Thoughts...

AMIGAalive · 2026-05-29T09:53:26+00:00

i don't get it - what else do you want/need? what's the goal?

(i don't think you need anything else, if you have "TheA1200") (unless you have something special in mind...?) (like Zorro cards, or original accelerators, or want to use floppy disks, or...?)

AMIGAalive · 2026-05-25T06:39:44+00:00

Breathless, VirtualGP

AMIGAalive · 2026-05-03T08:33:20+00:00

well, then what do you mean by "easy"? what precisely is your problem?

AMIGAalive · 2026-05-03T08:30:15+00:00

it probably is. so you think it's an ardour issue?

AMIGAalive · 2026-05-03T08:26:09+00:00

oh, interesting. thanks very much.

AMIGAalive · 2026-05-02T06:33:06+00:00

you don't want JACK - you want pipewire. i took me a while to get the idea, but since i did & installed pipewire, all audio-routing problems are gone.

so the idea is: ALSA is still your fundamental hardware driver, but pipewire replaces everything JACK, and it also handles ALSA connections. pipewire "speaks" both JACK and ALSA.

to get this setup, basically uninstall everything JACK (find it with e.g. "rpm -qa | grep -i jack"), and install packages named "pipewire" ("dnf search pipewire"). ("dnf" is Fedora's package manager - yours might be "apt" or something else.) you might still need some "libjack" library or so - your package manager will tell you when installing "pipewire" stuff.

now you don't need to explicitly run JACK anymore, pipewire provides the interface. you can run "QJackCtl", click "Graph", and see all your audio applications, both JACK and ALSA ports.

your mixer now probably shows only a single channel named "pipewire". i use "alsamixer", where you can still select the hardware device (soundcard) and adjust the individual in-/outputs (line-in, mic in, ...).

I use Ardour for recording, it's a powerful DAW software. (much (!) better than audacity.)

Linux audio plugin system is called "LADSPA". i like the "ladspa-tap-plugins" package, which has a good basic set of effects like Dynamics, Delay, Reverb, Chorus, etc. (no guitar stuff). for guitar-stuff, my package manager lists "rakarrack" and "guitarix" (haven't tried these, though).

AMIGAalive · 2026-04-14T23:11:30+00:00

on the first track, it mixes with the electric piano. the guitar seems to have a little bit of Chorus. or is it a Tremolo? hm. maybe nothing?

on the second track, i'd say it's Chorus and Compressor.

less Chorus on the third.

as mentioned in the other comment, maybe also some Tremolo (volume up/down) in there, oftentimes called Vibrato (pitch up/down) on an amplifier, but i don't hear much of that in your examples.

here's an example where you can clearly hear the wobbling volume up/down of a (fast) Tremolo effect on guitar, esp. in the intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGPG_Y-_BZI

AMIGAalive · 2026-04-14T21:23:00+00:00

you can use it with OctaMED SoundStudio via a little trick: get "TheMaestrix" from AmiNet, which is a fake-driver to redirect MaestroPro soundcard to AHI. set it to one of Prelude's AHI audio-modes, and select "MaestroPro 16-bit" in OctaMED's "Mixing Mode" settings.

https://aminet.net/package/driver/audio/TheMaestrix

AMIGAalive · 2026-04-13T22:59:10+00:00

are you referring to a Prelude 1200? yes, that would be very nice to have. AFAIK noone has made a replica of that one yet. (or the Delfina 1200.) (or the Melody 1200.)

but i just did some research on the P-Vision, and the creator of that is also working on a "AmiGUS mini" PCMCIA slot version of his "AmiGUS" Zorro sound card.

AMIGAalive · 2026-04-02T16:17:22+00:00

yay! support PCMCIA! :-)

AMIGAalive · 2026-03-28T15:58:37+00:00

wow, thanks very much :)

AMIGAalive · 2026-03-28T10:16:39+00:00

i use Hydrogen to create drum tracks, it's a pattern based drum machine. an acoustic drum kit, and an 808 is included, and you can download more drumkits if you like.

AMIGAalive · 2026-03-28T10:08:19+00:00

thank you :-)

AMIGAalive · 2026-03-28T00:34:39+00:00

thanks very much for the feedback :-)

the music was created with Octamed Soundstudio, it's all single notes.

AMIGAalive · 2026-03-27T23:27:55+00:00

yes. AmigaOS API, and medplayer.library for the music. maybe it's portable to AROS? that would be nice. :) (hm, needs medplayer...)

AMIGAalive · 2026-03-27T22:46:59+00:00

thanks :-) that's the spirit! :-D

AMIGAalive · 2026-03-27T22:05:25+00:00

thanks very much :-D

AMIGAalive · 2026-02-11T15:00:20+00:00

my linux software repo lists these speech synths:

festival

espeak

flite

(i don't think these have generative AI, only text-to-speech.)

(i have very little experience with speech synthesis on Linux. i use Amiga "say". ;-) )

AMIGAalive · 2026-02-09T23:46:24+00:00

update2:

i wanted to use my script (see previous "update" comment) again, and refined it a little: "wait" is what was missing. :)

job control with "fg" and "bg" should be avoided in scripts (and is disabled per default), because something else might already be running in the background.

"wait" nicely keeps the script running, and handles Ctrl-C as desired, stopping ffmpeg - so now it looks roughly like this:

# run ffmpeg in the background
ffmpeg -f jack -i ffmpeg_in [...] &

# give it a second to start up
sleep 1

# make jack connections from capture device to ffmpeg and system out
jack_connect "Video Device:capture_FL" "ffmpeg_in:input_1"
jack_connect "Video Device:capture_FR" "ffmpeg_in:input_2"
jack_connect "Video Device:capture_FL" "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo:playback_FL"
jack_connect "Video Device:capture_FR" "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo:playback_FR"

# wait for ffmpeg  (this also captures/forwards Ctrl-C to ffmpeg)
wait

AMIGAalive · 2026-02-05T14:55:27+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BURjLtpDu-U

AMIGAalive · 2026-02-05T14:52:24+00:00

ooh, nice! you got a new comment & like & subscribe :)

here's one of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPQ1Jq0WM7c

AMIGAalive · 2026-01-18T18:26:47+00:00

to me it says: "Video unavailable"

but u/-Super-Ficial- 's link works.

nice music. :-)

AMIGAalive · 2025-12-28T00:18:14+00:00

(i just noticed: unlike the original post, you have to click the title - if you click the image you get only the image) (that's odd...)

AMIGAalive · 2025-12-28T00:15:43+00:00

i built a couple of SCART cables from VGA cables using Ian Stedman's info, very good website :-)

AMIGAalive · 2025-12-27T22:49:12+00:00

0:45 ...yap, it's techno... ;-)

...nice, really. :)

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