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by Gabriel Nordeborn

Hey everyone! It's our great pleasure to announce Libre Music Production ( http://www.libremusicproduction.com). Libre Music Production (LMP) is a web portal and resource aimed at helping you make music using free and open source software. While the portal was initially developed by a small group of people, the aim and ambition is that LMP becomes a community project where we all help out in building a great resource for making music using FLOSS software. At launch we have over 10k words worth of articles and guides, as well as a little over 2 hours of recorded video material. We've prepared a press release that details more about this project at: http://libremusicproduction.com/pressrelease We'd greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word about this resource, as well as any help with contributing content and so on. Please feel free to copy+paste the press release as you'd like, and thank you very much for any help! Any other feedback is also greatly appreciated. Please use the contact forms on the website :) Have a nice day!

11 years, 1 month

[ANN] MOD Duo's Kickstarter campaign to be launched in mid September

by Gianfranco Ceccolini

Greetings Linux Audio Users and Developers !!! I'm very happy to inform that we will launch the MOD Duo's Kickstarter campaign in mid September. The MOD Duo is our second model and we've been putting a lot of engineering in it based on the feedback we had from the MOD Quadra experience. We deeply hope it becomes a device that empowers the Linux Audio community, bringing together developers and musicians. A pre-campaign site was created to warm up the communication engines: http://stepontothefuture.com. Hope you all enjoy and spread the word Kind regards Gianfranco Ceccolini The MOD Team

11 years, 1 month

Silvet Note Transcription Vamp plugin v1.0 released

by Chris Cannam

Silvet is a Vamp plugin for note transcription in polyphonic music. http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/silvet ** What does it do? Silvet listens to audio recordings of music and tries to work out what notes are being played. To use it, you need a Vamp plugin host (such as Sonic Visualiser). How to use the plugin will depend on the host you use, but in the case of Sonic Visualiser, you should load an audio file and then run Silvet Note Transcription from the Transform menu. This will add a note layer to your session with the transcription in it, which you can listen to or export as a MIDI file. ** How good is it? Silvet performs well for some recordings, but the range of music that works well is quite limited at this stage. Generally it works best with piano or acoustic instruments in solo or small-ensemble music. Silvet does not transcribe percussion and has a limited range of instrument support. It does not technically support vocals, although it will sometimes transcribe them anyway. You can usually expect the output to be reasonably informative and to bear some audible relationship to the actual notes, but you shouldn't expect to get something that can be directly converted to a readable score. For much rock/pop music in particular the results will be, at best, recognisable. To summarise: try it and see. ** Can it be used live? In theory it can, because the plugin is causal: it emits notes as it hears the audio. But it has to operate on long blocks of audio with a latency of many seconds, so although it will work with non-seekable streams, it isn't in practice responsive enough to use live. ** How does it work? Silvet uses the method described in "A Shift-Invariant Latent Variable Model for Automatic Music Transcription" by Emmanouil Benetos and Simon Dixon (Computer Music Journal, 2012). It uses probablistic latent-variable estimation to decompose a Constant-Q time-frequency matrix into note activations using a set of spectral templates learned from recordings of solo instruments. For a formal evaluation, please refer to the 2012 edition of MIREX, the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange, where the basic method implemented in Silvet formed the BD1, BD2 and BD3 submissions in the Multiple F0 Tracking task: http://www.music-ir.org/mirex/wiki/2012:Multiple_Fundamental_Frequency_Esti…

11 years, 1 month

Constant-Q library and Vamp plugin

by Chris Cannam

Announcing a new C++ library and Vamp plugin implementing the Constant-Q transform of a time-domain signal. https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/constant-q-cpp The Constant-Q transform is a time-to-frequency-domain transform related to the short-time Fourier transform, but with output bins spaced logarithmically in frequency, rather than linearly. The output bins are therefore linearly spaced in terms of musical pitch. The Constant-Q is useful as a preliminary transform in various other methods such as note transcription and key estimation techniques. This library provides: * Forward transform: time-domain to complex Constant-Q bins * Forward spectrogram: time-domain to interpolated Constant-Q magnitude spectrogram * Inverse transform: complex Constant-Q bins to time domain The Vamp plugin provides: * Constant-Q magnitude spectrogram with high and low frequency extents defined in Hz * Constant-Q magnitude spectrogram with high and low frequency extents defined as MIDI pitch values * Pitch chromagram obtained by folding a Constant-Q spectrogram around into a single-octave range The code is provided with full source under a liberal licence, and plugin binaries are provided for Windows, OS/X, and Linux. The method is drawn from Christian Schörkhuber and Anssi Klapuri, "Constant-Q transform toolbox for music processing", SMC 2010. See the file CITATION for details. If you use this code in research work, please cite this paper.

