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[linux-audio-user] How to check if I have midi connection?

by Ketil Thorgersen

Sorry about this extremely naive question, but since this is my first time trying to get linux to be a DAW I stumble onto some problems of course. And my know-how is somewhat limited unfortunately. My staudio c-port (envy 24 based 8 channel card analogue + 2 channel digital from www.staudio.com with built in midi-interface) works as far as audio goes now, but I can't seem to get anything out of the midiports even though it seems to be properly recognized. Alsa Patch bay gives me a: Rawmidi: 0 - Hoontech SoundTrack Audio DSP24 MPU-401 entry at least (actually 2 - one for each midi port), but no matter which I choose in rosegarden or any other app, I get no signal in the displays. How do I find out if it's working, and how do I troubleshoot. If this is well documented somewhere and comprehensible for semidummies, I'd be happy to receive a link! Best regards Ketil

22 years

Re: [linux-audio-user] How to check if I have midi connection?

by Taybin Rutkin

I believe the ALSA status page isn't as up-to-date as it should be. I would actually rely more on annecdote than it. Taybin -----Original Message----- From: Klaus Kosten <Klaus.Kosten(a)gmx.de> Sent: Oct 19, 2003 7:27 AM To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] How to check if I have midi connection? Robert Jonsson wrote: > > Hi Klaus, > > If you need the midi ports there is a chance that you are correct. > > The audio ports though should work splendidly, support for envy24 based cards > is generally very good in Linux, and quite sure this includes the DSP2000 > (Some related reading > http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html) > > > For me, there is no other choice than switching back to Win ?98 and > > Cubase VST and forgetting completely about sound under Linux, at least > > for now. > > As I said, if you really need the midi-ports you might be right. On the other > hand, midi-ports are cheap, most mainboards come with joystick-ports > nowdays... (perhaps not the same quality though). > In general it's more of a question of what apps you intend to be using. VST is > probably a more stable and more feature rich environment. > Linux-audio is still in what "suits" like to call, early adopter stage, > meaning that it's mainly applicable to people that really want to use it and > are prepared to jump through a few hoops to do it. > But we are going to change that, right? ;) > > /Robert Hi Robert, you are completely right, and I agree with you in principle. But the DSP24 as the base of the DSP2000C has been marked as "supported" in the sound card matrix since 2 years or so, even the ST Audio homepage says it?s supported, and now suddenly the ALSA guys tell us it?s even "untested". That?s what I call bad manners, at least. I never would have bought the DSP2000C with this status. FWIW, I?m a Linux user since 1994, as a Sysadmin I have moved the network in our university institute from Novell to Linux, for everything I do with a computer I use Linux (except music), so I am well aware of the problems and am willing to be patient, but this is definitely not the way I like it. Regards Klaus -- Dr. Klaus Kosten Am Ginsterberg 13 D-52477 Alsdorf

22 years

[linux-audio-user] [ann] Test your ogg players at IRCAM's Resonances online off festival!

by Frank Barknecht

Hallo, today the IRCAM Resonances festival started. I don't know how many of these concerts will be done with Linux (maybe none...) but there are several Pd sessions, so they at least *could* be done on Linux. Below is the announcement as posted by Guillaume Boutard on pd-list. Beware, that there was/is a mistake on the Streaming-page: The real URL for the ogg-stream is http://reseaunances.ircam.fr:8000/reseaunances.ogg Currently there is some terribly beautiful music by Yoshihiro HANNO streaming... Resoffnances, Ircam Resonances online off festival, will take place from the 16th of october to the 24th. Resoffnance is a streamed-only festival. Gigs will be broadcast from an IRCAM office and will ONLY be available online. There will be no audience at IRCAM. The following artists will perform (some using PD + GEM, including me): AOKI takamasa / Jeremie BERNSTEIN / BLTZR / Guillaume BOUTARD / Sylvain CHAUVEAU / CHDH (Cyrille HENRY + Guest)/ Thierry CODUYS / Eric DAUBRESSE / DISCOM / ENCRE / EZDAC / Yoshihiro HANNO / HYPO / JASCH / JUKO / Romain KRONENBERG / MINIFER / Eric MINKKINEN / Ali MOMENI / MTBF / My Jazzy Child / Kris NAPPE / Gilbert NOUNO / Tujiko NORIKO + Lionel FERNANDEZ/ OLDINE / O. LAMM / Olivier PASQUET / Sébastien ROUX / Francois SARHAN / Kasper TOEPLITZ / Bruce TOVSKY Schedule+other details available at http://resoffnances.ircam.fr mirror at http://resoffnances.free.fr ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__

22 years

[linux-audio-user] SOS Survey

by Steve Harris

http://www.soundonsound.com/survey/ Asks what OS you use :) - Steve

22 years

[linux-audio-user] [admin] mailman upgrade...

by Joern Nettingsmeier

hi * ! music.columbia.edu have upgraded their mailman setup. douglas repetto tells me there may have been a few lost messages, so if yours has failed to show up by now, please repost. problem reports to lad(a)music.columbia.edu. btw, as a reminder: both lad and lau are now members-only. you *must* subscribe before you can post. moreover, messages containing html will now be discarded quietly without notice. best, jörn

