Currently number 5 out of 11 for torrent downloads! Not bad for the new kid.
Its very quiet on this list at the moment, so tell us what you've been doing with music! Fedora / Linux / recording etc etc
Me, I've been trying to organize my many samples into sfz format for use. Also found new interest in guitar (my new schecter rocks!)
I'm no drummer, but have been studying drumming a lot lately to fill out some triggered recordings. Would love to hear other peoples experience in this area.
kick out the jams Brendan
On 12 July 2013 14:33, Brendan Jones brendan.jones.it@gmail.com wrote:
Currently number 5 out of 11 for torrent downloads! Not bad for the new kid.
Its very quiet on this list at the moment, so tell us what you've been doing with music! Fedora / Linux / recording etc etc
Me, I've been trying to organize my many samples into sfz format for use. Also found new interest in guitar (my new schecter rocks!)
Cool, they make some nice stuff.
I'm no drummer, but have been studying drumming a lot lately to fill out some triggered recordings. Would love to hear other peoples experience in this area.
Toying about trying to find a way to use a gamepad as a midi controller for Hydrogen. May need to either write something myself or give up and just get a midi controller. But mainly using the computer as a guitar amp interface, very handy to be able to change effects settings directly (Plug) and also to have everything going through Jack when I need to use headphones.
On 07/12/2013 04:04 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 12 July 2013 14:33, Brendan Jones brendan.jones.it@gmail.com wrote:
Currently number 5 out of 11 for torrent downloads! Not bad for the new kid.
Its very quiet on this list at the moment, so tell us what you've been doing with music! Fedora / Linux / recording etc etc
Me, I've been trying to organize my many samples into sfz format for use. Also found new interest in guitar (my new schecter rocks!)
Cool, they make some nice stuff.
I can't believe the quality for the price (and no - no affiliations)
I'm no drummer, but have been studying drumming a lot lately to fill out some triggered recordings. Would love to hear other peoples experience in this area.
Toying about trying to find a way to use a gamepad as a midi controller for Hydrogen. May need to either write something myself or give up and just get a midi controller. But mainly using the computer as a guitar amp interface, very handy to be able to change effects settings directly (Plug) and also to have everything going through Jack when I need to use headphones.
Wow, I've never tried, but a bunch of ppl I work with are used to sniffing a serial connection. The hardest part is the port? Let me know how you go. We usually get an electrical engineer in to send us the bits off of a machine, so we can assimilate the printout for example.
On 12 July 2013 15:12, Brendan Jones brendan.jones.it@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/12/2013 04:04 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
Toying about trying to find a way to use a gamepad as a midi controller for Hydrogen. May need to either write something myself or give up and just get a midi controller. But mainly using the computer as a guitar amp interface, very handy to be able to change effects settings directly (Plug) and also to have everything going through Jack when I need to use headphones.
Wow, I've never tried, but a bunch of ppl I work with are used to sniffing a serial connection. The hardest part is the port? Let me know how you go. We usually get an electrical engineer in to send us the bits off of a machine, so we can assimilate the printout for example.
I was never really planning on doing it at the driver/hardware hacking level[1]. I'd thought it might be necessary to write an app for it to talk to HID and generate MIDI signals, but it turned out to be possible to use Pure Data installed from Planet CCRMA: http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/pure-drumming.html
[1] In the distant past I did build a multi-channel power monitor that used the parallel port, that ran with some version of RedHat desktop, but I've never felt very inclined to mess with USB drivers.
Hi everyone:
On 07/12/2013 09:33 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
Currently number 5 out of 11 for torrent downloads! Not bad for the new kid.
Not bad at all! Fedora 19 is an awesome release... I upgraded via yum from F17 (since F18 didn't really go over very well). For me, this seems like the least quirky and most reliable release since F13.
Its very quiet on this list at the moment, so tell us what you've been doing with music! Fedora / Linux / recording etc etc
It's always quiet on the list. Good idea to start up discussion about, you know, music!
Me, I've been trying to organize my many samples into sfz format for use. Also found new interest in guitar (my new schecter rocks!)
Samples of what?
I'm no drummer, but have been studying drumming a lot lately to fill out some triggered recordings. Would love to hear other peoples experience in this area.
How are you "studying?" Are you taking lessons?
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My current musical projects:
1.) Two "major research papers" toward the completion of my MA... almost done!
2.) Rewriting---yet again---a music analysis program that's part of a relatively large research project at McGill/Yale/MIT/Aberdeen/BBC. I'll write more about this in the (sort of) near future.
3.) Overhauling my website. I've decided it's not helping anybody that my work isn't available anywhere, and although I wouldn't say that any of my work is particularly valuable, it might be just the thing somebody else is looking for.
4.) Making an SFZ file for the University of Iowa B-flat clarinet samples, which I'll use along with the "Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra" samples (for other instruments) in the next project.
