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

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
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) with well

[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] 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 :) -dr

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

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

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 when not using a Blitter. For Linux I noticed, that when

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? Are you

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thomas Vecchione wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net mailto:ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: You are confusing Copyright and Trademark Law. Copyright law says that yes they can fork the project. Trademark

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Apropos wasting resources. A lot of Linux audio applications don't have EQs by default for the channels of a mixer, we need to add 20 LADSPA EQs to 20 channels. There might be OS X and Windows applications that come with an EQ by default for every added channel. Do you think each time you add

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Apropos wasting resources. A lot of Linux audio applications don't have EQs by default for the channels of a mixer, we need to add 20 LADSPA EQs to 20 channels. There might be OS X and Windows applications that come with an EQ by default for every added channel. Do you

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:30:33AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Apropos wasting resources. A lot of Linux audio applications don't have EQs by default for the channels of a mixer, we need to add 20 LADSPA EQs to 20 channels. There might be OS X and Windows

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 08/08/2009 08:10 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: Apropos wasting resources. A lot of Linux audio applications don't have EQs by default for the channels of a mixer, we need to add 20 LADSPA EQs to 20 channels. There might be OS X and Windows

Re: [LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: It's not very smart to compare different OSs and applications, I'm sorry that I tend to do this. It would be better to describe some approaches and to describe the good and bad experiences just for Linux applications. Yes. This is the correct way to approach

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 20:53:05 Thomas Vecchione wrote: Once again forgot to hit Reply-All. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: I'm not interested to take sides, I only want to learn about the GPL. Assumed

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
There is a reason. A scumbag company forced trademark issues to the front even though they were doing FOSS. Trademarks in FOSS are just as bad as software patents. Too bad most people do not get that. Okay, maybe for names and logos used by FLOSS, the creative commons should be forced as an

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: There is a reason. A scumbag company forced trademark issues to the front even though they were doing FOSS. Trademarks in FOSS are just as bad as software patents. Too bad most people do not get that. Okay, maybe for names and logos used by FLOSS, the creative commons

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Something funny about confusing names. For my needs jconv can be a very good audio application and a very useless Japanese code conversion. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

[LAD] [off-list] Re: Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Do you think a trademark is void if the thing differs by being forked and proprietary? Calling a gratis Cola Coca~Cola is allowed? ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Raymond Martin wrote: That's nice, but I would like for someone to show me how this pertains to the current line of discussion. The fact is that code does become GPL once you mix it with other GPL code. Hi Raymond :) I searched the web and discussed this also off-list. Today in the early

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:14:23AM -0400, Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 08:56:30 Fons Adriaensen wrote: Which makes perfect sense. In a civilised society even a convicted thief retains all the rights to his legally acquired property. If

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
There are cases in the US, for instance, where people growing marijuana for their medical conditions have had their homes seized and never returned. No justice there. That's real police stuff. Sometimes western civilization behaves like the Third Reich did, but for FLOSS I never read or

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 09:51:05 you wrote: On 7 Aug 2009, at 12:55, Raymond Martin wrote: On Friday 07 August 2009 06:51:08 Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ralf Mardorfralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net For emphasis, I just want to

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thomas Vecchione wrote: Forgot to send to the list. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Thomas Vecchione seabla...@gmail.com mailto:seabla...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Raymond Martin lase...@gmail.com mailto:lase...@gmail.com wrote: Not at all. There

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thomas Vecchione wrote: Once again forgot to hit Reply-All. It's weekend :D. You are confusing Copyright and Trademark Law. Copyright law says that yes they can fork the project. Trademark Law however says that Miss B. is allowed to follow up legally to prevent a trademark, which can

Re: [LAD] A question for power HW experts

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 00:41:23 Esben Stien wrote: Fons Adriaensen f...@kokkinizita.net writes: Rack mount is preferred but not essential. What are you talking about..!?!?. Of course, it's essential;). Some metal brackets and some screws will

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Grammostola Rosea wrote: David Robillard wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:53 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: From TFA: --8-- Go to System-Preferences-Sound, click on the Devices tab, and check out the pulldown menu next to ‘Sound Events’ at the

