On Jun 25, 2016 04:58, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2016 06:46:37 -0400
> "jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com" <jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:19:22 +0200
> > fred <f.rech(a)yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe you have something to say about the fashion to tune A to 442 Hz?Â
> >
> > Er, that would be 432Hz. The 'universal' frequency. See on youtube,
> > there are tons of adaptations, from Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven to native
> > american indians, to Phil Collins, David Bowie and Rammstein. Including
> > of course the mandatory 'om' chants and reggae music
> >
> > Maybe one of these days I'll try tuning everything down to 432Hz.
> >
> > Interestingly enough, 440Hz was adopted relatively recently.
>
> As a matter of interest, when I was a wee lad, we had an old wood-framed piano
> at home. This couldn't be tuned to 'modern' concert pitch and hanging on a hook
> inside was a tuning fork marked 'C' 256 c/s (cycles per second). The keys were
> genuine ivory, quite yellowed with age, and well worn too, with finger shaped
> groves in the front lip of the most played ones.
I have my grandmother's piano (still at my parents' house and likely to remain there), an upright grand that was made in 1900. Been kept in tune all these years.
Real pianos are nice.
David W. Jones
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
>
> ps. just tried to reproduce the same tempo-map the one depected on the
> screenshots and keep watch ing on waiting it suddenly gets to the
> vanishing glitch, to no avail must say. may i ask now when exactly does
> the misfortuned change occurs? iow. what steps are in betwwen 1st
> (before) and 2nd (after) screenshots?
>
Hello, Rui!
Here is the original tempo map:
ms. 1: 3/4
ms. 2: 4/4
ms. 4: 2/4
ms. 5: 5/4
That's it. The loop is only five measures long at 138 bpm. i ran the
loop 50 times to document changes in the tempo map. i did this three
times, exiting and restarting qtractor each time.
First time:
During 15th repeat, ms. 4 changed to 4/4
During 30th repeat, ms. 5 changed to 4/4
During 34th repeat, mss. 2 and 3 changed to 3/4
During 38th repeat, ms. 4 changed to 4/4
During 47th repeat, ms. 5 changed to 3/4
Second time:
During 4th repeat, ms.5 changed to 2/4
During 17th repeat, mss. 2 and 3 changed to 3/4
Third time:
During 37th repeat, ms. 5 changed to 2/4
It may be useful to know that after the initial change to the tempo
map, qtractor marks the file as [modified] and asks me whether or not
i want to save the changes before closing the program.
i hope this helps, Rui. Take care.
il lupo
A piano composition I have been working on, Lost Isle, Pianoteq 5 (Steinway
Model B piano, which is modeled, not sampled) and Ardour.
I haven't been able to login to SoundCloud in a few weeks, haven't pursued
the login issue yet, so I uploaded the piece to BandCamp.comhttps://stephendoonan.bandcamp.com/track/lost-isle
Shoutout to Dave Phillips for the excellent Deconstructed Devo piece. Also
to Philip Yassin for his wonderful YouTube videos. Grateful as ever to Paul
Davis and the Ardour developers.
>
> so it seems that, on bar 2, it strangely converts 3/4 time-signature
> into a
> plain 4/4 ?
>
> can you do some other time-sig changes and please try to find a bug
> pattern?
>
> would really appreciate.
> cheers
>
Actually, Rui, it's the other way around. Measures 2 and 3 were
changed from a plain 4/4 to 3/4, the same time signature as the first
measure. Sometimes it changes all the measures to 3/4. Sometimes it
changes all the measures to 5/4. When i made the screen shots, i was
playing qtractor in loop mode with no midi connections. i went to the
list and saw your second message and post script. i can't get to any
debugging until tomorrow. Hopefully, i'll notice something useful.
Thank you, again!
Qtractor 0.7.8 - The Snobby Graviton is out!
-------------------------------------------
So it's first solstice'16...
The world sure is a harsh mistress... yeah, you read that right! <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress">Heinlein's
Moon</a> have been just intentionally rephrased. Yeah, whatever.
Just about when the UK vs. EU is there under close scrutiny and sizzling
winds of trumpeting (pun intended, again) coming from the other side of
the pond, we all should mark the days we're living in.
No worries: we still have some feeble but comforting news:
Qtractor 0.7.8 (snobby graviton) is out!
Nevertheless ;)
Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application
written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux,
where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main
infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio
workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.
