[LAD] [LAA] [ANN] guitarix-0.05.0-1 released

hollunder at gmx.at hollunder at gmx.at
Mon Jul 27 14:08:51 UTC 2009


On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:14:16 +0200
hermann <brummer- at web.de> wrote:

> guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar amplifier and is designed 
> to achieve nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds. 
> Guitarix uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit as its audio backend 
> and brings in one input and two output ports to the jack graph. 
> 
> 
> Release 0.05.0-1 comes with some major changes:
> 
>   * Completely new source structure by James
>   * add keyboard shortcuts
>   * improved skin handling
>   * add logging window
>   * improved preset handling 
>   * add middle tone control
>   * reworked audio engine
>   * add bypass mode
>   * add engine state widget
> 
> 
> Please read the README for more details regarding the new options.
> 
> have fun
> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
> The standalone version of guitarix is based on GTK2+. 
> But guitarix is also released as a suite of LADSPA plugins 
> and can be used in e.g. ardour.
> guitarix is licensed under the GPL.
> 
> Project page with screenshots:
>          http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/
> 
> download:
>          http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
> 
> 
> For capture, guitarix uses the external application 
> 'jack_capture' (version >= 0.9.30) written by Kjetil
> S. Matheussen. If you don't have it installed, 
> you can look here:
> 
>          http://old.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D
> 
> For extra Impulse Responses, guitarix uses the 
> convolution application 'jconv' created by Fons Adriaensen. 
> If you don't have it installed, you can look here:
> 
>          http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html
>  
> I(hermann) use faust to build the prototype and will say
> thanks to
>                 
>          : Julius Smith
>          http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/
>                 
>          : Albert Graef
>          http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/ag.html
>                 
>          : Yann Orlary 
>          http://faust.grame.fr/
>  
> 
>  regards   
>         guitarix-dev team: Hermann Meyer &  James Warden

Thanks, it's great, I just plunked some bass through it and it's a lot
of fun. Arch User Repository is updated.

Some things I noticed:
1) The default connections, especially with the meterbridge enabled,
seem weird to me.
2) Nice new website, I really like that sunburst theme, but on the
website it's a jpg which shows lots of aliasing, maybe a png
or something would be better?
3) Everything's quite small on my screen, I can hardly read some of the
things, like 'resonanz' and 'vibrato'.

Anyway, it's lots of fun :)
Regards,
Philipp



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