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Qtractor 0.5.1 - The Bravo Yankee return!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy, Summer is now long gone, obviously fall has already begun. As winter looms on the horizon the year steadily marches into its due end. (oh crap!...) Today marks the day of this second public release while on the TYOQA age. It also marks yet another birthday of mine. One more year's gone, one less to go. Be happy! I hope you'd like my party as soon you get over from yesterday's bitten fruit showtime. Now's the time... Qtractor 0.5.1 (bravo yankee) is out! Yes, it's "bravo" alright, not "beta" nor anything else. Despite any previous existing codename. Now, it's all dumb-down easy to predict any next release codenames, a matter of convergence and fact that just chalks one less of a burden on me :) Believe it or not, this is the best and, allegedly, the most stable release ever. Ain't them all? ;) Release highlights: * Linked (aka. ref-counted) audio/MIDI clips (NEW) * Aux-Send pseudo-plugin (NEW) * Direct-access plugin parameter slider (NEW) * MIDI file player (NEW) * Automatic time-stretching of audio clips on tempo-map changes (FIX) * Improved native Linux VST support (FIX) * Improved JACK-Session support (FIX) * Improved generic plugin form (FIX) * MIDI-fx plugin support (NEW) * Audio bus/ports auto-connect option (NEW) * First translation call (Czech) (NEW) Cheers! Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.1-4.rncbc.suse114.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.1-4.rncbc.suse114.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.1-4.rncbc.suse114.x8… - from the paleolithic shelves: 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: - More LADISH support: SIGTERM signal is now trapped for graceful application close. - Improved paste-repeat snap precision when dealing with large repeat counts. - Czech (cs) translation added, by Pavel Fric. - Added a few snap-to-beat divisors (unusual Beat/5, Beat/7, Beat/9 and Beat/10) for completeness sake. - Such a simple change of mind with a visual twist: the "A" track automation button/menu has now been - moved to the right-most, as it belongs ;) - Auto-connection of dedicated audio outputs is now optional for default audio master bus, metronome, player and MIDI instrument plugin dedicated audio outputs. - Finally, after a pitiful large brain-dead period, generic plugin forms are now showing all possible controllable plugin parameters featuring a paged, tabbed dialog, whenever applicable. - Special hack/fix for JUCE based native VST plugins, which are the most actually found with a GUI editor, skipping explicit shared library unloading and thus avoiding some mysterious crashes on session close and/or application exit. - Support for MIDI-fx plugins (native VST and/or LV2) is now implemented and functional (intra-chain only). - Instrument plugin bank/program selection was found broken or dead in the water, specially on VSTi, now finally fixed again. - VST plugin parameter value display on generic form is now back in business (were dead regarding value changes). - All plugin's provided GUI editors are now honored by being popped up first, instead of the usual but good old generic plugin form. - Long overdue implementation of a dedicated MIDI file player is now accessible from the MIDI files widget; one can play the whole SMF or just a single track or channel. - Update to a newer VeSTige header, probably fixing an old 32 vs. 64 bit mismatch. - Avoid JACK session filenames/paths to be ever shown; also avoid all buses ports (re)connections when JACK sessions are (re)loaded, given the fact that session management will take care of just that; more also, untitled/default session names are now also picked up to match current LADISH project name, obviously given by LADISH_PROJECT_NAME environment variable, whenever present (as suggested by Nedko Ardaunov). - Paste-repeat floating selection has been fixed (was showing only the last repeated selection). - Coherence of tempo changes on audio and MIDI clips, whether automatic time-stretching is in effect, has been slightly improved, hopefully fixed. - Bold attempt to get linked (aka. ref-counted) audio and MIDI clips into practice (EXPERIMENTAL). - Main track view now showing all clips above the grid. - Added support for both new and older (deprecated URI) lv2_external_ui extension (by Nedko Ardaunov). - Following yet another great idea, and implementation, by Holger Dehnhardt, who already brought us the new aux-send insert plugin, thanks again, the so-called direct access control option is now featured for any plugin parameter right from plugin listings eg. mixer strips. - General resource consumption and management has been slightly improved, due to internal buses allocation optimization. - Fixed nasty crash-bug that was severely affecting all sessions that had at least one insert (pseudo-)plugin on any audio input bus. - All automation curve nodes are now relocated whenever disparate session sample-rate is detected on load. - New aux-send/insert pseudo-plugin is now introduced, allowing to route any track audio output to any other audio output bus besides the nominal one -- thanks to an original implementation from Holger Dehnhardt. - New immediate edit/loop-range settings from current clip extents, accessible on the main menu (Clip/Range Set, Loop Set) and from MIDI clip editor menu as well (File/Range Set, Loop Set). - MIDI Names XML files (*.midnam) may now be imported into MIDI instrument definitions. (EXPERIMENTAL) - Avoid cursor reset while editing MIDI events list (fixes bug #3380259, reported by Frank Neumann). - Just some typos fixing (patch #3378382 by c-korn). - Track view automation curve editing mode has been slightly fixed, now allowing for other previously existing point-and-click mouse operations. - Default automation curve mode is now preserved (following a suggestion by Alexandre Prokoudine, thanks). Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

