Linux-audio-announce August 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] 2013 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition

by Per Bloland

(Apologies for cross-postings) The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is pleased to announce the 2013 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composer Commissioning Program. The purpose of this program is to stimulate student participation in SEAMUS activities, and to encourage young composers to pursue creative endeavors in electro-acoustic music. The program is administered by SEAMUS and funded by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) <http://www.ascap.com <http://www.ascap.com/> >. The submission deadline is October 15, 2012. For more information, and the online application, please visit the SEAMUS web site at http://www.seamusonline.org/ RULES FOR SUBMISSION Note that the rules and procedures have changed as of this year. All submissions are to be made online, through the seamusonline.org <http://seamusonline.org/> website. Only one work of electroacoustic music may be submitted, which must adhere to the following guidelines: Music submissions must be prepared as a single LastnameFirstname.MP3 or LastnameFirstname.ZIP archive. Audio Files: music submissions should include a representative audio recording of the work. If a concert work, it must be the complete composition. Installations may be represented by an excerpted recording not to exceed 10 minutes in length. Judging of music submissions for ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Competition will be from audio files in the MP3 format. Multichannel works will be judged from a stereo mix, also MP3. Please assist us by submitting in MP3 format. Scores: for submissions involving a score, please submit an anonymized PDF score for review. Please do not mail in printed scores at this time. Video Submissions: note that for works involving video, only the audio portion will be considered for judging purposes. You must be the composer of the music for the video. Please submit an MP3 of the music as specified above. Only one (1) entry per student. This same work may be submitted to the SEAMUS 2013 National Conference via the conference submission page. All finalists in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition must attend the SEAMUS 2013 National Conference. AWARDS A maximum of two prizes may be awarded. The decision of the judges will be final. First Prize Commission of $1250 for a new work of electro-acoustic music Performance of commissioned work at the 2014 SEAMUS National Conference Recording of the commissioned work in the SEAMUS Compact Disc Series Certificate of recognition Second Prize Commission of $750 for a new work of electro-acoustic music Performance of commissioned work at the 2014 SEAMUS National Conference Certificate of recognition ELIGIBILITY Applicants to the 2013 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commissioning Competition must be student members of SEAMUS and must be either currently enrolled in an academic program in the United States (high school through doctoral studies) or a United States citizen studying abroad. All completed submissions will be verified for student status against current SEAMUS membership records. Per Bloland SEAMUS Member-at-Large

13 years, 4 months

[LAA] Rivendell v2.2.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.2.0. 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 *** Changes: HPI Enhancements. Support for setting input modes for AudioScience adapters has been added (requires support in the hardware as well). Scripting Enhancements. The rdcollect(1) script has been modified to allow multiple source files to be used. Report Enhancements. It is now possible to filter data for reports by Group membership as well as Service and Host. A new 'Music Summary' report has also been added. New Traffic System Preset. A preset for 'WideOrbit Traffic' has been added. New Rivendell Loadable Module. An 'rlm_padpoint' RLM has been added that can be used to send PAD data to a PadPoint processor system. Multiple bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 207, 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/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

13 years, 4 months

[LAA] Version 0.6 of The Newtonator available

by Michael Bechard

The "I went on a diet and look at me now!" version. There's been a lot of fat cut out in this version, namely floor modulation. I tried to remove the things that really weren't making much of a difference in regards to the breadth of sounds that are capable of being generated. Changes in v0.6: - removed floor modulation altogether; wasn't getting enough bang for the buck, sound-wise - removed Gravity Readjust - removed Switch Velocity - removed Channel Separation - removed patched Stk source code from code-base, now it compiles against dynamic lib - added limit to velocity - made stereo synthesis optional in UI Next version will probably focus on some new ideas, but if any given control doesn't make a big difference in the sound being made, it won't make the cut. The Newtonator is an LV2 soft synth that uses a unique algorithm based on simple ideas of velocity and acceleration to produce some unpredictable sounds. More documentation can be found on the project website athttp://newtonator.sf.net/. Thanks, Michael Bechard

13 years, 4 months

[LAA] Featured Artists

by Patrick Shirkey

Hi, The first "cab of the rank" in the new series called "Featured Artists" is up now at: http://linux-audio.com We have several more contributions planned and will roll them out as they are ready :-) Please contact me directly if you would like to take part in this project too. ******************* Background info ******************* The idea behind the new "Featured Artists" section at the Linux Audio Users Guide is to provide a promotional vehicle for the artists in our vibrant community to showcase their work and to entertain and educate our audience at the same time. Think of it as an exhibition or installation where the "Art Gallery" is 450x800 pixels and the audience is people who are genuinely interested in Linux Audio and multimedia. If you are an artist and you would like to participate in this project we will assist with programming and planning to help you realise your vision. Cheers -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

