JACK Session managerism...
This might well be ahead of its time. And probably is. JACK session
infrastructure and its promised functionality is still dormant in
subversion source pits. However, good news are, no matter which flavor
you pick, either JACK1 (>= 0.119.2) or JACK2 (>= 1.9.7), both already do
it all to the promise. However still on their respective SVN trunks though.
Maybe this very announcement will get that all loose and out of the dorm
;) At least, I'm trying.
Meanwhile and until that ever happen, QjackCtl will be already here even
though its JACK Session manager(istic) features will be just lurking to
get out of redundancy. Fact is, this new source won't do much better
than that of good old Patchbay, if compiled with existing JACK package
distributions (latest are 0.118.0 and 1.9.6, respectively). Nor even
close. Actually, only when it gets ever compiled and built against a
current JACK Session API it will take off. Fly high or low, you may ask.
Well, may I say, it will only fly as high as many Linux audio
application developers will do to embrace the daunting trouble of adding
a few dozen lines of source code to their creatures. And to their help,
chances are that Torben Hohn already has all the starters ready (ask
torbenh on #jack @ irc.freenode.net; maybe he still has some fresh git
repo/patch on the fridge:). Then again, this very announcement is being
kind of a heads-up. Avast ye LADs!
Anyway, there are a few new tricks this old dog have been taught,
besides putting the carriage before the horses, nevertheless... :)
QjackCtl 0.3.7 has been released!
That's it. Well, the uber-procrastinator sometimes gets over it.
Sometimes :) Maybe there's a fine distinction between elegant
procrastination and being just lazy. Tradition still rules: lazy enough
to procrastinate no more :)
Website:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.7.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 11.3):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.7-1.rncbc.suse113.sr…
- binary packages (openSUSE 11.3):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.7-1.rncbc.suse113.i5…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.7-1.rncbc.suse113.x8…
Weblog (upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
QjackCtl is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- Session widget has session save type preserved as well.
- Connections and the new Messages/Status widgets now have their last
open tab preserved across program run-cycles.
- Connections and Patchbay widgets have been finally given up on an old
feature request: an Expand All items button.
- A significant UI layout has been made: the Messages and Status widgets
were merged into one, giving space to the brand new Session wigdet to be
easy accessible from the main panel control window.
- libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase, as seen
necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13, Debian 6.
(closing bug #3050915).
- Input/Output latency options were missing but now finally enabled for
the firewire back-end.
- General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
- Avoid pre-loading a stalled patchbay definition filename and its
nagging error on startup (fixes bug #3017078).
- Client connection retrial logic scrapped. Being a leftover from early
ages, when machines were slower and JACK server startup times were
longer... now, if it can't connect first time as client, it will tear
down the server whether it's starting up still or not at all. (cf.
Setup/Settings/Start Delay for the rescue).
- Server name is finally part of the server settings presets, thanks to
Fons Adriaensen for the heads-up.
- As a workaround regarding issues switching jack2's backends, Robin
Gareus sends us yet another D-Bus metho slot: "preset", (dbus-send
--system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.preset string:PRESET). Thanks again.
- Another D-Bus interface slot makes it through implementation: "quit"
(eg. usage: dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.quit). Besides,
there's also these new JACK session management actions which were being
overlooked as well: "load", "save", "savequit" and "savetemplate" are
also available as D-Bus method slots.
- Make sure that Patchbay socket names are unique when adding or
copying, fixing previous patch by Dominic Sacré.
- JACK version is now being shown on the About box (jack2).
- Slight Connections widget behavioral change: (dis)connecting a client
(from) to one single port, (dis)connections will be applied in sequence
from (to) all client output ports to (from) as many input ports there
are in below, one by one (satisfying a 5 year old request from Yann
Orlarey, thanks:).
- JACK session support is being introduced.
- Ignore first XRUN occurrence option dropped from statistics.
- Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has been
slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to wrong main
widget hidden state.
- Double-quotes are now being added to device names which include blank
characters and were rendering invalid all command line invocation of the
classic JACK server (eg. specially due for Portaudio device names on
Windows).
- Transport play (rolling) status is now being guarded to avoid
backfiring from extraneous transport state changes.
- General source tree layout and build configuration change.
- Italian (it) translation added (by Sergio Atzori).
- Post-shutdown script invocation logic slightly refactored in attempt
to enforce its execution on application quit.
Enjoy!
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
gst123-0.1.3 has been released.
Overview of changes in gst123-0.1.3:
------------------------------------
* Support for m3u and pls playlists. [Siddhesh Poyarekar]
* Add jack audio output support.
