Linux-audio-announce March 2010

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by victor perez

Hi all: I`m a newbie programmer of LV2 plugins from Spain. I release a Compressor -SC4 with a nice GUI (I hope so) This plugin is based on the one from Steve Harris. The GUI uses GTK and Cairo You can download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/teliasopia/files/ Suggestion, comments are welcome. Thanks and sorry for my english.

13 years, 2 months

[LAAA] Multiband Filter Lv2 plugin Release

by victor perez

Hi all: I`m a newbie programmer of LV2 plugins from Spain. I release a Multiband Filter with a nice GUI (I hope so) This plugin bundle offers 3 or 5 band filter mono or Stereo. The audio engine is based on a biquad filter. The GUI uses GTK and Cairo You can download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/teliasopia/files/ Suggestion, comments are welcome. Thanks and sorry for my english.

13 years, 2 months

[ANN] KMidimon 0.7.3 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMidimon is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and KDE4 user interface. Changes in 0.7.3 * using Drumstick-0.3 * load and play WRK files (cakewalk) * open files from the command line * drag and drop files into the main window * fixed loop and stop time (last event time was not initialised) * show the file name in the window title bar Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 More info http://kmidimon.sourceforge.net Sources http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmidimon/files/ openSUSE Build Service - openSUSE RPM packages http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=kmidimon Regards, Pedro

13 years, 2 months

QjackCtl 0.3.6 - Full D-Busification!

by Rui Nuno Capela

QjackCtl 0.3.6 - Full D-Busification! Awe! Times they are a-changing although Bob Dylan has no D-Business here. The old and cutie gooey for JACK just got one turn around the verge of bit-rotting. This time it brings full JACK D-Bus support, or almost. It also adds D-Bus access for most GUI actions which some might find pretty handy for keyboard shortcut binding from your desktop environment of choice. However, if babies health is your top concern you can just turn this D-Bus thing off and play with the old times ;) Ahem... QjackCtl 0.3.6 is now released! More details in the change-log, below. Website: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.6.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse112.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse112.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse112.x8… - binary packages (Ubuntu 8.04): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.6-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.6-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_… - binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.6-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.6-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_… 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: - Make sure socket names are unique on each side of the Patchbay (another patch from Dominic Sacre, thanks). - A bunch of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been added, allowing shortcut access to most of main applications actions like toggling Messages, Status, Connections, Patchbay widget pop-ups, reset stats, transport and so on. New bindings are given eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.(main, messages, status, connections, patchbay, setup, about, reset, rewind, backward, play, pause, forward). (from an original idea from Sebastian Gutsfeld, thanks). - Patchbay snapshot now tolerates JACK client port strings that have more than one semi-colon in it, honoring just the first one exactly as everywhere else eg. Connections. (a glitch as reported by Geoff Beasley while using a2jmidid). - Most modal message dialog boxes (eg. critical errors) are now replaced by system tray icon bubble messages where available (mitigating feature request #2936455). - Comply with jackd >= 0.118.0 which now runs in real-time mode by default; use of -R is now deprecated from the jackd command line interface options; use -r to run in non-real-time-scheduling. - A man page has beed added. - Got rid of a pretty old and never really useful "jackd-realtime" server path option--actually, it was only seen available on the now defunct old Mandrake Linux distro. - D-Bus support, as provided by org.jackaudio.service aka jackdbus, is now being introduced and used wherever available and whenever enabled. Configuring, starting, stopping and logging the JACK back-end server through the "infamous" jackdbus service is now being seamlessly exploited. - Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to disk when Setup dialog changes are accepted and applied. - Server name command line option added (-n, --server-name). - Single application instance restriction option added (X11). - Setup for the netjack (slave) "net" driver has now sample-rate and frames per buffer (period size) settings disabled and/or ignored, as those are pretty much auto-detected by default; also, a new "netone" backend driver option has been introduced (as suggested by Torben Hohn). - Czech (cs) translation added (by Pavel Fric). - Fixed some main window keyboard shortcuts. Escape key now closes Connections, Patchbay, Status and Messages widgets as usual (bug #2871548). - Fixed glitch on configure portaudio support, specially when the library is not detected as available. Cheers && Enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

