Linux-audio-announce January 2016

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[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.4 - The Tackiest Gluon released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Ahoy there! Qtractor 0.7.4 (the tackiest gluon) has been released! Y'all know the drill... Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Change-log: - Eye-candy warning: muted/non-soloed tracks are now shaded over the main thumb-view. - Faster and crispier VST plugin editor (GUI) idle cycles. - Fixed all core processing when any plugin has more audio outputs than channels on a track/bus where it's inserted. - Added one decimal digit to all percentage input spin-boxes on the MIDI Tools dialog. - Added brand new and global option to disable the so called "catch-up" default behavior (cf. View/Controllers.../Sync). - Fixed some track control issues related to MIDI Controllers generic mapping (cf. View/Controllers...). - Try making Help/Shortcuts... dialog window modeless, as far as under MIDI Controller, Inputs/Outputs Connections window also gets accessible enough. - Fixed some vertical scrolling and play-head line re-drawing glitches introduced by the recent unlimited slack to editing beyond current contents length on main tracks view. - Added one decimal digit to the Pitch-shift spin-box on audio Clip/Edit... properties dialog window. - Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData. - Fixed local keyboard shortcuts on the Files organizer widget actions and context-menu. - Improved Mixer multi-row layout (patch by Holger Marzen aka. bluebell, thanks). - Fixed the Ctrl+drag/cloning left of a clip when towards near the beginning of session. Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - wiki (on going, help still wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ Weblog (on going, upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1000 Enjoy && Have (lots of) fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 11 months

[LAA] AV Linux new URL and other news.

by Glen MacArthur

Hi LAU's If you are or have been an AV Linux user you may be interested in these changes, if not, as you were, sorry to disturb :) AV Linux 6.0.4 is now being taken down and has ceased maintenance to prepare for AV Linux '2016' which will be based on Debian Testing and pending some further documentation on the new User Manual should have a Release Candidate available later this month. Other tidbits happening now or soon: - Migration to a new Wordpress site for bandshed.net and all related activities including AV Linux and the AVL Drumkits. - Removal of the old HTML sites. - Removal of the AV Linux 6 Deb packages and other related clean up. - Removal of the AV Linux 6 ISO's, Torrents and Manuals - Minting of a 'frozen' Release Candidate ISO for AV Linux '2016' - Continued work on the new manual... it's going slowly I'm afraid and there is a LOT of new stuff to document. - A very short screencast about the next AV Linux. If you have an application that links to AV Linux because it is featured on the Live ISO please see the updated URLs here: Bandshed.net: http://www.bandshed.net/wordpress/ AV Linux: http://www.bandshed.net/wordpress/avlinux/ AVL Drumkits: http://www.bandshed.net/wordpress/avldrumkits/ I would like to say thank you to the Linux Audio Users and Developers for helping AV Linux versions 1-6 to become an actual 'thing', truthfully you guys are the rock stars and AV Linux was simply a stage for the show and the spotlight has faded as I've taken time off to do other things and KXStudio has become the extremely warranted and excellent go-to for many 'Buntu/Debian people. In light of that and having ridden around the carousel a few times, AV Linux 2016 will hopefully be a much lower profile affair and simply exist as a shared, ready to use Linux Audio and Video workstation image for those who need it. Previously AV Linux became many things that I neither deserved or anticipated and this time time I'd like to keep it manageable and simply be a facilitator and evangelist for the great work of you LAD's and leave the Distro guru stuff up to those with the credentials :). Thanks also to falkTX whose phenomenal applications and tireless packaging work have taken a huge burden off my shoulders and made it possible for AVL to continue, sincere thanks also to linuxaudio.org for the download Mirror, it is very much appreciated. Thanks, Glen

9 years, 11 months

[LAA] QMidiRoute 0.4.0 released

by Guido Scholz

Dear all, on behalf of the QMidiRoute development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of QMidiRoute 0.4.0. QMidiRoute is a MIDI event processor and router for the ALSA sequencer with a graphical interface based on the Qt toolkit. http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ This release fixes a few bugs and provides some minor feature improvements. All users should upgrade to 0.4.0. Please find source tarballs on the release page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alsamodular/files/QMidiRoute/0.4.0/ NEWS ==== qmidiroute-0.4.0 (2016-01-24) Fixed Bugs o Fixed bug #3028929 (missing update for IndexOutMode when reading map file) New Features o Handler for SIGINT added to handle unsaved or changed files more carefully at program termination. o Handler for SIGUSR1 added to provide support for LADISH level 1. o Add configure option to use Qt5 instead of Qt4 library. Cheers Guido -- http://wie-im-flug.net/ http://www.lug-burghausen.org/

