Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 18:20 -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: TTL level MIDI in and out Assumed it's not broken, than for my Terratec EWX 24/96 there's an issue for the pin allocation. Do the ports for most sound cards usually have the common pin allocation? My ASUS M2A-VM HDMI has got 1 x PCI

Re: [LAD] basic MIDI note-on/note-off questions

2010-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 12:51 +0100, James Morris wrote: Does this imply that a note-off should always happen one millisecond early? I've got no knowledge how to program for Linux, but regarding to those oldish sequencers. No, a note-off should always is send at the correct time. --

Re: [LAD] basic MIDI note-on/note-off questions

2010-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 08:29 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:55 AM, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: Hi, I keep getting surprised at some of the most basic problems I run into... This time, processing order. just remember that in real MIDI, nothing can be

Re: [LAD] basic MIDI note-on/note-off questions

2010-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 08:29 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:55 AM, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: Hi, I keep getting surprised at some of the most basic problems I run into... This time, processing

Re: [LAD] basic MIDI note-on/note-off questions

2010-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 15:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 08:29 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:55 AM, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: Hi, I keep getting surprised at some

Re: [LAD] GPL and plugins

2010-06-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 06:40 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Victor Lazzarini wrote: A simple question: can GPL plugins be loaded into non-free hosts? This may appear a stupid question, but given the fact that non-free code can't link to GPL binaries, what is

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-06-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ichthyostega wrote: Ralf Mardorf schrieb: Another stupid question induced by an argument regarding to MIDI jitter by Daniel James. [snip] I'm sceptical that the realtime kernel is the cause of your MIDI problems. If they got this right in the 80's, on computers which could not do anything

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-06-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Gene :) Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This will go back only to LAD as I'm not subbed to the others, Ralf. Ichthyostega wrote: Ralf Mardorf schrieb: Another stupid question induced by an argument regarding to MIDI jitter by Daniel James

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-06-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Gene :) [huge snip] Being an ardent purist can bite you. As another friend of mine would say, use what works. No Windows! If needed I'll write to your friend and get that Atari-VGA interface, get a SMPTE

Re: [LAD] A question about LV2 audio

2010-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Rui Nuno Capela rn...@rncbc.org mailto:rn...@rncbc.org wrote: there's no limitation on lv2. i think you misunderstood something, but any lv2 host has obvious access to the audio stream produced by _any_ plugin. how

[LAD] MIDI jitter

2010-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Another stupid question induced by an argument regarding to MIDI jitter by Daniel James. [snip] I'm sceptical that the realtime kernel is the cause of your MIDI problems. If they got this right in the 80's, on computers which could not do anything near realtime audio processing, then I think

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/17/2010 04:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming for savant syndrome musical

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200: [...] I fear something named simply 'emc' isn't easy to find around the net. Try

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Btw. when 'we' some old dino computer freaks controlled stepper motors by DOS machines, we just controlled remoted pics (oldish micro controllers - but not very old -, I guess you would use DSPs or other micro controllers today, but would you use your MacOS, Windows, Linux instead of

Re: [LAD] Real-time plotting of audio/ oscilloscope.

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jeremy wrote: Is there a fundamental restriction on doing so, or is my problem in software? Jeremy Hardware ;)! We should start a black- and whitelist for hardware used for Linux real-time. Unfortunately I could add my two machines to the blacklist :(.

Re: [LAD] Real-time plotting of audio/ oscilloscope.

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Jeremy wrote: Is there a fundamental restriction on doing so, or is my problem in software? Jeremy Hardware ;)! We should start a black- and whitelist for hardware used for Linux real-time. Unfortunately I could add my two machines to the blacklist :(. A blacklist

Re: [LAD] Real-time plotting of audio/ oscilloscope.

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: Jeremy wrote: Is there a fundamental restriction on doing so, or is my problem in software? Jeremy Hardware ;)! We should start a black- and whitelist for hardware used for Linux real-time. Unfortunately I could add my two machines to the blacklist

Re: [LAD] Real-time plotting of audio/ oscilloscope.

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jeremy wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Jeremy wrote: Is there a fundamental restriction on doing so, or is my problem in software? Jeremy Hardware ;)! We should

Re: [LAD] Real-time plotting of audio/ oscilloscope.

