[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] New releases

2007-03-31 Thread Fons Adriaensen
New releases and updates at http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio Aliki-0.0.3 Impulse response measurement. - Many bug fixes, should be a bit more stable now... - Added flexible export options. - Manual updated. Jace-0.0.4Low-weight convolution engine for JACK and ALSA. - Now

Re: [linux-audio-dev] promoting LAC 2007

2007-03-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:17:16PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Maybe one day there will be a Linux version of Live, but it's not something I particularily look forward to, as I wouldn't use it anyways unless it gets opensource'd. There are probably many of us thinking the same way. But

Re: [linux-audio-dev] promoting LAC 2007

2007-03-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:27:11PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Linux didn't stay an amateuer platform in other areas, why should free software not be professionally used in the audio world as well? There is no good reason why free software shouldn't be used, but not everything required in

Re: [linux-audio-dev] 2-channel stereo compatible ambisonics...

2007-03-15 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:00:46PM +0100, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: unless i'm very much mistaken, UHJ-encoded material can be played back on any stereo rig without problems (some even report better stereo width and precision). Correct. the only drawback i heard about is that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:16:46AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: With binary drivers kernel debugging requires the cooperation of the vendor in the best case, and lots of guesswork and reverse engineering in the worst case. I'd say _driver_ debugging requires the cooperation of the vendor. You can

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:32:14PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: I think most of the people on this list know these kind of issues. And I totally agree that this is an argument to avoid using binary drivers, but it's definitely NOT a sufficient argument to completely reject a BDI. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Getting out of the software game

2007-03-14 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:26:35PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: The interface does not change that fast. Indeed it doesn't, and that is quite normal - after so many years it should be quite clear to both kernel and driver developers what constitutes a good interface. One more reason to define and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LFO Phaser LADSPA plugin in details

2007-03-11 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:53:28AM +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Will anybody find a minute ot two to explain me how does the plugin work - I mean a user POV rather technical realization details. (Assuming you mean my plugin from the MCP package) This is an emulation of an analog phase delay

[linux-audio-dev] new releases

2007-03-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
New releases of JAAA and JAPA and the libraries they depend on are now available at http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/downloads jaaa-0.4.1: bugfixes. japa-0.2.0: bugfixes, white and pink noise generators now built-in. clalsadrv-1.2.1: bugfixes. This version should now work correctly

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio Conference 2007 - program online!

2007-02-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hi Stefano, I still don't know if I can get there... I got really disappointed to see that there's no easy way to get to Berlin via train from Turin, I'm considering bus, and I need someone else to come with me too... :-( You could try to get in contact with Daniele Torelli [EMAIL

Re: [linux-audio-dev] 2007..

2007-01-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:10:54PM +0100, Alberto Botti wrote: Il giorno dom, 31/12/2006 alle 02.25 +0100, Christoph Eckert ha scritto: Congrats for the new job! Hope you'll enjoy yourself in Italy. :) See you in Berlin. of even better in Italy - will there be a LAD-party?!? Why

[linux-audio-dev] 2007..

2006-12-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, First of all, my best wishes for 2007 to all Linux Audio Developers ! 2007 will be a special year for me. As some of you already know, I said goodbey at Alcatel Space two months ago, and starting 8 Jan 2007 I'll be working at LAE - Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica -

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Laptop mic-input sound quality.

2006-12-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:05:37PM -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: Because PCMCIA != internal soundcard (even if it is physically inserted into the laptop's body). Namely, it is enclosed in its own metal casing, not to mention PCMCIA enclosure both of which allow for a much better R/F shielding

[linux-audio-dev] Website moving - please update your links

2006-12-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, Since I'm preparing to move abroad, I've transferred my website to a host that's independent of my local ISP. The new site is www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio 'Kokkini Zita' means 'red zeta' - the Greek letter, and all the 'i' are pronounced as English 'ee', not 'y'. It's also my

[linux-audio-dev] Yet Another Scrolling Scope

2006-11-22 Thread Fons Adriaensen
A first release of Yass is now avaiable at users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio. Yass is a 'scrolling scope' jack client. It has been hanging around in prototype form for some time. This is a first beta release. Main features: - up to 32 channels, - variable scrolling speed, -

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Yet Another Scrolling Scope

2006-11-22 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:14:11PM +0100, Dominic Sacré wrote: Got one problem though: high CPU load (I'm not kidding). At small window sizes everything's fine, but when it exceeds a certain size (a little less than fullscreen on my machine), CPU load immediately goes up from ~5% to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back (was Re: alsa, oss , efficiency?)

