Linux-audio-announce March 2013

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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

MusE 2.1.2 released

by Robert Jonsson

Hi all, Time for another update for general consumption, minor changes done but quite a few of them! Nearly arbitrary list of changes from the changelog: - Allow reading old drummaps for new style drumtracks - Added metronome icon in main window - Fixed moving events with keyboard in Drum editor - Added theme support, Light, Dark and Ardour so far - Added missing line draw shortcut (F) to drum editor. - Added new french translation from Yann Collette - Added: Pan and Zoom tools to editors. P + Z shortcuts. Added a Settings item for alternate behaviour. - Fixed: Pianoroll and Drum Editor 'Snap' boxes not remembering 1st or 3rd columns. - Fixed: Arranger 'Snap' was not stored or remembered. - Fixed: Accelerator buttons shift/ctrl/alt for moving/copying/cloning / restricting movement. - Fixed: Shift key restricting movement: Ignore snap setting now. - Fixed: Resize shift key ignore snap setting now. - Fixed: Draw new item shift key ignore snap setting now. - Fixed: Shift key was not snapping to vertical. - Fixed: ALL 'Speaker' related playing of notes. Works with new notes, moving notes, piano press etc. - Fixed: ALL 'Speaker' related notes now send true note-offs instead of zero-velocity note-ons. - Fixed: Drum 'Cursor' mode was playing double notes. - Fixed: New Drums 'Cursor' mode and instrument up/down movement was broken, jumping all over the place. - Added prebuilt PDF of manual (work in progress) - Improved: Shortcut listings: Added Wave/Score categories. Re-categorized several keys. Updated README.shortcuts - Improved: Right-click menus expanded. Now also shows 'Tools' menu when clicked on parts. - Added choice of new metronome with different sounds and adjustable volume. - Fixed gain adjustment with 'Other' choice in wave editor, it was reversed For more information and additional changes see the full changelog: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revisio… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ MusE on! The MusE Team

12 years

Beast 0.8.0 Release

by Tim Janik

CALL FOR MUSICIANS ================== If you are a musician and interested in Free Software, the Beast project needs your input. You can contribute with testing, feature feedback, demos and tutorials. Please see our website: http://beast.testbit.eu/ BEAST RELEASE ============= BEAST version 0.8.0 is available for download at: http://beast.testbit.eu/beast-ftp/v0.8/ This release opens a new development branch which focuses on improving interoperability and feature integration. A new dependency on Rapicorn is introduced, which can be found here: http://dist.testbit.eu/rapicorn/ This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the Better Audio System and the Better Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as Free Software under the GNU LGPL that runs under Unix. The "Better" portion of the name refers to the complexity and many iterations involved in implementing such a "BEAST" (pun intended). The About page covers more details: http://beast.testbit.eu/about Contact information about mailing lists, IRC, Bugzilla and more is at: http://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Contact GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as screenshots can be found at: http://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Sound_Gallery http://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Screenshots TRANSLATORS: Please help us to improve the BEAST translation, just download the tarball, edit po/<LANGUAGE>.po and email it to us or submit translations directly via transifex: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/gnome-org-beast/resource/messagespot/ Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.8.0: (2013-03-25) * Added use of the Rapicorn library, require version 13.0.0. * Adapted IDL types to other projects. * Adapted code to make use of C++11 and STL threads. * Various performance improvements through EventFD, Spinlocks, lambdas, etc. * Major documentation improvements, see: http://dev.testbit.eu/beast/latest/ * Fixed printf format-security issues (#665097). [Alessio Treglia] * Lots of code cleanups, licensing cleanups. -- Yours sincerely, Tim Janik --- http://timj.testbit.eu/ - Free software Author

12 years, 1 month

jackmixdesk-0.3-r3

by Ulrich-Lorenz Schlueter

Hello list, after a long long time I removed some ugly bugs from JackMixDesk. Latest source package is available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jackmixdesk/files/jackmixdesk/jackmixdesk-0… Regards, Uli

