+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| ______ ______ _ _ _ |
| /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ |
| / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ |
| / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ |
| | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | |
| |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| |
| |
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[Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around]
Florence, 30 April 2005
+++ Linux Audio Conference 2005 proceedings link has changed
The link to the LAC2005 conference proceedings posted in the previous
announce has been changed. The correct link is:
http://lac.zkm.de/2005/proceedings.shtml
+++
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 its
work, aiming to spread Libre Software in the professional audio/video
arena.
Big thanks to the following institutions for their help in supporting
AGNULA:
- Firenze Tecnologia <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it>
for paying Free Ekanayaka to work full-time on maintaining A/DeMuDi;
- KTH Department of Speech, Music and Hearing <http://www.speech.kth.se/>
for housing and supporting the main AGNULA server
- IRCAM <http://www.ircam.fr> and CCRMA <http://ccrma.stanford.edu/>
for providing mirror space and bandwidth
- Red Hat France <http://www.redhat.fr/>
for supporting the A/RehMuDi distribution
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"
Patchage is a modular patch bay for Jack audio and Alsa Midi.
This releads adds Alsa Midi patching support, and numerous bugfixes.
Downloads and screenshot available at:
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla
Known issues:
- Many apps that use MIDI will show up as separate modules, one with
audio ports and one with MIDI ports. This is because that app uses
different app names with Alsa and Jack. Fix your apps. :)
- Zooming is really shaky because gnomecanvas is complete trash
Cheers,
-DR-
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| /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ |
| / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ |
| / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ |
| | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | |
| |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| |
| |
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[Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around]
Florence, 28 April 2005
+++ Linux Audio Conference 2005 proceedings are available
The proceedings for the 2005 edition of the Linux Audio Conference,
held at ZKM in Karlsruhe from April 21 to April 24, 2005, are now
available online. Among the many excellent papers that were presented
during what is by now the most famous conference of the Linux Audio
scene, the AGNULA team manage to squeeze two contributions in.
+++
The proceedings for the 2005 edition of the Linux Audio Conference,
held at ZKM in Karlsruhe from April 21 to April 24, 2005, are now
available online. Among the many excellent papers that were presented
during what is by now the most famous conference of the Linux Audio
scene, the AGNULA team manage to squeeze two contributions in.
The first paper, "AGNULA/DeMuDi - GNU/Linux and Free Software for the
pro audio and sound research domain" by Bernardini, Cirotteau,
Ekanayaka and Glorioso focuses on the AGNULA/DeMuDi GNU/Linux
distribution - where we are and where we are going from now on. The
second paper, "AGNULA Libre Music - Free Software for Free Music" by
Fugazza and Glorioso, is a description of the AGNULA Libre Music web
database.
We encourage you to download the papers at:
- AGNULA/DeMuDi - GNU/Linux and Free Software for the pro audio and
sound research domain
http://lac.zkm.de/papers/bernardini_et_al.pdf
- AGNULA Libre Music - Free Software for Free Music
http://lac.zkm.de/papers/fugazza_glorioso.pdf
Last, not least, please do download and read all the other papers.
The wealth of material presented during this edition of Linux Audio
Conference was impressive and is welcome sign of maturity for those
who wish to professionaly use GNU/Linux systems for audio/sound
production and/or research work.
The proceedings are available online at:
http://lac.zkm.de/proceedings.shtml
+++
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 its
work, aiming to spread Libre Software in the professional audio/video
arena.
Big thanks to the following institutions for their help in supporting
AGNULA:
- Firenze Tecnologia <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it>
for paying Free Ekanayaka to work full-time on maintaining A/DeMuDi;
- KTH Department of Speech, Music and Hearing <http://www.speech.kth.se/>
for housing and supporting the main AGNULA server
- IRCAM <http://www.ircam.fr> and CCRMA <http://ccrma.stanford.edu/>
for providing mirror space and bandwidth
- Red Hat France <http://www.redhat.fr/>
for supporting the A/RehMuDi distribution
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"
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| ______ ______ _ _ _ |
| /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ |
| / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ |
| / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ |
| | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | |
| |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| |
| |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
[Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around]
Florence, 28 April 2005
+++ Main AGNULA host back online after attack
After the attack (and potential compromise) that the AGNULA main host
(agnula.speech.kth.se) suffered from in the past days [0], we are
happy to announce that we concluded the reinstallation process. All
the services provided by the host have been restored and are, to the
best of our knowledge, fully functional.
