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.htmlhttp://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
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http://lanedo.com/~timj/
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
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/
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
