Linux-audio-announce November 2009

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Linux Audio Conference 2010

by Marc Groenewegen

Dear Linux Audio developer, user, composer, musician, philosopher and anyone else interested, you are invited to the... Linux Audio Conference 2010 The conference about Open Source Software for music and audio May 1-4 2010 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) Utrecht, The Netherlands Registration is open, and so is the call for abstracts and papers. More information can be found on the website: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010 For previous editions, look here: http://lac.linuxaudio.org For concerts, music and workshops a submission system and protocol will be available soon. In the meantime, ideas and announcements can be sent by e-mail ("lac -at- linuxaudio -dot- org ") or written on the wiki: http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/lac2010 We hope to see you all in Utrecht ! Kind regards on behalf of the LAC team, Marc Groenewegen, lecturer music software design @ HKU

14 years, 9 months

[ANN] KMid2 preview release

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMid2 is a MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE4. KMid was developed more than ten years ago, so it was time for a revamping. KMid2 is a rewrite from scratch, with a new architecture and also some new features. This is a preview release. Should not be used in production. Here are some major features: * Plays MIDI and Karaoke files. * Playback to external hardware MIDI devices. * Allows to use software synths as well. * Tempo and volume controls. * Pitch (transpose) control. * Rhythm view (visual metronome). * Configurable character encoding, font and color for lyrics. * Playlists (song collections). * MIDI Mapper. * Channels window, with solo/muting controls and instrument selectors. * Piano player window, using VMPK artwork and technology. * Runs in Linux, using the ALSA Sequencer. More info: http://userbase.kde.org/KMid2 Copyright (C) 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas KMid2 is free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 license. Downloads * Source packages http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/files/ * OpenSuse RPM packages http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=kmid2 Regards, Pedro

14 years, 11 months

Crafting Digital Media book from Apress

by Daniel James

Hi all, My book 'Crafting Digital Media' has now been printed and will be launched next week - you can see details at: http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430218878 It covers Free Software audio applications including ALSA Modular Synth, Ardour, Audacity, Hydrogen, Jamin, Mixxx, and Seq24. If you're interested in creating an affiliate link for your website, Amazon.com has the best price on the book, and will give you 4% commission just for linking to the page with your tag on the URL. For example, my link is: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430218878?tag=freesoftwarecreative-20 That works out at around $1.05 for you from each sale and it only takes a few minutes to set up: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ There's also a website for the book at: http://www.freesoftwarecreative.com/ Cheers! Daniel

14 years, 11 months

[ANN] guitarix-0.05.2-1 released

by hermann

I'm happy to announce a new guitarix release guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar amplifier and is designed to achieve nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds. Guitarix uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit as its audio backend and brings in one input and two output ports to the jack graph. Release 0.05.2-1 comes with some changes: * remove dependency of the boost library (Many thanks to "thrasher13b" for the patch) * fix missing "./" in ./debian/rules reported by GMag (AV Linux) * add 2 Channel gain and delay chooser to the Jconv settings widget. * add scroll/zoom mode to the wave view * reworked Jconv settings widget UI * various GUI and feature clean-up's have fun ________________________________________________________________________ The standalone version of guitarix is based on GTK2+. But guitarix is also released as a suite of LADSPA plugins and can be used in e.g. ardour. guitarix is licensed under the GPL. Project page with screenshots: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ For capture, guitarix uses the external application 'jack_capture' (version >= 0.9.30) written by Kjetil S. Matheussen. If you don't have it installed, you can look here: http://old.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D For extra Impulse Responses, guitarix uses the convolution application 'jconv' created by Fons Adriaensen. If you don't have it installed, you can look here: http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html I(hermann) use faust to build the prototype and will say thanks to : Julius Smith http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/ : Albert Graef http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html#Faust : Yann Orlary http://faust.grame.fr/ regards Hermann Meyer & James Warden ------------------------------------------ guitarix-dev team

14 years, 11 months

[ANN] Jackbeat 0.7.4

by Olivier Guilyardi

Hi everyone, The Jackbeat audio sequencer version 0.7.4 has just been released. Download it from: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org News ~~~~ A bug which may prevent to load samples have been fixed. ChangeLog ~~~~~~~~~ jackbeat (0.7.4) * #43: fix buffer overflow in sample file filter building routine Enjoy -- Olivier

