Linux-audio-announce April 2003

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] galan-0.3.0-test3 released

by torbenh＠gmx.de

hi... galan-0.3.0-test3 is released... - now supports multiple jack in and out ports. - FFT is also supported. - BUGFIXES for details see http://galan.sourceforge.net -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language

21 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.8.2 Released: ALSA 0.9 support, i18n updates

by Conrad Parker

Wed Apr 30 2003 -- Sweep 0.8.2 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 release is available as a source tarball at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.8.2.tar.gz?download Latest News ----------- This release contains support for ALSA 0.9; this is configurable and could do with widespread testing. To build with ALSA support, simply configure with: ./configure --enable-alsa Note that doing this will build a binary which will work with ALSA only, and not attempt to use OSS. In future this will be replaced with plugins for different pcm i/o methods, which should ease binary distribution. Internationalization (i18n) improvements: * a complete audit of untranslateable strings, including mis-configured source files and unmarked strings, by Silvia Pfeiffer. * a new Greek translation by Dokianakis Fanis * a new Russian translation by Alexandre Prokoudine * an updated Italian translation by Yuri Bongiorno * an updated German translation by Silvia Pfeiffer There is a new mailing list: sweep-i18n. List information is at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sweep-i18n Additional changes include: * added VBR without DTX option for Speex 1.0 speech encoding * improved accuracy of sliders in processing dialogs Events: Conrad will presenting and demoing Sweep at the following upcoming events: Jul 10-13 LinuxTag 2003 (Karlsruhe, Germany) Conference and Linux Audio Dev (LAD) exhibition booth http://www.linuxtag.org/ Jul 31 - Aug 3 UKUUG Linux Developers Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland) http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/ Plus, the Call for Participation for the Linux Audio Mini-Conf @ LCA2004 (Jan 12-13 2004, Adelaide, South Australia) is announced: http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2004/ 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.

21 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden4-0.9 released

by Richard Bown

The Rosegarden team have great pleasure in announcing the immediate availability of Rosegarden4-0.9 for download. Rosegarden4 is a MIDI and audio sequencer and notation editor for Linux. This release shows a signifiant step towards our final 1.0 release goals and includes much improved performance notation support, improved device/instrument management, improved audio capabilities (including fully working LADSPA plugins, stereo audio recording and mixing), more studio features (improved bank editing and device information import and sharing), much improved lilypond export, a variety of translations (Russian, Spanish, and German), MIDI synchronisation infrastructure and much more. Please see the project homepage for further information and download details: http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden This release has been tested against a variety of ALSA 0.9 versions and with JACK versions 0.50.0, 0.61.0 and recent CVS (0.69.1). This version has also been used extenisvely in conjunction with softsynths such as Hydrogen 0.8.0beta and Fluidsynth 1.0.0. Many thanks go out to all developers, translators, documenters, testers, bug reporters and users. Specific features changes as follows: GUI --- o Bank Editor dialog reworked - many fixes and new apply/reset methodology. Device "librarians" - increased number of pre-supported patchsets. o Split-by-pitch with ranging split point o Tip of the Day o "Revert file" option o Studio -> Save Current Document as Default Studio (autoload.rg) o Tracks toolbar o Detailed sequencer status information available in Configure dialog o Document autosaving and recovery o More complete Right Mouse Button menu in tracks canvas o Document loading rework o Better progress reporting for long operations o Segment labelling o Floating value help when moving rotaries/sliders o Tracks can be moved up and down in the Composition o Track Deletion o Better handling of the sequencer process Notation editor --------------- o Significant improvements in rendering and editing notation from performance MIDI data o Ability to quantize for notation without changing performance o Performance interpretation of dynamics and accent stresses o Corrected display of all accidentals in (or against) every key o Marks and Group toolbars Documentation ------------- o Lots of translations - Russian, Spanish, French, German o Tutorial thanks to Michael McIntyre (including PDF): http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ Studio ------ o Devices and Instruments reworked - connection based Device management - new Instrument selection menus o Dynamic ALSA client detection - create new available connections o Selection of ALSA recording device o Import of Banks/Programs from Rosegarden Device files (.rgd) and from standard Soundfont files o Library of premapped MIDI devices in .rgd files Synchronisation --------------- o Basic support for MIDI Clock o Initial work on MTC/MMC infrastructure o Infrastructure for JACK transport compliance Audio ----- o Improved performance o new Audio Fader widgets - panning, volume, stereo/mono o Flexible JACK input port configuration - create as many JACK input ports as you require and connect them to audio faders. o Stereo audio recording and monitoring (WAVs) o Improved LADSPA plugin support - bypass, restore works, value tips, multiple plugins now working per Instrument o Countdown limit for audio recording time (to protect disk space) including check for available disk space on current record path o NOTE: there are still some issues with audio latency and efficiency and syncing with MIDI. You may need to work with the latency values in Settings->Configure Rosegarden->Latency->JACK Latency/MIDI Latency Lilypond export --------------- o Corrected handling of all accidentals in (or against) every key o Corrected severe problems with slurs between chords o Corrected most problems with hairpins o Corrected most problems with tuplets o Export of metadata tags (Edit -> Document Properties) that correspond to Lilypond headers into the \header block o Upped version = string to 1.6.0 (support for 1.8 is on the agenda for the 1.0 release) o Export of text marks (accents, tenuto, etc.) o Export of text events (directions, tempo indications, etc.) o Export of slashes (tremolo indications) o Extraction of lyrics for export into \lyric blocks o Export of mid-composition time signature changes

