Re: How to record faint sound from the Mic input?

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Saturday 06 March 2010 10:36:38 pm Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to record a phone conversation, but the sound from the Mic > input is so weak that recording and playing back in Audacity I hear > almost nothing. How can I either boost the playback or (even better) > boost the input so that the fil

Re: ALESIS MULTIMIX 16 FIREWIRE

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 07:51:34 pm mentoj_d...@gmx.de wrote: > hey folks > my brow and i are thinking about buying this: > > http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_multimix_16_firewire.htm > i think, it should work under linux. he's not sure. what do you guys think? > are we able to route every sin

Re: Linux Studio Magazine

2010-01-23 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Saturday 23 January 2010 04:13:48 am Robert Klaar wrote: > Hi folks! > I realize this might be pretty farfetched but are there any magazines on > linux audio out there that you know of? Of course magazines in paperform > are prefered over digitalized. .) > //Paco = Ro

HELP! Understanding MIDI

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Fisher
The equipment is: -Edirol UM-1 ex USB -Kawai KC-10 keyboard The software is: -Jack -Rosegarden -Patchage -ZynaddSubfx HELP! I am stumbling through this midi hookup, which is becoming frustratingly obvious to me that I am not comprehending a so

Re: digitizer tablet

2010-01-16 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Saturday 16 January 2010 01:36:53 pm Tom Rausner wrote: > Hi Folks. > > I need to be able to make drawings dirctly into a program, > and think a digitizer-drawing-pad-thing might do the trick. > But theese things often comes with drivers that only work > with windows. So, I would like to know if

Re: Korg Radias: mdia via USB?

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Monday 15 June 2009 07:06:51 pm Christian Convey wrote: > > Does anyone know if/how I can get my Radias to have a MIDI connection > > to my Ubuntu Studio 9.04 computer, over USB? > > > > I'm very new to connecting a MIDI keyboard to a PC. I just bought a > > Korg Radias, and it has a USB connec

Re: Digital Audio Recorder

2009-06-14 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Sunday 14 June 2009 08:37:57 am sh0099 wrote: > many people like the recorders from zoom escpecialy because of the > "usable" microphones. > > i had a microtrack but the build in microphone of it is bad. > > there are some more professional recorders where the fostex fr-le has > the best price.

Health check on studio 9.04

2009-06-04 Thread Thomas Fisher
I am a few days away from doing a fresh from the top upgrade. My intent is to do a fresh load of Ubuntu 9.04 and then add the Studio 9.04 auxiliary packages. My preferred desk top is KDE. Hardware is Intel, P4 D, Nvidia I would appreciate any insights, or precautions. I have noticed that thi

Re: 9.04 ??

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Sunday 26 April 2009 03:05:43 pm beej...@gmail.com wrote: > On Apr 26, 2009 5:18pm, "Cory K." wrote: > > aYo Binitie wrote: > > > > > > > > > > It's not up to me anymore though I carry influence. Jaunty was my last > > > > release doing anything in a *official* capacity. I have other very > > >

Re: new user with Yamaha G046

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Friday 27 March 2009 07:43:19 am Grayson Shelton wrote: > Hello, --snip > > I am new to Ubuntu Studio, but not to recording via computer. Needless > > to say I have some questions: > > > > 1. Is there anyone out there using a Yamaha G046 Interface? I checked > > th

FYI: ms attack

2009-02-27 Thread Thomas Fisher
We all know better than to sleep with a scorpion: Microsoft trades goodwill http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/microsoft_tomtom/ http://www.groklaw.net/ Tom -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu

Re: What HW/SW do people have working?

2009-01-25 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Sunday 25 January 2009 09:21:19 am Larry David wrote: > Hi - I'm a Mac user and musician. I'm thinking of switching to Linux > with my next laptop, and am wondering what people are using for audio/ > MIDI interfaces, and what software - DAW, plugins, softsynths, etc.? > > It looks like develope

Re: building 2.6.24 in an intrepid environment

2009-01-05 Thread Thomas Fisher
FYI: RT kernel ref: LAU list for today [ 01-04-2009 ] thread: [PATCH] [RT] tasklets: fix typo in tasklet_hi_action === How soon this will manifest in Ubuntu, I do not know. However it was significant enough that it solicited a triple " thank you ! " from CCRMA's Fernando.

Re: -rt kernel for Ubuntu 8.04.1

2008-12-06 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Saturday 06 December 2008 08:18:47 am Henry W. Peters wrote: > I am on dial-up so Ubuntu Studio is, for now, pretty much out the > window... (?) But I am trying, by bits & pieces to make useable, audio > for Ubuntu Hardy, 8.04.1. A question for me now is, how do I obtain & > install the -rt Kern

Re: M-audio Fast Track Pro and Ubuntu Studio

2008-12-03 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 10:20:48 am Daniel Nordlund wrote: > Ubuntu Studio Users, > > I am having difficulty getting my system properly configured with JACK and > Ardour so that I can record and play back from Ardour using my Fast Track > Pro (FTP). The FTP is set as the default card and plays

Re: My sistem is hitching

2008-11-28 Thread Thomas Fisher
On Friday 28 November 2008 02:06:15 pm simone-www.io-lab.org wrote: > Every now and then my whole system has a hiccup, mouse pointer would > stop for a sec, the sound would repeat a buffer or 2 and so. > I have a Dell D410 and Ubuntu Studio 7.04, i never had this problem with > Ubuntu Simone > > --

Re: Xruns And Ardour: its the plugins!

