Re: [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread Louigi Verona
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:29 AM, John Rigg wrote: > > > To be fair I wasn't really slagging off Windows and Mac users. Most pro > audio > engineers are using those after all. I'm just bemused by the attitude that > audio processing tools should be anything more than that. Pretty pictures > and dum

[LAD] jackdbus eating 100% cpu after a while

2013-02-09 Thread Florian Paul Schmidt
Hi, I was a long term jackd1 user and my first action on a new linux installation (mostly using Ubuntu) was normally to remove pulseaudio as it was badly configured and/or buggy. Things have changed and I really started to like PA for everyday stuff. And then jackdbus came along which togeth

Re: [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread John Rigg
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 12:03:41PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:29 AM, John Rigg wrote: > > To be fair I wasn't really slagging off Windows and Mac users. Most pro > > audio > > engineers are using those after all. I'm just bemused by the attitude that > > audio processin

Re: [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread Louigi Verona
Right, I hear you John. But I did look at pro mastering software on Windows, I don't remember any unnecessary restrictions. My message would that I oppose this sort of a sweeping judgment of a whole audio platform. There might be some concrete examples, sure, but if you mean that in general all or

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:21:59 +0100, Kjetil Matheussen a écrit : > William Light: > > it's interesting to me that free (source and/or beer) music > > software on > > OSX and windows has come further than it has on Linux. off the top > > of my head: > > > > http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/portal.php

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread michael noble
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Dominique Michel wrote: > In the past, I done such a rt conversion on a dsp. It was working very > well but need some parameters to be carefully chosen. The only way to > chose those parameters are with a visual signal analysis. The timbre of > an instrument is uni

Re: [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:16:48AM +, John Rigg wrote: > By "dumbed down" I mean restricted in a way which may result in > inexperienced users making fewer mistakes, but will also inconvenience > more advanced users. An example of this would be a high mid EQ that won't > sweep above 8kHz. What

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread hermann meyer
Am 09.02.2013 12:38, schrieb Dominique Michel: Is is a few applications that claim to be able to do that. By example guitarixhttp://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2011/1/7/177338 but in practice, it is total unusable. Quote: "Guitarix offers this, Given, you play with good intonation/a well tuned

Re: [LAD] [LAU] jackdbus eating 100% cpu after a while

2013-02-09 Thread Florian Paul Schmidt
Hi James, On 02/09/2013 01:11 PM, James Stone wrote: Hi Flo, I am also running Ubuntu 12.10 and using jackdbus. It is really nice for things like playing along to youtube videos.. On my computer, I noticed that jack does have a tendency to lockup after a while when jackdbus is running. I had t

Re: [LAD] [LAU] jackdbus eating 100% cpu after a while

2013-02-09 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 01:24:22PM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: > I use very large period sizes, 1024 or even 2048. The problem of > jackd starting to eat 100% cpu occurs usually when I'm done with my > current work (recording something or fiddling around) and just leave > it running idly.

Re: [LAD] [LAU] jackdbus eating 100% cpu after a while

2013-02-09 Thread Florian Paul Schmidt
On 02/09/2013 01:36 PM, Adrian Knoth wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 01:24:22PM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: I use very large period sizes, 1024 or even 2048. The problem of jackd starting to eat 100% cpu occurs usually when I'm done with my current work (recording something or fiddling ar

Re: [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread John Rigg
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 02:20:58PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: > Right, I hear you John. But I did look at pro mastering software on > Windows, I don't > remember any unnecessary restrictions. > My message would that I oppose this sort of a sweeping judgment of a whole > audio platform. > There mig

Re: [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread Louigi Verona
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:26 PM, John Rigg wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 02:20:58PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: > > Right, I hear you John. But I did look at pro mastering software on > > Windows, I don't > > remember any unnecessary restrictions. > > My message would that I oppose this sort of

Re: [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

2013-02-09 Thread Harry van Haaren
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:16 AM, John Rigg wrote: > I will stress that I'm talking about audio engineering tools, not music > creation software here. I do appreciate that users of the latter have very > different requirements. I was reading your post, about to vocalize the counter-argument, but

[LAD] LV2 Synths & Hosts : MIDI binding

2013-02-09 Thread Harry van Haaren
Hey all! I have a simple enough question, but I don't know the best practice for solving it, so figured I'd ask. There's an LV2 synth running in a LV2 host. The synth exposes its operation trough control ports. Option 1: The plugin can bind incoming MIDI events to these control ports values, allo

Re: [LAD] LV2 Synths & Hosts : MIDI binding

2013-02-09 Thread David Robillard
On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 01:01 +, Harry van Haaren wrote: > Hey all! > > I have a simple enough question, but I don't know the best practice for > solving it, so figured I'd ask. > There's an LV2 synth running in a LV2 host. The synth exposes its operation > trough control ports. > > Option 1: >

[LAD] simple silence detection tool

2013-02-09 Thread Jeremy Hansen
I'm looking for a simple tool where I can point it at an http audio stream, define a number of seconds to detect silence and exit with a non-zero status if silence is detected. It seems like this should be easy but I've been search high and low for such a utility and nothing simple exists. Un