Linux-audio-announce September 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

8 years, 7 months

Sonic Visualiser v2.4 released

by Chris Cannam

Sonic Visualiser is an application for inspecting and analysing the contents of music audio files. It combines powerful waveform and spectral visualisation tools with automated feature extraction plugins and annotation capabilities. Version 2.4 of Sonic Visualiser is now available. This release contains some interesting new features, perhaps most noteworthy the ability to sonify (play back) continuous frequency curve layers, as well as a number of bug fixes and code quality improvements. http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ For more information, please read the change log at: http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/sonic-visualiser/repository/entry/… Sonic Visualiser uses Vamp plugins for automated audio feature analysis. For more information about Vamp plugins, including downloads and developer resources, see http://vamp-plugins.org/ Sonic Visualiser is Free Software under the GNU General Public Licence, developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London. Chris

9 years, 2 months

QMidiArp-0.5.2 released

by Frank Kober

Hi, QMidiArp 0.5.2 has just seen the light of the day. It brings mainly two improvements. One is a comeback, that of tempo changes on the fly, and that now includes also tempo changes of a potential Jack Transport master. Also the Jack Transport starting position is finally taken into account, so that QMidiArp should be in sync also when starting the transport master not at zero. The second one is Non Session Manager support, mainly thanks to the work done by Roy Vegard Ovesen! Note that for compiling in NSM support you will now need liblo as dependency. Enjoy, and enjoy LAC in Graz this year Frank ________________________________ QMidiArp is an advanced MIDI arpeggiator, programmable step sequencer and LFO. Everything is on http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net qmidiarp-0.5.2 (2013-05-09) New Features o Tempo changes are again possible while running, both manually or by a Jack Transport Master o Jack Transport position is now taken into account when starting, QMidiArp used to start always at zero o Muting and sequencer parameter changes can be deferred to pattern end using a new toolbutton o Modules in the Global Storage window have mute/defer buttons o Global Storage location switches can be set to affect only the pattern o Non Session Manager support with "switch" capability (thanks to Roy Vegard Ovesen) General Changes o NSM support requires liblo development headers (liblo-dev package)

9 years, 2 months

Qtractor 0.6.3 - The Armed Hadron beta release!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Ah, the equinox... Twice a year a cherished planetary alignment checks in on schedule, once again. The little rock gets another round from its warmy solar furnax, from which were forged. The pale blue dot gets yet another round and to no surprise, another tinier dot gets here around: Qtractor 0.6.3 (armed hadron beta) is now released! Release highlights: * Revamped mixer (un)dockable panels (NEW) * Plugin preset selection sub-menu (NEW) * LV2 Time position/transport event support (NEW) * Constrained plugin multi-instantiation (FIX) * Automation curve node resolution (FIX) Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. nb. Despite the old Qt4 stance, but still recommended, Qtractor does build, runs and does it all on Qt5 for quite some time now. However, the former recommendation prevails as the despicable LV2 plugin GUI X11/embedding support through libSUIL just does NOT work on modern Qt5. Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.3.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.1): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.3-13.rncbc.suse131.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 13.1): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.3-13.rncbc.suse131.i5… http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.3-13.rncbc.suse131.x8… - quick start guide & user manual (still outdated, see wiki): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf - wiki (help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ 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: - Make the mouse-wheel to scroll the plugin list views, when not hovering a direct-access parameter slider. - Mixer widget gets (un)dockable Inputs and Outputs panels, also with their respective title captions. - Plugin instantiation is now constrained as much to prevent any audio channel output overriding. - Existing plugin presets may now be selected right(-click) from plugin list context-menu (ticket by Harry van Haaren, thanks). - So-called "painting" over multiple selected event values, while on the MIDI clip editor view pane below the main piano-roll (eg. note velocities, controller values, etc.) is now split into two similar painting modes, whether the sub-menu Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw is set on (free-hand) or off (linear). - Drag-and-copy of plug-in instances across tracks or buses (ie. cloning) now also copies the direct access parameter setting (ticket by Holger Marzen, thanks). - File/Save As... now prompts and suggests an incremental backup name for existing sessions files. - Zooming in/out increment is now augmented by whether shift /ctrl keyboard modifiers are set (on a ticket request by Holger Marzen, thanks). - LV2 Time position event messages for plugin atom ports that support it is now being implemented. - Attempt to break extremely long audio file peak generation on session close or program exit (as reported by EternalX, thanks again). - MIDI Controllers Hook and Invert properties are now properly saved for tracks (after bug report by Nicola Pandini, thanks). - A segmentation fault when closing with VST plugins open has been hopefully fixed (after a patch by EternalX, thanks). - Messages standard output capture has been slightly improved as for non-blocking i/o, whenever available. - Automation curve node editing has been slightly improved in regard to time positioning and resolution. See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/818 Enjoy && have fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 2 months