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: 2009/8/5 Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammost...@gmail.com: Linux audio is a total mess... a normal human being can't work with pro audio on Linux, unless he/she spent hours and hours to learn the little tricks or he has an expert available who helps him... What is

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Malte Steiner wrote: People are moaning about Linux Audio for a while but should look at the other systems, pro audio simply doesnt work on any (operating) system without some involvement. Hard- and software are now very complex systems and with all these small problems, its still not

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
drew Roberts wrote: On Sunday 02 August 2009 09:41:57 Arnold Krille wrote: Standard contracts for employees include that the copyrights of their productive work during company time is property of the company. And that includes software... Arnold OK, but what about the copyrights

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
hermann wrote: Hi Yes, I don't understand why people mean linux audio is a mess, last day's I have setup a new box with debian/sid and it took me a half day to get a full featured rt audio/midi environment on the run. It's like always in life, if you wont to use a tool, you must know how it

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: It seems to me that this attitude comes from a limited understanding of how the open source community works. It differs to other open source communities, I agree and this might be a problem for me, I agree. But I don't agree that most machines can be set up to be fine

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: It seems to me that this attitude comes from a limited understanding of how the open source community works. It differs to other open source communities, I agree and this might be a problem for me, I agree. But I don't agree that most

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: Many people use Linux Audio tools and infrastructure for professional use everyday. Yes, less than 1% of all users are using Linux and this are many people, because for audio there are more less people than for general usage. And more than 99% people are less than less

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Malte Steiner wrote: This is a wrong, you can be happy to have a basic windows system running in a half hour without drivers and the important security bullshit First: I'm not using Windows. People who do use Windows just take one of those illegal Windows All In One media, push a button and

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Pardon, my English is broken. Which reminds me: * What is your favourite programming language? Assembler for different processors. * What kind of Linux Audio project are you currently spending

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 08/06/2009 11:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Btw. Patrick, please run ntpdate or sntp, it's hard to puzzle your replies into the right order. Gnome issue with time setting... Thanks for pointing it out. Phew ;) so you don't get me wrong :). Now I should write

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Alex :) I'll take the next bus and will reply to this mail only because of the 68000 issue. alex stone wrote: [snip] I owned several variations of boxes including an Amiga (best midi timing on the planet), and my much cherished but now dead Fairlight. I started with the C64 and then

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Raymond Martin wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:59:39 Chris Cannam wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:23 PM, drew Robertsz...@100jamz.com wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 03:51:30 you wrote: The second question becomes broadly irrelevant here if we are prepared to accept

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
entrance examination? :) I subscribed to the list, because I needed some information when I tried to program for Linux audio. I guess you want people to learn how to program for Linux audio. What you're looking for is an attitude test, not a test about programming knowledge. I've got

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Raymond Martin wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 13:06:01 drew Roberts wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 10:05:17 Raymond Martin wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 08:59:31 drew Roberts wrote: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 21:26:19 Raymond Martin wrote: This was all in the context

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Chris Cannam wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Raymond Martinlase...@gmail.com wrote: What possible counter-argument can there be left? http://lwn.net/Articles/61292/ (same guy you just cited, explaining why you're wrong) Chris The claim that a GPL violation could lead to

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
What we're looking for is less completely irrelevant noise like this. Particularly in response to jokes (blatant smileys and all). Honestly... There's a difference between scorn and joke. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] how i think the gpl works under german jurisdiction

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: [snip] all this means that if somebody uses GPL'd code without releasing under GPL him/herself, s/he is in breach of contract with the original author(s). it *does* *not* *mean* that you can now assume the entire package is up for grabs under the terms of the GPL.

