Linux-audio-announce January 2010

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Puredyne 9.10 (Carrot and Coriander) - new release of realtime audio+video distro

by Dan S

Sorry for crossposting, please drink soup // Puredyne 9.10 - Carrot and Coriander ------------------------------------ Puredyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution aimed at creative people, looking for tools outside the standard. It provides the best experimental creative applications alongside a solid set of graphic, audio and video tools in a fast, minimal package. For everything from sound art to innovative filmmaking. Puredyne is optimised for use in realtime audio and video processing. It distinguishes itself by offering a low latency kernel and the high responsiveness needed by artists working in this field. Puredyne is based on Ubuntu and Debian Live. All packages provided by Puredyne can be used if you are running this flavour of GNU/Linux. http://puredyne.goto10.org/about.html // 64-bit support! --------------- (.. and more architectures to come...) Starting with this release, we are happy to provide support for a new experimental branch of Puredyne for 64-bit CPUs. We need your feedback to develop this further, so please get one of these amd64 Puredyne CD or DVD, and tell us how it works for you! http://puredyne.goto10.org/download.html // Yeah, fork me baby!!! --------------------- Thanks to broth, the mother of all soups, it is now very easy to make your own Puredyne based recipe. Get the pan, mix in your ingredients and cook slowly. Using broth, two new Puredyne/broth based distros have been released: * Puredyne craftivism: a special liveUSB key specially made for the craftivism exhibition. You can purchase (at cost) this collector item at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, UK. http://www.craftivism.net * sidistro: a greek flavoured distribution focussed on privacy and anonymity. http://sid.gr/doku.php/agenda/distro Why not make one yourself? (and impress friends and family with your very own livethingie) https://launchpad.net/broth // Join the team! -------------- (we have internets) Do you like adventures? Giant robots, waterfalls and dinosaurs? Then join the dev team! We are always looking for people to help us make Puredyne a better distribution for musicians, artists and media designers. We need help on all fronts! you can type a mail? you're hired! :) https://launchpad.net/puredyne https://bugs.launchpad.net/puredyne https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-community // Free Libre Open Source Soup + Art --------------------------------- (as seen in /usr/share/soup) A nice soup, a classic combination made with both fresh and ground coriander - but the fresh coriander added near the end of cooking really adds the bright flavour of coriander to match with the carrot. Ingredients =========== * 1 tablespoon olive oil * 1 large onion,diced * 500g carrots, diced * 1 teaspoon ground coriander * 1.2 litres vegetable stock * large bunch Fresh Coriander, roughly chopped * Salt * Black Pepper Method ====== 1. Heat the olive oil in a non-stick pan, to a medium heat. 2. Add the sliced carrots and diced onions. Cook for approximately 5 minutes until they start to soften. 3. Add the ground coriander and salt & pepper. Cook for a further 1 minute. 4. Add the vegetable stock bring the mixture to the boil. Simmer for 10-15 minutes until the carrots are very soft. 5. Blend until smooth. 6. Add the fresh coriander. 7. Serve. source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Carrot_and_coriander_soup BY-SA 3.0 // Puredyne is brought to you by the Puredyne team, with help and support from GOTO10 and Arts Council England. Special Thanks to the Debian Live project. :* --- Puredyne(a)goto10.org http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne

13 years, 4 months

AV Linux 3.0R1 Released!

