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by Alf Haakon Pietruszka Lund

Dear list! I just spent a lot of time finding a good setup for telephone interviews. In case someone else is interested for making podcasts or live shows of some sorts, I thought I'd share the setup: # Hardware Laptop, smartphone, USB interface, iRig 2, microphone, headphones. XLR cable for the mic, 2 Jack - Jack 1/4" TS cables, USB cable. I'm switching between an Edirol UA-25ex and a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4. Proper connection of the phone to the setup was a headache and I spent quite some time testing a range of adapters. Most of them require an electret mic to function, which does not go well with my setup. Thanks to https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wl6YuVu_v_g for pointing me to the iRig. # Connections Mic > USB 1 USB out 1 > iRig instrument input iRig amp out > USB 2 iRig < > telephone iRig set to FX To cancel echo from my own voice the Input / Monitor selector on the USB needs to be set almost fully counter-clockwise (almost input only). # Software Kubuntu Studio 20.04, Ardour 6.6, Studio Controls 2.1.64, Carla 2.3.0, Ubuntu studio backports PPA. # Software connections 1. Set Ardour to handle monitoring 2. Set Ardour Master to send L/R to System playback 2 3. Set up a mono foldback bus in Ardour for mix minus (everything except the caller). Foldback sends to System Playback 1 4. Use Carla > Patchbay to disconnect System playback from pulse_out Using a cheap Shure PG58 mic this setup is close to noiseless, even in my bedroom home office :-) Regards, Alf

4 years, 5 months

List of FOSS Sampled Instrument Libraries for musicians - Hand selected and curated

by Laborejo Software Suite

Hello LAUs, Here is a list I am working on at the moment that I wanted to share with you. I feel like I've written this already in 2012, but some stuff is worth repeating :) https://hilbricht.net/foss-sampled-instruments.html "This is a hand selected and curated list of sampled music instrument libraries for software samplers that musicians can use without worrying, but which are also free and open source. Through strict requirements and thorough research we hope that this list can be trusted." (Guest appearances by Aeolus and setBFree :)) It is work in progress, but already useful, I hope. Yours, Nils

4 years, 5 months

Re: [LAU] List of FOSS Sampled Instrument Libraries for musicians - Hand selected and curated

by Laborejo Software Suite

Hi Paul. thanks for the answer. The following is not meant as "told you so!". But I also want to show, that I care about this subject and made my homework. > sorry, that reply may have sounded a bit grumpy. it's just a bit irritating > sometimes to see well-intentioned efforts that seem to miss so many of the > resources they need to cover in order to give people a full picture. And sometimes a well meaning reply is also wrong: That Aeolus and setBfree are sample-less software synthesizers was not only hinted at through " Guest appearances by Aeolus and setBFree :) " but it also mentioned three times on the website itself. Once under "All software synthesizers" and then in each individual description. The samples from pianobook.co.uk all do not fulfill my requirements. See also their terms and conditions: https://www.pianobook.co.uk/terms-conditions/ Quote: " You may not sell sample(s), or give away any sample(s) for use by any other person(s)." And to anticipate one possible reply: My list is not a matter of what is fair and moral and possibly enough to make music. It has a 100% clear, law to the letter, no exceptions approach. I also wrote: "The strict constraints mean that this list will never be very large. Creating sampled instruments is a time-consuming and expensive task and is usually undertaken with the intention of making money from the result, thus not distributing the instrument as free and open source. This is by no means condemnable, but in this case it is simply not our topic. " And finally, from your .sf2 image I can tell at a first glance several well-known illegal rips, instances where the authors falsely claimed "public domain" and cases where the license simply do not meet my requirements, the requirements I prominently put in their own chapter. For example Florestan is well know copyright infringement, SC55 is already clear that these are just Roland samples, G-Town is not as free as people like to think, they are probably worth an entry on my "Other list" (that is linked on the page). Some of the .sf2 are synthesizer sounds, which I clearly declared "out of scope", even if they were CC0 sf2. And maybe they are just bad sounds. As I wrote: "They either have to be of decent quality, or at least be the only ones of their kind." For example balafon1.sf2, which I even created an .sfz version from in 2012. However, I would not recommend that to anyone because I dislike the sound. So, it is possible that a few of these .sf2 are indeed good fits for my list. And in this case I welcome any suggestion, as written on the page. However, I require a source that I can review. With the risk to sound grumpy as well: This time my efforts were already ahead. The "full picture" is sadly not as full as it should be. Not many people have the time, money and skills to produce samples, and that shows. People are desperate and want every sample-lib to be free and good. But most of the time they aren't, but yet another EMU Proteus rip, or something like this. I hope this example of the research-and-elimination process shows why I think I am the right person to create that list. Yours, Nils On Thu, 27 May 2021 16:48:25 -0600 Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote: > sorry, that reply may have sounded a bit grumpy. it's just a bit irritating > sometimes to see well-intentioned efforts that seem to miss so many of the > resources they need to cover in order to give people a full picture. > > here's what i mean. > > first, a shot of the pianobook libs i have on my machine - more or less all > those available in DS format. Just two days, we got a beautiful full > orchestra lib there (NFO...) > > [image: image.png] > > next, here's a listing of all the SF2 libs i was able to find that were > gratis+libre during a big search a couple of years ago. I don't like most > of these - SF2 is an inadequate format for msot instruments, though it > works well for percussive sounds: > > [image: image.png] > > > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 4:03 PM Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 3:44 PM Laborejo Software Suite <info(a)laborejo.org> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello LAUs, > >> > >> Here is a list I am working on at the moment that I wanted to share with > >> you. > >> I feel like I've written this already in 2012, but some stuff is worth > >> repeating :) > >> > >> https://hilbricht.net/foss-sampled-instruments.html > > > > > > Aeolus and SetBFree are not sampled instruments. They are synthesizers > > that generate sound from scratch. > > > > You;ve also skipped all of the libraries on pianobook.co.uk that are in > > DecentSampler format, and can thus be played in either DecentSampler > > (gratis, non-libre) or sfizz (gratis & libre) > > > > > >

