Linux-audio-announce December 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

10 years, 8 months

[LAA] [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

12 years, 5 months

[LAA] First release of Wiimidi

by Roland Mas

I'm both pleased and surprised to announce the first real public release of Wiimidi, which I've arbitrarily numbered 0.5. Wiimidi is a gateway for turning a Wiimote, possibly with an attached accessory such as a Guitar Hero drumkit, into a source of MIDI events. While that's far from original, I seem to have gained a very excited user who encouraged me to actually make the program more visible (hence this email) and to add features, to the point that now it may be useful beyond just my own personal use case. The aforementioned user apparently used it with a hacked Wiimote as a pedal board during a jam session, and reports that it all went fine (hence his excitement) The “interesting” features that may or may not differenciate Wiimidi from other similar projects: - customisable mapping of the Wiimote buttons (and drumkit pads) to arbitrary actions; - actions are either MIDI signals (notes, program changes, controller events, or actually any arbitrary MIDI messages), action on the Wiimote LEDs (on, off, toggle, or even an animation for more visible feedback), or a set of such actions: one button could send a program-change and change the LED status to reflect on it; - actions can be grouped in "cycles", and a button/pad can then execute a different set of actions on each hit; useful for toggles or to go through presets; - drumkit pads can generate different actions based on the strength of the hit, allowing for open/closed hi-hat sounds without a separate control for instance. For more information, a little documentation and the pointers to the actual code, see the Wimidi page at: http://roland.entierement.nu/pages/wiimidi.html [About the name: I'm aware that there are several other projects around with the Wiimidi name; however, none of them seem to have seen any activity in recent years. Whether mine will follow the trend or break it, only time will tell.] Roland. -- Roland Mas One... two... one, two, many, lots! -- Lias, in Soul music (Terry Pratchett)

13 years

[LAA] [ANN] CAPS 0.9.1

by Tim Goetze

CAPS 0.9.1 ========== The C* Audio Plugin Suite is a selection of popular effects, unique filters and generators. For the digital guitarist, CAPS offers a range of processors recreating the formation of tone in traditional instrument amplification. Beyond sound quality, central design considerations are latency-free realtime operation, modest resource demands and meaningful control interfaces. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html This release contains major improvements particularly in the area of guitar signal processing, notably in the AmpVTS and CabinetIV plugins. These are the first iterations of the Amp and Cabinet designs that their author is well and truly happy with. Also worth noting here is the Compress plugin, a completely new design featuring optional oversampled soft saturation/limiting. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#AmpVTS http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#CabinetIV http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#Compress http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#AutoFilter All plugins have been subject to further development, speedups, refinement and polishing. In many cases, this has been accompanied by the consolidation of shared or duplicate functions into a single circuit; for example, the AutoFilter plugin now fulfills the roles of the old SweepVF and AutoWah units. Many obsolete plugins have been removed, and everywhere else, port names, layouts, value ranges, defaults etc have been changed as well. Upgrading from previous releases is encouraged nonetheless. Enjoy!

13 years

[LAA] [LAD] Guitarix release 0.25.1

by hermann meyer

We are proud to announce the release of guitarix2-0.25.1 Guitarix is a mono tube amplifier simulation for jack, with additional mono/stereo effect racks witch can be filled with some in-build effects as well as with external LADSPA plugins. Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ After having some discussions with David Robillard (thanks for your patience, David) I realize that I need to push out a update in order to avoid a possible violation of the LV2 specs, so guitarix2-0.25.1 is out, those how use the last V0.25.0, are strongly recommended to update. * GxAmplifier tube 12ax7 tonestack sovtek cabinet 4x12 * GxAmplifier-II tube 12AT7 tonestack soldano cabinet AC30 * GxAmplifier-III tube 6C16 tonestack bassman cabinet 1x15 * GxAmplifier-IV tube 6V6 tonestack soldano cabinet mesa * GxAmplifier-V tube 6DJ8 tonestack ampeg cabinet HighGain there are mono and stereo versions of those amps included in the bundle. Thanks goes to Richard Dalton from http://www.Ampskindesigns.com for given me permission to use (and distribute) his work within a GNU GPL project, many thanks Richard. thanks goes as well to David Robillard for his great work on the LV2 specs and to Rui Nuno Capela for implement them so excellent in qtractor. Please check it out and give feedback if you find a problem. Please refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ have fun guitarix development team _______________________________________________ happy new year to all

