Linux-audio-announce March 2006

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[linux-audio-announce] Musix GNU+Linux 0.39 has been released!

by Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail

http://www.musix.org.ar Musix GNU+Linux 0.39 has been released! This is a highly experimental version. We've developed it with the intention of testing the latest versions of many applications. 0.39 will probably run better in some systems than previous versions of Musix. We really apreciatte bug and test reports! =What's new in Musix 0.39= * Rosegarden4 1.2.3 (Musix is the first distro to provide this version. Thanks to Silvan and Rosegarden's Great Team!) * Xorg 6.9 (Thank you Adrian P. for the adaption of it) * 4 Kernels: 2.6.15.2 (live-cd boot kernel) 2.6.15.4 (live-cd boot kernel with realtime patch) 2.6.15.3-rt-musix (not live-cd bootable. must be installed to hdd. realtime-patched) 2.6.13-1-multimedia (not live-cd bootable. must be installed to hdd. realtime-patched) * Some changes in the visual aspect: * KDE 3.5.1 * All sources available at www.gnu.org * eq-xmms-musix modified by Pardo (recommended) * hundreds of updates software packages * lots of bug fixes, and more. = Known issues = * Installation: After installation only kernels 2.6.15.3 and 2.6.13 are bootable. Once there the system should create the necesary stuff so it is able to boot other kernels. If this does not happen, PLEASE report it. * KDM (desktop manager) takes a lot to start. * Possible SATA hdd incompatibility * Kernel 2.6.15.4 (with realtime) makes reading in low-memory (128mb ram) systems to be really slow, becase it was not possible to compile it with unionfs support, contrary to 2.6.15.2 which has no issues with this. = Thanks and acknowledgements = * To those who have been there always, and those who recently joined, but I want to give a special one to Tapani Raikkonen who compiled the live-cd kernels and taught me lots of things about it. -- Marcos Guglielmetti Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux (www.musix.org.ar) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) (ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/) __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam �gratis! �Abr� tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar

18 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] kluppe 0.5.2 released

by kluppe

hello! kluppe version 0.5.2 is available. kluppe is a jack-based loop player designed for live-use. this version basically fixes a compilation problem with latest debian/unstable versions. other (minor) changes include: *) fixed occasional segfault on project loading *) some midi and grid-display improvements *) save and restore window geometry kluppe can be downloaded at http://kluppe.klingt.org as always: please let me know if you run into troubles using/compiling kluppe or if you just want to suggest new features or give feedback. best regards d13b

18 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] [Announce] MusE 0.8.1 released

by Robert Jonsson

This release note is for MusE 0.8.1. It is basically a bug fix release for a note-off bug that crept into 0.8. [General] MusE is a multitrack virtual studio with midi, external, softsynths and audio support. And a bunch of other things. [URL] http://www.muse-sequencer.org/ [Changes from the ChangeLog] * Added next/prev marker, keyboard shortcut * Added LASH support (patch from evermind @ gentoo) this also means that ladcca is no longer supported * Reverted fix for silent softsynths, synths were not silenced upon [stop]. * Added Motif-Rack idf from europeen [Known issues] See the errata section on the homepage for the latest: http://www.muse-sequencer.org/wiki/index.php/Errata0.8 For a complete list of changes see the ChangeLog: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lmuse/muse/ChangeLog?rev=1.214.2.147&… ly_with_tag=REL07&view=auto Source download available: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93414&package_id=1842… Regards, /MusE Development team

18 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] The end of AudioSlack

by Luke Yelavich

It is my sad duty to inform you all that I will no longer be maintaining AudioSlack. Several times in the past few months I have tried to set aside timeto get the project going again, and each time has not succeeded, due to other things going on for me at the time. My interests have also moved in a different direction in helping the Linux community. I will always be an audio and music enthusiast, but the work that I am doing elsewhere is taking a large amount of my attention at the moment, due to the possibility of getting employment in that area. I only hope that those who used AudioSlack packages found them useful in the time they were available. If there is somebody out there who feels they wish to continue my previous efforts, please email me at luke(a)audioslack.com to discuss site/domain hand-over. In closing, I would just like to say thank you to those who did help me or give me encouragement/support while the project was alive. I had many great plans forthis site, but it looks like they will never see the light of day. So thanks to all once again, and I may see you elsewhere in this wonderful world wide Linux community. Luke Yelavich

