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by RJ Ryan

After a smooth beta period, the Mixxx development team is pleased to announce the release of Mixxx 1.10.0! Mixxx is Free, open-source DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes. Mixxx 1.10.0 adds several major new features including completely rewritten Vinyl Control support, sample decks, beat looping, microphone support, vinyl scratch widgets and much more! You can read more about this release on our blog: http://mixxxblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/mixxx-1100-released.html Here's the full list of new features: - Rewritten and improved Vinyl Control Support - New and improved vinyl-style pitch bending. - Absolute, relative, and constant modes. - Rock-solid support for Serato CD/Vinyl and Traktor Vinyl at 33 or 45 RPM. - Single-deck Vinyl Control - End-of-record Mode - Improved needle-skip detection. - Ability to use different vinyl types of each deck. - Improved audio quality while scratching. - Support for track selection in the lead-in area of the vinyl and needle-drop hotcues. - Track lead-in for scratching before the start of tracks. - Waveform smoothing to prevent wobbly-waveforms. - New built-in vinyl signal quality analyzer. - 4 Sample Decks - Beatloops, Loop Halve/Double Buttons - Quantized Loops, Hotcues, and Beatloops - Phase Synchronization - Sync button now syncs both the tempo and phase of tracks. - Beatgrid Adjust Feature - Microphone Support - Spinning Vinyl Widgets and Waveform Scratching - Library Improvements - Support for loading Traktor Libraries - New and improved Browse Mode - Recording Improvements - Library Integration - Automatic splitting of files to avoid large files. - CUE files of tracks played. - Much faster iTunes and Rhythmbox support - Import and export of crates and playlists into M3U/PLS files. - Many library usability improvements. - Brand new and updated skins. - Accessibility Improvements - Mixxx should work better with screen readers now. - Limited Internationalization Support - Beta translations for Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Dutch, Polish, and Japanese. - Alpha translations for many other languages. - Better support for UTF-8 filenames. - Revamped and re-written user manual. - Mixing Engine Improvements - Major efficiency and latency improvements (up to 4x for some netbook users) - Improved sound quality with and without keylock. - Improved support for multiple soundcards (Synchronization problems should now only affect the headphone output if they occur) - Updated and Fixed MIDI Mappings - Over one hundred bugfixes! Happy holidays, RJ Ryan Mixxx Lead Developer

13 years, 6 months

Santa LACus (your Xmas Linux Audio Conference 2012 reminder)

by Bruno Ruviaro

Hi all, Just a friendly reminder that JANUARY 11 is the deadline for all submissions to the Linux Audio Conference (LAC 2012), which will take place at CCRMA (Stanford, California) in April 2012!http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/ Santa LACus wishes a great paper-and-music-submitting holiday to all! Ho, ho. Bruno - - - - - - - - - LAC 2012: the Linux Audio Conference - Call for Participation April 12-15, 2012 @ CCRMA, Stanford University http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2012/ [Apologies for cross-postings] [Please distribute] Online submission of papers, music, installations and workshops is now open! On the website you will find up-to-date instructions, as well as important information about deadlines, travel, lodging, and so on. Read on for more details! We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing based on Linux and open source software. Papers can focus on technical, artistic or scientific issues and can target developers or users. We are also looking for music that has been produced or composed entirely or mostly using Linux and other Open Source music software. The Deadline for all submissions is January 11th, 2012 The Linux Audio Conference (LAC) is an international conference that brings together musicians, sound artists, software developers and researchers, working with Linux as an open, stable, professional platform for audio and media research and music production. LAC includes paper sessions, workshops, and a diverse program of electronic music. The upcoming 2012 conference will be hosted at CCRMA, Stanford University, on April 12-15. The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University is a multi-disciplinary facility where composers and researchers work together using computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool. CCRMA has been using and developing Linux as an audio platform since 1997. http://ccrma.stanford.edu Stanford University is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, about one hour south of San Francisco, California. This is the first time LAC will take place in the United States. http://www.stanford.edu We look forward to seeing you at Stanford in April! Sincerely, The LAC 2012 Organizing Team