2008-03-13 Thread thomas fisher
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:08:13 Robin wrote: > Hi everyone, > Still concerning the problem I am having with Ardour and Jack, I have > made some progress: The Xruns occur when I have active LAPSDA plugins on > audio tacks. (I wanted to use a compressor and EQ per track). > Is there something I ca

Re: Ogg/MP3 encoding at very high bitrates

2008-02-09 Thread thomas fisher
On Saturday 09 February 2008 17:52:08 Cory K. wrote: > Joseph Wakeling wrote: > > Probably in the long run I will do as Cory has done and back up my whole > > CD collection in FLAC (all it needs is time plus a big enough external > > hard disk). > > Just to give you a idea of size, 650 some odd CDs

Re: FireWire Solo

2008-02-03 Thread thomas fisher
On Sunday 03 February 2008 06:11:44 Clinton Morse wrote: > verymeta wrote: > > I'm replying to my own post: > > > > It works!! > > > > And wow, the sound quality with the Firewire Solo is so much better than > > when I was using an onboard soundcard!! > > > > -Katie > > Slightly off topic. I've be

Re: A bad experience ...

2008-01-30 Thread thomas fisher
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 07:14:08 Det wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to share a bad experience I had almost two weeks ago > when I tried to record the school band of my son for a demo they needed. > > Setup: > 2 Guitars, 2 Mics, E-Bass, E-Drums, > on a PHHB17 Phonic Helix USB mixer. > > Feisty

Re: "We're not gonna take it!" :P

2008-01-29 Thread thomas fisher
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 06:11:05 Cory K. wrote: > Eddie Armstrong wrote: > > Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > >> About Eddie, show some respect please. Free software is a meritocratic > >> system. Please don't come here trying to get a flame war started, go > >> contribute as best as you can in the

Re: Serious help is needed with debugging what wrong with our system sounds.

2008-01-29 Thread thomas fisher
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 05:14:07 Eddie Armstrong wrote: > Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > > About Eddie, show some respect please. Free software is a meritocratic > > system. Please don't come here trying to get a flame war started, go > > contribute as best as you can in the project that you like

Re: Cinelerra and VST support

2008-01-28 Thread thomas fisher
On Monday 28 January 2008 19:52:23 D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008, Cory K. wrote: > > VSTs are completely proprietary and licenses are needed to use it in > > linux. > > Looking at the README in the latest dssi-vst, it doesn't look like that's > still necessarily true: > > d

Re: Serious help is needed with debugging what wrong with our system sounds.

2008-01-28 Thread thomas fisher
On Monday 28 January 2008 06:32:42 Cory K. wrote: > Cory K. wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Cory K. a écrit : > >>> Ok. After some going back and fourth with seb128 and some help with > >>> crimsun I got the login/out sounds working in Ubuntu-hardy again but > >>> not in Ubuntu Studio for

Re: problems with multiface

2008-01-19 Thread thomas fisher
On Saturday 19 January 2008 15:42:51 méliska wrote: > Yep! > > I'm a french user of Ubuntu Studio (that explain my horrific english) > I'm using a Multiface I (RME) wich works fine with some linux distributions > (Jack-lab, Musix, (((Windoz but I've got problems with routing of > HDSPmixer in U

Re: jack freebob issue

2008-01-16 Thread thomas fisher
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:52:54 altern wrote: > hi all > > I am using a terratec phase x24 firewire sound card with an IBM laptop. > It runs Ubuntu studio, the latest version, I keep it updated. > > My problem is that sometimes jack just stops suddenly. It just print > some crap symbols at qj

Re: [ANN] New bleeding edge repository for Ubuntu Studio with, ardour 2.0-ongoing svn (Rapha?l Doursenaud)

2008-01-07 Thread thomas fisher
On Monday 07 January 2008 16:46:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Big question: Will stuff like jack from the upcoming release, qjackctl > from the recent release and lv2 from the upcoming release be included > in Hardy? > > If not, the repo may have it's point. > Jack could be a tough cookie because (

Re: Ardour vs. Audacity?

2008-01-04 Thread thomas fisher
On Friday 04 January 2008 19:46:22 D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008, Christopher Stamper wrote: > > Rosegarden is for notation and MIDI, NOT audio. So it won't help at all. > > (unless you wanted to record MIDI and not audio). > > I'm not sure what to make of this. Are you sa

Re: Hassle Free USB Audio Interface

2008-01-04 Thread thomas fisher
On Friday 04 January 2008 11:53:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How important exactly is the interface in keeping XRUNs in check? With the > proper configuration on any well endowed machine should I be able to > synthesize without glitches regardless of interface? Also, could someone > point me towar

Re: Ardour vs. Audacity?

