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by Roland Mas

I'm both pleased and surprised to announce the first real public release of Wiimidi, which I've arbitrarily numbered 0.5. Wiimidi is a gateway for turning a Wiimote, possibly with an attached accessory such as a Guitar Hero drumkit, into a source of MIDI events. While that's far from original, I seem to have gained a very excited user who encouraged me to actually make the program more visible (hence this email) and to add features, to the point that now it may be useful beyond just my own personal use case. The aforementioned user apparently used it with a hacked Wiimote as a pedal board during a jam session, and reports that it all went fine (hence his excitement) The “interesting” features that may or may not differenciate Wiimidi from other similar projects: - customisable mapping of the Wiimote buttons (and drumkit pads) to arbitrary actions; - actions are either MIDI signals (notes, program changes, controller events, or actually any arbitrary MIDI messages), action on the Wiimote LEDs (on, off, toggle, or even an animation for more visible feedback), or a set of such actions: one button could send a program-change and change the LED status to reflect on it; - actions can be grouped in "cycles", and a button/pad can then execute a different set of actions on each hit; useful for toggles or to go through presets; - drumkit pads can generate different actions based on the strength of the hit, allowing for open/closed hi-hat sounds without a separate control for instance. For more information, a little documentation and the pointers to the actual code, see the Wimidi page at: http://roland.entierement.nu/pages/wiimidi.html [About the name: I'm aware that there are several other projects around with the Wiimidi name; however, none of them seem to have seen any activity in recent years. Whether mine will follow the trend or break it, only time will tell.] Roland. -- Roland Mas One... two... one, two, many, lots! -- Lias, in Soul music (Terry Pratchett)

12 years, 3 months

[ANN] jack_capture V0.9.70 and Radium V1.9.24

by Kjetil Matheussen

jack_capture ============ jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack. The default operation of the program is executed by writing "jack_capture" in the terminal without any extra command line options: $ jack_capture ...which will record what you hear in your loudspeakers into a stereo wav file. Download tar balls from http://archive.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?C=M;O=D Git repository: https://github.com/kmatheussen/jack_capture Changelog 0.9.69 -> 0.6.70: * notify user about jack x-runs that occurred during recording (Robin Gareus) * Include timemachine documentation in README file Radium ======= 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. The advantages of this interface compared to piano rolls (the normal sequencer interface), are that note editing is quicker, and that more musical data fits on the screen. The advantage of this interface compared to trackers, is that note positions and effects are edited graphically, which is both quicker, provides more vertical space, and gives a better musically overview. However, despite it's unusual appearance, it's a design goal for Radium to be straight forward to use, and easy to learn. It should not be harder to learn Radium than any tracker or most midi sequencers. Screenshot: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/radium-1-9-21.png Homepage: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ Source code repository: https://github.com/kmatheussen/radium Most important changes 1.9.22 -> 1.9.24: * Write settings to disk when selecting Set Default Editor Font * Dont crash when using MIDI menu unless the current instrument is a midi instrument * Workaround for bug in newer versions of libbfd, causing compilation to fail. Patch from James Morris * Wait to handle events until program has started. * Remove check for jack in rt midi in check_install script.

12 years, 3 months

[ANN] Praxis LIVE build:121231

by Neil C Smith

Hi All, A slightly-belated Happy New Year to you all, and notification of a new release of Praxis LIVE (build:121231). Praxis LIVE is an open-source, graphical environment for rapid development of intermedia performance tools, projections and interactive spaces. This release brings a range of performance improvements to the video pipeline, some useful UI improvements, and support for up to 16 channels of audio IO. There is also some early support for physical computing using the excellent TinkerForge (http://www.tinkerforge.com/). Praxis LIVE is now available as a .deb pacakge or as a ZIP (for un-installed usage). Website (with downloads and manual) - http://code.google.com/p/praxis Release notes - http://code.google.com/p/praxis/wiki/ReleaseNotes Blog post (with TinkerForge vid) - http://praxisintermedia.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/new-year-new-praxis-live/ Thanks and best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net Praxis LIVE - open-source, graphical environment for rapid development of intermedia performance tools, projections and interactive spaces - http://code.google.com/p/praxis OpenEye - specialist web solutions for the cultural, education, charitable and local government sectors - http://openeye.info

