Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.6.7 - The Lepton Acid beta release!

2015-05-27 Thread tom
On Wed, May 27, 2015 17:33, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > It's alive! > > Qtractor 0.6.7 (lepton acid beta) is out! > > Maybe this silently makes a notch towards the DAW epitome, though > Qtractor still claims to be just a plain and honest sequencer--with yet > another DAW-like feature addition--the sam

[LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio continued

2015-04-26 Thread tom
Hi, so far splash-screens, keyboard-shortcuts and fader/dials were discussed. We've learned knowing the audience is important. I'd like to bring in a few more aspects that have an (underestimated) impact on usability: -font size to select a sensible default size some information must be assumed,

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-23 Thread tom
On Fri, April 24, 2015 07:58, Thijs van severen wrote: > Op 23-apr.-2015 22:59 schreef "Fons Adriaensen" : >> And in the case I mentioned (flight deck displays and user interfaces) >> were are talking about *specialists* in ergonomics who have conducted a >> not one but a series of studies and expe

Re: [LAD] User eXperience in Linux Audio

2015-04-23 Thread tom
On Thu, April 23, 2015 22:59, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > And in the case I mentioned (flight deck displays and user interfaces) > were are talking about *specialists* in ergonomics who have conducted a not > one but a series of studies and experiments involving a large group of > *expert* users and c

Re: [LAD] AoIP question

2014-10-05 Thread tom
The S/PDIF protocol looks relatively simple (~5 MHZ bit by bit output for SR 44100 needed though). Unfortunately this hack is beyond my skills (if it would work at all). Cheers Tom ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] AoIP question

2014-10-05 Thread tom
On Sun, October 5, 2014 22:51, Len Ovens wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2014, t...@trellis.ch wrote: > > >> Hi, i'm following the thread of the ongoing topics around transmitting >> audio over IP infrastructure. As a scenario, at point a) an analog signal >> is injected that will be played back (analog) at

Re: [LAD] AoIP question

2014-10-05 Thread tom
log signal is injected that will be played back (analog) at point b) with the lowest possible (and constant) latency. How do you intend to handle diverging clocks of the audio interfaces (ADC/DAC) at both (a/b) ends? Greetings Tom ___ Linux-aud

Re: [LAD] Experience driven design and Linux Audio

2014-10-01 Thread tom
steps can be done "just" by developers. Now one could do that again with the next request: "add a button to add a track immediately" :) where UI/UX person will play a greater role. Regards Tom ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] Experience driven design and Linux Audio

2014-09-30 Thread tom
On Tue, September 30, 2014 23:51, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:50 PM, wrote: > > >> . "you know, if you're too stupid to dig our silly >> model of operation you're just not professional". This has to do with >> wrongly understood elitism. >> > > it isn't about being a professional

Re: [LAD] Experience driven design and Linux Audio

2014-09-30 Thread tom
way so quickly. Every other settop box (is it still called that way?:) struggles to provide a good UI, it's getting better though (observe: fonts and widgets get BIGGER). I haven't seen any single case where an improvement of aspects of the user experience were reached by making things small

Re: [LAD] Some questions about the Jack callback

2014-09-21 Thread tom
information on limits for specific setups and JACK "ecosystem" situations independently of client caps. If this this doesn't exist already in some way, making it could help in your case too. Greetings Tom On Fri, September 19, 2014 22:44, Will Godfrey wrote: > Just trying to get a cle

Re: [LAD] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Digital Effects

2014-09-09 Thread tom
On Tue, September 9, 2014 18:59, James Morris wrote: > On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 23:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 21:27 +0200, Lieven Moors wrote: >>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:01:31AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 15:37 +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:

Re: [LAD] Digital Effects

2014-08-22 Thread tom
:) /me likes anecdotes On Fri, August 22, 2014 19:36, Gene Heskett wrote: > And there is nothing that assaults ones ears more than someone who thinks > he has to have a room thumping bass line, sets it so the axe and drums > are about +20 db, then runs it all thru a fast compressor, "ducking" t

Re: [LAD] Digital Effects

2014-08-22 Thread tom
On Fri, August 22, 2014 17:39, Harry van Haaren wrote: > > If the bass player recording with comp & eq also *hears* that, as > opposed to hearing it without compression... then perhaps they'll play > "better" and it'll be easier to mix. > this is an interesting side-aspect indeed that goes beyond

Re: [LAD] Digital Effects

2014-08-22 Thread tom
ently if a mixing person says, "i'm recording the bass with compression and eq, it just makes a better overall mix compared to applying after recording" it can be looked at as rubbish (in the digital domain). Thanks, Tom ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

[LAD] Digital Effects

2014-08-22 Thread tom
Hi, is it correct that the following two scenarios give the exact same result? (digital audio signal) -> (record) -> (playback) -> (apply fx) -> (result) (digital audio signal) -> (apply fx) -> (record) -> (playback) -&g

Re: [LAD] Beta testers required...

