Linux-audio-announce November 2008

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[FFADO-devel] [ANN] FFADO 2.0 Release Candidate 1 (1.999.40) available

by Pieter Palmers

Hi, The FFADO team is proud to announce the first release candidate for FFADO 2.0. This release candidate is intended to collect feedback about the library under wide-spread usage. The code should be free of major bugs. We are looking for packagers that are interested in creating packages for their favorite distribution. Please contact us if you can help us out with this. Release and download information: http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/rc1 Currently, the installation options are: * manual build from source [http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/rc1] * semi-automatic build from source into a 'sandbox' [http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/SandboxInstalls] * APT repository for Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy (possibly others) [http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/apt] Please test and report issues at our TRAC at http://subversion.ffado.org/ or at the mailing list (ffado-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net). Please take note of http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/WritingGoodTickets when reporting bugs. We ask all users of FreeBoB that are not yet testing FFADO to try this release candidate. Note that FFADO can co-exist with FreeBoB without any problems, so you can revert back to your original setup very easily. Enjoy, Pieter Palmers ffado.org

17 years

Ardour 2.7 released

by Paul Davis

After a frenetic month getting things ready for the SAE version of Ardour, I am happy to announce the public release of Ardour 2.7. For the first time this includes public versions for OS X Intel: http://releases.ardour.org/Ardour2-Intel-4225.zip PPC: http://releases.ardour.org/Ardour2-PPC-4225.zip as well as our usual source tarball: http://releases.ardour.org/ardour-2.7-4225.tar.bz2 This release is dominated by dramatic improvements in OS X GUI performance and startup time, but it also contains a lot of significant bug fixes. However, somewhat to my surprise, Ardour also accumulated quite a lot of nice new features since 2.6.1 as you can see below. FEATURES Overall dramatic improvements in OS X GUI performance New action to rotate editor/mixer window stacking New action to cycle through mouse modes Plugin windows can now have keyboard focus locked to them Add missing extensions to exported files based on selected file type Loop/Range ruler now visible by default Default crossfade is now -3dB cut Crossfade presets changed to include -6dB cut and two S-curves (icons sadly not changed yet) New support for Wiimote control (experimental, disabled by default, and not possible on OS X) Selected tracks are always visible when scrolling through with select-next-track or select-previous-track Skip non-active and hidden tracks with select-previous-track and select-next-track Several new tooltips all over the place and better tooltip colors On OS X, Button2 can be emulated with Ctrl-Option-Button1 Busses are never auto-connected to physical inputs Unmodified clicking in canvas rulers now sets playhead position, similar to existing behaviour in the "real" rulers. Use Ctrl- (Linux) or Command (OS X)-click/drag for new markers/ranges. Crossfade-editor specific keybindings: space => play xfade, left-arrow => play fade out, ctrl-left-arrow => dry fade out, right-arrow => play fade in, ctrl-right-arrow => dry fade in Drag-n-Drop from OS X Finder now more reliable but no longer supports MP3 or AAC (will be reverted in the future) Start position and Sync position clocks added popup region editor Better stay-on-top behaviour for certain windows LV2 port notification fix for GUI updating New German translation New post-export nag screen Per-track OSC control of solo/mute/rec-enable and gain FIXES Removed suggestion that users can save while disconnected from JACK Corrected reversed handling of "show-editor-mixer" state on startup Fixed crasher caused by changing gain with transport stopped & panner bypassed Correct reverse logic for making h/w monitoring available given h/w capabilities Fix confusing relabelling of plugin bypass button Prevent double registration of ALSA sequencer ports Correctly initialize JACK timeout parameter when starting JACK Ignore triple-clicks on mute/solo/rec-enable button Momentary solo/mute now works Fix serious error when calculating interpolated Curve values (will cause tiny, almost certainly undetectable changes in automation and fade curves, but may also remove clicks) Fix quoting in TOC files wrap PBD::Thread... signals in a mutex to avoid crashing during startup as multiple threads "emit" the signal Make comboboxes a little bigger on X11 B|B|T clocks measuring duration now use zero-based values New regions created by AudioFilters (Reverse/TimeFX/Transpose) inherit all relevant settings of their ancestor Fix for incorrect reading of fade out curve under a few circumstances Catch exceptions while loading AudioUnits Correct some glitches with playhead motion when looping/reversing Fix failure when opening a session by double-clicking the session file icon (OS X) Fix loss of "current dialog" tracking when exiting a dialog via a button (could cause crash on next Ctrl-w) Detect no-installed-JACK on OS X to avoid silent crashes for new users DEVELOPMENT GTK/OSX patch now in SVN Check build host for broken mutex-based glib atomic ops Two versions of clearlooks now in SVN - older, for X11 (crisp!), and newer for OS X (faster!) CONTRIBUTORS MASSIVE thanks to Nick Mainsbridge who, with the financial support of SAE and his own dedication to the cause, pulled off a minor miracle with OS X GUI performance, as well as many SAE-specific fixes and improvements. Other work and fixes: Sampo Savolainen, Don Fredricks, Krzysztof Foltman, Dave Robillard, and the plumber himself, Paul Davis