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Jeremy wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Jeremy wrote: Is there a fundamental restriction on doing so, or is my problem in software? Jeremy

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200: [...] I fear something named simply 'emc' isn't easy to

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200: [...] I fear something named simply 'emc

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Philipp Überbacher wrote: At my school we transfered the CAD files per floppy to a DOS box that controlled the CNC machine, guess that's for the same reason, bad rt capabilities of newer OSes and machines. PPS: CNC machines are very expensive. Even if newer OSes and machines should be

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gordon JC Pearce wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 00:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Don't believe me, but ask some classic musicians to do some MIDI recordings using Linux + external equipment (internal Linux MIDI is ok) and then ask them, if they are fine with the result. Do

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2010 17:55:56 Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:27 AM, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: Incidentally, if I want the GUI to update very close to real time, say a grid of blocks flashing on and off as notes come and go, any

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Arnold Krille wrote: On Tuesday 15 June 2010 17:55:56 Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:27 AM, James Morris ja...@jwm-art.net wrote: Incidentally, if I want the GUI to update very close to real time, say a grid of blocks flashing on and off as notes come

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming for savant syndrome musical gifted and 'fast' watching people too? the limits under discussion relate to monitor technology, not human capabilities. I'm

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming for savant syndrome musical gifted and 'fast' watching people too? the limits under discussion relate to monitor technology, not human capabilities. 100 Hz

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
hermann wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 16.06.2010, 21:48 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming for savant syndrome musical gifted and 'fast' watching people too

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/17/2010 04:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming for savant syndrome musical gifted and 'fast' watching people too? the limits under discussion relate

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/17/2010 04:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming for savant syndrome musical gifted and 'fast' watching people too? the limits under discussion relate

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/17/2010 04:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming for savant syndrome musical gifted and 'fast' watching people too? the limits

[LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
A PPPscriptum: When I programmed for 65xx and 68xxx CPUs on Basic + Assembler I did count process cycles for the op codes. Do you know exactly what the result is, after you compiled your C code? Don't believe me, but ask some classic musicians to do some MIDI recordings

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Steve Harris wrote: LV2 users never see turtle data. Correct. People I know and I, we never take care of this data. I read this by random, after I stopped reading this thread. You are all gifted coders and you do waste your time with a discussion about this issue. I'm watching this from

Re: [LAD] Playing notes with a

2010-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: Is it a platform specific thing? No, it isn't. There's something wrong for your install. I tested it with Virtual Keyboard playing Calf Organ by JACK MIDI. I used the mouse and the qwerty keyboard and both were ok. The notes were hold and not triggered again and again.

Re: [LAD] Playing notes with a

2010-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Louigi Verona wrote: Is it a platform specific thing? No, it isn't. There's something wrong for your install. I tested it with Virtual Keyboard playing Calf Organ by JACK MIDI. I used the mouse and the qwerty keyboard and both were ok. The notes were hold

Re: [LAD] Playing notes with a

2010-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: Hey everybody! I apologize for the silly question. I really did think it was like a difficult thing to solved. In Ubuntu went to keyboard preferences and switched it off. I really am sorry for polluting the list with such a question ;) But I am glad it got resolved so

Re: [LAD] Playing notes with a

2010-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Louigi Verona wrote: Hey everybody! I apologize for the silly question. I really did think it was like a difficult thing to solved. In Ubuntu went to keyboard preferences and switched it off. I really am sorry for polluting the list with such a question ;) But I am glad

Re: [LAD] Looking for the cause of pulsating noises

2010-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I couldn't notice (in Germany we call it) 'pumping'. I don't think it's caused by auto-leveling. OTOH the pulsing noise might be caused by a strange limiter because of some peaks, but try to reproduce such a sound using LADSPA limiters, compressors on your computer. Ok, it might be caused on

[LAD] Calf Monosynth

2010-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) are the coders of Calf Monosynth at that list? Before I read maximize flexibility while minimizing the number of controls. Useful for synth basses, I exactly got this opinion. This is one of the best virtual synth I know. Thanx :). If you should have a wish list: I'm using a 61 keys

Re: [LAD] Looking for the cause of pulsating noises

2010-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Olivier Guilyardi wrote: Here is the sample, it's a musical flute and violin recording: http://sound.samalyse.org/tapemachine/pulsations.wav Listen carefully and you will here small pulsations. Here I didn't need to listen carefully, it's unmistakable. I know this kind of noise when doing

Re: [LAD] Looking for the cause of pulsating noises

2010-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Olivier Guilyardi wrote: He also reported the following: if I rig up a TRRS 3.5 mm jack to XLR adapter and use a real microphone the recording seems to be clean (though with other issues, perhaps ground loops or impedance mismatch or something). *!* On the software side, couldn't a sample

Re: [LAD] Looking for the cause of pulsating noises

2010-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Olivier Guilyardi wrote: Okay, that's precious informations. I wasn't sure this could come from the mic, but you're making it clear that it's much probable. At least similar (maybe the same) noise isn't an unexpected surprise, when using combinations of low-end analog consumer equipment.