2006-11-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:20:42AM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: The current jackd skips a step in the processing of the poll events. Looking at the code it seems already quite elaborate. Basically what happens comes down to (ignoring error checking and timeouts): - The set of pollfd is

[linux-audio-dev] snd_pcm_poll_descriptors_revents() question

2006-11-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 02:24:30PM +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Is snd_pcm_poll_descriptors_revents() more than an accessor ? If it is, the name is a quite misleading. To answer my own question, it seems that it *is* more than an accessor. The docs leave one thing unclear. Does this call

Re: [linux-audio-dev] snd_pcm_poll_descriptors_revents() question

2006-11-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:58:40PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: In that case, how can one test if *all* pollfd for a given pcm are ready ? You cannot. The state of the file descriptors is not necessarily related to the state of the PCM device (which is why this function exists). OK,

Re: [Jackit-devel] [linux-audio-dev] Re: Multiplexing 4 channels on SPDIF

2006-11-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:30:53PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 18:52 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: The real question is how to fit this into the existing architecture: - hardware presents itself as 2 * 96 kHz - user wants to see a device with 4 * 48 kHz

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back

2006-11-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:39:18PM +, Simon Jenkins wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 08:53 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: [...] I'd say that the essential feature of JACK is not that it is a callback based system, but that it presents and expects audio data in fixed size blocks

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back

2006-11-02 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:37:13PM +1100, Loki Davison wrote: On 11/3/06, Jens M Andreasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:42 +1100, Loki Davison wrote: mmm. I think they are missing the point about ALSA vs OSS api here. It doesn't matter. The only one who should care

[linux-audio-dev] Alpha release of Aliki

2006-11-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
For the brave: an alpha release of Aliki (Room Impulse Response Measurement) is now available on: http://users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio along with a manual that should get you started. This is basically the code used at the LAC2006 workshop, cleaned up a but. As said, ALPHA, incomplete,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Alpha release of Aliki

2006-11-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:48:37AM -0600, Ben Loftis wrote: Can you please tell us more about Aliki? I am using Denis Sbragion's DRC program to generate an impulse response file, and his suite of graphing tools to generate various views of the measurement. What is the output of Aliki?

Re: [Jackit-devel] [linux-audio-dev] Re: Multiplexing 4 channels on SPDIF

2006-10-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:41:36AM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 17:35 +0100, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: What they want to do is trick hardware 2-ch recorders into accepting the 4-ch signal. So what is in reality 4 channels at 48 kHz will be presented as 2 channels at 96

Re: [Jackit-devel] [linux-audio-dev] Re: Multiplexing 4 channels on SPDIF

2006-10-30 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:55:33PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 18:52 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: - hardware presents itself as 2 * 96 kHz - user wants to see a device with 4 * 48 kHz. interestingly, ADAT devices do the opposite to get to SR's above 48kHZ

[linux-audio-dev] Multiplexing 4 channels on SPDIF

2006-10-29 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, Core Sound http://www.core-sound.com/default.php willsoon be offering a tetrahedral (Ambisonic) microphone at a very reasonable price. They are also working on a combined preamp + AD converter unit for this mic. This will be able to multiplex the 4 channels over a single SPDIF link, by

Re: [linux-audio-dev] best option for audiovisual synchrony

2006-10-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:51:09PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: The tricky bit is of course getting a flash that's totally synchronous with the beep. Absolute synchrony is not achievable without dedicated hardware, but we need to get an approximation that's within the few ms range. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] best option for audiovisual synchrony

