Linux-audio-announce March 2003

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[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.5.0

by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.5.0 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 and sample manipulation. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org 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 any GUI activities. The most outstanding new feature is the track editor which allows free arrangement of parts in songs and adds loop support to simplify song edits. Be warned though, the .bse file format hasn't completely stabilized yet, so incompatibilities with future versions may occur. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.5.0: * Moved BSE into its own thread * Added IDL based code generator [Stefan Westerfeld] * Deployed new middleware layer * Major documentation generation improvements [Alper Ersoy] * Generate structure documentation [Timj, Alper] * Added documentation about Gtk+ GUI extensions * Made documentation browser navigatable * Improved MIDI support * Added track editor to allow complex song arrangements * The guile shell to BSE is named bsesh now * Major code cleanups, bug fixes and refactoring * Lots of GUI fixes, improvements and revamps * Bug fixes and major cleanups --- ciaoTJ

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Swami 0.9.1 released

by Josh Green

Just released version 0.9.1 of Swami. The main focus of this release is support for the new FluidSynth 1.0.0 (was called iiwusynth). Swami is a MIDI instrument patch editor that currently supports SoundFont files with other formats currently being added. New features include: - JACK support (using FluidSynth) - Color coding in generator view (black = default, green = set at local zone, red = set by global zone) - Some generator editing operations on the right click menu (unset, copy and paste), for all effect generators (selections not supported yet). - Striped background in span view to help determine what keys the spans line up with - C60 note marker on piano - Real time loop modulation in sample viewer (only at instrument level). - Sample Loop till release option (currently FluidSynth doesn't use it though) - Global "session" modulators for defining a set of real time MIDI effect controls for all instruments (rather than having to define the same modulators for every instrument). - Some bug fixes with sample importing and probably other things Feedback encouraged :) Cheers. Josh Green Swami website: http://swami.sourceforge.net FluidSynth website: http://www.fluidsynth.org

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] [alsa-announce] 0.9.1 release

by Jaroslav Kysela

Hi all, I have just released the first 0.9 "final" packages. The release is 0.9.1 to make clear that it is successor of all 0.9.0pre,beta,rc packages. Hopefully, thanks to all your reports, packages can be compiled on many linux machines without major problems. Our goal for further releases (including development ones) is to reduce the development cycles (seems that having difference between stable and development for more than two years is not very good for the maintaince purposes). What's left for 1.0: The sequencer instrument layer will be moved completely to the user space. Our goal is also the implementation of the wavetable MIDI drivers. I am sure that I forgot to something else, but we will try to do our best. Have fun and stay tuned, Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex(a)suse.cz> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SuSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Alsa-announce mailing list Alsa-announce(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-announce

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] RG for Sisyphus

by Alexandre Prokoudine

Greetings, A small annoncement for you Beginning from 6th March Rosegarden presents in package repository of ALT Linux anmed Sisyphus: http://www.altlinux.com/index.php?module=sisyphus&package=rosegarden More information on Sisyphus you can find here: http://www.altlinux.com/index.php?module=sisyphus For those of you who is already using Sisyphus, just do apt-get update apt-get install rosegarden You can also find latest LADSPA plugins, JACK, ecasound, jack-rack etc in Sisyphus. Thanx to Yuri Sedunov for maintaining these packages. -- Alexandre Prokoudine ALT Linux Documentation Team JID: avp(a)altlinux.org

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] RTMix software interactive multimedia interface version 0.7 released (3/10/03)

