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/
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
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
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
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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!
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
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!
A new version of the LV2 core specification is out.
This release simplifies how LV2 specifications are installed, so
corresponding releases of all stable extensions at lv2plug.in have also
been released, along with a new "urid" extension.
There are no API changes in this release, but a few new properties have
been defined (see below).
Download
--------
There is now a single index for all specs at lv2plug.in.
Documentation, downloads, and everything else can be reached from:
http://lv2plug.in/ns/
Tarballs can be found in:
http://lv2plug.in/spec/
Using LV2 and Extensions
------------------------
System installed LV2 extensions can now be checked for like most
libraries with pkgconfig. Both the pkgconfig names and include paths
are based on the URI, e.g.:
URI: http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/event
pkgconfig: lv2-lv2plug.in-ns-ext-event
include: "lv2/lv2plug.in/ns/ext/event/event.h"
LV2 itself still has the pkgconfig name "lv2core" for compatibility.
Either the URI-style include or the old "lv2.h" continue to work.
Packaging Changes
-----------------
The lv2config tool no longer exists. Specification packages simply
install their headers to the appropriate locations.
Changes
-------
Detailed changes are available in the online documentation as well as
NEWS files included in each tarball. The most significant changes are:
lv2core (6.0)
* Switch to the ISC license, a simple BSD-style license (with
permission of all contributors to lv2.h and its ancestor, ladspa.h).
* Remove lv2config in favour of the simple convention that
specifications install headers to standard URI-based paths.
* Make lv2core.ttl a valid OWL 2 DL ontology.
* Add lv2:extensionData and lv2:ExtensionData for plugins to indicate
that they support some URI for extension_data().
lv2-ui (2.4)
* Add Qt4 and X11 widget types.
* Deprecate ui:makeSONameResident.
lv2-urid (1.0)
* Initial release.
lv2-units (5.4)
* Make units.ttl a valid OWL 2 DL ontology.
* Define used but undefined resources (units:name, units:render,
units:symbol, units:Conversion, units:conversion,
units:prefixConversion, units:to, and units:factor).
lv2-uri-map (1.4) stable;
* Deprecate uri-map in favour of urid.
Enjoy,
-dr
Guitarix release guitarix2-0.20.0
After much code shuffling, refactoring and testing we are happy to
release "whizzing abacus" guitarix2-0.20.0. Thanks to all testers and
special thanks to rosea grammostola for his patience.
Guitarix is a tube amplifier simulation for jack, with effect modules
and an additional stereo effect chain.
Please refer to our project page for more information:
http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/
new features and bugfixes in short:
* important bugfix: convolver (cabinet, presence) in 0.19.0 only
worked when samplerate was 48000Hz
* avoid connect already connected ports
* always save state on exit (in earlier versions state was not saved
when presets where selected)
* separation of engine and UI
if you always wanted to use Guitarix headless or embedded, now
there's a chance :-)
* now its possible to set the reference pitch of the tuner
* remember currently selected preset in guitarix state file
* display selected preset / factory preset in window title and patch
info window
* updated factory settings from funkmuscle
* reworked guitarix operation under a jack session manager
* error popup window in addition to existing logging facility
* command line option to set instance name (determines jack client
names and state file to use)
* some more work to support localization
* upgraded to zita-convolver version 3
* other smaller changes and clean-ups
download site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
please report bugs and suggestions in our forum:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/
here you can find a couple of examples produced by guitarix users:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=83
have fun
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For extra Impulse Responses, guitarix uses the zita-convolver library,
and, for resampling we use zita-resampler, both written by Fons
Adriaensen.
http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/index.html
We use the marvellous faust compiler to build the amp and effects and
will say thanks to
: Julius Smith
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/
: Albert Graef
http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html#Faust
: Yann Orlary
http://faust.grame.fr/
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guitarix development team