18 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] LASH 0.5.1 released

by Dave Robillard

The LASH Audio Session Handler 0.5.1 is out. LASH is a session management system for GNU/Linux audio applications. It allows you to save and restore a complex setup of many applications connected together (via Jack and Alsa sequencer) with a single click of a button. Changes since 0.5.0: - Automatic server launching (similar to Jack, export LASH_START_SERVER to enable) - Numerous bugfixes (notably saving over existing project directories and duplicate clients in the Lash Panel) - Usability fixes to Lash Panel (notably the save dialog now makes sense) Upgrading is highly recommended. Rumour has it the next releases of MusE and Seq24 will have LASH support, and preliminary work on Ardour has begun. Feel free to contact me about adding support to your app (it's usually very simple). More information, downloads, etc. available at: http://lash.nongnu.org Cheers, -DR-

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Snd-ls V0.9.5.4 and Das_Watchdog V0.2.1

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

Download from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/ Snd-ls v0.9.5.4 ================ Contains -------- Snd v7.15 from 17.8.2005 About ----- Snd-ls is a distribution of the 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. Changes 0.9.5.3 -> 0.9.5.4 -------------------------- -Changed default resampling quality to SRC_SINC_BEST_QUALITY -Added workaround for shift-handling across various keyboard settings. (shortcuts for zoom in and undo works with american keyboards now.) -Added check for Guile 1.8. Snd-ls crashes with guile 1.8. (all versions I have tried of 1.7 seems to work though...) -Use JackPortIsPhysical instead of "alsa_pcm" when finding jack ports. -Updated the rt stuff to latest versions. *************************************** *************************************** Das_Watchdog V0.2.1 =================== About ----- Das_Watchdog is a general watchdog for the linux operating system that should be runned in the background at all times to ensure a realtime process won't hang the machine. Changes 0.2.0->0.2.1 -------------------- *Cleaned up source a bit. *Properly find number of timer processes. *Added shortcuts for optargs.

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[linux-audio-announce] Linux Audio Conference 2006: Register now!

by Frank Neumann

Hi all, this mail is just to inform you that registration for the 4th International Linux Audio Conference (or "LAC2006" for short), APril 27th-30th, in Karlsruhe, Germany, is possible as of now by visiting our web page at http://lac.zkm.de and clicking on the link "Registration" on the left. Like last year (and the years before), registration is free and is only necessary because we need to prepare nametags, make estimations about room sizes/required chairs and want to learn a bit about our audience. That's all, honestly! :-). Information given there will NOT be used for any kind of selling, spamming or otherwise abusing. Also, the preliminary conference program has been published a few weeks ago, available through the same link give above. Thanks for registering in case you plan to come! Greetings, Frank Neumann Goetz Dipper LAC2006 organization team

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[linux-audio-announce] Freecycle 0.6alpha is out!!

by Predrag Viceic

Freecycle 0.6alpha is out!! Freecycle (http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com) is a beat slicer running on GNU/Linux platform using the QT toolkit, providing amplitude domain and frequency domain beat matching / zero crossing algorithms. It exports sliced audio chunks and generates a MIDI file which can be used to play the sliced loop, or you can jam with it as soon as you’ve made slices using a midi keyboard or sequencer. Freecycle also exports AKAI S5000/S6000/Z4/Z8 .AKP files to be used with your favorite sampler, SoundFont files, and supports slice drag and drop to/from or inside Freecycle. It can process the audio inline using LADSPA effects, as well as apply envelopes to separate slices. This new release replaces the PortAudio and PortMidi support with Alsa and alsaseq. PortAudio and PortMidi are still supported on systems without alsa. As a minor feature, Freecycle now provides the "Bark scale" for spectrogram plotting, which enhances the visibility of the audio wave in the frequency domain. Some bugfixes and minor optimisation as always.. http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freecycle/freecycle-0.6alpha.tar.… Cheers, Predrag Viceic

