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[ANN] Jacker 2010.9.21 - A MIDI tracker for JACK

by Leonard Ritter

A new version of Jacker is out: http://bitbucket.org/paniq/jacker Changes: * Command-Line support. If a song name is passed to Jacker at startup, it will load it. * "install" command. You can now install Jacker globally. * New logo. Less glossy, more elegant. * Fixed a terrible timing error that introduced a jitter as big as the current latency. * Default number of tracks raised from 8 to 16. * Tracks can be renamed. Double-click track to pick a new name. * Mute buttons for each track. Not that reliable at the moment. Last played sound may hang. In this case, stop, then continue playing. * MIDI input to connect your keyboard, to test sounds before you track them. Click on a track label to route your keyboard to the particular output. * Initial JACK transport support. It's useful for synchronizing a recording to a DAW like Ardour. Can be switched on with the "Sync" button in the toolbar. Not too stable on start-up and loop borders. When in trouble, stop, seek, then start.

14 years, 7 months

DSSI 1.1.0 release

by Sean Bolton

Announcing the DSSI Soft Synth Interface version 1.1.0 release: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ DSSI is an audio plugin API for software instruments and effects, based on LADSPA, the ALSA sequencer event types, and OSC (Open Sound Control) communications. DSSI is now supported by six full-featured hosts, several specialized hosts, and at least twenty-four DSSI plugins. (See the above URL for a list.) New in the DSSI 1.1.0 release: * New jack-dssi-host command line option '-c' to set the ALSA and JACK client names. * New 'dssi_list_plugins' and 'dssi_analyse_plugin' command line tools. * Example GUIs have been updated to Qt 4. Bugfixes: * Fixed jack-dssi-host ALSA client ports to be of type 'application'. * Fixed the MIDI CC mapping in trivial_synth. * Fixed an uninitialized variable bug in less_trivial_synth. Enjoy! Sean Bolton

14 years, 7 months

ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.2

by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.7.2 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.2 are available for download at: http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/ 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. BSE-ALSA is an ALSA driver for BSE. The "Bedevilled" portion of the names has no religious background, refer to the About page for more details: http://beast.gtk.org/about A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as screenshots can be found at: http://beast.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots/index.html 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 Bugzilla or the mailing list, all of which can be reached through http://beast.gtk.org/. TRANSLATORS: Please help us to improve the BEAST translation, just download the tarball, edit po/<LANGUAGE>.po and email it to us. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.2: * Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL, use AS-IS license for examples * Module changes and additions: ArtsCompressor - Relicensed to LGPL with permission from Matthias Kretz BseContribSampleAndHold - Relicensed to LGPL with permission from Artem Popov DavXTalStrings - Use deterministic random numbers for unit tests BseNoise - Improved random number generator * Switched to autogenerated ChangeLogs * Error bell can be muted in beast preferences dialog * Added multisample creation/editing command line tool: bsewavetool * Support adjustable volume, pitching and drum envelopes in .bsewave files * Added Retro Acoustic drum kit [Tim, Stefan] * New loadable Instruments/Effects: - BQS Bass Drum E8012 [Tim, Stefan] - BQS Slow Hum [Stefan, William DeVore] - FSM Fresh Water Bass instrument [Krzysztof Foltman] - FSM Growl Bass instrument [Krzysztof Foltman] - FSM Synth String Sweep [Krzysztof Foltman] * Added support for loading 32bit and 24bit PCM-format WAV files * Added support for gcc-4.4 and automake-1.10 * Added support for guile-1.8, guile-1.6 remains as minimum requirement * Various fixes, improvements and much improved test coverage. * Bug fixes: #452604, #468229, #344388, #451086, #450724, #454121, #491552, #450490, #441936, #336766, #433431, #474332, #474244, #456879, #456408, #424897 [Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld] * Migrated translation support to use awk, sed and po/Makefile.am. * Updated German translation [Mario Blättermann] * Updated Italien translation [Michele Petrecca] * Updated Occitan translation [Yannig Marchegay] * Updated Brazilian Portugues translation [Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle] * Updated British English translation [David Lodge] * Updated Spanish translation [Jorge Gonzalez] * Updated Slovenian translation [Andrej Znidarsic] * Updated Danish translation [Joe Hansen] * Updated French translation [Bruno Brouard] * Added Norwegian bokmal translation [Kjartan Maraas] * Added Ukrainian translation [Maxim V. Dziumanenko] Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.2: * Fixes for automake-1.10 builds * Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL Yours sincerely, Tim Janik --- http://lanedo.com/~timj/

