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[linux-audio-user] SB LIve for external MIDI

by lanas＠t-online.de

Hi all, I'd like to setup my machine so it's possible to use it to do some musical work using a sequencer/composer and a MIDI keyboard. I have a Sound Blaster Live! card, a Yamaha PSR keyboard, and plan to use the MuSE software package. The OS is a new Linux system built from scratch (kernel 2.4.20, XFree 4.3.0, latest qT, GTK+, and hopefully latest ALSA and needed utilities). Can I do this kind of musical work with this setup ? I'm asking this because at the top of the page of the ALSA support for the Live! card we can read the following: "MIDI on SB live drive not working properly." Does this means that it's not presently possible to use MIDI with a Live! card and Linux ? Any suggestions and hints appreciated, Cheers, Alain

22 years, 2 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] pcmcia audio, nothing is supported????!!!

by alex dray

thanks for the response brian, and my own googling seems to back up what you say, but i still can't quite believe it...hammerfall is the ONLY pcmcia audio card supported under linux??? that seems hard to swallow...there must be others surely...i just need a stereo in/out with a high bit rate (i would settle for 20 bits). Dropping 1000$ for the hammerfall breakout box and cardbus is just out of my price range. No one else has any suggestions....that would be a rare failure in the linux community, but i guess that the whole point of this list is that audio under linux is still fairly behind...anyway... >From: Brian Redfern <bredfern(a)calarts.edu> >Reply-To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu >To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu >Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] indigo linux >Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:36:40 -0700 (PDT) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from roar.music.columbia.edu ([128.59.195.116]) by >mc2-f36.law16.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Fri, 18 >Apr 2003 09:38:07 -0700 >Received: from roar.music.columbia.edu (IDENT:mailman@localhost >[127.0.0.1])by roar.music.columbia.edu (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id >h3IGlAQ24769;Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:47:10 -0400 >Received: from muse.calarts.edu (muse.calarts.edu [198.182.157.5])by >roar.music.columbia.edu (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h3IGkdQ24746for ><linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu>; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:46:39 -0400 >Received: from localhost (bredfern@localhost)by muse.calarts.edu >(8.11.6+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h3IGaeG04540for ><linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu>; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:36:40 -0700 >(PDT) >X-Message-Info: UZmYcfFpTCewzfqvyl1d15R59mlxBfYY >In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F74UZq3dUO0a4D00006f4f(a)hotmail.com> >Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0304180934530.3824-100000(a)muse.calarts.edu> >Sender: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu >Errors-To: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu >X-BeenThere: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 >Precedence: bulk >List-Help: ><mailto:linux-audio-user-request@music.columbia.edu?subject=help> >List-Post: <mailto:linux-audio-user@music.columbia.edu> >List-Subscribe: ><http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user>,<mailto:linux-audio-user-request@music.columbia.edu?subject=subscribe> >List-Id: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user.music.columbia.edu> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user>,<mailto:linux-audio-user-request@music.columbia.edu?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/> >X-Original-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:36:40 -0700 (PDT) >Return-Path: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Apr 2003 16:38:07.0371 (UTC) >FILETIME=[E4061DB0:01C305C8] > >I believe there's not, the last time I looked at the alsa soundcard >matrix, it says its possible to have a driver but it hasn't been written >yet. I was told to get one myself, but went with the midiman quattro usb >instead cause its well supported under alsa, but the only pcmcia audio >card for linux that's supported is the hammerfall. > >http://www.brianredfern.org > >On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, alex dray wrote: > > > > > > > hey there does anyone know of drivers for the echo indigo (event laptop > > pcmcia card) under linux? > > > > thanks > > alex > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

22 years, 2 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] pcmcia audio, nothing is supported????!!!