by info＠bandshed.net

Hello, On the heels of AV Linux 3.0, version 3.0R1 (R1=Revision 1) has been released. I, better than anyone perhaps realize the inconvenience of a new version so quickly, it is my hope that this is the best move in the long run to provide a stable base that has a broader possible range of installation and can be better maintained with updated packages over the course of a longer "shelf life". This fixes many of the installation issues created by 3.0 as well as streamlining and drastically reducing the ISO size down to just over a Gigabyte. My sincere thanks to the AV Linux users who were guinea pigs and helped to test and provide feedback on 3.0R1 before it's release. Due to the large volume of updates and improvements a 3.0R1 final ISO has been created to replace the 3.0R1 "testing" ISO. Thanks as always to the Debian pkg-multimedia team for their continuing stellar work. Here are the changes, sometimes we have to take a step back to move ahead! AV Linux 3.0R1 Changes: - Removed all locales except CA, US and GB to conserve ISO space, AV Linux and Remastersys are English only anyway. Users can still change the keyboard layout for different countries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf - Removed many peripheral apps any of which are a Synaptic click away to install, AV Linux now focuses on a multimedia-centred mature core of applications. - Fixed and improved nVidia and Synaptics Touchpad detection issues by rolling back to Xorg 7.3, this also simplifies changing keyboard layouts. Updating to Xorg 7.4 can be done after installing by unpinning the Xorg and related packages in Synaptic and updating if you feel the need to run Xorg 7.4 (not really necessary in most cases). - Fixed UUID issues with fstab by rolling back hal and consolekit, Hey Debian...does hal REALLY need to be updated 7 times a day?! I think not. - Fixed slow booting by rolling back to udev 141, AV Boots like lightning now! Again, Debian...can't things that work in Linux just be left alone for a while?! - Fixed issues with Unetbootin, AV Linux runs from USB keys again. Persistent storage is not an easy option with Debian, it doesn't use casper-rw like Ubuntu. - Fixed Openbox and obconf issues, obconf now runs and saves it's config properly. - Updated to LXDE 0.5.0, lxpanel now handles GTK themes much better and there are many more right-click options throughout LXDE - Added Rui Nuno Capela's rtirq script at boot time (works with -rt Kernel only) - Updated FFADO to the 2.0 Stable release - Updated Ardour to Debian GIT 2.8.4-3 source with LV2 support - Updated Rosegarden to 10.02 Beta - report bugs to the Rosegarden developers mailing list - Updated Bristol to 0.40.7 - Updated Fluidsynth to 1.1.1 it now works with Qsynth 0.3.4 - Latest musE is available as an add-on here: http://www.bandshed.net/checkinstall/ - Updated Openshot Video Editor to 1.0 - Updated LiVES to 1.1.8 - Updated DeVeDe to 3.15 - Updated Guitarix to 0.05.8 - Added JC GUI 0.7 - Added ipw2X00 wireless firmware - Updated ivtv firmware for Hauppage TV cards - Added mhwaveedit - nice light soundfile editor! - Replaced Brasero with Gnomebaker...latest Brasero wouldn't burn Audio CD's?? - Tidy up menus, launchers and icons - New Logo and Artwork - many more subtle improvements Screenshots: http://www.bandshed.net/images/AV3R1desktopthumb.png http://www.bandshed.net/images/ArdourwPluginsthumb.png PLEASE NOTE: There are changes to the AV Linux Website as well, a new "Packages" page clarifies where to get AV Linux Debs and Kernels, access it by clicking the "Packages" button from the home page. PLEASE READ THE WEBSITE INFO CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING! I plan to support AV Linux 3.0R1 with Rosegarden's stable Thorn release, Ardour 3 as soon as source becomes available in Debian GIT and keep pace with the major developments in Linux Multimedia. Please remember AV Linux has and always will come pre-loaded with the necessary development libraries to build most of the included apps from source so if you are handy with a compiler you can enjoy new apps as soon as they are available. HELP NEEDED! Help is needed from experienced Linux users on the AV Linux forum, My Linux knowledge is specific to Multimedia Distro and Kernel creation but is very general in other areas, Help is needed for other important areas like networking and other core Linux problems like hard drive issues etc etc. Other than donations technical support assistance is the most needed attribute at the present time. If you are a new user please join the AV Linux forum here: http://geekconnection.org/remastersys/forums/index.php#7 DONATIONS NEEDED! The AV Linux 3.0 ISO was accessed in excess of 18000 times which resulted in 3 donations, My heartfelt thanks to those who stepped up and contributed however AV Linux takes about 20+ hours a week to maintain, develop, test and improve. The current level of funding is not carrying the project's expenses let alone providing any compensation for my work, this unfortunately cannot continue much longer, like anyone I have to prioritize my responsibilities and those 20+ hours are too precious to give away for nothing. Thanks are appreciated...but donations are needed. To clarify you are not paying for the software, it is free... however the hosting, packaging, preparation and convenience services are not. Enough Talk! Let's get to the good stuff. Download from the AV Linux Website: http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html

13 years, 4 months

New software: fishnpitch - a realtime JACK MIDI tuner

by Robert Schwarz

Hey all, I want to announce the alpha release of some coding I just finished. It's a small command line tool that creates JACK MIDI ports and allows tuning to arbitrary scales (via .scl files) with any MIDI capable synthesizers. Incoming note messages are translated via pitch bend and distributed among several midi channels. You can get the code via GIT on http://github.com/leethargo/fishnpitch It seems to work very well for my purposes, but still lacks deeper testing. This is also my first time working with JACK, so any feedback is very welcome. Cheers, -- Robert Schwarz <mail(a)rschwarz.net> Get my public key at http://rschwarz.net/key.asc

