[LAD] Re: Jack error

On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 11:13:46PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Givven the stutus of BDB, I'd say the long term solution > would be for jackd to use e.g. LMDB instead of BDB. Makes sense. > And also to make the metadata support a run-time option. A run-time option would be useful. John

[LAD] Re: Calculating logarithmic curve for controller automation

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 07:09:51PM +0100, Jeanette C. wrote: > Hey hey, > how is a logarithmic curve usually programmed in a DAW or sequencer? Do you > scale the values of (log1) to log(2) to the desired range and stretch it > over time? Do you ajudst steepness by either using more less of the log

[LAD] Re: Status of Pipewire - Ryzen 5

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 06:32:36PM +, Will Godfrey wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 20:18:59 + > John Rigg wrote: > >Have you turned off hyperthreading on the Ryzen system (usually called SMT in > >BIOS settings on AMD)? I keep SMT turned off on my Ryzen systems to avoid >

[LAD] Re: Status of Pipewire - Ryzen 5

On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 02:33:18PM +, Will Godfrey wrote: > > Something that may (or may not be related) > There seems to be something odd with Linux image 6.1 preempt > > On a Ryzen 5, Rosegarden keeps randomly losing the transport timer > sometimes freezing for nearly a second (then blasts

[LAD] Re: Status of Pipewire

On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 05:06:45PM +, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > for instance, and for crying out loud, pipewire is simply a disaster under a > PREEMPT_RT kernel, while jack excels with flying colors :) This is a concern. I've noticed some pro audio package maintainers are starting to replace

[LAD] Re: Status of Pipewire

On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 05:06:45PM +, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > for instance, and for crying out loud, pipewire is simply a disaster under a > PREEMPT_RT kernel, while jack excels with flying colors :) This is a concern. I've noticed some pro audio package maintainers are starting to replace

Re: [LAD] A GUI request

On Sun, Jun 05, 2022 at 09:49:13PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > Therefore please consider either defaulting to a lighter layout, or > alternatively, at first time start give a choice using a system alert/choice > window. If you don't provide a lighter option, maybe consider doing so. Options are

[LAD] status of RME HDSPe AES (32 channels)

Good to know there's a new hdspm driver being worked on. > The settings of the card can nevertheless be graphically > set, using alsamixer in the terminal. I've only had limited success using alsamixer to change settings on HDSPe MADI cards. I've found amixer and alsactl (both CLI) more useful

[LAD] NSM fork

The recent fork of NSM (Non Session Manager) and the discussion around it has highlighted some issues in the Linux Audio community which I believe need to be addressed. I don't think the fork was handled very well, with antagonism on both sides which could easily have been avoided with a little

Re: [LAD] READ THIS IF YOU CARE ABOUT FREEDOM! Fwd: [LAA] Non DAW release including Non Session Manager (i.e. the real NSM)

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 05:46:11PM +0100, Thomas Brand wrote: > So that's why I ask you David Runge to undo the ban. The OP is not the core > of the problem. By removing OP, you remove symptoms only. I agree. Please undo the ban. John ___

[LAD] NSM non vs new

On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 05:46:55AM +0200, Hermann Meyer wrote: > Including NSM As a long term user of non-session-manager I think the use of the same abbreviation (NSM) for the new fork is confusing. Would it not be better to refer to it by

Re: [LAD] Looking for some jackd debugging help

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:38:46PM -0700, Ethan Funk wrote: > I would like to run jackd in gdb so I can see where it is failing, but > I am unsure how to build it without breaking my system's installed jack > package, which is of course built without debugging enabled. You could try installing

Re: [LAD] 'A' note Tuning Range

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:17:58PM +0200, li...@justmail.de wrote: > On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 08:37 +0100, Will J Godfrey wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:16:29 + > > John Rigg wrote: > > > A Korg GA-1 tuner can go down to 5 semitones flat. It's quite common > > &

Re: [LAD] 'A' note Tuning Range

On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 09:21:09PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote: > Currently in 'Scales' Yoshimi can set this anywhere between 1Hz and 2kHz, > which > is frankly ridiculous. > > This doesn't appear at all in the Scala documentation, so that's no guide. > > I've had suggestions ranging from +- 1/2