14 years, 7 months

[ANN] Linux.conf.au 2011 multimedia miniconf: call for papers

by Jonathan Woithe

Continuing the tradition from past conferences, the LCA Multimedia Miniconf is back at Linux.conf.au 2011 (LCA2011). Linux.conf.au 2011 will be hosted in Brisbane, Australia from 24-29 January 2011 with the miniconfs being held over the first two days. For more information about the conference check out http://lca2011.linux.org.au/. Multimedia encapsulates a wide variety of topics: composition and playpack of video, audio and music. Submissions are now invited from those interested in giving presentations or short tutorials at the Multimedia miniconf on any topic related to opensource multimedia software, such as the following: * exciting new additions to existing software * development of new multimedia programs * how to set Linux up for multimedia composition, authoring and/or playback * great user experiences with open source multimedia software * legal issues surrounding multimedia content and its use with open source software * descriptions of multimedia workflows: tools used, process followed, and so forth * upcoming features in low-level infrastructure (JACK, ALSA, PulseAudio, etc) * any other open source multimedia topic we haven't thought of It is expected that most of the miniconf presentation slots will be around 20 minutes with question time to follow. We may be able to accommodate longer 50 minute presentations depending on the number of proposals offered. In addition, time will be allocated for 5 minute "lightning talks". Projection facilities will be available. Please note that in line with linux.conf.au guidelines miniconfs cannot receive funding, nor can they provide travel or accommodation assistance. In general presenters and attendees at miniconfs must be registered for LCA2011 although miniconf-only registration can be arranged - contact the multimedia minconf organisers for more information. To submit a proposal please send the following to lca-mm(a)lists.annodex.net or one of the organisers by Thursday 6 October 2010 00:00 UT: * your name and preferred email address * the title of your talk * a brief abstract describing what you want to talk about (up to about 500 words) * your preferred presentation length For more information about the miniconf please refer to the website http://www.annodex.org/events/lca2011_mmm/ or contact one of the organisers (Jonathan Woithe, Silvia Pfeiffer, Roderick Dornan - addresses are on the website). Regards Jonathan Woithe LCA2011 Multimedia miniconf organiser

14 years, 7 months

[ANN] Drumstick 0.5.0 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Drumstick is a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface using Qt4 objects, idioms and style. ALSA sequencer provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. Complementary classes for SMF, WRK and OVE file processing are also included. This library is used in KMetronome, KMidimon and KMid2, and was formerly known as "aseqmm". Changes: * OVE file format support, contributed by Rui Fan * Optional RealtimeKit support for MIDI input thread * guiplayer simplified and optimized, with OVE format playback * Build system fixes: using visibility=hidden if it is available, exceptions, static build. Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 or later Project web site http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick Online documentation http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/docs/ Downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/

14 years, 7 months

Bigband 1.2

by W.Boeke

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

14 years, 7 months

Linux Audio Monthly Round-Up #2 - September 2010

by Jeremy Jongepier

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

14 years, 7 months

[ANN] Jackbeat 0.7.6

by Olivier Guilyardi

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

14 years, 7 months

Patchage 0.4.5, Raul 0.7.0, FlowCanvas 0.6.4 Released

by David Robillard

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/patchage http://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

14 years, 7 months

QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.1.0 Out Now!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! It's been a long summer hasn't it? Bad news is that laudable 'spring cleaning' has slipped a bunch and in fact, is still on going with no end on sight, exactly as the 'uber-procrastinator' predicted! ;) Nevertheless, QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.1.0 are out now! This release marks the fact that QmidiCtl [1] is now made available from the official Maemo 5 repository [3]. So that you can download and install it directly from your N900 [4]. You'll find it on the Multimedia section. Second, QmidiCtl [1] is now fully configurable with regard to which MIDI events are sent and/or recognized. It's not MMC-exclusive anymore. Third, QmidiNet [2] also talks JACK-MIDI now. Although (very) experimentally. And you don't have to opt out on ALSA-MIDI. You can have both MIDI interfaces running as long as you please. Finally, Paul de Vries shows us a magnificent video re. How To: Setup QmidiCtl on The Nokia N900 with Renoise [5]. Alas, it's on Windows and using ipMIDI [8] as the gateway back-end. No sweat :) If Renoise [6] is to run on Linux he would use QmidiNet [2] or multimidicast [7]. Take note that the latter only does ALSA MIDI and doesn't handle MIDI SysEx messages as certain as MMC is. Kudos to Paul. See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/233 Websites: http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net Project pages: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet Downloads: - source tarballs: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.sr… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.x8… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.x8… - binary packages (Maemo 5): http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: QmidiNet and QmidiCtl are both free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. References: [1] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net [2] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net [3] Maemo.org - Home of the Maemo community http://www.maemo.org [4] Maemo.org - Downloads: QmidiCtl http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl [5] How To: Setup QmidiCtl on The Nokia N900 with Renoise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hnZwnAdsk [6] Renoise http://www.renoise.com [7] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [8] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN http://nerds.de Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

14 years, 7 months

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