13 years, 4 months

arpage 0.2 alpha - JACK Sync'd Arpeggiator - available on sourceforge in tarball and SVN

by Mark Vitek

Hello all, The second development release of arpage is available on sourceforge in source tarball and SVN formats: Tarball: http://sourceforge.net/projects/arpage/ SVN: https://arpage.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/arpage/branches https://arpage.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/arpage/tags I'd like to thank everyone for the feedback I received on 0.1 - Please check this out and let me know what you think, or if you have problems building/running. The UI is still dead-boring GTK, but I've read back over the LAD threads regarding audio-oriented UI libraries and I'm thinking of investigating libproaudio with the next release. The 0.2 Development release adds: - Smaller UI - probably not Netbook friendly yet, but getting closer :) - UI should be dependent upon GTK+ 2.12 (rather than 2.16 as with the first release). - An additional executable named "zonage" which allows the MIDI note input to be split into 4 ranges. This is useful for routing sections of your MIDI keyboard to different JACK inputs - e.g. route the lower half to arpage, and the upper half to a "lead" sound, so you can "solo" over the arpeggiator. - The ability to have a pulse duration (time between note-on and note-off) be longer than the interval between pulses (time between note-on and subsequent note-on). This is useful when routing the output of one arpeggiator to the input of the next arpeggiator. Experiment and hear it :) - Noticeable decrease in the number of stuck notes (I haven't experienced ANY with this version yet). Basic features/requirements (same as 0.1 Alpha): - svn / tarball only for now - gtkmm-based, so dev packages for gtkmm and friends are needed to build (and obviously jack) - I've only built it on Ubuntu Studio (karmic) 64bit. I'm looking for others to let me know if it builds/runs elsewhere. - requires JACK time master to be rolling for the arpeggiators to do anything. Qtractor and Seq24 have worked well for me. - will pass midi events thru when JACK time master is not rolling. - 4 arpeggiators with transpose, interval, range, note duration selectable thru UI. - Each arp has it's own JACK midi in and out port, so you can cascade arpeggiators. - Preliminary support for scales and modes - all of them are not correct, but try major, dorian, diminished and augmented for starters :) It sounds great with each arpeggiator driving an instance of calf mono. Check out the ogg/mp3 clip on sourcefourge. Thanks all, Looking forward to any and all feedback.

13 years, 4 months

Klactoveedsedstene - a new MPlayer Frontend

by viggo simonsen

Hi all, I am happy to announce that a new Mplayer frontend for Linux has been launched. *Klactoveedsedstene* is an Audio Player frontend to the popular Mplayer engine, written in Java. It is very fast, light, simple - and with an advanced support for Album Art. It recognizes embedded Album Art, and is also mostly able to find the correct Album Art from the Internet, based on the "Artist" and "Album" ID3-tags Features: Fast and compact Advanced Album Art support with over 90% accuracy. Select and Play All-in-one window Drag and Drop music into the library Supports MP3 and WMA Highly configurable Stateful (remembers your window settings) All parts of the GUI can be colored Album-Artist-Track view All track columns sortable and movable Minimizable Have a look, and a try at *http://www.klactoveedsedstene.com* <http://www.klactoveedsedstene.com> It can be launched directly from the Web Site, using Java Web Start - or by clicking here <http://www.klactoveedsedstene.com/JWS_launch.php> (requires Java JRE 6+) Best regards Viggo Simonsen

13 years, 5 months

[ANN] guitarix-0.05.8-1 bugfix release

by hermann

I know, there are many guitarix release last month, but this release fix a memory leak witch we have oversee in a long run. I strongly recommend guitarix users to update to this version. 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 0.05.8-1 : * fix memory leak in gx_monitor_jack_ports() and gx_survive_jack_shutdown * add a MultiBandFilter have fun ________________________________________________________________________ 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 'jconvolver' 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

13 years, 5 months

[ANN] name changing: drumstick

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Happy new year to everybody! The library formerly known as "aseqmm" [1] has changed its name. The new name is "drumstick" (drumroll was already taken). The new name seems appropriate for a tool to play music, because it (the name) was cooked with flames and it is a word that still has some ambiguity. Also, in colloquial Spanish "montar un pollo" means "to kick up a fuss". A PD icon has been adopted as a logo image: http://openclipart.org/media/files/Farmeral/10340 New project site (migration coming soon): http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/ [1] latest public release: http://kmetronome.sf.net/aseqmm Regards, Pedro

13 years, 5 months

jcgui-0.6 release

by hermann

Hi all, happy new year. I would announce a release of Jc_Gui. It's a little host wrapped around the fantastic convolution engine from Fons Adriaensen called jconvolver (zita-convolver) What is it for ? It's designed to search/load and run IR-*.wav files on a local machine with jconvolver. It include a settings widget, were gain, delay, min/max mem and mode can set and the used wave file and a part of it (offset/length) could choosed. Jc_Gui itself provide a Stereo Host, with master gain, tone (bass,middle,high)controllers, balance slider, and for the output to jconvolver per channel delay and gain controllers, and a wet/dry slider to mix the output from jconvolver with the original source. What isn't it for ? It's a 2 Channel thing only, you can't make multi channel settings with this jcgui. release 0.6 comes with following changes: * fix crash when multichannel(>2) files try to load * optimize GUI performance project page : http://jcgui.sourceforge.net/ download : https://sourceforge.net/projects/jcgui/ enjoy hermann