18 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] [Announce] MusE 0.8 released

by Robert Jonsson

MusE 0.8 is here at last. [Introduction] MusE 0.8 was originally intended to be called 0.7.2 but for various reasons (featuritis, time, and because 'I wanna!') we decided to call it 0.8. This is most likely the last release in the old series, next up is the much rewritten 1.0. This release contains a number of new features lots of stability and usability improvements. All users are encouraged to upgrade. [Notable new features] - Syncronization with external hardware using Midi Clock now works (see Errata on homepage for known limitations) - Support for restaring jack during runtime - Import and export of midi parts with drag&drop support - Import of plugin-presets with drag&drop support - Internal lightweight wave editor + link to external editor - Lots and lots of improvements, see compressed ChangeLog below [New instrument definition files] - Emu Proteus 200 - Roland E-28 - Roland SCD-70 - Yamaha PSR-275 - MC-505 - Roland Fantom XR - Roland SRX-02 - Roland SRX-09 - Waldorf-Q - Yamaha 01v - Yamaha Motif - Yamaha P100 [Translations] - New polish translation - New german translation - Updated swedish translation - Updated french translation - Updated russian translation [Notable known issues] See the errata section on the homepage for the latest: http://www.muse-sequencer.org/wiki/index.php/Errata0.8 [Compressed list of changes from the ChangeLog] - Extern sync with partial looping support - muse now starts even if jack is not found - fixed a number of divide by zero errors mainly affecting zoom - Updated/improved swedish translation. - Fix for softsynths going silent under load. - amd64 fix for rtc timer - Added updated french translation from Intent - Fixed crash bug in pianoroll when moving several events outside part. - Added popup when enabling rec for a track unable to create it's wave file - Enlarged listeditor dialog (FR:1392090) - Fixed crash bug when arrowing left in an empty editor - Fixed bug in detection of RTC - Organ softsynth did not work correctly - VAM softsynth did not work correctly - Changed audio prefetch buffer to be dynamically sized after the jack buffers - Fixed race condition between threads caused lockup upon quit and load project. - dynamically extends parts, fixes bug:1363066 Paste outside segment - now tries both RTC and Alsa (in that sequence) for main timer - updated muse_ru.ts from Alexandre Prokoudine - removed assert, fixes bug:1376783, deleting track with pianoroll open crashes muse - fixed crash bug for showing plugin-guis when the plugin did not exist - fixed seg fault when deleting last note in pianoroll editor - Fixed bug 1329537 (User defined fonts not updated) - added emuproteus200.idf from Piotr Sawicki - added polish translation from Piotr Sawicki - Handle restart of Jack and restart of audio - Added new timer classes from Jonathan Woithe. - Solo for audio tracks improved by removing the possibility to mute Output tracks - Implemented REPLACE for midi recording - Fixes for Appearance dialog, background pic, event display - Marker window now toggling - Added "raise" to more dialog windows - bounce now stops correctly - Fixed position of import of wave files, inserted at cursor, now inserts at mouse - Added drag&drop support to plugin racks in mixer, internal and to/from disk - Added quick search to LADSPA plugin dialog - Implemented resize of waveparts - Added Idf files by Steve D for Roland FantomXR, SRX-02 and SRX-09 - Internal wave editor enabled with common operations, fade, cut, amplify, etc - Fixed bug with loading of background pixmaps - Fixed bug 1199171 (Time change: a part does not completely fit into 4 bars), part resize problem - Added scrollwheel support for vertical scrolling in arranger, pianoroll and drumeditor - Fixed bug 1056996: Multiple selection, but single paste. Possible to copy several parts in arranger - Fixed bug 1092424: bug in reposition of instruments in drumeditor - Fix for drumtracks and part export/import - Fix for opening Midi port/softsynth dialog when already open (now raised and set to active window) - Added export/import of midi parts (.mpt-files), drag & drop also possible - Fix for generating midi clock - Added Roland E-28 idf file from Jonathan Woithe (js) - Allows for several midi devices with the same name - Fix for bug 1198747, tests for fluidsynth and rtcap in configure.ac - Fix for bug 1198744, added patch for reading browser setting from config without crashing, from Philip Nelson - Fix for bug 1188767, downmix won't stop playback until reaching the right marker - the instrument list in the drumeditor now has fixed width when resizing the window - added nudge event position left/right w keyboard (ctrl+left/rightarrow as default) to pianoroll and drumeditor - added fixed length command to pianoroll, uses snap-to value - added snap/quantize patch from Petr Mazanec (snap of notes in pianoroll+drumeditor is now controlled by snap, not quantize) - simpledrums: added save/load of setup to file, bugfixes. simpledrums version is now 1.0 (go figure! ;) - No longer crashed when enabling audio metronome when there's an aux - fluidsynth: bankno is saved to project, switched to hbank from lbank - make sleep() in watchdog thread non interruptible to avoid watchdog timeouts at startup - added vst preallocation of memory "fix" - More fixes to filenames containing dots (for instance wca files) - Added Yamaha-PSR275 instrument file by Petr Mazanec - fixed patch-info issue in Fluidsynth (bug 1191214) - fixed bug w paste in drumeditor, 1189267, patch from P Mazanec - Fixed bug 1152441, filename can now have several dots - Fixed bug 1183980: fluidsynth pitch controller wasn't given to MusE from the synth - Added an error popup when importing wave files fails. - added support for german localization - help: changed muse homepage location - Fix for overflow when importing midi - Added some fixed on dialog handling, mainly "esc" will close the widget now. - New icons - Added Roland-SCD70.idf from Emiliano Grilli - New version of MC505.idf from Wim VW - Added script to convert MusE 0.6 songs to 0.7-0.8 format - For a complete list of changes see the ChangeLog. For a complete list of changes see the ChangeLog: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lmuse/muse/ChangeLog?rev=1.214.2.141&… Source download available: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93414&package_id=1842… Regards, /MusE Development team

