Hello, list.
Last time I had a gig in a club where the sound system was really huge, and
I noticed that my signal wasn't loud enough.
I was using just headphone jack out from my laptop, and it hasn't been a
problem...I did plenty of gigs like that and it worked out pretty well. but
with this huge system, my max output didn't even hit the half of level
meter on the main mixer....as I'm obsessed with being loud, I was ashamed
and I need a solution.
I've been told that if I use a dedicated sound card, my output signal can
boost significantly.
is it true?
although it sounds like it makes sense, I doubt it a little bit because I
don't see any output pre-amps...etc. on the sound cards spec. (for inputs,
yes. but what matters for me is the level of output)
BUT if it's true,
what card you recommend to me?
my conditions are:
1. of course, my purpose is to boost my output signal, it has to satisfy
that first of all.
2. my budget is around 100-150 euro, but if needed, I can go a big higher.
3. I'm on Ubuntu 13.10, on lenovo ideapad Y500. I'm not the kind of guy who
can trouble shoot very well, hacking firmwares or whatever. so plug and
play, 'work out of box' kinda card will be great.
4. I do not have firewire port on my laptop, so it must be USB.
5. I don't know if it's true or not, but I've been told also that some
cards output more 'warmer' sounds. I want to prevent that. I want my output
LOUD but NOT warm.
so far, I found this:
http://www.thomann.de/pl/akai_eie_pro.htm
it looks like it will boost some signal. well, it 'looks' like. some of you
guys have this one? some reviews maybe?
also I've been told that the use of little table top compressor can help,
like this one:
http://www.thomann.de/pl/fmr_audio_rnc_1773.htm
if it's the case, maybe I won't need a soundcard. or do I need both? or do
you know some usb sound card that can combine the both??
thank you for all your thoughts and advices.
best,
jae
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Jae Ho YOUN
http://jaehoyoun.comhttp://advancedsituation.com/
All,
Some preliminary research reveals several FOSS implementations of WFS
(wave field synthesis). What is not entirely clear is how these
implementations stack up to something like Sonic Emotion. I presume they
will be subpar but the question is by how much and in what ways?
Ok, now another question. Is anyone aware of a 3D FOSS WFS
implementation (multiple horizontal rows) and how hard would it be to use?
Best wishes,
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Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
Head, ICAT IMPACT Studio
Virginia Tech
Department of Music
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0240
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
disis.music.vt.edul2ork.music.vt.eduico.bukvic.net
Hello everyone,
This is off topic but you are basicvally the only source that I know
of that I know knows something about this. I would like to buy this
for our son for Xmas. I am a registered Ardour user and have suggested
him to use it but he can not really dual boot and use Ardour, since
all of his stuff, and all of his friends and all that are on the Windows
side. If he could also make music there it would be a nice creative
thing that he could share with others.
Thing is, I know absolutely *nothing* about Windows software. I
almost bought a Sony recording thing but backed off when I realized
there's no support for a M-audio 1010LT card. Our son's machine has a
1010LT card and Windows 7. I'm certain many of you here knows a thing
or two or three about Windows recording softwares out there that would
basically be like Ardour. And under $300 if possible.
So I would ask kindly if it's possible to give some recommendations
here. It would be greatly appreciated ! If such a request/thread is
verboten, simply tell me. Or send me recommendations by email.
Cheers !
Dear LAU,
I'm happy to share this acousmatic piece I have made available online.
On soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/lorenzosu/machine-landscape
Direct download of the FLAC file is also available from that soundcloud page
OGG file:
http://lorenzosu.net/music_sound/machine_landscape/machine_landscape.ogg
Machine Landscape presents a sonic experience inspired by 'the machine',
predominant and unavoidable element of our contemporary life.
The piece was entirely composed with Linux.
and was performed at EmuFest 2013 electronic music festival in Rome in
October. For the festival the piece was performed on a 24-speaker 'dome'
system and spatialised live.
For what concerns software Ardour3 and Pure Data had a predominant role.
Lorenzo.
I've used a lot of Windows and Mac audio software over the past 13
years. But, I am not at all into looping and use very little midi or
virtual instruments. So for real audio recording with very good built
in EQ's and compressors my favorite is Sawstudio. It installs in
seconds and is a solid code. There is a X-mas sale on now and the Basic
version is $200. However, you would have to buy an additional bit of
software to use midi at all.
Reaper is also painless to install and is solid and $60.
For virtual creativity (and sounds) check out Propellerhead's Reason
($400).
Grekim
Anyone who has visited a Linux/tech news site today will no doubt be aware
of the launch of the beta version of Valve's SteamOS. I've not had chance
to try it myself yet and I won't get the chance to play with it for a few
days either but its based on a heavily patched Debian Wheezy.
What could be of more interest to Linux audio land is that it uses a
heavily patched 3.10 RT kernel. Although Valve's tweaks won't have been
made with JACK / LA in mind, I can't help but wonder if their modifications
will be of benefit to Linux audio?
Regardless, I think SteamOS is fantastic news for Linux. This is hot on the
heels of DOOM's 20th birthday. DOOM was of course one of the first
commercial games to have a Linux port and to later get GPL'd and it was the
game that convinced me (and millions of others, I'm sure) to buy a PC.
Hi
I'm runing crunchbang linux, which essentially is debian stable. I'm
having trouble getting ardour3 working, tried both the source tarball,
checking out from git and the paid-for download from ardour.org. Let's
take the later:
atte@skagen:~/software/ardour3$ sudo dpkg -i ardour3_3.5.74~dfsg-1_i386.deb
[sudo] password for atte:
Selecting previously unselected package ardour3.
(Reading database ... 208603 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ardour3 (from ardour3_3.5.74~dfsg-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ardour3:
ardour3 depends on libc6 (>= 2.17); however:
Version of libc6:i386 on system is 2.13-38.
ardour3 depends on libfftw3-double3; however:
Package libfftw3-double3 is not installed.
ardour3 depends on libfftw3-single3; however:
Package libfftw3-single3 is not installed.
ardour3 depends on libflac8 (>= 1.3.0); however:
Version of libflac8:i386 on system is 1.2.1-6.
ardour3 depends on libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11); however:
Version of libfontconfig1:i386 on system is 2.9.0-7.1.
ardour3 depends on libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.36.2); however:
Version of libglibmm-2.4-1c2a:i386 on system is 2.32.1-1.
ardour3 depends on libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0); however:
Package libpango-1.0-0 is not installed.
ardour3 depends on libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0); however:
Package libpangocairo-1.0-0 is not installed.
ardour3 depends on libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0); however:
Package libpangoft2-1.0-0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ardour3 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
ardour3
Hmmm. So ardour3 is dependent libs with higher version numbers than my
system provides. Needless to say, I don't want to break my system doing
this, so in stead of just poking around, I'd rather ask here:
What are the steps needed to safely install the dependencies for ardour3
on a debian stable system?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Atte
http://atte.dkhttp://modlys.dk
