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Qtractor 0.9.37 - An End-of-Autumn'23 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi all! Qtractor 0.9.37 (end-of-autumn'23) is out! Change-log: - Fixed an ancient hack on session initialization to wait to JACK service start up, which hang up while on pipewire-jack >= 1.0.0. - Add default audio metronome sample files. - Fixed automation curve rescaling across multiple, more than just one or two, tempo-map node changes. - New MIDI Tool Resize / Legato duration option added. - MIDI Clip Editor (aka. piano-roll) thumb-view now taking tempo-map changes into account. - Audio metronome is enabled only when both the bar and beat sample files are provided. Description: Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Website: https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.37.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.37-80.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.37-80.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.37-80.1.x86_64.AppImage - Flatpak [8] package (thanks Hubert Figuière): https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qtractor Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (updated, thanks to Miguel Lacha): https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: https://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [8] Flatpak, next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux https://flatpak.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2509 Cheers && Keep the fun! - - - rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

1 year, 6 months

Yoshimi 2.3.1.2

by Will Godfrey

Copy/Paste has been improved and unified between CLI and GUI. Improved discovery of most recent HTML guide location. Also available to the CLI. Small corrections and updates in the User Guide. Various bugfixes. For developers: Improved access to control data/descriptions, with updates. Updated various explanatory texts. Full details are in /doc/Yoshimi_2.3.1.2_features.txt Yoshimi source code is available from either: https://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi Or: https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi Full build instructions are in 'INSTALL'. Our list archive is at: https://www.freelists.org/archive/yoshimi To post, email to: yoshimi(a)freelists.org -- Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'} https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

1 year, 7 months

Rivendell v4.1.2

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the next production release of Rivendell, 4.1.2. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2. From the 'NEWS' file: *** snip snip *** Changes: Build System. Fixed regressions that broke the build when configured to build without HPI, ALSA or JACK support. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 371, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, do 'sudo rddbmgr'. Be sure to run 'rddbmgr --modify' (as root) immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Details and source code are available at https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

1 year, 7 months

Rivendell v4.1.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the next production release of Rivendell, 4.1.1. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2. From the 'NEWS' file: *** snip snip *** Changes: Fixed a bug in the CAE subsystem that could cause truncation of audio play-outs. Fixed a memory leak in ripcd(8) that could cause system instability. Other bugfixes. See the 'ChangeLog' for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 371, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, do 'sudo rddbmgr'. Be sure to run 'rddbmgr --modify' (as root) immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Details and source code are available at https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

1 year, 7 months

Rivendell v3.6.8

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a maintenance v3.x release of Rivendell, 3.6.8. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License version 2. From the 'NEWS' file: *** snip snip *** Changes: Fixed a memory leak in ripcd(8) that could cause system instability. Other bugfixes. See the 'ChangeLog' for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 347, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. Be sure to run 'rddbmgr --modify' (as root) immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Details and source code are available at https://github.com/ElvishArtisan/rivendell/releases. Cheers! |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | | | -- Cicero | |---------------------------------------------------------------------|

1 year, 7 months

Qtractor 0.9.36 - An Autumn'23 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! Qtractor 0.9.36 (autumn'23) is released! Change-log: - Multiple audio and/or MIDI files may now appear as arguments on the command line and get immediately imported into a new session; also, any audio or MIDI file may now be promptly imported into a new session from the main File/Open... dialog. - New MIDI clip tool option added: Rescale/Invert. - Introducing brand new MIDI clip tool: Tempo ramp. - Disable or better hide the Add Tracks option on the MIDI tracks export dialog. - Fixed a yearlong bug in MIDI file import/export of tempo, time and key signatures and markers, to severely wrong locations. - Enable Aux-Send inserts on output buses, but list possible target buses only; audio output buses are now listed as possible targets iif they follow or succeed the source one (in internal processing order). - Fixed MIDI tracks latency compensation, now working as expected. - Show current/total plugins latency on the Track properties dialog, - Fixed MIDI Step-input for non-zero offset clips. Description: Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Website: https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.36.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.36-79.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.36-79.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.36-79.1.x86_64.AppImage - Flatpak [8] package (thanks Hubert Figuière): https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qtractor Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (outdated; help wanted!): https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: https://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [8] Flatpak, next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux https://flatpak.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2485 Cheers && Have fun! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

