MuLab 10.0.85

[4u610h346]

The Linux MIDI drivers have either JACK or Pulse sitting on top of (ALSA still?) them.

Yes, still ALSA. I don't know that PulseAudio does anything with midi. ALSA talks to hardware, but can also do higher level things. If you set Jack Audio's Midi to RAW, it bypasses (the so called higher level) ALSA. Jack still uses ALSA, to talk to hardware, but does its own high level things.

These days, for most users, there isn't much difference between Jack/ALSA Midi. It does make a difference, when connecting Wine application Midi, to Linux application Midi. If your Linux application is using Jack-Midi and your Wine applications is using Alsa-Midi(almost certainly), you need a bridge between them for connection.

[4u610h346]

Well tbh all anti virus is stupid. It all slows your PC down immensely. Don't believe me? Try opening a folder with 100 EXE files, see how long it takes for any AV software to scan before showing content. Then disable AV and repeat. Makes a world of difference. But this applies to every folder you open, every app you launch.

Avgfree is worse. Having any AV software is basically testing viruses on your machine. I've never had a virus in 20 years of heavy use! AV software is a con!

I haven't tried it yet, but there are drivers for running Windows from memory, or a disk image file (firadisk etc.) If someone could setup their Windows install perfectly, then they could load it as an image, into ram, with MuLab on the Harddisk or a pendrive. No need for a virus scanner, everything is gone on shutdown. But any non-portable plugins (needing fixed location and registry entries), would need to be installed before booting. It is important to make the distinction between memory booting and disk image booting, as you can make persistent changes during disk image booting.

Obviously, the project would be quite the rabbit whole. But maybe worth it, if you are one of those people that experience Windows getting slow with every days usage. Also, you'd need a good chuck of memory installed; but windows would run noticeably faster.

[sl23]

I did find Tiny11 which looks interesting. But I'm not trialling anything on my PC. I'm waiting for my free gift to see how it works on that. As that is a 9 year old PC, it will be interesting to see how a stripped down win11 install works. It's meant o only take up 3.54gb after installation, as opposed to 20-30gb normally.

[pljones]

It does do mono tracks, but you have to set stereo width to zero for it to work right. pretty sure...

But isn't that just a stereo track with the two channels mixed (i.e. summed) to a mono signal?

I don't know that PulseAudio does anything with midi.

I was probably thinking of PipeWire...

[MuTools]

It does do mono tracks, but you have to set stereo width to zero for it to work right. pretty sure...

But isn't that just a stereo track with the two channels mixed (i.e. summed) to a mono signal?

What would be 'wrong' with that?
And the more essential question: What are you trying to achieve?

[4u610h346]

I was probably thinking of PipeWire...

That makes sense

[fde101]

But isn't that just a stereo track with the two channels mixed (i.e. summed) to a mono signal?

What would be 'wrong' with that?

It puts double the workload on the CPU for processing audio on the track since it would still be processing two signals instead of just one. FL Studio has this issue as well - many DAWs have "true" mono tracks available that can reduce CPU usage by not needlessly doubling the processing requirements when there is no stereo information in the audio to begin with.

[MuTools]

MuLab does not do double processing for mono audio !!
Because MuLab uses smart mono/stereo handling. Believe me that this has cost quite some dev time, especially for the special cases, eg. when signals change from mono to stereo or back dynamically via automation.
So you can start with a mono audio file and as long as you don't put effects in its signal flow that make the signal stereo, processing will be mono.
If you put a stereo effect on in its signal flow, or eg automate its panning, then all processing before it becomes stereo still is efficiently done on the mono signal, the full left+right processing is only done after it has become stereo. The user doesn't have to worry about signals being mono or stereo wrt processing load. That's a MuLab feature !!
Cfr MuLab's spec list: "Automatic mono/stereo handling."
https://www.mutools.com/mulab-product.html

[MuTools]

MuLab App M10.0.36 beta for Windows 64 bit is available on https://www.mutools.com/mulab/app/lates ... /beta.html

MuLab Plugin M10.0.36 beta for Windows 64 bit is available on https://www.mutools.com/mulab/plugin/la ... /beta.html

What's changed:

• When applying a DSP function on an audio stream and it takes more than a second, now a progress bar is shown, which also allows you to abort the operation.
• Render Clip As New Sample did not yet take any custom sampler rack preset into account. Fixed.
• Sometimes buttons could be drawn wrong. Fixed.
• Improved compatibility with Wine: Sometimes popup menus / lists were immediately closed. Fixed.
• Other small improvements.

Also MuLab 10 for Mac is getting closer.

[audiojunkie]

MuLab App M10.0.36 beta for Windows 64 bit is available on https://www.mutools.com/mulab/app/lates ... /beta.html

MuLab Plugin M10.0.36 beta for Windows 64 bit is available on https://www.mutools.com/mulab/plugin/la ... /beta.html

What's changed:

• When applying a DSP function on an audio stream and it takes more than a second, now a progress bar is shown, which also allows you to abort the operation.
• Render Clip As New Sample did not yet take any custom sampler rack preset into account. Fixed.
• Sometimes buttons could be drawn wrong. Fixed.
• Improved compatibility with Wine: Sometimes popup menus / lists were immediately closed. Fixed.
• Other small improvements.

Also MuLab 10 for Mac is getting closer.

Ooh! Thanks for the improved compatibility with Linux Wine!!!!!

[MuTools]

Looking for beta testers for the first beta version of MuLab 10 for Mac:
https://www.mutools.com/mulab/app/lates ... -mac64.zip

As before:First remove the apple quarantine on MuLab.app:

• Right-click Quarantine Remover -> Open
• Drop MuLab.app on the green window. That should give "Removed quarantine".
• Right-click MuLab.app -> Open.

This only has to be done once per new downloaded version.

[syntonica]

Looking for beta testers for the first beta version of MuLab 10 for Mac:
https://www.mutools.com/mulab/app/lates ... -mac64.zip

As before:First remove the apple quarantine on MuLab.app:

• Right-click Quarantine Remover -> Open
• Drop MuLab.app on the green window. That should give "Removed quarantine".
• Right-click MuLab.app -> Open.

This only has to be done once per new downloaded version.

Hooray! Thank you!

I'll try to get to this this week.

[sl23]

Possible BUG.
Drop a vst onto new rack and a name is given to the rack. Drop a different item onto rack, it doesn't get renamed. But if you double click to rename the rack, it shows the new name. Press enter and the old name persists.

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[MuTools]

Thanks sl23 for reporting this. Will be fixed.

[sl23]

Thanks Jo