Here is a late musical seasonal greeting to Linux Audio.
(I wrote and recorded this track already on Christmas Day and intended
to improve the mix before publishing, but since I have to work this week
and it would probably not get finished until next year, I decided to put
it out as is.)
**The theme to a soppy Christmas television mini-series from the
eighties that never was**
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/spotlightkid/a-castle-in-bohemia
Ogg Vorbis download: https://0x20.eu/nc/s/RFBjkL6kFacMWo9
FLAC download: https://0x20.eu/nc/s/wbY7HjTB2fYwyT8
Synopsis: A young woman from western Europe spends a year in communist
era Bohemia (then Czechoslovakia), where she has family ties, as a farm
hand. She lives on the premises of a small castle, which belongs to an
impoverished family of aristocratic roots. When she meets the young son
of the family, their initial mutual attraction is cut short by
misunderstandings caused by prejudice and differences in upbringing.
Over time though, he wins her heart by showing her the beauty of the
Bohemian country side and the joys of a simple rural life while she
enchants him with her classical flute playing and brings him to overcome
his introvert nature by introducing him to Italo disco dancing.
:)
Composed and produced by Christopher Arndt on Christmas Day 2021.
Recorded in Ardour 6 DAW on Linux with a Yamaha Reface DX FM synthesizer
into a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 audio interface.
No samples, no filters, just one synth.
Reface DX patches by Christopher Arndt and from SoundMondo.com (list on
request).
Some EQ ("EQ10Q") used on the horn sound, IR reverb using "LSP
Impulsnachhall" and Samplicity M7 "Boston Hall A" impulse response, and
multi-band EQ and compression on master bus using "ZamAudio ZaMultiCompX2".
Share & Enjoy!
Chris
On 12/23/21 1:15 AM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'd like to announce rtcqs, the continuation of the
> realtimeconfigquickscan project. It's a port to Python with some added
> extra's, like a Spectre/Meltdown mitigations check and a Qt GUI. It
> has the approval of the original author of realtimeconfigquickscan to
> whom I owe a debt of gratitude, not only for the original code but
> also for his helpfulness with the continuation, or maybe even
> evolution of the project.
>
> So check it out, indulge me with bugs, issues, improvements or any
> other useful feedback on the Codeberg repo which you can find at at
> https://codeberg.org/rtcqs/rtcqs
>
> Happy system tuning and happy holidays!
>
> Jeremy
Thanks. Returns the same information the older script did.
Although I installed the Q1 GUI, how do you run it? Not important, I
prefer the script, but just asking.
--
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authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
"My password is the last 8 digits of π."
Does anybody know of a tool that I could feed audio in to, and have it output an "interpreted" video? Not necessarily a "waveform" of the audio, more something abstract, like an acid-tripped audio fractal or something.
Thanks!
I've just push my latest work to github, It's a pure, nasty growling
bass fuzz pedal, with bold out-front presence, and cutting articulation.
It's for those who love those good old transistor based fuzz pedals.
https://github.com/brummer10/Rumor <https://github.com/brummer10/Rumor>
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Hey hey,
I had the great opportunity to remix a song by Oscillator (Staffan Melin).
Here's the Linux musician's thread with the original:
https://linuxmusicians.com/./viewtopic.php?f=9&t=23954
Here's my remix:
https://youtu.be/yPYko4vuvEk
and a direct OGG version:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n05lejzwj0851t1/pandora_mix2.ogg
This song uses samples from Missa pro defunctis - 1. Requiem by permission (CC
BY 3.0), see
https://musopen.org/music/44142-missa-pro-defunctis/
Vocals performed by Kajsa Olsson
This remix uses a few of the arpeggio rhythm sounds from the original,
re-recordings of pads, bass and some arpeggio/sequence style sounds to allow
for slightly adapted harmonies. :) The drums are completely new.
Besides some hardware for the monophonic sounds, there is a lot of Yoshimi for
the three pads and two choirs. There is also Aeolus. I always wanted a good
place for Aeolus in a popular production. None better!
The drums are a mix of samples loaded into LinuxSampler, partly sampled from
hardware, partly synthesized in Csound.
The processing is rather heavy duty, but quite conventional. Lots of use for
SWH (Barry's Satan maximzer! :) ), CAPS, TAP, Calf, Invada and Fons' g2verb,
zita-reverb and parametric 4-band filter.
Enjoy and best wishes,
Jeanette
--
* 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
Don't, don't let me be the last to know
Don't hold back, just let it go <3
(Britney Spears)
Dear list,
I'm mainly using Pianoteq and setBfree for live performance. To quickly adapt my
sound volume of both SoftSynths together I'm using a foot pedal to send Midi
volume commands to both applications. Unfortunately that is not working very
well for both programs are using the Midi volume values (0-127) differently.
Pianoteq adjusts its output volume according to a more logarithmic manner while
setBfree seems to handle it linearly. Thus if I adjust both volumes to a similar
SPL for Midi value = 127 the organ is way to loud at lower levels compared to
Pianoteq.
Meanwhile I have found the location in the source of setBfree where I could make
adjustments. I have measured the logarithmic dependency of Pianotec's Midi to
volume characteristic and found a formula to be used in setBfree to get a
similar performance. It would be nice if this could find its way into the
original source.
Now I have the following questions:
Does anyone of you know if the original swell pedal of the B3 is changing the
volume in a linear or logarithmic way? Maybe if the original B3 uses a linear
characteristic we should not change setBfree's code.
The function I'm using is mimicking Pianotec's characteristic. Maybe there is a
more global approach for changing from linear to logarithmic behavior over Midi
volume values? Surely for me it's ideal when both Synths have same characteristic.
Do you know a source where I can find more general info about lin<=> log
conversion of Midi volume in software? How is it handled in other professional
programs? I know that every amplifier uses a logarithmic pot for volume control
to follow more the human loudness perception.
Do you think its worth the effort to send a patch to github's repository (I've
never done such a thing so far)?
Thank you for your time
Gerhard
Dear group,
I would like to use alsaplayer via jack to play 3-channel audio files. These audio files will be routed into a real-time capable signal processing platform the open master hearing aid (openMHA). However, I cannot route the third channel to jack. I try to start alsaplayer as a daemon with the following command
alsaplayer -i daemon -s PHL -o jack -d MHA:in_1,MHA:in_2,MHA:in_3 -F 16000
However alsaplayer returns and error saying
cannot connect output port 2 (MHA:in_2,MHA:in_3)
Actually MHA:in_2 should be the output port 2 and MHA:in_3 is ment to be the output port 3.
I first start the openMHA software so that it establishes 4 input and 4 output connections via jack with the sound hardware. I can see the connections on qjackctl connections window.
I have a sound card that has 8 input and output channels and the openMHA is configured to expect 4 input channels and produces 2 output channels and already mentioned. So, the problem is neither on the MHA side nor on the hardware. I am afraid that I cannot configure the alsaplayer correctly that it expects three (or more) output ports. I would appreciate any help from your side. Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Kamil
