Linux-audio-announce April 2022

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by Jeremy Jongepier

Dear all, rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio. rtcqs v0.4.2 is now available. It's a small update, adding a power management check. For information on getting the latest version see https://codeberg.org/rtcqs/rtcqs. Best, Jeremy

10 months, 3 weeks

CollisionDrive v0.1 released

by Hermann Meyer

CollisionDrive is modeled after the Horizon Devices Precision Drive(*), a modern overdrive pedal with a built-in noise gate. Besides the usual Volume and Drive controls, the CollisionDrive features Attack and Bright controls. The Attack control manipulates the response of the pedal, turning it down simultaneously softens the overdrive attack and increases the sustain. The Bright control gives you even more flexibility. It can add presence to darker sounding amps, or remove buzzing when needed. The Gate control sets the noise gate threshold. In the plugin interface, this control lights up to indicate that the noise gate is active. (*) 'Other product names modeled in this software are trademarks of their respective companies that do not endorse and are not associated or affiliated with this software. Horizon Devices Precision Drive is a trademark or trade name of another manufacturer and was used merely to identify the product whose sound was reviewed in the creation of this product. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.' Release: https://github.com/brummer10/CollisionDrive/releases/tag/v0.1 Pre-build Binary: https://github.com/brummer10/CollisionDrive/releases/download/Latest/Collis… Project Page: https://github.com/brummer10/CollisionDrive regards hermann

11 months

Mamba v2.3 released

by Hermann Meyer

Mamba v2.3 is released. It's a virtual MIDI keyboard with some unique features. Mamba comes with some predefined Key-maps, but you could define your own to your needs with the integrated key-map editor. Mamba supports jack-interconnect-ALSA MIDI in and out. Jack and ALSA connections could be managed within the connection menu. Every channel use it's own Color to display the played Notes per channel. Mamba could load and play MIDI files, either by load them over the integrated file browser or by drag and drop them on the keyboard. Mamba is as well a 16 Channel MIDI Live Looper, you could record/play loops in sync or freely. Mamba have integrated fluidsynth support, so you could easily load your preferred soundfont, with the integrated file browser or per drag and drop. With the integrated Fluidsynth GUI you could control all needed settings for Fluidsynth. Project page: https://github.com/brummer10/Mamba Latest release: https://github.com/brummer10/Mamba/releases/tag/v2.3 Latest prebuild binary: https://github.com/brummer10/Mamba/releases/download/Latest/Mamba.zip regards hermann

11 months, 1 week

New LV2 Plugin MetalTone released v0.1

by Hermann Meyer

MetalTone is modeled after the renowned BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone(*), a high gain distortion pedal with an advanced EQ section. It has standard active EQ controls with a massive 15dB of cut/boost range for the lows and highs. It also sports a parametric active EQ for the mids with two controls: the frequency, and the boost/cut amount. The midfreq parameter has a very wide range, going from 200Hz all the way to 5kHz. As a result, it's better to think of it simply as a single highly flexible active EQ, and disregard the idea that it's only for shaping the mids. (*) 'Other product names modeled in this software are trademarks of their respective companies that do not endorse and are not associated or affiliated with this software. BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone is a trademark or trade name of another manufacturer and was used merely to identify the product whose sound was reviewed in the creation of this product. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.' Download here: https://github.com/brummer10/MetalTone/releases/tag/v0.1

11 months, 1 week

Drumstick MIDI Monitor 1.3.0 Released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Drumstick MIDI Monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt user interface. This is the program that was previously and simply known as "kmidimon". Changes in v1.3.0 * New MIDI Thru on MIDI OUT connection option while recording * Moved text encoding combo box from the settings dialog to the toolbar * Allow to switch text encoding on the fly without reloading the song * Fixed ticket #4: install failure with BUILD_DOCS=OFF * Removed usage of deprecated signals and methods of drumstick-file classes * Fixed row highlighting as playback feedback * Fixed updating player state * Fixed resetting position after playback finished * Czech translation updated, by Pavel Fric * Requires Drumstick >= 2.5 Copyright (C) 2005-2022, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 or later More info: https://kmidimon.sourceforge.io Sources and AppImage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmidimon/files/1.3.0/ Flatpak at FlatHub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.sourceforge.kmidimon

