8:33 a.m.
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
9:04 a.m.
On 12 July 2013 14:33, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it(a)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.
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
9:12 a.m.
On 07/12/2013 04:04 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 12 July 2013 14:33, Brendan Jones
<brendan.jones.it(a)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.
7:16 p.m.
On 12 July 2013 15:12, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it(a)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.
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
3:01 p.m.
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?
----
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
7:56 a.m.
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
8:25 p.m.
Quoting Christopher Antila <crantila(a)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.
[snip]
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.
[snip]
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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Workbench
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