13 years, 2 months

[ANN] Drumstick libs 0.3.0 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Drumstick is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface using Qt4 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for SMF and WRK file processing are also included. This library is used in KMetronome, KMidimon and KMid2, and was formerly known as "aseqmm". Changes: * Split into two libs: drumstick-alsa and drumstick-file * Parse Cakewalk WRK files included in drumstick-file * Some fixes and API additions. See the ChangeLog for details. Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 or later Project web site http://sf.net/projects/drumstick Online documentation http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/docs/ Downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/0.3.0/ openSUSE Build Service - RPM packages http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=drumstick Regards, Pedro

13 years, 2 months

CLAM 1.4.0

by David García Garzón

The CLAM project[1] is delighted to announce the long awaited 1.4.0 release of the C++ framework for Audio and Music, code name '3D molluscs in the space'. [1] http://clam-project.org In summary, this long term release includes a lot of new spacialization modules for 3D audio; MIDI, OSC and guitar effects modules; architectural enhancements such as typed controls; nice usability features for the NetworkEditor interface; convenience tools and scripts to make CLAM experience better; enhanced building of LADSPA plugins and new support for LV2 and VST plugin building; a new easy to use application to explore songs chords called Chordata; many optimizations, bug fixing and code clean ups. Many thanks to the people who contributed to this release, including but not limited to the GSoC 2008 students and all the crew at Barcelona Media's Audio Group. Some details follow: * Chordata is a new CLAM application which offers a user friendly way to explore the chords of your favourite songs, using already existing technology in the CLAM framework but with a much simpler interface. [2] [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVmkIznjUPE * The spacialization module and helper tools, contributed by Barcelona Media [3] audio group, turn CLAM in tandem with Blender and Ardour, into a powerful 3D audio authoring and exhibition platform.[4] [3] http://barcelonamedia.org [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSfqJUIAiXk * Typed controls extend CLAM with the ability to use whichever C++ type as the message for a control. So, not just floats, but also bools, enums, integers, or envelopes can be sent as asynchronous controls. Examples on boolean and MIDI controls are provided. * NetworkEditor has been ported to the QGraphicsView [5] framework. Dealing with heavy networks such the big ones used in Barcelona Media have pushed many usability enhancements into its interface: multi-wire dragging, wire highlighting, default port and control actions, network and in-canvas documentation... [6] [5] http://doc.trolltech.com/latest/qgraphicsview.html [6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kt0WDmvMwo * It also made necessary to provide a tool such clamrefactor.py to perform batch high level changes to clam network XML files such as renaming processing types, ports, or configuration parameters, changing configuration values, duplicating sets of processings, connecting them... * Music Annotator application now is designed to aggregate several sources of descriptors and update them after edit. Descriptors are mapped to a work description schema that can be graphically defined. Also semantic web descriptor sources to access webservices such as MusicBrainz have been implemented. You can download sources, windows, debian and ubuntu packages from the download page[7]. Contributed binaries for other platforms are welcome. [7] http://clam-project.org/download/ See also: Screenshots: http://clam-project.org/wiki/Development_screenshots Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/group/clamproject Detailed changelog: http://clam-project.org/clam/trunk/CLAM/CHANGES Version migration guide: http://clam-project.org/wiki/Version_Migration_Guide -- David García Garzón (Work) david dot garcia at upf anotherdot edu http://www.iua.upf.edu/~dgarcia

13 years, 2 months

Chordata 1.0

by David García Garzón

The CLAM project is pleased to announce the first stable release of Chordata. Chordata is a simple but powerful application that analyses the chords of any music file in your computer. You can use it to travel back and forward the song while watching insightful visualizations of the tonal features of the song. Key bindings and mouse interactions for song navigation are designed thinking in a musician with an instrument at hands. Don't miss it working in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVmkIznjUPE Downloat it at http://clam-project.org -- David García Garzón (Work) david dot garcia at upf anotherdot edu http://www.iua.upf.edu/~dgarcia

13 years, 2 months

QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.0.1 - New Kids On the Block

