Not related to Linux, but I know there are a lot of people here with
excellent knowledge. I'm trying to track down this end-address vocal
microphone that's being used here in 1977/78 by Jon Anderson from Yes.
Anyone recognise it?
https://youtu.be/kPm0iHPfyG8?t=239
Thanks,
Jonathan
Hi Listers!
Here is a little tooly that I made that may be be of any use to you guys ;
Today, if you want to publish a song, pretty soon they're going to ask
your for "the video". But sometimes you don't have the time / money to
do it. Heck, it's a job. The "Lost Week" video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27yC-qLlMM> took me like a (big. Huge)
week to put together, not counting shooting time. BTW it was edited in
KDEnlive, but since No Sister
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EH9jSnYAGI> (and my Why, Phil show
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zZO7-wo2_o> and all) I use Blender for
that kind of things now.
Back on topic : You don't have time to put together a proper video for
your shiny new because you have a life and recording the song already
took the best of it lately.
Here is a script
<https://github.com/xaccrocheur/kituu/blob/master/scripts/px-video-maker.sh>
to quickly generate a cool-looking music video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-u18CbdjBE>, given the sound file, the
cover artwork image and an optional ending bit :
#!/usr/bin/env bash
FILE_PATH="$1"
FFMPEG="ffmpeg"
ARTIST="$2"
ALBUM="$3"
COVER_FILE_PATH="$4"
EFFECT="$5"
if [ "$#" -ne 5 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 [audio file path] 'artist name' 'album name'
[artwork image file path] [point|line|p2p|cline]"
exit
fi
convert -resize 1280x720 "${COVER_FILE_PATH}" -background none -gravity
center -extent 1280x720 "${COVER_FILE_PATH}.jpg"
$FFMPEG -y -i "${FILE_PATH}" -loop 1 -i "${COVER_FILE_PATH}.jpg"
-filter_complex "[0:a]
showwaves=s=1280x310:mode=${EFFECT}:r=25,colorkey=0x000000:0.1:0.5[wave];[1:v][wave]
overlay=y=H-h:eval=init[canvas];[canvas]drawtext=fontfile='Jura-Book.ttf':fontsize=60:text='${ARTIST}':x=30:y=(h-70-text_h*2.5):fontcolor=white:shadowy=2:shadowx=2:shadowcolor=black,drawtext=fontfile='Jura-Book.ttf':fontsize=72:text='${ALBUM}':x=20:y=(h-70-text_h):fontcolor=ff6600:shadowy=2:shadowx=2:shadowcolor=black"
-shortest -codec:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset fast -codec:a aac -strict -2
-b:a 192k "${FILE_PATH}-composite.mp4"
if [[ -e "end.mp4" ]]; then
$FFMPEG -y -i "${FILE_PATH}-composite.mp4" -i "end.mp4"
-filter_complex "[0:0] [0:1] [1:0] [1:1] concat=n=2:v=1:a=1 [v] [a]"
-map "[v]" -map "[a]" "${ARTIST}-${ALBUM}.mp4"
rm -rf "${FILE_PATH}-composite.mp4"
else
mv "${FILE_PATH}-composite.mp4" "${ARTIST}-${ALBUM}.mp4"
fi
rm -rf "${COVER_FILE_PATH}.jpg"
echo -e "
################################################
DONE : ${ARTIST}-${ALBUM}.mp4"
This will
* Take the (PNG) cover, and center it inside a 1280x720 (AKA 720p)
pixels video ;
* Generate a "wave" of the (WAV) sound file ;
* Print "Artist" in Orange, And then "Title" in White, below, slightly
bigger and offset to the left ;
* Merge the 3 together ;
* If there exists a file named "end.mp4" in the directory, append it
to the final video ;
* Clean up everything, and produce a file named "Artist-Title.mp4" in
720p.
Notes:
* This script depends on the ffmpeg and imagemagick packages
* The last argument is the style of the dancing waveform, take a short
audio file to experiment with all 4 of them
* The "end.mp4" file is optional, it's there if you want an ending
credit / legal / whatever bit, or a nice fade out, anything. It's
scaled to fit.
* If there is a "Jura-Book.ttf" font file in the directory from which
the script is invoked, it will be used, otherwise your default serif
font will be.
With it, you can make that kind of music video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-u18CbdjBE> ; hope it's useful, cheers
everybody, keep on rocking it!
yPhil
--
Yassin "xaccrocheur" Philip
http://manyrecords.com / http://yassinphilip.bitbucket.org
Hi,
I'm looking for a solution for adaptive feedback cancellation. The type
of feedback that occurs between a microphone and speaker, not echo
cancellation. Preferrably in the form of a plugin (LADSPA, LV2,
DSSI, ...) or even as a standalone JACK app. This must be a common
problem, but I haven't found a solution.
Thanks,
J.
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:37:11 +1100
Roger <gurusonic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this for removing feedback from an existing recording, or live?
For live. I have several piezo pickups attached to different objects.
The objects pick up the sound and start to vibrate, creating the
feedback.
> For an existing recording you could try Audacity's Spectral Editing.
> For live, you should eq the PA and monitors before the performance to
> minimize the problem areas, but trying to keep as close to flat response
> as possible. It's simple but takes a lot to master. For monitors just
> push the level until it feeds back and notch out in the equalizer. Then
> cup the mic a little and notch any further feedback. A good RTA may
> help here although I've heard people use them to tune FOH and the mix
> ended up sounding truly awful.
