[LAD] (X)Steem Source released

2013-03-02 Thread Jens M Andreasen
I have obviously been a bit out of the loop not noticing this before, but anyway, the Steem Source was released under GPL on July 01, 2011. It's got MIDI in it which is why this is interesting for us. There are lots of editors for antique synths out there (or for their emulations) as well as a

Re: [LAD] Listing lowest and highest frequencies in a track?

2012-09-05 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 20:11 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Human hearing easily violates the 'uncertainty principle', and it can do this by making assumptions about the signal (such as the one made above). If a 50 Hz bass note is a quarter tone (1.5 Hz) out of tune, we can easily hear this

Re: [LAD] Floating point Denormals: C++ and Waf

2012-08-04 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 15:50 +0100, Harry van Haaren wrote: Thanks, it seems that this is the easiest cross-CPU / architecture etc The problem is unique for Intel, in which case you can use: -msse -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math ___ Linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] SMPTE and jackd

2012-05-11 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 07:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: That's why Paul explained it (to us/me) and he's right. No, that's crap ... Many (which one?) is not equal to ALL. Just because some idiot hired gun working for a no-name-brand couldn't be bothered, does not mean the whole world is

Re: [LAD] SMPTE and jackd

2012-05-10 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 11:21 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: first of all, MTC is not a particularly reliable protocol unless you can dedicate the equivalent of a MIDI cable to it. its data rate gets close to the serial MIDI limit, Using MTC quarterframe messages uses no more than 240 bytes/second,

[LAD] B-Control MIDI Implementation

2012-04-16 Thread Jens M Andreasen
An interesting PDF about the undocumented SysEx of BCR/BCF2000 - page 49 was the kicker for me http://home.kpn.nl/f2hmjvandenberg281/download/BC/BC%20MIDI% 20Implementation.pdf -- JMA - Harlequin http://web.comhem.se/mx44turbo/cute/harlequin.mp3 ___

[LAD] 3.4-rc2-rt2, -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2012-04-14 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Looks like the Nvidia driver just got happily married to realtime, low latency Linux - again, no? .. From tglx: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.rt.user/8150 Changes since 3.4-rc2-rt2: ... * Remove the _GPL restriction from a few exports This restores the status quo of pre 3.0 RT

[LAD] TI throws DSPs at supercomputers

2011-12-09 Thread Jens M Andreasen
From El Reg: - Nvidia had better watch out. Texas Instruments is not only its rival when it comes to making ARM processors that might end up in servers someday, but it is also repositioning its digital signal processors so they can be used as math coprocessors for standard x86 CPUs – and perhaps

[LAD] AV Linux

2011-10-16 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Here is a distro that does away with most of what (some old people in Korea as well as) quite a few users on this list dislikes about modern Linux desktop: http://www.bandshed.net/index.html I am using it now, it is current and works like a charm :) .. I really think it deserves to be mentioned

Re: [LAD] Internally representing pitch : A new approach

2011-10-05 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 09:19 +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote: * Support the concept of re-triggering a voice that's already playing, this is important for any percussive instrument. E.g. hitting a cymbal twice in quick succession should not trigger the sound of two cymbals playing together.

Re: [LAD] Internally representing pitch : A new approach

2011-10-05 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 07:09 +0200, David Olofson wrote: Compare to dropping two pebbles in a bucket of water. That is true for a linear system - but is a cymbal linear...? No it is not. Bend it enough and it will break in half :) - but within reasonable boundaries, playing with sticks,

Re: [LAD] QasMixer 0.14.0 released

2011-09-17 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 15:19 +0200, Sebastian H. wrote: QasMixer version 0.14.0 is now available. QasMixer is an ALSA mixer with a customized Qt GUI. It looks nice :) One thing - from a functional point of view - that has always annoyed me with the standard gnome-mixer, is that the faders are

Re: [LAD] Android audio plugins

2011-06-30 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 20:47 +0200, Nick Copeland wrote: The ARM softfloat overhead is not that great and the coding required to get access to the GPUs is suitable that developers will implement them for optimisations. 1) There are several hw floating point implemntations on the ARM platform

