Hello Fellow Linux Audio Users,
I like to pass along the release of AV Linux 4.0, I think this is an
unprecedented collection of Open-Source excellence and Commercial Linux
Audio Software Demos. For the full story including the list of included
applications please have a look at the Release Announcement pdf:
http://www.bandshed.net/pdf/AV4Released.pdf
You are welcomed to have a look at the AV Linux website here:
http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html
Regards, Glen MacArthur
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
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
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.nethttp://userbase.kde.org/KMid
Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/files/
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
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/stretchplayergit://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
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
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
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!
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