Linux-audio-announce November 2012

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by David Robillard

The first unified LV2 release, LV2 1.0.0, is out. This release merges the previous lv2core package with all the official extension packages, as well as example plugins, lv2specgen, and additional data. From a developer point of view, the biggest change is that all LV2 API headers can be used by simply checking for the single pkg-config package "lv2" (for compatibility the previous "lv2core" package is still installed). Implementations are encouraged to abandon the "copy paste headers" practice and depend on this package instead. With this release, several new extensions have become stable that together greatly increase the power of LV2: atom, log, parameters, patch, port-groups, port-props, resize-port, state, time, worker. Download: http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2-1.0.0.tar.bz2 Documentation and more detailed change logs: http://lv2plug.in/ns/ More information about LV2: http://lv2plug.in/ Enjoy, -dr

9 years, 12 months

[ANN] KMidimon 0.7.4 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMidimon is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and KDE4 user interface. Changes in 0.7.4 * requires Drumstick >= 0.5 * load and play OVE files (Overture), contributed by Rui Fan * option to request real-time priority on MIDI input thread * option to (not) resize columns while recording * better reporting of file loading errors * revised universal sysex messages translation Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 More info http://kmidimon.sourceforge.net Sources http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmidimon/files/ Regards, Pedro

11 years, 9 months

xwax 1.3 release

by Mark Hills

I'm pleased to announce the latest release of xwax -- DJ software for Linux. http://xwax.org/ http://xwax.org/releases/xwax-1.3.tar.gz The most significant new feature is the ability to navigate the music library by tempo (beats-per-minute, BPM) xwax is open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls. It's designed for both beat mixing and scratch mixing. Needle drops, pitch changes, scratching, spinbacks and rewinds are all supported, and feel just like the audio is pressed onto the vinyl itself. The focus is on an accurate vinyl feel which is efficient, stable and fast. Users of xwax 1.3 may also be interested in a simple and convenient tool to detect the tempo of music files: http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/bpm-tools/ -- Mark

12 years, 5 months

Vee One Suite 0.2.0 - The second public release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, The new gang-of-three's now barely consolidated into one semi-official 'Vee One Suite'. Of course, as time goes by, inexorably, the still self-described 'old-school', 'proto-toys', just become a little older and mature by the day. Eventually, they will rot. But not today. Same old features, still the norm: * a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support; * a LV2 instrument plugin. Here follows the news from the change-log, common to all synthv1, samplv1 and drumkv1, unless specifically stated otherwise: - New Reset (all values to preset default) button. - New parameter A / B comparison toggle buttons. - New element exclusive Group sounding setting. (drumkv1) - New Velocity sensitivity configuration control. - Increased baseline polyphony from 24 to 32 voices. - Mouse-wheel support on combo-dial knob widgets. - New command line options: --help and --version information. (stand-alone JACK client forms only) - Voice re-triggering fast-release fix. - LV2 event buffer recycle fix. - Prepared for relative filesystem paths on preset file references. - Audio sample file browser support for old 8.3 file-name formats. (samplv1, drumkv1) - Audio sample waveform widget context menu added. (samplv1) And here are the (old-school) buddies: * synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.2.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.2.0-6.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.2.0-6.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.2.0-6.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… * samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler samplv1 is an(other) old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.2.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.2.0-6.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.2.0-6.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.2.0-6.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… * drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler. drumkv1 is (yet) an(other) s an old-school all-digital drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net website: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumkv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.2.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.2.0-2.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.2.0-2.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.2.0-2.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… see also: http:/www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/580 enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