12 years, 3 months

ladspamm - a small c++ library for handling LADSPA plugins

by Florian Paul Schmidt

Hi, GIT repo: https://github.com/fps/ladspamm DOXYGEN docs (very minimal): http://fps.github.com/ladspamm For my own small side projects I needed a little c++ wrapper lib around LADSPA plugins. Since someone else might be interested in it, too, I put it on github. ladspamm::world world; ladspamm::plugin_instance instance( world.libraries[0]->plugins[0], 48000 ); instance.activate(); instantiates and activates the first found plugin in the first found library.. This is version 0.0.1 so expect bugs and missing features.. Have fun, Flo -- Florian Paul Schmidt http://fps.io

12 years, 3 months

[ANN] MusE 2.1 released

by Robert Jonsson

MusE 2.1 Jan 06, 2013 Happy new year everybody and happy new MusE release! We've tried hard to break tradition and release somewhat quicker than what we usually been able to. So without further ado, here we are with a shiny 2.1 release. Assortment of topics worked on this time around are: * Native VST support, first drop: effect rack isn't supported yet and some synths are misbehaving a bit but it should be usable. * New type of drum track with easier instrument handling * Improved Wave Editor. * Improved midi import/export * Longtime wierdness in MusE, song-type is finally removed * Improved: Deicsonze soft synthesizer: Fixed crash, bugs, added ladspa plugins * Added: Request from forums: Auto-start Jack upon MusE startup. Command-line disable switch -J added * Added aftertouch controller handling * Piano KB and drum list show coloured dots when per-pitch controllers exist or have data. * Improved: Instrument Editor (controller tab): Redesigned. Fixed MANY bugs * Improved: Midi controller graph 'Ctrl' popup menus now unified (cascading). * Improved: built-in templates and removed lots of unneeded definitions * Improved: Velocity graphs. Icon for showing per-note or all velocities * Improved: Piano KB has current selected note (yellow). For velocity/polyaftertouch/other per-note ctrls * Added 'speaker' icon to drum edit. And drum list and piano keyboard now obey the 'speaker' icon * Improved: Multi-port (aka multi-channel) midi import and export * Added Gain knob on channel strip for audio tracks * Changed WaveTrack and AudioInput to create mono tracks instead of stereo * Added: Informative text on Undo/Redo buttons/menu text/tooltips ("Undo AddTrack" etc). * Fixed CR:3567893 Play Event on note creation * Bug 3555569, 3555572: New informative ERROR, WARNING and HINT messages in cmake build script. * Bug 3555581: No synths listed in Edit menu: main.cpp: Move initMidiSynth() ahead of MusE. * Feature request 3565102: FLAC audio file import. * Fix for forum topic "Ordering of simultaneous events". * Summer sleep is over! plugins can now be grouped * Finished the Sysex Editor in the Instrument Editor. * increased zoom range in arranger, reversed zoom in wave editor * Internal fluidsynth and simpledrums search project dir for missing sounds to ease portability, and if no sounds are found a load file dialog is shown For more information and additional changes see the changelog: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revisio… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ MusE on! The MusE Team

12 years, 3 months

njconnect

by rev8

Hi, I would like to present new simple, console (curses) Jack patch bay. It's based on Nedko's naconnect, and can be treated as jack version. It can manage either Jack Audio or Jack MIDI ports. After each successful connection list selection is moved to next item, this should speed up workflow. You can switch around all panels using TAB and BTAB keys, but you can also use left/right arrows for jump to the left/right panels. It also refresh lists dynamically by using jack graph change callback, so can be used as simple connection monitor. http://sourceforge.net/projects/njconnect/ Keep me informed if it useful or bugged (I guess it is) .. or unnecessary crap ;-) .. and thanks for Nedko Arnaudov for his great piece of code ! BTW. will be nice if someone prominent could add this to Jack site. Best Regards Pawel

