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by Nils Gey

Laborejo, Esperanto for "Workshop", is used to craft music through notation. It is a Lilypond GUI frontend, a MIDI creator and finally a tool collection to inspire and help you compose. It works by reducing music-redundancy and by seperating layout and data. Before you read the details make sure to connect to Laborejos Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus! https://www.facebook.com/Laborejo https://twitter.com/#!/Laborejo https://plus.google.com/b/116744898976321238325/ Screenshot: http://www.laborejo.org/images/screenshots/latestscreenshot.png This is the release of version 0.3 Download: https://github.com/nilsgey/Laborejo/tarball/0.3 Dependencies: http://www.laborejo.org/documentation Linux Instructions: Unpack, cd into the created directoy, execute: ./laborejo-qt Then use the number- and cursor keys for immediate success! Check Help->Manual for navigational and note/rest entry keys. Everything else is in the menus. New since version 0.2 (highlights): -Many performance and stability improvements -Improved Midi performance. Slur ends, tenuto etc. -Ardour 3 exporter -Fine control over midi velocity and note durations per note. -Translation is now possible. A partial German translation is included. -Lisalo Importer (convenient way to create new files with all jack connections set up already) -Mirror notes, reverse, shuffle, sort ascending/descending -The GUI can now open multiple files in tabs. -Open as template: Use existing save files as templates for new ones. No need for explicit template files. Every file is one. -Many new Lilypond and GUI functions such as: Auto-Piano staff from a single track (great for arpeggios), piano pedals and many more. -Convert chord-tracks to single voice tracks Most important known problems: * This is Alpha Grade Software. Don't use for long-term work. However, the produced midis and PDFs will last forever. * There is no built-in jack midi output yet. You have to export midi files. * Documentation is nearly non-existent. * Deleting selected objects may result in strange gui behaviour. Nothing a save/reload can't fix for now. Have fun, it would be nice to hear from you! Nils http://www.laborejo.org

12 years, 3 months

Mixer4 1.08 and Waveplayer 1.0

by Grekim Jennings

I am excited to announce the release of Mixer4 v 1.08 and Waveplayer 1.0. Waveplayer is a lightweight (16 KB in size) console-based .wav player using ALSA. It allows you to choose start and stop playback points, and repeat playback or editing of those points. Mixer4 is a text based audio mixer and processor which has been in development for over a year. The current release includes integration of the Waveplayer so that audio playback can initiate as soon as the mixfile is built. Preview mode allows efficient processing of portions of the mix at a time. Recent work also includes 8 submixes with patchable effects, tempo and meter mapping, and more user customizations. Mixer4 packs a lot into 120 KB! The emphasis is on sound quality, stability, and simplicity. 32 and 64 bit binaries are available here.. www.acousticrefuge.com/mixer4.htm Please feel welcome to contact me for support and questions. Best wishes, Grekim grekimj at acousticrefuge dot com

