Posts Tagged ‘muziek’

Ubuntu audio with Jack continued

Saturday, November 18th, 2017

Allright, allright, allright, allright, allright, allright. I got the original setup working again (just Timemachine is not working at the moment).

What was wrong?

  • No soundfont installed in Qsynth, so no sound!
  • Mixer not installed via synaptic
  • Timemachine not installed via synaptic
  • Patchbay config file missing
  • Mixer config file missing

Here is the screenshot again

And here is the script

#!/bin/bash

#clientNumOxygen=$(aconnect -i | grep client | grep -i Oxygen | cut -d” ” -f2 | tr -d “:”)

# Start Jack audio server
# Patchbay settings will make sure everything gets connected as is in the config file
# Config file to use is /home/spruit/muziekmaken/patchbaywithQsynthandMixer.xml
/usr/bin/qjackctl -s &
sleep 8

# Start Qsynth.
# You will need to have a sound font selected for the sound engine you use otherwise no sound.
# Select it via setup.
/usr/bin/qsynth -g 6 &
sleep 8

# Start Jack Mixer and load settings
# Can be installed via synaptic
# Points to /usr/share/jack-mixer/jack_mixer.py
/usr/bin/jack_mixer -c /home/spruit/muziekmaken/jack_mixer_settings &
sleep 8

# Start a2jmidid to route keyboard midi to jack_mixer. ALSA to Jack.
/usr/bin/a2jmidid -e &
sleep 8

# Start TimeMachine to record brainwaves
/usr/bin/timemachine &

# Start Patchage to route audio between components
# Basically does the same as Patchbay
/usr/bin/patchage &

# Connect the keyboard. Not needed, can do this with PatchBay
# aconnect $clientNumOxygen:0 130:0 &
# Connect a2jmidid. Not needed, can do this with PatchBay
# jack_connect a2j:”Oxygen 61 [$clientNumOxygen] (capture): Oxygen 61 MIDI 1″ jack_mixer:”midi in”

# Disconnect the default ports where we have put the mixer in between
jack_disconnect “PulseAudio JACK Sink”:front-left system:playback_1
jack_disconnect “PulseAudio JACK Sink”:front-right system:playback_2
jack_disconnect qsynth:l_00 system:playback_1
jack_disconnect qsynth:r_00 system:playback_2

Ubuntu audio with Jack continued

Saturday, November 18th, 2017

Dammit, I had to set up all the audio again in my new version of Ubuntu. The midi keyboard once again produces sound over my laptop. Still need to find out how I can get all the fancy sounds from it.

Below is the Patchbay and Patchage setup.

Here is the start up script:

#!/bin/bash

#clientNumOxygen=$(aconnect -i | grep client | grep -i Oxygen | cut -d” ” -f2 | tr -d “:”)

# Start Jack audio server
# Patchbay settings will make sure everything gets connected as is in the config file
# Config file is /home/spruit/muziekmaken/patchbaywithsynthv1.xml
/usr/bin/qjackctl -s &
sleep 8

# Start Qsynth, this does not seem to work anymore
# /usr/bin/qsynth -g 6 &
# Start synthv1 or yoshimi
/usr/bin/synthv1_jack &
# /usr/bin/yoshimi &
sleep 8

# Start Jack Mixer and load settings
# Points to /usr/share/jack-mixer/jack_mixer.py
# Nog knoppen op keyboard definieren om volume te regelen
# This program is no longer available on the current Ubuntu version
# /usr/bin/jack_mixer -c /home/spruit/muziekmaken/jack_mixer_settings &
# sleep 8

# Start a2jmidid to route keyboard midi to jack_mixer. ALSA to Jack.
/usr/bin/a2jmidid -e &
sleep 8

# Start TimeMachine to record brainwaves
# /usr/bin/timemachine &

# Start Patchage to route audio between components
# Basically does the same as Patchbay
/usr/bin/patchage &

# Connect the keyboard. Not needed, can do this with Patchbay
# aconnect $clientNumOxygen:0 130:0 &
# Connect a2jmidid. Not needed, can do this with Patchbay
# jack_connect a2j:”Oxygen 61 [$clientNumOxygen] (capture): Oxygen 61 MIDI 1″ jack_mixer:”midi in”
# Disconnect the default ports where we have put the mixer in between
# jack_disconnect “PulseAudio JACK Sink”:front-left system:playback_1
# jack_disconnect “PulseAudio JACK Sink”:front-right system:playback_2
# jack_disconnect qsynth:l_00 system:playback_1
# jack_disconnect qsynth:r_00 system:playback_2

Jack issue after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04

Saturday, September 20th, 2014

After upgrading Ubuntu to 14.04 I had two problems.

– No sound from Spotify via webbrowser anymore.

Solved by: Installing pulseaudio-module-jack (4.0-0ubuntu11). This caused my PulseAudio JACK Sink to be available again. In PulseAudio Volume Control I then had to set the ALSA plug-in (under tab Afspelen/Play) to Jack sink.

– No connection anymore between my midi keyboard and the Jack Mixer. I could not control the volume in Jack Mixer via my keyboard anymore. The connection was visible in the JACK Audio Connection Kit via Patchbay (loaded via my patchbay configuration file patchbaydefault.xml), but did not get propagated to my connections in the JACK Audio Connection Kit. This was caused by a change in the name of the plug for my midi keyboard. Probably due to some previous re-installing.

Old value in patchbaydefault.xml:

<socket exclusive=”off” client=”a2j” type=”jack-midi” name=”a2j_Oxygen_61″><plug>Oxygen 61 \[20\] \(capture\): Oxygen 61 MIDI 1</plug></socket>

New value that worked:

<socket exclusive=”off” client=”a2j” type=”jack-midi” name=”a2j_Oxygen_61″><plug>Oxygen 61 \[24\] \(capture\): Oxygen 61 MIDI 1</plug></socket>

Solved by: Deleting the plugs via Patchbay and re-creating the connection. I probably also could have changed the xml file directly.

Ubuntu audio with Jack

Saturday, October 27th, 2012

Below is an overview of my current audio set up in Ubuntu with Jack. I mainly use it to fiddle along with internet radio on my midi keyboard. TimeMachine can record anything interesting from up to 10 seconds ago and onwards. The script in the lower screen does the set up. Mixer slides and qsynth channels with different instruments are controlled from the keyboard.

Linux Multimedia Studio

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Cool! Met Linux Multimedia Studio kun je makkelijk deuntjes maken 🙂 Pepe had ik gisteren ineens in mijn hoofd. Hij is nog niet helemaal af, maar ik moet nu stoppen.

Cocoonen

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Het weer zet aan tot knus binnenzitten. Draai er de Dubliners bij en het is meteen gezellig 🙂

En als we op de Paardenmarkt zijn zingen we…

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Ik dacht dat ik de enige was met dit lied. Door mijn zus al bestempeld als het Paardenmarktlijflied 🙂