Linux-audio-announce December 2020

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by Rui Nuno Capela

Season greetings y'all, The news are just about this first batch of so called 'QStuff*', now being rolled out, seriously: QjackCtl [1], Qsynth [2], Qsampler [3], QXGEdit [4], QmidiCtl [5] and QmidiNet [6], all jumping straight and gloriously to **version 0.9.0** for the (northern) Winter'20 Holiday season. ** QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface [1] ** QjackCtl 0.9.0 (winter'20) is released! QjackCtl is a(n ageing yet modern, not so 'simple' anymore) Qt [7] application to control the JACK [8] sound server, for the Linux Audio [12] infrastructure. Website: https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.9.0.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.9.0-44.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package: https://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.9.0-44.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [20] package: https://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.9.0-44.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qjackctl/code https://github.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git Change-log: - List only available backend drivers when JACK D-BUS is enabled. - Graph client-name / node-title aliases persistence have been hopefully fixed. - Get rid of those "JACK has crashed" red-herrings from latest Windows(tm) builds. - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17 standard. ** Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface [2] ** Qsynth 0.9.0 (winter'20) is released! Qsynth is a FluidSynth [10] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework [7] using Qt Designer. Website: https://qsynth.sourceforge.io http://qsynth.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.0.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.0-44.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package: https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.0-44.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [20] package: https://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.9.0-44.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qsynth/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsynth.git Change-log: - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17 standard. ** Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface [3] ** Qsampler 0.9.0 (winter'20) is released! Qsampler is a LinuxSampler [11] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework [7] using Qt Designer. Website: https://qsampler.sourceforge.io http://qsampler.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler/files - source tarballs: https://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.9.0.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.9.0-44.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package: https://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.9.0-44.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [20] package: https://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.9.0-44.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qsampler/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsampler.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsampler.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsampler.git Change-log: - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17 standard. ** QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor [4] ** QXGEdit 0.9.0 (winter'20) is released! QXGEdit is a live XG instrument editor, specialized on editing MIDI System Exclusive files (.syx) for the Yamaha DB50XG [14] and thus probably a baseline for many other XG devices. Website: https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.9.0.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.9.0-34.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package: https://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.9.0-34.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [20] package: https://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.9.0-34.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qxgedit/code https://github.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git Change-log: - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17 standard. ** QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast [5] ** QmidiCtl 0.9.0 (winter'20) is released! QmidiCtl [5] is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [15] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI [15] for Windows. QmidiCtl [5] was long ago designed for the Maemo [17] enabled handheld devices, namely the late Nokia N900 [18] and promoted to the Maemo Package [18] repositories. Nevertheless, QmidiCtl [5] may still be found effective as a regular desktop application and recently as an Android application as well. Website: https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.9.0.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.9.0-24.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package: https://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.9.0-24.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [20] package: https://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.9.0-24.x86_64.AppImage - Android package: https://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.9.0-24.aab https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.rncbc.qmidictl Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidictl/code https://github.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git Change-log: - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17 standard. ** QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast [6] ** QmidiNet 0.9.0 (winter'20) is released! QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA-MIDI [9] and JACK-MIDI [8]) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [15] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI [16] for Windows. Website: https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.9.0.tar.gz - source package: https://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.9.0-24.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package: https://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.9.0-24.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [20] package: https://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.9.0-24.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidinet/code https://github.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git Change-log: - Early fixing to build for Qt >= 6.0.0 and comply with C++17 standard. License: All of the Qstuff* are free, open-source Linux Audio [11] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later [12]. References: [1] QjackCtl - A JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io [2] Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface https://qsynth.sourceforge.io [3] Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface https://qsampler.sourceforge.io [4] QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io [5] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io [6] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io [7] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [8] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [9] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [10] FluidSynth - A SoundFont Synthesizer A real-time software synthesizer based on SoundFont 2 specifications https://www.fluidsynth.org [11] LinuxSampler - The Linux Sampler Project A modular, streaming capable, realtime audio sampler https://www.linuxsampler.org [12] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [13] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [14] Yamaha DB50XG (https://web.archive.org/web/20150607065739/) http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/may96/yamahadb50xg.html [15] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network https://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [16] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN https://nerds.de [17] Maemo.org - Home of the Maemo community https://www.maemo.org [18] Maemo.org Wiki - Nokia N900 https://wiki.maemo.org/Nokia_N900 [19] Maemo.org - Downloads: QmidiCtl https://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl [20] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2152 Have fun && Stay safe && Healthy! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