12 years, 1 month

Qtractor 0.5.8 - The India Romeo is out, singing a serenade...

by Rui Nuno Capela

Spring is nigh. Qtractor 0.5.8 (india romeo) is out, singing a serenade... Nothing but the change-log (see below:)) Enjoy && lots of fun. Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.8.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.8-5.rncbc.suse123.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.8-5.rncbc.suse123.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.8-5.rncbc.suse123.x8… - quick start guide & user manual: 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: - Dropped old audio ramping spin-locks as its glitching reduction weren't that effective anymore. - Audio bus and track gain may now be set for amplification again, from +0dB up to +6dB, while using the Mixer strip sliders/faders (an old function found missing ever since pre-TYOQA). - Basic LV2 X11 UI support has been added through libSUIL but only really effective if plugins doesn't support the LV2 External UI extension in addition which takes precedence on any case. - Improved precision tolerance on the Tempo Map / Markers dialog. - Reinstated and fixed (old) warning and impending re-conversion on loading session files which the original sample-rate differs from current audio device engine (aka. JACK). - LV2 Plugin State/Preset name discrimination fix (after a ticket by Jiri Prochaszka aka. Anchakor, thanks:) - Linked/ref-counted audio clips must not overlap and now must have a buffer-size worth of a gap between each other. - Something fishy has been detected in the SSE (not so) optimized code from SoundTouch's-inspired WSOLA time-stretching. - Splitting clips apart is now easier than ever: a brand new entry enters the main menu scene: Edit/Split (Ctrl+Y) splits up clips according to current range/rectangular selection. - Audio clip offsets are now properly corrected when time-stretching is applied via Shift/Ctrl+dragging any of the clip edges. - One semi-colon typo was hiding proper descrimination of peak files used to draw distinct waveforms of time-stretched audio clips. - Track automation curves are now also affected by Edit/Insert/Range commands. - Finally, some visual feedback is shown while audio track export is running, in he form of a main status progress bar. - New user option: save backup versions of existing session files. - Default session directory now set to regular file's path on load. - A convenient minimum slack duration has been fixed for MIDI SysEx messages. - LV2 Time/position information is now asynchronously fed back into their parameter (control input) ports when designated. - LV2 State is now properly restored for plugins inserted on buses, probably solving the Calf Fluidsynth SoundFont information missing on buses ticket, reported by Albert Graef, thanks. - Fixed an immediate null pointer crash on creating a parentless new group while on the files organizer widget. - Preparations for future Qt5 migration. Cheers! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

12 years, 1 month

Laborejo Release 0.6 - Beta phase has started

by Nils Gey

Laborejo, Esperanto for "Workshop", is used to craft music through notation. It is a Lilypond GUI front-end, a MIDI creator and finally a tool collection to inspire and help you compose. Laborejo 0.6 is released. It now has an internal soundfont (and sfz) engine, comes with a lightweight General Midi sample set and supports jack midi outputs. New Midi-In implementation. Parameters and values for both engines are separated. You can use the same file for big orchestrated playback with gigabytes over gigabytes of sampled instruments and external synthesizers and maintain a parallel General Midi version which can be played back even if the samples are not there or running (laptop, work in a train, "just compose for 10 minutes", send it to friends for a preview etc.) This marks the end of the Alpha phase and beginning of the Beta phase. That means the current features are enough to make and handle a reasonable range of music and notation and also that the save format is now stable. If you manage to save a file you will be able to load it in later versions. Versions from now up to 1.0 will be only bug fixes and improvements: Stability, Performance, Documentation, Convenience as well as Look&Feel. (There are a few new features I would like to see in 1.0, but these are convenience features that do not disturb the save format or internal data format. Read-Only) Documentation and Translation can now be based on a somewhat stable program. Yes, there will be documentation. Cross Platform versions, stand-alone/portable packages and collaboration with distribution package maintainers is now on the Roadmap. Further information and instructions Connect to Laborejos Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus! https://www.facebook.com/Laborejo https://twitter.com/#!/Laborejo https://plus.google.com/b/116744898976321238325/ Screenshot: http://www.laborejo.org/images/screenshots/latestscreenshot.png Download: https://github.com/nilsgey/Laborejo/tarball/0.6 Dependencies and Compilation instrunctions: http://www.laborejo.org/Download Start the GUI Editor with: ./laborejo-qt For commandline parameters: ./laborejo-qt --help and the Collection Editor with: ./laborejo-collection-editor Then use the number- and cursor keys for immediate success! Check Help->Manual for navigational and note/rest entry keys. Everything else is in the menus. Greetings, Nils http://www.laborejo.org

