Posts Tagged ‘audio’
Vyzer 3:2
Vyzer 3:2 is a live electronic improvisation that explores spectral spaces within a loosely defined structural framework where the evolving sonic experience is created through the juxtaposition of noise and tone, rhythm and pulse (and pulselessness.)
Read MoreWhite Noise Sample-and-Hold My Beer: Part I
Dedication: This post is dedicated to the memory of Ray Wilson, author and DIY Synth genius who passed away 10 years ago on July 21st, 2016. TLDR; i started this post midway through a surprisingly challenging project that caused a dark night of the soul. It worked out okay. Still, the flow/tone may reflect this.…
Read MoreRunning A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 6 — Arch You Ready?
Sometimes you are conservative, you stay the course, you do the cautious, reliable, boring thing. And sometimes you install Arch Linux on your lab machines, but only after flirting with OpenSuse.
Read MoreIn Praise of Tanh
Brothers, Sisters, Cat People and Dog People, Non-human humans and others, I write here today in praise of tanh (pronounced “tanch” like “ranch” — IYKYK.) If you regularly employ tanh to solve your computer music problems, great! If you are “what is tanh?” then read on! Problems You’ve got problems. I’ve got problems. We’ve all…
Read MoreNew Article: Pro Audio on Linux
Like many of you, I keep an eye on r/linuxaudio for announcements, software updates, and generally to try to help people new to Linux audio when I can. To that end, I took a few hours and put together an introduction to pro audio on Linux here. I decided to host it on GitHub rather…
Read MoreMultichannel Audio Devices and Linux (not a love story)
Something has been bothering me for some time since moving to PipeWire on my Linux boxes, and that is the way multichannel audio devices are handled. As we all know (and loath), Linux audio is complicated and terrible, but the upshot is that it gives us a lot of control and the possibility of extremely low latency — critical to realtime audio recording, processing, programming, etc.
Read MoreRunning A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 5 — Nightmares and Light
Imaging a University lab is fun and profitable! Learn how!
Read MoreA Flawless Linux Audio Experience…
I’m not just an emissary for Linux Audio, like everyone else who relies on it and extols its (few) virtues, I’m also its biggest detractor. So when you read “a flawless linux audio experience” you might think I’m trolling you, and in the distant past (say several months ago) you would definitely be correct. But…
Read MorePipewire and JACK on Arch Linux
This is a quick post to talk about my recent experience configuring Pipewire and JACK on Arch Linux. Now, I’m not an Arch adherent and maybe you aren’t either. That’s fine because I’ll talk about the minimal install and the packages that are required to get Pipewire and JACK working. This will not cover moving…
Read MoreRunning A University Linux-based Audio Lab: Part 4 — Updates and Brokenness
Part 1: Hosing Down your Computers In an earlier post about setting up and maintaining a Linux audio lab I wrote: Above I mentioned that cron-apt is used to check package status (daily) and use the email packages to email package status to the system admin (me). This, however, is not configured to auto update…
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