howdy
so i lied, bluffed all the way, so what? should I be sorry? what you'd
expect from this one self-called ber-procrastinator ? and then there's
hope. alas, not the messiah, rather my development drive at my own pace.
believe it or not, it is on-going and it will sure happen real soon ;)
no sweat. The whole automation prophecy will be realized and delivered.
yes, TYOQA just failed, slipped a bit. it doesn't mean it was abandoned
though or, uh, procrastinated... well, it's only a happy new year after
all:)
the road to automation is being already being paved and walked although,
i must say, it is no yellow-bricked one. the drive has begun.
definitely, 2011 will be TYOQA (aha, read that again with a bold tee:)!
more than automation, which infrastructure is already lurking in there,
trus me, all work is being carried out at the backyard for the time being.
blossoms might just pop out this spring ;)
one thing i may wish to leave sound and clear: it is very likely that,
in the very near future, that there will be some dot-release before the
all-mighty-one release, whatever. now that the surprise-effect is gone,
the long overdue and hailed beta release cycle that will present you and
carve its deeds on stone with the dynamic-curves and automation features
et al., will be nothing less nor before the coming version numbered as
the 0.5.x scheme. then, and only then, the current alpha-cycle will be
concluded. of course, that will be also the time for translations to be
called in. just be a little more patient :)
and then i lied a second time, when said those parodied f&d release
code-names were exhausted. thanks to a lengthy but intermittent
fall/winter-of-coding period, i had the chance to wake up one morning
with the imagination score in its lowest end and roar an inner WTH! as
they say around here, there's no second without a third. so another lie
is there waiting to be told. or is it not? there, one would say: time
will tell...
Release highlights:
* Archive/Zip session file bundle (save as... .qtz) (NEW)
* Mixer MIDI controller mapping/learn (NEW)
* LV2 GTK UI support (NEW)
* LV2 Persist extension support (NEW)
* MIDI Tools on main track/clips view(NEW)
* Floating tool-tips while dragging/moving/pasting (NEW)
* Rescale and Timeshift MIDI tools (NEW)
* MIDI Quantize percentage (NEW)
* Track range selection (NEW)
* Audio insert send, wet/dry controls (NEW)
* Audio clip pitch-shifting (FIX)
* Metronome dedicated outputs related crash (FIX)
* Stop transport tool/button action (NEW)
* Mouse-wheel zooming (NEW)
and a few more assorted features and fixes--see below the complete
(boring) change-log for gruesome details.
Nuff said.
Qtractor 0.4.8 (fiery demigoddess) released!
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.8.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 11.3):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.8-2.rncbc.suse113.sr…
- binary packages (openSUSE 11.3):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.8-2.rncbc.suse113.i5…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.8-2.rncbc.suse113.x8…
- user manual (archeologically dated):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-user-manual.pdf
Weblog (upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qtractor is free, openosource software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- MIDI controller mapping/learn is now possible on all mixer controls
(monitor, gain, panning, record, mute, solo).
- An internal rewrite (aka. refactoring) have been carried out, making
sure that all track state action buttons (R, M, S) are now all under the
observer pattern umbrella.
- Single track range selection is now available on main menu
(Edit/Select/Track Range; default keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+R);
additionally to vertical range and horizontal track actions
(Edit/Select/Range, Track) all these operations can now toggle over the
previous selection.
- Direct clip selection from Files list item has been brute-forcefully
implemented (after being challenged by Jiri Prochaszka aka Anchakor:).
- Files tree widget sticky "New Group" item fixed.
- A new menu option has been added (View/Tool Tips) to show/hide a
floating tool-tip while dragging, moving, resizing or pasting selected
clips or events over the main tracks view and MIDI clip editor
(piano-roll) respectively, displaying current target position and status.
- Attempt to reset audio/MIDI time drift compensator on every engine
start and loop turnaround.
- Moving the punch-out marker over the main track time ruler was failing
to shrink the punch-in/out range, now it does (not).
- MIDI clip tools (quantize, transpose, normalize, randomize, resize,
rescale and the new timeshift) are now all accessible from the main
tracks view (Edit/Clip/Tools menu) and apply to all events on current
selected clip(s).
- LV2 Persist extension support is being introduced.