> - Best - good third octave equaliser and a good pair of ears
> - Less good but possibly helpful - one of those feedback suppressor units
A "Feedback Suppressor Unit" in software is exactly what I'm looking
for, yes. I'm aware it would change the sound, I could live with that.
Hello,
Plugins that network themselves together, sharing audio analysis,
sharing data, taking decisions together on how to apply themselves as a
group to an audio track, to stems, to a whole session.
Is there any standard protocol currently in the works that would enable
plugins of various companies, of various projects, to be able to
exchange data ?
Cheers.
Hi list,
I'm running a new Arch Linux system now and have come up against the
Pulse/JACK dilemma.
The Arch Wiki suggests several alternatives, the old, the new and the new new
way. The latter being only suitable for JACKD with DBUS support, which I don't
have. As far as I'm aware, the DBUS version only works with X running, which I
don't want, all the time.
Unfortunately, the Arch Wiki isn't accessible right now, so I can't post the
proper link. But the described metho uses shell scripts setting PulseAudio
sink and source modules to JACK and default sources and sinks to jack_in and
jack_out respectively.
I start JACK through a self-written systemd service. Should I start PulseAudio
by default as well? Can such a shell script with Pulse settings be executed at
startup as well?
I'm sorry to raise the topic again, but I'm so very new to that snake pit.
I'd be grateful for any tips, reading material for that situation.
Best wishes,
Jeanette
--------
When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3
Sometimes you get so bogged down in problems that you tend to forget what it's
all about. Well, after a series of seemingly intractable coding issues on
Sunday, I decided to take a break and instead pootle about on my DAW.
Picking up a barely started project I'd laid aside, for once things went
surprisingly smoothly, and this was the result. I hope you enjoy it.
https://soundcloud.com/soft-sounds/drifting
The icing on the cake? It turned out to be a perfect match for this months KVR
competition theme :)
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
HI,
I have just released an update of the AVL-Drumkits (now at 1.1). For
those who are unfamiliar these are free sample libraries of 2 complete
Drumkits and hand percussion in Hydrogen, SFZ and Soundfont2 formats.
These kits are intended to bring an authentic acoustic, organic drum
sound to your MIDI DAW arrangements and preserve real-world
characteristics such as tom ringing and overtones unlike many General
MIDI kits that sound sterile. AVL-Drumkits feature 5 sample layers per
kit piece, have a very light memory footprint and are suitable for
systems old and new. The shell samples provide both center and edge
hits to emulate right and left hands and the cymbals are quite
realistic without truncated samples. Additional resources are
available such as a PDF Keymap and Midnam files to use with MIDI
tracks in Ardour and Mixbus.
Changelog:Â Â
* - Now licensed CC-BY-SA [1] with a slightly modified license
(Thanks to Nils Gey)
* - NEWLY ADDED SOUNDFONT2 VERSIONS! (tested with the new 'a-Fluid
Synth' plugin in Ardour 5.4)
* - Cleaned up formatting of SFZ text files with better key number
ordering (didn't affect performance, just my OCD)
* - New Kick drum samples for both kits with fuller sounding closed
resonant heads.
Downloads, more detailed information and Audio and Video demos of the
Kits can all be found at the AVL-Drumkits webpage:
http://www.bandshed.net/avldrumkits/
Enjoy! Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer
Links:
------
[1] http://bandshed.net/pdf/AVL-Drumkits%20CC-BY-SA%20License.pdf
Hi Linux audio users,
My band's debut album has just been released for high quality streaming on
SoundCloud. Track 4 is also available for free download.
Previously only track 4 was available on there. The album was available for
streaming on BandCamp since June, but the streaming quality was terrible.
https://soundcloud.com/telephonesound/sets/ellipsis
Ellipsis was recorded and produced entirely using free open source software
such as Ardour, ZynAddSubFX, Hydrogen, etc. It was released June 2016.
Check out the official website for info on how to buy or donate if you like
it: http://telephonesound.com
I welcome any feedback on the album.
Regards,
Jeremy Carter
http://eternalvoid.net
Hi all,
I have a super cheap C-Media USB Headphone Set based sound card (it's all
over ebay as a guitar-link).
It isn't awful quality wise (I was expecting worse, although it did require
a bit of soldering to get it working at all..), so I'm interested in
getting it working well, however when I run duplex jackd I have a problem:
With -p64 -n3, approx every minute the recorded audio gets corrupted for
about 15 seconds, then it sorts itself out for another minute. I've
uploaded an example of the problem with a sine wave input here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51719910/CMJackIssue.ogghttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/51719910/CMJackIssue.wav
If I change to -p128 -n3 it happens approx every 2 minutes, and it doesn't
happen in input only mode from what I can tell.
Has anyone got any thoughts?
Thank you
Pete
Linux version 4.4.0-38-generic (buildd@lgw01-17) (gcc version 5.4.0
20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) ) #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 6
15:41:41 UTC 2016
/usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:Set,0 -r48000 -p64 -n3 -s -C -i1
jackd -v
jackdmp 1.9.11
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [MID ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
HDA Intel MID at 0xd7820000 irq 31
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xd1000000 irq 16
2 [Set ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Headphone Set
C-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.5,
full speed
cat /proc/asound/card2/usbbus
002/012
cat /proc/asound/card2/usbid
08bb:2902
