Linux-audio-announce April 2008

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by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.0.0rc1. 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 *** Changes: Skinnable Modules. It's now possible to specify a 1024x738 pixel 'Background Image' for RDAirPlay and RDPanel in RDAdmin->ManageHosts. Bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 159, 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 | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Fun will now commence | | -- Seven Of Nine | | "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

14 years, 11 months

[ANN] jack-smf-utils 0.9

by Edward Tomasz Napierala

Jack-smf-utils is a set of two utilities - jack-smf-player and jack-smf-recorder - whose purpose is to play and record MIDI streams from/to Standard Midi Files (i.e. the files with .mid extension) using JACK MIDI. There is also smfsh, "SMF shell" that is kind of interactive, command line SMF files manipulation tool which started its life as a debugging aid. And finally libsmf, C library for loading, writing and manipulating the contents of SMF files. http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/jack-smf-utils/jack-smf-utils-0.9.tar.gz -- If you cut off my head, what would I say? Me and my head, or me and my body?

14 years, 11 months

Renoise 1.9.1 "GOLD" For Linux

by Conner Bw

About: Renoise is a contemporary digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using samples (in WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Ogg, and MP3 format), and MIDI sequencing of VSTi soft synths. Changes: With input from a very enthusiastic user community, two and a half months were spent on bug fixes and stability improvements for the Linux beta. The work has paid off and the Linux version is now officially 1.9.1 "GOLD" like it's OS X and Windows counterparts. Beside everything else you have on Windows and Mac, Linux specific features include: ALSA support (for Audio and MIDI), JACK Audio support (optional), LADSPA support (native Linux audio plugins), and VST support (for Linux NATIVE VSTs). Caveat: This software is free as in beer, not free as in "libre", and is distributed under a shareware license. However, the demo is fully functional and Renoise's file format (XRNS) is XML. This allows human readable interactions and third party manipulation of the files, as seen in the XRNS Development and Tools forum. (http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showforum=26) Announcement: http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showtopic=16280 Download: http://www.renoise.com/download/renoise/ Homepage: http://www.renoise.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Enter today for your chance to win $1000 a day—today until May 12th. Learn more at SignInAndWIN.ca http://g.msn.ca/ca55/215

14 years, 11 months

ladosc (with full documentation)

by Justin Smith

ladosc is a set of ladspa plugins for composing music with Linux. I just checked in an initial version. please use the following command to get a copy: svn checkout https://noisesmith-linux-audio.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ noisesmith-linux-audio I hope to make a tar file for download sometime soon as well. This will get you working plugins for ubuntu gutsy 7.10, full source code, and a COMPREHENSIVE documentation, including specifications, a tutorial, and a second in-depth tutorial with 24 full-color step by step screenshots. Known issues: all the plugins have been tested on a variety of hosts. Some of the operator plugins (*, -, /, %) have names that certain plugin hosts do not handle gracefully. ladspa.h doesn't say I cannot use names like that, but it doesn't say I CAN, either. Anyway, expect a future version with optional compatible names for the more brittle hosts. Only the "osc in" and "osc out" plugins are documented, at the moment. They have pages and pages of documentation (you would be able to do a cleanroom implementation of the plugins from the specification), but I have not documented the matematical utility operators. I figure for now, that most people will be able to figure out what something called, ie. "multiply" with the symbol "*" in the plugin name, does. Please do try this, and let me know of any issues.

14 years, 11 months

pure:dyne for everyone!

