Linux-audio-announce July 2006

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Traverso, a multitrack audio recording, editing and mixing program for GNU/Linux

by Remon Sijrier

The Traverso Team is happy to announce the release of Traverso 0.30.0, a GPL licensed multitrack audio recording and editing program for GNU/Linux. This release is the first in a series towards the final 1.0.0 release. Traverso offers an innovative User Interface concept, with which it tries to differ from other multitrack audio applications and, more importantly, provides a powerfull tool to easy and quickly record or import, edit and mix songs. Website addresses: The source, distribution packages (Debian, Gentoo), or ready to run binaries can be obtained from the Project's website which is hosted on Savannah: Project central development webpage: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/traverso/ Download link: http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=traverso User Interface concept: Traverso uses a contextual interaction interface. Instead of using (only) the mouse to operate on certain objects, the mouse and keyboard are used together to control the program. This results in a higher flexibility to controll the program compared to the 2 or 3 mouse buttons available if the mouse was used alone. The mouse only has to move on an object and all functions become available by pressing a key on the keyboard. This is more efficient and requires less interaction than selecting the object and choosing the function from a menu. Since the object under the mouse cursor is automatically selected, this concept is called "soft selection". It differs also from the more generally known "key shortcuts" which do not operate in a context, or only on "hard selected" objects. To help new users to learn this way of controlling an application, Traverso offers "Contextual Menus", a detailed help file, and a tutorial on the web site. Internals: Traverso is a native Qt program which uses the new Qt 4.1 toolkit. This makes it a lightweight, fast program which is light on system resources. It uses the highly popular libsoundfile and libsamplerate libraries to read/write from/to audio files. Both audio file reads and writes are done with use of lockless ringbuffers to improve real time audio processing behaviour. Both ALSA (native) and Jack are supported, and great care is taken to make the internal sound processing routines Real Time friendly. The audio processing is done with normalized 32 bit floats. See the Changelog for more details. Where to place Traverso: The goal of Traverso is to create an easy, fast to controll and workflow based audio recording and editing application, and certainly isn't supposed to be a second Ardour/Audacity/other ! The interface concept, though not completely unknown, has been taken to a higher level than most applications have done, and as such is an experiment which so far has seen good results! Traverso still lacks a number of features, however major components have been created including un/redo framework, a 100% seperation of Core and GUI, and reasonable solid playback/recording routines, either using native ALSA or Jack which can be switched at runtime. History: Traverso is a fork of the Protux project, and continued on the code base as of September 2005. We hope Traverso will be of any use for you, and we encourage you to use it. We would be very pleased if you give your valuable feedback, so we can make Traverso better than we ever have hoped it would be! The Traverso Team.

18 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] sfront 0.91 - 7/30/06 - released

by lazzaro

Hi laa-folk, Announcing the release of sfront 0.91 7/30/06, available for download from: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/sfman/user/install/ index.html#download Here is the change log: [1] Bug fix: sfront now defaults to writing 16-bit WAV and AIFF files, and the command-line flags for specifying 16-bit WAV and AIFF files now work correctly (thanks to Francois Pinot). [2] Bug fixes in the documentation and implementation of the custom control driver API (thanks to Francois Pinot). For those of you unfamiliar with sfront, here's a short bio: Sfront compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs that generate audio when executed. MP4-SA is a standard for normative algorithmic sound, that combines an audio signal processing language (SAOL) with score languages (SASL, and the legacy MIDI File Format). Under Linux and Mac OS X, sfront supports real-time, low-latency audio input/output, local MIDI input from soundcards, and networked MIDI input using RTP and SIP. A SIP server hosted on the Berkeley campus manages sessions. The documentation includes a book about SAOL programming. Learn more at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html --- John Lazzaro http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu ---

