Linux-audio-announce July 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, 11 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

[ANN] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard (VMPK) 0.5.0 has been released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. Changes for v0.5.0: * RtMidi 1.0.15 patched by Gilles Filippini <pini(a)debian.org> enabling several MIDI drivers to be compiled at once, and allowing the user to select one at runtime. * Fixed Bug #3507732. Transpose does not update correctly the octave in note name. Thanks to Patrick Meaney for the bug report * Fixed Bug #3503768. Removing the shortcut for an action having default shortcut keys, the change is not saved upon exit, so the shortcut appears again the next execution. * Fixed Bug #3502659. Saved preferences not set correctly. * New implementation of the Network MIDI driver (UDP multicast). * MIDI channel state enforcement (RFE #3517750) * MIDI IN Omni mode. * Independently enable/disable note input using keyboard, mouse, and touch screen. * Note highlight color policies (single, double, one color for each MIDI channel, one color for each grade in the chromatic scale). Color palettes editor dialog. Option to show a colorized scale. * XML comments within keyboard map files are allowed. Requirements for all platforms: CMake-2.8 and Qt-4.8 or later. Please use the mailing list <vmpk-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> for questions and comments. Thanks. Copyright (C) 2008-2012, Pedro López-Cabanillas and others License: GPL v3 More info http://vmpk.sourceforge.net Downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files/vmpk/0.5.0/ Regards, Pedro

