Linux-audio-announce December 2024

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[LAA] Qtractor 1.5.1 - An(other) End-of-Year'24 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi again, Qtractor 1.5.1 (end-of-year'24) is out! Change-log: - Fixed/corrected and awfully bad MIDI metronome and clock timing, a reminiscence from the higher resolution MIDI queuing (in place since v0.9.30, meaning a two year long disgrace :(). 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-1.5.1.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.1-8.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.1-8.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.1-8.1.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: 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/2713 Cheers && Happy NYE! - - - rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

1 year

[LAA] Drumstick Multiplatform MIDI File Player 1.7.5 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 v1.7.5: * fix for GH ticket #32: text highlight color setting * fix for Backend manager * building and packaging with msvc 2022 on Windows, including ARM64 arch * using Drumstick 2.10, including better Fluidsynth settings Build requirements: * C++11 compiler * Qt5 >= 5.15 or Qt6 >= 6.2 * Drumstick libraries v2.10 * Uchardet v0.0.8 * CMake 3.16 * Pandoc (when BUILD_DOCS=on) Copyright (C) 2021-2024 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/v1.7.5/

1 year

[LAA] Drumstick MIDI Monitor 1.4.1and Drumstick Metronome 1.4.1 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 v1.4.1 * added meta-event end-of-track * using std::function instead of raw function pointers * better formatting of event times in 'hh:mm:ss.zzz' * requires Drumstick 2.10 Copyright (C) 2005-2023, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 or later More info: https://kmidimon.sourceforge.io Sources and AppImage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmidimon/files/1.4.1/ Flatpak at FlatHub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.sourceforge.kmidimon Drumstick Metronome is a MIDI metronome with Qt user interface, based on the ALSA sequencer. This program was previously and simply known as "kmetronome". More info https://kmetronome.sourceforge.io/kmetronome.shtml Downloads https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/files/kmetronome/1.4.1/ Flatpak at FlatHub https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.sourceforge.kmetronome

1 year

[LAA] audiowmark-0.6.3 - Audio Watermarking

by Stefan Westerfeld

Hi! audiowmark-0.6.3 is now available at https://uplex.de/audiowmark Overview of Changes in audiowmark-0.6.3: * update HLS support to build with ffmpeg-7 API (#68) * preserve wav subformat (#64) - write float/double wav output for wav float/double input - write signed 16, 24 and 32 bit wav output for 16, 24, 32 bit wav input - added test that wav subformat format is preserved (make check) * improved RawConverter: - support float/double input/output (very fast on little endian systems) - fix bug for unsigned integer raw input/output (16, 24 and 32 bit) - better tests (make check) - faster 16/32 bit conversion on little endian systems * add format wav-pipe for very long input/output streams on stdin/stdout * performance optimizations for SFOutputStream * add documentation for Windows/Cygwin builds (#45) audiowmark is an open source solution (GPL3 or later) for watermarking audio files. It has many features, it is robust, fast, secure and of course we believe that the watermark is not audible for most users. The project page provides the documentation and source code as well as some audio demos, so you can check whether you hear a difference between original and watermarked files. Cu... Stefan -- Stefan Westerfeld, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

1 year

[LAA] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.9.1 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 v0.9.1: * Fixed Qt style preferences ignored * Add FR azerty keymap. Thanks to Bruno Duyé * Fix for GH ticket #27: Enable F10 key in Windows when using native filters * Merge pull request #26 from RoboSchmied: fix 2 typo * building with msvc 2022 on Windows * Requires: drumstick v2.10. Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms: * CMake 3.16 * C++17 compiler * Qt6 >= 6.2 or Qt5 >= 5.9 * Drumstick 2.10 Please use the mailing list <vmpk-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> for questions and comments. Thanks. Copyright (C) 2008-2024, Pedro López-Cabanillas and others. License: GPL v3 More info: https://vmpk.sourceforge.io Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files/vmpk/0.9.1/

1 year, 1 month

[LAA] Drumstick Libraries v2.10.0 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 v2.10.0: * ALSA library: * Fix for GH #28: emitted signal with invalid pointer * Follow-up of the fix for GH #28: emit signals only when there are connected receivers * Updated documentation of MidiClient::eventReceived and MidiPort::subscribed to recommend Qt::UniqueConnection * New QDebug output operator accepting SequencerEvent instances * RT library: * Fix for GH #27: FluidSynth backend, using autoconnect for jack audio driver * Fix for GH #26: issues with the new reverb/chorus fluidsynth settings * Fixed cleanup of Windows MIDI input backend * Widgets library: * Revised user interface of the fluidsynth settings * Utils * Fixed backendmanager usage in vpiano. Optization in BackendManager::refresh() to keep backends loaded Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms: * C++17 compiler * CMake 3.16 * Qt6 >= 6.2 with Qt6Core5Compat library dependency for Drumstick::File or Qt5 >= 5.9 Feature dependencies (for some platforms): * ALSA (Linux only) * PulseAudio (Unix) * PipeWire (Unix) * D-Bus (Unix) * Sonivox (Unix) * FluidSynth (All platforms) Copyright (C) 2009-2024, 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/2.10.0/

