hej!
I 'm looking for a linux software to play soundfiles controlled by
a footswitch on the serial port. (just possible to control start, rewind,
stop) .
Usually I'm using jack/ardour but haven't seen the possibility to use a
footswitch to control the software.
Even a howto for using a footswitch as an input device for a perl script would
be very helpful.
Any ideas?
thank you very much for help
cheers
Jürgen
Greetings:
As promised, here's a set of test criteria used by Alan Belkin in his
1994 review of notation programs for the Macintosh. I hope that the
authors of Linux music notation software will consider this list against
the features of their own efforts.
I'm not interested in comparing "ours against theirs". The Mac
programs tested were all WYSIWYG notation editors, including Finale,
Composer's Mosaic, Encore, Lime, and Nightingale, while some of the best
Linux music notation software is devoid of any GUI. Nevertheless, the
criteria seem adequate as base requirements for any music notation
software, and I'm very interested in the opinions and evaluations of the
Linux developers of such software. I know that the authors of NoteEdit,
LilyPond, MusE/Musescore, Denemo, Rosegarden, Common Music Notation, and
perhaps other significant notation editors are represented on the
LAD/LAU lists, and I hope they will respond on-list to the criteria
presented here. I also welcome comments from users regarding the
presence or absence of the listed features in their favorite Linux
notation program.
I have only slightly altered Mr Belkin's original criteria where it
was Mac-specific. The evaluations in his original article were either
qualitative (good, bad, ugly, etc), quantitative, (1, 4, 12, etc), or
affirmative/negative (yes/no). So, here we go:
Note entry:
mouse & keyboard
MIDI step-time
MIDI realtime w. flexible quantization
audition other saves while recording
retain performance data for playback
number of independent rhythmic layers per staff
maximum number of staves per system
Entry of slurs, articulations, dynamics, etc.:
intelligent default placement
apply to multiple staves at once
Selection in regional edits:
vertical, horizontal slices within and across measures, staves,
system, pages, etc.
non-contiguous
conditional selection
Editing:
click & drag positioning of symbols
transposition (note, staff, selection, etc)
enharmonic change by region
rhythm: change note values (ease of use)
rhythm: auto-rebar
cut/copy/paste: music
cut/copy/paste: non-musical items, formats, etc.
mirroring (intelligent copies)
Special/custom notation:
unusual staves
simultaneous key signatures
unconventional time signatures
additive time signatures
simultaneous different time signatures
drawing tool
user-created symbols
user-selectable fonts for all elements
chord notation: graphic, playback, learn via MIDI
fretboard notation
figured-bass notation
unusual note heads (slashes, harmonics, etc)
easily adjustable cross-staff beaming
Lyrics:
mass create
create on page
import from text editor
auto layout
multiple fonts
flexible placement
MIDI playback:
ALSA or OSS support
channel support
playback includes modifiers (crescendi, dynamics, etc)
direct editing of MIDI data
import patch lists (GM, GS, etc)
scrolling playback
edit during playback
Entry layout:
flexible engraver spacing within measure
account for dynamics, slurs, annotative text, etc.
Page layout:
auto layout with engraver spacing
reduce or enlarge symbols, staves, text, systems, by any percent,
locally or globally
full control of measures per system
full control of systems per page
remove empty staves within systems
flexible spacing of staves within systems
Part extraction:
automatic with new layout
dynamic links to master score
File operations:
follow Linux standards (?)
simultaneous multiple files open
printed output: PS, PDF, DVI, etc.
Interface/overall ease of use:
undo/redo any operation
user-defined key bindings
user control over notational defaults
views: scroll, page, template, any percent, multiple simultaeous views
priorities clear
logical organization
simple language and icons
overall speed
on-line help
documentation
ease of learning
general solidity and stability
In his article Mr Belkin also addressed the problem of tuplets, noting
that at that time only Finale realized anything other than triplets when
converting from MIDI input (file or realtime). I should also note that
this list is hardly meant to be a complete set of expected features:
after all, it's from an article published ten years ago. I'm sure we've
advanced well beyond the state of the art in 1994... right ? :)
Best regards,
Dave Phillips
I've tried to find in the timidity manpage how to
accomplish this, but no luck so far:
I generated a three-voice file with the old
Rosegarden, and exported it as a MIDI file. The three
voices each take one staff, to which I assigned
different patches. When I play the file on CLI, just
as basic and straightforward as you please, I hear the
three parts with different instruments, no problem.
The feedback I get from the prompt lists Track 1,
Track2, Track 3, logically enough.
If I specify a different patch with the -P option, all
three voices (in the polyphonic sense) have the same
timbre-- the one I specified with the P switch.