2006-10-20 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:44:48PM +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: Back in the 80s, the humble Commodore 64 could be readily programmed to fire an interrupt on vertical sync. Have 20 years of progress really deprived us of this fine feature, or is it just missing from X? Same on the humble BBC

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Paper on dynamic range compression

2006-10-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:50:39PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: ... Its very easy to get carried away with trying to reach some sort of audio perfection. Things like upsampling in order to apply compression is over-engineering. I'd agree. This is a non-problem for a well-designed and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Paper on dynamic range compression

2006-10-18 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:14:45PM +0100, John Rigg wrote: The fact remains that a lot of high end professional users consider many of the free software plugins to be nearly unusable (see Ben Loftis' earlier post in this thread). This isn't intended as a criticism of the developers, just an

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Paper on dynamic range compression

2006-10-17 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:48:35PM +0100, Dan Mills wrote: The gain control signal has energy right the way out to the band limit (and probably aliased around it), never mind what happens when that hits the multiplier! The question is: how much of this HF energy is there ? There shouldn't be

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Paper on dynamic range compression

2006-10-17 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:59:10AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 11:56 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: 'THE SAMPLES ARE NOT THE SIGNAL'. The real peak level of a signal when converted to the analog domain can be several dB above that of the highest sample. indeed

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Paper on dynamic range compression

2006-10-17 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:50:04PM +0200, David Olofson wrote: On Tuesday 17 October 2006 16:43, Fons Adriaensen wrote: It could be. OTOH, most DACs today would upsample and filter before the real conversion takes place, and could allow for this. But maybe they don't, and just clip

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Paper on dynamic range compression

2006-10-05 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:12:20PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: The SC* plugins do the same as TAP (calculate the gain every 4 samples), but I interpolate the gain values between each computation. The attch/deacay times were slow enough in my testing that it was OK to do that. It should be OK

Re: [linux-audio-dev] I'd like my brain back (idiot developer)

2006-08-31 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:13:52AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Looking at the subject line prompts me to ask if you have it (your brain) backed up on tape somewhere? Most of us have claimed that at one point or another... To help Paul find back his brain, we should all burn candles, chant

Re: [linux-audio-dev] job offer... [Fwd: Algorithm Development Manager (Full-Time)]

2006-08-25 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:06:16AM +0200, David Olofson wrote: What really annoys me about these is that they're usually written to give the impression of a personal message from someone who would know what you're doing and what kind of social network you have. Sometimes you can't really

[linux-audio-dev] Kokkini Zita

2006-08-23 Thread Fons Adriaensen
(Since this was rejected on LAA ('no reason given'), I'll answer the question here.) On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:20:36PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: What do Kokini Zita words mean? I have thought, Fons Adriaensen is the author of the listed apps :-) It should be Kokkini (with 2 k's

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Akai's MPC4000 Sampler/Workstation Open Source Project

2006-07-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:46:27PM +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote: There are public-domain RTOSes available that are suitable for this task. To those, you can add drivers for USB and FAT32. Without an RTOS to give you hard real-time scheduling, you have no chance to achieve the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] light C++ set for WAV

2006-07-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:58:32AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Yes, that was my idea. So if the sndfile.hh has: class Sndile { int method (/* params */) ; } int method (/* params */) { /* whatever */ } do I need to add an inline

[linux-audio-dev] Improved decoder plugins for Linux

2006-07-17 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, I just updated the small set of Ambisionics related LADSPA plugins available at users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio. The three decoders now feature optional phase aligned shelf filters and independent control for LF and HF gain of the velocity components (from in-phase over max rE to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] light C++ set for WAV

2006-07-13 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:56:58PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: I mean some minimal C++ class set like: WavFile, WavHeader, WavFrame with few apparent methods (open/close, read/write frame(s)). Libsndsfile is plain C, but will do what you want without any fuss. You could write a WAV

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Converting a 24bit sample to 16bit

2006-07-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:34:44PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Is there a standard way of converting a 24bit sample to 16bit? I ask because I think that in different scenarios, one would want a different result. 1) scale a 24bit value to a 16bit by simple multiplication by a fraction.