+++
After the attack (and potential compromise) that the AGNULA main host
(agnula.speech.kth.se) suffered from in the past days [0], we are
happy to announce that we concluded the reinstallation process. All
the services provided by the host have been restored and are, to the
best of our knowledge, fully functional.
On Sunday, April 16 2005, the main AGNULA host (agnula.speech.kth.se,
hosting lists.agnula.org, www.agnula.org, download.agnula.org,
devel.agnula.org, muzik.agnula.org and related services) was subject
to an attack (see below). The attacker(s) (whose identity is unknown
as of today) managed to download, *but not succesfully run*, a
backdoor on the system; thanks to the tight security measures
implemented on the host - and after a thorough check of the whole
system - we had reasons to believe that the latter was *not*
compromised.
However, following good security practices and common sense, we could
not guarantee the integrity of the host. Since we had already planned
an extensive upgrade of the server, we decided to go down the safer
route: completely wipe out the system, reinstall everything from
scratch and recover backup data from the day before the attempted
compromise.
The reinstallation process has now come to an end. All the services
should be back online as you read this e-mail (actually, they started
to come back before this announcement, but we preferred to do some
checks in advance).
Please feel free to contact <info(a)agnula.org>, should you notice any
problem.
+++
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 its
work, aiming to spread Libre Software in the professional audio/video
arena.
Big thanks to the following institutions for their help in supporting
AGNULA:
- Firenze Tecnologia <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it>
for paying Free Ekanayaka to work full-time on maintaining A/DeMuDi;
- KTH Department of Speech, Music and Hearing <http://www.speech.kth.se/>
for housing and supporting the main AGNULA server
- IRCAM <http://www.ircam.fr> and CCRMA <http://ccrma.stanford.edu/>
for providing mirror space and bandwidth
- Red Hat France <http://www.redhat.fr/>
for supporting the A/RehMuDi distribution
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://lists.agnula.org/pipermail/announce/2005-April/000089.html
A new release of Wav Composer Not Toilet is now available as source code to
download from wcnt.sf.net.
This release has removed an enourmous amount of memory leaks, fixed several
segmentation faults, and, other bug issues have been fixed. Validation of
parameters is now updated, and working. Various re-codings have resulted in
a slightly smaller executable. Full info in the Changelog.
There are also some new modules. The wcnt home pages have been redesigned
and now include small tutorial style help and descriptions. New examples are
located in the source package.
wcnt.sf.net - wav composer not toilet
Cheers,
Jwm.
~(sirromseventyfive)~
www.jwm-art.net
This message has been scanned by radar and an old x-ray machine.
KMidimon 0.1
============
KMidimon is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer, with KDE user
interface.
Quoting Dave Phillips in a three parts article for Linux Journal: "At some
point, almost every serious MIDI musician needs to monitor a MIDI data stream,
perhaps to diagnose a malfunctioning piece of equipment or to examine the
contents of a MIDI sequence during playback".
Features:
* Easy to use KDE graphic user interface
* Based on ALSA sequencer
Provides one input port to be connected to other programs and devices
using the usual external tools (aconnect, kaconnect, QJackCtl...)
* Customizable event filters and sequencer parameters
* Supports all MIDI messages, including System Exclusive, and ALSA messages
* Saves to a text file (CSV format) the recorded event list
* GPL licensed
Provisional home page:
http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kmidimon/
Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kmidimon-0.1.tar.gz?download
KMetronome 0.5
==============
KMetronome is a MIDI based metronome using the ALSA sequencer.
This is a maintenance release fixing some compilation and runtime bugs.
Please upgrade.
Home page:
http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/
Download:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kmetronome-0.5.tar.gz?download
Changes
-------
release 0.5
* autosave window settings (size...)
* apply tempo/resolution when accept changes in configuration dialog
* fixed bug in sequencerthread: set_program event must be direct.
* other minor changes
release 0.4
added features
* Internal connection management now remembers the input port connection.
* new setTempo and setTimeSignature functions added to the DCOP interface.
fixed bugs
* fixed compilation problem under Fedora Core 3
* fixed some automake problems
Hi,
thanks to the work of Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas there's now true
ALSA support for Sysexxer in the CVS repository. Now it is
possible to use it even in conjunction with multiport MIDI
cards like the MIDIsport 8x8.
It still needs some testing, so you're invited to check it out
from the CVS.
