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by info＠bandshed.net

Hi LAA Subscribers, A quick note to announce the release of AV Linux 4.2. The most noteworthy changes being JACK Session support, Ardour 3 'readiness' and true Plug and Play FFADO supported FireWire device operation with daisy-chaining on the new FireWire stack. Of course there is a lot more, please read the full announcement here: http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=1162.0 My sincere thanks to linuxaudio.org and the maintainers of this list for your often unsung efforts. -GLEN

14 years, 3 months

jack_freewheel_button 0.2

by Mike Cookson

This button allowes to free / unfree jack time wheel or just monitor freewheel state. Written on python Browse sources via GitWeb: http://repo.or.cz/w/jack_freewheel_button.git To get sources type this command: git clone git://repo.or.cz/jack_freewheel_button.git

14 years, 3 months

Foo YC-20 1.1.0 released

by sampo savolainen

Hi, I am proud to introduce a new version of Foo YC-20, the Yamaha YC-20 software synthesizer. This release is vastly more efficient than the previous version. The downside is that compiling this version takes quite a lot of resources. The YC-20 is a divide-down combo organ designed in the late 60's. This emulation faithfully copies the sound, features and flaws of the original organ. Main features of this synthesizer: * 61 keys * Two main voice sections * Switchable bass section * No polyphony restrictions * A realism control to add flaws found in the real organ Flaws: * Takes quite a bit of CPU power * No touch vibrato The emulation is written in Faust and uses Jack for audio and MIDI. All controls of the synthesizer can be controlled with MIDI. There is an undocumented "easter egg". Any command line argument given to the program will be used as the configuration file name. The state of the organ controls are read from the file and the file will be overwritten with the current setup when the synthesizer is shut down. Tarball: http://foo-yc20.googlecode.com/files/foo-yc20-1.1.0.tar.bz2 Website: http://code.google.com/p/foo-yc20/ Screenshot: http://foo-yc20.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/graphics/screenshot.png More information about the real organ can be found at: http://www.combo-organ.com/Yamaha/yamaha.htm#YC-20 Sampo Savolainen

14 years, 3 months

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #5 – December 2010

by Jeremy Jongepier

Dear all, A bit late because of the Holidays here in the Netherlands, but it's here nonetheless, the Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #5. Again I had some really positive feedback which is very gratifying of course and it powers the drive to continue writing these round-ups. Back to business, what was November all about? Best, Jeremy http://linuxaudio.org/node/124

14 years, 3 months

Denemo 0.8.22 Release - Free and Open Source Music Notation Editor (Lilypond Frontend & Midi)

by Nils

Denemo 0.8.22 release! Get it on http://www.denemo.org or ask your Distribution to update their versions. Contact us through our mailing list or #denemo on irc.freenode.org Denemo is a free software (GPL) music notation editor for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and MS Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more. New features in this version. Playback Improvements playback in historic tunings, microtonal music playback. mute selected voices during playback Denemo Display improvements Whole Measure Rests fills measure for all timesignatures Upbeat (Anacrusis, pickup) command now fills measure Vector graphics for Directives [[Graphics Fonts]] Fully justified page display. Better display for 1-line staffs (e.g. Drum staff) Breve, Longa notes and rests Prevailing duration applies to Breve, Longa, Plain chant etc [[Prevailing Duration]] Template for Accordion Shifts Improved Handling of Voices More Printing Controls Change/override the printed measure numbering Hide single printed objects (notes/chords, timesignatures, keysignatures, clefs) Hide linear section of notes or the stafflines (or both). Breath mark "Mensurstriche" / Mensural Barlines switchable (printing) Human-readable file format for Denemo files. Tutorial Bugfixes Chords sound all notes on entry Playback paging made reliable Check note pitches fixed Lyrics panes word wrap

14 years, 3 months

[ANN] gx_head release candidate 1

by hermann

I would like to announce the public release of the first gx_head release candidate. gx_head is a derivation from the guitarix project and provide a simple guitar amp head interface, a tuner, a mono rack and a stereo rack. In-build effects can un/loaded to the racks,reordered and saved as presets. All Controllers provide a MIDI learn connection via JACK MIDI Presets can switch/load/unload with the MIDI program change message (any channel). You found some screen-shots here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/guitarix/ check it out and let us know if you found a bug, get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/gx_head/gx_head-rc.tar.bz2/d… greats hermann

