Linux-audio-announce May 2010

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[LAA] [ANN] guitarix-0.08.0 release 'Rockers'

by hermann

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 audio graph. guitarix provide a jack midi input port to connect a midi controller (midi learn) and a (3 channel) jack midi output port, feed by a (scalable) mix of the tuner and a beat-detector. Release 0.08.0 comes with a bunch of major changes : * new portmap window * new BiQuad Filter * new Moog Filter * new Flanger * new post processing tube3 * new two 10 band parametric EQ's * new oversample mode selector(1x -8x) * fix some bugs in midi out * reworked tuner interface (show frequency(hz)) * new configure options (see ./waf --help for more info) have fun ________________________________________________________________________ guitarix is licensed under the GPL. Project page with screenshots: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ please report bugs and suggestions in our forum here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/ ________________________________________________________________________ For capture, guitarix uses the great '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 zita-convolver library, and, for up/down sampling we use zita-resampler, both written by Fons Adriaensen. If you don't have it installed, get it here: http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html We use the marvellous faust compiler to build the amp and effects 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ For faust users : All used Faust dsp files are included in /guitarix/src/faust, the resulting cc files are in /guitarix/src/faust-cc The tools we use to convert (post-processing and plot) the resulting faust cpp files to the needed include format, stay in the /guitarix/tools directory. ________________________________________________________________________ regards Hermann Meyer, James Warden, Andreas Degert

15 years, 9 months

[LAA] Rivendell v1.7.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.7.1. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. Changes in this release include (from the NEWS file): *** snip snip *** This is a maintenance release of Rivendell, with primary focus on fixing identified issues. Changes: New Switcher/GPIO Devices. Support has been added for the Broadcast Tools SRC-8 III and SRC-16 Serial Remote Control units. RDCatch Issues. Several issues with RDCatch have been corrected, including a race condition that could result in the system silently ignoring programmed events. Voice Tracker. Several stability issues with the voice tracker module in RDLogEdit have been addressed. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 186, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Patch griefs with proverbs. | | -- William Shakspeare | | "Much Ado About Nothing" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

15 years, 9 months

[LAA] Piksel10 :: open Call for PROJECTS

by h220

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Piksel10 November 18-21 2010 Bergen, Norway \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organized in Bergen, Norway,and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies & art. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ open CALL for PROJECTS For the exhibition and other parts of the programme we currently seek projects in the following categories: 1. Installations Projects to be included in the exhibition. The works must be programmed by and running on free and open source software and/or open/DIY hardware. 2. Audiovisual performance Live art realized by the use of free software and open/DIY hardware. 3. Presentations Innovative open/DIY hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art released under a free/open licence. (Also includes presentations of artistic projects realized using these technologies.) 4. Workshops Hands on workshops utilizing free software and/or open/DIY hardware for artistic use. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ !!!!!!!!!! Deadline - june 1. 2010 !!!!!!!!!! Please use the online submit form at: http://piksel.no/ocs or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online documentation with images/video to piksel10 (AT) piksel.no \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Piksel10 is organized in cooperation with Galleri 3,14, Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark, USF and HackBergen. Supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, Hordaland County Council and others. more info: www.piksel.no \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ -- +---| gif(a)220hex.org |+4790665018 | møllendalsv. 17,5009 bergen | |www.xn--frysland-64a.com |---+| www.220hex.no |+---| www.piksel.no |---+

15 years, 9 months

[LAA] gst123-0.0.3

by Stefan Westerfeld

gst123-0.0.3 has been released. Overview of Changes in gst123-0.0.3: ------------------------------------ * fixed buggy key handling when keys are autorepeating * restore proper terminal settings after Ctrl+Z * added keys for mute and volume control * display video codec when present What is gst123? --------------- The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on gstreamer. It plays all file formats gstreamer understands, so if you have a music collection which contains different file formats, like flac, ogg and mp3, you can use gst123 to play all your music files. It is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2 Links: ------ Website: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123.php Download: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123/gst123-0.0.3.tar.gz -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