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, QmidiCtl [1] is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multi-cast. It has been designed primarily for the Maemo [3] enabled handheld devices, namely the Nokia N900 [4]. In its current development state, which is obviously alpha as of this writing, it puts a mini multi-track recording control surface on your hands and on-the-go, so to speak. MMC is the feature and yours truly Qtractor [5] the target. However, any other MMC enabled DAW may be considered. However nothing of this would be possible without this little thing that gets also here its release announcement: QmidiNet [2] is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA Sequencer) over the network, using UDP/IP multi-cast. Fundamentally inspired by multimidicast [6] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI [7] for Windows, it's a little tiny application that sits as an icon on your system tray and exposes one or more ALSA Sequencer client ports which open the way for a MIDI network mesh. Pretty neat if you think wireless and not necessarily because of QmidiCtl [1]. Alas, you can transform any Linux/ALSA computer (or Windows/ipMIDI [7] enabled one, if you dare to) into a MIDI-over-IP inter-connected node. Be free, without cables :) Websites: http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net Project pages: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet Downloads: - source tarballs: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.0.1.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.0.1.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.sr… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.x8… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.0.1-1.rncbc.suse112.x8… - binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet_0.0.1-1.rncbc.ubuntu910_… - binary packages (Maemo 5): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl_0.0.1-1_armel.deb Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: QmidiNet and QmidiCtl are both free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.</dd> References: [1] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net [2] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net [3] Maemo.org - Home of the Maemo community http://www.maemo.org [4] Nokia N900 http://wiki.maemo.org/Nokia_N900 [5] Qtractor - A Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [6] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [7] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN http://nerds.de Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

13 years, 2 months

AZR3-JACK 1.2.0

by Lars Luthman

AZR3-JACK 1.2.0 has been released. This JACK program is a port of the free VST plugin AZR-3. It is a tonewheel organ with drawbars, distortion and rotating speakers. The original was written by Rumpelrausch Täips. Changes: * Added a man page * Added command line options for auto-connecting MIDI and audio ports, setting JACK client name and loading presets * Converted the XPM graphics to PNG to save process memory and installation size Tarball: http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases-noredirect/ll-plugins/azr3-jac… GPG signature file: http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases-noredirect/ll-plugins/azr3-jac… Webpage: http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org/azr3/ Bug tracker: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=ll-plugins Version control: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/ll-plugins/azr3-jack.git/ The webpage may not be updated yet, Savannah seems to be slow. The tarball link works though. --ll

13 years, 2 months

Renoise 2.5 Goes GOLD

by Dac Chartrand

# FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday March 5th 2010 marks the official launch of Renoise 2.5. Another round of beta testing has passed, a brand new stable and rock solid Renoise is ready for production. New features in Renoise 2.5 include: * Pattern Matrix: A birds eye view and editor of the song * Cross Track Routing for “Meta Devices” and new devices like the “Signal Follower”, which allows you to sidechain other tracks parameters * Plugin Grabber: Render Plugin Instruments to Renoise Instruments, Samples * Vastly Improved MIDI Mapping * A Bunch of New Internal Effects * And much more... A detailed description of what's new can be found here: * http://www.renoise.com/about/what-s-new-2-5/ The user manual has been rewritten from scratch. Hundreds of pages of comprehensive documentation and a new video tutorial specifically geared towards Renoise 2.5 usage: * http://tutorials.renoise.com/ And of course the demo with new tutorial songs, available to all Windows, Macintosh, and Linux users: * http://www.renoise.com/download/renoise/ # ABOUT RENOISE: Renoise is a complete music production environment for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. It features full ReWire support, FX and instrument VST/AU plug-in support, automatic plug-in delay compensation, multi-core load balancing, MIDI I/O, audio recording, flexible audio output, graphical & numerical parameter automation, modular parameter routing, and much more. Renoise is based on mod trackers. Mod trackers are characterized by displaying and editing music in an easily understood grid known as a pattern. These patterns are akin to sheet music, but are displayed alphanumerically instead of with musical notation. Renoise's rock solid stability makes it ideal as a live jamming tool. You can map almost every part of the interface to a MIDI controller, run your guitar through a Line-In Device and distort it with native effects, or just use it as a replacement for an MPC. Due to its keyboard driven workflow, it makes the creation of music for new users far quicker than in a traditional MIDI based sequencer. For experienced users, and those who don't necessarily want to be bound to piano roll systems to music, it offers a refreshing approach to composing: Instead of spending hours cobbling beats together with a mouse, why not do it in seconds with just a few keystrokes in Renoise? Whether you're an audio veteran or just starting out, Renoise is a fantastic addition to any bedroom or professional studio. Make music? Use Renoise. # SCREENSHOT: * http://www.renoise.com/uploads/images/screenshots/rns25matrix.jpg # WEBSITE: * http://www.renoise.com/

13 years, 2 months

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Linux-audio-announce March 2010