14 years, 3 months

Mixxx 1.9.0 beta1 and Mixxx 1.8.2 released

by RJ Ryan

Hello all, Since our October 5 release of Mixxx 1.8.0, the Mixxx Development Team have been hard at work on our next major release, Mixxx 1.9.0. Today, we are proud to announce Mixxx 1.9.0 beta1 and Mixxx 1.8.2. Among the new features in 1.9.0 Beta1 are: - *Shoutcast / Icecast support* - Mixxx can now broadcast over the internet (heavily requested feature) - *External Mixer Support* - The new Sound Hardware preferences pane allows you to route each playback deck separately, which allows you to use Mixxx with an external mixer. - *ReplayGain normalization* - A user from our forum worked closely with our developers to fully implement volume normalization, including performing the ReplayGain analysis for tracks which are not tagged. - *Waveform Gain* - The scrolling waveforms now scale according to the channel gain for better visual feedback. - *Key lock buttons* - Formerly known as "pitch-independent time stretch", there are now easily accessible key-lock buttons for each for deck. - *Revamped default skin* - Since the original source material for the Outline Netbook skin was lost eons ago, our artist completely redid it from scratch and tweaked it for better visibility. The new skin has also added EQ kill switches. - *HSS1394 support* (Windows, OS X) - Mixxx now supports firewire HSS1394 MIDI devices such as the Stanton SCS 1 series. - *Improved FLAC support* - We're now using libFLAC directly for smoother FLAC decoding. - *Revamped metadata parsing* - Integration of TagLib<http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html> allows Mixxx to parse more metadata from songs, and do it more consistently. - *Metadata writing* - Mixxx can now write changes in song metadata back to disk. This feature is off by default, and can be enabled in the Library preferences pane. - *Millisecond time display* - The time counters in Mixxx now have an extra millisecond display. - *Library improvements:* - *Played column - *The library now indicates whether a song has been played in the current session already, and also counts the total number of times the song has been played. - *Ratings column - 5* stars, no stars, or anywhere in between<http://www.mail-archive.com/mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03273.html> . - *Better search *- Search now searches in more columns, and by-term instead of by-phrase. - *Revamped iTunes integration* - A rewrite yielded a significant speedup of iTunes parsing. - *Faster library scanning - *The library scanner should perform much better on large libraries. - *New MIDI mappings:* - Vestax Typhoon - Hercules DJ Console Mk4 - Numark MIXTRACK - Pioneer CDJ-350 - *Updated MIDI mappings:* - Hercules DJ Control MP3 - Hercules DJ Control e2 - Hercules DJ Control Steel - Vestax VCI-100 - Reloop Digital Jockey 2 - *Tons of bug fixes and performance improvements!* Mixxx 1.8.2 is a maintenance release and has many of the same bug fixes, MIDI mappings, and performance improvements that 1.9.0 Beta1 does. You can read more details about this release on our blog<http://mixxxblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/mixxx-190-beta1-and-182-released.html>. You can download Mixxx 1.9.0b1 and Mixxx 1.8.2 from out website: http://mixxx.org. Best regards, RJ Ryan

14 years, 3 months

Release candidate 5 of L2Ork iteration of pd-extended now available

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

For those interested in the the good ole' Pd, L2Ork has been busy working on an improved version providing an array of improvements and stability fixes to its editor. Consequently, final release candidate is now available for download from L2Ork's site. This release builds upon Pd-extended and provides revamped GUI with a collection of new features designed to streamline editing. It is fully compatible with Pd externals (if merging with an existing installation, they may require a recompile) and provides precompiled externals for the i386 platform. Feedback and bug-reports are most appreciated. http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56 Cheers! 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, 3 months

Scalpel Audio Editor 0.8.0

by Pierre

Scalpel is an audio editor for Linux written in Python. It aims at providing a simple-to-use and easy-to-extend audio editor. Sound hackers, get started translating your Matlab routines into Python/Numpy functions! Scalpel uses PyGTK for the user interface, Numpy for the internal processing, ALSA for the audio playing and libsndfile for reading and writing files. A minimal part of the code is written in Cython for better performance. Scalpel still has some rough edges but is quite usable. Try it now and be sure to send your feedback. Links: * Homepage: http://scalpelsound.online.fr * Source: http://gitorious.org/scalpel * Pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/scalpel

14 years, 3 months

QjackCtl 0.3.7 released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

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

14 years, 4 months

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