Hi Julien, Yes, the setBfree synth engine is just that: a standalone app. You can pass it commandline options, but it is not interactive on the terminal. It takes MIDI messages (JACK-MIDI or ALSA-sequencer) as input and outputs sound to JACK, nothing else. The GUI is a standalone app (based on vkeybd for now) that just sends MIDI-CCs and MIDI-program changes to the synth and also features 2 keyboard-manuals (MIDI channel 1,2) and bass-pedals (MIDI channel 3). Setting up all MIDI controls (drawbars, key-click, vibrato, leslie,..) is not trivial and we currently lack standard-mappings for commonly used controllers or keyboards. So getting started is easiest with the GUI. The top-level Makefile will fail if tcl/tk is not available, but you can build the standalone synth via `cd src; make` and also run it from there. Example: `./setBfree -d midi.driver=alsa midi.port=129` Using the "-d" you will get a list of default MIDI-CC and MIDI-Program mappings listed to stdout during startup. You can customize those as outlined in `./setBfree --help`. The format of the config files is backwards compatible to Beatrix .cfg and .pgm files. enjoy, robin On 07/16/2012 02:05 AM, Julien Claassen wrote:

Julien, Are you using 'whirl.horn.acceleration' in your config files? Actually, there have been a changes that break backwards compatibility of some config files. In Beatrix both acceleration and deceleration were incorrectly spelled with double 'll'. But note that the unit has changed, too. setBfree's 'whirl.horn.acceleration' is in RPM/sec. Beatrix' 'whirl.horn.accelleration' was in RPM per process-cycle (128 samples) The default speed of the leslie-drum has been updated as well - it's a bit faster than beatrix' original to match measurements made by Jonathan S. Abel and Julius O. Smith. They wrote outstanding papers on the subject and we are in direct contact with them. Improving the leslie emulation is on our ToDo list. Anyway, you can get the old default with 'whirl.drum.fastrpm=330.0' It is entirely possible that the sound is slightly different. The synth engine is no longer fixed at 22.05kHz, 16bit. We tried hard to preserve as much as we can in the process and retain artifacts when converting it to float; but it certainly is not bit-exact and there may be bugs.. Yes, please send us samples and point out differences that make you unhappy. Either upload them send somewhere or send them directly to me by mail. Will has access to real B3's and Leslie cabinets and already mentioned a few differences between the emulator and the real thing, too. I dare say we'll get there in time. Cheers! robin

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 03:33:19PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: Linux zita1 3.4.4-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 3 15:35:13 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux zita-convolver 3.1.0. Works OK if compiled without convolution. I had a quick look at the code (will dive deeper into it tonight). This may be unrelated, but you *definitely* *must* *not* call start_process() and stop_process() from a RT context !! Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

On 07/16/2012 02:37 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Hi Fons, I think I found it. Can you please try again with latest git-head? <details> SF_INFO was not initialized. Calling sf_open() to read the IR files: ==2620== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==2620== at 0x41EDE2D: ??? (in libsndfile.so.1.0.25) was likely responsible for the segfault.. </details> ciao, robin

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:18:38PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: Starting program: /usr/local/bin/setBfree warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-gate.so.1. Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"? [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". init.. Audio : [New Thread 0xb77d2b40 (LWP 3291)] Scanner : Oscillators : Overdrive : Reverb : Whirl : Convolve : Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0xb7fb610e in pthread_getschedparam () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 (gdb) where #0 0xb7fb610e in pthread_getschedparam () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x0804a8f0 in main () Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:47:43PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: It resolves the segfault. Things seems to work, but after a minute or so the sound gets really horrible, as if the whole instrument were detuned. Even octaves sound wrong... Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

On 07/17/2012 12:29 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: FYI. Latest git. When you hit multiple keys in the high range on (an external) keyboard the sound is crunchy (slow leslie). If you hit one note, it sounds close to a hammond... So certainly not sounding 100% okish, especially in the high range. hth

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:02:16PM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Seems that you are calling pthread_getschedparam(jack_client_thread_id (j_client), &s_policy, &s_param); before the client is activated. Not sure if that is supposed to work... -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

On 07/16/2012 02:50 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote: Thanks for the report. Is that on Debian, Ubuntu or sth else? Testing things widely on many different systems is the main goal of this beta-release cycle. ciao, robin

Hi, Tried it on Ubuntu 12.04, but had to remove lv2-dev and set libzita-convolver-dev to (>=3.1.0-1) in debian/control before it would build, but it seems to work ok at a first glance. I only tried the keyboard in setBfree-start. Sounds great, thanks. Cheers, Kees

On 07/16/2012 09:36 PM, Kees van Veen wrote: Hoi Kees, Thanks. Note that without lv2-dev, setBfree still works fine but you won't be able to use the synth as LV2 nor get the effects as LV2 plugins. I've relaxed libzita-convolver-dev to (>=3.1.0-1), but lv2-dev is tricky: It is not yet available in Ubuntu [1]. There is no clean way to specify optional build-dependencies in Debian-packages [2] so we can't write packaging info that works on Debian/testing&sid and Ubuntu at the same time. We hope to get this into debian/sid during the next weeks and from then on it will be easier to derive Ubuntu packages. I'm glad you got it working, NTL. Cheers! robin [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/162023/lv2-and-lv2-dev-libraries-or-equivale… [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-mentors@lists.debian.org/msg79778.html

Hey Ken! Nice bit of playing, but I don't see anything demonic about the playing. :-) Still give us more from that! Rockingly yours Julien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Such Is Life: Very Intensely Adorable; Free And Jubilating Amazement Revels, Dancing On - FLOWERS! ====== Find my music at ====== http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html ..................................... "If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you." (Winnie the Pooh)