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by Nils

Exactly one month after the first release, here is Laborejo 0.2! 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. The next release is scheduled for May, 8th. One month from now. 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 (Laborejo and Lilypond, side by side): http://www.laborejo.org/images/screenshots/latestscreenshot.png This is the release of version 0.2 Download: https://github.com/nilsgey/Laborejo/tarball/0.2 Dependencies: http://www.laborejo.org/documentation Linux Instructions: Unpack, cd into the created directoy, execute: ./laborejo-qt.sh 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 0.1: - Repeats, Alternate Ends and Jumps in various forms. The main Feature for this release. - Playback Trigger ("Only reduce volume in the second repeat" or "Mute track if python weather module reports rain") - Master Track (Merges with every other Track. Use to structure your piece, make global changes, change tempo etc.) - Various Commands like "Join Selection to Chord" and "Add Octave to Chord/Selection" - The usual bread&butter bugfixing and improving. 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. Have fun, it would be nice to hear from you! Nils http://www.laborejo.org

13 years, 10 months

[LAA] Announcing synthclone-0.2.0! Now in beta!

by Devin Anderson

I'm happy to announce the first beta release of `synthclone`! `synthclone` is a Qt-based application that can "clone" your MIDI-capable instruments. It does this by sending out MIDI data that instructs an instrument to emit sounds for a series of notes, velocities, controls, and aftertouch values. It then saves this data as a sample-based instrument that can be loaded by sampler software. Features: * Supports user-configurable per-zone sample time, release time, MIDI note, MIDI velocity, MIDI aftertouch, MIDI channel pressure, MIDI control changes, etc. via a table interface. * Audition samples and change zone parameters until you're happy with the data you're acquiring from your MIDI device/software. * Save and restore sessions. * Distributed with plugins that support the JACK Audio Connection Kit (with JACK Session support), PortAudio and PortMidi, trimming of samples, the creation of patches for Hydrogen and SFZ, and automated zone generation. * Can create multiple targets in one session (i.e. a Hydrogen patch and an SFZ patch) from the same set of samples. * A well-documented plugin API is available for developers to write their own plugins to extend synthclone. Important Changes Since 0.1.0: * Lots of bug fixes. * Added a "portable" semaphore implementation to the plugin API. * Added the new PortMedia plugin, which supports sampling via PortAudio and PortMidi. * Get `synthclone` to compile on Mac OSX. * Change build system to use traditional `./configure`, `make`, `make install` scheme. * Add new 'debian' target for building Debian packages (`./configure --prefix=/usr`, `make debian`). Future Development: * Figure out a good packaging scheme for Mac OSX. * Support the Non-Session Manager protocol. * Write a plugin that creates Renoise instruments. * Write a plugin that loads LADSPA effects. * Write a plugin that loads LV2 effects. * Write a plugin that loads samples from the filesystem (expanding on the plugin created in this tutorial: http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/wiki/TutorialWritingASimplePluginPart1) * Consider different ways to support the detection and/or creation of loops. The new version of `synthclone` is available at: http://synthclone.googlecode.com/ Please report bugs using the issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/synthclone/issues/list If you like `synthclone` 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/synthclone-users If you're a developer and want to write plugins for `synthclone` or contribute to the application itself, join the development group: http://groups.google.com/group/synthclone-development Thanks, and hope to meet some of you next week at the Linux Audio Conference. -- Devin Anderson surfacepatterns (at) gmail (dot) com blog - http://surfacepatterns.blogspot.com/ synthclone - http://synthclone.googlecode.com/

13 years, 10 months

[LAA] LAST call for music -- LAC 2012 video-trailer soundtrack

by Robin Gareus

Hi all, The submission closes on April 1st. So here's your last chance to 8 seconds of fame: **Create a soundtrack for the LAC 2012 video-trailer** We are going to prefix the video-recordings of this year's LAC with a short intro. Currently it is silent: http://vimeo.com/37900660 Details to answer the call, as well as information about the video can be found in README.txt that accompanies the video-file: http://download.linuxaudio.org/lac2012/ looking forward to /hear/ from you, robin

