Linux-audio-announce April 2010

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by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello, Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, funk to funky. Yawn. Cut the non-sense, there's no burial service nor Bowie's song here. Just blowing some aging stuff, maybe giving the patine that it deserves ;) Almost one long year has gone by and sadly enough, there's no big new and flashy features to show off. But, nevertheless, Qsynth 0.3.5 is out from the closet! Hope you enjoy the (not so big) news :) Have fun. Description: Qsynth is a FluidSynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. FluidSynth is an excellent command line software synthsizer based on the Soundfont specification. Website: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.5.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE 11.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.i586.r… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.x86_64… - binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth_0.3.5-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_i386… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth_0.3.5-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_amd6… Change-log: - Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to wrong main widget hidden state. - General source tree layout and build configuration change. - Most modal message dialog boxes (eg. critical errors) are now replaced by system tray icon bubble messages where available. - Reverb and Chorus parameter ranges have been revised to match and comply with fluidsynth back-end (libfluidsynth). - Fluidsynth channel info and unset program interfaces are now in use where available (libfluidsynth >= 1.1.1, EXPERIMENTAL). - Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to disk when Options dialog changes are accepted and applied. - Output peak level meters get their long deserved gradient look. - 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). - Added Czech (cs) translation, contributed by Pavel Fric. - The channel preset selector (Channels/Edit...) has been seriously crippled for ages, only showing the presets of the last loaded soundfont, now fixed. - Minimum number of MIDI channels allowed on engine setup has been dropped from the old value 16 to as low as 1 (one), not that it makes a difference, as (lib)fluidsynth internals just rounds it to the nearest multiple of 16 anyway. - Cleanup to knobs source, simplified from redundant stuff. Weblog (upstream support, yours truly): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qsynth is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Cheers && Enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

14 years, 6 months

[ANN] Jackbeat 0.7.5

by Olivier Guilyardi

Hi everyone, The Jackbeat step sequencer version 0.7.5 has been released. Download it from: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org News ~~~~ A critical compatibility issue with gtk >= 2.19 has been fixed. ChangeLog ~~~~~~~~~ jackbeat (0.7.5) * #47: fix startup crash with gtk >= 2.19 caused by new GtkBuilder widget name handling Musically yours -- Olivier

14 years, 6 months

[ANN] KMid 2.3.0 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMid is a MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE4. It runs in Linux, using the ALSA Sequencer. KMid plays MIDI and karaoke files to hardware MIDI devices or software synthesizers. It supports playlists, MIDI mappers, tempo (speed), volume and pitch (transpose) controls and configurable character encoding, font and color for lyrics. The graphic views include a rhythm view (visual metronome), a channels window with solo/muting controls and instrument selectors, and a piano player window (Pianola). Changes for this release: * New Mac OSX and Windows backends * Fixes in ALSA sequencer backend: · don't set an explicit output pool size, using the default size instead. · unconditionally reload MIDI devices before checking the available outputs. Drumstick shared libraries v0.3.1 are recommended. More info: http://userbase.kde.org/KMid2 Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas KMid is free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 license. Downloads * Source packages http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/files/ * openSUSE RPMs, and Ubuntu DEB packages: http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&q=kmid Regards, Pedro

14 years, 6 months

DYNAMIC-MULTIBAND LV2 PLUGIN RELEASE 0.0.2

by victor perez

Hi all: Here is the new release of the Dynamic Multiband LV2 Plugin including some interesting new features like the posibility of increase or decrease the number of bands at runtime. I hope you like and use it in your projects. Project web site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/teliasopia/ DYNAMIC MULTIBAND LV2 PLUGIN RELEASE 0.0.2 Date: 04-25-2010 THE PLUGIN: Filter section based on a biquad filter from free software JAMIN adapted from Eli Brandt from the LISP CODE. Compressor section based on the one by Steve Harris (Sc4). The plugin bundle is available at 3,4 or 5 bands and at mono and stereo versions. (You can change the number of the bands at runtime) THE GUI (Graphic User Interface) The gui is a design by Teliasopia using Gtk++ and Cairo libraries. FEATURES The controls available are: AT THE FILTER SECTION. You can change easily the limits and width of each band in the graphic display. Also you can solo and mute each band with the small toggles. AT THE COMPRESSOR SECTION You can change easily the ratio and threshold parameters clicking and moving the points at the graphic display. Also yo can change the attack an release time with a pair of knobs. GENERAL SECTION You can select the detection mode (PEAK-RMS) through the toggle at the top of the plugin. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------NEW FEATURES---------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGE THE BAND NUMBERS AT RUNTIME -> Now you can change the number of the bands at runtime. To add a new band simply drag and drop the right limit of the spectrograp display. To delete a band drag the right limit of the band and drop out the spectrograph display TYPE THE KNOB VALUES ->To type an exact value for a knob just double click and type the desired value into the the textbox. Press INTRO to accept. MAIN KNOB -> Main knob to control the general output gain. --------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------FIXED BUGS---------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- Compiling on 64 bits machines. (FIXED) RMS Detection mode. (FIXED) DEPENDENCIES lv2 (of course) Cairo Gtk++ ========================== SPECIAL NOTE: Take care ========================== This version will replace the old one. The projects and songs made with the old version don't work fine with this version and crash the host app. It's the second release of this plugin...please be patient with the bugs and feedback.

