Linux-audio-user

linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org

3 participants
20662 discussions

by Niklas Reppel

Hi, recently i compared the headphone outputs of several Laptops and my audio interface. I was amazed (or shocked) how different they are, so i'd like to have something portable as a reference. I was thinking about something in the lines of FiiO, MiniDsp HA-DSP, or Apogee Groove. Should fit in the pocket, not a desktop product. Maybe somebody has some experience to share about this ? Best, Niklas -- Niklas Reppel www.parkellipsen.de

7 years, 9 months

Real-time percussion modelling 'demo'

by jonetsu

A few times in the past, and even recently, there were some comments regarding the lack of a technology that could translate relatively well the percussion gestures done by hands. That technology exists and is quite affordable. It comes from Standford University and was licensed by Yamaha. The Korg used it to make the Wavedrum. Since I connected mine today I thought of doing a quick 'demo', just 1 minute in which: - fingers are brushed - nails are brushed - fingers are tapping - nails are tapping - pressure is applied and variations thereof. The Wavedrum is connected to the usual stereo tube preamp and compressor used for acoustic guitar, but with different settings, and then a bit of reverb was added. The Wavedrum currently has a Remo drum skin. Sound On Sound calls it 'true physical modelling'. https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/wavedrum1 Cheers.

7 years, 9 months

Jack - buffers V periods

by Will Godfrey

I'm getting a little confused when comparing our (Jack) buffer sizes with those discussed on Windows, Mac and general music groups. These latter never mention periods at all, and it's always frames per buffer, so when trying to make comparisons should I take buffers as 1:1 or should I be comparing their buffers to our periods? -- 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.

7 years, 9 months

[Almat] CALL - Workshop-in-Exposition: Thresholds of the Algorithmic - ALMAT @ BEK

by IOhannes m zmölnig

Call for Applications: Workshop-in-Exposition: Thresholds of the Algorithmic Bergen (NO), June 2018. (sorry for x-posting -- please distribute) Algorithms have been used in music and sound art even before the emergence of “computer music” in the 1950s, but today we witness an entire new wave of interest, reflected in festivals, genres, publications and research projects. It is the very notion of algorithms that is shifting. They are no longer an abstract formalisation, but emerge from artistic praxis and experimentation and become entangled in it. Almat and BEK are happy to announce a call for participation in a workshop-in-exposition taking place in Bergen, Norway, June 2018. This will be a part of BEK and Notam’s ongoing series of workshops for advanced users. It is a hybrid format that places the workshop inside an exhibition context, where the exposed works and artefacts form the basis of the workshop’s activity. Instead of “closed works”, what is exposed to the general public are objects, sounds or installations that are open to engagement and reconfiguration during the workshop. Algorithms that Matter (Almat) is an artistic research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, PEEK AR 403-GBL, and based at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) in Graz, Austria. BEK and Notam are centers for innovation and use of technology in music and the arts in Norway. Both Notam and BEK have a strong focus on education, and strive to establish new goals and provide new impulses for current music technologists and artists. - https://almat.iem.at - http://www.bek.no - http://www.notam02.no - Full text of the call: https://almat.iem.at/assets/downloads/almat-bek_call2018.pdf - Application form: https://almat.iem.at/assets/downloads/almat-bek_form2018.pdf ## Theme and Format Thresholds are locations of transitions, points where one modality becomes another, where a qualitative change occurs. In physics the point where an aggregate state changes—the phase transition—is a distinguished transitional location were the properties of the adjacent states become evident. Similarly, in this workshop-in-exposition we want to study the properties of the algorithmic by putting ourselves in threshold positions and actively shape them. More than merely separating two sides, one can spend time on a threshold, move along a ridge, performing a tightrope walk while trying not to fall to either side. Situated within the Almat artistic research project, this event aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers in the field of digital art, sound art and computational aesthetics. The hybrid format of workshop-in-exposition puts on display works of the participants pertaining to the theme, and at the same time avails them for interrogation, discussion and reconfiguration during the week long workshop. The full call embeds a list of three different ‘thresholds’ from which the applicants should point out a specific one, that they recognise as being addressed by their own artistic work. This will act both as a point for further exploration during the workshop and as a bridge towards audience perception. ## Application Please read carefully the call and fill out the form provided at https://almat.iem.at/call2018.html and send it to almat(a)iem.at along with the required accompanying documents. We aim at a balance of gender and background of the applicants. Conditions: - Duration of exhibition: from 08 June to 17 June 2018 - Start date (in situ): 04 June 2018 (preparation and set up from 04 June to 08 June 2018) - End date: 17 June 2018 - Applicants must be present during the workshop. - Workshop fee must be paid by confirmed participants (see form) **Application deadline: 16 February 2018** (e-mail reception, 24:00 CET) If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at almat(a)iem.at. iem.at | kug.ac.at | bek.no | notam02.no | fwf.ac.at