18 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] Latest Linuxaudio.org developments

by ico

Greetings all, Considering that the linuxaudio.org lists are currently not reaching a majority of the Linux audio community, I wanted to use this opportunity to inform you of the latest developments regarding the Linuxaudio.org. Also, for the same reason I've resorted to some cross-posting. My sincere apologies if this has caused any inconvenience. What is Linuxaudio.org? Linuxaudio.org is a non-profit consortium whose role is to support Linux as a viable digital audio workstation. Linuxaudio.org therefore aims to expose, proliferate, and disseminate artistic, as well as software and hardware development endeavors associated with the aforementioned platform. The two-year-old consortium boasts a growing membership consisting of 30+ member organizations, companies, software projects, and institutions. In its relatively brief existence, Linuxaudio.org has spearheaded a creation of the first online CD compilation of art generated using exclusively open source software in conjunction with Linux, and has sponsored Linux audio booths at several international conferences and expos. For more info please visit http://www.linuxaudio.org It is also my pleasure to use this opportunity to announce our latest members: *Ubuntu Linux represented by Mark Shuttleworth *Ubuntu Studio project (ubuntustudio.com) represented by Dana Olson *Pure-Data represented by Miller Puckette *Frinika software project (www.frinika.com) represented by Johan Salomonsen *(CCM)2 studios at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati represented by Dr. Mara Helmuth *Virginia Tech Music Department, represented by Prof. John Husser I would like to welcome our new members. For latest updates, users, members, as well as prospective members are encouraged to subscribe to the following list: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/consortium/ We are now in an opportune moment as the Linuxaudio.org appears to be finally ready for the plan which has been proposed almost a year ago, namely to incorporate the consortium in order to begin fund-raising for the purpose of strengthening the consortium's mission and outreach. In order to bring this plan to fruition, I would first of all greatly appreciate a response from all who were/are currently subscribed to, or wish to be involved in the consortium. A number of other ideas/projects are currently in the works, including a potential move of the consortium's server to Virginia Tech where we could enjoy better bandwidth and more disk space, both of which would put us in a much better position regarding expansion and offering enhanced content. If anyone is interested in getting involved with the Web maintenance, please contact me at ico_at_linuxaudio.org. Linuxaudio.org is currently in the process of finalizing a new logo. All who are involved (or wish to be involved) in Linuxaudio.org are welcome to contribute to this project. Finally, please allow me to point out that Linuxaudio.org always welcomes new member projects, institutions, organizations, and individuals who actively contribute to the development of the Linux as a viable digital audio workstation, including artists and software projects. The membership is currently free, and even once we become incorporated and instantiate membership dues for the purpose of fund-raising, members will have an option to enroll as and/or retain their free membership. If interested, please do not hesitate to contact me. For additional info, please visit http://www.linuxaudio.org. Sincerely, Ivica Ico Bukvic, Director Linuxaudio.org

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Linux-audio-announce March 2006