Linux-audio-announce April 2010

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Klactoveedsedstene v1.0.4 released

by Viggo Simonsen

14 years, 11 months

ANN: Upcoming L2Ork spring event and Midwest tour

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Dear fellow FOSS/Pd/Linux audio enthusiasts, It is my pleasure to announce the upcoming April 17th (Saturday) spring L2Ork / DISIS event that will feature the debut of the Boys & Girls Club of Roanoke, VA satellite laptop orchestra, as well as several guest artists, including: Ron Coulter (SIUC, percussion, composition, computer music) Mark Engebretson (UNCG, composition, computer music, saxophone), and Matthew Burtner (UVA, composition, computer music, saxophone) The evening event will be split into: . 7pm children's showcase designed primarily with children and parents in mind, and . 8pm benefit concert of experimental music. Funds raised at this event will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Roanoke, VA, a non-profit organization that offers critical afterschool programs for children. Apart from L2Ork numbers, the 8pm program will also offer compositions involving innovative creative technologies, including musical robots. The admission to both events is free. For more information, software goodies, audio and video preview please visit L2Ork's website at http://l2ork.music.vt.edu or find us on the Facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117918141555131 (event page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112324945463877) Additional media coverage can be found at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine (issue #193) http://www.vt.edu/spotlight/achievement/2010-04-12-laptop/laptop-orchestra.… (Virginia Tech spotlight with audio and video footage) Following the April 17th performance, L2Ork is embarking on its maiden tour with performances at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, OH (April 20th 7:30pm), Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL (April 22nd 6pm), and IUPUI, Indiana as part of the Intermedia Festival (April 25th 2pm). So, if you happen to be in the area we'd love to see you there! Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy) Virginia Tech Dept. of Music - 0240 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 (540) 231-5034 (fax) ico(a)vt.edu http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

14 years, 11 months

[ANN] ghostess 20100326 release

by Sean Bolton

Announcing the latest release of ghostess, a lightweight GTK+ host for DSSI plugins: http://smbolton.com/linux/ghostess-20100326.tar.bz2 New in this release: - support for JACK session management, when compiled against a recent JACK SVN version (thanks to Torben Hohn.) - some small code and compilation clean-ups. ghostess is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c)2010 under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. DSSI is an audio plugin API for software instruments and effects, based on LADSPA, the ALSA sequencer event types, and OSC (Open Sound Control) communications. Learn more about it here: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ Enjoy! -Sean

14 years, 11 months

LAC 2010 live stream coverage

by Jörn Nettingsmeier

hi everybody! the Linux Audio Conference 2010 (hosted this year by the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht) will have live streaming coverage of all the paper presentations and selected workshops, just like in the old days. the streams will be available via http://streamer.stackingdwarves.net and at least two other relays, which will be announced as they come online. for remote participants, there is an IRC channel called #lac2010 on irc.freenode.net, which serves as a backchannel for your questions and comments, hangout for conference chatter, and helpdesk for any streaming troubles you might encounter. spread the word, and join the fun. LAC 2010 takes place from may 1st to may 4th. test streams will be made available a few days in advance. the IRC channel is already open. the official lac site is at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/. best regards, on behalf of the stream team, jörn

14 years, 11 months

SoX 14.3.1 Released

by Chris Bagwell

We are happy to announce the release of SoX 14.3.1. Source code, Win32 binaries, and Mac OSX binaries can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/ Release highlights include: o New Grandstream ring-tone (gsrt) format. o CVSD encoding and decoding speed-ups. o Ability to select MP3 compression parameters. o Write support for ID3 and VBR tags in MP3 files. o Support loading MP3, AMRNB, AMRWB, and libsndfile libraries at runtime. o New native Windows audio driver for playing/recording. o New native Windows executable (no cygwin libraries) for smaller size and more consistent window experience. o OSX users no longer need Xcode installed to get missing libltld library. o Turned multi-threaded off by default since it is buggy on some platforms. o Many bugfixes and improvements to existing behavior. o Improvements to documentation and code examples. For the complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog at http://sox.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sox/sox/ChangeLog?revision=1.266&view… Thanks to all who contributed to this release. - The developers.

