Links from Open Source Musician Podcast 53

Here are some links from Open Source Musician Podcast episode 53:

harrisonconsoles.com - Mixbus

Harrison Mixbus: The $79 Virtual Analog Console, Now on Both Mac and Linux

Sonic Talk Podcast

JACK-AUDIO-CONNECTION-KIT: Session API for clients

WalkThrough/Dev/JackSession - Jack Audio Connection Kit - Trac

ardour - the digital audio workstation

Ardour 3.0 alpha 4 released

Paul Davis

Mixxx - Free Digital DJ Software

DSSI - API for audio processing plugins

Leigh Dyer: woo, tangent | lsd's rants about games, music, linux, and technology

KXStudio

PiTiVi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

Open Source Musician Podcast: Podcast editing using Ardour

Saffire PRO 40 Audio Interface

ffado.org - Free Firewire Audio Drivers

Diffusion (acoustics) - Wikipedia

FoamByMail

Podcast OUT.

electric-guitar.co.uk - Guitar lessons and dictionary of guitar chords

electric-guitar.co.uk - Guitar lessons and dictionary of guitar chords:

"electric-guitar.co.uk offers a coherent course of introductory guitar lessons that is free, simple to follow and effective."

New release of n-Track Studio

Version 6.0.4 of n-Track Studio Multitrack Audio Recording and Editing Software was released on 2009-04-17.

Cory Doctorow: You shouldn't have to sell your soul just to download some music

From the Guardian: Cory Doctorow: You shouldn't have to sell your soul just to download some music:

"The same companies that spent decades telling lawmakers that they were explicitly not the guardians of the morality of the young – that they couldn't be held accountable for sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, for gangsta rap, for drug-fuelled dance-parties – did a complete reversal and began to beat their chests about the corrupting influence of downloading on the poor kiddies."

I don't know JACK

But I hope to get to know JACK, as I work on a few audio projects, as time permits.

JACK : connecting a world of audio:

"JACK is system for handling real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI). It runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows (and can be ported to other POSIX-conformant platforms). It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a 'plugin'). JACK also has support for distributing audio processing across a network, both fast & reliable LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs."

List of applications supporting JACK.

QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit - Qt GUI.

The Jack Rack project.

JAMin - JACK audio mastering.

Also, a couple digital audio tools that work with JACK:

ReZound graphical audio file editor.

Ardour digital audio workstation.

Note to self: check 'em out.

Sound & MIDI Software For Linux

Sound & MIDI Software For Linux is a site maintained by Dave Phillips who sometimes writes for Linux Journal. Dave's most recent article in the October 2008 Linux Journal (which, I believe, won't be available online for a couple months) points out a number of resources for Linux audio and sound. I don't know if the old boxes I have running Linux will be up to the task but I'd like to check out these audio tools as time permits.

Query: VR8 WAV

I was curious if there is a program available that can convert the files (with a VR8 extension) used internally by the Roland VS-880 digital audio workstation to standard WAV files. I have a VS-880 (now quite "legacy") that I used to record the Shack Monks album. I don't really need a converter since I have already archived the audio (two tracks at a time through the S/PDIF port into CoolEdit with the help of MIDI sync).

The search for "VR8 WAV" revealed a forum thread on VS-Planet discussing a RDAC to WAV converter utility. There were also references to a plug-in for a PC digital audio workstation program named REAPER.

I've never heard of REAPER before so I explored that a bit. The company that makes it is Cockos Inc. which was founded by Justin Frankel who created WinAmp years ago. I may give REAPER a try later.

Also found a VStudio Utility Portal page but there's not much on it.

Shack Monks

Shack Monks: If you like classic rock then you may also like Cosmic Rock (whatever that is). Excellent CD to listen to while driving. It's a trip.

The Music Biz Academy

The Music Biz Academy: The Music Business for the Promotion Minded

The OFFICIAL Gary Moore Web Site

The OFFICIAL Gary Moore Web Site