Re: [LAD] New(ish) OSS synth plugin

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 02:02:08PM -0400, bill-auger wrote: > derp, the first time i noticed this post i overlooked the egregious > error in the title > > one should be mindful to avoid terminology (especially acronyms) that > have multiple interpretations, especially when those alternate >

[LAD] Do professionals use Pulse Audio? ; xfce4-mixer

On Wed Apr 25 18:27:25 CEST 2018 Will J Godfrey wrote: > I use one machine specifically for music, permanently connected to Keyboards > etc. and PA was removed with extreme prejudice. On the audio side it's working > entirely Jack - MIDI is mostly ALSA. > > On my other 'office' machine it's there

Re: [LAD] Half-OT: Fader mapping - was - Ardour MIDI tracer

Ralf, please stop dictating how others should work. I've been recording in studios for 35 years and I like to think I know what I'm doing. Not everyone who has different working methods from yours is an idiot, but that seems to be what you are implying. John

Re: [LAD] Half-OT: Fader mapping - was - Ardour MIDI tracer

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 01:10:58AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 20:06 +0100, John Rigg wrote: The P+G faders (generally regarded as the best) Actually you get fader units for Studer with PG, but also with Alps faders. Such a module usually costs more than a complete home

Re: [LAD] Half-OT: Fader mapping - was - Ardour MIDI tracer

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:39:05PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: IMO each channel by default should provide your (Fons') parametric EQ and post fader aux sends. Those who usually try to record the right sound in the first place might find this a nuisance. Unfortunately one size doesn't fit all.

Re: [LAD] Half-OT: Fader mapping - was - Ardour MIDI tracer

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 09:01:03AM -0700, Len Ovens wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, John Rigg wrote: The '70s Neve mentioned earlier would likely have used Penny Giles faders with a roughly logarithmic taper (no VCAs). Since this type of fader is made Ok, I have to ask this somewhere, it may

Re: [LAD] Beta testers required...

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 08:42:48AM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: You need resampling even if the sample rates are equal, unless the interconnected system have a common word clock. Can the resampling be switched off in cases where a common word clock is available? John

Re: [LAD] LV2 plugin for all applications

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 09:31:26AM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: The whole user space part of ALSA has become more or less redundant. For 'serious' work, people will use Jack which provides the ultimate flexibility. Except for those of still in the multiple PCI-card stone age who need

Re: [LAD] LV2 plugin for all applications

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 10:42:09AM +, John Rigg wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 09:31:26AM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: The whole user space part of ALSA has become more or less redundant. For 'serious' work, people will use Jack which provides the ultimate flexibility. Except

Re: [LAD] Releasing source code is not enough, I think...

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:40:23PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:55:04AM +, Filipe Coelho wrote: I think we should stop assuming releasing source code is enough. Enough for what ? Users who don't want to install from source want packages made for the package

Re: [LAD] Releasing source code is not enough, I think...

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:34:05PM +, Filipe Coelho wrote: I think it's not up to the users to understand how software compilation works. That depends on the developer's intention when releasing source code. Some very good Linux audio software was written for the developers' own use, and

Re: [LAD] Audio Levitation

Would it not be better to continue this discussion off-list? John ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] who wants contribute to Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 06:40:31PM +0300, Vytautas Jancauskas wrote: sourceforge? what is this 1999? Top-posting? What is this, a non-developer list? ;-) John ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] who wants contribute to Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 05:32:57PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 17:01 +0200, Joël Krähemann wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ags/ ags_0.3.15-0 doesn't build. $ make gcc -g -c main.c -o main.o -I../ `pkg-config --cflags alsa glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gdk-2.0

Re: [LAD] forking (was Re: Aeolus)

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 07:52:02AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It's completely impossible to be on Fons site. When Fons has such a super-mind, why did he chose the GPL? Those simple-minded guy who forked Aeolus might have made a little mistake, but doesn't offend the licence. Ralf, please stop

Re: [LAD] forking (was Re: Aeolus)

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:52:05AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: He made a mistake? Ok! And now? Making it a drama while it might be easy to solve, by just talking to him? He might think he didn't made a mistake, so he perhaps won't contact somebody, but he perhaps will reply if Fons or you send