[LAD] Android Java stack

2011-06-30 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On a related subject ... What is the Java implementation like on Android? Is it the normal Java as we have it in Linux/OSX/etc or is it one of those Mobile variants, having its own set of API's? /j ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] Android Java stack

2011-06-30 Thread Jens M Andreasen
09:26 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On a related subject ... What is the Java implementation like on Android? Is it the normal Java as we have it in Linux/OSX/etc or is it one of those Mobile variants, having its own set of API's? On Android, it's pretty standard. You can rely on most Java

Re: [LAD] Android Java stack

2011-06-30 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Yes, but that page is about communication upstream to the host ... I think the idea here is that most Androids are phones and by nature not intended to work as your main device. But there are no midi devices in existence that works like a host, unless you consider your main computer a midi device

[LAD] mp3-player needs sendmail - really?

2011-05-29 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Anybody got any idea why the realplayer insist on installing sendmail as well? Is it a rootkit, intending to turn me into a spam-node? /j ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] mp3-player needs sendmail - really?

2011-05-29 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 09:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Btw. do you need realplayer or did you just test it ;)? I need to get rid of Totem which is borked beyond recognition here .. Indeed, creepy. It is the same with GoogleEarth (which will also install 'ed' as an automation convenience

Re: [LAD] mp3-player needs sendmail - really?

2011-05-29 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 12:29 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: Half of the services on linuxaudio.org would not be what they are without 'ed'. love it. I wouldn't want GoogleEarth to run half the services from linuxaudio on my machine .. Not even one! /j

[LAD] mail-list loopback

2011-04-14 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Once more ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] mail-list loopback

2011-04-14 Thread Jens M Andreasen
It finally works! :) On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 10:39 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: Once more ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] [offtopic] loopback

2011-04-13 Thread Jens M Andreasen
12, 2011 05:03:51 PM Jens M Andreasen did opine: Test: ISP ate my e-mail ... /j And this one made it through the gauntlet. Or the ISP was sleeping off it's meal. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] [offtopic] loopback

2011-04-13 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Nope. And not this one either. Only from you Veronica. /j On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 00:56 -0700, Veronica Merryfield wrote: Did you get your original test returned to you? On 2011-04-13, at 12:49 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote: I did not get any? ... Not from LAD and not from Gene. Something

Re: [LAD] [offtopic] loopback

2011-04-13 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 07:16 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Doing a reply all this time, so you should get 2 copies if you get one from the list. List is not responding. But I got a letter frpm linux-audio-dev-boun...@lists.linuxaudio.org when I tried to resubscribe. No go.

[LAD] [offtopic] loopback

2011-04-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Test: ISP ate my e-mail ... /j ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb

2011-02-25 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 11:28 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Also noticed 'ingen fara' - no problem and 'ingen aning' - no idea. In a compound statement, yes And then You have the Scottish Gaelic inghean from Old Irish ingen meaning daughter which might be related to the Swedish/Norwegian

Re: [LAD] [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb

2011-02-24 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 00:34 +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: I learned that 'ingen' is Swedish for 'no, nobody, nothing' or similar... Nobody it is. -- Brand new stockings http://mx44.linux.dk/notturno/brand_new_stockings.mp3 ___ Linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] Calculate R M S

2011-02-17 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 19:51 +0200, Alfs Kurmis wrote: Hi Experts. I wanna normalize my sound stream by loudness (energy / pressure / intensity) , not by peaks. How i do it ? Is available Jack plugin for so what ? What is (we hear as) loudness ? RMS or +(average) or something else ?