12 years, 1 month

Ardour 3.0 is released

by Paul Davis

The Ardour team is happy to announce the release of Ardour 3.0 for Linux systems (OS X releases will follow in a few weeks) This is the first release of Ardour that features support for MIDI recording, playback and editing. It also features a huge number of changes to audio workflow, which for many users may be more significant than the MIDI support. For an overview of the changes, please read the What's New page at http://ardour.org/whatsnew.html Please Plan On Updating ------------------------------- You should visit expect subsequent releases of 3.0 to follow at a rapid rate. We plan to release a new version every 2-4 weeks. Since 3.0 has many areas that need to be improved in addition to actual bugs, please plan on upgrading and keeping track of the program as it develops. There is every chance that the problem you encounter today will be solved in a short time. No Need To Remove Other Versions --------------------------------------------- This release can be installed on your system at the same time as any previous or future version of Ardour. They will not interfere with each other in anyway, except for possibly sharing your Ardour preferences. Working with 2.X Sessions -------------------------------- Although Ardour 3.0 will open most sessions created with Ardour 2.X, we recommend NOT working on such sessions with Ardour 3.0. Ardour 2.X will continue to be available and may even see occasional maintainance updates from time to time. If you have old sessions, continue to work on them with Ardour 2. If you insist on opening existing Ardour 2.X sessions with 3.0, be aware that... - a backup copy of the 2.X version of the session file will be created - panning information will be lost - crossfades may not precisely match their 2.X counterparts - once you save a session in Ardour 3.0, Ardour 2.X will not be able to open the main session file again. It will, however, be able to use the backup that 3.0 created Download ------------ As usual, you can get Ardour 3.0 from our Download page at http://ardour.org/download

12 years, 1 month

GeoSonix 0.93 Released - Linux 32 and 64 bit

by Chris Graham

GeoSonix, a graphical composition environment for Linux, Mac and Windows has been released. For details see http://www.geosonix.com/top New features include image sonification, enhanced rhythm and harmony processors, and much more. Free and open source.

12 years, 1 month

Vee One Suite 0.3.2 - One third bug-fix release

by Rui Nuno Capela

hi again, as they use to say--'round here at least--there's no second without a third. So there it goes, yet another batch for the Vee One Suite of old-school software instruments being thrown out to the wild. Usual suspects include synthv1 [1], a polyphonic synthesizer, samplv1 [2], a polyphonic sampler and drumkv1 [3], a drum-kit sampler. same as before, they come in a duality of forms: - a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support; - a LV2 instrument plugin. now, the (boring) bill of changes follows: - pitch-bend, modwheel and LFO pitch range internal fixes. - LV2 state save flags now forced to be portable POD. - sustain/damper pedal switch (MIDI CC#64) support added. (synthv1, samplv1) - color palette hack on Qt5 dark themes. (TESTING) all free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. enjoy && have fun! [1] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.3.2.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.3.2-9.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.3.2-9.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.3.2-9.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… [2] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler samplv1 is an(other) old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.3.2.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.3.2-9.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.3.2-9.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.2.2-9.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… [3] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler. drumkv1 is (yet) an(other) s an old-school all-digital drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumkv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.3.2.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.3.2-5.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.3.2-5.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.3.2-5.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… see also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/617 cheers! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

12 years, 1 month

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Linux-audio-announce March 2013