Linux-audio-announce July 2023

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[LAA] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.8.9 Released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. Changes in v0.8.9: * Import DLS instruments for the Sonivox EAS synth backend. * New Italian translation. Thanks to Giovanni Mariani. * Fixed ticket #82: splash screen removed. * Closed ticket #65: Windows dark mode implemented in Qt 6.5. * Requires: drumstick v2.8. Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms: * CMake 3.14 * Qt5 >= 5.9 or Qt6 >= 6.2 note: Qt6 support is still experimental * Drumstick 2.8 Please use the mailing list <vmpk-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> for questions and comments. Thanks. Copyright (C) 2008-2023, Pedro López-Cabanillas and others. License: GPL v3 More info: https://vmpk.sourceforge.io Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files/vmpk/0.8.9/

2 years, 6 months

[LAA] Brickworks 0.5.0 released

by Stefano D'Angelo

Hi all! We are glad to announce that we released version 0.4.0 of Brickworks, the 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: * Reverb, fuzz, overdrive, distortion, hard clipper, dry/wet mixer, note queue, and voice allocator modules. * Multichannel API. * C++ wrappers. * Polyphonic synth and more new examples. * Bug fixes, improvements, and polish. Also, our friends at Elk (https://www.elk.audio/) integrated Brickworks in Sushi 1.1.0 (https://forum.elk.audio/t/sushi-1-1-0-feature-release/1114), and thus in Elk Audio OS 1.0 (https://forum.elk.audio/t/elk-audio-os-1-0/1117). 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, 6 months

[LAA] SoundScape Renderer v0.6.1

by Matthias Geier

Hi all. On behalf of all contributors I'd like to announce the newest version 0.6.1 of the SoundScape Renderer. The SoundScape Renderer (SSR) is a tool for real-time spatial audio reproduction providing a variety of rendering algorithms, e.g. Wave Field Synthesis, Higher-Order Ambisonics and binaural techniques. http://spatialaudio.net/ssr/ https://ssr.readthedocs.io/ https://github.com/SoundScapeRenderer/ssr The SSR can be installed from source, version 0.6.0 is also available as Debian/Ubuntu package (version 0.6.1 hopefully coming soon). The rendering back-ends of the SSR are also available as Pure Data (Pd) externals, which can be installed via the built-in package manager. New in version 0.6.1: * Support for dynamic 3D scenes with ASDF v0.4 (https://audioscenedescriptionformat.readthedocs.io/) * 3D support for Polhemus tracker * Pd patch for supperware head tracker support incl. 3D rotations New in version 0.6.0 (which wasn't announced separately): * 3D support for the binaural renderer using SOFA files * new network interfaces: WebSocket and FUDI * an experimental browser-based 3D GUI (using the WebSocket interface) * BRS renderer is now also available as Pd external If you have questions, suggestions, problems etc., please answer to this e-mail or open a new issue at https://github.com/SoundScapeRenderer/ssr. You can also join the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/SoundScapeRenderer cheers, Matthias

2 years, 6 months

[LAA] Drumstick Multiplatform MIDI File Player 1.7.2 Released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

[Drumstick](https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/docs/index.html) is a set of GPLv3 licensed C++/Qt libraries for MIDI applications. The project includes several tools as examples, and among them is the drumstick-guiplayer utility that leverages the Drumstick::ALSA library, so it is available only for Linux (because the ALSA sequencer is a linux only technology). Some people have requested a program with the same functionalities also on Windows and macOS, so here it is. But this project is much more ... Some key features: * MIDI Output to hardware MIDI ports, or any other Drumstick backends, like soft synths * Transpose song tonality between -12 and +12 semitones * Change MIDI volume level (using MIDI CC7) * Scale song speed between half and double tempo * Supports MID/KAR/RMI (Standard MIDI Files) and WRK (Cakewalk) file formats Changes in v1.7.2: * Fixed SF ticket #17: splash screen removed. * Fixed GH ticket #9: retain Locked Patches when replaying Midi File. * Fixed GH ticket #8: crash when loading a song from File->Open Recent Files. * Fixed GH ticket #7: detect default language setting. * Upgraded: uchardet v0.0.8. * Upgraded: drumstick-2.8. Build requirements: * C++11 compiler * Qt5 >= 5.15 or Qt6 >= 6.2 * Drumstick libraries v2.8 * Uchardet v0.0.8 * CMake 3.14 * Pandoc (when BUILD_DOCS=on) Copyright (C) 2021-2023 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 or later Project and Source Repositories: https://sourceforge.net/p/dmidiplayer https://github.com/pedrolcl/dmidiplayer Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer/files/v1.7.2/ https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.sourceforge.dmidiplayer

2 years, 6 months

[LAA] Drumstick Libraries 2.8.0 Released

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 v2.8.0: * ALSA library: o added assignment operators for sysex and text events * File library: o Fix for ticket #48: SMF Parser does not report enough errors o Improved RMID file support: + Extract DLS embedded data + Decode DLS instrument names + New mime type * RT library: o Sonivox backend: enabled DLS file loading * Widgets library: o Fixed compiler definitions o virtual piano: clip note children (labels) o Sonivox configuration dialog updated o Implemented change soundfont function for the Sonivox backend. * Utils: o dumprmi: fixed QScopedPointer template for arrays * Misc: o Fix for ticket #49: Link failure when Qt6 is compiled with visibility=protected o Updated doxygen settings for Doxygen 1.9.5 o Unit tests: conditionally run ALSA test and run the Widgets test using the QPA platform "offscreen" 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) 2009-2023, 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/2.8.0/

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