KVR Audio

briandc · Post by **briandc** » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:56 pm

glokraw wrote:http://amsynth.com/zynaddsubfx.html

Nice website you're building, great for visuals on linux synths!
'tain't 2002 noh moh'

Who did the new skin for zynaddsubfx? Very nicely done

Sorry for the delay..

Thanks for the compliment. It's coming together little-by-little, lots of stuff happening in the linux world, some new synths, too. I'm getting just enough time to pull some demos together and make a page to get it started. -- I'm doing it all (except making demos, of course) on my trusty Compaq Presario 2700 with a nice Pentium 3 and a whopping 256MB of RAM.

So if the site opens using that, I know it should work for just about everyone!

The new skin was done (I believe) by falkTX, as he develops the whole KXStudio setup.

I've just learned how to make screencasts, they're kind of my next target, you can see my "trial" one I did for the mx44 synthesizer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS6lLCG8QMw

The page I did for it on amsynth.com explains a bit about the sliders, but more needs to be added.

Wow! These linux synths are keeping this guy busy!

Thanks again!

brian

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:49 am

The new Fender Mustang amps are out, the Mustang 1 V2 is $119 max.
The nice thing is you can send its line out to a hardware fx rack,
with the racks output going to your soundcard, then use alsa_in to make
a separate jackd-aware usb input, to use the amps usb output, with
it's internal sounds, then linux fx, and then wine vsts, if you are creative,
and from there to more linux things, and recording if desired.
Very versatile, and incredible sound capability. Used Mustang 1 V1 go
for $60, or less, now that new versions are in the wild.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/search.j ... stang%20v2

On my setup, this command ignites the mustang's usb audio input
as a second interface:

/usr/bin/alsa_in -j mustang -d hw:1 "Mustang Amplifier" -q 1 2>&1 1> /dev/null
Your linux system may have a different hw: number.
Cheers

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 10:37 am

Greetings,

A review of PyDAW at Linux Weekly News:

https://lwn.net/Articles/545657/

Enjoy !

Best,

dp

briandc · Post by **briandc** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:40 am

StudioDave wrote:Greetings,

A review of PyDAW at Linux Weekly News:

https://lwn.net/Articles/545657/

Enjoy !

Best,

dp

A very interesting read. (-I love your articles, Dave!

)

I kind of like the idea of returning to Alsa. Why not? If it works, use it!

Makes me wonder what the guys at Alsa would say...

brian

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:55 am

StudioDave wrote:Greetings,

A review of PyDAW at Linux Weekly News:

https://lwn.net/Articles/545657/

Enjoy !

Best,

dp

Nice review! LWN is a great resource.
Maybe you could edit the link in the review, to point to the pydaw thread,
instead of the KVR main forum link? It's easy to get diverted when
you hit the main page here. Just ask the thin leather fold
once known as my wallet

Cheers

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:19 pm

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... e87cabf436

A new release of the great Studio1337!

http://www.getstudio1337.com/

Pic of the audio apps menu at the top link, nice selection, Guitarix, Rakarrack,
the great Calf Plugins, Hydrogen, a real guitarists playground!

Plus Reaper is an easy install. Makes a fast stable portable vst studio.
This can run in ram, boot from CD or usbstick, save your settings to
a file in C: and use whatever partitions you want, to record.

Aqualung player keeps it's jackd connections live, for easy overdubs,
(audacity, and vlc drop theirs each time you stop playback)

Qtraktor, Ardour 2 and 3 for larger projects.

Far better value than Windows 8ate8_8my8_8fun8

briandc · Post by **briandc** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:25 am

I use Audacity and am quite happy with it. In the transport bar, the last entry is a type of scan-transport connections option. Clicking that will update your current instruments. I use it with Hydrogen, Ghostess, amSynth, and anything else. It works very well, imo.

brian

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:31 am

Hi, I use audacity V2.03 at present, but its PortAudio audio playback
connection(s) in qjackctl, are dropped when playback is stopped.
The transport option, at least in this 2.03 version, does not restore
the playback, or recording connections to external jackd apps.

Are you using ladish, or a non, or KX utility?

I can pause playback, and restart, without losing the connections.
Aqualung is coded to maintain connections even if audio
playback is stopped. It would be great, if PortAudio, or Audacity, or both,
could implement the Aqualung code for constant jackd connections.

