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[linux-audio-user] Mandrake Audio Update

by Austin Acton

Hey, I just wanted to thank you all again for the great response I got to my totally uncalled-for survey. The volunteers and the staff at Mandrake have taken your requests to heart! We have a small task force packaging all the rpms you've requested. Most are done, and hopefully the rest will be finished by 9.1 release time (two months away). I gotta say, ardour took me two DAYS to package in an easy-to-use form, but I think it's pretty good. We've added a lot of alsa and jack utils that weren't there before, some you hadn't even asked for. Also, we've prepared a multimedia kernel with pre-emptable, low-latency, capabilities, and o_stream patches. It may be hard to get the company to include this in the 'main' distro, but it will definitely be in the contributor's section (that's where most of the audio software is anyway). As well, the installer team (Pixel) has added full USB audio detection, and a graphical setup tool for soundcards and sound system (OSS/alsa) to the installer. It's a bit unpolished as of today, but we've got two months to perfect it. Beta 3 was a bit rocky, but if any of you have a spare machine or a spare partition, I'd invite you to try beta 4 when it's released (two weeks maybe?). Should be a multimedia masterpiece. :-) Again, thanks for your help. It really counts. Let me know if you have any more questions or requests. Austin -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com) homepage: www.groundstate.ca

22 years, 4 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Just how bad is USB audio?

by Frank Barknecht

Hi, I've got my first laptop, yeah. Problem is the sound. The internal Intel-chip works, but that's about it, it sounds horrible. So I think I'll need a USB soundcard or maybe PCMCIA? But I don't want to spend too much (i.e. no RME) So what could you recommend in the range 100-200 EUR? I would prefer something with Midi, but I could go without. I need stereo in and out, though. Any ideas? Do the Audiotrak MAYA USB boxes work (well) with Linux? ciao -- Frank Barknecht

22 years, 4 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux multimedia distributions

by linuxmedia4＠netscape.net

>Ismael Valladolid Torres schrieb: >> I am interested in current Linux distributions oriented to multimedia >> and more specifically audio (professionally or hobbyist oriented). >> >> I have located this ones: >> >> Demudi - http://www.demudi.org/ >> Planet CCRMA - http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ >> >> I have heard about AGNULA and Rehmudi (a RedHat based Demudi, which in >> turn is based in Debian?) but I haven't been successful locating >> information about them. > Frank Barknetch Wrote: >AGNULA has two parts, Remudi and Demudi. Remudi uses the rpm-package >manager, Demudi uses the Debian packages manager dpkg. > >Planet CCRMA is a collection of rpm packages for audio software, not a >distribution (I think). As a long time Debian user I sometimes use the >Demudi distribution as a kind of Planet-collection for sound packages that >haven't found their way into debian yet. If you are looking for a completly new distribution, I have to tell you that I have been very pleased with SuSE 8.1. It seems to have a good variety of Music/Sound apps and always delivers what it says it will. My sound card configured without a hitch (Soundblaster Live! 5.1). Except for the program "Muse", I can't think of any other Music/Sound programs that didn't work they way they were supposed to. Good Luck, Rocco __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

22 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Planet CCRMA

by Jlawrence＠tacenergy.com

I've just downloaded the planet ccrma materials and I will be installing them over the weekend. I'm curious about the applications contained in the package: 1. Is there a way to just install everything in one swoop, or do I have to rpm -Uvh xxx.rpm every time on all packages? 2. What about packages (movie and sound players come to mind) that already exist in some form in a standard RH 8.0 install? Will installing over them confuse the situation? 3. I'm doing this on a Dell Laptop. Am I doomed to failure? Thanks, Josh Lawrence

22 years, 4 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] ALSAModularSynth

by manuel.op.de.coul＠eon-benelux.com

Good, looking forward to it. >BTW I have a vintage digital piano at home (Yamaha PF2000) which >offers a lot of different Scales. I have not seen this interesting >feature in any other digital piano since then. You could try to retune it with Scala via MIDI. I suspect it supports XG sysex data, so you can do SET SYNTH 108. Otherwise I could add support in Scala if you send me the sysex codes for tuning. Manuel

22 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] ALSAModularSynth

by manuel.op.de.coul＠eon-benelux.com

I think it's a nice idea to add support for scale files to the M_quantizer class (and remove the 12-tET restriction). See http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/scl_format.html Manuel

22 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Uhm, low latency?

by felipe

Hi, I was stupidly sure I was running a lowlatency kernel just because my /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency was set to 1. I used to start jack with something like $: jackd -R -d alsa -d opl3sa2 -r 44100 and I was surprised by the great number of xruns. Now I tried "jackstart" as root and... what? This kernel does not have capabilities enabled?! I read some posts by people who got lowlatency in their laptops only after enabling ACPI... Could this be true for some PC's too? Has anyone faced this inconvenience? I've completely disabled the Power Management support. My box: Pentium III katmai 192 MB Ram Sound Card Yamaha opl3sa2 hdparm -t /dev/hda -> 64MB in 4.21 secs = 15.21 MB/sec Debian woody + gcc3.2 + DeMuDi ALSA 0.9rc6 Kernel 2.4.20-ck2 (almost: it's a 2.4.20 vanilla with Con Koliva's lowlatency, preemtpible and arcangeli's VM patches) Can't think of anything relevant, any idea? Thank you felipe -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Vuoi dare nuova vita ai colori della tua casa? L'imbianchino adatto a te � su QxService! Ridai vita alla tua casa cliccando qui!! Clicca qui: http://adv2.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=841&d=3-2

