Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
drew Roberts wrote: > I find we (people) often miss key points unless they are specifically pointed > out. Just trying to do my bit to see that we are actually understanding one > another so we can see what real disagreements remain. I find we (people > again) often think they disagree on more t

Re: [LAD] linux audio standards base?

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: > On Sunday 09 August 2009 14:12:56 Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > >> No, as I said, the solution is very simple: Don't install a 64 bit OS. >> That's what's causing your problems, apparently. >> > > Helloo! Please leave the 20th century where it belongs. Nowadays 64bit

Re: [LAD] FLTK vs GTKmm

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
David Robillard wrote: >> using your desktop theme which might be bad, too. >> > > Ick! Using the desktop theme is not bad! The user chose it for a > reason! > > Less atrocious and weird looking "skinned" UI's designed by seemingly > half-blind artistically retarded programmers, please :) >

Re: [LAD] FLTK vs GTKmm

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: > Really, an Atari ST is more responsive. For me TOS is still the best OS for MIDI usage with external MIDI equipment, but this isn't true, the Atari ST's response is very good when using a Blitter, but very bad when not using a Blitter. For Linux I noticed, that when ru

Re: [LAD] linux audio standards base?

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
*???* Pulseaudio, 64-bit and JACK are a strange issue. I'm using 64-bit, the proprietary flash for 64-bit and I can run JACK, use audio software, e.g. Qtractor and at the same time watch YouTube etc.. Pulseaudio is not installed. Am I missing something, because I don't have Pulseaudio? Ralf Pa

Re: [LAD] FLTK vs GTKmm

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Isn't this Sergey's Law? > > i.e. The faster the hardware becomes, the slower the software > performs... > > I think he has tried to start a movement against this unwritten law of > computing. I can't recall the name right now though. Software needed less resources in t

Re: [LAD] FLTK vs GTKmm

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Vincent Torri wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> For me TOS is still the best OS for MIDI usage with external MIDI >> equipment, but this isn't true, the Atari ST's response is very good >> when using a Blitter, but very bad whe

Re: [LAD] FLTK vs GTKmm

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Vincent Torri wrote: >> >> E17 looks well, but when I used it a long time ago on another machine >> it was disgusting experimental ;). > > well, we work hard for a release, so a lot of things has been fixed / > stabilized. Maybe you can try it again. I'll try it again. >> I can't play the OGG?

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
VU meter: Maybe you should call it 'analogVUemu'. Phase correlator: Yep, some people generally spilt frequencies at around 200, resp. 250 Hz before they add effects or they avoid to panorama deep sounds. A phase correlator can be mistaken, because of some single sounds that don't matter in the

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dan Mills wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 18:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >> - Bad! Having a VU meter that can be adjusted to allegedly be in sync >> with some analogue VU meter never ever will be fine. Compare margin for >> your digital meters and the meter

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fraser wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Adrian, > > Adrian Knoth wrote: > >> Just a note: I personally don't like VUs in the digital domain. >> > agree, their primary purpose is a bit meaningless. > > > >> I prefer Bob Katz' K metering system (K12, K14, K20

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dan Mills wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 19:24 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> The only useful thing is to >> have a pre-adjusted meter, that can't be readjusted by the audio >> engineer. >> > > How do you deal with the annoying detail that t

[LAD] [Fwd: Re: [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0]

2009-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: The effective value is sine wave +3dB = 0 and nothing else. Am I wrong? *Just for dBFS* ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
TU Berlin: "Lediglich bei den Rundfunkanstalten besteht wegen des Austauschs von Programmmaterial auch über die Landesgrenzen hinweg die Notwendigkeit von einheitlichen Richtlinien. Da- bei gilt in Europa ein Übernahmepegel von +18 dBu für 0 dBFS (EBU R68), in den USA +24 dBu (SMPTE RP155)." On

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dan Mills wrote: > The key is that every stage has to have a known calibration, which is > actually fairly common with professional cards. Okay :) I don't know professional cards for home recording myself and the professional studios I know have external VU meters. For my Envy24 based sound card

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I wrote: > Dan Mills wrote: > >> The key is that every stage has to have a known calibration, which is >> actually fairly common with professional cards. >> > > Okay :) I don't know professional cards for home recording myself and > the professional studios I know have external VU meters.