5.) Synthesizing the start of the second movement of Brahms' third symphony with Qtractor (and others), just to see how well it sounds with FOSS software. With Vienna Symphonic Orchestra samples, frankly, it just doesn't sound real.
6.) "Recomposing" that same symphony, based on contrapuntal analysis results from the software in point (2) above, using SuperCollider.
7.) Learning Bach's BWV 857 prelude and fugue (F minor, Book 1 of Well-Tempered Clavier), to prove that I can. Considering I don't even really play piano, this was a bad idea, but now that I'm almost finished, I can't give up.
That's it. Keep sharing, everybody! Do you have recordings of what you're doing or have already done?
Christopher
On 07/12/2013 10:01 PM, Christopher Antila wrote:
Hi everyone:
On 07/12/2013 09:33 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
Currently number 5 out of 11 for torrent downloads! Not bad for the new kid.
Not bad at all! Fedora 19 is an awesome release... I upgraded via yum from F17 (since F18 didn't really go over very well). For me, this seems like the least quirky and most reliable release since F13.
Its very quiet on this list at the moment, so tell us what you've been doing with music! Fedora / Linux / recording etc etc
It's always quiet on the list. Good idea to start up discussion about, you know, music!
Me, I've been trying to organize my many samples into sfz format for use. Also found new interest in guitar (my new schecter rocks!)
Samples of what?
Mainly paid-for drumkit libraries and other free sample packs that don't come with sfz format already.
I'm no drummer, but have been studying drumming a lot lately to fill out some triggered recordings. Would love to hear other peoples experience in this area.
How are you "studying?" Are you taking lessons?
Not seriously - no lessons. Been mainly opening guitar pro files with tuxguitar and getting ideas from the drum tracks therein.
My current musical projects:
1.) Two "major research papers" toward the completion of my MA... almost done!
Nice! May be over my head, but where can we read them?
2.) Rewriting---yet again---a music analysis program that's part of a relatively large research project at McGill/Yale/MIT/Aberdeen/BBC. I'll write more about this in the (sort of) near future.
Interesting! Please do
3.) Overhauling my website. I've decided it's not helping anybody that my work isn't available anywhere, and although I wouldn't say that any of my work is particularly valuable, it might be just the thing somebody else is looking for.
4.) Making an SFZ file for the University of Iowa B-flat clarinet samples, which I'll use along with the "Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra" samples (for other instruments) in the next project.
I'm really interested to hear what people are doing with sfz format. On my journey I've developed a gedit plugin for a linuxsampler client (similar to the sc one), when I stop tinkering I will release it for general consumption.
5.) Synthesizing the start of the second movement of Brahms' third symphony with Qtractor (and others), just to see how well it sounds with FOSS software. With Vienna Symphonic Orchestra samples, frankly, it just doesn't sound real.
6.) "Recomposing" that same symphony, based on contrapuntal analysis results from the software in point (2) above, using SuperCollider.
7.) Learning Bach's BWV 857 prelude and fugue (F minor, Book 1 of Well-Tempered Clavier), to prove that I can. Considering I don't even really play piano, this was a bad idea, but now that I'm almost finished, I can't give up.
That's it. Keep sharing, everybody! Do you have recordings of what you're doing or have already done?
Wow, you are busy! What an interesting life you have with music. Very jealous
Quoting Christopher Antila crantila@fedoraproject.org:
Hi everyone:
On 07/12/2013 09:33 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
Currently number 5 out of 11 for torrent downloads! Not bad for the new kid.
Not bad at all! Fedora 19 is an awesome release... I upgraded via yum from F17 (since F18 didn't really go over very well). For me, this seems like the least quirky and most reliable release since F13.
Yeah - I upgraded from F18 to F19 about mid-way between Alpha and Beta and it's been solid for all of my use cases. The thing I like most about F19 is that they've put in most of the desktops, OpenShift Origin, OpenStack and most of the solid NoSQL databases! F19 pretty much rendered Ubuntu irrelevant for my main use case, Computational Journalism.
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5.) Synthesizing the start of the second movement of Brahms' third symphony with Qtractor (and others), just to see how well it sounds with FOSS software. With Vienna Symphonic Orchestra samples, frankly, it just doesn't sound real.
I don't know which sounds worse - synthetic instruments from samples or synthetic instruments from physical models / integrating PDEs. I've been pretty impressed by some CSound syntheses, for example, the French horn. But I really think the next "breakthrough" in synthesizing orchestral instruments is going to need an open source GPU library that runs on ATI, NVidia and Intel GPUs and talks to both Firefox and Chrome JavaScript.
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What am I doing? Well, not much musically at the moment. I did verify that most of the stuff in my Github AlgoCompSynth repo installs on top of Fedora Jam 19, but I'm most likely going to fool around with asm.js and see what kind of synthesis I can pull off in Firefox. I have half a dozen or so friends here in PDX that work for Mozilla. ;-)
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