As falling leaves drift by the window, and without any further ado:
Qtractor 0.5.11 (lima oscar) is now released!
Soon we'll hear a new winter's song. This code-naming series, which
started on a sunny summer day two years ago as TYOQA, is now converging
to an end. It will be no surprise for some that today's release precedes
the very last one on that series. So let's get those autumn leaves
falling and grab them while they're crispy red and gold ;)
Release highlights:
* Extended automation curve editing (NEW)
* Extended clip selection (NEW)
* LV2 UI resize feature support (NEW)
* Aux-sends to audio buses (FIX)
* MIDI editor overlapped event velocity/value (FIX)
* Accidental export muting and/or freezing (FIX)
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.11.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 12.3):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.11-8.rncbc.suse123.s…
- binary packages (openSUSE 12.3):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.11-8.rncbc.suse123.i…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.11-8.rncbc.suse123.x…
- quick start guide & user manual (outdated):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf
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:
- Adding a track now inserts it after the current one, if any; one can
also drag and move a track below the last one in the track list (main
view left pane).
- Extended Edit/Select Mode/Automation: multi-selection mode, cut, copy,
paste and delete of current track's automation curve nodes, now reached
implementation ready status.
- Another old silent bug bites the dust: changing track names were
dropping any track gain/volume and panning automation curves when saving
the session.
- A primeval processing bug has been sorted out: aux-sends to audio
output buses that just appear to be after the input bus where they're
inserted were being left muted and silent (on a ticket follow-up by
Holger Marzen, thanks).
- Fixed a sure crash bug exposed when processing of aux-send plugins
when inserted too early on audio input buses chain (after a ticket
report by Holger Marzen, thanks).
- Allow the build system to include an user specified CFLAGS (patch by
Cristian Morales Vega, thanks).
- Shift/Ctrl keyboard modifiers now set to extend current clip selection
while in main track view's Edit/Select Mode/Range, Rectangle modes.
- Main Edit/Select Mode/Automation icon retouched to look a bit more
obvious and intuitive, hopefully ;)
- Allow to change the velocities/values of the current selected events
which have the exact same onset times and hide beyhond each other on the
MIDI clip editor's pane below the main view piano-roll (ie. the one that
represents MIDI event values as a bar chart).
- Fixed some problematic playback/export muting and annoying cleanup
freezing, due on audio tracks with too many clips eg. more than hundred
clip splits (hopefully fixes an issue reported by Louigi Verona, thanks).
- LV2 UI resize feature support/control added.
- Fixed dedicated MIDI control and MIDI metronome port connection
restore conflict (thanks to jhammen catch & patch:).
- New user preference option added: reverse middle-button role to
Shift/Ctrl keyboard state, in special regard to edit-head/tail vs.
play-head positioning while on the main track and MIDI clip editor (aka.
piano-roll) views.
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/710
Enjoy && have (a plenty of) fun.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
Hey All,
Its my pleasure to announce the ArtyFX plugin suite!
The plugins included are Masha, Roomy, Ducka and Filta.
Checkout http://www.openavproductions.com/artyfx for a demo reel and
details!
Cheers, -Harry
Hi,
In the wake of overhauling Ardour's bar-graph meters, I've taken the
time to implement corresponding needle-style meters and more.
meters.lv2 features 10 needle-style meters. Mono and stereo variants of
DIN, Nordic, EBU, BBC and VU types (which are based on jmeters by Fons
Adriaensen).
Additionally it includes a Stereo Phase Correlation Meter (needle
Display), an EBU-R128 Meter (also based on Fons' implementation) with
Histogram and History display, a Digital True-Peak Meter (4x
Oversampling, using zita-resampler), a Stereo Phase Scope (Goniometer)
and a 31 Band Spectrum-Analyzer.
Source-code, info and screenshots can be found at
https://github.com/x42/meters.lv2
They have been tested in various environments and fine-tuned to match
their corresponding real hardware type by Chris Goddard and Axel Müller.
Currently the plugins come in Gtk2 (LV2 GtkUI) and openGL (LV2
#external-ui) variants. Both versions are installed in parallel.
The main reason for this is portability and compatibility. Yet the GTK
variant UI does run in the host's GUI-thread and may slow down UI
response (in particular the goniometer). The openGL versions of the
plugins do not have this issue, but require very recent versions of
libcairo, libpixman and libpango which are thread-safe. Please see the
README included with the source.
