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 file

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 single

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 = Robert

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

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 connector. The

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. Tom

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

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. coryis...@gmail.com 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

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:

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 developers

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: 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: 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 can do

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 encoded

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 been looking at the

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 Studio on

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 some reason. The

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 (I'm

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 toward

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 saying

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 microphones

Re: audacity and jack

2008-01-01 Thread thomas fisher
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 doesn't use jack. It's for people who don't even know what jack

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 Parameters

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: 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, so

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

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 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 for a

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 for the

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 Installing

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

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

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 (