11 years, 1 month

LV2 1.10.0 and friends

by David Robillard

Good news everyone! LV2 1.10.0 is out, along with enough parallel releases that I'm entirely too busy[1] to make a proper release email for each one. LV2 1.10.0 download: http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2-1.10.0.tar.bz2 Cutting edge developers who go to all the best parties should note that the atom Object/Resource/Blank types have been merged and new code should use only Object (this simplification is not conceptually a compatibility breakage, but code explicitly using only Blank should be updated). Aside from this, there have been only minor improvements and additions since 1.8.0. Freshly prettified documentation and a full change log is available at http://lv2plug.in/ns/ Also check out the work-in-progress example-based LV2 book, "Programming LV2 Plugins" at http://lv2plug.in/book/ Related release announcements: http://drobilla.net/2014/08/08/jalv-1-4-6/ http://drobilla.net/2014/08/08/lilv-0-20-0/ http://drobilla.net/2014/08/08/suil-0-8-2/ http://drobilla.net/2014/08/08/sratom-0-4-6/ The RDF stack has also seen some updates: http://drobilla.net/2014/08/08/sord-0-12-2/ http://drobilla.net/2014/08/08/serd-0-20-0/ Enjoy, ~ Your friendly local neighbourhood benevolent dictator who clearly needs to automate the release process. [1] i.e. lazy, but "busy" makes me sound important, doesn't it? There could even be meetings involved. -- dr

11 years, 1 month

Hydrogen 0.9.6 released

by mauser＠smoors.de

Hi everyone, i'm happy to announce the final release of Hydrogen 0.9.6. I'm pretty sure that most of the users are already working with a 0.9.6-beta version, but here again is a small list of the most important changes in 0.9.6: * new build system (cmake) * add undo for song/pattern editor * jack-session support * jack-midi support * several bug fixes * tabbed interface * several small changes to the GUI * improve ExportSong add use of TimeLineBPM, RubberbandBatch processor and different types of resample interpolation The release can be downloaded via github: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/archive/0.9.6.tar.gz At this time, this is a linux-only release. Installers for Windows / OS X may follow in the future. Big thanks to all those wonderful people who made this release happen and who are keeping this project alive! Best regards, Sebastian

11 years, 1 month

amsynth 1.5.0

by Nick Dowell

amsynth 1.5.0 is now available, with a host of improvements and new features; - new filter modes: notch and bypass - new filter controls for key-tracking and velocity sensitivity - OSC2 octave range increased - ring modulation can now be dialled in (instead of on/off) - LFO can now be routed to OSC1, OSC2, or both - fixes an audible click when using fast filter attack times - note and controller events are now rendered sample-accurate when run as a plugin or JACK, fixing MIDI timing jitter - DSSI & LV2 plug-in builds can now load any preset by right-clicking the UI background - bank & preset loading is now faster Source code: https://github.com/nixxcode/amsynth/releases/download/release-1.5.0/amsynth… If you find any problems, please file a bug report @ http://code.google.com/p/amsynth/issues/list Thanks to all who have helped by providing suggestions and feedback. Nick

11 years, 1 month

jackwsmeter 1

by Frederic Peters

Hello all, Here is the first release of jackwsmeter. This is a small utility that gets the signal values of the audio that flow through JACK ports and make the peak levels available over a websocket link, it's a clean and efficient way to get an overview of levels from a serie of jack servers. It's available in git at http://repo.or.cz/w/jackwsmeter.git, it's released under the GNU GPL v2 or later. The release tag is http://repo.or.cz/w/jackwsmeter.git/tag/refs/tags/1 I hope it can be useful to some people. Cheers, Fred

