Linux-audio-announce December 2012

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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 minor release fixes a couple of potential crashes. Suil home: http://drobilla.net/software/suil/ Download: http://download.drobilla.net/suil-0.6.6.tar.bz2 Changes: * Fix crash in x11_in_gtk2 when event_filter fires before widget is realized * Use libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (with .0 suffix) by default which is available on systems without the dev package * Update to waf 1.7.8 and autowaf r90 (install docs to versioned directory) Also, a note about the previous release: the Gtk in Qt fixes are thanks to Devin Anderson; apologies for this attribution oversight in the hasty release and corresponding announcement. Enjoy, -dr

12 years

Vee One Suite 0.3.0 - The Third Coming

by Rui Nuno Capela

12 years

Rivendell v2.3.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.3.0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** If upgrading from a v1.x version of Rivendell, be sure to read the 'UPGRADING' file before proceeding for important information. Changes: RDCartSlots Module. A new Rivendell module has been added that is optimized for use in busy live assist environments, along with four new RMLs ('Load Slot' ['DL'], 'Play Slot' ['DP'], 'Stop Slot' ['DS'] and 'Execute Breakaway' ['DX']) for automating its operation. RDAirPlay Enhancements. A set of buttons for quickly locating a given hour has been added to the Full Log widget, enabled by checking the 'Show Hour Selector' box in RDAdmin->ManageHost->RDAirPlay. JACK Enhancements. It is now possible to specify the command-line used to start jackd(8) and a list of clients to start when starting the Rivendell service. See RDAdmin->ManageHosts->JackSettings. Switcher/GPIO Device Support. Added support for the Sine Systems ACU-1 switcher. See 'SWITCHERS.txt' for details. Cue Output Assignments. Cue output assignments for all modules except RDAirPlay have now been consolidated into one setting in RDAirPlay->ManageHosts. Multiple bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 213, 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/ Merry Christmas everyone. Christ is among us! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man | | contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. | | -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

12 years

Announcing synthclone-0.3.0!

by Devin Anderson

I'm happy to announce the release of synthclone-0.3.0! synthclone is a tool that allows you to create sample-based instruments. You can create sample-based instruments by sending MIDI messages to your MIDI-capable gear or software that instructs an instrument to emit sounds for a series of notes, velocities, controls, and aftertouch values, or by recording your own samples. After the sampling is done, you can apply effects to your samples, and finally save this data as a sample-based instrument that can be loaded by sampler software. Features: * Supports user-configurable per-zone sample time, release time, MIDI note, MIDI velocity, MIDI aftertouch, MIDI channel pressure, MIDI control changes, etc. via a table interface. * Audition samples and change zone parameters until you're happy with the data you're acquiring from your MIDI device. * Save and restore sessions. * Distributed with plugins that support the JACK Audio Connection Kit (with JACK Session support), PortAudio and PortMidi, trimming of samples, reversing samples, LV2 effects, the creation of Hydrogen, SFZ, and Renoise instruments, automated zone generation, and loading samples from your local filesystem! * Can create multiple targets in one session (i.e. a Renoise patch and an SFZ patch) from the same set of samples. * A well-documented plugin API is available for developers to write their own plugins to extend synthclone. Important Changes Since 0.2.0: * Lots of bug fixes. * The new LV2 plugin allows you to use LV2 effects within synthclone * The new Renoise plugin allows you to save your instruments as Renoise instruments * The new Reverser plugin allows you to reverse the samples you load into synthclone * The new Sample Loader plugin allows you to load samples into synthclone from your local filesystem * Internal architecture changes for future expansion of the plugin API to handle main view manipulation Future Development: * Consider capturing release of samples. * Figure out a good packaging scheme for Mac OSX. * Support the Non-Session Manager protocol. * Consider different ways to support the detection and/or creation of loops. * Get someone to design an icon that isn't ugly. * Extend the LV2 plugin to support more features so that it can load more LV2 plugins. Community Inquiry: synthclone has outgrown its original purpose as a tool to sample MIDI-capable instruments, and is slowly becoming a more general tool for the creation of sample-based instruments. In this respect, synthclone is still lacking in a lot of ways; for example, it doesn't support the creation or detection of loops. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of all the ways that synthclone needs to grow to become a more general tool for samplists, as I only use and extend synthclone to fulfill my own needs. I'm also not motivated to add a bunch of features to synthclone to extend it in different ways that I don't immediately require. So, I need to know the following: 1.) If you're a samplist, tell me what synthclone needs to become a part of your sampling workflow. 2.) If you're a developer that would like to add functionality to synthclone, let me know what I can do to help you move forward. 3.) The name 'synthclone` no longer describes what `synthclone` does. I'm considering renaming the application. If you have a suggestion or thoughts on the idea, please let me know. 4.) In general, I'll take any feedback I can get. :) Thanks: David Robillard - While writing the LV2 plugin, I came across issues with LILV/SUIL. Some of those issues were *actually* issues, and some of the issues were based on my own naivety. Dave fixed the real issues quickly, and patiently addressed the others. Thanks, Dave. The new version of `synthclone` is available at: http://synthclone.googlecode.com/ Please report bugs using the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/issues/list If you like `synthclone` 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/synthclone-users If you're a developer and want to write plugins for `synthclone` or contribute to the application itself, join the development group: http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-development Thanks, -- Devin Anderson surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/ psinsights - http://psinsights.googlecode.com/ synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/

