Linux-audio-announce April 2019

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by Spencer Jackson

Hey all: Even though I didn't get it done in time for the great linux audio release day earlier this week (fondly known as the big L.A.R.D), I hope this offering of free freedom will still be accepted. I found some flaws in the voice deactivation improvements from the last release, especially if using a patch with a long release (which I hadn't before). As part of this, I've removed a few loops in the code so there may be some small amount of performance gain. In addition this release adds a couple patches (with long releases surprisingly). It is recommended all users and packagers upgrade asap. Enjoy! https://github.com/ssj71/reMID.lv2/releases/tag/v0.3 <https://github.com/ssj71/reMID.lv2/releases/tag/v0.2> reMID is a MIDI implementation of a MOS8580/6581 SID chip (Commodore64) using the reSID library. It includes support for scripted instruments that allow complex sonic control of the chip.

5 years, 11 months

fluidsynth 2.0.5 has been released

by Tom M.

A maintenance release for fluidsynth has been released. Details can be found in the release notes: Download: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/releases/tag/v2.0.5 API: http://www.fluidsynth.org/api/ Website: http://www.fluidsynth.org FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont(tm) 2 specifications. It can read MIDI events from the MIDI input device and render them to the audio device. It can also play MIDI files. Tom Moebert FluidSynth Developer Team

5 years, 11 months

[ANN] jack-select 1.3.0 released

by Christopher Arndt

Griaß enk! a new version 1.3.0 of *jack-select* has just been released! What is it? *jack-select* is a systray app to set the JACK configuration from QjackCtl presets via DBus. It displays an icon in the system tray of your desktop, which shows the status of the JACK audio server and when you click on it, a menu pops up, which lets you quickly select from the JACK configuration presets you created with QjackCtl. This allows you to switch between different audio setups with just two mouse clicks. *jack-select* works with the DBus-version of JACK only. It is written in Python 3 using the ``PyGObject`` bindings for GTK 3. Python 2 is not supported. What's new? Yesterday's 1.2.0 release unfortunately has some issues handling some variants of the presence or non-presence of the '(default)' preset in QjackCtl's configuration. This release attempts to fix those and introduces a few new options, hence the increase of the minor version. * Added command line option -i, --ignore-default to ignore the '(default)' preset if any other presets are stored in the QjackCtl configuration. * Fixed handling different variants of the presence / non-presence of the '(default)' preset when reading the QjackCtl configuration. * Added command line option --version to show the program version. * Updated the UNIX manual page. Where to get it? https://github.com/SpotlightKid/jack-select or via pip (but see the "Requirements" section in the README first): pip install jack-select or, for Arch Linux users, from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jack-select/ How to use it? Please see the README file here: https://github.com/SpotlightKid/jack-select/blob/master/README.md *Share & Enjoy* Christopher Arndt

5 years, 11 months

[ANN] jack-select 1.2.0 released

by Christopher Arndt

Ciao tutti! I'm happy to report that I just released the new version 1.2.0 of *jack-select*! What is it? *jack-select* is a systray app to set the JACK configuration from QjackCtl presets via DBus. It displays an icon in the system tray of your desktop, which shows the status of the JACK audio server and when you click on it, a menu pops up, which lets you quickly select from the JACK configuration presets you created with QjackCtl. This allows you to switch between different audio setups with just two mouse clicks. *jack-select* works with the DBus-version of JACK only. It is written in Python 3 using the ``PyGObject`` bindings for GTK 3. Python 2 is not supported. What's new? * Now detects changes in connected ALSA devices and enables/disables menu entries for presets, which use these devices. * Added command line option '-a', '--no-alsa-monitor' to disable ALSA device monitoring and filtering. * Made some logging improvements. Where to get it? https://github.com/SpotlightKid/jack-select or via pip (but see the "Requirements" section in the README first): pip install jack-select or, for Arch Linux users, from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jack-select/ How to use it? Please see the README file here: https://github.com/SpotlightKid/jack-select/blob/master/README.md *Share & Enjoy* Christopher Arndt

5 years, 11 months

Wolf Spectrum - Spectrogram plugin (LV2/VST/Jack)

by Patrick Desaulniers

Wolf Spectrum is a free, real-time spectrogram plugin. It can be used to analyze the frequency content of signals over time. Right now, it supports vertical scrolling, logarithmic/linear frequency scaling, and configurable block sizes. I plan on adding a few features in future releases, such as horizontal scrolling and the ability to show the frequency at the cursor's position. To install the plugin, follow the instructions in the README: https://github.com/pdesaulniers/wolf-spectrum If you encounter some issues with the plugin, please report them. Feature requests are also welcome :) Thanks!

