Re: [LAD] [OT] LinuxSampler and GPL - some clarifications

2008-01-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 January 2008, Marek wrote: On Jan 27, 2008 10:56 PM, Forest Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:23:21PM +0100, Marek wrote: On Jan 27, 2008 9:40 PM, Forest Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 08:14:29PM +0100, Marek wrote: If so then

Re: [LAD] [ot] how to produce ^m ?

2008-07-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Julien Claassen wrote: Hi! Does anyone know which character exactly ^m is and how I can reproduce it as a character in my program code. Unfortunitely I get it from the outside and have to deal with it. Kindest regards Julien That is the usual

Re: [LAD] OT: alternative fuel for cars [was: Re : Car engine sound emulation for future electic cars . ideas ?]

2008-08-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:24:05PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Exploding/burning water has been done and it is definitely absolutely possible. If after watching the videos you still think it is impossible that so many people from different

Re: [LAD] [OT] vector drawing software

2008-08-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 08 August 2008, Emanuel Rumpf wrote: 2008/8/7 Thorsten Wilms [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, for precise geometrical shapes, Blender is the wrong tool. It can be done to some degree, but it is just painful compared to a decent CAD tool. Here's a comunity, that tries to extend Blender for

Re: [LAD] Wireless Electricity vs audio quality

2008-08-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 August 2008, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 11:32 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: I have doubt about the effect it will have on electrical equipment due to static RF as we are not dealing with rf signals in this case. Electrical equipment is not only sensible to the

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Robin Gareus wrote: As a member, contributor and advocate for Linux Audio for the past 10 years I am also interested in discussing the above issues with other members of the list as I think there is a lot to be learned and possibly advanced.

Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

2008-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 29 September 2008, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sun, 28.09.08 09:38, Paul Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Also, I guess it depends on how you upgrade, because my workstation is 8.04, which is upgraded every year or so for 2 years and a half now, and I don't have pulseaudio. One of

Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

2008-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 29.09.08 14:32, Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As Lennart tried to make reasonably clear, the primary goal of PulseAudio is NOT to act as a new API, but to act as a new *infrastructure* that supports existing APIs

Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

2008-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Gene Heskett: Probably, and at about the same pace as NM moves, which is glacial. Dumbassed typo's fixing takes a year to make it from patch submission to distro included. That, when it effects 90% of the users, should be a week. Max

Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

2008-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 30.09.08 11:28, Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I believe (no docs to confirm or deny this) it also is hard coded to pick the first device it finds as the default output device. Since I relegated the mobo's el simple

Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

2008-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 30.09.08 11:19, Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: we're battling with M$, a generally futile endeavor, and that is gonna lead to a lot of profanity name calling. This is after all, linux, where choice is a talking point

Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

2008-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Lennart Poettering: On Tue, 30.09.08 11:28, Gene Heskett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You can move any active stream on-the-fly to a different device. Just right-click on it in pavucontrol. PA will then remember for later. Also, you

Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

2008-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, victor wrote: Gosh, I hope I have enough gusto to be re-building computers when I get there (if I do), never mind programming in C (will it still exist?). Impressive. Victor Well, I did it yesterday, read it and get jealous: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmesg|grep Bogo [

[LAD] Audio vs ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo

2008-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Up2date reinstall of the latest FU8 respin. The various audio devices found by an lspci -vv on this mobo are: == 00:06.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81f6 Control: I/O- Mem+

Re: [LAD] ASUS mobo NEW thread - started OT for another tread

2008-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Ralf Mardorf wrote: In reply to Subject: Re: [LAD] Audio vs ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe mobo Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:55:17 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Organization: To:Ralf Mardorf CC:linux-audio-dev lists.linuxaudio.org References:200811290046.51317

Re: [LAD] ASUS mobo NEW thread - started OT for another tread

2008-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Thomas Kuther wrote: I have similar problems with MIDI things on 2.6.26.6-rt with my Envy24 based card. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.audio.users/51411/match=jackd+vs The kernel was guilty. Yes, it's well known, that kernel ex 2.6.26

