Linux-audio-announce January 2004

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Visecas 0.3.5

by Jan Weil

Announcing Visecas version 0.3.5. This is an interim release which fixes several serious bugs. Hacking Gtk::Fileselection from Ruby on a Debian system (which currently comes with a patched GtkFileselection) turned out to be a very bad idea regarding portability. New screenshots can be found on the web. Thanks to all those who reported their problems with version 0.3.1. Visecas is a graphical user interface (GTK+) for Ecasound [http://eca.cx/ecasound], a software package written by Kai Vehmanen which is designed for multitrack audio processing. It aims to provide full access to all Ecasound's object by preserving Ecasound's semantic (which means you do not edit tracks and regions but chains and audio objects). Please visit Visecas' webpage at http://visecas.sourceforge.net This release fixes: * broken audio objects' dialog * malformed preferences file crashes * silly behaviour with open/save as * crash once one of several chainsetups was closed * timeout problem (hopefully) * minor bugs Jan

21 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] AGNULA joins the GNU/Linux Audio Centre at Sounds Expo 2004

by The AGNULA Team

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ______ ______ _ _ _ | | /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ | | / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ | | / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ | | | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | | | |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around] Florence, 22 January 2004 +++ AGNULA JOINS THE GNU/LINUX AUDIO CENTRE AT SOUNDS EXPO 2004 The AGNULA project will join the GNU/Linux Audio Centre booth at Sounds Expo 2004 [0] (Wembley, London 10-12 February 2004). +++ The AGNULA project will join the GNU/Linux Audio Centre booth at Sounds Expo 2004 (Wembley, London 10-12 February 2004). Sounds Expo is a leading UK trade show aimed at musicians, producers and sound engineers. Supported by Sound on Sound magazine, the event has many of the leading companies in the sound and music recording industry as exhibitors. For the very first time, Free Software will be represented at Sounds Expo with a booth dedicated to GNU/Linux based systems. This participation has been made possible with the support of the AGNULA project, the Sounds Expo organisers VCM Events, and Fervent Software. The GNU/Linux Audio Centre is the first public initiative of the newly-formed Linuxaudio.org consortium. Damien Cirotteau of Tempo Reale Ricerca (the managing partner of the AGNULA Consortium) will be our "AGNULA man" for the event. He will show interested booth visitors our latest AGNULA/DeMuDi release (1.1.0), answer your questions and record your feedback on the software. We are looking forward to seeing you at Sounds Expo 2004! [0] http://www.sounds-expo.co.uk/ +++ About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution, pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). The project aims to spread Free Software in the professional audio/video arena. Best regards, -- The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/ Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/ "There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"

21 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] 2nd LAD conference

by Matthias Nagorni

Hello, as announced earlier, the 2nd Linux Audio Developers conference will take place from 29. April to 2. May 2004 at ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany. In addition to the "Call for Papers" there is also a "Call for Music". Both are open until 29. February. We are looking for music that has been done with Linux Audio software and intend to present it in a concert at the "Kubus" concert hall of ZKM. "Live" performance with Linux Audio software is welcome as well. More information on the conference, registration, accomodation and the "Call for Music" is available from www.zkm.de/lad The current list of speakers (in alphabetical order) and talks is as follows: Fons Adriaensen, 1) AEOLUS - a church organ in your PC 2) Using JAAA for audio measurements Frank Barknecht, Rapid and Reuseable Audio Development With Pd Julien P. Claassen, Linux console - a textbased studio Paul Davis, Adding MIDI to a Digital Audio Workstation Orm Finnendahl, 1) Linux as a Workstation for Composers 2) PD Workshop Bob Ham, LADCCA Steve W. Harris and Jörn Nettingsmeier, Audio Engineering in a Nutshell Steve W. Harris, JACK, JAMin, Mastering Takashi Iwai, ALSA Sucks? - Trouble Shooting for Your Healthy Music Life Jaroslav Kysela, ALSA project - the last year Victor Lazzarini, Developing Spectral Signal Processing Applications Matthias Nagorni, Introduction to Modular Synthesis Han-Wen Nienhuys, LilyPond, a modular, extensible and programmable compiler for high-quality music notation Dave Phillips, 1) Keynote: One Year After: Notable Linux Audio Development in 2003 2) Still Nailing Jelly: An Update on Linux Audio Documentation Projects Abstracts and links to the respective projects are available at www.zkm.de/lad Matthias -- Dr. Matthias Nagorni SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 phone: +49 911 74053375 D - 90409 Nuernberg fax : +49 911 74053483

21 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] TimeMachine 0.2.1

by Steve Harris

http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/ * Now uses GTK, instead of SDL to draw the window, hopefully a bit more friendly on maintainers. * Meters. * Now records up to 8 channels (use the -c flag). * Can set the output directory/file prefix (-p flag). * Hiting the window close icon now makes sure you have all the data written to disk. I've a feeling that someone mailed me a patch and I've lost it and not included it, so if its you please mail me again. Enjoy, Steve

