11 Aug
2009
11 Aug
'09
7:42 p.m.
Hey there everyone,
I'm in the process of retooling my website and adding a blog aimed at
beginners to Linux audio. My next article is going to be a detailed
description on how use ZynAddSubFX and also a "down and dirty" on how
to create unique voices for Zyn and save them. I have a ton of unique
voices for Zyn that I've created over the years that I would like to
share as part of the article, but I'm not sure on the best way to
package them for download. My initial plan was to save each one as a
separate .xmz file and zip all that together but would it be better to
open up the banks folder where they are all saved and zip them up from
there?
Also if anybody wants to sharpshoot glaring errors in the articles on
my blog (all 2 entries so far) it is available @
http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com
Thank you for your time
Christopher ("Airlynx"/"Chip") Van Dan
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11 Aug
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8:03 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:42:55 -0500
Chip VanDan <chip.vandan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey there everyone,
I'm in the process of retooling my website and adding a blog aimed at
beginners to Linux audio. My next article is going to be a detailed
description on how use ZynAddSubFX and also a "down and dirty" on how
to create unique voices for Zyn and save them. I have a ton of unique
voices for Zyn that I've created over the years that I would like to
share as part of the article, but I'm not sure on the best way to
package them for download. My initial plan was to save each one as a
separate .xmz file and zip all that together but would it be better to
open up the banks folder where they are all saved and zip them up from
there?
Also if anybody wants to sharpshoot glaring errors in the articles on
my blog (all 2 entries so far) it is available @
http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com
Thank you for your time
Christopher ("Airlynx"/"Chip") Van Dan
Put them in a suitably named bank as they are, then zip the bank
(several banks if you have more than 128 patches) :o
That way people only have to unzip the bank then drag it complete into
their user 'banks' folder.
I'll #try# to find time to look over your articles - not promissing
though. I usually find all 25 hours of all 8 day weeks are fully
booked :(
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
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12 Aug
5:38 a.m.
Den Tuesday 11 August 2009 23.42.55 skrev Chip VanDan:
Hey there everyone,
I'm in the process of retooling my website and adding a blog aimed at
beginners to Linux audio. My next article is going to be a detailed
description on how use ZynAddSubFX and also a "down and dirty" on how
to create unique voices for Zyn and save them.
This I need. I'm really useless of handling a synth.
I have a ton of unique
voices for Zyn that I've created over the years that I would like to
share as part of the article, but I'm not sure on the best way to
package them for download. My initial plan was to save each one as a
separate .xmz file and zip all that together but would it be better to
open up the banks folder where they are all saved and zip them up from
there?
Also if anybody wants to sharpshoot glaring errors in the articles on
my blog (all 2 entries so far) it is available @
http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com
I can't really comment on the writing itself in your article. My mother tongue
is not English. But I would like to make two comments. One about the ease of
reading. You have white for the text and some sort of grey for the
background. I do find reading longer texts difficult when they are coloured
like that. A way to solve my problem is to read the article directly in
firefox as a atom-feed[1]. It gives me the look that I prefer. Second I think
you should include something about realtime in your article about jack.
Newcomers tend to start with just that as their first negative experience
with linux audio. It could be as short as a pointer to, for example a page on
low-latency[2] or a link to some distribution[3] that has rt-kernel as
deafult.
But keep up the good work. Articles about music and music production is always
welcome.
ref.
[1] http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
[2] http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto
[3] http://www.64studio.com/
PS. You seem to also be a productive musician. Nice. DS.
/bengan
7:58 p.m.
Thank you dearly for the pointers. I'm not settled on the color
scheme of the blog yet and experimenting with the software available.
As a matter of fact while I was experimenting with a new host for my
music site I discovered that they supported WordPress and was able to
fairly easily install it to my new site, therefore I am moving the
blog to a subdirectory on my main site. It will now be located at
http://airlynx.x10hosting.com/linuxmusic
As far as the low latency/realtime issues I am aware of them, however,
I have had no problem with them. This is probably because I have used
solely distros pre-tuned with low latency kernels and that is what I
encouraged in my article. My approach is more towards the musician
coming to Linux to take advantage of recording capabilities, which is
what I was (and still am). Thank you for the advice though. I may
gather some information and make a quick post in the future about low
latency kernels.