15 years, 10 months

[LAA] MMA 1.6 has been released

by Bob van der Poel

A stable release, version 1.6, of MMA--Musical MIDI Accompaniment is available for downloading. In addition to a number of bug fixes and optimizations, MMA now features: - A new track, the Plectrum. This can generate a realistic MIDI guitar. Getting a realistic guitar sound using MIDI has been notoriously difficult as calculating the notes in each chord and strumming patterns can be very tricky. Now the MMA PLECTRUM pattern takes care of most of this for you so all you have to do is to enter the chords names and how when you want each string to be strummed or plucked. An example is available at: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/examples.html#plectrum - Improved chord placement anywhere in a bar. - Added MidiCopyright, MidiCue and MidiText commands. - Improved lyric generation for Karaoke mode. 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

15 years, 10 months

[LAA] aumix 2.9.1

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. This is a maintenance release. Several bugs were fixed and the build system was updated. Thanks to Stefan Ott for helping to prepare this release. home page: http://jpj.net/~trevor/aumix.html source: http://jpj.net/~trevor/aumix/aumix-2.9.1.tar.bz2 or http://sourceforge.net/projects/aumix/files/ mailing lists: https://gna.org/mail/?group=aumix what's new in this version: - icon is now compatible with KDE panel (Bruce Sass) - cursor is no longer blue on exit from full-screen mode (Michael Lee Yohe) - loading a color scheme from a file works again - a crash caused by wrong parsing of options is fixed (Kees Cook) - build system and internationalization updated to use latest autotools and gettext idioms (code credit: Owen Taylor, Alexandre Oliva, Gordon Matzigkeit, Bruno Haible, Ulrich Drepper, and the Free Software Foundation) - fixed a bug that could leave the terminal unusable on exit from full-screen mode (Aleksey Cheusov) - non-ASCII shortcut keys, such as in the Swedish translation, now work (Mikael Hedin) - support for obsolete GTK+ 1.2 has been removed - documentation mentions new mailing lists instead of defunct one - in full-screen mode, record/play indicators are only redrawn when their state changes (Romain Francoise) - when an error occurs in GTK+ mode, an error message is now printed and aumix will not try to close a window that has not yet been opened (Bas Zoetekouw) - a bug where mute script saved the wrong settings is fixed (Owen Leonard/Cory Wiltshire) - in full-screen mode, the cursor is placed next to the active control, to ease reading on a Braille terminal (S?bastien Hinderer) - bootstrap script added - in the aumix.1 man page, -i, -o, -r and -W options are now properly documented, and hyphens are changed to minus signs (Romain Francoise, Tibor Cs?g?r and Stefan Ott) - a syntax error was fixed in the xaumix.1 man page (Stefan Ott) - in full-screen mode, the balance arrow is now erased once a balance control is no longer active (Romain Francoise) - new shortcut key "0" sets maximum level or extreme right balance (Romain Francoise) - error messages are now more informative (Stefan Ott) - in full-screen mode, the active device is shown more prominently - the shortcut key for muting was changed, and now works in the German language (Bernhard Reiter) - a crash when the HOME environment variable is set but empty has been fixed (Eduard Bloch) - the DISPLAY environment variable is now ignored if it is set, but empty (Bas Zoetekouw) -- Trevor Johnson

15 years, 10 months

[LAA] dssi-vst v0.9 now available

by Chris Cannam

Release 0.9 of the dssi-vst plugin adapter for Windows VST plugins on Linux is now available. http://breakfastquay.com/dssi-vst/ The only change in this release is the addition of a fix to idle handling in the plugin code. Thanks to Robert Jonsson for the patch and Torben Hohn for working out the fix (in fst) -- and no thanks to me, for forgetting for the past few months that I hadn't released a version with this fix in it yet. Chris

15 years, 10 months

[LAA] Rubber Band Library v1.5.0 now available

by Chris Cannam

Rubber Band Library v1.5.0 is now available. http://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/ This release adds a key-frame mapping facility for managing variable stretch ratios within a single offline time-stretch pass, plus a more reliable transient detection mode for soft instruments and band-limited transient detectors to improve performance with compressed or lower-quality material. It is source and binary backward compatible with v1.4, though code written for v1.5.0 may not work with v1.4 (the new release adds one new function and one new enum). Chris

