Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-26 Thread john lewis
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:19:02 +0100 Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:49 +0100, Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: I have a couple of M-Audio midi keyboards and a Roland digital piano, All work out of the box with Linux, via USB-midi. The research I did when buying

[Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Sean Gibbins
Morning All! This is an interesting issue that has recently reared its ugly head again in a slightly different form. Originally it manifested on my Toshiba NB200 running Xubuntu 11.04 through to 12.04 (and may have been present with Puppy LInux on the same hardware - I can't remember if

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Nigel Long
I have had almost exactly the same problem with my recording setup. I got a background whine when using my Toshiba 650 laptop on mains but much less on my Dell D600. Both connect through a Behringer 202 DAC to my amplifier and turntable. The problem manifests in both Linux Mint (now running

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Vic
When the NB200 was connected to the mains via its charger a very audible high-pitched whine would be introduced to the recording. However, by doing the recording on battery power and the whine disappeared. At the time I put it down to a badly shielded PSU made do with the workaround. That's

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Mon, Jun 25 at 08:30, Sean Gibbins wrote: ... When the NB200 was connected to the mains via its charger a very audible high-pitched whine would be introduced to the recording. However, by doing the recording on battery power and the whine disappeared. At the time I put it down to a

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Gordon Scott
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:11 +0100, john lewis wrote: My wife was recently given a Toshiba Keyboard EZ-200 that has no built-in recording facility. Only outputs are headphone and midi. Is it possible to link this keyboard to a PC so she could record any mind-blowing compositions she might

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread john lewis
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:30:14 +0100 Sean Gibbins s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote: Originally it manifested on my Toshiba NB200 running Xubuntu 11.04 through to 12.04 (and may have been present with Puppy LInux on the same hardware - I can't remember if that was the case now, but suspect it

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Mike Dwerryhouse
On 06/25/2012 03:31 PM, Gordon Scott wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 15:11 +0100, john lewis wrote: My wife was recently given a Toshiba Keyboard EZ-200 that has no built-in recording facility. Only outputs are headphone and midi. Is it possible to link this keyboard to a PC so she could record

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Gordon Scott
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:49 +0100, Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: I have a couple of M-Audio midi keyboards and a Roland digital piano, All work out of the box with Linux, via USB-midi. The research I did when buying these suggested that most midi keyboards are class compliant and work with Linux. I

Re: [Hampshire] Xubuntu 12.04/Mac OS X 10.6.8 sound issue

2012-06-25 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 25/06/12 08:57, Bob Dunlop wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jun 25 at 08:30, Sean Gibbins wrote: ... When the NB200 was connected to the mains via its charger a very audible high-pitched whine would be introduced to the recording. However, by doing the recording on battery power and the whine