Hi Mark,
> I would very much like a high-quality GM device for Linux. I'd probably
> use TiMidity to get that.
> I'd also like some really great drum sets also.
Percussion is one of the stronger points from our past patchsets so that
won't be a problem. There will probably be an option to choose between mono
and stereo percussion. If we don't get problems with 'phasing' sound with
stereo samples this will give a very impressive sound. Currenty we are
opting for mono and stereo percussion and mono instruments but that might
change. As soon as there is any update or demo material I'll post an email
regarding this to this mailinglist.
> Bottom line - If the price is low, I'd buy them just to support you. If
> the price goes up, then I'd have to look at the quality carefully. I've
only
> used sound fonts on the Windows platform and I've been pretty disappointed
> with the quality. In fact, bad sound fonts drove me to GigaStudio, which I
> now love, so you'll get compared to that platform.
All our products are sold below 20 USD (+ creditcard costs) because we thing
products will sell equal or better when everybody is able to afford them.
Since somebody will be hosting the files for this project for us (a strong
linux advocate who works at an ISP) we won't have bandwidth costs for both
the full version and the free version. This means that the 15$ price (+ 3$
creditcard costs) is pretty much fixed right now.
---
Roel / Utopia Sound Division
http://www.utopiasd.com
This summer some of us met at the LAD booth at Linuxtag in Karlsruhe,
Germany. Since the participants of this meeting enjoyed it very much, we
discussed about meeting again in spring 2003.
Frank Neumann and I had the idea of asking the
"Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie", Karlsruhe/Germany
(Center for Art and Media, http://www.zkm.de)
whether they would be interested in hosting such a meeting. The answer was
positive and so we can invite to a LAD meeting at the
Institut fuer Musik und Akustik (Institute for Music and Acoustics) at ZKM.
The meeting will take place from Friday, 14. March 2003
to Sunday, 16. March 2003.
We intend to have public sessions where we can present Linux audio
applications and give talks and non-public sessions where we can discuss
future audio development.
For further planning the meeting we need a registration for talks/presentations
at the public sessions, including an abstract and, if necessary,
images/screenshots. To estimate the required room, we also need a registration
for the non-public sessions.
Please register talks/presentations until 8. January 2003 (please earlier,
if possible), so that they can be announced in the printed programme of ZKM.
Please register for the non-public sessions until 3. March 2003.
Registrations can be sent to either Frank Neumann or me. Please use the
keywords "ZKM registration" in the subject. We will post the list of
talks/presentations and further information on the meeting from time
to time, so that you can decide about joining this meeting.
Matthias
--
Dr. Matthias Nagorni
SuSE GmbH
Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 phone: +49 911 74053375
D - 90429 Nuernberg fax : +49 911 74053483
Ross Vandegrift <ross(a)willow.seitz.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Silvan wrote:
>> Is it just me, or does the available software for this
>> kind of stuff really seriously suck?
> This is unfortunately what I've found.
(SNIP)
> music software - even the professional stuff I've used
> on Windows has plenty of sucky things about it. So I
> suggest you take a different
> tact, like I did.
(SNIP)
> this is a "bigger picture" suggestion.
(SNIP)
> Digital recording with ecasound, audacity, or even sox
> is a piece of cake. Stop using MIDI - if you're not an
> electronica artist or a studio professional, it's way more
> trouble than it's worth.
> Since I started using MIDI less and less, I've started making
> music more and more. I've seen it in a number of friends too.
> It doesn't seem like coincidence.
>Ross Vandegrift
>ross(a)willow.seitz.com
Thanks Ross. I'm moving in that same direction. But I must first
say that all my experience with midi has been with SuSE 6.4.
I just upgraded to SuSE 8.0. So (as far as I know) things could
have improved a lot since those days. But since the only programs
I can get to work are ecasound (multi-track recording) and RTSynth
(synthisyser) I'm not going to (at this time) invest time into
sequencing. I've come to the same place as you have (at least in
theory at this time) that I need to _start making music and stop
trying to be an electronic music expert_.
Currently I'm setting up an old 233MHz (32 megs ram) machine as a
dedicated synisyzer (RTSynth). The lack of ram doesn't seem to
effect it's usage. I will (as outlined on this list)
use fvwm2 (window manager) to auto-load RTSynth. Then I'm planning
on sending the line out to the line in of my (main) computer and
record to my ecasound tracks. No sync tracks. No sequencers. My
hope is to start making music (since I've been with linux for
2 years and have not finished one project).
I absolutly plan on getting into sequencing in the future. But I
just want to start making music. And besides, it will be fun to
create a dedicated synisizer that boots right into fvwm2
with everything loaded and ready to go. And I can make use of
machines like this in the future for other musicians
Oh my God, I'm sounding like a linux dude.
Rocco
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hello everyone,
i don't know if this is the right forum for my question, but here goes.
i'm running on Intel PIII with kernel 2.4.18, ALSA, and a Hammerfall 9632 card. CD
quality WAV files recorded with ALSA from live performances play back with no problem via
"aplay".
a Yamaha CRW8424S scsi burner was recently installed and i burned the WAV files to CD with
both "cdrecord" and "cdrdao". data is actually transferred but when i play the CD's with
a CD player, the tunes are too slow and too low by about a minor third.
i tried burning at various speeds from 1x to 8x, but always the same problem. have also
tried a variety of other options to "cdrecord," like using a really big buffer, etc. the
commands "file" and "aplay" give the following information:
--------snip-----------
$ file blues1.wav
blues1.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz
$ aplay blues1.wav
Playing WAVE 'blues1.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
--------snip-----------
i wrote to Jorg Schilling who developed "cdrecord", but he only said i need to use 44100
Hz data and that if ALSA wrote incorrect headers, i should write the ALSA group instead.
i doubt it's a problem with ALSA.
at any rate, i'm out of ideas. has anyone experienced a similar problem? any pointers
would be greatly appreciated.
tia,
patrick
Hello,
I am looking for a way to record my minidisc using the optical output of
my Minidisc Deck. My soundcard (a CMI8738 ) has got an optical input
so it should be easy ;-) .
My problem is that I don't know how to record the sound from the optical
input so that there is a new file created for each track an my MD.
I know that there is a signal to say: this is the end of the track. So
it should be possible to detect this sort of "End Of Track" but I don't
know if it must be in hardware or in software.
If it is possible to do this in software, do you know a software
recorder that records from the optical (or digital) input (with alsa)
and that creates a new file for each track?
Thank you for your help,
JrSky.
Does anyone know how to record pd output to a wav or
something? I've tried vsound, but couldn't get it to
work. I'm a newbie to pd to speak slowly.
:)
Art
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Greetings,
has anybody gotten the Delta 410 to work with alsa (rc6 or CVS) ?
Playback appears to be clipped (a lot). I tried to set the 'Dac Volume'
with envy24control or amixer, but no luck. The controls are stuck at 0,
which probably means the driver is not handling them at all. Playback is
OK using the latest oss demo drivers, this sould exclude a faulty card or
resource conflicts.
Any pointers?
Regards,
Reiner