Linux-audio-announce September 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, 2 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, 11 months

[ANN] Praxis LIVE build:120912

by Neil C Smith

Hi All, Praxis LIVE is an open-source, graphical environment for rapid development of intermedia performance tools, projections and interactive spaces. A new build of Praxis LIVE is now available for download. While this is mainly a bug fix release, it does see the Praxis command line player added to the main installation, and work which paves the way for distributing Praxis projects as standalone applications (coming separately in the next couple of weeks). Website - http://code.google.com/p/praxis Release notes - http://code.google.com/p/praxis/wiki/ReleaseNotes Videos - http://praxisintermedia.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/video-rough-cuts-1/ If any of you who've been playing with Praxis LIVE would be interested in submitting example projects for the next release, please get in touch with me off-list. Thanks and best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net

12 years, 9 months

Announcement: Folve, a FUSE filesystem that convolves audio files on-the-fly

by Henner Zeller

Hi, I'd like to announce Folve, a FUSE filesystem that convolves audio files as they are accessed. https://github.com/hzeller/folve#readme It contains some examples to try right away. If you want to filter your audio (for effect reasons, such as adding reverbs, or just to linearize the frequency response of your speakers), but your system doesn't provide a way to do this while playing, your only option was to pre-process your audio files accordingly. This is time- and disk-consuming, and you probably wouldn't do it just for the fun of adding a reverb. Folve solves this problem: it provides the audio files readily convolved as you access them. It also provides a simple HTTP UI to switch between filters. Right now, Folve is tested with FLAC files; other audio file formats do work, but not all work well with streaming. This is the first public announcement on the announce/user list, but Folve should already pretty usable. Please report problems and feature requests through the github issue tracker. -henner

12 years, 9 months

The Vee Ones first bug-fix release

by Rui Nuno Capela

yes. bugs have always been among us... this one's actually to blame me :S * synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. website: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… * samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler (yet another) old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. website: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… see also: http:/www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/559 cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

12 years, 10 months

Spek 0.8.0

by Alexander Kojevnikov

Hi list, I'm happy to announce the release of Spek 0.8.0 - a multi-platform acoustic spectrum analyser. Find out more about Spek on its website: http://spek-project.org/ New features since 0.7: * Adjustable spectral density range (#4). * Switched from GTK+ to wxWidgets for better Windows and OS X integration. * Single .exe version for Windows. * Added translations in 8 more languages (totalling 16). Enhancements: * Switched to .xz tarballs. * Split out libspek and added unit tests. * 24-bit APE support (upstream fix). * Better toolbar icons on Windows and OS X (#21). * Installer options for app shortcuts on Windows (#1). * Associate with audio/video files on OS X (#2). * Online manual (#24). Bugfixes: * Fixed crash when the preferences file is not writable. * Fixed crash when the home directory is not writable. * Fixed duration and rendering for some video files. * Fixed compilation with newer FFmpeg and libav versions. * Proper handling of Unicode file names under Windows (upstream fix). * Don't lock the input file on Windows (#26). Cheers, Alex