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: There is a switch on the backside of the Hammond to spin it down in remembrance of those unforgettable brown-out moments. I can't translate 'brown-out' into German. Is this regarding to James Brown? Not my kind of music, but Bernie Worrell still is alive and he

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: There is a switch on the backside of the Hammond to spin it down in remembrance of those unforgettable brown-out moments. I can't translate 'brown-out' into German. Is this regarding to James Brown

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 28 May 2010, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:24:29PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Oberhausen, Rheinland, Germany; power line frequency right now is at 49 Hz, measured with a low cost energy consumption costs meter. Those low cost

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Veronica Merryfield wrote: Regarding to station clocks I guess they are synced by radio and not by the power line. In Parma there the clocks might be heritage-protected ;) and stills synced by the power line frequency. The ones I have visited have two clocks, one on the power line and one

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Chris Cannam wrote: Why 1015 Hz? Slew rate of card x's input op-amps? ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, This week I had to perform measurements on a audio interface, and this resulted in some quite interesting results. Before revealing what happened, I'll let you have a look at some of the data and come up with your own conclusions, see

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:30:54AM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: Audio ADCs and DACs have three important inputs; the signal input, the voltage reference, and the clock. Noise and interference on the voltage reference causes amplitude modulation, and jitter on the

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Florian Faber wrote: Fons, One more hint: card X is a very high end one. It should be 'perfect', or at least much better than card A. So card A produced the effect and cancelled it out when measuring itself. Flo :) But what is bad with card A ;).

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Veronica Merryfield wrote: On 05/28/2010 02:31 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, This week I had to perform measurements on a audio interface, and this resulted in some quite interesting results. Before revealing what happened, I'll let you have a look at some of the data and come

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Folderol wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010 19:20:54 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Veronica Merryfield wrote: On 05/28/2010 02:31 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, This week I had to perform measurements on a audio interface, and this resulted

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gabriel Beddingfield wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield gabrb...@gmail.com wrote: The 100 Hz (being 2x 50Hz, the power freq. in Italy) suggests that it is probably related to some manner of power supply. However, I have no theory why we're getting 2x 50Hz (and

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Olivier Guilyardi wrote: On 05/28/2010 07:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Folderol wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010 19:20:54 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Veronica Merryfield wrote: You can't trust a loop back test. Any instability or dither

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Olivier Guilyardi wrote: On 05/28/2010 07:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Folderol wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010 19:20:54 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Veronica Merryfield wrote: You can't trust a loop back test. Any instability

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Try modelling it up with AMS (that's what I did). -gabriel :D Not now, because ... Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Dammit, Fons! I'm trying to get some work done today and go off and nerd snipe me. [snip] p.s. Nerd Sniping... http://xkcd.com/356/

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Veronica Merryfield wrote: The 100 Hz (being 2x 50Hz, the power freq. in Italy) suggests that it is probably related to some manner of power supply. However, I have no theory why we're getting 2x 50Hz (and I think I need one :-)). The implication has been that the USB audio device is a

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010, Veronica Merryfield wrote: and therefore less likely to have a power line ripple on it. Yes, as I go back and read that A was proven by A... it could be the power source for either device -- and most likely the cheaper card A. But

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Niels Mayer wrote: If the close has to do with induced or actual 50hz hum, perhaps frequency-doubled via rectification: It's the residual ripple for the DC that comes with 100 Hz. 50 Hz hum is 'send' by the transformer and could be heard as additive analog audio signal, because of the

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010, Folderol wrote: Once you connect the analogue side of the the USB device to the installed (high quality card) you have an earth loop that traverses both the analogue and digital domains. You also have an +5V loop

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Veronica Merryfield wrote: Just thinking about what I had wrote and remembered the semantics used here... One more hint: card X is a very high end one. It should be 'perfect', or at least much better than card A. ... which might suggest that Card X is not performing well. Since it

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Veronica Merryfield wrote: Just thinking about what I had wrote and remembered the semantics used here... One more hint: card X is a very high end one. It should be 'perfect', or at least much better than card A. ... which might suggest that Card X

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Veronica Merryfield wrote: On 2010-05-28, at 11:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Niels Mayer wrote: If the close has to do with induced or actual 50hz hum, perhaps frequency-doubled via rectification: It's the residual ripple for the DC that comes with 100 Hz. 50 Hz hum is 'send

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ricardus Vincente wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 11:54 -0700, Veronica Merryfield wrote: Just thinking about what I had wrote and remembered the semantics used here... One more hint: card X is a very high end one. It should be 'perfect', or at least much better than card A. ...