Re: [LAD] Community Interaction and Working Together

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:26:28PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: When reading musician forums: Seemingly many people are missing fashion software, such as auto-tune Last time I needed to auto-tune a vocal track I used zita-at1. It worked very well. John

Re: [LAD] zita1 RIP

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:09:56PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: The new zita1 will probably be a Fujitsu P510, one of the reasons being that this is one of the few still having at least one PCI slot, so I can still use my sound cards. Any suggestions for alternatives are welcome ! If you

Re: [LAD] Behringer ADA8000 phase

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:29:53PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: The only thing that has happened to the installation over the last years is that some of the Behringers failed (power supply blown up, one per year on average) and were replaced. So I checked those separately. And yes, some of

Re: [LAD] A3 clicks

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 06:28:39PM +0200, Nick Copeland wrote: On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:24:29AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: inevitable, since you are changing the order of processors in the channel strip. in some setups, you will notice the click as this happens, in others you will

Re: [LAD] (Modular) Synth and Clipping

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:33:45PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: An output transformer will saturate if the frequency is low enough, but the signal level required to saturate it is directly proportional to frequency. In a properly designed guitar or bass amp there will be some transformer

Re: [LAD] (Modular) Synth and Clipping

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 02:56:13PM +0100, Aurélien Leblond wrote: - in some cases (or let say modules of a synth), clipping is implemented more to copie what an analogue system would do than a mandatory part of the algorithm... Let's take an example: 2 sin waves mixed together of amplitude

Re: [LAD] (Modular) Synth and Clipping

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote: As example, when you push guitar amps in clipping at full volume, half of the clipping you can ear is, with some brands, not the clipping of the electronic, but the clipping of the power transformer. That sounds very bad -:(,

Re: [LAD] Xiph.org - Video:Digital Show and Tell - No difference between analog and digitally processed sound.

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:18:25PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Take a filter for a 48 kHz DAC. It could be -0.5 dB at 23 kHz, -12 dB at 24 kHz, and -100 dB at 25 kHz. Any aliasing will be either above 23 kHz or below -100 dB, probably harmless. Given the passband and stopband constraints at

Re: [LAD] Xiph.org - Video:Digital Show and Tell - No difference between analog and digitally processed sound.

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:38:37AM -0400, Bill Gribble wrote: There are real effects due to clock jitter on both the A/D and D/A end that can cause small but measurable distortions. Not to mention audible if it's severe enough. Decimation filters that only give 6 or 12dB attenuation at fs/2

Re: [LAD] RME suggestions

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 08:27:14AM +1000, Geoff Beasley wrote: I will be getting a new audio rig in July. I would appreciate comments from anyone who uses a RME system. I'm looking into a raydat and some converters... and what D?A converters do you use? I used a Solid State Logic Alpha-Link

Re: [LAD] Mixing audio: Implementing pan and balance

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 03:47:12PM -0400, Ricardus Vincente wrote: On 03/16/2013 09:25 AM, John Rigg wrote: A lot of mixing consoles don't provide a mono switch, but it's usually possible to work around it with sub groups. I still have to work out a convenient method for mono checking

Re: [LAD] Mixing audio: Implementing pan and balance

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 06:54:18AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 5:17 AM, John Rigg lad...@jrigg.co.uk wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 03:47:12PM -0400, Ricardus Vincente wrote: Doesn't A3 have a mono button on the new monitor section? Yes it does. I had (stupidly

Re: [LAD] Mixing audio: Implementing pan and balance

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 06:23:09PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Zita-mu1 is a simple Jack client used to organise stereo monitoring during recording and mixing. More here: http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/zita-mu1-doc/quickguide.html and download from

Re: [LAD] Mixing audio: Implementing pan and balance

Nobody has mentioned it yet but there is a good reason why it's useful to have pan controls on each channel of a stereo bus: it makes it easy to check for phase errors by panning both sides to the middle to check in mono. I do this in Ardour 2 (and on hardware mixing consoles) all the time. The

Re: [LAD] Mixing audio: Implementing pan and balance

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 09:50 +, John Rigg wrote: ... check for phase errors ... on hardware mixing consoles ... I'm doing it too. Mono compatibility seems to be less important for the Linux community. There's possibly a lack

