Hi lists,
I've been using Ubuntu Studio for a while now, lately with the KX repos added.
Then I had to take my regular computer to service and since anyway I must fool
around with a backup device I decided to give KXstudio a spin (also because
I'm curious about KDE).
Apart from obvious theme and software differences, it seems that KX ships
without a default (automatic) software updater / manager. Is that a feature or
a glitch? Any reason not to install Muon?
The KX website [1] is somewhat outdated. Is the project still active?
And would it be an idea to do some kind of merge between Ubuntu Studio and KX?
I really like Ubuntu Studio, but I also like working on an up to date
Ardour...
[1. http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/]
All the best,
Alf
Hey hey everyone,
sorry for the far off-topic, but I thought someone here might be able to help.
For a while now - not sure how long - I've been unable to connect to HTTPS URLs. I've tried all commandline browsers (lynx, links, elinks and w3m). My graphic is currently updated to death (screenreader Orca doesn't work), so I'll stay with the commandline.
System: Debian Squeeze
Attempted solutions:
update-ca-certificats
aptitude upgrade
googling (and hitting lots of articels about generating SSL certificates for your own Apache :-( )
Any help, article or guide would be appreciated. Again sorry for the absolute OT!
Ta-ta
----
Ffanci
* Homepage: https://freeshell.de/~silvain
* Twitter: http://twitter.com/ffanci_silvain
* GitHub: https://github.com/fsilvain
Hi all,
here's a little cheery tune I just finished, which I recorded with a
hardware digital recorder and then arranged and mixed on Linux.
https://soundcloud.com/spotlightkid/restless
All sounds are from a little hardware synth, the Mutable Instruments
Shruthi-1, which is a digital-analog hybrid monophonic desktop synth
module. I used the version with the "4 Pole Mission" filter board and,
for one sound, one with a SSM2044 filter.
On the software side, only some is Open Source. My main DAW is Tracktion
6, which is proprietary but runs natively on Linux. In this track,
besides the usual mixing, editing and automation features, I used its
built-in sampler an its great step sequencer clip feature for the drum
programming. Open Source software used was Calf vintage delay,
zita-reverb, ZamComp and Carla.
Share & Enjoy!
Chris
On Jan 31, 2016 08:52, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:
>
> Hi lists,
>
> I've been using Ubuntu Studio for a while now, lately with the KX repos added.
> Then I had to take my regular computer to service and since anyway I must fool
> around with a backup device I decided to give KXstudio a spin (also because
> I'm curious about KDE).
>
> Apart from obvious theme and software differences, it seems that KX ships
> without a default (automatic) software updater / manager. Is that a feature or
> a glitch? Any reason not to install Muon?
The ONLY Linux distro I've ever used that had any kind of automatic software updater is Ubuntu. Do others?
And I really consider such a thing something to avoid. Have had too many updates "update" a working setup to a non-working setup.
KDE is a resource-heavy desktop. I'd rather have my processor and memory free of such a load.
David W. Jones
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
Hi Linux Audio Users!
Today is the digital release of my algorithmically controlled music
project "entryiseasierthantheexit". Inspired by Vitor Azevedo's
paintings "Entry" and "Exit", the project features two EPs:
"entryiseasierthantheexit_entry" and "entryiseasierthantheexit_exit".
Each consists of a collection of sonic scenes produced by what I have
called the formuls algo-synth: a set of Pd patches/modules that perform
additive and subtractive synthesis, slicing, sequencing and effects.
These are all controlled by touchscreen interfaces to generate control
algorithms for each module.
The EPs were recorded and produced with Bitwig, using a host of LV2s
(such as the fantastic Calf plugins) and Linux VST plugins, and mastered
using JAMin. The EPs are available for download at
http://formuls.bandcamp.com/ and they are free/"name you price"!
You can also see a promo video (thanks to Niccolò Granieri and Integra
Lab) of a live improvisation with the formuls algo-synth here:
https://vimeo.com/152834125
Enjoy and let me know what you think!