13 years, 6 months

[ANN] LADI Session Handler - Version 1

by Nedko Arnaudov

This release marks end of the preview series. It brings three new user visible features - virtual graph manipulation, LASH support and jack-session support. Virtual graph manipulation allows to perform these operations: * Split (create new client and move capture ports to the the new client) * Join (move ports of one clients to another client and remove the first client) * New client * Move port * Rename client * Rename port * Remove (empty) client The added LASH and jack-session support allows apps to be run in rooms at LASH or jack-session level. jack-session support requires jack-1.9.8. = Download = The tarballs are available at the usual location: * http://ladish.org/download/ * http://ladish.org/download/ladish-1-with-deps.tar.bz2 * http://ladish.org/download/ladish-1-with-deps.tar.bz2.sig * http://ladish.org/download/ladish-1.tar.bz2 * http://ladish.org/download/ladish-1.tar.bz2.sig There are two tarballs. ladish-1-with-deps.tar.bz2 is 5.3 MiB and bundles the major dependencies that are usually needed for running ladish: * flowcanvas * LADI Tools * a2jmidid * jack2 All of these are either development (git/svn) versions or release versions that are patched to work better with ladish. The last released versions of these dependencies are expected work with ladish. The most serious "incompatibility" is that the jack2 mainline is missing the no-self-connect changeset. This changeset adds option to jack that allows prevention of jack apps self connection to "hardware" ports (usually system:playback_N). As such self-connecting apps are not rare at all, without it, the studio/room separation is not-effective and the workflow can get very confusing. If you are compiling the software by yourself, then you should probably use this "fat" tarball. The ladish-1.tar.bz2 tarball is 586 KiB and contains only ladish itself. It is expected to be used mainly by packagers. = Known issues = If you want to use yoshimi-0.060.10, beware that its jack-session implementation is broken. As a workaround, in gladish settings dialog, "JS delay" can be set to few seconds instead of the default 0. Two seconds should work in most cases. For more info, check http://ladish.org/ticket/187 = More info on the ladish project = Homepage: http://ladish.org/ LADI Session Handler or simply ladish is a session management system for JACK applications on GNU/Linux. Its aim is to allow you to have many different audio programs running at once, to save their setup, close them down and then easily reload the setup at some other time. ladish doesn't deal with any kind of audio or MIDI data itself; it just runs programs, deals with saving/loading (arbitrary) data and connects JACK ports together. It can also be used to move entire sessions between computers, or post sessions on the Internet for download. Check the project goals for more info. Project goals: * Save and restore sets of JACK (audio and MIDI) enabled applications. * Provide JACK clients with virtual hardware ports, so projects can be transferred (or backups restored) between computers running different hardware and backups. * Don't require session handling library to be used. There is no need of such library for restoring connections between JACK clients. * Flow canvas based GUI. Positions of elements on the canvas are saved/restored. * Allow clients to use external storage to save its state. This includes storing internal state to non-filesystem place like memory of a hardware synth. This also includes storing client internal state (client project data) in a way that is not directly bound to ladish project. * Import/export operations, as opposed to save/load. Save/load operate in current system and may cause saving data outside of project itself (external storage). Import/export uses/produces "tarball" suitable for transferring session data over network to other computer or storing it in a backup archive. * Hierarchical or tag-based organization of projects. * List of JACK applications. Applications are always started through ladish to have restored runtime environment closer to one existed before project save. * Distributed studio - network connected computers. Netjack configuration is part of the studio and thus is saved/restored. * Collaborate with the X11 window manager so window properties like window position, virtual desktop and screen (multimonitor) are saved/restored. -- Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: 5D1B58ED>

13 years, 6 months

Renoise 2.8 Beta

by Dac Chartrand

Renoise 2.8 adds 64-bit support for all platforms and concentrates on workflow improvements in various aspects. * 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 Reworked Pattern Matrix with Slot Aliases - Alias individual pattern slots in the matrix, i.e. treat them like clips - Edit one slot and have changes propagate to all other aliases - Quickly clone or alias slots by dragging their edges - Use section headers to group parts of the song together 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 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 Sample Editor - Left & right channels can be edited separately - Zoom level & current selection are remembered per sample - Significantly faster sample loading - Destructively render slices to individual samples - Improved keyboard and mouse selection handling - Improved marker and waveform display visibility - New and improved processing tools (mute selection, insert silence, invert phase, swap stereo channels and cross-fading loop creator) Improved Spectrum View - New Phase Correlation Meter in Phase Scope - Side-by-side comparison of two tracks in the spectrum view - New drawing modes: Filled Curve, Bar and Spectrogram - Configurable frequency scaling, precision, peak fall rate, and slope Pattern Effects - Pattern effects in the master or group tracks will affect all member tracks - Up to 34 DSP devices can be addressed via pattern commands 1xyy-Yxyy - New pattern effects: Tremolo, Auto Pan, Set Envelope Position - Logical mnemonics for pattern effects from A to Z instead of cryptic numbers Performance Improvements - Hyper-threading support for new Intel i5 and i7 CPUs and others - Various audio engine speed optimizations for all platforms Other Workflow Improvements - 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 - Right-side modifier keys are no longer hard-coded - Finer control over note distribution when dragging samples into keyzones - Improved color picker with saveable swatches - Context menus overhauled and made more consistent and much more... Renoise betas are for registered users only. A publicly available demo will be made available when the final version is released. Best regards, http://www.renoise.com/

