Linux-audio-announce July 2007

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by Daniel James

64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools. A remix of Debian, it comes in both AMD64/Intel64 and 32-bit flavours, to run on nearly all PC hardware. 64 Studio 2.0 is designed to retain compatibility with Debian Etch, to create a long-lived and stable creative desktop. We combine the stability and quality of Etch with a specialised real-time preemption kernel and the latest creative tools demanded by multimedia artists. Our tweaks to Debian include simplified installation and default settings which help get production underway quickly. It's our target that users should be able to get from a blank hard disc to a fully hardware-optimised and usable creative desktop in just half an hour. Rather than a fork of Debian, our package improvements are returned directly to Debian Sid, and our releases are built from Debian sources. We have also uploaded new multimedia packages to Debian, which are now available to all users of Debian and Debian-derived distributions. The second stable release of 64 Studio is named after Electrical Audio, Steve Albini's studio in Chicago, USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_Audio Downloads DVD-R ISO images for amd64 and i386 are available here: http://www.64studio.com/download If you would like to mirror the stable release installers, you can do so with: rsync://64studio.com/installer Please let us know of any new public mirrors. Upgrades You can also upgrade from a 1.0 install, or from previous testing releases, using our stable APT repository: deb http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/stable 64studio main and running the 64studio-upgrade script (as root), or pressing the 'Mark all upgrades' then 'Apply' buttons in the Synaptic package manager. To avoid system breakage, please comment out or uncheck any third-party repositories (for example an official Debian one) first, as these might interfere with the upgrade procedure. If you have a large number of systems to upgrade, you may wish to mirror the stable branch from our APT server: rsync://64studio.com/apt Installation The DVD image will install Debian with X.org, the Gnome desktop, Linux kernel 2.6.21 with realtime preemption patches (supporting both single-core and SMP systems) and a selection of creative applications, as well as the internet and office tools a creative user is likely to need for their daily work. Adding favourite packages from Debian is as easy as apt-get, or a few clicks in Synaptic. To install, burn the iso image to DVD-R, put the disc into the DVD drive on the target machine and reboot it. After the reboot, make sure you see a screen with the Debian logo on it. If you don't see the Debian logo, please check that your computer is configured to boot from the DVD drive. You may need to make changes in the BIOS settings of your PC to alter the boot sequence. Live CD version For the first time, we also have a Live CD version of 64 Studio available, which is based on the Debian Live framework. This version does not contain all of the tools included on the install DVD, because it is designed to fit on a 700MB CD-R. You can download iso images here: http://www.64studio.com/download We would welcome feedback about which additional tools users would like to see in the 64 Studio Live distribution. Hardware requirements Please note that these releases are free software, and come with no warranty. However, the software does actually install and run on the project's dual processor Opteron, dual core Athlon 64 and single core Turion test hardware, and is already in daily use by many of the project's community members. The 32-bit version has been tested on a variety of older PC hardware, including a Via C3 and a dual Pentium Pro, but the project suggests a practical minimum of a 1GHz processor and at least 256MB RAM to take full advantage of the distribution's features. If you would like to send feedback or make a suggestion for improvement, please subscribe to the 64studio-devel or 64studio-users mailing lists: http://lists.64studio.com/ There are also forums on the http://www.64studio.com/ site; registration is required before you can post. For other communication, please have a look at the contacts page at http://www.64studio.com/contact or see the Frequently Asked Questions pages. Community and business model Developers and users who are interested in getting involved with the 64 Studio project are most welcome. We have an active and friendly community, with lots of creative and helpful people in it. The 64 Studio Ltd. company, which supports the free software project, now offers commercial support to end users of the distribution: http://www.64studio.com/support It is also producing custom distributions for commercial partners with Linux-based audio products. Thanks! The 64 Studio team would like to thank the Debian Project and the upstream developers for all the code, and our ISP Bytemark Hosting for their support. We would also like to thank the Oregon State University Open Source Lab and Linuxaudio.org for providing download mirrors. Not least we would like to thank all the 64 Studio community members who have contributed bug fixes, test reports, documentation and a considerable amount of their time to the project, over the last two years.