by propaganda＠goto10.org

sorry for >< please >> -- * . * ,--. * . ,---. --.,--.--.--.,---. --.,-' |--. ,--.--,--, ,---. * | .-. | || | .--' .-. :--' .-. |\ ' / \ .-. : * | '-' ' '' ' | --.--. `-' | \ ' | || | --. . | -' `----' --' `----'--'`---' -' / `--''--'`----' `--' http://puredyne.goto10.org `---' * . -- 1. new 'pure:dyne for everyone' programme launched 2. upcoming pure:dyne public events 3. pure:dyne code sprints in 2008 4. a new, Debian based pure:dyne! 5. find out more -------------------------------------------------- 1. new 'pure:dyne for everyone' programme launched -------------------------------------------------- Who is pure:dyne for? pure:dyne is for everyone! pure:dyne has been adopted by artists, schools, media arts centers and their local communities as a common, complete GNU/Linux platform for Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) art production and education. pure:dyne is used by communities across Europe and the world for recording and manipulating sound, making live visuals, creating interactive media in installations, and more. Through 'pure:dyne for everyone', pure:dyne will reach out to more people - noobs, artists, local users - in a year-long programme of system development, documentation, user support and special public events with partnering media arts centers across the UK. pure:dyne for everyone is a project by GOTO10 and friends. With partners Access Space, MediaShed and Folly, 'pure:dyne for everyone' is supported by the Creative Partnerships programme of Arts Council England. ----------------------------------- 2. upcoming pure:dyne public events ----------------------------------- * Introduction to video editing, processing and streaming 9-10 May 2008, LoveBytes Sheffield, with Access Space Info: jake-at-access-space-dot-org, info-at-lovebytes-dot-org-dot-uk * Free Software for music making and home studios 20th June 2008, Open Source City Liverpool, with Folly Info: enquiries-at-folly-dot-co-dot-uk * Pure Data for live music 21nd June, Open Source City Liverpool, with Folly Info: enquiries-at-folly-dot-co-dot-uk * pure:dyne presentation and FLOSS+Art book launch TBA, Fall 2008 London, with Mute magazine * pure:dyne workshop TBA, Fall 2008 London/Southend-on-sea, with MediaShed and Mongrel * + More events to be announced! :) --------------------------------- 3. pure:dyne code sprints in 2008 --------------------------------- 28 April - 2 May 2008, secret base inside a volcano 23 - 27 June 2008, underwater mobile power plant autumn 2008, TBA As part of 'pure:dyne for everyone', pure:dyne's core developer team (plus friends) will stage three code sprints in 2008 to develop all aspects of the system and documentation. Be a lurker and join our IRC channel #pure:dyne on irc.goto10.org to check what's being cooked. pure:dyne is currently developed by Rob Canning, Heather Corcoran, Antonios Galanopoulos, Karsten Gebbert, Claude Heiland-Allen, Aymeric Mansoux, Chun Lee, and Marloes de Valk. --------------------------------- 4. A new, Debian based pure:dyne! --------------------------------- Starting 2008, pure:dyne will be based on the Debian operating system. While we aim to provide the same features as before and a live distribution in the form of a live CD, live DVD and live USB, we will be able to build up on top of the great Debian community and provide a larger range of software and develop much more advanced functionalities. At the same time we are quite happy to give back in return our efforts to this community and make available the software we package for most Debian based distros around. ---------------- 5. find out more ---------------- Mailing list: http://lists.goto10.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/puredyne IRC: #pure:dyne on irc.goto10.org Web: http://puredyne.goto10.org :*

14 years, 11 months

Strasheela 0.9.5 released

by Torsten Anders

Dear all, Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system. Users declaratively state a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by variables (unknowns). Music constraint programming is style-independent and is well-suited for highly complex theories (e.g. a fully-fledged theory of harmony). Results can be output into various formats including MIDI, Lilypond, and Csound. This release enhances Strasheela's capabilities for outputting microtonal music into sound synthesis formats such as Csound or MIDI. The actual playback pitch of notes can be defined by tuning tables, which are similar to the scale format of Scala (http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala). Also, new examples demonstrate different approaches for creating MIDI files for microtonal music. For more information on Strasheela, please visit http://strasheela.sourceforge.net/ Changes are described at http://strasheela.sourceforge.net/strasheela/doc/Changes.html This release can be downloaded from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=167225 -- Torsten Anders Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research University of Plymouth Office: +44-1752-233667 Private: +44-1752-558917 http://strasheela.sourceforge.net http://www.torsten-anders.de

