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Re: Musix 0.50
by Marcos Guglielmetti 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hola Richard Brayshaw: > Hola Marcos > > >> CPU upgraded to PentiumIII (450 MHz) with pre-2000 machine and > >> mobo 192 MB RAM, but I plan to upgrade to 384 MB soon (mobo has 3 > >> slots which only seem to read a max of 128 MB dbl-sided RAM per > >> slot) two 5 GB hard drives Sound Blaster Live! Platinum card > > > > Low CPU specs, but, it depends on what are you trying to do.. could > > you change the CPU? > > I'm not sure if a faster CPU will work on my system. Anyway, the > mobo speed might be the limiting factor, which would make a faster > CPU a bit pointless. I may be wrong and will have to check up on > this. > > On the creative side, I try to keep my recordings as simple as > possible: it's mainly acoustic music with vocals and sparse > percussion, usually no full drum kits and never more than 16 tracks. Fine > I've had a look at Audacity and Rosegarden, but couldn't get either > working (that was before putting in the SB Live! card though). Well, and then? > I've > got Cakewalk Express Gold running on my Windows system; it has it's > limitations, but it's almost perfect for my needs (a simple > sequencer, which allows a combination of MIDI and analog tracks). > > Is Jack essential or would it be possible to set up my system using > Audacity and some basic sequencer? Is not essential, audacity doesnt works with JACK, and you can run timidity, qsynth, hydrogen, zynaddsubfx with Rosegarden without JACK... but, in that case, you will have to record the output of the MIDI software synths with something like audacity and setup you mixer (ie: gnome-alsamixer, etc) to record from _wave_ output, ¿ok? If you use your internal SB chip to load soundfonts (asfxload file.sf2) you have to enable "Synth" output rec (capture), ¿ok? > I've yet to explore the whole > realm of soundfonts as the general MIDI stuff works fine for me. Ok, try with Rosegarden + a little soundfont, not bigger than 30mb, loaded into your soundcard. There is a good Rosegarden tutorial into the rosegarden's web page. > >> How does Musix differ to Demudi? > > > > It's more up to date, and it's easier for newbies, it's a live-cd > > but can update old musix or knoppix HD installations (aldo > > Debian/etch installations) > > Well then I qualify! I'm going through the Musix website now and I > like what I see... I'll have to start working on my Spanish! No! it's almost 99.9% in english ¿why spanish? > I like > the idea behind Linux and Libre software in general, and Musix 0.5 > might be just what I need. > > Anyway, thanks for the reply. That's ok, but I suggest you to get a better CPU, good luck Oh, i forgot, you can subscribe to: https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/musix-users > Cheers4now > > Richard > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please find our disclaimer at http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > <<<<gwavasig>>>> -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

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Google has released its new Google Code project for open source projects
by Hernán Ordiales 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

from: http://noticiasaudio.blogspot.com Google has released its new Google Code (http://code.google.com/hosting/) project for open source projects like sourceforge, now you can host there your free audio projects too… you can see which audio projects are hosted pressing here (http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=Audio) You have things like a Java audio processing library or Google Talk Voice and P2P Interoperability Library (libjingle) -- Hernán

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solving NET dhcp problems
by Marcos Guglielmetti 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Copy thje attached scrit to /etc/init.d/ Then, Type into a terminal: ln -s /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs /etc/rcS.d/S02mountvirtfs ln -s /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs /etc/rcS.d/S36mountvirtfs ln -s /etc/init.d/ifupdown-clean /etc/rcS.d/S18ifupdown-clean ln -s /etc/init.d/ifupdown /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown-clean I should fix this issue -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

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outstanding graphic FX for the Musix's desktop
by Marcos Guglielmetti 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hi Just install these 2 packages: musix-desktop-upgrade (v 1.19) musix-bin-scripts (v 1.1) And then enable the FX Musix --> Tools --> .... -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

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New Colombo hydrogen drumkit deb package (3.4 mb), and musix-freepats-extras
by Marcos Guglielmetti 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hi, I made it and upload it to our server: Add to your sources.list: # Musix GNU+Linux repository deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./ Also there is the musix-freepats-extras package -------------------------------------------------------- musix-colombo-drumkit Description: Package: musix-colombo-drumkit Priority: optional Section: musix Source: musix-colombo-drumkit Installed-Size: 3.4 MB Maintainer: Marcos Guglielmetti (Musix/GNU-Linux) <marcos(a)musix.org> Architecture: all Version: 1.0 Provides: musix-colombo-drumkit Recommends: musix-bin-scripts, hydrogen, swami, qsynth, fluidsynth, timidity, rosegarden, noteedit, asfxload Description: Musix's Hydrogen Colombo Drumkit You can find the complete set of samples here: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sound-samples/Colombo-Acustic-Drumkit There are 10.9 MB into 92 sound samples. . This drumkit is a small version of 3.4 MB. and installs on: /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/ColomboAcousticDrumkit . Colombo drums are handcraft drums made in La Plata, Argentina by a man called Colombo. . Drum details Wooden toms, snare and bassdrum Toms: 12X8 13X9 16X16 (hi, mid, low-foor) Bassdrum: 21X14 Snare "piccolo" 14X4 Aquarian patch set. Crash 16'' Sabian "B8 Pro, Thin Crash" Crash 20'' Paiste 1000 "Power Crash 20''", made in Switzerland Hihat Paiste 1000 14'' "Rude", made in Switzerland . Licence: GNU GPL v2 or later, see COPYING and README for details -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