[linux-audio-dev] [OT] No-one was ever fired for having hired FA

2006-07-03 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, I finally took the big step and handed in my resignation at my employer, Alcatel Alenia Space. After 3 years of CAD, 3 years of real-time kernels, and 11 years in space telecoms, I want to return to my first love which is audio, acoustics, and music. My activities in LAD have

Re: [linux-audio-dev] fst, VST 2.0, kontakt

2006-07-02 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:49:54AM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: To me your behaviour of accusing Dave of plain lying is not acceptable. You seem to implicate dishonesty. I someone states as a fact and without any qualification a certain interpretation of a text, while knowing very well that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Envelopes

2006-07-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:22:16AM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: Linear attack sounds OK. Given the exponential way we perceive volume, this *is* the desired function. That's the rationale for having exponential volume controls. In the case of a release profile, it's rather because many real

Re: [linux-audio-dev] fst, VST 2.0, kontakt

2006-07-01 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:09:42PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: Whether or not you agree with the licensing practise, calling it open source is as misleading as calling MS shared source open source. Defend the license/exception if you want, but don't intentionally mislead people about the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: LADSPA Extension for Extra GUI Data

2006-06-25 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 06:57:47PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: I agree that describing it as volts is a bit odd, but it instantly makes people like me feel at home. There's not reason why a digital modular neds units for its modulation sources. It's just real numbers. I never mentioned

Re: [linux-audio-dev] IR FFT smoothing

2006-06-24 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:15:38PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: And the question is: what is common way to smooth the result? Some offtopic apps has something like 1/24, ..., 1/3 octave smoothing. What does it mean? Lowpass (linear phase) filtering of the response. Or windowing the IR which

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: LADSPA Extension for Extra GUI Data

2006-06-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:49:14PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:15 +0200, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: All of them fake. Fake like the countless bug reports I get about your filter plugins not working because they take some silly arbitrary unit instead of Hz for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Extension for Extra GUI Data

2006-06-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:34:05PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: FWIW, I think the not changing any code thing is a blind, someone, somewhere has to change some code if you want new behaviour*. To me the critical thing is not that, but that a display function or whatever only solves half the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Extension for Extra GUI Data

2006-06-19 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:25:52PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:58:43PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: What worries me is that LV2 is *not* going to solve the problem that DR raised w.r.t. my Moog filter plugins. This particualr one I'm not worried about, as it's

Re: [linux-audio-dev] realtimeness: pthread_cond_signal vs. pipe write

2006-06-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:49:38AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: nice to hear that they are faster. on the other hand, once again POSIX screws us all over by not integrating everything into a single blocking wait call. i've said it before, i'll say it again - this is one of the few things that the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] realtimeness: pthread_cond_signal vs. pipe write

2006-06-07 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:42:26PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: But, from the original post it seems that pthread_cond_signal is not realtime safe as it locks a mutex: ... How can glibc guarantee that we are not put to sleep if there is contention? The mutex associated with a CV is held only

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LV2 library API

2006-05-30 Thread fons adriaensen
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:07:15PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:43:57AM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: char* type = lv2_port_get_type(someplug, 0); if (!strcmp(type, LV2_DATATYPE_FLOAT)) /* ... */ free(type); Makes sense to me. You could make the API

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LV2 library API

2006-05-30 Thread fons adriaensen
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:10:38PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: I'd consider any interface that just returns a constant and requires a malloc() and a free() to do it plain broken. This data doesn't live in kernel space, or does it ? You could just return a const char *. It's not a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LV2 library API

2006-05-30 Thread fons adriaensen
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:48:35PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: The function we're talking about pulls this info directly from the data file (not eg from a loaded Port object which would have a const type string). The library doesn't load all the stuff from the file into memory (in which