14 years, 6 months

Hello World: linuxaudio.org on a new Machine

by Robin Gareus

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, Since 6pm UTC today linuxaudio.org is hosted on a new server (actually a VM). Due to slowly failing hardware on the old machine were urged to perform the migration ahead of schedule and were unable to send out a notification about it beforehand. The hosting is (still) provided by by the Virginia Tech, Department of Music and Digital Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio. Many thanks to Ico Bukvic. Daniel James takes care of DNS. and a big thanks to Marc-Olivier Barre who manages the email services. All systems go. robin root -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvQrr4ACgkQeVUk8U+VK0KmlQCfbNOpDl+xBSngTnxcd6ax/NDI M3UAn3VWgwVKp6O57XnMLCDuCwo+QRgB =lkZU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

14 years, 7 months

We're back online !

by Marc-Olivier Barre

Dear mailing list users, The list migration to the brand new virtual is complete and all the problems seems to be fixed. As Robin told me when we were in the middle of this panicky evening: "when we find what the problem is, we will all laugh about it". Well, let me share the laughing with you: It was just a typo ! Funny how trouble in the computer world eventually always turn out to be an invisible typo in a configuration file :) Enjoy your new server and post away ! Cheers, -- Marc-Olivier Barre XMPP ID : marco(a)marcochapeau.org www.MarcOChapeau.org

14 years, 7 months

QXGEdit 0.1.0 - Spring Cleaning Pt.1

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, Even though the Iceland volcanic ash plumes are still messing up the air, I decided to do some spring cleaning after all and started with what's laying around here, collecting dust. Bad timing or not, it's now or never. Über-procrastinator dixit. Remember that piece of junk that I rig on every desktop which still has some PCI card slots anyway? If you don't, I'll tell you once more: the Yamaha DB50XG piggyback. I know it's not easy find those nowadays, but there's always that auction sites for you to try. Moreover the hosting sound-cards which exposes a Creatine Labs Waveblaster daughter-board expansion port, are no easier too. Ah, the good old nineties... Never mind, so here it goes again: QXGEdit 0.1.0 has fallen from the attic! This stands as the second public release and who knows what next spring cleaning will bring ;) Website: http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.0.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.0-2.rncbc.suse112.src.… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.0-2.rncbc.suse112.i586… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.0-2.rncbc.suse112.x86_… - binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit_0.1.0-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_i3… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit_0.1.0-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_am… Change-log: - Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to wrong main widget hidden state. - General source tree layout and build configuration change. - Make build compilation work for gcc >= 4.4.0, by adding some missing standard C99 includes. - LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap just makes it a shortcut to File/Save. - Uservoice (QS300) AmpEG Attack, Decay Level 1 and 2 parameters now have a bit cleaner, clearer out-of-the-box default values. - Uservoice (QS300) preset combo-box drop-down list now gets its current item selection set alright. - Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to disk when Options dialog changes are accepted and applied. - Variation part parameter is now a drop-down combo-box. - New reset button for reverb, chorus and variation parameters. - Randomization of all current vparameter values is now available, allowing for great experimentation and exploration of brand new sound settings (just try View/Randomize). - All graphics lines are now slightly gray colored, instead of plain black or white, or whatever the current theme text color. - Added user confirmation for QS300 user voice preset replacement; preset files are not deleted from file-system anymore. Weblog (upstream support, yours truly): http://www.rncbc.org License: QXGEdit is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

14 years, 7 months

[ANN] KMetronome 0.9.3 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with KDE4 user interface, based on the ALSA sequencer. Changes in 0.9.3 * Build system adapted to the changes in Drumstick-0.3 * Bundled Drumstick-0.3.1 library sources Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 More info http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net Sources http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/files/kmetronome/0.9.3/ Regards, Pedro

14 years, 7 months

[ANN] Drumstick libraries 0.3.1 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. It is used in KMetronome, KMidimon and KMid2, and was formerly known as "aseqmm". Since the release 0.3.0 there are two libs: drumstick-alsa and drumstick-file. Changes: * Allow to build drumstick-file library under Windows. * New method MidiClient::parseAddress() replacing the ALSA function snd_seq_parse_address() in MidiPort::subscribeTo() and similar methods. * Fixed MidiClient::getAvailableInputs() and getAvailableOutputs() forcing to always retrieve the updated clients list from ALSA. 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/0.3.1/ openSUSE Build Service - RPM packages http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=drumstick Regards, Pedro

14 years, 7 months

The LAC Times Edition #2

by Marc Groenewegen

Hi everyone, got nothing to do during the Easter holidays ? I don't think so... The second edition of ____The LAC Times____ is online: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/LAC_Times_2010_04_02.pdf Subjects in this edition: * A first glimpse of the LAC 2010 programme * The 150-Years-of-Music-Technology Composition Competition * A short history of recording sound [part 2] No longer do you need to worry what to do at Easter. Now you'll worry what to do first: study the programme to decide which day(s) you're gonna visit the Linux Audio Conference, work on your composition or read Than's second history lesson. Enjoy ! Marc I'll put a printer-friendly version under the News tab of the LAC site soon.

14 years, 7 months

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Linux-audio-announce April 2010