Greetings:
Once again I've updated the Linux soundapps sites. All sites are
current and can be accessed via these URLs :
http://linux-sound.org (USA)
http://www.linuxsound.at (Europe)
http://linuxsound.jp/ (Japan)
Many thanks to Frank Barknecht for his assistance with linuxsound.at.
Many thanks also to all my site providers: the mirrors have been donated
by their respective owners as a service to the community, for which I am
most grateful.
Enjoy !
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
Congratulations to Dave Phillips for outstanding round up of softsynths
in May 2003 Linux Journal.
Now if we all voted with e-mails to Linux Journal, perhaps we could
influence the editors to open up a monthly column on audio with Dave on
the masthead.
Again, many thanks and fine job Dave.
Best wishes,
Lloyd R. Prentice
Hello!
Is there a soft synth for Linux that can be on a par with Gigastudio,
preferrably even be able to use Gigastudio samples/instruments?
(For now fluidsynth works fine for me, but I'm thinking of a possible
future. If I start on Linux, I want to be bale to go all teh way to pro
level on Linux as well).
--
Sincerely yours, Mikhail Ramendik
Greetings:
I'm writing to the lists in the hope of finding someone who can advise
me on contacting someone in charge of www.linuxsound.at in Austria. The
former contact was Georg Hitsch, I've written to him but as yet have
received no reply. The site is still on-line, but for some reason I can
longer log in to update it. Thus only the US and Japanese sites have
been updated recently.
Any assistance will be vastly appreciated.
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
Currently listening to: King Sunny Ade, "Ja Funmi"
Hello!
I want to work with fluidsynth, researden, etc. Seems like I need to
install jack.
But, I use KDE, and it installs arts.
Is there a way to make them work together, and without an increase in
latency at that&
--
Sincerely yours, Mikhail Ramendik
I would like purchase a very simple and straight forward USB<->SPDIF
converter and do full duplex streaming (i.e. record sound from SPDIF output
device, process the sound in Linux and play it back to SPDIF device in
real-time).
Would LOVE to know if anyone can recommend any of such devices (esp. from
personal experience, for example Edirol/Roland UA-1D or Opcode DatPort
appear to be such devices - only do they work on Linux...)
USB<->SPDIF converter *must* work in *full duplex* mode (with ALSA generic
USB driver or any other if such is available for Linux).
If you do have something to recommend, then I would like to stretch your
patience and ask you a question regarding the device/model of your choice:
considering, that USB<->SPDIF converter is capable of recording SPDIF
signal - I presume that it is capable of syncing to incoming input (i.e.
otherwise clicks would occur).
Also, given that the device is capable of playing to SPDIF device - it is
assumable that USB<->SPDIF converter has its own internal clock (i.e. not
recording anything, just playing signal back to say a DAT machine which will
need to sync to the signal produced by USB<->SPDIF converter, etc.).
Would I then be correct in thinking that if such is the case - then there
would be some way of controlling whether to use internal clock or to sync to
external signal - or would be such decision made automatically whenever
deciding to record - USB<->SPDIF converter will lock to incoming signal (in
such a case - it is important to know it, because problems could arrise if
for instance single DAT machine was used as AD/DA box *and* set to sync to
incoming signal - this way DAT machine would try to sync to USB<->SPDIF
converter, whilst USB<->SPDIF converter would be trying to sync to DAT
machine... pitch shift anyone?)
Kind regards,
Leon.
Hi,
is it possible to use an external mixer and have some multitrack mixing
app react on what I do with the knobs?
I am running alsa 0.9.2 and the 2.5.66 kernel. It's an Acer laptop with
one pcmcia slot, two USB ports, one parport and one 'monitor' port
Any suggestions for a particular device/app setup?
Thanks a lot.
Jan
> From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:37:05 -0700, dan(a)easley.com wrote:
> > I'm a lurker, currently confined to ...200 MHz Pentium II
> > with 32 megs RAM running Win95 and Cakewalk 8. I'm sure I'll be happy with
> > whatever latency I happen to get when I buy the new computer and put linux on
> it.
>
> Hmm... not to discourage you but that CPU is not going to be capable of
> running the first version of the mastering tool. Its designed to use
> linear filters, which are *very* expeensive in CPU time.
>
> Later it will probably be able to (optionally) use normal IIR filters
> which should run OK on slower machines.
No, no - I can't get anything to run properly on that machine, and don't expect
to. I'd master on my Marantz cassette recorder first! I look forward to trying
out the system once I'm into 1+GHz proc. speeds.
Rev. Dan Easley
Burnt Possum Poets
Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Hello!
I have tried to run fluidsynth-1.0.1 on my Linux system with an ES1371
sound card (i want to attach a MIDI keyboard to the sound card's midi
input). But it said that there's no device /dev/midi .
There indeed is none, but midi0, midi1, midi2, midi3, midi00, midi01,
midi02, midi03 are present.
I tried:
ln -s /dev/midi0 /dev/midi
but this did not help - fluidsynth still says that no device named
/dev/midi is available.
Is there any way for me to use fluid with my PC's midi input?
--
Sincerely yours, Mikhail Ramendik
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:40:40 +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> Steve Harris wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:56:16PM +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >
> >>>There will be 3 band compression, linear parametric EQ and a lookahead
> >>>limiter, maybe also a learning limiter.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Is that called time?
> >
> >
> > ?
>
> >>>maybe also a learning limiter.
>
> :)
Ahh, yes time, but also working out a UI for it. Its kinda optional, so I
doubt it will make 0.1.
> >If your willing to work on the UI, then maybe the thing to do is to strip
> >it down and rebuild the UI code. I can stick the current code in a public
> >CVS server somewhere (its currently on a private server), but its pretty
> >scary in its current state.
>
> I have no qualms about learning SDL unless you really think it is a bad
> idea. The thing is *learning* it but I am willing to drop (almost)
> everything and focus on it for a while.
Well, theres almost nothing to SDL (well the parts I used anyway), I just
dont think its appropriate, I ended up writing widget code for the sliders
and stuff, which is why they suck so much. In retrosect just using GTK
would have been easier.
> If you want I can give you ftp access to djcj.org and you can put it
> there in a semi/private place.
The intention wasn't that it be especially private, I just didn't think
anyone else would want to work on it. I originally wanted to get beta bug
reports from a small number of people so I could handle the feedback, but
I dont think that will be a problem now.
> >I have no particular feelings about what toolkit, as long as its C, and
> >preferably has working vertical faders, the ones in GTK-1.x are
> >inconvienient.
>
> I willing to go with the current stuff and work from there. It may be
> that it needs a complete redesign but I think it would be good to get
> something out sooner rather than later.
Thats a good point. The current state is that I'm halfway through
refactoring the UI code to make some of the compressor controls rotary, so
its impossible to tell what its doing at the moment. The question is
wether its quicker to rescue the SDL code or replace it with GTK code or
similar.
Is there anyone else who wants to work on this? If not I'l just leave the
code where it is for now and give Patrick a login on the machine. If there
are a few people I'l have to move it to sourceforge or something, but I
dont really want to do that cos I think theres going to be some major
structural work needs doing.
- Steve