Linux-audio-announce February 2003

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Hydrogen 0.7.5

by Comix

Hi all, I've released v0.7.5 of Hydrogen! yes...yet another sample-based drum machine/step sequencer... Features: * Graphical user interface based on QT 3, * Sample based audio engine, * Oss Audio driver, * Jack Audio driver, * Export to disk audio driver, * Alsa Midi input, * Ability to import/export xml-based song file, * 64 ticks per pattern, * 16 voices with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities, * Import of samples in wave, au, aiff format. This is the first "semi-usable" release, I hope you will like it =) Download: http://hydrogen.sourceforge.net All comments and suggestions are welcome! -- Alessandro <Comix> Cominu http://hydrogen.sf.net e-mail: acominu(a)tiscali.it Icq: 116354077 Linux User # 203765 [Codito Ergo Sum...]

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] JACK Rack 1.4.1

by Bob Ham

Hi all, Some fixes and extra bits for the midi stuff; makes things much more responsive. * icon and .desktop get installed properly * much more graceful handling of jackd shutdowns * midi thread will now try and use SCHED_FIFO. If you run jackd with jackstart (or as root, but you don't want to do that :) then you don't need to do anything to enable this as jackd will give the appropriate rights to jack rack. Bob -- Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] ecasound 2.2.1 released

by Kai Vehmanen

1. A short summary of changes The JACK slave mode code has been completely rewritten. As a new feature it is now possible to use libsamplerate for resampling. Using JACK has been made more user-friendly as ecasound can now automatically configure the runtime parameters to match the current server settings. And thanks to build system and signal handling updates, it's now possible to compile ecasound for win32 under Cygwin. --- 2. What is ecasound? Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package. Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licenced under the LGPL. --- 3. Changes since last release * If configured with JACK-support, ecasound will now fetch the correct buffer size and sampling rate parameters from the JACK server when connecting a chainsetup with JACK inputs or outputs. In other words you don't have to manually match these settings between the JACK server and ecasound. * Support for Erik de Castro Lopo's libsamplerate resampling library added. If libsamplerate is not installed, ecasound will fall back to the old resampling algorithm. * Rewritten the code that handles JACK slave-mode operation. Ecasound is now able to more quickly and reliably follow transport state and position changes, as initiated by the current JACK timebase master. * Ecasound for Windows! :) With help of the Cygwin environment, you can now compile win32 ecasound binaries straight from the standard source package. As of 1.3.1, Cygwin also contains basic /dev/dsp emulation, so even audio playback works. * Fixed many, more or less serious, bugs. The most annoying ones were incorrect handling of the '-t' option, excessive DBC warnings with JACK inputs and outputs and failing to properly reset the terminal after a CTRL-C while in interactive mode. Full list of changes is available at <http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/history.html>. --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes None. --- 5. Contributors Patches Junichi Uekawa (build system) Kai Vehmanen (various) Bug Hunting (items closed) Janne Halttunen (2) Eric Amundsen (1) Antti Boman (1) William Goldsmith (1) Andrew Reilly (1) Oliver Thuns (1) --- 6. Links and files Web sites: http://www.eca.cx http://www.eca.cx/ecasound Source packages: http://ecasound.seul.org/download http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.2.1.tar.gz Related sites: http://jackit.sf.net (JACK) http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC (libsamplerate) http://www.cygwin.com Distributions with maintained ecasound support: Agnula - http://www.agnula.org Debian - http://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/ecasound.html http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/ecasound2.2.html DeMuDi - http://www.demudi.org FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org PLD Linux - http://www.pld.org.pl PlanetCCRMA - http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software SuSE Linux - http://www.suse.de/en Contrib Packages for Distributions: Mandrake - http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html Note! Distributors do not necessarily provide packages for the very latest ecasound version. -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] JACK Rack 1.4.0

by Bob Ham

Just one thing but it totally rocks :) Right click on some controls. * MIDI support http://pkl.net/~node/jack-rack.html Bob -- Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] JACK Rack 1.3.0

by Bob Ham

Hi all, New stuff. Good. * you can now use plugins with unequal numbers of input and output ports. any excess ports get exposed as extra jack ports with names like "amplif_1-1_i2", of the form "<shortened plugin name>_<rack position>-<plugin copy>_{i,o}<port>" * wet/dry controls for the output of each plugin * logarithmic controls * much more resilient file loader http://pkl.net/~node/jack-rack.html Bob -- Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] ALSA Patch Bay 0.5.1 (bug fix)