by Ivica Bukvic

Hello fellow musicians, composers, multimedia sculptors, and developers! It is my pleasure to announce to you the newest release of RTMix version 0.7. New improvements include: *Internal error widget has been removed. *External Error Log now became a general purpose Console. *Added visuals for monitoring of data flow at the bottom of the external Console. *Sped-up the start-up time by 300-400% (literally :-) *Fixed bug where global transport events did not execute on a local client causing many scripts to fail. *Reordered Tabs on the main widget. *Made External resizable widgets resizable only when performance was not in session (in order to minimize cpu-utilization by RTMix during the performance settings). *Fixed Metronome weird resizing bug. Now when the meter is changed, the widget resizes appropriately. *Fixed color coding errors for the notification interface. *Re-arranged the settings saving routines. *Added new parameters to the config file. *Added networking authentication code and made it configurable in the settings tab. *Added filter for events in order to disable potentially malicious sys-calls to be executed. *Fixed gazillion (literally :-) bugs in the parsing engine. *Standardized error and logging output messages. *Color-coded Console messages. *Added "go-to-error" feature. *Implemented MIDI protocol as a separate thread. Users can now use MIDI for real-time events, as well as MIDI routing. *Provided new tabs in the settings menu that enable user to specify the appropriate MIDI port. *Implemented OSC (Open Sound Control) for inter-app communication. *Implemented generic OSC network communication. *Implemented OSC routing for the purpose of sharing the MIDI port. *Enabled variables to be included in notification interface messages. *Enabled multiple instance of variables and MIDI parameters to be included in functions, assigns, and events (sys calls and others). *Fixed metronome's inconsistent resizing. *Fixed bug where BPM's on the metronomes 2-4 were corrupt. *Jump events now interpret events they jump to in a proper fashion. *Added full-fledged HTML documentation (Yay!) *Included more tutorials and provided better annotations for the older ones. *Made apply button disabled in the settings menu, unless something was changed. *Made MIDI monitoring and MIDI logging buttons disabled by default, unless the real-time monitoring is enabled. *Added color-coding and more verbose descriptions of the real-time events in the table. *Enabled differentiation between keyboard presses and releases and their mappings to the real-time events. *Added line-number tool for the editor. *Fixed behavior of the probability parameters. *Annotated more parser's warnings. *Implemented protection against infinite recursion scripts. *Other stuff that I cannot think of at this moment. --------------------------------------------------------------- RTMix is downloadable here: http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/rtmix-latest.tar.gz (approx. file size is 4.8MB). For more info, see the included HTML docs, or visit the author's webpage at http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/ RTMix currently runs only on Linux, although the transparency of code should make it easily portable to other Unix platforms supporting Qt toolkit. --------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not familiar with RTMix, here's a quick overview: What is RTMix? RTMix is an open-source (GPL-licensed) software application designed to provide stable, user-friendly, standardized, and efficient performance interface that enables performer(s) to interact with both the computer and each other in the least obtrusive fashion. What this means is that RTMix offers an array of visual stimuli that can be utilized on-stage in order to coordinate various performing forces utilizing diverse media. What do I need it for? How many times have you witnessed an interactive work that requires coordination between the composer and performer, composer usually being off-stage and posing as an aircraft navigator sending out all kinds of signals with waving hands and other distracting (perhaps even comical) physical gestures? Have you ever questioned computer's off-stage presence when it has an important role in generating the resulting sonic landscape (or even a multimedia setting)? Did you ever wish to have an elegant on-stage interface that is easy to use and furthermore provides the least amount of distraction for the performer(s) -- an interface that offers standardization, transportability, and most importantly low cpu-footprint, therefore enabling user to utilize majority of processor cycles for the stuff that matters the most -- the content-generation, processing and reproduction? Have you ever wished to have your work more "transportable", to have it more accessible and more easily performable in settings where you were not physically available to provide technical support to the not-so-computer-literate performer? Did you ever write a chamber acoustic work that required considerate amount of coordination but you did not want to use a conductor? How about a work for a large performing groups? Do you use powerful Music-N languages for real-time work but do not have an elegant interface for real-time performance settings? Are you a PD/Max/MSP/jMax object-oriented multimedia composer, but do not want to deal with designing the user-interface for your contraptions, nor with the lack of standardization such interfaces impose on end-users (i.e. performers other than the composer themselves)? Did you ever feel like using only one multimedia tool at a time was limiting your creativity (i.e. Csound, RTcmix, Supercollider, Pd, Max/MSP, etc.) and that you always wanted to have multiple audio applications to coexist in your work? If you have answered any of these questions positively, then RTMix just might be the answer to your needs :-). --------------------------------------------------------------- RTMix is going to be showcased next week at SEAMUS2003 conference at the Arizona State University. Should you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you! Sincerely, Ivica Ico Bukvic, multimedia sculptor http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico P.S. Apologies for cross-posting!

