Daniel James <daniel(a)mondodesigno.com> wrote:
>> If you're using a soundblaster style card I think you can set the record
>> input to MIDI and just record a stereo wav file
>
> I asked the question the other day - with an SB Live, run alsamixer and
> toggle capture on the fader titled 'music' with the space bar. This
> should enable you to record the internal synth via /dev/dsp
Many thanks to both of you. This has opened up tons of flexibility and usefulness that I didn't expect.
Rocco
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Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
> I think you've encountered the reason for jack.
>From what I've been reading on this list for the last 6 months,
it sounds great. I just want to learn a bunch of basic programs
first (sequencers, multitrackers, alsa...) to see what they all
offer. Then I'll tackle jack. So far I'm discovering some pretty
powerful tools. I don't like to sorta/kind know a program and I
think jack will divert me from the time I'm putting into really
get to know some basic programs first. I've just so bogged down
with trying to understand most of the program's docs that I'm
just not prepared to learn jack right now.
> Why not try using Rosegarden or Muse to play the sequences
> then you can interface directly to jack?
I was learning Rosegarden (according to the installer notes it's
version 2.1pl3-257) but it kept crashing. Even if it was stable,
it's not very (musically) intuitive. The only way to edit notes
is by numbers. It just didn't seem to have anything special
about it. Expecially compared to jazz's graphical editing and
live "real" insturment recording capabilities. And I'm still
reading the Doc on jazz. I probly have an old version of
Rosegarden (although I have the latest SuSE). Some of the things
I've heard about newer versions of Rosegarden sounds promising.
But with all the energy that goes into really getting to know
the details of all these programs, I just don't want to deal
with (possible) compiling problems. SuSE's put together a good
set of diverse music programs that work immediatly apon
installing them. I'm going to wait till I have the
time to work out possible compiling problems that come with
getting the newer versions.
I just tried out muse today. It looks very promising. But this
is what I encontered. I would appreciate if you could offer any
information on how to solve this.
I loaded a midi file that plays on every midi player/sequencer
I've used. And I also did the "quick start" But I couldn't get
any sound out of it and it didn't seem to input any notes from
my midi keyboard.
I have kaconnect set like this:
External MIDI 0 ---> Emu10K1 Wave Table
---> Muse Sequencer
Muse Sequencer ---> Emu10K Wave Table
I was unable to load any instruments in the track info window.
It just shows ---> ???
I tried all the different "Song Types". I'm too new at this to
know what "NO" "GM" "GS" and "XG" are so I tried each one and it
didn't seem to have any affect.
I'm looking forward to trying out Muse.
Any help would be appreciated...
Rocco
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>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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