12 years, 3 months

Qtractor 0.5.6 - The Golf Tango release!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi there, Maybe some of you agree with me, that this has been the longest since last dot release and the new one with the least brand new features count being introduced. Aha no big deal I say, the uber-procrastinator is just roaring its ugly head once more, specially after a beloved summer vacation season. Whatever. Qtractor 0.5.6 (golf tango) is now released! One of the interesting dots, if not the most, is that LV2 State Files interface implementation, once in a gruesome SNAFU support status, is now officially over. For the laymen it means that any files, referenced by those LV2 plug-ins which implement the LV2 State Files interface, will get righteously bundled to an archive/zip session file (suffix or extension .qtz), all other cases remain untouched. That should add up some notches on the session portability and archival ranks and purposes. Besides, LV2 1.0.0 compliance status is now closed business. I hope. Moving on, slowly forward... Release highlights: * LV2 State Files support (NEW) * Unused files clean-up removal (NEW) * Edit/Insert empty range (NEW) * MIME Document types and icons (NEW) * Improved plug-in state resilience (FIX) * French and Japanese translations (NEW) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.6.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.6-2.rncbc.suse122.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.6-2.rncbc.suse122.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.6-2.rncbc.suse122.x8… - quick start guide & user manual: 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: - The dedicated audio outputs setting for instrument plugins was not in effect as default global option for new MIDI tracks, now fixed, hopefully (thanks to danboid aka. Daniel MacDonald persistence). - An immediate Files widget cleanup option is now made available, as to select and remove all unused file entries. - MIDI track (un)solo/mute reset clip event sequence fixing; definite regression to MIDI track's occasional muting bug while clip editing and playback is rolling. - Apologies due on this one: shift/ctrl keyboard modifiers are back in business to change MIDI events currently selected in one single step while on MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll). Sorry. - Japanese (ja) translation added (by Takashi Sakamoto). - General time-scale bar, beat and tempo rounding fixing. - Keyboard shortcuts configuration (Help/Shortcuts...) now checks and warns for already assigned key sequences. - The View/Snap menu is now listed as fully accessible actions, making each snap-per-beat setting assignable to a keyboard shortcut (after a feature request by danboid aka. Daniel MacDonald, thanks). - Fixed MIDI resize tool, now applying symmetric proportional changes to pitch-bend event values [-8191, +8191]. - Fixed re-loading of LV2 Presets that are newly created/saved during current session; actually delete and remove a LV2 Preset if found in the file-system (as suggested by Jiri Prochaszka aka. Anchakor, thanks again). - Preset drop-down list is now sorted, on plugin properties dialog. - After a long absence, edit(blue) cursor vertical lines are back on the MIDI clip editor views (aka. piano-roll). - LV2 1.0.0 compliance phase II: LV2 State Files support completed. - Updated to newer LV2 External UI extension support (now maintained by Filipe Coelho aka. falktx). - Brand new editing tool: empty range insertion, split/moving clips or events forward the specified edit-head/tail interval, defaults to next measure or bar (cf. menu Edit/Insert/Range, Track Range). - Don't show the waiting cursor anymore when loading any plugins which might have a nice native editor (GUI) and options are set to show it. - MIDI clip editor now hopefully rid of random but persistent muting, a slight regression to editing while playback is rolling. - A MIDI file player's bug, evident while transport rolling in looped mode, has been fixed with yet another oneliner patch (kind by Jiri Prochaszka aka. Anchakor, thanks again). - LV2 plugins with a Qt4 GUI (guess what or whom?) are now guaranteed to some reasonable window type like Qt::Widget but not Qt::Dialog nor Qt::Popup, preventing those from standing always on top while on some window managers or desktop environments (a simple addition by Jiri Prochaszka aka. Anchakor, thanks). - MIME type icons support for session (*.qtr *.qtr), template (*.qtt) and zip/archive (*.qtz) are now being introduced. - LV2 State Files feature support is shamelessly getting real trial, now letting files referenced in LV2 plugin states to be seamlessly included when saving to a zip/archive file bundle (.qtz suffix). Added some virtual destructor stubs to shut up gcc 4.7 warnings. - Improved plugin state resilience, now finally with parameter name matching, specifically targeted on loading old sessions or plugin preset files (.qtx), preserving old saved plugin states as much as possible in face of rogue or discrete parameter index renumbering, due naturally on any plugin's life cycle ie. upgrades etc.;) - Added some more snap-to-beat divisors (Beat/14, /21 and /28) due on feature request ticket, while dropping highest, probably useless one (Beat/128). - New French (fr) translation added (by Yann Collette, thanks). - Slight late optimization on vertical zebra/grid lines drawing. Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

12 years, 3 months

[ANN] Praxis LIVE build:120912

by Neil C Smith

Hi All, Praxis LIVE is an open-source, graphical environment for rapid development of intermedia performance tools, projections and interactive spaces. A new build of Praxis LIVE is now available for download. While this is mainly a bug fix release, it does see the Praxis command line player added to the main installation, and work which paves the way for distributing Praxis projects as standalone applications (coming separately in the next couple of weeks). Website - http://code.google.com/p/praxis Release notes - http://code.google.com/p/praxis/wiki/ReleaseNotes Videos - http://praxisintermedia.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/video-rough-cuts-1/ If any of you who've been playing with Praxis LIVE would be interested in submitting example projects for the next release, please get in touch with me off-list. Thanks and best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net