12 years, 5 months

[ANN] Radium V1.9.6

by Kjetil Matheussen

Radium is a music editor with a new and better interface. It's inspired by trackers, but has fewer limitations and uses graphics to show musical data. Screenshot: =========== http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/radium-1-9-5.png Source code: ============ http://archive.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?C=M;O=D Homepage: ========= http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ Source code repository: ======================= https://github.com/kmatheussen/radium Most important changes 1.9.1 -> 1.9.6: ====================================== * Undo sample change * Text looks better. * Upgrade bdw-gc to 7.2d * Play block when pressing "Alt Gr" or Right Shift alone. * Menu improvements and clean ups. * Gradient color tempo-show track. * Midi Input port can be configured. * Radium window icon * Filename is shown for the Sampler Instrument and the FluidSynth instrument * Current "chip" (mixer object) is drawn in more distinct colors. * Fixed release value in Sampler instrument. * Notes can be added while playing. (works quite okay) * Keyboard is functional in the font and color setting windows. * Menu option to configure system font. * GUI should look okay also for other system font sizes than 8. * Chip (mixer object) name is updated properly. * Demo-song clean-up. * The looks when zoomin in on a single line is cleaner. (Left shift + up/down) * Never expand editor area when changing track width * Various build fixes from Dominique Michel * Use system font size for menues, not 8 * Adjust slider text position * Dont crash if loading plugin fails * Give editor keyboard-focus when clicking it * Option to set number of lines to scroll when adding notes. (suggested by Florian Paul Schmidt) (Ctrl-1, Ctrl-2, etc. similar to Renoise) * Right click to reset slider value * Properly load samples. (Thanks to Erik de Castro Lopo for explaining the libsndfile API) * Avoid playing samples two times (almost exactly on top of each other) when clicking the filename of a sample. (Bug found by Florian Paul Schmidt) * Make bindir and libdir overridable in the Makefile. Requested by Dominique Michel to easier make ebuilds for Radium. * Support several paths in LADSPA_PATH (Bug reported by Florian Paul Schmidt) * Fix readline build errors (Bug reported by Florian Paul Schmidt)

12 years, 5 months

QMidiArp-0.5.1 released

by Frank Kober

Hi, I'm happy to announce release 0.5.1 of QMidiArp. It brings some new features for Arp patterns suggested by gionnico on the tracker. New 't' and 'g' tokens provide semitone shifts, and repeating '0' within chords play out several notes even when only one note is pressed on the keyboard. It also brings some sort of automation for the parameter storage (see feature list below) that might be interesting when working with live sequencing. I've updated the demo_seqlfo.qmax that you'll find in /usr/share/qmidiarp/examples and you can download a yoshimi xmz file made for that demo, from the sourceforge qmidiarp 0.5.1 folder. Check it out, it's a nice sequence I think. Enjoy playing with QMidiArp Frank ------------------- Everything as usual is on http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net and the direct download link is http://sf.net/projects/qmidiarp/files/qmidiarp/0.5.1/qmidiarp-0.5.1.tar.bz2… Main changes are listed here: qmidiarp-0.5.1 (2012-11-17) New Features o Global Storages have new features accessible through right-click on each storage location. You can choose if at pattern end another storage location is automatically selected and create dynamic pattern sequences. o Global Storage now has a position pacman indicator for each module o Clicking on the top button in the global store window now raises the selected module window o When Jack is not available at program start, show a message window o Introduce semitone shifts in Arp patterns (request 3574549 by gionnico) o Allow repetition of the 0 note within chords to stack notes when only a single note is played on the keyboard (request 3574549 by gionnico) o The module input-output panels on the left can now be hidden, this leaves some more space when running several modules side-by-side Fixed Bugs o When starting from scratch, qmidiarp sometimes didn't start with internal clock o When editing an arp pattern while running, qmidiarp crashed when the pattern length reached zero o Deleting the last module sometimes crashed qmidiarp o Trigger mode sometimes caused hanging when a new note was received o Global Storage locations did not get updated when module names changed General Changes o There have been many changes toward realtime compatibility under the hood. In particular, there are no more memory allocations/frees in the realtime component. o LFO Waveforms with high resolutions and lengths appear with finer streaks o The Mute state of each module is no longer changed when a parameter restore is done o Overall CPU usage should be slightly reduced

