Linux-audio-announce July 2022

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by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Drumstick is a set of MIDI libraries using C++/Qt idioms and style. Includes a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface: ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. A complementary library provides classes for processing SMF (Standard MIDI files: .MID/.KAR), RIFF MIDI (.RMI), and Cakewalk (.WRK) file formats. A multiplatform realtime MIDI I/O library and a GUI Widgets libraries are also provided for Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX. Changes in v2.7.0: * ticket #44: removed sonivox library sources from the source tree. New option USE_SONIVOX to let the user decide to build the sonivox eas synth plugin or not. Using find_package(sonivox) to integrate the sonivox library as an external dependency: https://github.com/pedrolcl/sonivox . * ticket #43: Drumstick::RT dummy plugins now include its own configuration dialogs. Drumstick::Widgets include support for these dialogs, implemented in the already existing functions of <drumstick/configurationdialogs.h> * ticket #42: Drumstick::Widgets - fixed piano designer plugin to show more properties. Added: labelFont and startKey properties. Fixed: showLabels, alterations, labelOrientation, labelOctave properties. New public methods: setStartKey(), setOctaveSubscript(), octaveSubscript(). * ticket #41 Drumstick::Widgets: Option to use subscript octave designation. * Drumstick::ALSA registering SequencerEvent with qMetaType. * Drumstick::RT FluidSynth plugin: Default windows audio driver is now wasapi. Fixed pulseaudio settings. Files and classes renamed with more specific names. Support channel pressure and key pressure MIDI events. Revised configuration dialog to reflect the changes in fluidsynth 2.2.8 . * Utils: vpiano uses the subscript octave designation option. New error message citing the DRUMSTICKRT environment variable. dumpmid: small revision. Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms: * C++11 compiler * CMake 3.14 * Qt5 >= 5.9 or Qt6 >= 6.2 (with Qt6Core5Compat library dependency for Drumstick::File) Feature dependencies (for some platforms): * ALSA (Linux only) * PulseAudio (Unix) * D-Bus (Unix) * Sonivox (Unix) * FluidSynth (All platforms) Copyright (C) 2009-2022, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 or later Project web site https://sourceforge.net/p/drumstick Online documentation https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/docs/ Downloads https://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/2.7.0/

2 years, 4 months

Sonivox Synthesizer Library has been released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

This project is a fork of the Android Open Source Project 'platform_external_sonivox', including a CMake based build system to be used not on Android, but on any other computer Operating System. Google licensed this work originally named Sonivox EAS (Embedded Audio Synthesis) from the company Sonic Network Inc. under the terms of the Apache License 2.0. Here is the Google source code repository: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sonivox.git This is a "wavetable" synthesizer, not using external soundfont files but embedded samples instead. It is also a MIDI file player and a real time GM synthesizer. It consumes very little resources, so it may be indicated in projects for small embedded devices. There is neither MIDI input nor audio output facilities included in the library. You need to provide your own input/output. Project page: https://github.com/pedrolcl/sonivox Downloads: https://github.com/pedrolcl/sonivox/releases/tag/v3.6.10.14 License: Apache 2.0 The library sources were included until recently in the Drumstick repository and source tarballs, but not anymore. Since the forthcoming Drumstick v2.7.0, which will be released soon, the sonivox library will be an external dependency. https://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/ Using this library as a git submodule may also be possible, like the following applications showcasing some library capabilities. They may use sonivox as a git submodule if the external library dependency is not found at configuration time. That won't be possible for Drumstick, though. * Linux-SonivoxEas with Drumstick::ALSA MIDI input and Pulseaudio output. License: GPLv3. New release v1.4.0 Project: https://github.com/pedrolcl/Linux-SonivoxEas * multiplatform-sonivoxeas with Drumstick::RT MIDI input and Qt Multimedia audio output. Released as v2.0.0 License: GPLv3. Project: https://github.com/pedrolcl/multiplatform-sonivoxeas

