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A few Christmas standards made with LInux and Nama

by Rusty Perez

Hi guys, Season's greetings. Here are a few of the cover songs I produced and recorded for my Christmas album. I'm playing and singing everything here for better or worse. I recorded and mixed everything in Nama over about two months of sporatic evenings.. There are moments which I'm proud of, and things I know could have been better. But, rather than letting it languish, I wanted to get it out. I can always remix and redo. :-) I wish I could have corrected the vocal intonation in several places. I wish I hadn't mixed the bass so hot, and wish I had punped up the percussion a bit. I also need to learn to master. There are other nocks, but those are the biggest. Feel free to pass along your gentle constructive criticism. :-) Here are the links. Drummer Boy https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30068518/Drummerboy.mp3 Do They Know It's Christmas https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30068518/DoTheyKnow.mp3 Do You Hear What I Hear https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30068518/DoYouHear.mp3 Mary Did You Know https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30068518/MaryDidYouKnow.mp3 What If God Rest https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30068518/WhatIfGodRest.mp3 These songs obviously belong to their owners, and I only lay claim to my arrangements. Rusty

11 years, 11 months

music made with linux: Modlys/hjerte, løft din glædes vinger

by Atte

Hi Today is the first sunday of advent. To celebrate I made a new version (new melody and music, original lyrics) of the danish christmas carol "Hjerte, løft din glædes vinger" (Heart, lift your wings of joy). It's available as part of the growing album "Advent" here: http://music.modlys.dk/track/hjerte-l-ft-din-gl-des-vinger For those of you that for some reason can't use bandcamp, here's direct link to mp3: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4343030/hjerte_loeft_din_glaedes_vinger… Hope you enjoy! -- Atte http://atte.dk http://modlys.dk

11 years, 11 months

illucia

by Renato

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, just a heads up on this controller I found, I know some guys here might be interested: http://www.illucia.com/ it surely looks way more interesting to me than the various Monome-like controllers cheers, renato -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSl3LvAAoJEBz6xFdttjrfjfIH/jTGP8uFqkYEibHhP7whd4Ep jRdXpKciEydXpxefIbqYUtfohqLY2X8pYXyfnDPV3S/OyJlvTzZWQJZUQ7xhp+JT lHdzKVqNyI0+PKtUtyo7WUmOEekRQ0k6vKYx23cDPTuyvVbqzxatMDAMKSBoSlSp M7ttb7C4hgmSusPFAxrGsk/x5mCvG521f0s/a4fCGsuElxg3dwye0KcysBZMj90r KzkLqwUDCESELEFQV5MEODn4zKntjsIFVuJbDuP1WAMUEKfTnYLk/ZfkRpMSobim QxuFnVeh75uNuiccUHCwuFuBF4yNH6lkIv4v5drSQ7MrkHunKJpSAY71YjnTaOU= =p9af -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

