Linux-audio-announce November 2004

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Linux Audio DVD in Keyboards

by Matthias Nagorni

Hi, have a look at www.keyboards.de and click on the Tux ;-) German Keyboards has published a bootable DVD that launches a Linux Audio Live CD featuring the complete series of audio apps that ship with SUSE 9.2 (including PD and SuperCollider). A HTML-document provides information and many links to demo scripts that start combinations of audio apps, including synths (ams, AEOLUS, ZynAddSubFX, PD, SuperCollider), Hydrogen, NoteEdit and JAAA. A complete sample recording session wired up with JACK and sent through JAMin is also provided as script. The DVD also includes Ardour, MusE and many other programs. BTW This DVD is also a video-DVD, suitable for playback in standalone DVD players. And it's the 20th anniversary edition of Keyboards. The magazine will ship on friday, 3. december. Greetings, Matthias -- Dr. Matthias Nagorni SuSE Linux GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 phone: +49 911 74053375 D - 90409 Nuernberg fax : +49 911 74053483

19 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Hydrogen v0.9.1

by Comix

I'm proud to announce a new stable release of Hydrogen Drum Machine!! Features: __General__ * Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3. * Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats. * Support of samples in compressed FLAC file. __Sequencer and mixer__ * Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song. * Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length. * 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities. * Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument). * Ability to import/export song files. * Unique human velocity, human time and swing functions. * Multiple patterns playing at once. __Other__ * JACK, ALSA and OSS audio drivers * ALSA MIDI input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL). * Import/export of drumkits. * Export song to wav file. * Export song to midi file. Changes: * New ALSA driver * New french tutorial and manual page (thanks to Pierre 'AlSim' Chapuis) * Bug fix Download: http://hydrogen.sourceforge.net Vote hydrogen at the italian open source contest! http://hydrogen.sourceforge.net/HowToVote.html Happy drumming! :^) -- Alessandro <Comix> Cominu http://hydrogen.sf.net e-mail: comix(a)despammed.com Icq: 116354077 Linux User # 203765

19 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-announce] UK Pure Data Workshops in November & December

by derek holzer

PD.ZILLA --- PURE DATA STOMPS THE UK! Workshops and Demos on Free + Open Source Software for artists by Aymeric Mansoux and Derek Holzer. While many tools exist for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes, few of them are designed with an open architecture which allows artists to configure the tools they use themselves. Fewer still are free to use, share and rebuild. This workshop introduces the software combination of Pure Data, GEM and PDP/PiDiP, running on the Linux operating system, as a platform for audio, video and multimedia artists to explore. Full workshop program [actual program varies with venue]: http://electric-boogaloo.goto10.org/pdzilla/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Coming to an arts venue near you: Tuesday Nov 30: Glasgow ----------------------- "FOSS [Free + Open Source Software] tools for artists" Presentation by Derek Holzer 19.00, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow http://www.yourmachines.org/dh_talk.html http://www.cca-glasgow.com Registration/Contact: 0141 352 4900 Thursday Dec 02 to Saturday Dec 04: Glasgow ------------------------------------------- Pure Data/Free + Open Source Software Workshop "Your Machines" @ Centre for Contemporary Arts - Glasgow (CCA) CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow http://www.yourmachines.org/pd_workshop.html http://www.cca-glasgow.com Registration/Contact: 0141 352 4900 Tuesday Dec 07 to Saturday Dec 11: Newcastle -------------------------------------------- Pure Data/Free + Open Source Software Workshop Waygood Gallery and Studios 2nd Floor, 39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne http://www.waygood.org/ Registration/Contact: pd(a)electronicartist.net Tuesday 14 Dec - Saturday 18 Dec: Brighton ------------------------------------------ Pure Data/Free + Open Source Software Workshop Lighthouse, 9-12 Middle Street, Brighton http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/ Registration/Contact: +44 (0)1273 384 222 / info(a)lighthouse.org.uk Wednesday Dec 15: Brighton -------------------------- Portfolio Presentation by Aymeric Mansoux & Derek Holzer 17.45-18.45, Fabrica & 19.00 Lighthouse Fabrica, 40 Duke Street, Brighton Lighthouse, 9-12 Middle Street, Brighton http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/ http://www.fabrica.org.uk/ http://tinyurl.com/5t6nn Contact: +44 (0)1273 384 222 / info(a)lighthouse.org.uk Monday 20 Dec - Tuesday 21 Dec: London -------------------------------------- Pure Data/Free + Open Source Software Workshop Mute Magazine Studio, The Whitechapel Centre, Myrdle Street, London Details forthcoming at: http://3d.openmute.org/ Registration/Contact: services(a)metamute.com Tuesday 21 Dec: London ---------------------- Pure Data Demo Party w/ Derek Holzer, Aymeric Mansoux and OpenLab Venue to be confirmed! Pls check the pdzilla or 3d.openmute.org website for details soon! http://3d.openmute.org/ http://www.pawfal.org/openlab Contact: services(a)metamute.com For more info on these workshops, please visit: http://electric-boogaloo.goto10.org/pdzilla/ -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 155: "The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten"