Re: [LAD] Muse - Was: OT: Bitwig beta for Linux reviewed

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:47:52PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The CPU always was and still is an AMD Athlon 64-bit dual-core BE-2350 2.1 GHz. ... I'm usually using self-build kernel-rt in the past 2.6.x and today 3.x. FWIW I've never been able to get an -rt patched kernel to work with a dual

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

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 12:03:41PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:29 AM, John Rigg lad...@jrigg.co.uk 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

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

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 might be

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

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 01:02:13AM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: But do you really think that when doing a mix, the quality of the final result will depend on which of the 15 or so general purpose equalisers you use on any particular track ? No, it depends on which esoteric piece of hardware

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

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:55:14PM +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: By the way, to once again put up a little defense of people on Windows and Mac, I advice everyone to watch a masterclass with Ritchie Hawtin, a popular minimal house producer and dj. It is available on YouTube and he speaks about

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

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:14:58PM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Digital emulations of well-known analog equalisers have become a genre of their own... Usually the 'good imperfections' (noise, distortion,...) are emulated as well, as if the creators of those EQs actually added them on purpose.

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

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:09:17PM -0500, Fred Gleason wrote: I suspect that many of the points in your list about confusion and fragmentation come from users who are expecting this One Perfect System and are then disappointed by the reality of having to make choices and exercise knowledge.

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

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 08:47:55AM -0800, Michael Bechard wrote: I think others (most?) in this community want to see Linux audio flourish and not become relegated to an audio environment for programmers. Nobody's slagging audio geeks, really, we just want to see some effort put into making

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

Maybe someone should start new mailing lists for Linux music software developers and users. I'm serious - there's clearly a demand for it. John ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] C - Change in memory causing seg.fault (but why?)

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:24:56PM +0100, Muffinman wrote: Yeah, that explains why I didn't get any compiling error on a 32bit computer and did get on a 64bit one (where I did correct the error). However, the latter was satisfied with %li. Apparently in c++ there is no difference between long

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Linux Audio 2012: Is Linux Audio moving forward?

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:01:23PM -0400, drew Roberts wrote: Let's say I want at least 24 ins. What do I get? Where can I find a HOWTO on my options? Here's a HOWTO on using multiple Delta 1010s (which can also be adapted for other cards): http://www.jrigg.co.uk/linuxaudio/ice1712multi.html

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Linux Audio 2012: Is Linux Audio moving forward?

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 05:31:19PM +0400, Louigi Verona wrote: Speaking of hardware drivers, long time ago I wrote this article on E-MU 0404 USB: http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projectss=writingst=linuxa=linux_emu0404usb For a long time it was my mostly read article. Some people theorized

Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)

On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 03:39:27PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote: 2012/8/31 John Rigg: Thanks for taking the initiative on this. The lack of high quality samples usable on a Linux system has been quite a problem. What, more closely, is a high quality sample (today) ? Is it very

Re: [LAD] Kontakt sampler format (and others like EXS24)

Thanks for taking the initiative on this. The lack of high quality samples usable on a Linux system has been quite a problem. John ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

[LAD] xfmr-plugins-0.0.1

xfmr-plugins-0.0.1 has been released. At present it contains one LADSPA plugin, an anti-aliased transformer distortion emulator intended to be used on the master bus when mixing in a DAW such as Ardour. I made it for my own use, in order to get closer to the sound of an analogue mix without the

Re: [LAD] LADSPA plugin undefined symbols - SOLVED

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 10:55:12PM +0100, John Rigg wrote: It was the -lm option. With that added to the LD line in the makefile it could find cos, which was the undefined symbol stopping demolition. Other undefined symbols like malloc, calloc and free didn't bother it (these could

[LAD] LADSPA plugin undefined symbols

(Hope this is the right place to ask - apologies if not). I'm trying to test my new LADSPA plugin with demolition but the latter fails due to undefined symbols. Running objdump -t on the .so lists several of the standard C functions used in the code as undefined symbols. I've tried installing

Re: [LAD] LADSPA plugin undefined symbols - SOLVED

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:41:44PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: On 07/09/2012 09:18 PM, John Rigg wrote: I'm trying to test my new LADSPA plugin with demolition but the latter fails due to undefined symbols. Running objdump -t on the .so lists several of the standard C functions used