[LAD] Allocating 96 but reading 16 (multple times)

2011-02-15 Thread Jens M Andreasen
The other day I tried somthing unusual. I use 96 frame buffers and so I allocate two of those for each of in and out, and then read/write (blocking) 96 frames at a time - makes sense, yes? Well no, it turns out that - without doing any processing - looping over read/writing only 16 frames at a

[LAD] HDMI Audio on NVIDIA GPUs

2011-02-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Stephen Warren HDMI Audio on NVIDIA GPUs ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] [LAA] [ANN] guitarix update release gx_head-0.13.0

2011-02-08 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 05:58 +0100, hermann wrote: * add mix tubes * add post amp * add noise gate * add Italian translation byIvan Tarozzi add voicebox also?? :) ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] What if a fork is not a fork?

2011-01-29 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 22:05 +0200, Vytautas Jancauskas wrote: What if I fork a project because I think it gives me a good starting point or base for what I want to do but the direction I intend to take things will result in a completely

Re: [LAD] What if a fork is not a fork?

2011-01-29 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 11:15 -0500, Raymond Martin wrote: Stick to the license, that is all that is required of you. Yes, please do. Does it say that the GPL lifts the copyright? No it does not! It is in fact copyright law that makes copyleft tick in the first place. You want to fork a project

Re: [LAD] What if a fork is not a fork?

2011-01-29 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 15:11 -0500, Raymond Martin wrote: To remember: If copyrights were not explicitly and in writing signed over to you then they were not. /j The copyright in the license is the credit! These are dire straits. I am afraid your ship is heading towards the cliffs.

Re: [LAD] interview with Dave Smith

2011-01-16 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:17 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: Avoid Kansas. Great advice. :) the building has left Kansas years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPWenQxryr4 ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] Devs needed for opensource virtual analog softsynth idea

2011-01-08 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 01:57 -0500, Jeremy wrote: Also if you're looking for a channel stealing algorithm, try this: the type of a synth engine is synth typedef struct _synthblock { _synthblock* next; _synthblock* previous; synth item; } synthblock; What is a synthblock here? Is that

[LAD] Voice assign and stealing

2011-01-08 Thread Jens M Andreasen
at 05:07 -0500, Jeremy wrote: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Jens M Andreasen jens.andrea...@comhem.se wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 01:57 -0500, Jeremy wrote: Also if you're looking for a channel stealing algorithm, try this: the type

[LAD] On the last eve of the year

2010-12-31 Thread Jens M Andreasen
It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark. Evening came on, the last evening of the year. In the cold and gloom a poor little girl, bareheaded and barefoot, was walking through the streets. Of course when she had left her house she'd had slippers on, but what good had they

Re: [LAD] On the last eve of the year

2010-12-31 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 14:33 +0100, Julien Claassen wrote: Which software did you use to do it? I am sorry to disappoint you, but: When my DX7 broke down this summer I went looking for a DX5 (with more keys), but instead ended up with a €400 second hand EX5 .. Thats it! It's twelve years

Re: [LAD] On the last eve of the year

2010-12-31 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 11:44 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: It immediately made me think of Jean Renoir's silent film adaptation of the story. The footage I had in mind is here: Little Match Girl ReMake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ihqvbj7p4U .. but it needs to be cut down and shortened -

Re: [LAD] [OT] Richard Stallman warns against ChromeOS

2010-12-15 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 19:45 -0500, gene heskett wrote: ... but what his own page says now, does not match the emails flying around about it back in the day. Unforch, to be able to back that up, I would have to have an email corpus that goes back farther than the 2002 date, when I had a

Re: [LAD] panning thoughts

2010-11-14 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 15:38 +, Folderol wrote: I don't know if this is at all relevant (prolly not!) but I dimly remember, from my BBC B days, there was a way of drawing circles using Pythagoras. This was dramatically faster than using sin/cos. It is actually very relevant since the

Re: [LAD] panning thoughts

2010-11-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 20:22 -0800, Eric Kampman wrote: Since power is proportional to signal squared, this means .. .. L(t) = cos(t * pi / 2) and R(t) = cos((1 - t) * pi / 2) I think you misspelled one sin(), no? let float p be the panning position such that: Left == 0.0, Center == 0.5, Right