17 years, 4 months

What hardware is actually used by freebob/ffado users?

by Pieter Palmers

[Appologies for the cross-posting] [Please DON'T use reply-to-all to reply on this email] Hi all, With this I'm hoping to gather some data that can help us in convincing the firewire device manufacturers that we are of some significance to their sales (I'm actually wondering if we are...). So I would like to ask everyone on these lists that has/considers/considered purchasing a firewire audio device if they would be so kind as to answer the following questionnaire. ** Those that have bought one or more firewire devices... * can you provide which device(s), preferably with their GUID (can be found out using gscanbus or sometimes on the device itself) * Do they work with linux? ** Those that considered buying a firewire device: * What device(s) did you consider buying? * What device did you go for in the end (if applicable)? * To what extent was the lack of Linux support a determining factor in your decision? ** Those that consider buying a firewire device: * What device(s) are you consider buying? * How important is Linux support for you? ** any comments? It would be nice if you would reply to this email with the answers inlined with the questions. Please don't reply-to-all but reply to pieterp(a)joow.be in order not to spam the mailing list with these answers. It would also be nice if you left the subject line intact such that I can auto-filter these messages. Again, sorry to bother you guys with this, but it's a bit difficult to convince manufacturers without some decent data. Thanks, Pieter Palmers ffado.org PS: If you know other freebob/ffado users that are not subscribed to these list please pass this mail on.

17 years, 4 months

[ANN] QjackCtl 0.3.1a (unstable-qt4) crash-fix released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi again, QjackCtl 0.3.1a (unstable-qt4) crash-fix released! This is an emergency crash-fix release and everyone is envited to ditch yesterdays one. The change-log just says it all: - An immediate showstopper crash upon client start was irradicated, which was affecting those with the system-tray icon disabled, as is the default (thanks to Ken Ellinwood for first reporting this sloppy one). Again, the fix source tarball is made available from: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Cheers && Enjoy, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

17 years, 5 months

[ANN] QjackCtl 0.3.1 (unstable-qt4) is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings y'all, Just one week after a no-regrets migration, here comes this second iteration over the Qt4 framework for the JACK Audio Connection Kit "cutie" GUI front-end that everybody loves or at least ought to :) QjackCtl 0.3.1 (unstable-qt4) is out! The main feature on this release, besides for the bug-fixes, is that it's the very first time ever QjackCtl is made available to build and run on all major desktop platforms: X11/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Yes you read it right, Windows, and it is thought to behave consistently on all those. One just have to take advantage from the Qt4 open-source edition and license which in fact is the same as QjackCtl's: GPL2. Yes, there's no turning back. QjackCtl is definitely a Qt4 application, this release marking the departure from the old, aged Qt3 code base, despite this one being tagged as "stable-qt3" anyway. The current branch has "unstable-qt4" on its middle name still, but not for long ;) Being a so-called shallowed bug-fix release, the change-log says some thingies that were shoved out, and nothing about the ones that still are creepin': - The current DSP load percentage activity is now also displayed on the system-tray icon tooltip. - An illusive but nasty Connections/Patchbay item tooltip crash bug has been hopefully fixed (Qt >= 4.3). - Now using QSystemTrayIcon class facility if available (Qt4 >= 4.2) making the system-tray option available on most platforms, notably on Windows and Mac OS X (EXPERIMENTAL). - Usage of QProcess class has been severely refactored, now using QProcess::start() instead of QProcess::startDetached(), giving much tighter control over the started jackd(mp) process. Downside is that QjackCtl lost its ability and option to leave the process detached upon quitting the application. Too bad. - A new eye-candy bit has sneaked in: server mode display, that is the RT indicator, now blinks when server/client is started/active. - Combo-box setup history has been corrected on restore, which was discarding the very initial default (factory) contents. - Now that Qt4 is accessible to open-source Windows appplications, there's some experimental stuff sneaking in for jackdmp support on win32 (http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html). - Connections list items were initially sorted in descending order by default. Fixed. Client items are now naturally sorted, again. As usual, the source tarball might be found here: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Cheers && Enjoy, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

17 years, 5 months

[ANN] Qsynth 0.3.1 (unstable-qt4) released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, So after the great Qt4 migration, which was almost couple of weeks ago already, here comes the so-called shallowed bug-fix release of this "cutie" FluidSynth GUI: Qsynth 0.3.1 (unstable-qt4) has been released! As said, some bug-fixes have popped in and others are still hidden in the closet. Notable changes were: - Now using QSystemTrayIcon class facility if available (Qt4 >= 4.2) making the system-tray option available on most platforms, notably on Windows and Mac OS X (EXPERIMENTAL). - Combo-box setup history has been corrected on restore, which was discarding the very initial default (factory) contents. - One programming error has been corrected, which was affecting the editable preset combo-boxes usability. - Soundfont context menu is now available again even when the setup dialog soundfont list is empty. - About form link is now browseable externally. - Updated README-OSX (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat again). Grab it while it's hot: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Enjoy && Cheers, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

