20 Jun
2014
20 Jun
'14
1:44 a.m.
Hello fellow Linux audio users,
I'm back to dabbling with Linux as an audio system. Among other things,
I play bass guitar in a synth pop band and recently started to get
interested in bass synthesizers. I could of course buy something like
Markbass Super Synth, but then I thought - maybe I could cobble together
something using my Samsung Q35 laptop and Linux? The laptop has a dual
core processor and 2.5GB RAM. The sound card is a variable here: it
could be the built-in Intel HDA (for this particular purpose, why not),
or an Infrasonic DeuX (Firewire) that I have, or even some used Echo
Indigo (PCMCIA).
Is what I want viable at all with a reasonable latency? What software
setup can I use for that? Does anybody here use something similar live?
Regards,
Artem Vakhitov
20 Jun
20 Jun
2:10 a.m.
Rakarrak's audio to midi conversion does work for some kinds of guitar
playing. I never tested it using a bass, it likely will become harder to
use it the lower the string sound its, this already was an issue for old
MIDI pickups. I don't know the quality of modern MIDI pickups, but I
guess it's better you get such a pickup. Without a MIDI pickup the
conversion only does work monophonic.
As for the synth available for Linux, assumed there should be no xruns
at usable latencies, the sound of an onboard audio device unlikely will
be good enough for usage in a band, but the available synth might
satisfy your needs assumed you're using a high quality sound card.
23 Jun
23 Jun
1:10 p.m.
On 20.06.2014 3:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Rakarrak's audio to midi conversion does work for
some kinds of guitar
playing. I never tested it using a bass, it likely will become harder to
use it the lower the string sound its, this already was an issue for old
MIDI pickups. I don't know the quality of modern MIDI pickups, but I
guess it's better you get such a pickup. Without a MIDI pickup the
conversion only does work monophonic.
As for the synth available for Linux, assumed there should be no xruns
at usable latencies, the sound of an onboard audio device unlikely will
be good enough for usage in a band, but the available synth might
satisfy your needs assumed you're using a high quality sound card.
Will try Rakarrack. BTW, I don't need MIDI as such, I just need a way to
control an analog synth using the audio signal from bass guitar.
Regards,
Artem Vakhitov
1:34 p.m.
On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 15:09 +0300, Artem Vakhitov wrote:
Will try Rakarrack. BTW, I don't need MIDI as
such, I just need a way to
control an analog synth using the audio signal from bass guitar.
I guess you wanted to point out that you will use a simulation of an
analog synth ;). There are some virtual Linux synth that fit to my
needs :), while I prefer to use MIDI to use real analog synth ;).
Calf Monosynth, Phasex and last but not least Yoshimi (not really an
anlog synth emulation ;) are some of the good once. Regarding to sound
samplers that are able to play good, free available sounds we are
screwed. Oops, I nearly forgot that some man really tries to emulate
analog chips, http://bristol.sourceforge.net/ , I prefer my MIDI
interface to use real synth, but it's worth to test his emulations, if
you aren't addicted (as I'm) to CEM/Curtis microchips or the original
C64 SID.
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi linuxsampler | grep Licenses
Licenses : GPL custom:exception
For other distros than Arch Linux, there are usually are third party
repositories providing linuxsampler + GUI's.
1:41 p.m.
On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 13:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Stay away from this DX7 emulation. I own a real old DX7 in the metal
case, if you like DX7 Bass sounds, better get an old DX7, but if you're
willing to use an emulation, than better use Hexter instead of Bristol.
20 Jun
20 Jun
7:09 a.m.
Am 20.06.2014 01:44, schrieb Artem Vakhitov:
Hello fellow Linux audio users,
I'm back to dabbling with Linux as an audio system. Among other
things, I play bass guitar in a synth pop band and recently started to
get interested in bass synthesizers. I could of course buy something
like Markbass Super Synth, but then I thought - maybe I could cobble
together something using my Samsung Q35 laptop and Linux? The laptop
has a dual core processor and 2.5GB RAM. The sound card is a variable
here: it could be the built-in Intel HDA (for this particular purpose,
why not), or an Infrasonic DeuX (Firewire) that I have, or even some
used Echo Indigo (PCMCIA).
Is what I want viable at all with a reasonable latency? What software
setup can I use for that? Does anybody here use something similar live?
Regards,
Artem Vakhitov
You may have a look at brian's amsynth site, he list and describe a
couple of Linux soft synth's, give sound examples and patches for them.
That could make it a bit easier for you to find what you are looking for.
http://amsynth.com/
23 Jun
23 Jun
1:13 p.m.
On 20.06.2014 8:09, hermann meyer wrote:
You may have a look at brian's amsynth site, he
list and describe a
couple of Linux soft synth's, give sound examples and patches for them.
That could make it a bit easier for you to find what you are looking for.
http://amsynth.com/
Thank you Hermann, I will explore it.
Regards,
Artem Vakhitov
2:45 p.m.
2014-06-23 14:06 GMT+02:00 Artem Vakhitov <temcat(a)mail.ru>ru>:
On 20.06.2014 8:09, hermann meyer wrote:
Great resource to have an idea of the sound of each synth, good for
Brian, and thanks for the resource.
That will serve really well when I have to demonstrate the quality
sounds that you can achieve.
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You may have a look at brian's amsynth site, he list and describe a
couple of Linux soft synth's, give sound examples and patches for them.
That could make it a bit easier for you to find what you are looking for.
http://amsynth.com/
Thank you Hermann, I will explore it.
Regards,
Artem Vakhitov
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24 Jun
24 Jun
7:39 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:44:14AM +0400, Artem Vakhitov wrote:
Hello fellow Linux audio users,
I'm back to dabbling with Linux as an audio system. Among other
things, I play bass guitar in a synth pop band and recently started
to get interested in bass synthesizers. I could of course buy
something like Markbass Super Synth, but then I thought - maybe I
could cobble together something using my Samsung Q35 laptop and
Linux? The laptop has a dual core processor and 2.5GB RAM. The sound
card is a variable here: it could be the built-in Intel HDA (for
this particular purpose, why not), or an Infrasonic DeuX (Firewire)
that I have, or even some used Echo Indigo (PCMCIA).
Is what I want viable at all with a reasonable latency? What
software setup can I use for that? Does anybody here use something
similar live?
In my experience, you've got more than enough hardware there to do many things.
I made tons of music with softsynths on top of softsynths, plugins, etc, on a 2007-era
Asus Core2Duo at 2Ghz with 2GB RAM. Much of that music was posted here. I also mixed a
band CD using that same hardware. And I used it as a live synth for a few years too.
The key is to get a low-latency kernel. At the time (2007) I had to homegrow that stuff,
but nowadays it seems AVLinux is the easiest to set up with that.
The latency I got with my low-end FastTrack Pro USB interface was 3 periods at 128 each,
44.1khz. More than goood enough for recording/mixing/softsynths, and totally reliable,
never glitched on me once after I got everything dialed in.
-ken
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