2 years, 4 months

Anklang 0.1.0 Released

by Tim Janik

Anklang version 0.1.0 is released. Anklang is a digital audio synthesis application for live creation and composition of music. It is released as Free Software (MPL-2.0) and runs under Linux. The real-time sound engine is implemented in C++, the UI runs in Electronjs, Firefox or Chrome. Assistance with development, porting or creative efforts is very welcome. With version 0.1.0, Anklang provides a MIDI sequencer, Undo/Redo capabilities for note editing, real-time synthesis, and support for CLAP plugins. The source code and binary packages are available here: https://github.com/tim-janik/anklang/releases/tag/v0.1.0 The project website with further resources is at: https://anklang.testbit.eu/ The release NEWS are appended. ================================================================================ Anklang 0.1.0 System Requirements Linux - Ubuntu 20.04 is needed to run the Anklang AppImage Hardware Support Build and package a second sound engine binary with AVX & FMA optimizations. Documentation Extended documentation in many places. Improved copyright listing of all source files involved. Provide user documentation as anklang-manual.pdf. Provide developer documentation as anklang-internals.pdf. User Interface Improve UI responsiveness when handling async API calls. Support proper note selection sets in the piano roll. Introduced Undo/Redo stack for piano roll changes. Use batch processing to responsively handle thousands of notes. Support shortcut editing for piano roll functions. Added Cut/Copy/Paste to piano roll. Added play position indicator to piano roll. Tool selection in piano roils now works on hover. Notes moved in the piano roll now properly bounce against edges. Selection in the piano roll now supports SHIFT and CONTROL. Clips can now store notes with velocity=0. Migrated CSS processing to postcss. Fix file path handling for project load and save. Shortend nicknames are now auto-derived for external plugins. Support loading of command line files in Anklang. Add MIME support for starting Anklang for *.anklang files. Synthesis Support single clip looping (very rudimentary), to be extended later. Add Gtk+-2 dynlib to provide a wrapper window for plugin UIs. Add support for CLAP-1.0.2 plugin loading and processing, the following CLAP extensions are currently implemented: LOG, GUI, TIMER_SUPPORT, THREAD_CHECK, AUDIO_PORTS, PARAMS, STATE, POSIX_FD_SUPPORT, AUDIO_PORTS_CONFIG, AUDIO_PORTS, NOTE_PORTS. Internals Provide infrastructure for future piano roll scripting. Support lean UI component implementations with lit.js. Use ZCAM color model to design/saturate/etc colors of the UI. Updated various third party components. Use Electron-18.3.5 as basis for the UI. Use adaptive ZSTD compression for project storage. Use fast ZSTD compression for binary snapshots in Undo/Redo steps. Support sound engine blocks up to 2k. Adjust block sizes to reduce PulseAudio overhead. Keys matching in ASE_DEBUG is now case insensitive. Anklang can now be started with '--dev' to force open DevTools. Other License clarification, the project uses MPL-2.0. Improved reproducible dockerized builds. Fixed dependencies of the Debian packages. #3 -- Anklang Free Software DAW: https://anklang.testbit.eu/

2 years, 4 months

Yoshimi V 2.2.1 released

by Will Godfrey

There are just a few useful variations to the way Yoshimi is controlled in this minor release. A new 'reset' button in the part edit window. More windows stay open when you change parts. Two new instruments have been added to the default banks. Some doc updates and bugfixes. Full details are in /doc/Yoshimi_2.2.1_features.txt Yoshimi source code is available from either: https://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi Or: https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi Full build instructions are in 'INSTALL'. Our list archive is at: https://www.freelists.org/archive/yoshimi To post, email to: yoshimi(a)freelists.org -- Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'} https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

2 years, 5 months

liquidsfz-0.3.1

by Stefan Westerfeld

liquidsfz-0.3.1 has been released It turns out that liquidsfz-0.3.0 (only released a few days ago) has one bug which can trigger crashes during normal usage, and one bug which will trigger crashes when loading the plugin on some linux distributions. So I definitely recommend updating to 0.3.1 and not using 0.3.0 at all. The main goal of liquidsfz is to provide an SFZ sampler implementation library that is easy to integrate into other projects. A standalone jack client and a LV2 plugin is also available. liquidsfz is implemented in C++ and licensed under MPL-2.0. The release tarball can be downloaded here: https://github.com/swesterfeld/liquidsfz#releases or from github https://github.com/swesterfeld/liquidsfz/releases/tag/0.3.1 Overview of Changes in liquidsfz-0.3.1: * Fix crash in voice processing when gain smoothing is active * Fix crash caused by libstdc++ debug assertions (#34) * Add missing #include statements (#33, #35) * Setup CI using github actions, build and lv2lint the plugin * Add testsynth program for regression tests (make check and CI) * Support address sanitizer and C++ STL debug checks from autogen.sh -- Stefan Westerfeld, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

