Linux-audio-announce June 2010

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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 to the jack audio graph a mono amplifier input/output port, and a FX mono input with two (stereo) output ports. 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 0.09.0 comes with following changes : * make distortion a multiband distortion * fix bug in resample IR-files * resample IR-files now on-the-fly * add insert point ports to the effect chain * add --optimization flag for configure the build * switch to double precision instead of single precision * fix bug in reconfigure convolver when preset change * add patch from Peder Hedlund, build against gtk-2.12.9 and gcc-4.3.1 * add faust 0.9.24 to the "good_faust_versions" have fun ________________________________________________________________________ NOTE:// Andreas have found and solved a bug in the IR-file resampler, that means that all the files you have resampled with guitarix, are "NOT RESAMPLED", only the header was change. To get rid of this, please remove the resampled files and rename the files with the extension .orig (remove .orig) That sucks, sorry for that. hermann _________________________________________________________________________ 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/ here is a nice YouTube video about what you can do with guitarix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdlJZQT3zY4 (Thanks stevie :-)) ________________________________________________________________________ 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

14 years, 10 months

[ANN] KMetronome 0.10.0 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with KDE4 user interface, based on the ALSA sequencer. Changes in 0.10.0 * Custom patterns, with graphic editor and import/export as text (RFE #2517833) * Show banks, programs and note names from an instrument definition file in .INS format * Main window layout options: standard tool bar, hide action buttons * New German translation, thanks to Rene Landert * Updated Spanish, Czech and French translations Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 More info http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kmetronome.shtml Sources http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/files/kmetronome/0.10.0/ Regards, Pedro

14 years, 10 months

Klactoveedsedstene v2.0 released

by Viggo Simonsen

14 years, 10 months

Rivendell v1.7.2

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.7.2. 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: Fixed a bug in RDCatch that could cause upload/download event notifications to fail to update properly. Fixed a bug in RDAirPlay that resulted in zombie processes when using RLMs that fork new processes. Cleaned up the init script to make the 'reload' target more reliable. 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. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "No, `Eureka!' is Greek for `This bath is too hot!'" | | -- Dr. Who | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

14 years, 10 months

Ardour 2.8.9 released

by Paul Davis

Just a couple of days since 2.8.8, and Ardour 2.8.9 is available from http://ardour.org/download Why? It turned out that the infamous mute bug (which caused the mute button to do nothing) was actually not fixed in 2.8.8 (or prior versions where this has been claimed). This has been one of the worst regressions of recent versions of Ardour, and I mistakenly blamed packagers and distributions for it. Thankfully ardour.org member the_CLA spent time with me on IRC and we finally proved to my satisfaction that the bug was really in Ardour. Its now fixed, hopefully forever. In addition, a new Ardour user on OS X pointed out two rather unfortunate problems that have now been fixed: * If a plugin has existing presets, the preset selector in the plugin editor window would steal key events, possibly causing an unintentional (and unrecoverable) reset of the plugin state (very annoying) * All canvas items except for the text used to label and regions could have their color adjusted. These two exceptions have now been added to the set of things that can be tweaked by, for example, a color-blind user, or someone who just wants dark colors for tracks and white text on region names. Many thanks to the_CLA and Maurits Lamers for patiently getting me to understand these 3 bugs.

14 years, 10 months

Ardour 2.8.8 is released

by Paul Davis

Finally, its June and Ardour 2.8.8 is finally here. Although this is primarily a bug-fix release, some of the "bugs" fixed are so pervasive and significant that they could almost count as new features. In particular, automation editing has finally arrived at a place that people with experience on other DAWs may consider actually usable. Issues with alignment of new and existing recorded material are addressed too, and there are lots of other bug fixes for issues small and large (including 3 or 4 crashing bugs). Thanks to motivation provided by the Mixbus project, there are also yet more improvements to AudioUnit plugin handling on OS X. Anybody using Ardour 2.8.7 or earlier should upgrade to enjoy increased stability and better functionality. This is the last feature-adding release of the 2.8 series. The next release of Ardour will be version 3.0-alpha1 (unless notable regressions are discovered in 2.8.8). IMPORTANT FIXES Dramatic improvements to automation editing so that it more or less works as anyone might expect. DOWNSIDE: for this release, the display of automation data is not updated in realtime while in write/touch mode. This will be fixed in a future release. Correct very strange and erratic punch recording behaviour that would create regions on tracks that were not record enabled Fix crash when zooming canvas repeatedly Fix handling of files larger than 2GB that could cause very slow reload of existing sessions (speedup was from 9 minutes to 30 seconds) Subtle but important change that may fix issues with recording not placing material in the correct location on the timeline Correctly order signal processing after adding a send (fixes issues with placement of recorded material) Regions overlapped by 2 other regions will now no longer semi-randomly fail to be audible during playback Region exports and bounces now use region fade in and fade out curves. USEFUL FIXES Save & recall port insert latency values JACK Latency = 256 menu option now works Importing files with the "Sequence files" option now works Cleanup LV2 "external gui" extension support Clear solo state when deleting a route that is soloed Notify user that deleting a route will save the session state Ellipsize long names in the track/bus inspector Force exported AIFF files to be big-endian Anchor the crossfade start and end points so that they cannot be edited Correctly retain MIDI bindings for global transport controls Do not burn 100% of a CPU's available cycles if disconnected from JACK Put the fixed size columns (check marks) on the left side of the mixer's track and group lists for easier access to their functionality Fix strange behaviour when dragging region(s) towards time zero Rationalize track selection and range selection Make selecting a range in mouse range mode work even if there is already a time selection When splitting N-channel regions to mono regions, each new region shows up as its own region, not a child of the original Clearing an automation track of data no longer generates an error when next loading the session ("Cannot reconstitute XML history node ...") HANDY NEW FEATURES Include links in Help menu to the tutorial and reference manuals switch from ctrl-drag to alt-drag for "drag-selection-as-region" change automation track selection model slightly so that auto tracks are highlighted as expected. only show range boxes when the automation will actually get edited. clicking an automation track should show the editor-mixer for the parent track Configurable behaviour when an N channel track plays a region that has less than N channels (silence or replicate the last channel). Default is silence. OS X ONLY Significantly updated version of the GTK GUI toolkit in use, which fixes a number of issues including... Multiple monitors now supported correctly Various fixes for handling AudioUnits, particularly UAD Use Apple's ExtAudioFile API for file types not otherwise handled on OS X (MP3, AAC and others) Use libsndfile to try to get timestamp info because Apple has no API for this Do not categorize AU plugins using the "subtype" property because its meaningless. Use "type" instead which is coarser but has a clear meaning. Added a shortcut to Volumes (external disk drives) when opening a session Add option to enable/disable translation on OS X Remove automation mode selector from AU plugin view window, since it doesn't do anything useful Correctly handle AU parameter types, so that more parameters are available for automation If a plugin has a Carbon-based editor, properly close that window when deleting the plugin (e.g. when closing the session) TRANSLATION UPDATES Spanish (Pablo Fernández) French (Raphaël Doursenaud) CONTRIBUTORS Carl Hetherington, Lucus, DHess, Ben Loftis and Old Man Davis

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Linux-audio-announce June 2010