13 years

[LAA] Announcing midisnoop-0.1.0!

by Devin Anderson

I'm happy to announce the first release of midisnoop! midisnoop is a simple MIDI monitor and prober. You can use it to monitor a MIDI device and/or software, and to send MIDI messages to a MIDI port to see how the device/software responds. midisnoop supports both ALSA and JACK MIDI ports using the RtMidi library. `midisnoop` is available at: http://midisnoop.googlecode.com/ Please report bugs using the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/midisnoop/issues/list If you like `midisnoop` and have ideas that can make it better and/or want to keep up with its progress, join the users group: http://groups.google.com/group/midisnoop-users If you're a developer and want to contribute to `midisnoop`, join the development group: http://groups.google.com/group/midisnoop-development Thanks, -- Devin Anderson surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/ midisnoop - http://midisnoop.googlecode.com/ psinsights - http://psinsights.googlecode.com/ synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/

13 years

[LAA] Mup 6.1 Music Publisher

by support＠arkkra.com

The Mup music publication program version 6.1 is now available. Mup produces very high quality PostScript music files, or MIDI files, based on a text input file. Mup has been under active development since 1992, and is a a full featured program that can handle almost any kind of music, instrumental or vocal, including tablature, shaped notes, guitar grids, alternate tunings, user defined symbols, transposition, macros, cross staff stems and beams, and much more. It handles all layout details automatically, but also lets the user make adjustments as they wish. Mup was previously available only as shareware, but beginning with 6.1 it is now available for free under a BSD-style license. Version 6.1 includes all features of the previous shareware version, as well as having a new feature to automatically do gradual MIDI changes. For more information, visit http://www.arkkra.com

13 years

[LAA] [LAD] Guitarix release 0.25.0

by hermann meyer

We are proud to announce the release of guitarix2-0.25.0 Guitarix is a mono tube amplifier simulation for jack, with additional mono/stereo effect racks witch can be filled with some in-build effects as well as with external LADSPA plugins. Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ This release introduce the first LV2 plugs created from the guitarix amps. Well, they will perfectly fit into hotel sierra * GxAmplifier tube 12ax7 tonestack sovtek cabinet 4x12 * GxAmplifier-II tube 12AT7 tonestack soldano cabinet AC30 * GxAmplifier-III tube 6C16 tonestack bassman cabinet 1x15 * GxAmplifier-IV tube 6V6 tonestack soldano cabinet mesa * GxAmplifier-V tube 6DJ8 tonestack ampeg cabinet HighGain there are mono and stereo versions of those amps included in the bundle. Thanks goes to Richard Dalton from http://www.Ampskindesigns.com for given me permission to use (and distribute) his work within a GNU GPL project, many thanks Richard. thanks goes as well to David Robillard for his great work on the LV2 specs and to Rui Nuno Capela for implement them so excellent in qtractor. Please check it out and give feedback if you find a problem. Please refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ have fun guitarix development team