* Support setting the audio driver via config file.
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/gst123-0.1.3.tar.bz2
--
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan
jacksampler-0.0.2 has been released.
Overview of Changes in jacksampler-0.0.2:
-----------------------------------------
* merged stereo support, mostly coded by tczy
* search samples relative to config file for relative paths
What is jacksampler?
--------------------
jacksampler is a sampler which supports MIDI input using JACK, and outputs the
audio data using JACK. It is configured using a simple text file which
describes which audio file corresponds to which MIDI note.
It is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2
Links:
------
Website: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/jacksampler.php
Download: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/jacksampler/jacksampler-0.0.2.tar.bz2
--
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan
spectmorph-0.1.1 has been released. The decoder code has been carefully
performance tuned, which should allow high polyphony (100 to 300 voices,
depending on the CPU), so SpectMorph plays instruments efficient enough to be
used in real world compositions. Also the new SoundFont import program allows
generating instruments from existing SoundFonts easily.
Overview of Changes in spectmorph-0.1.1:
----------------------------------------
* added tool for SoundFont (SF2) import: smsfimport
* file format changes
- allow time index based loops (required for looped SoundFont presets)
- allow stereo (multichannel) files in WavSets
- store phase and magnitude seperately (instead of a sin+cos magnitude)
- support multiple velocity layers
- allow storing the original sample data for quality comparisions
- optimize storage size for smset files if the same Audio file is reused more
than once
* switch to 32 values for 32 perceptually spaced noise bands, instead of the old
noise representation
* handle stereo (multichannel) files in smenc, smjack and beast plugin
* performance optimizations
- LiveDecoder is now really fast, and can handle highly polyphonic synthesis in RT
- sine synthesis is based on IFFT now
- noise synthesis is a lot faster, too
- where possible, use SSE operations in performance critical code
- use FFTW for FFT, which is faster than gslfft
- added fast float->int conversion on x86
- smjack is a lot faster, now
* removed smenc -O2 setting, which was too slow for practical use
* introduced anti-alias filter in LiveDecoder
* cleanups, refactoring, bugfixes
What is SpectMorph?
-------------------
SpectMorph is a free software project which allows to analyze samples of
musical instruments. This should allow constructing hybrid sounds, for instance
a sound between a trumpet and a flute. Also interpolating between two samples
of the same instrument (different attack velocity of a piano) could be
interesting.
SpectMorph is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 3
SpectMorph currently is still being developed, which means that it is not
too interesting for end users, yet.
Links:
------
Website: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/spectmorph.php
Download: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/spectmorph/spectmorph-0.1.1.tar.bz2
There is a big amount of sound samples on the homepage, which test the sound
quality SpectMorph currently provides with many different instruments.
--
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan
Hi *,
xjadeo is the X JAck viDEo mOnitor:
A program that displays a video clip in sync with an external time
source. Applications include: soundtrack composition/editing, video
monitoring and -installations.
http://xjadeo.sf.net/
xjadeo is about to reach the next milestone.
Highlights of updates:
* qjadeo native QT4 implementation
* LTC sync support
* "art installation" mode (time-map, frame-crop)
* x-platform support (runs on all OS that jack2 does)
* rewritten manual
* development moved to git
* ...
If you have a minute: please test! Should be easy enough: Thanks to
Alessio Treglia it is already available in debian/sid and ubuntu/natty.
Are you tired of whining about not being able to cooperate with a FLOSS
project because you can't code..? Well, here's your chance:
* We are thinking it is about time xjadeo has a stronger, more
distinctive logo, and are also looking for a "Made with xjadeo" logo for
film credit rolls.
* We'd appreciate very much if you - preferably a native English
speaker - would help to proof-read the new manual.
more information about these be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xjadeo/forums/forum/447922
Cheers!
Luis & robin
http://gjacktransport.sourceforge.net/ is a tool that provides graphical
control over JACK-transport [1].
It features
- customizable keyboard shortcuts
- custom start/end markers for transport slider.
- memory presets for start/end markers.
- flexible layout & window
- (optional) session-management via LASH.
- load/save current settings from a custom resource-config file.
- Big Clock display (gjackclock)
and is intended for JACK apps which do not themselves provide a timeline
(fi. ecasound, xjadeo,..) and to supplement other apps which do (fi.
ardour, hydrogen, seq24,..).
