8th interview here, this week with Julien Claassen. Julien's a long time
member of the community who most of us know well.
Thanks to Julien for a great interview!
The interview series will take a 2 week break with this post, and will be
back again on the 13th of December. Cheers!
http://www.zthmusic.com/julien-claassen/
On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.5.5. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License.
From the NEWS file:
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If upgrading from a v1.x version of Rivendell, be sure to read the
'UPGRADING' file before proceeding for important information.
Changes:
RLM API Extension. Added new fields to the 'rlm_pad' struct to
allow plug-ins to determine actual and predicted start times for events.
RDMonitor Enhancements. Extended RDMonitor to allow proper positioning
on multi-head displays.
LiveWire Switcher Driver Changes. The switcher drivers for LiveWire
have been refactored into three separate drivers:
LWRP Audio - Allows switching of audio routes on LiveWire devices.
LWRP GPIO - Allows monitoring and control of LiveWire GPIO devices
via LWRP (both virtual and direct).
Multicast GPIO - Allows monitoring and control of LiveWire console
GPIO without the need for a virtual LWRP device.
See 'SWITCHERS.txt' for details.
RDSelect Enhancements. Added support for specifying CAE and RDXport
service assignments via RDSelect configurations.
Multiple bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details.
Database Update:
This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 220, and will
automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema
version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo.
As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow
any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied.
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Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
Cheers!
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Hi all,
The New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference comes to London
in 2014!
We would love to receive contributions from LAU community, and given the
LAC conference is around the same time, this make the chance for a great
summer of weird sounds!
Please see below the call for proposal and circulate as appropriate.
The Performance and Installation call for NIME 2014 is out now and the
deadline for submissions is in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS' TIME: 1st
December, with no late submissions accepted. We would therefore like
to encourage everyone to get thinking about what they might like to
present in this category!
For NIME 2014, we will be hosting performances and gigs in a variety
of venues around Central London. We plan to make some of these events
open to the public and are looking for really high quality
performances, from proven performers and makers.
We hope to include a diverse range of performances, and so are keen to
receive proposals which are out of the ordinary. For example, work
which focusses on the body in performance, such as the human voice,
the body in dance, or indeed music which makes audiences dance. We
also encourage works which challenge the conventions of NIME, such as
notions of liveness, or the role of notation, language or code in
performance. Historical perspectives on music performance technology
are also welcomed, for example work which combines computation with
textiles, augments traditional instruments, or draws on
complementarity with visual forms. With the increasing influence of
the maker movement, we also welcome proposals which include ad-hoc,
DIY and open source instruments.
If you have something you'd like to show in a less polished way, you
can simply tell us you'd like to show a 'performance demo' and these
will be most likely programmed in smaller venues closer to the
conference site.
The call can be viewed at the link below.
http://www.nime2014.org/call-for-participation/
If you have any questions, please contact the artistic committee here:
nime2014music(a)goldsmithsdigital.com
Hope to see some of you there!
best wishes,
--
Marco Donnarumma
New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director.
Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction Research Team.
Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London
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Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com
Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com
Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
Hello,
I wanna share with community my very simple Jack session manager. It console app and is intended to use from scripts ( even if this is rc.local ;-) - or it could be linked to some icon/activator on desktop ;-)
It use libconfig for store settings and CDK ( ncurses ) for display while it "watching".
In save mode it works almost like jack_session_notify ( this part of code was partially borrowed, but was fixed, optimized and adapted - e.g. it doesn't store duplicate connections. take care of trailing slash in session directory, use libconfig etc. ).
Load mode was written from scratch. It start stored apps, restore it's connections and then it works like watchdog. It should be ( and it is at least for me ;-) useful for live performances.
There is also simple script which merge this two functionality, and it can also start start jack and wineserver (in persistent mode), export WINE_RT variables etc.
Check this url:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nxjsm/
I use this already in my band, so let this publicity of our song will be my "salary" ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVs2IN9IrRI
Best Regards
Pawel
Seventh interview out, and this week we talk to Dave Phillips, a well known
face around here.
You can find it at: http://www.zthmusic.com/dave-phillips/
Thanks for reading!
[Sorry for cross-posting, please distribute]
We are happy to announce the next issue of the Linux Audio Conference
(LAC), May 1-4, 2014 @ ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics, in
Karlsruhe, Germnany.
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2014/
The Linux Audio Conference is an international conference that brings
together musicians, sound artists, software developers and researchers,
working with Linux as an open, stable, professional platform for audio
and media research and music production. LAC includes paper sessions,
workshops, and a diverse program of electronic music.
*Call for Papers, Workshops, Music and Installations*
We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing
and media creation based on Linux. Papers can focus on technical,
artistic and scientific issues and should target developers or users. In
our call for music, we are looking for works that have been produced or
composed entirely/mostly using Linux.
The online submission of papers, workshops, music and installations is
now open at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2014/participation
The Deadline for all submissions is January 27th, 2014 (23:59 HAST).