by Marc Titinger

Hi ! have you had a look on the Digigram vxpocket series ? Alsa support is fine at least for 16bit modes (some clacs occur in 24 bit mode, but this shouldn't be difficult to fix), I'm about to submit some driver fixes for monitoring support aswell. Best regards, Marc Titinger. > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Julien Patrick Claassen [mailto:julien@c-lab.de] > Envoyé : samedi 19 avril 2003 01:46 > À : linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu > Objet : Re: [linux-audio-user] pcmcia audio, nothing is > supported????!!! > > > Hi! > Yes there are others. At least I think so. There is the > maestro series. > Although I must admit, they are not very good (at least the > smaller models). I > said I think, because I'm not sure if the maestro is a pcmcia > (I've seen it in > quite a number of laptops though). > Kindest regards > Julien > > Julien Patrick Claassen > jclaassen(a)gmx.de > julien(a)c-lab.de > http://www.geocities.com/jjs_home > > SBS C-LAB > Fuerstenallee 11 > 33102 Paderborn > > Phone: (+49) 5251 60 6060 > Fax: (+49) 5251 60 6065 > > www.c-lab.de > >

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] How to use Sound Blaster Live! Sound Fonts (user banks)

by Nick Tsocanos

How do you use user fonts on an SBLive? I can load GM/GS fine and use them, but what if I load a user bank to bank 1? How do I sequence to it?

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Linux and hardware samplers

by James Greenwood

Hi, I want to get Linux and a hardware sampler talking to each other more effectively. Specifically the following: 1. Transfer individual samples between the PC and sampler 2. Access and back up project files saved by the sampler 3. Possibly create a hard-disk partition in the PC which the sampler sees as a SCSI drive The sampler is an Emu ESI-2000 and the interfacing would probably have to be via SCSI because that's all it offers. For the 1st aim, I did find out that the sampler supports SMDI, a protocol for transferring samples over SCSI supported by various sampler manufacturers including Emu and Yamaha. Is there any Linux end-user software that implements this protocol? Or another way of doing it? The only Linux software I have found so far that supports SMDI is OpenSMDI, which implements the SMDI protocol as a free shared library for Linux and Windows. From what I can see there is no front-end on the Linux version: http://home.t-online.de/home/chrisnowak/opensmdi/ If there is no alternative, I wonder how hard it would be to create a simple command-line interface using this? For the 2nd aim I want to read ESI's file system to access individual projects or 'banks'. Currently, all I've managed to do is save banks to Zip disks, and then use the Unix 'dd' command to make images of entire Zip disks. But I can't mount the Zip disks (or disk image files) from Linux, or access individual files or 'banks' within them, because the sampler uses a propietary file system. I believe aims 1 and 2 are both necessary because the SMDI protocol is fairly limited in the sample parameters it supports, so in order to capture all parameters (such as filter settings) and cleanly save whole projects in one go, you have to use the sampler's 'Save Bank' facility rather than transferring individual samples. So is there any Linux software that can read this proprietary file system? The only free (as in beer) software I have found is a Windows program called ESi-Win. Apparently it lets you transfer individual samples over SCSI to and from ESI samplers as well. http://www.simplydata.co.uk/ESi-Win/ This software actually solves both aims 1 and 2, but it's Windows-only. I briefly tried to run it under Wine, but it didn't work straight away. Has anyone got it working under Wine? Has anyone seen it running at all? Both OpenSMDI and ESi-Win seem to be projects that progressed to a reasonably functional alpha or beta level but are no longer maintained - presumably because their authors sold their samplers. I'm beginning to reluctantly wonder if I should do the same... although it seems a shame to do so purely because of issues with file formats etc. Anyway the final problem arises because, even if I solved all the above, I am still reliant on the Zip drive to save and restore banks directly from and to the sampler. This is not good from the point of view of reliablility and cost, especially as I undertand Iomega don't make the SCSI version of the Zip drive any more. To solve this without buying an expensive SCSI hard drive, I wondered if it is possible to create a partition on an IDE drive in the PC that the sampler sees as an external SCSI drive? (Preferably with no possibility of the sampler overwriting other partitions on the drive ;-) The sampler has an option "Ignore SCSI device with ID x", which according to its manual is intended to allow both a PC and the sampler to be masters on the same SCSI chain and share a SCSI drive. But in the setup they describe, the shared drive is a separate box in the middle - can it be done without this? >From what I understand about SCSI, doing this would at least require a SCSI card that has the capability to be 'SCSI target' to another master device, as well as being a master device itself. So, for what it's worth, my SCSI card is an Adaptec 2906 and I'm not sure if it has that capability or not. What about other options? I could get rid of the sampler altogether - then to get the same number of outputs I'd need to upgrade my soundcard - but anyway, what Linux software is there that could replace a hardware sampler while probably retaining a sampler-like way of working? Finally, I suppose I could upgrade the hardware sampler. I guess that more modern hardware samplers integrate better with PCs in general. But are their protocols and file formats any more open and therefore potentially more inter-operable with Linux, or are you just as locked in by proprietary formats and protocols as before? Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas welcome. I can't be the only person who's wants to do this! Thanks James -- James Greenwood | jamesg(a)ukshells.co.uk If you put in the work, the results will look after themselves -- Nick Leeson's mother