18 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] das_watchdog V0.2.4 and jack_capture V0.3.7

by kjetil＠ccrma.stanford.edu

New source location: http://www.notam02.no/~kjetism/src/ (Sorry, I have temporarily lost access to both my previously used upload directories) das_watchdog ************************************************************************* Whenever a program locks up the machine, das_watchdog will temporarily sets all realtime process to non-realtime for 8 seconds. You will get an xmessage window up on the screen whenever that happens. Changes 0.2.3->0.2.4 -------------------- *Test if the xmessage program found during the make process is a valid executable. If not, search the $PATH instead. This should fix it for Gentoo when the pro-audio overlay is updated to at least this version. *Various modifications for the High Res Timer, which should be used instead of setting the timer interrupt process to SCHED_FIFO/99. jack_capture ************************************************************************* jack_capture is a small program to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file without having to patch jack connections, fiddle around with fileformats, or set options on the argument line. This is the program I always wanted to have for jack, but no one made. So here it is. Changes 0.3.1 -> 0.3.7: ----------------------- *Fixed potentional buffer underrun error. *Fixed potentional ringbuffer size allocation miscalculation. *Better way to set leading zeros in filename. Thanks to Melanie. *Better underrun handling. Thanks to Dmitry Baikov. *Added support for jack buffer size change. *Removed some unnecessary code and comments *Beautified code a bit. *Fixed a bug in the reconnection code. *Beautified code a lot. *Changed bufsize argument to accept seconds instead of frames. Default buffer size is 60 seconds. *Improved documentation and help option. *Beautified source a bit. *Fixed bug in ringbuffer size allocation. *Fixed so that more than one instance of jack_capture can run at once.

18 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] New Colombo hydrogen drumkit deb package (3.4 mb), and musix-freepats-extras

by Marcos Guglielmetti

Hi, I made it and upload it to our server: Add to your sources.list: # Musix GNU+Linux repository deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./ Also there is the musix-freepats-extras package -------------------------------------------------------- musix-colombo-drumkit Description: Package: musix-colombo-drumkit Priority: optional Section: musix Source: musix-colombo-drumkit Installed-Size: 3.4 MB Maintainer: Marcos Guglielmetti (Musix/GNU-Linux) <marcos(a)musix.org> Architecture: all Version: 1.0 Provides: musix-colombo-drumkit Recommends: musix-bin-scripts, hydrogen, swami, qsynth, fluidsynth, timidity, rosegarden, noteedit, asfxload Description: Musix's Hydrogen Colombo Drumkit You can find the complete set of samples here: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sound-samples/Colombo-Acustic-Drumkit There are 10.9 MB into 92 sound samples. . This drumkit is a small version of 3.4 MB. and installs on: /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/ColomboAcousticDrumkit . Colombo drums are handcraft drums made in La Plata, Argentina by a man called Colombo. . Drum details Wooden toms, snare and bassdrum Toms: 12X8 13X9 16X16 (hi, mid, low-foor) Bassdrum: 21X14 Snare "piccolo" 14X4 Aquarian patch set. Crash 16'' Sabian "B8 Pro, Thin Crash" Crash 20'' Paiste 1000 "Power Crash 20''", made in Switzerland Hihat Paiste 1000 14'' "Rude", made in Switzerland . Licence: GNU GPL v2 or later, see COPYING and README for details -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

18 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.69

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.69. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. This release, featuring the debut of full voicetracking and log customization capabilities, marks a significant milestone for the project, with all modules now feature-complete. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** Changes: Voicetracking. A major new feature in this version, voicetracking gives operators the ability to insert dynamic, "one-off" audio content into individual logs as well as the ability to individually customize each segue transition of a log. Carts for voicetracked content are automatically created and deleted "on-the-fly" by the system, with no need for individual cart management in the Library. RDLogManager Changes. The sequence for generating logs in RDLogManager has been completely overhauled, making it now possible to generate a log and apply voice tracks even before Traffic import data are available (so-called "incremental log linking"). Several features have also been added to support operation with music-intensive formats, such as the ability to schedule embedded voicetracks and spots sets from external music scheduling systems (currently only tested with RCS Selector). RDDBCheck. A utility for checking consistency of the Rivendell database. For information, do (as root): rddbcheck --help Many, Many Bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Library Versions: This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.1 and librhpi-0.94.6 be installed. If installing from RPM, the version of the currently installed libraries can be determined by doing: rpm -q libradio rpm -q librhpi Database Update: As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, including screenshots, documentation and download links can be found at: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Focus on the dream, not the competition. | | -- Nemesis Racing Team motto | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] New specimen list and home

by Eric Dantan Rzewnicki

Hello all, I've set up a mailing list for specimen: http://zhevny.com/mailman/listinfo/specimen Additionally the web site now lives at http://zhevny.com/specimen. This is a minimal re-working of Pete's old site. More improvements to follow. Let me know if anything is badly broken. (I know the guide is broken, but I need to re-do it with new screenshots anyway.) I just changed the dns record for zhevny.com to point to a new host earlier today. The TTL was set to 1 day, so some of you may get pointed to the old box. Let me know if you have any issues, or just try again a little later. Thanks, Eric Rz.