Rivendell v2.9.3

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.9.3. 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: Fixed a DSP bug that caused audio distortion in the Local Audio Adapter device for ALSA. Various other bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 239, 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 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

9 years, 2 months

[ANN] Super Announcement - All MOD software for your PC

by Gianfranco Ceccolini

Hello Linux Audio Users and Developers In less than an our the MOD Duo Kickstarter campaign will go live and so it is with great pleasure that the MOD Team makes the announcement of the desktop versions for our entire software suite. Some of this software has already been announced in the past but, as part of our Kickstarter campaign, we put the necessary effort to have them running in a regular Linux environment and not just inside the MOD. All instructions in Github were also updated in order to yield working elements when followed. Most of this software has been under development for almost two years and their history is related to the development of the MOD itself. Being so, they carry some differences in workflow when compared to other LV2 programs and our current effort is being put on correcting those differences. The softwares are: MOD Client - run your LV2 plugins using the MOD interface. https://github.com/portalmod/mod-client —————————————————————————————————————————— MOD SDK - plugin interface creator Use this program to create the HTML interface required by the MOD Client. If you don’t create an interface the plugins still work, but their icons will be a tuna fish can with just the ON/OFF button. When you click on the gear symbol on the upper right side of the icon you have access to the Plugin Settings Screen in which all parameters are visible. The MOD SDK is Python based and can be installed by typing “pip install modsdk” As the MOD Client, it runs on your browser and requires a mod-workspace folder (or link) in which you place your LV2 bundles. Just run “modsdk" in your terminal and point your browser to localhost:9000 There is also post on our blog about the SDK: http://portalmod.com/blog/2014/09/the-mod-sdk —————————————————————————————————————————— LV2BM - tool for analyzing and benchmarking LV2 plugins Allows to select which URIs to test Uses minimum, maximum and default control values to run the plugins Uses several controls combinations in the full test mode The output shows the JACK load percent —————————————————————————————————————————— Plugins - CAPS-LV2 LV2 port of the CAPS suite of LADSPA plugins. - TAP-LV2 - LV2 port of the TAP suite of LADSPA plugins. - Pitch shifters - http://github.com/portalmod/mod-pitchshifter Capo - up to 7 semitones up pitch shifting SuperCapo - up to 24 semitones up pitch shifting Drop - up to 12 semitones down pitch shifting SuperWhammy - continuous pitch shifting from -12 to 24 semitones Harmonizer - scale interval generator - Utilities - https://github.com/portalmod/mod-utilities Switchbox - A/B box for audio signal routing SwitchTrigger - 4 excluding channel selector ToggleSwitch - 4 non-excluding channel selector Gain (mono and stereo) Filters (LP, HP and BP) - 1st, 2nd and 3rd order Two way mono crossover - 1st, 2nd and 3rd order Three way mono crossover - 1st, 2nd and 3rd order - Distortions - mathematical simulations of classic distortion circuits BigMuff DS-1 Muff Fuzz - SopoperLooper LV2 simplified port of the SooperLooper. All plugins from our repository have the HTML MOD GUI included. In our Github repository - www.github.com/portalmod - we also have plugins that were forked from the original repositories. One of our aims is to trigger a dialogue with the developers, deprecate our forks and add the MOD interface to the original plugins but that depends on the developers and creators and shall be discussed in a one-to-one basis. Wish you all the best Kind regards Gianfranco The MOD Team

