Linux-audio-announce December 2009

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by hermann

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 0.05.5-1 comes with some changes: * set dependency of Gtk+ down to version 2.12 (for stable users, introduced by James Morris, thanks James) * make effects moveable (reorder effect chain) have fun ________________________________________________________________________ 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 'jconvolver' or the older '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 ------------------------------------------

15 years, 11 months

KMetronome 0.9.1 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with KDE4 user interface, based on the ALSA sequencer. Changes in 0.9.1 * new configuration option: Styled Knobs * enabled dialog: Configure Shortcuts * feature Request #2792930 - new toggle action "play/stop" * fix for bug #2795019 - wrong button focused after "play/stop" Copyright (C) 2005-2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 More info http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome Sources http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kmetronome-0.9.1.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kmetronome-0.9.1.tar.gz openSUSE Build Service - RPM packages http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=kmetronome Regards, Pedro

15 years, 11 months

First L2Ork track now available

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Dear fellow FOSS enthusiasts, Last week's L2Ork debut was a great success with the performance hall packed and people standing in the back. We've had a tremendous amount of positive feedback and it has been truly heart-touching to learn that people genuinely cared about and were moved by what we had to share. As some of you may be already aware, our story also made the Slashdot and our server has received close to a half a million hits since its posting. Likewise, we've been featured on regional TV channels as well as various international news outlets. As our thanks to all who have so generously supported us both in person and through the endless corners of the internet, we've posted a track from our weekend recording session. "Citadel" is a piece for soprano and L2Ork that uses a poem by Ivan Gundulic, a famous Croatian poet from the Baroque era. The piece was recorded in a beautifully reverberant Burruss rotunda on the Virginia Tech campus. No post-processing has been applied to the recording beyond a minor eq to soften lows. To listen please visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/ and click on the Media->Jukebox, or simply click on the link in what is currently the top post on the L2Ork blog. Once again, thank you all for your kind support. We will be starting a public l2ork-dev list soon, so if you wish to contribute, participate, or start your own L2Ork, please do not hesitate to join in on the discussion. Likewise, should you feel compelled to leave a comment, please feel free to do so on our jukebox page (no registration required). Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra 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/

15 years, 11 months

Patchage 0.4.3

by Dave Robillard

Patchage 0.4.3 is released. Changes this version: * Switch to waf build system * Fix compilation with GCC 4.4 * Better ALSA support * Massive performance improvements when ALSA is enabled * Center on startup Raul and FlowCanvas, libraries Patchage depends on, also have new releases (both 0.6.0) with many improvements. Upgrading is recommended. More information, downloads, etc. available at: http://drobilla.net/software/patchage/ Enjoy, -dr

15 years, 11 months

LAM annual Best of mix 2009

by Patrick Shirkey

Hi, I have been attempting to keep track of all the releases posted over the past year since the inaugural Linux Audio Musicians Best of mix was released in Nov 08. I'm pleased to announce that the latest Annual Best of Mix for 2009 is now up for your listening pleasure. http://djcj.org/audio/lam - In general the level of craftsmanship and musicality has improved greatly over the past year. Nice work everyone!!! - I'm open to suggestions for more music to add to the mix and please let me know if you spot any mistakes. Cheers. -- Patrick Shirkey - DJ Kotau Boost Hardware Ltd - DJCJ . ORG

15 years, 11 months

AV Linux 3.0 Released

by info＠bandshed.net

Hello, AV Linux 3.0 a Debian based distribution with the multimedia content creator in mind has been released, you are welcomed to read the Release Announcement here: http://geekconnection.org/remastersys/forums/index.php?topic=429.0 What the heck is AV Linux? See here: http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html Thanks, Glen a.k.a. GMaq

15 years, 11 months

[ANN] guitarix-0.05.3-1 quick release

by hermann

This is a quick guitarix update to cover the new release of jconvolver eg. jconv 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. To cover the renaming of jconv to jconvolver, guitarix-0.05.3-1 looks now first for jconvolver, if it isn't installed, it looks for jconv. Also a patch from Michal Seben (OpenSuse) is added to cover a build fail at openSUSE:Factory. Thanks Michal. :-) Additional, there is a (rt) 2 Channel delay chooser for the output to jconv, and the Chorus effect work in Stereo now. have fun ________________________________________________________________________ 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/ guitarix is licensed under the GPL. regards Hermann Meyer & James Warden ------------------------------------------