19 years, 12 months

[linux-audio-announce] QjackCtl 0.2.13 released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everyone, Simply put: QjackCtl 0.2.13 has been released! This is yet another dot-release, nothing outstanding. Taken straight from the ChangeLog: - Main window is now properly minimized instead of simply hidden when the system tray icon is not available nor opted in (as suggested by Florian Schmidt). - Some informational status items are now updated 10 times less frequently (e.g. CPU Load, Sample Rate, Buffer Size, Realtime Mode, etc.), lowering the CPU burden of most probably redundant status updates. - XRUN detection and statistics are being conditionally included if jack_get_xrun_delayed_usecs() is available (as of JACK 0.99.7+ CVS). - Fixed ancient bug on client shutdown event handling, which was invoking the xrun notification handler by mistake. - Support for maximum scheduling delay status added (EXPERIMENTAL); this relies on jack_get_max_delayed_usecs() function availability at configure time, depending on a Lee Revell's non-official JACK patch. - Patchbay Activate button is now a toggle button widget, allowing the deactivation of the current patchbay profile. - Reset-status icon has been changed to a simple red circle instead of previous one which was much like a power-switch symbol. - Preset selection has been added to the context menu. Check it out from the usua place: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net Enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

19 years, 12 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] liblo 0.15

by Steve Harris

liblo is an implementation of the Open Sound Control[1] protocol for POSIX systems. It is written in ANSI C and released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is designed to make developing OSC applictions as easy as possible. http://plugin.org.uk/liblo/ This release adds some OSX compatibility fixes from Taybin Rutkin, support for OSC multipath pattern matching courtesy of Daniel Holth's pattern matcher and I've added bundle i/o. Liblo now implements everything in the OSC specification except type arrays. Pattern matching and bundles are largly untested, and should be treated as alpha quality, but should work. If you are using server threads or the nonblock API then bundles should JustWork(TM), if you are polling on the server fd then you have some work to do. There are API calls for detecting if/when there are scheduled messages. - Steve [1] http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/

