[Consortium] ANN: Csound 5.06 released.

Dear all, I'd just like to announce the release of Csound 5.06. This release includes new opcodes (now amounting to just 1265...) some improvements to the API, full support for Python 2.5, and a new addition, which should interest linux users, of csLADSPA. csLADSPA is a csd-to-LADSPA plugin toolkit. With it, plugins can be written as Csound code and be used with any LADSPA host, such as audacity, jack-rack and ardour. It seems to be a great companion to Ardour 2, for the multitracking crowd. See in http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=81968&package_id=… Here's some quick release notes: Bug fixes: 'system' at k-rate was just wrong 'vrandh' and 'vrandi' scaling problems 'turnoff' sometimes failed 'mod' was wrong 'tempest' OSX bug fixed 'ATScross' fixed and 'ATSadd' output made cleaner New opcodes etc: - partikkel, partikkelsync -- particle synthesis ('the mother of all granular syntheses') - New command line options to control messages - eqfil -- equaliser filter - diskgrain -- granular synthesis from disk - pvsdiskin -- fsig streaming from disk - pvsmorph -- pvs data interpolation (spectral morphing) - scoreline -- score event dispatch - porting of opcodes from CsoundAV by Gabriel Maldonado: hvs1, hvs2, hvs3, vphaseseg, FLkeyin, FlslidBnk2, FlvslidBnk, FlvslidBnk2, inrg, outrg, lposcila, lposcilsa, lposcilsa2, tabmorph, tabmorpha, tabmorphak, FLhvsBox, tabmorphi, trandom, vtable1k, slider8table, slider16table, slider32table, slider64table, slider8tablef, slider16tablef, slider32tablef, FLmouse, FLxyin slider64tablef, sliderKawai and an a-rate version of ctrl7. A number of internal changes; a new API for allowing host applications to be notified whenever Csound opens a file. (And accompanying changes to the recommended interface for plugins to open files)." Frontends: csladspa -- CSD to LADSPA plugin kit improvements to csoundapi~ (v.1.01 now) New-look csound5gui now works on all platforms (last release had OSX bugs) ====================================================== Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth