Re: good sound card for beginners

2008-05-22 Thread Toby Smithe
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Christopher Stamper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A nice advantage with those is the ability to load soundfonts into the wavetable, so you don't need to run a software synth to do basic midi work. (obviously the quality is not professional, but it is good enough

Re: bug with mscore

2008-05-19 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Delvaux Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Are there people among you using the notation editor MuseScore? It's one of the best WYSIWYG notation editor on Linux to my knowledge... I was using it without problem on my Ubuntu studio 8.04, saving my file as

Re: Upgrading to Hardy stopped.

2008-05-05 Thread Toby Smithe
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Jamin Peckham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First time posting here. Think I could use some help here with my upgrade though. Went from Ubuntu Studio 7.10 amd64 (rt-kernel) to Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 using the DVD from the ubuntu studio page. So I pop in the dvd and hit

Re: laptop soundcard

2008-04-08 Thread Toby Smithe
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Luis de Bethencourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, I will be adding some cool bookshelf speakers to my sound setup soon, but this type of speakers need an amplified signal. So I need a new soundcard that has this output. It needs to work with in a

Re: No audio from Rosegarden anymore

2008-03-26 Thread Toby Smithe
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Paul DeShaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I found the package here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/all/fluid-soundfont-gm/download I installed the .deb, but I'm not sure what it actually does. I have to learn more about how sounfonts work. Does the .deb

Re: How will Pulse Audio change things for me?

2008-03-25 Thread Toby Smithe
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pulseaudio should shut down the moment you start jack (if they use the same device) and thus it shouldn't affect you if you use jack. If you use qjackctl (JACK Control), it does, no? -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list

Re: Manual for MuseScore (mscore) in Hardy?

2008-03-23 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Joseph Wakeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm running the Kubuntu Hardy beta on my machine and, following an install of the ubuntustudio-audio set of packages, was delighted to discover the mscore score-creation package. There's one niggle: the

Re: Manual for MuseScore (mscore) in Hardy?

2008-03-23 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Joseph Wakeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm running the Kubuntu Hardy beta on my machine and, following an install of the ubuntustudio-audio set of packages

Fwd: [ubuntu-marketing] Sheffield University music department switching to Ubuntu Studio

2008-03-15 Thread Toby Smithe
Yo: -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Warburton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:18 AM Subject: [ubuntu-marketing] Sheffield University music department switching to Ubuntu Studio To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I'm a student at Sheffield University in the UK (and

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Sheffield University music department switching to Ubuntu Studio

2008-03-15 Thread Toby Smithe
Hi Chris, This is excellent to hear! I have forwarded your mail to the Ubuntu Studio Users' list, and I invite you to participate in the discussion that'll undoubtedly emerge there. I'm very pleased to see that Ubuntu Studio is gaining a larger audience, and this will be especially good in that

Re: Jack and SB-awe soundcard

2008-03-15 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Ray Edester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used Creative's Sound Blaster cards for as long as I've had a PC and never a problem. DOS, Winsloth and several distros of Linux. The Audigy line are pretty good, and have a decent feature set. I'd recommend going for

Ship mscore / fluid-soundfont in Hardy?

2008-03-11 Thread Toby Smithe
negative, especially considering that the free software environment is rather biased towards broadband users. To sign off, I'll just ask again the question asked in the subject: do we ship mscore and/or fluid-soundfont in Ubuntu Studio 8.04? -- Toby Smithe -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list

Re: gTick replacement?

2008-02-25 Thread Toby Smithe
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:38 AM, D. Michael McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008, Toby Smithe wrote: Looks good, but it's too late for Ubuntu Hardy. I want my money back then. Right now. No-one said Intrepid was that far away... Ubuntu Hardy now ships fluid

Re: gTick replacement?

2008-02-25 Thread Toby Smithe
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:17 AM, raydar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your input, guys. Can't believe I didn't think of just plugging one physically into the other! But that's true, what a path. I might as well give Hydrogen a try--bpm are bpm, and I hadn't thought of that. I was

Re: gTick replacement?

2008-02-25 Thread Toby Smithe
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Christopher Stamper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu Hardy now ships fluid-soundfont Really!!??? Yes. Is that the 100MB+ SF that everyone recomends?? Yes. GREAT!!! (Can't wait till April!) :-) You can install the fluid-soundfont-* packages from the Hardy

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-24 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:04 PM, raydar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to configure the alsa-oss package somehow, or configure Jack to incorporate or recognize it? Ok, though I know nothing about this particular package set, the question raises itself that, why should a JACK-connective

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-24 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:44 PM, raydar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I discovered in the Ubuntu forums that running an app as an argument to aoss is a/the way to invoke alsa-oss, so I typed aoss gtick in a terminal, got /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy and also tried having

Re: gTick replacement?

2008-02-24 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:38 PM, D. Michael McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008, Cory K. wrote: I'm open to suggestions on this one. gtick was a nice stand-alone app. If some knows of one of one without this issue that would be great.

Re: Sound card access

2008-02-17 Thread Toby Smithe
On Feb 17, 2008 5:05 PM, adam faranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a shell command I can use to determine what app is using my soundcard? I have tried ps -ax | grep snd, and ps -ax | grep /dev/snd, and nothing comes up, even when I have jack running. lsof /dev/snd/* --

Re: Mscore from source

2008-01-02 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 00:06 -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: Well, as it happens, the Hardy .deb seems to install just fine on Gutsy, so it seems nobody needs to build this from source. I wouldn't recommend it, and it's certainly not supported (ABI compatibility, etc), but if it works for

Re: A friendliness thought about asoundconf

2007-11-29 Thread Toby Smithe
some time again, it is on my To Do list to add this kind of thing to asoundconf-ui[0] (the natural continuation of asoundconf-gtk), and get that in the repo to replace asoundconf-gtk. [0] http://launchpad.net/asoundconf-ui -- Toby Smithe signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Upgraded to Gutsy, lost all sound

2007-10-28 Thread Toby Smithe
on a GNOME system. I also suggest you read through [0] (specifically the Reporting Sound Bugs section) and file a bug on Launchpad [1]. Toby Smithe [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+filebug signature.asc