Linux-audio-announce May 2004

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[linux-audio-announce] The AGNULA project protests against software patents

by The AGNULA team

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ______ ______ _ _ _ | | /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ | | / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ | | / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ | | | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | | | |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around] Florence, 12 May 2004 +++ THE AGNULA PROJECT PROTESTS AGAINST SOFTWARE PATENTS In September 2003, the European Parliament had voted to maintain and reinforce the exclusion of software and business methods from patentability. The AGNULA project will "black-out" the home pages of its sites (`www.agnula.org', `devel.agnula.org', `muzik.agnula.org') to strongly protests against this act of disrespect towards the European Parliament - which is directly elected by european citizens - and against patents on software, data formats and abstract ideas. +++ In September 2003, the European Parliament had voted to maintain and reinforce the exclusion of software and business methods from patentability. On May 5 2004, the Irish Presidency managed to secure a qualified majority for a counter-proposal to the software patents directive, with only a few countries - including Belgium and Germany - showing resistance. This proposal discards all limiting amendments from the European Parliament, reinstates the laxist provisions from the Commission, adding direct patentability of data structures and process descriptions as icing on the cake. The AGNULA project strongly protests against this act of disrespect towards the European Parliament - which is directly elected by european citizens - and against patents on software, data formats and abstract ideas. The AGNULA project fully supports the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII [0]) and all other groups that, throughout Europe and the rest of the world, are fighting against patentability software and abstract ideas. You can find further information on why patents on software and abstract ideas are a very bad thing (not only for Libre Software but for all software creators) here: http://swpat.ffii.org/ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat/letter-20040510.en.html Please support our protest by obscuring your pages and/or helping FFII in their struggle. You can find ways to do it here: http://www.ffii.org/ffii-cgi/aktiv?f=euparl&l=en +++ About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution, pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded until April 2004 by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing as a volunteer based project, aiming to spread Libre 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.ffii.org/

20 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] The AGNULA project @ creAzione

by The AGNULA Team

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ______ ______ _ _ _ | | /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ | | / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ | | / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ | | | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | | | |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around] Florence, 12 May 2004 +++ THE AGNULA PROJECT @ creAzione The AGNULA project has been invited to "creAzione", a three-day (20-22 May 2004) long event on the "creative use of technology", organized by ASNM S.p.a. and BIC La Fucina at Laboratorio Innovazione Breda. Specifically, the AGNULA project has been invited as guest speaker during the "Free Software" day. Andrea Glorioso, Damien Cirotteau, Davide Fugazza and Free Ekanayaka will talk about the AGNULA project, the AGNULA/DeMuDi distribution and the AGNULA Libre Music web portal. +++ The AGNULA project has been invited to "creAzione", a three-day (20-22 May 2004) long event on the "creative use of technology", organized by ASNM S.p.a. and BIC La Fucina at Laboratorio Innovazione Breda. Specifically, the AGNULA project has been invited as guest speaker during the "Free Software" day. Andrea Glorioso, Damien Cirotteau, Davide Fugazza and Free Ekanayaka will talk about the AGNULA project, the AGNULA/DeMuDi distribution and the AGNULA Libre Music web portal. The event will take place in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan, Italy) at Laboratorio Innovazione Breda: http://www.asnm.com/ita/index.php Directions how to reach the place can be found here: http://www.asnm.com/ita/dove/stradale.htm Or you can use the wonderful Maporama web site: http://www.maporama.com The "creAzione" days will focus on the analysis of how technical and technological tools can and will interact with human creativity in the digital age, as well as on understanding how creativity can become the starting point of succesful business activities in the near future. The AGNULA team will be present on saturnday, May 22, and will give three speeches during the event: (1) AGNULA: past, present and future Andrea Glorioso <sama(a)miu-ft.org> (2) AGNULA/DeMuDi: a libre GNU/Linux Debian-based distribution for professional audio Free Ekanayaka <free(a)miu-ft.org> Damien Cirotteau <damien(a)miu-ft.org> (3) AGNULA Libre Music: libre contents for free spreading of knowledge Andrea Glorioso <sama(a)miu-ft.org> Davide Fugazza <fugaz(a)miu-ft.org> The precise timeline for the event is yet to be determined, but AGNULA talks will probably happen early in the afternoon (14:00-17:00). +++ About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution, pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded until April 2004 by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing as a volunteer based project, aiming to spread Libre 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"

20 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] galan-0.3.0-beta6 "vst(i) in the modular synth" released.

by torbenh＠gmx.de

hi... i just wanted to announce the release of galan-0.3.0_beta6. This release has vst(i) support through libfst. So if you ever wanted to wire up networks of vst plugins and instruments, you can do this now. fst is available here: http://linuxaudiosystems.com/fst/fst-1.5.tar.gz we have some issues with the embedding of windows into the app. it will work if you set managed = "N" in your wine config. and it will work with IcwWM and fluxbox. for other windowmanagers i cant tell. i hope to find this issue so that it works with every windowmanager soon. and for those who dont know. gAlan is a mixture of pd and reaktor. there is eventprocessing, and there are two windows: one for the schematics and one for the controls. in the controls window you can have several panels with custom background images. look here for an example of an instrument built with gAlan: http://galan.sourceforge.net/anti-aliased-knobs.png galan supports subpatches. and polyphony is already possible (but i will refine that a lot in the future) the documentation is not very good, and the example patches are a little old. but i hope the stuff which you can add from the Lib/ menu gets you started quite easyly. the download page is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/galan -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language