1 year, 1 month

[LAA] Ratatouille.lv2 v0.9.4 released

by Hermann Meyer

Ratatouille is a Neural Model loader and mixer for Linux/Windows. ![Ratatouille](https://github.com/brummer10/Ratatouille.lv2/blob/main/Ratatouille.png?raw=true) This release introduce a normalization option for NAM models and fix a issue with the normalization (a.k.a loudness compensation) of IR Files (thanks to @avanzzzi ) Ratatouille allow to load up to two neural model files and mix there output. Those models could be [*.nam files](https://tonehunt.org/all) or [*.json or .aidax files](https://cloud.aida-x.cc/all). So you could blend from clean to crunch for example, or, go wild and mix different amp models, or mix a amp with a pedal simulation. Ratatouille using parallel processing to process the second neural model and the second IR-File to reduce the dsp load. The "Delay" control could add a small delay to the second model to overcome phasing issues, or to add some color/reverb to the sound. To round up the sound it allow to load up to two Impulse Response files and mix there output as well. You could try the wildest combinations, or, be conservative and load just your single preferred IR-File. Each neural model may have a different expected Sample Rate, Ratatouille will resample the buffer to match that. Impulse Response Files will be resampled on the fly to match the session Sample Rate. Project Page: https://github.com/brummer10/Ratatouille.lv2 Release Page: https://github.com/brummer10/Ratatouille.lv2

1 year, 1 month

[LAA] New release of Pd-L2Ork now available

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Dear all, Please pardon x-posting. L2Ork is pleased to announce the latest Holiday release of Pd-L2Ork and WebPdL2Ork, version 20241217. Below is an update summary: *Integrated rich text and vanilla 0.55 additions *Improved indexing *Initial clean-up of the cyclone library (active, mousefilter, and MouseState) *Added neuralnet *Reworked flite *WebPdL2Ork bugfixes and improvements (Tweeter now loads in seconds) *59 new L2Ork Tweeter instruments and a new piece, added MadMapper interfacing patches You can grab your builds from the usual place https://bit.ly/pd-l2ork Don't forget to follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/L2Ork Wishing all Happy Holidays! Best, Ico

1 year, 1 month

[LAA] Qtractor 1.5.0 - An End-of-Year'24 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi all, Qtractor 1.5.0 (end-of-year'24) is released! Change-log: - Clip/Cross Fade may now apply to all (multiple) selected clips. - Fixed the status-bar session and MIDI clip length BBT format, when in presence of multiple tempo or time-signature changes. - Introducing MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) new Transport/Step/Note/Backward and Forward menu actions, to move the play-head to previous and next note events, respectively. - MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) menu Edit/Select Mode/Edit On, Off and Draw actions are now self-toggled when triggered. - Plug-in presets menu: now sorted alphabetically. - When summoned from the menu, the View/Tempo Map-Markers... dialog positions itself to the current play-head location, instead of the absolute beginning of the timeline. - Introducing new application custom theming option: View/Options.../Display/Options/Custom/Icons theme (directory or folder). - After a shameful long time, adding a brand new audio clip via the Clip/New... dialog, is now finally fixed and functional. - Mixer: reduced track names up to first line break. - Double-click on slider for default value, replicating the behavior of middle-click. - Fxed bug: Aux Send loses state when reordered in a strip. - Create/Add new bus below that which is used as source in View/Buses dialog. - Mitigate truncated bus names in Aux Send Bus dialog. - Fixed yet another old bug regarding the flush of all pending MIDI Note-Off events when playback stops, shuts-off or panics, especially relevant when playback is resumed anywhere but the absolute beginning of the timeline (and also after a first loop turn around). - Schedule an actual and complete refresh on main View/Refresh..., especially when changing a custom color theme palette on-the-fly. 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-1.5.0.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.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: 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/2706 Cheers && Keep the fun! - - - rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

1 year, 1 month

[LAA] Sonivox Synthesizer Library v3.6.15 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 by default but embedded samples instead. DLS files are also supported. 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. Changes in v3.6.15 * Add chorus, reverb dry and master gain for sonivoxrender by @rsp4jack in #26 * The new host wrapper by @rsp4jack in #27 * Implement hwng for macOS and fallback ReadAt for other platforms by @rsp4jack in #28 * Fix wt_200k_G.c "initializer element is not constant" error with GCC < 8.1 by @dwatteau in #29 Project page: https://github.com/pedrolcl/sonivox Downloads: https://github.com/pedrolcl/sonivox/releases/tag/v3.6.15 License: Apache 2.0

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