Re: [linux-audio-dev] 'simsam' - a simple sampleplayer

2002-10-28 Thread Nathaniel Virgo
On Monday 28 October 2002 9:48 pm, Christian Henz wrote: > Hi all. > > I have been working on a 'simple sampleplayer' that acts as an ALSA > sequencer client and can be used to play for example drum samples and > loops. Excellent. You don't know how long I've been waiting for something like this.

Re: [OT] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Lea Anthony
Talking of Tubes, does anyone know where I can get cheap GrooveTubes? I have a Digitech TwinTube preamp and one (maybe both) of the tubes have blown. Pref in UK... Cheers, -Lea. On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 22:35, David Gerard Matthews wrote: > I use a PreSonus BlueTube - stereo, comb DI/mic pre, with

RE: [linux-audio-dev] 'simsam' - a simple sampleplayer

2002-10-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Paul, Thanks. Rhythmlab looks like fun. (Assuming I found the right one. I actually ended up using Google since it didn't pop out at me on Dave's pages.) Here's what I'm looking at: http://www.enteract.com/~asl2/music/RhythmLab/#About . If this isn't the one you're speaking of, please let me kno

Re: [linux-audio-dev] 'simsam' - a simple sampleplayer

2002-10-28 Thread Paul Davis
> I've been thinking that we need a Linux app sort of like Battery from >Native Instruments. It strikes me that you are already a long way towards >that. Maybe you can look into what they do, and then as you do more coding >you could potentially grow a bit in that direction? That would be very >u

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Stuart Allie
re: tube amp simulations for guitar... from the music-dsp mailing list... Just thought I'd mention that the upsampling/nonlinear processing/decimation process that Line 6 performs was also descibed in Hal Chamberlin's Musical Applications of Microprocessors (1985 edition), pg. 120: "One modifica

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Frank van de Pol
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:37:18PM +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > i'm sure frequency responses and Vin/Vout mappings for common > amp tubes (EL34 comes to mind, too) would be very helpful, but > can i ask you to take a look at > http://quitte.de/driven.gif > first? > > it shows my badly-driven fende

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Steve Harris wrote: >The chebyshev is a way of generating specific harmonics, eg. you can >output the fundamental + the 2nd harmonic at -6dB, the 4th at -16, the 6th >at -21, etc. You can't easily control the phase though. gee, i remember. i've just taken a look at harmonic_gen_1220, this must be

RE: [linux-audio-dev] 'simsam' - a simple sampleplayer

2002-10-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Christian, Hi. Cool. Congrats. I've been thinking that we need a Linux app sort of like Battery from Native Instruments. It strikes me that you are already a long way towards that. Maybe you can look into what they do, and then as you do more coding you could potentially grow a bit in that d

Re: [OT] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread David Gerard Matthews
Steve Harris wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:50:52 -0800, Tom wrote: OK, can someone recommend a DI box I can buy in europe for a reasonable ammount of money? Studiospares lists a range from E50 (behringer) to E460 (MTR) +tax. 19" and XLR output is perferable, but I can live without either.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:37:18 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > it shows my badly-driven fender amp's line output (top) vs. the sine > wave it was fed at the same time. i'm wondering how come the output > overshoots every time the input crosses zero. trying to model this I dont think it does, I stil

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:42:04 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > >I don't know its hard to seperate phase effects from waveshaping, thats > >why it needs FFTing. Onve we have the aproximate harmonic series we can > >simulate that with a cheby, and if neccesary put the phase back with an > >allpass or tw

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread David Gerard Matthews
Steve Harris wrote: Thats something that worried me, I seem to remeber that the sound of a guitar changes if its not impedance matched with the AD converter. I'm pretty sure, mine doesn't match passive guitars. My bass is active though, and I dont have any DI boxes, so no choice anyway. Yeah, y

[linux-audio-dev] 'simsam' - a simple sampleplayer

2002-10-28 Thread Christian Henz
Hi all. I have been working on a 'simple sampleplayer' that acts as an ALSA sequencer client and can be used to play for example drum samples and loops. Check the simsam homepage at http://simsam.sourceforge.net and download via CVS. There are still many things to fix... check the README for d

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Lamar Owen wrote: >[Note: I've only been loosely following this thread, but this message caught >my broadcast engineer eye, being that I work with tube gear nearly daily.] > >On Monday 28 October 2002 01:55 pm, Tim Goetze wrote: >> Steve Harris wrote: >> >That is a side effect of class B amps IIR

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Lamar Owen
[Note: I've only been loosely following this thread, but this message caught my broadcast engineer eye, being that I work with tube gear nearly daily.] On Monday 28 October 2002 01:55 pm, Tim Goetze wrote: > Steve Harris wrote: > >That is a side effect of class B amps IIRC. I would have though th

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Musical instrument samples library

2002-10-28 Thread Peter L Jones
On Monday 28 Oct 2002 14:20, Steve Harris wrote: > Recorded in an anechoic chamber at 44.1/16, stored by octave and > modulation. > > http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html > > "Please feel free to use these samples in your research or music projects > without restriction. You may also cite as a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Steve Harris wrote: >That is a side effect of class B amps IIRC. I would have though that >preamps would be class A, but maybe not. they are, afaik. you're right, it's a property of class B. still my amp's preamp stage shapes the lower half differently (less) than the top. >> i'm still trying

[linux-audio-dev] LinuxSampler project back, seeking for developers, volounteers andenthusiasts !