14 years, 11 months

aumix 2.9

by Trevor Johnson

Aumix is for changing the settings on your hardware mixer. It works with the OSS API. It has X11 and ncurses GUIs, but can also be used from scripts. what's new in this version: - the "mute" script is always installed (Christian Weisgerber) - a manual page was added for the "mute" script (Bas Zoetekouw) - the xaumix(1) man page follows standards better - the GTK+ record/play indicators have distinct shapes, so they can be differentiated by color-blind users or on a monochrome display - the record/play indicators can be hidden - the GTK "Load from" and "Save to" dialog windows close after the user makes a selection (Thierry Vignaud) - non-ASCII text displays correctly with GTK+ 2.x (G\xf6tz Waschk, Roland Stigge and Thierry Vignaud) - Catalan translation (Ernest Adrogu\xe9) - Italian translation (Cristian Rigamonti) - support for the Linux device filesystem (Pixel of Mandrakesoft) source: http://jpj.net/~trevor/aumix/aumix-2.9.tar.bz2 home page: http://jpj.net/~trevor/aumix.html -- Trevor Johnson

14 years, 11 months

MMA 1.5e

by Bob van der Poel

Yet another beta version of MMA is up and ready to test. 1.5e has a number of bug fixes (most important is that program changes are now done at the right file position), some meta track command enhancements and a new lyric karaoke mode. Please bang on it. Make it break. Pull your hair out when it doesn't work ... and let me know if you get stuck or have suggestions. Oh, and have fun making music! Get it at: http://mellowood.ca/mma/downloads.html#developer MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

14 years, 11 months

StretchPlayer 0.500 - Audio player with time stretch and pitch shift

by Gabriel M. Beddingfield

I am pleased to release StrechPlayer 0.500, a time-stretching, pitch-shifting audio file player. It is powered by librubberband, and also features an A/B repeat. This is the first release of StretchPlayer. LINKS ----- Home Page: http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/ Tarball: http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer-0.500.tar.bz2 Git: http://gitorious.org/stretchplayer git://gitorious.org/stretchplayer/stretchplayer.git USING THE PROGRAM ----------------- You will need at least a 1200 MHz processor to use this program. It also requires the following libraries: * Qt >= 4.4 http://qt.nokia.com * librubberband http://www.breakfastquay.com/rubberband/ * libsndfile http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ * JACK http://jackaudio.org/ * CMake http://www.cmake.org/ After building, run the program like this: $ stretchplayer The GUI is pretty self-explanatory, and if you hover over the controls a tool-tip should appear. The GUI also has several keyboard accelerators. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------- My sincere thanks to Chris Cannam for publishing the RubberBand library. I've wanted this thing since I was in High School. :-) Peace, Gabriel M. Beddingfield

14 years, 12 months

Puredyne 9.11 (Carrot and Coriander+) - new release of realtime audio+video distro

