Linux-audio-announce October 2010

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by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMidimon is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and KDE4 user interface. Changes in 0.7.4 * requires Drumstick >= 0.5 * load and play OVE files (Overture), contributed by Rui Fan * option to request real-time priority on MIDI input thread * option to (not) resize columns while recording * better reporting of file loading errors * revised universal sysex messages translation Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 More info http://kmidimon.sourceforge.net Sources http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmidimon/files/ Regards, Pedro

12 years, 2 months

Band from Vienna publishes world's first album produced exclusively with Free Software

by XBloome

*'XBLOOME', BAND FROM VIENNA PUBLISHES WORLD'S FIRST ALBUM PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY WITH FREE SOFTWARE* After their debut CD "...Done!" in 2006, and the limited edition release "Remixed: Happy Rebel" in 2009, the band XBloome from Vienna is proud to announce their third album. "X marks the spot" covers multiple genres: Whether one prefers dancing to whipping disco-beats, dream away to dark-spherical sounds or simply chill while enjoying the smooth-jazzy side of XBloome - this multifarious album is still revealing new details and facets after repeated playing. As maybe the first album ever, "X marks the spot" was produced exclusively using Free Software (Open Source) and without a professional studio or graphic designers. With this 'proof of concept' album, XBloome have debunked several prejudices about feasability, professionality and quality of free and self-made productions. Art needs exchange to live. That's why XBloome have made a point of sharing their experiences: On their website, they offer other artists how-tos, tutorials and templates [1]. Consistently, their label of choice to release this album on was "Edelbrand-Records", whose priority lies in the promotion of musical-cultural exchange between artists. Like all other XBloome albums, "X marks the spot" will not only be available for sale on CD at their concerts, but as of November 1st 2010 will be obtainable as a free download on www.xbloome.com [2] - in full length and high-quality, under a Creative-Commons license. XBloome will bring the new album on tour, starting on November 12th, playing at the "5 year Edelbrand-Records" event at the "Arena" in Vienna. Additional information and background-details about the production are available on their band website [3]. Press-contact / queries: press(a)xbloome.com +43 676 56 43 509 +43 676 95 05 744 == References [1] http://www.xbloome.com/drupal/making_of [2] http://www.xbloome.com/drupal/album/x_marks_the_spot [3] http://www.xbloome.com/drupal/making_of/x_marks_the_spot

14 years, 11 months

Swami 2.0.0 and libinstpatch 1.0.0 released!

by Element Green

I'm am extremely happy to announce the release of Swami 2.0.0 "Sounds of Celebration" and libinstpatch 1.0.0. This is the result of an 8+ year development cycle and marks the first release in the Swami 2.0 series. While this should be considered a beta release, it is well underway to being a powerful instrument editor and manager. Features: - Support for SoundFont format including 24 bit samples - FluidSynth soft synthesizer for audio synthesis - GTK2 based program with GObject oriented libraries for use in other applications - Loop finder and FFTune plugin for semi automated looping and sample tuning - Overlapping loop point viewer to help with creating seamless loops Currently semi functional: - Python binding. - Other instrument formats (DLS and GigaSampler), still rather incomplete though. Credits for this release: - Christian Collins for his generous contribution, testing, feature requests and support in getting this released! - Ebrahim Mayat for his continued testing on Mac OSX. - Luis Garrido for the Loop Finder algorithm and interest in this feature. - Element Green for everything else. Cheers! Joshua "Element" Green http://swami.sourceforge.net

14 years, 11 months

[ann] gjacktransport 0.4.0

by Robin Gareus

http://gjacktransport.sourceforge.net/ is a tool that provides graphical control over JACK-transport [1]. It features - customizable keyboard shortcuts - custom start/end markers for transport slider. - memory presets for start/end markers. - flexible layout & window - (optional) session-management via LASH. and is intended for JACK apps which do not themselves provide a timeline (fi. ecasound, xjadeo,..) and to supplement other apps which do (fi. ardour, hydrogen, seq24,..). Since 0.4.0 it is also possible to - load/save current settings from a custom resource-config file. This is the first update of gjacktransport in over 3 years, basically motivated because LASH is less commonly used these days and LASH was the only way to retain settings of gjacktransport across sessions. There are a few other minor updates (removed deprecated gtk-functions, fixed some compiler warnings, etc.). For a full list of changes see the ChangeLog: http://gjacktransport.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gjacktransport/trunk/Chang… have fun, robin [1] JACK provides a transport interfaces for starting, stopping and repositioning a set of clients: http://jackaudio.org/files/docs/html/transport-design.html -- Robin Gareus mail: robin(a)gareus.org site: http://gareus.org/ chat: xmpp:rgareus@ik.nu blog: http://rg42.org/ lab : http://citu.fr/ Public Key at http://pgp.mit.edu/ Fingerprint : 7107 840B 4DC9 C948 076D 6359 7955 24F1 4F95 2B42

