Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] ALSA firewire drivers
Hi all, I'm a developer who works for the drivers. It's my pleasure to give the package. I really appreciate to his work for packaging, thanks to David. Well, I want to add some supplemental information. 1. Included drivers Currently, three drivers are newly available by the package. - snd-fireworks for Fireworks based devices - snd-bebob for BeBoB based devices - snd-oxfw for OXFW based devices If you want to confirm whether they support your device or not, please refer to these actual codes. These codes includes device entries and I added comments for users to confirm easily. https://github.com/takaswie/snd-firewire-improve/blob/master/sound/firewire/bebob/bebob.c https://github.com/takaswie/snd-firewire-improve/blob/master/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks.c https://github.com/takaswie/snd-firewire-improve/blob/master/sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw.c For example, bebob.c includes comments of '/* PreSonus, FIREPOD/FP10 */'. Then you can confirm your PreSonus FP10 is supported by snd-bebob. There are some comments without actual entries. If you have the device, please inform to me. I'll tell you the way to look for IDs for your device and add it to the codes. As David mentioned, the package is daily build. This means that when I modify the source, the package is re-built and newly available. 2.Current status For snd-fireworks and snd-bebob, the package includes the same codes as I've already posted to alsa-devel. [alsa-devel] [PATCH 00/49 v4] Enhancement for support of Firewire devices http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2014-April/075841.html This series of patch is currently under reviewing. I didn't post the codes for snd-oxfw because the driver has a regression against snd-firewire-speakers. The snd-oxfw is successor of snd-firewire-speakers. 3.Internal mixer control The drivers are developed to focus on 'streaming'. This means just to handle PCM/MIDI substreams. So they have no functionality to control internal mixers. Users should use ffado-dbus-server/ffado-mixer for this purpose. I'm also a developer of FFADO. Last year, I worked much mainly for enhancement of mixer control support for Fireworks/BeBoB. Current trunk has support or improvement for: - PreSonus FIREBOX, Inspire1394, FP10 (former known as FIREPOD) - M-Audio Ozonic, Solo, Audiophile, Firewire 410, Firewire 1814, ProjectMix I/O - Yamaha GO44, GO46 - Echo Audio AudioFire2/4/8/Pre8/12 But current package in Ubuntu repository is a bit old. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libffado So if you want to use the new features, please build it from source. http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/InstallingFfadoFromSource 3.jackd with firewire backend is still available Even if you install the drivers, jackd with firewire backend is still available. I designed the drivers not to obstruct libffado. 4.bug reporting Any reports are preferrable. Then please report output from these procfs node additionally. /proc/asound/cardX/firewire/* (X means ID for your device.) If you have some bugs, please report syslog additionally. Thanks Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp (May 02 2014 22:01), David Henningsson wrote: Hi studio people, Takashi Sakamoto has been working, for a while, to make proper ALSA drivers for Firewire, so we don't have to rely on libffado for Firewire support - Firewire sound cards will just work like any other sound card, e g USB. I've set up automatic builds of his work (for Ubuntu 14.04), and you can find and test the result here: https://launchpad.net/~diwic/+archive/snd-firewire-improve I'm sure he will welcome more testing of his drivers while they make their way upstream. It's currently known that they don't work with Audacity and many cards will not work with PulseAudio either (without special configuration in PulseAudio). Stuff like this requires work across the stack, so not everything can or should be fixed in the drivers. Nevertheless it would be interesting to know what other common applications work and don't work with his new drivers. So if you have an old (or new!) firewire sound card in your shelf, feel free to grab it and plug it in. Happy testing! -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Default Sample rate for Pulse Audio/Jack etc.