19 years, 12 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.6.3

by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.6.3 and BSE-ALSA version 0.6.3 are available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.6/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.6/ This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. BSE-ALSA is an ALSA driver for BSE. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as screenshots can be found at: http://beast.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots/index.html 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. Outstanding new features include support for skins, many sample file formats, MIDI file import abilities, an improved piano roll widget, the track editor which allows for easy selection of synthesisers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs, mixer support, unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities and MIDI automation. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.6.3: * The package now depends on GLib-2.4 and Gtk+-2.4 * New/ported/improved Effects: BseContribSampleAndHold - a sample and hold module by Artem Popov BseSummation - a replacement for multiple BseAdder effects DavBassFilter - added trigger input for use in instruments and implemented MIDI automation for all parameters BseNoise - ported to IDL/C++ [Stefan Westerfeld] ArtsCompressor - cleanups, major usability improvements [Stefan Westerfeld] * Added song mixer with freely connectable busses * Added spline-scale-based DB meters * Added MIDI event automation framework * Added null PCM driver and command line options for driver selection * Added plugin development guide * Added audio-feature extractor for automated test suit [Stefan Westerfeld] * Fixed dangling part handling by adding them to an extra track * Fixed parsing of negative control events and note fine tune * Fixed stereo playback in sample editor * Fixed undo/redo handling across playback activation * Fixed error handling when users form cyclic connections * Lots of icon updates [Artem Popov] * Mime type fixes [Artem Popov, Tim Janik] * Improved GUI responsiveness * Made message dialog appearance configurable * Consistent support for dialog closing with Escape * Dialog size and resizing adaptions for 800x600 screens * Lots of miscellaneous bug fixes and refactoring * Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation [Raphael Higino] * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Dutch translation [Tino Meinen] * Updated British English translation [David Lodge] * Updated Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] * Updated Albanian translation [Laurent Dhima] * Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Jorge Gonzalez] * Updated German translation [Dirk Janik, Moritz Mekelburger] * Updated Russian translation [Artem Popov] * Added Punjabi translation [Amanpreet Singh Alam] * Added Japanese translation [Satoru SATOH] * Added Esperanto translation [Artem Popov] * Added Italian translation [Petrecca Michele] Initial Release of BSE-ALSA 0.6.3: * Provide an ALSA PCM driver for BSE * Provide an ALSA MIDI driver for BSE --- ciaoTJ

20 years

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Soundtank 1.0.1 released

by jrobbins＠nymu.net

------->New version of Soundtank at http://www.nymu.net/soundtank/ In Soundtank, any LADSPA plugin can be used as a softsynth in only 2 lines: > create source object-name plugin-name > attach object-name /out The result is a softsynth named object-name, outputting audio via ALSA or JACK, and controllable with MIDI through the ALSA sequencer layer. Release 1.0.1 contains many useability improvements, including the ability to refer to object controls & data ports by their names as well as their indexes. > set object-name frequency 550 Also included in this release is automatic event map creation for every newly created object. Project Website is http://www.nymu.net/soundtank/ --jacob

