The 12th edition of the Friday Interview has arrived, but first of all:
Happy new year to everyone, and a sincere thank you for both the
encouragement and the appreciation this series has gotten! And, of course,
a big thank you to everyone who has participated - I'm as happy and
interested as anyone to dive into the lives and backgrounds of the many
heroes of Linux audio. So, to a new and great year for Linux audio! :)
This week, we're joined by one of the legends of the game, responsible for
the barrage of awesome applications prefixed Q: Rui Nuno Capela!
http://www.zthmusic.com/rncbc/
On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.6.1. 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:
Drag and Drop. Added the ability to drag and drop carts within and
between Rivendell modules.
Useability Tweaks. Modified UI behavior to improve ease of use for
SoundPanels and RDLibrary. See the ChangeLog for details.
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.
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Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
Cheers!
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Hi,
Happy New Year to all fellow LADs and LAUs!
Announcing the release of AV Linux 6.0.2, My thanks to the developers of
all the great applications included especially Robin Gareus and falkTX for
their notable contributions this time around.
Some highlights:
Complete custom XFCE4 4.10 D.E.
Pipelight Browser Plugin (Netflix and Flash support)
Updated FFADO drivers
MTP Device support
exfat-fuse support
Ardour 3.5.143 in native and VST versions
Harrison Mixbus Demo of version 2.4
Updates to the linuxDSP Demos
Harrison Consoles LV2 Plugin Demos system-wide
Carla 1.2.3 + Carla LV2 Plugins including ZynAddSubFX-LV2
X42-Plugins
Zam-Plugins
AJ Snapshot UI to graphically save and retrieve AJ Snapshots
JALV Launcher with External UI Support
Much more, detailed here:
http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=3262.0
Looking forward to many meets and greets at LAC2014!
Thanks for reading, Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer
QMidiArp 0.6.0 is out, since of course it cannot miss the huge TGV train of Q-Application updates just racing by for the new year!
This release includes LV2 plugins of the three QMidiArp modules. They are synchronizable to the transport info provided by different hosts in different ways, and they work well with the new Qtractor, thanks to Rui for updates regarding this.
I don't claim that I have fully understood LV2 host-GUI communication, but I found the recent sisco plugin by Robin Gareaus very instructive for this, thanks!
Happy new year!
Frank
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http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net
Direct download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidiarp/files/qmidiarp/0.6.0/qmidiarp-0.6.…
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qmidiarp-0.6.0 (2014-01-01)
New Features
o LV2 Plugins are now available for Arp, LFO and Seq modules
- They have full functionality as known from the standalone
application except MIDI control, which can be provided by the host
- The LFO plugin also has a LV2 control output scaled from 0 to 1
- When the 'Sync to host' option is checked, the plugins support
transport LV2 atom data from hosts as well as host transport
information available from designated lv2 time ports (Qtractor,
thanks Rui!)
- Arp pattern presets are available in the LV2 module but cannot be
written to the .qmidiarprc file. This has to be done with the
standalone application
- On hosts with small atom port capacities that do not honor the
lv2 rsz:MinimumSize property, there will be issues with displaying
very large LFO waveforms
- Features of QMidiArp beyond the modules themselves (including
global storage) are not available
Fixed Bugs
o Trying to open an inexistent file from the recent files menu led to
crash (reported by Frank Neumann)
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
