Linux-audio-announce December 2014

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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, 6 months

CLAP, new virtual instrument and effect plugin interface proposal

by Alexandre Bique

Hi, I worked on a new plugin interface, it is not yet finished and set in stone, but ready enough to gather initial feedback and advice. The specification is hosted on github: https://github.com/free-audio/clap and is available under the MIT license. There is a generated specification document at: http://free-audio.github.io/clap/ I hope that you'll find it interesting and give it a chance. Thanks. Regards, -- Alexandre Bique

9 years, 10 months

Guitarix 0.32.2

by Hermann Meyer

Again, a Bug-fix release is out which is aimed to stabilize the experience. * fix some rcstyle bugs for gtk-2.24.25 and maybe fixed them for KDE as well * allow load of preset-files witch contain Denormal Numbers (flush to zero) * add warning when denormal value found in preset file * if parameter is out of range, set it to the default value * add missing Icons to glade-gxw * add wavesharper plugin * use long int to compare regions size in gx_mlock.cc -> (Gcc: 4.9.2) download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ enjoy.

9 years, 10 months

Csound 6.04 is released

by jpff

After some hiccups and technical issues csound 6.04 is now ready for use. As usual files are available on Sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound6/Csound6.04/ Sources, packages and manuals are there ==John ffitch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================ CSOUND VERSION 6.04 vRELEASE NOTES VERSION 6.04 ============================ This new version has many extensions and fixes; many new opcodes and significant numbers of internal reworking. There is a new frontend and iOS and Android version have seen many improvements. As ever we track bugs and requests for enhancements via the github issues system. Already proposals for the next release are being made but the volume of changes require a release now. The Developers USER-LEVEL CHANGES ================== New opcodes: o pinker generates high quality pink noise o power opcode ^ now works with array arguments o exciter opcode, modelled on the calf plugin , o vactrol opcode simulate an analog envelope follower o family of hdf5 opcodes to handle hdf5 format files o (experimental undocumented) buchla opcode models the lowgate filter of Buchla o New k-rate opcodes acting on arrays: - transforms: rfft, rifft, fft, fftinv - complex product: complxprod - polar - rectangular conversion: rect2pol, pol2rect, mags, phs, - real - complex: r2c, c2r - windowing: window - cepstrum: pvsceps, iceps, ceps - column / row access: getrow, getcol, setrow, setcol - a-rate data - k-array copy: shiftin, shiftout - phase unwraping: unwrap New Gen and Macros: Orchestra: o Line numbers corrected in instr statements o New control operation, while, for looping o A long-standing bug with macros which use the same name for an argument has been corrected o Redefinition of an instrument in a single call to compile is flagged as an error o ID3 header skip for mp3 files now properly implemented. o Errors induced by not defining the location of STK's raw wave files has been removed o bug fixed where UDO's could not read strings from pfields o bug fixed which hid tb opcodes at i-rate o Attempts to use two OSClisteners with the same port is now trapped rather than give a segmentation fault Score: Options: Modified Opcodes and Gens: o stackops opcodes deprecated o lenarray extended to handle multi-dimensional arrays o ftgenonce accepts string arguments correctly and multiple string arguments o max and min now have initialisation-time versions o gen23 improved regarding comments and reporting problems o in OSCsend the port is now a k-rate value o socksend now works at k-rate o a number of envelope-generating opcodes are now correct in sample-accurate mode o faust compilation is now lock-protected o mp3 fixed to allow reinit to be used with it. o In remote opcode the name of the network can be set via the environment variable CS_NETWORK. Defaults to en0 (OSX) or eth0. o invalue, outvalue are available at i-rate as well as k-rate Utilities: Frontends: icsound: New frontend icsound is now ready for general use. icsound is a python interface for interactive work in the ipython notebook. csound~: Emscripten: csdebugger: A number of changes and improvements have been made, like stepping through active instruments, better line number use General usage: Jack module now does not stop Csound if autoconnect fails Bugs fixed: o atsinnoi fixed o ftsavek fixed o sprintf fixed o gen27 fixed, especially with extended arguments, as well as fixed a number of errors in extended score arguments. o Physem opcodes (guiro cabasa, sekere) fixed so second call works o flooper fixed in mode 2 o OSCsend multiple fixes o UDO fix for case of local ksmps of 1 o More changes/fixes to dssi code o xscanu and scanu fixed o temposcal and mincer fixed o crash in ftload fixed ==================== SYSTEM LEVEL CHANGES ==================== System changes: o In server mode exit is now clean o Fixes to rtalsa module o Pulseaudio rt module fixes o Fix to remove fluidEngine entries for csound instance (prevents crash on moduleDestroy) o Opcodes called through function calls that returned arrays did not correctly synthesize args as array types due to not converting the arg specifier to the internal format o fixed crashing issue during note initialization for tied notes due to goto skipping over code o fixed incorrect initialization of pfields when note's pfields length were less than instrument expected (off-by-one) Internal changes: * Added Runtime Type Identification for instrument variables; removed use of XINCODE/XOUTCO * fix malloc length in negative number parsing, and improved handling of negative numbers * writing to circularBuffer is now atomic * a number of memory leaks and potential dangerous code have been fixed * type-inference has been extensively reworked, as have a few parsing areas API === * Added API function for retrieving GEN parameters used for creating a table Platform Specific ================= iOS --- * API Refactored for clearer method names and abstraction names (i.e. CsoundBinding instead of CsoundValueCacheable) * Updated to remove deprecated code * A significant amount of reworking has been done on the code Android ------- * API Refactored for clearer method names and abstraction names (i.e. CsoundBinding instead of CsoundValueCacheable) * Changes to enable HTML 5 with JavaScript and it is to be hoped WebGL in the Csound6 Android app. * Enabled change of screen orientation in the Csound6 app without forcing a restart of the app. * Enabled local storage (useful for saving and restoring widget values, etc.). Windows ------- * fixed pointer arithmetic that caused crashing on Windows * pyexec changed to use python's file opening functions to prevent crash on Windows OSX --- * CsoundAC now compiles Linux ----- * threadlocks bug fix on linux. ========================================================================