Re: [LAD] how i think the gpl works under german jurisdiction

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: 2009/8/6 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: [snip] all this means that if somebody uses GPL'd code without releasing under GPL him/herself, s/he is in breach of contract with the original author(s). it *does* *not* *mean* that you

Re: [LAD] how i think the gpl works under german jurisdiction

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: Paul Davis wrote: 2009/8/6 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net: Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: [snip] all this means that if somebody uses GPL'd code without releasing under GPL him/herself, s/he is in breach of contract with the original author(s). it *does* *not* *mean

Re: [LAD] how i think the gpl works under german jurisdiction

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
drew Roberts wrote: On Thursday 06 August 2009 20:34:37 Ralf Mardorf wrote: because of a similar copyright law that someone from the list described and it seems to be the same for the USA and nearly every country, If I understood what I have read in the past correctly and am

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
victor wrote: I note, interestingly, that even though in Linux circles (at LAC for instance), people keep mentioning MS Windows as a rival OS, for us it's really Apple and OSX that constitutes competition these days from the proprietary side of things. A lot of professional studios

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Steve Harris wrote: On 5 Aug 2009, at 10:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: victor wrote: I note, interestingly, that even though in Linux circles (at LAC for instance), people keep mentioning MS Windows as a rival OS, for us it's really Apple and OSX that constitutes competition these days from

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Florian Schirmer wrote: For OSX the top three are Logic, Live and ProTools. For Windows the top two are Cubase and Live. Overall there are more OSX than Windows users, since the switch to Intel based OSX systems the gap is steadily increasing. Again this depends on which user group and

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ray Rashif wrote: Woohoo..I'm safe. Saffire Pro 10 working well. FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller Good news :). Dunno, but maybe BIOS versions and other issues might have an effect to this. If so, this might be interesting for

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
David Robillard wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 20:49 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: Actually the most free software development happens in a Do-cracy: The one who does the job (or the biggest part of it) gets to decide. and the rest complain on mailing lists :) Please try to

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: No, Steinburg wouldn't be held to the GPL... your user would. How can a user comply with the GPL or violate the GPL? A user is just using applications. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 04 August 2009 21:23:20 Sampo Savolainen wrote: I can modify a piece of GPL'd code to my hearts content, link it to my proprietary code, use it for years, all without violating the GPL. A violation would be if I distribute the combination as

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - I talked with the President of Beat Kangz Today

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
alex stone wrote: Call me cynical, and the plugin authors certainly have the last say, but there seems to be a rather large dose of hypocrisy going on here In the last days we simply became wiser. Learning isn't Pecksniffery. ___

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
keller wrote: The students leave and usually cease their contributions after the money runs out. Hi Bob :) IIUC the students get paid? This is seldom for coders that program FLOSS. Unusual approaches by doing FLOSS and the way of how things work on faculties as a rule, let me have a

Re: [LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robert Keller wrote: On Aug 1, 2009, at 4:04 PM, nescivi wrote: On Saturday 01 August 2009 13:36:20 lase...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 01 August 2009 11:32:24 nescivi wrote: On Wednesday 29 July 2009 00:49:09 David Robillard wrote: [snip] On another related

Re: [LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: Even if you changed headers original done by other authors for more than 50% of the code, it must be noticeable who was the original author and that you changed it. There's a stipulation: a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the

Re: [LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robert Keller wrote: [snip] the code has been through thousands of versions and multiple repositories. If you take care to name the original authors and the authors who did modifications and the dates of the modifications, it also will help you always to know exactly how you build your own

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: DISCLAIMER I don't want to discuss the merits of any particular case. If I refer to Prof. Keller it is only by way of example, and not to suggest he should justify himself on this list. Of course I'm still interested in his views on these matters. END DISCLAIMER

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnout Engelen wrote: I'm not quite sure whether I understand you correctly, but it seems you're not entirely right here. If you don't have the copyright to a piece of code you wrote, for example because you wrote it for your employer, then this means you are *not allowed* to distribute this

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dave Phillips wrote: Greetings, Just out of curiosity, how many participants in this discussion are copyright holders ? How many of you have published works under copyright ? Best, dp I programmed free software without using any code of other people, in Germany I automatically have the

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: If you didn't sign a contract and work on a project, the copyright is still yours Are you sure? I guess (and I'm not sure) that if you did some kind of work, e.g. being a developer for a company, it implies that the employer will take on the copyright and that you aren't

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:20:15PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: As I have written before, less college tuitions are similar to being paid. Absolutely not. If you run a business and I am your customer I am in no way bound by any deals you make with suppliers

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnout Engelen wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 02:20:15PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Arnout Engelen wrote: If you don't have the copyright to a piece of code you wrote, for example because you wrote it for your employer, then this means you are *not allowed* to distribute this code