12 years, 8 months

[ANN] MusE 2.0.1 released

by Robert Jonsson

MusE 2.0.1 has been released! This is a bug fix release that mainly fixes a problem with moving plugins in the plugin rack. Some changes: - Fixed controllers go wacky after moving effects rack plugins up/down. - Changed naming convention for recorded wave files to include track name and it's take number - Use cmake's own FindPythonLibs module instead of pkgconfig to detect Python - Updated Czech translation from Pavel Fric - Increased zoom range a bit in arranger For more information and additional changes see the changelog: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/tags/muse_2_0/ChangeLog?revis… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Happy MusEing! The MusE Team ---------------------------- MusE 2.0 June 30, 2012 Hello everybody! Finally it has happened, nearly two years from the last stable release we are ready to present to you the final MusE 2.0 version. A lot has happened and changed, still the migration from 1.1 to 2.0 should be quite easy and definitely worth it. The big changes since 1.1 are as follows: * Moved to qt4, this affects the visuals and potentially improved portability * Graphical automation in the arranger * A new score editor * MusE now defaults to using midi through Jack, -A enables native alsa support * New style MDI gui with a bunch of configuration options to satisfy all tastes * Redone midi editing tool dialogs with lots of new functionality * Lots and lots and lots of internal small and big changes to improve stability, speed and functionality * PSIIF support (support for: probably something important I forgot) A much condensed list of changes since the last beta are as follows: - Sync fix: MusE now records tempo changes from externally clocked midi. - Finally! Audio controller playback has smooooth frame resolution even with large audio buffers. - Feature: Midi control of audio paramters. - Lots of automation improvements - Switched to use JACK midi - Added: -A switch: "Force inclusion of ALSA midi even if using Jack". - Lots of leaks removed - Added colorhints to iR and oR routing buttons - Templates: File dialog: Lots of changes - Lots of widget focus fixes - Allow loading of DSSI synths in LADSPA browser. - Midi editors: Added "Delta Mode" button to Note Info toolbar. The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/tags/muse_2_0/ChangeLog?revis… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Also a big thanks to everybody who has helped translate, find and fix bugs and otherwise been lending a helpful hand! Happy creating/recording/playing/arranging with MusE! The MusE Team ps. And stay tuned for the inevitable 2.0.1 release ;) ds. -------------------------- MusE 2.0rc2 Hello everybody and a happy new year! The final release is now in sight, here is one (hopefully) final release candidate, rc2. Quite a bit of polish has been done in the gui and some under the hood fixes for various audio and midi data handling. Crunched list of improvements: - New super-glue feature - Global Cut: Fixed crashes with markers. Re-did marker section in structure.cpp:adjustGlobalLists(). - Fixed drag and drop cloning parts - bad reference count in PartCanvas::moveItem() - File Open dialog: Start with song data and configuration. - New 'Duplicate tracks' Edit action, and dialog. Post-cleanups. TODO: Copy plugins, fix copying parts - Audio strip prefader now controls audio. - Fixed: Annoying ladspa browser issues. Leak: Dialog was not destroyed. Sorting. Save complete state - Fixed long-time graphics corruption issue: Large areas of desktop erased to background. - New: Midi routing matrix! No more clumsy routing menu items. Currently for Midi Track iR and Audio Input iR solo routes - Improved: Midi ports list now fills automatically at start - List only writeable ports in track list output port column and midi track info combo box. - Jack midi devices now save an additional required rwFlags xml tag. - Midi ports dialog: Auto dis/connect the stated default channels when selecting a device. - Complete Spanish translation from Cristian Ramos - Improved: Project save dialog: Now has quick save as Template. Separate project/result paths shown. Editable project folder. - Added: Project directory in global settings dialog. - Changed: In File Dialog, 'User' initial prepend path changed to muse ./config path. So user files + templates are shown. - Fixed: Template directory changed from /home/templates to muse config directory. Support for old files included. - Fixed: DSSI synth audio inputs. This means dssi vocoders, samplers etc. should work now - Re-write: Fixed audio mixing, meter processing. Audio, and meters, for all mono <-> stereo route combinations work sensibly now. - Window titles of ladspa and dssi plugins now have track name prefix to help identify them. - Added "Unused Devices" menu to the arranger's port popupmenu for rapid device selection The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/branches/release_2_0/ChangeLo… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Please report any findings either to one of the following Mailinglists: http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Muse_ml The bug tracker at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93414 The forum: http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/lmuse/ Have fun! The MusE Team -------------------------------------------------------------- MusE 2.0rc1 Hello everybody, Getting close to the new year, better hurry with the christmas shopping! Not that this has anything to do with new MusE releases even though one could consider it a christmas present. :) Since the last beta relentless bugfixing has taken place and lots and lots of feature improvements in preparation for releasing 2.0 sometime soon (tm). Crunched list of improvements: - added sane configuration defaults to muse - added MDI-like and borland-like user interface - improved copy paste with paste dialog - Lots of new internal namespaces e.g. MusEArranger and MusEMixer - gui widgets with new look, especially in mixer - score editor improvements - reworked midi tools - Popup menus: If stay-open mode, space triggers item and double-click simulates return - Changed midi track info patch popup behaviour. Now stays open for auditioning patches - Changed editor 'ctrl' controller popups. Split instrument/other (+ common controls!) + show ctrl numbers - Changed mouse wheel behaviour in graphical editors except the score editor - Added dialog to remove unused wave files - Changed default imported midi song type to GM + lots more bugs squashed, improvements, code reorganizations The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/branches/release_2_0/ChangeLo… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Have fun! The MusE Team -------------------------------------------------------------- MusE2beta2 - second beta of MusE2 built on Qt4 Changes: - One rather nasty bug where plugins did not restore their settings on song load was fixed. Also please note that this release can be installed along side with muse1.1. The binary is called muse2. Have fun and please report any findings to the mailinglist or the forum at: https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/lmuse/ The MusE Team ---------------------------------- Hello