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Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy, There's no victory over anything whatsoever. Read it again, it's just a codename. If that serves anything at all, to my own defense that is, Qtractor is still a pet project hobby of mine, as all things in Linux audio world for that matter. There's been too many saying and comparing Ardour vs. Qtractor. I'm seeing if often said in too many sentences lately and, believe me, I cannot stand comfortable with that saying no more. So here it goes: Ardour is a full fledged, pro-level DAW and, for crying out loud on its own, the flagship of the free/open-source pro-audio fleet and movement, not only Linux anymore nowadays. On the other hand, Qtractor is 'a sequencer' (hinted by its own subtitle, in case you didn't notice) with a twist and a few of a DAW features. And it strictly runs on the Linux platform only and most important yet, it has been targeted to a (re)creational personal home-studio audience ever since. Heard about the 'techno-boy bedroom' (with a guitar) folk? Well, that's exactly what it is, from day zero. Hope you all get the picture ;) Enough whining. Qtractor 0.5.4 (echo victor) is out and is shouting out loud! Release highlights: * Panic command button (NEW) * Improved audio/MIDI file resource management (NEW) * MIDI SysEx for instrument plugins (NEW) * MIDI Controller auto-hook option (NEW) * MIDI Tools resize ramp (NEW) * Revised plugin search directory paths (FIX) * MIDI zero-duration note-on/off queueing (FIX) * Audio linked-clips looping (FIX) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.4.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.4-3.rncbc.suse121.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.4-3.rncbc.suse121.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.4-3.rncbc.suse121.x8… - long time ago, far far away: user manual: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-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: - Direct access plugin/insert parameter changing tool-tip added. - A Transport/Panic action enters the scene, in a nostalgic attempt to emulate the all-MIDI-track-shut-off command of those drop-dead and primordial MIDI sequencers of all time. Now finally a keyboard shortcut and mouse click-away ;) - MIDI editor command redo/undo adjustment now effective on all other channel events besides notes, which overlap at the same event time. - A new File/Unlink menu action is now made available from the MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) for detaching the current linked/ref-counted MIDI clip into a new auto-incremented SMF filename. - Some audio/MIDI content/media-file resource management is entering the scene, taking care of some file-system house-keeping, this gets evident on unsaved/dead recorded files being automaticaly removed from the file-system, on session close. - Killed the old and entirely deprecated LV2 Save/Restore and Persist feature/extensions support. - Auto-monitored MIDI events are now merged/queued correctly into the instrument plugin playback queue, avoiding sudden crashes, hopefully. - Awesome patch from Albert Graef, thanks, which makes most MIDI SysEx to get through MIDI instrument plugins at last; applies to DSSI and LV2 plugins only. - LV2 URID map/unmap feature support added. - Plugin parameter value redo/undo command aliasing fix. - Double-clicking in plugin list item now show/activates the plugin's editor window (was toggling visibility/activation). - Plugin path settings have been fixed again, with special regards to an effective LV2_PATH environment variable settlement. - Session properties dialog now asks to create a new session directory if the given one does not currently exist. - MIDI note names and their respective octave numbers are now compliant with the ISO standard where middle C (60) is now C4 (was C3). - Fixed audible glitch/pop at the beginning of an audio clip with long quadratic or cubic shaped fade-in (reported by Lougi Verona, thanks). - MIDI Controller Auto-Hook patch by Alessandro Preziosi, thanks. - Make sure all MIDI note-off are always queued after their respective note-on events when buffering for MIDI input of instrument plugins, event though for zero duration MIDI note events (hopefully fixing the hanging notes bug #3476124, as reported by Albert Graef, thanks). - LV2 MIDI-fx plugin support has been repaired. - Single-track clip selection logic corrected again, fixing multi-clip selection drag/move across an odd number of distinct tracks (after a bug report by Louigi Verona, on linux-audio-dev, thanks). - MMC Locate time-code hour bit-field fix; MMC Locate now also on loop turnarounds (patches by Albert Graef, thanks). - Looping across multiple linked/ref-counted audio clips was incredibly broken with complete out-of-sync playback. Hopefully fixed now, with auto-unlinking/cloning all the affected audio clip buffers. - Audio clip overlapping detection off-by-one(-frame) fix. - MIDI Tools/Resize value ramp mode has been added (mocking the 'resize to range' feature request #3467894, by Daniel MacDonald aka. danboid). Enjoy && Have fun! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