Re: [LAD] ASUS mobo NEW thread - started OT for another tread

2008-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 November 2008, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: device: default can't be opened for playback (Connection refused) Hi, I'm short in time and couldn't read the last two mails and I can't read this mail too right now, but to your question which the debvice: default is, it's hw

Re: [LAD] [ot] - NEED some security advise PLEASE! + new question

2009-02-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 15 February 2009, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:39:09AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: ... And if it's a public server, I'd rather not have anybody logging in through ssh who is not capable of dealing with key logins. I disabled password logins through ssh on my

[LAD] qjackd Q

2009-03-27 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have used the kde audio prefs to place Jack at the top of the priority list, my audigy 2 stuffs next, with esd and pulse at the bottom. Everything seemed to work ok, but I noticed last night after I had watched some news on cnn with firefox-3.0.7, that qjackd was using an

Re: [LAD] qjackd goes funkity

2009-03-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 March 2009, MarcO'Chapeau wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:44:25 -0400, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Greetings all; Hi there, 1: I installed the jack suite about a week ago, recommended by a friend and I've had it grab core0 of my quad core phenom and loop at 100

Re: [LAD] qjackd goes funkity

2009-03-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 March 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 30 March 2009, MarcO'Chapeau wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:44:25 -0400, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: Greetings all; Hi there, 1: I installed the jack suite about a week ago, recommended by a friend and I've had it grab

[LAD] Building 'rhumba box', need square inches of ports data.

2009-04-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I'm building a rhumba box not exactly like anything I've been able to google up on the net. But I saw one a week ago that I thought worked very well as an acoustic standup bass substitute when it was close miked. My boxes panels are 5.2mm birch plywood, with double rabbeted cherry

[LAD] Need to look at and tune an acoustic instrument

2009-05-31 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I'm told that matlab can do this, but this is a one time deal on a home made instrument. I've not that sort of money to spend. Do we have anything for linux that can take a microphone input to an audio card, do an FFT on what it picks up that is accurate to small parts of a hertz

Re: [LAD] Need to look at and tune an acoustic instrument

2009-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 June 2009, Jan Weil wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:06:16AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I'm told that matlab can do this, but this is a one time deal on a home made instrument. I've not that sort of money to spend. Do we have anything for linux that can take a microphone input

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: +10,000 PA is one of the biggest screwups ever, but red hat can't see it. I don't think PA is a bad thing. On my laptop, PA works as follows: 1) takes care of general desktop stuff as needed 2) when JACKD connects directly to ALSA, PA ceases to

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 10:33 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/24/2009 10:24 AM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:44 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Fernando

Re: [LAD] Impro-visor source code and fork

2009-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 19 July 2009, lase...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If anybody is interested, I have decompiled the latest Impro-visor version, which has only been provide as a binary (in contradiction to the terms of the GPL). So if you want the source code just let me know and I will send it. I'm sure

Re: [LAD] students and copyright

2009-08-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 02 August 2009, Dave Phillips wrote: Greetings, Just out of curiosity, how many participants in this discussion are copyright holders ? How many of you have published works under copyright ? Best, dp Everything I ever wrote with 3 exceptions, carried a copyright (date) Maurice E.

Re: [LAD] how i think the gpl works under german jurisdiction

2009-08-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 August 2009, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 00:44 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: at the risk of starting another zillion-mail thread, Pamela Jones wrote that You won't get shot at dawn for not understanding the GPL .. This needs fixing!!! So you are in favor of

Re: [LAD] this past weekend's linuxaudio.org downtime

2009-10-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 12 October 2009, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: Here's a story that may give you all a good chuckle: Last weekend Robin Gareus, our LAO guru has contacted me inquiring why there was a ~1hr linuxaudio.org server downtime that took place that Sat. morning. Luckily we now have an UPS that gives

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

2009-11-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 November 2009, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: Arnold Krille wrote: Hi, On Sunday 01 November 2009 16:47:44 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: i'm playing with my shiny new BCF2K, and i'm going to use it some distance from my machine, so i'm going to try a midi link instead of USB. what is the

