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by Arnold Krille

Quoting from http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/2.0.1 Without further ado, we hereby give you the 2.0.1 release of ffado. The changelog to the previous 2.0.0 is rather simple: Make it work on the new firewire-stack. Of course some more fixes went into the package. But its mostly intended for distributors so they can finally deprecate/disable the old firewire stack in kernels. For more changelog and instructions please look back at the 2.0.0 release announcement at http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/2.0.0 Get the package: http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.0.1.tar.gz Regards, Arnold, on behalf of the ffado-developers

14 years, 10 months

Nama multitrack recorder-mixer, Debianized

by Joel Roth

Hi Everyone, This mail announces the 1.062 release of Nama, an Ecasound-based multitrack recorder, mixer and mastering tool. New features, several code refactorings and uncounted bug fixes make this version the best evar. There is also a website.[1] The Debian package, newly available through the Debian 'unstable' repository, should work on 'stable' and 'testing' distributions as well. Nama is also available from CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. -- Basics -- Nama adds a text-based user interface and DAW-like concepts to the Ecasound audio processing engine. Nama benefits from Ecasound's reliability, maturity and flexibility, while saving the user from Ecasound's learning curve. Although Nama has its own learning curve, it is designed to make easy things easy, and some hard things easy, too. Since it does not depend on X, Nama is suitable for console users, headless systems, and low-power CPUs. It could also be used for comparative recording tests in situations where video card interrupt conflicts are suspected. -- Some details -- Nama works seamlessly with ALSA and JACK. LADSPA plugins are automatically detected, and may be found through Nama's help system by name or keyword. Nama has an optional, ugly-duckling GUI that can handle basic recording, mixing and fx-processing. I'd like to acknowledge Julien Claassen for his thorough testing, numerous suggestions and overall encouragement. He's recently used Nama to produce some excellent compositions.[2] -- Features List -- + Pre- and post-fader send buses These are mainly for instrument monitor use, allowing each musician to have her own custom mix. A send bus duplicates all user track signals. Each musician can adjust volume/pan/effects set to suit. + Sub buses Useful for mixing groups of signals before they arrive at the mixer provided by the Main bus + Post-fader inserts with wet/dry control Track signals can be routed signals through external JACK clients such as jconverter, or through the soundcard to analog effects. + Track freezing Like mixdown on a per-track basis, it can be helpful in setups with many effects and limited CPU resources. The 'cache' command records a new version of the current track with all effects applied. The 'uncache' command sets the previous version with the original effects. + Effect chains Nama's version of presets. An effect chain can be any or all track effects with current parameter values. + Effect profiles A group of effect chains for multiple tracks can be stored under one name. For example, "new_effect_profile Mastering jpop" stores effect chains for all tracks in the Mastering group as "jpop". + Track effects bypass/restore + Graph-based routing system Nama now has a more capable graph-based routing system that replaces the original rule-based system. Nodes of the graph are used to represent tracks, signal sources and signal sinks. Edges indicate signal paths. Nama adds loop devices to the graph as needed, a significant convenience compared to hand-configured Ecasound. The new routing system should also make it straightforward to build in latency compensation. + Two interfaces to Ecasound Nama will use libecasoundc via Brad Bowman's Audio::Ecasound module if it is available. Otherwise, Nama will run Ecasound in server mode and communicate via the Net-ECI interface. This has no effect on the user interface. -- Bugs and Limitations Nama does *not* have a graphic waveform display. Fortunately you have many alternatives to choose from if you need this capability. All file IO in Nama uses the WAV file format. I just discovered that when Nama is installed from Debian, interrupting the program requires a Ctrl-C *plus some additional keystroke* to exit. -- Installation -- + For Debian 'unstable' systems apt-get install nama (Something similar is possible for other Debian distributions.) + From CPAN cpan Audio::Nama cpan Tk # to use the GUI + Browse or build from github[3] + Browse at CPAN[4] Regards, Joel [1] http://freeshell.de/~bolangi/nama [2] http://juliencoder.de/nama/ [3] http://github.com/bolangi/nama [4] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-Nama/ -- Joel Roth

14 years, 10 months

[ANN] KMid 2.3.1 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMid is a MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE4 that runs in Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. KMid plays MIDI and karaoke files to hardware MIDI devices or software synthesizers. It supports playlists, MIDI mappers, tempo (speed), volume and pitch (transpose) controls and configurable character encoding, font and color for lyrics. The graphic views include a rhythm view (visual metronome), a channels window with solo/muting controls and instrument selectors, and a piano player window (Pianola). KMid is free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 license. Changes for this release: * ALSA Sequencer backend fixes. Bugs: #240391 and #240394. * New and updated translations. More info: http://kmid2.sourceforge.net http://userbase.kde.org/KMid Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/files/

14 years, 10 months

[ANN] Drumstick 0.3.2 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 and WRK file processing are also included. This library is used in KMetronome, KMidimon and KMid2, and was formerly known as "aseqmm". Changes: * Fixed a drumstick-sysinfo crash, when retrieving information for an unavailable timer module. * Fixed WRK file read implementation, allowing compilation on more architectures. * Added standard arguments to all the utilities/example programs. * Added man pages for all the utilities/example programs. * New utility/example program: drumstick-drumgrid, a simple MIDI drum pattern editor/player. 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/0.3.2/ Regards, Pedro

