BigBand is a program to compose real music for real musicians. Since version 1.0 it has been upgraded in many aspects, and now it is able to play with the big boys: sound can be from ALSA or from Jack, and midi events can be sent to the ALSA sequencer bus. The graphics still are handled by SDL, so portability will not be an issue provided that ALSA and Jack are available.
For downloads and information:
http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/bigband/index.html
Here you also can listen to 3 versions of a short demo, performed by:
- BigBand native (with help from our cat)
- amSynth and Timidity
- MiniComputer, Aeolus and Hydrogen
Wouter Boeke
Dear all,
I've just published the second Monthly Round-Up covering the month of
August: http://linuxaudio.org/node/115
Thanks to Robin for giving me access to the linuxaudio.org site so I can
now publish the Round-Ups directly on linuxaudio.org.
And thanks to the people at LinuxMAO (linuxmao.org) for providing so
much valuable information.
Best,
Jeremy
Hello everyone,
Jackbeat version 0.7.6 has just been released. This is a bugfix release.
Homepage: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org
Download: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org/downloads/jackbeat-0.7.6.tar.gz
News
~~~~
- An issue which prevented Jackbeat to compile on recent 64bit Linux systems
has been fixed. This affected Fedora 13, Ubuntu 10.10, Arch Linux and
possibly others.
- Jackbeat doesn't try and connect to PulseAudio by default anymore, since this
may hang on certain systems. The PulseAudio output driver must be explicitly
selected in the preferences.
ChangeLog
~~~~~~~~~
jackbeat (0.7.6)
* #61: fix compiling on recent x86_64 Linux systems such as Fedora 13
* do not try and connect to PulseAudio by default, it may deadlock
Have fun
--
Olivier
By popular request (i.e. two people), a new release of Patchage is out,
along with its dependencies Raul and FlowCanvas.
Downloads, documentation, and more information available at:
http://drobilla.net/software/patchagehttp://drobilla.net/software/raul/http://drobilla.net/software/flowcanvas
Patchage Changes:
* Install SVG icon
* Fix compilation without Jack
* Improve performance when dragging modules
* Bump FlowCanvas dependency to 0.6.0
* Upgrade to waf 1.5.18
Raul Changes:
* Add several unit tests
* Use malloc'd memory for RingBuffer/SRSWQueue (instead of a new'd
array)
* Fancy coloured console/logging I/O (raul/log.hpp)
* More flexible Path and better URI support
* Atom updates, including new "Blank" Atom for storing dictionaries
with URI keys (ala JavaScript "objects", but RDF compatible)
* Remove stack stuff from Array and create new ArrayStack
* Make Symbol and URI more opaque and use Glib string interning
* Add Configuration class for app command line option handling
* Use < operator in TableImpl instead of > so it needn't be defined
* Add IntrusivePtr, a trivial #define of boost::intrusive_ptr which is
useful for hard realtime things (since adding and dropping refs is
realtime safe, which is not true of shared_ptr)
* Remove TimeSlice
FlowCanvas Changes:
* Consistently call Item::store_location when items are moved,
previous versions didn't on arrange or when dragging a selection
* Fix centering (e.g. on arrange, initial view)
* Upgrade to waf 1.5.18
Share and Enjoy,
-dr
Hello
EMutrix is a simple, easy-to-use graphical mixer application for EMU
1010 based cards like the E-MU 1212m, E-Mu 1616m and E-MU 1820 models.
I am releasing the first source package of EMutrix, version 0.1 at
http://emutrix.googlecode.com
It is mostly functional, allowing arbitrary routing between the card's
multiple inputs, outputs and ALSA, setting clock rate and pads. More
features to come in future versions. Try it out if you have an E-Mu
card!
Any comments welcome.
Greetings,
Camilo
On the behalf of the FluidSynth developer team, I'm proud to announce
version 1.1.2 of FluidSynth!
Bigger changes include a redesign of threads and thread safety, and a
new preferred build system - CMake. Other changes include settings for
MIDI bank selection and voice overflow, and a fair amount of minor
enhancements and bug fixes.
The latest release can be downloaded at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/files/
A more complete changelog is at:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ChangeLog1_1_2
For this release, I would like to give a big thanks to:
* Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, for the new build system, and a lot of bug
fixes
* The jOrgan community (Sven Meier, Bernd Casper, and others) who
have been very helpful in testing the new release
* Ebrahim Mayat for taking care of the MacOS X port
* All other people who have tested the code before its release,
suggested patches and helped to trace down bugs, as well as being
active on the mailing list, helping the developer team to take
the right decisions.
Now go enjoy the new release!
David Henningsson
FluidSynth Developer Team
Dates for “ON2: Test Signals”, which will bring together software
developers and radio practitioners to demonstrate, discuss and develop
new ways of applying software to radio, have been announced. ON2 will
take place from Friday 22 October - Sun 24 October in the Haus der
Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany.
