Linux-audio-announce December 2003

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[linux-audio-announce] ac3jack - realtime AC3 stream encoder for JACK

by Jesse Chappell

Introducing the initial release of ac3jack, bringing you realtime AC3 stream encoding of any JACK audio. http://essej.net/ac3jack/ ac3jack is a tool for creating an AC3 (Dolby Digital) multichannel stream from its JACK input ports. Using this tool, an AC3 stream (up to 5.1 channels) is encoded in realtime and either written to a file or streamed to standard output. When streamed to stdout and piped through the ALSA tool 'ac3dec -C', the AC3 stream can be passed out the SPDIF port on your audio interface for connection to a multichannel surround receiver. In this way, you can achieve full 5.1 surround mixing and monitoring of your JACK applications with a single digital cable, and no need for hardware supporting discrete inputs and outputs. AC3 is a compressed audio stream, so quality is somewhat compromised. It is the price you pay for easy surround sound. After all, if it is good enough for DVD and film soundtracks, it must be OK. Please try it out, read the usage notes, and let me know of any build or runtime problems you find..... jlc

21 years

[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.5.6

by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.5.6 is available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.5/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.5/ BEAST (the Bedevilled Audio SysTem) is a graphical front-end to BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine), a library for music composition, audio synthesis, MIDI processing and sample manipulation. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound generation back-end separated from all GUI activities. The most outstanding new features are the demo song, the effect and instrument management abilities, the track editor which allowes for easy selection of synthesizers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.5.6: * New (or ported) modules: BseEvaluator - highly experimental (available with --devel) expression evaluator by Stefan Westerfeld DavBassFilter - a low-pass resonant TB-303 style filter by David A. Bartold * Added support for author and licensing information for plugins, available as "Show Info" in the button3 popup menu on modules * Started MIDI file import ability * Started new undo-able parasite mechanism for BSE files * Fixed default value serialization in BSE files * IDL Compiler bug fixes and cleanups [Stefan Westerfeld] * Started C++ Language Binding [Stefan Westerfeld] * Added i18n support to IDL Compiler [Stefan Westerfeld] * Added #include-impl support to IDL Compiler [Stefan Westerfeld] * Added toplevel package tests in tests/ [Stefan Westerfeld] * Support upper case note names * Internationalized plugins * Merged translation domains * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Dutch translation [Vincent van Adrighem] * Updated German translation [Christian Neumair] * Updated Serbian translation [Danilo Segan] * Updated Spanish translation [Ismael Andres Rubio Rojas] * Updated Swedish translation [Christian Rose] * Added Catalan translation [Xavier Conde Rueda] * Added Greek translation [Kostas Papadimas] * Added Portuguese translation [Duarte Loreto] * Complete rebuild of the GUI code by moving to XML based widget tree stencils * Completely recoded menu generation, activation and sensitivity, based on new simple action lists amd a stencil factory mechanism * Rewrote all existing property entry fields and added new types * Implemented a couple new widgets to improve GUI experience (GxkMenuButton as GtkOptionMenu replacement, GxkSimpleLable for shortened widths, ...) * Added accelerator support for popup menus * Lots of overall GUI polishing * Added "About" box * Miscellaneous bug fixes, lots of code cleanups --- ciaoTJ

21 years

[linux-audio-announce] gmorgan-0.20 released

by holborn

Hi! gmorgan is a rhythm station. a full programable accompaniment tool in real-time and also a pattern based sequencer. Requirements: --------------------- ALSA FLTK News on 0.20 -------------------- Convert midifiles to patterns. Patterns and styles added. Drastically reduced the amount of memory needed (67%). Changed to Autotools-1.6. gmorgan is availabe on: http://gmorgan.sf.net Thanks Josep

21 years

[linux-audio-announce] ANN: RTMix 0.76 released

by Ivica Bukvic

Greetings all! It's my pleasure to announce immediate availability of RTMix version 0.76. RTMix is an interactive multimedia art performance, composition, and coaching interface capable of triggering various DSP applications and/or processes concurrently, as well as offering a tight coordination between computer(s) and live performers. It can also trigger real-time events utilizing MIDI and OSC protocols, and can be in theory networked from a single client with up to 1000 other RTMix clients (personally neither have I had the opportunity to try this and besides the network latency would probably get the best of it anyways). For more info on what it is, what it does, and how it does it, please see the online docs: http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/RTMix-doc/ Changelog: *RTMix is now part of the AGNULA project! *In order to comply with the AGNULA inclusion requirements, the install is now completely modular. Please use ./configure --prefix=<preferred-path> to install all the data files to the custom location. Binary is stored in /<preferred-path>/bin directory, so in the case your path happens to be "exotic," please make sure to use --bindir=<path-to-bin-directory> for custom binary directory placement. RTMix has so far been featured at ICMC 2002 conference (Sweden), SEAMUS 2003 conference (US), in the "Organised Sound" magazine (December 2002), and has been used in several of my works whose recordings are available on my website. If you happened to use RTMix in your work, I would love to hear in what ways you got to utilize its features, as well as how can I make the application better. Thanks! As usual, the tarball is available for immediate download from: http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/rtmix-latest.tar.gz (4.3MB) For more info, please visit my website, RTMix forums at http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/cgi-bin/ico/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Rtmix_id, and/or the online documentation (provided above). Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico

21 years

[linux-audio-announce] Ann: Vstserver v0.3.0, ladspavst v0.1.6, vstserver-0.3.0-wine.tar.bz2

by Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen

Vstserver 0.2.8 -> 0.3.0: ------------------------- -Cache is updated when starting the vstserver. Also added some workaround code to avoid deadlocks. You may still sometime need to press ctrl-c and start vstserver again, but the problem is not as appeareant as before. -Does not use realtime priority when updating cache only. -Better documentation for vstlib. ("make doc") -New functions in vstlib: VSTLIB_newCacheList, VSTLIB_deleteCacheList, VSTLIB_getName. -Removed function in vstlib: VSTLIB_deleteCache. (Use VSTLIB_delete instead) -All clients must be recompiled. -Works with the latest version of wine at the time of writing, 9.12.2003. vst ladspa plugin v0.1.6 - stable ---------------------------------- -Use the new vstlibs functions to gather the cached AEffect structs. (non-important update) vstserver-0.3.0-wine.tar.bz2 ---------------------------- This is the unmodified cvs wine from winehq 9.12.2003. Tested and works with vstserver v0.3.0 --

21 years

[linux-audio-announce] gmorgan-0.19 released.

by holborn

Hi! gmorgan is a rhythm station. a full programable accompaniment tool in real-time and also a pattern based sequencer. Requerimnets: --------------------- ALSA FLTK News on 0.19 -------------------- This version is internationalized with gettext. French and Spanish languages and full documentation in pdf and Open Office formats has been added. gmorgan is availabe on: http://gmorgan.sf.net Thanks Josep

21 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] Tkeca 3.2.1 Released!

by Luis Pablo Gasparotto

Changes: - Bug when opening projects - mfe(volume_position1) not defined. - Bug when generating instructions for Ecasound http://tkeca.sourceforge.net Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! Luis Pablo

21 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] GStreamer "Mobil Avenue" 0.7.3 released

by Christian Schaller

GStreamer "Mobil Avenue" 0.7.3 released The GStreamer team is happy to announce our third release in the 0.7.x development series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework. The goal of this release series is to stabilize it towards a 0.8 release series which will be part of the GNOME 2.6 releases and hopefully eventually KDE 4.x. The 0.7 series is a development series and is aimed at developers. It is NOT API or ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series or with other releases in the series. This means you can not use this release to upgrade your current GStreamer installation and expect your GStreamer applications to keep working. It is parallel installable with the 0.6.x series however. This development series contains a lot of improvements compared to the 0.6.x series and is a much better foundation for building advanced video handling applications. Below we list most of the major changes and additions. Most are included in this release, but not all are complete yet as they will be in time for the 0.8.0 release. New/improved features in 0.7.3 release * Added libcaca plugin for Ascii-Art colour output. * Fix bug hindering seeking from working * Fix RGB colorspace transformation bug * Solaris build fixes * Lots of work in the CAPS branch, will be merged right after this release * gdkpixbuf loader no longer built by default, also fixed it in regards to packaging * And as usual a ton of bugfixes Download: You find the latest tarballs of this release either on Sourceforge: http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.7.3/ Applications As mentioned there are some changes in API/ABI between the 0.6.x and 0.7.x releases. Many applications will probably be source compatible between 0.6.x. and 0.7.x however. Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer for instance works very well when compiled on 0.7.x. Gst-player do not work accross releases however, so we will make a separate release of gst-player with the needed fixes for it to work with 0.7.x. This release contains the core fixes we where waiting for to port the player over so expect a Gst-player release in the near future. GStreamer Homepage More details on these features can be found on the project's website, http://gstreamer.net/. Support and Bugs We use Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The "product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Developers GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge. As of this release we have moved GStreamer CVS to freedesktop. All code is in CVS and can be checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library, plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. Contributors to this release * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org> * Andy Wingo <wingo(AT)pobox.com> * Julien Moutte <julien(AT)moutte.net> * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net> * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org> * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr> * Leif Morgan Johnson <leif(AT)ambient.2y.net> * Benjamin Otte <in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de> * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org> * Zeeshan Ali <zak147(AT)yahoo.com> * Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)mad.scientist.com> * Brian Cameron <brian.cameron(AT)sun.com> * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>

21 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] horgand-1.04 released.

by holborn

Hi Horgand ... is a organ, jack capable who generates sound with a FM based synthesizer, also provides DSP effects and a small programable accompaniment in wave table. Requires: FLTK ALSA JACK LIBSNDFILE News on 1.04 -------------------- - This version fix the problem in compilation and other major and minor bugs. - Load default bank at start. - Settings changed, Added default bank. horgand is available in: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/ http://www.telefonica.net/web/soudfontcombi/

21 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] Jack 0.92.0 release

by Taybin Rutkin

JACK 0.92.0 has been released. Mostly minor changes: * allow `jackd' to belong to a non-root group * new ./configure option, --disable-ensure-mlock - allows JACK and its clients to run in realtime mode without having memory locking privileges. - default behavior same as before (--enable-ensure-mlock), JACK clients terminate if running -R and unable to lock memory. * option parsing bugs fixed. * correctly handle deactivate/activate sequence for: - slow-syn callback - timebase callback Jack can be downloaded at http://jackit.sf.net . Taybin Rutkin

21 years, 1 month

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Linux-audio-announce December 2003