>linuxmedia4(a)netscape.net wrote:
> Is there a program that converts .sf2 to .pat. If so, then when I
>> play midi files with timidity, they will sound like what I created with
>> jazz.
Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> wrote:
>If I understand you correctly, then you are using in Jazz the
>SF2-midisynth of your soundcard (a Soundblaster probably) and you like
>the results, but when you record, you don't record your soundcards
>output but what timidity renders, right?
Exactly...
>So basically you don't like the rendering of timimidity, but you like
>the rendering of your soundcard. There are several ways to solve this,
>but "Jack" isn't necessary for this.
>
>* Record your soundcard's output. This may need a second soundcard
>or external recording gear.
Upon another person's suggestion, I have been using alsamixer's ability to "capture" _anything_. What a great tool this has been. I have done things like (not only) recorded my softsynth right into ecasound, but also added sound effects. This has the advantage of being able to hear the echo in my headphones but not recording them to the file (so I can add effects when I do the final mix). I was suprized at some of the things that it allowed. I was able to get better control over ecasound effects for one. I couldn't really get deep sounding delays until I disovered the ability to raise that channel in alsamixer. I've used those capibility along with the few program (compared to how many are out there) to do some pretty cool things. I was even able to record my softsynth into jazz (jazz has live recording cabilities) and even turn each midi track into a wav file that I then put into ecasound to record real instruments. I'm sure I can capture ecasounds effects into jazz and be able to record live instruments with effects. But this is not as versitile as being able to capture each midi track and put it all in ecasound and get much better control and quality over the sound.
>* Use a software soundfont synthesizer. I think, timidity can also use
>soundfonts, but personally I use iiwusynth. This would work with
>your current setup, because you can configure ecasound to use another
>synth in ~/.ecasoundrc at:
> ext-timidity-cmd = timidity -Or1S -id -s %s -o - %f
>This can be replaced with your favorite synth.
I tried that with pmidi and playmidi and it worked, but it wouldn't let me record _anything_ to a file. I may have completly gone in a different direction with being able to record midi tracks, capturing them to wav and putting them into ecasound. Even with Timidity I couldn't fast forward while in ecasound. It just jumps to the beginning. But you never know when there's a combination of programs that do what no other seem to do. I will keep trying different seqencers with ecasound.
>* Use another sequencer. This is basically the same a solution two,
> but for example MusE comes with iiwusynth build in.
I'm Looking forward to trying Muse. I beleive from what I read, it will do live recording also. And appearently, form what I've discovered in the last few days, I'm probly going to be able to use any softsynth along with it.
Thanks for all your help
Rocco
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Greetings,
Anyone wishing to translate GUI of Ardour and the KSI-part of it please pay attention to /gtk_ardour/po/ and /ksi-ardour/po/ ! :-)
First translation into Russian will follow a few days later. Anyone to help me?
Alexandre
The SooperLooper LADSPA plugin now comes with PD patches!
For those that might not remember, SooperLooper is a LADSPA plugin that
emulates the Gibson-Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro looping sampler. Go get
more info and download it at its new address:
http://essej.net/sooperlooper/
See the screenshot of the PD patches in action here:
http://essej.net/sooperlooper/sooperlooper_pd_shot.png
It is controllable via the PD GUI or MIDI program change messages
from your footcontroller (the ideal interface).
Unfortunately, there are bugs in the plugin~-0.2 external that seems to
be around. I made a source patch that fixes the output control message
bugs, and extended them to include the output control port index as well.
You will need this patched version of plugin~ to run SooperLooper in PD
properly.
Get the patch here:
http://essej.net/sooperlooper/pd-plugin0.2-patch.diff
If someone on the pd-devel list could forward this, I would much
appreciate it.
Dave Phillips, could you also update the web address on your LM&S pages
with the new address above?
Enjoy... please post with any problems/suggestions.
jlc
Hi, I can't seem to find the page with the Gentoo Audio Ebuilds.
A couple of things I've noticed is there is no alsa-cvs build. Also
Steve's plugins (swh-plugins) seem to depend on alsa. Is that
necessary? And I see nothing for libsamplerate which is a jack
dependency. Thanks
--ant
Hi all,
I'm quite tempted to get one of these cards (terratec DMX 6Fire), now
that i've seen it running on a friends computer, but would like to hear
from anyone who has used one under linux.
does it work?
do all the channels work properly? (i.e i will get to use all 6 outs
rather than the 2 main ones, as happened with my sblive)
cheers,
-nick d-.-b
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Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to connect the IEC 958 Type 1
balanced AES/EBU digital inputs and outputs of an Alesis MasterLink to a
Linux DAW with an RME soundcard (not yet purchased)?
