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

[hermann]

Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 16:08 +0200 schrieb hollunder at gmx.at:
> 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
> _______________________________________________

Hi Philipp

Thanks for making the arch build script to guitarix. 

to 1.) do you mean the default settings ? Then I must say yes, we have
completely forget to adjust them to the new effects and amp
simulation's, so indeed they are (bad) useless. 

to 2. ) thanks for the hint, yup have update it to png.

to 3. ) do you think it's to small, or is it just the font colour with
the sunburst skin ? May we rework the font colour so that we could set
it with the gtkrc file also, in the moment it's hardcoded (pango).

regards  hermann