11 years, 11 months

[Music] Prog supergroup's first outings

by Q

Hail citizens! M'colleague and I are proud to announce the first releases from Julius Quintus, LAU's least-productive prog supergroup (for which I am entirely to blame -- the productivity thing, that is, I'm only partially to blame for the music). These were recorded at JQ's first recording session (and second ever meeting) in August 2010, in the UK. Rough mixes were done three years ago, but they've languished ever since, basically waiting for me to get my arse into gear. An injury earlier in the year that rendered me unable to play, together with other personal circumstances, made it a good opportunity to revisit these two pieces and finally do them justice. I'd like to take this opportunity to dedicate these two pieces to m'colleague, Julien, as a thank you for all the friendship and music we've shared, and as an apology for being so damn slow with everything. Those that can, make music: those that can't, make excuses. We have a good partnership: m'colleague makes the music and I have a batch of freshly made excuses specially prepared... https://soundcloud.com/quirq-uk/julius-quintus-as-a-cloud https://soundcloud.com/quirq-uk/julius-quintus-time-to-go Details and other links further below. We hope you enjoy and, as always, comments are welcomed. No capes, Persian rugs, curries, knives or ice rinks were harmed during the making of this music. Ave, Julius Quintus --- AS A CLOUD PASSES THE SUN, SO MY LIFE TURNS GREY This main bulk of this short piece was written in the studio in August 2010. The flute was added later in August, following the main session. The take was only supposed to be a placeholder until a better one could be recorded, but so far that hasn't happened. So the flute playing is even crappier than is usual. The guitar overdubs were the last to be done, being added in September 2010 following an inspirational break in Orkney. J: Black Grand piano, Virtual String Machine, M-Tron Pro (three violins, eight choir), drums Q: guitars (SA503TVL, Les Paul), fretless bass, flute, percussion Music: J&Q Engineering, mixing & mastering: Q SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/quirq-uk/julius-quintus-as-a-cloud FLAC download: http://juliencoder.de/nama/Julius_Quintus-As_A_Cloud_Passes_The_Sun_So_My_L… --- TIME TO GO [6:01] This was a studio marmalade -- you can't really jam a full prog piece with two people -- recorded in August 2010. Piano and guitar were laid down together with the string machine overdub quickly following (sadly not the real deal, since the studio wasn't equipped with real string machines until later). The next day, the drums were improvised/overdubbed, followed by the bass (improvising on a fretless was not the best of ideas and protestations were made!). The improvised lead guitar part was overdubbed on the last full day in the studio, as it was beginning to dawn that it would soon be time to go and something needed to be laid down. It's the first take. The other details were added during pre-production, which commenced this summer. J: Black Grand piano, Virtual String Machine, drums Q: guitars (SA503TVL), fretless bass, ChamberTron (female voice, male voice), M-Tron Pro (boys' choir, female choir, male choir), Little Phatty SII, Dark Energy, percussion Music: J&Q Engineering, mixing & mastering: Q SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/quirq-uk/julius-quintus-time-to-go FLAC download: http://juliencoder.de/nama/Julius_Quintus-Time_To_Go.flac --- Our special thanks go to, but are not limited to, all those behind: Ardour, Linuxsampler, Hydrogen, linuxDSP, Calf, Invada, zita, IR, SWH, Guitarix, ZamAudio, GForce Software, Sampletekk, NI, plus Ian Shepherd.

11 years, 11 months

Experience with LuaAV

by Philipp Überbacher

Hi there, I'm want to give live-coding a try and am looking for a nice environment. I came across LuaAV again, didn't find it in any repos and now I remembered why: the guys who develop it use a rather weird build system, basically a few scripts specifically written for some version of ubuntu. However, I guess it's not impossible to build it on other distros. Has anyone tried? Is it worth it? Regards, Philipp

11 years, 11 months

VLC 2.1

by Alf Haakon Lund

Hi folks, I was going to install the latest and greatest VLC, but for some reason even the http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu reverted to version 2.0.8 and it seems 2.1 will only be available in 14.10 (see http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2013/10/vlc-2-1-1-released-install-upgr…) Anybody here know idea why? All the best, Al F

11 years, 11 months

New Power Noise Track Made On Linux

by Neil

Hard. Fast. Highly political. Most of the heavy lifting was done in Ardour. Most of the drum programming was in Hydrogen, with additoinal programming was done in Ardour MIDI'd to Hydrogen via JACK. Other details can be found in the SoundCloud description. https://soundcloud.com/dj-dual-core/the-reactionaries-believe-in Neil -- DJ Dual Core's Blog http://oldmixtapes.blogspot.com/ Order without government; Peace without violence.

11 years, 11 months

midimsg.lv2 0.0.1

by Aurélien Leblond

Hello all, A quick message to announce a new set of lv2 plugins: midimsg.lv2. In a nutshell, these plugins are used to transform midi messages into usable values. At the moment, modwheel, controller and channel aftertouch is available. These are usefull to control parameters of other LV2 plugins via midi. They can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/midimsglv2/files/midimsg.lv2-0.0.1.tar.gz/d… I would be really interrested to get any feedback regarding this new project. enjoy :) Aurélien

11 years, 11 months

QMidiArp 0.5.3 maintenance release

by Frank Kober

Dear all, QMidiArp 0.5.3 fixes a number of bugs and should from now on replace 0.5.2. It also has some minor functional improvements, all is listed below. With thanks to all reporters, contributors and translators. And....enjoy! Frank ------------------------------------ QMidiArp is an advanced MIDI arpeggiator, programmable step sequencer and LFO for Linux with ALSA and JACK MIDI backends. ------------------------------------ Downloads are available at http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/ direct link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidiarp/files/qmidiarp/0.5.3/qmidiarp-0.5.… ------------------------------------ qmidiarp-0.5.3 (2013-11-26) New Features o Random functions for sequencer and LFO steps and arp repeat mode (feature request #5 Keith Milner) Improvements o NSM support now handles import/export/clear to facilitate getting started (Roy Vegard Ovesen) o Tempo is now MIDI-controllable (MIDI-learn) o Sequencer transpose slider is now MIDI controllable (MIDI-learn) (feature request #7) o Sequencer pattern maximum length extended to 32 bars (feature request #6) Fixed Bugs o LFO offset jumped back to fixed value when MIDI controlled (bug #6 distrozapper) o Arp trigger behavior was not practical with chords pressed on keyboard (bug #7 Burkhard Ritter) o JACK Transport no longer worked when no JT Master tempo was present (bug #5 Barney Holmes) o Deleting an arp pattern in text window while running caused crash o Note lengths were not consistent between alsa and jack backends o Note lengths did not account for current tempo o Sequencer did not honor "D" button when MIDI controlled o Seq note length is now a 16th at half slider scale