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] Musix 0.50, released!

by Marcos Guglielmetti

=Musix 0.50 released!= Thanks to the support of the Ututo Proyect, FSF, Ourproject, and to the usual collaborators, the Musix project has just released Musix 0.50, whose programs were tested for over 1 month, time that allowed us to solve some problems over Musix 0.49, and to make the more relevant software updates. Musix 0.50 can be consider the more stable and functional Musix version until now, also, 0.50 can update old Musix versions, as instance Musix 0.40 could be updated without re-install all the system. Musix counts with its own software package repository that has been growing. It is hoped to incorporate new software nonavailable in Debian, like mplayer or cinelerra (video edition), or Wired. The Musix project has offered several speeches in different institutions during 2005 and 2006, affirming the commitment with the diffusion of free software among musicians, sound engineers and users in general. Important programs/packages updated * Knoppix-installer was updated (taking parts from Knoppix 5.0.1): Now you can update a single package or a group of packages from your actual Musix installed on HD. As instance, you can upgrade Musix 0.40 to 0.50 without re-install the system. * Rosegarden4 1.2.3 should work ok (record audio without crashing). The problem was in an old .rg file. * Installed: linux-image-2.6.16-1-multimedia-486 from 64studio, Removed kernel-image-2.6.13-1-multimedia-386 from aGNUla/DeMuDi * Gparted installed: it's more updated than qtparted, qtparted was removed. Now the installation process should be better. ==050 New programs/packages installed== * Added better support for desktop in German and Portuguese languages (deb package created with files for icewm and rox-filer). * Traverso 0.30 (A multitrack audio recorder/editor) * Terminatorx 3.82 installed (terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data). * Created and installed a package with firmware GPL for devices MIDISport/Midiman USB 1x1, 2x2, 4x4, 8x8 y USB-2-MIDI (Steinberg) https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/EZ-USB * Installed: clearlook theme for GTK2 (Clearlooks GTK+ 2.x engine and theme) and KDE (Clone of GNOME's Clearlooks theme for KDE) * Grubconf was installed (it has a bug) * Icecast was installed (Ogg Vorbis and MP3 streaming media server) ==Others changes== * Improved Video hardware detection * Musix can be installed on Serial ATA hard disks * Added a text console menu created by Francisco Tufro, it also lets you change the video settings, read the User's Manual, and other tasks. * New wallpapers * The system name (Musix GNU/Linux) was corrected into the GRUB boot menu * Added new script for audio card configuration for testing: /etc/init.d/alsasound (apparently it works only with udev). It does not yet participates in the boot process. * The behavior to access to the Admin desktop was changed (stills needs other modifications) * Created "KDE-to-Rox" desktop, which takes icons in kdesktop (of the KDE desktop in ~/Desktop) and transfers them to the desktop using Rox-Filer. Besides, the "complete" KDE desktop can even be initiated from there. * Removed residual configuration files ==Solved problems== Generally speaking, this problems has been solved: * Solved Portuguese keyboard bug in text console? (ln -s /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt-latin1.kmap.gz /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt.kmap.gz) * Bug fixes into rosegarden+* scripts * KDM (desktop manager) takes too long to launch, solved * After updated GTK, some desktop icons disappear, solved * After the installation, the system reboots Ok ==Known problems in Musix 0.50== * Translation to french, italian and german languages needs more work. * Apparently, the 'bootfrom=' boot parameter ("cheatcode") does not work from the 2.6.16-beyond4.1 kernel. * In some PCs there is a problem with the network configuration that this scrip performs: /etc/init.d/networking A modified script ( /etc/init.d/networking-fix ) was added so that the ones who have this problem can solve it easily. ==Next version, Musix 0.59== * Hundreds of software packages will be updated * ... maybe squashfs will be used into the live-cd (more space to include more software) * a DVD version could be a nice idea :-D -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.0