14 years, 2 months

Some "sound&visuals" dj sets :)

by MK aka El Doctor

Hi there ;) I've uploaded some homemade videos (mix & visuals) and some screenshots of my (new) setup :) Thoses videos are entirely done on linux, the programs used are: * xwax (dj stuff) * lebiniou (vj stuff) * ardour (audio recording) * ffmpeg (video recording) * kdenlive (video montage) A 3deck Jungle Drum&Bass : http://vimeo.com/mkdxb/caution A 4deck Tribe Hardtekno : http://vimeo.com/mkerazored/chinasyndrome Screenshots : http://manu.kebab.free.fr/io/images/2011-08-27-004313.png http://manu.kebab.free.fr/io/images/2011-08-27-004159.png Hope you will appreciate :) Greetings MK aka El Doctor https://sourceforge.net/projects/io-gnu-linux/

14 years, 2 months

[ANN] JACK 0.121.3 + D-Bus (jackdbus)

by Nedko Arnaudov

Apart from the usual jackdbus addition, this release contains fix for xrun reporting. This release provides both the new jackd.py (D-Bus bound and available in the vanilla tarball) and jackdbus. Tarball containing D-Bus patched jack 0.121.3 is available here: http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/ http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus-0.… http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus-0.… A patch against vanilla 0.121.3 is available here: http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3… http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3… After applying the patch you have to run autoreconf. D-Bus modifications add optional autodetected support for the D-Bus based server control system. D-Bus is object model that provides IPC mechanism. D-Bus supports autoactivation of objects, thus making it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed. * Simplified single thread model for control and monitor applications. Various D-Bus language bindings make it trivial to write control and monitor applications using scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.. * JACK has log file (~/.log/jack/jackdbus.log) that is available for inspection even when autoactivation happens because of first JACK application is launched. * There is real configuration file used to persist settings that can be manipulated through configuration interface of JACK D-Bus object. * Improved graph inspection and control mechanism. JACK graph is versioned. Connections, ports and clients have unique (monotonically increasing) numeric IDs. * High level abstraction of JACK settings. Allows applications that can configure JACK to expose parameters that were not known at compile (or tarball release) time. Currently there are some minor differences between jack1 jackdbus and jack2 jackdbus: * There is no parameter constraints support (no enums and no ranges) * Settings file (in ~/.config/jack/) is conf-jack1.xml instead of conf.xml, because jack1 and jack2 settings and not really compatible. When configured with D-Bus support, jack_control is installed. jack_control is simple commandline interface for jackdbus. Other tools that can communicate with JACK through D-Bus: * LADItools (tray icon, configuration, etc.) * Patchage (and lpatchage too) * LASH 0.6.x * ladish * QJackCtl -- Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: 5D1B58ED>

14 years, 2 months

Csound Conference 2011 Hannover

by Andres Cabrera

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: joachim heintz <jh(a)joachimheintz.de> hi all - the program for the csound conference in hannover (sept 30 - oct 2) has now been completed, including the concert and the sound installations. have a look at www.cs-conf.de. there is a poster attached. you can also download it in a better quality at www.cs-conf.de. hope to see you in Hannover! joachim ps there are some travel & stay tips at http://www.incontri.hmtm-hannover.de/de/elektronisches-studio/csound-confer…

14 years, 2 months

JACK 0.121.3 released

by Paul Davis

JACK 0.121.3 is a bug fix release containing (almost) no new functionality. It is required if you want to use JACK1 on OS X with any clients that use weak linkage for JACK feature detection (e.g. Ardour). Changes: * Make the printed output of jack_iodelay more useful to actual users * Compilation fixes for OS X (particularly PPC architectures) * Remove SSE-related messages during startup * Fix a few argument type declarations for a few functions * OSS backend: fix a call to yet undefined engine instance http://jackaudio.org/downloads/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.121.3.tar.gz