2002-10-28 Thread Benno Senoner
As promised, I'd like to revive the linux audio sampler I was working on about 2 years ago. I was forced to take a long pause (almost 2 years) from LAD stuff because I had to finish my CS degree before the retirement age. But speaking speaking with various developers on LAD there seems big interes

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Steve Harris wrote: >I don't know its hard to seperate phase effects from waveshaping, thats >why it needs FFTing. Onve we have the aproximate harmonic series we can >simulate that with a cheby, and if neccesary put the phase back with an >allpass or two. ok, i'm slowly beginning to understand th

Re: [linux-audio-dev] web/smtp hosting suggestions wanted

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 06:51:52 -0600, D R Holsbeck wrote: > Maybe the email I sent you at the end of last week didnt get through? I > have the resources you are looking for, and I am willing to provide them > free of charge. I have been working with or for ISP's for ~ 6yrs. > Please contact me s

[OT] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:50:52 -0800, Tom wrote: > I vaguely remember reading about some inexpensive a/d boxes that have > built in mic pre's and a switch for high impedance instruments, but I > don't remember their names. I use an active direct box. OK, can someone recommend a DI box I can buy

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] hel p for a levelmeter]

2002-10-28 Thread STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI)
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Davis [mailto:paul@;linuxaudiosystems.com] > > > that's ok, I don't think everything has to be > understandable by a newbie, > >it's not the wording of what's there that is a problem, it's > the missing > >information that's a problem (I just sent an up

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tom
> >Thats something that worried me, I seem to remeber that the sound of a > >guitar changes if its not impedance matched with the AD converter. I'm > >pretty sure, mine doesn't match passive guitars. My bass is active though, > >and I dont have any DI boxes, so no choice anyway. > > > likewis

Re: [linux-audio-dev] web/smtp hosting suggestions wanted

2002-10-28 Thread D R Holsbeck
Maybe the email I sent you at the end of last week didnt get through? I have the resources you are looking for, and I am willing to provide them free of charge. I have been working with or for ISP's for ~ 6yrs. Please contact me so we can get you back on track. Your "reply to" setting did not wor

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:53:26 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > >make interesting non-linear filters by using different parameters for the > >different halves of the wave cycle. This is what makes the gong sound > >gongy (waveguide_nl.h). It could also apply to cone modelling, as the > >characteristics

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] hel p for a levelmeter]

2002-10-28 Thread Paul Davis
> that's ok, I don't think everything has to be understandable by a newbie, >it's not the wording of what's there that is a problem, it's the missing >information that's a problem (I just sent an update about what functionality >I have found missing in sb live, I guess more of that should be avail

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] hel p for a levelmeter]

2002-10-28 Thread STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI)
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Davis [mailto:paul@;linuxaudiosystems.com] > >[ re: OSS ] > > >> code. It will > >> soon be available only through emulation. It forces use of > >> the blocking > >> model. > > actually, it doesn't. nothing would stop the implementation of an OSS

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] hel p for a levelmeter]

2002-10-28 Thread STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI)
> -Original Message- > From: Patrick Shirkey [mailto:pshirkey@;boosthardware.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] > hel p for a levelmeter] > > > > this is what's on the page: >

[linux-audio-dev] web/smtp hosting suggestions wanted

2002-10-28 Thread Paul Davis
folks on ardour-dev and jack-devel will be aware of the email nightmare i have faced over the last 4 weeks when it comes to using any sf.net hosted mailing lists. first, my existing ISP destroyed the SMTP configuration of the domain my email is sent to. then i registered linuxaudiosystems.com with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Steve Harris wrote: >On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:30:49 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: >> it's an interesting pov though, in fact i've been thinking >> about algorithms that work like IIR filters (that are often >> used for HP/BP/LP) with the addition of nonlinear terms for >> recreating the tube distorti

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Steve Harris wrote: >On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:56:34 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: >> >how are you plugging in your guitar? >> >if it's a guitar with passive electronics and you're going >> >straight to the A/D converter, i'd expect it to be >> >overly sensitive to the volume control. >> >> yes, it's

Re: [linux-audio-dev] soft synth as a plugin

2002-10-28 Thread Tommi Ilmonen
Hi. On 17 Oct 2002, nick wrote: > Hi > > IMO running each synth in its own thread with many synths going is > definitely _not_ the way forward. The host should definitely be the only > process, much how VST, DXi, pro tools et. al. work. > > No, there is no real "instrument" or "synth" plugin API.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone (fwd)

