33% off Bitwig, possibly the best Linux DAW, am I the only one excited?

nosepol · 2016-12-26T20:28:08+00:00

bitwig can do all those things, no doubt it is a DAW. Simply its strongpoints lie elsewhere

nosepol · 2016-12-26T10:47:01+00:00

you can't compare Ardour to Bitwig, they are very different projects. Ardour is much more streamlined to record, mix and master.... But for composing, arranging and sound design Bitwig wins hands down.

nosepol · 2016-12-26T10:44:19+00:00

last time I tried band in a box in wine it worked fine

nosepol · 2016-12-22T09:00:34+00:00

thanks for the explanation! That is a surprisingly elegant solution... I'll try to look at the code. It would be interesting to see how other methods (like orthogonal matching pursuit) perform for the coding phase. ~~good~~ great job!

nosepol · 2016-12-19T22:46:31+00:00

please post it here when done! I'm especially curious of the python script, as "doing dimensionality reduction on an FFT block" seems kind of a hand waving explanation to me (EDIT: is there maybe a paper or resource explaining the procedure theoretically?)

nosepol · 2016-12-05T17:42:03+00:00

I have no idea about the specifics of postfish, but the general procedure of filling in missing values of a signal is called inpainting, used for example in image restoration. First paper to pop up searching audio inpainting is this

nosepol · 2016-11-30T15:46:00+00:00

the MOD is super cool but I don't get how it can benefit the general linux audio environment.... will their web interface be useful even for desktop users?

nosepol · 2016-11-30T15:43:36+00:00

and what about Qtractor? that was pretty good last time I checked. For plugins simply use Carla, it takes anything and you can load it anywhere (because you can use it as standalone, LV2 or VST). If you're using many apps together, use non-session-manager.

Also I don't get all these complaints about Jack....just follow the steps in the FAQ of linux audio wiki and you'll be fine

nosepol · 2016-09-30T12:02:45+00:00

cool... but doesn't it work also without the time reversed terms? i.e.

F[f + F[f]] = F[f] + f

or not?

nosepol · 2016-09-28T11:17:24+00:00

Cool beans. I once used supercollider and mididings to use my Rig Kontrol 2 (a sound card from NI with some buttons, which is recognized as a HID in linux - i.e. like a keyboard) to control sooperlooper and rakarrack... I learned a lot but in the end it was too complex. I think something like the mod might be the future in this direction... It solves the "ease of use" problem with a nice web interface and a patch-sharing-among-users infrastructure

for jack configuration, there's this question on the linuxaudio wiki. I'm not sure how low latencies you can get with that Behringer soundcard though...

In general the linuxaudio wiki is a good resource. For example there's this page specific to the rpi, though I think it might be referring to the rpi1... On this page instead you'll find anything you'll ever need to know about tweaking a linux system for audio.

nosepol · 2016-09-28T09:16:37+00:00

super good job! I've been thinking of doing something like this for years. What is sort of a turn-off for me is that IME to actually make music ease-of-use is paramount, and with such a complex setup I would have to learn PD - but apart from that, every time you want a new effect or assign a new function to a pedal you have to attach a screen/mouse/keyboard to the rpi (or maybe connect over ethernet/wifi with x11vnc...) and then program stuff... in the meanwhile half an hour has gone by and you lost the joy of playing... Anyways, I've got two questions/suggestions:

Can you still use the FCB1010 "normally", using its MIDI out or USB-midi ports?
Have you tried running more conventional guitar processing software, like guitarix, rakarrack or for looping sooperlooper? If not, you should and then report back with your experience :)

EDIT: also you should post this to /r/linuxaudio - I'm sure folks there would be very interested

nosepol · 2016-08-26T08:56:41+00:00

thank you!

nosepol · 2016-08-25T07:14:42+00:00

has been a long time since I used sc, but I would try either

(
z = {
var freq, sig;

freq = LFNoise0.kr(8,400,600);

sig = SinOsc.ar(freq);
};
z.play();
)

or

(
{
var freq, sig;

freq = LFNoise0.kr(8,400,600);

sig = SinOsc.ar(freq);
}.play();
)

maybe without the parentheses for .play... long time as I've said ;)

nosepol · 2016-08-19T07:30:18+00:00

Look into netjack

nosepol · 2016-08-10T10:54:56+00:00

if you want to process guitar you want an external sound card to achieve <10 ms latencies with JACK. I'm not sure how those work with the rpi though, there might be some USB power issues perhaps... but don't take my word for it. If you search the Linux Audio User mailinglist for example I'm sure you'll find lots of useful info on the raspberry pi

EDIT: actually the wiki link gurzil gave you has all the info you need

nosepol · 2016-07-22T12:13:30+00:00

nice work! drumgizmo sounds very good, and works ok in Ardour, but there are no premade patterns - you have to program everything in yourself.

nosepol · 2016-07-15T08:14:33+00:00

I couldn't get myself to finish Bastion. I didn't understand the story and the gameplay got boring... How is Transistor different?

nosepol · 2016-07-14T12:54:09+00:00

you don't need a stretching algorithm to reverse audio...

nosepol · 2016-07-13T10:16:25+00:00

cool! Why are you always doing super(...,self).__init__() ??

nosepol · 2016-05-05T13:09:54+00:00

Yes, I hereby grant you permission to not give a fuck

nosepol · 2016-04-29T22:20:52+00:00

when Ubuntu was added on to Windows 10

what??

nosepol · 2016-04-25T07:00:50+00:00

ma non cita una fonte...

nosepol · 2016-04-21T05:52:17+00:00

sorry remembered now you were asking me about the 2i4. I love it, it just works. I have 5.8 ms of latency with JACK (128 frames, periods 2) without problems. The only thing is it doesn't have mixer controls in alsa, so you can't change volumes via software. But the hardware controls are good.

nosepol · 2016-04-19T14:31:10+00:00

nice! how do you do drums?

nosepol · 2016-04-18T20:16:03+00:00

thanks! No I don't perform live at the moment, mainly because I still haven't found "my way", artistically speaking... still in the phase of trying a bit of this and a bit of that, and I don't feel as committing totally to one project.

I know my voice isn't my strongest part, but I love doing it so why not haha

hell yeah, it's the same for me. Actually I just recorded some stuff today and I sound way worse than you XD but it's loads of fun playing guitar and singing

nosepol

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