David, > As of PulseAudio 2.0 (i e Ubuntu 12.10 and up), PulseAudio should > automatically switch between 44100 and 48000 depending on the source > material. I don't know how much tested this feature is though. I confirmed this on Ubuntu 12.10 with my three sound cards. One is HDA, others are USB-connected (44.1kHz to192kHz) and Firewire-connected (44.1kHz only). When I connect 44.1kHz-limited-sound-card (Firewire), PulseAudio put 44.1kHz PCM playback stream into ALSA driver even if I playback 48kHz source. Then I disconnected the Firewire device, PulseAudio put 48kHz PCM playback stream into ALSA driver. Here 96kHz or 192kHz source are mixdown into 48kHz PCM stream by PulseAudio. It seems to work what you expected. my stuff: USB - EMU-0404 USB Firewire - Echo AudioFire Pre 8 with ALSA driver which I'm working to develop, based on Clemens' experimental driver (http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kprivate.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fireworks) Regards Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp (2013年01月07日 22:14), David Henningsson wrote: On 01/07/2013 08:38 AM, ttoine wrote: Maybe we can let 44.1khz for Pulse Audio because most of what we are listening to are this way. As of PulseAudio 2.0 (i e Ubuntu 12.10 and up), PulseAudio should automatically switch between 44100 and 48000 depending on the source material. I don't know how much tested this feature is though. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Vintage Wallpaper Request
Hi, > I've collected all the .debs except 7.04 feisty and 7.10 gutsy. These packages were out of date and have been in archive repository. I believe you can find them here. http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/u/ubuntustudio-look/ Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp (2012年02月04日 05:20), Seattle Chaz wrote: Greetings: I'm working up some wallpapers based on past issues. I've collected all the .debs except 7.04 feisty and 7.10 gutsy. Specifically, I'm looking for ubuntustudio-wallpapers_0xx.all.deb where "x" is an unknown digit. Thanks in advance for your assistance in locating these. -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
ttf-mona in font-meta seed (Re: Last call for Oneiric seeds)
Dear developer. The ttf-mona package is included in font-meta. But the source is discontinued and it's a lack of much Japanese glyphs. http://monafont.sourceforge.net/ Ubuntu Japanese Local Community release ttf-takao-pgothic package and it has whole unicode glyphs. I reccomend you to use this instead of ttf-mona. https://launchpad.net/takao-fonts Of cource, this change is related to the size of iso image. ttf-takao-pgothic is bigger than ttf-mona by 3 MB. ttf-mona Version: 2.90-6 Size: 2904kb Download: 1712kb http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ttf-mona ttf-takao-pgothic Version: 003.02.01-4ubuntu1 Size: 6345kB Download: 4296 kB http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ttf-takao-pgothic Regards Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
wacom-tools in graphic seed (Re: Last call for Oneiric seeds)
Dear developer, I checked graphic seed. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntustudio.oneiric/view/head:/graphics The "wacom-tools" is not released now. It's old stuff. Now xsetwacom script in "xserver-xorg-input-wacom" package is alternative. We can see the details in this page. https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linuxwacom/index.php?title=History So I suppose to drop wacom-tools from this seed. Regards Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
[Apr 21 daily build] installer cannot proceed because of floppy disk drive issue.
Hi, CPU: Intel Core-i7 960 Motherboard: GA-X58-UD5 (X58 Express Chipset) What happend: I installed Ubuntu Studio 11.04, daily build as of 2011-04-21. And the installation process didn't proceed because of floppy disk drive issue. What I did: I enabled floppy disk drive in Bios function but don't use the drive, do not connect the drive. I ran installer and the installer was not proceeded just after DHCP detection. Then I move to text console to push F4 key. The text concole report "end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0". I guess this is an issue of floppy disk drive. I reboot my system and went to bios section and change the setting to disable floppy disk drive. Then the installer proceeded. What I expected: I can install Ubuntu till maverick the same settings to enable floppy disk drive and without connecting it to my system. The installer should run as the same circumstanses. I hope this trouble will be fixed now but I can't find the same bug at http://bugs.launchpad.net/. # I'm happy with natty now, especially for plymouth theme. # Great thanks for Scott Lavender! Regards Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Dependency problem between ubuntustudio-font-meta and ttf-symbol-replacement-wine1.3
Hi, I utilize wine1.3 from Wine Team's PPA and have a dependency problembetween ubuntustudio-font-meta and ttf-symbol-replacement. In detail, please read my post to ubuntu-wine-team. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+question/132189 Of cource I'm sure that it's a user's own risk to use some packages from PPA. But the latest wine package is very useable with some windows binary of VST plugins. I daily use FeSTige for these plugins and it works fine with Wine1.3. So can we modify next ubuntustudio-font-meta package's dependency for both of ttf-symbol-replacement and ttf-symbol-replacement-wine1.X? This may avoid making users confused. Regards Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Wrong information of release note for 10.10
Hi, The situation of kernel flavour is quickly changed in this half a week so many users will be confused including me! http://ubuntustudio.org/MaverickMeerkat In maverick, we can use generic(i686, amd64) or generic-pae(i686). There is no preempt kernel. It's only for Lucid. (I have no confidence to use server kernel for Ubuntu Studio usage...) So we should write like, "-generic kernel is used for both i686 and amd64". This seems to be the subtle but I hope to avoid making the users confused with such an easy-confirmable topics. And I suggest to open the release notes for this mailing list before release day because there are some beta testing users and I think they know the difference between previous and current one. I know Cory K. noticed us to check the draft bofore each releases. I think this is good way to avoid making such wrong lines. Regards Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp (2010年10月22日 17:31), Eric Hedekar wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Takashi Sakamoto > mailto:o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I translated Maverick's release note for Japanese users. I've already > put my text on Ubuntu Japanese Community Wiki. > https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/UbuntuStudioTips/ReleaseNotes > > Then I have some questions. > > 1. kernel flavour > > According to Alessio's message, we cannot use -lowlatency and -realtime > for Maverick and I found there are no kernel packages for Maverick in > his PPA. > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2010-October/002695.html > > > 2. Audio group > > I think MusE needs for users to join in audio group. In my machine, I > can't start MusE if I'm not in audio group. > > > 3. lv2 packages with question mark > > We can download and install both lv2vocoder and lv2-c++-tools. > So there is no need with question mark. > > In my text, I added some notes in each parts. I want the administrator > to check these items and make appropriate modification. > > Regards > > > Takashi Sakamoto > o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp <mailto:o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp> > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > <mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > > > > Points 1 and 3 have been updated on the ubuntustudio.org > <http://ubuntustudio.org> website, I'll wait for further clarification > from others regarding point 2 before changing that warning. I seem to > recall a lengthy discussion on that subject in the mailing list. I was > merely copying text from the wiki's working release notes and not > proof-reading as much as I should have been (hence the question marks > remaining), sorry for the mistake. > > -Eric Hedekar -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Wrong information of release note for 10.10