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

2009-11-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 November 2009, Arnold Krille wrote: On Monday 02 November 2009 00:56:15 Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 01 November 2009, Arnold Krille wrote: If you want to make use of the drilling of the pins in cat5, it should be 1+2 Midi 1 3+6 Midi 2 4+5 Midi 3 7+8 Midi 4 Why do you want

Re: [LAD] LADI

2009-11-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 November 2009, Bob Ham wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 09:45 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: I don't really care at all about the technology inside a Linux session handling toolkit, although clearly it would be nicer if it worked on all Linux systems. What I care about is the complete lack

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Adrian Knoth wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:48:53AM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: So ich habe mal was zusammengedichtet The rationale in brief: No proprietry hardware soundcard needed. Almost all modern computers have reasonably fast Ethernet

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-11-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Adrian Knoth wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:46:02PM +0100, Karl Hammar wrote: Well, you have to start somewhere. I'm not in this to compete with Behringer ADA8000, I'm in this to fiddle around with soldering. WTF? Soldering is what it takes to make the product.

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2009, Pieter Palmers wrote: [...] Greets, Pieter PS: I didn't want to go into the USB vs FireWire debate, there's plenty of material on that. But I think that even USB is a better idea than ethernet, not because its technically superior but because there is a better

Re: [LAD] FOSS Ethernet Soundcard

2009-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 December 2009, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 12/07/2009 05:36 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: ATM out of 6 mobo USB ports and 6 hubs making branches as deep as 4 sub-hubs, I have only 7 open sockets. And I don't believe my usb map is anywhere near a record setter. Slightly off topic

Re: [LAD] GUI for audio application

2009-12-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 December 2009, Peter Nelson wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 22:57 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: So hold your horses, something's up. Where? Here: http://calf.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=calf/calf;a=tree;f=gui;h b=20a7d0fb06da3c6c48738e4521f24700c5adaf01 And someone leaked this:

Re: [LAD] hard realtime performance synth

2010-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 January 2010, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:25 +, Victor Lazzarini wrote: What 16 thousand million? Who said there was no money in electronic music instruments? Yes it does sound a bit excessive, doesn't it? According to the same website, Roland is selling

Re: [LAD] Smallest, simplest, silliest SDR?

2010-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Folderol wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:50:07 + Gordon JC Pearce gordon...@gjcp.net wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 01:41 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:40:00AM +, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: I wanted a very simple SDR with jack

Re: [LAD] Smallest, simplest, silliest SDR?

2010-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Tim E. Real wrote: On February 27, 2010 07:50:07 pm Gordon JC Pearce wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 01:41 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:40:00AM +, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: I wanted a very simple SDR with jack inputs and outputs

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

2010-03-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 March 2010, alex stone wrote: I'm not sure the gist of the thread has been adhered to, but as someone who has sidetracked the odd thread in my enthusiasm, i'm no saint either. Nevertheless, citing ardour as the ultimate answer doesn't address the intent of the thread, which as i

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

2010-03-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 20 March 2010, Paul Davis wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: It is now at least 15 years past due for a new, far faster, and more expressive protocol. Something based on the TOS connector or similar relatively inexpensive hardware

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

2010-03-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: James Morris wrote: I'm with Louigi on this - I'd like to set up a sequence in whatever sequencer I'm using and draw graphs to control cut-offs modulations etc etc in some softsynth BEFORE the sound is output/recorded. But because I can't do this,

Re: [LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

2010-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Louigi Verona wrote: Hey Lorenzo! The point is not extreme. It deals with music which requires sound manipulation. Thanks to everybody's feedback, I might change the wording to better explain what I mean. As stated in the article, by electronic

[LAD] Need to unsub, but server is down.