New in 0.5.0 are *.desktop files (to launch it from the menu) and
and overhaul of 'gjackclock'. The timecode can be rendered in using a
fixed-space table which allows to use non-monospaced fonts for the display.
enjoy,
robin
[1] JACK provides a transport interfaces for starting, stopping and
repositioning a set of clients:
http://jackaudio.org/files/docs/html/transport-design.html
--
Robin Gareus mail: robin(a)gareus.org
site: http://gareus.org/ chat: xmpp:rgareus@ik.nu
blog: http://rg42.org/ lab : http://citu.fr/
Public Key at http://pgp.mit.edu/
Fingerprint : 7107 840B 4DC9 C948 076D 6359 7955 24F1 4F95 2B42
Hi
We have the pleasure to announce the release of rakarrack 0.6.1
Rakarrack is a richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard. Effects include compressor, expander, noise gate, graphic equalizer, parametric equalizer, exciter, shuffle, convolotron, valve, flanger, dual flange, chorus, musicaldelay, arpie, echo with reverse playback, musical delay, reverb, digital phaser, analogic phaser, synthfilter, varyband, ring, wah-wah, alien-wah, mutromojo, harmonizer, looper and four flexible distortion modules including sub-octave modulation and dirty octave up. Most of the effects engine is built from modules found in the excellent software synthesizer ZynAddSubFX. Presets and user interface are optimized for guitar, but Rakarrack processes signals in stereo while it does not apply internal band-limiting filtering, and thus is well suited to all musical instruments and vocals. Rakarrack is designed for Linux distributions with Jack Audio Connection Kit.
New Effects:
------------------------------------------------------------
- OpticalTrem : Tremolo
- Vibe : Vibe
- CompBand : Four Band Compressor
- StereoHarm : Stereo Harmonizer
New LFO types:
-------------------------------------------------------------
- Sample & Hold
- Lorentz Fractal XY
New Additions:
-------------------------------------------------------------
- Metronome
- +10 dB booster
- Add/Delete Internal Effect Presets, that can also shared/merged with other users.
- Drag & Drop effects in main screen to fast reorder.
- Fast MIDI learn assign with right click in each parameter.
- Hide Function for unused effects.
- Random preset generator.
- Drag and Drop presets in bank window to fast swap.
- Extra1 Preset bank.
- User directory, a place to put your preset banks in order to be accessible by a single click.
- Optimized filters and Trigger for recognition note frequency.
- MIDI Program Change Table, that can be save/load.
- Shortcuts.
Improvements:
---------------------------------------------------------------
- Looper, adds metronome and possibility to sync with jack transport and Tap Tempo.
- Compressor (Final Limiter)
- MIDI Converter octave changer.
- Tap Tempo can be set in main screen.
- Speed up the preset change process.
- Upsample x7,x8,x9,x10,x11,x12 (hope you have a fast computer :-))
- RBFilter "Q" modes.
- Effects that depends of internal preset selected (MuTroMojo, WahWah) now display the original internal preset.
Bug fixes .... and new bugs :-)
Thanks
The rakarrack Team.
--
Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>
This is a bug fix release.
A big thanks to all that send fixes to me, without you, the AlsaPlayer will not
be in live.
See the ChangeLog for the details and the names of the contributors :
http://alsaplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/alsaplayer/trunk/alsaplayer/Ch…
I will also stress you to contribute to the AlsaPlayer. At least 2 things need
to be fixed. The first one is the jack output plugin that is using deprecated
functions. The second one is the resampling. For that, libsamplerate will give
a better quality.
Enjoy the AlsaPlayer,
Dominique Michel
--
"We have the heroes we deserve."
A stable release, version 1.7, of MMA--Musical MIDI Accompaniment
is available for downloading. In addition to a number of bug fixes
and optimizations, MMA now features:
- Chords can now be entered in Roman Numeral notation.
- Extensive reworking/enhancement of the Solo track commands.
- MidiInc extended to permit the creation of Solo Riffs.
- Enhanced the automatic groove finding so that multiple
directories can be scanned.
- -V option for an audible preview of a groove in the libraries.
- A new utility, mma-gb.py. This is a simple GUI for viewing and
previewing the groove library.
MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks
for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain
pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details
please visit:
http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/
If you have any questions or comments, please send
them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca
--
**** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars ****
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
Dear all,
Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #4 – November 2010 has been published:
https://linuxaudio.org/node/122
Here it is, Round-Up #4, with thanks to all the people that provided
feedback and made it happening last month. And special thanks yet again
to the people of LinuxMAO. If there would only exist a decent translator
from French to English then everyone could benefit from their massive
and impressive work.
Best,
Jeremy