everybody, Time for another mark in the MusE bark. We are pleased to announce that MusE 2.0beta is currently available for download and as per usual a number of fixes and new additions were added along the way. MusE now sports a score editor (again! it's been a long time) and lots of gui love, not to speak of all under-the-hood improvements and optimizations. In it's current state MusE should be quite usable though there is definitely going to be more fixes. Here is a selection of changes in no particular order, see the ChangeLog linked below for the complete unedited truth. - Feedback parameters added to LADSPA GUIs - Added new score editor - Song loading stability fixes, some crashes removed - Improved ladspa and dssi controller responsiveness - Lots of graphical improvements to arranger, part drawing, gradients, text drawing - Added more routing choices: Synth to Wave track, Wave track to Wave track etc - DSSI synths can now show generic LADSPA GUI as well as native - Improvements to midi-only audio-stub (dummy audio) - More shortcuts added to Arranger - Support for custom LADSPA DSSI GUIs, such as those generated by FLAM http://vagar.org/code/projects/flam. - Fixed problems with midi event list editor, e.g. problems selecting items while pianroll open. - Added: Pianoroll controller graph items can now be selected/highlighted. - Parts are now drawn while recording and also midi events visible in the parts - Added new edit mode CURSOR MODE in drum editor - added simple part drawing while recording, does not draw events or waveform - detect samplerate and warn if samplerate isn't same in song and system - Added show/hide track-types buttons to arranger - Added progress dialog for loading projects - Fixed drag & drop for plugins and drag presets from outside muse into a plugin - Support for multiple drops of files to arranger, e.g easy import of a bunch of wave files - Fixed Organ synth crashing - Persisten store of toolbar locations for main window and editors - Fixed MusE failing with some non-RT kernels - added cut/copy/paste and keyboard shortcuts to wave editor - fixed regression with Bounce to File and Bounce to Track - Increased playback MidiFifo size from 512 to 2100, to accommodate large block sends, - Fixed Jack Midi 'lost event' messages due to full buffers. - fixed panic button - Completed soloing system (after 4 years). Support chaining Midi Port/Audio Out -> Audio In - Support for editing audio automation on tracks - Added right-click on track ARM buttons, now enables/disables all tracks of it's kind - Added transport position "Shift + +/-" keys, for no snapping - fixed deicsonze synth patch loading - Added default velocity controllers to pianoroll and drum edit - Appearance part color names now can now be edited - Mixer label colours can now be edited in the appearance settings - more wallpapers - Fixed focus stealing of transport - new project creation dialog - Midi track info added to pianoroll - Added fancy background selection widget with live preview to Appearance Settings The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revisio… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Have fun! The MusE Team -------------------------------------------------------------- Hello everybody, Time for another mark in the MusE bark. We are pleased to announce that MusE 2.0beta is currently available for download and as per usual a number of fixes and new additions were added along the way. MusE now sports a score editor (again! it's been a long time) and lots of gui love, not to speak of all under-the-hood improvements and optimizations. In it's current state MusE should be quite usable though there is definitely going to be more fixes. Here is a selection of changes in no particular order, see the ChangeLog linked below for the complete unedited truth. - Feedback parameters added to LADSPA GUIs - Added new score editor - Song loading stability fixes, some crashes removed - Improved ladspa and dssi controller responsiveness - Lots of graphical improvements to arranger, part drawing, gradients, text drawing - Added more routing choices: Synth to Wave track, Wave track to Wave track etc - DSSI synths can now show generic LADSPA GUI as well as native - Improvements to midi-only audio-stub (dummy audio) - More shortcuts added to Arranger - Support for custom LADSPA DSSI GUIs, such as those generated by FLAM http://vagar.org/code/projects/flam. - Fixed problems with midi event list editor, e.g. problems selecting items while pianroll open. - Added: Pianoroll controller graph items can now be selected/highlighted. - Parts are now drawn while recording and also midi events visible in the parts - Added new edit mode CURSOR MODE in drum editor - added simple part drawing while recording, does not draw events or waveform - detect samplerate and warn if samplerate isn't same in song and system - Added show/hide track-types buttons to arranger - Added progress dialog for loading projects - Fixed drag & drop for plugins and drag presets from outside muse into a plugin - Support for multiple drops of files to arranger, e.g easy import of a bunch of wave files - Fixed Organ synth crashing - Persisten store of toolbar locations for main window and editors - Fixed MusE failing with some non-RT kernels - added cut/copy/paste and keyboard shortcuts to wave editor - fixed regression with Bounce to File and Bounce to Track - Increased playback MidiFifo size from 512 to 2100, to accommodate large block sends, - Fixed Jack Midi 'lost event' messages due to full buffers. - fixed panic button - Completed soloing system (after 4 years). Support chaining Midi Port/Audio Out -> Audio In - Support for editing audio automation on tracks - Added right-click on track ARM buttons, now enables/disables all tracks of it's kind - Added transport position "Shift + +/-" keys, for no snapping - fixed deicsonze synth patch loading - Added default velocity controllers to pianoroll and drum edit - Appearance part color names now can now be edited - Mixer label colours can now be edited in the appearance settings - more wallpapers - Fixed focus stealing of transport - new project creation dialog - Midi track info added to pianoroll - Added fancy background selection widget with live preview to Appearance Settings The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revisio… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Have fun! The MusE Team -------------------------------------------------------------- MusE 2.0alpha Hello everybody, we have a present for you, a new release of MusE. The alpha indicates this is an early version so it's mainly - a teaser to spread the word. - an early adopters build. - to welcome developers who want to port MusE to other platforms. MusE has now been completely ported to the Qt4 architecture and we (mainly Tim and Orcan) are busy to make it even better than before, lots of gui stuff being reworked. MusE now also sports a new version of the DeicsOnze, DX11 emulating softsynth, up from version 0.2 to 1.0. The homepage has received a new look that we hope will give a better indication of what MusE is and does. Do visit http://muse-sequencer.org. The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revisio… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Happy Holidays! The MusE Team

