Apologies for cross-posting...
Dear Colleagues and fellow computer music enthusiasts,
On May 30th 1pm-7pm EST @ NYC Resistor L2Ork will hold a one-day workshop on building Linux-based laptop orchestra and unique opportunities such an ensemble brings about.
Synopsis:
L2Ork is an ultra-affordable tool for handling administrative logistics associated with starting a new Linux-based laptop orchestra using exclusively free software and cost-efficient hardware. The workshop will cover general issues in regards to starting a Linux-based laptop orchestra, as well as provide an opportunity for the workshop participants to engage in writing for L2Ork. The workshop will also cover L2Ork's latest initiative to bridge STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and Arts in K-12 education and funding opportunities such a project may bring about.
Participants will learn about:
* administrative and logistical prerequisites for starting a Linux-based laptop orchestra
* design considerations in designing and building adequate infrastructure (speakers, soundcard, system configuration and optimization)
* streamlining Linux platform
* optimizing Pure-Data software for GUI-based networked performances
* ensuing creative opportunities of a networked laptop orchestra
* design strategies and standards developed for writing pieces for the L2Ork ensemble
* education-based opportunities attained through L2Ork's ultra-affordable infrastructure
* logistical considerations in building GUIs for a diverse group of performers with widely varying amount of musical training and experience
* wiimote strategies for an ensemble-oriented performance
* strategies for incorporating soloists into the L2Ork ensemble
Participants will be given access to:
* all L2Ork's resources, including custom code and Pure-Data abstractions designed specifically for the orchestra and its input devices
* customized Pure-Data software platform with performance, editor, and GUI enhancements
* access to software repository containing optimized Linux kernel and supporting software as well as turnkey Linux setup containing an entire hard-drive image of the L2Ork Linux system
* detailed list of parts necessary to build L2Ork-compatible ~$250 hemispherical speakers and a ~$750/seat turnkey setup including a laptop, external soundcard, wiimote & nunchuk, headset, cables and accessories, and a custom hemispherical speaker.
All participants will be also given an opportunity to interact with L2Ork members (performers and researchers alike) as well as submit their own works for programming consideration by the L2Ork ensemble.
For a more detailed overview and registration info please visit:
http://icmc-workshop-l2ork.eventbrite.com/
NB: please note that the times listed on the aforesaid site are in Pacific Time.
For additional info on L2Ork, please visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu.
Should you happen to have any questions, suggestions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
ico(a)vt.edu
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/
Hello everybody,
I'm pleased to announce the release of NASPRO 0.2.0, which includes:
* NASPRO core: a tiny convenience library containing useful code to
implement LV2 dynamic manifest plugins and especially bridges from
other APIs to LV2;
* NASPRO bridges bad: a collection of <API>-to-LV2 bridges which work
fine, but do not completely support the original APIs;
* Permafrost: a DSP language designed with physics-based modeling in
mind - the compiler produces RDF/Turtle data and C code implementing
LV2 plugins.
It should work on all POSIX-compliant platforms on LV2 hosts which
support the LV2 dynamic manifest extension (zynjacku >= 5 or SLV2 >
0.6.6 based hosts with SLV2 compiled with the --dyn-manifest option).
The bridged APIs in this release are LADSPA 1.1 (+ LRDF) and DSSI 1.0;
the LADSPA bridge supports almost all LADSPA/LRDF features
(run_adding() and LRDF presets are missing), while the DSSI bridge is
still lacking (no GUI, no MIDI programs, no run_multiple_synth*()
support).
Permafrost, instead, is a very experimental thing, so there is no
official documentation (but you can easily guess the syntax by looking
at the provided examples) and backwards compatibility is not taken
seriously in the next releases.
Enjoy,
Stefano
Website: http://naspro.atheme.org
gst123-0.0.2 has been released.
Overview of Changes in gst123-0.0.2:
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* passing a directory as argument will play all files in that directory
* cursor keys can be used to seek in the file that is being played
* time display includes hours now
What is gst123?
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The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the
spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on gstreamer. It plays all file formats
gstreamer understands, so if you have a music collection which contains
different file formats, like flac, ogg and mp3, you can use gst123 to play all
your music files.
It is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 2
Links:
------
Website: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123.php
Download: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123/gst123-0.0.2.tar.gz
--
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan
Hi,
I am proud to introduce Foo YC-20, the Yamaha YC-20 software synthesizer
The YC-20 is a divide-down combo organ designed in the late 60's. This
emulation faithfully copies the features, sounds and flaws of the
original organ.
Features:
* 61 keys
* Two main voice sections
* Switchable bass section
* No polyphony restrictions
* A realism control to add flaws found in the real organ
Flaws:
* Unbelievable amount of CPU load
* No touch vibrato
The emulation is written in Faust and uses Jack for audio and MIDI. All
controls of the synthesizer can be controlled with MIDI.
http://code.google.com/p/foo-yc20/http://foo-yc20.googlecode.com/files/foo-yc20-1.0.0.tar.bz2
Note! The synthesizer contains and undocumented "easter egg". If the
program is given an argument, that argument will be used as the
configuration file name. The file will be created if it doesn't exist.
When quitting, the file is overwritten with the current setup.
Obligatory screenshot:
http://foo-yc20.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/graphics/screenshot.png
More on the actual organ at
http://www.combo-organ.com/Yamaha/yamaha.htm#YC-20
Sampo Savolainen
Hello,
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, funk to funky. Yawn. Cut the non-sense,
there's no burial service nor Bowie's song here. Just blowing some aging
stuff, maybe giving the patine that it deserves ;) Almost one long year
has gone by and sadly enough, there's no big new and flashy features to
show off. But, nevertheless,
Qsynth 0.3.5 is out from the closet!