Caveat: Note that the plugins use the LV2 idle-interface (lv2 >= 1.4.2)
The plugin-host must to be compiled with 1.4.2 or a later version of the
LV2 SDK. It also must support the http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/resize-port/
extension. At the time of writing Ardour 3.4 and jalv.gtk from SVN >=
5129 do fulfill these criteria.
as always, any feedback is welcome.
robin
Radium 1.9.31 is a big release with many new features and bug fixes.
1.9.31 is the first release with Pd embedded.
Pd is a " Real-time graphical dataflow programming environment for
audio, video, and graphical processing." (http://puredata.info/)
Pd embedded in Radium has got approximately the same features as Max
for Ableton Live. (https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/)
Screenshot: http://folk.uio.no/ksvalast/radiumpd.png
Video 1: http://folk.uio.no/ksvalast/radium_pd.ogv
Video 2: http://folk.uio.no/ksvalast/radium-pd-invertnote.ogv
Radium homepage: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/
Most important changes 1.9.30 -> 1.9.31:
* New demo song: BlowFish! Made by www.magnetophon.nl
* Save hashmap elements in sorted order so that songs can more easily
be compared textually
* Menu entry to show name of all included pd externals
* Help menu options to edit keybindings and menues
* Song comment dialog
* Fix "Switch Window Configuration" menu option
* Removed "Error. y2>=window->height: ..." error. Just print to stderr instead.
* Removed the "Something strange just happened in the function
Blt_markVisible" warning (print to stderr instead)
* Option to set number of scrolls per second. Scrolling too often can
be tiresome for the eyes.
* Make it easier to connect objects and see connections in the mixer,
plus adjust object sizes
* Patchbay sound object
* Fix crash loading Soundfonts in the Fluidsynth and Sampler instrument
* Show stars around filename if theres unsaved data
* When quitting or loading, only ask sure/yes/no if edited since last save.
* Change "Set Patch For Track" to "Set Instrument For Track" in the
instruments menu.
The word "patch" should not be exposed to the user anymore.
* Be able to load files with DOS char set
* Changed internal radium block size to 64 (similar to Pd)
* Sending note events between sound objects (green lines)
* Enable undo for on/off effect controllers
* Pd extended is included as a sound object. 921 externals are
included. GUI is working.
Several instances is working. Can be used to write both audio
effects and note effects.
* Fix qt paths on Archlinux (Javafant/archlinux)
* Many minor bug fixes
Hey everyone!
I want to introduce you to a little project I've recently been working on,
called "The Friday Interview". My goal is shortly to publish an interview
with someone from the Linux Audio realm each Friday. The interviews will be
about Linux audio, the interviewee's themselves, their software/music, and
just life in general.
I'm very excited to introduce my first guest in this first edition of the
Friday Interview, HarryHaaren! In this first interview, we get to know
Harry as he talks about OpenAV, how the donation system he invented has
been working, his own music, and more.
You can find the interview here: http://www.zthmusic.com/harryhaaren/
Thanks to HarryHaaren for this interview, and I hope you enjoy reading it.
Thanks for reading this e-mail. Til next week, cheers!
(apologies for cross-postings)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) is pleased to announce the 2014 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composer Commissioning Program.
The purpose of this program is to stimulate student participation in SEAMUS activities, and to encourage young composers to pursue creative endeavors in electro-acoustic music. The program is administered by SEAMUS and funded by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) <http://www.ascap.com>.
The submission deadline is October 15, 2013.
For more information, please visit the ASCAP/SEAMUS Competition information page at http://www.seamusonline.org/?page_id=968.
To submit via the online application, please visit the current submission site.
Please consider printing and posting the current poster, available as a PDF, wherever appropriate.
The poster may be downloaded here.
RULES FOR SUBMISSION
All submissions are to be made online, through the submission site. Only one work of electroacoustic music may be submitted, which must adhere to the following guidelines:
• Audio Files: music submissions should include a representative audio recording of the work. If a concert work, it must be the complete composition. Installations may be represented by an excerpted recording not to exceed 10 minutes in length. Judging of music submissions for ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Competition will be from audio files in the MP3 format. Multichannel works will be judged from a stereo mix, also MP3. Please assist us by submitting in MP3 format. Audio files must be prepared as a single LastnameFirstname_audio.MP3.