Currently I'm detailing everything I know about seq24 while gathering
enough intel to thoroughly cover ZynAddSubFX, I anticipate that will
be a fairly long post, but I don't think I can cover every bell and
whistle.
2009/8/12 Bengt Gördén <bengan(a)bag.org>rg>:
Den Tuesday 11 August 2009 23.42.55 skrev Chip
VanDan:
--
Christopher ("Airlynx"/"Chip") Van Dan
Hey there everyone,
I'm in the process of retooling my website and adding a blog aimed at
beginners to Linux audio. My next article is going to be a detailed
description on how use ZynAddSubFX and also a "down and dirty" on how
to create unique voices for Zyn and save them.
This I need. I'm really useless of handling a synth.
I have a ton of unique
voices for Zyn that I've created over the years that I would like to
share as part of the article, but I'm not sure on the best way to
package them for download. My initial plan was to save each one as a
separate .xmz file and zip all that together but would it be better to
open up the banks folder where they are all saved and zip them up from
there?
Also if anybody wants to sharpshoot glaring errors in the articles on
my blog (all 2 entries so far) it is available @
http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com
I can't really comment on the writing itself in your article. My mother tongue
is not English. But I would like to make two comments. One about the ease of
reading. You have white for the text and some sort of grey for the
background. I do find reading longer texts difficult when they are coloured
like that. A way to solve my problem is to read the article directly in
firefox as a atom-feed[1]. It gives me the look that I prefer. Second I think
you should include something about realtime in your article about jack.
Newcomers tend to start with just that as their first negative experience
with linux audio. It could be as short as a pointer to, for example a page on
low-latency[2] or a link to some distribution[3] that has rt-kernel as
deafult.
But keep up the good work. Articles about music and music production is always
welcome.
ref.
[1] http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
[2] http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto
[3] http://www.64studio.com/
PS. You seem to also be a productive musician. Nice. DS.
/bengan
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13 Aug
13 Aug
4:39 p.m.
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:42:55 -0500
Chip VanDan <chip.vandan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey there everyone,
I'm in the process of retooling my website and adding a blog aimed at
beginners to Linux audio. My next article is going to be a detailed
description on how use ZynAddSubFX and also a "down and dirty" on how
to create unique voices for Zyn and save them. I have a ton of unique
voices for Zyn that I've created over the years that I would like to
share as part of the article, but I'm not sure on the best way to
package them for download. My initial plan was to save each one as a
separate .xmz file and zip all that together but would it be better to
open up the banks folder where they are all saved and zip them up from
there?
Also if anybody wants to sharpshoot glaring errors in the articles on
my blog (all 2 entries so far) it is available @
http://makinglinuxmusic.blogspot.com
Thank you for your time
Christopher ("Airlynx"/"Chip") Van Dan
Nice.
One serious mistake I noticed:
"Do not panic about the "Stopped" message in green, that is referring
to the transport, which syncs up your MIDI controlled programs."
Jack transport has nothing to do with MIDI.
The jack configuration topic is slim to say the least. It's extremely
important but also difficult. It would have been nice if it would have
been covered.
It's also a bit of a pity that you used screenshots of FC3, few people
will use that old software versions, so ubuntu's stuff will generally
be closer to what they see.
Still, it's nice to see someone writing documentation.
Regards,
Philipp
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On 08/14/2009 04:39 AM, hollunder(a)gmx.at wrote:
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It's also a bit of a pity that you used
screenshots of FC3, few people
will use that old software versions, so ubuntu's stuff will generally
be closer to what they see.
Indeed, especially as QJackCtl's connections window now has 3 tabs.
This has the potential to confuse newbies: in the FC3 version pictured,
`MIDI' means ALSA MIDI, but in later versions, `MIDI' means JACK MIDI;
and ALSA MIDI is labelled `ALSA'. Also, the pictured FC3 `Audio' tab
has system inputs and output labelled as `alsa_pcm', whereas later
versions simply call these `system'.
FC3 is a real blast of distrostalgia, with its bluecurve theme and Luxi
Sans font!
The first mentions of JACK and QJackCtl are links to the websites; for
consistency, it would be nice to see ZynAddSubFx and Seq24 linked to
their respective sites as well:
http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/
http://seq24.sourceforge.net/
Still, it's nice to see someone writing documentation.
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