Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If you are affraid of being early adopter, you should probably not do test it until contributions of other early adopters make it more suitable for you. I'm afraid, but while your reply was received I did ... $ cd /usr/src $ wget http://ladish.org/download/ladish-0.1.tar.bz2 $ tar xjf

Re: [LAD] [LAA] Ubuntu Studio 9.10 Karmic Koala

2009-11-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: How come the linuxaudio.org mirror (http://download.linuxaudio.org) is not any more updated with newer releases? Last version available on there is 7.04 which is truly enchant. What do we need to do to jumpstart this thing again? I presume this would be something you

Re: [LAD] Timers, hpet, hrtimer - kind of solved (for too old motherboards)

2009-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Clemens Ladisch wrote: Busy means that it's there, but already being used. Many motherboard BIOSes do not initialize the third HPET interrupt, and the first two are taken by the kernel. I would like to make a test song using HR timer, but unfortunately I'm not able to close a project and

Re: [LAD] Timers, hpet, hrtimer - kind of solved (for too old motherboards)

2009-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Clemens Ladisch wrote: Busy means that it's there, but already being used. Many motherboard BIOSes do not initialize the third HPET interrupt, and the first two are taken by the kernel. I would like to make a test song using HR timer, but unfortunately I'm

Re: [LAD] timers

2009-11-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thanx to everybody :). JACK can use hpet and hrtimer is available in Qtractors options :). ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

[LAD] Just an information for the coders of Rosegarden and Open Octave

2009-11-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Emanuel Rumpf wrote: Opening the hr-timer with rosegarden freezes my whole system here, what could cause that ? I guess Open Octave is based on Rosegarden. While Qtractor is fine with HR timer on my system, Open Octave freezes my system too. I only was able to push reset, resp. I didn't

Re: [LAD] timers

2009-11-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Emanuel Rumpf wrote: Hi I'm confused about all the timers. There is: - system timer - hpet (high precision event timer) - hr-timer (high resolution timer) - rtc (real time clock) - cyclic (what's that? a coded loop?) - anything else ? What is the relation of all these ? Which

Re: [LAD] timers

2009-11-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Warden warj...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [LAD] timers To: Emanuel Rumpf xb...@web.de, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Cc: linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 7:34 AM Hi guys, Here is what I have: $ cat /proc/asound/timers G0: system timer

Re: [LAD] timers

2009-11-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, I forgot something too: spinymouse-s...@64studio:~$ ll /dev/hpet bash: ll: command not found spinymouse-s...@64studio:~$ ls /dev | grep hpet hpet Ralf Mardorf wrote: Thank you Emanuel for this thread :) thank you James for the information :) hopefully this might narrow down my trouble

Re: [LAD] timers

2009-11-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
is using hr-timer by default. I wrote this script quite some time ago and forgot about it :) J. --- On Sat, 11/7/09, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Subject: Re: [LAD] timers To: Cc: linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org Date

[LAD] Undeliverable mails for Rui

2009-10-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Bit internal Linux - b4: Re: [solved] 'offset/ note length' issue From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:47:02 +0200 To: Rui Nuno Capela rn...@rncbc.org To: Rui Nuno Capela rn...@rncbc.org CC: qtractor-de...@lists.sourceforge.net Qtractor didn't

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:55:16AM +0100, victor wrote: that makes sense now, so someone jumped the gun. Some time ago I learned on this list the expression 'jumping the shark' - IIRC it was Paul Davis using it. But what is 'jumping the gun' ? Ciao,

Re: [LAD] Next year's LAC

2009-10-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: Jumping the Gun is prematurely advertising some event. Jumping the Shark is inventing new fantastic facts to fit your bullshit soap-opera script. Comparing all that English - English idiom explanations on the www I guess those German translations at www.dict.cc are

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 mapping

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

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nick Copeland wrote: Completely agree that SYSEX is where this kind of functionality should reside. This use of 0x7d is a bit antiquated, no? The reassignment of 0x00 to indicate 3 byte SYSEX ID means there is a bit more flexibility in the system. Currently the following are assigned:

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Clemens Ladisch clem...@ladisch.de wrote: David Robillard wrote: Not enough context quoted to tell; are the stops in Aeolus really too complicated to be controlled via controllers and programs? No: For 55 or so organ stops,

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Keep in mind that you might want to control 2 devices in unison. You will send control 7 to both devices, one device is using it for volume and the other device is using it for anything else