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Invada Studio LV2 Plugins 1.2.0

2009-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:27:18PM +0100, Dan Mills wrote: > > >> Lets say your card is aligned so that 0dbFS = +18dbu (EBU standard), >> then 0Vu = +4dbu = - 14dbFS, so a software VU calibrated for 0Vu = >> -14dbFs should read the same as an external Vu calibrated for +

[LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi programmers of virtual synthesizers :) more than an hour ago I wiped of the dust of my old Oberheim to make soundfonts of some basses, but some pad sounds captivated me. The Oberheim is limited by 6-voice polyphony, resp. this isn't a limitation for those sounds. Virtual synth often tend to

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
hollun...@gmx.at wrote: > One obvious question there is: > what should the synth do when it reaches the limit? > There are several things that are possible and afaik implemented in > synths. It could drop the first note played, or the highest, or ... > > Just as a hint. I clear the stage for the sy

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hannu Savolainen wrote: > Albert Graef wrote: > >> hollun...@gmx.at wrote: >> >> >>> One obvious question there is: >>> what should the synth do when it reaches the limit? >>> There are several things that are possible and afaik implemented in >>> synths. It could drop the first note pla

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Or some _explicit_ feedback from somewhere downstream the patch > telling the voice allocator that a particular voice has decayed > far enough to be a candidate for re-use. My exploratory designs > for AMS II (gathering dust since four years) did exactly that. This "was" a

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nick Copeland wrote: > Voice allocation really depends on what you want the virtual synth to do. > If you want it to sound like the original then it should use a similar > algorithm, > if you want something that sounds better than or like the original > then for > something like an Oberheim, it w

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nick Copeland wrote: > will not sound like an Oberheim. PS: And there's no need to sound identically. Even if a programme should program something absolutely new, not an emulation, the 'Prophet *5*'-'Matrix *6*'-Effect of having less voices, could add some charm. Btw. I never used the Alsa modu

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 21:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Virtual synth often tend to make the mix muddy, when >> playing pad sounds, because the polyphony isn't limited, every released >> note is able to end the complete release

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > >> I don't know actual Peter Gabriel recordings, but I bet he still uses >> old synth, e.g. the Fairlight, especially for pad sounds. >> > > he doesn't. > I

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
OT: This reminds me of another issue of polyphony for synth, that is given by the Oberheim Matrix-1000 and the Synclavier. There's a special kind of mono mode, called 'G' (for the Oberheim). Each of the six voices is allocated to it's own MIDI channel, so every voice has got it's own pitch ben

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:32:58AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >> Fons Adriaensen wrote: >> >>> Or some _explicit_ feedback from somewhere downstream the patch >>> telling the voice allocator that a particular voice has d

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: > I think the latter could be more expressive when there are no more > voices than you can easily direct with a single two-handed chord, to get > in control of the stage again. Six voices would pretty good for that, > but I remember five like the Prophet had was annoying. Or

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Frank Barknecht wrote: > "Smeck" is not for midi, but for audio pickups. You need a separate pickup for > each string. > The Roland GK is designed for MIDI usage. I don't know the actual hex pickups. If it's not directly to MIDI, does it mean for Smeck a sound card with 6 IOs is needed and th

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:58:32PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >>>>> Or some _explicit_ feedback from somewhere downstream the patch >>>>> telling the voice allocator that a particular voice has decayed >>>>> f

Re: [LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dennis Schulmeister wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 16:37 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Today Zawinul often plays new synth, with the same sounds, but anyway >> it sounds disgusting today and he's a good keyboarder, able to >> compensate it a littl

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Frank :) Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Ralf Mardorf hat gesagt: // Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >> Frank Barknecht wrote: >> >>> "Smeck" is not for midi, but for audio pickups. You need a separate pickup >>> for >>> each st

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Albert Graef wrote: > Hmm, 20 msecs at 48KHz doesn't sound too bad. The earliest pitch > trackers on MIDI guitars had some 250 msecs latency IIRC, now those are > a real challenge to play. ;-) (Robert Fripp did it, though.) In a music store I played Voodoo Chile on a guitar synth in the middle 80

