| PupuserPuppyStud | hi room | 04:43 |
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| PupuserPuppyStud | how good is u-studio, should i go try and find a review? | 04:44 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | does anybody have a midi device found automatically? | 04:45 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i didn't think so. | 04:46 |
| len-dt | both of my midi devices are found. | 04:46 |
| len-dt | It is a live dvd or usb stick | 04:46 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | what are thy called? | 04:46 |
| len-dt | try it first. | 04:47 |
| len-dt | What are what called | 04:47 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | what midi devices does u-studio find, is the question | 04:48 |
| len-dt | The ones I have personally tried are an old ensoniq gameport and a generic USB midi port. | 04:48 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | that's 200% better than me | 04:49 |
| len-dt | The easiest way to test is to boot the live iso and try without installing. | 04:50 |
| len-dt | How did you look for the midi device. | 04:50 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i used a command line info site, i just didn't try it. p.i.t.a. | 04:52 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | are there any good ham radio irc's anyone knows of? | 04:53 |
| len-dt | If you boot to a live iso and look in qjackctl it shold be there even without jack running | 04:53 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | thanks bud | 04:53 |
| len-dt | I don't know the ircs that well. | 04:54 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i ve found it before, it just didn't get going | 04:54 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | or responding, or light up | 04:55 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i have 2 usb midi's and a motif too, that is disappointing | 04:56 |
| len-dt | Pretty hard for me to know what that means. I plug the keyboard into the midi port. Use qjackctl to connect the midi port to a running softsynth and when I press keys the softsyth spits out the notes I hit. | 04:56 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | but it works fine on old windows systems | 04:56 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | rhat sounds great | 04:56 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | what generic usb? i have a uno and a yamaha, both usb. your is usb i assume | 04:59 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | has rosegarden gotten any better in the past year? | 05:00 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | it's pretty cool in pup studio | 05:00 |
| Len-nb | my usb is a cakewalk/roland. | 05:02 |
| Len-nb | I haven't used rosegarden in a while. | 05:03 |
| Len-nb | I am mostly a guitarist and use midi mostly for drums | 05:03 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i like cakewalk, i run sonar, a cakewalk spin-off, in windows, it's perfectly cool | 05:04 |
| Len-nb | hydrogen mostly does it for me | 05:04 |
| Len-nb | I haven't had a windows system forever. | 05:04 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i haven't run windows in years either , except by accident | 05:05 |
| Len-nb | Ustudio comes with qtractor out of the box, but rose is installable from the ubuntu repos | 05:06 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | sounds good, do you have any quirks with u studio? | 05:07 |
| Len-nb | Mostly hardware stuff. My wireless on my netbook has to be unloaded while doing audio. | 05:08 |
| Len-nb | Both of my machines are older low memory machines. | 05:08 |
| Len-nb | No dual core here. | 05:08 |
| Len-nb | My desktop is a p4 just went from 1G to 2.5G with a d66 audio IF | 05:09 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | pup studio 3.1 is freakin great, i'm totally greatful and in awww with it. no dual core here either. you sound happy with a p4, that's great | 05:09 |
| Len-nb | Ya, I work with what I have. | 05:11 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | what do you call low memory, when lots of things are open you need more memory or i have found it's a no go to do something fairly reasonably useful | 05:11 |
| Len-nb | low means less than 2 g these days. | 05:12 |
| Len-nb | I had 1G in both machines but still managed to do a lot with it | 05:13 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | wow, i did pretty much with 1/4 of that, but not lately. what area of the planet are you in right now? i'm in california | 05:14 |
| Len-nb | Swappiness is a bit high out of the box (60) I set it to 10 or less. | 05:14 |
| Len-nb | I am in BC on Vancouver Island | 05:15 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | so, you planning on a new machine? what are you workin on, with the music thing? | 05:16 |
| Len-nb | a new machine is maybe years down the road right now... too much money for me. | 05:16 |
| Len-nb | mostly I play live. The computer thing is new to me I have mostly been doing testing for US | 05:17 |
| Len-nb | (US means UbuntuStudio) | 05:17 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | yeah, i know. i mostly do midi between keyboards, and modules, and a midi delay, all hardware, no programs to mouse around to have my fun. | 05:18 |
| Len-nb | I haven't done much real recording for a while. | 05:18 |
| Len-nb | Last time I did a demo for someone else I used a fostex R8 tape machine. | 05:19 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i get midi feedback, it's awesome, talk about sustain! | 05:19 |
| Len-nb | I haven't managed that. But I haven't tried really. | 05:20 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | the amount of midi data runninr in a loop, is ---staggering | 05:21 |
| Len-nb | Ya, it would be. | 05:22 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | if i make a mistake with midi settings, i can crash the synth. but it has booted right back up. good designs, i suppose. | 05:22 |
| Len-nb | Even just watching the output of a mod wheel move shows a lot. | 05:23 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | it does the new age sound pretty easy, but it's hard to work out a good sustain sound | 05:23 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i like my little old yamaha djx synth, it has good midi control and a great low end, with whatever they put in it, but only if you work the sound with midi | 05:25 |
| Len-nb | Mine is a DX7, I like the feel of the KB. don't use the internal sounds that much right now. | 05:26 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i got that djx free, but it's a cheapie anyway if you can find one. i have a k3m too, the bass and filteres are legendary- it's a kawai | 05:26 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | have you tried the dx 7 emulators? i want thaose sounds | 05:27 |