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
apologies if this reaches you twice, it seems to have been swallowed by that big black hole in the center of the net. -- Forwarded message -- Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone From: Tim Goetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Paul Winkler
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:37:36PM +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > >Thats something that worried me, I seem to remeber that the sound of a > >guitar changes if its not impedance matched with the AD converter. I'm > >pretty sure, mine doesn't match passive guitars. My bass is active though, > >and I dont

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Steve Harris wrote: >On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:56:34 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: >> >how are you plugging in your guitar? >> >if it's a guitar with passive electronics and you're going >> >straight to the A/D converter, i'd expect it to be >> >overly sensitive to the volume control. >> >> yes, it's

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Free Publicity - DJCJ Linux Audio Developers Tech Support Database.

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:04:31 +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Yes or I could give them their own page. votes++ that way you could include a (brief) description of what is there. - Steve

[linux-audio-dev] Musical instrument samples library

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
Recorded in an anechoic chamber at 44.1/16, stored by octave and modulation. http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html "Please feel free to use these samples in your research or music projects without restriction. You may also cite as a reference, link to our page from another web page, or provide

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:30:49 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > it's an interesting pov though, in fact i've been thinking > about algorithms that work like IIR filters (that are often > used for HP/BP/LP) with the addition of nonlinear terms for > recreating the tube distortion. the maths of such a th

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:56:34 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > >how are you plugging in your guitar? > >if it's a guitar with passive electronics and you're going > >straight to the A/D converter, i'd expect it to be > >overly sensitive to the volume control. > > yes, it's passive, two humbuckers. it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Steve Harris wrote: >On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:41:08 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: >> http://quitte.de/easy.mp3 > >That sounds pretty good. The attack sounds a bit muted to me though, is >that deliberate or should it have more bite? it could do with a little more bite, yes. it's the neck pickup with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Paul Winkler wrote: >On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:41:08AM +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: >> make that pref 200 Hz for me. this and the sine shaper at .4, and >> tell you what, this sounds very much like, but in fact better to >> me than the sound i play 90% of the time on the real thing. only >> drawback

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Free Publicity - DJCJ Linux Audio DevelopersTech Support Database.

2002-10-28 Thread Patrick Shirkey
>> The aim of the images at the top is to provide one click access to >>the most popular sites for information about Linux audio. I really >>don't want to move them. They could do with being slightly smaller >>perhaps. >>I'd like to suggest that you put them in a table at the top or side of >>

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Tim Goetze
Paul Winkler wrote: >On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:12:02AM +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: >> the longer the wave is on one side of zero, the more energy is >> built up that tries to push it back. > >Is it just me, or does that sound an awful lot like a hipass >filter? this one is supposed to be nonlinear,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Free Publicity - DJCJ Linux Audio DevelopersTech Support Database.

2002-10-28 Thread Patrick Shirkey
>Web-design seems a bit off topic, but... I don't understand that. Everyone always bitches about the lack of documentation for Linux audio. This site has been designed to address that problem specifically from a new user POV. Getting it right should be very much on topic. Just because it isn't

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-announce] DJCJ Linux Audio Developers Tech Supportdatabase.

2002-10-28 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Conrad Parker wrote: for example, we could provide some level of commercial support for Linux audio stuff from CSIRO, but we could only focus on a small domain (MPEG audio, vorbis, sweep, and custom engineering related to analysis) and can't possibly list ourselves as providing general Linux audi

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Ardour

2002-10-28 Thread Nick Bailey
I used audacity recently and it seems to work fine. The only downside is I think it uses wxWindows, which I hate, but I've even installed that to run it... Nick/ On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 9:23 pm, you wrote: > >> Does it have a built in Wave editor? > > > >No. > > Depends :) > > The editor will

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 04:33:26 -0800, Paul Winkler wrote: > 1, 2, and 4 are the most common. It's common to only > mic 1 of the cones, pretty close up - but it's also common > to do any bizarre combination of mics and placements you can > think of. Yup, but for starters, one dynamic mic at a se

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:05:24 -0500, David Gerard Matthews wrote: > Some people also like to stick a mic right between the two cones of a > 2-driver amp. > Miking an open cab from behind is also a popular trick - it yields a > completely different > tone. Now you're just being difficult ;) -

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:12:02 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > the longer the wave is on one side of zero, the more energy is > built up that tries to push it back. as long as the system is > fed enough energy to keep it this side of zero, it is basically > decaying exponentially against a (more-or-le

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] unmatched - a LADSPA amp tone

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:41:08 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > http://quitte.de/easy.mp3 That sounds pretty good. The attack sounds a bit muted to me though, is that deliberate or should it have more bite? > >Yeah, fix the rectifier. I had a quick look at it and it looks like I did > >something fai