Linux-audio-announce October 2006

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[linux-audio-announce] Convert Yamaha .sty files to MMA

by Bob van der Poel

I'm making separate announcement here since this little program might be of help to people not using MMA (who might want to use this as a basis for other conversions), as well as MMA users. I've written a short Python program which parses Yamaha style files (used by Yamaha synths for auto-rhythm/accomp.) to a format used by MMA. We hope this will spur the development of additional libraries for MMA. A small tarball is available at http://mellowood.ca/mma/ys2mma.tar.gz MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment is available at: http://mellowood.ca/mma/ Have fun. -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

17 years, 6 months

[linux-audio-announce] hearnet 0.0.9

by Hans Fugal

Announcing the latest version of hearnet[1], the (in)famous little JACK toy. The name may bring back memories of your favorite lunch lady, but the sound of your own network traffic will move you in ways that she never could have hoped to move you. I hope that's a good thing. This release sports filter expressions (a la tcpdump) and the ability to drop privileges and run as a normal user, and therefore play nice with the other JACK apps in your playground. Enjoy, and don't get any hair in your network. 1. http://hans.fugal.net/src/hearnet -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach

17 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] The Rivendell Operations Guide v0.9.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell Development Team, I'm pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.1 of the Rivendell Operations Guide. The Guide is written so as to provide a full "tour" of the Rivendell system from the standpoint of an end user. From the Change History: *** snip snip *** 2006-10-10 Robert Orr Fixed various typos. 2006-10-10 Fred Gleason Added a title page. Added a Change History page. Released as version 0.9.1 *** snip snip *** Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments, available under the GNU General Public License. The Rivendell Operations Guide is made available under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-alike license, and is available for download now at: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/download.shtml. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man | | contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. | | -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

17 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] LASH 0.5.2 Released

by Dave Robillard

LASH is the LASH Audio Session Handler, which allow you to save and restore complex audio setups involving multiple interconnected JACK/Alsa quickly as a unit. This release fixes several bugs, upgrading is recommended. * Support for building without ALSA (OSX? Let me know..) * Server auto-launching bug fixes * Removed dependence on /etc/services (fixes sandbox violations) * Added lash_args_free (plugs memory leak) * Fixed event handling bug in synth client * Probably a bunch of other stuff I've long since forgotten about * Applied Debian patches More information (and of course, the code) available at: http://lash.nongnu.org or, for the truly lazy: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lash/lash-0.5.2.tar.gz Enjoy. -DR-

17 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] dyne:bolic 2.2 codename DHORUBA released