17 years, 5 months

Rivendell v0.9.81

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v0.9.81. 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: Automatic Dropbox Mode. A new dialog, 'RDAdmin->ManageHosts->Dropboxes' has been added that allows multiple dropbox import services to be easily configured and modified. Integrated Music Scheduler. It is now possible to define music categories and schedule music playouts with RDLogManager. RDPanel Module. A new 'RDPanel' module has been added that consists of a 'full screen' version of the SoundPanel widget found in RDAirPlay. Configuration is done in RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDPanel, and is completely independent of the configuration of the SoundPanel in RDAirPlay. SoundPanel Changes. Several changes in the operation of the SoundPanels (both in RDAirPlay and RDPanel) have been made, including: 1) Improved Panel Navigation. Instead of traversing the set of available panels linearly by means of left- and right-arrow buttons, the desired panel can now be selected directly by means of a drop-down menu. 2) Nameable Panels. It's now possible to give each panel a user-defined name. 3) Hook Mode. Playouts can be set to play either the full audio content or just the designated hook material on a playout-by-playout basis. 4) Customizable Default Labels. Default button labels can be now defined by means of wildcards in the 'Label Template' control in RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDAirPlay or RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDPanel. Many bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Library Versions: This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.98.0 and librhpi-0.94.8 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: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 139, 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. Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Do not try to think outside of the box. That's impossible. Instead, | | realise the truth. There is no box. | | --Quoted by "larsmjoh" on GrokLaw.net | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

17 years, 5 months

LoopCenter released

by Nick Choly

I've recently made available a little project of mine called LoopCenter. It is a live-looping tool with a functionality very similar to the Boss LoopStation pedal. I use it mainly as a improvisation practice tool, but it could certainly be used for more compositionally-oriented stuff. Basically, you can set a tempo, and easily record and overdub small, measurized segments of audio, and then loop them. It is similar to SooperLooper (an excellent piece of software that I found only after making LoopCenter!), but pared-down, and perhaps easier to use. It runs with JACK. Check it out at: http://loopcenter.sourceforge.net Thanks! -Nick Choly

17 years, 5 months

Free GNU/Linux audio + live impro workshop in San Sebastian 18-20 July 2007

by propaganda＠goto10.org

sorry for >< please >> (english version at the end of the mail) - (FR) *Workshop Linux Audio et Improvisation Musicale* par Ixi Software et GOTO10 Intervenants: Enrike Hurtado, Aymeric Mansoux et Marloes de Valk Date: Mercredi 18 - Vendredi 20 Juillet 2007 Horaire: 11:00 - 17:00 Lieu: Arteleku, San Sebastian, Pays Basque Tarif: Gratuit! 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, remplissez le formulaire en ligne http://tinyurl.com/yrzg3p ou téléphonez au +34 943 45 36 62 matériel requis: aucun, mais si vous pouvez, il est recommandé d'amener votre laptop, vos instruments, micros, cartes sons, mixers, joystick USB, controleurs MIDI et casques !! :) Un atelier de 3 jours, pendant lequel seront explorés plusieurs logiciels libres pouvant être utilisés pour augmenter l'improvisation et le jeu musical d'une performance, par exemple, des effets temps-réel, des controlleurs MIDI, joysticks USB ou encore l'utilisation du logiciel Pure Data. L'atelier propose une introduction aux systèmes d'exploitation GNU/Linux orientés vers la production musicale pour instrumentistes. Il n'est pas requis de connaître GNU/Linux mais une connaissance générale en informatique ou MAO est fortement conseillée pour suivre l'atelier. Seront couverts, une introduction au monde audio sous GNU/Linux, ALSA et la configuration des cartes sons, l'utilisation de JACK pour partager les flux audio et MIDI, les effets audio temps-réels avec JACK RACK et LADSPA, les distributions GNU/Linux pour la production musicale, des recommandations pour construire un système GNU/Linux pour performances sonores et plus encore! Pour plus de détails et un planning détaillé de l'atelier: http://goto10.org/workshop-arteleku - IMPORTANT: cet atelier sera conduit en anglais *uniquement* et traduit en espagnol si nécessaire. Cependant il sera possible de recevoir une aide détaillée durant les sessions pratiques en anglais, hollandais, français, espagnol et basque. - (EN) *Workshop Linux Audio and Live Impro* by Ixi Software and GOTO10 Teachers: Enrike Hurtado, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk Date: Wednesday 18 - Friday 20 July 2007 Time: 11:00 - 17:00 Location: Arteleku, San Sebastian, Basque country Price: FREE Booking: this workshop is open for everyone. Basic knowledge of computers is required. There is a limited number of places! To book, please fill in the online form http://tinyurl.com/yrzg3p or call +34 943 45 36 62 Prerequisites: not mandatory but if you can, bring your laptop, instruments, microphones, soundcards, mixers, USB joysticks, MIDI controlers and headphones !! :) A three day course exploring free and open source software available for live improvisation purposes such as real-time audio effects, controlers, audio and midi processing, as well as the creative possibilities of Pure Data in a live setup. The workshop is an introduction to GNU/Linux and audio for instrumentalists. No previous knowledge of GNU/Linux is needed but a basic knowledge of computers is! We'll cover an introduction to GNU/Linux and all the classic software required for live purposes. Topics will include: an introduction to Linux audio, ALSA and soundcard configuration, using JACK to share audio and midi, real-time audio effects with JACK Rack and LADSPA, Linux audio distributions, how to set up a good working live audio station, and more! For more details and a course schedule, see: http://goto10.org/workshop-arteleku - Important note for our international participants: the workshop will be taught in English and translated to Spanish when necessary. There are 3 teachers who can help out in translations from English to Dutch, French, Spanish and Basque. - et hop un bisou! :*