13 years, 6 months

Qtractor 0.5.2 - The Charlie X-ray gets through!

by Rui Capela

Aha, TYOQA is finally coming to an end. Are we getting 'pre-beta' status? No way. Not there yet. And quite frankly, it will never be. As most of you who know my stance on this alpha-and-omega-thing, may well rejoyce: this is alphaaaaa!... Now, let's get some more cynicism to the extreme, an activity that I've been criticized more than often: the previous dot release nailed the day when a bitten-fruit boss passed away. I am no prophet, but could it be that we're witnessing the dawn of a brand 'new-age passover'? I wonder what will happen this time. Let's get over it, or better said, through it! Time will tell or else, never mind. Qtractor 0.5.2 (charlie x-ray) breaks out free! This solstice release comes with a long overdue loop-recording/takes 'featuritis' breakout. As a matter of fact, it is actually the relevant feature being introduced this season. BTW, happy holidays--before's too late ;) Well, I've tried to do something barely useful, at least for the lone, one-(wo)man-band and over-dubber, that is. There's still a point on the old motto, remember? That 'techno-boy(gal)-bedroom studio'? Now I think he/she can have a guitar ;) In other words, I'm not really sure this is going to be the best user-interface or paradigm, model, whatever. You tell me :) Release highlights: * Loop-recording/takes implementation (NEW) * Default session file format option (NEW) * LV2 State extension support (NEW) * Options dialog re-arrangement (FIX) * Improved in-flight recording display (FIX) * MIDI clip file revision numbering (FIX) * Clip "Unlink" option (NEW) Cheers! Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.2.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.2-1.rncbc.suse121.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.2-1.rncbc.suse121.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.2-1.rncbc.suse121.x8… - one upon the time, eons ago: 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: - Fixed a probably old lurking destructive bug, which was incidental to when an invalid or non audio file is imported, intentionally or by mistake, into new or existing audio clips (eg. importing a MIDI file where an audio file is expected). - Force audio file closing to occur on the very same disk-write (sync)thread, possibly mitigating an old random crash issue lurking in the vorbis reference encoder (recording) re. the non thread-safetyness of the vorbis_analysis() final call. - Fixed extraordinary shadow-playback of audio clips which extent were longer than the respective audio file length. - Default session file format option now promoted (see View/Options.../General/Session) in the way of whether file suffix gets honored upon session open or save (.qtr, .qts or .qtz). This brand new option also applies for default state file format on a JACK-session salvage context. - The View/Options... (aka. user preferences) dialog sees a new arranjement in layout, with some options moving into this brand new tab page called General. - LV2 State extension support has been added, which shall replace old LV2 Persist extension interface in the near future. It also replaces the LV2 Files extension from now on (thanks to Dave Robillard). - Dirty MIDI clips are now auto-saved when MIDI track properties get changed through its own dialog. - Fixed one probable too old crash when cancelling a new/add track dialog. - MIDI SysEx event list editing is now fixed. - Once again, make sure all recorded clips start and end at the very same position when multiple track recording is turned on/off, while playback is still rolling. - Fixed Makefile.in handling installation directories to the configure script eg. --datadir, --localedir. - Possible attempt to improve in-flight recording clip display, especially when looping and MIDI clips are involved. - MIDI clip revision (re)numbering paranoia has been improved as much to avoid MIDI file clashes as much as possible while editing multiple MIDI clips which reference the same SMF and track/channel. - Creating new or updating existing buses with exact same names of any current dedicated inputs/outputs (which are implemented as special covert buses) is now disallowed (preventing bug #3430406). - Loop-recording/takes functionality is now ready for the masses and accessible from brand new Clip/Take menu (Select, First, Previous, Next, Last, Reset and Range...; the latter is actually being provided as bonus feature :) as to fold any given clip into so-called takes, simulating loop-recording mode over an arbitrary range). - Loop-recording/takes infrastructure integration is sneaking in: all clips recorded under a loop/cycle range may now get split (folded) into one or more so-called takes. A new option is now provided, as to select which take is about to retain after the recording ends, either the First or the Last one. Just turn this mode off (None) and keep with the old recording behavior, where clips are laid out unfolded through the timeline, as usual (see menu View/Options.../Display/Loop recording mode). - Improved robustness in face of disabled audio buses when global maximum number of JACK (audio) ports is surpassed (mitigating bug #3421911). - Improved single-track clip selection status logic (possibly fixing bug #3419141). - Clip/Unlink action is now available for detaching linked/ref-counted MIDI clips, renaming and saving into auto-incremental SMF filenames. - Temporary session archive directory now (pre)fixed whith program name (eg. /tmp/qtractor). - Fixed VST GUI editor window title on first show. - Fixed build for ancient VST-SDK 2.3 (32bit only). Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