14 years, 11 months

L2Ork Debut Performance at Virginia Tech

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Dear fellow Linux enthusiasts and consortium members, Please allow me to bring to your attention the upcoming L2Ork debut: On December 4th Virginia Tech DISIS (<http://disis.music.vt.edu>) Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork, <http://l2ork.music.vt.edu>) will hold its first sneak preview debut performance on Virginia Tech (VT) campus, Squires Studio Theatre, starting at 7pm. Admission is free. At noon on the same day, L2Orkists will also host a demo booth outside the Commonwealth Ballroom in Squires Student Center (VT campus) demoing how L2Ork works. For additional info on L2Ork and a video preview of L2Ork in rehearsal: <http://l2ork.music.vt.edu> Facebook Event Page: <http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=180832548428&ref=mf> Sincerely, Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy) Virginia Tech Dept. of Music - 0240 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 (540) 231-5034 (fax) ico(a)vt.edu http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

14 years, 11 months

Linux Audio Conference 2010: Call for Papers now open

by Frank Neumann

Dear reader, as has been announced here 2 days ago by Marc Groenewegen, the next Linux Audio Conference (LAC#8) will take place at the HKM in Utrecht, Netherlands, from May 1st - 4th, 2010 (see http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010). We have now opened the Website that accepts paper submissions. Please direct your browser to http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/openconf For those who have been following the LAC activities in the past years: It's the same used&tested "OpenConf" web-based system that allows us to easily collect paper submissions, review them and create a programme from accepted papers. The available categories for paper submission looks like this: * Ambisonics * Education * Live performance * Audio Hardware Support * Signal Processing * Music Composition * Audio Languages * Sound Synthesis * Audio Plugins * MIDI * Music Production * Linux Kernel * Physical Computing * Interface Design * Linux Distributions * Networked Audio * Video * Games * Media Art * Licensing Note that "Video" is also in the list. Yes, that's not strictly Audio :-), but we feel that the two disciplines are close enough to one another to allow opening up the conference scope a bit here. After all, we have already had several very nice audio/video gigs in the past (some might remember the YUE concert in Karlsruhe 2006 with a remote VJ live from Italy, which was pretty groundbreaking at that time). Also, we very much welcome practical papers resp. software demos ("how I use Linux Audio applications to create my music/media art"). The web page also holds the paper templates that have to be used for submissions. Pick one of the two provided templates (LaTeX or OpenOffice), author your paper and convert it to PDF, then upload that PDF. Make sure you are using A4 as paper size. Some constraints: - The conference is held in English, so the paper has to be in English too. - Length of a paper is 4-8 pages. Papers have to include an abstract (50-100 words). Also, papers should include up to 5 keywords. - The copyright of the paper remains with you (of course), but we reserve the right to create printed proceedings from all submitted (and accepted) papers. - We have fixed the following dates: - Deadline for paper submissions: February 14th, 2010 - Notification of paper acceptance: March 14th, 2010 - Deadline for final version of paper: April 4th, 2010 Please note that the OpenConf system is only to be used for paper submissions; for concert pieces ("Call for Music") or sound installation proposals, please contact us directly by email ("lac -at- linuxaudio -dot- org "). We are looking forward to many interesting submissions for the 8th Linux Audio Conference and we hope to see you in Utrecht in 2010! Please feel free to forward this e-mail to anybody who might be interested - mailing lists, blogs, Linux portals, magazines, you name them. Public relation work for this conference is something we need, and where everybody can easily help. Thanks for reading. On behalf of the LAC2010 organisation team, Frank Neumann

14 years, 11 months

[ANN] Jackbeat 0.7.3

by Olivier Guilyardi

Hi everyone, Jackbeat, the minimal-but-nevertheless-useful multi-platform step sequencer, has just reached version 0.7.3 ! This is mainly a bugfix release, that you can grab from: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org It's easy to build and easy to try. News ~~~~ - Tracks can now be reordered - A buffer overflow and a bug preventing to load some jab files have been fixed ChangeLog ~~~~~~~~~ jackbeat (0.7.3) * #40: allow to reorder tracks (move up/down) * #43: fix buffer overflow in core messaging routine * fix bogus track name conflict when loading jab, thanks Florent Enjoy -- Olivier

