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Linux music production workflow without a low-latency kernel
Forum suitability: sure, this concerns music production much more than music playing, so it would seem more appropriate here.
Generic kernel will make dropouts ("xruns") more likely even when using ...
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How to record wav file in bit depths lower than 8 bit?
Lower bit depths are not easily available simply because they are not looked for commercially, not because of some intrinsic technical difficulty. Audio interfaces or other capturing devices have ...
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Strip silence from voice recording
Audacity has a Truncate Silence effect (Effect > Truncate Silence...) which should be able to do what you want:
There are many other alternatives in other applications - but these are for Windows or ...
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Using the Zoom H5 as a audio interface under Linux
It turns on that the main problem is that I had to turn on the mics to get anything to work. In this case, the buttons labelled L and R, which control the default 2 XY mics mounted at the top. If I ...
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Automatically locate part of waveform in long audio file using another waveform which is a small part of it
Audio files are essentialy arrays (or vectors) of numeric values. If the audio files are uncompressed, the short audio file should exactly match a sequence of values within the long audio file. That ...
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Routing raw MIDI to software synth
To bridge from a raw MIDI port to a sequencer port, load the snd-virmidi module to create a virtual raw MIDI port, tell that program to use it, and connect the corresponding sequencer port to the soft ...
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Sound design software for Linux?
Audacity
Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording
and editing sounds (comparable to software like Sound Forge and Wave Lab, only somewhat simpler).
Audacity is available ...
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DAW on Win VM - what to expect?
I run Win & Mac VMs a lot on my Mac [Mac Pro 5,1 dual 3.46GHz Xeon 6-cores] with very few issues as regards general speed & peripheral connectivity.
It's fast enough to play GTA 4, even, at ...
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How do I check sound card's bit resolution and sampling rate on Linux?
This might depend on which distro you use, so you might need to tweak these commands somewhat.
If you look in /proc/asound and do a ls -alh in this directory, you should see a list of cards named ...
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How to do live vocals effectson microphone input, using LMMS?
Ardour does it. that's almost free.
SOX does it. that is just built in.
http://sox.sourceforge.net/sox.html#EFFECTS
You can get a list of your inputs a few ways
sox -d -e ms-adpcm -b 16 -c 1 -r 8000 ...
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How can I remove mouse and key clicks from live audio?
The best way to proceed in your case is to increase the signal to noise ratio as much as possible. Try a different location for the microphone - somewhere where is further away from the keyboard noise....
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Multi-channel audio server over local wifi network?
There is hardware commercially available today that will accept multiple audio inputs and broadcast them over Wi-Fi to smart devices (phones, tablets...) with the use of apps. See Listen Technologies,...
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Multi-channel audio server over local wifi network?
If the audio inputs are correctly configured, you can use the method in this answer (or any answer to that question).
The only difference would then be multiple instances of VLC.
(Sorry for the ...
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Linux music production workflow without a low-latency kernel
Just give a chance to Ubuntu Studio. All music stuff including low latency kernel are ready to use in this distribution and you can still enjoy all advantages of debian-based distros. I use it for ...
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Vocoder command line tool for Linux or Mac?
If by vocoder you mean "voice simulator" you can try the following cli on your Mac's terminal:
$say "Hello World"
For more informations about the command line type in
$man say
If you search ...
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Sound design software for Linux?
While not free (as in beer or freedom) if you want a fully-fledged DAW there's also Bitwig Studio which is available on Linux, Windows, and OS X.
There's even a free demo available on their website ...
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