Linux-audio-announce April 2005

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[linux-audio-announce] Amuc - the Amsterdam Music Composer

by W.Boeke

Hello, This app is focused on the art of music composition. It is stand-alone and only needs X-windows and OSS- or ALSA drivers. You get the choice among 6 real-time instruments and 6 sampled percussion instruments. Except real-time sound you can export WAVE files and MIDI files for further processing. The home page is at http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/amuc/index.html Here are also screenshots and sample mp3 files. Comments (please *not* about my composition skills) are welcome. Regards, Wouter Boeke

19 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-announce] Linux Audio Conference 2005 Live Audio/Video streams

by Joern Nettingsmeier

hi everyone! for those interested in linux audio development, the linux audio conference 2005 (http://lac.zkm.de) at the center for arts and media in karlsruhe/germany will be streamed live in both vorbis and theora formats. the conference takes place from april 21 - 24, with lectures and workshops from 11:00 to 18:00 UTC+2 every day and concerts in the evenings. i would like to invite you to join us, either in person (attendance to the conference is free) or remotely over the internet. for remote participants of the conference, there is a chat room #lac2005 on irc.freenode.net. a chat operator will be present in the auditorium in karlsruhe and will relay your questions to the lecturer and the local audience. papers and slides will be made available for download in advance if possible. information about the streams and how to watch them is at http://lac2005.zkm.de. huge kudos to the icecast, ogg, vorbis and theora developers and communites for their code and expertise! kind regards, jörn nettingsmeier on behalf of the linux audio community feel free to forward this message to interested parties.

19 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.6.5

by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.6.5 is 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. 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 development series of BEAST has 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 0.6.5: * New supported file formats: GUS Patches - Load patchfiles as ordinary samples [Stefan Westerfeld] BseWave - A new tool bsewavetool allows creation and compression of multi-sample files which can be loaded by beast. This tool is experimental and not currently being installed, ask questions or report problems with it on beast(a)gnome.org. * New Effects: Saturator - Saturate audio signals, implements various saturation types. * New scripts: Track Busses - Automatically create mixer busses for tracks * Fixed MIDI file import to create required mixer setup * Added playback position indicator to piano roll * Fixate zoom position while zooming piano roll * Fixed saving of BseMixer state to BSE files * Improved sample file caching algorith * Improved BSE file parsing robustness * AMD64 fixes [Stefan Westerfeld] * Lots of miscellaneous bug fixes * Updated British English translation [David Lodge] * Updated Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Dutch translation [Tino Meinen] * Updated Spanish translation [Jorge Gonzalez] * Added Bulgarian translation [Iassen Pramatarov] * Added Kinyarwanda translation [Steve Murphy] --- ciaoTJ

19 years, 11 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Ecasound 2.4.1 released

by Kai Vehmanen

1. Summary of changes aRts-plugin was added back to the distribution package and code for mp3 header parsing was rewritten. A new playlist mode was added to ecaplay. Many updates have been made to user and programmer documentation. --- 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 * Sources for the aRts plugin were accidentally left out from the v2.4.0 release. This release again has the plugin. * The mp3 header parsing code has been partially written. This fixes various problems in using mp3 files with broken or uncommon header layout and contents. * In addition to numerous minor bugfixes, a playlist mode has been added to ecaplay. See the following ecasound-list post: http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2005/03/0027.html * Minor new features: ability to reset ecasignalview peak statistics by sending a SIGHUP signal to the process, extended support for describing effect preset parameters (see the User's Guide for details). * Various build system improvements: compile errors with egcs-2.91.66, updated to new versions of autoconf and automake, fixed compiling outside the main source directory, added the ability to define a custom pkgdatadir at make time. * Documentation updates: new sections to the INSTALL file, many updates to the Ecasound Programmer's Guide and new sections to the User's Guide. * Bug fixes: serious bug in -gc (crop gate) operator, problems in parsing LADSPA plugins such as the SCx compressors which have colon characters in their port descriptions. Full list of changes is available at: - http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php. --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes * Note to distribution package maintainers: The Ecasound Programming Guide has been rewritten in plain ascii (used to be LaTeX) with optional support for reStructured text. I recommended packaging only the ascii version (ecasound_programmers_guide.txt) to the distribution package. Although there are make rules for creating the html version with rst2html (from python-docutils package), these are not meant for general use. There have been no changes to the other manuals (ECI and User's guides). --- 5. Contributors to this release Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes * Julian Dobson, Kai Vehmanen (1) Improved mechanism for mp3 header parsing. * Alexey Shchepin (1) Fix to a bug in time crop gate operator (-gc). * Junichi Uekawa (1) Support for specifying custom datadir forecasoundrc. Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed) * Brad Fuller (1) Output to stdout even though -q has been specified * Adam Linson (1) Errors in ecasound-iam manpage. * Junichi Uekawa (1) aRts support was missing from 2.4.0 release. Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items) * Peter Lutek (1): Ability to reset ecasignalview peak statistic --- 6. Links and files Web site (and mirrors): 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-2.4.1.tar.gz md5sum: 48b75215252d21dddf5216cae27a5f4b List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support: See http://www.eca.cx/download.php -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

19 years, 12 months

[linux-audio-announce] 64 Studio - a new distribution for creative x86_64 users

by Daniel James

Hello all, 64 Studio is a collection of software designed specifically for content creation on x86_64 hardware (that's AMD's 64-bit CPUs and Intel's EMT64 chips), including audio, video and design applications. It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other customisations. It will be marketed to hardware OEMs in the creative workstation and laptop markets as an alternative to the 64-bit version of Windows XP, or OS X on Apple hardware. We are currently working on a prototype. Our next step will be a CD-ROM installer image which will be distributed to beta testers. If you're interested in this project, please see the FAQ on the website, or join our mailing list. http://64studio.com/ Cheers Daniel

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Linux-audio-announce April 2005