Well, my lovely Onyx Artist 1-2 is not powering up consistently, so
it's time to look for a new DAC for the Box of No Return . I did a
mid-deep survey last night, and am fascinated at the newly large
category of "headphone amplifiers", all of them USB2 or 3 and usually
driverless, some of them bluetooth, several of them (e.g., this FiiO,
this Fosi, many others) advertising bluetooth 4.2 or 5.0 and 384kHz max
sampling rates and four or five codecs I had never heard of. I'd
like to spend vaguely US$100, am willing to consider higher. I prefer
dual 1/4" mono phone jack outs, or single or dual XLR; the Peavey USB-P
would be great if it were 96kHz; but the "headphone amplifier" category
clearly goes for 1/8" stereo, not my favorite because they wear out so
easily.
I'd love to go 96kHz bluetooth if it's solid under Linux with JACK, but
my impressions thus far is that that may be a path fraught with peril
:-) I don't actually need minimum latency, I do need high
reliability. Experiences anyone? Thoughts and recommends?
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Jonathan E. Brickman jeb(a)ponderworthy.com (785)233-9977
Hear us at ponderworthy.com -- CDs and MP3 available!
Music of compassion; fire, and life!!!
Hello, All--
i'm running Ubuntu Studio 16.04, for starters. The Aeolus that came with
the distro simply closes upon starting. It also crashes patchage when
doing so. i really got no error, not even a seg fault, except that the
terminal told me that Aeolus couldn't read ~/.aeolus-presets.
So, i went to the website and downloaded the latest version. After
compiling. Aeolus would start, but no stops are displayed. The terminal
tells me, "Can't open 'stops/Aeolus/definition' for reading."
This is very unfortunate. A few years ago, i gave a temperament lecture
and relied heavily on Aeolus. i'd like to know that i can give it again.
Any help would be appreciated.
Take care,
tom
Hi list,
considering to buy a Roland Rubix24 interface as a successor to my
trusty Edirol UA24. Does anyone have any experience with it under linux?
Especially I am wondering if it accepts sample rate and buffer size
changes from alsa and jack and about an issue with the interface
switching itself off after about ten hours as reported on
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=17233
Thank you for all hints!
P
After quite a bit of polishing and last minute regression fixing, Beast 0.12
is finally out.
https://beast.testbit.org/pub/beast-0.12.0.tar.xzhttps://beast.testbit.org/pub/deb/beast_0.12.0_amd64.deb
The latest stable release is now tracked by a new git branch
named 'wip/latest-stable'. Beware of non-linear updates to future
stable releases:
https://github.com/tim-janik/beast/tree/wip/latest-stable
This release removes the Rapicorn dependency as well as the
runtime dependency on CPython. To achieve that, a number of
utilities from Rapicorn has to be integrated, which has made the
code base a fair bit larger:
651 files changed, 75581 insertions(+), 44596 deletions(-)
Most notably, this is the first release that installs the new
ebeast UI. Tracks, piano rolls and dB meters are already displayed,
but not much beyond that as it's still in pre-alpha stage.
However it's a good showcase for our future UI direction, you can
start it and take a quick look with:
$prefix/beast-0-12/bin/ebeast
Please file any bugs you encounter in the Beast bug tracker:
https://github.com/tim-janik/beast/issues/
The release NEWS in all its glory is online:
https://beast.testbit.org/release-notes
Here is the abbreviated shortlog.
Vincent Bermel (1):
DATA: unhardcode launcher icon file type
Stefan Westerfeld (10):
BUILD: display summary message at the end of configure
AF-TESTS: compute soundfont test threshold based on fluidsynth version
BUILD: provide fluidsynth version instead of test threshold to af-tests
AF-TESTS: add version comparision helper script
AF-TESTS: fix soundfont test for newer (>= 1.1.7) fluidsynth versions
BUILD: determine soundfont test threshold from fluidsynth version
BSE: suppress resampler filter test output if no errors found
TESTS: testresampler: print test result as one single line by default
TOOLS: bsefcompare: print test result as one single line by default
BEAST: fix crash when adding a bus to the mixer while song is playing
Tim Janik (933):
[...]
NEWS: updates for beast-0.12.0
--
Yours sincerely,
Tim Janik
https://testbit.eu/timj
Free software author.
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
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/
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Linux Audio Conference team
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
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
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