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: LAC-Konzertreport auf SWR2 15.5. 23h (German only)

2006-05-15 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:31:00PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: recording... :) . + oggenc + ftp + mail LAD ??? :-) :-) :-) -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] New release of Aeolus, updates

2006-05-13 Thread fons adriaensen
Hello all, The long announced new release of Aeolus is finally available. Version 0.6.6 is almost a complete rewrite of the previous official release, 0.3.1 (a lot happened in bewteen). This should still be considered a beta release - no doubt some nasty bugs will be uncovered when this version

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA2: logarithmic hint

2006-05-02 Thread fons adriaensen
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:15:20PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: saying that the port range is exponential doesn't pin it down very much. it still requires the host to make decisions about precisely what kind of exponential curve to use for the range, and it may get it wrong. It does pin it down

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA2: logarithmic hint

2006-05-02 Thread fons adriaensen
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:21:44PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: this goes from 0Hz to fs/2Hz, and I want it to be logarithmic, That's a contradiction. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA 2

2006-04-22 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 02:26:57PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Distribution / finding plugins: Stability: Control/audio rate: Port grouping: Port Roles: Referencing: Hints: Presets: Help / Discription: MIDI/OSC GUI lib: To which I'd add: Polyphony/Multiple channels: Plugin

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA 2

2006-04-22 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:01:26PM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: ... support for polyphony (you can run several plugin instances as a polyphony group with a single call to run_multiple() which lets you do common calculations once). That's not the point. Even in that case each plugin instance

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] First trip to Europe

2006-04-19 Thread fons adriaensen
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:39:01PM +0400, Dmitry Baikov wrote: Moscow St.Petersurg -- Helsinki Stockholm Berlin Koeln Brussels London Paris Bourdeaux Madrid Barcelona,Figeras Genova Milan? Rome Venice Vienna Prague -- Moscow If you'd come to Antwerp (45 km from Brussels and

[linux-audio-dev] Ladspa rdf

2006-04-19 Thread fons adriaensen
A maybe silly question: where on a typical system are the rdf descriptions of ladspa plugins supposed to live ? I can't find them ! -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!

[linux-audio-dev] New release of AMB plugins

2006-04-14 Thread fons adriaensen
A second release of the Ambisonics plugins is now available. * Added cube (8-speaker) decoder. * Removed conflicting port hints. http://users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!

Re: [linux-audio-dev] multiface latency question

2006-04-12 Thread fons adriaensen
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:45:42PM +0200, Esben Stien wrote: Actually, it varies between 206.765 and 206.766 That's about 20 nanoseconds difference, or less than the delay of 10 meters of cable... -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Measuring playback and capture quality.

2006-04-08 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:17:14PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hi, Are there any linux tools out there that will sample the line in, and display a detailed spectrum scope of the detected sound? E.g. http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/ct462048/SNR_LB_FS.gif Eventually I wish to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Measuring playback and capture quality.

2006-04-08 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:09:49PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Neither of those applications work. I have ardour working fine with stereo in/stereo out. jaaa -J seems to talk to jack, but does not capture or play any sound. jaaa -A fails to even open the alsa device. Have these

Re: [linux-audio-dev] multiface latency question

2006-04-06 Thread fons adriaensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:28:32PM +0200, Jan Weil wrote: 206.805 This is a Thinkpad T43 with an unpatched 2.6.16 with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, jackd 0.100.7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now what does that value tell me? These are samples, I suppose, i. e. 4.308 msec? Yep, it's samples. Fons, how do

Re: [linux-audio-dev] multiface latency question

2006-04-06 Thread fons adriaensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:57:28PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 20:52 +0200, fons adriaensen wrote: Have you been able to use -p 64 with 2.6.16 on the Thinkpad with ACPI ? I had no problems with it on my R51 when using 2.6.8 (SuSE 9.2), but since 2.6.13 (SuSE 10.0) I have

Re: Fwd: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA processing: ams, om, ... Anything else?

