Hey!
11th interview out, this week with Ras Tilo, member of the band Superdirt²,
mixing electronic beats with live cello.
Cheers!
http://www.zthmusic.com/ras-tilo/
Seasons greetings all!
Just a quick announcement to any that didn't know, the Fedora Jam spin
has been released alongside Fedora 20.
In Linux audio terms, there's not too many surprises here. We have
simply tried to keep all of our packages up to date with upstream.
Notable additions/updates: Ardour 3 replaces Ardour2 (on the media only:
Ardour 2.x is still available in the repos), the new x42 plugins from
Robin Gareus, Harry's Open Av plugin suite and we've also added Mup
music notation. The repositories also contain the awesome new guitarix
plugins, definitely worth checking out.
We have tried to ship the latest release of everything, however there
have been a few upstream releases that have occurred post publication
freeze, so expect a number of updates in the next few weeks.
For a synopsis of all included packages you can click here [1], and you
can grab an ISO from here [2]
PlanetCCRMA has also been updated in record time, so go here [3] to add
your RT kernel, linuxsampler, supercollider, puredata and others not
included on the spin.
Want to help us make the spin better or just have questions/want to chat
about the spin? Join our mailing list here [4] or jump on irc #fedora-audio
Happy new year all!
Brendan
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_jam#Included_Packages
[2] http://spins.fedoraproject.org/jam-kde/
[3] http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
[4] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
A stable release, version 13.12, of MMA--Musical MIDI Accompaniment
is available for downloading. In addition to a number of bug fixes
and optimizations, MMA now features:
- A number of Solo/Melody enhancements
- Multiple user library paths are now supported
- MIDI enhancements
- Lots of minor enhancements and bug fixes
Please read the file text/CHANGES-12 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
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**** 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
This week's interview is with developer Devin Anderson, author of
Synthclone and Midisnoop.
Thanks to Devin for the great interview!
http://www.zthmusic.com/devin-anderson/
Hi all,
I am pleased to announce that a new version of aubio, 0.4.0, has been released.
aubio is a library of functions to perform audio feature extractions such as:
- note onset detection
- pitch detection
- beat tracking
- MFCC computation
- spectral descriptors
The core library, written in C, focuses on speed and portability. It is known
to run on most modern operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows,
Android, and iOS.
A new python module, rewritten from scratch, gives access to the features of
aubio's core library from within Python. Tightly integrated with Python NumPy,
the aubio python module provides an efficient way to extract features from
audio streams as well as to design new algorithms.
To find out more about aubio and this release:
Project homepage:
http://aubio.org/
Post announcing aubio 0.4.0:
http://aubio.org/news/20131217-1900_aubio_0.4.0
ChangeLog for aubio 0.4.0:
http://aubio.org/pub/aubio-0.4.0.changelog
Source tarball, signature and digests:
http://aubio.org/pub/aubio-0.4.0.tar.bz2http://aubio.org/pub/aubio-0.4.0.tar.bz2.aschttp://aubio.org/pub/aubio-0.4.0.tar.bz2.md5http://aubio.org/pub/aubio-0.4.0.tar.bz2.sha1
API Documentation:
http://aubio.org/doc/latest/
Merry hacking!
Paul
Hello,
Please find new release of FSTHost.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fsthost/
Please note that since now there is simple app "FSTHost Menu" shipped with fsthost. It cover some functionality with FeSTige and has to fullfill a similar role.
New release of FSTHost contain:
- Support for GTK3 ( GTK2 is still supported )
- Propose path of file opened at start as default while save state
- fsthost menu - perl version with GTK2/GTK3 support ( and with tray/status icon ;-)
- aggregator - app for merge all fsthost windows into one ( not installed by default )
- use wine ( win32 ) code when moving window ( instead of X tricks )
- disable support for bbt_offset , because seems that some VST plugins does not like fractal values in barStartPos
- do not zeroize outputs by default ( -z option )
- XML DB - use shared file for 32/64 versions ( ~/.fsthost.xml )
- Scan all dirs in VST_PATH recursively when building XML DB ( -g option )
- Allow build 32 and 64 version independently
- a lot of code refactoring
- .... and a lot of other changes
Best Regards
Xj
On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.6.0. 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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Changes:
RDDiscImport Utility. A utility has been added for bulk importation
of material from audio CDs using external metadata.
Audio Importation Enhancements. Added support for reading metadata
from WAV files containing 'AIR1' metadata chunks.
NaturalLog Support. Added a log import preset and reconciliation report
for the 'NaturalLog' traffic system.
New Library Metadata Fields. Added Library metadata fields for
'Conductor', 'Song ID' and 'Beats per Minute'.
New RDImport Option. Added a '--set-user-defined' option to RDImport.
Multiple bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details.
Database Update:
This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 224, 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.
*** snip snip ***
Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
Cheers!
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Feels good to be back after a 2 week break!
This week we talk to Nils Gey, a musician and programmer, author of
Laborejo, and who's currently writing a new sampler.
Thanks to Nils for the interview, and again, good to be back!
http://www.zthmusic.com/nils-gey/