2010-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Can someone go look at lists.linuxaudio.org? The bottom line of the message is timing out. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Live or die, I'll make a

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

2010-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 May 2010, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, This week I had to perform measurements on a audio interface, and this resulted in some quite interesting results. Before revealing what happened, I'll let you have a look at some of the data and come up with your own conclusions, see

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

2010-05-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 May 2010, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:24:29PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Oberhausen, Rheinland, Germany; power line frequency right now is at 49 Hz, measured with a low cost energy consumption costs meter. Those low cost meters shouldn't be able to do

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

2010-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 May 2010, Veronica Merryfield wrote: Regarding to station clocks I guess they are synced by radio and not by the power line. In Parma there the clocks might be heritage-protected ;) and stills synced by the power line frequency. The ones I have visited have two clocks, one on

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

2010-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 29 May 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [...] I found no Wiki for Überferquenz, increased frequency. At what value was the voltage, when there were 100 Hz? The 100 HZ component is what you get by rectifying both halves of the sine wave, effectively inverting the lower half to become

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/17/2010 04:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming for savant syndrome musical gifted and 'fast' watching people too? the

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200: [...] I fear something named simply 'emc' isn't easy to find around the net. Try http://www.linuxcnc.org/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-emc2-aj07-i386.iso -- Cheers, Gene There

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Harry Van Haaren wrote: Go see http://wiki.linuxcnc.net, The link you posted doesnt work. It's a .org i think: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org Cheers, -Harry Working from wet ram and its 75 years old, what can I plead except oldtimers. ;-) -- Cheers, Gene There are four

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/17/2010 04:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: PS: Why not programming

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Btw. when 'we' some old dino computer freaks controlled stepper motors by DOS machines, we just controlled remoted pics (oldish micro controllers - but not very old -, I guess you would use DSPs or other micro controllers today, but would you use

Re: [LAD] Real-time plotting of audio/ oscilloscope.

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: Jeremy wrote: Is there a fundamental restriction on doing so, or is my problem in software? Jeremy Hardware ;)! We should start a black- and whitelist for hardware used for Linux real-time. Unfortunately I could add my two

Re: [LAD] Real-time plotting of audio/ oscilloscope.

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Jeremy wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice- dsl.netwrote: Jeremy wrote: Is there a fundamental restriction on doing so, or is my problem in software? Jeremy Hardware ;)! We should start a black- and whitelist for hardware used

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200: [...] I fear something named simply 'emc' isn't easy

Re: [LAD] audio/midi app development

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 01:32:00 +0200: On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Excerpts from Gene Heskett's message of 2010-06-17 00:45:14 +0200: [...] I fear something named

Re: [LAD] Real-time plotting of audio/ oscilloscope.

2010-06-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 June 2010, Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Dunno. I could post $ hwinfo hwinfo.txt for a combination of hardware that will cause MIDI jitter when controlling external MIDI equipment. which would produce a

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
comes with 4.0 ms on my machine? Joshua Boyd on LAD wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:37:25AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: At my school we transfered the CAD files per floppy to a DOS box that controlled the CNC machine, guess that's for the same reason, bad rt capabilities of newer OSes

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Gene :) [huge snip] Being an ardent purist can bite you. As another friend of mine would say, use what works. No Windows! If needed I'll write to your friend and get that Atari-VGA interface, get a SMPTE interface again and an anlog audio

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Gene :) Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This will go back only to LAD as I'm not subbed to the others, Ralf. Ichthyostega wrote: Ralf Mardorf schrieb: Another stupid question induced by an argument regarding

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-06-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [...] The Steinberg dongle seems to be ok, since it's from the 80ies or beginning 90ies and was used for several years without getting broken. But exactly because it's that old I fear it could break one day. I 'guess' that I also

[LAD] Better lossless compressions?

2010-06-21 Thread Gene Heskett
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 Yeah, I sub to a lot of stuff, and occasionally a gem comes

Re: [LAD] Better lossless compressions?

2010-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Jens M Andreasen wrote: 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_deliv ers_lossless_compression_to_adc_samplescatpath

Re: [LAD] Better lossless compressions?