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 08/02/2009 08:14 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Arnold Krille wrote: If you didn't sign a contract and work on a project, the copyright is still yours Are you sure? I guess (and I'm not sure) that if you did some kind of work, e.g. being a developer

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnout Engelen wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:25:19AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Just out of curiosity, how many participants in this discussion are copyright holders ? How many of you have published works under copyright ? At least in the Netherlands (and i believe this goes

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: On Sunday 02 August 2009 18:22:56 Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 08/02/2009 08:14 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Arnold Krille wrote: If you didn't sign a contract and work on a project, the copyright is still yours Are you sure? I guess (and I'm not sure

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
David Robillard wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 14:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Dunno what's called trademark and what's called copyright Then you probably shouldn't be attempting to discuss copyright law -dr As I've written, a logo in Germany can be a trademark, but you need

Re: [LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forest Bond wrote: Hi, On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 10:18:20AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Even if you changed headers original done by other authors for more than 50% of the code, it must be noticeable who was the original author and that you changed it. There's a stipulation: a) You must

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnold Krille wrote: On Sunday 02 August 2009 15:40:33 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On the other hand, if a company pays you a regular salary and the job is named developer, it might include that a copyright will subrogate to the employer, even if there isn't any stipulation saying this. Here I'm

Re: [LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:12:48PM -0700, keller wrote: If anyone has a recommendation for a substitute for install4j, I'd appreciate hearing about it. There's Raymond's post claiming that this tool is actually freely available - I don't know. On sourceforge

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
jaromil wrote: re all, the GNU GPL agile copyright registration aimed at freedom helps us little fishes survive despite the marauding giants - institutions, corporations, etc. as in a student - university relationship can be. a common situation of attribution of authorship in

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Sometimes, the process of installation is not facilitated by scripts, but by some other means (such as executable programs). The GPL text only mentions the word scripts. But when reading and interpreting the license, it is clearly understood that the license doesn't specifically only mean

Re: [LAD] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

2009-07-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The question here is: Which ones are the broken ones and which ones the good ones? I wouldn't know where to look for that info, do you? I would never trust any list for hardware that should be fine with Linux, ensures there will be some revision that isn't fine. I guess you need to

Re: [LAD] [snip]

2009-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: hi everybody! just a passing remark: it is very easy to filter out a troll. it is however close to impossible to filter responses to trolling by people whose mail i appreciate in general. best, jörn Okay, a last not to the list, to avoid that somebody else

Re: [LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-07-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: You should be able to empathize Bob's emotions, if not you are just (a) liar(s)! Oops, Raymonds emotions :D ... okay, Bob's too, but I was talking about Raymond's undertsandable emotions. Sorry. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing

Re: [LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-07-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
lase...@gmail.com wrote: I am sure the majority of these people, as well as a large portion of the general population, are easily manipulated by narcissists. I became what psychology is defame as a borderline personality, because I need to survive my childhood living with malignant

Re: [LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-07-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Okay, hopefully this will be my last mail :(. You are wrong. David Robillard wrote: P.S. The commentators and peanut gallery really do not help either ;) Bob Keller subscribed to the list because of what you call The commentators and peanut gallery, please read the whole thread.

Re: [LAD] Sending huge SysEx files via ALSA

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Hi Christoph, On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Christoph Eckert wrote: I'm currently playing with some code that sends SysEx data to ALSA using RtMidi¹. I get an error reported by the latter one as soon as the size of the message exceeds 16355 bytes. Unfortunately, I

Re: [LAD] At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Raymond :) hi list :) lase...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 27 July 2009 11:12:05 Robert Keller wrote: Ralf, I think you have a misimpression, created by laseray (aka biophotoray aka Raymond Martin), who apparently is trying to steal control of my project, known as Impro-Visor.