12 years, 3 months

[ANN] CAPS 0.9.1

by Tim Goetze

CAPS 0.9.1 ========== The C* Audio Plugin Suite is a selection of popular effects, unique filters and generators. For the digital guitarist, CAPS offers a range of processors recreating the formation of tone in traditional instrument amplification. Beyond sound quality, central design considerations are latency-free realtime operation, modest resource demands and meaningful control interfaces. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html This release contains major improvements particularly in the area of guitar signal processing, notably in the AmpVTS and CabinetIV plugins. These are the first iterations of the Amp and Cabinet designs that their author is well and truly happy with. Also worth noting here is the Compress plugin, a completely new design featuring optional oversampled soft saturation/limiting. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#AmpVTS http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#CabinetIV http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#Compress http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#AutoFilter All plugins have been subject to further development, speedups, refinement and polishing. In many cases, this has been accompanied by the consolidation of shared or duplicate functions into a single circuit; for example, the AutoFilter plugin now fulfills the roles of the old SweepVF and AutoWah units. Many obsolete plugins have been removed, and everywhere else, port names, layouts, value ranges, defaults etc have been changed as well. Upgrading from previous releases is encouraged nonetheless. Enjoy!

12 years, 3 months

[LAD] Guitarix release 0.25.1

by hermann meyer

We are proud to announce the release of guitarix2-0.25.1 Guitarix is a mono tube amplifier simulation for jack, with additional mono/stereo effect racks witch can be filled with some in-build effects as well as with external LADSPA plugins. Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ After having some discussions with David Robillard (thanks for your patience, David) I realize that I need to push out a update in order to avoid a possible violation of the LV2 specs, so guitarix2-0.25.1 is out, those how use the last V0.25.0, are strongly recommended to update. * GxAmplifier tube 12ax7 tonestack sovtek cabinet 4x12 * GxAmplifier-II tube 12AT7 tonestack soldano cabinet AC30 * GxAmplifier-III tube 6C16 tonestack bassman cabinet 1x15 * GxAmplifier-IV tube 6V6 tonestack soldano cabinet mesa * GxAmplifier-V tube 6DJ8 tonestack ampeg cabinet HighGain there are mono and stereo versions of those amps included in the bundle. Thanks goes to Richard Dalton from http://www.Ampskindesigns.com for given me permission to use (and distribute) his work within a GNU GPL project, many thanks Richard. thanks goes as well to David Robillard for his great work on the LV2 specs and to Rui Nuno Capela for implement them so excellent in qtractor. Please check it out and give feedback if you find a problem. Please refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ have fun guitarix development team _______________________________________________ happy new year to all

12 years, 3 months

Announcing midisnoop-0.1.0!

by Devin Anderson

I'm happy to announce the first release of midisnoop! midisnoop is a simple MIDI monitor and prober. You can use it to monitor a MIDI device and/or software, and to send MIDI messages to a MIDI port to see how the device/software responds. midisnoop supports both ALSA and JACK MIDI ports using the RtMidi library. `midisnoop` is available at: http://midisnoop.googlecode.com/ Please report bugs using the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/midisnoop/issues/list If you like `midisnoop` and have ideas that can make it better and/or want to keep up with its progress, join the users group: http://groups.google.com/group/midisnoop-users If you're a developer and want to contribute to `midisnoop`, join the development group: http://groups.google.com/group/midisnoop-development Thanks, -- Devin Anderson surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/ midisnoop - http://midisnoop.googlecode.com/ psinsights - http://psinsights.googlecode.com/ synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/

12 years, 3 months

Mup 6.1 Music Publisher

by support＠arkkra.com

The Mup music publication program version 6.1 is now available. Mup produces very high quality PostScript music files, or MIDI files, based on a text input file. Mup has been under active development since 1992, and is a a full featured program that can handle almost any kind of music, instrumental or vocal, including tablature, shaped notes, guitar grids, alternate tunings, user defined symbols, transposition, macros, cross staff stems and beams, and much more. It handles all layout details automatically, but also lets the user make adjustments as they wish. Mup was previously available only as shareware, but beginning with 6.1 it is now available for free under a BSD-style license. Version 6.1 includes all features of the previous shareware version, as well as having a new feature to automatically do gradual MIDI changes. For more information, visit http://www.arkkra.com

12 years, 3 months

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