by Bob Ham

Hi, There was a problem compiling the gtkmm ui in 0.5.0 with the latest sigc++.. oops :) Fixed now. Trivial patch attached, and a new tarball and everything up on the website. http://pkl.net/~node/alsa-patch-bay.html Bob -- Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] JACK 0.50 released

by Taybin Rutkin

Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.50.0 Released The Jack team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.50.0 of the Jack low-latency audio server. Jack allows applications to share data and audio devices in synchronous operation, and has already seen a year of hard testing and refinement. The API has stabilized for the foreseeable future, although backwards compatibility is not guaranteed. More information on Jack is available at the group's web site, [1]http://jackit.sourceforge.net/. Source packages for Jack 0.50.0 are available [2]here. What's new: * Audio block sizes are fixed during runtime so clients can have more efficient algorithms. * No partial blocks will be delivered. Again for efficient client algorithms. * Thread scheduling hidden from clients for better portability. * Cleanly compiles with gcc-3.3. * Works on 64-bit platforms Work is ongoing to improve transport control. Developers and users interested in Jack should sign up to [4]jackit-devel, our mailing list. References 1. http://jackit.sourceforge.net/ 2. http://jackit.sourceforge.net/releases/current/ 3. http://jackit.sourceforge.net/apps/ 4. http://jackit.sourceforge.net/lists/

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] ALSA Patch Bay 0.5.0

by Bob Ham

Hi all, Now supports jack. It needs the patchbay-facilitating jack functions that are only in cvs atm, tho; there's been no tarball release with them yet. And yes, it's still called "ALSA" patchbay :) * added jack driver, also installing a jack-patch-bay link to alsa-patch-bay and a jack-patch-bay.desktop * added client subscriptions, similar to qjackconnect; press a read port twice http://pkl.net/~node/alsa-patch-bay.html Bob -- Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] LADCCA 0.3.0

by Bob Ham

Hi all, LADCCA, the session management system for jack and alsa sequencer applications on linux is now at version 0.3. After about a month of gentle fiddling, it now seems to work quite well. As an example, I managed to run muse, 2 standalone copies of iiwusynth and 2 copies of jack rack, save it with the server, close all the apps and restore it nearly perfectly (I say "nearly" as muse likes to control alsa ports and connections.) It's certainly coming along. Quite a few people have mentioned that they don't have a recent version of alsa and so no alsa.pc file in order for pkgconfig to detect it. This time, I've included an alsa.pc in the tarball. Obviously, inspect it first and make sure the prefix is ok and it's all kosher. * Added the facility to run restored apps in a terminal using xterm, and added the CCA_Terminal client flag for clients that need a terminal to operate. * much improved jack and alsa listeners in the server * quite a few compilation and bug fixes and whatnot http://pkl.net/~node/ladcca.html Bob -- Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>

21 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.8.1 Released

by Conrad Parker

Thu Feb 6 2003 -- Sweep 0.8.1 Released ======================================= Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files. This development release is available as a source tarball at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.8.1.tar.gz?download Latest News ----------- This release contains performance improvements for basic editing operations, including reduced memory consumption during cut and paste insert. It also includes support for creation of new files on the command line, updated handling of raw file loading through libsndfile, and updated support for voice activity detection and intensity stereo coding features of the Speex speech codec. Mstation.org this month features interviews with Conrad Parker about the history and development of Sweep, and with Erik de Castro Lopo, the author of libsndfile and libsamplerate which are used by Sweep. Further information ------------------- Screenshots: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/screenshots/ Some interesting audio recordings of Scrubby are at: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/demos.html Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes almost everything you would expect in a sample editor, and then some: * precise, vinyl like scrubbing * looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback * playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks * looped and reverse recording * internationalisation * multichannel and 32 bit floating point PCM file support * support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed audio files * sample rate conversion and channel operations * LADSPA 1.1 effects support * multiple views, discontinuous selections * easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming * unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history * multithreaded background processing * shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes Sweep is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License. More information is available at: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting the development of this project. enjoy :) Conrad.

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Linux-audio-announce February 2003