CALL FOR MUSICIANS
==================
If you are a musician and interested in Free Software, the Beast project
needs your input. You can contribute with testing, feature feedback,
demos and tutorials. Please see our website: http://beast.testbit.eu/
BEAST RELEASE
=============
BEAST version 0.8.0 is available for download at:
http://beast.testbit.eu/beast-ftp/v0.8/
This release opens a new development branch which focuses on improving
interoperability and feature integration. A new dependency on Rapicorn
is introduced, which can be found here:
http://dist.testbit.eu/rapicorn/
This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the Better Audio System
and the Better Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition
and modular synthesis application released as Free Software under the
GNU LGPL that runs under Unix. The "Better" portion of the name
refers to the complexity and many iterations involved in implementing
such a "BEAST" (pun intended). The About page covers more details:
http://beast.testbit.eu/about
Contact information about mailing lists, IRC, Bugzilla and more is at:
http://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Contact
GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as
screenshots can be found at:
http://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Sound_Galleryhttp://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Screenshots
TRANSLATORS: Please help us to improve the BEAST translation, just
download the tarball, edit po/<LANGUAGE>.po and email it to us or
submit translations directly via transifex:
https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/gnome-org-beast/resource/messagespot/
Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.8.0: (2013-03-25)
* Added use of the Rapicorn library, require version 13.0.0.
* Adapted IDL types to other projects.
* Adapted code to make use of C++11 and STL threads.
* Various performance improvements through EventFD, Spinlocks, lambdas, etc.
* Major documentation improvements, see: http://dev.testbit.eu/beast/latest/
* Fixed printf format-security issues (#665097). [Alessio Treglia]
* Lots of code cleanups, licensing cleanups.
--
Yours sincerely,
Tim Janik
---
http://timj.testbit.eu/ - Free software Author
Hi,
I'm switching machines from Mandriva 2010.2 on a home built
machine to Fedora 17 on a custom built machine. I'm running
cdrdao version 1.2.3 on both machines.
CDRDAO on the Mandriva machine works just fine, and the discs
produced by it play in all sorts of audio and computer CD
players. The command I used is 'cdrdao write contents.toc'.
The burner on this machine is:
/dev/sr0 : PIONEER , DVD-RW DVR-111D, 1.23
CDRDAO on the Fedora machine has trouble. The command I
used is
'cdrdao simulate -v 3 --driver generic-mmc-raw contents.toc'.
I added "--driver generic-mmc-raw" because cdrdao suggested it.
I added "-v 3" to get some debugging output. The burner on this
machine is:
/dev/sr0 : PLEXTOR , DVDR PX-L890SA, 1.06
The debugging output is:
Cdrdao version 1.2.3 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas(a)daneb.de>
Format converter enabled for extensions: ogg
Detected SG driver version: 3.5.27
Detected SG driver version: 3.5.27
/dev/sr0: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-L890SA Rev: 1.06
Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC (raw writing) - Version 2.0 (options 0x0000)
/dev/sr0: SCSI command Rezero Unit (0x01) failed: Bad address.
/dev/sr0: SCSI command Rezero Unit (0x01) failed: Bad address.
Starting write simulation at speed 16...
Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort.
Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\).
Turning BURN-Proof on
Enabling JustSpeed.
Using 96 byte raw P-W sub-channel data mode for CD-TEXT.
Cue Sheet (variant 0):
CTL/ TNO INDEX DATA SCMS MIN SEC FRAME
ADR FORM
01 00 00 41 00 97 25 31
01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 01 01 00 00 00 04 00
01 02 01 00 00 01 15 12
01 03 01 00 00 03 42 05
01 04 01 00 00 07 17 24
01 05 01 00 00 10 59 38
01 06 01 00 00 14 45 01
01 07 01 00 00 18 19 00
01 08 01 00 00 21 50 57
01 09 01 00 00 26 37 04
01 0a 01 00 00 29 30 00
01 0b 01 00 00 33 02 40
01 0c 01 00 00 36 13 68
01 0d 01 00 00 40 02 73
01 0e 01 00 00 44 30 25
01 0f 01 00 00 48 47 35
01 10 01 00 00 51 53 50
01 11 01 00 00 55 34 31
01 aa 01 01 00 59 17 30
Session format: 0
WARNING: No super user permission to setup real time scheduling.
