Linux-audio-announce February 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 third release candidate for the next major version of Rivendell, v4.0.0rc2. 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: Major Changes Between v3.x and v4.x: Qt Toolkit. Rivendell v4.x uses and is fully compatibile with major version 5 of Qt (Qt5). See the INSTALL documents for specifics. Date/Time Customizability. Date/Time presentation formats can now be customized on the basis of site preferences. MySQL Compatibility. Rivendell v4.x aims for full compatibility with MySQL 8.0 and earlier versions in their default installation configurations. RDAirPlay. The rdairplay(1) module has been completely overhauled, and now supports dynamic resizeability as well as a revamped level metering system. RDPanel. The rdpanel(1) module now supports dynamic resizing. RDLogManager. It is now possible to disable grid processing on a service-by-service basis, thus permitting a complete schedule to be generated by an external music scheduler. See the 'Bypassing Grid Processing' section in the 'Generating Logs and Reports with RDLogManager' section of the Operation Guide for details. Many bug and regression fixes. See the 'ChangeLog' for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 367, 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>. Additionally, online installers for deploying Rivendell v4.x are available for the following Linux distributions: 1) Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”: https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/ubuntu/jammy/ <https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/ubuntu/jammy/> 2) RHEL/CentOS 7: https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/CentOS/7rd4/ <https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/CentOS/7rd4/> 3) RHEL/Rocky 8: https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/rhel/8rd4/ <https://software.paravelsystems.com/howtos/rhel/8rd4/> If you encounter a bug or problem, please consider opening an issue report for it at: https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues <https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/issues>. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Turing machine, n: | | The earliest but still the fastest and most reliable computing | | system ever conceived. ["Dis machine vill run and run." --K. | | Goedel.] The Turing machine's legendary mean time between failure | | is best exemplified by the absence of a power switch -- leading to | | the famous Halting Problem. | | | | -- Stan Kelly-Bootle | | "The Devil's DP Dictionary" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

2 years, 11 months

[LAA] Brickworks 0.3.0 released

by Stefano D'Angelo

Hi all! We are glad to announce that we released version 0.3.0 of Brickworks, a music DSP toolkit that supplies you with the fundamental building blocks for creating and enhancing audio engines on any platform. Here' s a short list of changes: * Added dynamics, degradation, filter, and mixing modules. * Added support for the Daisy Seed board. * Added a lot of new examples. * Added more fast math routines. * Bug fixes, improvements, and polish. It is fully free/open source software (GPLv3 license) and we also currently offer commercial licenses for versions 0.x and 1.x for a reduced price to support the project. You can find more information on the official web page: https://www.orastron.com/brickworks. Best regards, Stefano D'Angelo Founder and CEO of Orastron - https://www.orastron.com/

2 years, 12 months

[LAA] Yoshimi V 2.2.3 now released

by Will Godfrey

The Formant editor window has been made a bit more user friendly. The Command line can now use Yoshimi's Copy/Paste feature and stored presets. There are also minor bugfixes and general updates. Full details are in /doc/Yoshimi_2.2.3_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'}

3 years

[LAA] linuxaudio.org has moved!

by Jeremy Jongepier

Dear all, After having bivouacked for five years at Fuga we had to move. The Openstack region linuxaudio.org was camping on was being phased out and even though we were offered a courteous discount to stay on Fuga it was cheaper to move to a different hosting provider. So here we are at Hetzner with two small servers, one for mail and one for the websites, and a storage box for everything we don't use that often anymore. All in all everything went way more smoothly then back in February 2018. For some services and users it was a pretty seamless operation. We are still improving some bits here and there but in general we're in pretty good shape. Biggest hurdle was migrating from Mailman2 to Mailman3 but David Runge did a great job there, many thanks David! The wiki is now running on the latest version of Dokuwiki too and the underlying OS is recent and up to date again. It could be of course that things are missing or not working properly anymore, if so then please let us know! And a big thanks to Fuga for hosting us at no extra costs for five years. With a bit of a sad heart I shut down the Openstack instances but it was time to move on. Hosting does cost a small amount now, approx. €150 a year. We'll probably put up a page somewhere to facilitate in donating or funding the hosting of linuxaudio.org. We'll keep you posted on that. Best, Jeremy

3 years

[LAA] Qtractor 0.9.31 - A Winter'23 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello again, Qtractor 0.9.31 (winter'23) is out! Change-log: - Fixed a off-by-one rounding error on MIDI clip offset and lengths that were leaving some clips unlinked on load. - LXVST_PATH environment variable now accrues to VST_PATH for Linux-native VST2 plug-ins search path and not taking over in precedence anymore. - Fixed an old mistake on custom aliased CLAP and VST3 plugin paths. 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-0.9.31.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.31-74.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.31-74.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.31-74.1.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/ [9] CLAP, CLever Audio Plugin https://github.com/free-audio/clap See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2412 Cheers && Keep the fun! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

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Linux-audio-announce February 2023