2 years, 5 months

liquidsfz-0.3.0

by Stefan Westerfeld

liquidsfz-0.3.0 has been released The main goal of liquidsfz is to provide an SFZ sampler implementation library that is easy to integrate into other projects. A standalone jack client and a LV2 plugin is also available. liquidsfz is implemented in C++ and licensed under MPL-2.0. The release tarball can be downloaded here: https://github.com/swesterfeld/liquidsfz#releases or from github https://github.com/swesterfeld/liquidsfz/releases/tag/0.3.0 Overview of Changes in liquidsfz-0.3.0: * Change license to MPL-2.0 * Load sample data on demand (preload start, background load as needed) * Improve sound quality by using better interpolation / resampling * Support CC7=Volume and CC10=Pan if not defined in .sfz file (#30) * Various performance optimizations * Fix LFO ranges for square like LFOs * Implement sustain loops (loop_mode=loop_sustain) * Added new public API functions for new features * Make it possible to use absolute paths in .sfz file * Use mmap() for soundfiles on 64bit platforms * Add a few new commands / command line options to liquidsfz jack client * Statically linked plugin is compiled using Ubuntu 18.04 (instead of 16.04) * Minor fixes and cleanups -- Stefan Westerfeld, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

2 years, 5 months

Konfyt Digital Keyboard Workstation v1.2.0

by Gideon van der Kolf

Konfyt 1.2.0 has been released! Konfyt is a digital keyboard workstation for Linux which allows you to set up patches, each with multiple layers, and instantly switch between these patches for live keyboard playing. Patches may consist of multiple layers of soundfonts (.sf2), SFZ instruments, audio input ports and MIDI output ports. Konfyt features a library for quick access to soundfont programs and SFZs. The eagle eyed viewer will notice that the version number now sports a brand new middle digit with a zero at the end. Despite an optimistic effort to make a quarterly release in April, I couldn't get the changes that I wanted to make done in time. So now here we are a few months later. There is still a lot to do, but I didn't want to miss another release opportunity. The MIDI filter now has a note velocity map, with a pretty graph and factory as well as user presets. This replaces the velocity min/max and limits that were previously in the MIDI filter. When loading an older project, the old velocity min/max and limits will be converted to a velocity map. Another notable pair of new features is the automatic restarting of Linuxsampler if it happens to crash, and running soundfont scans in a separate process so malformed soundfonts don't crash Konfyt and can safely be ignored. ---------------------------------------- Changelog: Added - Patch list drag and drop for re-ordering patches. - Detect Linuxsampler process crash and automatically restart. - Soundfont scanning for library is now done in a separate process so Fluidsynth crashes due to malformed soundfonts don't affect Konfyt. - Pitchbend up and down ranges in MIDI filter. - Add CC block-list to MIDI filter. - Note velocity mapping with graph and presets in MIDI filter. - Escape key returns to main patch view. - Library context menu to remove patch from library. - When a patch is selected in the library, show info and layers below library. - Add liblscp version to about text. Fixes - Apply patch list number/note show/hide setting when loading a project. - Change volume when master volume slider is moved without using the mouse. - Only relay noteoff messages to GUI (e.g. in console or received MIDI events lists) if it actually resulted in a noteoff message being sent. - MIDI send list editor now only shows received MIDI events for the corresponding layer. Changes - When console/main window not available any more (e.g. during program exit), send print output to stdout. - CC allow-list in MIDI filter is now space-separated text. - Entire top toolbar area becomes red to emphasise when Panic is activated. - Patches in library view don't show file extension any more. - Some code housekeeping and refactoring. Removed - MIDI filter note velocity limits - replaced by velocity mapping. ---------------------------------------- The source code and precompiled binaries (under Releases) are available on Github: https://github.com/noedigcode/konfyt Documentation can be found at Read the Docs: https://konfyt.readthedocs.io/ Some more info, links to videos and news are available on the Konfyt website: http://www.noedig.co.za/konfyt/

2 years, 5 months

Agordejo patch release 0.4.1

by Laborejo Software Suite

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear distribution packagers, hereby the Laborejo Software Suite releases maintenance updates for Agordejo 0.4.1. Changelog: Handle xdg-lib exceptions and log them as error, instead of crashing Signed source-downloads can be found here: https://laborejo.org/downloads/ Or directly: https://laborejo.org/downloads/agordejo-0.4.1.tar.gz More information about the programs and full multi-language manuals can be found on the website https://www.laborejo.org/ Greetings, Laborejo Software Suite

