Linux-audio-announce March 2007

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[linux-audio-announce] MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment vrs 1.1

by Bob van der Poel

Version 1.1 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: Addition of ARIA tracks for auto-generated melodies, Fixed solo/harmony volumes, Chord fixes, New commands: NEWSET, DOCVAR, GROOVECLEAR, -0 sync command line switch, Many library additions/enhancements, Minor bug fixes. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.80

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v0.9.80. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** Changes: SAS Router Support. The SAS USI driver has been enhanced so that channel names are now automatically updated from the USI server whenever the Rivendell daemons are started. RDImport Improvements. A 'metadata-pattern=' switch has been added to RDImport that allows metadata to be read from fields within the filename of imported files. Do 'rdimport --help' for details. New Metadata Format. RDImport and RDLibrary will now import metadata from WAV files from Scott Studios systems. RDCatch Error Alarms. RDCatch can now be configured to generate alarms (e.g. via e-mail or GPIO) whenever an event encounters an error. See RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDCatch. RDAirPlay Log Autoloading. RDAirPlay can now be configured to automatically load and run specified logs at startup time. It can also be set to automatically load and resume execution of whatever log was playing at the time of an unexpected system shutdown (e.g. due to power failure). See RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDAirPlay. Various Bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 130, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. 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, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time. | | -- Anonymous | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Mammut V0.59

by Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen

*About: 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. *Homepage: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/doc/mammut/ *Screenshot: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/doc/mammut/mammut.png Changes 0.57 -> 0.59 --------------------- -Added workaround for rare sound corruption bug. -Added the "Redo it!" buttons. (The same as pressing "Undo" + "Do it!") -If playing while pressing a "Do it!" or "Redo it!" button, continue playing after processing as well. -Added the "Random Phases" toggle button in the "Multiply Phase" dialog. Checking this button will freeze the sound. Thanks to Tim Blechman for the idea. -Fixed looping which wasn't turned off if using a different sampling rate. -Added "make install" and "make uninstall" -Fixed animation bug. (should allways be shown now) -Fixed a couple of more int->uint32 time variable cases. Hopefully, the animation stuff shouldn't stall the machine anymore.

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] 64 Studio 1.2.0 'Lover's Rock' released

by Daniel James

Hello all, 64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools. A remix of Debian testing, it comes in both AMD64/Intel64 and 32-bit flavours, to run on nearly all PC hardware. Our latest development release is based on a snapshot of Debian from the 14th February, so we decided to name it after the song 'Lover's Rock' by The Clash. The iso image can be downloaded here: http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/ Release notes are here: http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/ChangeLog-1.2.0 The 2.6.19-rt kernel package included in this release may cause a kernel oops with certain USB audio hardware. Users of 64 Studio on production systems may therefore prefer to stick with the stable 1.0 release for the time being. Cheers! Daniel James

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Release Announcement, Musix GNU+Linux 0.99