Waiting for reader process
Buffer filled
Awaken, will start writing
Writing lead-in and gap...
ERROR: Write data failed.
ERROR: Simulation failed.
/dev/sr0: SCSI command Rezero Unit (0x01) failed: Bad address.
I've scoured the cdrdao-devel mailing list archives, which are
quite thin after 2009.
Anyone have any debugging advice?
I've tried wodim via K3B in SAO mode, but that produces CDs which
are unplayable on some of my audio CD players.
Thanks....
--
Kevin
You are invited to be a speaker/presenter at MOSSCon.
Preparations are in full swing for the very first Midwest Open Source
Software Conference (MOSSCon), to be held in Louisville on May 18-19.
Your help in spreading the word and helping us fill out our schedule of
presentations and workshops would be appreciated.
This is going to be a great networking event for the whole region!
Louisville is in such a central location, it can draw from a very wide area.
We have a great venue: the University of Louisville's Student Activities
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plenty of exhibit space available for groups and businesses to make
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We are working on a broadly based "Open" theme, that can include open
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We already have some super presentations lined up. But there are still
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concentrating on filling out our schedule with more presentations and
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If you're involved with Open Source (or open anything) you definitely
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Check out the conference website at http://mosscon.org/. Click on "Be a
Speaker" for details on submitting your proposal.
But get to it! The deadline for submitting your preliminary proposal is
this Friday, March 29!
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Spread the word and submit your proposal!
Thanks,
John Hicks
Anyone used one of cheap ribbon mics I see on feabay for well under
$100? Yeah, probably get what you pay for ... but I don't have 2 to 4
grand just to play with one. I'm doing some in-home recording of a
tenor sax and I've heard that ribbons are really good for this.
Comments appreciated.
--
**** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars ****
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
On 03/26/2013 03:37 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> On Tue, March 26, 2013 2:09 am, david wrote:
>
>> I've also been told that if you buy an UEFI system with Windows 8
>> installed, then turn of secure boot, you have to reinstall Windows 8.
>
> Windows is just the demo OS the device comes with to show the device can
> do something, Surely nobody actually leaves it in the machine...
More people leave it on the machine than replace it with Linux. Sadly.
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://clanjones.org/david/http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/
On Mon, March 25, 2013 1:39 pm, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> On 03/25/2013 08:06 PM, david wrote:
>> The laptop I'm considering (Zareason Verix 530) as replacement for my
>> current one has a dual-core Intel i3 processor with hyperthreading.
>> Zareason says there's no way to turn off HT in BIOS.
>>
>> I think folk on the list have said that HT causes problems with RT. So
>> how can I disable hyperthreading?
>
> I can do like this in my Kubuntu system which have 8 kernels:
>
> sudo echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/cpu0/online
> sudo echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/cpu2/online
That should be all you need with two cores, turn off cpu 0 and 2, though
most people turn off 1 and 3 :)
> sudo echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/cpu7/online
Which is why the cpu 7 here.
Linux sees the each core as two cpus, one for each thread. Not only might
a thread be using too much time but there is also the overhead of context
switching (invisible to the kernel) from one thread to the other. With
hyper threading on, I can run jack at 64 frames with few xruns. With
hyperthreading off, I can get down to 16 frames with guitarix running and
no xruns. (10 year old single core p4 at 2.4G) Read up on some of the cnc
projects where they require lower latency than audio. Lots of good info.
Hyperthreading improves "performance" over all, but raises the latency
audio can run at without dropouts. Once you hit 4 cores though,
hyperthreading is more of a gimmick than a help.
Every second thread/cpu can also be disabled on the kernel command line in
grub:
isolcpus= cpu_number[, cpu_number,...]
The cnc people also use this to hide a cpu away from the OS so they can
have full access to that cpu for just their application without the OS
using it too.
