Linux-audio-announce June 2007

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[LAA] Aeolus Quickstart Guide and Primer

by Daniel James

Hello all, Steve A has written two guides to the Aeolus organ synth, available now on the 64 Studio site: http://www.64studio.com/quickstart_aeolus Covers basic setup http://www.64studio.com/primer_aeolus For more advanced use An Aeolus package is available in recent development releases of 64 Studio, and will be featured in our forthcoming 2.0 release. Cheers! Daniel

18 years, 6 months

[LAA] Deadline extension: Audio Mostly 2007 - 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound

by Marc-Olivier Barre

Dear colleagues, you are cordially invited to participate at the 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound - Audio Mostly 2007. Due to a many requests we decided to extend the deadline for your abstract submissions until June 22, 2007. Looking forward to hear you at Audio Mostly 2007, Holger Grossmann on behalf of the Audio Mostly Conference Committee ------------- Please forward this call for papers to anyone who may be interested in participating with our apologies for multiple postings. ------------- Audio Mostly 2007 – 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound http://www.audiomostly.com September 27 - 28, 2007 Ilmenau, Germany hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT CALL FOR PAPERS ------------- Audio in all its forms – music, sound effects, or dialogue - holds tremendous potential to engage, convey narrative, inform, dramatize and enthrall. However, in computer-based environments, for example games, nowadays the interaction abilities through and with sound are still underrepresented. The Audio Mostly Conference provides a venue to explore and promote this untapped potential of audio by bringing together audio experts, content creators, interaction designers, and behavioral researchers. Our area of interest covers new sound applications that demand or allow for some kind of interactive response from their listener, particularly in scenarios where screens and keyboards are unavailable, unsuitable or disturbing. This area implies cognitive research and psychology, as well as technological innovations in audio analysis, processing and rendering. The aim is to both describe and push the boundaries of sound-based interaction in various domains, such as gaming, serious gaming, education, entertainment, safety and healthcare. Paper Submissions: We ask researchers, composers, game developers, audio engineers, etc. who are interested in sharing their results, perspectives and insight to a multidisciplinary audience to submit abstracts of 300-500 words for paper or poster submissions before June 22, 2007. Please specify if your abstract is for a paper or a poster. Also position papers from industrial strategists are welcome. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by July 8, 2007. Final submissions are due on August 24, 2007. Areas of Interest (including but not limited to): - Games designed around audio and sound - Interactivity through sound and speech - Semantic speech, music, sound analysis - Music recommendations and user feedback - Semantic audio processing - Cognition of sound and music - New auditory user interfaces - Sound design for games - Spatial audio rendering - Interactive composing & authoring of music - Audio in teaching - Sound in mobile applications - New developments for audio broadcasting, podcasting and audiobooks - Future uses of sound Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission - June 22 Notification of acceptances - July 8 Final paper submission - August 24 Deadline for registration - September 7 Conference - September 27-28 For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.audiomostly.com/ or contact us at info(a)audiomostly.com Furthermore, we plan to focus a special paper session on the area of children's media, an area that is of special interest to our region here in Thuringia (see http://invest-in-thueringen.org/fileadmin/www/pdfs/EN/publications/flyer-me…). Thus, any submissions dedicated to the questions of audio interaction in media applications for kids or adolescents, such as audio & learning, music education or games for children, etc. are in particular welcome.

18 years, 7 months

[LAA] [ann] CAPS 0.4.0

by Tim Goetze

The C* Audio Plugin Suite reincarnates as version 0.4.0. CAPS is a collection of LADSPA plugins enjoying worldwide favour for its instrument amplifier emulation. In addition, it provides a sizeable assortment of acclaimed audio DSP units, sound generators and effects. CAPS is distributed as open source under the terms of the GNU Public License. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html http://quitte.de/dsp/caps_0.4.0.tar.gz This release sees the addition of the fine work of David Yeh at CCRMA on the emulation of classic tube amplifier tone stack circuits (more here: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~dtyeh/tonestack/ ). Three new plugins are building on the tone stack: ToneStack and ToneStackLT offer isolated implementations, while the new AmpVTS unit combines a refined AmpV and a ToneStack circuit. I'm very grateful to David for his brilliant contribution, and I'm quite positive that those who actively use the CAPS Amps will share this sentiment. Also primarily aimed at the discerning guitarist is the new AutoWah plugin, offering a versatile rendition of this classic audio effect. The last new plugin is Eq2x2, a two-channel 10-band graphic equalizer modeled after an analogue design. -*- Beyond the new plugins, this release also brings tons of major improvements "under the hood". All plugins have been hardened to work glitch-free in the face of invalid control input. Much effort has also been spent on further elimination of denormal numbers everywhere. Parameter smoothing (which is performed in order to prevent zipper noise) has been refined never to occur at the start of processing. The build process can now be configured to take advantage of the SSE and SSE3 extensions on the i686 platform, providing slight performance gains and automatic denormal protection. The HTML documentation has been thoroughly updated to reflect all changes. Finally, thanks to Paul Winkler CAPS now comes with an improved RDF file containing plugin categorisation. For the near-complete list of changes please see http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#Changelog -*- Don't hesitate to let me know what you think. Enjoy, and thank you for using CAPS, Tim

