Linux-audio-announce February 2008

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by Chris Cannam

Version 1.2 of the Vamp plugin SDK is now available. http://www.vamp-plugins.org/ Vamp is a plugin API for audio analysis and feature extraction plugins written in C or C++. Its SDK features an easy-to-use set of C++ classes for plugin and host developers, a reference host implementation, example plugins, and documentation. It is supported across Linux, OS/X and Windows. Version 1.2 contains a further addition to the host extension classes introduced in 1.1: a buffering adapter that hosts may use to avoid having to negotiate the plugin's preferred input step and block sizes. Plugins and hosts remain 100% binary compatible with those built using the 1.0 version of the SDK. Chris

17 years, 9 months

LAC 2008: live online Now!

by Eric Dantan Rzewnicki

The 6th annual Linux Audio Conference has begun in Cologne, Germany. It runs today through March 2nd, 2008. As with each previous year this year's conference is streamed live over the internet in ogg theora via icecast. The stream status page can be found at: http://lac.linuxaudio.org This year we are in the unique situation of having a Gigabit link donated by CITIZENMEDIA: http://www.ist-citizenmedia.org/ They have asked us to use up as much of their bandwidth as we can so they can see how well the link performs. Please forward this information widely so we can help them out. This year the core team, Joern Nettingsmeier and myself, are recruiting volunteers to spread the workload. To that end we have set up a mailing list and irc channel to coordinate our efforts. If you are here in Cologne for the conference please consider joining us. If you are not coming, please enjoy the fruits of our labors by watching the streams and participating via irc. stream team mailing list: http://zhevny.com/mailman/listinfo/lac-streams general conference chat: #lac2008 on irc.freenode.net stream team tech talk: #lac2008-tech on irc.freenode.net Thanks, LAC streamteam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

17 years, 9 months

[ann] LAC2008 -- The final countdown

by Frank Barknecht

LAC2008 -- The final countdown The Linux Audio Conference 2008 is prepared. The organisation team of LAC2008 is looking forward to welcoming the international Linux audio community in Cologne. The conference is taking place at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) from February 28 to March 2, 2008. For detailed information visit the LAC2008 website at http://lac.linuxaudio.org The Conference Participants of LAC2008 will experience four days crammed full with presentations of new developments in Linux audio software. 20 talks by international experts are planned. The Soundlab of the Academy is delighted to have Miller S. Puckette from San Diego as a keynote speaker on Saturday. Admission to all presentations is free. Remote visitors can follow the entire paper session plus selected extras by means of our audio and video streams and can participate via IRC channels. The Concerts There will be three concerts at the "Stadtgarten" in Cologne. Two of these are "classical" concerts with a mixture of experimental, improvised or taped music all made using Linux as main platform. A third one, the "Club Night" will be an allnighter focusing on electronic music with a club background. Artists from the USA and Canada, Austria, UK, Poland and many other countries will play at these events. The Exhibition The exhibition at LAC2008 will present sound art by students of the Academy of Media Arts plus site-specific works by invited artists. The Workshops Learning is fun: the LAC2008 will host several exciting workshops for your Linux audio brain training pleasure held by experts in the respective fields. Topics include hardware hacking with a custom Arduino board and software soldering using Pure Data and SuperCollider. Additionally, space is available for adhoc workshops and self organised meetings. Further details including a full timetable is available on http://lac.linuxaudio.org Make noise, Tux! -- Frank Barknecht and Martin Rumori Chairs of LAC2008

17 years, 9 months

QM Vamp Plugins v1.4 now available

by Chris Cannam

[Note: this announcement is about closed-source software] Version 1.4 of the QM Vamp Plugins -- a set of audio analysis plugins in the Vamp plugin format, developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London -- is now available for download. This release is a major update including new plugins and numerous bug fixes. Note onset detector, beat tracker, tempo estimator, key estimator, tonal change detector, structural segmenter, timbral and rhythmic similarity, chromagram, constant-Q spectrogram, and MFCC calculation plugins are included. For downloads, please see: http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/downloads/index.html#qm-vamp-plugins The plugins are available in binary form only and may be freely used for any purpose, and redistributed for non-commercial purposes only. Supported platforms are 32- and 64-bit Linux, 32-bit Windows, and OS/X 10.4 or newer (Intel/PPC universal). For more information about Vamp plugins, please see http://www.vamp-plugins.org/ Chris

17 years, 9 months

Sonic Visualiser v1.2 now available

by Chris Cannam

Version 1.2 of Sonic Visualiser, an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files, is now available. http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ This is a significant feature release, containing a number of new features over the previous release including a handy audio alignment capability. For more details, please read the release notes at https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=578145 Sonic Visualiser contains advanced waveform and spectrogram viewers, as well as editors for many sorts of audio annotations. Besides visualisation, it can make and play selections based on the locations of automatically detected features, seamlessly loop playback of single or multiple noncontiguous regions, synthesise annotations for playback, and slow down playback while retaining display synchronisation. Sonic Visualiser supports the Vamp plugin API for plugins that extract descriptive or analytical data from audio. Vamp plugins for onset, pitch and note detection and tempo tracking using the Aubio library are available, as well as further plugins for tempo tracking, chromagram analysis, constant-Q spectrogram, spectral centroid, power curve, key estimation, tonal change detection, harmonic spectrogram, structural segmentation, timbral similarity, audio alignment calculation and a large number of low-level spectral features. There is also a comprehensive SDK for use by developers of Vamp plugins and hosts. For more information about Vamp plugins, please see: http://www.vamp-plugins.org/ Sonic Visualiser is Free Software distributed under the GNU General Public License. The 1.2 release is available now in source code form or as binaries for Linux, OS/X, and Windows. Chris

