Linux-audio-announce May 2016

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Presence Journal Special Issue: Arts, Aesthetics, and Performance in VR and Telepresence

by Myounghoon Jeon

We are very happy to announce this call for paper for a special issue of MIT Press Journal *Presence.* Feel free to pass it on to whoever might be interested in. Apologies for cross-posting!! *** CfP: "*Arts, Aesthetics, and Performance in VR and Telepresence*" Special Issue of *Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments* *Guest Editors: * Myounghoon "Philart" Jeon (Michigan Tech) Paul Fishwick (University of Texas at Dallas) *Scope * Art and technology have a similar origin, and until the 17th century were not differentiated from each other (the Latin word “ars” – art – included crafts and sciences). Since then, they have diverged, but with the rapid technological advancement of the current era, art and technology have begun to be *re*integrated. Recently, the application of computing to aesthetics (or “art and design”) has proliferated. Thanks to new technologies, we can expand the perceptual experiences of our existing senses and can even create novel perceptual dimensions that have never been imagined – new *presence*. Conversely, computing and technology can be influenced by arts and aesthetics, in what we call “aesthetic computing”. The application of art theory and practice to computing provides an opportunity to explore more creative media, making the concept of computing more accessible and promoting personalization and customization of computing structures. The trend to integrate art and technology is pervasive in formal education: STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is evolving into STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) by adding art and design to the equation. This year, the 25th anniversary of the journal *Presence*, may well be the first year of a new virtual reality era, with a plethora of new and updated virtual reality devices and technologies (Oculus DK, HTC Vive, Microsoft HoloLens, etc.). Given the paradigm shift from cognitivism into embodiment, the human body now has more opportunity for representation in computing (gesture interaction, tangible user interface, etc.) than at any previous time. In this line, virtual reality, which provides “presence” and immersiveness, is becoming more important for embodied interactions. Scientists and technologists can learn interaction techniques and strategies from body expression experts – “artists”; and virtual reality can provide an integrative, dynamic platform for arts and performances, a living synthesis of which German composer Richard Wagner once dreamed in his vision of “gesamtkunstwerk” – comprehensive work of art. We hope this special issue can serve as a good step towards that goal. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* · Performing arts in virtual reality or augmented reality · Integrative arts (e.g., dance-based sonification, dance-based visualization) · Public displays including lay people in the performance · Use of VR/AR to include people with disabilities in performance or art galleries · Paradigm, theory, and model of arts and aesthetics in VR and telepresence · Design research approach to performing arts in VR · Methodologies and methods of evaluating performing arts in VR · Design of new a sensor, device, or platform for arts-technology integration *Submission* Manuscripts should conform to the journal’s submission guidelines: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/sub/pres Authors, please note that audio and video files can be hosted as supplementary online material accompanying published articles. For more information about multimedia file formats and submission guidelines, please contact presence(a)mit.edu. *Schedule* · Call for Papers: May 15, 2016 · Submission deadline: November 1, 2016 · Final revisions: June 1, 2017 · Publication: Late 2017 *Contact* Dr. Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon Associate Professor Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences Department of Computer Science Michigan Tech mjeon(a)mtu.edu ************************************************ Myounghoon "Philart" Jeon, Ph.D. Associate Professor *Mind Music Machine Lab <https://sites.google.com/site/mindmusicmachinelab/>* *Center for Human-Centered Computing <http://icc.mtu.edu/hcc/>@ICC <http://icc.mtu.edu/>* Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences Department of Computer Science *Michigan Tech*nological University Meese 205, Rekhi 202, 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931 (906) 487-3273 mjeon(a)mtu.edu

8 years

Linux Show Player 0.4

by Francesco Ceruti

Linux Show Player 0.4 - Cue player designed for stage productions Version changes: * Added pre/post-wait and next-action to cues; * Added cue description; * Added volume-control for media-cues in CartLayout; * Added new cues: * CommandCue, execute shell commands; * MIDICue, send midi messages; * CollectionCue, replace GroupAction and group property; * Added stop-time for media-cues; * Improved (a lot) ListLayout; * Improved MIDI/Keyboard cue control/shortcut; * Improved media-loop, now works as a seek (no more delay between loops); * Included part of numix as standalone icons-theme to provided more consistent styling; * Various improvements and fixes. Notes: * Older version saves doesn't works anymore (we still in a pre 1.0 release); * A wiki (in progress) can be found at https://github.com/FrancescoCeruti/linux-show-player/wiki. Links: * Website: http://linux-show-player.sourceforge.net/ * Downloads: https://github.com/FrancescoCeruti/linux-show-player/releases * Wiki: https://github.com/FrancescoCeruti/linux-show-player/wiki * Code: https://github.com/FrancescoCeruti/linux-show-player Francesco Ceruti

8 years

gst123-0.3.4

by Stefan Westerfeld

gst123-0.3.4 has been released. Overview of changes in gst123-0.3.4: ------------------------------------ * Option parsing bug for "-@, --list" fixed. * Avoid annoying redundant tag updates. * Support video subtitles [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]. * Use A/a keys to set video opacity [Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]. * Work around kwin window manager policy "focus stealing prevention". * Fix image filetype detection bug. * Fix Issue 14: Use sync bus handler to set window xid. * Fix Issue 13: In some cases playing videos leads to g_criticals(). * Added "-f, --fullscreen" option to start playback in fullscreen mode. * Added "--volume" option to set initial playback volume. * Ignore symlinks when crawling directories. * Various bugfixes. What is gst123? --------------- The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on gstreamer. It plays all file formats gstreamer understands, so if you have a music collection which contains different file formats, like flac, ogg and mp3, you can use gst123 to play all your music files. Since gst123-0.1.0 support for watching videos has been added; however gst123 should run fine in situations where no X11 display is available; videos can be played without X11 display, too (-x, --novideo); in this case, only the audio stream will be played. It is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2 Links: ------ Website: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123.php Download: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123/gst123-0.3.4.tar.bz2 -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