--
Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net
On Mon, March 25, 2013 10:00 am, hermann meyer wrote:
>> On 3/25/13, Stefan Stefanov<selectany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Can you suggest any console based distro optimized just for listening
>>> music? I don't need any sofisticated music maker software on it like
>>> synthesizer, filter and etc.
>>> May be just real-time support kernel, optimizer kernel IRQ and of
>>> course with JACK.
>> Just do a minimal install of Arch Linux. Be default there is not even
>> an X server installed, so as long as you don't install it yourself you
>> will have a nice console-based OS.
> maybe you like to try GeexBox
>
> http://www.geexbox.org/about/what-is-geexbox/
Looks interesting.
Might be over kill for this use, may also be harder to install the server
software needed.
--
Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net
On Mon, March 25, 2013 8:44 am, Stefan Stefanov wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can you suggest any console based distro optimized just for listening
> music? I don't need any sofisticated music maker software on it like
> synthesizer, filter and etc.
> May be just real-time support kernel, optimizer kernel IRQ and of
> course with JACK.
>
> I'm intending to use it as home FTP, HTTP server as well.
Just about any server is ok at streaming audio. It sounds like you are
looking at more of a server to begin with, so start with one of the
servers that come with the server apps already on it that you want. What I
don't know if where is this music coming from? Another computer? right off
the drive?
This is important, even with a lowlatency/rt kernel, if the application
you are using to listen to the music with doesn't ask for real time, there
is no need to go looking for it. Does it matter if the audio comes out of
the speakers 5 seconds later than it was played (MP3 streaming has about
this latency)? Then the OS is not important. The computer is not that
important either, anything faster than 500Mhz will probably do. For
listening (no mixing or recording), 16 bit at 48k is all you need, most
internal audio IFs will work just fine. (if it is an older ac97, don't use
44.1k)
And where is the sound going to? Speakers on the server? or are you
streaming through the network to various computers around the home?
Streaming is low cpu stuff (especially if the stream is coming from
somewhere else) , sound card may be slightly pickier.
I guess one should ask if this is more than two channels too.
The real question is what exactly are you doing with this audio wise?
--
Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net
Not this again ;)!
My apologies, but I'm searching for a distro comparable to old Arch Linux
or old Ubuntu Studio.
For another thread Gene was talking about "black magic" and indeed some
"things" are "occult" in the sense of "hidden" ;). FWIW, all ADAT channels
of my RME card, that aren't working for Linux, are working for my FreeBSD.
The Xfce menu icon of FreeBSD only, is replaced by a pentagram, for me
it's just some kind of asterisk, without any super cow powers, but perhaps
this does the magic. The next Xfce install will get the same icon ;D.
I dropped my old Arch, regarding to too many issues with the unfinished
switch to systemd.
Following the mailing list I had the impression, that the transition is
complete and that there are no serious issues any more, but trying to
install it yesterday, I suspect that mails regarding to issues simply are
rejected.
I still try to install the current Arch Linux later today, but seemingly
the transition to systemd isn't finished yet and perhaps the next wicked
transition already will be enforced in a hidden way. Just an assumption, I
don't claim that it is that way.
While my request regarding to pppoe for the install doesn't pass list
moderation, eth0 isn't up and doing it as usual doesn't work, I read rude
words about request to keep Wayland optional. It seems to be, that some
people using X anyway need to install Wayland.
Fortunately there's a German Arch Linux forum, where it's still possible
to get help, but I also need clarification in what direction Arch Linux
will go in the near future and I prefer a distro with a sane mailing list.
Debian and Ubuntu still have good mailing lists, but as for Ubuntu Studio
I have several generations installed, from 10.10 Maverick to 12.10
Quantal. The performance on my machine dramatically slows down with each
release. Quantal for some tasks already is unusable, a lot of the
non-audio desktop apps I need are buggy and this isn't an issue for my
machine, but the troubles are common, for many users.
Last time I monitored the poll the most used distros were Arch Linux and
Ubuntu Studio. Yes, that are my distros too, ok for 2012 and perhaps ok
for 2013. But how will those distros continue?
Regards,
Ralf