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > so in response to somebody else creating tools that they or others > want to use, you're going to lecture us about how to play a "classical > electrical guitar" I guess there's nothing wrong to encourage somebody who guess that he isn't able to play guitar, that he anyway shou

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Frank Barknecht wrote: > Not finding an inexpensive and compact 6-channel preamp on the market I guess there are some less expensive solutions in the web. Some might be fine, some not. I would test them on a brad board, maybe this side on German is okay: http://www.elektronikinfo.de/audio/egbaua

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > >> I guess there's nothing wrong to encourage somebody who guess that he isn't >> able to play guitar, that he anyway should play guitar and ignore bullshit >> like stupid guitar

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > victor wrote: > >> Looks good, but expensive? No price on the site. >> > > Maybe this one does also enable to use the 6 audio signals by USB: > http://de.shopping.com/xPO-Terratec-TERRATEC-Axon-AX-50-USB-SET http://www.thomann.de/de/terr

Re: [LAD] [PD-announce] smeck (6ch guitar processing patch) released]

2009-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
victor wrote: > Looks good, but expensive? No price on the site. Maybe this one does also enable to use the 6 audio signals by USB: http://de.shopping.com/xPO-Terratec-TERRATEC-Axon-AX-50-USB-SET ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.li

[LAD] [off-list] INVADA meter plugin and DSP load

2009-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
James Warden wrote: > [snip] Existing critics on the VU relevance notwithstanding [snip] Pardon, that some of us make noise because of this, me too. As a rule of thumb, there's nothing wrong if you or any other person will use such a meter. I'll react my own onesided opinion. Concepts needs to b

Re: [LAD] [off-list] INVADA meter plugin and DSP load

2009-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
:D it should be off-list :D Ralf Mardorf wrote: > James Warden wrote: >> [snip] Existing critics on the VU relevance notwithstanding [snip] > > Pardon, that some of us make noise because of this, me too. As a rule > of thumb, there's nothing wrong if you or any other pe

Re: [LAD] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
In the future I will test ladish. While I don't like jack_snapshot and lash very much, I do like qtractor a lot. I guess a good idea would be not to use a mess of Linux audio apps, but one application that stores audio and MIDI connections and is able to include virtual synth and fx and is a se

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello Nedko! >I've just got ladish and I'm installing it. I've looked into the > requirements. I see there's a lot of GUI and GUI-related, which seems to be > required. My question: Could you consider making as much as possible of the > GUI-stuff optional. I don't ha

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello Nedko! >Now I've come up against a wall, which I don't want to climb. >It's all to do with GUI-toolkits and their relatives. Especially > flowcanvas. > I dearly hope and plea for the feature, to optionalise the GUI-parts. > Flowcanvas seems to require somet

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > The feature you are mentioning (window positions and virtual desktops) > is goal that is not achieved yet. > Hi Nedko :) I guess I'm well known for my unwanted criticism about Linux audio ;). Shame on me ;). I'm glad t

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Julien Claassen wrote: > OK, I decided to do a quickie on-list, because I think it might be of > interest. This is about blind people and screenreaders. If your not > interested, just stop here. No ladish relevance in here. :-) > You can use Linux perfectly without any screenreader like Orca or

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Florent Berthaut wrote: > Perhaps it already exists, if it does please let me know ;) > As far as I know it doesn't exist. One advantage of Linux is, that most desktop environments allow to use virtual desktops, but when making music by using Linux, I very often don't turn off the computer, e

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Pardon > Take care to run some applications by disabling the usage of the PID > for JACK client NAMES ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Florent Berthaut wrote: > I guess i could used a tiling window manager, but i think it could be > interesting to have a more "music-oriented" system which could handle > the audio "and" windows sessions. I like the Ion WM, but I prefer a DE like e.g. KDE. KDE "really" is able to remember which

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nedko Arnaudov wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > >> I welcome ladish, but most of the times I would like to have a >> Linuxsampler DSSI, a Hydrogen DSSI etc. ;). >> > > You prefer DSSI over LV2? In recent years I've spent lot of time on both > J

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
drew Roberts wrote: > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 10:37:18 you wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 01 September 2009 19:18:45 Dennis Schulmeister wrote: >>> That kind of application already exists. It's called a tiling window manager. ;) DWM is one I sometimes use although I never trie