13 years, 5 months

[ANN] guitarix-0.05.6-1 released

by hermann

Happy new year to all I would announce a new release from guitarix 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 0.05.6-1 changes: * add delay effect * fix build against Gtk+ ver.2.12 * optimize GUI thread and reworked GUI * various bugs fixed have fun ________________________________________________________________________ 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 'jconvolver' 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

13 years, 5 months

axonlib v0.0.0 - the pioneer axon

by cern

01.jan.2010 :: axonlib v0.0.0 :: the pioneer axon new year, new plugins, new framework, new plans, new ideas a full refresh/reboot, and a call for response, testing, contributions, etc.. ------------------------------ a single axon, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axon> with all its branches taken together, can innervate multiple parts of the brain and generate thousands of synaptic terminals. axon guidance <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axon_guidance> (also called axon pathfinding) is a subfield of neural development concerning the process by which neurons send out axons to reach the correct targets. axons often follow very precise paths in the nervous system, and how they manage to find their way so accurately is being researched. pioneer axon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_axon> is an axon that lays down initial growing path for the axons of other neurons to follow. ------------------------------ current features: - c++, free, opensource, .. - cross platform (inux/win32) - cross compile (gcc, mingw, cygwin?) - small/tiny (around 100kb (uncompressed) for a plugin) - standalone/vst - with or without gui (x11/gdi, double buffered, low/medium-level gfx primitives) - hierarchy, window, container, widget, canvas, surface, bitmap, png, .. - simplified vst: - create a plugin with just a few lines of code (usually just one cpp file) (override doProcessMidi/Parameter/Block/Sample/State/Transport/CreateEditor.. etc) - the dll/so stuff (you can forget all about it, handled internally) - host sync, transport state changes - voice manager (for polyphonic synth) - parameter/widget connection - editor (layered on top of base vst handling) and a lot more smaller things i probably forgot.. work in progress / partially implemented / coming: - simplified compilation (scripts, batch files, ide-setup) - programs/banks - dsp-graph / modular - fill in the missing bits and pieces, tie up the loose ends - tcc, embedded c-compiler (capable of compiling the linux kernel, use external dll's etc) - fft, goertzel, transients, wavelets (daubechies, haar) - cellular automata - optimizations, simplifications todo: - alpha blending/transparency (especially x11) - opengl? - ladspa/dssi/lv2 (linux) - neural networks - more optimizations, simplifications goals: - playful audio exploration and experimentation - thinking outside of the box - being different for the sake of being different wanted: - (alpha/beta-) testers - ideas, thoughts, comments - contributions - especially for the platform specific stuff not wanted: - highbrow, academic, know-it-all, politically/religious correct, rules or dogmas current plugins (src & .dll/.so): - ana_sigview (signal viewer/oscilloscope) - fx_blur (delay/blur) - fx_cutter (beat synced cut/repeat slices) - fx_dist (distortion) - fx_dynamics (dynamics, compressor) - fx_envelope (midi controlled audio envelope) - fx_freeze (freeze/repeat audio slices) - fx_grains (grain cloud/delay) - fx_moddelay (modulated delay, flanger/phaser/chorus) - fx_split (frequency band splitter) - fx_svf (state variable filter) - fx_tempodelay (host sync delay) - fx_waveshaper (waveshape/distort) - fx_wgtavg (weighted average/lp) - midi_ccaudio (midi cc -> audo) - midi_fibonacci (fibonacci note generator) - midi_notelen (midi note length controller) - midi_syncdelay (delay midi until next x beat/bar/..) - midi_transpose (midi note transpose) - syn_binaural (binaural beats generator) - syn_perc (lofi/glitchy percussive synth) - syn_plucked (plucked string) - syn_poly (polyphonic synth) ported plugins: - autotalent <http://web.mit.edu/tbaran/www/autotalent.html> (pitch tracking/correcton, ala autotune) - freeverb liteon <http://neolit123.blogspot.com/>: - liteon_lofi - liteon_tilteq new plugins added almost daily! some of these might not be proper, finished plugins in the normal sense, at least not at the moment, but more like examples, tests, prototypes, or perhaps starting points for your own plugins, ... but they will grow and expand, getting new features and bugfixes as needed (or requested).. so feel free to give suggestions, thoughts, ideas.. ------------------------------ more info: - google code hosting <http://code.google.com/p/axonlib/> - ccernn.audio <http://sites.google.com/site/ccernnaudio/> - ccernn <http://cernthskei.wordpress.com/> excuse my non-perfect english if something looks/sounds weird or wrong, ask, don't just assume and, yes, there are probably some mental conditions running amok here. medication could help :-) - ccernn also, some clarifications about the legal/license issues with a combination of (l)gpl and the vst sdk would be appreciated..

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