Linux-audio-announce July 2006

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[linux-audio-announce] dyne:bolic 2.1 codename DHORUBA

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 2.1 :: codename DHORUBA :::: 100% FREE MULTIMEDIA GNU/LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM RASTA SOFTWARE 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 633 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 India 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. :: EXCLUSIVE RELEASE ON METAMUTE :: http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/Dyne:bolic-2-download-new-exclusive-release :: 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. :: 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. === 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 ;) === updates and fixes in 2.1 - - upgraded to kernel 2.6.17 - - fix to dock and nest on USB storage - - support for LVM and raid volumes - - network file system tools - - new in Audio: Seq24, SooperLooper, Rosegarden, Icecast - - fixes to MuSE (updated to devel version) - - better vga detection - - misc fixes to desktop usability === 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 === 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. 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. Mantainance of dyne:II core is kept by Jaromil releasing updates for the core part; hackers are welcome to join and take mantainance of modular software collections. :: BIG UP \o/ to DEVELOPERS & FRIENDS First of all salutes and great respects 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. People and organizations helping with ver.2 development and good vibes: === 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, Jaromil === 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! 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, Menglef, 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 .... 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! Make your donation, even dimes can help -> http://dyne.org/donate.php so far, we got 500$ in 5 years on paypal. thanks, really a lot, serious! you have been a few but you really believe this crazy idea of freak developers didn't you? well we do exist and can live on low budget! and we're rockin'! :) Now 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" Roio 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEtiote2QxhLU0C14RAuUJAJ9fIxE/7GNw2WCL6hAvhx6t39Ou3ACfRr3V IsQjTIPT+cdg28+ckaDnihY= =zSoS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] jack_capture V0.3.1, das_watchdog V0.2.2 and Mammut V0.22

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/ 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 0.2.4 -> 0.3.1: ----------------------- *Reduced CPU usage a lot because of better disk handling. (25% -> 1%) *Make sure the rest of the recorded file is not garbage in case of an overrun. *Added the port argument, which can be specified many times and accepts both input and output port names (including regexp expressions). This makes jack_capture to completely replace jackrec. *Rewrote buffer handling. Silence is now inserted when underruns occure. Previously, the file became shorter than the recording in case of underrun. It can still happen though, but much more seldom, and a warning about that will be printed to the terminal. *Last rests of jackrec code has been rewritten. Well, all the code with substance, at least. *Nicified code a lot. *More efficient way of handling overruns. *Fixed really stupid compilation error. Thanks to Dragan Noveski for spotting it. 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 0.2.2->0.2.3 -------------------- *Fixed commandline arguments for increasetime, checktime and waittime. *Nicified source a bit Mammut ************************************************************************* Mammut will FFT your sound in one single gigantic analysis (no windows). These spectral data, where the development in time is incorporated in mysterious ways, may then be transformed by different algorithms prior to resynthesis. An interesting aspect of Mammut is its completely non-intuitive sound transformation approach. Changes 0.21->0.22 ------------------ *Added patch and instructions from Owen Green on how to make mammut compile on OSX. Thanks! (Sorry, I forgot to release this version for almost a year...)

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] CLAM has won the 2006 ACM Open Source Multimedia Contest

by Pau Arumi

It is our pleasure to announce that CLAM [1] has won the 2006 ACM Open Source Multimedia Contest. CLAM is an open-source C++ framework for doing research and application development in the audio and music domain. It offers a conceptual model for audio systems, a repository of processing algorithms, data types, and tools , as well as applications for analysis, synthesis and processing of audio signals. These features can be exploited to build cross-platform applications or to build rapid prototypes. CLAM is coordinated by Xavier Amatriain at the University of California Santa Barbara but is mostly developed at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain) by a team led by Pau Arumi and David Garcia. CLAM is now being developed thanks to a grant from the STSI at the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya). According to the jury: "CLAM is a remarkably comprehensive system with impressive capabilities". The award will be presented in the forthcoming ACM Multimedia Conference [2]. The ACM Open Source Competition is a prestigious international contest that is now in its third year. Last year, for instance, the award was given to the OpenVidia library for GPU accelerated Computer Vision [3]. This award culminates 5 years of ongoing research and development and the authors wish to thank all the past developers as well as all of our users and people who have given support throughout these years. The CLAM development team. [1] http://www.clam.iua.upf.edu [2] http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ [3] http://openvidia.sourceforge.net/