On some systems it is known that it will not build, namely
SuSE 9.2. This will be fixed, but it still needs some time.
Have fun with it,
ce
The third stable release (0.95.0) of JAMin - the JACK Audio Mastering
interface is now available for download. This is a maintenance
update, fixing some problems in preparation for a future release 1.
JAMin is a GPL-licensed, realtime mastering processor designed to
bring out the detail in recorded music and provide a final layer of
polish. Every effort has been made to ensure a clean, distortion-free
signal path. All processing elements use linear-phase filtering to
eliminate phase distortion.
JAMin runs on Linux using the JACK Audio Connection Kit, a low-latency
audio server. JACK connects multiple applications to a single sound
device, and also share audio among themselves. It relies on other
JACK applications (like ardour, ecasound, or rezound) for playback and
recording.
Homepage
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/
Download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jamin/jamin-0.95.0.tar.gz?download
* bug fixes
-- resolve GUI hang in meter widget
-- allow multiple JAMin instances (needs a fast CPU)
-- eliminate low frequency distortion problem
* compatibility with recent CVS versions of JACK
-- still works with older versions of JACK, but earlier JAMin
versions will not work with the next JACK (0.101.0) release
-- uses new jack_client_open() interface, if available
- starts JACK server automatically, if not already running
- supports multiple JACK server instances
- creates multiple JAMin instances automatically
* user interface improvements
-- bypass button is red now, when selected
-- redesigned preferences dialog
-- peak resets (right click) in all meters
-- new About dialog
-- better i18n support
-- updated Russian message translations
* web page redesign
--
joq
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| /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ |
| / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ |
| / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ |
| | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | |
| |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| |
| |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
[Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around]
Florence, 19 April 2005
+++ Main AGNULA Host attacked (and potentially compromised)
On Sunday, April 16 2005, the main AGNULA host (agnula.speech.kth.se,
hosting lists.agnula.org, www.agnula.org, download.agnula.org,
devel.agnula.org, muzik.agnula.org and related services) was subject
to an attack (see below). The attacker(s) (whose identity is unknown
as of today) managed to download, *but not succesfully run*, a
backdoor on the system; thanks to the tight security measures
implemented on the host - and after a thorough check of the whole
system - we believe that the latter was *not* compromised.
However, following good security practices and common sense, we can
not guarantee the integrity of the host. Since we had already planned
an extensive upgrade of the server, we decided to go down the safer
route: completely wipe out the system, reinstall everything from
scratch and recover backup data from the day before the attempted
compromise.
The wipeout/installation/recover operations will begin tomorrow (April
20, 2005) early afternoon (approximately 3:00 p.m., Central European
Time). They should be concluded *at most* on Monday (April 25, 2005)
- we actually hope to do everything much quicker, but you will
understand our main concern in this moment is reliability and not
speed. In the meantime, we urge you to use the mirrors at:
* http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/mirrors/agnula/
* http://ccrma.stanford.edu/mirrors/agnula/
The mailing lists (including the archives), the main web site, the
AGNULA Libre Music web site, the AGNULA Development platform will be
unusable until after the reinstallation process is finished.
We are quite confident that you can safely download and install the
latest released version of A/DeMuDi (1.2.1-rc2) as well as all the
previous ones, as the relevant ISO images were uploaded on the server
before the attack and we have no tangible proof that they have been
tampered with.
+++ The attack
The attack used a bug in GForge 3.x "scm" subsystem.
We decided not to immediately disclose full information on the type of
the attack; we promptly informed to the maintainers of the affected
program, and we are waiting for the "green light" on their side before
posting details in the wild.
We urge all administrators of GForge-based systems (all 3.x series
seem affected by it) to temporarily disable the "scm" subsystem, until
a proper patch has been issued.
The discovery and the analysis were conducted by Filippo Morelli
<spike(a)miu-ft.org>. We would like to publically thank him for his
prompt action and detailed report, that allowed us to take the
necessary steps very quickly.
+++
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 its
work, aiming to spread Libre Software in the professional audio/video
arena.
Big thanks to the following institutions for their help in supporting
AGNULA:
- Firenze Tecnologia <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it>
for paying Free Ekanayaka to work full-time on maintaining A/DeMuDi;
- Swedish Royal Institute of Technology <http://www.kth.se/>
for housing the main AGNULA server
- IRCAM <http://www.ircam.fr> and CCRMA <http://ccrma.stanford.edu/>
for providing mirror space and bandwidth
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"