Re: [newbie] sound mixer for kde ISA card
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:29:12 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up an old puter with MDK 10 Official (d/l) and in KDE I want to add the sound mixer. Since this is an older machine it's kmix may work. I went through this recently for a friend who had one of those Mozart sound system cards. We were able to get the sound card configuration working fine using sndconfig (after selecting some Compaq configuration, for some reason) and I think we tried kmix. Todd -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] sound mixer for kde ISA card
I'm trying to set up an old puter with MDK 10 Official (d/l) and in KDE I want to add the sound mixer. Since this is an older machine it's got an ISA soundblaster card; it works, but I can't find a mixer to use with it that I can access from, say, the KDE panel. I installed aumix but running it does nothing. What am I missing? Thanks, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 3:25 am, The Other wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Rezound === I to, am impressed with it. It looks the think I'm looking for . Sorry to say I don't think it handles these funny yamaha sound files, which are all .mid files. At any rate I cannot seem toget any sense out of the sound generated, maybe wrong though, as it's early days and I'm unsure of the controls. John Hello John, It's been years since I looked at a Yamaha MIDI file, but if memory serves, Yamaha was not using standard MIDI instruments. By that I mean Instrument #1 in a standard MIDI file should be an Acoustic Piano, or Piano 1. Yamaha MIDI files may have Instrument #1 set to Trumpet, or something different that Acoustic Piano. To get the Yamaha MIDI files sounding correctly, all you may need to do is remap the Yamaha Instrument patches to Standard Midi Instruments patches in the Rezound editor. For example. Suppose Yamaha is using Track 1 as a Trumpet. In Rezound, you would set Track 1 to the Standard Midi instrument patch for Trumpet, which is #57 on an Instrument set that is numbered 1 to 128. The Trumpet would be patch #56 on a Instrument set that is numbered 0 to 127. (Be aware of these two numbering schemes for Standard MIDI files. If the patch you've specified still sounds like the wrong instrument, then increase or decrease the patch number you're using by 1 to get to the correct patch.) Now when Rezound plays Track 1, you should hear a Trumpet playing. I've not used Rezound, but this is a generic concept when working with MIDI files. This is also how you can reorchestrate a MIDI piece. If you don't like an Acoustic Piano playing on a Track, change the Instrument Patch to something else; such as a Harpsichord or Organ. Or use a different SoundFont to replace a poor sounding Acoustic Piano with a better sounding Grand Piano. When you're working with MIDI, you have great control over the final sound of the piece. Regards, The Other IIRC, the article I posted a link to on the Mandrake site has a link to a Yamaha soundfont. (and instructions for installing it.) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:26 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: least Yamaha seem to be using this specific file connotation, whether .mid are MIDI files and they're quite standardised - if the keyboard is General MIDI then the files should be easy to play and edit. and the sound quality is good. So it's not a cheapskate size reduction MIDI files only record the notes. The final playback quality is NOT guaranteed. It depends on your waveset, you might notice they sound different on computer and keyboard. I'm still looking for something that will both display and allow me to edit, and in the end convert to an ordinary .wav file format to write to CD, and in linux if at all possible. To play, use timidity or various frontends like kmidi or kmid. To edit in Linux, use sequencers such as MuSE. Timidity can save MIDIs to wave files. In Windows, programs like Cake Walk can edit. Regards, _nasturtium Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:56:30 +1000 _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:26 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: least Yamaha seem to be using this specific file connotation, whether .mid are MIDI files and they're quite standardised - if the keyboard is General MIDI then the files should be easy to play and edit. and the sound quality is good. So it's not a cheapskate size reduction MIDI files only record the notes. Bit of an oversimplification, this may be useful. http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tutr/miditutr.htm this one seems a good description http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tutr/midiform.htm The final playback quality is NOT guaranteed. It depends on your waveset, you might notice they sound different on computer and keyboard. I'm still looking for something that will both display and allow me to edit, and in the end convert to an ordinary .wav file format to write to CD, and in linux if at all possible. To play, use timidity or various frontends like kmidi or kmid. To edit in Linux, use sequencers such as MuSE. Timidity can save MIDIs to wave files. In Windows, programs like Cake Walk can edit. Regards, _nasturtium -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