5 years, 11 months

Qtractor 0.9.7 - Spring-Break'19 Release batch #3

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi there, trice again, Like some post-LAC2019 [8] frenzy hangover, here comes the third and final 'batch-of-one': Qtractor 0.9.7 (spring-break'19) is out! The changes for this seasonal release are as follows: - Re-defined all main application UNIX signal handling. - Fixed possible crash in drawing clips while rare loop-recording/takes situations. - Main window stabilizing is now kind of asynchronous re. menus, tools and status bars. - MIDI Controller's Latch mode attribute on tracks and plugins are now properly saved/loaded as meant to be. Description: 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. Website: http://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.7.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.7-42.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.7-42.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] packages: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.7-12.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://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 (help still wanted!): https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: http://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf 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. Trice again, References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io 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 [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere http://appimage.org/ [8] LAC2019@CCRMA-Stanford, March 22–26 2019 https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2019/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1998 Enjoy && Please, have (lots of) fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

5 years, 11 months

[ANN] python-rtmidi 1.3.0 released

by Christopher Arndt

Hola! I'm pleased to announce that version 1.3.0 of *python-rtmidi* has just been released! What is it? python-rtmidi is a Python binding for RtMidi, a set of C++ classes which provides a cross-platform API for realtime MIDI input / output. python-rtmidi supports Python 2 and Python 3 (3.4+) and is available for Linux, macOS (OS X) and Windows. What's new? Enhancements / Changes: * Added 'get_api_display_name', 'get_api_name' and 'get_compiled_api_by_name' module-level functions. * Updated wrapped rtmidi library to include all changes from upstream up to commit 791dfea. Documentation: * Improved installation instructions and listed options recognized by setup.py. For a detailed list of changes, see the change log here: https://github.com/SpotlightKid/python-rtmidi/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst Where to get it? https://github.com/SpotlightKid/python-rtmidi or via pip: pip install python-rtmidi (Pre-compiled binary wheels for Windows and macOS for several Python versions in 32 and 64 bit variants are provided.) or, for Arch Linux users, from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-rtmidi/ How to use it? Please read the documentation here: https://spotlightkid.github.io/python-rtmidi/ *Share & Enjoy* Christopher Arndt

5 years, 11 months

librtosc 0.2.0 release

by Mark D. McCurry

Hello everyone, I'm happy to announce the 0.2.0 release of rtosc (RealTime safe Open Sound Control). librtosc is a MIT licensed library which provides tools to serialize, deserialize, and dispatch OSC messages within realtime contexts. rtosc is currently primarily used by ZynAddSubFX to create the foundation for all messages between the UI and backend, in terms of their realtime manipulation, dispatch, and use in related tasks (e.g. DAW host/MIDI device automation). You can find the release at: https://github.com/fundamental/rtosc/releases/tag/v0.2.0 Enjoy, --Mark

5 years, 11 months

[ANN] jack-matchmaker 0.7.0 released

by Christopher Arndt

Greetings earthlings! I'm happy to announce that version 0.7.0 of *jack-matchmaker* has just been released! What is it? jack-matchmaker is a small command line utility that listens to port registrations by JACK clients and connects these ports when their names match one of the port pattern pairs given on the command line at startup. jack-matchmaker never disconnects any ports. What's new? * Added support for listing and matching port meta data pretty-names (supported only with JACK1 or JACK2 >= 1.9.13 or development version). * Added command line option -e, --exact-matching for exact port name matching mode. * Added command line option -N, --client-name to set JACK client name. For a detailed list of changes, see the change log here: https://github.com/SpotlightKid/jack-matchmaker/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst Where to get it? https://github.com/SpotlightKid/jack-matchmaker or via pip: pip install jack-matchmaker or, for Arch Linux users, from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jack-matchmaker/ How to use it? Please read the documentation at the GitHub URL given above, or run 'jack-matchmaker -h' for a quick overview of command line options. *Share & Enjoy* Christopher Arndt

5 years, 11 months

Infamous Plugins v0.3.0 The Never had a Summer of '69 Release

by Spencer Jackson

Yo: Keeping up with the cool kids, infamous plugins will be participating in quarterly releases (or at least I'll be releasing at least one of my projects each quarter). This is beneficial because it forces me to release "small" fixes regularly, rather than waiting for the "BIG" release I had in mind (that's going on nearly 2 years and counting). So wrapped into this release is lots of touch-ups and small fixes that mostly affect the host integration to the plugin. More notably the infamous stuck algorithm received a lot of attention and polished up as much as possible (probably no noticeable change to anyone though), a new stuck stacker version was created with no dry signal output so you can have several in parallel without affecting the gain, and the infamous power-up no longer has 10 seconds of latency (latency will now equal the power-up time). The biggest addition though in this release is (fanfare): the infamous octolo. It's an octaver and tremolo in one (see what I did there?). It works as a fairly nice sounding tremolo too but the special sauce is that it is able to play different sequences of the 3 voices (octave up, octave down, same octave) for some fun rhythmic effects. Basically I keep trying to chase low-CPU pitch shifting and this is my latest solution. By using the tremolo effect for silent jumping, I'm able to play back the sounds at different speeds to achieve an octave up and octave down effect. At long tremolo lengths (slow speed) you will notice the timing effects which may make it a bit unwieldy for certain things. With short lengths it's not a problem. Overall I'm pleased with the effect and plan to use it in my own music. I hope you will too. As always I love when you let me know how you are using these plugins of infamy. Have fun, make music, be free. Here ya go: https://github.com/ssj71/infamousPlugins/releases/tag/v0.3.0 Enjoy! _Spencer

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Linux-audio-announce April 2019