Re: [LAD] At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
lase...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 27 July 2009 12:16:17 you wrote: Hi Raymond :) hi list :) My recommendation is, that Bob forge the project within the next 3 month, that he will be the head of the project, but coders from the community get access to the source directories, after they

Re: [LAD] Background on the Impro-Visor project

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
. Am I wrong? Cheers, Ralf Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Bob :) Robert Keller wrote: However, I don't feel that I am obligated to accept every suggestion that someone makes about software that is my own. You used GPL

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robert Keller wrote: I have created New Project https://sourceforge.net/projects/impro- visor/ for Impro-Visor, which is its correct name. I will populate the source later today, as I need time to get acquainted with their system, but I have to be off right now to another important

Re: [LAD] Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-07-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
This is not against Fons, but I wonder that there's no understanding for passion by several people. Sending this private massage is also adding fuel to the fire. I guess Fons, there are a lot of mails in several lists where you in a more distinguished kind said something similar. Are the words

Re: [LAD] Impro-visor source code and fork

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Dave Phillips wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 19 July 2009, lase...@gmail.com wrote: If anybody is interested, I have decompiled the latest Impro-visor version, which has only been provide as a binary (in contradiction to the terms of the GPL). So if you want the source

Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor packages now on SF

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
lase...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to cooperate with people, but it was just too difficult for them to admit being wrong. Hardened fronts needs to calm down and then to find a way out the tight corner. Everybody needs a chance, otherwise he might do everything without publishing anything and

[LAD] At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
also fine if the source will kept closed. Please excuse my broken English and my frankness. Regards, Ralf Mardorf lase...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Pardon Raymond :) only now I visited http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/. This looks like nice but not very interesting software

Re: [LAD] wiki.linuxaudio.org

2009-07-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Arnout Engelen wrote: How do you like it? IMHO both layouts are fine :). Ralf ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] more ConsoleKit

2009-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Juuso Alasuutari wrote: I haven't counted them, but I see practically the same thing at work where I use Ubuntu 9.04. For Ubuntu Hardy (64 Studio 3.0-beta3) exact 62 from around 170 threads are /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon at the moment on my system. Around 170 threads, because I have

Re: [LAD] help on creating MIDI from linux input events

2009-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Renato Budinich wrote: Thank you very much, this is interesting, I'll have a look into RtMidi and your program. Being that the little I know is C, is it much more difficult outputting notes using the alsa api? Since there is a driver for it, you should be able to use it as an alsa midi

Re: [LAD] help on creating MIDI from linux input events

2009-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I wrote: Subject: Re: [LAD] help on creating MIDI from linux input events Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:11:35 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: Renato Budinich CC: linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org Renato Budinich wrote: Thank you very much, this is interesting, I'll

Re: [LAD] help on creating MIDI from linux input events

2009-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Renato Budinich wrote: I'm not a Linux, neither a C/C++ coder, but the answer here is very simple, if the MIDI events (I guess this is what you mean by keyboard events) nope sorry, i meant EV_KEY events as in linux/input.h - they are certainly not MIDI events. OT a very stupid

Re: [LAD] help on creating MIDI from linux input events

2009-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I asked: Renato Budinich wrote: I'm not a Linux, neither a C/C++ coder, but the answer here is very simple, if the MIDI events (I guess this is what you mean by keyboard events) nope sorry, i meant EV_KEY events as in linux/input.h - they are certainly not MIDI events.

Re: [LAD] help on creating MIDI from linux input events

2009-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Miguel Morales wrote: Hmm, so you're saying that the device sends keyboard events. How did you find out which kind of data it sends out? Sending out midi note events is easy with RTMidi, check out the section on midi out section. It contains a section on MIDI note output. I don't have

Re: [LAD] help on creating MIDI from linux input events

2009-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Renato Budinich wrote: It might be an overkill, but something like this is very easily done with SuperCollider (or Chuck or Pd for that matter). hey, i have just started using sc! I'll ask on the sc list for some code. Thank you! In the meanwhile i found pyrtmidi - python bindings for

Re: [LAD] RFC: Default discovery paths for LADSPA, LRDF, LV2 and DSSI (and more?)

2009-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jeff McClintock wrote: On Windows XP, many people run as administrator Definitive! I don't know about LADSPA..but the latest Cubase uses C:\Program Files\Common Files\Steinberg\VST2 for 3rd party plugins. On my machine it's '/media/disk/Programme/Steinberg/VstPlugins', resp.

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