The burning question: How can I specify a different
patch for different tracks? If it's in the manual,
tell me where?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Mark
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2.6 on suse is also different than 2.6 fedora, because suse has a couple
of audio programmers who work to make sure their kernel works with audio,
so I can use all my audio apps out of the box with 9.2, and the 2.6
kernel, without latency problems, and without needing a kernel recompile.
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> In case anyone's interested, I just found an interesting
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:02:53 +0100
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> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:50:52PM +0100, tim hall wrote:
> > Last Tuesday 13 July 2004 13:11, kmd was like:
> > > can i use the 2.6 kernel or should i use
> > > the special compiled multimedia 2.4 kernel (for mandrake, via contrib
> > > sources). and i have trouble as well to play with jack without being
> > > root,
> >
> > General consensus seems to be that a 2.4 multimedia kernel is the 'stable'
> > approach. You won't have to run Jack as root if you run a patched multimedia
> > kernel. You probably won't need to do a lot of tweaking. Best approach is
> > probably to get a working system with 2.4 and then upgrade to 2.6 only if
> > you're really not happy with results. Personally, I will be happy to wait
> > until 2.6 is more stable.
>
> Agreed, I would only go to 2.6 is you really need some features in it -
> its basicly stopped one of my machines from being a useful audio box.
>
> - Steve
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hi,
for the first time I have put my slackware on a disc with xfs file-system.
It is still advisable or necessary
to create the temp-filesystem /mnt/ramfs
and
to compile --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs option
(as advice the README file of jack source package) ?
thanks
--
Lazzaro
On Jul 13, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Joachim Schiele wrote:
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> On Tuesday 13 July 2004 20:49, Joey Reid wrote:
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> You could write a midi filter for that.
> Read this:
> http://www.suse.de/~mana/alsa090_howto.html
>
well, i was hoping i wouldn't have to learn C to do this, but I suppose
I can't expect ot not get my hands dirty with this, can I ;-)
--
Joey Reid aka Dr.Whiz-Bang
Geek, musician, and friend of God
http://www.joeyreid.com
maybe this is a question for alsa, but if you don't mind i rather put my
problem here as well. i'm in continious trouble with my sound card. i
spent a lot of money on this rme digi96-8/pad. when i bought the card it
immediately worked like a charm with mdk 9.2. unbelievable. the trouble
started with mdk 10.0. i managed to make it work after several days of
searching. don't ask me how, i woke up, booted and to my surprise it
worked. never change a winning configuration you would say. indeed.
today i reenabled the onboard audio chip in the bios, booted windows,
booted back linux and yes trouble happened. just like the first time of
troubles, everything seems to be working fine and configured as it
should be, but i hear *no* sound at all. it's driving me insane. i mean,
i run xmms, mplayer, aplay.. they all do seem to play sound without any
error, only i can't hear anything at all. but alsamixer displays a 100%
volume output (with this card there is only 1 mixer, DAC) and when i
boot windows i hear sound, so it's not a cable prob. am i missing here
anything obvious? is there another volume mixer that i should try? i
remember playing with a console program to set mixer volumes, but can't
remember which one.
please help.
kmd
alsa 1.0.2c
mandrake 10 official, standard 2.6 kernel
[root@bazz kmd]# aplay -D default /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Logout_new.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/KDE_Logout_new.wav' : Signed 16 bit
Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo
.asoundrc
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.rme96 {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.rme96 {
type hw
card 0
}
etc/modules.conf
probeall scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
above snd-rme96 snd-pcm-oss
probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd
alias eth0 sk98lin
alias sound-slot-0 snd-rme96
################# alsa kmd
## ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-rme96
## module options should go here
## OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-rme96
# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
lsmod
snd-seq-oss 33568 0
snd-seq-midi-event 8704 1 snd-seq-oss
snd-seq 55696 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq-device 9032 2 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq
snd-pcm-oss 53316 0
snd-mixer-oss 19008 1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-rme96 26244 0
snd-pcm 97440 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-rme96
snd-page-alloc 12996 1 snd-pcm
snd-timer 26660 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm
snd 55492 9
snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-seq-device,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-rme96,snd-pcm,snd-timer
soundcore 10560 1 snd
There is a realtime-lsm module that is simply applied by a startup script.
Jackd works realtime with this applied. It is applied with a gjd=29 which is
for the audio group.
ANyone know of a complete soundfont set in the GS format that can be
loaded into Qsynth or fluid synth? By complete, I mean all 128 standard
instruments plus preferably the GS or even XG instruments.
Thanks
R~
Greetings Earthlings:
Just a quick note to say that the August 2004 issue of the Linux
Journal has selected Ardour as Project Of The Year for its 2004 Editors
Choice awards. Congratulations to Paul and everyone on the team !
Best regards,
dp