Linux-audio-announce February 2016

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[LAA] Vee One Suite 0.7.3 - The Ninth beta release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Vee One Suite 0.7.3 - The Ninth beta release -------------------------------------------- The 'Vee One Suite' aka. 'the gang of three' old-school software instruments, synthv1 [1] polyphonic synthesizer, samplv1 [2] polyphonic sampler and drumkv1 [3] drum-kit sampler, are now released in their ninth official beta iteration. All 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. In common to all three comes the spartan change-log: - Avoid out-of-bound MIDI events as much as possible, coping with LV2 plug-in hosts that feed/run them in on border line circumstances (as reported by Thorsten Wilms, on suspected Ardour looping crash/bug, probably fixed already, thanks). - Tentatively safe defaults are being introduced to internal OUT FX buffer-sizes, as read from JACK buffer-size changes and LV2 block-length instantiation bound options. - Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData. The Vee One Suite are free, open-source Linux Audio [9] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [8] version 2 or later. And here they are again! **synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer [1]** synthv1 0.7.3 (ninth official beta) is released! 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.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.3.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.3-26.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.3-26.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.3-26.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/synthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/synthv1 **samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler [2]** samplv1 0.7.3 (ninth official beta) is released! 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.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.3.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.3-26.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.3-26.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.3-26.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/samplv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/samplv1 **drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler [3]** drumkv1 0.7.3 (ninth official beta) is released! drumkv1 is 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.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.3.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.3-22.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.3-22.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.3-22.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/drumkv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/drumkv1 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 [9] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1008 Enjoy && keep the fun ;) -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 10 months

[LAA] Zynaddsubfx 2.5.3 - the “Chiron” Release

by Spencer Jackson

Zynaddsubfx 2.5.3 - “Chiron” Released I’d say it’s a good day for a new release, wouldn’t you? Zynaddsubfx has reached version 2.5.3 including some exciting new changes for the now-officially supported VST and LV2 plugin versions! In addition to the usual bugfixes some rich new features have been added such as: - Add LV2&VST support via DPF - zyn is now working as a native linux plugin in most DAWs! Other platforms coming soon. I know I’m sure excited about this... - Add autosave - Just in case of the rare crash, this can be a lifesaver - Add realtime filter parameter updates - For smoother, wilder filter tweaking - Add LFO random mode - adds sample and hold module integrated to the LFO, great for classic bleep-blop computer sounds (and a hundred other things) - Add more controls to DSSI plugin - For more knob turning sonic automation-exploration in DSSI plugin hosts - Add fixed frequency modulators - Easier FM operations - Add more reset states to knobs/sliders - double click will put it back to the default state, so you don’t need to be afraid of turning that knob, you can always go back. - Add PWM mod - Sweet sweeping from nasally to full bodied square waves - Fix Microtonal UI - if you do microtonal music, this is a huge deal! - Fix 'Add Bank' - easier organization for all your patches - Fix sustain bugs in 2.5.x series - So you can keep your feet below your keyboard to play more notes - Fix mem pool exhaustion bug - a boon to stability - Fix PADnote and Oscilgen copy/paste - for quicker sound design - Fix Midi unlearn - If you want to map that knob to something else... - Other miscellaneous bug fixes - New Presets in the 'olivers-other' bank. That should fix any case of the Mondays. And here’s the contribution score card by number of commits since 2.5.2: 36 Christopher A. Oliver 29 Mark McCurry 28 Filipe Coelho 12 Olivier Jolly 2 Jaromír Mikeš 1 Johannes Lorenz 1 Friedolino 1 Alessio Treglia Many thanks to them and all others who contributed by submitting feedback, bug reports, troubleshooting, or even just making music. We’d love to see more! Now go make some noise! --Team Zyn. Project Page: http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net/ Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx/files/zynaddsubfx/2.5.3/ Mailing List: https://sourceforge.net/p/zynaddsubfx/mailman/ Forums: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=47 Bug/Feature Tracker: https://sourceforge.net/p/zynaddsubfx/bugs/?source=navbar IRC: ##zynaddsubfx on FreeNode

9 years, 11 months

[LAA] Faust Awards 2016 : call for participation

by Yann Orlarey

[Sorry for cross-posting, please distribute.] Faust Open Source Software Competition ======================================= (Submission Deadline: June 1, 2016) Overview --------- The Faust Open-Source Software Competition is intended to promote innovative high-quality free audio software developed with the Faust programming language, as well as development tools build around the Faust compiler itself. The Faust Open-Source Software award will be attributed to the best submission by an international committee of leading experts in the field. The competition is sponsored by Grame, centre national de création musicale. The winning software will receive a 2000€ price to encourage its authors. The results will be announced July 15, 2016. To participate, the software must be provided with source code and licensed with a Free/Open Source license. A substantial part of the software must be written in Faust and the Faust source code must be provided. As part of the review process, the software will be built from the sources. All source code, license, video demonstration, installation instructions, and any other documentation must be available on a public web page. License compatibility with other open source software is encouraged. Dependencies on non-open source third-party software are discouraged, with the exception of operating systems and freely available commercial packages. Authors are required to prepare a video demonstrating the software. This video must be done carefully, and should convincingly present the qualities of the software. The submission must also contain any useful documentation, including examples of how the provided software might be used, existing prototypes that use the software, download statistics or other public usage information. The criteria for judging submissions includes broad applicability and potential impact, novelty, technical depth, reusability, etc. Junior Competition ------------------ In parallel to the Faust Open-Source Software Competition we introduce this year a junior competition, the Faust Student Software Competition, with a 200€ prize for the winner. The Faust Student Software Competition is intended to promote interesting audio processing and synthesis applications written in Faust in a single file in less than 1000 words. The word count is done after removing the comments from the code: cat foo.dsp | stripcmt | wc -w. The use of the standard Faust libraries is strongly encouraged. They don't take part in the word count. Important dates --------------- - Start of the competition: February 8, 2016 - Software Submission Deadline: June 1, 2016 - Results of the competition: July 1, 2016 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors interested in participating in the Faust Open Source Software Competition or the Faust Student Software Competition should send a submission email to <faustaward(a)grame.fr> with a PDF file attached containing the following information: - Title of submission, - Category of submission (*Faust Open Source Software Competition* or *Faust Student Software Competition*), - Name, email and affiliation of the main author, - Names, emails and affiliations of other authors, - A permanent link for the open source software (e.g., Sourceforge, GitHub, Google Code, etc.), - A permanent link for the video demonstration (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo, etc.), - A link to a compressed archive file that contains the software (source code, documentation, build/install instructions, and licenses). Comprehensive and clear build/install instructions will be a crucial component of any submission. The committee will make a reasonable effort to build the software for the top contributions, but if they are unable to make the software run, it will be excluded from the competition. International Committee ----------------------- - Jean-Louis Giavitto (IRCAM, Paris, France), - Albert Gräf (Johannes Gutenberg U., Mainz, Germany), - Pierre Jouvelot (Ecole des Mines, Paris, France), - Victor Lazzarini (Maynooth U., Maynooth, Ireland), - Romain Michon (CCRMA, Stanford , USA) - Yann Orlarey (Grame, Lyon, France), - Dave Phillips (Musician/Journalist, Findlay, USA) - Laurent Pottier (U. Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France), - Julius Smith (CCRMA, Stanford , USA) Previous Winners ---------------- - 2015: [Guitarix](http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/), by Hermann Meyer and Andreas Degert Yann Orlarey GRAME

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Linux-audio-announce February 2016