13 years, 1 month

ANN: L2Ork Tour

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Apologies for cross-posting as well as for a bit belated announcement. It is that time of the year and L2Ork is getting ready for our first mini-tour of the 2012 with following performances and presentations: February 19th @5pm - University of Maryland Baltimore County February 20th @12pm - Rutgers University February 21st @12pm - Temple University February 21st @2:30pm - A talk at Community College of Philadelphia Hope you can join us at one of our destinations! For additional info: http://l2ork.music.vt.edu Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra Assistant Director, CCTAD Virginia Tech Dept. of Music - 0240 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 (540) 231-5034 (fax) ico(a)vt.edu http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

13 years, 2 months

Rivendell v2.1.3

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.1.3. 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: *** snip snip *** Changes: This is a maintenance release of Rivendell. Some of the inssues addressed include: Temporary File Cleanup. Fixed a bug the resulting in a failure to remove temporary files after processing audio imports and exports. Audio Conversion Processing. Fixed a bug that caused audio distortion when normalizing files with levels at or near full sample resolution. RDLogManager Hard Times. Fixed a bug in RDLogManager that resulted in incorrect hard start time parameters being inserted when using sources from the internal music scheduler. A detailed list of all bugfixes can be found in the ChangeLog. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 205, 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. Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. | | -- Abbie Hoffman | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

13 years, 2 months

It's official I'm selling the real Ardour Tablet! - "check this out"

by Ronald Stewart

It's official I'm selling the real Ardour Tablet With so many discussions about Ardour and real audio apps running on a Tablet, I decided to offer for sale the original Trinity DAW. Funds are going straight to help moms dementia treatment. You can purchase on ebay or at Indiegogo by making the 1000.00 contribution. Just send me an email where to send the merchandise. ronaldjstewart(a)gmail.com Shipping Worldwide Rock on Linux Pro Audio! and thank again to everyone! Ronald Stewart Indiegogo donation page: http://www.indiegogo.com/Cure-My-Moms-Dementia-Today?a=398903 Ebay page: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250994835490

13 years, 2 months

Version 0.5.2 of The Newtonator available

by Michael Bechard

Fixed in this version: - Compilation bug due to missing gdkconfig.h file The Newtonator is an LV2 soft synth that uses a unique algorithm based on simple ideas of velocity and acceleration to produce some unpredictable sounds. More documentation can be found on the project website at http://newtonator.sf.net/. Thanks, Michael Bechard

13 years, 2 months

gst123-0.2.2

by Stefan Westerfeld

gst123-0.2.2 has been released. Overview of changes in gst123-0.2.2: ------------------------------------ * Disable screensaver during video playback (via xdg-screensaver). * Fixed includes to compile with gcc-4.7. [Siddhesh Poyarekar] * Fixed a problem with fullscreen/unfullscreen. What is gst123? --------------- The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on gstreamer. It plays all file formats gstreamer understands, so if you have a music collection which contains different file formats, like flac, ogg and mp3, you can use gst123 to play all your music files. Since gst123-0.1.0 support for watching videos has been added; however gst123 should run fine in situations where no X11 display is available; videos can be played without X11 display, too (-x, --novideo); in this case, only the audio stream will be played. It is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2 Links: ------ Website: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123.php Download: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123/gst123-0.2.2.tar.bz2 -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

13 years, 2 months

AV Linux 5.0.3 "Tube" Released!

by info＠bandshed.net

Hi, A quick note to announce the release of AV Linux 5.0.3 "Tube". For the whole story I invite those interested to check out the full release announcement along with a 3-part Youtube Screencast at the AV Linux forum here: http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=1975.0 Best Regards, Glen MacArthur - AV Linux Maintainer