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Help... Aseqjoy
by DCZX 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Aseqjoy (http://terminatorx.org/aseqjoy.html) is a program that lets you control MIDI with a joystick. I'm trying to use it to control pitch and modulation... does anyone know how I could set this up? Sorry this isn't explicitily Musix related, but I really need help! =) Marcus - Thanks for the link to my blog! Looks great =) I've given Musix 050 a preliminary bootup but haven't had time to install it yet and try out the new video detection. I will soon and let you know how it goes... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Musix 0.50
by Marcos Guglielmetti 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hola Richard Brayshaw: > Greetings Marcos > > Ooops! I sent an email to you by mistake which was meant for someone > else! Oh well, no harm done, I hope. > > Anyway... > > Re: Musix 0.50 > > Thanks for the info. I've currently got Demudi installed on a 2nd > drive of a rather vintage PentiumIII. Not much is working, but I've > had very little time to work on it as yet. I'm a complete newbie, so > I'm still getting used to Linux. I've got Windows 98 SE on the first > drive and Demudi on the second. Ideally, I'd like to convert totally > to a Debian-based system (no Windows), and use the second drive for > music recording only, for which I plan to install a much bigger > drive. > > My specs are as follows: > > CPU upgraded to PentiumIII (450 MHz) with pre-2000 machine and mobo > 192 MB RAM, but I plan to upgrade to 384 MB soon > (mobo has 3 slots which only seem to read a max of 128 MB dbl-sided > RAM per slot) two 5 GB hard drives > Sound Blaster Live! Platinum card Low CPU specs, but, it depends on what are you trying to do.. could you change the CPU? > Questions: > > How does Musix differ to Demudi? It's more up to date, and it's easier for newbies, it's a live-cd but can update old musix or knoppix HD installations (aldo Debian/etch installations) > Do you think my system (with the extra RAM etc) is capable of running > either Musix or Demudi without major latency issues? Mmm.... I dont know, I have an AMD 450mhz with 128mb RAM... but it's difficult to make JACK's music there... you can use things like audacity or rezound fine, but, Ardour, Rosegarden & softsynths... well, you have something good: a Sound Blaster card can load soundfonts into it, so you could use it's potential: yes that would be a good way... also hydrogen could be fine alone, used with not too big drumkits... zynaddsubfx could be fine, but almos without realtime efects... But you can sequence into Rosegarden using you SB soundfonts and the memory and process power from the SB, and then you could save each track into audacity or, just think what could you do... but it would be better with, at least, a 600mhz cpu > I'm really not looking for a huge 32 track studio, with hundreds of > plug-ins and other fancy stuff. All I need is 8 or 16 tracks for > recording and mixing analog and MIDI, to produce good quality home > recordings. MIDI? if you refer to your .sf2 soundfonts into your SB card, it could be done , yes, analog takes... mmm, try ardour into Musix (with a realtime kernel), but I think audacity will do it better for this low CPU RAM helps, yes, its avoid xruns... but dont spect use JACK with low latency, you will have to use it with 80ms latency or more. > Thanking you in advance Try it, and tell us , thanks > Richard > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please find our disclaimer at http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > <<<<gwavasig>>>> -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

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New Linux Music Blog (excited about 0.50)
by DCZX 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hey everyone, I just wanted to mention my new Linux Audio blog: Linux Rock Star at http://linuxrockstar.blogspot.com Musix 0.50 is the newest headline. =) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Musix 0.50, released!
by Marcos Guglielmetti 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