2006-03-18 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:02:40PM -0300, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto wrote: My /etc/hosts was like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I changed it to: 127.0.0.1 bach bach And it all worked. I found the solution in the hexter homepage, at the

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] netjack-0.9rc1

2006-03-13 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:21:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:50:26PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: Why do you use big-endian on the wire, requiring a double swap for x86 - x86? Wouldn't LE make more sense, especially as PPC Macs become unavailable? well i

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] netjack-0.9rc1

2006-03-13 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:25:04PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:10 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote: Is it true on the common platforms that using ntohl and htonl on floats will always result in compatible data on the wire or in a file ? In other words, are floats byte

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] netjack-0.9rc1

2006-03-13 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:59:15PM +0100, stefan kersten wrote: as paul stated, network byte order is defined to be big-endian, so yes, you have to convert 32 bit floats (and doubles, for that matter) on intel, because they are stored lsb first. of course it would be perfectly valid for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Karlsruhe

2006-03-04 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: Where can I find a decent map of Germany? The whole country is blank on Google Maps... Try http://www.de.map24.com/ -- FA

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Which widgets?

2006-02-26 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:16:17AM +0200, Jussi Laako wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 20:38 +0100, Albert Graef wrote: Canvases give you much more than just rendering. They also manage the graphical objects that you created and, if anything changes, rerendering the changed parts happens

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-20 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:01:10PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By this logic, locking my doors is immoral because it diminishes people's freedom to roam around my house. Those people have not paid for access to your house. Purchasers of proprietary

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-20 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:41:43PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: They have paid for a license to use it, and for nothing else. Well, then they might have some expectation to be able to use it, no? Without the ability to adapt the software to different devices or applications, or fix errors

Re: [linux-audio-dev] dmix and jack

2006-01-30 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 08:05:42PM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: It is due to the fact that the alsa programming in jackd has been implemented wrongly. The poll revents are not handled correctly. This results is OK operation when using hw:0,0, but likely to fail for more exotic alsa

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Additional chunks in WAV files with libsndfile ?

2006-01-23 Thread fons adriaensen
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:02:23AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: fons adriaensen wrote: What I need in particular is some way to calibrate the time axis - i.e. to say frame #N corresponds to t = 0, and some other similar info, mostly sample indices. There is no existing chunk type

[linux-audio-dev] Additional chunks in WAV files with libsndfile ?

2006-01-21 Thread fons adriaensen
Hi all, is there a recommended way to write / read additional chunks in WAV files, using libsndfile (assuming it's possible at all - I didn't find any hints to this in the docs) ? What I need in particular is some way to calibrate the time axis - i.e. to say frame #N corresponds to t = 0, and

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] First (alpha) release of JACE

2006-01-11 Thread fons adriaensen
JACE is a Convolution Engine for JACK and ALSA, using FFT-based partitioned convolution with uniform partition sizes. I wrote it mainly as a 'proof of concept' for something more complicated, to be announced at the next LAC. But it could be useful as it is, hence this release. Main features: -

Re: [linux-audio-dev] VST compiled for linux / gui message loop

2006-01-07 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:45:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why dont you open a separate display connection for the plugin ? then you can even move the gui updates to a different thread and there you go... look into gtkplug.c and gtksocket.c on how this works. Does X allow multiple

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Interaction bug between zynaddsubfx and muse.

2006-01-01 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 06:42:02PM +0100, Robert Jonsson wrote: Indeed, there are several issues at work here... In anycase, MusE has from 0.7.2pre2 a fix that enables synths with identical names to be used. Also, in the case with ZynAdd, another option is to use only one instance. ZynAdd

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio/Midi system - RT prios..

2005-12-31 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:03:06AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 00:04 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote: 1. If things have to be timed accurately, it seem logical to concentrate this activity at one point. At least then the timing will be consistent, you can impose priority

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio/Midi system - RT prios..

2005-12-30 Thread fons adriaensen
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 11:54:56AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: you don't know the correct priority to use. i imagine an api along the lines of: jack_create_thread (pthread_t*, void* (thread_function)(void*), void* arg, int relative_to_jack); the last

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio/Midi system - RT prios..