You are invited to register for participation on our conference website.
There you will find up-to-date instructions, as well as important
information about dates, travel, lodging, and so on.
This year's conference is hosted by the ZKM | Institute for Music und
Acoustics (IMA). The IMA is a forum for international discourse and
exchange and combines artistic work with research and development in the
context of electroacoustic music. By holding concerts, symposia and
festivals on a regular basis it brings together composers, musicians,
musicologists, music software developers and listeners interested in
contemporary music. Artists in Residence and software developers work on
their productions in studios at the institute. With digital sound
synthesis, algorithmic composition, live-electronics up to radio plays,
interactive sound installations and audiovisual productions their
creations cover a broad range of what digital technology can inspire the
musical fantasy to.
The ZKM is proud to be the place of the LAC for the fifth time after
having initiated the conference in 2003.
http://www.zkm.de/musik
We look forward to seeing you in Karlsruhe in May!
Sincerely,
The LAC 2014 Organizing Team
The ALSA MIDI Filter (AMF) runs as an ALSA MIDI client, connects to a
configurable set of MIDI clients for input, processes its input (MIDI event
data) based on its configuration and the type and content of the MIDI
input, and sends the result to one or more connected MIDI output clients.
https://github.com/jjttcc/midifilterhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/midifilter/
I developed this application after looking into current MIDI filtering
packages for Linux (such as mididings and midish) and not being satisfied
with what I can do with them. AMF is implemented in perl, using the
MIDI::ALSA module, and is intended to be an open-ended project that will
grow and evolve as needed. Anyone interested is welcome to add their own
features and modifications - submit patches for consideration, fork it, or
etc. The license is GPL v2. If you're not a developer/hacker, you're
welcome to submit suggestions for additional functionality and
improvements. And, of course, bug reports are welcome.
Current MIDI-event filtering features:
- program-change - From note event where patch number is determined by
the pitch value.
- bank-select - switch to the next/previous bank.
- transpositions - Transpose pitches within a certain configured range up
or down by a specified number of half steps.
- Run external commands.
- Real-time START, STOP, and CONTINUE messages.
- MIDI machine control messages.
- Trigger a mode (which I call "program-change sample mode") that cycles
through the entire range of patches, with a pause in between each patch
change. In other words, it sends patch 0, pauses for a configured number
of seconds, sends patch 1, etc., until it has reached patch 127. This
allows the user to try out - "sample" - each patch of the current bank
without having to explicitly invoke a program change.
The Guitarix developers proudly present
Guitarix release 0.28.3 "MOD'ification"
This release is dedicated to the MOD developers
https://github.com/portalmod
which have join us and pushed there MODifications to our master branch.
The guitarix LV2 plugs will now run painless in the mod-host with the
remote mod-ui.
Additional guitarix include a couple of new plugs
* MultiBandDistortion (main + LV2)
* MultiBandEcho (main + LV2)
* MultiBandDelay (main + LV2)
* MultiBandChorus (main)
* MultiBandCompressor ( + LV2)
* Fuzz 4*oversampled (LV2)
* LiveLooper (main)
to cover the latest changes there is also a new release of the
guitarix-webui (remote control)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/guitarix/
For the uninitiated, Guitarix is a tube amplifier simulation for
jack, with effect modules and an additional stereo effect chain.
Please refer to our project page for more information:
http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/
Download Site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
Forum:
http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/forum/
Please consider visiting our forum or leaving a message on
guitarix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net
<mailto:guitarix-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>
Radium is a music editor with a new and better interface.
It's inspired by trackers, but has fewer limitations and uses graphics
to show musical data. Radium has been developed since 1999
and has a ton of features.
Homepage: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/
Most important changes 1.9.31 -> 1.9.33:
===============================
* Pitch glide between notes. Implemented for the Pd instrument, the
sampler instrument and all the Physical modelling instruments.
* Edit pitches with mouse
* Automatically make current track wider
* Show Resize cursor when its possible to resize track
* mouse: ctrl: slows down, lshift: limit horizontal, lextra: limit vertial
* sampler instrument: Fix saving loop on off button state
* Made MENU button open block configuration (left meta is often unavailable)
* Made VOLUME/PLAY/STOP/MUTE keys configurable in keybindings.conf
* Fixed memory corruption in blocklist when name of block was longer than 20 (!)
* Use standard paths for LADSPA plugins if LADSPA_PATH is not set
* Give message if a plugin generates abnormal signals, plus zero the signal.
* menues: Be more intelligent about which program to open
keybindings.conf/menues.conf/externals_list.txt with.
* pd: Upgrade libpds to latest version (Use system clipboard to store
cut/copy/paste data (to cut/copy/paste between different pd
instances))
* Fix MMD loader
* Note play indicator visual improvement (blinking circle)
* Enable volume up/volume down/mute/play keyboard buttons
* Button for setting random effect values.