20 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] The Xiph.org Foundation joins Linuxaudio.org

by Daniel James

May 10, 2004 - The Xiph.org Foundation has joined the Linuxaudio.org consortium, becoming the newest member and bringing the total number of members to nineteen. Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of companies and 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. Daniel James, Linuxaudio.org director, commented: "With the welcome addition of the Xiph.org Foundation, our consortium now has members working on all aspects of Linux audio. The Xiph.org Foundation codec projects and related software perfectly complement existing members' work on hardware, drivers, applications, plugins and Linux distributions. Together, we can now offer complete Linux-based solutions to the audio industry and user communities all over the world." The Xiph.org Foundation is a not-for-project multimedia research and development company, focused on the creation of next generation codecs and tools for audio and video that are both open and royalty-free. Current projects include the Vorbis audio codec for general purpose audio compression, the Speex codec for voice compression, and the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC). More information on the Linuxaudio.org consortium and the Xiph.org Foundation can be obtained by visiting our respective websites: http://www.linuxaudio.org/ http://www.xiph.org/ Press contacts: Daniel James at (daniel at linuxaudio dot org) and Jack Moffitt at (jack at xiph dot org) ends

20 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Ecasound 2.3.3 released

by Kai Vehmanen

Hello all, this year's first stable Ecasound release is now out! Most of the final tuning for this release was done last Sunday while watching and listening to the last sessions of 'laconf2'. Many thanks to all the organizers and participants! And special thanks for the excellant net coverage of the event! But now, back to the 2.3.3 release -- here are the details: 1. Summary of changes Bugs in ecasignalview, effect presets, NetECI protocol parser and the C ECI implementation have been fixed. Many build system issues, including errors in building against libsndfile-1.0.4 and older, have been resolved. A separate section covering ecasound.el, the ecasound emacs interface, has been added to the Ecasound Control Interface Guide. The Ecasound User's Guide has also been updated. --- 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 * Preset handling fixes: When saving chainsetups containing presets, values of preset parameters were not saved correctly. Also problems with presets containing untitled parameters have been fixed. * New ecasoundrc(5) setting "autodetect" for "default-output" has been added. When selected, libecasound will check for JACK support and whether a JACK server is running, if not found, check for ALSA, then OSS, and finally fallback to using "rtnull". This feature is especially useful to apps such as ecaplay. * Fixes to ecasignalview: Proper cleanup after receiving an interrupt from keyboard (SIGINT/CTRL-C) has been added. Originally tested on FreeBSD, but helps on Linux as well. * Ecasound Interactive Mode (EIAM) updates: Added new command 'map-ladspa-id-list' to allow listing the available plugins by their unique ID numbers. A special case value of '-1' is now understood by 'cs-set-length'. This allows undoing any previously set length value. * Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) updates: Added a section on ecasound.el - the Ecasound emacs interface - to the ECI Guide [1]. Several bugs have been fixed in the ECI C implementation. A serious bug in NetECI protocol parser, that caused parsing long (over 32 chars) commands to fail, has also been fixed. * Documentation updates: The Ecasound User's Guide [2] has been updated. Also, a bug in the groff source for the ecasound(1) man page that prevented man from showing the last five pages of the document, has been fixed. * Build system fixes: Problems in building against libsndfile-1.0.4 and older have been fixed. 'libecasound-config --libs' has been fixed to return the full list of external libraries. Based on recent discussions on linux-audio-dev, minor changes have been made to processing CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Full list of changes is available at <http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/history.html>. --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes * ecasoundrc(5) - "default-output": new value "autodetect" (default) --- 5. Contributors Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes Michael Ewe (2) -- bugfixes to ecasignalview and ECI C impl Mario Lang (1) -- section on ecasound.el to ECI Guide Eric Rzewnicki (1) -- set of updates to Ecasound User's Guide Kai Vehmanen (n/a) -- various Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed) Pierre Lorenzon (1) -- bugs in ecasound's daemon-mode protocol parser Jan Weil (1) -- cs-save dit not save preset parameters Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items) Jan Weil (2) -- map-ladspa-id-list command, -t:1 option --- 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-2.3.3.tar.gz Referenced documents: [1] - http://www.eca.cx/eci-guide [2] - http://www.eca.cx/eca-u-guide Distributions with maintained Ecasound support: Agnula - http://www.agnula.org AltLinux - http://www.altlinux.com Debian - http://www.debian.org FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org Mandrake - http://www.mandrake.org PLD Linux - http://www.pld.org.pl SuSE Linux - http://www.suse.de/en Contrib Packages and Add-On Distributions: AudioSlack for Slackware - http://www.audioslack.com PlanetCCRMA for RedHat/Fedora - http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software Thac's RPMs for Mandrake - http://rpm.nyvalls.se Note! Distributors do not necessarily provide packages for the very latest Ecasound version. --- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

20 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] Linux Audio Miniconf, April 2005, Canberra Australia

by Conrad Parker

Hi, for those who can't get enough Linux Audio in their diet: The Linux Audio Mini-Conf @ LCA2005 will be held before linux.conf.au, Australia's national Linux conference, in April 2005 at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. More details, including the call for technical presentations and an archive of the previous year's miniconf, is at: http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2005/ Conrad.

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