15 years, 10 months

[LAA] Upcoming ICMC L2Ork workshop at NYC Resistor

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Apologies for cross-posting... Dear Colleagues and fellow computer music enthusiasts, On May 30th 1pm-7pm EST @ NYC Resistor L2Ork will hold a one-day workshop on building Linux-based laptop orchestra and unique opportunities such an ensemble brings about. Synopsis: L2Ork is an ultra-affordable tool for handling administrative logistics associated with starting a new Linux-based laptop orchestra using exclusively free software and cost-efficient hardware. The workshop will cover general issues in regards to starting a Linux-based laptop orchestra, as well as provide an opportunity for the workshop participants to engage in writing for L2Ork. The workshop will also cover L2Ork's latest initiative to bridge STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and Arts in K-12 education and funding opportunities such a project may bring about. Participants will learn about: * administrative and logistical prerequisites for starting a Linux-based laptop orchestra * design considerations in designing and building adequate infrastructure (speakers, soundcard, system configuration and optimization) * streamlining Linux platform * optimizing Pure-Data software for GUI-based networked performances * ensuing creative opportunities of a networked laptop orchestra * design strategies and standards developed for writing pieces for the L2Ork ensemble * education-based opportunities attained through L2Ork's ultra-affordable infrastructure * logistical considerations in building GUIs for a diverse group of performers with widely varying amount of musical training and experience * wiimote strategies for an ensemble-oriented performance * strategies for incorporating soloists into the L2Ork ensemble Participants will be given access to: * all L2Ork's resources, including custom code and Pure-Data abstractions designed specifically for the orchestra and its input devices * customized Pure-Data software platform with performance, editor, and GUI enhancements * access to software repository containing optimized Linux kernel and supporting software as well as turnkey Linux setup containing an entire hard-drive image of the L2Ork Linux system * detailed list of parts necessary to build L2Ork-compatible ~$250 hemispherical speakers and a ~$750/seat turnkey setup including a laptop, external soundcard, wiimote & nunchuk, headset, cables and accessories, and a custom hemispherical speaker. All participants will be also given an opportunity to interact with L2Ork members (performers and researchers alike) as well as submit their own works for programming consideration by the L2Ork ensemble. For a more detailed overview and registration info please visit: http://icmc-workshop-l2ork.eventbrite.com/ NB: please note that the times listed on the aforesaid site are in Pacific Time. For additional info on L2Ork, please visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu. Should you happen to have any questions, suggestions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. 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/

15 years, 10 months

[LAA] NASPRO 0.2.0 released

by Stefano D'Angelo

Hello everybody, I'm pleased to announce the release of NASPRO 0.2.0, which includes: * NASPRO core: a tiny convenience library containing useful code to implement LV2 dynamic manifest plugins and especially bridges from other APIs to LV2; * NASPRO bridges bad: a collection of <API>-to-LV2 bridges which work fine, but do not completely support the original APIs; * Permafrost: a DSP language designed with physics-based modeling in mind - the compiler produces RDF/Turtle data and C code implementing LV2 plugins. It should work on all POSIX-compliant platforms on LV2 hosts which support the LV2 dynamic manifest extension (zynjacku >= 5 or SLV2 > 0.6.6 based hosts with SLV2 compiled with the --dyn-manifest option). The bridged APIs in this release are LADSPA 1.1 (+ LRDF) and DSSI 1.0; the LADSPA bridge supports almost all LADSPA/LRDF features (run_adding() and LRDF presets are missing), while the DSSI bridge is still lacking (no GUI, no MIDI programs, no run_multiple_synth*() support). Permafrost, instead, is a very experimental thing, so there is no official documentation (but you can easily guess the syntax by looking at the provided examples) and backwards compatibility is not taken seriously in the next releases. Enjoy, Stefano Website: http://naspro.atheme.org

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