On 09/27/2011 11:20 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: indeed! félicitation! agree++; If you could document your setup, you'll probably be able to convince quite a few future students! The problem is not so much the software; but time and equipment (instruments, musicians, studio) to record and create those libraries - especially orchestral sounds libraries for film scoring can be quite expensive. Most producers of these sample-libs do simply not have the means to support free-software: Publishing the samples in a proprietary format solves their issue of distribution retaining copy-protection. AFAIK sonokinetic.net is or was looking into making their libs available for GNU/Linux applications; but I don't know any details. A while ago the Blender Community was looking into recording samples from a Dutch orchestra for creating a cinematic sound library in terms of the Creative Commons License. AFAIK it never happened. Another Dutch effort: http://opensymphonia.sourceforge.net/ is an active project towards that goal.

On 09/27/2011 06:48 PM, Brett McCoy wrote: I'm glad to hear that. Now that you've graduated and have lots of time (hehe) you may want to give http://gareus.org/wiki/a3vtl a shot. Basically it allows to control xjadeo from ardour3 and offers a video-timeline. BUT the usual alpha-software warnings apply. I would not object to commercial samples - if the sampler is free :) Though eventually I'd favor some kind of GPL or CC buyout model. DRM is evil but musicians still need to eat. I think the problem boils down to creating an open format for a commercial sample-library that prevents the user from sharing the samples while it can still be used (in realtime). The usual GNU/Linux approaches (e.g. gpg encrypted ramdisk) make it either too easy to circumvent copy protection or are not suitable for real-time usage. Tools like http://www.linuxsampler.org/nkitool/ are in constant need to be updated to new versions... They did sponsor the Linux Audio Conference this year. maybe we should start asking them repeatedly about Linux support... I just sent them an inquiry. I will let you know when they respond. It is still in planning phase.. it only started a few months back and - alas - there is not much information there how to help except for donating money. I am a bit reluctant to do so without knowing the way they'll go. So far they only outline the goals which IMHO seem a bit too too unrealistic. Even just the first point on: http://opensymphonia.sourceforge.net/?page_id=16 "Studio quality 192khz/24bit recording of a entire Orchestra per section and per instrument, dry and in a concert hall." would be an investment of >$1M in the commercial world. And the 2nd: "Multiple articulations" will take at least a year or two. let's hope Joey can pull this one off! robin

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org> wrote: I did experiment with aicsd before, and I think the support in A3 looks even more promising. -- Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world."     -- Jelaleddin Rumi

Hi Seablade, On 09/27/2011 08:49 PM, Thomas Vecchione wrote: yes. [x]jadeo does not change. Besides, the system is designed for using a separate machine for video. But there is no wizard/dialog or doc how to set this up, yet. Basically ardour just launches and controls xjadeo. The command to launch xjadeo can be overridden (with the XJREMOTE environment variable) - you can replace it with a script that ssh's into your VTR box. At first I thought netjack/jack-transport or MTC to be a prerequisite, but even sending video-seek commands via an ssh-pipe over LAN is <5 ms latency; actually around 1-2ms on average. quite sufficient for the real world. Currently I NFS mount the video-storage onto the machine running ardour3. That allows to browse and select video-files from the ardour3 GUI as well as use the video-file(s) for muxing on export (for various reasons the ffmpeg exporter is currently limited to run on the same machine as ardour3 does). ciao, robin