20 years

[linux-audio-announce] [alsa-announce] ALSA 1.0.7

by Jaroslav Kysela

Hello, I am proud to announce new ALSA version 1.0.7. Bellow is list of changes between 1.0.6 and 1.0.7. Jaroslav * alsa-driver - core - fix compilation with gcc 2.95.x and 2.2.x kernels - enhance Kconfig help texts - Fix iomem variable type - 2.6 kernel code sync - module_param_array() should take a pointer - PCM - mmap callback is added to PCM ops - OSS emulation - fix for O_NONBLOCK write - Fixes for PCM/control 32bit emulation - Fix drain/drop of linked PCM streams - PCM boundary fix in 32bit compat layer - Fix non-blocking write in ALSA OSS emulation - nonblock_open=1 by default for OSS PCM API emulation - sequencer - OSS emulation fixes - suppress auto-loading of modules in module_init() - copy_to_user() return value checking in snd_seq_read() - Fix auto-loading of sequencer modules - fix sequencer sleeping in interrupt context - rawmidi - fix handling of EFAULT errors in snd_rawmidi_read/write - fix hang when writing to /dev/midi* with O_SYNC - new drivers - via82xx-modem driver - AudioScience asihpi driver - Portman2x4 driver - Fixed issues with Abit AV8 - PPC Tumbler driver - suspend & mixer fixes - ES1938 - added PM support - emu10k1 - fixed AC97 master volume for Audigy - Audigy DSP support - Support for capture of 16,32,64 channels on emu10k1 device 2 - Fix AC3 playback on SB Live - fixed emu10k1_fx8010_code_t structure to be less than 8192 bytes - add interval timer support - intel8x0 - quirks for Dell Precision 450, HP xw4200 and xw8200 - intel8x0: Fixed a long mdelay() - fixed resume when interrupts are shared with another devices - AC97 96 kHz sample rate support - add AC97 quirk for Fujitsu-Siemens E4010 - remove gameport/MIDI support - Added Compaq Evo W4000 quirk - Improved clock measurement - Fix SPDIF rate setting for old ICHs - Fix SPDIF support on ICH4/5/6 - via82xx - added the DXS entry for Uniwill/Targa Visionary XP-210 - Disable legacy FM and SB to prevent lock-ups - ac97 quirk entry for Soltek SL-75DRV5 - Fix DXS entry for GA-7VAX - Added dxs quirk for QDI Kudoz 7X/600-6AL - rme32 - rme32 segfault fix - fixing a two-rme32-in-one-machine bug - hdsp - Fix for 64bit architectures - Fix the variable types in struct - Fix HDSP meter ioctl - RME9632 precise_ptr fix - ICE1712 - Added support of Mediastation - Clean up ice1712 chip struct - Add routing/volume of ADAT I/O on EWS88D - ICE1724 - Added support for AudioTrak Prodigy 192 cards - fixes a bug that SPDIF-in mode can't be reset once after it's set - Allow the private EEPROM image for evaluation boards - aureon - fixed the master volume control - Fixed center/LFE volume controls - Provide individual driver names for Aureon and Prodigy boards - Aureon S/PDIF input fixes - Adds AC'97 support to Aureon cards - Fix Aureon CCS init sequence - pontis - buggy SPI communcation is fixed - fixed the return value of put callbacks of GPIO controls - corrected the initial register value of CS8416 - maestro3 - call pci_set_master() in resume (to be sure) - AC97 - added jack sense switches for AD1885 - AC97 96 kHz sample rate support - Added VIA shared type - Check ac97 codec id in quirk table - inverted EAPD support - added AC97_SCAP_DETECT_BY_VENDOR flag (for xbox) - Add (experimental) CM9761 support - fix DAC slot assignment - Fix AC97_EXTENDED_STATUS initialial value - Fixed SPDIF on CS4298 - ATI IXP - add IXP400 support - Added workaround for buggy BIOS - ens1371 - Fixed AC3-passthru on ens1371/1373 boards - Fix latency in ens1371 driver - ES18xx - Fixed a bug in setting the filter register - AZX (Intel HD Audio) - code update and clean-up - use ALSA proc info API and clean-up - Korg1212 - Korg1212 misc fixes - USB Audio - add mixer quirk for LineX FM Transmitter - add UA-1000 sample rate detection - add Edirol UA-25 support - mixer - handle missing control bitmap when parsing MUDs - mixer - read bmControls array in correct order - mixer - fix parsing of mixer unit descriptors - OPL3 - Fix / clean up OPL3 for CS4281 - bt87x - detect errors reported by the hardware - don't stop capture on errors - add overclocking option for the analog input - use blacklist/whitelist for (non-)audio Bt878 cards - Limit parity error messages - ES1968 - Remove delay() to improve latency - removes unneeded spin_lock_irqsave()s from snd-es1968 - usX2Y - usx2y cleanups and fixes - snd-usb-usx2y 0.7.3 - snd-usb-usx2y - crash fix for OHCI USB-HCDs - au88x0 - more au88x0 eq cleanups - au88x0: set-levels cleanup - au88x0: sign_invert cleanup - au88x0: name typo - au88x0: comment and whitespace cleanup - au88x0: fix is-quad oops - au88x0: add resetup dma - fix data type mismatch in sign_invert - nm256 - Add reset_workaround module option - cs46xx - Fix ac97 codec reset and clean up - CS4231 - replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() * alsa-lib - fixed endless loop when parsing backslash inside bad configuration file - suppress PAUSE and RESUME for direct plugins - dmix plugin - dont forget to return -EINVAL on errors - rate plugin - Fix the downsampling noise problem - Avoid zero division (sw_params) * alsa-utils - Fix hyphens in man pages - aplay - don't parse -X option because such an option doesn't exist - allow argument for --sleep-min option - fix handling of .voc magic string - fix handling of .voc files on big-endian machines - remove superfluous "size" parameter from check_wavefile_space macro - reallocate buffer only if needed in check_wavefile_space - fix playback of >2GB .wav files - skip over padding bytes in .wav files - fix memory leak when playing .voc silence blocks - fix file length when recording >2GB .wav files - fix recording of >4GB files - alsamixer - display 2 different views of the mixer controls (Playback, Capture) - alsaconf - some fixes - fixed long options - Now -L option requires the logfile argument - corrected man page * alsa-tools - envy24control - Fixed segfault when envy24control --help is called * alsa-oss - Always initialize pointers before use * alsa-firmware - license issues ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex(a)suse.cz> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SUSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8 _______________________________________________ Alsa-announce mailing list Alsa-announce(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-announce

