Linux-audio-announce October 2013

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by David Olofson

Audiality 2 is now hosted on GitHub! ------------------------------------ Figured it's about time to make an announcement, now that it's been on there for a few weeks... ;-) Overview: Audiality 2 is a realtime audio and music engine, primarily intended for video games. While it supports traditional sample playback as well as additive, subtractive and granular synthesis, the distinctive feature is subsample accurate realtime scripting. Some of the changes since 1.9.0: * Subvoice spawn and event timing fixed - now truly subsample accurate! (For granular synthesis etc.) * Added generic stream API for wave uploading, audio streaming etc. * 'filter12' no longer blows up at high cutoffs. * 'filter12' supports 2 channels/dual channel mode. * More accurate pitch control in 'wtosc'. * More logical unit autowiring: Now wires outputs to any inputs down the chain by default; not just the next unit. * 'run' statement removed. * Comma as a statement delimiter now deprecated. Next few upcoming changes: * Command line player. * Boolean and comparison operators. * Normalize, crossfade and reverse mix processing for wave uploads. * Render-to-wave, for creating complex waves. * Buffered taps/inserts, for easy implementation of GUI oscilloscopes and the like without realtime callbacks. Official site: http://audiality.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/olofson/audiality2 Related; Kobo II site: http://kobo2.net/ -- //David Olofson - Consultant, Developer, Artist, Open Source Advocate .--- Games, examples, libraries, scripting, sound, music, graphics ---. | http://consulting.olofson.net http://olofsonarcade.com | '---------------------------------------------------------------------'

10 years, 6 months

OpenAV : ArtyFX

by Harry van Haaren

Hey All, ArtyFX is released after 5 days, cheers to all the contributors! Checkout details here: http://www.openavproductions.com/artyfx Cheers, -Harry

10 years, 6 months

The Friday Interview #2

by Gabbe Nord

Hello again! New week, new interview! This time we visit with the man behind KXStudio: falkTX! The interview can be found here: http://www.zthmusic.com/falktx/ Thanks for reading, and please leave comments if there are any! :) Cheers, Gabriel

10 years, 6 months

io GNU/Linux... new iso uploded :)

by MK aka El Doctor

Hi :) I'm glad to share with you a new iso of "io GNU/Linux", a live dvd/usb focused on multimedia and based on Debian Sid. Kernel 3.11, Jack2 as default sound server, e17+ecomorph as desktop environment and more nice stuff ;) -> http://manu.kebab.free.fr/io.gnu.linux-v2/io-live-hybrid-686-pae--2013.10.0… To create a bootable USB stick please refer to: -> http://live.debian.net/manual/3.x/html/live-manual/the-basics.en.html#186 For more infos, screenshots gallery, video etc... Please visit: -> http://manu.kebab.free.fr/iognulinux.html -> https://sourceforge.net/projects/io-gnu-linux/ Enjoy :) MK

10 years, 6 months

Qtractor 0.5.11 - The Lima Oscar release!

by Rui Nuno Capela

As falling leaves drift by the window, and without any further ado: Qtractor 0.5.11 (lima oscar) is now released! Soon we'll hear a new winter's song. This code-naming series, which started on a sunny summer day two years ago as TYOQA, is now converging to an end. It will be no surprise for some that today's release precedes the very last one on that series. So let's get those autumn leaves falling and grab them while they're crispy red and gold ;) Release highlights: * Extended automation curve editing (NEW) * Extended clip selection (NEW) * LV2 UI resize feature support (NEW) * Aux-sends to audio buses (FIX) * MIDI editor overlapped event velocity/value (FIX) * Accidental export muting and/or freezing (FIX) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.11.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.11-8.rncbc.suse123.s… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.11-8.rncbc.suse123.i… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.11-8.rncbc.suse123.x… - quick start guide & user manual (outdated): 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: - Adding a track now inserts it after the current one, if any; one can also drag and move a track below the last one in the track list (main view left pane). - Extended Edit/Select Mode/Automation: multi-selection mode, cut, copy, paste and delete of current track's automation curve nodes, now reached implementation ready status. - Another old silent bug bites the dust: changing track names were dropping any track gain/volume and panning automation curves when saving the session. - A primeval processing bug has been sorted out: aux-sends to audio output buses that just appear to be after the input bus where they're inserted were being left muted and silent (on a ticket follow-up by Holger Marzen, thanks). - Fixed a sure crash bug exposed when processing of aux-send plugins when inserted too early on audio input buses chain (after a ticket report by Holger Marzen, thanks). - Allow the build system to include an user specified CFLAGS (patch by Cristian Morales Vega, thanks). - Shift/Ctrl keyboard modifiers now set to extend current clip selection while in main track view's Edit/Select Mode/Range, Rectangle modes. - Main Edit/Select Mode/Automation icon retouched to look a bit more obvious and intuitive, hopefully ;) - Allow to change the velocities/values of the current selected events which have the exact same onset times and hide beyhond each other on the MIDI clip editor's pane below the main view piano-roll (ie. the one that represents MIDI event values as a bar chart). - Fixed some problematic playback/export muting and annoying cleanup freezing, due on audio tracks with too many clips eg. more than hundred clip splits (hopefully fixes an issue reported by Louigi Verona, thanks). - LV2 UI resize feature support/control added. - Fixed dedicated MIDI control and MIDI metronome port connection restore conflict (thanks to jhammen catch & patch:). - New user preference option added: reverse middle-button role to Shift/Ctrl keyboard state, in special regard to edit-head/tail vs. play-head positioning while on the main track and MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) views. See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/710 Enjoy && have (a plenty of) fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