21 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-announce] SoundFontCombi v0.012 Last Alpha Release.

by holborn

Hi. New release ... Important news in v0.0012 ------------------------- * Added 1 Midi Inputs and 4 Midi Outputs. (Now two INs and six OUTs) * Added 2 small utilities for convert Combis and Banks to this new version. * Added new command line functions * Now SountFontCombi recognizes program change. (1-44) * Solved bug in bank window, now display the names correctly when you load a new bank.(sorry for that). * Solved command line segfault when load confi * Solved "many" other minor bugs. And of course new bugs added :-). Bad News * Due the changes made in v.0012 you need to REWRITE your configuration. Take a look http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc1.png Sources availabes in: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-v0.012.tar.gz Binaries availables in: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-bin-v0.012.tar.gz

21 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-announce] ecasound 2.2.3 released

by Kai Vehmanen

1. A short summary of changes User-friendliness of 'jack_auto' and 'resample' audio objects has been improved. Compile-time support added for both JACK -0.50 and 0.60-. Python-only implementation of ECI is now selected by default. Work-around included for a bug in ALSA -0.9.1 that broke xrun handling for record and playback. Lots of small bugs have been fixed in the build process. The SIGFPE bug that occured on FreeBSD systems is now fixed, as is the non-aligned access problem on Alphas. --- 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 licensed under the LGPL. --- 3. Changes since last release 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 Kai Vehmanen (various) Bug Hunting (items closed) Jan Stary (2) Feature requests (items implemented) Daniel Kruszyna (jack_auto) Janne Halttunen (resample,auto) --- 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-2.2.3.tar.gz Distributions with maintained ecasound support: Agnula - http://www.agnula.org Debian - 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, 6 months

[linux-audio-announce] SoudFontCombi v0.006

by holborn

Hi. SoundFontCombi takes the advantages of Alsa sequencer and emulate a synthetizer or a Master Keybourd routing MIDI events. 8 Parts and 2 Midi Outs. Program released GNU/GPL version 2. New in release v0.006: New look Display program chage name por each part Some functions on command line Preset List Minor bugs solved. Take a look in : http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc.png This is the first release with sources.. require FLTK v1.1.1 to compile. Program are available in: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-v0.006.tar.gz Binaries also available: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-bin-v0.006.tar.gz Comments will be apreciatted Josep

21 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-announce] SoundFontCombi v0.005

by holborn

Hi! Sorry for the english .. :-) SoundFontCombi takes the advantages of ALSA sequencer and the wavetable devices for emulate a synthetizer. I'm not programmer, this program dont have project page, CVS, or mailing list, is in proof of concept rigth now. And only the binaries are available. Is my first program in C++, my first graphic program for *nix, and belive me the source code needs a "making up" rigth now. Maybe next month when i learned how to do a Makefile :-) SoundFontCombi was tested in Debian sid and Gentoo. Requires FLTK v1.x.x (tested on v1.1.1) and ALSA with sequencer. The binaries are available in : http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/sfc-v0.005.tar.gz Any commets will be apreciated. Josep

21 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] GStreamer "Proven to be true" 0.6.1 released

by Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller

GStreamer "Proven to be true" 0.6.1 released The GStreamer team is proud to announce an updated version in the ABI-stable 0.6.x series, which features many bugfixes and some feature improvements over the previous 0.6.0 release. At this point in time GStreamer is fully functional for creating audio-based applications, as shown by applications such as gnome-sound-recorder, net-rhythmbox, sound-juicer and nautilus-media. The video part is known to be somewhat less functional than the audio part, but applications such as gst-player works very well, and a port of Totem is in progress in GNOME CVS. We will also be releasing a development 0.7 release series, in which we will work on such things as the remaining issues, such as the interactivity support which is needed for DVD menus and SWF (Flash). This means developers working on apps needing these services can use the 0.7 series for development and then enable 0.6 support as these additions optionally get backported to 0.6 once they are stable and work well. The GStreamer applications we ship all check for both gstreamer-0.6, gstreamer-libs-0.6 and gstreamer-play-0.6; if those aren't found the 0.7 version of those files are checked for. We suggest anyone making GStreamer-based apps do the same. We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific check out our growing applications status page: http://gstreamer.net/status/?category=2 Features * Pipeline based media architecture * Over 130 plugins * All parts interchangeable * Few dependencies, only glib, popt and libxml for core (libxml optional) * Python Language bindings * Good documentation * Widely deployed through bundling with GNOME 2.2 * Design catering also for applications needing low-latency * Highly portable, already running on most mainstream CPU's * Modular design and use of 3rd party best of breed libraries means no bloat * LGPL licensing lays no restrictions on application developers licensing. * Easy for applications to ship their own plugins to the core as needed * Compiles with both GCC and Forte compilers * Tested to run on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris Updates with regard to 0.6.0 * Makefile corrections for bison/flex generated files (#101421) * Better handling of unknown popt arguments (don't g_error()!) (#101678) * Fixes for systems that don't have stdint.h and still want a52dec (#104009) * Moved gst-element-check.m4 macro from plugins to core (#104282) * Cleanup for arts Makefile (generated files mess; #104689) * Remove CVS dir from dist for ffmpeg (#104752) * xvideosink does no longer open $DISPLAY when registering plugins (#105256) * Improved vorbis typefinding (also works for streams; #106448) * Fix osssrc read()-before-format-negotiation bug (#106709) * ISO C fix - use time_t instead of long (#106774) * make ffmpeg use $(MAKE) instead of make (#106776) * fix m4 scripts for lrint/lrintf (freeBSD fix; #106777) * disable ffmpeg video/mpeg typefinding because it's too generic (#107186) * Disable qcam plugin for archs that don't want it (everything but x86; #109048) * Workaround for v4l devices that say they have audio while they don't (mostly webcams; #109330) * spit out warning for cdparanoia discids that we know could be wrong (data/audio combi cds; #109558) * use guint32 instead of gulong for things that need to be 4 bytes (#109700) * prevent closing random file descriptors in udpsrc (#109797) * Fix libgstcontrol linking (#109993 & #109994) * fix sine compilation (#110038) * upgrade dvdnav plugin to next lib version (#110138) * libgstplay/libgstgconf changes/additions (#110171) * avidemux endianness fixes (#110248) * fix modplug (#110252) * fix mikmod (#110253) * fix law plugins #110255) * fix wav file parsing (#110516) * fix wavenc on big-endian machines (#110542) * fix vorbis metadata writing (#110544) * new gthread-based schedulers (mostly relevant for archs where cothreads don't work at all, like sparc; #110545) * make bins forward EOS from their child elements (#110589) * fix spider in case source elements provide caps too (#93735) * fix mp3 typefinding, also works on streams now (#94113) * Use opt scheduler by default (increases portability, see #109730) * Solaris optimizations disabled (not working, #104715) * Fix wrong encoding of metadata in mad plugin (Latin instead of UTF-8, #104344) * Fix v4l compilation problems due to different versions of v4l/v4l2 headers around (#105467 & #110009) * Updates to goom/synaesthesia visualization plugins to prevent them from hanging on song change (DISCONT event) * Better dump_mem implementation (#109729) * Fix for incorrect refcounting (#110962, #110963, #110964, #109724 & #109727) * Fix for compilation with debug disabled (#106047) * New shaper element * Fix for mpeg playback crash (#110899) * Center X image that playbacks video (xvideosink) for non-Xv capable cards. Also give it black background borders * Send events over the eventhandler rather than the eventfunction directly, so schedulers can insert their own handler. Also known as "Voodoo only Wim understands" (#110976) 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). Please do the following before writing a bug report : gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1 and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have some information useful in the debugging process. Developers GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge. 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. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary. We are still looking for people with access to FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, Irix and True64 that would be willing to try building and testing GStreamer. Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome. Contributors to this release Patches to the core of Gstreamer * Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be> * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org> * David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu> * David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org> * Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu(AT)pobox.com> * Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net> * Benjamin Otte <in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de> Plugins and Sample Applications * Julien MOUTTE <jmoutte(AT)electronic-group.com> * Cameron Hutchison <camh+gst(AT)xdna.net> * Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org> * Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr> * Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)mad.scientist.com> * Andrew Turner <zombie(AT)4free.co.nz> * Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu> * Marinus Schraal <foser(AT)gentoo.org> * Martin Janzen <janzen(AT)pixelmetrix.com> Misc * Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>

21 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.5.1

by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.5.1 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. Note, the .bse file format hasn't completely stabilized yet, so incompatibilities with future versions may occur. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.5.1: * Added support for LADSPA plugins * Improved synthesis network router display * Documentation fixes * Added support for dsp[0-3] and midi[0-3] devices * Fixed memory leaks during playback --- ciaoTJ

21 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] [OT] Linux Music & Sound Software site updated

by Dave Phillips

Greetings: Once again I've updated the Linux soundapps sites. All sites are current and can be accessed via these URLs : http://linux-sound.org (USA) http://www.linuxsound.at (Europe) http://linuxsound.jp/ (Japan) Many thanks to Frank Barknecht for his assistance with linuxsound.at. Many thanks also to all my site providers: the mirrors have been donated by their respective owners as a service to the community, for which I am most grateful. Enjoy ! Best regards, == Dave Phillips The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org

21 years, 7 months

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Linux-audio-announce April 2003