- A new timeshift MIDI tool has been added, after an awesome patch by
Jiri Prochaszka aka Anchakor; applies to selected events between edit
markers, distorting their time and duration (optionally), either slowing
down and accelerating, based on a given parameter P value.
- Audio clip/buffer pitch-shifting fixes with regard to latency
correction due on the RubberBand library one-pass (real-time) processing
mode.
- New Send Gain and Dry/Wet control parameters have been implemented for
audio Inserts pseudo-plugins.
- MIDI channel/master volume enqueued events are now affected by the
current track/bus volume (0-100%).
- Prevent old rounding error when resetting to plugin parameter default
value with the mouse middle-button click while hovering a slider widget
(observer).
- A quantize percentage has been added to MIDI clip editor quantize tool
(Tool/Quantize...) for time and duration quantization (0% for none; 100%
for full regular quantization).
- Metronome bus/ports are now created at engine start and not when user
switches it on anymore.
- Make sure all audio clip buffers are in sync upon smooth-ramping going
off and playback is rolling.
- Copy-pasting across controller event types is now possible on the MIDI
clip editor (aka piano-roll).
- Finally indulged, the genuine transport stop button makes its
appearance on main toolbar and menu.
- Main tracks grid visibility option (View/Snap/Grid).
- Yet another off-by-one (frame) audio buffer bug got squashed away:
rare symptom was that some audio clips were being left dead silent right
after playback of their first looping period.
- Plugin parameter name/label now a proper attribute of its respective
MIDI Controller observer instance, allowing to be shown on dialog title
(MIDI learn).
- Default session file format saved on JACK session demand is now the
bundle archive/zip one (.qtz).
- Plugin selection dialog now shows whether a plugin features its own
editor (GUI) and/or external state configuration (EXT).
- Help/Shortcuts... window positioning and sizing are now preserved.
- All plugin chain changes over the track properties dialog now sure
counts as a dirty action (possibly fixing bug #3104129).
- Newly extracted archive/zip session directories are now removed
automatically from the file-system on session close, prompting the user
for confirmation (cf. View/Options.../Display/Confirm Removals).
- Ctrl+mouse-wheel is now set for zooming in/out, on main track-view and
all applicable MIDI clip editor views (piano-roll), according to current
zoom mode (see View/Zoom Horizontal, Vertical or All for both ways
simultaneously).
- New MIDI clip editor (piano-roll) mouse hovering effect (eye-candy++).
- After too many a user request, a brand new session archive file type
is being introduced (.qtz) which tries to bundle in one single zip
archive all the media and contents of a session.
- Add that to eye-candy: either loop or punch-in/out outer ranges are
now shaded on the main track-view, thumb-view and MIDI clip editor
(piano-roll) views.
- LV2 GTK UI plug-in hosting is now roaring its ugly head (EXPERIMENTAL).
- Ignore all initial and decremental notifications of audio engine's
buffer-size changes.
- Internal audio buffer loop points were not being set properly for
non-zero clip offsets, leaving some as severely out-of-sync while
rolling over loop turns. Now fixed again, hopefully.
- Avoid audio peak file clashing when deriving from audio sample files
with distinct absolute paths but the very same file (base)name.
- A new MIDI editor (piano-roll) tool has been added: Rescale event
times, durations and/or values by a percentage between 1 and 1000%
(adapted thanks to patch #3081954, by Jesse Lucas).
- Attempt to mitigate audio clip sequencing glitches on
single-core/single-thread machines.
cheers && enjoy (be happy!)
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hi everyone!
I am glad to announce the creation of the andraudio mailing list, dedicated to
audio development on Android, at: andraudio(a)music.columbia.edu
More info and subscribing: http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/andraudio
This list is meant to be a place to discuss about audio development, in the
context of music and sound applications, but also games and other apps which use
audio on Android.
Discussions and questions about both Java and native APIs are welcome.
In addition to application-level topics, we are interested in discussing about
Android audio system internals, for educational purposes, as well as finding new
ways to work with sound on Android.
So please come and join us if audio development on Android interests you.
--
Olivier
gst123-0.1.4 has been released.