Should I buy the HammerFall HDSP 9652 or one of the older cards for use with
Linux? Which extension cards or external interfaces should I be looking at?
I have a lot of Linux experience but very little digital audio experience.
Many thanks.
John Ouzts
Here is another good one.
Ed Richards
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http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/audio_quality_HOWTO.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Janez Vrenjak [mailto:janez@kud-kontrabant.si]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:21 AM
To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
Subject: [linux-audio-user] Which audio card to use?
Hay,
can someone tell me which audio card to choose or to point me to some
site where I can read about it.
I'd like to mix music. I.e. to build some kind of small home studio.
Thx
Regards
Janez
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I am writing here because my problem involves many tools.
I have been trying to make extremely compact mp3's for download.
$lame PO_audio.wav -m m -b 8 PO_audio-low.mp3
LAME version 3.93 MMX (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
CPU features: i387, MMX (ASM used), SIMD
Autoconverting from stereo to mono. Setting encoding to mono mode.
Resampling: input 32 kHz output 8 kHz
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 2742 Hz - 2839 Hz
Encoding PO_audio_kino.wav.wav to PO_audio-low.mp3
Encoding as 8 kHz 8 kbps single-ch MPEG-2.5 Layer III (16x) qval=2
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
1038/1040 (100%)| 0:05/ 0:05| 0:05/ 0:05| 13.322x| 0:00
average: 8.0 kbps
Everything looks right except that when I play the resulting file in xmms or
mgp123 it plays much too fast.
Could the headers on the mp3 be wrong? how do I check? they show up correctly
in xmms and mpg123.
mpg123 PO_audio-low.mp3
( ... )
Playing MPEG stream from PO_audio-low.mp3 ...
MPEG 2.5 layer III, 16 kbit/s, 11025 Hz mono
I know I used to play lower than CD quality sample rates.
Does anyone have an idea what is going on?
I have tried differing combinations of ecasound and lame with combinations of
-sr and -rate switches, to often similar results.
I am using the alsa drives from cvs for my audiofile 2496,
Thanks,
--Marco
1. A short summary of changes
Sliders for parameter control and text inputs for
lower and upper bounds have been added as well as
support for LADSPA-1.1 and ecasound effect parameter
hints. There has been some user interface improvements
and a native JACK support has been added. Updated to
use the new ecasound-2.2 libraries.
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2. What is ecamegapedal?
Ecamegapedal is a real-time effect processor software with
a graphical user interface for controlling the effect
parameters. It is meant to be used as a virtual guitar-fx
or studio effect box. In addition to real-time operation,
ecamegapedal also supports reading from and writing to audio
files. All audio object and effect plugin types provided by the
ecasound libraries are supported. This includes ALSA, JACK,
OSS, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA
plugins and multi-operator effect presets. Ecamegapedal's
implementation is based on ecasound and Qt libraries.
Ecamegapedal is licensed under the GPL.
---
3. Changes since the last stable release
* Added native JACK support. If compiled with JACK support
enabled, ecamegapedal will upon startup fetch the
current engine parameters from the JACK server, and
initialize the ecamegapedal configuration to work
with JACK. In practice this means that you don't
have to manually set the buffersize and sample rate
parameters to use ecamegapedal with JACK.
* Support for LADSPA-1.1 and ecasound effect parameter
hints.
* Text inputs for overriding default upper and lower
bounds for parameter values.
* Sliders for controlling parameter values.
* Pixmaps for transport control buttons.
* Takes advantage of the newly released ecasound 2.2.0
libraries (does not work with older ecasound releases).
* Should work with all released Qt2 and Qt3 versions.
Tested with qt-2.3.2, qt-3.0.5 and qt-3.1.1.
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4. Contributors
Patches
Kai Vehmanen
Arto Hamara
Bug Hunting
Jaakko Prattala
Justin Rosander
Junichi Uekawa
Feature proposals
Dan Lyons
---
5. Links and files
Web sites:
http://www.eca.cxhttp://www.eca.cx/ecamegapedalhttp://jackit.sourceforge.net
Source and binary packages:
http://ecasound.seul.org/downloadhttp://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecamegapedal-0.4.0.tar.gz
--
http://www.eca.cx
Audio software for Linux!