12 years, 8 months

ANN: New version of Pd-L2Ork Software Featured in the Inaugural VT ICAT Maker Workshop for Middle-School Kids

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Apologies for x-posting... It's been a busy summer--pd-l2ork <http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56>has been making big strides towards becoming a robust full-fledged digital signal processing tool. The latest version includes revolutionary preset_hub and preset_node system that supports a wide range of data types as well as abstractions. It is essentially Pd's counterpart toMax's pattrstorage <http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/pattrstorage.html>. We've also squashed dozens of bugs and clean-ups making pd-l2ork better than ever. Perhaps the most exciting improvement involves Pd-L2Ork'sK12 module <http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?p=1964>geared towards elementary, middle, and high school students. The new version has over 40 objects/abstractions, allowing students to seamlessly interact with both Wiimotes andSARC iteration of Arduino Uno devices (a.k.a. Sarcduino firmware) <http://www.musicsensorsemotion.com/2010/03/08/sarcduino/>. And this very version together with 15 L2Ork stations is being used this week by more than 30 middle-school students as part of the inauguralICAT K12 Maker Workshop <http://www.icat.vt.edu/> taking place in Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity, Arts & Technology's Studio 1. So, head on over to the L2Ork's software page <http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56>and check out what the latest version of pd-l2ork is all about ;-) Best wishes, -- Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A Composition, Music Technology Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra Head, ICAT IMPACT Studio Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, VA 24061-0240 (540) 231-6139 (540) 231-5034 (fax) disis.music.vt.edu l2ork.music.vt.edu ico.bukvic.net

12 years, 8 months

[ann] out now petri-foo 0.1.85

by James Morris

Petri-Foo, the fork of the soft-sampler known as Specimen, has a new release, 0.1.85, available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/petri-foo/files/Source/petri-foo-0.1.85.tar… This new release brings two and a half new features with it: (1.0) Non Session Management support (2.0) 'Full Save' functionality (2.5) Import (1.0) NSM support can only be built if the system has liblo installed. If liblo (the lightweight OSC implementation) is _not_ installed petri-foo will be built _without_ NSM support. (2.0) "Full Save" functionality increases the portability of Petri-Foo's 'dish files'. A dir is created (the bank dir) containing the dish file along with symlinks to external samples used. the bank dir can then be archived using `tar -h`. To use full save, just select 'full save as' instead of 'save as' from the file menu. Selecting 'save' will do the right thing after doing so. (2.5) The import function is very self explanatory: it loads a dish file without deleting the existing patches. http://sourceforge.net/projects/petri-foo/files/Source/petri-foo-0.1.85.tar… Further resources: http://petri-foo.sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=404816 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/petri-foo-devel http://github.com/jwm-art-net/Petri-Foo Cheers, James.