15 years, 11 months

Fwd: Reminder: Opennight#2 - 7:30p Thursday, 3rd Dec 09 @ The Roebuck, 50 Great Dover Street SE1 4YG

by Robert Munro

Sorry for X posting ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Munro <rrmunro(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:56 AM Subject: Fwd: Reminder: Opennight#2 - 7:30p Thursday, 3rd Dec 09 @ The Roebuck, 50 Great Dover Street SE1 4YG To: openlab <openlab(a)lists.pawfal.org> Hey Everybody, OPenLab OpenNight a night of performances where people can come along and try out their new stuff in front of an audience, or just have a jam. So the performances can be from 10-25min, they can be work in progress or finished pieces, or just anything you want to play in front of an audience. *Of course all the performances have to use at least some open-source software.* So for anyone out there who has been working on some stuff or if you have been doing workshops and want to put your new found skills to the test - then jump in click the edit button and put your name up .... Just a reminder for the next OpenLab opennight on this Thursday 3rd December @ 7:30p, the line up so far is: * *Rob Munro* : (PD+Processing) (15-20min) * *Jonny Stutters* : (SuperCollider+Processing) (15mins) * *Ryan Jordan* : (PD and maybe Arduino, sensors, strobes, but maybe not) 19mins * *Cane Toad Orchestra* : (din, variseq, violin) : 24 minutes * *Crank* : homespun electronics and software. * *Andy Farnell* : PD performance. If you want to join in .. it's never too late, just add yourself on the wiki or let me know. http://www.pawfal.org/openlabwiki/index.php?page=OpenNight *Address:* *Opennight 3rd December 09: The Roebuck* THE ROEBUCK PUB 50 Great Dover Street SE1 4YG T. 020 7357 7324 E. info(a)theroebuck.net W: http://theroebuck.net Map: google maps<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=SE1+4YG&sll=51.…> Flyer a bit less low-fi this time. Please distribute everywhere you like. The attached one is very low quality. There are higher quality images here: small: http://www.robmunro.net/misc/on2_flyer_sm.png Large: http://www.robmunro.net/misc/on2_flyer.png hope to catch you there ... robm

15 years, 11 months

Boost your Piano playing skills with PianoBooster 0.6.4

by Louis B.

Version 0.6.4 of Piano Booster has just been released. Piano Booster is an Open Source program that helps with playing the piano and learning to sight read music. It's key feature is that it listens and follows what you are playing on the piano and waits for you to find and play the right notes. It helps you with this by giving you audio feed back. So if you play a wrong note then that note will have the Harpsichord sound but the right notes will have the Piano sound. For screen shots see: http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html And for a video demonstration see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGbfm8Tv-20 This versions fixes a number of issues with CPU usage and timing accuracy and so I recommend that everyone upgrades to this version. Users of Intel graphic chips please see the note at the end of this posting. Detailed list of changes in this release 0.6.4 are: - Added note names for beginners (to be used with a piano key note labels) - Added assignable left and right midi channels. - Improved MIDI timing accuracy. - Greatly reduced the memory footprint. - Reduced the CPU load. - Reduced the screen flicker (recommend setting the screen refresh rate to 60Hz and for Intel Graphic chips updating the drivers). - Added keyboard short-cuts. These are - speed up/down, play from start, play/pause, next previous song, left right both hands. - Remembers the song settings in a configuration file called "pb.cfg". these are the midi channels, speed, left right or both hands. - Now works well Ubuntu 9.10 and Intel graphic chips. (Those with Ubuntu 9.04 and Intel should upgrade to 9.10 and this version) - Fixed various start up issues. - Now correctly notates repeated accidentals that occur in a single bar. - Added the option to display courtesy accidentals. - Added a simple help page. - Added an installer for windows. - 'make install' now works on Linux. - Now works with small screens eg an EEE-701 (for Trev) NOTE: If you have Intel graphic chips in your computer or laptop then this causes severe problems when using Ubuntu 9.04. The problem is due the Intel graphic drivers drivers having very poor performance. They performed much worse than on the previous Ubuntu 8.10. The solution is to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, PianoBooster works particularly well on this version. PianoBooster is licensed under GPL and runs on Linux, Windows and the Mac. PianoBooster is available from: http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net. Louis B.

15 years, 12 months

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Linux-audio-announce December 2009