by Dan S

[apologies for cross-posting, please forward this] Announcing the new release of Puredyne: Puredyne 9.11 - 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 // = Puredyne 911 = == Carrot & Coriander + == After an intensive 3-day development sprint in Helsinki, this release made possible thanks to Pixelache and HIAP. Changelog below, see also our tracker at https://launchpad.net/puredyne/+milestone/9.11 == Fewer bugs! == Problems fixed in this release: * amsynth loading crash (LP: #529858) * terminal dircolour theme (LP: #496296) * fluxus menu entry (LP: #507076) * whysynth menu entry (LP: #546086) * wsynth-dssi menu entry (LP: #546089) * xsynth-dssi menu entry (LP: #546090) * locale generation (LP: #508157) * mixxx jack interface (LP: #507675) * booting without hard disks (LP: #498782) * appearance with two monitors (LP: #505933) * removed default emacs keybindings for gtk apps (LP: #515445) * emacs appearance improved (LP: #522239) * application launch keyboard shortcuts (LP: #482822) * coding style for build hooks (LP: #544225) * irssi default intro text (LP: #525780) == More stuff! == Additional software on the 911 CD (i386) compared to Puredyne 910: * libafterimage0 * libblas3gf * libdvdcss2 * libgavl1 * libgfortran3 * libgmerlin-avdec-common * libgmerlin-avdec1 * liblapack3gf * libopenjpeg2 * pd-mapping * pd-markex * pd-mjlib * pd-motex * pd-pool * pd-py * pd-readanysf * pd-sigpack * pd-smlib * pd-windowing * puredyne-help * python-numpy * rxvt-unicode * supercollider-common * xfce4-places-plugin Additional software on the 911 DVD (i386) compared to Puredyne 910: * jcgui * puredata-source * sineshaper * toonloop * ... == Upgraded things! == Selected highlights: * kdenlive * mixxx * swingosc * supercollider * xterm replaced with urxvtd == Documentation == Puredyne wikibook interlinked with the Puredyne website: * creating live usb sticks * booting live usb sticks * Puredyne help menu item * coding style guides == Important security information == There is a bug in Puredyne 910 package manager settings, which is fixed in Puredyne 911 (LP: #507252). If you have already installed Puredyne 910: sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00secure == Prettier! == * customized wallpaper * isolinux splash screen == Get involved == * report bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/puredyne/+filebug * host a mirror * host a sprint == More information == http://puredyne.goto10.org // == Augment your soup == echo "--- carrot_and_coriander.txt 2010-01-16 03:19:48.000000000 +0200 +++ carrot_and_coriander_plus.txt 2010-04-02 11:52:57.383408001 +0300 @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ * 1 teaspoon ground coriander * 1.2 litres vegetable stock * large bunch Fresh Coriander, roughly chopped +* 1 teaspoon cumin seeds (optional) * Salt * Black Pepper @@ -30,11 +31,15 @@ 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. +5. Meanwhile, heat a dry frying pan and add the cumin seeds. Toast + them for a minute or so, shaking the pan occasionally, until + fragrant. -6. Add the fresh coriander. +6. Blend the soup until smooth. -7. Serve. +7. Add the fresh coriander and the cumin seeds. + +8. Serve. ========================== " | patch -p0 /usr/share/soup/carrot_and_coriander.txt

15 years

LoMus 2010 | Submissions was extended to the april 15th

by Thierry Coduys

LoMus 2010 __________________________________________ Sorry for multiple and cross postings __________________________________________ The dead line for software submission was extended to the April 15th __________________________________________ In search of open-source software for musical and intermedia creation For its third edition, Lomus 2010 invites music and audio open-source software creators to submit original projects that either directly or indirectly contribute to musical creation. In regard to one of the 2 themes for JIM's edition : "The musical work and heterogeneity : the problem of mixity", the LoMus contest will particularly encourage sonic/musical softwares integrating or hibridizing with other media. Though, this theme is not restrictive. A prize will be awarded to open-source sofware that prove to be not only innovatory but also inventive in the present context of music and audio creation. Calendar Call for submissions : February 4th 2010 Submission deadline : April 15th 2010 Admission notification : May 1st 2010 JIM Awards Ceremony : May 20th 2010 info : concours.afim-asso.org JIM2010 : http://jim.afim-asso.org/ocs/index.php/jims/index __________________________________________ À la recherche des logiciels libres pour la création sonore et intermedia Pour sa troisième édition, Lomus 2010 s’adresse à tous ceux qui s’aventurent dans le développement de logiciels libres musicaux ou de logiciels libres qui peuvent contribuer au processus de la création musicale. En regard d'un des 2 thèmes mis en avant lors de cette édition des JIMs : "L'Œuvre musicale face à l'hétérogène : problématique de la mixité", le concours LoMus encourage plus particulièrement les contributions intégrant ou s'hybridant avec d'autres médias. Ce thème n'est cependant pas restrictif. Un prix sera remis aux logiciels qui font preuve non seulement d'innovation, mais notamment d'inventivité face aux enjeux actuels de la création musicale. Calendrier Appel à soumissions : 4 février 2010 Soumission des logiciels : 15 avril 2010 Notification d'acceptation : 1 mai 2010 Remise du prix lors des JIM : 20 mai 2010 info : concours.afim-asso.org JIM2010 : http://jim.afim-asso.org/ocs/index.php/jims/index

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