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Recorded with Linux: c2016-14

by jonetsu＠teksavvy.com

Hello ! This one basically 'happened'. Relaxed, acoustic light feeling. The chords were found the evening before. The next evening a drum loop was set, the chords were played, and from there the solo line and bass just came to be. This is very close to a 'one shot', although not one. I think I fiddled the solo line in parts 2 times. The bass also. Keyboard is very close to an electric piano and has a supportive role. Couldn't resist to add a bit of syntesized sound, so there's a tiny bit, during the chorus. Ah, and a backdrop of smooth rain from Freesound was laid across. Mostly acoustic then. Two guitars, one acoustic bass guitar. Drums are congas and bass drum, tiny bit of cymbal. Not reworked, apart from mixing adjustments. Sometimes I fear to reworked that kind of music. Not inclined to rework because of the calculations that it would introduce to what basically has happened. But then, the art is also about balancing gracefully inspiration and technique, with the former always, hopefully, driving. Comments welcomed. Curiously I got a comment last week that it was too busy to be relaxing. I was much surpised since for me it is smooth and nicely flowing. Robin's VU meter calibrated at -14dbFS hovers mostly between -3 and +1. Exported 'sans norm' :) Export stats shows : Integrated loudness: -17.1 LUFS Loudness range: 2.7 LU Peak: -1.6 dBFS True Peak: -1.5 dBFS https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/c2016-14 Cheers.

9 years, 6 months

Soundcraft Signature 22 MTK mixer/interface

by Joe Hartley

TL;DR: OMFG The delay between announcement of this board and it finally making it out the door has caused a lot of griping on various forums. I pre-ordered this board back in September, and it's finally arrived. It sure seems worth the wait! There's a lot to like about this board. dbx limiters, Ghost preamps, Lexicon effects, they all sound a lot better than I was expecting at this price point. As a live board, it's set up really nicely. The EQ section is interesting - it's asymmetrical, so in the mid-ranges, you've got a wide bandwidth when boosting, and a narrower bandwidth when cutting. The high and low frequency EQs give a tiny boost at the EQ frequency when cutting, and a tiny cut when boosting. It sounds counter-intuitive, but the end results on some electric and acoustic guitars and my voice were very nice. The routing on this board is nice and intuitive. There are 5 AUX busses, 2 of which feed through the Lexicon effects. Each bus can select whether it's fed pre- or post-fader. Each AUX channel has a 1/4" TRS output. In addition to the AUX channels, there are also 4 group busses (from which I assume Soundcraft gets the GB Routing brand from). Each input channel can be routed to the master out, group busses 1 and 2 and group busses 3 and 4. Each group bus has its own 1/4" TRS output jack, and can be routed to the master bus. This gives a lot of options for monitoring. The MTK in the name means multitrack. Where the standard Signature mixers have a 2-in/2-out USB interface, the MTKs send and receive each channel separately, as well as sending the master outputs. The MTKs support 44.1/48kHz sample rates at either 16 or 24 bits. JACK immediately recognized it and set it up at 24/48kHz. The A/D converters sound very clean. I'm satisfied with the test recordings I did with it. The really amazing thing about this is that each channel has a "USB return" switch. When engaged, it acts as an post-gain insert, only over USB. You can effect the channels and send them back to the mixer! I tried this with on a laptop running Arch Linux using Ardour as my DAW. I took in all 24 channels at 24/48kHz and recorded them. I routed each channels output in the DAW to the approriate input channel on the mixer, and threw a bunch of effects on the channels. Even with everything recording and various effects on all the channels, everything was rock solid and ran at 5.33ms round-trip latency! I ran the recording for over 8 hours without a single problem. I could have gotten 12.5 hours of all 24 tracks recorded onto my 240GB SSD, plenty of time for anything I'm going to do. Besides the ability to add effects to a channel, routing through the DAW opens up the ability to mix a live performance via tablet, even though the 22MTK has no facilities for computer control. This relies on the stability of your DAW and its computer, but is definitely worth exploring. There are a few cons to this board. There are no actual channel inserts so you can't patch in external gear. There's no power switch, so the board's live when you plug it in. There is a single global phantom power switch for all mic inputs. None of these are deal-breakers for me, just quirks of the machine. I'm really looking forward to getting out to a gig with this! -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh(a)brainiac.com Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa

9 years, 6 months

Re: [LAU] #musicmadewitlinux - Chopin Nocturnes

by S D

On May 1, 2016 1:09 AM, "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Some of you might be interested in this modern take on the Nocturnes. > It's a bit of an experiment but it has a unique effect if you know the > Nocturnes well. > > https://youtu.be/7XO3GXupLqY --- Interesting version of Chopin Nocturnes. I remember years ago hearing a 1970's disco version of Beethoven's fifth symphony, entitled "A Fifth of Beethoven," by Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band. (There are quite a few YouTube videos of this disco piece, for anyone who may be interested.) I hated it, but it did make me think how great the music must be to be borrowed and reused by others for different purposes or in different versions. I have a recording of some of Bach's music transcribed for marimba band with a drum set and other percussion, and it doesn't sound bad (although I prefer Bach's original versions), and of course even Bach made many transcriptions of his pieces for other instruments, jazz combos regularly adapt Bach and other composers' works for their own use, and a great melody by a great composer might still be recognizable as a great melody even if played on a toy piano or ocarina. Although of course there may sometimes exist uninspired people who merely recycle great music for various reasons without adding any or much creative work of their own, I think that whether a person likes the transcription or adaptation or not, it might at least be considered a tribute to the original music that inspired it. :-) ---

9 years, 6 months

Big Surprise

by Will Godfrey

NOT :( Sourceforge is playing sill buggers again. The do like to be original though. This time as well as code access being borked, the most recent entry their site status page is a puff piece dated August 2015! -- 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.