5 years

New B.Oops Glitch Effect Sequencer - First official release

by Sven Jaehnichen

Hi, the first official version of the new LV2 plugin glitch effect sequencer B.Oops is just released. Key features: * Multi-effect plugin controlled by a step sequencer pattern * Apply glitch effects in live or on a sample track * 24 effects (reverse, chop, stutter, flanger, phaser, wah, wow & flutter, tape speed, tape stop, scratch, ...) * Up to 12 effect slots, freely select effects and effect order * Random effects: 3 different ways of randomization * Autoplay, host controlled, or MIDI controlled sequencer Description: https://github.com/sjaehn/BOops Releases: https://github.com/sjaehn/BOops/releases Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGUmZHWqdkE Play and have fun! Sven

5 years

PianoBooster is back! V1.0.0 is released and a new website.

by Louis B.

Hello Everyone, PianoBooster is back! It has been a very long time since there has been an announcement about PianoBooster posted to this list and there have been lots of changes. First there is a brand new website see https://www.pianobooster.org/ and the official source code has just moved to a new GitHub repo. See https://github.com/pianobooster/PianoBooster so please update your URLs to point to this new website and repo. Piano Booster is an Open Source program that helps with playing the piano and learning to sight read music. It's key feature is that it listens and follows what you are playing on the piano and waits for you to find and play the right notes. It helps you with this by giving you audio feedback. So if you play a wrong note then that note will have the Harpsichord sound but the right notes will have the Piano sound. The new features in this release is a built-in FluidSynth sound generator which makes it much easier to use. Also included are two music courses, Please see https://www.pianobooster.org/music-info.html For a video demonstration see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGbfm8Tv-20 PianoBooster is licensed under GPL and runs on Linux, Windows and the Mac. PianoBooster is available from: https://www.pianobooster.org . Thanks Louis

5 years

AlsaModularSynth (ams) 2.2.0 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 2.2.0. Please find source tarballs on the release page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alsamodular/files/alsamodular/2.2.0/ NEWS ams-2.2.0 (2020-12-13) Fixed Bugs o Fix envelope tabs in Dynamic Waves config dialog to be usable on small displays. o Fix several C++11 compatibility issues General Changes o Set Qt5 as default instead of Qt4 o Use qtchooser to check for qt-tools Cheers Guido

5 years

Rivendell v3.5.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the next production release of the next major version of Rivendell, 3.5.0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2. From the 'NEWS' file: Changes: *** snip snip *** Changes: Podcasting Subsystem. Major refactoring, with explicit support of iTunes and Superfeed DTDs added. All feed elements, including XML elements, are now statically served rather than dynamically generated. RDLogManager. Added control to specify explicitly how Start Times/Lengths are derived for Inline Events (traffic, markers and voice tracks). Dropboxes. Added the ability to generate e-mail reports for each attempted file import. GVC7000 Switcher Driver. Modified the 'GVC7000 Protocol' switcher driver to better handle stacked commands. WebGet. Modified the WebGet service to offer audio profiles when exporting audio rather than having the user set individual export parameters. Added the ability to upload audio files into specified Rivendell groups. Audio Library. Deprecated the ability to enforce unique cart titles. Various bugfixes. See 'ChangeLog' for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 346, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. Be sure to run 'rddbmgr --modify' (as root) immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Details and source code are available at https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases <https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases>. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

5 years

Zrythm 1.0.0-alpha.6.0.1 release

by Alexandros Theodotou

Zrythm v1.0.0-alpha.6.0.1 has been released! Demo: https://www.zrythm.org/videos/panos-alevropoulos-geometry.webm (by Panos Alevropoulos, CC-BY-SA 4.0) Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use. It allows limitless automation through curves, LFOs and envelopes, supports multiple plugin formats including LV2, LADSPA, DSSI, SFZ, SF2, VST2 and VST3 (via Carla), works with multiple backends including JACK, RtAudio/RtMidi and SDL2, assists with chord progressions via a special Chord Track and chord pads, and can be used in multiple languages including English, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German. Zrythm is free software written in C using the GTK+3 toolkit and can be extended using GNU Guile (Scheme). Zrythm is currently in alpha and we are working towards stabilizing the project format and entering the beta phase. Changes in 1.0.0-alpha.6.0.1: ### Added - Audio selection and functions (invert, reverse, normalize) in audio editor ### Changed - Update Spanish, Norwegian Bokmal, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Portuguese (Brazil), Danish, Greek translations - Move issue tracker from Redmine to Sourcehut - Change wording in user manual: edit modes -> edit tools ### Fixed - Fix audio clip being offset by region size when splitting an audio region and saving the project - Fix crash when automating LV2 plugins that have multiple ports with the same label but different symbol - Fix not being able to scroll past 21 bars after importing a MIDI file Full changelog: https://git.zrythm.org/cgit/zrythm/tree/CHANGELOG.md # Links Home page: <https://www.zrythm.org> Installer downloads: <https://www.zrythm.org/en/download.html> Git repositories: <https://git.zrythm.org/cgit/> Manual: <https://manual.zrythm.org/en/index.html> Developer reference: <https://docs.zrythm.org/> Issue trackers: <https://sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm/trackers> Releases: <https://www.zrythm.org/releases/>

