Linux-audio-announce June 2016

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[LAA] io GNU/Linux 2016.03 out

by Manu Kebab

Hi all :) A new release of io GNU/Linux is available for download (32 and 64-bits) Features: * Fully configured system for live and/or install * Kernels 4.6.2 and 4.6.2-rt * Enlightenment e21-rc as window manager * All sounds through Jack2 * Hundred of audio, graphics, video, internet, utilities and system programs. Get it at http://io.gnu.linux.free.fr/ Feedbacks welcome, enjoy MK

9 years, 7 months

[LAA] The Open Source Musician Podcast Episode 78

by Spencer Jackson

Join us in this month's episode where I discuss room treatment and some open source tools for testing the acoustics of your room, as well as the usual news, babble, and a track from rghvdbrg! https://archive.org/details/OSMP78 Especially I want to call for participation in this season's tunestorm, due August 15. You still have plenty of time to make a track, so please do! Questions, comments, complaints, constructive criticisms, or jokes welcome and encouraged.

9 years, 7 months

[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.8 - The Snobby Graviton is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Qtractor 0.7.8 - The Snobby Graviton is out! ------------------------------------------- So it's first solstice'16... The world sure is a harsh mistress... yeah, you read that right! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress">Heinlein's Moon</a> have been just intentionally rephrased. Yeah, whatever. Just about when the UK vs. EU is there under close scrutiny and sizzling winds of trumpeting (pun intended, again) coming from the other side of the pond, we all should mark the days we're living in. No worries: we still have some feeble but comforting news: Qtractor 0.7.8 (snobby graviton) is out! Nevertheless ;) 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: - MIDI file track names (and any other SMF META events) are now converted to and from the base ASCII/Latin-1 encoding, as much to prevent invalid SMF whenever non-Latin-1 UTF-8 encoded MIDI track names are given. - MIDI file tempo-map and location markers import/export is now hopefully corrected, after almost a decade in mistake, regarding MIDI resolution conversion, when different than current session's setting (TPQN, ticks-per-quarter-note aka. ticks-per-beat, etc.) - Introducing LV2 UI Show interface support for other types than Qt, Gtk, X11 and lv2_external_ui. - Prevent any visual updates while exporting (freewheeling) audio tracks that have at least one plugin activate state automation enabled for playback (as much for not showing messages like "QObject::connect: Cannot queue arguments of type 'QVector<int>'"... anymore). - The common buses management dialog (View/Buses...) sees the superfluous Refresh button finally removed, while two new button commands take its place: (move) Up and Down. - LV2 plug-in Patch support has been added and LV2 plug-ins parameter properties manipulation is now accessible on the generic plug-in properties dialog. - Fixed a recently introduced bug, that rendered all but one plug-in instance to silence, affecting only DSSI plug-ins which implement DSSI_Descriptor::run_multiple_synths() eg. fluidsynth-dssi, hexter, etc. 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-0.7.8.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (on going, help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ 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/1057 Enjoy && Have (lots of) fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 7 months

[LAA] spectmorph-0.3.0

by Stefan Westerfeld

spectmorph-0.3.0 has been released. Overview of Changes in spectmorph-0.3.0: ---------------------------------------- * Incompatible file format changes: - use 16-bit integer values for sine and noise data instead of floats to reduce file size on disk and in memory - introduce short_name & name field for instruments - changed the way noise is represented from total band energy to normalized noise level * Use Qt5 for the GUI, instead of gtkmm. * Added Grid Morph operator: allows morphing between more than two sources. * Adapted code to work with newer beast (0.10.0) and rapicorn (0.16.0). * Improved tests. * Various bugfixes. * Performance improvements. What is SpectMorph? ------------------- SpectMorph is a free software project which allows to analyze samples of musical instruments, and to combine them (morphing). It can be used to construct hybrid sounds, for instance a sound between a trumpet and a flute; or smooth transitions, for instance a sound that starts as a trumpet and then gradually changes to a flute. Also interpolating between two samples of the same instrument (different attack velocity of a piano) could be interesting. SpectMorph is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 3 SpectMorph is still under development. This means: * the fileformat is not yet stable - instruments or morph plans may not work with newer versions of SpectMorph * the algorithms for synthesizing sounds are still under development - newer versions may sound different To sum it up: if you compose music using SpectMorph, don't expect newer versions to be compatible in any way. Links: ------ Website: http://www.spectmorph.org Download: http://www.spectmorph.org/downloads/spectmorph-0.3.0.tar.bz2 There are many sound samples on the website, which test morphing between instruments. -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