2014-07-24 Thread tom
iably (i.e. thight buffer sizes possible since there is almost no drift). If you give it a try i will be interested to hear your feedback. Best, Tom (the audio interfaces drift like this when not synced: http://lowres.ch/misc/20131228_sisco_spdif_drift.ogv. using robin gareus' great sisco scope

Re: [LAD] Beta testers required...

2014-07-24 Thread tom
nning once available for the public. Great initiative, Cheers Tom On Thu, July 24, 2014 10:42, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 01:35:20AM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > > >> I'm curious why you've made a standalone client out of this, rather >> than fixi

Re: [LAD] Announcement: oschema, oscdoc

2014-07-14 Thread tom
On Mon, July 14, 2014 00:41, David Robillard wrote: > On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 15:22 +0200, t...@trellis.ch wrote: > [...] > >>> (enumerated paths being /foo/bar1/ /foo/bar2/ /foo/bar100/) >>> There was some reference to patterns, but at first glance they didn't >>> quite look applicable. >> >> There

Re: [LAD] Announcement: oschema, oscdoc

2014-07-09 Thread tom
applicable. There is currently nothing foreseen to handle that kind of redundancy. Still it's possible to describe such messages. To me it looks like a /foo/bar i would be easier to handle. I wouldn't go so far and say that kind of API (enumerated path') is just not well designed. C

[LAD] Announcement: oschema, oscdoc

2014-07-08 Thread tom
Please let me know when you find anything unclear or missing. Have nice day Tom ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

[LAD] forking

2013-09-21 Thread tom
hi there, i've read the aeolus / fork mails with interest and it seems like an outburst of opinions (which is good!). my view is a bit less of technical nature. i can't judge if code a is better or worse than b, i can only make out a difference in using it. that said, the broad field of users an

Re: [LAD] USB device dmesg error

2013-09-20 Thread tom
Thanks for the hints, i will try to apply the patch series. Best regards, Thomas > t...@trellis.ch wrote: >> -> the "Couldn't open device" looks suspicious > > I guess you are not root. > >> bmAttributes 37 >> Transfer TypeIsochronous >> Synch Typ

[LAD] [Fwd: Re: USB device dmesg error]

2013-09-20 Thread tom
Original Message Subject: Re: [LAD] USB device dmesg error From:t...@trellis.ch Date:Fri, September 20, 2013 15:52 To: "Clemens Ladisch" -- Hei Clemens,

[LAD] USB device dmesg error

2013-09-01 Thread tom
Good morning i'm trying to use a Roland R-26 as audio interface (USB). I saw it is now officially supported in the alsa-driver repo log: commit aa47d6014f7011b335345ce14836efe358b0cfe5 Author: Clemens Ladisch Date: Sun Mar 31 23:43:12 2013 +0200 ALSA: usb-audio: add support for many Rola

Re: [LAD] ANN: convoLV2 0.2

2012-10-21 Thread Tom Szilagyi
On 21 October 2012 12:41, Tom Szilagyi wrote: > > Not really important to the core discussion, JFTR let me point out > that this is not entirely true. There are two "versions" of IR (they > should have been called branches, because that's what they really > are).

Re: [LAD] ANN: convoLV2 0.2

2012-10-21 Thread Tom Szilagyi
On 20 October 2012 19:45, Robin Gareus wrote: > > Tom. I had a look the IR.LV2 code and before setting out on this one and > wanted to patch IR.LV2 but that turned into a rewrite. The three main > reasons for that are > 1) IR.LV2 does buffering to align small block-sizes to an i

Re: [LAD] ANN: convoLV2 0.2

2012-10-20 Thread Tom Szilagyi
onsiderable frustration I had with LV2 while implementing IR. I'm quite happy that LV2 is finally getting there, but I'm afraid that I have lost all appetite for the sight of any LV2 specs so it is very unlikely that I will be implementing any un-kl

[LAD] [ANN] TAP-plugins 0.7.2

2012-07-08 Thread Tom Szilagyi
providing me with an excellent patch. Downloads etc: http://tap-plugins.sf.net Enjoy! Tom ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

Re: [LAD] [LAU] [ANN] IR: LV2 convolution reverb 1.2.2 & 1.3.2

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Szilagyi
On 2 July 2012 19:45, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Tom Szilagyi wrote: >> IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb >> http://factorial.hu/plugins/lv2/ir > > Says "Ardour2 version needs to be recent enough (2.8.11 is not enough, > the fix is schedul

[LAD] [ANN] IR: LV2 convolution reverb 1.2.2 & 1.3.2

2012-07-02 Thread Tom Szilagyi
. Thanks, Tom ___ 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

