Hi, there!
I'm searching for an alternative to jack-play. I don't like using an
environment variable.
The main use is to send different one-shot-samples across different
outputs of my HDSP9652 in a bash-script (or similar).
What are my options?
Greets!
Mitsch
Hello,
This is a short improv on a simple riff. Two acoustic guitars, one
acoustic bass guitar, a bit of synth here and there. A bit more than a
minute and a half. What's new here is the use of two mics for
the instruments. I have a M-Audio Pulsar (not Pulsar 2) that I forgot
about since I got the AT-2020 a year ago. So I uncovered it, plugged
it, aimed both and pressed record. The strumming went along. I kept
it, then I added the lead and bass, and some colours. Then fiddled a
bit with the volumes, EQ, reverb (using the free U-he Protoverb), wave
volume editing in Ardour.
Enjoy:
https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/c2016-03
Cheers.
I have a GeneralMusic RealPiano Expander tone generator, a one-unit high
rack-mount half-width hardware sound source, to give away free to
someone who may be interested.
This sound module or tone generator responds to MIDI signals and
produces a variety of sounds (pianos, electric pianos, vibes, etc.). It
was very well-regarded in its day (just 12-15 years ago), and
GeneralMusic was famous for modeling sympathetic string resonance into
their piano samples/sounds, before Roland later "invented" modeled
string resonance for their piano sound engines in their digital pianos
(such as the current RD-800) and rack-mounted tone generators (such as
the Integra-7).
This GeneralMusic tone generator still works great, EXCEPT that the
front LCD display seems to be nearly worn out and does not give a very
good indication of changes made when front-panel buttons are pushed. I'm
not enough of an electronic tinkerer to fix or replace the LCD screen,
so this tone module might better be given to someone who is more
proficient at taking electronic devices apart and working a little on them.
It's free to whomever might like it, although if the shipping expenses
are high I might ask the recipient to help pay for the shipping. It's a
small unit though and shouldn't cost too much to ship within the United
States, and perhaps not too much to ship to Europe or elsewhere with
help from the recipient.
If you are interested in this very nice, somewhat older MIDI tone
generator / sound-module, let me know at my email address,
stephen.doonan(a)gmail.com
I may not choose the first person to express an interest in the device;
instead, I will consider several factors before making a decision as to
whom to give it to. I love the sounds it produces, but as I mentioned it
needs a little work (unless someone wants to use it "blind," without
having much feedback from the LCD screen (the manual will be included))
and have plenty of other sound sources to work with now.
Best wishes,
Steve
--
My Music: https://soundcloud.com/stephendoonan/
Free giveaway -- Yamaha MU90R tone generator (rackmount)
Preferred recipient -- Linux audio developer or group
Hello all-- I have a Yamaha MU90R one-unit-high rackmount tone generator
(sound module) for giveaway (I may ask the recipient to pay the shipping
cost, however).
This unit is fully functional (unlike the GEM RealPiano Expander I offer in
another discussion thread which has a defective LCD display) and in great
shape.
Thanks to suggestions in the RealPiano Expander thread, I would like to
donate this rackmount unit to a person or group involved in some way with
Linux audio development or promotion, if they think it might be useful.
A search at Google or DuckDuckGo.com (ddg.gg) for "Yamaha MU90R" will yield
many results for images, YouTube videos, manuals, information, etc.
Best wishes,
Steve
---
My SoundCloud music: https://m.soundcloud.com/stephendoonan
Since I started, recently, to take a real interest in mixing things, I
immediately saw that there is a good amount of people out there eager
to sell audio mixing tutorial and packages of all sorts. Some might be
good, some might using the advertisement campaigns to promote
not-so-good contents. Some do send (very) regularly to your mailbox
dubious promotion of products disguised as information. Now, some of
these people might actually have solid learning material and are using
a common ad system for lack of better ways. I do not know.
What I have found, though, are the resources for Mike Senior's book
Mixing Secrets. There is a large number of session files that can be
loaded in Ardour (and other DAWs since they are simply wav files). For
beginners such as me, to intermediate to advanced, covering a wide
array of musical styles, from sessions consisting of a single track to
full-blown sessions of 60+ tracks.
There are so many styles represented that one will find a few tracks
closer to his/her own liking. Even then, for general mixing practice,
the ground covered is very generous.
Moreover, there are discussion groups for many of those tracks where
people upload their mixes and talk about them. And new tracks are
being added from time to time.
There is no need to buy anything at all. I would recommend the book
though, even if its 'Secrets' catching title might be too tacky, it is
a book whose goal is to establish a good understanding. There is a lot
of substance, not only tricks or 'secrets'.
I hope I'm not sounding like an advertisement (must say that I read a
fair share lately ! :) This is a great place for anyone interested in
trying out some mixing practice, throwing your plugins at it (mixing
god forbid !), etc.
http://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms-mtk.htm
Cheers.
---
It's great to be able to type at the computer again and communicate a
little with the international Linux-oriented audo/music community, and
to practice piano after a long break due to cancer and cancer treatment.
My right arm and hand were disabled, so typing at the computer and
playing piano has been part of the therapy in trying to recover as much
use as possible of my right arm.
I'm a long-time musician and fairly long-time Linux user (since the late
1990s). I've been grateful over the years to be able to use Ardour
(digital audio / MIDI) and Qtractor and RoseGarden (MIDI / digital
audio), Jack, Jamin and the many wonderful audio/music related apps for
Linux.
