Hello List:
My name is Josh, and I am a musician and linux user in Texas. After buying
Linux Music and Sound about 6 months ago, I am starting to get into using my
linux box for music applications. I've found most of the major resources on
the web for this sort of thing, but I find that I'm running into new ones
every day. Is there a FAQ for this list that answers many "newbie"
questions that I could ask?
My second question: I am wanting a MIDI utility that will help me deal with
changing patches on my synths (am I allowed to brag? Yamaha S80 and EX5...)
without having to manually do it. Is there such a utility, or should I
stick with sequencers? A sequencer seems a little full-featured for what I
am wanting to do, that is, simply send bank and program change messages to
my various synths.
Thanks list!
Josh Lawrence
Greets all,
alsa 0.9rc1
jack 0.34.0
sound blaster 128, ens1371
Er, as it sais in the subject, jack-rack 1.12 segfaults on startup.
I'm starting jack like this:
# jackd -R -d alsa -d sb128
Am i supposed to be giving jack-rack any specific options on start-up?
Thanks, Jordan.
Hello
I've been getting into soundfonts recently so i started looking for graphical editors. I have compiled swami 0.9 along with iiwusynth 0.2.2. iiwusynth is working great with my midisport and alsa etc. But I can't get swami to work...
I launch swami
swami rhodes.sf2
and it warns that it can't find the config files in ~/.swami/ . Then it just exits listing the available options. I tried creating blank config files hoping it would set them up for me but still the same result. I also tried -d and -c but no luck :(
Can anyone suggest how to get swami running?
cheers
matthew
cheers
matthew
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ZynAddSubFX is a open-source software synthesizer for
Linux.
It is available at :
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Please send me instruments done by you with
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- Other bugfixes and code clean-ups
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- Added keyresponse limits to Part
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On 1/25/2003 - 18:09:59, Dan Armak said:
>
> CPU utilization is the main problem.
>From my experience it is not actually the main problem. Rather it is
conflicts with the vga device interrupts which cause sound problems.
Saying that, I have successfully recorded 4 channels over nfs through my
usb device with arecord as normal user. That's about as interrupt intensive
as I have found so far. I have also had it going at 64 bytes/period and had
no dropouts AFAICR.
If you want a reasonably priced option then a usb device should see you
right. If you want to buy a cheap one then send me the cash and I'll post
it to you.
Warranty is still valid, just that you will have to post it back to me
first. (Takes about 3-4 days).
--
Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd.
For the discerning hardware connoisseur
Http://www.boosthardware.comHttp://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide
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Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We
want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've
ever done.
Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002
The Scotsman
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Hello,
I'm considering buying a USB sound card for my laptop. (I have no desktop box
worth talking about atm.) Everyone says a USB card is a Bad Thing, but I've
found few numerical measures, and I don't have much of a choice anyway
(unless someone releases a firewire card, or a pcmcica one under $1000)... If
someone can point me to some more concrete data, it would help me make my
choice. (Which is basically to buy or to suffer crappy sound, as I see no
real alternative...)
CPU utilization is the main problem. I probably wouldn't count as a hardcore
gamer, since I have a p3-900 with 256mb ram and it's enough to run all the
games I need (mostly ps1 emulations, but some sims/fpss too). So what
performance hit should I expect from using a usb audio device? The only
review on the net that actually mentioned numbers was one of the Extigy on
Tom's H/w Giude, and it said 20% cpu of a p4-2Ghz, but that was using 6 or 8
channels with special effects requested by something on the order of UT2003,
which is out of my league anyway.
I don't have or plan to have any other high-bandwith devices on my usb (1.1)
bus, just a keyboard/mouse/joystick. Also I only have 2 speakers atm, so I'll
only be streaming two channels. Therefore bandwith shouldn't be a problem as
I understand it.
OTOH I'd want to do some none-cpu-intensive work (writing, reading) while
listening to mp3s and copmpiling stuff in the backgruond. I would probably
accept some slowdown in the compiling, as long as the audio didn't skip and
responsiveness wasn't affected (I already use a kernel with all the low
latency/preempt/O1 scheduler etc. patches and have a prelinked system because
I really hate responsiveness issues)...
Finally as to the card itself: AFAICS there are the costly ones (Extigy and
Audiotrak Maya 5.1 usb), which have lots and lts of features most of which I
don't really need, and some cheap ones like the iMic or Xitel Hi-Fi-Link
which only have stereo rca input/output. The latter type is much closer to
what I'd be using of all those features, but unfortunately I cannot find them
in any shops here in Israel, and if I order over the internet I'll have to
pay for shipping and won't have warranty coverage. So I'd be willing to pay
for the maya card if I cuold be sure I'll be using it well, preferrably also
when I build my next desktop system in a year from now.
Any recommendations, info etc. will be most welcome :-)
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Dan Armak
Matan, Israel
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Hi all,
I have 2 MTC synchronized 4tracks that have 8 tracks together (mono). I
would like to transfer all of the tracks to my computer so I can play
around with some effects. I only have 1 input on my soundcard, so I was
wondering if I could record one track at a time using MTC. This way all
tracks would still be synchronous after transferring, because they are all
recorded with the same MTC master.
Is there a program available that can do this with Linux? Is this anyway a
viable idea?
regards,
Olivier
>It might be nice if this sort of functionality melded into ssm, where
>you could see the loop displayed around the circle... There would be a
>visual cue then for when the loop was about to repeat, which can be hard
>to find when the loop is > 10s long...
Yes, this is like dream land. I've been thinking of a way of squeezing
enough spiral loops type displays onto a screen so that I can watch 4+
loops at once.
You either make them side by side, and they all have to be small or make
them coaxial, but then one is small and one is huge.
Spiral Loops is just the most natural way to work with synced loops.
- Steve