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] :: copyleftmedia news :: typos, vsound and madonna ::

by iriXx

(.... just some news on the Vsound archive for those who are interested - m~ ) :: copyleftmedia news :: greetings all, a quick blurb from copyleftmedia on the weird and wonderful happenings in the copyright (and left?) world... firstly, my apologies for yet another brief outage on the Vsound page. no - the site was not down! and if this ever happens, i promise that i will put up a page explaining when and why. thanks to those who kindly pointed out to me that i had oopsed in spelling the link to the Vsound pages on my news page... i guess thats what comes of late night blurry-eyed blogging...! the *official* Vsound page and links to all the mirrors will be maintained at: http://www.copyleftmedia.org.uk/vsound.htm for anyone who doesnt already know, madonna made a rather vain attempt to stop P2P users from swapping tracks of her new album American Life. she released her own 'dummy' mp3s on to KaZaA, which contain Our Lady herself saying 'what the fuck do you think you're doing?' and then silence... unfortunately this has proved too good to be true for remixers... further details on http://www.copyleftmedia.org.uk/news.htm - my archive of Madonna remixes has begun at http://www.iriXx.org/madonna/ please email me at miriam(a)copyleftmedia.org.uk if you know of any more or have links to your own tracks (dont send the files directly, i cant afford any more space to host them! ;-)... also in this weeks news: details of the FIPR meeting 'Scrambling for Safety 6', to be held at the LSE, Wednesday 14 May. RSVP information and background reading is available at http://www.fipr.org/sfs6.html best, miriam -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL .::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::. gnupg key ID: AEB7A31E

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Fwd: Glame 1.0.0 released.

by laurent georget

(Forwarded from Richard Guenther ) Glame 1.0.0 is the first release of the stable series 1.0 that will be the last Gnome 1.x based one. Compared to the 0.6 series improvements were made to multitrack recording and speed. You can download this release as source tarball from our SourceForge project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/glame/ or http://glame.sourceforge.net/ Richard.

22 years, 2 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] [OT] any Xemacs users here ?

by eviltwin69＠cableone.net

Dave, I've been using emacs (different flavors) for years. Xemacs for the last 4. What do you want to know? Jan -----Original Message----- From: "linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu" <linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu> on behalf of "Dave Phillips" <dlphilp(a)bright.net> Sent: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:07:12 -0400 To: "LAU Mail" <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu> Subject: [linux-audio-user] [OT] any Xemacs users here ? Greetings: I'd like to start learning more about emacs, and the Xemacs package has been recommended. I've installed it without problems, but I have some questions for an experienced user. Can anyone on this list help out ? I'm especially interested in using it with Common Music and Csound. Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Compiling PD

by Luke Yelavich

Hi folks Just wondering whether anybody has managed to get PD to compile on Slackware 9.1 with tcl/tk installed, as well as the XFree86-devel package? Thanks Luke.

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-user] Compiling PD

by Luke Yelavich

Frank Barknecht wrote: > Pd currently doesn't work with tk-8.4 so you need to use tk 8.3 Thanks Frank, all fine now. Luke.

22 years, 2 months

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