13 years

[LAA] Qtractor 0.5.7 - The Hotel Sierra is open, come on in!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, Yeah. Not much to tell about the times I'm afraid. But let me wish you all a merry and great new year, following the one which end is nigh. Just in case you wanna party, feel welcome, by all means: Qtractor 0.5.7 (hotel sierra) is open, come on in! Release highlights: * LV2 Options and Buf-size support (NEW) * Location markers/bar (NEW) * MIDI editor line-drawing (NEW) * Punch & loop recording compatibility (FIX) * Untangled LV2 UI parameter communication (FIX) * Dropped libSLV2 support, honoring libLILV for good (FIX) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.x8… - quick start guide & user manual: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Loop and punch in/out ranges may now get set simultaneously, may even overlap each other. However, punch in/out range recording will always prevail over any loop recording takes. - LV2 Worker/Schedule now supporting multi-instance vs. single-UI scenarios. - LV2 Options and Buf-size extension support added. - Fixed an off-by-one-tick bug on MIDI file input which was leaving spurious zero-length runt notes at the end of a MIDI clip, if a note-on coincides with the ending/split point (on ticket issued by Jonathan H. Pickard, thanks). - Good old SLV2 library support for LV2 plug-ins (libslv2) is now irrevocably deprecated, or better said, completely wiped-out from the LV2 host code, now considered extinct. - LV2 UI parameter updates are now asynchronously detached from the source GUI widget thread, in attempt to improve cross-GUI-toolkit responsiveness, specially focused on LV2 plugins with a GTK based UI (eg. amsynth, triceratops, etc.). - Make sure LV2 UI parameters (input control ports) get updated when loading a genuine LV2 state preset. - Improved the (custom) tempo spin-box widget signal(ing) processing and dispatching. - Show proper pointing cursor and location tool-tip while dragging any of the time ruler markers (including latest location markers/bar). - On saving as an archive/zip session file (suffix .qtz) include only those files that are actually referenced by live clips arrangement. - Ongoing integration of location markers infrastructure (time-scale and MIDI-file support). - Free-hand/linear retouching of event values, while on the MIDI clip editor's view pane below the main piano-roll (eg. note velocities), is now possible provided the target events are selected, otherwise the usual painting edit sub-mode applies (cf. menu Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw). - The MIDI clip editor now senses which target view pane has focus for general selection commands (cf. Edit/Select/None, All, Invert, Range) whether the main piano-roll or the event value (velocities) view. - Mouse middle-button clicking is back in business on main track-view and on MIDI clip editor views (piano-roll) as an immediate play-head (re)positioning command or merge/reset the edit-head/tail cursors if Shift/Ctrl keyboard modifiers are pressed. - Formerly protected, class qtractorClip::FadeFunctor is now public in an shot-in-the-dark attempt to fix clang builds (as reported by Jekyll Wu, thanks). - Override all sub-classed widgets mouse-pointer event handlers to be isolated from base widget style and/or window management. Enjoy!-- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

13 years

[LAA] [ANN] Radium V1.9.22

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. The advantages of this interface compared to piano rolls (the normal sequencer interface), are that note editing is quicker, and that more musical data fits on the screen. The advantage of this interface compared to trackers, is that note positions and effects are edited graphically, which is both quicker, provides more vertical space, and gives a better musically overview. However, despite it's unusual appearance, it's a design goal for Radium to be straight forward to use, and easy to learn. It should not be harder to learn Radium than any tracker or most midi sequencers. Screenshot: =========== http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/radium-1-9-21.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 1.9.14 -> 1.9.22: ======================================= * Crashreporter. * Linux version works properly without first cd into the path of the radium binary. * Change system font to Lato Black (http://www.latofonts.com) * alsa: Fix name of input port, not always use "in". * Menu option to GFX_message * All stops are hard stops (Fix for stopping not always stopping sounds) * Loop on/off button for samples * Custom GFX for checkboxes and pushbuttons * Fix color for qcomoboxes. * Run check_dependencies.sh before making packages * Remove separator between Reset and Help * Remove loop from guitar sample in demo song * Fix alsa midi input. (two ports named "in" made chaos) * Radium can be used as midi sampler now. Only one instrument is supported though, but as a work-around, several Radium instances can run simultaneously. * Get wav loop points from smpl chunk, not by using Loop Start/Loop End cues * Support looping for wav files with more than one LIST chunk * Less verbose when pressing keys * Remove textborder and minnodesize options * Circumvent confusing GC_is_disabled API (fix for playing sometimes taking many seconds to start) * Dont update gfx from jack thread (horror) * Update linenumber width (fix for blocks with more than 1000 lines) * Fix building packages when theres no python2 executable * Fix import midi files with many notes in tracks in non-polyphony mode * Remove limitation on delete track

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Linux-audio-announce December 2012