14 years, 2 months

QXGEdit 0.1.1 slipped out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Yay! It's been a great summer and, as always, good things never last longer. I remember two years ago when it made its premiere, also after a great summer vacation and a pretty longer and rather undercover existence. Two years have gone by now, there's nothing to be startling with. All that's about to say: QXGEdit 0.1.1 slipped out! If you're puzzled what this is, then don't worry nor go any further. This is just one extreme-niche piece of software program I've made for my own personal usage. But others may also feel compelled to try it out. I'm doin'g it just because I can :) Now, already in its third public release, QXGEdit is a XG instrument editor, specially dedicated to the elderly Yamaha DB50XG. Yes, this is all synth-eldercare, if I may punch that line without the slightest lack of respect. How could it be? This is the best evidence I can show to the world how I love this piece of junk ;) Only for the ones who know what I'm talking about ;) Website: http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.1.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.1-3.rncbc.suse114.src.… - binary package (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.1-3.rncbc.suse114.i586… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.1-3.rncbc.suse114.x86_… Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: QXGEdit is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License [6] (GPL) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Make sure Uservoice elements are selected only when available. - Debugging stacktrace now applies to all working threads. - libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase, as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13, Debian 6. - Moving from old deprecated Qt3'ish custom event post handling into regular asynchronous signal/slot strategy. - General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place. Enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc at rncbc dot org http://www.rncbc.org

14 years, 3 months

[ANNOUNCE] aj-snapshot-0.9.5 has been released

by Lieven Moors

Hi all, I'm proud to announce another release of aj-snapshot. aj-snapshot is a command line utility to store/restore ALSA and/or JACK connections to/from an XML file This release adds one major feature, which is that aj-snapshot can now run in daemon mode. In this mode, aj-snapshot will restore ALSA and/or JACK connections automatically when clients become available. You can find more info on this feature in the README file, and on the website (sorry, no manpage yet). The addition of this functionality was mostly done by Jari Suominen, and I am very grateful for his help on improving aj-snapshot. As always, there must be bugs, and I would be very glad 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

14 years, 3 months

[ANNOUNCE] FluidSynth 1.1.5 has been released!

by David Henningsson

FluidSynth 1.1.5 is a pure bug fix release compared to 1.1.4. The following bugs are fixed: * Autotools build resulted in the wrong version number for libfluidsynth.so (reported by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, Takashi Iwai) * One symbol was dropped from libfluidsynth.so - this symbol was not part of the public API though. (reported by Alessio Treglia) * Windows 64 bit: Wrong prototype declaration for MIDI (reported by Graham Goode, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas) * JACK: Using jack_free instead of free when needed. Note that this might require a later version of JACK than previously. (reported by Graham Goode) * Update Free Software Foundation address (reported by ogetbilo) You can download the 1.1.5 release from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/files/fluidsynth-1.1.5/ David Henningsson FluidSynth Developer Team

14 years, 3 months

Call for Participation: Versatile Sound Models for Interaction in Audio–graphic Virtual Environments Workshop at DAFx-11, Ircam, Paris