9 years, 11 months

[LAA] AlsaModularSynth (ams) 2.1.2 released

by Guido Scholz

Dear all, AlsaModularSynth (ams) is a MIDI controlled realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor with support for LADSPA and JACK. http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ This release fixes a few bugs and provides some minor feature improvements. All users should upgrade to 2.1.2. Please find source tarballs on the release page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alsamodular/files/alsamodular/2.1.2/ NEWS ==== ams-2.1.2 (2016-01-24) Fixed Bugs o Fix sequencer module id reading. o Fix vocoder module, patch provided by Bill Yerazunis o Fix initialization of freq parameter in lfo module, patch provided by Christopher Oliver New Features o Add portamento input to VC slew module, patch provided by Christopher Oliver General Changes o Clear global filedialog settings to avoid cross application history spying o Add 64bit alternative to ladspa search path Cheers Guido -- http://wie-im-flug.net/ http://www.lug-burghausen.org/

9 years, 11 months

[LAA] seq24 0.9.3 released

by Guido Scholz

Dear all, seq24 is a pattern based sequencer with strong live performance capabilities. A new seq24 release is out published by the Seq24team. https://edge.launchpad.net/seq24/ This release fixes a few bugs and provides some minor feature improvements. All users should upgrade to 0.9.3. Please find source tarballs on the release page: https://edge.launchpad.net/seq24/trunk/0.9.3 NEWS ==== seq24-0.9.3 (2016-01-24) Fixed Bugs * Fix LASH support (crash on 64 Bit systems) * Fix broken JACK transport with newer jackd version * Fix clock tick drift * Fix jack session commandline (obsolete --file option removed) New Features * Non recursive make General Changes * Some code cleanups * C++11 compatible compiler required Cheers Guido -- http://wie-im-flug.net/ http://www.lug-burghausen.org/

9 years, 11 months

[LAA] Yoshimi 1.3.8.2

by Will Godfrey

Codenamed 'The Swan'. After a bit of a scramble to workaround a cmake bug this is now released and as usual is available at both: http://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi -- 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

[LAA] njconnect 1.4

by Pawel

Hi, I want to give a sign of life in njconnect project by 1.4 version. In short: njconnect is ncurses jack connection manager. https://sourceforge.net/projects/njconnect/ Changes since v1.3: - grid view - workaround for jack1 which need process callback for graph order callback - I just lost my faith in Jack1 devels for fix this ever :( - code cleanup Best Regards Pawel / Xj

10 years

[LAA] FSTHost 1.6.0

by Pawel

Hello, Please find new release of FSTHost. https://sourceforge.net/projects/fsthost/ Changes since 1.5.4 contain: - Remove zeroize option (-z) - we'll always zeroize buffers - Control via TCP port ( e.g. via telnet ) - Save TCP port number in /tmp/fsthost directory - Support for GTK2 or GTK3 or 0 for not GTK - SIGUSR2 to open vst editor - fsthost_ctrl - for remote control - Multiplugin support - Set port aliases as real plug "pin" names ( -A option ) - Remove tempo ( -t ) command line option. - Remove BBT sync option ( -B ). Always use Jack BBT sync if available but leave old code as failback. - Connect MIDI to physical ports as default. Use -j ! for no connect - By default connect MIDI IN to all physical ports on each graph change - Rename -p to -M but which opposite meaning - Option -L display plugins only which the same arch like binnary. fsthost_list still display all plugins - Add -v option for verbose log - Add wine-staging support - Compile embedded editor feature only on demand (EE=1) - Each plugin processing can be separated from each other (-T mode) - Allow using "-p -" as separator while parse command line options - Bugfixes, syntax improvements etc. Best Regards Xj

10 years

[LAA] FSTHost 1.5.3

by Pawel

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Linux-audio-announce January 2016