22 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] trident

by Alexandre Prokoudine

Greetings, Where can I get information, whether the ugly SiS 7018 (Trident) supports MIDI inside? There's nothing about MIDI at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=SiS&card… I've just got the beast running with ALSA drivers, but without MIDI yet :-( Thank you in advance! -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: avp(a)altlinux.org

22 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] How about creating a sound-patch repository?

by Robert Jonsson

Hi all, The topic of the day is softsynts! I've got this trouble with all softsynths available today under linux: -there aren't nearly as many patches available as I'd like. Some of them don't have any patches at all. Now, this could be due to good reason, a lot of the synths are rather young. - patches may not be supported yet - patch formats change all the time making it hard to keep up - ... Some synths do seem to have very good patch systems, some of them come with a few patches, some several... Oftenly though, the patches are more proof of concept or tutorial types than finished, usable, sounds. Anyway, in general I think the available patches are way to few! Speaking for myself I only have very limited time to poke around with sound apps. When I do have time to do some audio stuff it would be a great booster if there where more patches available for the increasing amount of softsynths. Some of the synths are just way to complex for me, I will never understand how to utilize them (all these modular whizbang hitech synths). Though I'm sure great sounds can be produced with them. Note that I'm not blaming the authors for not including patches! They are doing a great job at creating the synths in the first place! (Ofcourse it's great if they have created some nice patches also, but that is another issue, they are then working double shifts as users also :-). I was more think along the lines of community effort. We, the users, should be able to help ourselves by helping each other. So... I throw out the question about a centralized sound-patch repository. What if we provided a site similar to e.g. themes.org? Interested parties should there be able to upload patches and associate them with the synth they are made for. This should then be published on a searchable web. We've talked before about application databases ala freshmeat, this could be a part in such an endevour. Some synths are getting to the point where they have a community of their own, though I think this is the still the exception, not the rule. By introducing a central repository a lot of extra publicitiy for all "smaller" softsynths, and linux audio in general. It may very well be that we as a community are still to small to support things like this, but I'd like to think we have reached critical mass. What do you guys think? Any takers? Regards, Robert

22 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: [ecasound] Open Studio HOWTO?

by Michal Seta

OK, I'm crossposting this to LAU because I think there are lots of people who might provide some valuable input. you can subscribe here: http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelau.php3 Let's continue it there, OK? On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:12:12 +0100 felipe <filippo(a)email.it> wrote: > Next: I'm very interested on this Open Studios idea :) In a few months I'm > starting to build what will be my house. I play guitar and, no need to say, > one of the first things I'll want is a private recording studio for me and my > band. I'm not sure id I'd want to have an Open Studio at my house :) But hey, it's your house so you do what you want with it :) > I'm getting a bit confused about what I > really need to have the highest quality/lowest cost and, if possible, to > adhere to an Open Studios "standard" (when there will be one). Getting the lowest cost & highest quality studio is everybody's concern. Unfortunately, when you're on a low budget you have to make a compromise here and there. I didn't really think hard about it but I don't think there should be an OpenStudio 'standard' in terms of equipment, software and such. People could provide lists with reccomandations for various setup issues, low cost equipment etc but the setup will depend on every studio's needs nad technician/engineer/director's preferences. > > So what I ask you Kai, Justin, Michael, Tom Poe and all you open-sound fans is > something like an "OpenStudio HOWTO", that would provide a basic framework > with the best solutions for setting up a (network oriented?) home recording > studio, covering both hardware and software issues. In my previous post I threw an idea, very lightly, about an OpenStudio Gazette and Tom picked up on it and now I started brewing some ideas about it. I think that it'd be very useful to reach people and provide information, share ideas/experiences, success sotires (both studios and artists) and stuff like that. So, since last night and today I was thinking about this for the gazette: 1. having short articles deling with: a. legal issues for artists - copyright laws, various artistic licences etc explained in plain english (& other languages if translations become a reality b. software/equipment/setup issues 2. tips and tricks for setting up and running such studios 3. aesthetic type of essay on a related topic 4. announcments, classifieds and things like that and maybe even ads for OpenStudio friendly gear for sale/buy and such. We could seek contributions from the Linux, open source, alternative licences people and release it on a monthly or bi-monthly basis (depending how much contribution & content we can pull). I could take a plunge at an article once in a while. > > I could help translating it into Italian and Spanish, or if none is willing > to, I could start writing the basis and then we could fill it up together, > but I'd like to hear what do you all think first. That would definitely help. I almost forgot I speak Polish so, I guess, I could translate to Polish, too :) > > Maybe the next step could be some openhardware projects? =) didn't someone start discussing it somewhere already? ./MiS -- Michal Seta CreaZone http://www.creazone.com No One Receiving http://www.noonereceiving.32k.org NOR - "The Release of the Wandering-Eyed Girl" now shipping! http://www.grainofsound.com

22 years, 4 months

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