7 years, 9 months

jalv.select v1.0 released

by Hermann Meyer

Hi A new version of jalv.select is released. jalv.select is a little GUI to select lv2 <http://lv2plug.in/> plugs from a list and run them with jalv <https://drobilla.net/software/jalv/> as jack standalone app. Features: * select jalv interpreter from combo box, * select LV2 plugin from list, * create your own favorite list and select plugins from there * select preset to load from (pop-up) menu, * search plugins by regex or plugin class, * reload lilv world to catch new installed plugins or presets, * load plugin with selected preset, * minimize app to systray (global Hotkey SHIFT+ESCAPE), * wake up app from systray (global Hotkey SHIFT+ESCAPE): o left mouse click on systray to show or hide app o right mouse click to show quit menu item * . . . jalv.select is released under the Public Domain, so do with it what ever you wont. get it here: https://github.com/brummer10/jalv_select/releases/tag/V1.0

7 years, 10 months

[ANN] MusE 3.0.1 released

by Robert Jonsson

== MusE 3.0.1 release January 16, 2018 == This is a hot fix release with some nagging bugs corrected. - Build fix for packagers building with --no-undefined - Looping did not play back the first event - Midi sustain wasn't handled correctly - Mute/Unmute/Off/On wave tracks caused them to lose playback sync + Note names are now displayed on the events in the pianoroll For the complete list of changes see: https://github.com/muse-sequencer/muse/blob/muse_3_0_1/muse3/ChangeLog News section: http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/News Download: http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Download Demos page: http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Demos Forum is dead - long live the NEW FORUM: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=61 Keep on Rocking! The MusE Team

7 years, 10 months

Re: [LAU] AMD graphics card

by Chris Caudle

On Fri, January 12, 2018 7:48 am, Will Godfrey wrote: > So, I'm now on kernel 14.4.7 :) I think that was a typo, I assume it is 4.14.7. I am currently running 4.14.12 modified with the RT patches installed (the kernel provided for Fedora 27 by the CCRMA repository), and it is running quite fine with an Asus HD5450 card. That series of cards uses the older radeon driver and was previously broken for a few releases around the 4.11.x time frame, at least in the Fedora 26 kernels. I do not think Fedora modifies the graphics drivers, so I suspect that a regression with the older cards crept into the mainline at some point and was corrected in later kernels after it was noticed. I pulled the HD5450 card from a machine retired recently, I have been running a newer RX 460 card which uses the amdgpu driver (which replaced the radeon driver for AMD GPU for the latest generation devices). The newer card was prompted primarily by my kids who wanted better graphics for Minecraft, but with the working driver I do not see any noticeable difference in desktop use with a browser, playing youtube videos, etc. The HD5450 is single width vs. dual width, passive heat sink vs. fan heat sink, and lower power. I can recommend it for anything not involving 3D graphics, I used it for several years with no problems until the driver regression in the 4.11.x series of kernels, which as far as I can tell is completely corrected with the 4.14 kernel I am currently running. -- Chris Caudle

7 years, 10 months

[Music] Wr: first sounds using the Waverazor

by jonetsu

First sounds using the Waverazor on Linux. drums, synth percussion and bass combo are regular production, the rest are several instances of Waverazor. After a short bit, the combo drops and only Waverazor is heard, including the rhythm synth. No research for sounds was made, these are really the first sounds made with that synth released for Linux yesterday. https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/wr-1 Cheers.

7 years, 10 months

[Music] Soca Philosophy

by jonetsu

Hello ! This piece marks the return of the acoustic guitar. This is a bright, almost airy in its tones, rhytmic piece. Easy listening ? I do not know, but it surely flows by nicely. Synths open and closes the piece while the theme is played on xylophone and cimbalon (Pianoteq). No mysteries here, no melancholy, just bright and open. On the mixing side, 'Soca Philosophy' was mixed using Mixbus32C, the commercial counterpart supporting Ardour development. Approx. 35 tracks were used, 5 busses, and two VCAs. Not many plugins were used if you put aside the x42 EQ used as subtractive EQ on each track, as well as the x42 1/3 Octave Spectrum Display on each track, post fader. The new addition was the use of u-he Uhbik Tremolo on some sequenced tracks to give a stereo rhtythm. The acoustic guitar went trought the usual MPA2 and VLA2 stereo tube preamp and compressors, then through OvertoneDSP's Pulltec emulations. There was a clear problem of integrating the acoustic guitar into the synth layers. Hopefully it turns out not too bad. 'Soca Philosophy' was created in Bitwig and refined and mixed in Mixbus32C. All guitars were recorded in Mixbus32C. System in Linux Mint 18, KDE. And as always, for Pete's sake, I listen to the soundcloud upload and find that it's not really reflecting what I was working on - alas, that's how it goes for now ! https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/soca-philosophy Cheers.

7 years, 10 months

Re: [LAU] Meltdown – Spectre

by Ralf Mardorf

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:29:27 +0000, Pablo Fernandez wrote: >El sáb., 13 ene. 2018 13:58, Thomas Pfundt escribió: >> However, this site doesn't list your Celeron G as vulnerable: >> https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00088&lang… >> Do you even need to concern with the patch and performance at this >> point? That is interesting news. I'll forward this, since actually it's claimed that all x86 CPUs since the Pentium Pro from 1995 suffer from this issue. Does anybody know how to value this information from Intel?

7 years, 10 months

Jump to page:

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

Linux-audio-user