The Other wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Rezound === I to, am impressed with it. It looks the think I'm looking for . Sorry to say I don't think it handles these funny yamaha sound files, which are all .mid files. At any rate I cannot seem toget any sense out of the sound generated, maybe wrong though, as it's early days and I'm unsure of the controls. John Hello John, It's been years since I looked at a Yamaha MIDI file, but if memory serves, Yamaha was not using standard MIDI instruments. By that I mean Instrument #1 in a standard MIDI file should be an Acoustic Piano, or Piano 1. Yamaha MIDI files may have Instrument #1 set to Trumpet, or something different that Acoustic Piano. To get the Yamaha MIDI files sounding correctly, all you may need to do is remap the Yamaha Instrument patches to Standard Midi Instruments patches in the Rezound editor. For example. Suppose Yamaha is using Track 1 as a Trumpet. In Rezound, you would set Track 1 to the Standard Midi instrument patch for Trumpet, which is #57 on an Instrument set that is numbered 1 to 128. The Trumpet would be patch #56 on a Instrument set that is numbered 0 to 127. (Be aware of these two numbering schemes for Standard MIDI files. If the patch you've specified still sounds like the wrong instrument, then increase or decrease the patch number you're using by 1 to get to the correct patch.) Now when Rezound plays Track 1, you should hear a Trumpet playing. I've not used Rezound, but this is a generic concept when working with MIDI files. This is also how you can reorchestrate a MIDI piece. If you don't like an Acoustic Piano playing on a Track, change the Instrument Patch to something else; such as a Harpsichord or Organ. Or use a different SoundFont to replace a poor sounding Acoustic Piano with a better sounding Grand Piano. When you're working with MIDI, you have great control over the final sound of the piece. Regards, The Other Hmmm, well, let me see, In rezound, if I, file - open pathtosong_001.mid I get message, no handler found to support format for song_001.mid would you like to use raw format yes, why not ? dialogue box: Raw Parameters, sample rate 44100 ( scale 4,000 to 96,000) sample format 16bit (scale 8bit signed to 64 floating point ?) byte order 0 in bytes data length 0 in audio frames so I go, OK I then attempt to play and get a harsh mushy sound for a few seconds so following your advice I think maybe, edit , but in there we have may parameters from undo redo, copy crop, inserte paste, overwrite paste, insert silence, mute, add channnels, swap channels, rotate, and selection , but none seem to suggest altering the patch selection , that I can see. Though I'm a total newbie here. I would of though the first message about, no handler found to support format for song_001.mid, means just that , doesn't know and understand .mid files , but as I say I'm complete newbie here. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 2:34 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hmmm, well, let me see, In rezound, if I, file - open pathtosong_001.mid I get message, no handler found to support format for song_001.mid would you like to use raw format yes, why not ? dialogue box: Raw Parameters, sample rate 44100 ( scale 4,000 to 96,000) sample format 16bit (scale 8bit signed to 64 floating point ?) byte order 0 in bytes data length 0 in audio frames so I go, OK I then attempt to play and get a harsh mushy sound for a few seconds so following your advice I think maybe, edit , but in there we have may parameters from undo redo, copy crop, inserte paste, overwrite paste, insert silence, mute, add channnels, swap channels, rotate, and selection , but none seem to suggest altering the patch selection , that I can see. Though I'm a total newbie here. I would of though the first message about, no handler found to support format for song_001.mid, means just that , doesn't know and understand .mid files , but as I say I'm complete newbie here. I would agree. rezound is a waveform editor. .mid files do not contain waveforms, or anything approaching waveforms. Install rosegarden off your MDK disks. You should get the right notes, but maybe in the wrong voices. If so, load a yamaha soundfont. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 2:34 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: . I would of though the first message about, no handler found to support format for song_001.mid, means just that , doesn't know and understand .mid files , but as I say I'm complete newbie here. I would agree. rezound is a waveform editor. .mid files do not contain waveforms, or anything approaching waveforms. Install rosegarden off your MDK disks. You should get the right notes, but maybe in the wrong voices. If so, load a yamaha soundfont. Slight problems there , with the rosegarden install, I downloaded all the suggested files on that web site and ended up with, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /root/Desktop/160703/rosegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosegarden]# ls jackit-0.72.5-030617.1mdk.i586.rpm jackit-example-clients-0.72.5-030617.1mdk.i586.rpm jackit-realtime-0.72.5-030617.1mdk.i586.rpm libfftw2-2.1.3-11mdk.i586.rpm libfftw2-devel-2.1.3-11mdk.i586.rpm libjack0-0.72.5-030617.1mdk.i586.rpm libjack0-devel-0.72.5-030617.1mdk.i586.rpm librosegarden0-4-alsa-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm librosegarden0-4-alsa-0.9.2.030624-1mdk.i586.rpm librosegarden0-4-alsa-devel-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm librosegarden0-4-alsa-devel-0.9.2.030624-1mdk.i586.rpm librosegarden0-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm librosegarden0-4-arts-devel-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm python-CDDB-1.3-4mdk.i586.rpm python-ID3-1.2-2mdk.noarch.rpm pyvorbis-1.1-2mdk.i586.rpm rosegarden-4-0.9.1-2mdk.src.rpm rosegarden-4-alsa-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm rosegarden-4-alsa-0.9.2.030624-1mdk.i586.rpm rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm src/ ( contains the src source code rpm's) and proceeded to install, [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosegarden]# urpmi rosegarden* The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: automake-1.4-21.p6.mdk (due to conflicts with automake[ 1.7.2]) kdevelop-2.1.5-3mdk (due to missing libkdevelopvc.so.2) do you agree ? (Y/n) y To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (28 MB): arts-1.1.2-3tex.i586 autoconf2.5-2.57-3mdk.noarch automake1.6-1.7.2-3mdk.noarch ladspa-1.12-3mdk.i586 ladspa-devel-1.12-3mdk.i586 libarts-1.1.2-3tex.i586 libarts-devel-1.1.2-3tex.i586 libfam0-devel-2.6.9-5mdk.i586 libfftw2-2.1.5-1mdk.i586 libfftw2-devel-2.1.5-1mdk.i586 libnas2-devel-1.6-3mdk.i586 libogg0-devel-1.0-3mdk.i586 libvorbis0-1.0-7tex.i586 libvorbis0-devel-1.0-7tex.i586 libvorbisenc2-1.0-7tex.i586 libvorbisfile3-1.0-7tex.i586 mdkkdm-9.1-26.1tex.i586 rosegarden-4-alsa-0.9.1-2mdk.i586 rosegarden-4-arts-0.9.1-2mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) y eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument Please insert the medium named International CD (x86) (cdrom3) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument Please insert the medium named International CD (x86) (cdrom3) on device [/dev/scd0] Press Enter when ready... I don't know why it wants M9.1 CD3 else I thought it had all it needed in the download. but I gave it the CD3 and the above is the result. Obviously doing something wrong ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
Hello John, Thursday, July 17, 2003, 3:26:20 AM, you wrote: JRS I think so, as .mid seems to be something specific to Yamaha, I don't think so. I have about a thousand .mid files with all sorts of music. They are in General Midi format, as I recall (been a while since I looked at this). Some vendors, Yamaha, Roland, etc, do different things in the files. Some can be fixed by reassigning sounds and/or other parameters, but some can't because they include things not defined by others (M$ come to mind here?). There are a few midi newsgroups, and the people there know quite a lot about this. You might try there to get specific details. JRS I'm still looking for something that will both display and allow JRS me to edit, and in the end convert to an ordinary .wav file JRS format to write to CD, and in linux if at all possible. Quite a while back, there were many tools to do this. To get good .wav's, you might want to get something that uses very high quality sounds. -- HTH, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 6:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: Install rosegarden off your MDK disks. snip I downloaded all the suggested files on that web site snip Obviously doing something wrong ? I thought I installed off the CDs. Since I cannot now find it on the CDs I imagine that I actually installed it off the contrib source at Mandrake. It's always easier to install off the CDs (or other Mandrake RPM sources) if possible, for exactly that reason; you end up with a chain of upgrades that in the worst case breaks something else. CD3 would have been for the several packages that needed installing but you didn't download: automake and autoconf for example. And those two tell me you were trying to compile the source package. There is no need. The version I have installed is 4.8.5, and here's a link to a binary RPM that I found on the web: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/9.0/RPMS/rosegarden-4-alsa-0.8.5-2mdk.i586.rpm Try that. If your urpmi cannot find the right libraries they are also on the same page: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi rosegarden with http://rpm.nyvalls.se/9.0/RPMS/rosegarden-4-alsa-0.8.5-2mdk.i586.rpm What am I doing wrong ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 10:12 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi rosegarden with http://rpm.nyvalls.se/9.0/RPMS/rosegarden-4-alsa-0.8.5-2mdk.i586.rpm What am I doing wrong ? You probably need to download it like you did the others that you tried. I wont be here until Tuesday now, but I'm unexperienced with urpmi anyway, someone else can help if you have problems. If you are a member of the mandrake club the magic incantation (that I've got) for the contrib source is: ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.1/contrib/RPMS with a synthesis/hdlist of: ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
I have a daughter good at creating electronically manipulated Sound programmes on her Yamaha. Here is an exaple, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol7/Christine/tape1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tape1]# ls disk.mng* song_004.mid* song_009.mid* song_013.mid* song_017.mid* song_001.mid* song_005.mid* song_010.mid* song_014.mid* song_018.mid* song_002.mid* song_006.mid* song_011.mid* song_015.mid* song_019.mid* song_003.mid* song_008.mid* song_012.mid* song_016.mid* song_n.mng* OK so it's meanigless to me at this time. What I need is a Linux programme to assemble and manipulate this stuff. This is likely to envolve, 1) cut and paste assembly. 2) Signwave display to change and manipulate the character of the sound. 3) mixers. 4) maybe conversion programmes, eg whatever these above are to .wav or .mp3 and no doubt many other things as well that my simplicity of understanding is holding me back from enunciating. Anybody know of a Linux programme or two that works. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
Have a look at this site. If it's not there, it probably doesn't exist. http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
John Richard Smith wrote: I have a daughter good at creating electronically manipulated Sound programmes on her Yamaha. Here is an exaple, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol7/Christine/tape1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tape1]# ls disk.mng* song_004.mid* song_009.mid* song_013.mid* song_017.mid* song_001.mid* song_005.mid* song_010.mid* song_014.mid* song_018.mid* song_002.mid* song_006.mid* song_011.mid* song_015.mid* song_019.mid* song_003.mid* song_008.mid* song_012.mid* song_016.mid* song_n.mng* OK so it's meanigless to me at this time. What I need is a Linux programme to assemble and manipulate this stuff. This is likely to envolve, 1) cut and paste assembly. 2) Signwave display to change and manipulate the character of the sound. 3) mixers. 4) maybe conversion programmes, eg whatever these above are to .wav or .mp3 and no doubt many other things as well that my simplicity of understanding is holding me back from enunciating. Anybody know of a Linux programme or two that works. John http://rezound.sourceforge.net/ I tried it last night and was impressed. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mistaking knowledge for noise is just as costly as mistaking sarcasm for intelligence. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) Maxims for Revolutionists Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