2010-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Adrian Knoth wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:38:45AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: from TFA: : Implemented in a DSP chip or microprocessor, this simple compressor : requires about 50 instructions per sample. However, lossless : compression ratios fall between 1.3:1

Re: [LAD] remember ??

2010-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, those of you who attended LAC2009 will recognise the Sala Bianca and lovely metal girl Giorgia: http://www.youtube.com/user/WinterHaze01 Enjoy ! Unforch Fons, while its decent video, the total silence is deafening. Flash 10

Re: [LAD] remember ??

2010-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:50:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Unforch Fons, while its decent video, the total silence is deafening. Flash 10 doing the playing according to the report from swiftfox, on mdv 2010-x64. I've been watching

Re: [LAD] remember ??

2010-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Joshua Boyd wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:50:46PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2010, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, those of you who attended LAC2009 will recognise the Sala Bianca and lovely metal girl Giorgia: http

Re: [LAD] remember ??

2010-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 June 2010, Tim E. Real wrote: On June 22, 2010 04:12:50 pm f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, those of you who attended LAC2009 will recognise the Sala Bianca and lovely metal girl Giorgia: http://www.youtube.com/user/WinterHaze01 Enjoy ! Wow, this girl rocks! No, I

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-07-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 July 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:27 +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:20:30PM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: What's interesting to note is that most of the USB MIDI interfaces do not have consistent latency (Other than the Roland UM2's

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 July 2010, Paul Davis wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Adrian Knoth a...@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de wrote: On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 07:43:38PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: [...] You're both missing an argument after -w. I wonder (but haven't checked the source) why the tool even

Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 July 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 14:51 -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: sudo alsa-midi-latency-test -w 20 -r -R -i 36:0 -o 36:0 Perhaps better without sudo. Probably, as that will test the user environment. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense

Re: [LAD] [Fwd: Re: No nagging, a serious question]

2010-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 July 2010, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 22:16 +0100, Dan Mills wrote: You could probably hack a multi serial port card to do multiple midi ports (Change the rock to give a suitable divider for 31250 baud (4MHz?), add current loop interfaces)... Been there, done

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:47:58 pm f...@kokkinizita.net did opine: Hello all, Early this week one of the three 'rendering' PCs of the WFS system in the Sala Bianca failed. It just appeared completely dead and didn't even try to boot when the power button was pressed, but the standby

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:59:08 pm drew Roberts did opine: On Saturday 17 July 2010 17:17:05 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Debouncing and live time of switches always is a gambling game. Makes me remember key debouncing issues with the TRS-80 Model I keyboards... drew I think that should

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, July 18, 2010 09:25:27 am Ralf Mardorf did opine: On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 11:14 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:56:47PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Some lubricant obviously made its way in there, and one would have to assume that the switched current

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:47:23 am drew Roberts did opine: On Saturday 17 July 2010 22:59:51 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:59:08 pm drew Roberts did opine: On Saturday 17 July 2010 17:17:05 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Debouncing and live time of switches always

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:08:03 am Folderol did opine: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:49:24 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: And I was in the 40's by then,, I'll be 76 in Oct, if this batch of fencepost holes don't finish me first. A type 2 Diabetic, my warranty expired 30

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday, July 19, 2010 02:28:56 pm drew Roberts did opine: On Sunday 18 July 2010 11:14:26 Gene Heskett wrote: Scary thought to an old country music fan. ;-) Who do you like? My dad was a fan and was always playing it around the house as well as taking us on trips to the opry and what

Re: [LAD] Attenuation of sounds in 3D space

2010-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 01:07:57 pm f...@kokkinizita.net did opine: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:35:15AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Chris Cannam can...@all-day-breakfast.com wrote: Question that just occurred to me. I'm very ignorant about spatial

Re: [LAD] twice as loud

2010-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 09:56:32 am Jörn Nettingsmeier did opine: On 07/22/2010 11:44 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Extrapolating a bit, that is one of the reasons why an unamplified singer in an opera theatre can have a dramatic effect that is much stronger than someone yelling into

