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Creative Prodikeys
by Sean Edwards 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Has anybody used the Creative Prodikeys with Linux/ALSA? http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=8&subcategory=234&pro… -=cybersean=- __________________________________________________ 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 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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Re: Musix 0.50
by Sean Edwards 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

I just re-installed Musix 0.50. Well, kind of re-installed . . . The hard drive was in a dual-boot PC. I took it out and put it into a dedicated box just for Musix. Finally, I have my very own Digital Audio Workstation! Thank you for your hard work Marcos! -=Sean=- __________________________________________________ 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 Sean Edwards 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

What was the best stable release before 0.50? I was using 0.31 before trying to upgrade to 0.50 and I can not get X to work at all now. -=Sean Edwards=- __________________________________________________ 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 (Problem with X)
by julien bodd 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

Hello, I one had the same problem ! my X crashed and never worked again.. It was after I made an : apt-get dist-upgrade This does not happen only with Musix but with all kind of Debian systems. It happens between some X config files are moving placed between the stable and testing I think. So drivers (Nvidia only??) do not find the appropriate files. The first time it happens I could do nothing because I didn't know this was the problem. After I looked on the net..and found topics describing that. One solution was to make sym links from the new place to the old one. Hmm..don't really remember other details. Hope it helped ! > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:33:16 +0200 > From: Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Musix-users] Re: Musix 0.50 > To: Musix GNU+Linux users list <musix-users(a)lists.ourproject.org> > Message-ID: <200608170033.17124.marcospcmusica(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" > > El Jueves, 17 de Agosto de 2006 02:46, greg h escribió: > > synaptic was the name of the program that i used to upgrade, > > Ah, ok. > > > and the > > options were set to smart upgrade so i only updated the packages that > > were already installed. > > Mmm. I never used this option.. also, I use apt-get in a konsole. > > > i havent heard of apt-get, nor would i know > > how to use it, > > It's not hard... to upgrade the system: > > apt-get update > > apt-get upgrade > > (but it would be better to read the manual: man apt-get) > > > as for the xdm when it crashes... well, ill reboot > > after updating my packages, and then i get a note saying the xdm dont > > work and then its a back screen with the login box (text)... and then > > it runs as if it were in dos or something > > > Well, this could be easy to solve if I could know what files did you had > into /etc/rcS.0/ > > As instance, it should be a file called: S61kdmset > > And, also KDM should be installed on your system, to know it, type > > apt-cache policy kdm > > Then, we could make X to work. > > > Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica(a)gmail.com> wrote: El Miércoles, > 16 de Agosto de 2006 23:45, greg h escribió: > > > hi this is greg i have problems when im getting the english package > > > updates.... > > > > What packages? > > > > You can tell us by typing your command into konsole (as instance > > apt-get install your_package), and the copy this by selecting with > > the mouse, then pasting here into the mail. > > > > > i cant remember the name but i update all the debian > > > packages > > > > apt-get upgrade? > > > > apt-get dist-upgrade? > > > > > and then my X display manager crashes > > > > It opens and then crashes? > > > > did you tried with videoconfig.sh script? > > > > > and i cant repair it > > > so i have to reinstall musix. is there another way to update musix > > > safely? > > > > MM... I dont know what are you doing: if using synaptic or apt-get, > > and I dont know what packages are you upgrading > > > > > when the XDM goes out i find myself to be in a DOS kind of mode, > > > still learning the language but not quite there yet > > > > If you are using Musix 0.50, you can type menu > > > > A menu will appear, and you can go to videoconfig.sh, or something > > else. > > > > > Sean Edwards wrote: > > > According to the change log quoted below, it is > > > possible to update old musix versions. Where is the > > > documentation on how to do this? > > > > > > https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/Changelog-en > > > > > > 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.

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Re: Recommended Hardware
by Marcos Guglielmetti 12 Aug '06

