracks that were originally mastered on metal cassette tape. I have no immediate plans for doing any serious audio production using this machine (although that might be a possibility in the future). I haven't bought a sound card since 2003 so I'm a bit out of touch with what is available these days, and what is supported on linux. A few people have recommended RME to me. After a very quick look around the web the cheapest option I've found is an RME Digiface for £320. So I guess the questions are: Is it worth forking out for an RME device, or is there something else out there that is a bit cheaper that will serve my current purpose? How about the M-Audio M-Track 2x2M? (approx £90) tbh I'm asking all this based on the assumption that the on board device isn't great without actually testing it :) many thanks, Jordan

6 years, 10 months

Latest Yoshimi released :)

by Will Godfrey

V 1.5.10 Redwing Command Line access is now virtually complete. The graphic interface has had a minor makeover. Also, very occasional corruption of this has been resolved. All inactive controls are now shown as such - there were a number that previously weren't, thus causing considerable confusion for new users. There is an improved pseudo-random number system, which does not rely on external libraries anymore. The 'Yoshimi Advanced User Manual' has had considerable revision and extension. Further details can be found in /doc/Yoshimi_1.5.10_features.txt By default, Yoshimi is supplied with 710 instruments spread across 23 banks. Yoshimi source code is available from either: https://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi Or: https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi Full build instructions are in 'INSTALL'. Our list archive is at: https://www.freelists.org/archive/yoshimi To post, email to: yoshimi(a)freelists.org -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

6 years, 10 months

[music] A Machine Dream (simple ambience from the Rack)

by Dave Phillips

Greetings ! https://youtu.be/c2fzgobYjbk Another self-generating ambient music patch from VCV Rack. See the YT notes for details. Good for any hour of the day or night, but especially appropriate for late night/early morning meditations. Comments welcome, as always. Best regards, dp

6 years, 10 months

time code

by 1213729945

Hi! I want to read the time code from the audio pin on windows system which is connected with the timecode generator TENTACLE. What should I do?

6 years, 10 months

Trying to record!

by Bob van der Poel

I told some friends to come over tomorrow to make a recording ... and, of course, I can't get things to work on the computer. Hope someone can set me straight. I'm using pulse and audacity ... yeah, I know someone will tell me that will never work, but it's worked just fine in the past. So, lets continue :) I'm using a Audiobox USB interface with a single mic. I have tried different mics and cables, so I'm pretty sure that's not the problem. In the pavucontrol program the audiobox shows and I select Analog Stereo Output + Digital Stereo (IEC958) Input Now, when I bring up audacity I have 3 inputs available. Well, this time ... sometimes I have a list as long as my arm. But, for now lets use the short list: HDA Intel ... Pulse Default Both Pulse and Default appear to work as recording devices. Funny, though is that at other times I've gotten a raft of HDA lines, USB lines, etc. Doesn't seem to make sense to me. First off, lets test playback of a track in audacity to phones. Great ... perfect. Audacity (and everything else on the system)plays though the device into the phones. I'm happy. Now, I will record. I get the waveform. I speak into the mic ... and then I play back ... and it is just awful, scratchy crap. So, if you've read this far my problem is that I am getting crappy, very crappy, recording quality with the audiobox interface and audacity. Suggestions? I should add this output as well: arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: USB [AudioBox USB], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 2: ALC887-VD Alt Analog [ALC887-VD Alt Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 4: U0x46d0x802 [USB Device 0x46d:0x802], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Thanks to all. -- **** Listen to my FREE CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

6 years, 10 months

a new project "droning" release

by Louigi Verona

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've announced anything project "droning" related. I am going to announce something very special in a week or so, but for now a new release! The tune is called "Higher Dimensions" and is available for free on Bandcamp: https://louigi.bandcamp.com/album/higher-dimensions Some of the tune was made with FL Studio, but the end result was mixed with Qtractor, and a lot of additional effects work made with Kluppe and Rakarrack. Enjoy! Louigi Verona https://louigiverona.com/

6 years, 10 months

time code

by 1213729945

How to Read Time Code from Audio Port in Windows System？

6 years, 10 months

[ANN] QmidiCtl 0.5.3 - An Early Winter'19 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello and Happy New Year! QmidiCt 0.5.3 (early winter'19) is out! QmidiCt [1] is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [6] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows [7]. QmidiCtl [1] was long ago designed for the Maemo [8] enabled handheld devices, namely the late Nokia N900 [9] and promoted to the Maemo Package [10] repositories. Nevertheless, QmidiCtl [1] may still be found effective as a regular desktop application and recently as an Android application as well. See also: QmidiNet [2] - A MIDI network gateway via UDP/IP multicast. Website: http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3-15.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3-15.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [11] package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3-5.x86_64.AppImage - Android package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3-8.apk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.rncbc.qmidictl https://qmidictl.en.aptoide.com/ Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidictl/code https://github.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git Change-log (since An(other) Early Summer'18 release [12]): - Added proper display names to Command and Control Type entry fields on Configure dialog (ie. MIDI controller assignments dialog). - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more. - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permissive license (FSFAP); also updated to be the most compliant with latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation. License: QmidiCt [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [4] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later [5]. References: [1] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net [2] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net [3] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [4] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [5] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [6] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [7] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN http://nerds.de [8] Maemo.org - Home of the Maemo community http://www.maemo.org [9] Maemo.org Wiki - Nokia N900 http://wiki.maemo.org/Nokia_N900 [10] Maemo.org - Downloads: QmidiCtl http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl [11] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere http://appimage.org/ [12] QmidiCtl 0.5.2 - An(nother) Early Summer'18 Release http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1921 See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1975 Enjoy && have fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

6 years, 10 months

Berlin Linux Audio meeting @ c-base 2019-01-08

by Daniel Swärd

Hi all. Next meeting at c-base is on Tuesday 2019-01-08. As usual I'll be in the mainhall from 20:00. Cheers /Daniel

6 years, 10 months

Beat slicing

by Josh Lawrence

Hello everyone! Is there an app that is good for beat slicing that is currently maintained? At one time I used Freecycle (http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com/), but it's no longer in the Debian repos. I'm looking for a tool that will allow me to load up a loop of some length and auto-detect slices based on transients (or some other condition) and export those slices to wav files. Doing this manually works fine, but having something to shave a little time off the process would be nice. Thank you! Josh

6 years, 10 months

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