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[linux-audio-user] Re: A little scared of Debian

by David Baron

On Sunday 11 July 2004 08:36, linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu wrote: > Only, Knoppix is a bit weak with audio applications. Demudi also has > Knoppix-based Live-CDs After you are up and running, apt-get all the nice stuff like ardour, etc.

21 years, 4 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Fresh PC waiting for basic installation - Advice?

by Alejandro Lopez

Guys, Many thanks for the time and effort spent on giving advice, it's much appreciated. Basically, you guys have recommended: -Mandrake + Thac's RPMs (Robert) -DeMuDi (Tim and Stefano) -Planet CCRMA (Jan) ..Which basically boils down to: Mandrake vs Debian vs Redhat. Not sure if it's a wise decision, but I'm then thinking about choosing the distro based on: -Is ALSA supported on the distro or did you have to download and install ALSA separately? -Did you find the kernel easy to patch for low latency? (I assume all Thac's, DeMuDi and Planet have some patch set for this). Any thoughts much appreciated. Yours, Alex PS: starting a new thread soon to briefly explain what note tuning and audio quantizing is for the ones who are interested, glad to contribute somehow :-) _________________________________________________________________ ¿Estás pensando en cambiar de coche? Todas los modelos de serie y extras en MSN Motor. http://motor.msn.es/researchcentre/

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] A Pleasant Evening

by Marv Smoak

This evening turned out to be exceptional. Just three of us were around to play and Don called early (has an early call in the morning for serious golf). So at seven the three of us started; second time to find the chords and line to "Begin the Begin the Beguine"; made progress then switched to "Theme for the Eulipians" to relax. Me on alto sax; Randall on flute/basss; Don guitar. Then (big bad, phd drama) John shows up; in a good mood. Then my daugher Julie and Sher, my wife; both good singers, good ears. Don changed his plan and kept playing way past 9:00. And at 10:30 he suggested we move down to the CCI to hear Rodger; I said OK if we take our axes. All but Sher move there and it clicks. Rodger is fun to play to. Good crowd and great weather (small neighborhood club; opens to padio in back). Home by 1:00 listening to "Jazz After Hours" on my Planet-CCRMA machine. All of the above to say: Thanks audio-folks. Our playing is improving and Songbird2 (the Linux machine) is a major asset. For me, the major benefit has been from listening. I'm a student of theory and a ear player. Good equipment helps. Two fine altos; good flute; Linux powered keyboard, jazz radio most anytime, ... So thanks, folks. I enjoyed playing tonight. Marv

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] amaroK + lirc

by Andrew Gaydenko

Hi, Recently I have configured amaroK player (from current CVS HEAD) to work with lirc. All works fine except for seek(int i) command. I suppose this coomand must seek back/forward some seconds, but seeking back (I have set argument as "-5") does nothing, and seeking forward (argument is "5") plays current track from the beginning. Is anybody more happy here? Andrew

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] A little scared of Debian, was Fresh PC waiting for basic installation - Advice?

by Alejandro Lopez

Dear All, I had just decided to give DeMuDi a try, I had decided this for simplicity because now there's a beta available which comes as a single CD, that's single instalation for OS (Debian) + music studio. But I've just come accross this article: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=831 entitled "An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0". They say things like you are supposed to know the name of your drivers (name of the files, not the name of the hardware to be supported that usually comes as a description in a database!). I've been very dissapointed to read this. I know that people here who have recommended it say they had it running in little time and effort, but is that due to you having quite some background? I have installed Debian years ago, then Redhat recently. I've found Debian installation a nightmare compared to Redhat, but I always thought it was a matter of evolution with years. I don't know what to think anymore, the article says pretty scary stuff actually in the areas that have traditionally been grey in Linux (compared to our friend Windows). Do you share these views and experiences? Will I need to figure out the names of my files during install and stuff like that? (I definitely recall having to do that with Debian but that was years ago.) Many thanks. Yours, Alex _________________________________________________________________ Descarga gratis la Barra de Herramientas de MSN http://www.msn.es/usuario/busqueda/barra?XAPID=2031&DI=1055&SU=http%3A//www…

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 10, Issue 42

by Brian Redfern

photoshop works under wine, a lot of stuff works under wine, but if you look at cinepaint, it actually kicks photoshop's butt in terms of image quality (which is why its used professionally in film editing), so often times it turns out that the open source alternatives are better than commercial software. The only thing I have to dual boot for is to use flash, but I believe that it runs under cross-over office, so there's just fewer and fewer reasons to have to dual boot back to windows.

