Linux-audio-announce June 2010

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by Alexander Kojevnikov

Hi list, I'm happy to announce the release of version 0.5 of Spek - an acoustic spectrum analyser / spectrogram viewer. Spek is a multi-platform app available on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Changes since the previously announced version (0.3): * Associate with audio files (“Open with…” menu in file managers.) * Show the name of the open file in the window title. * Support 24-bit FLACs. * Drag and Drop support. * Show file name and its properties in the window. * Significantly speed up spectral analysis by using the optimal number of frequency bands. * DTS files support. * Distribute Windows version as a ZIP archive in addition to the MSI installer. * Mac OS X installer. * Use Pango to render text. * Brand new icon. Read more about Spek on the official website [1] and on my blog [2] Cheers, Alex [1] http://www.spek-project.org/ [2] http://versia.com/category/spek/

15 years, 6 months

[LAA] gst123-0.1.1

by Stefan Westerfeld

gst123-0.1.1 has been released. Overview of Changes in gst123-0.1.1: ------------------------------------ * Fix code to allow uris in playlist. [Siddhesh Poyarekar] * Fix building with binutils-gold. [Siddhesh Poyarekar] 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. Since gst123-0.1.0 support for watching videos has been added; however gst123 should run fine in situations where no X11 display is available; videos can be played without X11 display, too (-x, --novideo); in this case, only the audio stream will be played. 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/gst123-0.1.1.tar.bz2 -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

15 years, 6 months

[LAA] rakarrack 0.5.8 (Equinox) is released

by Josep Andreu

Hi We are pleased to announce the release of rakarrack 0.5.8 Equinox, a summer gift. This is a major feature release, but we have also fixed many old bugs. We know that today is a Solstice, but we think that Equinox is a better definition for this version because we have worked diligently since release of 0.4.2, and 0.5.8 for us is like the start of a new cycle in the development of Rakarrack. Releasing on a Solstice is simply because this is a good reason to celebrate if you're a musician with preference for free open source software. http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net NEWS New Bank File format, we include a utility "rakconvert" to convert Bank files to the new format. New Effects: Valve, Dual Flange, Ring, Exciter, Expander, DistBand, Arpie, Shuffle, Synthfilter, VaryBand, Convolotron, Looper, MuTroMojo, Echoverse, CoilCrafter, ShelfBoost, Vocoder, Sustainer, Sequence, Shifter, StompBox, Reverbtron, Echotron. New Features: Tap Tempo. Upsampling using libsamplerate by Erik de Castro Lopo. Downsample intesive CPU effects. Upsample Waveshapper. ACI Analog Control Interface. Waveshappers: M.Saw, Compress, Overdrive, Soft, Super Soft, Gard Compress, Lmt-NoGain, Hard Compress, FET, DynoFET, Valve1, Valve2, Diode clipper. LFO Modulation: M.Saw, L.Fractal. Improvements: GUI DC Offset Filter at the input. Tuner Callibration Auto Connect jack input ports. GUI and bug fixes. The rakarrack team: Josep Andreu - Ryan Billing - Douglas McClendon - Arnout Engelen -- Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>

15 years, 7 months

[LAA] [ANN] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.3.2 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. Changelog 2010-06-18 0.3.2 * New D-Bus interface exposing many program features to other D-Bus clients * New Simplified Chinese language translation. Thanks to Rui Fan * German translation updates, including the program online help. Thanks to Philip Edelmann and Frank Kober * Larger shapes for switch-type extra controls, when using the custom style Copyright (C) 2008-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 More info http://vmpk.sourceforge.net Downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files Regards, Pedro

15 years, 7 months

[LAA] AV Linux 4.0 'Black n' Blue' Released!

by info＠bandshed.net

Hello Fellow Linux Audio Users, I like to pass along the release of AV Linux 4.0, I think this is an unprecedented collection of Open-Source excellence and Commercial Linux Audio Software Demos. For the full story including the list of included applications please have a look at the Release Announcement pdf: http://www.bandshed.net/pdf/AV4Released.pdf You are welcomed to have a look at the AV Linux website here: http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html Regards, Glen MacArthur

15 years, 7 months

[LAA] FFADO 2.0.1 'Summertime' released

by Arnold Krille

Quoting from http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/2.0.1 Without further ado, we hereby give you the 2.0.1 release of ffado. The changelog to the previous 2.0.0 is rather simple: Make it work on the new firewire-stack. Of course some more fixes went into the package. But its mostly intended for distributors so they can finally deprecate/disable the old firewire stack in kernels. For more changelog and instructions please look back at the 2.0.0 release announcement at http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/2.0.0 Get the package: http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.0.1.tar.gz Regards, Arnold, on behalf of the ffado-developers

