Linux-audio-announce September 2009

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by Rui Nuno Capela

A classic needs no introduction. QjackCtl 0.3.5 slipped away! Website: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.5.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.5-1.rncbc.suse111.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.5-1.rncbc.suse111.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.5-1.rncbc.suse111.x8… - binary packages (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.5-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.5-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_… - binary packages (Ubuntu 9.04): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.5-1.rncbc.ubuntu904_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.5-1.rncbc.ubuntu904_… Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: QjackCtl is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Late support for UTF-8 encoded client/port names. - Allow only one single patchbay connection to or from an exclusive socket (mitigating bug #2859119). - Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build targets (--enable-debug). - Probable fix on the audio connections with regard to client/port (re)name changes (an ancient bug reported by Fons Adriaensen). - Portaudio device selector is now available (after a patch handed by Torben Hohn and Stephane Letz). - A couple of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been introduced, giving the option to start/stop the jackd server from the system bus eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.start (.stop), (a nice addition supplied by Robin Gareus, thanks). - New command line option (-a, --active-patchbay=[path]) to specify and activate a given patchbay definition file (a simple patch sent by John Schneiderman, thanks). - Added one significant digit to DSP Load percentage status display. - Tentative support for netjack (slave) by adding the "net" driver to the existing backend driver options on the Setup/Settings section. - Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons. - New patchbay snapshot now raises the dirty flag and allows for the immediate salvage of patchbay definition profile. - Conditional build for JACK port aliases support (JACK >= 0.109.2). - Alternate icon sizes other than default 16x16, are now effective to the Connections widget (Setup/Dislay/Connections Window/Icon size). Enjoy, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc at rncbc dot org http://www.rncbc.org

15 years, 1 month

phasex-0.12.0-pre1

by William Weston

Announcing phasex-0.12.0-pre1: The pre-release is here. It's stable. It builds cleanly. No build errors or warnings. No runtime errors or crashes. No glitches. If no bugs are found in the next week, then this code (with the addition of some brand-new patches) will become the stable release. Changes since phasex-0.12.0-beta4: - Build system overhaul. GCC version detection for better arch- specific optimization (compiles clean with gcc-3.4.x or higher). Atom builds fall back to next-best optimizations for GCC < 4.5.x. New --enable-32bit and --cpu-power-level= flags and better user variable handling for ./configure. Missing -lpthread in link phase is fixed. - Velocity control for the amplifier. Better aftertouch handling. - Scheduling policy defaults to SCHED_RR, and can be changed in the settings at runtime. - Broken ringbuffer code has been fixed. No more glitches (unless you have actually run out of CPU). - Theme loading has been fixed. Now properly detects if the nodoka theme engine is installed, and quietly falls back to an engineless theme. - Fullscreen and Maximize interaction have been fixed. - New command line options: -m (--midi-channel=), -f (--fullscreen), and -M (--maximize). Loading a patch by name or by program number on the command line now finds the appropriate patch in the patchbank. - The lurking patch name corruption bug has been fixed! - And more. See the ChangeLog for details... Download phasex and hear for yourself... http://sysex.net/phasex/ Alternatively, you can utilize the git repositoty: git clone http://sysex.net/git/phasex.git Cheers, --ww

15 years, 1 month

[ANN] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.3.0 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. Changelog 2009-09-27 0.3.0 * merged vpiano 0.8 widget * implemented RFE #2106022: better looking keys using SVG graphics. * implemented RFE #2848623: raw keyboard support, raw keyboard map editor. * implemented RFE #2790324: extra controls tool bar: new extra controllers (knobs and on/off buttons) with customizable labels which can be assigned to arbitrary MIDI controllers. * German translation, by Andreas Steinel Copyright (C) 2008-2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 More info http://vmpk.sourceforge.net Downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files Regards, Pedro

15 years, 1 month

Rubber Band library v1.4 released

by Chris Cannam

Version 1.4 of the Rubber Band library is now available. Rubber Band is an audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library and utility designed for musical applications. It allows you to change the tempo and pitch of an audio recording independently of one another. http://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/ This maintenance release contains a fix for a hang when faced with some very peculiar stretch factors, and a fix for some incorrect threading condition usage. Chris

15 years, 1 month

Sonic Annotator v0.4 released

by Chris Cannam

Sonic Annotator is a utility program for batch feature extraction from audio files. It runs Vamp audio analysis plugins with specified parameters on audio files, and writes the result features in a selection of formats, in particular as RDF using the Audio Features and Event ontologies, or as simple CSV files. Version 0.4 is now available. For more details and for downloads, please see http://www.omras2.org/SonicAnnotator Sonic Annotator was developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London. It was funded by the EPSRC through the OMRAS2 project and is Free Software published under the GNU General Public License. Chris

15 years, 1 month

Vamp plugin SDK v2.1 released

by Chris Cannam

Version 2.1 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, Windows, and Solaris. A documentation guide to writing plugins using the Vamp SDK can be found at http://www.vamp-plugins.org/guide.pdf. Version 2.1 is a maintenance release which contains a number of bug fixes and a new set of skeleton source code files for use by plugin developers. All of the fixes are relevant to host code only: there is no need to recompile or re-link any plugins that have been linked with 2.0 against the new release. Chris