I have a daughter good at creating electronically manipulated Sound programmes on her Yamaha. Here is an exaple, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol7/Christine/tape1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tape1]# ls disk.mng* song_004.mid* song_009.mid* song_013.mid* song_017.mid* song_001.mid* song_005.mid* song_010.mid* song_014.mid* song_018.mid* song_002.mid* song_006.mid* song_011.mid* song_015.mid* song_019.mid* song_003.mid* song_008.mid* song_012.mid* song_016.mid* song_n.mng* OK so it's meanigless to me at this time. What I need is a Linux programme to assemble and manipulate this stuff. This is likely to envolve, 1) cut and paste assembly. 2) Signwave display to change and manipulate the character of the sound. 3) mixers. 4) maybe conversion programmes, eg whatever these above are to .wav or .mp3 and no doubt many other things as well that my simplicity of understanding is holding me back from enunciating. Anybody know of a Linux programme or two that works. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
Damn! Didn't know about that one! Thanks from me too, Brant! Lanman On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:26, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I have a daughter good at creating electronically manipulated Sound programmes on her Yamaha. Here is an exaple, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol7/Christine/tape1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tape1]# ls disk.mng* song_004.mid* song_009.mid* song_013.mid* song_017.mid* song_001.mid* song_005.mid* song_010.mid* song_014.mid* song_018.mid* song_002.mid* song_006.mid* song_011.mid* song_015.mid* song_019.mid* song_003.mid* song_008.mid* song_012.mid* song_016.mid* song_n.mng* OK so it's meanigless to me at this time. What I need is a Linux programme to assemble and manipulate this stuff. This is likely to envolve, 1) cut and paste assembly. 2) Signwave display to change and manipulate the character of the sound. 3) mixers. 4) maybe conversion programmes, eg whatever these above are to .wav or .mp3 and no doubt many other things as well that my simplicity of understanding is holding me back from enunciating. Anybody know of a Linux programme or two that works. John http://rezound.sourceforge.net/ I tried it last night and was impressed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
John Richard Smith wrote: I have a daughter good at creating electronically manipulated Sound programmes on her Yamaha. Here is an exaple, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol7/Christine/tape1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tape1]# ls disk.mng* song_004.mid* song_009.mid* song_013.mid* song_017.mid* song_001.mid* song_005.mid* song_010.mid* song_014.mid* song_018.mid* song_002.mid* song_006.mid* song_011.mid* song_015.mid* song_019.mid* song_003.mid* song_008.mid* song_012.mid* song_016.mid* song_n.mng* OK so it's meanigless to me at this time. What I need is a Linux programme to assemble and manipulate this stuff. This is likely to envolve, 1) cut and paste assembly. 2) Signwave display to change and manipulate the character of the sound. 3) mixers. 4) maybe conversion programmes, eg whatever these above are to .wav or .mp3 and no doubt many other things as well that my simplicity of understanding is holding me back from enunciating. Anybody know of a Linux programme or two that works. Try http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/ for a really impressive collection of Linux music apps. Sir Robin -- A strategy is still being formulated. Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
DoH! Kinda missed that one too, didn't I? OK, my previous post in this thread was inaccurate. My Bad! Thac's site wasn't the only place for good audio manipulation. I stand corrected. Lanman On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:57, Robin Turner wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I have a daughter good at creating electronically manipulated Sound programmes on her Yamaha. Here is an exaple, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol7/Christine/tape1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tape1]# ls disk.mng* song_004.mid* song_009.mid* song_013.mid* song_017.mid* song_001.mid* song_005.mid* song_010.mid* song_014.mid* song_018.mid* song_002.mid* song_006.mid* song_011.mid* song_015.mid* song_019.mid* song_003.mid* song_008.mid* song_012.mid* song_016.mid* song_n.mng* OK so it's meanigless to me at this time. What I need is a Linux programme to assemble and manipulate this stuff. This is likely to envolve, 1) cut and paste assembly. 2) Signwave display to change and manipulate the character of the sound. 3) mixers. 4) maybe conversion programmes, eg whatever these above are to .wav or .mp3 and no doubt many other things as well that my simplicity of understanding is holding me back from enunciating. Anybody know of a Linux programme or two that works. Try http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/ for a really impressive collection of Linux music apps. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