=Musix 0.50 released!= Thanks to the support of the Ututo Proyect, FSF, Ourproject, and to the usual collaborators, the Musix project has just released Musix 0.50, whose programs were tested for over 1 month, time that allowed us to solve some problems over Musix 0.49, and to make the more relevant software updates. Musix 0.50 can be consider the more stable and functional Musix version until now, also, 0.50 can update old Musix versions, as instance Musix 0.40 could be updated without re-install all the system. Musix counts with its own software package repository that has been growing. It is hoped to incorporate new software nonavailable in Debian, like mplayer or cinelerra (video edition), or Wired. The Musix project has offered several speeches in different institutions during 2005 and 2006, affirming the commitment with the diffusion of free software among musicians, sound engineers and users in general. Important programs/packages updated * Knoppix-installer was updated (taking parts from Knoppix 5.0.1): Now you can update a single package or a group of packages from your actual Musix installed on HD. As instance, you can upgrade Musix 0.40 to 0.50 without re-install the system. * Rosegarden4 1.2.3 should work ok (record audio without crashing). The problem was in an old .rg file. * Installed: linux-image-2.6.16-1-multimedia-486 from 64studio, Removed kernel-image-2.6.13-1-multimedia-386 from aGNUla/DeMuDi * Gparted installed: it's more updated than qtparted, qtparted was removed. Now the installation process should be better. ==050 New programs/packages installed== * Added better support for desktop in German and Portuguese languages (deb package created with files for icewm and rox-filer). * Traverso 0.30 (A multitrack audio recorder/editor) * Terminatorx 3.82 installed (terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data). * Created and installed a package with firmware GPL for devices MIDISport/Midiman USB 1x1, 2x2, 4x4, 8x8 y USB-2-MIDI (Steinberg) https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/EZ-USB * Installed: clearlook theme for GTK2 (Clearlooks GTK+ 2.x engine and theme) and KDE (Clone of GNOME's Clearlooks theme for KDE) * Grubconf was installed (it has a bug) * Icecast was installed (Ogg Vorbis and MP3 streaming media server) ==Others changes== * Improved Video hardware detection * Musix can be installed on Serial ATA hard disks * Added a text console menu created by Francisco Tufro, it also lets you change the video settings, read the User's Manual, and other tasks. * New wallpapers * The system name (Musix GNU/Linux) was corrected into the GRUB boot menu * Added new script for audio card configuration for testing: /etc/init.d/alsasound (apparently it works only with udev). It does not yet participates in the boot process. * The behavior to access to the Admin desktop was changed (stills needs other modifications) * Created "KDE-to-Rox" desktop, which takes icons in kdesktop (of the KDE desktop in ~/Desktop) and transfers them to the desktop using Rox-Filer. Besides, the "complete" KDE desktop can even be initiated from there. * Removed residual configuration files ==Solved problems== Generally speaking, this problems has been solved: * Solved Portuguese keyboard bug in text console? (ln -s /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt-latin1.kmap.gz /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt.kmap.gz) * Bug fixes into rosegarden+* scripts * KDM (desktop manager) takes too long to launch, solved * After updated GTK, some desktop icons disappear, solved * After the installation, the system reboots Ok ==Known problems in Musix 0.50== * Translation to french, italian and german languages needs more work. * Apparently, the 'bootfrom=' boot parameter ("cheatcode") does not work from the 2.6.16-beyond4.1 kernel. * In some PCs there is a problem with the network configuration that this scrip performs: /etc/init.d/networking A modified script ( /etc/init.d/networking-fix ) was added so that the ones who have this problem can solve it easily. ==Next version, Musix 0.59== * Hundreds of software packages will be updated * ... maybe squashfs will be used into the live-cd (more space to include more software) * a DVD version could be a nice idea :-D -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

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Musix 0.50 will be ready for download in 24 hours
by Marcos Guglielmetti 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Musix 0.50 will be ready for download in 24 hours, aprox. == Changelog == * Musix can be installed on Serial ATA hard disks * Improved Video hardware detection * Traverso 0.30 (A multitrack audio recorder/editor) * Bug fixes into rosegarden+* scripts * Knoppix-installer was updated (taking parts from Knoppix 5.0.1): ** Now you can update a single (or any) packages from your actual Musix installed on HD. As instance, you can upgrade Musix 0.40 to 0.50 without re-install the system. * Added support for desktop in German and Portuguese languages (deb package created with files for icewm and rox-filer). * Terminatorx 3.82 installed (terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data). * Rosegarden4 1.2.3 should work ok (record audio without crashing). The problem was in an old .rg file. * Created "KDE-to-Rox" desktop, which takes icons in kdesktop (of the KDE desktop in ~/Desktop) and transfers them to the desktop using Rox-Filer. Besides the complete KDE desktop can even be initiated from there. * Created and installed a package with firmware GPL for devices MIDISport/Midiman USB 1x1, 2x2, 4x4, 8x8 y USB-2-MIDI (Steinberg) https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/EZ-USB * Installed: clearlook theme for GTK2 (Clearlooks GTK+ 2.x engine and theme) and KDE (Clone of GNOME's Clearlooks theme for KDE) * Installed: linux-image-2.6.16-1-multimedia-486 from 64studio * Removed kernel-image-2.6.13-1-multimedia-386 from aGNUla/DeMuDi * The behavior to access the administration desktop (stills needs other modifications) was modified. * Removed residual configuration files. * Grubconf was installed (it has a bug). * Icecast was installed (Ogg Vorbis and MP3 streaming media server ). * Solved Portuguese keyboard bug in text console? (ln -s /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt-latin1.kmap.gz /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt.kmap.gz) * Gparted installed: it's more updated than qtparted, qtparted was removed. * Added new script for audio card configuration for testing: /etc/init.d/alsasound (apparently it works only with udev). It does not yet participates in the boot process. * The system name (Musix GNU/Linux) was corrected into the GRUB boot menu. * New wallpapers * Added a menu created by Francisco Tufro for Xorg booting in console, it also lets you change the video settings, read the User's Manual, and other tasks. == Known problems == * Translation to french, italian and german languages needs more work. * Apparently, the 'bootfrom=' boot parameter ("cheatcode") does not work from the 2.6.16-beyond4.1 kernel. * In some PCs there is a problem with the network configuration that this scrip performs: /etc/init.d/networking A modified script ( /etc/init.d/networking-fix ) was added so that the ones who have this problem can solve it easily. -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

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