9 years, 7 months

[LAA] Vee One Suite 0.7.5 - The Tenth beta is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hiya! The 'Vee One Suite' aka. 'the gang of three' old-school 'homebrew' software instruments, respectively synthv1 [1] as a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer, samplv1 [2] a polyphonic sampler synthesizer and drumkv1 [3] as one drum-kit sampler, are here released once again, now in their tenth reincarnation. All still 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 esoteric change-log goes like this: - LV2 Patch property parameters and Worker/Schedule support are now finally in place, allowing for sample file path selections from generic user interfaces (applies to samplv1 [2] and drumkv1 [3] only). - All changes to most continuous parameter values are now smoothed to a fast but finite slew rate. - All BPM sync options to current transport (Auto) have been refactored to new special minimum value (which is now zero). - In compliance to the LV2 spec. MIDI Controllers now affect cached parameter values only, via shadow ports, instead of input control ports directly, mitigating their read-only restriction. - Make sure LV2 plug-in state is properly reset on restore. - Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido Scholz, while for Qtractor, thanks). 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 then again! **synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer [1]** synthv1 0.7.5 (tenth 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.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.5.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.5-28.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.5-28.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.7.5-28.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/synthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/synthv1.git **samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler [2]** samplv1 0.7.5 (tenth 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.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.5.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.5-28.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.5-28.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.7.5-28.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/samplv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/samplv1.git **drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler [3]** drumkv1 0.7.5 (tenth official beta) is out! 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/drumkv1-0.7.5.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.5-24.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.5-24.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.7.5-24.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/drumkv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/drumkv1.git 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/1048 Enjoy && have lots of fun ;) -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 7 months

[LAA] Monoplugs Metronom is now in public beta on Linux

by Monoplugs | Thomas Arndt

Hi, today I'm happy to invite you to try and test Metronom on Linux. You can download your free Metronom copy for Linux: http://monoplugs.com/public/dl/Metronom_Linux_beta_1.zip Please report any problems and bugs via the contact form on our website: http://monoplugs.com/contact or on the Monoplugs Forum: http://monoplugs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=128&t=958 Enjoy your next lesson. Best, Thomas

9 years, 7 months

[LAA] Yoshimi 1.4.0 - Diamond Dove

by Will Godfrey

We are pleased to say this has now been released with a package of refinements. Full details in doc/README.txt -- 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, 7 months

[LAA] MMA 16.06 now available

by Bob van der Poel

A stable release, version 16.06, of MMA--Musical MIDI Accompaniment is available for downloading. In addition to a number of bug fixes and optimizations, MMA now features: - A number of new macros - RPITCH command - SUBROUTINES - FRETNOISE option for Plectrum tracks - Enhanced TIME options - PLUGINS - AFTER command - Other minor enhancements Please read the file text/CHANGES-15 for a complete list of changes. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca -- **** Listen to my FREE CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

9 years, 7 months

[LAA] Rivendell v2.14.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.14.1. 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: *** snip snip *** Changes: Fixed regressions in processing NULL date values. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 258, 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/ <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/> <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/>> Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. | | -- General George Patton | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

9 years, 7 months

[LAA] Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer v0.7.27 new with simple XML IO

by Joël Krähemann

Hi all GSequencer is currently available as v0.7.27 bringing many improvements. The use of the plugin API within GUI has been improved and doing XML IO is really fast for now. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gsequencer.git/tree/ags/X/file/ags_simple_… The website has been moved from github.org to GNU Savannah. http://www.nongnu.org/gsequencer/ The developer documentation was updated and is now provided within the source tarball. DSSI and Lv2 support was probably the biggest achievement. You may for now use it within notation editor. The thread has got a better structure with ::clock signal and has eliminated a really stained bug or bad implementation. The tree syncs now with parent frequency that should cause better time consumption. If you feel like asking questions, contributing work or sharing artistic work especially related to GSequencer feel free to get in contact. http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gsequencer/0.7.x/gsequencer-0.7.2… http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gsequencer/0.7.x/gsequencer-0.7.2… cheers, Joël

9 years, 7 months

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