13 years, 10 months

[LAA] [ANNOUNCE] aj-snapshot-0.9.6 has been released

by Lieven Moors

Hi all, I would like to announce the release of aj-snapshot-0.9.6 aj-snapshot is a command line utility to store/restore ALSA and/or JACK connections to/from an XML file. The most important change in this release is that aj-snapshot behaves differently in daemon mode. In the previous version ALSA connections were restored continually, and JACK connections whenever the connection graph had changed. In this version, aj-snapshot will restore connections once when it is started, and after that when new ports are registered in ALSA or JACK. You can specify (in milliseconds) how often aj-snapshot will poll for newly registered ports (-p --poll ms). The default is 1 second. This means that you have a lot more freedom to change the connections while the daemon is running, and gives you the opportunity to save (and maybe reload) a new connection state. Other changes include: - added manual file - rewrite of aj-snapshot.c to make it more readable and maintainable, and to have less code repetition. As always, there will be bugs, and I would be very grateful if you would report them on the sourceforge site. direct download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aj-snapshot/files/aj-snapshot-0.9.5.tar.bz2… aj-snapshot website: http://aj-snapshot.sourceforge.net/ bug tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=311291&atid=1310488 feature requests: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=311291&atid=1310491 to clone the git repository: git clone git://gitorious.org/aj-snapshot/aj-snapshot.git Hope you enjoy, lievenmoors

13 years, 10 months

[LAA] QMidiArp 0.5.0 released

by Frank Kober

Dear friends, this is the 0.5.0 release of QMidiArp. As a major new feature, it brings a parameter storage and switch center. You can now store parameters, sequences and waveforms of all modules together, and recall them all at once or individually by mouse click or MIDI CC. The recall behaviour can be adjusted to take place either at the end of a chosen module pattern or after a given number of beats. This adds some more versatility to QMidiArp as a handy Live tool. But you can hide away the control panel if you don't need it...It's an Arp and step sequencer after all. And yes there are also some big and small bugs fixed, and surely some new to discover! Regards Frank --------------------------- Downloads, documentation and more are here: http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net --------------------------- qmidiarp-0.5.0 (2012-03-24) New Features o New global storage handler allows storing and switching of parameters and patterns between different storage locations. The restore switch can be triggered after a specified module reaches its pattern end or after a full number of beats. Switch can be done for a specific module only or for all modules globally. o Storage switches can be done by MIDI controller. The controller value specifies the storage location. o A new Legato option permits module triggering also by notes played legato. Fixed Bugs o ALSA backend had become unstable in version 0.4.4 by some direct function calls across threads. o LFO waveform display didn't get updated during recording o LFO recording caused restarting/triggering when it shouldn't o Seq cloning led to crashes under certain conditions

13 years, 10 months

[LAA] xwax 1.2 release

by Mark Hills

I'm pleased to announce the 1.2 release of xwax -- DJ software for Linux. http://xwax.org/ http://xwax.org/releases/xwax-1.2.tar.gz This release adds xwax's first MIDI controller; the major changes are: * Scan directories only for known file extensions * Support Novation 'Dicer' controller * Cue points, including 'punch' feature * Extra protection against skips: optionally lock memory into RAM xwax is open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls. It's designed for both beat mixing and scratch mixing. Needle drops, pitch changes, scratching, spinbacks and rewinds are all supported, and feel just like the audio is pressed onto the vinyl itself. The focus is on an accurate vinyl feel which is efficient, stable and fast. -- Mark

13 years, 10 months

[LAA] gst123-0.3.0

by Stefan Westerfeld

gst123-0.3.0 has been released. Overview of changes in gst123-0.3.0: ------------------------------------ * Support visualization plugins during audio playback (Issue 3). * Fix compilation for GNU/Hurd (Issue 7). 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/gst123-0.3.0.tar.bz2 -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