9 years, 2 months

OpenAV ArtyFX 1.2 Released!

by Harry van Haaren

Hey *, Its my pleasure to release ArtyFX 1.2! Checkout the plugins on the website: now includes quick reference for each plugin: http://openavproductions.com/artyfx/ Code available on github: https://github.com/harryhaaren/openAV-ArtyFX/releases/tag/release-1.2 Cheers -Harry -- www.openavproductions.com

9 years, 2 months

Vee One Suite 0.5.1 - One second official beta release!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy, The gand-of-three aka. the Vee One Suite of old-school soft(ware)-instruments, featuring synthv1 [1], a polyphonic synthesizer, samplv1 [2], a polyphonic sampler and drumkv1 [3], as a drum-kit sampler, are once again released in beta phase though. The changes for this one second beta release are the following: - Fixed LV2 plugin relative/absolute file path state resolution. (drumkv1 [3] only). - One decimal digit added to all scalar parameters and knobs. - Stand-alone JACK client ports outrageously renamed from a zero based numbering scheme into a plus one natural one. - Experimental LV2 Time/position atom-event support (Delay BPM). Please, don't hesitate to ask whether any of the above esoteric babbles doesn't get you on to update as soon as you can. One special note goes for all the users out there of drumkv1 [3] LV2 genre: the update is not just interesting but a must, seriously ;). As usual, all is available in dual form: - a pure stand-alone JACK [4] client with JACK-session, NSM [5] (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA [6] MIDI input support; - a LV2 [7] instrument plug-in. The Vee One Suite are free and open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [8] version 2 or later. The gore details are as follows ;) * synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer [1] * synthv1 0.5.1 (second official beta) is out! 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/synthv1-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1synthv1-0.5.1-18.rncbc.suse131.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1synthv1-0.5.1-18.rncbc.suse131.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1synthv1-0.5.1-18.rncbc.suse131.x86_8… * samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler [2] * samplv1 0.5.1 (second official beta) is out! samplv1 is an old-school 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/samplv1-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.5.1-18.rncbc.suse131.src.… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.5.1-18.rncbc.suse131.i586… http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.5.1-18.rncbc.suse131.x86_… * drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler [3] * drumkv1 0.5.1 (second official beta) is out! drumkv1 an old-school 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/drumkv1-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.5.1-14.rncbc.suse131.src.… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.5.1-14.rncbc.suse131.i586… http://download.sourceforge.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.5.1-14.rncbc.suse131.x86_… References: [1] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/ [2] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/ [3] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/ [4] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org/ [5] NSM, Non Session Management http://non.tuxfamily.org/nsm/ [6] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [7] LV2, Audio Plugin Standard, the extensible successor of LADSPA http://lv2plug.in/ [8] GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/815 Enjoy && have fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 2 months

Rivendell v2.9.2

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.9.2. 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: Changes: Fixed a regression that broke report generation. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 239, 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 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

9 years, 2 months

Rivendell v2.9.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.9.1. 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: Changes: RDImport Enhancements. Added '--cart-number-offset' and '--set-daypart-times' switches to rdimport(1) while also extending metadata import for SCOT chunks to include segue marker data. New Device Support. Added support for the Broadcast Tools GPI-16 General Purpose Input Module. See the 'SWITCHERS.txt' file for details. Build System Cleanups. Cleaned up many autotool and compiler warnings while also implementing a '--sysconfdir=' switch in 'configure'. See the 'INSTALL' file for details. Various bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 239, 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 | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | "No, `Eureka!' is Greek for `This bath is too hot!'" | | -- Dr. Who | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

9 years, 2 months

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Linux-audio-announce September 2014