12 years, 8 months

The guitarix project release version 0.23.3

by hermann meyer

We are proud to announce the release of guitarix2-0.23.3. Guitarix is a modular tube amplifier simulation for jack, with additional Effect-Racks, inbuilt effects as well as support for LADSPA plug-ins. This is a Bug-fix release witch fix the ladspa_guitarix.so module guitarix-fx [UniqueID 4070] to avoid segfault when loading into a host. 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

12 years, 9 months

[ANN] Radium V0.65.7 and jack_capture 0.9.69

by Kjetil Matheussen

Radium ======= Radium is a free (as in speech) music editor with a novel interface. It's inspired by trackers, but has fewer limitations and uses graphics to show musical data. Homepage: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ Most important changes 0.65.0 -> 0.65.7: * Setting port for instrument will not crash the program * Many build improvements * Blocklist and Playlist are properly updated when loading standard midi file. * Sample accurate jack midi * Accurate mouse coordinates * Closing the xterm window will not lock the program * Options to turn off overriding of Qt colors and Qt style * Fast jack port probing * Only create one jack client * Works even if python links to python3 instead of python2 * Fixed All Sounds Off menu option * Graphics fully updated after using menu jack_capture ============ jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack. The default operation of the program is executed by writing "jack_capture" in the terminal without any extra command line options: $ jack_capture ...which will record what you hear in your loudspeakers into a stereo wav file. Download tar balls from http://archive.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?C=M;O=D Git repository: https://github.com/kmatheussen/jack_capture Changelog 0.9.62 -> 0.6.69: * Timemachine mode. Make jack_capture work like Steve Harries timemachine recorder * Enable with the -tm / --timemachine option. * Set prebuffer time with the -tmpb / --timemachine-prebuffer option. (with help from Robin Gareus) * OSC methods to control time-machine mode. (Robin Gareus) * Check if the call to sem_wait failed. Do not stop recording if so. * Fix reset-colour. (Robin Gareus) * Use jack_free to free port name array, not free. * Set mono/24bit the default format for SDS files. * osc_help must be available, even without HAVE_LIBLO * fix for signed / unsigned integer comparison * Respect both DESTDIR and PREFIX. (Robin Gareus) * Fix for jack_capture_gui console printing. * Add necessary -lrt linker flag * Change prefix to PREFIX from makefile, and remove DESTDIR * Fix the jack_capture_gui script * Fix. Swapped --no-stdin and --daemon options

12 years, 9 months

[ANN] setBfree - DSP tonewheel organ

by Robin Gareus

We are happy to share the following announcement with you, setBfree v0.5.0 was just released under GPLv2. setBfree is a MIDI-controlled, software synthesizer designed to imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie. Homepage: http://setBfree.org Source & Issue-tracker : https://github.com/pantherb/setBfree Will Panther succeeded where others have failed and made it possible to adopt Fredrik Kilander's Beatrix in terms of the GPL. We have spent the last weeks to update the code-base to meet requirements and are happy to announce a first beta version. The organ and effects as are available as LV2 plugins as well as a standalone JACK application. We've reworked the engine to allow arbitrary sample-rates, standardized interfaces, fixed various bugs, added a build-system, man-pages, a simple GUI for testing, etc. The sound is still pretty much the same as the original awesome Beatrix. Next steps include adding end-user documentation, tweaking and honing the synth-engine and fixing the bugs that you discover :) This release features contributions from Fredrik Kilander, Ken Restivo, Will Panther and Robin Gareus. For discussion please use the linux-audio-user list, bug reports should to the issue-tracker at github. Feedback of any kind is welcome. have fun, robin & Will

12 years, 9 months

xfmr-plugins-0.0.1

by John Rigg

xfmr-plugins-0.0.1 has been released. At present it contains one LADSPA plugin, an anti-aliased transformer distortion emulator intended to be used on the master bus when mixing in a DAW such as Ardour. I made it for my own use, in order to get closer to the sound of an analogue mix without the extra round trip through the DA-AD converters. Hopefully others may find it useful. License is GPL v2. More details and download link here: http://www.jrigg.co.uk/linuxaudio/xfmr-plugins.html John

12 years, 9 months

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Linux-audio-announce July 2012