4 years, 5 months

Fwd: The audacity of Audacity: Telemetry / Google Analytics added

by Kevin Cole

'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/07/audacity_telemetry/ The article notes that it's actually an "opt in" but cautions that users might mistakenly do so.

4 years, 5 months

Transient Detection

by Brandon Hale

Hello all, I am looking for a program that can chop an audio file by its transients. Are there any good tools for doing that? I really would like a command line program ideally, as I want to split up a whole folder of drum breaks into individual transients. Thanks so much for any help you can offer, Brandon Hale

4 years, 5 months

Wavetral - a tool to convert between single cyel waves and spectra

by Jeanette C.

Hey hey, I just released wavetral, a tool to convert between single cycle waveforms and harmonic spectra in different formats. It supports audiofiles, plaintext representations (one value per line), Waldorf Microwave II/XT wave dumps. It can furthermore read Csound ftables as stored by ftsave and ftsavek and it can write a Yoshimi script, which can be run loccally (runlocal) in the wave context of the AddSynth voices and PadSynth. Converting between waveforms means resampling a waveform and converting between harmonics allows to decrease harmonics or fill higher harmonics with 0s to meet certain requirements. You can clone the git repo here: git clone https://github.com/jeanette-c/wavetral.git Stranglely, when I tried I wasn't on the master branch, so I had to do cd wavetral git checkout master git pull Maybe it's just my git setup. 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 For whatever reason, I feel like I've been wanting you all my life <3 (Britney Spears)

4 years, 5 months

SoundTracker 1.0.2 released

by Yury Alyaev

Hi all, After a long period of testing, having no negative feedback I decided to issue the SoundTracker 1.0.2 release. Comparing to the last pre-release, 1.0.2-pre2, this is only the bugfixing release with few small improvements only. But some critical bugs are closed included that causing crash sometimes after manipulations with instruments. Here are main features of the 1.0.2 release comparing to 1.0.1: * Almost all user actions are logged and can be undone/redone; * Sample editor has a new compact and comprehensive design; * PulseAudio output driver is created. You can find more new features in NEWS file. ST-1.0.2 can be downloaded here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/soundtracker/files/latest/download Any feedback is welcome in SoundTracker mailing list: soundtracker-discuss(a)lists.sourceforge.net For those who didn't hear about the SoundTracker before: this program is a score music editor and sequencer with tablature-like notation (such kind of editors called as "trackers" and originating from the demo-scene) with some facilities for editing samples and instruments. Regards, Yury.