22 years

[linux-audio-user] on ALSA's virmidi module

by Dave Phillips

Greetings: I've been working with Tim Thompson's KeyKit, trying to get it to send its output to a softsynth. I can set a variable for KeyKit that will select the ALSA rawmidi device with this syntax : export ALSA_RAWMIDI_DEVICE=hw:1,0 where hw:1,0 refers to my card1 (the ALSA virmidi module) and its first device (0). Now when I start KK (and set the Port Enabler to ALSA) I can route its output to whatever connections are available via aconnect (or the kaconnect GUI). I just wanted to say "Thanks!" to the ALSA developers for the virmidi module. I've used it with MIDI sequencers running under emulation systems such as DOSemu and Xsteem, I've used it for the TK707 virtual drum machine, and now I'm using it with KeyKit. The combination of TiMidity-as-softsynth (with the Fluid soundfont) and the virmidi module is a very powerful and flexible system for me, and I just wanted to pass on a note of appreciation for the ALSA team's work. Okay, that's all. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming... Best regards, == dp

22 years

[linux-audio-user] Frustrated, but definately not giving up.

by Christopher Mazur

Does anyone know how to get RoseGarden4 and Ardour 0.9beta5 to play nicely? I thought that's why they added the JACK master/transport master function in Beta5 and I'd really like to have both of them synced. What I'm trying to do is not unlike using SMPTE have Rosegarden act as a slave and Rosegarden to be the master. Here's what I do: 1) Fire up Jack using QjackCTL 2) Load Ardour 3) Load Rosegarden I create a sequence in Rosegarden. Then nothing happens. :) I've gotten this far, but I can't get Ardour in Sync with Rosegarden when I press play in Ardour, rosegarden isn't "chasing" or locking onto sync. I'm trying to capture my sampler which is inputted to my Delta card and have the MIDI/Audio in sync. and no, I haven't been using MTC either.. I've noticed there is a Start|Pause feature in the qjackctl front end for JackD but It doesn't seem to have any effect. Is this configuring possible, or am I mistaken and just misinterpreting what the terminologies mean? If it's in fact just ardour and/or rosegarden has anyone been successful in syncing a MIDI sequencer and multi-track audio editor (MUSE/Audacity perhaps?) Regards, Chris

22 years

[linux-audio-user] please excuse my IDIOCY!!!

by Aaron Trumm

sometimes I can be such a damn cone head. I've sent this twice, letting it be in html form which I think will get rejected I hope y'all don't get three copies of it. -- Hello all - here's something I'm having a bit of trouble with, I thought y'all might know (hell it might've been in that huge mp3/ogg thread and I just missed it) I need to be able to rip hi res mp3s (320kbs) for submission to certain liscensing agencies (they insist) - but I haven't been able to figure out how to do this on my linux box. I know lame is the main backend - but I had some kind of trouble a couple weeks back either locating it or finding detailed info about it or something (I'm gonna go back and do this homework again), and then of course there's the matter of a front end, which I don't necessarily care about :) (but I remember not being able to figure out the proper command line commands or something) I had much success doing 128kbs mp3s - grip does it, audacity will just change a wav to an mp3, that's awesome, but they don't seem to deal with higher resolution than 128 - something made me think it's just not happening yet in linux and that I need to just rip them on my windows machine...was I right about this? I hope I didn't just miss someone talking about this on that long thread :) --------------------------------------------------------------- Houston Poetry Slam Team www.houstonpoetryslam.com NQuit Records www.nquit.com ---------------------------------------------------------------

22 years

[linux-audio-user] Updating GTK2 on RH 8.0

by Adam King

Hi all, New LAU member here. I'm having a problem with terminatorX 3.81 on my Red hat 8.0 box and Alex (tX author) has suggested upgrading GTK2 to the latest available version. I've downloaded gtk2, gtk2-devel and gtk-engines from Red hat's website - but the dependencies are driving me crazy. Does anyone know a good apt repository with up to date GTK2 packages? Cheers - Adam

22 years

[linux-audio-user] Sound Library?

by Juhana Sadeharju

Hello. Regarding the recent discussion, would anyone else be interested in creating a free sound library? Both the instrumental sounds and the sound effects. How to organize such a project? From my experience the most difficult part is in getting the equipment together. We need to match the people who have the equipment (or money) and the people who are willing to record the sounds. (I'm only in the second group, unfortunately.) We need -Microphone -Portable recorder and/or a sound-proof recording studio -Music instruments Microphone could be of any quality if that is only what we have. The portable recorder as well need not be a quality device if that is all we have. This is so because it is better to get the project started now. I have a cheap stereo microphone. Anyone could borrow me a portable MiniDisc recorder? Anything which has stereo microphone input? We need recording guides for how and what to record. I have already sound effect catalogs of Sound Ideas so the "what" should not be a problem. We archive the raw recordings even for the instrument sounds, because different group of people can then make proper synth sound files out of the raw recordings. For sound effects we take the modern approach by assuming that the effects can be postprocessed: for example, we don't arrange and mix "horses, men, swords, fighting" sound effects, but instead, we assume the end-users are cabable of arranging the fight scenes theirself. Similarly we assume the end-users have full environmental acoustics processing tools: for example, a passing car can be made with doppler and suitable acoustics. So, with the sound library we could provide a 3D geometry editing software with 3D acoustics: 3D scene + animation. Best regards, Juhana

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