Re: [LAD] Quiz -- The winners

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nice quiz Fons :). Congratulations to Veronica, Florian and Niels :). ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Original Message Subject:Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements... Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 21:17:38 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net To: Veronica Merryfield veronica.merryfi...@tesco.net CC: Linux Audio Developers linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:24:29PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Oberhausen, Rheinland, Germany; power line frequency right now is at 49 Hz, measured with a low cost energy consumption costs meter. Those low cost meters shouldn't be able to do correct measurements

Re: [LAD] guitarix-0.08.0 release 'Rockers'

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
hermann wrote: download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ Building an older version was ok, $ guitarix -v Guitarix version 0.05.7-1 Copyright @ 2009 Hermman Meyer - James Warden The current version won't compile, # ./waf configure Checking for program g++,c++

Re: [LAD] guitarix-0.08.0 release 'Rockers'

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Ralf Mardorf's message of 2010-05-14 17:57:11 +0200: C++ flags: -march=native -Wall -std=c++0x -O3 -DNDEBUG Use faust: no Use internal zita-resampler : yes Use internal

Re: [LAD] guitarix-0.08.0 release 'Rockers'

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
hermann wrote: Am Freitag, den 14.05.2010, 19:16 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Ralf Mardorf's message of 2010-05-14 17:57:11 +0200: C++ flags: -march=native -Wall -std=c++0x -O3 -DNDEBUG Use faust

[LAD] Are you working on the linuxaudio.org server?

2010-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If not, note that it seems to be down. spinymo...@64studio:~$ ping www.linuxaudio.org PING www.linuxaudio.org (198.82.152.114) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- www.linuxaudio.org ping statistics --- 24 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 22999ms Ralf

Re: [LAD] Rubber Band Library v1.5.0 now available

2010-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Chris Cannam wrote: Rubber Band Library v1.5.0 is now available. http://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/ This release adds a key-frame mapping facility for managing variable stretch ratios within a single offline time-stretch pass, plus a more reliable transient detection mode for soft

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-05-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jan Marguc wrote: Sadly, I just found out the hard way that it has a really nasty denormalization problem. It's so bad I may not be able to use it any more. People have tried fancy anti-denormalization plugins ahead of it, with no luck, apparently. MusE has a

Re: [LAD] [MusE-user] De-normals. (Was A small article about tools for electronic musicians)

2010-05-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Tim E. Real wrote: On May 1, 2010 08:10:27 pm Tim E. Real wrote: On May 1, 2010 07:14:41 pm you wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Tim E. Real termt...@rogers.com wrote: On April 30, 2010 10:55:09 pm you wrote: Tim E. Real wrote: Wow, man! I just spent an hour

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-05-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jeremy wrote: Tim E. Real wrote: On April 30, 2010 10:55:09 pm you wrote: Tim E. Real wrote: Wow, man! I just spent an hour playing with Guitarix Distortion (ladspa plugin) + caps C* Amp VTS (ladspa amp sim plugin) in MusE's plugin rack. Silly me! I missed a piece of the

Re: [LAD] JACK Graph Internal Latency? (was Re: A small article ...)

2010-04-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
michael noble wrote: So ok, I was able to confirm by having someone try it out for me (not on my linux machine right now) that Tim and of course Paul, you are both correct in that a JACK client in a send/return loop adds additional latency. So now I'm left with the obvious question of why?.

Re: [LAD] JACK Graph Internal Latency? (was Re: A small article ...)

2010-04-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
to do with this: Original Message Subject: Re: [LAD] JACK Graph Internal Latency? (was Re: A small article ...) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:17:31 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net To: michael noble loop...@gmail.com CC

Re: [LAD] JACK Graph Internal Latency? (was Re: A small article ...)

2010-04-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Louigi Verona wrote: Hey guys! I was the one who tested this for Mike. I used Qtractor and Rakarrack. In Qtractor I had Audio track 1 and Audio track 2. Signal from track 1 was routed into Rakarrack and then into track 2. The latency is there and quite audible. Louigi

Re: [LAD] JACK Graph Internal Latency? (was Re: A small article ...)

2010-04-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Rui Nuno Capela wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:36:43 +0400, Louigi Verona wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Louigi Verona wrote: you can swap qtractor for ardour, or anything else for that matter and the

Re: [LAD] Kernel Opinions: .31-rt or .33-rt?

