Hi, I just read about a possibly outdated advice to increase the nice
value of Xorg (currently 19 on my Debian stable system) to avoid audio
dropouts when switching desktops etc. Can anyone comment on the
usefulness or experiences with changing it (where would one change it?)?
Thanks in advance! Peter
... but apparently not.
This is very much a reflection of the times.
https://soundcloud.com/soft-sounds/world-of-sorrow
It's all Yoshimi. The main lead sound is 'Angel Harp' from my 'Companion' bank.
The very long tail is not some form of reverb, but a SubSynth sound with a
slow attack and a *very* slow release time behind the AddSynth one. The whole
sound is wrapped up with some echo and reverb.
--
Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'}
https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/http://yoshimi.github.io
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
I'm proud to announce the release of GxPlugins.lv2 v1.0
GxPlugins is a extra set of effect processing LV2 plugins from the
Guitarix project.
Project page with more information is here:
https://github.com/brummer10/GxPlugins.lv2
New in this release:
Support for Windows (64bit). Implemented by Thorsten Maerz.
Release page is here:
https://github.com/brummer10/GxPlugins.lv2/releases/tag/v1.0
we provide the source tar ball, a debian/ubuntu package and a win64
binary package.
We hope the plugs will be useful,
hermann
Hey hey,
in this song I have tried a few different things. But first the links:
You Shape My Heart (single version / song only):
https://youtu.be/2cf8ZiFucIM
OGG version:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8375gn56ky8hdj/you_shape_my_heart.ogg
Stage version (with introductory scene):
https://youtu.be/TYQ78tHhjRM
This song, with good reason, cites the Theme for Cariad:
https://youtu.be/niUZMYIfWEI
(3:16 in the single and 5:58 in the stage version).
This song is inspired by parts of Tim Minchin's musical version of Matilda. So
it brings more drama to the table, a little more fun (I think).
The instruments featured: LinuxSampler, with a commercial piano, the VPO
(Virtual Player Orchestra), a bass from the No Budget Band (NBB) collection,
and commercial brass sounds.
setBfree for the gorgeous organ sound and DrumGizmo for the drums, ussing the
Aasmonster2 kit, with yet again different processing).
The lyrics are below, in this case they might actually help, since the song
tries to tell a story.
Best wishes,
Jeanette
*** Lyrics ***
When you first called again,
After the intervening years,
You made me sit up...
I'm all ears.
We weren't the girls we'd been.
You are a goddess to my heart.
I'd pray to you from afar:
Much too far apart.
-
Now, there was my heart alight,
Singing all my love to you,
But I couldn't tell you straight
That I love you.
[chorus]
I care for you!
(She's into you as she can be.)
You shape my heart.
You said it too.
(And you are hers, we see.)
I just want to sing...
Sing my love to you.
I was consoled with admiring you from afar;
(One eye laughing, one eye crying.)
I'd made peace with the world,
But then the world stood on its head.
You gave me a chance to declare myself.
"I suppose it's obvious," I said
"I am in love with you."
And you said: "I am too."
-
Our love pours in waterfalls
Down to our hearts 'til they overflow.
Then we will burst in bliss.
And touch and kiss!
Touch and Kiss!
[chorus]
I care for you!
(She's into you as she can be.)
You shape my heart.
You said it too.
(And you are hers, we see.)
I just want to sing...
Sing my love to you.
--
* Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound
* Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g
* Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c
* GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c
... And that I know you're out there and I know that you still care <3
(Britney Spears)
Hey hey,
here's a winterly ballad, which starts quite sad and unfulfilled, but will
have a happy end.
https://youtu.be/kEQMzARj8ks
OGG version:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nxbnkk8aneakbfn/in_the_night.ogg
It's all centred around the piano. I'd like to make another special mention of
Csound for the ticking clock.
Instruments used: LinuxSamler for piano, bass, one guitar, xylophone and the
VPO strings, which are great for performance, DrumGizmo with the Aasimonstr2
kit, which can show so many sonic facettes, and Yoshimi for a few subtle
details. The Behringer Neutron adds a little soft sub bass and the "octave
tremolo" sound.
Comments as ever are welcome. I hope you enjoy it. The lyrics are below.
Best wishes,
Jeanette
I'd rather be your voice, when you wake up in the night.
I'd sooth you with a smile and strive to be your light.
I'd burn alive and fall apart elsewhere.
You'd never see me break and tear my heart.
I'd rather hear you speak of things without import
Than live a life devoid of you
And bear the pain of that finality
And walk that road of misery.
I'd rather brave the bleak, sad lands of autumn hue.
Your kind and tender heart, your quick and ready smile.
Were just two traits of you I fell
In love with, yet uncertain all the while
I did not dare to tell
That I love you.