2008-01-03 Thread thomas fisher
> On 1/3/08, Darrin Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a bluegrass musician, most all of the music that I am recording is > > acoustic. Sometimes I might have a simple microphone plugged into the > > sound card on my laptop, and other times I might be using high quality > > condenser microp

Re: Help learning the basics

2008-01-01 Thread thomas fisher
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 13:33:08 Christopher Stamper wrote: > I've been wondering lately where I can learn more about digital audio. > Simple things that I should know, like how to use an equalizer, what > plugins to use for recording, how to master the audio, etc. > > I've used linux for years,

Re: Hassle Free USB Audio Interface

2008-01-01 Thread thomas fisher
On Monday 31 December 2007 12:56:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All I'd really like to be able to do is play with Ardour for recording and > ZynAddSubFX for synthesizing without getting XRUNs - The el-cheapo > behringer USB interface that came with my mixer clearly isn't cutting the > cheese. Hassle

Re: Recording with ZynAddSubFX

2008-01-01 Thread thomas fisher
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 05:51:10 Hartmut Noack wrote: > Bharani Prasanth Sure schrieb: > > Hello, > > Can somebody provide me with some of the additional > > zynaddsubfx patches Bharani. > Try these: > http://gnupc.de/~zettberlin/law/patches/ > > Most of them are Instruments, some Pa

Re: audacity and jack

2008-01-01 Thread thomas fisher
ing jack with portaudio driver and it > failed. > > On Monday 31 December 2007 23:09:40 thomas fisher wrote: > > On Monday 31 December 2007 10:00:13 D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > > > On Monday 31 December 2007, Christopher Stamper wrote: > > > > Audacity

Re: audacity and jack

2007-12-31 Thread thomas fisher
On Monday 31 December 2007 10:00:13 D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Monday 31 December 2007, Christopher Stamper wrote: > > Audacity doesn't use jack. It's for people who don't even know what jack > > is.. :-) -->clipped < > D. Michael McIntyre Granted f

Re: Documentation

2007-12-31 Thread thomas fisher
On Monday 31 December 2007 04:18:10 Jussi Schultink wrote: > Hello All. > > As has been discussed before, there is a lack of documentation for > Studio work on Ubuntu. > What does this have to do with me, I hear you say? -clip (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio) --

Re: audacity and jack

2007-12-31 Thread thomas fisher
On Sunday 30 December 2007 04:47:14 Jesus Arocho wrote: > Hello. I have a system running kubuntustudio amd64. Ardour and jack work > fine, as well as hydrogen. I cannot seem to get audacity to work with > jack. If jack is running, audacity fails to even load. audacity will load > if jack is sto

Re: upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10

2007-12-29 Thread thomas fisher
On Friday 28 December 2007 19:50:54 Florin Andrei wrote: > Are there any issues with doing an upgrade (as opposed to backup / > format / install fresh / restore) from Ubuntu Studio 7.04 to 7.10? > > I normally backup and install fresh, but on this particular machine I > have way too many things han

Re: Ubuntu-Studio-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 49

2007-12-29 Thread thomas fisher
On Friday 28 December 2007 21:32:23 "Yosif ali" Roque Morales wrote: > Most respected sirs: > jes a question from a newbie. > > if i set up Ubuntustudio... can i have already use it to teach my students > for use in a mutlimedia production outfit (meaning is it sufficient for us > to be used f

Re: a programme addition request

2007-12-22 Thread thomas fisher
On Saturday 22 December 2007 06:15:34 alex stone wrote: > Hello all, > I´m Alex, and very new to linux, ubuntustudio, and mailing lists in > general, so if i breach any protocol, please let me know. > > I´ve been using ubs for about a month and a half, and after finding > (stumbling, falling, lurch

UbuntuStudio repository question

2007-12-21 Thread thomas fisher
My repository list on /etc/apt/sources.list was ok. NOW Synaptic complains : Could not resolve 'archive._ http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio/dists/feisty/Release.gpg http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio/dists/feisty/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 http://archive.ubuntust

Re: Checkinstall is your friend

2007-12-21 Thread thomas fisher
On Friday 21 December 2007 07:00:19 Asmo Koskinen wrote: > Checkinstall is really your friend, use it. > > I just used to say at the end of building "sudo make install", now I say > "sudo checkinstall". I love it. > > Latest stable Gimp from *.tar.gz source: > [--] > > Building Debian package...OK

Re: Generative Music

2007-12-19 Thread thomas fisher
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:25:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:49:18 -0700 > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone familiar with creating generative music with Linux? I'm > > looking for something similar to Koan > > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koa

Re: terratec phase x24 and freebob

2007-12-19 Thread thomas fisher
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 14:24:09 altern wrote: > hi > > i am trying to run my firewire terratec phase x24 with freebob under > UbuntuStudio. I have been trying all kinds of solutions with no luck. > This is the error i get when running qjackctl > > ** > 22:00:58.210 /usr/b