Hi, I translated Maverick's release note for Japanese users. I've already put my text on Ubuntu Japanese Community Wiki. https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/UbuntuStudioTips/ReleaseNotes Then I have some questions. 1. kernel flavour According to Alessio's message, we cannot use -lowlatency and -realtime for Maverick and I found there are no kernel packages for Maverick in his PPA. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2010-October/002695.html 2. Audio group I think MusE needs for users to join in audio group. In my machine, I can't start MusE if I'm not in audio group. 3. lv2 packages with question mark We can download and install both lv2vocoder and lv2-c++-tools. So there is no need with question mark. In my text, I added some notes in each parts. I want the administrator to check these items and make appropriate modification. Regards Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Putting the cart before the horse.
Hi Scott, In this kind of work, the screenshot is more powerful to give our opinion than some comments. https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Mocchi?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=0.scott_grid_analyze.png I think this mocup has much information in a first browser screen and a bit difficult to get the informations to need. Then I re-align some components which you made and put some shots from current ubuntustudio.com. https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Mocchi?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=1.takashi_modified.png I change the logo to Cory K.'s Ideas because I want to put the COF circle's color as key color. This is the Grid-Analyzxe. https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Mocchi?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=2.takashi_grid_analyze.png I put some basic and most needed information in the top. And I put much text information to bottom. This layout will be good for several kind of users, both newcomer and elder. What I mean is not pushing my design but I prefer your mocup to current ubuntustudio.com design. It's simple and easy to wathch. But there is not so many information... If you need my help and work, I have some time to help you till this weekend. I can uunderstand and use the W3C's specification for (X)HTML, CSS 2.0, JavaScript(ECMA Script), PHP 4 and 5. I'm willing to help you with drupal if we share the basic source like MySQL data or theme templates and so on. It'S a pretty sad that I usually use the other engines. Cheers! # I'm sorry if this post is duplicated because previous one has an attached file and the mailserver reject instant post... Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp (2010年10月04日 07:07), Scott Lavender wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Benjamin Turner > > mailto:passionsplaydes...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > I would second not throwing out any concepts right off the bat. I > > think though that perhaps we should redirect where this thread is > > going. Before we get down to eliminating or zeroing in on any > > 'theme' we should really take a hard look as to how we want this > > website to function for the Ubuntu Studio community. > > > > I'd like to try and summarize some things: > > > > The current site at ubuntustudio.org <http://ubuntustudio.org/> is a > > brochure site - it is very simple, and establishes a sort of > > creative vibe- all the while smacking you in the face with DOWNLOAD > > -- 1 2 3! This is exactly what we (traditionally) want the visitor > > to do - try THIS distro. > > > > I took some time to whip up sitemap for the existing site, and also > > one for the eventual 'revamped' one, using the elements that we have > > going on the wiki. In addition, I worked a wireframe over a > > screenshot of the original site. > > > > What becomes apparent to me while looking over these site maps is > > that people are brainstorming for a much more dynamic (and > > complicated) website, one that begins to blur the lines between the > > wiki, the forums, and the website, perhaps taking on aspects of a > > social networking site (I'm thinking specifically about the > > submissions, polls, and other things that would require someone to > > create a profile). > > > > > > But do we have the energy/time/skill? > > > > I think that many of these things sound cool. I would ask ourselves > > if we (and future users/contributors) will have the energy to create > > and maintain one MORE online persona. Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps > > this 'social connection' role could be filled by other existing > > sites? I'm thinking about the deviantART and Flikr user groups for > > inkscape. Are there other sites out there that could facilitate the > > creation of Music Creation Communities? To put it another way, do > > we have people here wanting to code and maintain that sort of > > community in relation to the Ubuntu Studio Website? > > > > > > Where are we going? > > > > In the end I feel we should more clearly describe where Ubuntu > > Studio is moving, and how we envision using it, and by extension, > > how we will use the website. > > > > For me I first came to Ubuntu Studio because it was built on the > > back of Ubuntu's Gnome install, but with an eye to a more > > specialized and 'professional' grade of computer user. This being > > said, there are still a few other applications I install that are > > not included in the base installation (Who doesn'
Re: Pulse Audio and Jack in Maverick
(2010/09/04 11:20), Mike Holstein wrote: > what are you guys finding useful about integrating pulse into JACK?? 0. Ubuntu's default sound system is PulseAudio and ALSA. If you can connect PulseAudio to JACK, you can use JACK and FFADO like default sound system. 1. Then firewire sound device user can use web services like ustream, youtube (with flash script) or pulseaudio applications like skype. 2. So You can use the sounds from JACK application for ustream or skype. 3. And You can utilize PulseAudio's networking with JACK. have any useful ideas, guys? Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
Re: Pulse Audio and Jack in Maverick
You can see this integration on http://ubuntustudio.org/LucidLynx as
"Pulse Audio built against Jack is available".