Thus, unware you shared
The treasures of your heart.
-
Talk with me of books and roses,
Laugh with me 'bout silly jokes.
Don't be scared when I confess that I've fallen for you.
And now you are my voice, in the middle of the night.
All Lies In Shades Of Nacreous blue.
We made a world of wonders unforeseen,
A sea which sparkles with a magic sheen.
Now you gave me the choice, I wander at your site.
--
* Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound
* Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g
* Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c
* GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c
They say, break away - I'm missing out on the fun and games <3
(Britney Spears)
Is anybody out here in LAU land have experience with PISound?
https://www.blokas.io/pisound/
I have just bought one and am having quite sever teething problems with it.
It keeps freezing for ~45 seconds when running X and I cannot get it to
use the full display.
cheers
Worik
--
If not me then who? If not now then when? If not here then where?
So, here I stand, I can do no other
root(a)worik.org 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Someone on the Ardour forums reported very strange zita_a2j behavior recently, where
the signal level is much higher when using zita_a2j or the zalsa_in internal client than it is
when using jackd directly.
I suggested that poster describe the problem on the LAU list, but he was still not able to
get a list join confirmation from attempting to add his address to the list yet.
I have also managed to duplicate the problem, so I will link to the original problem
description, then describe my setup and observed behavior.
Originally posted as "Zita-a2j is way too hot!" here:
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/zita-a2j-is-way-too-hot/108040/6[1]
My setup:
My setup:
Lexicon USB interface as primary
Focusrite Solo (also USB) as second interface
My typical settings for primary interface:
48k sample rate, 1024 frames/period, 3 periods/buffer
Process to duplicate:
Started Lexicon interface with qjackctl, 48k/1024/3 settings.
Using JK meter to measure levels, K20 scale.
Connected both channels of Lexicon to JK meter, set level so that
average from synth note was around 0, peaking around +10.
Stopped jackd on Lexixon, started jackd on Focusrite, and set level so
that single channel of synth connected to Focusrite input was
approximately the same.
After stopping jackd on Focusrite, starting jackd on Lexicon again,
verified that left channel was still at same amplitude as previously verified.
Loaded zalsa_in for Focusrite Solo interface with:
jack_load Solo zalsa_in -i "-d hw:USB -r 48000"
Connecting Focusrite input from zalsa_in to JK Meter showed just idle output
noise level at around -5dB, with peaks around +8 dB. Synth note is still
around 0dB on Lexicon channel, but is now at least +18 dB in zalsa channel.
I verified the same behavior when explicitly giving a period size with:
jack_load Solo zalsa_in -i "-d hw:USB -r 48000 -p 512 -n 3"
I see exactly the same behavior when using zita-a2j as the client with:
zita-a2j -d hw:USB -r 48000 -p 512 -n 3
I have the latest released jackd version:
$ jackd --version
jackdmp version 1.9.21
The jackd build is from the Fedora repository, although they usually do a pretty good job
not breaking anything in the build. The original report was using Ubuntu 22.04. I think
that release of Ubuntu has jackd 1.9.20, which seems to indicate this is not a distribution
specific problem.
My previous experience with Fons's software is that it is pretty bullet proof, so I'm
surprised to see the same strange behavior out of zita-a2j.
I don't see anything unusual in the way the devices are opened, looks like standard format
S243LE for the older Lexicon device and S32LE for the newer Focusrite device:
Card 0 (Lambda):
* Playback Device 0 (USB Audio):
- Subdevice 0 (hw:Lambda,0,0):
used by: jackdbus (PID 121752)
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S24_3LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 48000 (48000/1)
period_size: 1024
buffer_size: 3072
* Recording Device 0 (USB Audio):
- Subdevice 0 (hw:Lambda,0,0):
used by: jackdbus (PID 121752)
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S24_3LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 48000 (48000/1)
period_size: 1024
buffer_size: 3072
Card 2 (USB):
* Playback Device 0 (USB Audio):
- Subdevice 0 (hw:USB,0,0):
closed
* Recording Device 0 (USB Audio):
- Subdevice 0 (hw:USB,0,0):
used by: zita-a2j (PID 130423)
access: MMAP_INTERLEAVED
format: S32_LE
subformat: STD
channels: 2
rate: 48000 (48000/1)
period_size: 512
buffer_size: 1536
Any thoughts on what is going on, or how to debug?
--
Chris Caudle
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[1] https://discourse.ardour.org/t/zita-a2j-is-way-too-hot/108040/6
It's been an "interesting" year (as the Chinese would say). Lets hope the next
one will be more settled.
Anyway, just for a bit of fun...
https://soundcloud.com/soft-sounds/resolution
A revision of a song from 1 Jan 2009
--
Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'}
https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/http://yoshimi.github.io
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
