Linux-audio-announce September 2008

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by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

This release includes, among other features, enhanced mouse handling requested by Hermann Meyer, and a fix for the bug reported by Salvatore Di Pietro regarding MIDI channel numbering. Thank you very much for your feedback and comments! Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI event generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player, with optional MIDI thru. Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) v3. Changelog: 2008-09-26 0.2.0 New Features * RFE 2106023 MIDI thru * RFE 2106026 store connection names in settings * RFE 2106035 controllers state remembered * RFE 2106031 settings persistence: controllers/bank/program * RFE 2106015 translations (Qt Linguist) support * RFE 2107732 mouse handling enhanced: vkeybd behavior * RFE 2106021 custom highligh color * New icon/logo. Thanks to Theresa Knott * Spanish translation Fixed Bugs * bug 2116713 hide QJackCtl input port from connections * bug 2105246 start channel numbers from 1 instead of 0 * toolbars: workaround for an ugly Qt4.4 behavior when restoring the main window state. Copyright (C) 2008, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas Web site: http://vmpk.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk Sources: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.0.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.0.tar.gz Windows setup package: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.0-setup.exe openSUSE RPM packages: http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=vmpk Regards, Pedro

15 years, 8 months

Renoise 2.0 Beta 1 music sequencing software now available!

by Conner Bw

Details & Download http://www.renoise.com/new/ Introducing Renoise 2.0 Renoise 2.0 provides unprecedented granular control over audio, now with a range of new features targeting traditional recording artists and composers. A unique approach when compared with mainstream music sequencers, Renoise’s streamlined workflow delivers professional results on Windows, Macintosh, or Linux. Why spend hours cobbling beats together with a mouse when you can do it in seconds with a few keystrokes? Whether you’re an audio vetran or just starting out, Renoise is the perfect compliment for anyone looking for something new. Many artists from every genre have seen the light long ago. Renoise 2.0, with an entirely overhauled audio engine, is like staring into the sun. What's new in Renoise 2.0? Renoise 2.0 incorporates several fundamental changes. Some aspects have changed so revolutionary that it completely revitalizes the way you make music in Renoise. Moreover, this massive engine overhaul is essential for behemoth features in later releases. -- Timing & Precision Higher resolutions are now possible without unintuitive hacks like changing the amount of ticks or doubling the BPM. A new note delay column vastly improves recording precision, be it jamming with your MIDI gear or laying down tracks with your QWERTY keyboard. Speed is replaced by more powerful and easier to use LPB and TPL settings. -- PDC Renoise joins other state-of-the-art sequencers with a unique built-in implementation of plugin delay compensation. Not only does Renoise automatically fix unwanted plug-in latencies, it also compensates your MIDI gear and midi cables wired to other hosts. One of the most innovative PDC implementations ever has arrived. -- Audio Units Mac users rejoice! The developers finally caved and added support for your toys, too. Support for Audio Units alongside VST and LADSPA makes Renoise one of the only sequencers with support for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Every platform, no plugin left behind. -- Improved Plugin Support Better performance and compatibility for VST brings less audio latency related crackles on songs that use lots of VSTi instruments, multi output VSTi/AU instruments support, and the ability to send notes to VST/AU effects. -- And More! High-precision filters, drag and drop, quantization, bigger disk browser, pimped plug-in browser, windows clipboard integration, improved audio latency when recording, optimizations, GUI improvements, the list goes on! About Renoise Renoise has a different approach to making music compared to conventional sequencers, called Tracking. Tracking comes from the demoscene that pushes technical limits to show off coding skills, art, and music beyond what is thought possible. Renoise was originally written from code by the late Arguru. In 2000 the new Renoise team started to take tracking software into a new standard of quality, enabling users to make music on par with mainstream sequencers, while still keeping the proven design principles of years gone by. With Renoise 2.0 a generation of oldschool trackers and contemporary musicians looking for something “different” have reason to celebrate. -- http://www.renoise.com/ _________________________________________________________________

15 years, 8 months

[ANN] jack_capture V0.9.30 and Rollendurcmesserzeitsammler V0.0.7

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D jack_capture ============ jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack. Its default operation is to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file. (But it can do a number of other operations as well...) Note: This version includes Hermann Meyer's jack_capture_gui2 program. "jack_capture_gui2" is a nice graphical frontend for for jack_capture with lots of options. Many thanks to Herman for the contribution. Changes 0.9.23 -> 0.9.30: *Added Hermann Meyer's jack_capture_gui2 program. jack_capture_gui2 is a nice graphical frontend for for jack_capture with lots of options. Many thanks to Herman for the contribution. *Don't exit in case port is not found. *Print runtime warning and error messages on top of the console to avoid printing the console meter yet another time. (it's much prettier also) *Fixed a bug that could cause (and especially after the switch from calloc to my_calloc apparantely) segfault when specifying --port more than once. Thanks to Peder Hedlund for spotting the bug. *Print error instead of segfaulting when a specified jack port does not exist. *Removed -g option and changed -O0 to -O2. (Oops, don't know how long that's been there) *Make sure the stop semaphore is initialized before it might be called. *Changed the --recording-time / -d option to record exactly the correct number of frames. (The format for the option is still in seconds though). This fixes the problem where the wall clock and the soundcard clock drifts apart. *Always increase the buffer size with 2 seconds when more than than half the buffer is used, unless maximum buffer size is reached. *Added the --maxbufsize / -MB option which sets maximum buffer size. Default value is 40 seconds. *Decreased the default buffer size from 20 to 10 seconds. *Changed internal data representation from lockless ringbuffer to lockless lifo and fifo stacks. Unmodified lifo/fifo code taken from midishare. (Copyright Grame 1999-2005) Rollendurchmesserzeitsammler v0.0.7 ------------------------------------ The Audio Rollendurchmesserzeitsammler is a conservative garbage collector especially made for running inside an audio DSP thread. 0.0.5 -> 0.0.7 * Cleaned up source a bit. * Fixed a bug in "tar_entering_audio_thread" which caused it to return false if currently copying a different heap. * Cleaned up the critical section handling between the DSP thread and the sweep thread. (it was really messy)

15 years, 8 months

Patchage 0.4.2

by Dave Robillard

Patchage is a graphical modular patch bay for audio/MIDI systems based on JACK, LASH, and ALSA. This release adds: - Support for the new LASH D-BUS interface (currently LASH SVN only) - Improved LASH GUI (from Nedko Arnaudov's ladi-patchage branch) - Quick/easy connection of groups of ports in one action (select all the ports and press enter) Also released in parallel are the two libraries Patchage depends on, raul 0.5.1 and flowcanvas 0.5.1. More information, screenshot, downloads, etc. available at: http://drobilla.net/software/patchage http://drobilla.net/software/raul http://drobilla.net/software/flowcanvas Packages for all 3 projects are available for Debian unstable (sid). For repository details see http://wiki.drobilla.net/Debian Enjoy, -dr

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Linux-audio-announce September 2008