Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-05 Thread Set Hallstrom
Ralf: i am not having the conversation of what is medicore bad or worst way between digital/analogue/harware/software to make music. It's ok to point out lacks and caveats, and thinker about where and how we can tackle them. But if the point is just to enumerate personal frustration, personal tech

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread lukefromdc
With a too-high Q in an audio amp but short of oscillation you would get "ringing" of the frequency in question and greatly increased amplification of that frequency from the input signal. The level just short of that ringing would be used by a CW (morse code) user in amateur radio to single out on

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 4 May 2016 14:26:36 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >On Wed, 4 May 2016, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Perhaps I should write a Wiki about the "Q" parameter of a parametric EQ ;). SICR. >>> >>> There isn't one? Q is for adding a sine wave generator to your board >>> in case it doesn't hav

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread Len Ovens
On Wed, 4 May 2016, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Perhaps I should write a Wiki about the "Q" parameter of a parametric EQ ;). SICR. There isn't one? Q is for adding a sine wave generator to your board in case it doesn't have one... For a parametric EO, the Q parameter determines how much frequencies

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 4 May 2016 10:43:26 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >On Wed, 4 May 2016, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Wed, 4 May 2016 07:18:06 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >>> Fons famous parameteric EQ can be had with a GUI from the X42 set of >>> plugins which adds HPF,LPF and high/low shelving as well.

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread Len Ovens
On Wed, 4 May 2016, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 4 May 2016 07:18:06 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: Fons famous parameteric EQ can be had with a GUI from the X42 set of plugins which adds HPF,LPF and high/low shelving as well. Perhaps I should write a Wiki about the "Q" parameter of a parametri

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread lukefromdc
I've mostly done radio and news video, though back in the 1990's I was in a band mixing metal and medieval influences. Due to my economic situation, almost every piece of gear had to be bought by price, ruling out high-end stuff. I rebuilt an old rendal Marshall guitar amp (expensive enough) with

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 4 May 2016 18:58:24 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Wed, 4 May 2016 07:18:06 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >>Fons famous parameteric EQ can be had with a GUI from the X42 set of >>plugins which adds HPF,LPF and high/low shelving as well. > >Perhaps I should write a Wiki about the "Q" para

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 4 May 2016 07:18:06 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >Fons famous parameteric EQ can be had with a GUI from the X42 set of >plugins which adds HPF,LPF and high/low shelving as well. Perhaps I should write a Wiki about the "Q" parameter of a parametric EQ ;). SICR. -- ubuntu-studio-devel ma

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 4 May 2016 07:18:06 -0700 (PDT), Len Ovens wrote: >Fons famous parameteric EQ can be had with a GUI from the X42 set In Germany we say "call a child by it's name", the English idiom seems to be "call a spade a spade". Since you mentioned Robin's plugin collection, btw. I never used it, I s

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-04 Thread Len Ovens
On Wed, 4 May 2016, Set Hallstrom wrote: tisdagen den 3:e maj 2016 kl. 20:41:56 CEST, Len Ovens skrev: A basic LV2 plugins package with gate/compressor/limiter/EQ/reverb (think mixer input strip) would be nice. A package that is just intruments too, though there are fewer to begin with, woul

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 07:18 +0200, Set Hallstrom wrote: > i prefere my hardware, not for the sound, but the interface. having > dedicated knobs is a limiting factor that allows me to navigate the > infinity of sounds i can create. I bought a Korg nano Kontrol, it was and perhaps still is the cheap

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Set Hallstrom
tisdagen den 3:e maj 2016 kl. 23:40:32 CEST, Ralf Mardorf skrev: My apologies, a last PS: The virtual Arturia Oberheim SEM vs a remake or the origuinal of the original Tom Oberheim SEM analog synth. I own a real Oberheim Matrix-1000 and a virtual Arturia Oberheim SEM. A real SEM in some aspects

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Set Hallstrom
tisdagen den 3:e maj 2016 kl. 20:41:56 CEST, Len Ovens skrev: I am not sure what we can do with this... but: The audio plugins we have are kind of hard to navigate. There are a number of collections, but there is really nothing that just has the esential plugins for recording for example. Cal

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My apologies, a last PS: The virtual Arturia Oberheim SEM vs a remake or the origuinal of the original Tom Oberheim SEM analog synth. I own a real Oberheim Matrix-1000 and a virtual Arturia Oberheim SEM. A real SEM in some aspects is much better then a real Matrix-1000, but regarding the sound eve

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 3 May 2016 22:54:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >PS: > >Regarding virtual analog devices, I should mention e.g. the Boss Turbo >Overdrive and the Ibanez Blubber, tow devices I own. There are much >better analog devices available, but non of the virtual Linux or even >proprietary emulations o

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: Regarding virtual analog devices, I should mention e.g. the Boss Turbo Overdrive and the Ibanez Blubber, tow devices I own. There are much better analog devices available, but non of the virtual Linux or even proprietary emulations of the better devices, reach the amazing sound of those two an

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I dislike several aspects of Fons personality, but in addition to Fons' amazing parametric EQ, that really does, what a parametric EQ should do for my taste, there is Fons' IR thingy, perhaps not available as a plugin, that is very good and even Fons' algorithm reverb is very good for the one and o

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Len, are you kidding? You, several others and I'm are aware that we install zillions of plugins and then we need to separate the wheat from the chaff. I have tendencies to not use any Linux plugin, excepted of Fon's parametric EQ. Consider to read between the lines of Joe Hartley's report about

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Audio plugins

2016-05-03 Thread Len Ovens
I am not sure what we can do with this... but: The audio plugins we have are kind of hard to navigate. There are a number of collections, but there is really nothing that just has the esential plugins for recording for example. Calf tries to do this, but is well known for not being the best. (