James aka formuls
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www.formuls.co.uksoundcloud.com/formulstwitter.com/FormulsMusicvimeo.com/formuls
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All,
As some of you may be already aware, this past December I was notified
our current virtual server that hosts a broad array of outreach
services, including these mailing lists, will be decommissioned at the
end of this month. Since, I've been working on securing the
infrastructure and ongoing support onto a brand new physical blade. I am
pleased to report we are at the very end of what has proven to be a
fairly intense journey (needless to mention I learned a lot more than I
ever wanted to about sysadmin). Our new setup is considerably more
powerful and I am confident it will offer a significant improvement in
performance over the old one. As we enter the final stage in the porting
process, there will be a brief downtime tentatively scheduled for 11am
Eastern Time (East US Coast) tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27th. During
this time, you will experience inability to access hosted services,
including web and mailing lists. My intent is to have the transition
complete as quickly as we can do the final rsync and IP address
reconfiguration. I will let you know as soon as we've completed this
final step. Thank you for your support and understanding.
Best,
--
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Associate Professor
Creative Technologies in Music
ICAT Senior Fellow
Director -- DISIS, L2Ork
Virginia Tech
School of Performing Arts – 0141
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
www.performingarts.vt.edudisis.music.vt.edul2ork.music.vt.eduico.bukvic.net
I've just read that dice have sold off slashdot and sourceforge.
Interestingly the new boss has said he thinks mistakes were made with
sourceforge which he intends to roll back.
Dice say the reason for the sale is that it no longer fits their profile. I
suspect that translates as "We can't make obscene profits out of you guys"
Some of you may have noticed that github was offline for a few hours recently so
in my view maintaining a presence on sourceforge is good insurance. Also,
their built-in bug reporting is very useful. There doesn't seem to be an
equivalent in github.
--
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.
Ahoy there!
Qtractor 0.7.4 (the tackiest gluon) has been released!
Y'all know the drill...
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 (since last release):
- Eye-candy warning: muted/non-soloed tracks are now shaded over the
main thumb-view.
- Faster and crispier VST plugin editor (GUI) idle cycles.
- Fixed all core processing when any plugin has more audio outputs than
channels on a track/bus where it's inserted.
- Added one decimal digit to all percentage input spin-boxes on the MIDI
Tools dialog.
- Added brand new and global option to disable the so called "catch-up"
default behavior (cf. View/Controllers.../Sync).
- Fixed some track control issues related to MIDI Controllers generic
mapping (cf. View/Controllers...).
- Try making Help/Shortcuts... dialog window modeless, as far as under
MIDI Controller, Inputs/Outputs Connections window also gets accessible
enough.
- Fixed some vertical scrolling and play-head line re-drawing glitches
introduced by the recent unlimited slack to editing beyond current
contents length on main tracks view.
- Added one decimal digit to the Pitch-shift spin-box on audio
Clip/Edit... properties dialog window.
- Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
- Fixed local keyboard shortcuts on the Files organizer widget actions
and context-menu.
- Improved Mixer multi-row layout (patch by Holger Marzen aka. bluebell,
thanks).
- Fixed the Ctrl+drag/cloning left of a clip when towards near the
beginning of session.
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-0.7.4.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed):
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed):
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.i586.rpmhttp://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm
- wiki (on going, help still wanted!):
http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
Weblog (on going, upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
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/1000
Enjoy && Have (lots of) fun ;)
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
Over on Soundcloud Mark Bennett has posted an acapella recording of a
traditional Irish ballad, as an open collaboration project.
I found this song totally captivating so decided to try my hand.
This is what I achieved. I hope you like it.
http://www.musically.me.uk/music/The_Parting_Glass.ogg
Mark hasn't set any time limit so I'm sure he'd welcome more entries.
For those interested in such things...
I loaded Mark's audio into Rosegarden then played along on a MIDI keyboard.
The nature of the song meant that cheating with copy/paste wasn't an option
(which is actually a good thing) so I played through multiple times until I
had a feeling for the whole piece, then built up track by track.
In order of appearance:
Mark (of course)
Rushes
Wide Bass + Ghost Ensemble
Moor Drums
Post Horn
Ghost Ensemble in particular has a very slow attack, and Rosegarden's 'jog'
command came in very handy.
--
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.
On Jan 24, 2016 11:18, "Jonathan E. Brickman" wrote:
>
> On 01/23/2016 05:13 AM, Atte wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I remember the noise reduction provided by Sound Forge years ago. The
>>
>> idea was the the user selected a portion of the waveform that contained
>> *only* the noise, then the software would remove this from the entire
>> recording. It worked quite well AFAIR.
>>
>> Anything similar available in the linux eco system?
>>
>> Sorry if I overlooked something obvious...
>>
> Audacity, under Effect / Noise Removal. Works wonderfully, have given it major hard uses recently.
I've been using that for years. Works great!
David W. Jones
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