by jaromil

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 annunciazio'! annunciazio'! dyne.org foundation proudly present: 8 8 8 o 8 8 8 .oPYo8 o o odYo. .oPYo. 88 8oPYo. .oPYo. 8 o8 .oPYo. 8 8 8 8 8' `8 8oooo8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ' 8 8 8 8 8 8 8. 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 . `YooP' `YooP8 8 8 `Yooo' 88 `YooP' `YooP' 8 8 `YooP' :.....::....8 ..::..:.....:..::.....::.....:..:..:.....: :::::::::ooP'.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::...::::::: version 2.2 :: codename DHORUBA :::: 100% FREE MULTIMEDIA GNU/LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM FOR THE FREEDOM OF CREATION the complete system is free to download and copy, go on ____ _ http://dynebolic.org _ _____ ___ __ http://dynebolic.org __ ____ __ ___ http://dynebolic.org ___ ___ _ ____ http://dynebolic.org ____ __ ISO CD image of 620 Mbytes :: WHAT IS DYNE:BOLIC ? Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest installation ever! Your older system is untouched and comes back booting without CD. Dyne:bolic is user-friendly: recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, modem, network and USB) and offers a vast range of software for multimedia production: audio and video manipulation, sound composition and synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer2peer filesharing, web browsing, veejaying, desktop publishing, word processing, cd burning, email, encryption, anonymity tools and more. All software is free and there is no market operation behind dyne:bolic, just a communal effort to widen access to modern technology and let people be Free to Create. Dyne:bolic is being developed since more than 5 years and optimized to run also on older machines commonly found in Africa America Asia Europe and Oceania. It includes code from hundreds of programmers all around the world, with a lively community of artists, teachers and developers who use, distribute and adapt this platform according to their needs and desires. This operating system is a grassroot effort to share independent knowledge, it keeps away from commercial speculations and capitalist corporations, because CREATIONS WANT TO BE FREE. :: WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? DHORUBA is a complete rebuild and modular rewrite of the whole system, enhanced for full usability and open for developers to join maintenance. Recent versions of audio and video tools provide a fully featured multimedia studio out of the box, ready for being employed at home, in classrooms and in media centers. See it like a Nomad Distribution attached to no hardware. You carry your live cd/dvd/usb key loaded. you boot on it on any machine, you do your stuff (from a user AND/OR developer point of view), you create a new live cd, you remove all your traces and you leave the camp... === updates and fixes in 2.2 - - dyne:II can now run all the system from USB storage - - supports docking and nesting on SATA, SCSI and USB - - Xorg has been upgraded to the latest 7.1 release - - new VOIP phone applications Iaxcomm and Kiax with pre-configured Blasterisk public account - - new AddUser and Wifi configuration tools - - grubconfig script for easy bootloader installation - - updates to the user's manual - - fixes to dhcp discovery at startup - - updates and fixes to Cinelerra ... and more fixes and enhancements to the core system === new dyne:II core features: - - it is a multiuser system, user interaction can be secured - - it includes all compiler and development tools needed to build dyne - - you can write modifications in the /usr system and save them - - it has advanced thin client functionality, booting from usb and net - - it's modular, so you can easily add and combine different software - - it's slick and snappy like the preceeding dyne:bolic, even better ;) === upgrading from version 1 To upgrade from version 1 to 2 just replace the dyne/ directory with the new one, or run the CD and answer yes when prompted. Before upgrading you have to manually backup the personal contents of your old nest and import them to a new one. Please note that: - - version 2 is not running on XBOX game consoles - - version 2 does not include the OpenMosix clustering system === dyne:II development history The dyne:II core has been compiled from scratch by Jaromil and Smilzo in 2005. During 2006 Jaromil completed a full rewrite of startup, nesting, docking, configuration and sdk scripts, aided by the experienced testing of Aymeric Antonios and Chun of Goto10. The new foundation of the dyne:II core opens up the development to more people, providing a modular packaging system for software collections and the possibility to customize the liveCD with your favourite applications. So it is born Pure:dyne, as the first dyne:II customization focusing on real time audio/video processing with pure data. visit the Developers Lounge -> http://dev.dynebolic.org === roadmap We salute and support all development done outside the capitalist empire, to produce and distribute low power and affordable computers. We look forward to support chinese dragons and simputers, solid state workstations and all kind of 100$ laptops. In fact, we are there already, the next step in this development will be adoption of a cross-platform build environment to cover all kinds of hardware around. :: FOR ACTIVISM IN CRISIS AREAS http://streamtime.org We imagine improvised expressive devices like a CD that turns your PC into an on line streaming studio. Imagine a mob that creates a traffic jam. Think of the religious policeman in London, the konfused kollege kid and the jealous dentist in Baghdad and the jailed blogger blogging on in Cairo. Building autonomous networks in extreme conditions. Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and networks in the fields of media, arts, culture and activism in crisis areas, like Iraq. Streamtime offers a diffuse environment for developing do-it-yourself media. We focus on a cultural sense of finding your own way in the quagmire that is Iraq, and its representation in the global media. We should not try to change politics in order to foster cultural change; we should support cultural manifestation in order to force political change. :: THIS IS RASTA SOFTWARE Jah Rastafari Livity bless our Freedom! This is free software, share it for the good of yourself and your people, respect others and let them express, be free and let others be free. Live long and prosper in Peace! But, no Peace without Justice. This software is about Resistence inna Babylon world which tries to control more and more the way we communicate and share information and knowledge. This software is for all those who cannot afford to have the latest expensive hardware to speak out their words of consciousness and good will. This software has a full range of applications for production and not only consumption of information, it's a full multimedia studio, you don't need to buy anything to express yourself. Freedom and sharing of knowledge are solid principles for evolution and that's where this software comes from. Inna babylon, money is the main requirement to make a voice possible to be heard by others. Capitalist and fundamentalist governments all around the world rule with huge TV monopolies spreading their propaganda, silencing all criticism. This is a struggle for Redemption from existing operating systems which always require new expensive hardware for doing the same as ever: give us free players but make us pay for producing our own voices. And the one who protects you rips you off, as the Arabs say. Dyne:bolic is a tool to produce and publish yourself, freely. There is nothing to consume here, there is all you need to create. :: ON THE PRESS Since the first release of the dyne:II series our efforts received a lot of attention, version 2.0 and 2.1 have been already redistributed on several publications worldwide.... online you can read // dyne:II reviewed on LinuxJournal http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000096 // DHORUBA RELEASE - read about it on METAMUTE http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/Dyne:bolic-2-download-new-exclusive-release // and the interview to Dhoruba Bin Wahad of the Black Panthers Party http://mediafilter.org/MFF/S36/S36.DBW.html MAX respect! :: BIG UP \o/ to DEVELOPERS & FRIENDS First of all salutes and great respect to the many developers who have written software included in dyne:bolic: a long list of names that is impossible to include here, you'll find information about them inside the CD and in the documentation of each software. Dyne:II is being mantained by Jaromil with help from: === Dyne.org / FreakNet hackers http://dyne.org http://freaknet.org Alpt, Asbesto, Kysucix, Xant, Newmark, Nightolo, DinDon, Sandman, Crash, Godog, Voyager, Pallotron, Fredd, Kobaiashi, Mr.Goil, Godog, Niels, Acme, Adam, Robert, Cjm === Goto10 http://www.goto10.org http://puredyne.goto10.org Aymeric, Marloes, Antonios, Chun === Metro Olografix http://olografix.org Smilzo, Superattilius, Groucho/K6, SugoDiPesce, Blended, Hunicus, Isazi === Netherlands Media Art Institute http://www.montevideo.nl/en Montevideo / Time Based Arts === Streamtime http://streamtime.org Bassam, Cecile, JoJo, Xname === ASCII http://www.scii.nl -> the robotic resistance crew === the Xiph foundation http://www.xiph.org === Indymedia http://www.indymedia.org and all the activists involved! === BlagBlagBlag & Blasterisk http://www.blagblagblag.org/BLASTERISK And more... Ish, Kapel, Jagadeesh, Lawrence, Arun, Melindo, the FSF India and the NID Ahmedabad, BEK.no, the Folk Festival in Louga (Senegal), the squatters of Amsterdam, Neural.it, Stomfi, Paul Davis, Abortigeno, Menglef, Maikel, Ivana, Gisle, Armin, Lambru, Chmod, Xaver, Rino, Marko, Lupone, Kingdom of Piracy, Macchina, Giacomo Verde, Artificialia, the Italian Hackmeeting, WhatTheHack, Ecoteca, the Chaos League, MetaMute, Oyvind "Pippin" Kolas, Cerin0, Jebba .... and even more ..... to all the many people sending good vibes, sharing ospitality, suggestions and helping organizing the things that keep all this alive: hearful THANKS! :: contribute TO DYNE:BOLIC ->>>> JOIN OUR MAILINGLIST: http://lists.dyne.org/dynebolic ->>>> CONTRIBUTE DOCUMENTATION: http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic (wiki) ->>>> BUG REPORT ONLINE INTERFACE: http://bugs.dyne.org Please consider that the dyne:bolic project is an independent effort relying on occasional support from non-profit, grant-making and business organizations willing to sustain development of free and opensource software like this. Dyne:bolic relies on support from individuals like you to preserve, protect and promote the freedom it gives to its users. Please show your appreciation with an act of generosity! If you use it then make a donation -> http://dyne.org/donate.php In case you are an organization, company or official institution, consider Dyne.org is a foundation and can provide you with official papers about donations, plus you can be mentioned and linked on the upcoming BIG THANKS page. We struggle to keep this effort independent, therefore the only income for this project is the community itself. thanks everyone! :: DISCLAIMER dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is copyleft (C)2001-2006 by Denis "Jaromil" Rojo This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Several redistributed binaries are copyrighted by the respective authors, it is documented in the accompanying manual of the distribution. dyne.org is available to provide the source of the included binaries upon request, all the included software can be redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL license and, in some cases, the X/BSD license. For more informations refer to the web pages on http://dynebolic.org - -- jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://afrolinux.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFKLS4e2QxhLU0C14RAo53AJ4iURZZYzu47/Zi5xR0IbJbS3aCcACgqZXj hqA5fVRMw+BRKN094kR5oIQ= =DC/j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