12 years, 10 months

FFADO 2.1.0 released

by Jeremy Jongepier

The FFADO project is pleased to announce the long-awaited version 2.1.0. With improved stability, many bugfixes and a large number of newly supported devices this version represents 2 years work by the small but dedicated FFADO team. All users of FFADO are encouraged to upgrade. This source-only release can be downloaded from http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.1.0.tgz FFADO is brought to you thanks to the work of Daniel Wagner, Pieter Palmers, Philippe Carriere, Adrian Knoth, Arnold Krille, Jonathan Woithe and the many people who have tested FFADO against their devices, provided patches and given suggestions. Changes and additions in FFADO 2.1: * Significantly improved support for the new "juju" firewire stack found in newer kernels * Support for JACK freewheeling mode and set-buffer-size operation * Lower CPU usage * udev rules included in FFADO to give user access to audio device files * More stable streaming * Fix crash when realtime system clock was set * Fix race conditions and invalid memory accesses on shutdown * Fixes for clean compilation on recent gcc versions (up to 4.7) * ffado-diag enhanced to aid debugging efforts * Many bugs fixed New DICE-based devices supported in FFADO 2.1 (up to 96 kHz rate only): * Alesis (no mixer support): io|14 io|26 Multimix16 Firewire * FlexRadio Systems (no mixer support): Flex-5000 * Focusrite: Saffire PRO 40 (44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and 88.2 kHz only) Saffire PRO 24 Saffire PRO 24 DSP (audio streaming and mixer only: no DSP) Saffire PRO 14 (no mixer or router control) Liquid Saffire 56 (experimental: 44.1/48 kHz only, no mixer/router) * Lexicon (generic mixer): I-ONIX_FW810S * DnR (no mixer): Axum Firewire IO card 16x16 * M-Audio (basic audio with generic mixer): ProFire 2626 ProFire 610 * Presonus: Firestudio Project (generic mixer) Firestudio Tube (generic mixer) Firestudio Mobile (no mixer) Studiolive_1642 (no mixer) Studiolive_2442 (no mixer) * TCAT (audio only): DiceII EVM (1) DiceII EVM (2) DiceII EVM (4) * TC Electronic: Konnekt 24D (no mixer support) Konnekt 8 (no mixer support) Studio Konnekt 48 (no mixer support) Konnekt Live (no mixer support) Desktop Konnekt 6 (no mixer support) ImpactTwin (generic mixer only) * Weiss Engineering Ltd. (no mixer support): ADC 2 Vesta Minerva AFI 1 TAG DAC1 INT 202 DAC 202 Other new devices supported by FFADO 2.1: * RME (no MIDI I/O support yet) Fireface 400 Fireface 800 * MOTU 896 mk 3 (audio only, no mixer yet) Traveller mk 3 (experimental) Ultralite mk 3 (experimental) Ultralite hybrid (firewire only, experimental) * FCA-202, and possibly other Oxford FW-92x devices * Mackie Onyx i * M-Audio Ozonic (no mixer) * Phonic HelixBoard 24 Universal (no mixer) * Tascam IF-FW/DM (experimental, incomplete) * Yahama GO46

12 years, 10 months

Xth Sense: instrument, code, schematic, tutorial On-line now

by Marco Donnarumma

(sorry for x-post) Dears, I wished so much I could have joined you at Stanford this year... :( but....! The Xth Sense (software and hardware) is finally available on-line, get binaries, DIY documentation, and tutorials at: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/ The digital interface is developed in Pd on a Linux machine; there's a main software for the computation of incoming muscle sound (and virtually any sound input), and the xth-sense-lib, a collection of 120 objects (and help files) ranging from specific muscle sound methods, to everyday Pd patching needs. It also includes a lot of GUI stuff, to facilitate building things. Wanna the source? Here you go: https://github.com/marcodsad What is the Xth Sense? "**is a biophysical musical instrument. You can build your own and produce music with it using the sound of your muscles. It is free and open source, and it was named the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument” by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (US, 2012). Its name is spelled ecsth sense (not tenth sense!). But it’s way easier to call XS." With the XS you can also control other software on your machine (video, audio, light systems, etc.), send Voltage output to hardware, or control a prosthetic arm. Hacks are encouraged by the design of the instrument itself. For some ideas see: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/#get-started We have a (newly born) user's forum, courtesy of Create Digital Music/Motion; the forum lives at: http://createdigitalnoise.com/categories/xth We are on also on Facebook (imagine!): http://www.facebook.com/XthSense if anybody works with it, let me know! We have users and works in Australia, Sweden, US, UK, Ireland, Spain, Vietnam, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, and Italy, so far :) hope it is useful to some of you, cheers, -- Marco Donnarumma New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director. Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction Research Team. Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net

12 years, 10 months

The Vee Ones first true official release

by Rui Nuno Capela

greetings y'all the proto-toys ain't 'proto' no more, but still 'toys' nevertheless :) the 'vee one's features: - a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support; - a LV2 instrument plugin. yep, it's all free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. they're: * synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. website: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… * samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler (yet another) old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. website: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… see also: http:/www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/559 rejoice! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

12 years, 10 months

Featured Artist : #2

by Patrick Shirkey

Hi, The second selection in the new series called "Featured Artists" is up now at: http://linux-audio.com Featuring ##### Louigi Verona ##### ******************* 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. Please contact me directly if you would like to take part in this project. Cheers -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

12 years, 10 months

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Linux-audio-announce September 2012