20 years

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Ecasound 2.3.5 released, website addr. changed

by Kai Vehmanen

Hello all, here's version 2.3.5. Not too many changes, but still enough to warrant a new release. I also want to use this opportunity for the following: <*****IMPORTANT NOTICE*****> Ecasound website address has changed. The new address is http://www.eca.cx/ecasound This replaces the old (but still functional) website at http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/. Note that also all the subpages have been modified. I've added some redirect pages, but the old site will only be available for a limited time. Please update any links that point to the old website. And also, my email address has changed (see from). </*****IMPORTANT NOTICE******> CVS is tagged with 'v2_3_5' as usual, and here are the full details: --- 1. Summary of changes Various Mac OS X specific build issues have been resolved. Minor changes have been made to the OSS soundcard support to avoid limitations of certain OSS drivers. Many minor updates have been made to user documentation and to build system scripts. --- 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. Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can also be run on many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris. Limited support for Windows is available through Cygwin. Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licensed under the LGPL. --- 3. Changes since last release * With this version, Ecasound can now really be compiled for MacOS X. This has been tested on various 10.3.x systems. Also JACK support is reported to work under OS X. * Website address has changed: http://www.eca.cx/ecasound replaces the old http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound address. Please update any links that point to the old address. Full list of changes is available at <http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php>. --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes None. --- 5. Contributors Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes Berndtgen Manfred (1) -- ecasignalview build error Kai Vehmanen () -- various Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed) jcw (1) -- MacOS-X build errors. kito -at- gentoo-org (1) -- MacOS-X build errors. Stéphane Letz (1) -- Builds errors related to JACK and MacOS-X. Paul Marquardt (1) -- Mac OS X build errors. Raul Megelas (1) -- OSS-devices with no GETBLKSIZE support. --- 6. Links and files Web sites: http://www.eca.cx (fi) http://ecasound.seul.org (us) http://ecasound.sourceforge.net (us) Source packages: http://ecasound.seul.org/download http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.3.5.tar.gz md5sum: bbc0c4d12c1d21a7e71fc1bdb9fb0e2b Distributions with maintained Ecasound support: See http://www.eca.cx/download.php -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

20 years

[linux-audio-announce] Audio Libre column

by Daniel James

Hello all, I've recently started writing a column on music software for LinuxUser & Developer magazine. Unfortunately, it's not generally available on the web at the moment. The first Audio Libre column is on AGNULA/DeMuDi, and you can download it from here as a PDF: http://mondodesigno.com/cv/lud42-Audio_Libre.pdf Cheers Daniel James Director http://linuxaudio.org

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