9 years, 6 months

After LAC is before LAC

by David Runge

Folks! it has been our pleasure having some of you at c-base the past weekend! It trully was an awesome event. Thank you! Some notes about the event: * all videos here: https://media.ccc.de/c/minilac16 * github association here: https://github.com/linuxaudio * update your information and files for content freeze prior to wiki move before 20160430! http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/ Please watch https://media.ccc.de/v/minilac16-lacisdeadlongliveminilac to get an update on a possible location for next year. The video also serves as explanatory for our proposal of a collective redesign, managed through github. For this to happen, please let me know about your github name, so I can add you! All the best from c-base, David -- David Runge Schreinerstraße 11 10247 Berlin http://sleepmap.de

9 years, 6 months

CMS for self-hosting audio files?

by stephen.doonan＠gmail.com

Does anyone know of or can suggest a CMS (content management system, such as the many MySQL/PHP, Ruby, Python or newer GOlang alternatives that produce dynamic HTML webpages on the fly or static websites) that are focused on self-hosting of audio files at one's own Internet domain? SoundCloud.com, BandCamp.com, ReverbNation.com, PicoSong.com and others are 3rd-party audio file hosting solutions/websites, but some people (such as myself) might prefer to host audio files (podcasts or music, etc.) at their own domain. Thanks and best wishes, Steve

9 years, 6 months

LMMS tune (LAC 2014)

by Louigi Verona

Hey everyone! A couple of years back I made a short tune during LAC 2014 and never released it. While it's not something super special, at the same time I always like to show off how LMMS sounds, even with stock sounds and synths. So here, a short, not properly complete tune: http://www.louigiverona.com/files/cosmos_2.ogg -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.com/

9 years, 6 months

[ANN] Qtractor 0.7.7 - The Haziest Photon is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everybody, On the wrap of the late miniLAC2016(a)c-base.org Berlin (April 8-10) [7][8], where this Yet Same Old Qstuff* (continued) workshop [9] babbling of yours truly (slides, videos[10]) was taken place. There's really one (big) thing to keep in mind, as always: Qtractor [1] is not, never was, meant to be a 'do-it-all' monolith DAW. Quite frankly it isn't a 'pure' modular model either. Maybe we can agree on calling it a 'hybrid' perhaps? And still, all this time, it has been just truthful to its original mission statement--modulo some Qt [2] major version numbers--nb. it started on Qt3 (2005-2007), then Qt4 (2008-2014), it is now Qt5 full throttle. It must have been like start saying uh. this is probably the best dot or rather beta release of them all! Now, Qtractor 0.7.7 (haziest photon) is out! Everybody is here compelled to update. Leave no excuses behind. As for the 'mission statement' coined above, you know it's the same as ever was (and it now goes to eleven years in the making [11]): 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. 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-0.7.7.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Change-log: - LV2 UI Touch feature/interface support added. - MIDI aware plug-ins are now void from multiple or parallel instantiation. - MIDI tracks and buses plug-in chains now honor the number of effective audio channels from the assigned audio output bus; dedicated audio output ports will keep default to the stereo two channels. - Plug-in rescan option has been added to plug-ins selection dialog (yet another suggestion by Frank Neumann, thanks). - Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido Scholz, thanks). - Immediate visual sync has been added to main and MIDI clip editor thumb-views (a request by Frank Neumann, thanks). - Fixed an old MIDI clip editor contents disappearing bug, which manifested when drawing free-hand (ie. Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw is on) over and behind its start/beginning position (while in the lower view pane). 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 [7] miniLAC, a more compact, community-driven version of the yearly Linux Audio Conference http://minilac.linuxaudio.org [8] c-base.org, Berlin http://c-base.org [9] Yet Same Old Qstuff* (continued) workshop http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/index.php/Workshop#Yet_Same_Old_Qstuff.2A_.28… [10] slides: http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/index.php/File:Lac2016_qstuff_slides.pdf videos: http://media.ccc.de/v/minilac16-yetsameoldqstuff [11] Siskel & Ebert - "This Is Spinal Tap" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1033 Enjoy && Have fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 6 months

Fluidsynth: map each channel to individual jack audio output

by Lorenzo Sutton

Hi all, I have also posted this on the fluid-dev list, but maybe there is some wisdom on LAU about it as well :) What is the current status of synth.audio-channels and synth.audio-groups on Linux with jack? By starting fluidsynth with something like: fluidsynth -a jack -o synth.audio-channels=4 -o synth.audio-groups=4 \ -o audio.jack.multi=no I do get 4 pairs of jack audio outputs. However the behaviour isn't as expected at least according to this (very old post): https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2004-02/msg00027.html Ideally is there a way to have each channel routed to a separate audio output on jack these days? Any help appreciated. Lorenzo

9 years, 6 months

[LAD] [LAA] Guitarix 0.35.0 released

by Hermann Meyer

The Guitarix developers proudly present Guitarix release 0.35.0 Guitarix is a tube amplifier simulation for jack (Linux), with an additional mono and a stereo effect rack. Guitarix includes a large list of plugins[*] and support LADSPA / LV2 plugs as well. The guitarix engine is designed for LIVE usage, and feature ultra fast, glitch and click free, preset switching, full Midi and/or remote controllable (Web UI not included in the distributed tar ball). This release introduce the new GUI design by Markus Schmidt aka. boomshop Beside that, it comes with a couple of fixes and some new plugins. Also included be the MOD UI's for the LV2 plugins used by the MOD[*] For all changes, please check out the changelog. Please refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ Download Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ Forum: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/forum/ Please consider visiting our forum or leaving a message on guitarix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:guitarix-developer@lists.sourceforge.net> regards hermann [*] http://moddevices.com/

9 years, 6 months

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