Linux-audio-announce December 2023

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by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

5 months

Zrythm 1.0.0-beta.6.0.1 release

by Alexandros Theodotou

Zrythm 1.0.0-beta.6.0.1 has been released! ** We have also migrated our infrastructure/repositories/bug trackers from SourceHut to our own GitLab instance ** ==== Screenshot ==== https://www.zrythm.org/static/images/screenshots/screenshot-20221015.png ==== Demo ==== JDFight - Power Over People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAi2EkW5Y_g ==== About ==== Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use. It offers streamlined editing workflows with flexible tools, limitless automation capabilities, powerful mixing features, chord assistance and support for various plugin and file formats. Zrythm is free software written in C using the GTK4 toolkit. Zrythm is currently in beta. The project format is stable and we are working towards a v1 release. ==== Release Notes ==== Main changes since last announcement: - Project files are now JSON-based (12x speed up when saving project files, old projects are automatically upgraded) - BPM automation is considered an experimental/unstable feature for v1 - New piano roll actions: crescendo, flam, horizontal/vertical flip, legato, portato, staccato, strum - New automation editor action: flatten - New audio editor action: copy Left channel to Right channel - Automation created during recording is now automatically flattened to match exactly how it was performed - XWayland is no longer forced when running on Wayland (Zrythm is now a pure Wayland application) - All plugins are now sandboxed (loaded in a separate process) by default - Objects can now be copy-pasted from other Zrythm instances (cross- project copying) - Vertical scrollbars have been added to the timeline and piano roll - Each audio channel is now drawn individually instead of merged - Plugin paths for all formats are now configurable via the Preferences - MIDI clock output port for syncing other MIDI apps/hardware with Zrythm - Bypass button added to plugin slots - File import is now cancellable - Debugging on Windows is now easier - Port some deprecated GTK/libadwaita widgets to recommended alternatives - Removed library dependencies: libaudec, libsamplerate, json-glib - New library dependencies: soxr, yyjson - Many accessibility improvements - Various user manual updates - Various localization updates - Many UI/UX and DSP processing improvements/optimizations - Many bug fixes The list of changes in this release follows: ## [1.0.0-beta.6.0.1] - 2023-12-25 ### Added - Allow setting custom paths via the UI for all plugin formats (#4138) - User manual: mention how to enable timeline loop range (#4145) - Go to previous point when pressing transport backward button twice quickly during playback (#3355) - Remember tracklist width per project (#4091) - Add audio function to copy left channel to right channel (##4075) ### Changed - Draw each audio channel individually in audio regions - Change (previously broken) panel visibility toggle shortcuts to Shift+F10~12 (#4131) ### Fixed - Fix attempting to go to previous marker during playback not working when cue point is at the current marker - Fix various timing issues during audio processing that caused occasional errors (#3346) Full changelog: <https://gitlab.zrythm.org/zrythm/zrythm/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md> ==== Links ==== Pending issues until first v1 release candidate: <https://gitlab.zrythm.org/zrythm/zrythm/-/issues/?state=opened&milestone_ti… > Home page: <https://www.zrythm.org> Installer downloads: <https://www.zrythm.org/en/download.html> Git repository: <https://gitlab.zrythm.org/zrythm/zrythm/> User manual: <https://manual.zrythm.org/en/index.html> Developer reference: <https://docs.zrythm.org/> Issue tracker: <https://gitlab.zrythm.org/zrythm/zrythm/-/issues> Releases: <https://www.zrythm.org/releases/> Donations: <https://www.zrythm.org/en/community.html#donate>

5 months, 1 week

Qtractor 0.9.38 - An End-of-Year'23 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Season's greetings to y'all! Qtractor 0.9.38 (end-of-year'23) released! Change-log: - Track Properties (dialog): auto-background color option added. - Mitigate undifferentiated disablement of up/down arrow buttons, on tempo and time-signature entry spin-boxes. - MIDI clip editors (aka. piano-roll) are now raised and centered to current mouse pointer position in main timeline (tracks-view). - Remember last Marker color setting in Tempo Map/Markers dialog. - A colored ribbon is now featured on tracks-list Bus column and mixer-strip headers; ribbon colors are designated for Audio and MIDI tracks or buses, given by the respective '10dB' and 'Over' meter colors. - Buses'In'/'Out' suffixes are back on mixer-strip header tooltips. Description: Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Website: https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.38.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.38-81.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.38-81.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.38-81.1.x86_64.AppImage - Flatpak [8] package (thanks Hubert Figuière): https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qtractor Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: https://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [8] Flatpak, next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux https://flatpak.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2521 Wholly cheers && Keep having fun! - - - rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