Lanman wrote: Damn! Didn't know about that one! Thanks from me too, Brant! Lanman On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:26, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: I have a daughter good at creating electronically manipulated Sound programmes on her Yamaha. Here is an exaple, [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol7/Christine/tape1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] tape1]# ls disk.mng* song_004.mid* song_009.mid* song_013.mid* song_017.mid* song_001.mid* song_005.mid* song_010.mid* song_014.mid* song_018.mid* song_002.mid* song_006.mid* song_011.mid* song_015.mid* song_019.mid* song_003.mid* song_008.mid* song_012.mid* song_016.mid* song_n.mng* OK so it's meanigless to me at this time. What I need is a Linux programme to assemble and manipulate this stuff. This is likely to envolve, 1) cut and paste assembly. 2) Signwave display to change and manipulate the character of the sound. 3) mixers. 4) maybe conversion programmes, eg whatever these above are to .wav or .mp3 and no doubt many other things as well that my simplicity of understanding is holding me back from enunciating. Anybody know of a Linux programme or two that works. John http://rezound.sourceforge.net/ I tried it last night and was impressed. Rezound === I to, am impressed with it. It looks the think I'm looking for . Sorry to say I don't think it handles these funny yamaha sound files, which are all .mid files. At any rate I cannot seem toget any sense out of the sound generated, maybe wrong though, as it's early days and I'm unsure of the controls. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 12:57 pm, Lanman wrote: Have a look at this site. If it's not there, it probably doesn't exist. http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ .mid files are MIDI. I just successfully installed rosegarden as a midi implementation here after following the article referenced in Mandrake newsletter #81: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979 Also have a look at http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/one-page.html -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes
John Richard Smith wrote: Rezound === I to, am impressed with it. It looks the think I'm looking for . Sorry to say I don't think it handles these funny yamaha sound files, which are all .mid files. At any rate I cannot seem toget any sense out of the sound generated, maybe wrong though, as it's early days and I'm unsure of the controls. John Hello John, It's been years since I looked at a Yamaha MIDI file, but if memory serves, Yamaha was not using standard MIDI instruments. By that I mean Instrument #1 in a standard MIDI file should be an Acoustic Piano, or Piano 1. Yamaha MIDI files may have Instrument #1 set to Trumpet, or something different that Acoustic Piano. To get the Yamaha MIDI files sounding correctly, all you may need to do is remap the Yamaha Instrument patches to Standard Midi Instruments patches in the Rezound editor. For example. Suppose Yamaha is using Track 1 as a Trumpet. In Rezound, you would set Track 1 to the Standard Midi instrument patch for Trumpet, which is #57 on an Instrument set that is numbered 1 to 128. The Trumpet would be patch #56 on a Instrument set that is numbered 0 to 127. (Be aware of these two numbering schemes for Standard MIDI files. If the patch you've specified still sounds like the wrong instrument, then increase or decrease the patch number you're using by 1 to get to the correct patch.) Now when Rezound plays Track 1, you should hear a Trumpet playing. I've not used Rezound, but this is a generic concept when working with MIDI files. This is also how you can reorchestrate a MIDI piece. If you don't like an Acoustic Piano playing on a Track, change the Instrument Patch to something else; such as a Harpsichord or Organ. Or use a different SoundFont to replace a poor sounding Acoustic Piano with a better sounding Grand Piano. When you're working with MIDI, you have great control over the final sound of the piece. Regards, The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Mixer
Hi, The actual problem is this: Allthough The soundcard is configured correctly, there seems to be no sound mixer. When I try to play MP3's I get en error warning me to check if my soudcard is configured correctly (which is) or that my kernel might not have sound playback capabilities (??). How do I fix this? I use Mandrake 8.0 --- Welcome to the Jungle! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Sound Mixer
Hi y'all I have go my SB LIve s/c up and running, but the sound is very low. I have tried to open the sound mixer, but get a message that i can't access it and to change the permission. This happens even when i log on as root. But, i went to the fiolder and changed the permissions, but i sitll can't access it. Anyone have ideas why please? Thanx Mike Williams