=======================================
My current music work environment--
Computer: Linux operating system
Keyboard: Yamaha CP5 88-key digital piano
Sound Modules: Roland Integra-7, Fantom XR
Rack gear: Rane mixers (SM 26B, SM 82), DBX patchbay
Audio / MIDI interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i4
Apps: Ardour (audio recording / editing), Qtractor (MIDI recording /
editing)
=======================================
I've uploaded some recent recordings of some of my original material to
Soundcloud (performed as well as I can manage at this time)--
https://soundcloud.com/stephendoonan/
--and am so happy to be composing again and to be recovering some of my
ability to play the instrument of my choice, and am happy to be able to
communicate with other people in the Linux-oriented audio and music
community again. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Steve Doonan
New Mexico, US
---
Hey everyone!
Let's get this straight! I only hear rumors. It is already January. Usually
the call for papers starts December.
Is the organization of the event simple slightly late or is LAC2016 not
happening this year?
--
Louigi Verona
http://www.louigiverona.com/
Hi,
This is an original song I recently submitted for the OSMP Tunestorm, huge
thanks to ssj71 for a fun podcast with a bunch of great submissions!
Listen to podcast here: https://archive.org/details/OSMP73
I also wanted to use this song as demo of Harrison Mixbus3 on the upcoming
AV Linux 2016 so I screencasted the session for people to see what is
being used, lots of great work by our Linux Audio developers is contained
within!
Link: https://youtu.be/P8gxZSf-2ws
Thanks, Glen
Hi,
First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm Theo, and while I'm new to
linux audio, I'm not new to linux perse (20+Y), and in general can find
my way around the system quite easily. Up until recently I've not had
much reason to delve into linux audio as It "just worked" for what I use
it for - listening to music while doing stuff behind the PC - which I
happen to do quite often as I'm working as a geneticist/bio-informatician.
And then something changed. I bought a new laptop, and found the audio
quality "lacking" to say the least. So I went to the shop and got myself
a USB external sound card with reasonable sound quality and - worth
bonus points - a 6.35mm headphone jack instead of a 3.5mm jack, a volume
control dial and an extra pair of rca outputs so I can also connect it
to my stereo. I plugged it in and found out it didn't "just work".
So I started reading up and was stupefied - it was an alien world to me,
with a new language (ok, new slang) and apparently several "competing"
ways of doing things. To make this manageable for myself I decided to
take things one step at a time. I first installed jack/qjackct, qsynth
and found a midi keyboard and got it to produce sound after some small
tweaks. Things have definitely changed a great deal since I last handled
a DX7 - and it was great fun. In the process I found out that channel 1
and 2 of my USB sound thingy went to the rca outputs and channel 3 and 4
to the headphone jack. No problem.
Then I started gstreamer - no output. So I made some more tweaks as per
google's suggestions, then gstreamer outputs appeared in qjackctl, and
after making the necessary connections from gstreamer to outputs 3 and 4
I had sound again. Great. Then the next song started playing and the
sound ceased. So I made the connections again in qjackctl and I had
sound again. This happened a few times, I got a bit annoyed and
discovered the patch bay. I tried it, and it didn't work on my usb
thingy while it worked flawlessly on my built-in sound card. Every time
a new song started, the connections in qjackctl automatically reverted
to output channels 1 and 2 (rca jacks) and disconnected channels 3 and 4
(headphone) even though there was a patch-bay active. Now, I was almost
ready to file a bug report when I noticed that the patch bay did work
after a restart of gstreamer - for one song only.
It was then that I realized that every song a new out_jackaudiosinkN_1
and out_jackaudiosinkN_2 appeared in qjackctl, with N an increasing
integer. So in the patch bay I added out_jackaudiosink2_1,
out_jackaudiosink2_2, out_jackaudiosink5_1 and out_jackaudiosink5_2, and
connected them to my headphone outputs, and sure enough, after every
restart of gstreamer I could hear the second and fifth number, while all
other songs were silent. Quite a bit of fiddling later I found out that
one can actually use regular expressions in the patch-bay. Connecting
out_jackaudiosink[0-9]+_1 and out_jackaudiosink[0-9]+_2 to channel 3 and
4 works. Wonderful. I now reliably get output through my headphones
after a new song starts. Only thing is that now I get four connections -
the (apparently) default connections to channels 1 and 2 are also
reconnected every time a new song starts.
So, to come to my questions:
- Am I the only one using 4-channel external USB sound card with
gstreamer? When I saw it's specs I was convinced that everyone would
want one as a sort of "audio docking station" - better quality audio and
no more annoying physical (un)plugging to re-route audio through an
amplifier on the wrong side of the room instead of headphones.
- What is the point of this (re-)connection behaviour of gstreamer? -
gstreamer doesn't suddenly become a "new device" when it starts playing
a new song.
- I guess gstreamer does the out_jackaudiosinkN_x numbering, correct?
VLC seems to handle this differently (and this is actually how I found
out about the regular expressions)
- How can I tell the software (gstreamer + jack) to do what I want and
not more? Simply a connection from gstreamer to my headphones (channel 3
and 4), and NOT to my RCA connectors as well unless I tell it to. This
last question may appear a bit mute as it now "just works" in my main
use case (headphones), but it bugs me that I have a device that would
perfectly allow me to keep my amplifier plugged in ready to roll at a
software flick of switch, but if I would, every new song starting would
automatically come blaring out of my speakers. I guess that others have
bumped in this as well - in particular people doing DJ-ing from from
linux (do they exist?) would get very annoyed by sound coming out the
wrong way every time a new song starts.
- I found little in terms of usable documentation for multi-output
set-ups. I'm for instance not convinced that I would be able to
configure the system to use both on-board and external usb sound-cards
simultaneously. Did I miss something here? Can anyone point me to some
relevant documentation or is there a real issue here? Also the regular
expressions bit - quite neat - but I just stumbled upon its' use in
another program, and is not something I read about.
In general I'm both impressed by and worried about the state of linux
audio - a lot is possible but to get things working is (imho) much
harder than it should be.
regards, Theo.