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Spiralsynth Modular 0.2.1

by Dave Griffiths

SpiralSynth Modular is an object orientated music studio with an emphasis on live use. http://www.pawfal.org/Software/SSM/ * New GUI - one window with minisable/maximisable modules, no more losing track of which module window is which. (as discussed on the LAU list) * NotesnapPlugin can now filter midi notes. * Preliminary OSX support * Plugin Groups (new Maths/Logic group) * Plugins are now loaded straight from the directory, no need to explicitly list them anymore. * Renaming of modules * More theming (and new default theme) * Help window fixes * Matrix pattern sequencer * Misc fixes New Plugins: FormantFilterPlugin AnotherFilterPlugin NoisePlugin OperatorPlugin CounterPlugin FlipflopPlugin SwitchPlugin BeatMatchPlugin LogicPlugin MixSwitchPlugin SplitSwitchPlugin MeterPlugin (ported) WaveShaperPlugin (ported) TrigPlugin SpiralLoopPlugin (new code) MasherPlugin dave

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANN: swh-plugins 0.3.7

by Steve Harris

http://plugin.org.uk/releases/0.3.7/ I've done a major code audit (with the help of valgrind :), and things are a lot less crufty now. There are still some outstanding known sound quality/noise/aliasing bugs, I'l tackle them in the next release, but I'd appreciate more reports. ChangeLog: 2003-02-23 Steve Harris <steve(a)plugin.org.uk> * Fixed memory leak in gate * Fixed filter implementation in gate * Fixed key defaults in gate * Made passes=0 work in GSM * Added bandlimiting filter to GSM (less cruchy sounds) 2003-02-24 Steve Harris <steve(a)plugin.org.uk> * Removed stale code from surround encoder * Fixed memory leak in surround encoder 2003-02-24 Steve Harris <steve(a)plugin.org.uk> * Fixed maths error in multiplexer * Fixed buffer overrun in sifter * Efficiency improvements to FAD delay * Fixed infinite loop in FAD delay. * Fixed (another) buffer overrun in FM oscillator * Performance improvement for FM oscillator * Fixed buffer overrun in multiband EQ * Fixed aliasing in Hermes * Fixed memory leaks in: AM pitchshift Analogue osc Bode sifters Comb Comb splitter Delayorama Dyson compressor FM oscilator Giant flange Gong GVerb Hermes filter L/C/R delay Multiband EQ Plate reverb Rate shifter Retro flanger Satan maximiser SC* Sifter Single band parametric Multiplexer Tape delay There are still known leaks in imp and the multiband EQ

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANN: New version of liblrdf

by Steve Harris

0.2.4 http://plugin.org.uk/lrdf/ liblrdf is a library for handling RDF files describing LADSPA plugins, plus it can also do lightweight general RDF tasks. Changes: Added a pkgconfig file suppllied by Taybin Fixed a buffer overrun triggered by rebuilding the caches Fixed a bunch of memory leaks PS Someone had some code that generated string to build GTK (I think) menus from, if you could mail me the code again then I'l provide it as a function or at least put it in the documentation. Sorry, I lost the mail and forgot your name :( - Steve

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Jack 0.61.0 release

by Taybin

Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.61.0 Release The Jack team is pleased to announce the release of version 0.61.0 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, http://jackit.sourceforge.net/. What's new: * In-process client support. * documentation updates. * bug fixes. Developers and users interested in Jack should sign up to jackit-devel, our mailing list.

21 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] ladcca 0.3.1

by Bob Ham

Just some build fixes. Should have released this before but it slipped my mind. * fixed problem with the readline headers paying attention to HAVE_CONFIG_H * fixed HAVE_GTK2 always being defined to work properly and only be defined if it's available http://pkl.net/~node/ladcca.html Bob -- Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>

21 years, 9 months

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Linux-audio-announce March 2003