15 years, 7 months

[LAA] Nama multitrack recorder-mixer, Debianized

by Joel Roth

Hi Everyone, This mail announces the 1.062 release of Nama, an Ecasound-based multitrack recorder, mixer and mastering tool. New features, several code refactorings and uncounted bug fixes make this version the best evar. There is also a website.[1] The Debian package, newly available through the Debian 'unstable' repository, should work on 'stable' and 'testing' distributions as well. Nama is also available from CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. -- Basics -- Nama adds a text-based user interface and DAW-like concepts to the Ecasound audio processing engine. Nama benefits from Ecasound's reliability, maturity and flexibility, while saving the user from Ecasound's learning curve. Although Nama has its own learning curve, it is designed to make easy things easy, and some hard things easy, too. Since it does not depend on X, Nama is suitable for console users, headless systems, and low-power CPUs. It could also be used for comparative recording tests in situations where video card interrupt conflicts are suspected. -- Some details -- Nama works seamlessly with ALSA and JACK. LADSPA plugins are automatically detected, and may be found through Nama's help system by name or keyword. Nama has an optional, ugly-duckling GUI that can handle basic recording, mixing and fx-processing. I'd like to acknowledge Julien Claassen for his thorough testing, numerous suggestions and overall encouragement. He's recently used Nama to produce some excellent compositions.[2] -- Features List -- + Pre- and post-fader send buses These are mainly for instrument monitor use, allowing each musician to have her own custom mix. A send bus duplicates all user track signals. Each musician can adjust volume/pan/effects set to suit. + Sub buses Useful for mixing groups of signals before they arrive at the mixer provided by the Main bus + Post-fader inserts with wet/dry control Track signals can be routed signals through external JACK clients such as jconverter, or through the soundcard to analog effects. + Track freezing Like mixdown on a per-track basis, it can be helpful in setups with many effects and limited CPU resources. The 'cache' command records a new version of the current track with all effects applied. The 'uncache' command sets the previous version with the original effects. + Effect chains Nama's version of presets. An effect chain can be any or all track effects with current parameter values. + Effect profiles A group of effect chains for multiple tracks can be stored under one name. For example, "new_effect_profile Mastering jpop" stores effect chains for all tracks in the Mastering group as "jpop". + Track effects bypass/restore + Graph-based routing system Nama now has a more capable graph-based routing system that replaces the original rule-based system. Nodes of the graph are used to represent tracks, signal sources and signal sinks. Edges indicate signal paths. Nama adds loop devices to the graph as needed, a significant convenience compared to hand-configured Ecasound. The new routing system should also make it straightforward to build in latency compensation. + Two interfaces to Ecasound Nama will use libecasoundc via Brad Bowman's Audio::Ecasound module if it is available. Otherwise, Nama will run Ecasound in server mode and communicate via the Net-ECI interface. This has no effect on the user interface. -- Bugs and Limitations Nama does *not* have a graphic waveform display. Fortunately you have many alternatives to choose from if you need this capability. All file IO in Nama uses the WAV file format. I just discovered that when Nama is installed from Debian, interrupting the program requires a Ctrl-C *plus some additional keystroke* to exit. -- Installation -- + For Debian 'unstable' systems apt-get install nama (Something similar is possible for other Debian distributions.) + From CPAN cpan Audio::Nama cpan Tk # to use the GUI + Browse or build from github[3] + Browse at CPAN[4] Regards, Joel [1] http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/nama [2] http://juliencoder.de/nama/ [3] http://github.com/bolangi/nama [4] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-Nama/ -- Joel Roth

15 years, 7 months

[LAA] [ANN] KMid 2.3.1 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMid is a MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE4 that runs in Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. 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). KMid is free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 license. Changes for this release: * ALSA Sequencer backend fixes. Bugs: #240391 and #240394. * New and updated translations. More info: http://kmid2.sourceforge.net http://userbase.kde.org/KMid Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/files/

15 years, 7 months

[LAA] [ANN] Drumstick 0.3.2 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: * Fixed a drumstick-sysinfo crash, when retrieving information for an unavailable timer module. * Fixed WRK file read implementation, allowing compilation on more architectures. * Added standard arguments to all the utilities/example programs. * Added man pages for all the utilities/example programs. * New utility/example program: drumstick-drumgrid, a simple MIDI drum pattern editor/player. Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 or later Project web site http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick Online documentation http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/docs/ Downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/0.3.2/ Regards, Pedro

15 years, 7 months

[LAA] [ANN] Stretchplayer 0.501 - Time Stretching Audio Player

by Gabriel M. Beddingfield

I am pleased to release StrechPlayer 0.501, a time-stretching, pitch-shifting audio file player. It is powered by librubberband, and also features an A/B repeat. NEW IN THIS RELEASE ------------------- * No longer clicks when changing speeds or pitch. * Includes .desktop file and icon. * .deb binary package is provided, including a separate package with debugging symbols. LINKS ----- Home Page: http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/ Tarball: http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer_0.501.tar.gz Binary: Ubuntu/Karmic http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer_0.501_karmic_i38… http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer-dbg_0.501_karmic… Debian Dsc: http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer_0.501.dsc Git: http://gitorious.org/stretchplayer git://gitorious.org/stretchplayer/stretchplayer.git USING THE PROGRAM ----------------- After stretchplayer is installed, there should be an [S] icon under Multimedia or Sound. Or, you can run it from the command line 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. To play a file, click the file-open icon and select an audio file. Stretchplayer can play anything that libsndfile supports (ogg, flac, wav, etc.). However, it does /not/ support MP3 files at this time. As the file plays, slide the horizontal slider left or right to change the speed of the song. If you wish to transpose the audio, push one of the + or - buttons. INSTALLING 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/ If you are running Ubuntu Karmic or Ubuntu Jaunty, you can install the .deb packages like this (from the command line): $ sudo dpkg -i stretchplayer*_0.501_karmic_i386.deb Anyone else will need to build from source. Please read the INSTALL.txt file that comes with the taarball. Peace, Gabriel M. Beddingfield

15 years, 7 months

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Linux-audio-announce June 2010