14 years, 11 months

[ANN] lv2-c++-tools 1.0.0

by Lars Luthman

This software package contains libraries and programs that should make it easier to write LV2 plugins and GUIs. Download it: http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org/hacking.html Read documentation: http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org/dox/lv2-c++-tools/ Or read a nice tutorial: http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org/lv2pftci/ To build and install, run ./configure make su -c 'make install' You can pass some options to configure, e.g. --prefix=/usr to install everything in /usr (the default is /usr/local). This is a development tool, but I'm sending it to the LAU list as well in case there are any not-yet-hackers who would like to start writing effects or synths. It's easy, I promise. Here's the code you would need to write for a simple gain effect: #include <lv2plugin.hpp> #include "gain.peg" class Gain : public LV2::Plugin<Gain> { public: Gain(double rate) : LV2::Plugin<Gain>(p_n_ports) { } void run(uint32_t nframes) { for (uint32_t i = 0; i < nframes; ++i) p(p_out)[i] = p(p_gain) * p(p_in); } }; static int _ = Gain::register_class("http://my.plugin/"); And here's the code you would need for a GUI for a synth plugin with a button that sends a test tone: #include <lv2gui.hpp> #include "mysynth.peg" class MySynthGUI : public LV2::GUI<MySynthGUI, LV2::WriteMIDI<true> > { public: MySynthGUI(const std::string& URI) : m_button("Click me!") { m_button.signal_pressed().connect(mem_fun(*this, &MySynthGUI::send_note_on)); m_button.signal_released().connect(mem_fun(*this, &MySynthGUI::send_note_off)); pack_start(m_button); } protected: void send_note_on() { uint8_t event[] = { 0x90, 0x40, 0x40 }; write_midi(p_midi, 3, event); } void send_note_off() { uint8_t event[] = { 0x80, 0x40, 0x40 }; write_midi(p_midi, 3, event); } Gtk::Button m_button; }; static int _ = MySynthGUI::register_class("http://my.gui/"); See? Trivial. Read more in the tutorial linked above. --ll

14 years, 11 months

CCRMA Summer Workshop for 2008, Stanford University

by CCRMA Info

Hi there! Please see the workshop announcement below and distribute to any interested participants or bulletin boards! Also see the attached pdf flyers for posting. Thanks! ps. Many apologies for cross postings. ===== CCRMA Summer Workshop for 2008 The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University is happy to announce its offering of intensive programs where top educators and researchers from the fields of music, engineering, and computer science present a detailed study of specialized subjects. The workshops are one or two weeks long. The workshops are open to the public. Each day begins at 9:00 am and ends at 5:00 pm with an hour for lunch on your own. Course tuition and fees will vary by location. Workshops located at CCRMA will be $650 for one week and $1200 for two weeks. Fees may be associated for lab material. July 23 - July 4 Digital Signal Processing: Spectral and Physical Models July 7 - July 18 Physical Interaction Design July 21 - August 1 Music Information Retrieval August 4 - 15 Cell Phone Orchestra August1 8 - 22 Perceptual Audio Coding For more information and online registration on these and other CCRMA workshops, please visit: http:ccrma/workshops/2008 Contact info: Tricia Schroeter, CCRMA Administrator Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Knoll, Room 301 Stanford, CA 94305-8180 650-723-4971 ext. 320 (office) 650-723-8468 (fax)

14 years, 11 months

Sweep 0.9.3 released.

by pete shorthose

(correct version number this time. sorry about that :) Fri April 11 2008 -- Sweep 0.9.3 Released ======================================= Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files. This release is available as a source tarball at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.9.3.tar.gz?download New in this release ------------------- This is a bug fix release, containing the following changes: * Fixed bounds checking of mode in speex header. relates to: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html * Fixed bug preventing device dialog being reopened when closed via the window manager. All users with speex handling enabled should upgrade. Further information ------------------- Screenshots: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/screenshots/ Some interesting audio recordings of Scrubby are at: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/demos.html Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes almost everything you would expect in a sample editor, and then some: * precise, vinyl like scrubbing * looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback * playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks * looped and reverse recording * internationalisation * multichannel and 32 bit floating point PCM file support * support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed audio files * sample rate conversion and channel operations * LADSPA 1.1 effects support * multiple views, discontinuous selections * easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming * unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history * multithreaded background processing * shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes Sweep is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License. More information is available at: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting the development of this project. enjoy :)

14 years, 11 months

Sweep 0.9.2 released.

by pete shorthose

Fri April 11 2008 -- Sweep 0.9.3 Released ======================================= Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files. This release is available as a source tarball at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.9.3.tar.gz?download New in this release ------------------- This is a bug fix release, containing the following changes: * Fixed bounds checking of mode in speex header. relates to: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html * Fixed bug preventing device dialog being reopened when closed via the window manager. All users with speex handling enabled should upgrade. Further information ------------------- Screenshots: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/screenshots/ Some interesting audio recordings of Scrubby are at: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/demos.html Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes almost everything you would expect in a sample editor, and then some: * precise, vinyl like scrubbing * looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback * playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks * looped and reverse recording * internationalisation * multichannel and 32 bit floating point PCM file support * support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed audio files * sample rate conversion and channel operations * LADSPA 1.1 effects support * multiple views, discontinuous selections * easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming * unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history * multithreaded background processing * shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes Sweep is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License. More information is available at: http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting the development of this project. enjoy :)

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Linux-audio-announce April 2008