12 years, 5 months

Suil 0.6.6

by David Robillard

Suil 0.6.6 is out. Suil is a lightweight C library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. Suil transparently presents UIs written in any toolkit as the desired widget type of host programs, so hosts do not have to depend on foreign toolkits. This release fixes embedding Gtk in Qt, adds support for native Windows UIs in Gtk, and fixes a few bugs. Updating is recommended, particularly for Qt hosts. Suil home: http://drobilla.net/software/suil/ Download: http://download.drobilla.net/suil-0.6.6.tar.bz2 Changes: * Fix embedding Gtk in Qt as a child widget (support reparenting) * Support for wrapping native Windows UIs in Gtk2 * Gracefully handle UIs with no port_event method * Replace host provided features that match Suil implemented features, rather than passing UIs duplicate features * Disable timestamps in HTML documentation for reproducible build Enjoy, -dr

12 years, 5 months

guitarix release version 0.24.3

by hermann meyer

We are proud to announce the release of guitarix2-0.24.3. Guitarix is a modular mono tube amplifier simulation for jack, with additional mono/stereo effect racks which can be filled with in-build effect plug-ins as well as with external LADSPA plug-ins. Presets can be stored for single effects and complete rack settings. All UI controllers could connected over jack midi via MIDI learn with your external MIDI controllers. Guitarix works on LINUX, FreeBSD, and MAC OSX Installer (binary) package for MAC OSX is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/OSX/ This release comes with the following changes: * fix new unsaved banks return no valid iter (GTK warning) * add new nice dark-style rc-file Guitarix is licensed under the GPL Please refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files have fun guitarix development team

12 years, 5 months

Programmable Metronome

by Grekim Jennings

I'm pleased to announce the release of a programmable metronome. The click sound itself is built from up to 8 octaves of sound with some natural resonance. The fundamental frequency is user choosable. You are able to audition tempo and click sound through ALSA. Importantly, the output can also be a 16 or 24 bit wave file for import into a DAW. You can append to your click track file, changing tempo or meter as you go. And best of all, you can read in a tempo map from a text file. Grekim The download is found in the "accessories" part of the page: www.acousticrefuge.com/mixer4.htm P.S. Someday, I'll find interesting names to these gadgets.

12 years, 5 months

[ANN] Radium V1.9.1

by Kjetil Matheussen

Radium is an open source music editor with a novel interface. It's inspired by trackers, but has fewer limitations and uses graphics to show musical data. Screenshot: =========== http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4814054/radium-1.9.1.png Source code: ============ http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4814054/radium-1.9.1.tar.gz 64 bit binary: =============== http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4814054/radium-1.9.1_linux64.tar.gz (Requires GNU libc 2.14 or newer. It should work with Ubuntu 12, Fedora 17 or Mint 13) Homepage: ========= http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ (It's not quite updated, I can't seem to login to the web server right now.) Source code repository: ======================= https://github.com/kmatheussen/radium Most important changes 0.67.1 -> 1.9.1: ======================================= * Audio. * A quick-to-use modular mixer. Jack ports can be inserted anywhere. * VST plugins and instruments (native, not via wine) * LADSPA * Fluidsynth instrument * 20 STK instruments. (Physical modelling) * Sampler instrument (soundfiles, xi instruments, soundfonts) * Multiband compressor (http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/screenshot-multiband.png) * Built-in filters and equalizers. * Simple arpeggiator * Drunk input velocity * Various GUI improvements * Pitch expand made available in the menues. * Tapiir plugin * Zita reverb plugin * Demo song * Reconfigured keybindings * Various bug fixes Acknowledgment: =============== Full list: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/development.php Especially thanks to Yann Orlarey for Faust, Julius O. Smith III for the Faust filter and compressor code and more, Romain Michon for the Faust STK instruments, Fons Adriaensen for the amazing Zita reverb sound (and Julius O. Smith III for the Faust implemention of it), and Rui Nuno Capela for QTractor. (Plugin GUI code are based on code taken from QTractor.)

12 years, 5 months

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Linux-audio-announce November 2012