Linux-audio-announce February 2022

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by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the next production release of the next major version of Rivendell, 3.6.4. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2. From the 'NEWS' file: *** snip snip *** Changes: RDLogEdit. Added a 'Log Listing (CSV)' report under the 'Reports' button in the 'Edit Log' dialog. Added a 'SuppressMusicImportLinks=No|Yes' directive to the [Hacks] section of rd.conf(5). PyPAD Scripts. Added the ability to filter PAD updates by Group membership on a per-script instance basis. See the documentation for the [NowGroups] and [NextGroups] sections in the script exemplar files. Now & Next/PAD System. Deprecated the use of the 'Transmit Now & Next data' checkbox in the 'Group' dialog in rdadmin(1). Various bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 347, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. *** snip snip *** Details and source code are available at https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases <https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases>. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

2 years, 3 months

Zrythm release 1.0.0-alpha.29.0.1

by Alexandros Theodotou

Zrythm v1.0.0-alpha.29.0.1 has been released! === Screenshot === https://mastodon.social/web/@zrythm/107785179255147644 === Release Notes === This release focuses on chord functionality and brings additional scales, chord presets and packs, chord inversions and the ability to transpose the whole chord pad. Changes: ### Added - Add more scales - User manual: add more info about DSSI/LADSPA and Flatpak plugin paths - Chord inversions - Chord presets and chord preset packs - Chord preset auditioning - Ability to transpose entire chord pad - Add meson options for optional dependencies - Make chord changes undoable ### Changed - Change how scales/chords are handled - Use adaptive grid snap by default - Hardcode Flatpak plugin paths - Make region icon sizes smaller - Print chord names in chord regions in timeline - Use GtkCenterBox for bottom bar (makes Zrythm usable on small screen sizes) - Select listview items on right click - Port file auditioner instrument dropdown to GtkDropDown - Unset `GTK_THEME` on startup (only support Zrythm themes) - Update Catalan, French, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese, German translations - Do not block buttons below toast widget - Do not allow setting loop end marker at or before loop start marker - Do not allow cloning unclonable tracks ### Fixed - Fix various issues with chord selector window - Fix occasional stuck notes when clicking chords - Fix error when pasting when clipboard is empty - Fix error when showing port connections on input port - Fix incorrect MIDI channel being sent when auditioning MIDI notes Full changelog: https://git.sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm/tree/master/item/CHANGELOG.md === About Zrythm === Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use. It allows limitless automation through curves, LFOs and envelopes, supports multiple plugin formats including LV2, LADSPA, DSSI, SFZ, SF2, VST2 and VST3 (via Carla), works with multiple backends including JACK, PulseAudio, RtAudio/RtMidi and SDL2, assists with chord progressions via a special Chord Track and chord pads, and can be used in multiple languages including English, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German. Zrythm is free software written in C using the GTK+3 toolkit and can be extended using GNU Guile (Scheme). Zrythm is currently in alpha and we are working towards stabilizing the project format and entering the beta phase. Pending features for beta: https://todo.sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm-feature?search=status%3Aopen+label%3Abeta Pending fixes for beta: https://todo.sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm-bug?search=status%3Aopen%20label%3A%22be… === Links === Home page: <https://www.zrythm.org> Installer downloads: <https://www.zrythm.org/en/download.html> Git repository: <https://sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm> User manual: <https://manual.zrythm.org/en/index.html> Developer reference: <https://docs.zrythm.org/> Issue trackers: <https://sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm/trackers> Mailing lists: <https://sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm/lists> Releases: <https://www.zrythm.org/releases/>

2 years, 3 months

Qsynth 0.9.6 - A Mid-Winter'22 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi all, ** Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface [1] ** Qsynth 0.9.6 (mid-winter'22) is out! Qsynth is a FluidSynth [2] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework [3] using Qt Designer. Change-log: - Migrated command line parsing to QCommandLineParser/Option (Qt >= 5.2; by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas). - New option to change the UI language translation. - Added DLS file type to the soundfonts selection dialog. - Fixed translations path to be relative to application runtime. Website: https://qsynth.sourceforge.io http://qsynth.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.6.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.6-50.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.6-50.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [6] package: https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.6-50.1.x86_64.AppImage - Windows package (thanks to Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas): https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.6-50.1.win-x64-setup.exe - Flatpak [7] package (thanks again to Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas): https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qsynth Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qsynth/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsynth.git License: Qsynth [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [4] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later [5]. References: [1] Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface https://qsynth.sourceforge.io [2] FluidSynth - A SoundFont Synthesizer A real-time software synthesizer based on SoundFont 2 specifications https://www.fluidsynth.org [3] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [4] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [5] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [6] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [7] Flatpak, next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux https://flatpak.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2315 Have fun, make some noise! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

2 years, 3 months

Drumstick Libraries 2.5.1 Released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Drumstick is a set of MIDI libraries using C++/Qt5 idioms and style. Includes a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface: ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. A complementary library provides classes for processing SMF (Standard MIDI files: .MID/.KAR), RIFF MIDI (.RMI), and Cakewalk (.WRK) file formats. A multiplatform realtime MIDI I/O library and a GUI Widgets libraries are also provided for Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX. Changes in v2.5.1: * Utils: fixed loading translations, program names and messages. * AppStream MetaInfo added for the three GUI utilities. * Widgets: Fluidsynth soundfonts dialog, updated filters. * RT: Fluidsynth backend initialization: failure report for invalid soundfonts. * cmake buildsystem: run qt::lupdate after building targets. * qmake buildsystem: Fixed linking tests. * fixed install: header missing when only BUILD_ALSA is selected. Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms: * C++11 compiler * CMake 3.14 * Qt5 >= 5.9 or Qt6 >= 6.2 (experimental, with Qt6Core5Compat library dependency for Drumstick::File) Feature dependencies (for some platforms): * ALSA (Linux only) * PulseAudio (Unix) * D-Bus (Unix) * FluidSynth Copyright (C) 2009-2022, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 or later Project web site https://sourceforge.net/p/drumstick Online documentation https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/docs/ Downloads https://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/2.5.1/

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Linux-audio-announce February 2022