12 years

FSTHost 1.4.0

by rev8

Ho, ho, ho marry christmas, actually in Poland it will be next week, but ... Just right Santa Claus have gifts for you. Please find release 1.4 of FSTHost. Changes since 1.3: Reorganize GTK GUI - replace texts by icons/tooltips and change widgets layout Recursively scan directories and add results to FSTHost XML DB (-d option). I must admit that some parts/ideas of this code was available in fst, but was not used. FSTHost Menu utility (fsthost_menu) for choose plugin. It can use zenity or dialog for generate list of available plugins. Use VST_PATH or FSTHost XML DB as data source. Use Glib event loop instead of DummyWindow/SetTimer solution .. and one thread less now ;-) Fix case when DISPLAY variable is empty (NonGUI mode) - just becuase we now doesn't create any window ;-) Faster Bypass/Resume, Program Change - side effect of merge MainThread and EventThread *(from GUI or SysEx - MIDI CC is still delayed) Autoconnect to all MIDI Out physical ports (e.g. testing plugins) Disable GUI by FSTHOST_NOGUI environment variable JackSession - improve error handling (set JackSessionSaveError flag) Checkbox for choose between embedded or popup editor. Add application icon (this is temporary icon) A lot of small fixes/optimizations/cleanups etc. ... and finally I decide that GTK code will stay here for some time (or "from here to eternity" :-). After all this herculean trials it seems to works quite well. In SVN repo one can find NonGTK (W32API) version - but it have less options (only Editor show/hide, and program change). Best Regards Pawel / Xj

12 years

no-self-connect patch for jack-1.9.9.5

by Nedko Arnaudov

People are asking for no-self-connect patch updated for the new 1.9.9.5 jack2 release. While one can always use the git no-self-connect branch to build jack or generate patch, not everybody knows how to use git. So I’ve made a p1 patch and uploaded it. The patch itself and a PGP signature for it: * http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/jack2-no-self-connect-1.9.9.5.patch * http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/jack2-no-self-connect-1.9.9.5.patch.sig or if you want to use HTTPS and have ipv6: * https://ipv6.nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/jack2-no-self-connect-1.9.9.5.pa… * https://ipv6.nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/jack2-no-self-connect-1.9.9.5.pa… -- Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: 5D1B58ED>

12 years

avw.lv2 0.0.9

by Aurélien Leblond

Hi all, I just released a new version of the avw.lv2 plugin suit: - Migrated the code to lvtk (lvtoolkitorg) - Starting not to use Gtk Builder (only LFO GUI) - Using Luppp Dial for GUI (only LFO GUI) - Non Linear Dial - Remove JACKLFO (not necessary, using LV2 Time) - LFO frequency can be set manually or in sync with LV2 Time - Tranches plugin now using LV2 Time I'm very curious to get feedback on the new LFO GUI (using Dial) - if it is "welcome" I'll work on modifying the other GUIs and created the new ones using the same look&feel. You can download the new version here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/avwlv2/files/avw.lv2.0.0.9.tar.gz/download Regards, Aurélien

12 years

CMKeyboard

by Patrick Shirkey

Announcing CMKeyboard http://djcj.org/cmkeyboard CMKeyboard is a 128 note ALSA MIDI virtual piano keyboard spanning from C-1 to G9 written in python3 and taking advantage of the latest Clutter (>1.12.2) features to enable scrolling and opengl goodness. It is a stand alone program which can also be embedded into other python3 applications as a class library. It uses code from the very handy pyclutter-widgets project for the rounded rectangles of the key buttons. The code demonstrates use of Clutter.ScrollActor(), GtkClutter.Embed(), layering of multiple clutter actors, handling of events including: "button-press-event" & "key-press-event". -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

12 years

[ANN] Radium V1.9.14

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-1-9-14.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 1.9.6 -> 1.9.14: ======================================= * Waveform data is shown in the editor for the sampler instrument. * Colored areas replaced breakpoint curves for velocity representation. (looks much less confusing) * Only show gfx nodes for the track the mouse is currently placed over. * Various other graphical improvements * Fixed denormals on 32 bit Linux. (-mpmath=sse) * Fix various horrible bugs for those with non-C locale settings Thanks to "DoosC" for helping to debug. * Switch shift and right-alt keybindings for left/right arrow. Now: * Right Shift + left/right moves cursor to previous / next track * Right Alt + left/right changes velocity for note playing under cursor. * Need to press altgr or right shift less than 0.25 seconds to play. * Radium doesn't freeze when trying to play after it has been running for a few hours. * Dont create block undo too often. (Most notable when changing velocity using keyboard) * Don't reset temponode track size when zooming. * Fix pesky memory bug, sometimes causing the program to quit because it ran out of memory. Graphics should also be snappier in some situations after this fix. It was caused by the gfx queue growing and growing when QWidget::paintEvent wasnt called directly after drawing something. * Dont crash when pasting block in certain situations. * Remove reading of uninitialized memory in slider painter. * TAB switches between common window configs * Show message box if parsing soundfont file fails * Add -Wall option to RELEASE build * Make track headers of current instrument more distinct * Larger window during startup * Fix missing sound on AMD phenom processor. Thanks to DoosC for helping to debug. * Disable text border by default (except for line numbers), and ignore saved text border setting * Ignore minnodesize and use font height*2 instead. * Implement reset font size for qt * Demo song audio adjustments * Set default colors/fonts menu options * Qt: set DontUseNativeMenuBar on all systems, not just osx. Menues requires mono font to look right (fix for unity) * Dont stop playing when changeing patch for a track * Various graphical improvements * Use "---" instead of STP. * "make install" should work without first running the program. * Shift+left/right to change note volume works even if cursor is not placed on the same line as the note name. * Fixed zooming-in-a-lot bug. * Pan-per-note for the sampler instrument. Means that the track panner works for that track only. * Fixed samplefile font in sample file selector. * Different panning algorithm. (Dont just lower volume in one channel on stereo files) (Warning: may change sound of existing songs) * Remove -mtune=native for linux builds. * Linux: Use standard paths for lrdf files * Instructions on how to compile from git

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Linux-audio-announce December 2012