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[linux-audio-user] how to invest sensible to get more stability for JACK

by Hartmut Z Noack

Hello, i am working quite intense on lerning ARDOUR by doing. Using its beta i exrerience some bugs that are more or less tolerablein such great an App for no cost (crashes when trying some adventurous routing-stuff, some lesser gui-issues). After all there are only 2 really serious problems: 1.)Importing .wav-files fails too often (regardless if these files are written by Samplitude, Audacity, rezound or even Ardour itself) How is that on your setups out there? 2.)Many xruns, (some after 2 seconds, others after 2 mins, mostly within 40 secs or so - sometimes i had testrecordings of unbroken 10 minutes) I use Ardour on SuSE 8.2 pro with jack0.74 as root only on runlevel 3 in Windowmaker, all networking is off, no kdeinit is running. System is: Athlon XP 1800, 512MB DDR, 60GB Samsung HD/IDE, Terratec EWX 24/96 I think about wether i buy another IDE-HD and spread the installation on 2 disks to get more bandwith or getting another 512 RAM to let Jack run without HD or investing in a SCSI-HD for installation and Projects and using the IDE-Disk for Archiving only. What would you prefer, how are your Experiences about this Bandwithissues? Thank you

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] drums++

by Robert Jonsson

Hi all, This appeared on freshmeat a while ago. http://dpp.mikekohn.net/ I don't know if this guy is a reader so I thought I would mention it :) It seems it is a programming language specifically for scripting drum-sequences for midi ! That seems like one specialized language :) I'm putting it down as another cool thing I need to try... /Robert

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] alsa driver install help

by Jamie Lutch

i am trying to install the alsa 0.96 driver with vxpocket support according to the instructions here: http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Digigram& card=VXpocket+V2&chip=&module=vxpocket I am in suse 8.2, kernel 2.4.20-4GB I have the soundcore module installed under the 'quick install' section I was able to create the directory and unzip the tar there. but I get stuck when executing the following line: ./configure --with-cards=vxpocket --with-sequencer=yes;make;make install after doing a bunch of checks, shell returns the following: checking for kernel version... The file /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/build/include/linux/version.h does not exist Please, install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel sources (default is /usr/src/linux). so I tried it with --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux and --with-kernel=/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/build, neither worked. At this point, gave up and went looking for a i586 rpm, and installed the following: alsa-0.9.6-0.pm.0.i586.rpm alsa-tools-0.9.6-0.pm.0.i586.rpm alsa-lib-0.9.6-1.i586.rpm when I installed the alsa-lib rpm, it said there were some conflicts with the first one, so i ran it using --force The vxpocket should apparently be installable thru yasT at this point, but there still is no module for the vxpocket anywhere. in addition, alsaconf doesnt run, a window pops up, but then it shuts down. at this point, I went back to the alsa page, and continued to compile from source. the libraries installed ok, but when I wen to install the alsa-utils, it starts, but gets an error, and shell says: configure: error: this pacage requires a curses library make: *** No targets specified and no makefile file found. Stop. make: *** No rule to make target 'install'. Stop. this is getting really frustrating! any help is appreciated thanks! jamie

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] Small alsaplayer issue

by Mark Knecht

Hi, I'm noting this evening that on a newer RPWL CD (Stock) with no dead time between tracks that alsaplayer is making a small, somewhat frustrating dead spot between each track while I'm listening. Has anyone else seen this, or am I somehow not setting up something that would fix this? This happens with or without using Jack. The driver is a new, unreleased HDSP 9652 driver if that might make a difference. Alsa is 0.9.6 under Gentoo. Thanks, Mark

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] Fw: [MMM] fwd: Call for Sound Works

by RTaylor

Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:40:41 EDT From: czhang23(a)aol.com To: MakeMicroMusic(a)yahoogroups.com Subject: [MMM] fwd: Call for Sound Works http://www.mediascot.org/drift/call/sound.html Resonant Cities: Call for Sound Works New Media Scotland seeks sound works for Drift, an exploration of sound art and experimental music which comprises live events, radio broadcasts, moving image and publications. We are seeking sound works for 'Resonant Cities': Internet radio streaming that explore the sonic identity of our surrounding space and that engage with the fragmented 'noise' of the city soundscape: people, traffic, communication intrusions, mobile phones, radio traffic, city wildlife, buildings... We are particularly interested in audio works which involve one or several of the following ideas or processes: - Acoustic Ecology - Acousmatics - Phonography - Sonic research - Radio art, Internet radio - Microsound - Lowercase sound - Internet communication media and audio streaming - Electronic communities - Artists' software for sound and music - Sound work developed using open source processes and principles - Generative sound - Sound archives - Spoken word / oral history - Field recordings - The re-purposing / representing of existing analogue sound recordings, such as amateur recordings, scientific recordings, and accidental, lost or abandoned recordings The works selected by the Drift team will then be curated into themed streams that will be available via this web site. Our intention is to expand the audience for the work, encourage appreciation of sound art, and broaden access to a genre which is too often labelled as esoteric and inaccessible. We cannot pay a fee for this opportunity, but we will facilitate the broadcast of your work. Eligibility - Open to artists, musicians, producers in the UK and across the globe. DEADLINE: 31 OCTOBER 2003 --- Hanuman Zhang, musical mad scientist "Welcome and explore and inquire into everything, new or old, that comes your way, and then build your own music on whatever your inner life has been able to take in and offer you back again." - Henry Cowell "Music is by no means like the other arts, namely a copy of the Ideas, but a copy of the will itself, the objectivity of which are the Ideas. For this reason, the effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence." - Schopenhauer, _The World as Will and Representation_ "His music, far from being in the background of my life, was in the foreground. It was he as a musician who accomplished what I dreamed of, and I followed as well as I could with the inferior power of words. The ear is purer than the eye, which reads only relative meaning into words. Whereas the distillation of experience into pure sound, a state of music, is timeless and absolute." -Anais Nin on her brother Joaquin Nin-Culmell "...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ... improvisation is about a constant change." - Steve Beresford improvisation: "a process of liberation, a working around the assumptions that define our civilization, and the results are open-ended." - John Berndt Improvisation resists documentation - it celebrates the ephemeral, it perversely reminds us every second that everything dies. Much of the "modern Westernized world" isn't ready for this kind of news. > >"Any sufficiently advanced music is indistinguishable from noise" > >(after Arthur C. Clarke's aphorism that any sufficiently advanced > >technology is indistinguisable from magic.)" - John Chalmers, in email response to the quote _The Difference between Music and Noise is all in your Head_ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/5lJolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> [MMM info]------------------------------------------------------ More MMM music files are at http://www.microtonal.org/music.html ------------------------------------------------------[MMM info] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] re : emi 26