Re: [LAD] PCM Troubleshooting Questions

2010-11-03 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 14:28 -0700, Rory Filer wrote: The closest I can describe it is it is like listening to a radio through a really cheap pair of speakers which are underpowered for the amp driving them. But there is also a lot of static sound accompanying the voice which seems to be

Re: [LAD] tree sort

2010-10-16 Thread Jens M Andreasen
What you can do is, take an existing implementation and preallocate a fixed number of objects in a linked list, like a stack. Then you pop off the first object whereever there is a malloc() and push it on again whereever there is a free() On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 00:35 +0200, Lieven Moors wrote:

Re: [LAD] Linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 44, Issue 6

2010-10-13 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 07:09 +0200, Stéphane Letz wrote: Examples of what? Example of CUDA used for audio. If we for now ignore getting data in and out - which I understand you are reading up upon now - there are two main use cases: a) Vertical signal flow: The signal flows from the top

Re: [LAD] Linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 44, Issue 6

2010-10-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 16:29 +0200, Stéphane Letz wrote: I've done some test using OpenCL in the context of the Faust project (http://faust.grame.fr/). Up to now results are not really good, and I guess CUDA/OpenCL will be usable only in specific cases. What kinds of parallellism have you

Re: [LAD] Linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 44, Issue 6

2010-10-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 20:30 +0200, Stéphane Letz wrote: Well you obviously have a lot of practical knowledge I don't have. Any code samples you could share? Examples of what? I don't know where you are heading nor what kind of hardware you are considering - and specifically I do not

Re: [LAD] on the soft synth midi jitters ...

2010-10-07 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 10:12 +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote: Cubase is particularly bad when playing a soft-synth live, esp with larger audio buffer sizes, because ... It could be useful to have some anecdotal evidence to quantify measures of jitter like annoying and drunk, so: What is your

Re: [LAD] CUDA implementation for calf

2010-10-04 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 13:51 +0200, Max Tandetzky wrote: I want to make a CUDA implementation of the algorithms from the calf-plugins. Hi Max! This will work nicely for a massive wholesale plugin, like say for a 128 channel fully equipped mixer with all the toys on all channels. On the

Re: [LAD] Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch

2010-10-01 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 23:16 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: ... Now take a window of say half a second. If it includes a pulse you get more or less the same spectrum again. If it doesn't, you get nothing... even if the frequencies should be there :-) You are now (heading towards)

Re: [LAD] Mouse/knob interaction

2010-09-09 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 20:44 +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: That's a funny thing, because I've been looking at some radio equipment with a big rotary knob to scroll through menu options. Turning the knob clockwise moves the pointer up, and turning it anti-clockwise moves it down - utterly

Re: [LAD] basic MIDI note-on/note-off questions

2010-06-25 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 11:55 +0100, James Morris wrote: Hi, I keep getting surprised at some of the most basic problems I run into... This time, processing order. Midi is serial, first come first served. 1) Notes of zero duration? Are at least one millisecond. 2) note x ending

Re: [LAD] Better lossless compressions?

2010-06-22 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 22:55 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: And is there a snowballs chance in hell that this is un-encumbered? http://electronicdesign.com/tabid/57/default.aspx?topic=algorithm_delivers_lossless_compression_to_adc_samplescatpath=fltrTitle=fltrSummary=fltrPublication.aspx?nl=1

Re: [LAD] Better lossless compressions?

2010-06-22 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 14:00 +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: That's more or less the end of the story. Any further discussion would only make sense with measured results at hand. There is this 50 instructions/sample thingie also. Size is comparable to other lossless algos, but how about

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-30 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 13:05 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: There is a switch on the backside of the Hammond to spin it down in remembrance of those unforgettable brown-out moments. I can't translate 'brown-out' into German. Is this regarding to James Brown? ... Nope, and I think it

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-29 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 29 May 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: ... So if anybody wants to program a virtual Hammond B3, should he take care about tuning effects caused by the power line? Btw. is the motors speed for a B3 depending to the voltage or is it

Re: [LAD] Music, Undecidability, and the tiling problem (was Re: update: OT-ish: realtime 2d placement algorithms :-/)

2010-05-28 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:54 -0500, Charles Henry wrote: I would like a computer to be able to say, This would sound good, if I were a human. Better yet, I'd like the computer to describe it to me in numbers that I myself could not calculate. The question then becomes: Do androids really

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:40 -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: What could be causing the ground loop to oscillate? It works like an antenna picking up the electromagnetic 50 Hz fundamental. I don't think this is the right answer given the 100 Hz harmonic series.