17 years, 5 months

[ANN] New AlsaPlayer releases

by Dominique Michel

AlsaPlayer license is changed to GPL-v3. In consequence, all the AlsaPlayer related packages are updated. 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. ##################################### AlsaPlayer-0.99.80-rc2 is the new GTK2 release of this versatile audio player. A lot of debugging and improvements has been made on the GTK2 interface (and under the surface too). The GTK1 interface was removed in the process. GTK2 is now fully internationalized and a few languages are provided. Extended header support in mp3 file is added, so the console will not complain anymore about this, and the user's experience is improved. Every user is encouraged to upgrade AlsaPlayer and help with development, bug reports, feature requests, translations... We need your help with a few things: * Bug reports * Feature requests * Artwork contributions * Translation for more languages and improvement of the existing ones. ************************************* FftSope-1.0.6 FftScope is a nice visualization plugin for AlsaPlayer. It is now under GPL-v3 and the GTK1 interface is removed from the package. The GTK2 interface provide the same level of functionality as before. ********************************* python-alsaplayer-0.3.1 These are python bindings for the AlsaPlayer library. The intent is to provide a set of bindings that closely mirror the C library, leaving more complex functionality for purely python modules. This release update the license to GPL-v3 or later. ************************************ This is the initial release of this midi input plugin for alsaplayer. It is derived from Tuukka Toivonen's TiMidity and reflects the work of a number of other people (see AUTHORS). Compile and install it in alsaplayer's input/ plugin directory, install a soundfont, then you can play midi files with alsaplayer. #################################### I hope you will enjoy those releases and AlsaPlayer's very nice GTK2 interface! -- Dominique Michel -- N.B.: Tous les emails que je reçois sont filtrés par spamassassin avant de me parvenir.

17 years, 5 months

[ANN] QjackCtl 0.3.0 (unstable-qt4) has been released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everyone, I am humbly proud to announce that yet another one of my linux-audio `cutie-suite` application has bitten the Qt4 dust. Yes, it's time for QjackCtl 0.3.0 (unstable-qt4) to be released, fresh from the CVS oven (hmmm... this makes it the second oxymoron on one post; gotta fix this :) Although the ChageLog doesn't go into many details, there were many subtle bugs fixed but plenty as more were blindly introduced, as always. I count on your eyeballs to make them shallow ;) So it was: - Qt4 migration was complete. Care must be taken with this new configuration file and location: this release starts a new one from scratch and won't reuse any of the previous existing ones, although cut and paste might help if you know what you're doing :) - On a last-minute addition, the "firewire" audio backend driver option has been also included, supporting the ffado.org project which is evolving where "freebob" is leaving (thanks to Klaus Zimmermann for this one). The usual place where the new source tarball can be grabbed: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Cheers && Enjoy, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

17 years, 5 months

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