by Marcos Guglielmetti

More info: http://www.musix.org.ar/wordpress/?p=64 Musix Project is proud to announce the release of Musix GNU+Linux 0.99, a new version of the 100% Free Software multimedia Operating System for artists and general users. This is the most stable and user friendly version until now. Since version 0.79, Musix GNU+Linux is focused on multimedia content creation and specially on music, that is: music production, audio edition, video edition, 3D animation, graphic design, image edition, web design… without forgetting the usual software for desktop’s PCs. Hundreds of software packages has been updated to the Debian/Etch’s versions. New additions include the audio/midi sequencer Muse and the sampler/sequencer/synthesizer SpiralSynthModular. The most remarkable programs in Musix 0.99 are: Ardour 0.99.3 (audio sequencer), Rosegarden 1.4.0 (audio/midi sequencer), Cinelerra (video edition), Bluefish (web design), GIMP (image manipulation), Inkscape (vectorial graphic design) and Blender3D (3D animation). System and desktop startup English and Spanish are 100% supported by Musix from the Live-CD out of the box, that means: you don’t need to install extra software packages to use the system in english or spanish. Other languages are only partially supported from the Live-CD out of the box, but we must remark the improvements in language support, specially German and Portuguese, as well as improvements in support for Finnish, Polish, Italian, Catalan and French. The file manager Rox-Filer, supports 22 languages. Since Musix 0.59, the system’s startup is 100% graphical. A “splash screen” was added in order to avoid confusing the new users with the less understandable system messages and the desktop is also started without need of any user action. A bug has been fixed: it was not possible to disable the audio hardware autodetection feature, but now the “nosound” switch works correctly (ej.: musix dma nosound). That can avoid system hangs when trying to load an incorrect driver at startup. Video Since Musix 0.99 we added the Xorg’s video autodetection method as a new “boot argument” (also called “cheatcode”): xorgmusix dma It’s in testing phase: in some computers this method works really better than the Knoppix’s one, also you can obtain 2D and 3D video hardware acceleration without installing or configuring anything. Sound Since Musix 0.59 the soundcard’s autodetection method was changed because the hotplug system was replaced by udev, following general trends of all GNU/Linux distributions. Now the autodetection it’s made by the old alsaconf script, but reformed to act automaticaly. If you want to avoid this autodetection method after installing Musix on your HD, just open a root terminal and type: rm /etc/rcS.d/S50sndconf-musix.sh So the system will boot faster. To enable it againg, type: ln -s /bin/sndconf-musix.sh /etc/rcS.d/S50sndconf-musix.sh Update without re-instalation Musix 0.99 should be able to update a previous version without reinstalling the hole system. You can start the Knoppix’s Installer in graphic or text mode, select the Package-Updater, then mark the packages to be upgraded using Synaptic and apply the changes. Abstract Musix 0.99 tries to offer the greater possible amount of 100% free software multimedia applications for creative users who need to express their works in different multimedia formats. For instance: nowadays for a music group it’s not sufficient with recording a song, perhaps the group needs to design a Web site, to film and to publish a video and to graphically design the cover of his CD or DVD. Musix it’s a complete artistic’s production factory, apt for the use in classrooms at educative establishments, in graphical design or recording studios, in video edition workstations, particular houses, state institutions or companies of any type. Upgraded software packages More than 350 software packages were upgraded from Debian/Etch, lets see just some of them: * Rosegarden4: 1.4.0-2 * Jackd: 0.101.1-2 * Gimp: 2.2.13-1 * Abiword: 2.4.5-2 * Konqueror: 3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6 * Icewm: 1.2.28-4 * Xorg: 7.1.0-12 * cinelerra: 2.1.0-2svn20070221 * KDE 3.5.5 New Software Packages * Inkscape; 0.45-1 (Description: vector-based drawing program) * SpiralSynthModular (An Object orientated modular softsynth / sequencer / sampler) * gnome-cups-manager (CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME) * acpi-support (scripts for handling many ACPI events) * RecordMydesktop y gtk-recordmy-Desktop (Captures audio-video data of a linux desktop session) * Muse (Qt-based midi/audio sequencer) * xjadeo (simple video player with jack sync) * mencoder (MPlayer’s Movie Encoder AVI/ASF/OGG/DVD/VCD/VOB/MPG/MOV/VIV/FLI/RM/NUV/NET) * Kompose (full screen task manager for KDE) * konq-plugins (plugins for Konqueror, the KDE file/web/doc browser) * 3ddesktop (”Three-dimensional” desktop switcher) * Kernel 2.6.17-2-multimedia (64studio’s kernel) * xlibmesa-dri (transitional package for Debian etch, 3D video acceleration) * Foobillard (a 3D billiards game using OpenGL) * Not installed yet into the Live-CD, it needs more testing: http://linux.ilmainen.net/musix/linux-2.6.21-rc2-SMP/linux-image-2.6.21-rc2… Full changelog https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/Musix099_tasks Known problems into Musix 0.99 In some equipments it is possible that the printers cannot be configured correctly without installing more software packages, thus we created a script that installs those packages: get-more-print-packages If you want to install them open a root terminal and type: apt-get update get-more-print-packages * In order to compile software (for example: drivers) it’s necessary to install development packages that were removed… open a root terminal and type: restore-dev.sh * Some scripts still exist without translation. * kanotix-update doesn’t works Recommendations for the download It is recommended to use a download manager as far as possible, since it helps to manage recources better. You can use graphical ones like kget or gwget, or “wget -c” from a text console (terminal). -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) * Colabora: http://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/Musix099_tasks * 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 * http://autosus.wordpress.com/

