Linux-audio-announce September 2010

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[ANN] Linux.conf.au 2011 multimedia miniconf: call for papers

by Jonathan Woithe

Continuing the tradition from past conferences, the LCA Multimedia Miniconf is back at Linux.conf.au 2011 (LCA2011). Linux.conf.au 2011 will be hosted in Brisbane, Australia from 24-29 January 2011 with the miniconfs being held over the first two days. For more information about the conference check out http://lca2011.linux.org.au/. Multimedia encapsulates a wide variety of topics: composition and playpack of video, audio and music. Submissions are now invited from those interested in giving presentations or short tutorials at the Multimedia miniconf on any topic related to opensource multimedia software, such as the following: * exciting new additions to existing software * development of new multimedia programs * how to set Linux up for multimedia composition, authoring and/or playback * great user experiences with open source multimedia software * legal issues surrounding multimedia content and its use with open source software * descriptions of multimedia workflows: tools used, process followed, and so forth * upcoming features in low-level infrastructure (JACK, ALSA, PulseAudio, etc) * any other open source multimedia topic we haven't thought of It is expected that most of the miniconf presentation slots will be around 20 minutes with question time to follow. We may be able to accommodate longer 50 minute presentations depending on the number of proposals offered. In addition, time will be allocated for 5 minute "lightning talks". Projection facilities will be available. Please note that in line with linux.conf.au guidelines miniconfs cannot receive funding, nor can they provide travel or accommodation assistance. In general presenters and attendees at miniconfs must be registered for LCA2011 although miniconf-only registration can be arranged - contact the multimedia minconf organisers for more information. To submit a proposal please send the following to lca-mm(a)lists.annodex.net or one of the organisers by Thursday 6 October 2010 00:00 UT: * your name and preferred email address * the title of your talk * a brief abstract describing what you want to talk about (up to about 500 words) * your preferred presentation length For more information about the miniconf please refer to the website http://www.annodex.org/events/lca2011_mmm/ or contact one of the organisers (Jonathan Woithe, Silvia Pfeiffer, Roderick Dornan - addresses are on the website). Regards Jonathan Woithe LCA2011 Multimedia miniconf organiser

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[ANN] Drumstick 0.5.0 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, WRK and OVE file processing are also included. This library is used in KMetronome, KMidimon and KMid2, and was formerly known as "aseqmm". Changes: * OVE file format support, contributed by Rui Fan * Optional RealtimeKit support for MIDI input thread * guiplayer simplified and optimized, with OVE format playback * Build system fixes: using visibility=hidden if it is available, exceptions, static build. 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/

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Bigband 1.2

by W.Boeke

BigBand is a program to compose real music for real musicians. Since version 1.0 it has been upgraded in many aspects, and now it is able to play with the big boys: sound can be from ALSA or from Jack, and midi events can be sent to the ALSA sequencer bus. The graphics still are handled by SDL, so portability will not be an issue provided that ALSA and Jack are available. For downloads and information: http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/bigband/index.html Here you also can listen to 3 versions of a short demo, performed by: - BigBand native (with help from our cat) - amSynth and Timidity - MiniComputer, Aeolus and Hydrogen Wouter Boeke

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Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #2 - September 2010

by Jeremy Jongepier

Dear all, I've just published the second Monthly Round-Up covering the month of August: http://linuxaudio.org/node/115 Thanks to Robin for giving me access to the linuxaudio.org site so I can now publish the Round-Ups directly on linuxaudio.org. And thanks to the people at LinuxMAO (linuxmao.org) for providing so much valuable information. Best, Jeremy

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[ANN] Jackbeat 0.7.6

by Olivier Guilyardi

Hello everyone, Jackbeat version 0.7.6 has just been released. This is a bugfix release. Homepage: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org Download: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org/downloads/jackbeat-0.7.6.tar.gz News ~~~~ - An issue which prevented Jackbeat to compile on recent 64bit Linux systems has been fixed. This affected Fedora 13, Ubuntu 10.10, Arch Linux and possibly others. - Jackbeat doesn't try and connect to PulseAudio by default anymore, since this may hang on certain systems. The PulseAudio output driver must be explicitly selected in the preferences. ChangeLog ~~~~~~~~~ jackbeat (0.7.6) * #61: fix compiling on recent x86_64 Linux systems such as Fedora 13 * do not try and connect to PulseAudio by default, it may deadlock Have fun -- Olivier

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Patchage 0.4.5, Raul 0.7.0, FlowCanvas 0.6.4 Released

by David Robillard

By popular request (i.e. two people), a new release of Patchage is out, along with its dependencies Raul and FlowCanvas. Downloads, documentation, and more information available at: http://drobilla.net/software/patchage http://drobilla.net/software/raul/ http://drobilla.net/software/flowcanvas Patchage Changes: * Install SVG icon * Fix compilation without Jack * Improve performance when dragging modules * Bump FlowCanvas dependency to 0.6.0 * Upgrade to waf 1.5.18 Raul Changes: * Add several unit tests * Use malloc'd memory for RingBuffer/SRSWQueue (instead of a new'd array) * Fancy coloured console/logging I/O (raul/log.hpp) * More flexible Path and better URI support * Atom updates, including new "Blank" Atom for storing dictionaries with URI keys (ala JavaScript "objects", but RDF compatible) * Remove stack stuff from Array and create new ArrayStack * Make Symbol and URI more opaque and use Glib string interning * Add Configuration class for app command line option handling * Use < operator in TableImpl instead of > so it needn't be defined * Add IntrusivePtr, a trivial #define of boost::intrusive_ptr which is useful for hard realtime things (since adding and dropping refs is realtime safe, which is not true of shared_ptr) * Remove TimeSlice FlowCanvas Changes: * Consistently call Item::store_location when items are moved, previous versions didn't on arrange or when dragging a selection * Fix centering (e.g. on arrange, initial view) * Upgrade to waf 1.5.18 Share and Enjoy, -dr