17 years, 9 months

Music made with Linux: Hitmuri "Des Leurres"

by Florent Berthaut

Hi everyone, i've just released a new album entirely made with linux ( Tapeutape + Jack-Rack + Freewheeling + Ardour). It's available for listen and download from my website http://www.hitmuri.com or directly from this page : http://www.dogmazic.net/static.php?op=musiqueIndex.php&album=2525+-+Des+Leu… <http://www.dogmazic.net/static.php?op=musiqueIndex.php&album=2525+-+Des+Leu…> Any comments are welcome !!!! Florent

17 years, 10 months

Qtractor 0.1.1 (futile duchess) released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

After some time in quarantine, meaning that it just passed almost 40 days since its last public appearance, the frivolous debutante has matured a bit but not that much. Truth is, it is not quite healed and in fact, it is getting seriously bloated ;) Qtractor 0.1.1 (futile duchess) has been released! Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ around the Qt toolkit. Its primordial target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly featured Desktop Audio/MIDI Workstation GUI specially dedicated to the personal homestudio. It sits confortably tagged as for the techno-boy bedroom home-studio. There's no genre segregation here, it also applies to techno-girls ;). Now seriously, it even has its own Wikipedia entry already: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtractor. Back to business, these are the major highlights for this release: - Draft user manual, contributed by James Laco Hines. - Native Linux VST plug-in support. - Initial DSSI plug-in support (audio effects only atm.) - User configurable keyboard shortcuts. - JACK server auto-start. - Clip fade-in/out relative resizes. - Auto time-stretch now optional. - MIDI capture/record input quantize. - Major plug-in infrastructure rewrite. - Seamless plug-in drag-and-drop. Check it out, from the official project web site: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Direct link for the source tarball download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.1.tar.gz The new user manual draft is also made available: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.1-user-manual.pdf Literal change-log follows. since the last 0.1.0 (frivolous debutante) alpha release: - After some great user demand, keyboard shortcuts are finally configurable, as found provisionally under Help/Shortcuts..., for the main application menu and for the MIDI editor as well. - Debian package gets SSE optimization disabled as default. - At least some transport actions get to be non auto-repeatable when pressed for much too long, as Play and Record, avoiding the tumbling imposed from the keyboard. - For the first time ever, jackd auto-start is now allowed (!). - OSC service support through liblo gets optional at configure time, now leading the way to proper DSSI plug-in hosting. - All plug-in widget controls count are now capped to one hundred. - Plugin paths setup is now made available on the options dialog, overriding each of respective default settings, as implicit from the LADSPA_PATH, DSSI_PATH and VST_PATH environment variables (see View/Options.../Display/Plugin Paths). - Clip fade-in/out lengths are now kept relative to tempo changes and also to clip offset and length changes (clip resizes). - Automatic time-stretching for all audio clips when session tempo changes, may now be disabled/enabled as a global session option (see View/Options.../Audio/Playback/Automatic time-stretching). - Double-clicking on an empty area (de)selects all clips on track. - MIDI capture (record) quantization is now an option, possibly handy for some jerky performance musicians, as the one found in myself ;) (see View/Options.../MIDI/Capture/Quantize). - The global options dialog (View/Options...) has seen its Display tab page being moved back and to the right. - Major rewrite of the plug-in infrastructure, adding primordial support for DSSI and native VST plug-in flavors. - Drag-and-drop of plug-in instances are now allowed intra- and inter-mixer strip chains, either on tracks or buses. - Turning track record off while recording is rolling was leaving the session in a inconsistent recording status, now fixed. - A random but instant crash upon audition/pre-listening player onset was hopefully fixed. Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

17 years, 10 months

64 Studio and Ubuntu Studio now available pre-installed in the US

by Daniel James

Hello all, eRacks, a company based in Orange, California, now offers quiet studio machines with a choice of 64 Studio or Ubuntu Studio pre-installed: http://eracks.com/products/Quiet%20Systems/config?sku=STUDIO Cheers! Daniel

17 years, 10 months

MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment Version 1.3 Released

by Bob van der Poel

Version 1.3 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: Extended MIDI voicing now supported -- it is now easy to set any voice you have on your sequencer! A SWELL command (increase then restore volume over a number of bars), A number of minor bug fixes and enhancements. See the entire change log in the included CHANGES-1.2 file. 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, 10 months

LAC 2008: bandwidth to burn and volunteers needed

by Eric Dantan Rzewnicki

LAC 2008: bandwidth to burn and volunteers needed The 6th annual Linux Audio Conference is taking place in Cologne, Germany, Feb 28th to March 2nd, 2008. As with each previous year this year's conference will be streamed live over the internet in ogg theora via icecast. The stream server is up at: http://lac2008.khm.de:8000/ There is nothing to see at the moment, but keep checking over the coming days as we hope to have a test stream up soon. This year we are in the unique situation of having a Gigabit link donated by CITIZENMEDIA: http://www.ist-citizenmedia.org/ They have asked us to use up as much of their bandwidth as we can so they can see how well the link performs. This year the core team, Joern Nettingsmeier and myself, are recruiting volunteers to spread the workload. To that end we have set up a mailing list and irc channel to coordinate our efforts. We will also have a wiki shortly. If you will be coming to Cologne for the conference please consider signing up to help. If you are not coming, please enjoy the fruits of our labors by watching the streams and participating via irc. stream team mailing list: http://zhevny.com/mailman/listinfo/lac-streams general conference chat: #lac2008 on irc.freenode.net stream team tech talk: #lac2008-tech on irc.freenode.net Thanks, Eric Rz. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Linux-audio-announce February 2008