I bought this keyboard controller based on the advert stating it was class
compliant, plug and play, Linux compatible.
However, I found that it starts up with a firmware update message, and apart
from Note On, Note Off, Channel Pressure, none of the controls work, not even
the ones designated for manually setting the others.
On conacting nektar for support, it took over 2 days for them to tell me that I
had to install the firmware.
WTF!
I've never heard of any hardware being effectively dead until you install
firmware. What's more, so much for supporting Linux, the software to install
the firmware is Windows or MacOs - nothing else.
I tried using Wine to get this done, but the software reports that it can't find
the keyboard. This is on Devuan Boewulf, which carries Wine V4.0.
I also tried grabbing a more recent version of Wine from wineHQ, but devuan
refused reporting an uninstallable dependency.
I'm very reluctant to try to install a VM, I'm running out of storage space,
and this is a working machine - I can't risk messing it about too much.
If it weren't for the pandemic lockdown situation I might have been able to go
to a Windows using friend for help, but this is out of the question for the
forseeable future.
Any suggestions?
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Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
hereby the Laborejo Software Suite releases updates for its programs in
the hope to be useful in your musical toolbox.
You can now download Patroneo version 2.1.0 .
https://laborejo.org/downloads/patroneo-2.1.0.tar.gz
All software is released under GPLv3.
Patroneo (Esperanto: /Pattern/) is an easy to use, pattern based midi
sequencer, a program that sends digital "notes" to software instruments
such as synthesizers and samplers.
Changelog Highlights:
* Full Undo/Redo
* Add track groups, which double as midi bus. This enhances overview for more complex projects.
* Add option to follow the playhead in pattern view (or not), required by the much longer patterns. Also better scrolling and playhead is always visible now.
* Add option to change the midi channel for a track in the tracks context menu.
* Add View-Menu with options to maximize the two editor areas.
* Add advanced feature for a global rhythm offset, meant for Jack-Transport. Allows the whole piece to begin later on the jack-timeline.
You can find all releases as sources here. Also check your distribution
for packages in a few days after this announcement, please.
https://laborejo.org/downloads/
For more information, a multi-language user manual, build instructions
and git access please visit
https://www.laborejo.org/patroneo/
Greetings,
Laborejo Software Suite
https://www.laborejo.org/
I'm looking for clear install instructions for Carla, with its Win VST bridge.
Tracktion Waveform comes with few instrumental sounds (only "Collective", I believe) so I
hope to use KXStudio's Carla to enable the use of Win VST instruments.
Waveform 11.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 64bit, my CPU is Intel i5.
Here a demo of Carla running a Win VST or plugin, is quite persuasive,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiaWozQ69eE
On installing Carla on Ubuntu, one query and recommendation is here,
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1035116/cannot-install-carla-on-ubuntu-18-04
KXStudio says first enable its repositories. So I've done that,
https://kx.studio/Repositories
Carla pre-compiled binaries and zipped source code to compile, are here,
https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla
Carla github install.md is here, perhaps this can make and install everything,
https://github.com/falkTX/Carla/blob/master/INSTALL.md
But here is what I don't understand, the 4 Carla variants listed;
carla, carla-bridge-win, carla-git, carla-vst-wine
https://kx.studio/Repositories:Applications
Presently it looks like 'sudo apt install carla-git' is the 1st to try.
Hi all,
I am asking here because over the years I have not found
convincing/detailed information in google about:
Which audio adapter do you use to use a 2ndary sound card in jack?
1.jacl_load audioadapter
2. alsa_[in | out] ?
3. zita_[a2j | j2a] ?
why do you use the one you use? What are its advantages ? Have you
identified or do you know of any disadvantages for each of the above ?
Do you have preferred options to minimize xruns ?
Thank you in advance for your help
Athanasios
This subject seems to come up occasionally...
What is the current best practice with regard to Jack classic versus
Jack 2? It's usually said that Jack 2 is optimized for SMP, but it's
hard to find a machine these days that isn't SMP. Maybe the two
projects are merging because of this?
Because, Jack 1 hasn't gone away. In fact, the only version of
jack-audio-connection-kit currently in Gentoo (no overlay) has a version
string of 0.125.0-r1, and I presume that's Jack 1. I've got a local
overlay with 1.9.12 that I've been using, so I can fight this of
course...but should I? Is everyone being advised to move to Jack 1 now?
For what it's worth in deciding, I prefer not to use dbus for control
(or for anything at all, when I can avoid it), and I'm using QJackCtl as
a frontend.
Hi all,
For the purposes of this discussion, I am playing guitar through an Axe-Fx
II into a Behringer UMC1820 USB rack soundcard. OS is Xubuntu Focal 20.04.
This works fine for general jamming, I can play a backing track from the
computer and use the hardware monitoring to mix in the Axe-Fx as necessary.
But when I want to record, the levels are low. I record using my Android
phone, and activate Audacity to record the guitar tracks from the Axe-Fx.
But the levels are so low, the waveform is tiny. I can apply a plugin to
increase the volume, but you can imagine the quality.
I see the same thing in the Pulseaudio Volume Control Input Devices tab, so
it's not an Audacity issue. With jackd active, the input levels are fine, I
can see them in Ardour. But I don't want to have to activate jack for more
simple stuff like this, it's a pain.
For what it's worth, the output level of the Axe-Fx is around 75%, and the
input gain knobs on the soundcard at about 25%. Any higher and the clip
lights come on when I play hard.
Any clues on how to debug / fix this? I'm suspecting a driver issue,
because there simply aren't that many moving parts.
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