17 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] QjackCtl 0.2.21 is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, In the wake of the JACK 0.102.20 release, here goes the respective friendly GUI: QjackCtl 0.2.21 is out. As usual, the change-log says it all: - GPL address update. - All window captions can now be set smaller as tool-widgets. This option takes effect when child windows are kept always on top. - For the brave of heart, specially the ones brave enough to try with Stephane Letz's jackdmp, a win32 build should be now possible. - The main window button text labels are now optional (after a kind suggestion by Geoff Beasley, thanks). - Increse default maximum number of ports setting from 128 to 256. - Initial freebob backend driver support. Also changed the coreaudio backend driver command line device name/id parameter (EXPERIMENTAL). - Closing the main window while not as an active JACK client, nor under a server running state, will just quit the whole application, even though the system-tray icon option is in effect. - The most relevant transport commands (Rewind, Play and Pause) are now made available on the main window context popup menu. - The post-shutdown script is now also being called when using the Stop button, whether the jackd server has been started internally or not. The initial hard-coded default is now on and set to `killall jackd` (as a workaround to an old request from Stephane Letz). - The main window buttons display are now optional. One can choose whether the left, right and/or transport buttons are hidden, making it for a total of six different modes for the main window presentation (after a much simpler suggestion from Paul Davis and Stephane Letz). - Added configure support for x86_64 libraries (UNTESTED). Nuff this time. Hope you enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

