Hi everybody,
I'm announcing the first release of my lookahead limiter: LazyLimiter v0.3.01
https://magnetophon.github.io/LazyLimiter/
This is my attempt of a clean yet fast brick-wall limiter.
Thanks to Sampo Savolainen for providing the initial inspiration.
Very special thanks to Yann Orlarey, who spent an evening at LAC2015
with me, to optimize the algorithm and make this thing actually usable.
I'm looking forward to your feedback!
Cheers,
Bart.
It's alive!
Qtractor 0.6.7 (lepton acid beta) is out!
Release highlights:
* MIDI instrument rendering on audio export (NEW)
* MIDI clip editor view/event criteria persistence (NEW)
* MIDI clip editor resilience on record/overdub (FIX)
* Generic plugin form position persistence (NEW)
* JACK Transport/Timebase master option (NEW)
and yet more tiny lurking critters swatted ;)
Well, the major highlight to this release is in fact this brand new and
way long overdue feature, seamlessly integrated to the faithful and
regular audio track export function: MIDI track instrument plug-in
rendering and mix-down (aka. freeze) is now real, as long their audio
output goes onto selected buses, aka. stems, mix-groups, whatever a
mix/mastering head would name it! nb. on the (very esquisite) Qtractor
arch-model parlance, those are just called "audio output buses" and that
ain't gonna change, any time soon, so stop it! A word of caution must be
told by now: dedicated (JACK) audio output ports are off-the-grid, so
sorry.
Maybe this silently makes a notch towards the DAW epitome, though
Qtractor still claims to be just a plain and honest sequencer--with yet
another DAW-like feature addition--the same as it ever was.
Nuff said.
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:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
- source tarball:
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.sr…
- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.i5…http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.x8…
- wiki (help wanted!):
http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
Weblog (upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL [5]) version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) position, size, and view/event type
criteria are now persistent, across session and user preferences
application state.
- Generic plugin form widget position is now also preserved across
open/save session cycles.
- MIDI clip editor resilience is about to get an improvement, fe. it
doesn't close on stopping record/overdub anymore.
- Introducing (JACK) Timebase master setting as an option to Transport
mode (cf. View/Options.../General/Transport/Timebase).
- LV2 plug-in MIDI/Event support now slanted for deprecation.
- Spanish (es) translation added, by avid Reyes Pucheta.
- It's live: audio track export (cf. Track/Export Tracks/Audio...) has
been deeply refactored to finally include MIDI track/instrument plugins
rendering (aka. freeze) on selected audio output buses on mix-down.
(EXPERIMENTAL)
- MIDI file player now does (N)RPN 14-bit controller events.
- Track properties dialog output bus switch fix/optimization; also fixed
multiple DSSI instance reference count on close.
- Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- German (de) translation update (by Guido Scholz, thanks).
References:
[1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
[2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
cross-platform application and UI development
http://qt.io/
[3] JACK Audio Connection Kit
http://jackaudio.org
[4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
http://www.alsa-project.org/
[5] GPL - GNU General Public License
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/894
Enjoy && keep the fun.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface. It's inspired by
trackers, but uses graphics to show musical data.
Most important changes between 1.9 and 3.0:
* Smooth scrolling.
* Enhanced graphics and user interface.
* MIDI Sequencing.
* Lots of bugs removed and features added.
Homepage:
http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMPSd1W1AbE
The 1.1 version release of stoat is now available.
Stoat is a STatic (LLVM) Object Analysis Tool which is used to perform
static analysis on C/C++ projects involving realtime constraints.
The analysis traces feasible callgraphs within a program and detects
cases where it may be possible to invoke a non-realtime function such as
malloc from a realtime context.
Hopefully this will help developers find possible bugs which other tools
or manual code review might miss.
New from the 1.0 release
- Basic Dump Output
- Support For Try{}Catch{}
- Support For Rtosc Callbacks
- Wildcard Support For Function Specs
- stoat-compile/stoat-compile++ utility
- Parallel Analysis
- Namespace Support
- Translation Unit Local Template Alias Support
- Multiple Inheritance Vtable Support
To get the source or to report any issues, just see the github page:
https://github.com/fundamental/stoat
Enjoy,
--Mark McCurry
The first unified LV2 release, LV2 1.0.0, is out.
This release merges the previous lv2core package with all the official
extension packages, as well as example plugins, lv2specgen, and
additional data. From a developer point of view, the biggest change is
that all LV2 API headers can be used by simply checking for the single
pkg-config package "lv2" (for compatibility the previous "lv2core"
package is still installed). Implementations are encouraged to abandon
the "copy paste headers" practice and depend on this package instead.
With this release, several new extensions have become stable that
together greatly increase the power of LV2: atom, log, parameters,
patch, port-groups, port-props, resize-port, state, time, worker.
Download: http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2-1.0.0.tar.bz2
Documentation and more detailed change logs: http://lv2plug.in/ns/
More information about LV2: http://lv2plug.in/
Enjoy,
-dr
With some help I found many missing but needed features in osc2midi. These
have been added and are ready for release.
OSC2MIDI is a highly configurable osc to jack midi (and back) bridge for
linux. It is useful for controlling jack midi apps with a mobile device, or
controlling OSC apps like Ardour or the Non-Daw applications with a midi
device, or any application of communicating between osc and midi devices.
Configuration is done through a simple text file, with several examples
included.
notable changes since version 0:
-can now use constant arguments or even ranges of constants in the OSC or
the Midi message to map lots of messages quickly
-You can linearly scale values on the osc or midi message side making it
much easier when writing maps for converting midi to osc
-You can map single values from osc or midi messages to multiple values on
the other side
-Mappings are now installed to a more conventional location (/usr/share)
and mappings in the home directory take priority over default maps if name
matches.
-Various bugfixes
You can download it for free and freedom at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/osc2midi/files/
Thanks to all who have reported bugs and helped out!
_Spencer
Hi,
during LAC2015 in Mainz last week, I gave a lightning talk on what I called
"The LAC2014 Percussion Combo". It was a presentation about a little field
recording session conducted one year earlier, during LAC2014 in Karlsruhe,
and what I made out of it.
The data is now finally online, including the actual sample library kit
(individual wav files) with a mapping file for Hydrogen, a tiny demo
pattern, and a demo song called "That's LAC" that came to life "out of nowhere" -
well, I guess I'll simply call it my first Linux Audio "release" ever :-).
Read all about it here: http://linuxaudio.de/wp/?p=158
Thanks go out to the individual artists whose performance I had the honour
to record: Marc Groenewegen, Pjotr Lasschuit, Nils Gey, Bernard Tressol,
Michael Seeber, Stefano Pedrinazzi, Marie-Kristin Meier, and Fernando Lopez-Lezcano.
Enjoy,
Frank
Optimization and cosmetic changes:
* introduced simplifications on the level of internal language;
* changed default values of some parameters;
* some characters have been replaced with pretty Unicode symbols;
* improved manual.
In my opinion now MIDA is more or less mature and I want to try to
create similar tool (language) for algorithmic automation for various
DAWs. I could use significant portion of MIDA code for it, not sure when
it will available. If you're interested and you have any
ideas/propositions please email me.
----
MIDA is a minimalistic declarative language for algorithmic generation
of MIDI files. MIDA can help you create variative elements in your music
in a very simple way. More about it here: https://mrkkrp.github.io/mida/
----
GitHub repository: https://github.com/mrkkrp/mida
... cos today we release Yoshimi V 1.3.4
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