13 years, 4 months

[LAA] Lisalo 1.5 release

by Nils

Lisalo - Linux Sampler Loader - is a command line program that loads entire directories of sample files, a single .sfz file or takes instructions from a meta .lsl file with relative paths to samples. Now you can quickly and easily load sampled instruments without even starting a GUI. This is release 1.5, grab it here, no installation required git clone git://github.com/nilsgey/Lisalo.git [New Feature: Automatic Audio Busses] After loading hundreds of .sfz files in Linuxsampler I did not even attempt to manually connect them in QJackCtl but instead modify Lisalo to help me. If you use an .lsl file to load you'll get bus channels for each section (the same that create the midi-in ports, you already have them, no new syntax, no extra typing). Example .lsl file !Stringduo =Violin vi-legato.sfz vi-staccato.sfz vi-pizz.sfz =Viola vla-legato.sfz vla-staccato.sfz vla-pizz.sfz will create the following Jack audio output ports as device name "Stringduo": - One pair master sum, left and right. Autoconnected to system in (or whatever you gave as commandline argument) - 2 bus pairs (new), unconnect. "Violin" and "Viola". You want to connect these to your recording device. - 6 unconnected pairs, one for each instrument (that would be 12 channels already you would have to connect manually in QJackCtl). These are only for very detailed tasks. Final note: You don't want to know how much work it is to create even this small example in QSampler or Fantasia. [Contact] https://github.com/nilsgey/Lisalo info at ... irc.freenode.org #laborejo Feedback and chatting are welcome! Nils

13 years, 4 months

[LAA] Lilv 0.14.4 / Sratom 0.4.0 / Sord 0.10.0 / Serd 0.18.0

by David Robillard

And now, for something completely different: Lilv is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins in programs simple. Sratom is a library for serialising LV2 atoms to and from Turtle. Sord is a library for in-memory storage of RDF data. Serd is a Turtle syntax reader and writer library. Together, they form a lightweight, fast, portable, well-tested, and dependency-free LV2 host implementation. This round of releases contains many bug fixes as well as performance and functionality improvements. Upgrading is suggested, but not urgent. Notable additions include the ability to build the entire stack statically, reduced memory consumption, and the new lv2bench utility. All APIs remain backwards compatible with all previous versions. Changes: Lilv 0.14.4: * Fix documentation for ui_type parameter of lilv_ui_is_supported() * Fix crash when lv2info is run with an invalid URI argument * Gracefully handle failure to save plugin state and print error message * Reduce memory usage (per node) * Simpler node implementation always backed by a SordNode * Make all 'zix' symbols private to avoid symbol clashes in static builds * Add lv2bench utility * Fix various hyper-strict warnings * Do not require a C++ compiler to build * Add option to build utilities as static binaries * Upgrade to waf 1.7.2 * lilvmm.hpp: Deprecate old flawed Lilv::Instance constructors * lilvmm.hpp: Make Lilv::Instance handle features and failed instantiations * lilvmm.hpp: Add Lilv::Instance::get_handle() * lilvmm.hpp: Add Lilv::Instance::get_extension_data() Sratom 0.4.0: * Correctly read objects with several rdf:type properties * Support writing Object Atoms as top level descriptions if subject and predicate are not given. * Fix various hyper-strict warnings * Upgrade to waf 1.7.2 Sord 0.10.0: * Add error callback to world for custom error reporting * Performance and space (per node) improvements * SSE4.2 accelerated hashing for node interning, where available * Make all 'zix' symbols private to avoid symbol clashes in static builds * Remove problematic "Loaded n statements" output from serdi * Strip down API documentation to a single clean page * Fix various hyper-strict warnings * Do not require a C++ compiler to build * Add option to build utilities as static binaries * Upgrade to waf 1.7.2 * sordmm.hpp: Add indices and graphs parameters to Model constructor * sordmm.hpp: Remove overzealous URI scheme assertion * sordmm.hpp: Correctly handle Sord::Node self-assignment Serd 0.18.0: * Support digits at start of local names as per new Turtle grammar * Add incremental read interface suitable for reading from infinite streams * Add -e option to serdi to use incremental reading * Add error callback to reader and writer for custom error reporting * Add -q option to serdi to suppress all non-data output, e.g. errors * Reset indent when finishing a write * Report write size correctly when invalid UTF-8 is encountered and a replacement character is written * Strip down API documentation to a single clean page * Fix various hyper-strict warnings * Do not require a C++ compiler to build * Add option to build utilities as static binaries * Upgrade to waf 1.7.2 Enjoy, -dr

13 years, 4 months

[LAA] my lv2-related projects

by Nedko Arnaudov

I'm abandoning all lv2 related projects that I currently maintain. Here is a list: * zynjacku/lv2rack * lv2fil * ssg * lv2vocoder * lv2dynparam * external ui extension * lv2zynadd [partially, see below] * maybe something else I dont recall right now The zyn-rewrite project that produced lv2zynadd stays but will be cleared from all lv2 code. If anyone wants to take over the maintainership of any project of mine, contact me. I'll wait a month before wiping out all online lv2-related resources I control. I don't want to participate in the lv2 madness anymore. I admit I cannot communicate rationally with David Robillard. If contributing is not pleasure, then a one doesn't belong to the community. I wish everyone inloved more luck than I had. -- Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: 5D1B58ED>

13 years, 4 months

[LAA] Final Release of AV Linux (6.0) is in the Wild!

by AV Linux

Hello fellow Linux Audio users, A quick note to announce the final release of AV Linux. Don't let the word 'final' scare you off this is an up to date release and is chuck full of great Open-Source apps and popular Commercial Linux Audio demos! Please swing by the AV Linux forum and read the release announcement and watch the Introduction screencast. If you are a Linux Audio developer I may have even said something nice about you! Release Announcement: http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=2530.0

13 years, 5 months

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Linux-audio-announce August 2012