Linux-audio-announce November 2023

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by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the next production release of Rivendell, 4.1.2. 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: *** snip snip *** Changes: Build System. Fixed regressions that broke the build when configured to build without HPI, ALSA or JACK support. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 371, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, do 'sudo rddbmgr'. 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. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

2 years, 1 month

[LAA] Rivendell v4.1.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the next production release of Rivendell, 4.1.1. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2. From the 'NEWS' file: *** snip snip *** Changes: Fixed a bug in the CAE subsystem that could cause truncation of audio play-outs. Fixed a memory leak in ripcd(8) that could cause system instability. Other bugfixes. See the 'ChangeLog' for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 371, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, do 'sudo rddbmgr'. 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. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

2 years, 1 month

[LAA] Rivendell v3.6.8

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a maintenance v3.x release of Rivendell, 3.6.8. 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: *** snip snip *** Changes: Fixed a memory leak in ripcd(8) that could cause system instability. Other bugfixes. See the 'ChangeLog' for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 347, 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. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

2 years, 1 month

[LAA] Qtractor 0.9.36 - An Autumn'23 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! Qtractor 0.9.36 (autumn'23) is released! Change-log: - Multiple audio and/or MIDI files may now appear as arguments on the command line and get immediately imported into a new session; also, any audio or MIDI file may now be promptly imported into a new session from the main File/Open... dialog. - New MIDI clip tool option added: Rescale/Invert. - Introducing brand new MIDI clip tool: Tempo ramp. - Disable or better hide the Add Tracks option on the MIDI tracks export dialog. - Fixed a yearlong bug in MIDI file import/export of tempo, time and key signatures and markers, to severely wrong locations. - Enable Aux-Send inserts on output buses, but list possible target buses only; audio output buses are now listed as possible targets iif they follow or succeed the source one (in internal processing order). - Fixed MIDI tracks latency compensation, now working as expected. - Show current/total plugins latency on the Track properties dialog, - Fixed MIDI Step-input for non-zero offset clips. 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: https://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-0.9.36.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.36-79.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.36-79.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.36-79.1.x86_64.AppImage - Flatpak [8] package (thanks Hubert Figuière): https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qtractor Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (outdated; help wanted!): https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: https://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub https://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. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer https://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 https://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [8] Flatpak, next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux https://flatpak.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2485 Cheers && Have fun! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

2 years, 2 months

[LAA] SpectMorph 0.6.1

by Stefan Westerfeld

SpectMorph 0.6.1 has been released. The main changes are: - Instrument editor improvements - Support for multiple banks for WavSources - New standard instruments - The code is now hard RT capable - UI fixes for macOS 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. SpectMorph ships with many ready-to-use instruments which can be combined using morphing. SpectMorph is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later Integrating SpectMorph into your Work ------------------------------------- SpectMorph is currently available for Linux, Windows and macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), with CLAP/LV2/VST plugins. Under Linux, there is also JACK Support. Links: ------ Website: http://www.spectmorph.org Download: http://www.spectmorph.org/downloads There are many audio demos on the website, which demonstrate morphing between instruments. List of Changes in SpectMorph 0.6.1: ------------------------------------ #### Instrument Editor * Support click & drag sample to scroll & zoom (#22). * Support stereo to mono conversion when loading stereo samples (#14). * Add manual volume editing / normalization. * Implement automatic selection triggered by midi. #### New instruments * Bass Flute * Soprano Saxophone * Clarinet, Bass Clarinet * Tenor Trombone * Viola, Double Bass * Make samples and meta information for standard instruments available on github. #### Improvements * Support multiple banks for WavSources / instrument editor. * Avoid allocations in DSP thread to be hard RT capable. * Allow overriding analysis parameter for frame stepping to get higher time resolution. #### Fixes * Make UI work properly in Ableton Live (and possibly other hosts) on macOS. * Fix UI scaling problem on M1 macOS builds. * Fix crash if instrument editor is closed without any samples. * Fix cases of undefined behaviour. * Fix timing problems for long notes, reproduce long WavSource notes with exact tempo. * Fix use-after-free for outdated control events. * Fix freetype related memory leak. -- Stefan Westerfeld, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

2 years, 2 months

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Linux-audio-announce November 2023