17 years

Italian podcast on Libre music and GNU/Linux

by Marco Milanesi

hi all, I'm here to announce a new (maybe the first) italian podcast on free/libre music and GNU/Linux. the selection goes from swimming pig, hitmuri, lapoc, msound, kpanic and last but not least Ken Restivo remixed by Garry Ogle all presented by msound's voice in italian language. ok, enough babbling the link is: http://gnufunk.org/node/32 Resources, we have: Site: http://www.gnufunk.org mailing list: http://gnufunk.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxaudio-it irc channel: #la-it(a)irc.freenode.net (you are welcome) happy listening! (for italian people and not) ciao, Marco -- ,= ,-_-. =. ------------------------------------------------------- + ((_/)o o(\_)) jabber:kpanic@jabber.linux.it/msn:kpanic@muppetslab.org | `-'(. .)`- #muppetslab(a)irc.freenode.net | \_/ Music is interface |

17 years, 1 month

Tardigrade Inc. : Tapeutape-0.1.1 and Tranches-0.1.1, Tutorials

by Florent Berthaut

Hi everyone, I've released new versions of Tapeutape (virtual sampler) and Tranches(beatrepeat/redirect/rearrange). There are also tutorials for both of them. More informations on : http://www.tardigrade-inc.com/index.php/En/News Regards Florent

17 years, 1 month

[ANN] SLV2 0.6.1

by Dave Robillard

SLV2 is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes this release: - I18N support, courtesy Lars Luthman - New functions: slv2_port_get_value, slv2_instance_get_extension_data - Fix slv2_plugin_get_supported_features - Fancy new build system - Some Mac portability stuff I think? Probably some other stuff too Upgrading is not a life or death matter... OR IS IT?! More information, documentation, downloads, free beer, etc, at: <http://drobilla.net/software/slv2> Enjoy, -dr

17 years, 1 month

[ANN] LV2 Revision 3

by Dave Robillard

LV2 is a standard for plugins and matching host applications, mainly targeted at audio processing and generation. LV2 is a simple but extensible successor of LADSPA, intended to address the limitations of LADSPA which many applications have outgrown. This revision changes the data portion of the specification only (i.e. lv2.h is unchanged). *** IMPORTANT *** This revision makes a simple but important clarification, relevant to both host and plugin and authors: A serialisation (i.e. save files, patch files, preset files, network protocols, anything not associated with a specific plugin binary) which refers to an LV2 port MUST do so using the port symbol and NOT the port index. Of course, at runtime the index may still be used, as in LADSPA. This is not a binary change. See lv2.ttl for details and rationale, but in short this allows much more elbow room for plugin authors to improve their plugins over time without changing the URI, and opens the door for fully dynamic ports on plugins without backwards compatibility issues, among other things. Some developers have complained about the strict URI/versioning rules, these issues are resolved in this revision without weakening compatibility guarantees. Plugin authors: no more worrying about port indices! Further discussion is best done on the LV2 development list, see <http://lv2plug.in> for more information. Upgrading and ensuring correctness is STRONGLY encouraged for host authors, so plugin authors can apply this new freedom in practice. Specification download: <http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2core-3.0.tar.bz2> Enjoy, - The LV2 Team

17 years, 1 month

Rivendell v1.1.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.1.1. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. Changes in this release include (from the NEWS file): *** snip snip *** This is a maintenance release of Rivendell. The following issues have been corrected: Fixed problems in RDLogManager with saving clocks and events with names longer than 58 characters. Removed vestigal 'Overlap' transition type in RDAdmin. Corrected a problem in RDAdmin where certain services could not be selected for inclusion in a report. Added support for the '^' metacharacter in import paths in RDAdmin->ManageServices to allow for uppercasing of date values [see the date(1) man page for usage]. Corrected log machine behavior so that a hard start time event occurring during a previously deferred hard start event will cancel the deferred event. Added logging for GPIO state transitions in the ripcd(8) log. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 162, 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 | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. | | -- Abbie Hoffman | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

17 years, 1 month

SoX 14.2.0 released

by Chris Bagwell

We are happy to announce the release of SoX 14.2.0. You can download source code, win32 binaries, and now Mac OSX binaries from https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10706 . Release highlights (see ChangeLog at http://sox.cvs.sourceforge.net/sox/sox/ChangeLog?revision=1.184&view=markup for complete list of changes): Processing chain: o now supports any number of input files o now allows multiple effects chains, multiple input pipes and, in some cases, multiple output files o initial support for Mac OSX audio IO o better support for large (2G/4G) files. New effects: o (ISO 226) loudness control o RIAA vinyl EQ o pitch bending Enhanced effects: o rate: minimum/intermediate/linear phase, custom bandwidth o dither: noise shaping o mcompand: now with Linkwitz-Riley crossover. Various other small fixes/improvements. - The developers.

17 years, 1 month

Tardigrade Inc. : Tapeutape-0.1.0 and Tranches-0.1.0

by Florent Berthaut

Hi everyone, I've just opened a new website http://tardigrade-inc.com to release the new versions of Tapeutape (virtual sampler) and Tranches(beat repeat/redirect/rearrange). These new versions include better gui, better lash support, and bug corrections (thanks Ken Restivo). New features will follow. You can find them here http://www.tardigrade-inc.com/index.php/En/Tapeutape and here http://www.tardigrade-inc.com/index.php/En/Tranches. I'm working on some tutorials with videos, sounds and lash sessions. They should be available soon. Regards Florent

17 years, 1 month

make art festival - Poitiers 25-30 November 2008

by propaganda＠goto10.org

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Linux-audio-announce November 2008