Linux-audio-announce July 2009

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by Robert Keller

The Impro-Visor project, an open-source Java-based notation tool to help jazz musicians learn to improvise, through improvisation advice and play-along, is now available on sourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/impro-visor/ The homepage which describes our work is: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ Please note that the hyphen in the name and URL is important as a differentiating element. Please contact me directly if there are any questions. Regards, Bob Keller Impro-Visor project director Csilla & Walt Foley Professor Computer Science Harvey Mudd College

16 years, 5 months

[LAA] [ANN] guitarix-0.05.0-1 released

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 0.05.0-1 comes with some major changes: * Completely new source structure by James * add keyboard shortcuts * improved skin handling * add logging window * improved preset handling * add middle tone control * reworked audio engine * add bypass mode * add engine state widget Please read the README for more details regarding the new options. 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://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/ag.html : Yann Orlary http://faust.grame.fr/ regards guitarix-dev team: Hermann Meyer & James Warden

16 years, 5 months

[LAA] MMA 1.5 Released

by Bob van der Poel

Version 1.5 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: - MIDINOTE command set for SMF includes, - -B/b command line options for partial compilations and playback, - Enhanced groove HTML documentation, - Debian package added to download section, - Path and filename enhancements to make running on Windows platforms easier, - lots of bug fixes and library additions. Read the complete change log in the distro: CHANGES-1.4. 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 -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

16 years, 6 months

[LAA] QM Vamp Plugins v1.6 now available

by Chris Cannam

[Note: this announcement refers to closed-source software] Version 1.6 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. Plugins included are note onset detector, beat and barline tracker, tempo estimator, key estimator, tonal change detector, structural segmenter, timbral and rhythmic similarity, wavelet scaleogram, adaptive spectrogram, note transcription, chromagram, constant-Q spectrogram, and MFCC calculation. This is a major feature release which adds four new plugins (adaptive spectrogram, polyphonic transcription, wavelet scalogram, and bar-and-beat tracker) and a new method for the beat tracker. For downloads, please see: http://isophonics.net/QMVampPlugins 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 documentation of these plugins, please see: http://www.vamp-plugins.org/plugin-doc/qm-vamp-plugins.html For more information about Vamp plugins, please see http://www.vamp-plugins.org/ Chris

16 years, 6 months

[LAA] Sonic Visualiser v1.6 now available

by Chris Cannam

Sonic Visualiser is an application for inspecting and analysing the contents of music audio files. It combines powerful waveform and spectral visualisation tools with automated feature extraction plugins and annotation capabilities. Version 1.6 of Sonic Visualiser is now available. http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ This is a bugfix release. For details, please read the release notes at: https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=695075 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, slow down playback while retaining display synchronisation, and show the ongoing alignment in time between multiple recordings of a piece with different timings. 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, tempo tracking, chromagram analysis, constant-Q spectrogram, spectral centroid, power curve, key estimation, tonal change detection, harmonic spectrogram, adaptive multi-resolution spectrogram, structural segmentation, note transcription, wavelet scaleogram, timbral similarity, audio alignment calculation and a large number of low-level spectral features are available. 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 was developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London: http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/ Ongoing work on Sonic Visualiser and audio feature representation in the semantic web is carried out as part of the OMRAS2 project funded by the EPSRC. See http://omras2.org/ for more information. Sonic Visualiser is Free Software distributed under the GNU General Public License. The 1.6 release is available now as binaries for Linux, OS/X, and Windows, and in source code form. Chris

16 years, 6 months

[LAA] PHASEX-0.12.0-beta3

by William Weston

Announcing the new public beta release of phasex! All phasex users are encouraged to upgrade. Since the days of 0.11.1, all known bugs and many annoying quirks have been worked out, making PHASEX-0.12.0-beta3 is the most stable, best sounding, and most studio friendly release yet: * Fixed all currently known crash issues and build issues. Code has been updated for newer versions of gcc, gtk, and glibc. Realtime threading issues have been fine-tined, using realtime locks where appropriate. The build system has been fixed up for newer distributions and includes default optimizations for the entire x86 family (run './configure --enable-arch=foo', where foo is an architecture supported by your version of gcc). * Sound quality has been greatly refined by reshaping envelope curves (eliminating pops and clicks), adding hermite interpolation to the chorus (removing fuzziness from chorus), adding fine tuning to oscillator frequencies and FM amounts, adding sampled oscillators (currently with Juno-106 and vocal samples), fixing portamento and key triggering logic, and more. * The JACK code has been reworked to allow multiple instances with persistent instance numbers and resilience to JACK crashes and restarts. * The GUI has been refined slightly, with a new color scheme, patch folders in the file dialog shortcuts list, and a couple slight optimizations to the knob code. * There's more. See http://sysex.net/phasex/beta for details if you're that curious. Since 0.12.0-beta2, fixes have been implented for GTK >= 2.16 (fixing Fedora 11 builds), the max polyphony has been turned into a runtime configurable setting, and the build system and default architecture specific optimizations have been fixed up some more. Source tarball and arch specific Fedora 11 RPMS are now available for download: http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0beta3.tar.gz http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.src.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i386.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i586.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i686.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.athlon.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.amd64.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.x86_64.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.ia32e.rpm Build reports and bug reports, and package build files for all distributions are highly welcome. This is the final beta for 0.12.0. Any build and crash issues reported in the next two weeks will be fixed for the 0.12.0 stable release. Please direct any feedback to weston(a)sysex.net. The latest version of phasex can always be found at: http://sysex.net/phasex For those of you who use git: git clone http://sysex.net/git/phasex.git Thank you all for your support, feedback, and contributions over the years, helping to make PHASEX what it is today. Happy music making! --ww