Overview of changes in gst123-0.1.4:
------------------------------------
* Fixed crash for "dumb" terminals. [Siddhesh Poyarekar]
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/gst123-0.1.4.tar.bz2
--
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan
a2jmidid is a project that aims to ease usage of legacy ALSA sequencer
applications, in a JACK MIDI enabled system.
Homepage with screenshots: http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/
Tarball download: http://download.gna.org/a2jmidid/
Changes since version 6:
* MIDI processing improvements
* Use the JACK limit for max port name size (sr #2526)
* Adopt to shared library policy changes in some distros (sr #2547)
* dbus support can now be disabled at configure stage
* fix build on not so common platforms (LP: #556351)
* man pages (from Debian)
* reopen log file when it is deleted or replaced
Saint Paisius of Hilendar was a Bulgarian clergyman and a key Bulgarian
National Revival figure. He is most famous for being the author of
Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, the second modern Bulgarian history after
the work of Petar Bogdan Bakshev from 1667, "History of Bulgaria". Most
Bulgarians think of him as the forefather of the Bulgarian National
Revival.
--
Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: 7862B9E45D1B58ED>
I'm happy to announce the first public release of gx_head.
gx_head is a simple guitar mono tube amplifier simulation based
on the work we have done in the guitarix project.
gx_head provide 3 tube models (12AX7, 12AU7, 6V6)
and 8 different tonestack models(Bassman, Twin Reverb, Princeton, JCM-800,
JCM-2000, M-Lead, M2199, AC30), so you can simply create the amp-model
to your needs.
gx_head comes with a bunch of in-build effects, like distortion, crybaby,
autowah, phaser, flanger, echo, delay, . . .
The effects could ordered in two Racks, on for the mono effects, witch
could be load for pre or post processing, and one for the stereo
effects, witch could only used in post processing.
Effects are loadable over the menu, a pop-up menu in the racks, or a
plugin bar. Settings could saved/load as presets.
gx_head comes with some factory settings provided by guitarix/gx_head
friend "funkmuscle", thanks therefore.
All UI controllers could connected with jack midi via MIDI learn with
your external MIDI controllers.
gx_head is ready for language support via gettext() and comes thanks to
Pablo Fernández with a Spanish translation.
The style file gx2 is contributed by zettberlin, thanks Hartmut
some features in short:
* 8 tonestack models
* 3 tube models
* cabinet impulse response module
* bass boster
* easy Impulse Response file support via zita-convolver
* on the fly IR-file resampling via zita-resampler
* Oscilloscope and tuner
* multi band distortion model
* scalable EQ
* phaser, flanger, stereo delay, stereo echo,
* overdrive, compressor, freeverb, reverb,
* chorus, moog filter, low/high pass filter, . .
* MIDI learn
* Patch Info widget
* Preset File Load/Export option
* factory settings
* language support
* shining User Interface via GTK/gtkmm
* . . . .
have fun
_________________________________________________________________________
gx_head is licensed under the GPL.
screenshots:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/guitarix/
direct download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/gx_head/gx_head-0.12.0.tar.b…
download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
please report bugs and suggestions in our forum here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/
________________________________________________________________________
For extra Impulse Responses, gx_head uses the
zita-convolver library, and,
for resampling we use zita-resampler,
both written by Fons Adriaensen.
http://www.kokkinizita.net/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/
________________________________________________________________________
For faust users :
All used Faust dsp files are included in /gx_head/src/faust,
the resulting .cc files are in /gx_head/src/faust-cc
The tools we use to convert (post-processing and plot)
the resulting faust cpp files to the needed include format,
stay in the /gx_head/tools directory.
________________________________________________________________________
regards
guitarix development team
Hi all,
Standing on the shoulders of giants[*], I am pleased to announce the
public release of IR, a convolution reverb in the LV2 plugin format.
Released as free software under the GNU GPL, this easy to use plugin
has been created to open the fascinating world of convolution reverb
to Linux-based audio engineers. If you use Ardour to create, mix &
produce music, you will most probably want to check out this plugin.