When sending audacity playback to external fx, and or recording apps,
it is easy enough to insert silent time at the beginning, to allow for
resetting fx and recording connections, but it would be nice to have
that capability of aqualungs open source code.
Cheers

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sun May 19, 2013 10:42 pm

So what's new and useful? Yoshimi, an improved branch of zynaddsubfx,
has a new feature, each of its 16 multi-timbral parts now has it's own
jackd output, so with ample cpu and ram, and supported soundcard,
one can route a whole boat load of carefully crafted sounds, or presets,
to different hardware and software destinations. With its own decent per-part,
and global fx section, and the lid pried off of fx destination limits,
it becomes the core of a free and powerful linux based synth workstation.

Those skilled at programming compelling arpeggios, to go along with leads, pads, rythmic, and ambient modulations, now have a cavern with vast depths to explore.
And at a very afforable price.
Cheers

briandc · Post by **briandc** » Fri May 24, 2013 6:11 pm

glokraw wrote:Hi, I use audacity V2.03 at present, but its PortAudio audio playback
connection(s) in qjackctl, are dropped when playback is stopped.
The transport option, at least in this 2.03 version, does not restore
the playback, or recording connections to external jackd apps.

Are you using ladish, or a non, or KX utility?

I can pause playback, and restart, without losing the connections.
Aqualung is coded to maintain connections even if audio
playback is stopped. It would be great, if PortAudio, or Audacity, or both,
could implement the Aqualung code for constant jackd connections.

When sending audacity playback to external fx, and or recording apps,
it is easy enough to insert silent time at the beginning, to allow for
resetting fx and recording connections, but it would be nice to have
that capability of aqualungs open source code.
Cheers

I haven't tried PortAudio or Aqualung, and I don't use ladish nor any DAWs (because I'm lazy and perhaps a bit hard-headed..) but Audacity would certainly benefit from such a modification, imo.

brian

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sun May 26, 2013 4:56 am

briandc wrote: I haven't tried PortAudio or Aqualung, and I don't use ladish nor any DAWs (because I'm lazy and perhaps a bit hard-headed..)

brian

What?

Are you using melody, harmony, rythym, and connectors?
Oh the heresy

Repent, or be banned

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Sun May 26, 2013 10:07 am

glokraw wrote:
briandc wrote: ... I don't use ... any DAWs (because I'm lazy and perhaps a bit hard-headed..)
What? Are you using melody, harmony, rythym, and connectors?
Oh the heresy

Repent, or be banned

Brian gets a pass for his work with amSynth presets.

And I think he actually knows how to play an instrument. Talk about heresy !

Best,

dp

"Banjos ? We don't need no steenking banjos !"

briandc · Post by **briandc** » Sun May 26, 2013 4:44 pm

Well, I don't know about the playing bit... but I'm got a couple of patches for amSynth that might bring to mind a more "famous" linux synth. I called them "Harp Strings" and they're the first two on my SoundCloud page (for those who don't yet use the .ogg format.)

https://soundcloud.com/briandc

Let me know what you think...

brian

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Mon May 27, 2013 5:22 am

Basic6Plus7Chorus, Timewarp, and New2Me are my favorites, of many.
I'd better check the whole amSynth collection, next time I unbolt
the studio door. I remember installing the sounds.
Still fighting the urban jungle, which grows
faster than I cut. Maybe the neighbors will have a fireworks
mishap on July 4th, and save me some work

Cheers

briandc · Post by **briandc** » Tue May 28, 2013 7:18 am

glokraw wrote:Basic6Plus7Chorus, Timewarp, and New2Me are my favorites, of many.
I'd better check the whole amSynth collection, next time I unbolt
the studio door. I remember installing the sounds.
Still fighting the urban jungle, which grows
faster than I cut. Maybe the neighbors will have a fireworks
mishap on July 4th, and save me some work
Cheers

Shortly the official release of amSynth will be put into the repos. I think all 10 banks will be included. (I'm now on Bank 11.)

The neatest thing is the "random" function. Just hit ctrl+r and you get a random set of parameters. Sometimes it's just noise, but sometimes you get something that ends up being a really neat sound. Kind of like Michelangelo given a slab of marble and already able to see the work within it, ready to be brought forth..

Anyway, I like using it, because it gets me out of my own self-limitations. I don't know of any other synths that have that function, but it's really useful and inspiring, imo.

brian

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