15 years, 1 month

[Ann] Timemachine 0.3.3

by Steve Harris

Hi all, I've just released a new version of Timemachine, incorporating a patch from Adam Sampson (and others) at http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/ It can now be configures to start recording when the input level rises over some threashold, and stop when it falls below for some specified period of time, making it easier to do hands-free recordings. Enjoy, Steve

15 years, 1 month

QMidiRoute 0.3.0 released

by Guido Scholz

Dear all, on behalf of the QMidiRoute development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of QMidiRoute 0.3.0. QMidiRoute is a MIDI event processor and router for the ALSA sequencer with a graphical interface based on the Qt toolkit. QMidiRoute is available under the GNU General Public License. Special thanks for this release go to Frank Kober for his effort. Changes ------- qmidiroute-0.3.0 (2009-09-20) Fixed Bugs o Missing "Value" label if output type is switched between "Pitchbend" and "Program Change" o Fixed error preventing MIDI event routing with fixed output channel New Features o Event log is a dockable/floatable window preserving a history of 1000 message lines o Event log is color coded and optionally shows MIDI realtime clock events o Toolbar icons, application menu for MIDI route editing and view options o Application icon o Completely rewritten file new/save/save as/close logic including monitoring for file data changes o French and German translation o Manual pages in English, French and German o ALSA client name uses lower case letters, port names renamed o ALSA client id is shown in window title General Changes o Port form Qt3 to Qt4 library. o Autoconf/automake build o Support for internationalization o MIDI Channel numbering is changed from 0..15 to 1..16 Further information, screenshots and download links are available at the AlsamodularSynth project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alsamodular/ Enjoy, Guido -- http://www.bayernline.de/~gscholz/ http://www.lug-burghausen.org/

15 years, 1 month

QXGEdit 0.0.1 released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Ten years after, nothing to do with Alvin Lee's but one by-product of this über-procrastinator of yours truly :) here goes one more strike to the Linux Audio ecosystem. Rather an almost forgotten niche nowadays, I cannot let this rot in my hard disk. There it is, a XG Editor for the masses, at least the ones who love gems like the Yamaha DB50XG [3], a precious old piece of hardware that I do strive and joy (pun intended). If, by this time you don't have the slightest idea of what I'm talking about [4], move on, there's nothing to see here. This is strictly pure nineties memorabilia but one of the finest pieces of junk you could rig into a PC and turn it on a full-fledged rave machine. Do you remember the days? Awe my 8) Now that you're following in tune (probably you already googled around) you may reckon that XGEdit95 and XG-Gold are two fine examples of the same subject. More than fine, both do excel in their purpose. There were the high times of shareware (I've told you before, this is memorabilia:) ... yeah right. Enter QXGEdit. While both of the former may drink the young wine [5] just fine, it has been my prerogative doing things my own way. Linux straight. How could it be any other way? Truth is, this bastard has been slugging on my attic far too long, but this late summer it has revived to a new life. Time to bring it down and share. Provided theres still enough interest on the scene ;) QXGEdit 0.0.1 released! Website: http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.0.1.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse111.src.… - binary package (openSUSE 11.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse111.i586… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse111.x86_… - binary package (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_i3… - binary package (Ubuntu 9.04): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu904_i3… Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: QXGEdit is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License [6] (GPL) version 2 or later. Requirements The software requirements for build and runtime are listed as follows: Mandatory: [1] Qt4 (core, gui), C++ class library and tools for crossplatform development and internationalization http://www.qtsoftware.com/qt/ [2] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ References: [3] http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail.html?CN… [4] http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/may96/yamahadb50xg.html [5] http://www.winehq.org [6] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc at rncbc dot org http://www.rncbc.org

15 years, 1 month

[ANN] Hydrogen 0.9.4 Released

by Gabriel M. Beddingfield

After more than 3 years of development, the Hydrogen Development Team is pleased to announce a the 0.9.4 release! Here is a small list of the bigger things that change with this release: + A new soundlibrary manager + Mute groups + Playlists + Improved midi support (now configurable) + A tap-tempo (a.k. BeatCounter) with auto-start + A new audiofile browser with integrated preview + Official support for OSX + Several new translations + New manual + Save/Load/Import/Export patterns + Download drumkits/songs/patterns from external servers + Uses the Qt 4 library + and many more.. A big thanks to all the testers and coders that made this happen! WEBSITE ------- http://www.hydrogen-music.org DEVELOPER PAGES --------------- http://www.assembla.com/spaces/hydrogen MAILING LISTS/FORUMS ------------------- http://www.hydrogen-music.org/?p-mailinglists http://www.hydrogen-music.org/forum/ DOWNLOADS --------- Sources: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hydrogen/files/Hydrogen/0.9.4%20Sources/hy… Ubuntu Binaries: http://www.hydrogen-music.org/forum/?action=show_thread&fid=9&thread=1120&p…

15 years, 2 months

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Linux-audio-announce September 2009