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QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.1.0 Out Now!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! It's been a long summer hasn't it? Bad news is that laudable 'spring cleaning' has slipped a bunch and in fact, is still on going with no end on sight, exactly as the 'uber-procrastinator' predicted! ;) Nevertheless, QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.1.0 are out now! This release marks the fact that QmidiCtl [1] is now made available from the official Maemo 5 repository [3]. So that you can download and install it directly from your N900 [4]. You'll find it on the Multimedia section. Second, QmidiCtl [1] is now fully configurable with regard to which MIDI events are sent and/or recognized. It's not MMC-exclusive anymore. Third, QmidiNet [2] also talks JACK-MIDI now. Although (very) experimentally. And you don't have to opt out on ALSA-MIDI. You can have both MIDI interfaces running as long as you please. Finally, Paul de Vries shows us a magnificent video re. How To: Setup QmidiCtl on The Nokia N900 with Renoise [5]. Alas, it's on Windows and using ipMIDI [8] as the gateway back-end. No sweat :) If Renoise [6] is to run on Linux he would use QmidiNet [2] or multimidicast [7]. Take note that the latter only does ALSA MIDI and doesn't handle MIDI SysEx messages as certain as MMC is. Kudos to Paul. See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/233 Websites: http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net Project pages: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet Downloads: - source tarballs: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.sr… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.x8… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.x8… - binary packages (Maemo 5): http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: QmidiNet and QmidiCtl are both free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. References: [1] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net [2] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net [3] Maemo.org - Home of the Maemo community http://www.maemo.org [4] Maemo.org - Downloads: QmidiCtl http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl [5] How To: Setup QmidiCtl on The Nokia N900 with Renoise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hnZwnAdsk [6] Renoise http://www.renoise.com [7] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [8] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN http://nerds.de Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

15 years

EMutrix v0.1 released

by Camilo Polymeris

Hello EMutrix is a simple, easy-to-use graphical mixer application for EMU 1010 based cards like the E-MU 1212m, E-Mu 1616m and E-MU 1820 models. I am releasing the first source package of EMutrix, version 0.1 at http://emutrix.googlecode.com It is mostly functional, allowing arbitrary routing between the card's multiple inputs, outputs and ALSA, setting clock rate and pads. More features to come in future versions. Try it out if you have an E-Mu card! Any comments welcome. Greetings, Camilo

15 years

FluidSynth 1.1.2 has been released!

by David Henningsson

On the behalf of the FluidSynth developer team, I'm proud to announce version 1.1.2 of FluidSynth! Bigger changes include a redesign of threads and thread safety, and a new preferred build system - CMake. Other changes include settings for MIDI bank selection and voice overflow, and a fair amount of minor enhancements and bug fixes. The latest release can be downloaded at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/files/ A more complete changelog is at: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ChangeLog1_1_2 For this release, I would like to give a big thanks to: * Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, for the new build system, and a lot of bug fixes * The jOrgan community (Sven Meier, Bernd Casper, and others) who have been very helpful in testing the new release * Ebrahim Mayat for taking care of the MacOS X port * All other people who have tested the code before its release, suggested patches and helped to trace down bugs, as well as being active on the mailing list, helping the developer team to take the right decisions. Now go enjoy the new release! David Henningsson FluidSynth Developer Team

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ON2: Test Signals, 22 - 24 October, Berlin

by Daniel James

Dates for “ON2: Test Signals”, which will bring together software developers and radio practitioners to demonstrate, discuss and develop new ways of applying software to radio, have been announced. ON2 will take place from Friday 22 October - Sun 24 October in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany. “Far from killing radio, the internet is actually behind a remarkable resurgence,” says festival producer Adam Thomas from Sourcefabric, the not-for-profit organisation responsible for the leading open source radio software Campcaster. “We’re seeing an increasing number of community and non-commercial stations use software and the internet in hugely innovative ways to boost listener figures across all platforms.” Two such stations, reboot.fm, Berlin’s free cultural radio station and user-generated radio pioneers Open Broadcast from Switzerland, are official partners of the festival. Also appearing at the festival will be radio futurologist James Cridland, Mozilla Drumbeat’s Henrik Moltke, and representatives from Creative Commons, 64 Studio, Unikom, Global Radio, RadioDNS, newthinking, Mekong ICT and Radio Aporee. Alongside many other radio and software organisations, they will provide three days of expert keynotes, open presentations, hands-on workshops, one-on-one mentoring and social events. ON2 are currently considering applications to hold a workshop or presentation in the fields of software and radio. To apply, please write to contact(a)sourcefabric.org with a summary of your idea and project. Public events will be free to attend, but sign up is required. The festival will be of particular interest to radio station managers, open source developers, web entrepreneurs, hardware hackers and journalists. The festival is an official satellite event of transmediale, festival for art and digital culture and is the first in a series of open-source workshop events supported by the Free Culture Incubator. The festival is also partnered by Mute, a magazine dedicated to exploring culture and politics after the net. This is the second version of the festival following one held in June 2010 in Basel, Switzerland. More information: Festival wiki: http://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/ON2 Sourcefabric: http://www.sourcefabric.org reboot.fm: http://reboot.fm Open Broadcast: http://www.openbroadcast.ch transmediale: http://transmediale.de Mute magazine: http://metamute.org/ Free Culture Incubator: www.transmediale.de/en/fci Haus der Kulturen der Welt: http://www.hkw.de/ or write to Adam at contact(a)sourcefabric.org ---- ends

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Linux-audio-announce September 2010