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by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.7.4 is available for download at: http://beast.testbit.eu/beast-ftp/v0.7/ This release integrates the bse-alsa driver for which no seperate package is now needed. This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU LGPL that runs under Unix. The "Better" portion of the name refers to the complexity and many interations involved in implementing such a "BEAST" (pun intended). The About page covers more details: http://beast.testbit.eu/about Contact information about mailing lists, IRC, Bugzilla and more is at: http://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Contact GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as screenshots can be found at: http://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Sound_Gallery http://beast.testbit.eu/Beast_Screenshots The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in our forums like the Beast Wiki or the mailing list, all of which can be reached through: http://beast.testbit.eu/. TRANSLATORS: Please help us to improve the BEAST translation, just download the tarball, edit po/<LANGUAGE>.po and email it to us or submit translations directly via transifex: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/gnome-org-beast/resource/messagespot/ Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.4: * Renamed the project to Better Audio System / Better Sound Engine * Moved project website to: http://beast.testbit.eu/ * Various build system fixes [stw,timj] * License fixups for some scripts [stw] * Fixed subnormal tests on AMD64 if SSE unit is in DAZ mode [stw] * Replaced slow resampler checks with a much faster resampling test [stw] * Performance improvements for various tests [stw] * GLib 2.28 unit test porting [stw] * Speed improvements for record field name [stw] * Fixed XRUNs in ALSA driver on 64bit systems [timj] * Added beast.doap [Jonh Wendell] * PO handling improvements. * Updated German translation. * Updated Norwegian bokmål translation [Kjartan Maraas] * Added e-Telugu translation [Veeven] Yours sincerely, Tim Janik --- http://lanedo.com/~timj/ - Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH. Free software author and contributor on various projects.

14 years, 5 months

Qsynth 0.3.6 slip release!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Season greetings! It's spring-cleaning time once again. Dust has severely piled up and brand old mite is already lurking around. That's the bad news. Good news are there are plans for this FluidSynth gooey front-end, you know it's about Qsynth. Alas, plans are follow today's "slip release" though. Finally, you may say. Not that there's any big (not even small) new features being slung out today. In fact, there's just a lousy couple of the same old crap. Never mind. Big plans are all about getting some channel controllers--also known as generators--into the picture. Yes, finally. It means amplitude, filter envelope generators, LFO modulators, knobs and sliders gore fest and what not. I hear you thinking that's all what a synth is about. And you're damn right. Dropping an initial, "synth" has been in the name all this time hasn't it? Right, it has been a pretty old plan, ever since early dawn. Well, it still is... a plan. As always, I won't make any promises, which would be a terrible thing to do, specially from one who keeps calling himself the "über-procrastinator". Yeah, I'm sure you know me from previous auto-proclamations. Back to subject at hand, there it is. Qsynth 0.3.6 slipped away from the dust! Website: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse114.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE 11.4): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse114.i586.r… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse114.x86_64… - binary packages (Windows): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6-setup.exe Change-log: - Main window layout fixing with regard to its user preferred size and recall when system-tray icon is not enabled. - Channels list preset items now activated on double-click. - Desktop environment session shutdown (eg. logout) is now tapped for graceful application exit, even though the main window is active (visible) and minimizing to system tray is enabled. Both were causing first shutdown/logout attempt to abort. Not anymore, hopefully ;). - libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase, as seen necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13, Debian 6. - General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place. - CMake build system. It was silently available in 0.3.5, but now it is officially unveiled. - Fixed a couple of dangling pointers. - Mac OSX: Enabled the MIDI name Id option for CoreMIDI driver ports, added the icon to the app bundle. Weblog (upstream support, yours truly): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qsynth is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Cheers && Enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

14 years, 5 months

Rivendell 2.0.1

by Frederick Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first production release of Rivendell 2.x, v2.0.1. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip ***This is the first production release of Rivendell 2.x. All changes made since 2.0.0rc1 have involved fixes for reported bugs and improved integration with various distributions and desktop environments. See the ChangeLog for specifics. If upgrading from a v1.x version of Rivendell, be sure to read the 'UPGRADING' file before proceeding for important information. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 202, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. Due to the complexity of the schema changes required for this update, the process may take significantly longer to execute than is commonly the case; users are cautioned to allow for ample time operationally. Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | At this time [the year 1700 of the Second Age] the first White Council | | was held, and it was there determined that an Elvish stronghold in the | | east of Eriador should be maintained at [Rivendell]... | | -- J.R.R Tolkien | | "Unfinished Tales" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