2 years, 5 months

Rubber Band Library v3.0.0 released

by Chris Cannam

Version 3.0.0 of Rubber Band Library is now available. https://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/ Rubber Band Library is an audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library and utility designed for musical applications. It allows you to change the tempo and pitch of an audio recording independently of one another. This is an exciting major release which, among other things, introduces an entirely new processing engine known as the R3 or Finer engine. This typically produces substantially higher-quality output than the existing engine (now referred to as R2 or Faster), although at higher CPU cost. The more energy-efficient R2 is still the default, and R3 can be selected using the new OptionEngineFiner option on construction. I'm immensely proud of the work done for this release, and hope it will delight you and all the users of your software. Chris

2 years, 5 months

Laborejo feature release 2.1.0, patch releases: Tembro (0.5.1) and Fluajho (1.7.3)

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 Laborejo 2.1.0, Tembro 0.5.1 and Fluajho 1.7.3 The programs require a new version of our library, libcalfbox-lss-1.1.0 which is now also released. https://laborejo.org/downloads/laborejo-2.1.0.tar.gz https://laborejo.org/downloads/tembro-0.5.1.tar.gz https://laborejo.org/downloads/fluajho-1.7.3.tar.gz https://laborejo.org/downloads/libcalfbox-lss-1.1.0.tar.xz Laborejo (Esperanto: Workshop) is a MIDI sequencer based on classical music notation. Its main purpose is to compose and produce "traditional" music, such as instrumental pieces, soundtracks and other music normally played back by samplers. Working in Laborejo is very fast and efficient by using a combination of midi input and typing. Tembro (which is Esperanto for musical "Timbre") is a virtual software instrument based on samples. All instruments are permanently built-in. All projects and all users have the same setup, ideal for communication and collaboration. Fluajho (with jh as in pleasure) means fluid in Esperanto. It is a simple sf2 soundfont host/player for Linux. Behind the scenes the Fluidsynth library is at work, hence the name. Changelog Highlights: [All] Turn off auto connecting the audio ports. Replace with default-off menu setting to do so. [Laborejo]: * New function: custom key signature for any combination. * Add area in the GUI to set initial key signature, metrical instructions and clefs, accessed through the track editor * Add two new functions to paste directly transposed (modal and real transposition) * Add function to duplicate more often than once. * When not in F4-StepInput Mode use midi keyboard as pitch-cursor. * Add midi-in selector drop down, as seen in Tembro and Fluajho. * Add new widget that shows the current track as list of text items for easier navigation and overview * Rewrite grid, which was a performance drag in the past. * Add functions to move block to start or end of track. * Scroll view when dragging blocks and tracks with the mouse. * Block name font color is now always readable, no matter the background color * Shift+Up and Down will now select the current chord. * Add 3/2 to metrical instruction. * Add custom Multimeasure-Rest submenu and menu command. * Add multiplication buttons to the tick widget. * Autosave when exporting Lilypond .ly or PDF. * Command to quickly add text below or above a staff. * Allow menu commands in CC and Block view: PDF, .ly export, metadata edit, zoom. * Add buttons to create 1/10 new tracks to Track Editor. * Add information label with order of blocks to Track Editor. * Fix lilypond tempo export. Also add option to Lilypond Properties to not print metronome markings. * Optional text description for tempo items like "allegro" * Add Slurs to Lilypond output. * Add Staccato and Tenuto to Lilypond output. * Dynamic signatures and ramps are now output to Lilypond as well * Cleaner .ly export with more line breaks, comments and using more default ly instructions when available, instead of our custom generic-purpose scripts. * Settings menu to autoconnect metronome audio ports to system on startup. Default off. * Metronome audio outputs now use real metronome name, not only pretty name * Use lilypond title as jack pretty client name, if provided (needs libcalfbox-lss 1.1.0) * Add preview image to Lilypond properties and metadata * More information about the cursor and position in the status bar * Fix all drawn items to properly work with high zoom-out levels. Side effect: slightly better performance. * Better alignment for all drawn items. * Fix temporary tempo item creation crash, also don't export them to lilypond anymore. * Fix drawing of ties and staccato dots. * Fix ledger lines of added chord notes * Fix cursor jumping around on track change if you start near a metrical signature * Fix double saving of the score and quadruple saving of each track! :/ * Update German translation. You can find all releases as sources here. https://laborejo.org/downloads/ You also need our own library: https://git.laborejo.org/lss/libcalfbox-lss which has download and build instructions in it's readme. 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/laborejo/ https://www.laborejo.org/patroneo/ https://www.laborejo.org/tembro/ https://www.laborejo.org/patroneo/ https://www.laborejo.org/fluajho/ Greetings, Laborejo Software Suite https://www.laborejo.org/

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