11 years, 11 months

Re: [LAU] [semi-OT] Licences and your opinion and experience

by Carlos sanchiavedraz

2013/11/14 Carlos sanchiavedraz <csanchezgs(a)gmail.com>: > 2013/11/14 Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org>: >> On 11/14/2013 01:20 PM, Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote: >>> Hello dear all LAUers. >>> >>> Time ago I did some research about open source/free software licences: >>> types, pros and cons, etc. I'm reviewing it and, given that I follow >>> and love many of the great projects and applications coded by members >>> of this list, I would love to here you're opinions (pros, cons) and >>> experience in practice and why you chose X licence for your project(s) >>> (business model or enterprise view in mind, 'cause you like it...). >> >> Software concerning infrastructure and inter-operation should *provide >> freedom to the developer*. Less restrictive licensing (eg. MIT, BSD, >> public-domain) is important to promote standards (in particular network >> or communication protocols.) >> >> Application software aimed at end-users should *protect the freedom of >> the user*. Here GPL is appropriate. It ensures that any user will be >> free to run it (which must include the freedom to modify it e.g. to make >> it work on future systems,...) amongst other freedoms. From a developer >> point of view the GPL also provides continuity and allows software to >> evolve. >> >> >> Personally I either choose the MIT or the GPLv2+ license for all of my >> projects. The former for libs, the latter for apps (with the usual >> exceptions, mainly due to re-using code and inheriting licenses). The >> reason for those two is that they're the only two licenses that I have >> read, understand and agree with. >> I have no intention to spend any time reading all of the others licenses >> cover-to-cover, and I believe that any developer who is using a given >> license should at least have a basic understanding of [the implications >> of] the license which mandates reading it completely. >> I keep an open eye on [new] licenses but have not had any reason to >> investigate any of them any further. >> >>> I see that the most commons are GPL2 (some don't like yet the v3) and >>> GPL3. And nowadays with so many services in the cloud also AGPL, and >>> MIT or Apache as well with HTML and Javascript libs and artifacts. >>> >>> Thanks as always for sharing your work and knowledge. >> >> >> 2c, >> robin > > Well and clearly explained. > > Thanks so much, Robin. > > -- > Carlos sanchiavedraz > * Musix GNU+Linux > http://www.musix.es I've made a quick search in Sourceforge to see the number of projects with each licence and related to Audio: * GPL2/GPL2+: they are a vast majority, maybe just because It's older than v3. Here you can see some of the projects that we love at Musix and myself: Ardour (in its own repo), Qsynth, Qjackctl, (all the rncbc stuff), Rakarrack Hydrogen, LMMS * GPL3: Here we have Guitarix (also has GPL2 and BSD), Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard * AGPL: not much You can check also the chapter "Adoption"[1] Wikipedia as part of the article on GPL. There you can read: " In 2011, four years after the release of the GPLv3, according to Black Duck Software data, 6.5% of all open-source license projects are GPLv3 while 42.5% are GPLv2.[45] Google open-source programs office manager Chris DiBona reported that the number of open-source projects licensed software that had moved to GPLv3 from GPLv2 was 50% in 2009, " I thought at the beginning that choosing GPLv3 was the way to go nowadays: It's newer, and takes into account problems like "Tivoization", patents and stuff. And also AGPL is one for me to consider because many of my projects could benefit from its protection against being "cloud-servified" against your will, let's say. But then I see that big projects (reference for me in the FLOSS world) like Ardour, Jackd, Qjackctl, Qsynth, Rakarrack are GPL2+ and others just GPL2, so I wonder if they just keep going on with what was chosen in first place (backwards compatibility I guess) or they just don't like GPLv3 yet even with those mentioned potential benefits. I'd be very appreciate to know in particular the experience of these projects I mentioned and that of people who actually make a living developing floss software and have a business model that supports and/or benefits from it. Thanks so much anyways you all. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPLv2#Adoption -- Carlos sanchiavedraz * Musix GNU+Linux http://www.musix.es

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