13 years, 2 months

Fwd: The SuperCollider Algostep Remix Competition

by Dan S

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: SuperCollider Symposium London <info(a)sc2012.org.uk> Date: 2012/2/6 Hi, To celebrate the SuperCollider Symposium 2012 we're announcing a very special competition about music and code. Music made by computers, for computers. A competition for dance music producers and hackers everywhere. We want you to take algorithmically-generated dance music and rework it. Submissions will be judged by three hand-reared computer algorithms, for the chance to win one of three Novation Launchpads. Full details: http://bit.ly/x4YS37 Best sc2012 http://www.sc2012.org.uk/

13 years, 2 months

ANN: faust-lv2 0.1 released

by Albert Graef

(Sorry for crossposting.) faust-lv2 is an LV2 architecture for the Faust programming language (http://faust.grame.fr/), which lets you compile Faust programs to LV2 plugins ready to be used with any LV2 host. It supports both effect (audio->audio) and instrument (midi->audio) plugins. The package includes the Faust LV2 architecture files, a few Faust examples, and generic waf scripts for building and installing the sample plugins. faust-lv2 can be downloaded from its project website at http://faust-lv2.googlecode.com. Here's the direct download link to the source tarball: http://faust-lv2.googlecode.com/files/faust-lv2-0.1.tar.bz2 Documentation is available in the package (README file) and on the website (http://wiki.faust-lv2.googlecode.com/hg/doc/_build/html/index.html). This includes detailed installation and usage instructions. faust-lv2 0.1 is the initial release which has been tested on x86_64 Linux with jalv, Ardour3 and Qtractor, using lilv as the LV2 host library. You'll also need fairly recent versions of Faust (0.9.46 or later should do) and the LV2 framework (available at http://lv2plug.in/). Other LV2 hosts should work as well. Unfortunately, that doesn't include zynjacku/lv2rack right now, apparently because of some bugs or incompatibilities with the latest LV2 release. Nedko, maybe you could check https://gna.org/bugs/?19282 some time, thanks. :) Enjoy! :) Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email: Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de, ag(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag

13 years, 2 months

NASPRO 0.4.0 released

by Stefano D'Angelo

Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of NASPRO 0.4.0. NASPRO (http://naspro.atheme.org/) is meant to be a cross-platform sound processing software architecture built around the LV2 plugin standard (http://lv2plug.in/). The goal of the project is to develop a series of tools to make it easy and convenient to use LV2 for sound processing on any (relevant) platform and for everybody: end users, host developers, plugin developers, distributors and scientists/researchers. This release is a huge one! The main news are the introduction of the ino and gino libraries and of the FreeADSP application, the addition of threading and unnamed semaphore APIs to NASPRO core, as well as some API breakage there w.r.t. UTF-16 string encoding/decoding, some fixing of preset data generation in NASPRO Bridge it and various cosmetic changes here and there. You can find detailed ChangeLogs in the tarballs. It includes: - NASPRO core: the portable runtime library at the bottom of the architecture; - NASPRO Bridge it: a little helper library to develop insert-your-API-here to LV2 bridges; - NASPRO bridges: a collection of bridges to LV2 which, once installed, allow you to use plugins developed for other plugin standards in LV2 hosts; - LV2proc: a simple command line effect processor using LV2 plugins; - ino and ino/JavaScriptCore: minimalist C API to execute JavaScript code and to expose native methods to JavaScript execution contexts + JavaScriptCoreGTK+ 2/3 based implementations; - gino and gino/WebKitGTK+: minimalist C API to create GUIs using HTML/CSS/JavaScript and interfacing them with C code + WebKitGTK+2 implementation. - FreeADSP: MIDI-controlled real-time stereo effect rack using LV2 plugins. In particular, the NASPRO bridges collection includes two bridges: a LADSPA (http://www.ladspa.org/) 1.1 and a DSSI (http://dssi.sourceforge.net/) 1.0.0/1.1.0 bridge. *BEWARE*: most of the new stuff is in early stages of development! NASPRO core, NASPRO Bridge it and NASPRO bridges are released under the LGPL 2.1, LV2proc and FreeADSP are released under the GPL 3, ino, ino/JavaScriptCore, gino and gino/WebKitGTK+ are released under an ISC-style license. Enjoy!

13 years, 2 months

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