13 years, 10 months

[LAA] Fwd: sc2012 club finale announced - boxcutter

by Dan S

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: SuperCollider Symposium London <info(a)sc2012.org.uk> Hi all, April sees the SuperCollider Symposium 2012, an international collision of programming and audio. We can now announce the Wednesday club finale will be an audiovisual extravaganza headlined by BOXCUTTER. Boxcutter’s continuously shape-shifting sound has long flowed beyond the bounds of what we call dubstep. His lead-heavy missives share the cross-over appeal of Burial or Vex’d, whilst keeping a foot firmly in the more electronically-founded margins of the genre. Boxcutter will headline the SuperCollider Club night at Corsica Studios, evolving his live bass and electronics set on their famously gorgeous sound system. Also providing live beats is NY/Berlin legend Timeblind, as well as Mexican party duo Mico Rex, and Louis Mac premiering his PortaDJ machine. But it’s not all about beats: this midweek extravaganza also features mind-altering audiovisual performances from Japan’s Craftwife, Berlin’s Fredrik Olofsson and Brighton’s Chris Kiefer. It all takes place Wed 18th April, 8pm–1:30am, at Corsica Studios (Elephant & Castle tube). Tickets are £5 advance, more on the door. (Or included in the full-week symposium ticket.) Spread the word. website: http://www.sc2012.org.uk/ facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/325748604145008/ sc2012

13 years, 10 months

[LAA] Renoise 2.8 Released

by Dac Chartrand

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Eduard Müller taktik(a)renoise.com Berlin, 16, March 2010 ## Renoise 2.8 Now Available Renoise, a multi-platform DAW based on mod trackers, adds 64-bit support for all platforms in its latest release, plus a vast amount of workflow improvements and features to complement its already unique approach to music composition. # WHAT'S NEW? For a complete rundown of the new features, have a look at the Renoise 2.8 launch page: http://www.renoise.com/release-notes/280 Full 64-bit Support: - 64-bit versions for all platforms: Windows, OSX and Linux - Plug-in bridge allows 32-bit plug-ins to be used within 64-bit Renoise - Full Rewire 64-bit support Track Groups & Collapsing: - Group tracks into logical units, collapse them for better overview - Flexible routing of group tracks - Collapsed tracks use minimal space, while still providing a quick overview - Pattern effects in groups will affect all member tracks simultaneously - Automatically collapse all tracks except the one you are focussing on - Color code tracks with adjustable background colors New and Improved DSP Effects and Meta Devices: - New DSP Multitap delay for spaced out filtered echo madness - New DSP Repeater for st-st-st-stuttery goodness - New DSP Exciter to make your mixes sparkle - New Meta Mixer allowing blending of modulation signals into one output - Improved EQs with bigger graphs and all values can be automated - Improved Send devices, which can now be individually panned - New and improved crossover filters for the Multi Send device Other Workflow Improvements: - Sample Editor channels can be edited separately - Significantly faster sample loading - New and improved spectrum view with phase correlation meter in Phase Scope - Side-by-side comparison of two tracks in the spectrum view - New pattern effects: Tremolo, Auto Pan, Set Envelope Position - Logical mnemonics for pattern effects from A to Z instead of cryptic numbers - Hyper-threading support for new Intel i5 and i7 CPUs and others - Various audio engine speed optimizations for all platforms - New Favorites system for plug-ins and native DSP devices - Expandable and detachable Envelope Editor - Memorize last used bank/preset paths per plug-in - Automatically name rendered songs/patterns and much more... # PRICING AND AVAILABILITY The price of Renoise remains the same: 58 Euro for any or all 3 platforms. Everyone who buys Renoise 2.8 will get free upgrades up until and including version 3.8. # WHAT IS RENOISE Renoise is a complete, expandable Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with a refreshing twist. It lets you record, compose, edit, process and render production-quality audio using a tracker-based approach. It features a wide range of built-in audio processors, alongside support for all commonly used virtual instrument and effect plug-in formats. In a tracker, the music runs from top to bottom in an easily understood grid known as a pattern. Several patterns arranged in a certain order make up a song. Editing in a pattern grid lends itself very well to a fast and immediate keyboard-based workflow. With Renoise you can produce loops, beats, chords and melodies efficiently step-by-step. Renoise is multi-platform; runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

13 years, 11 months

[LAA] Mixer4: no license needed

by Grekim

Hi folks, I apologize for confusion over Linux users possibly needing a license. The binary I posted yesterday does not need a license code to run, and just now I posted a new version that removes a license warning. SInce the program is running on other operating systems as well, I may charge Mac or Windows users a small fee for use. For Linux users, in the spirit of this wonderful environment, I intended to have a (free) license as a way of keeping in touch with who is using the software and provide users with updates. So if you eventually use the software and enjoy it please send me an email so I can keep you updated and hear your suggestions. Thanks, Grekim Jennings

13 years, 11 months

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