Re: [newbie] Sound Mixer settings lost a reboot
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:00:33 +0100 (BST), you wrote: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote: open the file with a text editor. If your in a gui right click and choose "Open With.." and choose the text editor of your choice. If you are at the command prompt, navigate to the directory the file is in and type name of text editor rc.local I use emacs so I would type emacs rc.local OK, tried that, but it said bash:emacs:command not found. Am I doing something wrong, or do I not have emacs? Do you know how to use vi? Or Pico? Or Joe? These are all editors. No, I don't. There is a section on using vi in my Dummies book (I feel so silly even writing a sentence like that), but it seems more experimentation is going to be needed before the commands want to work for me. You can also use Kedit in X. Yep, thats what I did. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
[newbie] Sound Mixer settings lost a reboot
I've recently come back to Mandrake after trying several other distros. I'm using 7.0 as I prefer the menu design over those in the newer release. I've found that Sound Mixer (in KDE) settings are reset back to default when I reboot the machine which is just a tad annoying. When merely restarting KDE my settings hold, but a full reboot generates the reset. Has anyone else found this to be the case or know of a configuration setting I need to tweak? Many thanks -- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Sound Mixer settings lost a reboot
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently come back to Mandrake after trying several other distros. I'm using 7.0 as I prefer the menu design over those in the newer release. I've found that Sound Mixer (in KDE) settings are reset back to default when I reboot the machine which is just a tad annoying. When merely restarting KDE my settings hold, but a full reboot generates the reset. Has anyone else found this to be the case or know of a configuration setting I need to tweak? Many thanks I've had the same problem, and while I haven't had a chance to try out this solution yet, here is John Rye's reply to me the other day (thanks again, John!) Also, theres one problem I've been having (though for the most part this foray into Linux has been remarkably painless). Everytime I log into KDE, I have to go to Kmix (the app that controls the volume levels), as every time I open KDE, they've all reset themselves so all the sliders are at the bottom (in other words, no volume. Can't listen to my new Wayne Krantz cd without resetting them). How do I get it to save my settings? Thanks! Add the command 'aumix -v xx' where xx is a number between 0 and 99 to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local - that will set the volume to a value you select at startup. I found that 30 to 40 was about right for me. -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Mixer settings lost a reboot
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently come back to Mandrake after trying several other distros. I'm using 7.0 as I prefer the menu design over those in the newer release. I've found that Sound Mixer (in KDE) settings are reset back to default when I reboot the machine which is just a tad annoying. When merely restarting KDE my settings hold, but a full reboot generates the reset. Has anyone else found this to be the case or know of a configuration setting I need to tweak? Many thanks I've had the same problem, and while I haven't had a chance to try out this solution yet, here is John Rye's reply to me the other day (thanks again, John!) Also, theres one problem I've been having (though for the most part this foray into Linux has been remarkably painless). Everytime I log into KDE, I have to go to Kmix (the app that controls the volume levels), as every time I open KDE, they've all reset themselves so all the sliders are at the bottom (in other words, no volume. Can't listen to my new Wayne Krantz cd without resetting them). How do I get it to save my settings? Thanks! Add the command 'aumix -v xx' where xx is a number between 0 and 99 to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local - that will set the volume to a value you select at startup. I found that 30 to 40 was about right for me. So, I just sent the above a couple of minutes ago, and decided to give the above directions a whirl myself. I opened Konsole, found my way into the /etc/rc.d/ directory (yes, this is still a challenge for me, like I said in another post, I'm as newbie as they come), and then it said rc.local wasn't a directory, so I go find it through KFM (which is almost like a loss to me; I'm trying really hard to learn to use the terminal window), and I see its a shell script. So how do I go about modifying one of them? Preferably through Konsole, but any way will do Thanks! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Mixer settings lost a reboot