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nick Copeland wrote: Having everything after 0xf0 as reassignable is a pretty cool idea. Maybe often used manufacture IDs, eg. Roland, Yamaha, should be excluded ;). Out of interest, what was the problem with MIDI sequencing and SYSEX? The only problem I knew about was that they are atomic

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: how do you edit the messages? it requires librarian style application handling. As mentioned before I do agree with you Paul, but anyway there are sequencers like the Atari Cubase that makes it possible that even absolutely noobs can edit a GUI to edit SysEx by the

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: you've missed my point. if aeolus is currently programmed to switch to stop setting S1, and i want it to switch setting S2 instead, what do i, as a user do? what do i have to know? I don't know Aeolus, but usually a user should be able to change between setting 1 and

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nick Copeland wrote: Does any know if hidef MIDI will address these issues? The MMA is not very transparent regarding what they want to put in there. Some days ago I visited the MMA site and didn't found anything about hidef MIDI, today I found this, but didn't read it:

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
so you are saying that in order to edit a sequence that contains requests for stop changes, the user must understand the *internal* structure of a sysex message? and this is even more true when they go to create the first such request (rather than edit an existing one) ? This depends to the

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: On Monday, October 5, 2009, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 07:00:40PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: The MMA requires that you use a registered manufacturer ID, but only for commercial products. There is a special ID = 0x7D that is

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The process for the sysex manufacturer ID registration is not only expensive ($200 per year) but also quite ridiculous. It is almost an invitation to sysexquatting. Have you seen the Recently Assigned Manufacturer ID Numbers page? http://www.midi.org/techspecs/manid.php There are a lot

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:26:18PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't know Aeolus, but usually a user should be able to change between setting 1 and setting 2 by the GUI of the application, just by using the mouse and without any knowledge about 0xf0 and 0xf7

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: There is no such thing as 'aeolus being programmed to switch to some stop setting'. Aeolus has the standard MIDI banks/presets, which you can load/save from the GUI and recall using the normal MIDI messages. In most cases that's all that's needed. It also can use control

Re: [LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:33:13PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: For the default it would be very easy, 55 * on + 55 * off = 110 settings. An universal control change is number 6. This could be used to sent by the data byte 110 different numbers ;), resp. 128. 0

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-audio-dev mailing

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

2009-09-27 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 task of a master keyboard, but a task

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 schematics

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 device head of the USB devices by Rui's rtirq

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 useful

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 device?

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

[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 your

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 stream of channel-aftertouch is single bytes, and can

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 stream of channel-aftertouch is single bytes, and can

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 hence

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 to be

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 MidiSport

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 buffers.

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] (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 f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: So what distro should I go for ? Sounds like Arch is worth a look. Do they have a ready-to-use RT

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 jens.andrea...@comhem.se: On a related subject: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg04866.html to cut to the chase: the nvidia binary

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 will always

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. I just gave it a whirl, and it's fun to play

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

2009-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
x86_64 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:20:11 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net To: animata-us...@lists.kitchenbudapest.hu References: 4ab8c1a3.4070...@alice-dsl.net 4ab8c249.4030...@kitchenbudapest.hu [snip] wrote: hi Ralf, this issue on googlecode might help you: http

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

[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 it

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 ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net 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 accurate MTC sync of any DAW

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 using layers?

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 converters are

[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 anyway,

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

2009-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: 2009/9/20 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: 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

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 jens.andrea...@comhem.se: 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

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 latest

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 be clever to use JACK transport internal Linux

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 f...@kokkinizita.net 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

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 developed

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 audio

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

2009-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: 2009/9/5 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net 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 why I'm using it again

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 stable

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

2009-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: 2009/9/5 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net 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.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36

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

2009-09-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nedko Arnaudov wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net 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 JACK session handling problem

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 tried it for audio

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

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

2009-09-02 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 Window

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

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 have

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 something

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

2009-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Nedko Arnaudov wrote: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net 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

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,

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

[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

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 person will use such a meter

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 decay. For the Oberheim some notes

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 Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net 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 guess life he still plays old songs

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 decayed far enough to be a candidate for re-use. My

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 the

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 far enough to be a candidate for re-use. My exploratory designs for AMS II

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 little bit, by the kind of playing. On a side

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 string. The Roland GK is designed for MIDI usage. I don't know

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

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 should

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:

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 Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net 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 playing, similar to

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/terratec_axon_ax_50_usb_set.htm

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

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 +4dbu =

[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 synth

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 played, or the

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 very

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 will

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