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] how good are soundfonts and where do I find them?

by Atte André Jensen

Hi Being new to soundfonts I baically needed a decent piano soundfont for arranging stuff for my students, but after shopping around, I thought it maybe could be taken a step further. So my question is: Are soundfonts good enough for "real" music production? And where can I find nice ones to download? I guess I'm looking for imitations of real instruments, mostly piano, accoustic drums and bass, but expressive strings and other orchestral sounds would also be nice. So far I found the "FluidR3 GM.SF2" (142M), how does that compare to what's outthere? I also found alot of .sfArk sounds but it seems they are in som kind of windows-only compressed format. I downloaded the sfarkxtc_lx86.tar.gz but it complains "This file was created with sfArk V1, and this program only handles sfArk V2+ files. Use sfArk instead." on all the .sfArk-files I downloaded. Is there a linux utility that will uncompress those files? I run debian/unstable and plan on using fluidsynth and rosegarden if it matters... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] So, what can I do about copy protection on a CD?

by Mikhail Ramendik

Hello, I've finally found another CD player and tested the CD in question. It played with no distortions! Therefore, the very frequent clicks, which I thought could be just clipping, are after all the results of playing a copy protected CD on a computer with digital playback :( I ripped it with cdparanoia, bnut cdparanoia found no errors, and the sound was the same as when playing on the computer. Of course I can borrow the CD player, take the analog output and re-degitize, or search for a computer with spdif in and player with spdif out. Are there any otehr ways of tackling the protection, so I can hear the music copy that I bought on the device of my choice? Yours, Mikhail Ramendik

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] 96K

by Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen

Matthew Barber: > > ->My impression is that the more maths an audio professional knows, the > more > sure the audio professional is that higher sampling rates is a > bad thing. (unless you are recording sounds that is later going to be > downsampled a lot of course) > > Perhaps its impossible for us non-skilled-mathematicians to > understand properly why 96 kHz is a bad thing...<- > > > > One thing 96K provides is plenty of headroom for aliasing if you're > doing some kind of novel synthesis technique that tends to generate tons > of high partials... the 24 bits are nice, too. > I was actually just thinking about 96kHz for recording/playback, not processing. I guess I lost the context of the discussion. --

21 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.6.2

by Stefan Westerfeld

BEAST/BSE version 0.6.2 is available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.6/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.6/ This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound generation back-end separated from all GUI activities. Outstanding new features include support for skins, many sample file formats, MIDI file import abilities, an improved piano roll widget, the track editor which allows for easy selection of synthesisers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.6.2: * Rewrote scrollbar sizing, so tracks and parts are easily resizable * Lots of small GUI enhancements and fixes * Added CPU usage information view * Enabled tooltips on menu items * Rewrote logging, messaging and error reporting system * Fixed attack time handling in SimpleADSR * Added support for 1/32, 1/64 and 1/128 notes and quantization steps * Added skin and row highlighting support to the pattern editor * Adjusted skins (pacified some of the more disturbing ones) * Added British English translation [Gareth Owen] * Added Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] * Added Brazilian Portuguese translation [Raphael Higino] * Updated Catalan translation [Xavier Conde Rueda] * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Dutch translation [Tino Meinen] * Updated Croatian translation [Robert Sedak] * Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador] * Updated Russian translation [Alexandre Prokoudine] * Updated Portuguese translation [Duarte Loreto] * Updated Albanian translation [Laurent Dhima] * Various sfidl fixes [Stefan Westerfeld, Tim Janik] * First steps taken towards mixer infrastrukture * Fixed user configurable debugging support * Lots of adaptions to GLib/Gtk+-2.4 -- -* Stefan Westerfeld, stefan(a)space.twc.de (PGP!), Hamburg/Germany KDE Developer, project infos at http://space.twc.de/~stefan/kde *-

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