17 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] RELEASE - jack-audio-connection-kit-0.102.20

by Taybin Rutkin

We're pleased to present the latest JACK release: 0.102.20. Now with experimental MIDI support! Download at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jackit/jack-audio- connection-kit-0.102.20.tar.gz?download -- changes/fixes * Make "alsa" the default backend when both it and "freebob" are present. * JACK MIDI patch -- Experimental! * allow use of h/w devices that only support big-endian formats, without using ALSA plughw layer. * jack_lsp now has a -L flag to show "total latency" values reflecting port connections * ALSA driver no longer requires access to a control device (Lee Revell) * jack_lsp -t shows port type * jackd will exit if -R is used but realtime is unavailable * minor change in freebob backend command line options the -d option now takes a 'hw:port[,node]' string as argument instead of a single number. More flexible and consistent with the alsa backend. * good old fix about jack_watchdog killing the whole process group instead of the nearest offending client, which is by far a much more reasonable approach IMNSHO. Without this one, and while using QjackCtl under KDE as it seems, jack_watchdog will most likely tear the X server down, not just jackd and some of its clients as originally intended. * halve JACK_THREAD_STACK_TOUCH to 500000 * increase default --port-max option from 128 to 256 * This patch checks the specified client timeout so that it is enforced that it's smaller than the jack watchdog timeout. * Many bug fixes * Many documentation updates

17 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] wcnt-1.25

by James W. Morris

wcnt-1.25 is the latest release of Wav Composer Not Toilet. A not-real-time cmdline modular audio synth, sampler, sequencer. Reads plain text files in wcnts near-english-synth-def-language to output 16 bit stereo M$ WAV format audio files. This release has focused upon making life easier for the wcnt .wc file composer. It is now possible to group together modules and then copy the group to a new group which has the same input/output relationships between the modules as the originals. Also, but not quite as helpful, you can instruct the sequencer to repeat the riff across a number of bars instead of messing about cutting and pasting. There is also a handful of new modules been added to wcnt-1.25, aswell as some bugfixes etc. wcnt - Wav Composer Not Toilet http://wcnt.sourceforge.net

17 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta6 released

by Tom Szilagyi

The developers are pleased to announce the latest release of Aqualung, a music player for GNU/Linux. Website: http://aqualung.sf.net Without further ado, the ChangeLog is attached below. Enjoy, Tom 2006-10-03 Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net> Aqualung 0.9beta6 http://aqualung.sf.net This release introduces a fair number of substantial improvements: * Music Store builder: automatically build a Music Store by scanning the files on disk. Perform CDDB lookups & extract metadata on the fly. * MPEG decoder enhancements: robust file recognition, VBR and UBR file support, frame-accurate seeking, true gapless playback via eliminating encoder padding+delay read from LAME headers. * Fully revamped metadata support using TagLib. The result is a more complete implementation also supporting APE tags in Musepack files. * Automatic output driver detection: ability to startup without command line arguments (using default driver parameters). * Systray (a.k.a. Notification Area) support. * Handling of compressed MOD files (.gz and .bz2). * Resolved issue with JACK memory locking (which previously resulted in runaway memory consumption when running with realtime JACK output). * Aqualung compiles & runs under FreeBSD and Cygwin. NEW LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES: * TagLib >= 1.4 is now required for metadata support. http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html * GTK+ >= 2.10 is needed for the (optional) Systray support. DROPPED DEPENDENCIES: * libid3tag library is not required anymore (succeeded by TagLib).

17 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] San Dysth V0.1.0, Snd-ls V0.9.7.1, E-Radium V0.61f

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

1. === San Dysth is a standalone realtime soft-synth written in SND. It was first developed as final project for the 220c course at CCRMA. For information about the used synthesizing routine and sound examples, check out San Dysths homepage at: http://www.notam02.no/~kjetism/sandysth/ Requirements ------------ Snd-ls >=0.9.7.1 G2Reverb ladspa plugin. 2. === Snd-ls is a distribution of Bill Schottstaedt's sound editor SND. Its target is people that don't know scheme very well, and don't want to spend too much time configuring Snd. It can also serve as a quick introduction to Snd and how it can be set up. Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/snd/ Changes 0.9.7.0 -> 0.9.7.1 --------------------------- -Updated Snd from 8.4/13.9 to 8.4/26.9. Many important fixes. -Added workaround for menu problem. Bug found by Dragan Noveski. -Added check that initialization is complete. -Some realtime fixes. 3. === E-radium is Radium and a special version of E-UAE (with support for realtime scheduling and alsa midi). Radium is a unique type of music event editor made to be efficient and provide many possibilities. The user interface is inspired by trackers, but Radium is more versatile and can be used for all kinds of genres. http://www.notam02.no/radium/ Changes 0.61e -> 0.61f ---------------------- -Fixed all build errors in 0.61e (0.61e should never have been released.) -Made sure everyone can run e-radium after installation, not only root and the user doing the compilation.

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