14 years, 11 months

make art 2010, 4-7 November, Poitiers (FR)

by propaganda＠goto10.org

désolé pour ./x, please ./x >> _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| FROM | __ | | _ _| | | 4 to 7 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| NOVEMBER 2010 |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| festival of free art and technologies Exhibition | Concerts | Lectures | Workshop http://makeart.goto10.org « in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art » make art is an international festival dedicated to free/libre arts and technologies, distributed digital artworks and net art. The sixth edition of make art focuses on works halfway between art and design, collaborative, scalable and participative methods. The adventure "in-between design" begins here, to be imagined in this creative development, where everyone can participate and where artwork keeps on evolving. Are these projects just curiosities or a real alternative to the graphic conformism ruled by an industry that dictates its aesthetic codes? Please come and join us to answer this question... with Awkward Family Photos (Greece), Marije Baalman (Netherlands), Emanuele Bonetti (Italy), Loredana Bontempi (Italy), Vito Campanelli (Italy), Benjamin Cadon (France), Calcyum (France), Alberto de Campo (Austria), Andrés Colubri (Argentina), ginger coons (Canada), Dorothé Depeauw (Belgium), Luc Döbereiner (Germany), LAFKON (Germany), Aditya Mandayam (India), Xavi Manzanares (Spain), Oscar Martin (Spain), Gabriel Menotti (Brazil), Yota Morimoto (Japan), Jaime Oliver (Peru), Open Source Publishing (Belgium), Evan Raskob (United States), <stdin> (France), Dan Stowell (Great-Britain), Daniel Temkin (United States), Dave Young (Ireland), Simon Yuill (Great-Britain). Detailed program available at: http://makeart.goto10.org/2010/?lang=en -- :*

14 years, 11 months

BigBand has a 4th sound source

by W.Boeke

BigBand (the program to compose real music for real musicians) now also has a built-in mono-synthesizer. So even if you don't have available a real big-band which can play your music, you still can create interesting sounds! Project site: http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/bigband/index.html Here, the demo song "Me Like The Springtime" is using mainly this new mini-Mini-Moog module. Wouter Boeke

14 years, 11 months

Denemo version 0.8.20 has been released. http://www.denemo.org

by Nils

Denemo version 0.8.20 has been released. Denemo is a program for inputting music notation. http://www.denemo.org The music being entered is displayed as conventional music notation and can be typeset via GNU LilyPond and played via internal synthesizer. Scheme scripting allows the user to generate music tests, music training exercises and some educational games are included. Feel free to report any bugs to our IRC channel #denemo @freenode or directly to my mail-adress (if you don't want to use the bugtracker). If you want to join the Denemo development process: you are welcome! Use the same contact options mentioned above. New features in this version: * Improved cursor, showing insert position and clearly distinguishing appending from editing/inserting * Two key keyboard shortcuts * MusicXML import * Improved LilyPond import * "NotationMagick": Scripts to generate, twist, randomize and shuffle music. * Twelve-Tone-Row (Schoenberg) Generator * Random Note insert. Variants: All diatonic, all chromatic, from a given pool, a complete pool at once (shuffled) * Bug Fixes * Grace notes on tuplets fixed. * Paste places non-note objects correctly. * Build options: * configure --disable-portaudio is now available, removes dependencies of portaudio, libsamplerate, fftw3 and aubio Known Issues for this version: Documentation is patchy. Translations very patchy. Here are the compressed sources (from a mirror) : http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/denemo/denemo-0.8.20.tar.gz If automatic redirection fails, the list of mirrors is at: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Or if need be you can use the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/denemo/denemo-0.8.20.tar.gz

14 years, 11 months

[ANN] ltcsmpte 0.4.3

by Robin Gareus

Linear (or Longitudinal) Timecode (LTC) is an encoding of SMPTE timecode data as a Manchester-Biphase encoded audio signal. The audio signal is commonly recorded on a VTR track or other storage media. libltcsmpte is a LGPL library which provides functionality to both encode and decode LTC from/to SMPTE and can perform framerate conversion tasks. Source, documentation & more info: http://ltcsmpte.sourceforge.net/

14 years, 11 months

Mixxx 1.8.1 Released

by RJ Ryan

Hello all, As a follow on to our 1.8.0 release, we've just released Mixxx 1.8.1. This is a bugfix release which fixes the following regressions and bugs with 1.8.0: - Reduce glitches on track load (*major improvement* for some users) - Waveform generation speed drastically improved on Windows - Stability fix when using vinyl emulation - Adjustable EQ shelves can no longer be equal - UTF-8 fixes for Rhythmbox track source - Fixed duplicate promotional tracks from appearing in library - Fixed MIDI learning wizard on OS X - Fixed minor delay in setting hot cues with MIDI controllers during playback - BPM tap activates on mouse-down instead of mouse-up. - Read ID3 tags in FLAC files on Windows - Reduce crackling during playback for some Windows users Other than these bug reports, we've been getting a lot of positive reports. Try Mixxx out and let us know what you think! More info on the official blog post here: http://mixxxblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/mixxx-181-released.html Thanks, RJ Ryan

14 years, 11 months

Native LV2 port of mdaEPiano VSTi

by Ricardo Wurmus

Hi, I'd like to announce that my LV2 port of the famous mda e-piano plug-in is ready for download! [1] When I was checking out the mda-lv2 ports, I noticed that the instruments were not actually playable. I could not get them to work in either lv2_jack_host or in Ardour2 or Ardour3. So , here is the first and only (to my knowledge) native LV2 port of the mda e-piano. There is no GUI yet, but once I figured out how to add a GUI I'll be adding one. I'd be very happy to receive comments and suggestions on the code. My next target will be the mdaPiano plug-in---I might actually start soon when the GUI stuff causes me too much of a headache... Best, Rekado _____ [1] http://github.com/rekado/lv2-mdaEPiano

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Linux-audio-announce October 2010