by nick phillips

hi there, i'm using debian sid, kernel 2.4.22 (just grabbed it yesterday). i was running the stock debian 2.4.18bf.24 kernel, perhaps i'll try to go back to compile against that one. but i figured the emi 2|6 loading was handled by the kernel itself after 2.4.19 so i would be able to get it work without alsa (which i've never had much luck installing) on a 2.4.22 kernel. any help is always appreciated! best, nick > On 08/26/03 18:06:00, nick phillips wrote: > > so everything looks like it's working great, but i can't get any > sound > > output from anything - xmms, pd, audacity, etc. xmms complains of > > 'permission denied', but i tried 'chmod 666 /dev/dsp' to no avail. i > > also disabled all sound servers (eds, artsd) to make sure no program > was > > claiming the soundcard, and did an 'fuser /dev/dsp', nothing shows > up. > > most other programs complain that "/dev/dsp: no such device exists." > am > > i missing a step? should the emi be outputting through /dev/dsp or > some > > other device? > > What distro and what kernel? > We are currently experiencing the same problem with ALL sound cards on > Mandrake Cooker. Could you test this on any other cards without > changing the > alsa setup or kernel? > It would be VERY helpful for us to know that this is a kernel problem > and not > an alsa problem. > > Thanks,

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] yast newbie question

by Jamie Lutch

slightly off topic, but I am configuring this for audio, so here goes. I installed suse 8.2 to a partiotion that was too small, after I realized it, i expanded the sizer of it using partition magic, and it worked, linux still botts and everything. using the yast partition utility, it shows the new size,(until I try to edit it, it shows the old size) It is incorrect in the lower left-hand corner where it shows the mounted volume space. I also keep getting error messages reporting the old size when I go to install new programs, and if I try to go adjust the size of the partition using yast, it reports the old size. It seems like there would be a really elementary fix for this. thanks, jamie

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] question re: emi26

by nick phillips

greetings list, i'm attempting to get my emagic usb emi 2|6 card working with a debian linux install on a powerbook g3. i've recompiled the current kernel for emi 2|6 support as a loadable module, and it loads fine -- all the green lights are on to indiciate it's working ok. i also loaded the usb audio module, soundcore, and removed the module for internal soundcard support since i don't really plan on using it. so everything looks like it's working great, but i can't get any sound output from anything - xmms, pd, audacity, etc. xmms complains of 'permission denied', but i tried 'chmod 666 /dev/dsp' to no avail. i also disabled all sound servers (eds, artsd) to make sure no program was claiming the soundcard, and did an 'fuser /dev/dsp', nothing shows up. most other programs complain that "/dev/dsp: no such device exists." am i missing a step? should the emi be outputting through /dev/dsp or some other device? i tried the alsa route, but apparently the alsa modules don't install against the 2.4.22 kernel? i get a bunch of errors about undefined symbols in the usb audio section, everything else seems to compile ok. so i guess i'll try the OSS route if possible.. thanks in advance for any help, best, nick

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] digital i/o

by luis jure

hello friends, i'm searching for a card with just digital i/o to connect to an external converter. budget is critical. one possibility we've thought of is the dio2448, but i've seen also the edirol UA-1D USB: http://www.edirol.com/products/info/ua1d.html i couldn't find it in the list supported by alsa, but perhaps it's because it's still new. any comments on this? any other suggestion in that price range? thank you. lj --

21 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] MusE: Jack or Alsa

by BartonBosch＠aol.com

I have just installed the Planet on my linux partition and have started in to reading the jack and alsa user documentation. I want to do some basic composition and aranging in midi. I was thinking that I would use MusE with Fluidsynth and various soundfonts. At this point I am not trying to input any external signals from guitars, hardware synths, mics, etc. I noticed that MusE gives an option to use Alsa only or to use Jack (which I assume would be in combination with Alsa as a driver). Any opinions whether it is worth going to the trouble of learning to use jack with MusE to import, modify, create and playback midi tracks? Thanks, Barton

21 years, 10 months

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