5 years

MMA 20.12 Now Available

by Bob van der Poel

A stable release, version 20.12, of MMA--Musical MIDI Accompaniment is available for downloading. In addition to a number of bug fixes, documentation reviews and optimizations, MMA now features: - A number of new macros - Change to PLECTRUM track behaviour - TEMPO enhancements - AFTER enhancements/fixes - A number of command line additions (-xABC), (-Djs), etc - SUBROUTINES - Added environment variables - Minor bug and documentation fixes - Other minor enhancements Please read the file text/CHANGES-20 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

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:: ICAD 2021 :: Call for Submission of Papers and Extended Abstracts

by Kyla McMullen

ICAD 2021 Call for Submission of Papers and Extended Abstracts 26th International Conference on Auditory Display Virtual Conference 25-28 June 2021 https://icad2021.icad.org THEME: “SOUNDING BOARD” In addition to being part of the resonating chamber in a musical instrument, the term sounding board is also a metaphor for a channel through which ideas are discussed and disseminated. ICAD, established in 1992 has, through its 25 conference meetings, shared over 1,150 papers with the auditory display community. This year, the conference will offer itself as a sounding board for the community, allowing time to pause and reflect on the history of auditory display research, review how research has changed throughout the years, and discuss future areas of inquiry as well as how to adapt our research during these challenging times. Therefore, the ICAD 2021 committee is seeking full papers, abstracts, concert pieces, demos, installations, workshops, and tutorials from across the full spectrum of auditory display research and practice. From discussions and reflections on the history of auditory display research with a view to generating new ways of thinking about how we as practitioners should go about things, to speculative ideas or news of late-breaking work, submissions are sought across all the categories. We are particularly interested in hearing from researchers who have never considered themselves to be part of the community before, or whose work sits at the periphery of the field. Important Dates: Full Papers - Late March Abstract Only - Early April Workshops/Tutorials - Mid-April Live Performances/Installations - Mid-April Doctoral Consortium/Thinktank - Mid-April For details on topics of interest, proposal format, submission instructions, and additional conference information please visit https://icad2021.icad.org/call-for-participation/ Papers Chairs: Areti Andreopoulou and Milena Droumeva papers(a)icad2021.icad.org Conference Chairs: Kyla McMullen and Paul Vickers chairs(a)icad2021.icad.org About ICAD: First held in 1992, ICAD is a highly interdisciplinary conference with relevance to researchers, practitioners, artists, and graduate students working with sound to convey and explore information. The conference is unique in its specific focus on auditory displays and the range of interdisciplinary issues related to their use. Like its predecessors, ICAD 2021 will be a single-track conference, open to all, with no membership or affiliation requirements. -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Kyla A. McMullen, Ph.D. Web: http://www.kylamcmullen.com LinkedIn: KylaMcMullen <https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyla-mcmullen-16902222> Twitter: @Dr_Kyla <https://twitter.com/Dr_Kyla> Facebook: Kyla McMullen <https://www.facebook.com/kyla.mcmullen.90/> Google Scholar: Kyla McMullen <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=DzvXnyoAAAAJ> Need a synchronous conversation? <http://calendly.com/kyla-mcmullen> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

5 years

Release: Agordejo 0.2.0

by Laborejo Software Suite

Ladies and Gentlemen, hereby the Laborejo Software Suite releases updates for its programs in the hope to be useful in your musical toolbox. You can now download Agordejo version 0.2.0. All software is released under GPLv3. Agordejo (Esperanto: 'place to set things up') is a music production session manager based on NSM. It is used to start your programs, remember their (JACK) interconnections and make your life easier in general. Changelog Highlights: * Fix crash from Qt/PyQt regression with Qt 5.15.2 * Install nsm-data manpage You can find all releases as sources here. Also check your distribution for packages in a few days after this announcement, please. https://laborejo.org/downloads/ For more information, a multi-language user manual, build instructions and git access please visit https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo Greetings, Laborejo Software Suite https://www.laborejo.org/

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