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Pure Data workshop / make art festival / 3-6 April 2007 / Poitiers / France

by propaganda＠goto10.org

sorry for x, please >> (english version at the end of the mail) - (FR) Modélisation physique et Pure Data Intervenants: Cyrille Henry et Nicolas Montgermont - www.chdh.net Date: Mardi 3 avril - Vendredi 6 avril 2007 Heure: 10:00 - 17:00 Lieu: Maison de l'Architecture, 1 rue de la Tranchée, 86000 Poitiers, France Tarif: 50 euros pour 4 jours Réservation: ce workshop est ouvert à toute personne ayant des connaissances de base en informatique. Attention, le nombre de places disponibles est limité! Pour vous inscrire, veuillez envoyer votre candidature en spécifiant nom, email, numéro de téléphone et CV à workshop-makeart2007(a)goto10.org avant le lundi 19 mars 2007. Merci de nous dire si vous comptez venir avec votre laptop (veuillez préciser votre système d'exploitation). - Pure Data est un logiciel de programmation multimédia orienté vers l'interaction temps-réel et adapté pour le traitement et la synthèse audio/vidéo. Son interface visuelle et l'utilisation de "patchs" lui permettent une grande flexibilité de programmation et un apprentissage rapide. Ce workshop se concentre sur la synthèse de mouvement par modélisation physique. L'objectif est d'aborder les notions fondamentales autour du modèle physique, afin de créer des interactions et des animations naturelles d'objets audiovisuels. Auteurs des librairie msd et pmpd pour Pure Data, Cyrille Henry et Nicolas Montgermont en décriront les fonctions et détailleront leurs utilisations. Ce workshop est destiné à tous ceux qui veulent découvrir Pd ou approfondir leurs connaissances sur les façons de piloter des instruments en temps-réel depuis Pd. - programme détaillé du workshop sur le site du festival http://makeart.goto10.org Pour plus d'infos sur Pure Data, voir: http://www.puredata.info - (EN) Physical Modeling and Pure Data Teachers: Cyrille Henry and Nicolas Montgermont - www.chdh.net Date: Tuesday 3 April - Friday 6 April 2007 Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Location: Maison des Architectes, 1 rue de la Tranchée, 86000 Poitiers, France Price: 50 euros for 4 days Booking: this workshop is open for everyone. Basic knowledge of computers is required. There is a limited number of places! To book, please send your name, email, phone number and CV to workshop-makeart2007(a)goto10.org before monday the 19th of march 2007. Let us know if you intend to bring your laptop (please specify your operating system)! - Important note for our international participants: Even though the teachers can speak and understand English, the workshop will be taught in French. A basic understanding of the French language is required to attend. - Pure Data is a programming software oriented towards real-time interaction. Particularly fitted for audio/video processing and synthesis, Pure Data is renowned for its great flexibility. This workshop focuses on motion synthesis using physical modeling. The goal is to create interactions and natural animations of audiovisual objects within Pd. The authors of the pmpd and msd libraries will describe the aim of these externals and will explain how to use them. This workshop is for everyone who wants to discover Pd or deepen their existing knowledge of interacting with and controlling instruments in real-time. - Detailed programme of the workshop available on the festival website http://makeart.goto10.org For more information about Pure Data, see: http://www.puredata.info - :*

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[linux-audio-announce] make art 2007 / FLOSS + Art festival / 3-8 April 2007 / Poitiers / France