Assorted features:
* Zero-latency operation
* Support for mono, stereo and 'True Stereo' (4-channel) impulses
* Realtime operation
* Very reasonable CPU consumption
* Maximum impulse length: 1M samples (~22 seconds @ 48kHz)
* Loads a large number of audio file formats
* High quality sample rate conversion of impulse responses
* Stretch control (via high quality SRC in one step integrated with
impulse loading)
* Pre-delay control (0-2000 ms)
* Stereo width control of input signal & impulse response (0-150%)
* Envelope alteration with immediate visual feedback: Attack
time/percent, Envelope, Length
* Reverse impulse response
* Autogain: change impulses without having to adjust 'Wet gain'
* Impulse response visualization (linear/logarithmic scale, peak & RMS)
* Easy interface for fast browsing and loading impulse responses
IR should work on Linux with Ardour 2.8.x (x >= 11) and 3.
For further info and source code download, please visit the plugin's
homepage: http://factorial.hu/plugins/lv2/ir
Thanks,
Tom
[*] Fons Adriaensen (zita-convolver), Erik de Castro Lopo (libsndfile,
libsamplerate)
G'day LADdies,
Patchage 0.5.0 is out (along with its dependents Raul 0.8.0 and
FlowCanvas 0.7.1).
The main improvements in this release are significant performance
improvements, much better auto-arrange of interface modules, bug fixes,
and some polish. Upgrading is recommended. This release also features
a new experimental packaging for Mac OS X.
Other changes:
* Add -J (--no-jack) command line option
* Add proper --help output and man page
* Fancy console info/warning/error logging
* Fix minor memory leaks and reduce memory consumption
* Fix handling of ALSA duplex ports
* Hide "split" module menu item when it is useless
* Fix Jack D-Bus support
* Add more/larger icons
* Add missing COPYING file to distribution
* Build system and code quality improvements
(See the ChangeLog files for Raul and FlowCanvas for their details)
Downloads and whatnot available as always at:
http://drobilla.net/software/patchage
-dr
Dear all,
for the Linux Audio Conference 2011(*) in Maynooth, Ireland, we have extended
the deadline for paper submissions to February 20th, 2011.
So, if you have considered handing in a paper but couldn't make up your mind
yet, here is your chance to become active! Never forget that this conference
lives through the people participating in it.
The deadline for music submissions has been set to the same date.
Notification of acceptance of submitted papers has been aligned slightly
as well, and will be sent out on March 15th, 2011.
(*) http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2011
Please spread this information to anyone who might be interested.
Direct any questions through email to lac(a)linuxaudio.org.
Thanks,
Frank
After a year of development ladish-0.3 is out! The main feature that
this release implements is the hardware port virtualization. Studios
that manage JACK and the overall infrastructure of the setup now can
contain the so called rooms. The rooms provide a predefined set of
ports that are linked to the studio through a virtual JACK multicore
(aka snake). The "contents" of the rooms are the projects. As with
studios, projects manage apps and connections between them. However
projects are not bound to particular audio/midi hardware and JACK
setup because project apps are connected to the room-studio link ports
that are fixed. On the studio side, these room-studio link ports can
be connected to the actual hardware ports, to ports of apps that are
part of the studio or even to room-studio link ports of different
rooms. Yes, you can have more than one room in the studio! It is quite
possible that room usage will fall into one of these two categories:
* central room - this is a place where you load projects. It has the
role of the place where things get generated. People will probably
load sequencers and synths here. The purpose of the central room is
to present abstract view of the hardware. This allows transfer of a
project from one computer to other - either via Internet transfer or
backup/restore process. The import/export will be implemented in the
ladish-0.4 release. Rooms will be implemented in the ladish-0.3
release (the next one).
* side rooms - this is where standard processing usually happens. It
can be seen as a macro mechanism. It can be useful for "effect rack"
functionality or for recording. For example custom mastering process
chain is probably reused for different projects. Side rooms allow
loading of functionality after the initial process of song
creation. You can compose your new song in the central room and
save it. Then when you want to record it, you can load your recording
setup (ardour2 based one for example) in the recording room.
Central and side rooms are interconnected in the studio. The studio
setup (JACK settings, connections between hardware and rooms) is
supposed to be almost static.