11 months, 1 week

New Software: Tembro, All-in-one instrument (Sampler or Rompler)

by Laborejo Software Suite

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the first release of Tembro, the all-in-one instrument. Tembro (which is Esperanto for musical "Timbre") is a virtual software instrument based on samples. All instruments are permanently built-in, there is no option to load your own files. New instruments are only added with new releases, old ones are never removed. That makes Tembro reliable, predictable, portable and compatible. All projects and all users have the same "instrument" with the same instrument sounds, numbering system, midi controls… ; a solid basis for communication and collaboration. To indicate this initial release we start with version number 0.5.0. The majority of the envisioned feature set is implemented, but there is still a lot to do. Feedback is very much welcome. It is released under GPLv3. 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/ Greetings, Laborejo Software Suite https://www.laborejo.org/

11 months, 1 week

[ANN] Announcing the Unofficial Pro-Audio Arch Package Repository (Beta Phase)

by Christopher Arndt

# Announcing the Unofficial Pro-Audio Arch Package Repository (Beta Phase) ## Where? <https://arch.osamc.de/> ## What? An actively maintained binary package repo for Arch Linux of free and open source pro-audio software. The repository only provides packages that are not already in the official Arch Linux repository. The repository is maintained and tested for both x86_64 and aarch64 (Arch Linux ARM) architectures. ## Why? 1. We are convinced that Arch Linux is currently the best free platform for audio production and we want to help improving it further. 2. Having more up-to-date and easy to install packages of useful audio production software is always a good thing. 3. The pro-audio packages in the `extra` and `community` package repositories are currently maintained by only one person. We want to distribute the workload and spread the packing expertise between more people and decrease the "bus-factor". 4. We want to create packages, which can eventually be migrated to the official repositories with no or minimal changes. We do not intend to duplicate the packaging efforts from the official repos. ## How? See the web site for instructions on how to add the repository to your Arch System (or derivatives). The repository is also listed on the [Unofficial user repositories] page on the Arch Wiki. We are still stabilizing the build process and packaging conventions. While this is going on, we consider the repository to be in a *Beta quality stage*. We currently have around two dozen projects packaged and ready to install and plan to add many more over time. We try to announce important changes on IRC (`#archlinux-proaudio` on `irc.libera.chat`) and always keep the information on the Arch Wiki page up to date. **Note:** *Our build process is currently not based on the official Arch Linux `devtools`, but we adhere strictly to the Arch Packaging guidelines and test all package builds via our CI. With the Arch Packaging infrastructure expected to evolve significantly in the near future, we plan to adapt our tooling to whatever the outcome of that will be. ## Contributing Contributions are welcome! To suggest software for inclusion in the repo open a GitHub issue. ### PKGBUILD and CI Code Repository and Issue Tracker: https://github.com/osam-cologne/archlinux-proaudio ### Team-Chat Discussion and coordination of the project happens on the Sonoj Rocket Chat instance. If you are interested in helping out or have questions or suggestions, join the general chat room (no registration required, English): <https://chat.sonoj.org/channel/english> [Unofficial user repositories]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories#proaudio

11 months, 1 week

Release: Agordejo (NSM GUI) Version 0.4.0

by Laborejo Software Suite

Ladies and Gentlemen, hereby the Laborejo Software Suite announces a feature-release. You can now download Agordejo in version 0.4.0 https://laborejo.org/downloads/agordejo-0.4.0.tar.gz Signature : https://laborejo.org/downloads/agordejo-0.4.0.tar.gz.sig All software is released under GPLv3. Agordejo (Esperanto: 'place to set things up') is a music production session manager. It is used to start your programs, remember their (JACK) interconnections and make your life easier in general. It does not re-invent the wheel but instead uses the New-Session-Manager daemon and enhances it with some tricks of its own, that always remain 100% compatible with the original sessions. Changelog Highlights: * Initial startup-check for old $HOME session root vs new XDG root. (nsm 1.6.0) * Offers to move the session files to the new location. * Support nsmd 1.6.0 lockfiles. Older nsmd versions still work. * On startup give a choice to connect to an already running session (nsmd 1.6.0) * Remove internal program- and icon-database and replace with dynamic XDG based lookup. * pyxdg >=0.27 is now a dependency https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg/ * Add a nsm-data desktop file with nsm tags and "no-display", so it can be found by Agordejo. You can find all releases as sources here. https://laborejo.org/downloads Also check your distribution for packages in a few days after this announcement, please. For more information, a multi-language user manual, build instructions and git access please visit https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo P.S. New Session Manager also had a new release today: https://jackaudio.org/news/2022/04/15/new-session-manager-v160.html Greetings, Laborejo Software Suite https://www.laborejo.org