14 years, 11 months

MAKE ART 09 - 08>13 December 2009 - Poitiers

by propaganda＠goto10.org

#!/bin/bash cat <<":*" | _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| 08-13 DEC | __ | | _ _| | | 2009 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| POITIERS |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The fourth edition of make art - What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 8th to the 13th of December 2009. With Aharon Amir (GB), Wayne Clements (GB), FooCorp (GB), Gijs Gieskes (NL), Gullibloon (AT/DE), Adnan Hadzi (CH), Lisa Haskel (GB), Reni Hofmüller (AT), Olivier Laruelle (FR), LAFKON (DE), Anne Laforêt (FR), Mattin (ES), Antoine Moreau (FR), Nathalie Magnan (FR), No Copy Paste (HU), Noyade (FR), Jean Sépulchre (FR), Wesley Smith (US), Koray Tahiro#lu (TR/FI), The Guardians of the Tradition (US), Taku Unami (JP), Milovann Yanatchkov (FR), Simon Yuill (GB), Jérémie Zimmermann (FR), IOhannes M. Zmölnig (AT), ... http://makeart.goto10.org -- make art est un festival international dédié à l'intégration des Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS*) dans l'art numérique. *FLOSS = Free/Libre/Open Source Software La quatrième édition de make art - "What The Fork?!" pratiques distribuées et ouvertes en art logiciel libre - se déroule à Poitiers (FR), du 8 au 13 décembre 2009. Avec Aharon Amir (GB), Wayne Clements (GB), FooCorp (GB), Gijs Gieskes (NL), Gullibloon (AT/DE), Adnan Hadzi (CH), Lisa Haskel (GB), Reni Hofmüller (AT), Olivier Laruelle (FR), LAFKON (DE), Anne Laforêt (FR), Mattin (ES), Antoine Moreau (FR), Nathalie Magnan (FR), No Copy Paste (HU), Noyade (FR), Jean Sépulchre (FR), Wesley Smith (US), Koray Tahiro#lu (TR/FI), The Guardians of the Tradition (US), Taku Unami (JP), Milovann Yanatchkov (FR), Simon Yuill (GB), Jérémie Zimmermann (FR), IOhannes M. Zmölnig (AT), ... http://makeart.goto10.org :* ( ( echo '[-]>[-]---------->[-],[----------[>[-]++++++++++,----------]' echo '<[++++++++++.<]>++++++++++.-------------------->[-],]' ) | ( echo '#include <stdio.h>' echo '#include <stdlib.h>' echo 'int main(int c, char **a){' echo 'char *makeart = calloc(2009,1);' sed -e 's/+/++*makeart;\n/g' \ -e 's/-/--*makeart;\n/g' \ -e 's/>/++makeart;\n/g' \ -e 's/</--makeart;\n/g' \ -e 's/\./putchar$*makeart$;\n/g' \ -e 's/,/{int i = getchar;if$i!=EOF$*makeart=i;}\n/g' \ -e 's/\[/while$*makeart${\n/g' \ -e 's/\]/}\n/g' \ -e 't' \ -e 's/.//g' echo 'return 0;}' ) | gcc -O2 -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic -o makeart -xc - && ./makeart | ./makeart )

14 years, 12 months

[ANN] JACK 0.118.0 + D-Bus

by Nedko Arnaudov

Tarball containing D-Bus patched jack 0.118.0 is available here: http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/ http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus-0.… http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus-0.… D-Bus modifications add optional autodetected support for the D-Bus based server control system. D-Bus is object model that provides IPC mechanism. D-Bus supports autoactivation of objects, thus making it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed. * Simplified single thread model for control and monitor applications. Various D-Bus language bindings make it trivial to write control and monitor applications using scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.. * JACK has log file (~/.log/jack/jackdbus.log) that is available for inspection even when autoactivation happens because of first JACK application is launched. * There is real configuration file used to persist settings that can be manipulated through configuration interface of JACK D-Bus object. * Improved graph inspection and control mechanism. JACK graph is versioned. Connections, ports and clients have unique (monotonically increasing) numeric IDs. * High level abstraction of JACK settings. Allows applications that can configure JACK to expose parameters that were not known at compile (or tarball release) time. Currently there are some minor differences between jack1 jackdbus and jack2 jackdbus: * There is no parameter constraints support (no enums and no ranges) * No get client pid function (probably affects lash) * Settings file (in ~/.config/jack/) is conf-jack1.xml instead of conf.xml, because jack1 and jack2 settings and not really compatible. When configured with D-Bus support, jack_control is installed. jack_control is simple commandline interface for jackdbus. Other tools that can communicate with JACK through D-Bus: * LADItools (tray icon, configuration, etc.) * Patchage (and lpatchage too) * LASH 0.6.x * ladish -- Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>

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Linux-audio-announce November 2009