[apologies for cross-posting, please forward this]
Announcing the new release of Puredyne:
Puredyne 9.11 - Carrot and Coriander +
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Puredyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution aimed at creative people,
looking for tools outside the standard. It provides the best
experimental creative applications alongside a solid set of graphic,
audio and video tools in a fast, minimal package. For everything from
sound art to innovative filmmaking.
Puredyne is optimised for use in realtime audio and video processing. It
distinguishes itself by offering a low latency kernel and the high
responsiveness needed by artists working in this field.
Puredyne is based on Ubuntu and Debian Live. All packages provided by
Puredyne can be used if you are running this flavour of GNU/Linux.
http://puredyne.goto10.org/about.html
//
= Puredyne 911 =
== Carrot & Coriander + ==
After an intensive 3-day development sprint in Helsinki,
this release made possible thanks to Pixelache and HIAP.
Changelog below, see also our tracker at
https://launchpad.net/puredyne/+milestone/9.11
== Fewer bugs! ==
Problems fixed in this release:
* amsynth loading crash (LP: #529858)
* terminal dircolour theme (LP: #496296)
* fluxus menu entry (LP: #507076)
* whysynth menu entry (LP: #546086)
* wsynth-dssi menu entry (LP: #546089)
* xsynth-dssi menu entry (LP: #546090)
* locale generation (LP: #508157)
* mixxx jack interface (LP: #507675)
* booting without hard disks (LP: #498782)
* appearance with two monitors (LP: #505933)
* removed default emacs keybindings for gtk apps (LP: #515445)
* emacs appearance improved (LP: #522239)
* application launch keyboard shortcuts (LP: #482822)
* coding style for build hooks (LP: #544225)
* irssi default intro text (LP: #525780)
== More stuff! ==
Additional software on the 911 CD (i386) compared to Puredyne 910:
* libafterimage0
* libblas3gf
* libdvdcss2
* libgavl1
* libgfortran3
* libgmerlin-avdec-common
* libgmerlin-avdec1
* liblapack3gf
* libopenjpeg2
* pd-mapping
* pd-markex
* pd-mjlib
* pd-motex
* pd-pool
* pd-py
* pd-readanysf
* pd-sigpack
* pd-smlib
* pd-windowing
* puredyne-help
* python-numpy
* rxvt-unicode
* supercollider-common
* xfce4-places-plugin
Additional software on the 911 DVD (i386) compared to Puredyne 910:
* jcgui
* puredata-source
* sineshaper
* toonloop
* ...
== Upgraded things! ==
Selected highlights:
* kdenlive
* mixxx
* swingosc
* supercollider
* xterm replaced with urxvtd
== Documentation ==
Puredyne wikibook interlinked with the Puredyne website:
* creating live usb sticks
* booting live usb sticks
* Puredyne help menu item
* coding style guides
== Important security information ==
There is a bug in Puredyne 910 package manager settings, which is
fixed in Puredyne 911 (LP: #507252).
If you have already installed Puredyne 910:
sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00secure
== Prettier! ==
* customized wallpaper
* isolinux splash screen
== Get involved ==
* report bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/puredyne/+filebug
* host a mirror
* host a sprint
== More information ==
http://puredyne.goto10.org
//
== Augment your soup ==
echo "--- carrot_and_coriander.txt 2010-01-16 03:19:48.000000000 +0200
+++ carrot_and_coriander_plus.txt 2010-04-02 11:52:57.383408001 +0300
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
* 1 teaspoon ground coriander
* 1.2 litres vegetable stock
* large bunch Fresh Coriander, roughly chopped
+* 1 teaspoon cumin seeds (optional)
* Salt
* Black Pepper
@@ -30,11 +31,15 @@
4. Add the vegetable stock bring the mixture to the boil. Simmer for
10-15 minutes until the carrots are very soft.
-5. Blend until smooth.
+5. Meanwhile, heat a dry frying pan and add the cumin seeds. Toast
+ them for a minute or so, shaking the pan occasionally, until
+ fragrant.
-6. Add the fresh coriander.
+6. Blend the soup until smooth.
-7. Serve.
+7. Add the fresh coriander and the cumin seeds.