11 months, 1 week

LSS: Patroneo 2.0.3, Fluajho 1.7.2 and Laborejo 2.3.1 maintenance updates

by Laborejo Software Suite

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear distribution packagers, hereby the Laborejo Software Suite releases maintenance updates for the following programs: Laborejo 2.0.3, Fluajho 1.7.2 and Patroneo 2.3.1 Besides some bugfixes there are two noteworhty changes: 1) They all require our new C library https://git.laborejo.org/lss/libcalfbox-lss , which was released today as well. 2) Added X-NSM-Capable=True and X-NSM-Exec to their .desktop files, so they can be found by supporting NSM GUIs. Signed source-downloads can be found here: https://laborejo.org/downloads/ More information about the programs and full multi-language manuals can be found on the website https://www.laborejo.org/ Greetings, Laborejo Software Suite

11 months, 1 week

Zrythm 1.0.0-beta.1.5.1 release

by Alexandros Theodotou

Zrythm 1.0.0-beta.1.5.1 has been released! ==== Screenshot ==== https://www.zrythm.org/static/images/screenshots/apr-14-2022.png ==== About ==== Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use. It offers streamlined editing workflows with flexible tools, limitless automation capabilities, powerful mixing features, chord assistance and support for various plugin and file formats. Zrythm is free software written in C using the GTK4 toolkit and can be extended with user scripts written in Scheme or ECMAScript. Zrythm is currently in beta. The project format is stable and we are working towards a v1 release. ==== Release Notes ==== Main changes since last announcement: - Become a full libadwaita app - Simplify CSS theming and remove dependence on Matcha theme - Include bundled plugins generated by FAUST: compressor, delay, gate, distortion, reverb - Base/full MIDI region export (contributed by Robert Panovics) - Use separate instances of mono plugins per channel - Add option to reset to factory settings in the preferences - Add support for user scripting with ECMAScript - Include system info in automatic bug reports - Switch to REUSE 3.0 and SPDX license identifiers - Add a clang-format target for auto-styling the source code - Simplify initial configuration (only select language and path) - Simplify check for unsaved changes on close - Redesign bug report dialog - Update all sections in the user manual - Various translation updates - Various UI/UX improvements - Various bug fixes The list of changes in this release follows: ## [1.0.0-beta.1.5.1] - 2022-04-14 ### Added - Add status page to modulators tab - Add bundled plugins: compressor, delay, gate, distortion, reverb ### Changed - Add some vertical padding to automation editor - Port some split buttons to AdwSplitButton - Simplify check for unsaved changes (only look at last performed action) - Update French, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese, Catalan translations - User manual: update some sections - User manual: change PDF author to 'The Zrythm contributors' - Hardcode standard LV2 paths for all OSes - Update screenshot URL in metainfo ### Fixed - Fix preference rows not being centered - Fix arranger objects not being draggable from their bottom/left side - Various CSS/style fixes - Fix issues with fonts in some custom widgets ==== Links ==== Full changelog: https://git.sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm/tree/master/item/CHANGELOG.md Pending features for v1: https://todo.sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm-feature?search=status%3Aopen+label%3A%22… Pending fixes for v1: https://todo.sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm-bug?search=status%3Aopen+label%3A%22v1%22 Home page: <https://www.zrythm.org> Installer downloads: <https://www.zrythm.org/en/download.html> Git repository: <https://sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm> User manual: <https://manual.zrythm.org/en/index.html> Developer reference: <https://docs.zrythm.org/> Issue trackers: <https://sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm/trackers> Mailing lists: <https://sr.ht/~alextee/zrythm/lists> Releases: <https://www.zrythm.org/releases/> Donations: <https://www.zrythm.org/en/community.html#donate>

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Linux-audio-announce April 2022