11 years, 2 months

MMA Version 14.07 now available

by Bob van der Poel

A stable release, version 14.07, of MMA--Musical MIDI Accompaniment is available for downloading. In addition to a number of bug fixes and optimizations, MMA now features: - Works with Python 2.7 or 3.x - Plectrum articulate - MIDI enhancements - Lots of minor enhancements and bug fixes Please read the file text/CHANGES-13 for a complete list of changes. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca -- **** Listen to my FREE CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

11 years, 2 months

Qtractor 0.6.2 - The Boson Walk Beta is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

So it's summer, they say. White bright and light pastel colors sparkling on every corner and turn. Cheesy and silly season, they say. Alas, southerners don't apply. Sorry about that. Of course I mean the hemisphere, obviously. For whom it might concern, all anxiety has come to an end. Indeed. It all relates back to this last May 3, when a not-so-formal meeting (aka. workshop) took place while during LAC2014@ZKM-Karlsruhe, where some pertinent and undeniable requests were dodged and framed to a "soonish" implementation. And guess what? Yup, the "soonish" are no more, or so I think. Qtractor 0.6.2 (boson walk beta) is out! Perhaps an additional word is due though, about the riddling code-names that are branding the post-TYOQA beta releases. They have no personal nor logical sense, I assure you. Perfectly arbitrary now. Everything in life and the universe is way more unconventional than just a name. Without further assay. Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Release highlights: * Plugins activation MIDI controller / automation (NEW) * LV2 UI Idle and Show (>= Qt5) interface support (NEW) * Discrete editing of automation curve node velues (NEW) * Missing audio/MIDI files and plugins warning message (NEW) * MIDI note drawing on tempo-map changes (FIX) * Automation curves re-adjusted to tempo-map changes (FIX) 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-0.6.2.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.1): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.2-12.rncbc.suse131.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 13.1): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.2-12.rncbc.suse131.i5… http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.2-12.rncbc.suse131.x8… - quick start guide & user manual (severely outdated, see wiki): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf - 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) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Prevent linear and spline automation curve modes for all integer valued subjects. Also, make sure those values are rounded to the nearest integer away from zero. - Fixed save of LV2 Presets for plugins with state files. - A man page has beed added (making up Gürkan Sengün's work on debian, thanks). - When moving plugins by eg. drag-and-dropping across tracks, automation curves were being left behind, maybe leading to unpredictable mistaken behavior. Hopefully, not anymore. - Translations install directory change. - Automation curves are now automatically re-adjusted to tempo map node changes (after a ticket by Holger Marzen, thanks). - Audio/MIDI files or plugins found missing on session load are now subject for an explicit modal warning message and prompt for an immediate session backup salvage. - Changing instrument plugin programs is now an undo/redo-able command operation, especially for DSSI but also for plugins that come with the LV2 Programs interface extension support (http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/ns/lv2ext/programs). - Drawing, selecting and/or resizing of MIDI note events that extend across tempo/time-signature changes is now made a bit more correctly over the MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll), especially regarding to current snap-to-beat setting (after an outstanding ticket by yubatake, thanks). - Once again, audio frame/MIDI time drift correction has been slightly refactored to improve MIDI input monitor and timing. - Discrete automation curve node values may now be edited via a numerical entry floating spin-box on double-click (as yet another request by AutoStatic aka. Jeremy Jongepier, thanks). - Pressing shift/ctrl keyboard modifiers while double-clicking on a plugin list entry now briefly reverses the current View/Options.../Plugins/Editor/Open plugin's editor (GUI) by default option preference. - Fixed an old crash lurker when switching output buses that implied a change on the number of audio channels, while on tracks that have (auto-)monitor turned on and at least one active plugin in chain (yet another ticket by AutoStatic aka. Jeremy Jongepier, thanks). - MIDI Controller assignment (aka MIDI learn) and/or automation of plugins (de)activation state has been added (as requested by AutoStatic aka. Jeremy Jongepier, thanks). - LV2 UI Idle and Show interfaces support added. - Allow the build system to include an user specified LDFLAGS (patch by Alessio Treglia aka. quadrispro, thanks). See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/795 Enjoy && have (lots of) fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

11 years, 2 months

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