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Portable Linux DAW

by sales＠trinityaudiogroup.com

Hi all, I just wanted to let everyone know that we had our first article written at www.linuxdevices.com about our portable linux DAW. Our website is www.trinityaudiogroup.com. Thank you Ronald Stewart

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] naconnect was born

by Nedko Arnaudov

naconnect is, like its inspiration aconnect, an ALSA MIDI sequencer connection manager. However, it uses ncurses instead of simple command line. What it can do in current version: * View current connections, manual refresh. * Disconnect and connect. Arrows are used to select what to connect/disconnect. * Shortcuts are documented on the screen itself. * Don't expect it to run on dummy terminals. Tested so far with xterm and Linux terminal. Screenshot: http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/naconnect/naconnect-r85.png Download: http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/naconnect/

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Sfront 0.90 released

by lazzaro

Hi laa-folk, Announcing the release of sfront 0.90 7/03/06, available for download from: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html 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. The change log for 0.90: [1] Sfront has been relicensed to use the BSD license (without the advertising clause). [2] If the SAOL global parameter interp is set to 1, sfront uses band-limited windowed sinc function interpolation for most normative interpolations defined in the MPEG standard (opcodes such as doscil, oscil, tableread, fracdelay, etc). An exception is the grain() core opcode, which still uses linear interpolation when interp=1. As a convenience, sfront has new command-line options to adjust the interpolation algorithm (-interp, -sinc_zcross, and -sinc_pilen). [3] 64-bit integer arithmetic is now used in the implementation of phase pointers for most core opcodes (the grain() opcode is an exception, grain uses float phase pointers). This change fixes the phase slipping problems reported by Florian Walter. [4] 8-bit and 24-bit WAV and AIFF files are now supported by the sample wavetable generator, and by the -ain fname.{wav,aif} and -aout fname.{wav,aif} drivers. See -aout for output syntax. [5] It is now possible to specify the input channel of a stereo WAV or AIFF file used by the sample wavetable generator, using the "filname.wav@n", when n = 0 or 1. This supports the creation of SAOL sample playback engines that access a database of stereo samples. [6] The network musical performance library has been updated to reflect the final RTP MIDI payload format that will appear in IESG-approved Internet-Drafts, that should appear as IETF RFCs later this year. [7] A few bug fixes. (a) The fir, iir, and reverb core opcodes may now be used as oparrays, fixing a bug reported by Jonathan Beyer. (b) Constant tables defined in the startup instrument no longer cause a run-time crash. (c) Table imports in the startup instrument that would produce a run-time error now generate a warning message, fixing a bug reported by Robert of all-your-bass. --- John Lazzaro http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu ---

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] LoopDub version 0.2 released

by Stephen Sinclair

LoopDub is a cross-platform software for live loop manipulation. Currently Linux is mainly supported, though Windows and OS X can compile it with a little work. (Hopefully this will be streamlined by the next version.) It has been far too long that the CVS has had more features than the release version, so without further ado... Changes in this version include: - Program-change for MIDI (see programs.ini.example) - Load "background samples" that can be switched quickly Currently only supported by program-change functionality. - "Switch" button to change to background sample - Compiles, with a little work, on Windows and OS X in addition to Linux - Remembers MIDI settings in ~/.loopdub.midi.conf See "loopdub.midi.conf.example" for details. - Logarithmic sliders! So much better. (Applies to Cutoff & Resonance) - Clicking a folder now sets all filebrowsers to same folder. For more info and download, see: http://loopdub.sf.net

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