12 years, 3 months

Announcement: Folve, a FUSE filesystem that convolves audio files on-the-fly

by Henner Zeller

Hi, I'd like to announce Folve, a FUSE filesystem that convolves audio files as they are accessed. https://github.com/hzeller/folve#readme It contains some examples to try right away. If you want to filter your audio (for effect reasons, such as adding reverbs, or just to linearize the frequency response of your speakers), but your system doesn't provide a way to do this while playing, your only option was to pre-process your audio files accordingly. This is time- and disk-consuming, and you probably wouldn't do it just for the fun of adding a reverb. Folve solves this problem: it provides the audio files readily convolved as you access them. It also provides a simple HTTP UI to switch between filters. Right now, Folve is tested with FLAC files; other audio file formats do work, but not all work well with streaming. This is the first public announcement on the announce/user list, but Folve should already pretty usable. Please report problems and feature requests through the github issue tracker. -henner

12 years, 3 months

The Vee Ones first bug-fix release

by Rui Nuno Capela

yes. bugs have always been among us... this one's actually to blame me :S * synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. website: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… * samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler (yet another) old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. website: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.1-5.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… see also: http:/www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/559 cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

12 years, 3 months

Spek 0.8.0

by Alexander Kojevnikov

Hi list, I'm happy to announce the release of Spek 0.8.0 - a multi-platform acoustic spectrum analyser. Find out more about Spek on its website: http://spek-project.org/ New features since 0.7: * Adjustable spectral density range (#4). * Switched from GTK+ to wxWidgets for better Windows and OS X integration. * Single .exe version for Windows. * Added translations in 8 more languages (totalling 16). Enhancements: * Switched to .xz tarballs. * Split out libspek and added unit tests. * 24-bit APE support (upstream fix). * Better toolbar icons on Windows and OS X (#21). * Installer options for app shortcuts on Windows (#1). * Associate with audio/video files on OS X (#2). * Online manual (#24). Bugfixes: * Fixed crash when the preferences file is not writable. * Fixed crash when the home directory is not writable. * Fixed duration and rendering for some video files. * Fixed compilation with newer FFmpeg and libav versions. * Proper handling of Unicode file names under Windows (upstream fix). * Don't lock the input file on Windows (#26). Cheers, Alex