18 years, 7 months

[LAA] [ANN] Free Music Instrument Tuner 0.97.6 released

by Gilles Degottex

Hi all, * new Statistic module, look at the screenshots page and guess :) http://home.gna.org/fmit/ss.html * bug fix for JACK Website: http://home.gna.org/fmit Download: http://download.gna.org/fmit Donation page: http://home.gna.org/fmit/donation.html Comments, remarks, tests, bug reports and rotten tomatoes are always welcome. Have fun, Best Regards, Gilles

18 years, 7 months

[LAA] ANN: Piksel07 - call for projects

by 220hex

||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| -- Piksel07 -- november 15-18 2007 -- call for participation -- deadline july 15. 2007 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Piksel[1] is an international event for artists and developers working with open source audiovisual software, hardware & art. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) [2] and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art. This years event - Piksel07 - continues the exploration of free/libre and open source audiovisual code and it's myriad of expressions, and also investigates further the open hardware theme introduced at Piksel06. Piksel07 is done in collaboration with Gallery 3,14[3] which will host this years exhibition. Piksel is organised by BEK and a community of core participants including members of collectives dyne.org, goto10.org, ap/xxxxx, hackitectura.net, riereta.net, drone.ws, gephex.org and others. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| open CALL for PROJECTS For the exhibition and other parts of the programme we currently seek projects in the following categories: 1. Installations Projects related to the open hardware theme including but not restricted to: circuit bending, reverse engineering, repurposing, modding and DIY electronics, preferably programmed by and running on free and open source software. 2. Audiovisual performance Live art realised by the use of open source software and/or hardware. 3. Software/Hardware presentations Innovative DIY hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art released under an open licence. <<<<<< Deadline - july 15. 2007 >>>>>> Please use the online submit form at: http://www.piksel.no/piksel07/subform.html or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online documentation with images/video to piksel07(a)bek.no Contact: BEK att: Gisle Froysland C. Sundtsgt. 55 5004 Bergen Norway More info: http://www.piksel.no piksel07 is produced in cooperation with Kunsthoegskolen in Bergen dep The Academy of Fine Arts, Gallery 3,14. Supported by Bergen Kommune, Norsk Kulturfond and Vestnorsk Filmsenter. links: [1] http://www.piksel.no [2] http://www.bek.no [3] http://www.stiftelsen314.com -- -------------------- www.220hex.org www.r3aktor.com http://mob.bek.no

18 years, 7 months

[LAA] Source code for Open Sound System now available under GPLv2 and CDDL 1.0

by Hannu Savolainen

Hi folks, Now it has happened. Open Sound System is finally open sourced. Source downloads are available from http://developer.opensound.com/sources The actual announcement follows. Best regards, Hannu ------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4FRONT TECHNOLOGIES RELEASES THE SOURCE CODE FOR OPEN SOUND SYSTEM CULVER CITY, CA, June 14, 2007: 4Front Technologies is proud to announce the release of the source code to Open Sound System (OSS) v4.0. The software currently runs on Linux, Solaris™, SCO UnixWare™ and FreeBSD platforms. OSS is a cross platform API that provides drivers for most consumer and professional audio devices for UNIX® and POSIX based operating systems, including Linux. Owing to its open architecture, applications developed on one supporting operating system platform can be easily recompiled on any other platform. Licensing Models: Open Sound System source code is now available under 3 licenses: · GNU Public License (GPL) version 2 · Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) for all operating systems that have full source code available under the BSD or CDDL licenses. · 4Front’s commercial license for using Open Sound incompatible with open source licenses listed above. Commercial licenses are also available for entities not wishing to use Open Sound System under any of the above open source licenses What is being open sourced? The source code includes drivers for most consumer PCI and USB audio devices and operating system support, including binary package generation and sample test programs. Complete documentation and API specification is also being made available to the open source community. A device driver kit (DDK) is also available for developers to implement cross platform device drivers for audio hardware. This eliminates lot of redundant work that has traditionally been required to support any hardware under multiple Unix/POSIX operating systems. Reasons for going Open Source: OSS has been an open API specification with multiple implementations by independent developer communities. This has caused problems for application designers because there are minor differences between the implementations. The new open source community development model makes it possible to replace the obsolete and incompatible vendor specific sound subsystems and OSS implementations with a state-of-the-art implementation developed by 4Front Technologies. The goal has always been to standardize audio under POSIX compliant systems and this includes real time operating systems and embedded systems as well. "We are open sourcing OSS because this provides a great opportunity for different communities to work together to provide wider audio hardware support for all operating systems." said Hannu Savolainen, CTO and chief architect of Open Sound System. Industry Reaction: "It's great to see 4Front releasing OSS under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). It's something the OpenSolaris™community welcomes, and it provides an opportunity to improve sound support for all OpenSolaris™ distributions," says Stephen Lau, OpenSolaris™ board member. "Fluendo is excited to see the open source release of 4Front Technologies advanced OSS implementation for UNIX® and Linux. Getting a unified and advanced sound system across all major UNIX® and Linux variants will be a big advantage for developers. We look forward to working together with 4Front Technologies to make sure the GStreamer multimedia framework and the Open Sound System integrates perfectly with each other", says Fluendo Business Development Manager Christian F.K. Schaller. "With a long history of successful collaboration with 4Front, Creative looks forward to working with the Open Sound System community in ensuring that Creative Sound Blaster Live! and Sound Blaster Audigy sound cards have stable and well-supported drivers on Linux, Solaris and BSD. The open source release of Open Sound certainly helps our goal in providing cross-platform support for our products," said George Thorn, director of digital media relations for Creative Labs. Community Portal A new web site with source code, API specs and forums for the developer community has been opened at http://developer.opensound.com <http://developer.opensound.com/>. For more information and to download the binary distributions of Open Sound System, visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.opensound.com <http://www.opensound.com/>. --- xxx --- All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. Sun, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Open Sound System is a trademark of 4Front Technologies. Copyright (C) 1996-2007, 4Front Technologies, All Rights Reserved. Contact: Dev Mazumdar 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F Culver City, CA 90232 USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 E-mail: info(a)opensound.com <mailto:info@opensound.com> Fax: (310) 202 0486 Web: http://www.opensound.com <http://www.opensound.com/>