12 Aug '06

Hola Moinur Rahman: > Sir, > > It was really a relief to hear that M-Audio PCI > devices work with Musix. Mm... I only know about M-Audio delta 24/96, for the other soundcards, you have to ask to the ALSA people, or see the ALSA matrix and: http://www.musix.org.ar/FAQs-en.html#USB_MIDI_Devices > But is ASIO supported by > Musix? No: GNU/Linux uses it's own low latency drivers, ALSA + JACK > You know ASIO is an important factor for > proffessional recording. > > Thanking you. > > Moinur Rahman See you > --- Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > El Viernes, 11 de Agosto de 2006 17:11, Moinur > > > > Rahman escribió: > > > Sir, > > > > > > It was a pleasure to find this site as it > > > > was the last > > > > > reason I was sticking with M$. > > > > Fine, that's the idea behind Musix and other > > GNU/Linux distros: to replace all > > the private (depriving) software. > > > > > But now the problem is I want to know a list > > > > of > > > > > hardware known to work with Musix. > > > > MMmmm... you have some hardware reports into the > > Live-CD > > /root/Mis_Documentos_GNU-Linux/otros-textos/hardware-compatible/ > > > Sorry about the spanish language: I have to change > > that. But the docs have > > important info..., these were made by the Musix's > > users, by clicking > > Musix --> Tools --> System Report (pcinfo.sh) > > > > > > AMD-500-CMI8738-Jose.txt > > AMD_Athlon-64-3200_sound--Audigy2-Platinum_SB0240P_.txt > > AMD-K6-333mhz_audio_C-Media_PCI_CMI8738-MC6___snd_cmipci.txt > > > Echo-laylas-AMD-SMP-non-free-firmware.txt > > Mobile_AMD_Sempron_3100_audio__snd_atiixp.txt > > notebooks-Mobile_AMD_Athlon_XP_2200audio_VT8233_A_8235_8237-AC97_Audi >o-Controller.txt > > > P4-1.6mhz--i810_audio.txt > > pcinfo_AMD-AthlonXP-1900--SB-live.txt > > pcinfo_AMD_Sempron_2400_VIA_soundcard.txt > > pcinfo_AMD:Semptron_1600-VIA8237_sound.txt > > pcinfo_Mobile_Intel_Pentium_4_CPU_2_8GHz.txt > > pcinfo-NVidia_nForce-AMD Athlon--XP2000+.txt > > pcinfo_P4-3.2ghz__audio__Intel-ICH5_snd_intel8x0.txt > > pcinfo_P_Celeron-233-no-sound.txt > > Pentium_4_CPU_2-80GHz__audio_SiS-SI7012__snd_intel8x0.txt > > > Pentium-III-kernel-panic-when_installed__Sb-Live.txt > > PIII-933-MHz-768-RAM-SB-Audigy.txt > > > > > Most of the time I > > > used to record from my Guiter and MIDI > > > > Guitar(Roland). > > > > > Now there in the website you have listed > > > > some MIDI > > > > > devices but what if I want to record from my > > > > Guitar > > > > > using 1/4" input?? > > > > I guess you mean, to record from an audio input > > > > > Do u think any of those M-audio recording > > > > devices > > > > > might help me?? Like FastTrack Pro, Firewire > > > > 1814, > > > > > Firewire 410, Firewire Audiophile, > > > > Firewire drivers are in development state (freebob > > project), so, I would not > > buy some of theses devices for now > > > > > Audiophile USB. > > > > This one could work: you could try it by booting > > Musix into a machine. But, I > > know that M-Audio PCI products works fine with > > GNU/Linux > > > > > If > > > u know any of these or any hardware working > > > > please > > > > > lemme know. > > > > > > Waiting for ur early reply and to wipe out > > > > last symbol > > > > > of M$ from my home :D. > > > > > > Muhammad Moinur Rahman > > > > For better info, join: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > > > You can talk with the driver's developers > > > > Good luck > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best > > > > spam protection around > > > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > 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 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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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Re: Recommended Hardware
by Marcos Guglielmetti 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

El Viernes, 11 de Agosto de 2006 17:11, Moinur Rahman escribió: > Sir, > > It was a pleasure to find this site as it was the last > reason I was sticking with M$. Fine, that's the idea behind Musix and other GNU/Linux distros: to replace all the private (depriving) software. > But now the problem is I want to know a list of > hardware known to work with Musix. MMmmm... you have some hardware reports into the Live-CD /root/Mis_Documentos_GNU-Linux/otros-textos/hardware-compatible/ Sorry about the spanish language: I have to change that. But the docs have important info..., these were made by the Musix's users, by clicking Musix --> Tools --> System Report (pcinfo.sh) AMD-500-CMI8738-Jose.txt AMD_Athlon-64-3200_sound--Audigy2-Platinum_SB0240P_.txt AMD-K6-333mhz_audio_C-Media_PCI_CMI8738-MC6___snd_cmipci.txt Echo-laylas-AMD-SMP-non-free-firmware.txt Mobile_AMD_Sempron_3100_audio__snd_atiixp.txt notebooks-Mobile_AMD_Athlon_XP_2200audio_VT8233_A_8235_8237-AC97_Audio-Controller.txt P4-1.6mhz--i810_audio.txt pcinfo_AMD-AthlonXP-1900--SB-live.txt pcinfo_AMD_Sempron_2400_VIA_soundcard.txt pcinfo_AMD:Semptron_1600-VIA8237_sound.txt pcinfo_Mobile_Intel_Pentium_4_CPU_2_8GHz.txt pcinfo-NVidia_nForce-AMD Athlon--XP2000+.txt pcinfo_P4-3.2ghz__audio__Intel-ICH5_snd_intel8x0.txt pcinfo_P_Celeron-233-no-sound.txt Pentium_4_CPU_2-80GHz__audio_SiS-SI7012__snd_intel8x0.txt Pentium-III-kernel-panic-when_installed__Sb-Live.txt PIII-933-MHz-768-RAM-SB-Audigy.txt > Most of the time I > used to record from my Guiter and MIDI Guitar(Roland). > Now there in the website you have listed some MIDI > devices but what if I want to record from my Guitar > using 1/4" input?? I guess you mean, to record from an audio input > Do u think any of those M-audio recording devices > might help me?? Like FastTrack Pro, Firewire 1814, > Firewire 410, Firewire Audiophile, Firewire drivers are in development state (freebob project), so, I would not buy some of theses devices for now > Audiophile USB. This one could work: you could try it by booting Musix into a machine. But, I know that M-Audio PCI products works fine with GNU/Linux > If > u know any of these or any hardware working please > lemme know. > > Waiting for ur early reply and to wipe out last symbol > of M$ from my home :D. > > Muhammad Moinur Rahman For better info, join: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user You can talk with the driver's developers Good luck > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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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Re: problem with musix
by Marcos Guglielmetti 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hola korneel moeyaert: > Hello, > I decided to instal Linux on an old win98 computer. So I made an > image r-wr cd with Musix with Nero with an other pc (this one). > Everything went fine. I formatted the computer, so windows is not > anymore. Then I started up the computer with the boot cd and selected > in the bios setup the cd device as the first boot device. But I only > see a cursor on a black screen now. And I can't press any key exept > alt+ctrl+del to startup again. > What is the major problem? > Thank you very much. > regards, Korneel Mmm..... well, I dont know really: does this Live-CD works on another PC? -- 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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