16 years, 6 months

[LAA] MAKE ART 2009 - What the Fork?! - EXTENDED CALL 22/07

by propaganda＠goto10.org

Due to popular request, delivered to you in cross-posting-visionrama, and until stocks last! (French version at the bottom) -- _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| from | __ | | _ _| | | 7 to 13 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| DECEMBER 09 |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art -- CALL FOR PROJECTS: Extended deadline, July 22 -- 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 7th to the 13th of December 2009. make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the encounter between digital art and free software. We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS works and projects: music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software demos, and installations. This year make art focuses on distributed and open practices in FLOSS art. 'What the fork?!' is about decentralisation. Forking is the new black. Forking, copying the source code of a project and continuing work on the copy instead of the original, used to have a bad reputation. It would split a project and its developer community in pieces, leading to different, often incompatible, projects. Wasted effort, rivalry and developer fights were all associated concepts. This is history. Forking a project with the intention to compete with it is another story, but the freedom to fork enables quick implementation of features and customization, bypassing acquiring committer status, bugfix or feature request protocol, working in a distributed way, together with others but not necessarily towards one goal, working from one source, cross-fertilising, inspiring, copying, patching, improving, experimenting, changing direction, and merging. This practice is boosted by decentralised software development tools, such as Darcs, Mercurial and Git. It's not about quick hacks, but about creating room to experiment, letting go of the one working copy and creating a multiplicity of ideas. Extended deadline : 22nd of July 2009. For more details, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/call -- _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| du | __ | | _ _| | | 7 au 13 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| DECEMBRE 09 |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| MAKE ART 2009 - "What The Fork?!" pratiques distribuées et ouvertes en art FLOSS -- APPEL A PROJETS: Prolongé jusqu'au 22 Juillet -- make art est un festival international dédié à l'intégration des Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS[1]) dans l'art numérique. La quatrième édition de make art – "What The Fork?!" pratiques distribuées et ouvertes en art FLOSS – se déroule à Poitiers (FR), du 7 au 13 décembre 2009. make art propose des performances, des présentations, des ateliers et une exposition, centrés sur la rencontre entre l'art numérique et le logiciel libre. Nous recherchons actuellement des projets récents, innovants, basés sur des logiciels libres et open source : performances musicales et audiovisuelles, présentations, démonstrations de logiciels et installations. Cette année make art sera centré sur les pratiques distribuées et ouvertes en art FLOSS. Dans 'What the fork?!' il est question de décentralisation. Le fork c'est le bien. La pratique du Fork, qui consiste à copier le code source d'un projet puis de continuer à travailler sur une copie plutôt que l'original, a ouvent eu mauvaise réputation. Car cela engendrerait une scission au sein du projet et de l'équipe de développeurs, et conduirait à des projets différents et souvent incompatibles. Efforts gaspillés, rivalités et querelles de développeurs, autant de concepts qui y sont associés. Tout ça c'est de l'histoire ancienne et créer le fork d'un projet dans l'intention de rivaliser est encore une autre histoire. La liberté de faire un fork permet la mise en oeuvre rapide de nouvelles fonctionnalités et de personnalisations, en contournant la nécessité d'acquérir le statut de celui qui dépose et valide (le "committer"), en contournant les protocoles de corrections de bug ou de demandes de nouvelles fonctionnalités, en travaillant de manière distribuée, ensemble avec d'autres sans être obligé de suivre le même et unique objectif, tout en travaillant depuis la même source, mais en opérant par fertilisation croisée, en insufflant, en copiant, en patchant, en améliorant, en expérimentant, en changeant de direction et en fusionnant. Cette pratique est largement boostée par les outils décentralisés de développement de logiciel tels que Darcs, Mercurial ou Git. Il ne s'agit pas de hacks faits à la va-vite, mais la création d'une chambre d'expérimentation, qui laisse de côté la copie unique du travail et qui démultiplie les idées. Date limite prolongée: 22 juillet 2009. [1] FLOSS : Free/Libre/Open Source Software Pour plus d'informations : http://makeart.goto10.org/call/index.fr.html -- :*

16 years, 6 months

[LAA] Rivendell v1.5.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.5.0. 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: New RLM Plug-in. A new plug-in for the Innovonics model 713 RDS encoder has been added. Podcast System Enhancements. It is now possible to post new episodes via the remote web interface. Bugfixes, particularly affecting the Post Point Counter in RDAirPlay, stream leakage issues in caed(8) and various database consistency issues in RDLogManager. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 179, 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 best way to predict the future is to invent it. | | --Uttered during a 1971 meeting at Xerox PARC | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

16 years, 6 months

[LAA] xwax 0.5 release - DJ software

by Mark Hills

xwax 0.5 is now available: http://www.xwax.co.uk/ xwax is open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls. It's designed for both beat mixing and scratch mixing. Needle drops, pitch changes, scratching, spinbacks and rewinds are all supported, and feel just like the audio is pressed onto the vinyl itself. The major changes between v0.4 and v0.5: * Rewritten timecode decoder with improved resolution and accuracy * Timecode support for MixVibes vinyls * JACK audio device support * Configurable sample rates -- Mark

16 years, 6 months

[LAA] Version 0.2 of uli-plugins

by Ulrich Lorenz Schlüter

Hi, I released version 0.2 of uli-plugins a series of LV2 plugins. I added some latches and flipflops. http://sourceforge.net/projects/uli-plugins/ Regards Uli

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