by Diemo Schwarz

Call for Participation, please forward: Versatile Sound Models for Interaction in Audio–Graphic Virtual Environments: Control of Audio-graphic Sound Synthesis Satellite Workshop @ Conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFx-11 http://dafx11.ircam.fr/?page_id=224 Friday September 23, 2011, 9h00–13h00 at Ircam, Paris The use of 3D interactive virtual environments is becoming more widespread in areas such as games, architecture, urbanism, information visualization and sonification, interactive artistic digital media, serious games, gamification. The limitations in sound generation in existing environments are increasingly obvious with current requirements. This workshop will look at recent advances and future prospects in sound modeling, representation, transformation and synthesis for interactive audio-graphic scene design. Several approaches to extending sound generation in 3D virtual environments have been developed in recent years, such as sampling, modal synthesis, additive synthesis, corpus based synthesis, granular synthesis, description based synthesis, physical modeling... These techniques can be quite different in their methods and results, but may also become complementary towards the common goal of versatile and understandable virtual scenes, in order to cover a wide range of object types and interactions between objects and with them. The purpose of this workshop is to sum up these different approaches, present current work in the field, and to discuss their differences, commonalities and complementarities. Detailed information about the workshop can be found here: http://www.topophonie.fr/event/3 Workshop Programme ------------------ 9:00 0:10 *Welcome and Introduction* D. Schwarz, R. Cahen 9:10 0:30 *Invited Presentation:* Principles and Practice of Procedural Audio A. Farnell *Presentations 1* 9:40 0:15 Phya: A Lightweight Framework and Synthesis Toolkit For Interactive Environmental Audio D. Menzies 9:55 0:15 Modeling of audio-graphic scenes with mass-interaction physical models M. Christou, O. Tache, C. Cadoz, N. Castagné, A. Luciani 10:10 0:15 Sound in Virtual Cities: the TerraDynamica Project S.H. Chan, C. Le Prado, S. Natkin, G. Tiger, A. Topol 10:25 0:15 Topophonie Mobile: An immersive audio interactive augmented experience R. Cahen, X. Boissarie, N. Schnell, D. Schwarz 10:40 0:15 *Pause* *Presentations 2* 10:55 0:15 Sonification of drawings E. Thoret, M. Aramaki, R. Kronland-Martinet, J.L. Velay, S. Ystad 11:10 0:15 Dynamic Intermediate Models for Audio-Graphic Synthesis V. Goudard, H. Genevois, B. Doval 11:25 0:15 Hybrid sparse models of water stream texture sounds S. Kersten, H. Purwins 11:40 0:15 Descriptor-Based Texture-Synthesis Control in Interactive 3D Scenes by Activation Profiles D. Schwarz, R. Cahen, N. Schnell *Short Presentations* 11:55 0:05 Hierarchical Musical Structures in 3D Virtual Environments F. Berthaut 12:00 0:05 Gestural Auditory And Visual Interactive Platform B. Caramiaux, S. Fdili-Alaoui 12:05 0:05 Gestural Control of Environmental Texture Synthesis A. Masurelle, D. Schwarz 12:10 0:05 Visualization of Perceptual Qualities in Textural Sounds T. Grill, U. Rauter 12:15 0:05 Multi-Modal Musical Environments for Mixed-Reality Performance R. Hamilton 12:20 0:40 *Discussion* 13:00 End The workshop is free for attendants of the DAFx conference by inscription and for non-DAFx-attendants by invitation. Program Chairs -------------- Diemo Schwarz, IRCAM Roland Cahen, ENSCI-les Ateliers Hui Ding, LIMSI-CNRS & University Paris Sud 11 Program committee ----------------- Nicolas Tsingos (Dolby Laboratories) Lonce Wyse (National University of Singapore) Andrea Valle (University of Torino) Hendrik Purwins (University Pompeu Fabra) Thomas Grill (Institut für Elektronische Musik IEM, Graz) Charles Verron (McGill University, Montreal) Cécile Le Prado (Centre National des Arts et Metiers CNAM) Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS & University Paris Sud 11) Topics in detail ---------------- Which other and better alternatives to traditional sample triggering do exist to produce comprehensive, flexible, expressive, realistic sounds in virtual environments? How to produce rich interaction with scene objects such as physically informed models for contact and friction sounds etc? How to edit and structure audio–graphic scenes otherwise than mapping one event to one sound? There is no standardized architecture, representation and language for auditory scenes and objects, as is OpenGL for graphics. The workshop will treat higher level questions of architecture and modeling of interactive audio-graphic scenes, down to the detailed question of sound modeling, representation, transformation and synthesis. These questions cannot be detached from implementation issues: novel and hybrid synthesis methods, comparison and improvement of existing platforms, software architecture, plug-in systems, standards, formats, etc. New possibilities regarding the use of audio descriptors and dynamic access to audio databases will also be discussed. Beyond these main questions, the workshop will cover other recent advances in audio-graphic scene modeling such as: * audio-graphic object rendering, and physically and geometrically driven sound rendering, * interactive sound texture synthesis, based on signal models, or physically informed * joint representation of sound and graphic spaces and objects, * sound rendering for audio-graphic scenes: * level of detail, which is a very advanced concept in graphics, but is rarely treated in audio. * representation of space and distance, * masking and occlusion of sources, * clustering of sources * audio-graphic interface design, * sound and graphic localization, * cross- and bi-modal perceptual evaluations, * interactive audio-graphic arts, * industrial audio-graphic data: * architectural acoustics, * sound maps, * urban soundscapes... * platforms and tools for audio-graphic scene modeling and rendering, These areas are interdisciplinary in nature and interrelated. New advancements in each area will benefit the others. This workshop will allow to exchange the latest developments and to point out current challenges and new directions.

14 years, 3 months

New soft synth: The Newtonator v0.5.1

by Michael Bechard

Brand new LV2 plugin soft synth here. The Newtonator (v0.5.0) features: * LV2-compliant synth plugin * Simple, easy-to-use GTK-based GUI * 3-note polyphony (err, um, until I can do some serious optimization) * "Unique" synthesis algorithm (Tuna Pagan Fellowship) The Newtonator specializes in making crazy, harsh sounds, so if you're looking for some sounds to produce the next Yanni album, keep looking. Please refer to the user manual (http://newtonator.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html) for more gory details. Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/newtonator/files/newtonator-0.5.0.tar.gz/do… NOTE: This plugin was written against the excellent libraries included in the lv2-c++-tools package written by Lars Luthman. However, as of v1.0.4, the GUI library only supports rev. 2 of the LV2 specification, so it may have problems on newer hosts (though I have done some (very) preliminary testing against Ardour3 and it seems to work ok). Alpha testing mostly done against zynjacku and Elven (comes with ll-plugins package) hosts. This puppy's in beta, so feel free to get in touch with me at the project forum (https://sourceforge.net/projects/newtonator/forums/forum/1820765) or submit a bug if needed. Thanks, and have fun. Michael Bechard https://sourceforge.net/projects/newtonator/

14 years, 3 months

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