| Len-nb | There is hexter. It seems to do pretty good. | 05:27 |
| Len-nb | It just uses patches ready made it seems to have no way of creating patches, no patch editor | 05:29 |
| Len-nb | I had a nice patch editor on my old mega-ste | 05:29 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | editing is almost everything | 05:30 |
| Len-nb | Ya the DX is fun for creating new sounds | 05:30 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i had a korg 01w, it was incredible, but it stopped working, that is a deep, deep box. | 05:32 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | and alot of programs for it too. i read a lot about the dx7. i remember wanting one. it seemed like the best ever possible synth at the time | 05:34 |
| Len-nb | The DX is great for making life like sounds. | 05:34 |
| Len-nb | Even off the wall sounds tended to have a "rreal" sound | 05:35 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | life-like, i never heard that way of saying it, about the sound | 05:35 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | does it sound lik little animals heh, lots of sounds i make are like defects from space | 05:36 |
| Len-nb | Well they are synth sounds, but seem to have come from a live instrument... only there is nothing that sounds that way. | 05:37 |
| Len-nb | I think it is the conplexity the FM mod gives | 05:37 |
| Len-nb | *complexity | 05:38 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | so, the emulator editor in not easy to get or do? i'm interested | 05:38 |
| Len-nb | There does not seem to be one in the repo so far. hexter says it does accept patch changes in the form of sysex messages. | 05:39 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | yeah, the dx could do some warm things. do you eventually get used to the controlling of it and does it finally get a little easier to edit? | 05:39 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i do syx | 05:40 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | syx can be augmented with a little program called midiox, it's for win though. heard of midiox? i'll be looking for that for 'nix when i get a chance | 05:41 |
| Len-nb | I think it is like the old B3s. It doesn't take long to make something sound ok. but years to fully explore the instrument. | 05:42 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | yeah, yrars, i know the feeling, it's a long long experience to get fluent | 05:43 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | so do you feel like there is something you want after the dx7? it seems like it didn't get better, from what i read. | 05:45 |
| Len-nb | everything went to wave table... a sample player. | 05:45 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | what is the technical discription of the dx7 again? fm, and ... | 05:47 |
| Len-nb | qsynth does a not bad job of that, but it does not give the expressability of synth sound creation | 05:47 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i like hands on knobs, anything interface is usually too tedious | 05:47 |
| Len-nb | The original DX was just fm pretty much, sine waves in. 6 operators in variour arangements | 05:48 |
| Len-nb | The DX7 didn't have much in the way of knobs either. setting up patches was tedious | 05:49 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | yeah, but t least you had hardware controls. one of my synths is a quasimidi raven, ever hear of that one? | 05:49 |
| Len-nb | nope. been out of the loop HW wise for years. | 05:50 |
| Len-nb | got married and have kids ... | 05:50 |
| Len-nb | Just started getting back into playing with things at home since last year at the end | 05:51 |
| Len-nb | Thats why all my stuf is so old. | 05:51 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | the raven is fun too, but it is like being stuck in a basement in europe and some odd things are included for sure, it's german alright. that dx7 has a large pallet of | 05:53 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | things to do, can you do them all? | 05:53 |
| Len-nb | I have a book... I go back to it when i get stuck | 05:54 |
| Len-nb | The keyboard has access to all functions | 05:54 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i still have not got my motif to do everything, it's like learning linux twice | 05:55 |
| Len-nb | I had a cheaper yamaha that I ended up making a patch editor for because I couldn't get at everything from the keyboard | 05:55 |
| Len-nb | It was sort of FM but started with odd wave shapes to begin with. two FM only. | 05:56 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | maybe i used your editor, thanks for the good work -what else dod you make? | 05:56 |
| Len-nb | It was for an old atari ste. | 05:57 |
| Len-nb | Most of the sw I have done has been menu stuff at work... | 05:57 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i may have read about it, i wanted an atari for a while. it's been a while | 05:58 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | do you know about soundiver? | 05:59 |
| Len-nb | I had a really nice sequencer on the atari... 1024 tracks to 16 chanels out. | 05:59 |
| Len-nb | They had midi built in. No good sound stuff though... nothing like a sound blaster even. | 06:00 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i agree, s-blaster is the max fun i ever had | 06:00 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | what did you do with sound blaster? | 06:00 |
| Len-nb | Nothing, I didn't have one. I was just saying that the sound available on the atari was worse than that. I have an ensoniq though, but I think it was before SB bought them. | 06:02 |
| Len-nb | All I use it for is the midi port. | 06:02 |
| Len-nb | If I use it for anything else it bugs my delta 66 multi track. | 06:03 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | i had good experience with the sb live fidelity ....with 3 drums /keyed at once , the memory of it remains with me, it was clearer than , maybe, anything i've ever tried | 06:04 |
| Len-nb | They were one of the better 16 bit ones. | 06:05 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | did you ever use sound fonts? | 06:06 |
| Len-nb | only the software ones. Like used on timidity and qsynth | 06:07 |
| Len-nb | None of my cards have there own synth | 06:08 |
| PupuserPuppyStud | ok, i better go,- keep beating on those pots and pans up ther in canada, you cats are the greatest | 06:08 |
| Len-nb | Thanks for the chat, bye | 06:08 |
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