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote: open the file with a text editor. If your in a gui right click and choose "Open With.." and choose the text editor of your choice. If you are at the command prompt, navigate to the directory the file is in and type name of text editor rc.local I use emacs so I would type emacs rc.local OK, tried that, but it said bash:emacs:command not found. Am I doing something wrong, or do I not have emacs? -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Mixer settings lost a reboot
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: [snip] I use emacs so I would type emacs rc.local OK, tried that, but it said bash:emacs:command not found. Am I doing something wrong, or do I not have emacs? [snip] Rogerif you have a copy of the emacs executable in your /usr/bin directory then emacs should have launched when you typed 'emacs rc.local'. I'd have to guess that you have either no emacs executable or an incorrect path in your environment. Alan LOL...yesno emacs executable. That would seem to be the problem -- peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] Sound Mixer settings lost a reboot
Roger Sherman wrote: [snip] I use emacs so I would type emacs rc.local OK, tried that, but it said bash:emacs:command not found. Am I doing something wrong, or do I not have emacs? [snip] Rogerif you have a copy of the emacs executable in your /usr/bin directory then emacs should have launched when you typed 'emacs rc.local'. I'd have to guess that you have either no emacs executable or an incorrect path in your environment. Alan
Re: [newbie] Sound Mixer settings lost a reboot
Roger Sherman wrote: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently come back to Mandrake after trying several other distros. I'm using 7.0 as I prefer the menu design over those in the newer release. I've found that Sound Mixer (in KDE) settings are reset back to default when I reboot the machine which is just a tad annoying. When merely restarting KDE my settings hold, but a full reboot generates the reset. Has anyone else found this to be the case or know of a configuration setting I need to tweak? Many thanks I've had the same problem, and while I haven't had a chance to try out this solution yet, here is John Rye's reply to me the other day (thanks again, John!) Also, theres one problem I've been having (though for the most part this foray into Linux has been remarkably painless). Everytime I log into KDE, I have to go to Kmix (the app that controls the volume levels), as every time I open KDE, they've all reset themselves so all the sliders are at the bottom (in other words, no volume. Can't listen to my new Wayne Krantz cd without resetting them). How do I get it to save my settings? Thanks! Add the command 'aumix -v xx' where xx is a number between 0 and 99 to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local - that will set the volume to a value you select at startup. I found that 30 to 40 was about right for me. So, I just sent the above a couple of minutes ago, and decided to give the above directions a whirl myself. I opened Konsole, found my way into the /etc/rc.d/ directory (yes, this is still a challenge for me, like I said in another post, I'm as newbie as they come), and then it said rc.local wasn't a directory, so I go find it through KFM (which is almost like a loss to me; I'm trying really hard to learn to use the terminal window), and I see its a shell script. So how do I go about modifying one of them? Preferably through Konsole, but any way will do Thanks! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Roger You need to login as root to do this. Use your favourite editor (If you use KDE there's a simple one on your task bar) Navigate to the directory /etc/rc.d - there you should see the file called rc.local - Open that file and add the line above to the very end. You could also do this from a terminal using Midnight Commander - in many ways this wee utility makes navigation easier as you can see the directory structure as you move about. If you've used Norton Commander from MSDOS you'l already be most of the way there - But remember that utilities like this are inherantly dangerous particularly when you are acting as root. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