Re: [LAD] Quiz -- The winners

2010-05-28 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 21:14 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Meanwhile I did measure the signal quality of card X using a *decent* generator - it is extremely good. Since it has been concluded that the problem is related to the AC power supply, it would be interresting to measure card-A

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 22:02 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: The really interesting value is the noise density shown in the upper left corner (for the marker at 1100 Hz): noise density is -137.9 dB/Hz Add 43 dBHz (for 20 kHz), and the resulting S/N ratio is -94.9 dB. Which is 16-bit

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 23:07 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: So 20 useful bits - approx. Where do you get this ? What the plot shows is that the S/N ratio is around 95 dB, that's all. Even if the ADC has 20 effective bits, they are useless as the analog noise dominates. I get this

Re: [LAD] A little quiz about audio measurements...

2010-05-28 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 00:00 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Absolutely, and that why there's dithering, which in its simplest form is just adding noise. Great ;) Now you please go add some noise to a 16 bit signal and keep that theoretical -90 dB noisefloor also, will you ... In any

Re: [LAD] Looking for an introduction to rt programming with a gui

2010-05-24 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 18:58 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: ... i am glad to hear, however, that you've never used longjmp/setjmp in your code ,, Ah! But this would otherwise have been the perfect cue for establishing that plain C isn't that plain and straightforwarded either. Without even trying

Re: [LAD] interesting TSC coverage on lwn.net

2010-05-20 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 16:08 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/388188/62e8027425e224f6/ There is a link in the article to something Thomas Gleixner said: Dream on while working with the 2 machines at your desk which represent about 90% of the sane subset in the

Re: [LAD] LAC 2010 stream recordings...

2010-05-05 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 18:17 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: the lac2010 presentation recordings are now available at http://www.linuxproaudio.org/lac2010/ - kudos to faberman for very-close-to-realtime post-production! I suppose that if I in firefox can only see a bit of static green, then

Re: [LAD] LAC 2010 stream recordings...

2010-05-05 Thread Jens M Andreasen
.. which video is causing the problem? All of them? Yes! # totem --version GNOME totem 2.20.1 ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-13 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 08:13 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: ... a note off does nothing but terminate the sound early. That sounds pretty dramatic to me, no? As in: - No Marie-Antoinette, You need not to be afraid - the guillotine will only terminate Your life a little earlier ...

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 00:52 +0100, James Morris wrote: On Mon, April 12, 2010 00:38, James Morris wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure I've seen this dealt with on the list before, but can't find it. With the program I'm fumbling around trying to create, it will be possible for successive

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 10:26 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 08:07 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: The question is what happens at the other end when a note gets struck a second time. a) Nothing, the note is already on. b) Re-trigger, the voice is reset and the note

Re: [LAD] successive note on midi events

2010-04-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 00:55 +0100, James Morris wrote: A string of note-ons following each other all for the same pitch n without any intervening note-offs for pitch n, IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE provided they are INTENTIONAL and NOT accidental. Yes, except for that this is an absurdity that

Re: [LAD] MF-401 Auto De-tune

2010-04-01 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 21:24 +0200, rosea.grammostola wrote: *Ugh Shipping begins April 1, 2010* A prerelease has been floating around for a while though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0 ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] [OT] Turing machine

2010-03-26 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 23:46 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: If the stars revolve around you, that is Newton. No, that would be the pint! ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] automation on Linux (modular approach)

