Greetings,
Even though the Iceland volcanic ash plumes are still messing up the air,
I decided to do some spring cleaning after all and started with what's
laying around here, collecting dust. Bad timing or not, it's now or never.
Über-procrastinator dixit.
Remember that piece of junk that I rig on every desktop which still has
some PCI card slots anyway? If you don't, I'll tell you once more: the
Yamaha DB50XG piggyback. I know it's not easy find those nowadays, but
there's always that auction sites for you to try. Moreover the hosting
sound-cards which exposes a Creatine Labs Waveblaster daughter-board
expansion port, are no easier too. Ah, the good old nineties...
Never mind, so here it goes again:
QXGEdit 0.1.0 has fallen from the attic!
This stands as the second public release and who knows what next spring
cleaning will bring ;)
Website:
http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.0.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 11.2):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.0-2.rncbc.suse112.src.…
- binary packages (openSUSE 11.2):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.0-2.rncbc.suse112.i586…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.1.0-2.rncbc.suse112.x86_…
- binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit_0.1.0-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_i3…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qxgedit/qxgedit_0.1.0-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_am…
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.
- Make build compilation work for gcc >= 4.4.0, by adding some missing
standard C99 includes.
- LADISH Level 1 support has been added: SIGUSR1 signal trap just makes it
a shortcut to File/Save.
- Uservoice (QS300) AmpEG Attack, Decay Level 1 and 2 parameters now have
a bit cleaner, clearer out-of-the-box default values.
- Uservoice (QS300) preset combo-box drop-down list now gets its current
item selection set alright.
- Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to disk
when Options dialog changes are accepted and applied.
- Variation part parameter is now a drop-down combo-box.
- New reset button for reverb, chorus and variation parameters.
- Randomization of all current vparameter values is now available,
allowing for great experimentation and exploration of brand new sound
settings (just try View/Randomize).
- All graphics lines are now slightly gray colored, instead of plain black
or white, or whatever the current theme text color.
- Added user confirmation for QS300 user voice preset replacement; preset
files are not deleted from file-system anymore.
Weblog (upstream support, yours truly):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
QXGEdit 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
KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with KDE4 user interface, based on the
ALSA sequencer.
Changes in 0.9.3
* Build system adapted to the changes in Drumstick-0.3
* Bundled Drumstick-0.3.1 library sources
Copyright (C) 2005-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v2
More info
http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net
Sources
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/files/kmetronome/0.9.3/
Regards,
Pedro
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. It is used in KMetronome, KMidimon
and KMid2, and was formerly known as "aseqmm".
Since the release 0.3.0 there are two libs: drumstick-alsa and drumstick-file.
Changes:
* Allow to build drumstick-file library under Windows.
* New method MidiClient::parseAddress() replacing the ALSA function
snd_seq_parse_address() in MidiPort::subscribeTo() and similar methods.
* Fixed MidiClient::getAvailableInputs() and getAvailableOutputs() forcing
to always retrieve the updated clients list from ALSA.
Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v2 or later
Project web site
http://sf.net/projects/drumstick
Online documentation
http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/docs/
Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/0.3.1/
openSUSE Build Service - RPM packages
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=drumstick
Regards,
Pedro
Hi everyone,
got nothing to do during the Easter holidays ? I don't think so...
The second edition of ____The LAC Times____ is online:
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/LAC_Times_2010_04_02.pdf
Subjects in this edition:
* A first glimpse of the LAC 2010 programme
* The 150-Years-of-Music-Technology Composition Competition
* A short history of recording sound [part 2]
No longer do you need to worry what to do at Easter. Now you'll worry what to do first:
study the programme to decide which day(s) you're gonna visit the Linux Audio Conference,
work on your composition or read Than's second history lesson.
Enjoy !
Marc
I'll put a printer-friendly version under the News tab of the LAC site soon.
Dear fellow FOSS/Pd/Linux audio enthusiasts,
It is my pleasure to announce the upcoming April 17th (Saturday) spring L2Ork / DISIS event that will feature the debut of the Boys & Girls Club of Roanoke, VA satellite laptop orchestra, as well as several guest artists, including:
Ron Coulter (SIUC, percussion, composition, computer music)
Mark Engebretson (UNCG, composition, computer music, saxophone), and
Matthew Burtner (UVA, composition, computer music, saxophone)
The evening event will be split into:
. 7pm children's showcase designed primarily with children and parents in mind, and
. 8pm benefit concert of experimental music. Funds raised at this event will benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Roanoke, VA, a non-profit organization that offers critical afterschool programs for children. Apart from L2Ork numbers, the 8pm program will also offer compositions involving innovative creative technologies, including musical robots.