by propaganda＠goto10.org

sorry for x, please >> (version française en bas de page) - (EN) _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| 3-8 APRIL | __ | | _ _| | | 2007 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| POITIERS |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| - make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) in digital arts. The second edition of make art takes place in Poitiers (France), from the 3rd to the 8th of April 2007. make art offers performances, exhibitions, lectures and workshops, focused on the blurred line between art and software programming. The event is dedicated to artists who create their own tools, and apply the same rules to art as to free software development. - This year our guests are: Christoph Haag (DE), Martin Rumori (DE), Franziska Windisch (DE), Ludwig Zeller (DE), Simon Yuill (UK), Manuel Braun (FR), Jérome Abel (FR), Darsha Hewitt (CA) (tbc), Stéphanie Brodeur (CA) (tbc), Christophe Espern (FR), Hannu Puttonen (FI), Chun Lee (TW), Fokke de Jong (NL), Audun Eriksen (NO), Eva Sjuve (SE), Enrike Hurtado (ES), Steve Harris (UK), Sally Jane Norman (NZ), Martin Howse (UK), Jonathan Kemp (UK), Florian Cramer (DE), Gisle Froysland (NO), Dominik Bartkowski (FR), Apo33 (FR), Bjornar Habbestad (NO), Lasse Marhaug (NO), Frank Barknecht (DE), Cyrille Henry (FR), Nicolas Montgermont (FR), Jan-Kees van Kampen (NL), Benjamin Cadon (FR), Olivier Laruelle (FR), Chun Lee (TW), Hannes Hoelzl (IT/DE), Echo Ho (CN/DE), Emanuel Andel (AT) and Christian Gützer (AT). - Detailed Programme available on the festival website http://makeart.goto10.org - (FR) _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| 3-8 APRIL | __ | | _ _| | | 2007 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| POITIERS |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| - make art est un festival international dédié à l'intégration des logiciels "libres et open source" (FLOSS) dans les arts numériques. La deuxième édition de make art se déroule à Poitiers (France) du 3 au 8 avril 2007. make art propose des performances, des expositions, des conférences et des ateliers de création, centrés sur la frontière devenue floue entre art et programmation de logiciels. L'événement est dédié à ces artistes qui conçoivent leurs propres outils de création, et appliquent les règles du développement de logiciels libres à l'art. - Cette année nos invités sont: Christoph Haag (DE), Martin Rumori (DE), Franziska Windisch (DE), Ludwig Zeller (DE), Simon Yuill (UK), Manuel Braun (FR), Jérome Abel (FR), Darsha Hewitt (CA) (sous réserve), Stéphanie Brodeur (CA) (sous réserve), Christophe Espern (FR), Hannu Puttonen (FI), Chun Lee (TW), Fokke de Jong (NL), Audun Eriksen (NO), Eva Sjuve (SE), Enrike Hurtado (ES), Steve Harris (UK), Sally Jane Norman (NZ), Martin Howse (UK), Jonathan Kemp (UK), Florian Cramer (DE), Gisle Froysland (NO), Dominik Bartkowski (FR), Apo33 (FR), Bjornar Habbestad (NO), Lasse Marhaug (NO), Frank Barknecht (DE), Cyrille Henry (FR), Nicolas Montgermont (FR), Jan-Kees van Kampen (NL), Benjamin Cadon (FR), Olivier Laruelle (FR), Chun Lee (TW), Hannes Hoelzl (IT/DE), Echo Ho (CN/DE), Emanuel Andel (AT) et Christian Gützer (AT). - Programme détaillé sur le site du festival http://makeart.goto10.org - :*

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] hexter 0.6.0

by Sean Bolton

Announcing a new release of the hexter DSSI plugin. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=104230&package_id=134428 hexter is a software synthesizer that models the sound generation of a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. It can easily load most DX7 patch bank files, accept patch editing commands via MIDI sys-ex messages, and recreate the sound of the DX7 with greater accuracy than any other open-source emulation (that the author is aware of...) hexter operates as a plugin for the Disposable Soft Synth Interface (DSSI). New features in version 0.6.0 include: * Implemented the LFO, amplitude modulation and pitch modulation (many thanks to Jamie Bullock)! * Added TX7-style performance parameters, allowing configuration from the GUI of pitch bend range, portamento time, and sensitivity and assignment of the modulation wheel, foot controller, pressure (both channel and key), and breath controller. * Added DX7 patchbank loading code from Martin Tarenskeen, allowing hexter to load a number of additional patch file formats. * Partially implemented portamento. For now, the curves and times are wrong, but the plumbing is there. More information about hexter and DSSI can be found at: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html hexter is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c)2007 under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

17 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] Jackbeat 0.6.1

by Olivier Guilyardi

Jackbeat 0.6.1 ============== Jackbeat is an audio sequencer running on Linux and Mac OS X. Get it from: http://www.samalyse.com/jackbeat NEWS: - The sequence can now be exported as a WAV file - The 64bit platform is supported - VU meters now use full color scale - The user interface has been improved and several issues fixed - The code has been optimized and some random krash fixed -- Olivier Guilyardi - Samalyse

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