2010-03-22 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 16:47 +0100, Nick Copeland wrote: Just 128 steps for filter cutoff for an oscillating emphasis does not work well if it needs to be tuned exactly to an VCO/DCO, it is basically never in tune This is wrong. The number of bits in a parameter is unrelated to where and

Re: [LAD] Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ... [related to:] hard realtime performance synth

2010-02-08 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 19:02 -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote: If OpenCL DSP code would run on my desktop using CPUs only, faster than a reasonable C implementation ... You are smoking some illegal substances tonight? ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ... [related to:] hard realtime performance synth

2010-02-06 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 21:36 +0100, Emanuel Rumpf wrote: 2010/2/4 Jens M Andreasen jens.andrea...@comhem.se: Zap the Gnome on steroids and dedicate your GPU for audio then! How to ? I can only say what I have done and _very_ _carefully_ point out that I know _absolutely_ _nothing_ about

Re: [LAD] Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ... [related to:] hard realtime performance synth

2010-02-06 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 23:07 +0100, Emanuel Rumpf wrote: article: Audio Processing on the GPU http://www-sop.inria.fr/reves/projects/GPUAudio/ That article is so out of date, I dont know how to even begin to explain? Really, you might as well be talking about how M56k code does wonders on a

Re: [LAD] Has anyone ever played a plugin in realtime ... [related to:] hard realtime performance synth

2010-02-04 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 18:50 +0100, Emanuel Rumpf wrote: We have dedicated hardware for graphics, why not for audio ? Zap the Gnome on steroids and dedicate your GPU for audio then! I have success with 3 audio buffers × 0.3 ms + another 0.3 ms for the PCIe roundtrip to the GPU. Voicecount is

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-27 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:15 -0500, David McClanahan wrote: ... Roland, Korg, Yamaha put out turnkey products on what I suspect is simpler hardware and my question is there any reason why similar turnkey systems could not be developed on a Linux system ... There is a difference between 'any

Re: [LAD] random curiosity

2010-01-26 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:23 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: I don't know but this sounds a bit stupid to me. You want the random numbers to have differences. ... And you can't really use scientific random number generators because you want to be fast and have realtime with the synth ... I am

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-25 Thread Jens M Andreasen
market.) In any case, $16 billion does not sound reasonable. ... And now back to our regular programming: How to make useful musical instruments out of the techno-trash others have thrown in the dumpster? On 24 Jan 2010, at 15:06, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 17

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-25 Thread Jens M Andreasen
market.) In any case, $16 billion does not sound reasonable. ... And now back to our regular programming: How to make useful musical instruments out of the techno-trash others have thrown in the dumpster? On 24 Jan 2010, at 15:06, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 17

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-24 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 17:32 -0500, David McClanahan wrote: Hi, Where to start? I have a Dell 7000 laptop and I'm wondering if it can be a music synthesizer(something like a Minimoog). If not, why not? If your Dell is what I think it is:

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-24 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 17:46 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: I read about this Korg OASYS ... ... Proprietary world is so full of wasted efforts, imho. The 290 employees at KORG is raking in a cool $16,419.7 million in annual sales from their efforts, so they might deviate just slightly from our

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-24 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 14:38 -0500, drew Roberts wrote: Korg is an employee owned company? That would be a conclusion based on false logic. This thinking (and it does have its appeal) is one of the reasons ... ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] [ot] split binary file assembly - gone slightly wrong

2010-01-10 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 23:50 +0100, Julien Claassen wrote: If I canget the other party to split the big chunks into smaller (say 1M) chunks and upload the last 1M chunk of the original files, would there be a way of merging these bits into my files. You have 99% of the file already,

[LAD] New decennium

2009-12-31 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Laia 'K', 'mx44', 'your sadistic dentist' and everybody else up here a 60° north, wishes everybody a happy new year: [Eleectric!] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEgbW1FxR78 ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] mx44...2?