by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.7.0 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.0 are available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.7/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/ 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. BSE-ALSA is an ALSA driver for BSE. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org The "Bedevilled" portion of the names has no religious background, refer to the About page for more details: http://beast.gtk.org/about 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 The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in online forums like the Beast Help Desk, Beast Bugzilla or the mailing list, all of which can be reached through http://beast.gtk.org/. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.0: * Renamed scheme shell to bsescm * Optimized core functions for MMX/SSE with runtime CPU detection * Fixed CPU profiler to work with newer Linux kernels * New probing code for optimized volume meters and FFT scopes * Plugins/Module changes: StandardOscillator - Added semitone transposition function FreeVerb - Fixed distortions due to subnormal handling GusPatchEnvelope - Better approximation of GUS Patch envelopes [Stefan] Adder - Deprecated in favour of BseSummation Constant - Number of output channels reduced to 4 DavSynDrum - Fixed retrigger logic [Stefan] * Added support for MMX/SSE-optimized plugins * Converted runtime documentation system to use a local web browser * Relicensed all example scripts and BSE files under an "AS IS" license * New loadable Instruments/Effects: BQS Organ BQS SynDrum BQS Fretless Bass [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Queek Synth BQS MoogSaw Bass [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Merp Pad BQS Compressor [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Reverb [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Saturation And Reverb [Stefan Westerfeld] * Major code reorganizations, only one library is installed now: libbse * Vastly extended test coverage of many core mechanisms * Moved source base to automake-1.9 and added support for gcc-4.2 * Lots of major and minor fixes and improvements * Bugzilla issues resolved: #337703, #342186, #343301, #340386, #340307 * Updated Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] * Updated German translation [Hendrik Richter, Jens Seidel] * Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador] * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Italian translation [Petrecca Michele] * Updated Catalan translation [Gil Forcada] * Updated Dutch translation [Vincent van Adrighem] * Updated Swedish translation [Daniel Nylander] * Added Nepali translation [Pawan Chitrakar] Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.0: * Build fixes for BEAST-0.7.0 * Moved source base to automake-1.9 and added support for gcc-4.2 --- ciaoTJ

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] netjack-0.12 - Low Latency Network Audio Driver

by torbenh＠gmx.de

hi. netjack-0.12 is released. Netjack is a jack-driver which uses the network card. On the other end of the network there is a normal jack-client. So its possible, to share a single soundcard between several laptops. This release finally handles the packet disordering UDP does. Thus high channel counts can now be achieved. However a 24ch in/out link over 100Mbit gave me a major "net xrun" storm on vanilla 2.6.15 kernel. At a roundtrip latency of 2.9ms that is. It was reliable with 5.8ms. 16 channels gave me some "net xruns", which i could not hear though. i expect this performance to increase when using an rt-kernel with the network-irq set to rt-prio. So please report back. Additionally to the audio transport, netjack provides sample accurate transport syncronisation. The roundtrip latency is compensated for. get it while its hot at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140191 there is no link on http://netjack.sf.net because the project shell servers are down. -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language

18 years, 4 months

[linux-audio-announce] Rosegarden 1.2.4 released

by Chris Cannam

ROSEGARDEN 1.2.4 RELEASED Miscellaneous locations -- Bastille day, 2006 The Rosegarden team are pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.4 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ The 1.2.4 release addresses several issues with the prior 1.2.3 feature release. 1.2.4 introduces no new application features. Fixes in this release include, briefly: * Avoid crash on startup if /dev/snd/seq does not exist * Fix incorrect sequencer status report ("no driver") * Fix MIDI Text Marker export * Fix text encoding for Lilypond 2.6 (UTF8 instead of ISO-8859-1) * Fix stuck notes in matrix after pressing a stop button * Fix crash when erasing a duplicated key signature * Fix crash when switching documents with a tempo editor window open * Fix incorrect sorting and insertion logic in marker editor * Fix hang in main canvas when a segment has zero duration * Fix audio preview display for repeating audio segments * Update percussion matrix when a different drum mapping is selected * Avoid crash when deleting a device with percussion matrix open * Fix matrix display for notes outside range of current key mapping * Ensure correct segment is acted on when clicking overlapping segments * Fix sequencer crash when playing back tiny audio files * Avoid display hang when too many segments overlap * Fix several build system bugs, and compilation with gcc-4.1.2 This release also includes several new MIDI device definition (.rgd) files, as well as updates for Catalan, Russian, Swedish, Czech and Italian translations, and a completely new Finnish translation from Heikki Johannes Junes. Special thanks go to Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas for preparing the release. For more information about Rosegarden and what it can do for you, please see http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden is Free Software under the GNU General Public License.

18 years, 4 months

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