Using WAV samples in ARDOUR
Posted: October 17, 2015 Filed under: Computers, hobbies | Tags: ardour, calf, midi, music, samples, samplv1, sf2, sfz, synthesizers, wav Leave a comment »It took me ages to figure this out, so here’s a quick note.
There are lots of free instrument samples on the web (and commercial ones you can purchase). To use these in a recording you need a sample synthesizer or engine that can play them.
There are several file types that are used, but the most common are “SoundFonts,” WAV, and AIG.
For sound fonts, a good ARDOUR plugin is the CALF Monosynth; for WAV files (and lots of other formats), the samplv1 looks like it works really well.
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Read the rest of this entry »Getting MIDI to work in Ardour/Jack
Posted: September 6, 2015 Filed under: Computers, hobbies | Tags: ardour, jack, jack keyboard, midi, music, recording Leave a comment »I’ve been struggling for a while to get MIDI to work properly in Ardour—i.e. in a way that didn’t involve hand drawing of MIDI notes. Since what was stopping me was of the “is the computer plugged into an outlet” variety of problem, I thought I’d say what I fixed here.
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The problem
The basic problem was that I couldn’t get any MIDI controller to register a note in Ardour. I could (I thought) hook up the connections correctly in JACK (and I was in fact doing it correctly), but no matter what I did, I couldn’t get my inputs to be reflected in Ardour when I tried to record. More annoyingly, it had worked in the beginning when I first set Ardour up. Read the rest of this entry »
DAW Notes
Posted: August 14, 2010 Filed under: Applications, Linux, Technical Notes | Tags: Computers, Digital Audio Workshops, Linux, music, recording, sound engineering Leave a comment »- First, after installing Ubuntu studio or Jack and all the other stuff, you need to add yourself to the audio group (System > Administration > Users and Groups > Manage Groups > audio (check all the users you want to add).