8 years

pg800: a Roland MKS70 tone editor for GNU/Linux (GTK3)

by Guido Aulisi

Hi, this is a tone editor for the (old) Roland MKS70 analogue/digital synthesizer. It can edit a single tone and send it to the synth, like a real PG800 programmer. It can also load sysex bulk dumps and send a single tone to the synth. This is a beta release, it can be pulled from github: https://github.com/tartina/pg800 CIao Guido

8 years

Rivendell v2.13.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.13.0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** Changes: New RLM. Added a 'rlm_walltime' RLM for the Paravel Systems WallTime clock. New Utility. Added an rdexport(8) command utility. See the rdexport(1) man page for details. New Report. Added a 'Cut Log' report that includes the Description field for played events. Various other bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 255, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/> <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/>> Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

8 years

reMID.lv2 (that's right. a chiptune plugin.)

by Spencer Jackson

So I've been keeping this project quiet cause I wanted it to be a big surprise, but I may as well let you in on the secret now. Announcing: reMID.lv2! https://github.com/ssj71/reMID.lv2 reMID.lv2 is a reboot of the codebase for the little known project reMID (http://gp2x.org/remid/). It is a midi implementation of a SID6581/8580 chip famously designed into the commodore64 computer using the reSID library. I've heard many requests for a chiptune plugin, and thought this one would be pretty cool so I started the long process of refactoring the code to make it appropriate for a plugin last year. And now it works. It also works as a standalone jack application. True to the commodore64, this loads files to set the registers of the chip and "instruments" defined in the file can be scripted to make instrument programs that allow per-note arpeggiation, filter sweeps, PWM, or whatever your mind can come up with. I selected this codebase because of this powerful feature (and 'cause bitrot makes me sad). Unlike the commodore64 though, this plugin has polyphony (configurable up to 128) so its actually a bank of SID chips. You can now use all 3 oscillators for your sound design rather than to get triphony (is that a real thing?). The plugin UI only provides a dialog to load instrument files (standalone must load through the command line options). The original reMID was designed to allow a single instance to have different sounds on each midi channel and program change, so you could just use a sequencer and 1 reMID to do a whole chiptune track. That capability is still there but I realize that its much more common workflow to have 1 plugin in each track with a single instrument so I made that possible. You can work both ways. This architecture also allows drumkits to be made with a different sound on each note. For the more common latter workflow you just load the plugin and open the file chooser to find the .conf file you want. If you decide to edit it you'll have to use a text editor like vim or gedit or kate or whatever. Open the instrument file in the editor, make your changes and reload the instrument file in the plugin. Its a little weird, but I hope its not a deal breaker for folks. I was able to make a couple instruments pretty quickly last night by just copying one of the existing files and tweaking some stuff. I hope this workflow will work for you. There is some documentation in the readme, and the default instruments.conf file. Several instrument files provide examples as well as presets to give you an idea of some sonic possibilities. The full documentation for programming remains at the original project's site: http://gp2x.org/remid/inst_config.php Please give it a whirl (it has very few dependencies and should be easy to install, just follow the readme) and let me have some feedback. New instruments would be a great contribution as well as any bug reports or patches. Some notes: 1. qtractor doesn't support file loading through a generic UI. Therefore only the presets allow you to load different instruments. One workaround is to edit the .ttl files to add your own presets with your instrument files. 2. there is no DAW automation available. Exposing the parameters to allow tweaking the registers in realtime and automation is on the roadmap, but it's going to be a long way out. Some deep architectural challenges require a lot of refactoring before that becomes feasible. It would actually be much quicker if I just make a second plugin that does not have the scripting capability, basically like an LV2 port of the lmms SID plugin (https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=SID). If you have an opinion on whether this scripting is worth keeping for the version 2 reMID or not I'd like to hear your thoughts. ENJOY! _Spencer

8 years

[ANN] Radium 3.8.2

by Kjetil Matheussen

Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface. It's inspired by trackers, but also uses graphics to show musical data. A couple of demo song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG7FOfPFssQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp0wDH-OQlA Some classic 8 bit 4 channel tracker modules played in Radium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hNFQqtq2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGtlJKmGLNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i49fmYPH49k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yesS2hdLr9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOEvbEi-sOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLTxxvqYzl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_lQL8Fb8LU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMdZM0mlt_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6006cPKK1w Changes between 3.1.3 and 3.8.3: * Lots of interface improvements * Lots of stability fixes * Lots of efficiency improvements * Multi-core processing. * New color configuration dialog. * Optional play cursor. (Instead of scrolling the editor while playing, a red horizontal line moves down instead.) * Loop when playing range. * Improved font rendering, especially for white text on dark background. * Load and save VST FXB and FXP files. * Automatic backup every minute if there are unsaved edits and not playing. * Import MOD and XM files. * Optionally edit cents / velocities / vx by text instead of graphics, like in regular trackers.

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