4 years, 5 months

[ANN] Qtractor 0.9.22 - A Spring'21 Release batch #3

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello one third and last time time, for a little while :) Didn't you know? Qtractor 0.9.22 (spring'21) has been released! Change-log: - Fixed one terribly old and overlooked mistake that was preventing MIDI tracks volume and panning automation to take effect on audio export. - All packaging builds switching to CMake. [8] Description: Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Website: https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.22.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.22-64.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.22-64.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.22-64.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (outdated; help wanted, please): https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: https://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [8] CMake, a cross-platform, open-source build system generator https://cmake.org See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2228 Stay safe && Keep the fun, always! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

4 years, 6 months

Audio-Video desktop recording

by Will Godfrey

About 8-9 years ago I attempted to record video and on-board sound along with an external microphone. There were two programs I tried, Record My Desktop, and (I think) Simple Screen Recorder. I couldn't get either of them to manage the microphone, and only one to include stereo audio - and even that was a struggle (can't remember which one). I'm wondering what the current situation is for the best possible prospect of doing this. I won't be using a camera, but want to be able to use a microphone for voiceover, so that of course would be mono. Also I envisage doing this in comparatively short sections, then stitching them all together afterwards to make a seemingly continuous vid. Can anyone make suggestions. The kit I'll be using will have an earlier 4 core AMD Ryzen, with a reasonably modern Radeon GPU card and connected to an M-Audio Mtrack 8. -- Will J Godfrey 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.

4 years, 6 months

[ANN] Vee One Suite 0.9.22 - A Spring'21 Release batch #2

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello again! The 'Vee One Suite' of 'old-school' software instruments, * synthv1 [1] as a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; * samplv1 [2] a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; * drumkv1 [3] as yet another drum-kit sampler; * padthv1 [4] as a polyphonic additive synthesizer. Are all here and now for the second batch to the so called 'QStuff*' (northern) Spring'21 release season. Rejoice. And still delivered in dual form:: - a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session [5], NSM (Non Session Management [6]) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI [7] input support; - a LV2 instrument plug-in [8]. Changes for this season are rather janitorial: - All packaging builds switching to CMake. [12] The 'Vee One Suite' are free, open-source Linux Audio [10] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [11] version 2 or later. And here they are again... **synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer [1] ** synthv1 0.9.22 (spring'21) is out! synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://synthv1.sourceforge.io http://synthv1.sourceforge.net project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.9.22.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-jack-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-lv2-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-jack-0.9.22-63.x86_64.AppImage git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/synthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/synthv1.git **samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler [2]** samplv1 0.9.22 (spring'21) is out! samplv1 is an old-school polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://samplv1.sourceforge.io http://samplv1.sourceforge.net project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.9.22.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-jack-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-lv2-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-jack-0.9.22-63.x86_64.AppImage git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/samplv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/samplv1.git **drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler [3]** drumkv1 0.9.22 (spring'21) is out! drumkv1 is an old-school drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://drumkv1.sourceforge.io http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/drumkv1/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.9.22.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-jack-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-lv2-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-jack-0.9.22-63.x86_64.AppImage git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/drumkv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/drumkv1.git **padthv1 - an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer [4]** padthv1 0.9.22 (spring'21) is out! padthv1 is an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer with stereo fx. padthv1 is based on the PADsynth algorithm by Paul Nasca, as a special variant of additive synthesis. LV2 URI: http://padthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://padthv1.sourceforge.net https://padthv1.sourceforge.io project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/padthv1 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/padthv1/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-0.9.22.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-jack-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-lv2-0.9.22-63.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-jack-0.9.22-63.x86_64.AppImage git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/padthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/padthv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/padthv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/padthv1.git References: [1] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer https://synthv1.sourceforge.io http://synthv1.sourceforge.net [2] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler https://samplv1.sourceforge.io http://samplv1.sourceforge.net [3] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler https://drumkv1.sourceforge.io http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net [4] padthv1 - an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer https://padthv1.sourceforge.io http://padthv1.sourceforge.net [5] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org/ [6] NSM, Non Session Management http://non.tuxfamily.org/nsm/ [7] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [8] LV2, Audio Plugin Standard, the extensible successor of LADSPA http://lv2plug.in/ [9] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [10] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [11] GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [12] CMake, a cross-platform, open-source build system generator https://cmake.org See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2226 Have fun && Stay safe && Healthy! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

4 years, 6 months

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