14 years, 10 months

[ANN] Stretchplayer 0.501 - Time Stretching Audio Player

by Gabriel M. Beddingfield

I am pleased to release StrechPlayer 0.501, a time-stretching, pitch-shifting audio file player. It is powered by librubberband, and also features an A/B repeat. NEW IN THIS RELEASE ------------------- * No longer clicks when changing speeds or pitch. * Includes .desktop file and icon. * .deb binary package is provided, including a separate package with debugging symbols. LINKS ----- Home Page: http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/ Tarball: http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer_0.501.tar.gz Binary: Ubuntu/Karmic http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer_0.501_karmic_i38… http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer-dbg_0.501_karmic… Debian Dsc: http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/stretchplayer_0.501.dsc Git: http://gitorious.org/stretchplayer git://gitorious.org/stretchplayer/stretchplayer.git USING THE PROGRAM ----------------- After stretchplayer is installed, there should be an [S] icon under Multimedia or Sound. Or, you can run it from the command line like this: $ stretchplayer The GUI is pretty self-explanatory, and if you hover over the controls a tool-tip should appear. The GUI also has several keyboard accelerators. To play a file, click the file-open icon and select an audio file. Stretchplayer can play anything that libsndfile supports (ogg, flac, wav, etc.). However, it does /not/ support MP3 files at this time. As the file plays, slide the horizontal slider left or right to change the speed of the song. If you wish to transpose the audio, push one of the + or - buttons. INSTALLING THE PROGRAM ---------------------- You will need at least a 1200 MHz processor to use this program. It also requires the following libraries: * Qt >= 4.4 http://qt.nokia.com * librubberband http://www.breakfastquay.com/rubberband/ * libsndfile http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ * JACK http://jackaudio.org/ * CMake http://www.cmake.org/ If you are running Ubuntu Karmic or Ubuntu Jaunty, you can install the .deb packages like this (from the command line): $ sudo dpkg -i stretchplayer*_0.501_karmic_i386.deb Anyone else will need to build from source. Please read the INSTALL.txt file that comes with the taarball. Peace, Gabriel M. Beddingfield

14 years, 10 months

[ANN] guitarix-0.09.0 release 'Multi'

by hermann

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 provide 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 0.09.0 comes with following changes : * make distortion a multiband distortion * fix bug in resample IR-files * resample IR-files now on-the-fly * add insert point ports to the effect chain * add --optimization flag for configure the build * switch to double precision instead of single precision * fix bug in reconfigure convolver when preset change * add patch from Peder Hedlund, build against gtk-2.12.9 and gcc-4.3.1 * add faust 0.9.24 to the "good_faust_versions" have fun ________________________________________________________________________ NOTE:// Andreas have found and solved a bug in the IR-file resampler, that means that all the files you have resampled with guitarix, are "NOT RESAMPLED", only the header was change. To get rid of this, please remove the resampled files and rename the files with the extension .orig (remove .orig) That sucks, sorry for that. hermann _________________________________________________________________________ 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/ here is a nice YouTube video about what you can do with guitarix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdlJZQT3zY4 (Thanks stevie :-)) ________________________________________________________________________ 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-cc 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

14 years, 10 months

[ANN] KMetronome 0.10.0 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with KDE4 user interface, based on the ALSA sequencer. Changes in 0.10.0 * Custom patterns, with graphic editor and import/export as text (RFE #2517833) * Show banks, programs and note names from an instrument definition file in .INS format * Main window layout options: standard tool bar, hide action buttons * New German translation, thanks to Rene Landert * Updated Spanish, Czech and French translations Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v2 More info http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kmetronome.shtml Sources http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/files/kmetronome/0.10.0/ Regards, Pedro

14 years, 10 months

Klactoveedsedstene v2.0 released

by Viggo Simonsen

14 years, 10 months

Rivendell v1.7.2

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.7.2. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. Changes in this release include (from the NEWS file): *** snip snip *** This is a maintenance release of Rivendell, with primary focus on fixing identified issues. Changes: Fixed a bug in RDCatch that could cause upload/download event notifications to fail to update properly. Fixed a bug in RDAirPlay that resulted in zombie processes when using RLMs that fork new processes. Cleaned up the init script to make the 'reload' target more reliable. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 186, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "No, `Eureka!' is Greek for `This bath is too hot!'" | | -- Dr. Who | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

14 years, 10 months

Ardour 2.8.9 released

by Paul Davis

Just a couple of days since 2.8.8, and Ardour 2.8.9 is available from http://ardour.org/download Why? It turned out that the infamous mute bug (which caused the mute button to do nothing) was actually not fixed in 2.8.8 (or prior versions where this has been claimed). This has been one of the worst regressions of recent versions of Ardour, and I mistakenly blamed packagers and distributions for it. Thankfully ardour.org member the_CLA spent time with me on IRC and we finally proved to my satisfaction that the bug was really in Ardour. Its now fixed, hopefully forever. In addition, a new Ardour user on OS X pointed out two rather unfortunate problems that have now been fixed: * If a plugin has existing presets, the preset selector in the plugin editor window would steal key events, possibly causing an unintentional (and unrecoverable) reset of the plugin state (very annoying) * All canvas items except for the text used to label and regions could have their color adjusted. These two exceptions have now been added to the set of things that can be tweaked by, for example, a color-blind user, or someone who just wants dark colors for tracks and white text on region names. Many thanks to the_CLA and Maurits Lamers for patiently getting me to understand these 3 bugs.

14 years, 10 months

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