10 years, 6 months

OpenAV : ArtyFX plugin suite

by Harry van Haaren

Hey All, Its my pleasure to announce the ArtyFX plugin suite! The plugins included are Masha, Roomy, Ducka and Filta. Checkout http://www.openavproductions.com/artyfx for a demo reel and details! Cheers, -Harry

10 years, 6 months

[ANN] meters.lv2 v0.5.1

by Robin Gareus

Hi, In the wake of overhauling Ardour's bar-graph meters, I've taken the time to implement corresponding needle-style meters and more. meters.lv2 features 10 needle-style meters. Mono and stereo variants of DIN, Nordic, EBU, BBC and VU types (which are based on jmeters by Fons Adriaensen). Additionally it includes a Stereo Phase Correlation Meter (needle Display), an EBU-R128 Meter (also based on Fons' implementation) with Histogram and History display, a Digital True-Peak Meter (4x Oversampling, using zita-resampler), a Stereo Phase Scope (Goniometer) and a 31 Band Spectrum-Analyzer. Source-code, info and screenshots can be found at https://github.com/x42/meters.lv2 They have been tested in various environments and fine-tuned to match their corresponding real hardware type by Chris Goddard and Axel Müller. Currently the plugins come in Gtk2 (LV2 GtkUI) and openGL (LV2 #external-ui) variants. Both versions are installed in parallel. The main reason for this is portability and compatibility. Yet the GTK variant UI does run in the host's GUI-thread and may slow down UI response (in particular the goniometer). The openGL versions of the plugins do not have this issue, but require very recent versions of libcairo, libpixman and libpango which are thread-safe. Please see the README included with the source. Caveat: Note that the plugins use the LV2 idle-interface (lv2 >= 1.4.2) The plugin-host must to be compiled with 1.4.2 or a later version of the LV2 SDK. It also must support the http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/resize-port/ extension. At the time of writing Ardour 3.4 and jalv.gtk from SVN >= 5129 do fulfill these criteria. as always, any feedback is welcome. robin

10 years, 6 months

[ANN] Radium 1.9.31

by Kjetil Matheussen

Radium 1.9.31 is a big release with many new features and bug fixes. 1.9.31 is the first release with Pd embedded. Pd is a " Real-time graphical dataflow programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing." (http://puredata.info/) Pd embedded in Radium has got approximately the same features as Max for Ableton Live. (https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/) Screenshot: http://folk.uio.no/ksvalast/radiumpd.png Video 1: http://folk.uio.no/ksvalast/radium_pd.ogv Video 2: http://folk.uio.no/ksvalast/radium-pd-invertnote.ogv Radium homepage: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ Most important changes 1.9.30 -> 1.9.31: * New demo song: BlowFish! Made by www.magnetophon.nl * Save hashmap elements in sorted order so that songs can more easily be compared textually * Menu entry to show name of all included pd externals * Help menu options to edit keybindings and menues * Song comment dialog * Fix "Switch Window Configuration" menu option * Removed "Error. y2>=window->height: ..." error. Just print to stderr instead. * Removed the "Something strange just happened in the function Blt_markVisible" warning (print to stderr instead) * Option to set number of scrolls per second. Scrolling too often can be tiresome for the eyes. * Make it easier to connect objects and see connections in the mixer, plus adjust object sizes * Patchbay sound object * Fix crash loading Soundfonts in the Fluidsynth and Sampler instrument * Show stars around filename if theres unsaved data * When quitting or loading, only ask sure/yes/no if edited since last save. * Change "Set Patch For Track" to "Set Instrument For Track" in the instruments menu. The word "patch" should not be exposed to the user anymore. * Be able to load files with DOS char set * Changed internal radium block size to 64 (similar to Pd) * Sending note events between sound objects (green lines) * Enable undo for on/off effect controllers * Pd extended is included as a sound object. 921 externals are included. GUI is working. Several instances is working. Can be used to write both audio effects and note effects. * Fix qt paths on Archlinux (Javafant/archlinux) * Many minor bug fixes

10 years, 6 months

The Friday Interview

by Gabbe Nord

Hey everyone! I want to introduce you to a little project I've recently been working on, called "The Friday Interview". My goal is shortly to publish an interview with someone from the Linux Audio realm each Friday. The interviews will be about Linux audio, the interviewee's themselves, their software/music, and just life in general. I'm very excited to introduce my first guest in this first edition of the Friday Interview, HarryHaaren! In this first interview, we get to know Harry as he talks about OpenAV, how the donation system he invented has been working, his own music, and more. You can find the interview here: http://www.zthmusic.com/harryhaaren/ Thanks to HarryHaaren for this interview, and I hope you enjoy reading it. Thanks for reading this e-mail. Til next week, cheers!

10 years, 6 months

OpenAV Fabla 1.2

by Harry van Haaren

Hey, Releasing Fabla 1.2, with extra presets & various UI bugfixes. You know where its at: http://openavproductions.com/fabla/ Cheers, -Harry

10 years, 6 months

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Linux-audio-announce October 2013