12 years, 3 months

FFADO 2.1.0 released

by Jeremy Jongepier

The FFADO project is pleased to announce the long-awaited version 2.1.0. With improved stability, many bugfixes and a large number of newly supported devices this version represents 2 years work by the small but dedicated FFADO team. All users of FFADO are encouraged to upgrade. This source-only release can be downloaded from http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.1.0.tgz FFADO is brought to you thanks to the work of Daniel Wagner, Pieter Palmers, Philippe Carriere, Adrian Knoth, Arnold Krille, Jonathan Woithe and the many people who have tested FFADO against their devices, provided patches and given suggestions. Changes and additions in FFADO 2.1: * Significantly improved support for the new "juju" firewire stack found in newer kernels * Support for JACK freewheeling mode and set-buffer-size operation * Lower CPU usage * udev rules included in FFADO to give user access to audio device files * More stable streaming * Fix crash when realtime system clock was set * Fix race conditions and invalid memory accesses on shutdown * Fixes for clean compilation on recent gcc versions (up to 4.7) * ffado-diag enhanced to aid debugging efforts * Many bugs fixed New DICE-based devices supported in FFADO 2.1 (up to 96 kHz rate only): * Alesis (no mixer support): io|14 io|26 Multimix16 Firewire * FlexRadio Systems (no mixer support): Flex-5000 * Focusrite: Saffire PRO 40 (44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and 88.2 kHz only) Saffire PRO 24 Saffire PRO 24 DSP (audio streaming and mixer only: no DSP) Saffire PRO 14 (no mixer or router control) Liquid Saffire 56 (experimental: 44.1/48 kHz only, no mixer/router) * Lexicon (generic mixer): I-ONIX_FW810S * DnR (no mixer): Axum Firewire IO card 16x16 * M-Audio (basic audio with generic mixer): ProFire 2626 ProFire 610 * Presonus: Firestudio Project (generic mixer) Firestudio Tube (generic mixer) Firestudio Mobile (no mixer) Studiolive_1642 (no mixer) Studiolive_2442 (no mixer) * TCAT (audio only): DiceII EVM (1) DiceII EVM (2) DiceII EVM (4) * TC Electronic: Konnekt 24D (no mixer support) Konnekt 8 (no mixer support) Studio Konnekt 48 (no mixer support) Konnekt Live (no mixer support) Desktop Konnekt 6 (no mixer support) ImpactTwin (generic mixer only) * Weiss Engineering Ltd. (no mixer support): ADC 2 Vesta Minerva AFI 1 TAG DAC1 INT 202 DAC 202 Other new devices supported by FFADO 2.1: * RME (no MIDI I/O support yet) Fireface 400 Fireface 800 * MOTU 896 mk 3 (audio only, no mixer yet) Traveller mk 3 (experimental) Ultralite mk 3 (experimental) Ultralite hybrid (firewire only, experimental) * FCA-202, and possibly other Oxford FW-92x devices * Mackie Onyx i * M-Audio Ozonic (no mixer) * Phonic HelixBoard 24 Universal (no mixer) * Tascam IF-FW/DM (experimental, incomplete) * Yahama GO46

12 years, 3 months

Xth Sense: instrument, code, schematic, tutorial On-line now

by Marco Donnarumma

(sorry for x-post) Dears, I wished so much I could have joined you at Stanford this year... :( but....! The Xth Sense (software and hardware) is finally available on-line, get binaries, DIY documentation, and tutorials at: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/ The digital interface is developed in Pd on a Linux machine; there's a main software for the computation of incoming muscle sound (and virtually any sound input), and the xth-sense-lib, a collection of 120 objects (and help files) ranging from specific muscle sound methods, to everyday Pd patching needs. It also includes a lot of GUI stuff, to facilitate building things. Wanna the source? Here you go: https://github.com/marcodsad What is the Xth Sense? "**is a biophysical musical instrument. You can build your own and produce music with it using the sound of your muscles. It is free and open source, and it was named the “world’s most innovative new musical instrument” by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (US, 2012). Its name is spelled ecsth sense (not tenth sense!). But it’s way easier to call XS." With the XS you can also control other software on your machine (video, audio, light systems, etc.), send Voltage output to hardware, or control a prosthetic arm. Hacks are encouraged by the design of the instrument itself. For some ideas see: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/projects/xth-sense/#get-started We have a (newly born) user's forum, courtesy of Create Digital Music/Motion; the forum lives at: http://createdigitalnoise.com/categories/xth We are on also on Facebook (imagine!): http://www.facebook.com/XthSense if anybody works with it, let me know! We have users and works in Australia, Sweden, US, UK, Ireland, Spain, Vietnam, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, and Italy, so far :) hope it is useful to some of you, cheers, -- Marco Donnarumma New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director. Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction Research Team. Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net

12 years, 4 months

The Vee Ones first true official release

by Rui Nuno Capela

greetings y'all the proto-toys ain't 'proto' no more, but still 'toys' nevertheless :) the 'vee one's features: - a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support; - a LV2 instrument plugin. yep, it's all free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. they're: * synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. website: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… * samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler (yet another) old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. website: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.src.r… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.i586.… http://download.sourceforge.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.1.0-4.rncbc.suse122.x86_8… see also: http:/www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/559 rejoice! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

12 years, 4 months

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