On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:31:11PM +0100, Folderol wrote: You need virmidi installed. Just run it with python pymidichaos /dev/snd/midiC3D3 (or whatever your virmidi port is called) then route the alsa connect of the virmidi out to your synth of choice with aconnect -lo aconnect client_no_of_virmidport client_no_of_synth press the start button, and move the split point slider to the right, and it should work... Oh, I got qmidiarp working properly too.. just needed to input on channel 1 (not 9!!) James

On Tuesday 08 May 2007 20:51, James Stone wrote: This is not your problem James, but perhaps you have a bit of info. I modprobed virmidi, and now have 4 ports showing in Qjackctl for virmidi, which are 80,81,82, and 83. I now run. python pymidichaos /dev/snd/midiC3D3. I've no idea which of the 4 ports is referenced by this, as their is loads of stuff in /dev/midi. Anyway. First I get a complaint that I need to install python-tk. I do that, then I get the following, and am not sure where to go now. Last login: Sat May 12 12:35:57 2007 djmons@debian:~$ cd Pymidichaos djmons@debian:~/Pymidichaos$ python pymidichaos /dev/snd/midiC3D3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "pymidichaos", line 12, in ? from midi_functions import * ImportError: No module named midi_functions djmons@debian:~/Pymidichaos$ This is just a shot in the dark, if you might know what the problem is here, otherwise I'll just pass on pymidichaos. I'm not young anymore, and sometimes trying to resolve some problems is too much hassle. Thanks in advance for any help. Nigel.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:55:30AM +0100, James Stone wrote: The joke someone made in there about a USB wah pedal controlling a virtual wah-wah plugin in software, reminded me. Umm... I need to do exactly that. But how? I got the pedal part squared away: expression pedal -> MIDI CC. What LADSPA plugin cocktail, or synth patch, should I use to get a passable wah? I've tried just a lowpass filter and it's not quite right. I think wah pedals may have some other stuff going on; bummer I don't actually have one handy to feed through a spectrum analyzer to figure out what exactly it's doing. Trying to get that Herbie Hancock "Headhunters" clavinet-through-the-wah-pedal funkiness going over here. - -ken

Ken Restivo wrote: Maybe I found something for you here: http://membres.lycos.fr/amycoders/tutorials/maverick/sfftm.html "This cool effect, originarily intented as a trumpet simulator (the more or less known Vox Clyde McCoy), has been made famous by Jimi Hendrix, and is a simple bandpass filter with a high Q (a value around 10 seems to fit best). The pedal's movement controls the resonance frequency of the filter, and ranges from about 500Hz to 4000Hz. That's all" -- Ringheims Auto - Fri musikk for bilstereo! http://ringheimsauto.org

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:43:25PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Yes, except if it is about audio. Or image editing or 3D, allthough Blender has been gaining acceptance :) -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Design for Free Software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com

At 8:56 +0100 9/5/07, James Stone wrote: I've been a Linux fanboix since the days of the minix-list posting, a Mac dilettante since the release of the tiBook, and a slashdot nerd since Chips&Dips, and all I can say about this is that if you don't like the site, either contribute to it in a way that brings about change, or don't bother reading it .. this is how it goes. That said, every time there is a Linux music thread on slashdot, and there have been quite a few over the years, I eagerly digest everything offered .. and it seems to me that there has been nothing but positive, good news to be gleaned through all the baiting and badgering going on from both Windows-fanatic and Apple-fanatic camps, eager to get in there and dig their own holes around just how great Linux is for music-making, while some of us just quietly install, setup, config and use, use, use ... I've a multi-platform discipline in my music-making studio - a nice Linux laptop with all the latest (Ardor, Jack, Bristol, rosegarden etc.) that runs extremely stable and is very well behaved for most of my jam sessions, paired to a Presonus FirePod, and as well a Powerbook running all the latest Mac-ware too, and in a pinch, if I needed it, I could boot to WinXP and Sonar and try that out as well .. but since I'm primarily a hardware-using musician with a room literally full of synths, and prefer to stay out of the virtual noise world, I don't have any glitches with either platforms that preclude me making music - they all Just Plain Work. And that goes for Linux, 100%. Its a rock solid DAW for me, and I'm very proud of the progress thats been made by the Linux audio software community over the last decade .. its definitely a winning team, in my opinion, especially in light of the dismal scene of music software, in general (very, very slow progress towards new paradigms that would make more sense than your average Tracker..) So maybe we shouldn't get too upset by a few snipey types on /., yo .. its clear the progress is superlative on the Linux audio front, and there is a lot of hope for more and more interesting ideas which implement Linux-style tools and techniques, on the horizon, yet .. which may also break a few rules along the way as well. I, for one, welcome our non-Pro Tool using performance-based Linux Music overlords .. -- ; Jay Vaughan