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Danni Coy wrote: > If I were using KDE and I had hardware that supports compositing I > would limit my audio software to a single virtual desktop and use the > "present windows" desktop effect for the current desktop to be able to > see all my windows at once. You would break stability of your

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
hollun...@gmx.at wrote: > I'm using a WM (called awesome) that can do tiling for everyday tasks as > well as audio. Since I have a rather small screen I use it mostly to get > every app fullscreen. When trying to use it for audio I ran in some > trouble. Applications like ardour require a lot of sc

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dennis Schulmeister wrote: > Applications that need a lot of space should provide scrollbars. And > that goes for windows as well as for dialogs. It's a real PITA that many > applications don't have good scrolling. Full ACK :). And sometimes they do have scrollbars, but they suppress resizing of

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
james morris wrote: > [snip] The other extreme, e17, is just ummm, no. Full ACK. I like e17, but it was much too buggy some years ago and even today it's not a DE I would recommend for a stable DAW. E17 is nice, but not a DE for carefree audio productions and it seems that the coders won't like

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: > How could I forget - e17 actually has _a lot_ of potential. More than > KDE as a whole. > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/E17_bw_screenshot.png > > But that's all it has - potential. I'm an e17 and KDE user and IMHO you are wrong, just because KDE is stab

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: > 2009/9/5 Ralf Mardorf <mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>> > > Ray Rashif wrote: > > How could I forget - e17 actually has _a lot_ of potential. > More than KDE as a whole. > > > http://upload.

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

2009-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: > 2009/9/5 Ralf Mardorf <mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net>> > > > E17 didn't change a lot since it was the default for the JAD > installing media some years ago, KDE did change a lot. Yes e17 has > got potential, that's

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > http://www.jpbouza.com.ar/ESP2/tutoriales/gnulinux/blenderardour/id/en Half asleep I had a quick flip through the howto. It seems to add JACK transport support to Blender?! If so, Blender could be synced to other applications too, e.g. MIDI sequencers?! Anyway, I gues

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > 2009/9/20 Ralf Mardorf : > >> Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: >> >>> http://www.jpbouza.com.ar/ESP2/tutoriales/gnulinux/blenderardour/id/en >>> >> Half asleep I had a quick flip through the howto. It seems to add JACK >&g

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > 2009/9/21 Jens M Andreasen : > >> On a related subject: >> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg04866.html >> > > to cut to the chase: the nvidia binary driver can cause crashes for > RT-patched kernel users. I guess some people could use 2D instead of 3D a

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: > From my personal experience the rt kernels can also cause crashes without > nvidia drivers loaded I don't have any trouble with rt kernels when not using a proprietary (ATI) driver, excepted of jitter for external MIDI. Most times the rt kernels are as stable as the lates

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnout Engelen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 02:51:26PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> For video studios I guess SMPTE is the better choice. When I was working >> with SMPTE I never had any trouble because of sync, it was accurate enough. >> >> It would b

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen > wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:18:00AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: >> >> >>> SMPTE is a low resolution time code. There is no reason to be limited >>> by frame rates of 30 fps when defining a synchronization prot

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Locating (while stopped) is a remote control function, which > is not the same as syncing. SMPTE in itself does not support > anything similar to a locate command, it's not a remote control > protocol but just an audio signal that can be decoded to time. > > SMPTE was devel

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: > The big exception for a long delay is film cut, when several > machines have immense offsets because of cuts and the machines need to wind. > So this isn't a disadvantage of SMPTE, but of tape recorders ;). Again ... the only disadvantage I know is crosstalk. SMPTE isn't a friendly audi

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
nescivi wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2009 08:55:56 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Paul Davis wrote: >> >>> 2009/9/21 Jens M Andreasen : >>> >>>> On a related subject: >>>> >>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:51 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > >> its also true that there are variants of SMPTE that include subframes, >> which certainly help the accuracy, but its not clear to me how >> commonly this information is actually passed around. >> > > You w

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Adrian Knoth wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:40:36PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >>> http://animata.kibu.hu/ >>> >> wow, this is exactly the kind of software I was looking for. Thank you, >> this seems to be excellent software. >>