2010-04-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: For .31-rt I never noticed that the fan ever was audible for my adm64. I do (.31-rt). Core Duo processor, in a laptop, with a weak battery (i.e. power supply often adding heat to power computer and charge battery

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: Hey guys! Read it here: http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projectss=writingst=linuxa=linux_electronic http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projectss=writingst=linuxa=linux_electronic Any comments are welcome. Cheers! L.V. I don't agree completely. I'm doing several kinds

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Rakarrack A very good Linux app, unfortunately similar to Qtractor, Jconv(olver) and others, it has been treated as an orphan by distros, even by audio distros, while users bagged to include packages. Oops, I'm waiting for jokes because I wrote bagged instead of begged.

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
None of the LADSPA ones I tried just give you a normal 3/16 delay. What exactly do you mean with this? Are you talking about triplets? Just use the calculator to find out how long a triplet is regarding to the BPM and round the result to the available ms. Or is 3 for left to center to right,

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Louigi :) Hey Ralf! Thanks a lot for your feedback, it is very valuable. I am writing dub and ambient music, as can be seen from my site. For 7 months I tried to do music the Linux way, having no more possibility to use Windows. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried, it did not

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: Difficult to explain. let me draw: C5 is a note C5 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A 3/16 would create this kind of echo: C5 _ _ c5 _ _ c5 _ On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: None of the LADSPA

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: Hey Lorenzo! The point is not extreme. It deals with music which requires sound manipulation. Thanks to everybody's feedback, I might change the wording to better explain what I mean. As stated in the article, by electronic musician there I mean a musician who

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Louigi Verona wrote: Difficult to explain. let me draw: C5 is a note C5 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A 3/16 would create this kind of echo: C5 _ _ c5 _ _ c5 _ On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: TB-303 In the early 80ies a friend had this drum machine. It isn't one of Roland's most cultic drum machines, but anyway, you can't compare two (oops, before I wrote to instead of two) completely different ways of making music. The studio in the box is a studio in a

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: Louigi Verona wrote: Difficult to explain. let me draw: C5 is a note C5

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Louigi Verona louigi.ver...@gmail.com mailto:louigi.ver...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys! Read it here: http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projectss=writingst=linuxa=linux_electronic

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I guess most people are using proprietary hardware, without having knowledge how sounds are influenced by nature. *lol* hardware should be software :D. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Renato wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:17:51 +0400 Louigi Verona louigi.ver...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys! Read it here: http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projectss=writingst=linuxa=linux_electronic Any comments are welcome. Cheers! L.V. Just two comments: 1) yes, rakarrack *does*

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Louigi Verona wrote: Hey Lorenzo! The point is not extreme. It deals with music which requires sound manipulation. Thanks to everybody's feedback, I might change the wording to better explain what I mean. As stated

Re: [LAD] General question: Components of Music Software

2010-04-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Louigi Verona wrote: Hey guys! I was wondering about the following. On Windows we have lots and lots of plugins and synthesizers and effect racks. On Linux the selection is much less variable. However, am I correct in understanding that the variety of the Windows synths and plugins merely

Re: [LAD] distros migrating to JACK2?

2010-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Philipp wrote: Excerpts from Ralf Mardorf's message of 2010-04-18 11:01:41 +0200: Ok Marije, Arnold, Philipp :) programs don't depend to the development files, so I perceive that they should be separated. Today for 64 Studio 3.0-beta3 = Ubuntu Hardy we do have a package jackd

Re: [LAD] distros migrating to JACK2?

2010-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Adrian Knoth wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:09:53AM +0200, Philipp wrote: I don't really know, nor care, about debian specific packaging stuff. What I know is that it has a record of being broken. Stop that FUD. Ok, a lot was broken until last year, but I fixed everything and

Re: [LAD] distros migrating to JACK2?

2010-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Philipp wrote: What was the topic again? :D I've sent what I guess the topic should be 3 minutes before you sent your mail. Again. IMO the topic should be the free choice between JACK1 and JACK2. It's unimportant if there is one package or if there are 5 packages for each JACK. JACK3, DBUS

Re: [LAD] distros migrating to JACK2?

2010-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Adrian Knoth wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Philipp wrote: What was the topic again? We're working on it. it as in different jack implementations in Debian. Historically, we only had jackd1, but I guess we'll at least see jackd1 and jackd2, perhaps also

[LAD] OT: distros migrating to JACK2?

2010-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
? Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:14:17 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net To: hermann brumm...@web.de CC: Christopher Cherrett ccherr...@openoctave.org, linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org References

Re: [LAD] OT: distros migrating to JACK2?

2010-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: On 19 April 2010 02:57, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: An seemingly outdated information said pacman -S jack will make JACK2 available too. A quick web search doesn't say if there are JACK1 and 2 available for Arch. Is this the distro that already makes

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