Re: [linux-audio-user] Audacity error - Linux-audio-user

23 Mar 2005

I found the problem - Gnome starts its own sound server for system event
sounds - I hadn't realised this as I only have headphones connected to
my soundcard at the moment & I only wear them when I listen to music.

Anyway, I stopped the Gnome sound server & Audacity is happy once again.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Gavin.

...
  Hi Jan,

 Thanks, but I am using Gnome 2.8 (standard with Ubuntu) & I don't have
 any KDE stuff on my system (I am not a fan of KDE).

 Gavin.

 So back to square one, I'm afraid..

  Message: 2
 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:25:09 -0600
 From: Jan Depner &lt;eviltwin69(a)cableone.net&gt;
 Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Audacity error
 To: A list for linux audio users
 &lt;linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu&gt; Message-ID:
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 My first guess would be that artsd or some other sound thing is
 running.  Try killall -9 artsd and see if that helps.  If you're
 using KDE even the stinking system beep starts up artsd.

 Jan

 On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 17:52, Gavin Stevens wrote:
 > (de-lurk mode)
 > 
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > I keep getting an error when starting Audacity. It reads "There
 > was an error initialising the audio i/o layer. You will not be
 > able to play audio".
 > 
 > It then starts & works, apart from not being able to play what it
 > is doing.
 > 
 > The strange thing is that it worked fine the first time I used it
 > (I recently "rested" Debian in order to try Ubuntu, so it's a new
 > installation). Every time since then, it has shown this error.
 > 
 > Everything else seems to be working fine on the audio front: XMMS
 > is happy, MIDI is working, even Audacity is functioning, but I
 > have to play files saved in Audacity via XMMS.
 > 
 > Is there something silly that I've missed? I can't work out why it
 > would play audio once & then not subsequently.
 > 
 > Any help appreciated.
 > 
 > TIA
 > 
 > Gavin.  

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 Message: 9
 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:11:28 -0500
 From: John Check &lt;j4strngs(a)bitless.net&gt;
 Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Hammond organ?
 To: A list for linux audio users &lt;linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu&gt;
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 On Wednesday 23 March 2005 04:16 pm, philicorda wrote:
  I wrote:
  It's also really worth playing with the
LADSPA swh impulse
 convolver plugin. Guitar amps sound really good on hammond! Also
 the TAP preamps are nice. A bit of fuzz and grit+limited freqency
 range and odd resonances really brings it to life.
 The one thing no midi hammond can ever do is the way different
 tones come in at different times as you press down the key. This
 means you 
 can

  kinda flick the keys and just get the top drawbar
to plip a little
 and the percussion to ping. 
 John Check wrote:
 "Can you elaborate on that? Is it an artifact of the differing
 wavelengths or
 the physical construction?"

 It's the way all the key contacts don't touch the bus bars at the
 same time, so as you press down the key, the high drawbars and
 percussion sound first, and then as you press down a tiny bit more
 the other drawbars sound. I think my hammond's keyboard is probably
 more knackered than most so I notice it/ use it more.  
 Gotcha. Thanks

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 Message: 10
 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:21:55 -0800 (PST)
 From: R Parker &lt;rtp405(a)yahoo.com&gt;
 Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] "MusicPad Pro Plus": Linux-based
 	notepad device
 To: A list for linux audio users &lt;linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu&gt;
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 that's excellent!

 ron

 --- Andreas Kuckartz &lt;A.Kuckartz(a)ping.de&gt; wrote:
  For those interested in the use of Linux in more
 traditional environments:

 "Indianapolis High School Band Makes History by
 Performing First Paperless
 Concert

 "Instead of reading their music from printed sheets
 during their performance,
 the band members used a Linux-based notepad device
 from Freehand Systems called
 the MusicPad Pro Plus. This was the first time in
 history that a high school
 band gave a concert using digital music notation in
 place of sheet music."

 http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=83186

 ---

 On their website FreeHand Systems does not seem to
 mention that their product is
 Linux-based:
 http://www.freehandsystems.com/

 Cheers,
 Andreas

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