21 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] horgand-1.05 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 1.05 -------------------- -Program Change in main window. -FIFO Realtime priority. -Memory Lock. -Resizable Windows. -New sounds. -Ready to play when starts. -Improved Rotary -Improved graphic refresh -Bug Fixes available in: http://download.berlios.de/horgand/horgand-1.05.tar.gz Thanks Josep

21 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] JACK Release 0.94.0

by Taybin Rutkin

JACK RELEASE 0.94.0 JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the GNU/Linux operating system. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin"). JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work. This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation. JACK's webpage is at http://jackit.sf.net . CHANGES: Mostly minor, internal changes. * Added missing extern "C" {} for better C++ support. * Added missing copyright header. * Better placement of watchdog check so it doesn't interfere with freewheeling mode. * Fixed option parsing problems * ALSA driver reports actual samplerate, not requested samplerate. * Handles hardware where playback and capture rates differ better. * Support for native endian S24_3 format used by USB soundcards. * jack_metro example ported to new transport API. * cleaned up prototype declarations for jack_initialize_shm() and jack_cleanup_shm(). * Eliminated calls to jack_error() when jack_client_new() fails because the server was not running. * Eliminated other calls to fprintf() in libjack. * Won't try and compile iec61883 if libraw1394 is below version 0.10.0. * Internal bug fixes. * Updated documentation. Taybin Rutkin

21 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] AGNULA joins the Linuxaudio.org Consortium

by The AGNULA Team

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ______ ______ _ _ _ | | /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ | | / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ | | / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ | | | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | | | |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around] Florance, 17 January 2004 +++ AGNULA JOINS THE LINUXAUDIO.ORG CONSORTIUM AGNULA is proud to announce it has joined the Linuxaudio.org Consortium. +++ AGNULA is proud to announce it has joined the Linuxaudio.org Consortium [0], which brings together the leading projects and companies working in the field of professional audio systems based on Libre Software. Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of companies and libre software projects using Linux kernel based systems and other libre software for audio work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, recording and broadcast industries. The consortium aims to co-ordinate joint projects between members, collaborate on the promotion of Linux based systems for audio tasks, and provide a single point of contact for prospective industry partners. Inside the AGNULA project we are excited to join the Linux Audio consortium. Since we base our work on the principle of maximum co-operation, typical of Free Software projects, we can only applaud the effort to unite the key GNU/Linux players in the audio software industry and community. We are looking forward to contributing our experience to the expertise provided by consortium members, with the common goal of developing ever better Linux-based systems for professional audio work. Other members of the Linuxaudio.org consortium include: ALSA project (supported by SUSE) Ardour project Audacity project Boost Hardware Core Sound Dyne:bolic project Fervent Software 4Front Technologies JACK project JAMin project Linux Audio Systems Lionstracs MandrakeSoft Mirror Image Studios Plugin.org.uk project Rosegarden project +++ About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution, pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). The project aims to spread Free Software in the professional audio/video arena. Best regards, -- The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/ Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/ "There's no free expression without control on the tools you use" [0] http://www.linuxaudio.org/

21 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] linuxmusician.com: a website of sorts

by Chris Cannam

Quite a long time ago now, Richard Bown and I decided we were going to set up a sort of magazine website for musicians using Linux. It wouldn't be a developer site or a pro-audio site or even particularly a technology site, it would just be a site for individuals who were interested in doing music. We registered the name linuxmusician.com, and then, inevitably, contrived to do absolutely nothing at all with it for the next eighteen months. It became very clear very quickly, as always, that we simply wouldn't have the time to write a substantial amount of material for it. The subsequent appearance of the handy QuickToots site at djcj.org also seemed to reduce the need for some of the content we'd been hoping to write or solicit. Recently though we decided that enough was enough, and that we should just launch the damn thing with the few contributions we could make plus a community article-submission facility and at the least give it the chance to flop gracelessly instead of never being launched at all. So one install of Mambo later, and we present http://www.linuxmusician.com/ At the moment there is one (1) complete article on there, plus two brief stubs of articles; there's a links page with hardly any links yet, and a copy of the bownie.com Guide to Home Recording. We will continue to post stuff that we come up with, but also if you take a moment to register you are then very welcome to submit articles, news, and links. It's not a complete slash/scoop-style community moderation system; for example, there's currently no comment system at all. But we're very open to ideas and concoctions that other people might want to suggest. Chris

21 years, 3 months

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

by Jan Weil

Hello lists, I am pleased to announce the initial release of Visecas 0.3.1. Visecas is a graphical user interface (GTK+) for Ecasound [http://eca.cx/ecasound], a software package written by Kai Vehmanen which is designed for multitrack audio processing. It aims to provide full access to all Ecasound's object by preserving Ecasound's semantic (which means you do not edit tracks and regions but chains and audio objects). Please visit Visecas' webpage at http://visecas.sourceforge.net This release includes the following features: * start Visecas as you would start Ecasound (all arguments are passed on) * display and control chainsetup's status (valid, connected, looped, etc.) * add, remove, rename, mute, bypass chains * add, remove, attach audio objects * add, remove, control operators * control chainsetup position via hscale * display and control engine status * edit Ecasound's preferences Have fun! Jan