• Scores: for submissions involving a score, please submit an anonymized PDF score for review. Please do not mail in printed scores. Score submissions must be prepared as LastnameFirstname_score.PDF.
• Video Submissions: note that for works involving video, only the audio portion will be considered for judging purposes. You must be the composer of the music for the video. Please submit an MP3 of the music as specified above.
• Only one (1) entry per student.
Other than the filename, please make sure to remove your name from all files, including MP3 metadata and PDF scores. Please limit the total size of all files to 40MB.
This same work may be submitted to the SEAMUS 2014 National Conference via the conference submission page. All finalists in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition must attend the SEAMUS 2014 National Conference.
AWARDS
A maximum of two prizes may be awarded. The decision of the judges will be final.
First Prize
• Commission of $1250 for a new work of electro-acoustic music
• Performance of commissioned work at the 2015 SEAMUS National Conference
• Recording of the commissioned work in the SEAMUS Compact Disc Series
• Certificate of recognition
Second Prize
• Commission of $750 for a new work of electro-acoustic music
• Performance of commissioned work at the 2015 SEAMUS National Conference
• Certificate of recognition
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants to the 2014 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commissioning Competition must be student members of SEAMUS and must be either currently enrolled in an academic program in the United States (high school through doctoral studies) or a United States citizen studying abroad. All completed submissions will be verified for student status against current SEAMUS membership records.
Per Bloland
SEAMUS Member-at-Large
As usual, apologies for x-posting...
It is my pleasure to announce the latest release of pd-l2ork free
open-source visual programming language for interactive media, and
supporting K12 educational module for the 32-bit and 64-bit Linux, as
well as Raspberry Pi (Arm) platforms. pd-l2ork is the infrastructural
backbone of Virginia Tech DISIS Linux Laptop Orchestra
(http://l2ork.music.vt.edu). Highlights include:
*Ported all vanilla GUI objects and events to cairo-based SVG-like
tkpath canvas providing antialiased drawing capabilities, bezier patch
cords, and setting stage for a zoomable canvas
*Implemented a new scrollbar system using semi-transparent objects right
on the canvas
*Implemented filtering of autorepeat keyboard events for key, keyup,
keyname objects
*Expanded K12 library with numerous improvements and added a couple demo
files
*Backported resizable objects and recent files
*Implemented native drag-n-drop
*Improved GUI appearance
*Began porting 3rd party objects to new cairo-based canvas
(non-accelerated 3rd-party objects can be recognized by having a blue
selection box and their considerably slower redraw)
*Cleaned-up extended pddp documentation and added comprehensive cyclone
documentation
*Began filtering (disabling) building of redundant externals within the
cyclone and other 3rd-party libraries
*Proper visual reordering without the potentially cpu-expensive
canvas_redraw for all accelerated objects (non-accelerated 3rd-party
objects can be recognized by having a blue selection box and their
considerably slower redraw)
*Disabled drawing of redundant nlets for objects embedded inside a GOP
object (for Max users, equivalent to a bpatcher)
*Embedded tkdnd and tkpath libs directly into source for a monolithic
build; made several improvements to the tkpath lib fork
*Many other minor bugfixes and improvements (see Changelog for more info)
A screenshot of the K12 module is attached. Alternatively, it can be
found at:
http://puredata.info/downloads/Pd-L2Ork/releases/20130920/screenshot/image_…
Complete Changelog:
http://puredata.info/downloads/Pd-L2Ork/releases/20130920/
Download Links:
Binary Builds & Documentation: http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56
Source: http:///github.com/pd-l2ork/
Best wishes,
--
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
Head, ICAT IMPACT Studio
Virginia Tech
Department of Music
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0240
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
disis.music.vt.edul2ork.music.vt.eduico.bukvic.net
Suil 0.6.16 is out. Suil is a lightweight C library for loading and
wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. Suil transparently presents UIs written in
any toolkit as the desired widget type of host programs, so hosts do
not have to depend on foreign toolkits.
Download: http://download.drobilla.net/suil-0.6.16.tar.bz2
More about Suil: http://drobilla.net/software/suil
This releases fixes a crash bug for UIs with NULL extension_data, and
includes some Qt fixes from Rui Nuno Capela.
The API/ABI is identical to the previous release.
Enjoy,
-- dr