14 years, 5 months

ANN: upcoming L2Ork performances and a new pd-l2ork software release

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Dear Friends and fellow L2Ork and Pd enthusiasts, I would greatly appreciate it if you would please distribute the following announcement. The spring is in the air, which means it is time for the spring DISIS (http://disis.music.vt.edu) and L2Ork (http://l2ork.music.vt.edu) events. To start the season right, this past Friday L2Ork had a sneak preview performance at Roanoke College. More so, this coming weekend we are having a truly special series of events with the return of the Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra whom we've been working with this semester. In addition, the spring DISIS event will also include guest artists and scholars Ron Coulter, Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, and Dave Phillips. The upcoming events include: Thursday April 7 @ 3:30-4:45pm in DISIS presentation by Brad Garton Friday 10am-1pm lectures in the Arts Armory by Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, and Dave Phillips (free admission) Friday April 8 @ 7pm in Dumas Center (Roanoke, VA) children's concert featuring Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra and L2Ork Saturday April 9 @ 7pm in Squires Recital Salon children's benefit concert (an Arts Fusion event) featuring Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra and L2Ork followed by a hands-on laptop orchestra demo session for kids and families ($5 general, $3 children/students/seniors, with all proceeds benefiting Boys & Girls Club) Saturday April 9 @ 8pm in Squires Recital Salon benefit concert (an Arts Fusion event) featuring Ron Coulter, Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, Dave Phillips, and L2Ork ($5 general, $3 children/students/seniors, with all proceeds benefiting Boys & Girls Club) This year we've also partnered up with the Virginia Tech Kids' Tech University program to expand our outreach to young audiences. For additional info on the upcoming events, please visit our Events page or our Facebook Event page (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136468179758733). To keep up with the latest updates, join us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117918141555131). As if that weren't exciting enough, earlier this weekend we've made yet another public release of pd-l2ork (http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56) with even more cool features and fixes (changelog: http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/data/pd/Changelog). Our site has been also updated with the new promotional materials and photos. Yet, in the spirit of Steve Jobs' keynote speeches we've left the best for last. Stay tuned for more exciting updates soon ;-) For additional info on L2Ork, visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu. Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy) Virginia Tech Dept. of Music - 0240 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-6139 (540) 231-5034 (fax) ico(a)vt.edu http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

14 years, 5 months

CFP: Audio-graphic Modeling and Interaction @ NIME 2011, May 29 2011

by Diemo Schwarz

Call for Abstracts, please forward: Audio-graphic Modeling and Interaction Workshop @ NIME 2011, Oslo, Norway Sunday, May 29: 1PM-4PM. This workshop focuses on recent advances and future prospects in audio-graphic scenes modeling and rendering. The convergence of the audio and graphic communities is fostered by the increase in computational resources, by cognitive studies on cross-modal perception, and by the industrial needs for realistic audio scenes. Audio-graphic research is spreading in areas such as games, architecture, urbanism, information visualization, or interactive artistic digital media. We will focus on the representation, the interaction, the rendering, and the perception of scenes in which the audio and graphical components are clearly identified and combined (in contrast to standard multimedia video streams). Accepted abstracts will invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI) Detailed information about the workshop can be found here: http://www.topophonie.fr/event/1 Registration to the workshop and NIME conference can be found here: http://www.nime2011.org/registration/ Call for Abstracts ------------------ Abstracts (max. 1 A4/Letter page, 12 points, PDF format) on the topics of the workshop should be sent before April 20 to Hui Ding, LIMSI-CNRS (Hui.Ding(a)limsi.fr) The submissions will be reviewed by a program committee and accepted communications will be given at the workshop. The authors will be notified latest April 29, 2011. Important Dates --------------- * April 20, 2011: Abstract Submission Deadline * April 29, 2011: Notification of Acceptance * May 29, 2011: Workshop. Program Chairs -------------- Roland Cahen, ENSCI-les Ateliers Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS & University Paris Sud 11 Diemo Schwarz, IRCAM Hui Ding, LIMSI-CNRS & University Paris Sud 11 Program committee ----------------- Brian Katz, LIMSI-CNRS, France Cécile Picard-Limpens, HEM, Geneva and UMONS, Belgium Lauri Savioja, Aalto University School of Science, Finland Topics in detail ---------------- Beyond the question traditionally addressed in multimedia, the workshop will cover recent advances in audio-graphic scene modeling such as: * - joint representation of sound and graphic spaces and objects, * - rendering optimization for audio-graphic scenes: level of details, o . occlusion, o . masking, o . beam and ray tracing, o . shadowing, o . space subdivision, o . collisions... * - audio-graphic interface design, * - audio-graphic for virtual humans: o . audio-visual speech, o . cloth animation and sound rendering, o . steps, o . paralinguistic communication... * - sound and graphic spatialization, * - audio-graphic object rendering, and physically and geometrically driven sound rendering, * - cross- and bi-modal perceptual evaluations, * - audio-graphic information visualization: o . distortion, o . zooming and panning, o . filtering, o . immersive rendering, o . visual data sonification, o . interaction devices... * - interactive audio-graphic arts, * - industrial audio-graphic data: o . architectural acoustics, o . sound maps, o . urban soundscapes... * - platforms and tools for audio-graphic scene modeling and rendering, These areas are interdisciplinary in nature and inter-related. New advancements in each area will benefit the others. This workshop should attract young and senior researchers, artists, and corporates in the related fields together to exchange the latest developments and to point out current challenges and new directions. tags NIME, oslo, conference, workshop