21 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] LINUXAUDIO.ORG CONSORTIUM LAUNCHED TO CREATE PROFESSIONAL AUDIO TOOLS

by Daniel James

Thursday, 15th January 2004 - The Internet LINUXAUDIO.ORG CONSORTIUM LAUNCHED TO CREATE PROFESSIONAL AUDIO TOOLS Launched today with 17 members, Linuxaudio.org[1] brings together the leading projects and companies working in the field of professional audio systems based on libre software.[2] Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of companies and libre software projects using Linux kernel based systems and other libre software for audio work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, recording and broadcast industries. The consortium aims to co-ordinate joint projects between members, collaborate on the promotion of Linux based systems for audio tasks, and provide a single point of contact for prospective industry partners. Organisations of all sizes and individuals are involved in audio development on Linux kernel based platforms. Until the launch of Linuxaudio.org, there has not been a formal organisation to assist and promote the development of this technology. Linuxaudio.org takes its inspiration from the Open Source Development Lab[3], where Linux kernel development is co-ordinated, and the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum[4]. Both of these organisations have attracted broad support from the leading companies in their respective fields. The Linuxaudio.org consortium does not charge membership fees, as this would disadvantage small libre software projects and specialist companies who are already making a substantial contribution to Linux audio by developing and releasing software for free download. However, there will be sponsorship opportunities for member organisations. This sponsorship could take the form of support for members attending audio industry events and conferences, or the donation of hardware to software developers and test facilities. Members of the consortium at the launch include: AGNULA project Libre software and music ALSA project (supported by SUSE) Soundcard drivers and utilities for Linux Ardour project Digital audio workstation for Linux Audacity project Cross-platform multitrack recorder and editor Boost Hardware Custom built portable Linux DAW and DJ machines Core Sound Portable recording hardware and microphone manufacturers Dyne:bolic project Linux distribution running from CD-ROM Fervent Software The company behind the Rosegarden sequencer 4Front Technologies Developers of Open Sound System and 3D audio technologies JACK project Low latency audio server for Linux JAMin project Mastering tool for the JACK audio server Linux Audio Systems The company supporting the Ardour DAW Lionstracs Linux-based workstation keyboard manufacturers MandrakeSoft Publisher of the Mandrake Linux distribution Mirror Image Studios Linux based recording studio Plugin.org.uk project Home of many LADSPA effects plugins Rosegarden project MIDI and audio sequencer for Linux Linuxaudio.org members are expected to agree to the conditions set out in the Policy[5] document. On joining the consortium, each member can nominate an individual that will represent it on the Linuxaudio.org Management Board. Projects and companies interested in joining the consortium can apply by contacting the Director, Daniel James, or the Chair of the Management Board, Dave Phillips. Contact information is available on the Linuxaudio.org site. "As Mandrake Linux is gaining momentum in the multimedia field, MandrakeSoft is very happy to join the Linux Audio consortium. Such an organisation is needed to promote the use of Linux as a platform of choice for running professional audio applications", said François Bancilhon, CEO of MandrakeSoft[6]. Andrea Glorioso of the AGNULA[7] libre software and music project commented "The AGNULA project is excited to join the Linux Audio consortium. Since we base our work on the principle of maximum co-operation, typical of Free Software projects, we can only applaud the effort to unite the key GNU/Linux players in the audio software industry and community. We are looking forward to contributing our experience to the expertise provided by consortium members, with the common goal of developing ever better Linux-based systems for professional audio work." "4Front enthusiastically supports the Linuxaudio.org consortium and the timing is just right for a consortium to promote the development of audio and multimedia applications on Linux. 4Front has been laying the foundation for audio on Linux since the very beginning with Open Sound System" said Dev Mazumdar, President of 4Front Technologies[8]. Chris Cannam from the Rosegarden[9] sequencer project added "This initiative is exactly what the Linux audio world needs, and the timing couldn't be better. The Linux community has a development model that should be of interest to professional users everywhere, and a great many interesting technologies and applications already. It's time to start introducing them to the world." *ends* Notes [1] http://linuxaudio.org/ [2] We use the term 'libre software' rather than 'free software' or 'open source', because some people get the wrong idea and assume that free means 'free-as-in-beer'. Since some consortium members are producing commercial products, that assumption won't always be correct. We don't use the term Open Source, because while libre software has source code available, not all publically available source code is released under a libre licence - the best known libre software licence being the GNU GPL. [3] http://osdl.org/ [4] http://celinuxforum.org/ [5] http://linuxaudio.org/en/policy.html [6] http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ [7] http://agnula.org/ [8] http://www.opensound.com/ [9] http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/

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