This integration is for lucid or later because "pulseaudio-module-jack"
package is not released for karmic or latter refering to this URL,
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/pulseaudio-module-jack
I'm a Japanese user of Ubuntu Studio and make some documents in Japanese
community. Last week I make a document about this PulseAudio integration.
https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/UbuntuStudioTips/Application/JACK-PulseAudio
In this document. I suggest to use qjackctl option "Execute script after
Setup" instead of config file. If you check this option and input two
commands, you can get "PulseAudio against JACK", load this module just
after JACK runnning.
If you are interested, read it with web translation service like google
or yahoo with plain text.
Thks
Takashi Sakamoto
o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp
(2010/09/04 08:15), tto...@ttoine.net wrote:
>
>
> Le 03/09/2010 23:11, Marc R.J. Brevoort a écrit :
>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, tto...@ttoine.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I just saw in the Maverick beta wiki pages that in Ubuntu Studio
>>> Maverick, some work has been done for better integration between
>>> PulseAudio and Jackd. Is it available for vanilla Ubuntu too ?
>>> If not, does this need to install a specific package, or is there a
>>> tweak we can document for non "Studio" users? I ask that because I am
>>> downloading Maverick beta at the moment, but not the Studio, the
>>> standard one, with the aim to test and document that important point!
>>>
>> I've just set up a system that plays back pulseaudio over jack over
>> ALSA on Lucid.
>> The following are not step-by-step instructions but may help you
>> get started.
>>
>> You'll need pulseaudio-module-jack, the regular set of
>> jack util packages;
>>
>> ~/.asoundrc containing this:
>> pcm.pulse {
>> type pulse
>> }
>> ctl.pulse {
>> type pulse
>> }
>> pcm.!default {
>> type pulse
>> }
>> ctl.!default {
>> type pulse
>> }
>>
>> follow the recommendations that qjackctl gives you when trying to start
>> it and failing;
>>
>> create two files,
>>
>> 1. ~/bin/jack.pa containing the following:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> # (two following lines matter most)
>> pactl load-module module-jack-sink
>> pactl load-module module-jack-source
>>
>> pactl load-module module-native-protocol-unix
>> pactl load-module module-volume-restore
>> pactl load-module module-default-device-restore
>> pactl load-module module-rescue-streams
>> pactl load-module module-suspend-on-idle
>>
>> 2. a file ~/bin/startjack containing this:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p1024 -n2
>>
>> (which is the line shown by qjackctl after successful startup)
>>
>> give both file execute permissions;
>>
>> chmod +x ~/bin/*
>>
>> and add them as startup programs.
>>
>> re-login, in sound preferences set "Jack sink" as
>> default audio device.
>>
>> Thus you'll have a system that (in theory) directs all its audio
>> through JACK.
>>
>> One minor thing is that when starting qjackctl, pulseaudio is
>> suspended, which is not ideal. As you're running the jack
>> daemon as startup program, You'll also want to tell qjackctl
>> not to terminate jack on exiting.
>>
>> I hope this is of some use to you even though terribly
>> incomplete and written up from memory too so probably full
>> of errors.
>>
>> Best,
>> Marc
>>
>>
> What would be better, would be to see in the audio/sound preferences a
> "jackd" sound card, and manually choose it if necessary. This is not
> always good to have all applications on jackd. And Pulse Audio will
> remember this choice every time jackd is launched, as it does when you
> plug an usb sound card.
>
> Will try that this week-end, or next week, and let you know. This is one
> of the most important stuff, with firewire, for Maverick, imho.
>
> Toine
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