1 year, 7 months

SpectMorph 0.6.1

by Stefan Westerfeld

SpectMorph 0.6.1 has been released. The main changes are: - Instrument editor improvements - Support for multiple banks for WavSources - New standard instruments - The code is now hard RT capable - UI fixes for macOS What is SpectMorph? ------------------- SpectMorph is a free software project which allows to analyze samples of musical instruments, and to combine them (morphing). It can be used to construct hybrid sounds, for instance a sound between a trumpet and a flute; or smooth transitions, for instance a sound that starts as a trumpet and then gradually changes to a flute. SpectMorph ships with many ready-to-use instruments which can be combined using morphing. SpectMorph is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later Integrating SpectMorph into your Work ------------------------------------- SpectMorph is currently available for Linux, Windows and macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), with CLAP/LV2/VST plugins. Under Linux, there is also JACK Support. Links: ------ Website: http://www.spectmorph.org Download: http://www.spectmorph.org/downloads There are many audio demos on the website, which demonstrate morphing between instruments. List of Changes in SpectMorph 0.6.1: ------------------------------------ #### Instrument Editor * Support click & drag sample to scroll & zoom (#22). * Support stereo to mono conversion when loading stereo samples (#14). * Add manual volume editing / normalization. * Implement automatic selection triggered by midi. #### New instruments * Bass Flute * Soprano Saxophone * Clarinet, Bass Clarinet * Tenor Trombone * Viola, Double Bass * Make samples and meta information for standard instruments available on github. #### Improvements * Support multiple banks for WavSources / instrument editor. * Avoid allocations in DSP thread to be hard RT capable. * Allow overriding analysis parameter for frame stepping to get higher time resolution. #### Fixes * Make UI work properly in Ableton Live (and possibly other hosts) on macOS. * Fix UI scaling problem on M1 macOS builds. * Fix crash if instrument editor is closed without any samples. * Fix cases of undefined behaviour. * Fix timing problems for long notes, reproduce long WavSource notes with exact tempo. * Fix use-after-free for outdated control events. * Fix freetype related memory leak. -- Stefan Westerfeld, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

1 year, 8 months

Drumstick Multiplatform MIDI File Player 1.7.3 Released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

[Drumstick](https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/docs/index.html) is a set of GPLv3 licensed C++/Qt libraries for MIDI applications. The project includes several tools as examples, and among them is the drumstick-guiplayer utility that leverages the Drumstick::ALSA library, so it is available only for Linux (because the ALSA sequencer is a linux only technology). Some people have requested a program with the same functionalities also on Windows and macOS, so here it is. But this project is much more ... Some key features: * MIDI Output to hardware MIDI ports, or any other Drumstick backends, like soft synths * Transpose song tonality between -12 and +12 semitones * Change MIDI volume level (using MIDI CC7) * Scale song speed between half and double tempo * Supports MID/KAR/RMI (Standard MIDI Files) and WRK (Cakewalk) file formats Changes in v1.7.3: * New example song: Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Der Schwanengesang (D 957) #4 Ständchen (Ludwig Rellstab 1799-1860). * Fixed GH ticket #13 (SF ticket #18): Keep together snapped windows when moved. This new optional function is available on Windows, macOS and Linux/X11, but not on Wayland where it is forbidden. * Czech translation updated. Thanks to Pavel Fric. * Italian translation updated. Thanks to Giovanni Mariani. * Spanish and Galician translations updated. Build requirements: * C++11 compiler * Qt5 >= 5.15 or Qt6 >= 6.2 * Drumstick libraries v2.8 * Uchardet v0.0.8 * CMake 3.14 * Pandoc (when BUILD_DOCS=on) Copyright (C) 2021-2023 Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 or later Project and Source Repositories https://sourceforge.net/p/dmidiplayer https://github.com/pedrolcl/dmidiplayer Downloads https://sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer/files/v1.7.3/

1 year, 8 months

Brickworks 1.0.0 released

by Stefano D'Angelo

Hi all! We are glad to announce that we released version 1.0.0 of Brickworks, the music DSP toolkit that supplies you with the fundamental building blocks for creating and enhancing audio engines on any platform. Here's a short list of changes: * First stable release. * Full debugging in all modules. * Tons of bug fixes, improvements, and polish. It is fully free/open source software (GPLv3 license) and we also offer commercial licenses. You can find more information on the official web page: https://www.orastron.com/brickworks. Best regards, Stefano D'Angelo Founder and CEO of Orastron - https://www.orastron.com/

1 year, 9 months

Anklang 0.2.0 Released

by Stefan Westerfeld

Anklang version 0.2.0 is released. Anklang is a digital audio synthesis application for live creation and composition of music. It is released as Free Software (MPL-2.0) and runs under Linux. The real-time sound engine is implemented in C++, the UI runs in Electronjs, Firefox or Chrome. Assistance with development, porting or creative efforts is very welcome. Anklang provides a MIDI sequencer, Undo/Redo capabilities for note editing, real-time synthesis, and support for CLAP plugins. The source code and binary packages are available here: https://github.com/tim-janik/anklang/releases/tag/v0.2.0 The project website with further resources is at: https://anklang.testbit.eu/ ======================================================================= This release has significant improvements to audio synthesis capabilities and user interface. The documentation has been improved in several places, and automated generation was integrated into the CI. Audio synthesis enhancements include support for new CLAP (draft) extensions, such as transport information and file references. We now support non-linear mappings for BlepSynth ADSR times, and a new audio plugin Freeverb by Jezar at Dreampoint was added, with fixes to the damping mode in the original version. Additionally, a Jack PCM driver based on Stefan Westerfelds’ code was integrated. Performance improvements were achieved by adding a new optimizing memory allocator and supporting low-latency scheduling via sched_* or RtKit. Saving projects will now automatically create backups of recent versions. The user interface has also seen significant improvements in this release. These include context help via F1 key in various UI components, fixes to mouse wheel sensitivity for modern browsers, improved tooltips and note editing in the piano roll. The UI can now be zoomed via new menu entries, the color palette was updated, and integration of TypeScript annotations allowed improving the UI JavaScript code quality. In terms of packaging, AppImage builds saw major compatibility improvements, and we increased the frequency of Nightly releases, building from nearly all significant trunk merge commits. We aim to generate more regular releases in the future instead of having lots of Nightly builds between regular releases. -- Anklang Free Software DAW: https://anklang.testbit.eu/

1 year, 9 months

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