Hope you enjoy the (not so big) news :) Have fun.
Description:
Qsynth is a FluidSynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around
the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. FluidSynth is an excellent command
line software synthsizer based on the Soundfont specification.
Website:
http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.5.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 11.2):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.src.rpm
- binary packages (openSUSE 11.2):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.i586.r…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.x86_64…
- binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth_0.3.5-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_i386…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth_0.3.5-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_amd6…
Change-log:
- Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has been
slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to wrong main
widget hidden state.
- General source tree layout and build configuration change.
- Most modal message dialog boxes (eg. critical errors) are now replaced
by system tray icon bubble messages where available.
- Reverb and Chorus parameter ranges have been revised to match and
comply with fluidsynth back-end (libfluidsynth).
- Fluidsynth channel info and unset program interfaces are now in use
where available (libfluidsynth >= 1.1.1, EXPERIMENTAL).
- Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to disk
when Options dialog changes are accepted and applied.
- Output peak level meters get their long deserved gradient look.
- Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb),
back-traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure
option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build targets
(--enable-debug).
- Added Czech (cs) translation, contributed by Pavel Fric.
- The channel preset selector (Channels/Edit...) has been seriously
crippled for ages, only showing the presets of the last loaded
soundfont, now fixed.
- Minimum number of MIDI channels allowed on engine setup has been
dropped from the old value 16 to as low as 1 (one), not that it makes a
difference, as (lib)fluidsynth internals just rounds it to the nearest
multiple of 16 anyway.
- Cleanup to knobs source, simplified from redundant stuff.
Weblog (upstream support, yours truly):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qsynth is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Cheers && Enjoy.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hi everyone,
The Jackbeat step sequencer version 0.7.5 has been released.
Download it from:
http://jackbeat.samalyse.org
News
~~~~
A critical compatibility issue with gtk >= 2.19 has been fixed.
ChangeLog
~~~~~~~~~
jackbeat (0.7.5)
* #47: fix startup crash with gtk >= 2.19 caused by new GtkBuilder widget
name handling
Musically yours
--
Olivier
KMid is a MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE4. It runs in Linux, using the ALSA
Sequencer.
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).
Changes for this release:
* New Mac OSX and Windows backends
* Fixes in ALSA sequencer backend:
· don't set an explicit output pool size, using the default size instead.
· unconditionally reload MIDI devices before checking the available outputs.
Drumstick shared libraries v0.3.1 are recommended.
More info: http://userbase.kde.org/KMid2
Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
KMid is free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2 license.
Downloads
* Source packages
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmid2/files/
* openSUSE RPMs, and Ubuntu DEB packages:
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&q=kmid
Regards,
Pedro
Hi all:
Here is the new release of the Dynamic Multiband LV2 Plugin including some
interesting new features like the posibility of increase or decrease the
number of bands at runtime.
I hope you like and use it in your projects.
Project web site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/teliasopia/
DYNAMIC MULTIBAND LV2 PLUGIN
RELEASE 0.0.2
Date: 04-25-2010
THE PLUGIN:
Filter section based on a biquad filter from free software JAMIN adapted
from Eli Brandt from the LISP CODE.
Compressor section based on the one by Steve Harris (Sc4).
The plugin bundle is available at 3,4 or 5 bands and at mono and stereo
versions.
(You can change the number of the bands at runtime)
THE GUI (Graphic User Interface)
The gui is a design by Teliasopia using Gtk++ and Cairo libraries.
FEATURES
The controls available are:
AT THE FILTER SECTION.
You can change easily the limits and width of each band in the graphic
display.
Also you can solo and mute each band with the small toggles.
AT THE COMPRESSOR SECTION
You can change easily the ratio and threshold parameters clicking and moving
the points at the graphic display.
Also yo can change the attack an release time with a pair of knobs.
GENERAL SECTION
You can select the detection mode (PEAK-RMS) through the toggle at the top
of the plugin.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------NEW FEATURES----------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHANGE THE BAND NUMBERS AT RUNTIME
-> Now you can change the number of the bands at runtime.
To add a new band simply drag and drop the right limit of the spectrograp
display.
To delete a band drag the right limit of the band and drop out the
spectrograph display
TYPE THE KNOB VALUES
->To type an exact value for a knob just double click and type the desired
value into the the textbox. Press INTRO to accept.
MAIN KNOB
-> Main knob to control the general output gain.
---------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------FIXED BUGS----------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
Compiling on 64 bits machines. (FIXED)
RMS Detection mode. (FIXED)
DEPENDENCIES
lv2 (of course)
Cairo
Gtk++
==========================
SPECIAL NOTE: Take care
==========================
This version will replace the old one. The projects and songs made with the
old version don't work fine with this version and crash the host app.
It's the second release of this plugin...please be patient with the bugs and
feedback.
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Hi again,
Since 6pm UTC today linuxaudio.org is hosted on a new server (actually a
VM).
Due to slowly failing hardware on the old machine were urged to perform
the migration ahead of schedule and were unable to send out a
notification about it beforehand.
The hosting is (still) provided by by the Virginia Tech, Department of
Music and Digital Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio. Many thanks to
Ico Bukvic. Daniel James takes care of DNS. and a big thanks to
Marc-Olivier Barre who manages the email services.
All systems go.
robin root
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Dear mailing list users,
The list migration to the brand new virtual is complete and all the
problems seems to be fixed. As Robin told me when we were in the middle of
this panicky evening: "when we find what the problem is, we will all laugh
about it". Well, let me share the laughing with you:
It was just a typo !
Funny how trouble in the computer world eventually always turn out to be
an invisible typo in a configuration file :)
Enjoy your new server and post away !
Cheers,
--
Marc-Olivier Barre
XMPP ID : marco(a)marcochapeau.org
www.MarcOChapeau.org