2011-02-22 Thread Tom Szilagyi
ake use of a relatively powerful remote machine I was using for testing. Security issues are IMO better handled by a separate firewall between you and the internet - in your own LAN, why not enable TCP access? It already saved my butt more than once. Windows doesn't do it - so wh

Re: [LAD] [ANN] IR: version 1.2

2011-01-26 Thread Tom Szilagyi
t want to make sure that *if* IR fails in freewheeling, it will fail in > some obvious way. That would be definitely nice but currently missing. I would say that if there is a problem with jconvolver, IR most probably also has this problem. I tend to listen to what I commit, though, so I bounce

[LAD] [ANN] IR: version 1.2

2011-01-25 Thread Tom Szilagyi
le resampling a long impulse file * correct GTK2 version requirement and check it in the Makefile: at least GTK 2.16 is needed Source code is available from the usual webpage: http://factorial.hu/plugins/lv2/ir I wist to thank everyone who provided me with valuable feed

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

2011-01-14 Thread Tom Szilagyi
from the same location as before: http://factorial.hu/plugins/lv2/ir I would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming feedback, both on- and offlist. Thanks, Tom ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

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

2011-01-14 Thread Tom Szilagyi
you cannot use those (and I guess if you could somehow reverse engineer the impulses into an "open" soundfile format, which would technically allow you to use the impulses in an open source plugin, the EULA of that plugin's license would have a word about it). Tom

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

2011-01-14 Thread Tom Szilagyi
des the required extensions, the plugin should work fine. Tom ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev

[LAD] [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb

2011-01-13 Thread Tom Szilagyi
ic scale, peak & RMS) * Easy interface for fast browsing and loading impulse responses IR should work on Linux with Ardour 2.8.x (x >= 11) and 3. For further info and source code download, please visit the plugin's homepage: http://factorial.hu/plugins/lv2/ir Thanks, Tom [*] Fons Adr

[LAD] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta11 released

2010-02-01 Thread Tom Szilagyi
://aqualung.factorial.hu The Win32 build is up-to-date with the release. The OSX bundle will be updated at a later time. The release changelog is listed below. Enjoy, Tom * * * Aqualung 0.9beta11 http://aqualung.factorial.hu * Add PulseAudio support as contributed by PCMan plus a few minor

[LAD] [ANN] TAP-plugins 0.7.1

2009-08-17 Thread Tom Szilagyi
preparing a patch. TAP-plugins is hosted on SourceForge, please visit: http://tap-plugins.sf.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/tap-plugins/ There is no new functionality in this release. If 0.7.0 works perfectly for you, there is no need to upgrade. Enjoy, Tom

Re: [LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - update

2009-08-10 Thread Tom Szilagyi
the virality of the GPL applies. However if the user initiates loading a plugin then it should not enforce any restriction on the host ("taint" it). I believe our case is an example of the former case. Even so since on their website BeanKangz brags abo

[LAD] Line Array with AMBDec or WFSfocus

2009-05-24 Thread Tom Brooke
. I plan to have a stereo pair of 8 woofer tweeter combinations per side Does anyone know if WFsfocus is available or suggestions for adopting ambdec. Or if this is even feasable Tom Brooke ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev

[LAD] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta10 released

2009-02-08 Thread Tom Szilagyi
geLog below for the highlights of this release. As usual, the platform independent source tarball and the self-extracting installer for Microsoft Windows, as well as up-to-date documentation is immediately available from the project website: http://aqualung.factorial.hu Thanks, Tom 2009-02-08

[LAD] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta9.1 released

2008-02-10 Thread Tom Szilagyi
streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks. The ChangeLog is included below. Please note that our website has moved to http://aqualung.factorial.hu Please update your links and bookmarks. Enjoy, Tom 2008

[LAD] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta9 released

2007-12-19 Thread Tom Szilagyi
: http://aqualung.sf.net Enjoy, Tom 2007-12-19 Tom Szilagyi * Aqualung 0.9beta9 http://aqualung.sf.net This is a major release bringing significant new functionality and many important fixes. All users are encouraged to upgrade. As always, the up-to-date User Manual is available at

[LAD] Atom syndication format for Podcast audio?

2007-08-31 Thread Tom Szilagyi
in RSS. So, can anyone provide some popular (or not) feeds that use the Atom syndication format? Thanks, Tom [1] http://aqualung.sf.net ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman

[LAD] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta8 released

2007-07-07 Thread Tom Szilagyi
playlists, also containing several smaller improvements and important bugfixes. The ChangeLog for this release is listed below. Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net Enjoy, Tom 2007-07-07 Tom Szilagyi * Aqualung 0.9beta8 http://aqualung.sf.net This is a major release bringing significant new