The new user visible features include:
* Visual notifications about errors and studio/project state changes
* ladish specific settings
* lists of recently used studios and projects
* connections of stopped apps are persisted
* a2j ports are now clearly marked on gladish canvas
* app start/stop by double clicking in the app list
* you can save a text comment and description as part of the project
* Russian, French and German l10n of gladish
ladish now can install the python bindings for liblash that are used
by some apps (jack_mixer, zynjacku). The ladish implementation of
liblash is still not functional, lashified apps will be told that lash
server is not available. The jack-session support is also not
implemented yet.
= Thanks =
In the past year lot of people helped the project, but some of them
played a major role:
* Robert Dietrich (distrozapper) hunted bugs with inspiring dedication
* Nikita Zlobin (nick87720z) joined the development team
* Filipe Alexandre Lopes Coelho (falktx) made some bugfixes to
ladish, made KXStudio a great LADI enabled Linux distro and worked
on Qt/KDE frontends, alternatives to the gladish (GTK).
* Frank Kober (dharanamrs, emuse) as usual helped a lot, mainly by
guarding the inspiration level for the a2j support and by providing
ideas about overall usability.
= Download =
The tarballs are available at the usual location:
* http://ladish.org/download/
* http://ladish.org/download/ladish-0.3-with-deps.tar.bz2
* http://ladish.org/download/ladish-0.3-with-deps.tar.bz2.sig
* http://ladish.org/download/ladish-0.3.tar.bz2
* http://ladish.org/download/ladish-0.3.tar.bz2.sig
There are two tarballs. ladish-0.3-with-deps.tar.bz2 is 3.6 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-0.3.tar.bz2 tarball is 569 KiB and contains only ladish
itself. It is expected to be used mainly by packagers.
= Known issues =
There is one known jack2 bug that sometimes hits the ladish
workflows. If two instances of same app are started in parallel and
these apps don't request unique jack client name but instead rely on
jack feature that autorenames clients, apps usually fail to start. The
bug has a ticket recorded in the jack bugtracker:
http://trac.jackaudio.org/ticket/193
= More info on the ladish project =
* Homepage: http://ladish.org/
* Roadmap: http://ladish.org/roadmap
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 transfered (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: 7862B9E45D1B58ED>
With season's greetings and the unexpected honor to be the first this year:
QMidiArp is finally reborn !
Although yet in another alpha state this arpeggiator, sequencer and MIDI LFO has grown quite a bit in functionality and, hopefully, usability.
Special thanks for his explanations and initial support go to Guido Scholz.
ENJOY and best wishes for 2011
Frank
QMidiArp is available for download at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidiarp/files/qmidiarp/0.3.9/qmidiarp-0.3.…
and it now has an own sourceforge project page at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidiarp
and git repo
git://qmidiarp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/qmidiarp/qmidiarp
(developers welcome)
Tutorial videos are available on youtube, just search for qmidiarp.
NEWS:
New Features
o Arpeggio pattern preset infrastructure
o Synchronized MIDI LFO modules added
LFOs have calculated and drawable waveforms, selectable frequency,
amplitude, offset, time resolution and length
o Synchronized step sequencer modules added
Step sequencer can be transposed and velocity-modulated by received
notes, sequence can be drawn on the fly
o Pianoroll-type display of arp patterns and cursor line
o Envelope function for chord arpeggios with high polyphony
o Latch mode or Footswitch for holding notes in arpeggio buffer
o Keyboard-triggered or -restarted arpeggiator mode
o Input note delay strongly reduced making QMidiArp suitable for live
play
o MIDI-learnable control of many live-relevant functions
o MIDI realtime clock slave synchronization
o JACK transport client synchronization
o Event log entries are color-coded, optional MIDI Clock event display
o Re-designed graphical user interface: all modules and dialogs
are dockable floatable windows, main and file icon toolbars added
o New .qmidiarprc file containing GUI settings, user arp patterns and
last file path
o Save and SaveAs functions with modification monitoring
o All relevant session parameters stored in new .qmax XML session file
o Manual pages in English, French and German
o Handler for SIGINT added to handle unsaved or changed files more
carefully at program termination.
o Handler for SIGUSR1 added to provide support for LADISH level 1.
o Separate threads for ALSA Sequencer Queue handler and arpeggio engine
General Changes
o Port form Qt3 to Qt4 library.
o MIDI Channels and ALSA port id's displayed from 1...16
o On-the-fly tempo changes are disabled