18 years, 7 months

[LAA] Traverso 0.40.0 Released

by Remon

Traverso 0.40.0 Release Announcement The Traverso development team is pleased to announce the release of Traverso 0.40.0 Traverso is a cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite with a clean and innovative interface targeted for home and professional use. Changes in this release: * Completely revamped User Interface, with many usability enhancements which is fully themeable. * Improved input event handler, with many new options * CD TOC creation, with integrated CD Burning facilities. * Support for LV2 plugins * Reduced memory footprint for large projects * Ported to Windows and Mac OS X * Command Plugin framework: Extend Traverso's functionality by writing new Commands. Source tarball and installers for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows are available at: http://traverso-daw.org/ Enjoy! The Traverso team.

18 years, 7 months

[LAA] Fwd: Invitation to EBU Seminar: Geneva, 1 - 2 October

by Daniel James

European Broadcasting Union International Training Want to learn if Free and Open Source Software provides relevant alternatives for your TV & Radio production and delivery platforms? This seminar is designed for you. The seminar will be your guide through the specifics of FOSS and address key issues such as licensing, costs & support. Content also includes: * Specific sessions on video, audio codecs & post production, and play-out OS software * Demos of a wide range of tools for you to assess and compare existing options * Tutorials on some of the most relevant tools available on the market More info available on: http://www.ebu.ch/en/training/business/next_courses/100_2007_courses/10_ope…

18 years, 7 months

[LAA] New mailing list and forum for 64 Studio users

by Daniel James

Hello all, As well as the new forum at http://www.64studio.com/forum/1 we now have a mailing list for everyday questions about using the 64 Studio distribution: http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users This list is aimed at people who want to share information on the practical aspects of free software multimedia creation, rather than follow development and bug tracking. We are also planning to have forums in languages other than English. If you would like a forum in your own language on http://www.64studio.com/ and could help moderate it, please let us know. Cheers! Daniel

18 years, 7 months

[LAA] [ANN] AlsaPlayer 0.99.80-rc1 and FftScope 1.0.5

by Dominique Michel

I am very proud to announce 2 new releases: alsaplayer-0.99.80-rc1 and fftscope-1.0.5 The main added feature in those 2 packages is a new GTK2 interface. I must thank Madej. He done most of the job and is still working to improve it. Alsaplayer-0.99.80-rc1 ---------------------- AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players. This is a major feature enhancement release. The player has now a fully working GTK2 interface. It includes the same functionality as the GTK1 interface and some new functions. The playlist window has been completely rewritten and is inside the main window. The scopes plugins have been migrated too. A lot of debugging has been made. Every user is encouraged to upgrade AlsaPlayer and use the GTK2 interface. We need your help with a few things: * Bug reports * Feature requests * Artwork contributions fftscope 1.0.5 -------------- Fftscope is a nice fft scope plugin for Alsaplayer. It is now 2 versions of this scope in the package: one with GTK1 interface, the other with GTK2 interface. This is a major feature enhancement release Enjoy those 2 new releases! --------------------------- http://www.alsaplayer.org/ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=249 Dominique

18 years, 7 months

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Linux-audio-announce June 2007