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
ginal Message Subject:Re: [animata-users] Compiling svn revision 49 failed on Ubuntu Hardy Linux x86_64 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:20:11 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: animata-us...@lists.kitchenbudapest.hu References: <4ab8c1a3.4070...@alice-dsl.net> <4ab8c249.4030

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > i've been told by a company that specializes in timecode and shared > transport control systems that ardour has the fastest and most > accurate MTC sync of any DAW. I noticed too that MTC with Ardour is fine, while MTC for some MIDI equipment can be a PITA. Compliment :). I s

[LAD] Animata or any other 32-bit application on 64-bit by setting up a 32-bit chroot, e.g. for 64 Studio 3.0-beta3

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Sorry for this cross-posting, I just want to inform that there might be a solution in general for the 32-bit vs 64-bit issue. Someone from LAD wrote this: > I tried getting it right, and got it to build on 64bit, but then got seg > faults as I wanted to work with layers. > > I ended up building

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > >> Paul Davis wrote: >> >>> i've been told by a company that specializes in timecode and shared >>> transport control systems that ardour has the fastest and most >&

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dave Phillips wrote: > nescivi wrote: > >> I tried getting it right, and got it to build on 64bit, but then got seg >> faults as I wanted to work with layers. >> >> > > Hi Marije, > > I haven't done anything with it (Animata) yet So you don't know if there will be seg faults when usi

Re: [LAD] interesting blog post about syncing blender and ardour

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> then either convince someone to finally write a JACK client that does > the conversion between SMPTE and JACK Transport, or alternatively buy > a SMPTE<->MTC converter box. they don't cost much (less than someone > should get paid to write that client, thats for sure). > Stand alone converte

[LAD] Animata on 64bit architecture

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
nescivi wrote: > [snip] > I tried getting it right, and got it to build on 64bit, but then got seg > faults as I wanted to work with layers. > > I ended up building it in a 32bit chroot instead (which works fine). > > [snip] Hi :) this isn't really a howto. I guess I made some mistakes, but any

Re: [LAD] (Somewhat OT) Advice needed on distro choice

2009-09-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:30:27PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: > > >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Fons Adriaensen >> wrote: >> > > >>> So what distro should I go for ? >>> >> Sounds like Arch is worth a look. >> > > Do they have a ready-to-use R

Re: [LAD] MidiSport vs. UA25

2009-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been experimenting with MIDI control from one machine to another. I > checked the timing of a single note played simultanesouly by instances > of QSynth on both machines and was surprised to hear a very noticeable > flamming. I then replaced the MidiSpo

Re: [LAD] MidiSport vs. UA25

2009-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>> It is possible that the devices have different buffer sizes, so that >> sending multiple MIDI messages at once is more difficult. Have a look >> at the respective values of wMaxPacketSize that are shown in the output >> of "lsusb -v". Furthermore, the devices can have different internal >> bu

Re: [LAD] MidiSport vs. UA25

2009-09-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Dave Phillips wrote: > > Which interface did you use for sending/receiving? > And which USB device is head of the USB devices? Did you change the ports or did you edit /etc/default/rtirq? RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="rtc snd usb3 i8042" You can make a special port head of the USB ports by adding the

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:07:26PM +0200, Albin Stigo wrote: > > >> I'm new to the list so I hope this is not the wrong forum! >> >> I've been working on a midi keyboard ("physical" hardware 88-keys >> "professional" = no toy) for a while for which I plan to release the

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Christian wrote: >> >>> For the keys I love aftertouch :) >>> >>> >> An option that can regulate the number of the aftertouch events that are >> send is useful. Some seque

Re: [LAD] MidiSport vs. UA25

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnout Engelen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 01:29:53PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Arnout Engelen wrote: >> >>> - increased the rtprio for the USB IRQ handler >>> >> How can I do this? I only know how to make my Siwssonic USB MIDI de

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Soft synths can be made do to whatever you want :-) > Release velocity adds a new expression possibility > I do agree, anyway it's seldom used. > that could be interesting in particular for monophonic > synths. And I'm contemplating writing one... > :) > Another u

