On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:11:43AM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > "fsm" == Frederico S =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz?= <Frederico> writes: > > fsm> Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > > >> Can anyone recommend a good digital music editor for Debian/Linux? > >> I'd especially like one capable of slowing down a sound file without > >> changing the pitch. Free is preferable, but commercial would be okay > >> too if there isn't a good enough free one. > > fsm> Give SoundTracker a try... it's a tracker that works with samples > fsm> and instruments, and you can import a wav file and play it with > fsm> the keyboard at different tones, speeds, etc, you can change just > fsm> about anything. > > Looks good... except that there's no documentation whatsoever so I > can't figure out how to use it. I can load a WAV file as a sample > (which takes forever if it's a complete song), but then pressing > "play" gives me no sound. Do I have to create a pattern or track > somehow? I can't figure it out! Help! Ehe, yes, it's hard at first, it is aimed at ppl that used SoundTracker and Fastracker (not that I was one of them, I'm new to this tracking thing also); first, when you said you wanted to change the pitch, tone, etc, I supposed it was from small wav files, not from comlete songs :) Even so, in SoundTracker: * you load the wav (Load Sample) * you use the keyboard like a piano, each key has a tone. * to actually put thing into the tracks you tick 'Edit Mode' in the Track panel, place the mouse over a --- entry and click middle mouse, and them play a note with the keyboard. This is very basic and it is as I recall it :) > > On an unrelated note (and probably more on-topic), someone else > recommended Snd, which also looks good, except that it won't play > anything either. When I try, I get an error: > > can't play > (data format 2 (mulaw (8 bits)) not available on /dev/dsp > [audio.c[2095] oss_mus_audio_open_output]) > [snd-dac.c[1719] start_audio_output_1] > > Is there something I can do to fix this? > Ummmmm.... what sound card do you use? The same thing will prolly happen to me since I use a SB128 (ess something :) ) with the non-OSS sounddriver (the ess something driver) and that one doesn't has support for mulaw and /dev/dsp doesn't really work... hope it helps, fsm -- Frederico S. Muñoz GNU http://www.gnu.org fsmunoz@sdf.lonestar.org Debian http://www.debian.org http://sdf.lonestar.org - SDF Public Access Unix Systems
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