Change-log:
- MIDI file track names (and any other SMF META events) are now
converted to and from the base ASCII/Latin-1 encoding, as much to
prevent invalid SMF whenever non-Latin-1 UTF-8 encoded MIDI track names
are given.
- MIDI file tempo-map and location markers import/export is now
hopefully corrected, after almost a decade in mistake, regarding MIDI
resolution conversion, when different than current session's setting
(TPQN, ticks-per-quarter-note aka. ticks-per-beat, etc.)
- Introducing LV2 UI Show interface support for other types than Qt,
Gtk, X11 and lv2_external_ui.
- Prevent any visual updates while exporting (freewheeling) audio tracks
that have at least one plugin activate state automation enabled for
playback (as much for not showing messages like "QObject::connect:
Cannot queue arguments of type 'QVector<int>'"... anymore).
- The common buses management dialog (View/Buses...) sees the
superfluous Refresh button finally removed, while two new button
commands take its place: (move) Up and Down.
- LV2 plug-in Patch support has been added and LV2 plug-ins parameter
properties manipulation is now accessible on the generic plug-in
properties dialog.
- Fixed a recently introduced bug, that rendered all but one plug-in
instance to silence, affecting only DSSI plug-ins which implement
DSSI_Descriptor::run_multiple_synths() eg. fluidsynth-dssi, hexter, etc.
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
- source tarball:
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8.tar.gz
- source package:
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.i586.rpmhttp://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm
Git repos:
http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/codehttps://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.githttps://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.githttps://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git
Wiki (on going, help wanted!):
http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
License:
Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software,
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6])
version 2 or later.
References:
[1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
[2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
cross-platform application and UI development
http://qt.io/
[3] JACK Audio Connection Kit
http://jackaudio.org
[4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
http://www.alsa-project.org/
[5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work
http://linuxaudio.org
[6] GPL - GNU General Public License
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1057
Enjoy && Have (lots of) fun.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/lecjo
Hello,
announcement lecho
lecho is an application to draw shapes with a spreadsheet.
And turn those shapes into audio files.
I wish you fun
Examples are given below :
http://www.letime.net/um/
Sorry for my poor English, it's in French
On Thursday, June 23, 2016 6:00:42 AM WEST tom haddington wrote:
> Thank you for the response, Rui. i've attached two photos, a before
> and
> after.
>
so it seems that, on bar 2, it strangely converts 3/4 time-signature
into a
plain 4/4 ?
can you do some other time-sig changes and please try to find a bug
pattern?
would really appreciate.
cheers
ps. just tried to reproduce the same tempo-map the one depected on the
screenshots and keep watch ing on waiting it suddenly gets to the
vanishing glitch, to no avail must say. may i ask now when exactly does
the misfortuned change occurs? iow. what steps are in betwwen 1st
(before) and 2nd (after) screenshots?
On Thursday, June 23, 2016 6:00:42 AM WEST tom haddington wrote:
> Thank you for the response, Rui. i've attached two photos, a before
> and
> after.
>
so it seems that, on bar 2, it strangely converts 3/4 time-signature
into a
plain 4/4 ?
can you do some other time-sig changes and please try to find a bug
pattern?
would really appreciate.
cheers
On Jun 22, 2016 8:38 PM, "Glen MacArthur" <info(a)bandshed.net> wrote:
>
>
> One more thing... regarding Barry's Satan Maximizer
>
> It works wonders on anything percussive (including Pianos). If you don't
> mind indulging me try this and see what you think...
>
> Take one of your piano tracks in Ardour and add the Barry's Satan
> Maximizer after Pianoteq but pre-fader, BSM only has 2 controls so set the
> the top one "Decay time (samples)" to 24 and then set the "Knee point
> (db)" to approximately -3. See what you think,
I will definitely try this! And thanks so much for the suggestion. For many
years I wanted to be a drummer and resented the fact that my parents made
me take piano lessons. I was in love with rhythm and syncopation and when I
didn't have to practice my stupid simplified classical compositions (just
kidding) I would bang on the piano as though it were a percussion
instrument (which of course it actually is, I suppose). I've written many a
(juvenile) piece that was very heavy on rhythm and light on melody or
harmonic inventiveness.
So, I'll lay down a piano track that is particularly percussive or rhythmic
and try the Barry's Satan Maximizer first at your suggested settings, and
then play with it some more. It will be fun.
Anyway, thanks again. (and thanks to Paul too, and to Lukas for his plugin
suggestions).
-Steve
