Linux-audio-announce November 2012

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by Nils Gey

A wild crosspost appears! Laborejo, Esperanto for "Workshop", is used to craft music through notation. It is a Lilypond GUI frontend, a MIDI creator and finally a tool collection to inspire and help you compose. It works by reducing music-redundancy and by seperating layout and data. Before you read the details make sure to connect to Laborejos Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus! https://www.facebook.com/Laborejo https://twitter.com/#!/Laborejo https://plus.google.com/b/116744898976321238325/ Screenshot: http://www.laborejo.org/images/screenshots/latestscreenshot.png This is the release of version 0.4 Download: https://github.com/nilsgey/Laborejo/tarball/0.4 Dependencies: http://www.laborejo.org/documentation Linux Instructions: Unpack, cd into the created directoy, execute: ./laborejo-qt Then use the number- and cursor keys for immediate success! Check Help->Manual for navigational and note/rest entry keys. Everything else is in the menus. New since version 0.3 (highlights): * Lyrics are visible under the tracks directly and aligned to their notes * Nicer cursor :) * New dynamics like fp and sfz. * New commandset for note speed entry with the numblock. * Colored always-visible Marker in the GUI to indicate track groups. Also displays small instrument name for better orientation * Lilypond binary and pdf viewer are now a config variable * More Subsitutions (assign a pre-defined group to host notes. Group gets transposed and scaled accordingly). Final Fantasy arpeggio, common melody figures etc. * Many bugfixes and small improvements that make the program work like you expected it to do anyway Most important known problems: * This is Alpha Grade Software. Don't use for long-term work. However, the produced midis and PDFs will last forever. * There is no built-in jack midi output yet. You have to export midi files. * Documentation is nearly non-existent. * Deleting selected objects may result in strange gui behaviour. Nothing a save/reload can't fix for now. Have fun, it would be nice to hear from you! Nils http://www.laborejo.org

12 years, 10 months

[ANN] libltc-1.0.2

by Robin Gareus

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi LADs, I'm pleased to declare http://ltcsmpte.sourceforge.net/ as deprecated and release libltc-1.0.2 into the wild. Linear (or Longitudinal) Timecode (LTC) is an encoding of SMPTE timecode data as a Manchester-Biphase encoded audio signal. The audio signal is commonly recorded on a VTR track or other storage media. libltc is a LGPL library which provides functionality to encode and decode LTC to/from timecode. source: https://github.com/x42/libltc documentation: http://x42.github.com/libltc/ In addition to a major API overhaul, libltc adds support for vari-speed en/decoding and reverse LTC. Furthermore the LTC decoder's accuracy and efficiency has been improved. The various tools that came with ltcsmpte have been migrated to https://github.com/x42/ltc-tools . A fully functional LTC slave and latency free encoder can be found in Ardour3 since svn rev. 13390. Many thanks to Chris Goddard who spent countless hours staring at scopes, listening to LTC and doing real-world tests to assure sample accuracy and quality in general. Thanks to Jaromír Mikeš and Alessio Treglia libltc has already found its way into debian. happy A/V syncing, robin PS. The timecode conversion functions of ltcsmpte are in progress to find their way into a standalone library which is still in the works. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQmUUhAAoJEKCQvOAs9X8Ec1MP/iarf4wfOyjxqA2HhDz4dZIS QwUa7u7G3XwuJeHLnRPqgXxAyf9sh8lbjbGdz36TxCPU+7uWOnyQ9bjJ5OnNObae c0J3etwhzbSMAlWBykLgUh7rGfhd998wArqnIYmruC8OwNrSNi0A1SWITwN1IGc/ tWJAz0RfTcLT89OekaH2HQOmiLolOkKP5b1MjeMb+cRK/V8Q2p1RFDzYbUTbqiAo 7htOMNGlRu9DkGq8PGeTc5C4IeLkktpvv/WatSTbFWazc9g/tJqlAzUUMeghWHN/ UanlPQC5p/a9ETFXlcmUFpW+RVE3M6nNCrHoi5EZiK3PkPdFJYvPFe6o3ITrKwkY tBntWjp+j/nrOHeloBQLMKHBQEpqkNJYNKTIoJlvJTCoQH3798APwE2DHDW0ImJl 9tvu7otjCTsWECJ6CWqIo7sLcKfHsmtLm7kDiwdeIAnut230FwBAd7v/tGDBtZDh 7/JmrvWYQ37NXI2onl8hW3CJAfaAv7GAEeisAdzjADMnZb17uCRPRm8qw/StrjPS od7k/oEcrxWSNk7m6WIg2M6NfzB1N1tGMSVxiK3f5YMb91CZ/buRDC4myWMMKibf ST+HNhjWI9VpmOUymGqLV0jpkc4Gmym0pjqDfndCEkgVMmzUCtK/861ou4LS7GUq YqFur38zbcUhsd+E3z6Z =b5Mo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

12 years, 10 months

First Release of GeoSonix Port to Linux

by Chris Graham

GeoSonix is a graphical music sequencer and music composition environment I've been developing for over a year after forking it from IanniX. I contributed to development of the previous version of IanniX, but my goals differed from those of the IanniX team. What distinguishes GeoSonix from IanniX is that it has much better support for MIDI as well as built in support for the control and generation of rhythmic music harmony, and "tonal music", the ability to incorporate bitmap images into music generation, and many other unprecedented capabilities for music composition. I will be continuing to extend GeoSonix in these directions. For examples of what GeoSonix can do, see my Vimeo site: vimeo.com/user4679000/videos (and these are a tiny taste of its capabilities). Previously GeoSonix has been only available for Mac (and earlier, for Windows) but I'm pleased to announce a first version for Linux. You can download a binary version here (64 bit): bitbucket.org/chrisgr99/geosonix/downloads. Source code is also available from bitbucket.org/chrisgr99/geosonix It's based on the Qt. Warning: I developed and tested the Linux version on the one Linux computer I have available here but I don't have another to confirm portability. Please let me know ASAP if you find any problems, by email to chrisgr99 at gmail dot com. I welcome comments and suggestions. - Chris Graham

12 years, 10 months

hexter DSSI softsynth 1.0.0 release

by Sean Bolton

On the eighth anniversary of hexter's first public release, I am pleased to announce the new 1.0.0 version. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dssi/files/hexter/1.0.0/ hexter is a software synthesizer that models the sound generation of a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. It can easily load most DX7 patch bank files, edit those patches via a built-in editor or MIDI sys-ex messages, and recreate the sound of the DX7 with greater accuracy than any previous open-source emulation (that the author is aware of...) hexter operates as a plugin for the DSSI Soft Synth Interface. Release 1.0.0 adds significant capability to hexter over the 0.6.2 release, including: * An integrated patch editor (finally!) * The option to use floating-point math in the synthesis code instead of fixed-point. * Performance optimizations. * Better patch bank loading, thanks to Martin Tarenskeen. * MIDI non-registered parameter (NRPN) support, thanks to Jamie Bullock. hexter is written and copyright (c) 2012 by Sean Bolton, and licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. More information about hexter and DSSI can be found at: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html

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Linux-audio-announce November 2012