The admission to both events is free.
For more information, software goodies, audio and video preview please visit L2Ork's website at http://l2ork.music.vt.edu or find us on the Facebook event page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117918141555131 (event page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112324945463877)
Additional media coverage can be found at:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine (issue #193)
http://www.vt.edu/spotlight/achievement/2010-04-12-laptop/laptop-orchestra.… (Virginia Tech spotlight with audio and video footage)
Following the April 17th performance, L2Ork is embarking on its maiden tour with performances at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, OH (April 20th 7:30pm), Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL (April 22nd 6pm), and IUPUI, Indiana as part of the Intermedia Festival (April 25th 2pm).
So, if you happen to be in the area we'd love to see you there!
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/
Announcing the latest release of ghostess, a lightweight
GTK+ host for DSSI plugins:
http://smbolton.com/linux/ghostess-20100326.tar.bz2
New in this release:
- support for JACK session management, when compiled
against a recent JACK SVN version (thanks to Torben
Hohn.)
- some small code and compilation clean-ups.
ghostess is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c)2010 under
the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
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. Learn more about it here:
http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy!
-Sean
hi everybody!
the Linux Audio Conference 2010 (hosted this year by the Hogeschool voor
de Kunsten, Utrecht) will have live streaming coverage of all the paper
presentations and selected workshops, just like in the old days. the
streams will be available via http://streamer.stackingdwarves.net and at
least two other relays, which will be announced as they come online.
for remote participants, there is an IRC channel called #lac2010 on
irc.freenode.net, which serves as a backchannel for your questions and
comments, hangout for conference chatter, and helpdesk for any streaming
troubles you might encounter.
spread the word, and join the fun. LAC 2010 takes place from may 1st to
may 4th. test streams will be made available a few days in advance. the
IRC channel is already open.
the official lac site is at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/.
best regards, on behalf of the stream team,
jörn
We are happy to announce the release of SoX 14.3.1.
Source code, Win32 binaries, and Mac OSX binaries can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/
Release highlights include:
o New Grandstream ring-tone (gsrt) format.
o CVSD encoding and decoding speed-ups.
o Ability to select MP3 compression parameters.
o Write support for ID3 and VBR tags in MP3 files.
o Support loading MP3, AMRNB, AMRWB, and libsndfile libraries at runtime.
o New native Windows audio driver for playing/recording.
o New native Windows executable (no cygwin libraries) for smaller
size and more consistent window experience.
o OSX users no longer need Xcode installed to get missing libltld library.
o Turned multi-threaded off by default since it is buggy on some platforms.
o Many bugfixes and improvements to existing behavior.
o Improvements to documentation and code examples.
For the complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog at
http://sox.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sox/sox/ChangeLog?revision=1.266&view…
Thanks to all who contributed to this release.
- The developers.
Aumix is for changing the settings on your hardware mixer. It works
with the OSS API. It has X11 and ncurses GUIs, but can also be
used from scripts.
what's new in this version:
- the "mute" script is always installed (Christian Weisgerber)
- a manual page was added for the "mute" script (Bas Zoetekouw)
- the xaumix(1) man page follows standards better
- the GTK+ record/play indicators have distinct shapes, so they
can be differentiated by color-blind users or on a monochrome
display
- the record/play indicators can be hidden
- the GTK "Load from" and "Save to" dialog windows close after
the user makes a selection (Thierry Vignaud)
- non-ASCII text displays correctly with GTK+ 2.x (G\xf6tz Waschk,
Roland Stigge and Thierry Vignaud)
- Catalan translation (Ernest Adrogu\xe9)
- Italian translation (Cristian Rigamonti)
- support for the Linux device filesystem (Pixel of Mandrakesoft)
source: http://jpj.net/~trevor/aumix/aumix-2.9.tar.bz2
home page: http://jpj.net/~trevor/aumix.html
--
Trevor Johnson