13 years, 6 months

ANN: pd-l2ork Holiday release now available

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Greetings fellow FOSS/Audio enthusiasts, It is my great pleasure to announce pd-l2ork 20111215 a.k.a. Holiday release. In the latest version of Linux Laptop Orchestra's in-house version of Pure-Data we've squashed a number of lingering bugs, as well as added some exciting new features, including: *infinite undo that covers all editing actions (while some externals with custom dialogs may require minor adjustment to their code to work with the newfound undo, most of them will work out-of-box). *more robust paste from external clipboard. copying pd scripts from an email and pasting them directly into a canvas has never been easier. *multiple entry bug that has been plaguing pd for years has been finally squashed. *resizing GOP window via gui (just like the rest of iemgui objects). *a number of usability improvements in terms of pasting logic and other editing features (e.g. gop resize via gui now prevents users to make it smaller than its text size unless hidetext is enabled, objects are automatically resized (except for gop objects with hidden text for obvious reasons) to accommodate adequate spacing for inlets and outlets, etc.) *all known graph-on-parent redraw issues have been addressed and gop redrawing is now as robust as it has ever been. *and many more... (see Changelog and git logs for more detailed info) If interested, head to http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56 to download 32-bit builds, source, and more. Alternately, visit our git page at https://github.com/pd-l2ork For more info on L2Ork and pd-l2ork look us up at http://l2ork.music.vt.edu or join us on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/groups/l2ork/ Happy Holidays! Best wishes, Ico

13 years, 6 months

gxtuner-1.6 update

by hermann

Hello A update release of gxtuner is available a simple, small and lightweight guitar/bass tuner for jack (a break out of the guitarix tuner module) This update is for those, who's like to use a simple tuner with a analogue style like interface It resolve some user requests and primary added some more command-line options. Also it added all configuration options to be restored by the jack session manager. gxtuner-1.6 changes: * add command-line option reference pitch control * add command-line option threshold control * add command-line option window size * add command-line option window position * add all options to be restored by jack session manager gxtuner comes with a analogue like, full arbitrary scaling interface (scale), show the tune, the octave and the accumulated frequency in Hz, gxtuner comes with full jack-session support. gxtuner use a equal-tempered scale based on A4 = 440 Hz (427Hz <-> 453Hz) gxtuner is licensed under the GPL. for more information please read the included README file. get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/gxtuner/ direct link http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/gxtuner/gxtuner-1.6.tar.bz2/… have fun Guitarix developers _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-announce mailing list Linux-audio-announce(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-announce

13 years, 6 months

NASPRO 0.3.1 bugfix release

by Stefano D'Angelo

Hi all, since the NASPRO bridges 0.3.0 release has a small but annoying build system-related problem, here I am announcing NASPRO 0.3.1, that is identical to the previous release except for the updated NASPRO bridges 0.3.1 package. More information on the website: http://naspro.atheme.org/ Enjoy!

13 years, 6 months

gxtuner-1.5 released

by hermann

Hello I’m happy to announce a update release of gxtuner, a simple, small and lightweight guitar/bass tuner for jack. It's a break out of the guitarix tuner module, gxtuner-1.5 changes: * added reference pitch controller * added threshold controller * added command-line option (-i) to connect at start up gxtuner comes with a analogue like, full arbitrary scaling interface (scale), show the tune, the octave and the accumulated frequency in Hz, and it comes with full jack-session support. gxtuner use a equal-tempered scale based on A4 = 440 Hz (427Hz <-> 453Hz) gxtuner is licensed under the GPL. for more information please read the included README file. get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/gxtuner/ direct link http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/gxtuner/gxtuner-1.5.tar.bz2/… have fun Guitarix developers

13 years, 6 months

NASPRO 0.3.0 released

by Stefano D'Angelo

Hi all, I'm glad to announce the release of NASPRO 0.3.0. 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 introduces a new simple command line effect processor using LV2 plugins called LV2proc, adds experimental translation of DSSI programs to LV2 presets, breaks the API of lower level libraries to make them slimmer and more efficient, and includes as usual bugfixing and improvements 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. 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. NASPRO core, NASPRO Bridge it and NASPRO bridges are released under the LGPL 2.1, while LV2proc is released under the GPL 3. Enjoy!

13 years, 6 months

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