Re: [LAD] twice as loud

2010-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 10:08:34 am Ralf Mardorf did opine: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 10:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 10:37 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 07/22/2010 11:44 PM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Extrapolating a bit, that is one of the reasons why an

Re: [LAD] twice as loud

2010-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:02:40 pm Ralf Mardorf did opine: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:22 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2010 16:22:29 Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 10:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I have gotten up and left many a night club because

Re: [LAD] twice as loud

2010-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:31:32 pm Renato did opine: On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:03:15 -0400 Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:02:40 pm Ralf Mardorf did opine: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:22 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2010 16:22

Re: [LAD] Attenuation of sounds in 3D space

2010-07-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday, July 29, 2010 08:52:04 am Jörn Nettingsmeier did opine: john, On 07/29/2010 02:35 PM, JohnLM wrote: On 2010.07.28. 22:06, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Compared to conventional 5.1 pairwise panning the result will be more even, without emphasising the speaker locations as

Re: [LAD] Attenuation of sounds in 3D space

2010-07-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:02:19 am Ralf Mardorf did opine: [...] When I'm in the cinema I sometimes notice unbearable phasing, while a sound is panned from one 2D position to the other, this isn't a Doppler effect, but an issue regarding to transit time or something else. IMO out of phase

Re: [LAD] Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch

2010-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, October 01, 2010 04:05:37 pm Folderol did opine: On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:51:29 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Folderol wrote: Also, he must be getting on a bit now ... at least in his thirties :P Ageism lives I see. I'm in my mid 40s and I

Re: [LAD] Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch

2010-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, October 01, 2010 05:12:54 pm Philipp Überbacher did opine: Excerpts from gene heskett's message of 2010-10-01 22:07:28 +0200: On Friday, October 01, 2010 04:05:37 pm Folderol did opine: On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:51:29 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo mle...@mega-nerd.com wrote:

Re: [LAD] panning thoughts

2010-11-12 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, November 12, 2010 11:43:42 am Eric Kampman did opine: On Nov 12, 2010, at 1:40 AM, Jens M Andreasen wrote: 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 /

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

2010-12-14 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 03:57:42 pm Paul Davis did opine: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:28 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 03:27:37 pm Victor Lazzarini did opine: Stallman hitting the mainstream news: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010

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

2010-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 05:01:58 am Tim E. Real did opine: On December 14, 2010 10:04:10 pm Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 02:47 +, Harry Van Haaren wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: A lot of

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

2010-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 05:36:25 pm f...@kokkinizita.net did opine: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:14:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Ralf I suspect, if he were to use pgp, would be like me, and only trust pgp-2.6.2a, the last one before they put Zimmerman in jail for a few years. I

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

2010-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 05:44:12 pm Dan Kegel did opine: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Dan Kegel d...@kegel.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Harry Van Haaren harryhaa...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody know of a public email provider that is better? Or more so: that can

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

2010-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 05:51:45 pm Jörn Nettingsmeier did opine: On 12/15/2010 11:14 AM, gene heskett wrote: Ralf I suspect, if he were to use pgp, would be like me, and only trust pgp-2.6.2a, the last one before they put Zimmerman in jail for a few years. I have often said

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

2010-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 07:32:11 pm Paul Davis did opine: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:42 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Fons, no dis-respect intended, but I was there, observing closely, sitting behind the keyboard of a full house supercharged amiga back in those years

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

2010-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 07:34:43 pm Folderol did opine: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:51:20 -0500 Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:42 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Fons, no dis-respect intended, but I was there, observing closely

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

2010-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 07:38:50 pm Paul Davis did opine: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:14 AM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Ralf I suspect, if he were to use pgp, would be like me, and only trust pgp-2.6.2a, the last one before they put Zimmerman in jail for a few years. I

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

2010-12-15 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:44:41 pm Ralf Mardorf did opine: On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 17:42 -0500, gene heskett wrote: history being written by the winners, so the whole thing may have been white washed to a high polish by now. People who put their telephone handset into a thingy

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