9 years, 10 months

MIDA 0.3.0

by Mark Karpov

I would like to announce MIDA, version 0.3.0. Short description: MIDA is a minimalistic language for algorithmic generation of MIDI files. MIDA is not interactive in sense that you cannot control result of its activity in real time, it is intended for producers and should be used with a DAW. MIDA can help you create variative elements in your music in a very simple way. Since MIDI can control a lot of different instruments, power of MIDA is truly great. Main reason for MIDA development is to create software tool that can be used in such a way that does not change established workflow, so people could use familiar plugins and software instruments. Unlike many programs in field of algorithmic composition, MIDA does not aim creating complex or peculiar algorithms, because complexity of such systems rarely translates into emotional impact directly. Instead, MIDA gives you simple and effective tool to vary parameters of MIDI events. MIDA does not have GUI, because it doesn't need one. It can work as REPL (interactive mode) or as translator from source to MIDI files (batch mode). MIDA repository is here: https://github.com/mrkkrp/mida Documentation online: http://mrkkrp.github.io/mida/ Although MIDA is created on GNU/Linux and for GNU/Linux, it can be compiled on many platforms (but only Windows version is tested). MIDA is licensed under GNU GPL version 3, it's free software. Regards, -- Mark Karpov

9 years, 11 months

DrumGizmo 0.9.7 released

by Bent Bisballe Nyeng

We're proud to announce the immediate availability of DrumGizmo version 0.9.7! New features / fixes include: * Resampling now implemented and working * Gui lineedit fixes * Global gui config file Download it from http://www.drumgizmo.org Visit us at the official irc channel at the Freenode network. Channel name #drumgizmo. We would love to hear from you! // The DrumGizmo team

9 years, 11 months

[LAD] [LAU] Guitarix 0.32.1 Bug-fix release

by hermann meyer

Bug-fix release 0.32.1 is out, update is recommended!! This release fix a long outstanding issue with LADSPA/LV2 plugin load/unload and UI modification. Please refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ Download Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ regards hermann

9 years, 11 months

Yoshimi V 1.3.0

by Will Godfrey

There it is, all shiny and bright :) http://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi We have the usual crop of optimisations and (fewer) bugfixes. There are further improvements to the GUI, including significant layout changes. The most involved change has been the introduction of LV2 support - as our most intrepid friends will know :) This has been extensively tested on four completely different LV2 hosts, along with detailed tests of Yoshimi in stand-alone mode to ensure there are no regressions. Supported features: 1. Sample-accurate midi timing. 2. State save/restore support via LV2_State_Interface. 3. Working UI support via LV2_External_UI_Widget. 4. Programs interface support via LV2_Programs_Interface. Planned features: 1. Multi channel audio output. Now only 'outl' and 'outr' are routed to lv2 plugin instance. 2. Controls automation support. This will be a part of a common controls interface. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

9 years, 11 months

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Linux-audio-announce December 2014