5 months, 1 week

Vee One Suite 0.9.33 - An End-of-Autumn'23 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Seasons greetings everyone, Early for the winter holydays, the 'Vee One Suite' of so called 'old-school' software instruments, * synthv1 [1] as a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; * samplv1 [2] a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; * drumkv1 [3] as yet another drum-kit sampler; * padthv1 [4] a polyphonic additive synthesizer. Are here again released, this time for the (northern) [i]End-of-Autumn'23[/i] season. Still delivered in dual form: - a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session [5], NSM (Non/New Session Management [6]) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI [7] input support; - a LV2 instrument plug-in [8]. Change-log: - Mitigate LV2 State path mapping features duplication. (applies to samplv1 [2] and drumkv1 [3] only) - Minor optimization to denormal avoidance on some fx's. - Bumping into next development cycle (Qt >= 6.6) The 'Vee One Suite' are free, open-source Linux Audio [10] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [11] version 2 or later. **synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer [1] ** synthv1 0.9.33 (end-of-autumn'23) released! synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://synthv1.sourceforge.io http://synthv1.sourceforge.net project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.9.33.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-jack-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_84.… https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-lv2-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_84.r… - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): https://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-jack-0.9.33-74.1.x86_64.AppImage git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/synthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/synthv1.git **samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler [2]** samplv1 0.9.33 (end-of-autumn'23) released! samplv1 is an old-school polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://samplv1.sourceforge.io http://samplv1.sourceforge.net project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.9.33.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-jack-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_84.… https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-lv2-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_84.r… - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): https://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-jack-0.9.33-74.1.x86_64.AppImage git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/samplv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/samplv1.git **drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler [3]** drumkv1 0.9.33 (end-of-autumn'23) released! drumkv1 is an old-school drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://drumkv1.sourceforge.io http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/drumkv1/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.9.33.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-jack-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_84.… https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-lv2-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_84.r… - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): https://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-jack-0.9.33-74.1.x86_64.AppImage git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/drumkv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/drumkv1.git **padthv1 - an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer [4]** padthv1 0.9.33 (end-of-autumn'23) released! padthv1 is an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer with stereo fx. padthv1 is based on the PADsynth algorithm by Paul Nasca, as a special variant of additive synthesis. LV2 URI: http://padthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://padthv1.sourceforge.net https://padthv1.sourceforge.io project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/padthv1 downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/padthv1/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-0.9.33.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-jack-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_84.… https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-lv2-0.9.33-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_84.r… - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): https://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-jack-0.9.33-74.1.x86_64.AppImage git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/padthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/padthv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/padthv1.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/padthv1.git References: [1] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer https://synthv1.sourceforge.io http://synthv1.sourceforge.net [2] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler https://samplv1.sourceforge.io http://samplv1.sourceforge.net [3] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler https://drumkv1.sourceforge.io http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net [4] padthv1 - an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer https://padthv1.sourceforge.io http://padthv1.sourceforge.net [5] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org/ [6] NSM, Non Session Management (legacy) http://non.tuxfamily.org/nsm/ New Session Manager https://new-session-manager.jackaudio.org/ [7] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [8] LV2, Audio Plugin Standard, the extensible successor of LADSPA https://lv2plug.in/ [9] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [10] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [11] GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2520 Enjoy and have some fun, cheers! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

5 months, 2 weeks

Qtractor 0.9.37 - An End-of-Autumn'23 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi all! Qtractor 0.9.37 (end-of-autumn'23) is out! Change-log: - Fixed an ancient hack on session initialization to wait to JACK service start up, which hang up while on pipewire-jack >= 1.0.0. - Add default audio metronome sample files. - Fixed automation curve rescaling across multiple, more than just one or two, tempo-map node changes. - New MIDI Tool Resize / Legato duration option added. - MIDI Clip Editor (aka. piano-roll) thumb-view now taking tempo-map changes into account. - Audio metronome is enabled only when both the bar and beat sample files are provided. Description: Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Website: https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.37.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.37-80.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.37-80.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.37-80.1.x86_64.AppImage - Flatpak [8] package (thanks Hubert Figuière): https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qtractor Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (updated, thanks to Miguel Lacha): https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: https://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [8] Flatpak, next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux https://flatpak.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2509 Cheers && Keep the fun! - - - rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

5 months, 4 weeks

Yoshimi 2.3.1.2

by Will Godfrey

Copy/Paste has been improved and unified between CLI and GUI. Improved discovery of most recent HTML guide location. Also available to the CLI. Small corrections and updates in the User Guide. Various bugfixes. For developers: Improved access to control data/descriptions, with updates. Updated various explanatory texts. Full details are in /doc/Yoshimi_2.3.1.2_features.txt Yoshimi source code is available from either: https://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi Or: https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi Full build instructions are in 'INSTALL'. Our list archive is at: https://www.freelists.org/archive/yoshimi To post, email to: yoshimi(a)freelists.org -- Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'} https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

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