Re: [LAD] MidiSport vs. UA25

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnout Engelen wrote: > I did some tweaks: > - increased the rtprio for the USB IRQ handler > How can I do this? I only know how to make my Siwssonic USB MIDI device head of the USB devices by Rui's rtirq. Is there something I could change for rtirq, to get less jitter for the USB MIDI devic

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Peter Nelson wrote: >> For release velocity it's the same as for poly pressure, I don't know >> any keyboard providing this. The only unusual function provided by a >> keyboard I know is breath control. My Yamaha DX7 supports breath >> control. >> > > There are some; my CME UF8 sends release

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Christian wrote: > For the keys I love aftertouch :) > An option that can regulate the number of the aftertouch events that are send is useful. Some sequencers have an option to reduce the amount of recorded aftertouch events, but not every sequencer is able to do it. Using aftertouch someti

[LAD] rtirq - previously Re: MidiSport vs. UA25

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnout Engelen wrote: > I haven't looked into rtirq yet (I really should), but if I understand > correctly rtirq does automatically what I did manually: find out which IRQ > the device you're interested in is connected to, and give that IRQ a > higher rtprio. > > To see the current rtprio's of y

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 14:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >> When using several MIDI ports even a lot of SysEx can be sent real-time, >> but using only one MIDI port even aftertouch can cause timing problems. >> > > A strea

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Jens M Andreasen wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 14:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> >>> When using several MIDI ports even a lot of SysEx can be sent >>> real-time, but using only one MIDI port even aftertouch can cause >>> timing proble

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nick Copeland wrote: > I would not put too much emphasis on the ms delays and traffic volume > generated by these messages. It has been generally agreed that the > bandwidth > of MIDI would have killed it a long time ago had it not been for > 'integrated' > systems that passed MIDI internally hen

[LAD] Link to the archive needs an update

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
It would be nice if someone could add the linuxaudio.org archives to http://lad.linuxaudio.org/archive/lad.html. The Stanford archive might be less good ;), but search engines prefer to link to lad.linuxaudio.org. I gave someone on the 64 Studio list links to the Stanford archive and was correc

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I wrote: > Nick Copeland wrote: > >> Bad targets: >> Volume/gain, filter cutoff, FX depths, : All of these might be normal >> for >> note-on velocity but are very bad selections for note-off. They cause >> pops >> and clicks when key-on velocity is very different from key-off velocity. > > Seems

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > In a mono synth the release velocity could just be stored > and used to modify the transition to the next note when > that arrives. This might be the most interesting usage. A compression ratio calculated by the note on and note off velocity to transmit a changed note of

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:00:25PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > >> ... but a master keyboard should >> support custom velocity curves not only for note on velocity, but also for >> note off velocity, anything else seems not to be the

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Peter Nelson wrote: >> >>>> For release velocity it's the same as for poly pressure, I don't know >>>> any keyboard providing this. The only unusual function provided by a >>&g

Re: [LAD] "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
David Olofson wrote: > Very handy for pads and strings where this allows you to control the (usually > rather slow) attack and release times individually. > I believe that this will be a good way to control this. Another, not perfect way, is something I mentioned some time ago. Limiting the

Re: [LAD] : "Open midi-keyboard"

2009-09-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jeff McClintock wrote: features would you like to see, what are you missing from off-the-shelf products? > > Hi-Definition MIDI support. > It's not a standard yet, is it? http://www.midi.org/aboutus/workgroups.php ___ Linux-aud

Re: [LAD] phasex-0.12.0-pre1

2009-09-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, wrong list. Original Message Subject:Re: [LAD] phasex-0.12.0-pre1 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:31:19 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: William Weston CC: linux-audio-u...@lists.linuxaudio.org References: William Weston wrote: > Download phasex

Re: [LAD] Open Keyboard: Request for velocity curve information

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 06:50:38PM +0200, David Olofson wrote: > > >> Well, I don't know about linearity, or how linear MIDI velocity is actually >> supposed to be, but it's common to at least have various ways of scaling >> velocity. Many (most?) synths will support m

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.4.3 (fussy doula) released!

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > Qtractor 0.4.3 (fussy doula) released! > Hi Rui :) the last version I compiled was 0.4.2.1401 from svn, build Oct 2 2009 03:37:02. For Linux Qtractor still is my favourite one :). For further versions I would welcome a more comfortable "management" for the .mid c

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