14 years, 5 months

ArchAudio Packages for ArchLinux

by Renato Fabbri

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5977716/archstudio.html -- GNU/Linux User #479299 skype: fabbri.renato

14 years, 5 months

jack-stdio 1.1 - was [ANN] jack-stdout 1.0

by Robin Gareus

> Robin Gareus wrote: >> Hya, >> >> I've just brought jack-stdout up to scratch. >> >> jack-stdout captures audio from one or more JACK audio-ports and writes >> raw data to standard-output. >> >> It can write signed/unsigned 16/24bit integer and 32bit floating-point >> data, both big/little endian. > > Thanks for this, sounds fun! > It is :) For completeness (and to close a 3yrs old ToDo item); i've just added jack-stdin; fixed a few typos on the way, and added 8+32 bit integer support. I've re-named the project to JACK-stdio. JACK-stdio version 1.1 is out! http://rg42.org/oss/jackstdio/ git://rg42.org/jack-stdout If you ever felt like you need to use 'sox' as effect-rack for JACK, here's your chance: jack-stdout system:capture_1 system:capture_2 \ | sox -t raw -r 48k -e signed -b 16 -c 2 - \ -t raw -r 48k -e signed -b 16 -c 2 - \ tremolo 5 100 \ | jack-stdin system:playback_1 system:playback_2 have fun, robin

14 years, 5 months

LAM: Best of 2010 mix - Now online!

by Patrick Shirkey

From the "Better Late than Never Dept"... Announcing the _*Linux Audio Musicians Best of 2010 mix*_ Download and view the full playlist of 116 tracks here: http://djcj.org/audio/lam/ Listen to the continuous radio stream here: http://radio.linuxaudio.org/lam2010.ogg.m3u **************************************************************************** Congratulations!!! to the Artists and Bands that made 2010 a bumper year for well produced and unique music from the Linux Audio Community. This mix is the biggest yet with over 100 tracks included and over 12 hours of music to listen to. A hefty selection of guitar music and rock productions are included in this years mix to complement the large range of electronica. The variation of styles and genres is superb and as expected there was lots of off the wall and challenging music produced during the 2010 period also. The playlist has been ordered in terms of Genre/Style to make it easier to separate the tracks out for those with specific tastes and to ensure the radio stream flows nicely. If you feel that there is a track missing please feel free to contact me with details. This is a snapshot of the year so lets make it as complete as possible. Enjoy! **************************************************************************** -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd.

14 years, 5 months

SuperCollider 3.4.2 released

by Dan S

Hi all - SuperCollider 3.4.2, released March 2011, is a bugfix release. Source code downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.4.2/ Ubuntu packages: https://launchpad.net/~supercollider/ Since SuperCollider 3.4, we’ve found and fixed quite a few bugs - including an important “garbage collection” problem which could cause the language to crash in some rare instances, and a cleanup of the regular-expression methods. We recommend users of 3.4 to upgrade to 3.4.2. More details on the wiki: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/SuperCollider_3.4.2 Dan -- http://www.mcld.co.uk

14 years, 5 months

[ANN] jack-stdout 1.0

by Robin Gareus

Hya, I've just brought jack-stdout up to scratch. jack-stdout captures audio from one or more JACK audio-ports and writes raw data to standard-output. It can write signed/unsigned 16/24bit integer and 32bit floating-point data, both big/little endian. * http://rg42.org/oss/jackstdout/ * git://rg42.org/jack-stdout example usage - live stream from JACK: jack-stdout system:capture_1 system:capture_2 \ | oggenc -r -R 48000 -B 16 -C 2 - \ | tee /tmp/recording.ogg \ | oggfwd -p -n "my live stream" localhost 5900 hackme live.ogg have fun, robin

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