“Far from killing radio, the internet is actually behind a remarkable
resurgence,” says festival producer Adam Thomas from Sourcefabric, the
not-for-profit organisation responsible for the leading open source
radio software Campcaster. “We’re seeing an increasing number of
community and non-commercial stations use software and the internet in
hugely innovative ways to boost listener figures across all platforms.”
Two such stations, reboot.fm, Berlin’s free cultural radio station and
user-generated radio pioneers Open Broadcast from Switzerland, are
official partners of the festival.
Also appearing at the festival will be radio futurologist James
Cridland, Mozilla Drumbeat’s Henrik Moltke, and representatives from
Creative Commons, 64 Studio, Unikom, Global Radio, RadioDNS,
newthinking, Mekong ICT and Radio Aporee. Alongside many other radio and
software organisations, they will provide three days of expert keynotes,
open presentations, hands-on workshops, one-on-one mentoring and social
events.
ON2 are currently considering applications to hold a workshop or
presentation in the fields of software and radio. To apply, please write
to contact(a)sourcefabric.org with a summary of your idea and project.
Public events will be free to attend, but sign up is required. The
festival will be of particular interest to radio station managers, open
source developers, web entrepreneurs, hardware hackers and journalists.
The festival is an official satellite event of transmediale, festival
for art and digital culture and is the first in a series of open-source
workshop events supported by the Free Culture Incubator. The festival is
also partnered by Mute, a magazine dedicated to exploring culture and
politics after the net. This is the second version of the festival
following one held in June 2010 in Basel, Switzerland.
More information:
Festival wiki: http://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/ON2
Sourcefabric: http://www.sourcefabric.org
reboot.fm: http://reboot.fm
Open Broadcast: http://www.openbroadcast.ch
transmediale: http://transmediale.de
Mute magazine: http://metamute.org/
Free Culture Incubator: www.transmediale.de/en/fci
Haus der Kulturen der Welt: http://www.hkw.de/
or write to Adam at contact(a)sourcefabric.org
----
ends
After many month of development, we are proud to announce the version
0.6 beta of jMax Phoenix.
The major highlights for this version are:
- A first version of the puredata source compatibility kit, including
the build system and a full example of recompiled object library.
- A large set of usability bug fixed; all the bugs preventing a
smooth work flow have been fixed.
- Error handling improvements: most of the bugs and configuration
errors now results in error messages, and not unexplained freezes.
- A set of examples and tutorials has been recovered from old ISPW
archives; they are not updated to include all the major jMax
functionalities, but it is better than nothing.
Full release notes are available in the release notes section of the
projet site.
This release has been tested on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio 10.04, Debian
5, Fedora 13 and Mandriva Spring 2010; check the installation
instruction on the projet site for specific caveats for Debian and Fedora.
The Puredata compatibility sub-project has been *very* time consuming;
in order to better manage my scarce time resources,
we need some user feedback (and possibly help) to be able to evaluate
the actual interest of pursuing this development direction.
For more information and download and installation instructions go to
http://www.jmax-phoenix.org/.
For contacting the project team: contact(a)jmax-phoenix.org
The jMax Phoenix team
On behalf of the guitarix team I'm proud to announce
Guitarix Version 0.11.1 Bug fix release
Guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar amplifier and is designed
to achieve nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds.
Guitarix uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit as its audio backend
and brings to the jack audio graph a mono amplifier input/output port,
and a FX mono input with two (stereo) output ports.
Guitarix provides a jack midi input port to connect a midi controller
(midi learn) and a (3 channel) jack midi output port, feed by a
(scalable) mix of the tuner and a beat-detector.
Release 0.11.1 comes with following changes :
* fix Bug Echo/Chorus/Delay/Slooper don't work
* add pre/post processing switch to all mono Effects
We put the Guitarix widgets into a library, with the goal of
making them usable independently from Guitarix. You can build
it as shared library and there's a c++ (gtkmm) wrapper, a python
wrapper and glade support. Check it out and look for examples
in those directories, or just build a nice looking display with the
glade editor, and of course ask in our Guitarix forum (it's still
alpha).
As a side note, Guitarix is now in debian(sid/squeeze/Experimental) ,
have fun
_________________________________________________________________________
guitarix is licensed under the GPL.
Project page with screenshots:
http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/
download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
please report bugs and suggestions in our forum here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/
________________________________________________________________________
For capture, guitarix uses the great 'jack_capture'
(version >= 0.9.30) written by Kjetil S. Matheussen.
If you don't have it installed,
you can look here:
http://old.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D
For extra Impulse Responses, guitarix uses the
zita-convolver library, and,
for up/down sampling we use zita-resampler,
both written by Fons Adriaensen.
If you don't have it installed, get it here:
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 /guitarix/src/faust,
the resulting cc files are in /guitarix/src/faust-generated
The tools we use to convert (post-processing and plot)
the resulting faust cpp files to the needed include format,
stay in the /guitarix/tools directory.
________________________________________________________________________
regards
Hermann Meyer, James Warden, Andreas Degert