2009-12-27 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:19 +, Peter Nelson wrote: On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 14:24 +0100, Jens M Andreasen wrote: $ locate ia_ora.so /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libia_ora.so Hmm, you seem to have chosen a GTK engine that only exists in the Mandriva world. OK, I've put up a copy

[LAD] Setting fonts in pixels rather than points

2009-12-26 Thread Jens M Andreasen
I am trying to fix the size of my UI to be independent of the selected WM theme. I have a gtkrc (based on the Ia Oya engine) which will do that - except for the font sizes which will vary dependent on how screen resolution is set globally. One work-around I have found is to use a font that has

Re: [LAD] Setting fonts in pixels rather than points

2009-12-26 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 19:53 +0100, Arnold Krille wrote: There is a reason why some people use 9px Times and others use 20pt bold Verdana. [*] And an applications programmer trying to be smarter than the user ends destroying the users experience... It is like this: If the fontsize for the

[LAD] ALSA autoconnect

2009-12-23 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Suppose you wanted a soft-synth to be instantly playable at startup (given the option: '--autoconnect') then what would be the ALSA functions for: 1) Saving the current live connection at exit (if any.) 2) Restoring the above (saved information.) /j

Re: [LAD] ALSA autoconnect

2009-12-23 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 17:34 +0100, Jens M Andreasen wrote: ... then what would be the ALSA functions for: Should be: ... then what would be the ALSA /MIDI/-functions for: ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http

Re: [LAD] mx44...2?

2009-12-23 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Mx44 bumped to version 2 http://web.comhem.se/luna/ New in Mx44.2: Copy/paste of individual oscillators. Choice of temperament (Natural, Mean, Well- and Even tempered.) Optional auto-connect to jackd, optional patch location OSS deleted as well as numerous other bugs, thanks to James Morris

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-12-07 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 20:41 +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: So, 24bit, 48/96kHz is the spec. to aim at? If you happen to sit on a warehouse full of them, otherwise 192kHz is priced the same these days. I've noted some other strange things. Why should a soundcard be running Linux, or any

Re: [LAD] L2Ork story on Slashdot brings up the age-old question whether Linux is ready for serious audio use

2009-12-04 Thread Jens M Andreasen
[Testing if setting the style to Preformat will make long links survive the chain of maillist and -agents] http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/12/03/2018253/Introducing-L2Ork-Worlds-First-Linux-Laptop-Orchestra ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] [LAU] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-25 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 01:24 +, Folderol wrote: It's late, but I can't sleep, so... set sample rate - 44.1, 48, 96, ? (default 48) If anyone can see any obvious holes in this or simplifications please say so. Crystals controlling inexpensive DAC'c and ADC's will be

[LAD] au...@cuda

2009-11-08 Thread Jens M Andreasen
[renamed thread to reflect subject] On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 11:01 +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote: In the meantime, I had a first glance at the new Fermi chips. They support independent kernels, so this would leverage the whole design principle of au...@cuda. Independent kernels will on Fermi run at

Re: [LAD] [semi-OT] midi snakes using CAT5?

2009-11-02 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Slightly related: I am probably not the only person who gets cell-phone signals leaking in all over the place, right? * Says beep-be-deep in speakers. * Moves mouse-pointer around. * Shakes CRT pictures back and forth. The nastiest thyristor-dimmers might be gone by now, but modern cell-phones

Re: [LAD] Regarding amplifying a PCM frame

2009-10-26 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Nothing in the posted code fragment suggests that neither in nor out is remotely related to floats. Where do you get yor in-data from? Why is fbuffer[] a bytearray (if that is what it is?) How was ALSA opened? /j On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 15:05 -0700, Drip Stone wrote: while ( 1 ) {

Re: [LAD] lwn.net write-up of realtime session @ kernel summit 2009

2009-10-22 Thread Jens M Andreasen
So what /should/ then be the new name of the spinlock_t that is actually spinning? My vote is for spinning_spinlock_t, because that is what I say when I try to explain the difference. Implicitly also suggests that normal spinlocks in an RT context aren't really /that/ urgently spinning. /jma

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