2005-12-30 Thread fons adriaensen
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:10:44PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 22:27 +0100, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 17:37, Werner Schweer wrote: The ALSA seq api is from ancient time were no realtime threads were available in linux. Only a kernel

Re: [linux-audio-dev] db gain controls.

2005-12-22 Thread fons adriaensen
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:37:31AM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I have a question for some audio professionals out there. What is the smallest sensible gain control step in dB. Is it 0.5dB ? I am asking, because if one is using a digital gain control in a 24bit fixed point DSP, once

Re: [linux-audio-dev] High-order Ambisonic coder/decoder in JACK/LDASPA?

2005-12-15 Thread fons adriaensen
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:56:04PM +0100, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: Some colleauges of mine do need a tool for coding and decoding of high-order Ambisonic for their research. They are aiming for seventh order, played back over sixteen loudspeakers. They are now planning to implement this, using

Re: [linux-audio-dev] High-order Ambisonic coder/decoder in JACK/LDASPA?

2005-12-15 Thread fons adriaensen
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:04:28PM +0100, Georg Holzmann wrote: Regardless of the JACK / LADSPA question, seventh order Ambisonics using 16 speakers is just ridiculous. Either it's horizontal only, and in that case using 7th order is just a waste of resources and effort (3th order will do all

Re: [linux-audio-dev] xruns

2005-11-20 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:29:37AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: however, this is not necessarily the right approach to handling xruns. its worth trying. a better start is to check if the xruns go away or occur less frequently with a larger buffer size. USB cards often work a lot better (allow

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Mixer controls

2005-11-06 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:59:57AM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: My question is really what should I do when the gain_multiplier is 0.0 Do I: a) Limit the range of the gain control to 0dB to -40 dB and have a separate Mute control. b) When the gain control has a gain_multiplier of

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Mixer controls

2005-11-06 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:21:30PM +, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: The problem I have is what should I display for the 0.0 gain_multiplier setting. I.e. When it effectively mutes the sound output at it's minimal slider setting. Off ??? -- FA

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Radio receiver.

2005-11-05 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:23:05PM +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: Thanks for the tip on diversity reception. Yes, I got the idea from astronomer's systems. Normally 'diversity reception' means to combine the signals from 2 or more receivers to obtain a result that has a better S/N ratio (or

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Radio receiver.

2005-11-01 Thread fons adriaensen
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:24:58PM +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: How about a software which can combine the outputs coming from two receivers tuned to the same station? ... Strange, I recently read a recent (2000+) paper. They praised (like having a patent on them) two innovations: (1) an

Re: [linux-audio-dev] jack_callback - rest of the world

2005-10-30 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:53:48PM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: Oh i thought i read somewhere that when pthread_cond_wait it is not guaranteed that anyone actually signalled. Will do some more reading. It can return on unix signals, so you have to test for EINTR. I don't think it will wake up

Re: [linux-audio-dev] jack_callback - rest of the world

2005-10-30 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:44:45AM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: Btw: i just discovered that pthread mutexes and condvars can have a process shared flag which makes it possiblo to synchronize threads across processes as it seems. Could be useful for jack, no? pthread_condvar_setpshared()

Re: [linux-audio-dev] applying RIAA curves in software

2005-10-29 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 03:10:50PM +0300, Jussi Laako wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 02:41 +0200, fons adriaensen wrote: Filter 1: F = 50 Hz, A = 9 Filter 2: F = 2120 Hz, A = 1 and add the two outputs. From quality point of view, at least I would recommend using IIR filters

Re: [linux-audio-dev] applying RIAA curves in software

2005-10-29 Thread fons adriaensen
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 03:10:50PM +0300, Jussi Laako wrote: From quality point of view, at least I would recommend using IIR filters for this... Please ignore my previous post - I misread 'FIR' where you wrote 'IIR', and that explains it all... -- FA

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