+
+8. Serve.
==========================
" | patch -p0 /usr/share/soup/carrot_and_coriander.txt
LoMus 2010
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Sorry for multiple and cross postings
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The dead line for software submission was extended to the April 15th
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In search of open-source software for musical and intermedia creation
For its third edition, Lomus 2010 invites music and audio open-source software creators to submit original projects that either directly or indirectly contribute to musical creation.
In regard to one of the 2 themes for JIM's edition : "The musical work and heterogeneity : the problem of mixity", the LoMus contest will particularly encourage sonic/musical softwares integrating or hibridizing with other media. Though, this theme is not restrictive.
A prize will be awarded to open-source sofware that prove to be not only innovatory but also inventive in the present context of music and audio creation.
Calendar
Call for submissions : February 4th 2010
Submission deadline : April 15th 2010
Admission notification : May 1st 2010
JIM Awards Ceremony : May 20th 2010
info : concours.afim-asso.org
JIM2010 : http://jim.afim-asso.org/ocs/index.php/jims/index
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À la recherche des logiciels libres pour la création sonore et intermedia
Pour sa troisième édition, Lomus 2010 s’adresse à tous ceux qui s’aventurent dans le développement de logiciels libres musicaux ou de logiciels libres qui peuvent contribuer au processus de la création musicale.
En regard d'un des 2 thèmes mis en avant lors de cette édition des JIMs : "L'Œuvre musicale face à l'hétérogène : problématique de la mixité", le concours LoMus encourage plus particulièrement les contributions intégrant ou s'hybridant avec d'autres médias. Ce thème n'est cependant pas restrictif.
Un prix sera remis aux logiciels qui font preuve non seulement d'innovation, mais notamment d'inventivité face aux enjeux actuels de la création musicale.
Calendrier
Appel à soumissions : 4 février 2010
Soumission des logiciels : 15 avril 2010
Notification d'acceptation : 1 mai 2010
Remise du prix lors des JIM : 20 mai 2010
info : concours.afim-asso.org
JIM2010 : http://jim.afim-asso.org/ocs/index.php/jims/index
Hi all,
exactly 150 years ago the first sound recording was made, written in ink.
In exactly one month the Linux Audio Conference 2010 will take place.
These two events gave rise to
"The 150-Years-of-Music-Technology Composition Competition"
There are nice prizes to be won and of course the honour and fame associated
with the winning composition. The winning composition will also be played
at the Linux Sound Night on May 3rd.
All the info you need for participating in the competition is here:
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/lac2010/composition-competition
Have fun !
Than van Nispen tot Pannerden and Marc Groenewegen
Hi all again:
In the previous message I forgot to post an URL to download the plugins.
Sorry but today is sunday...
After developing two lv2 plugins with GUI I release my third plugin.
It's a multiband compressor with a confortable GUI.
DYNAMIC-MULTIBAND LV2 PLUGIN RELEASE 0.0.1
Date: 03-28-2010
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 or 5 bands and at mono and stereo
versions.
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.
DEPENDENCIES
lv2 (of course)
Cairo
Gtk++
You can download this plugin at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/teliasopia/
It's my third plugin...please be patient with the bugs and feedback.
Thanks all.
Suggestions, Comments are welcome.
Hi all again:
After developing two lv2 plugins with GUI I release my third plugin.
It's a multiband compressor with a confortable GUI.
DYNAMIC-MULTIBAND LV2 PLUGIN RELEASE 0.0.1
Date: 03-28-2010
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 or 5 bands and at mono and stereo
versions.
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.
DEPENDENCIES
lv2 (of course)
Cairo
Gtk++
It's my third plugin...please be patient with the bugs and feedback.
Thanks all.
Suggestions, Comments are welcome.
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 in one input and two output ports to the jack graph.
Release 0.07.0 comes with a bunch of major changes :
* nearly complete reworked source by Andreas Degert
* amp and effect units based direct on faust expressions
* all faust sources included
* new accumulated tuner unit with new interface (analogue Style needle meter)
* Midi controller connections could saved with in presets and/or general
* a editable Midi controller map is available
* new human readable preset style
* knobs could be used like sliders (press ctrl + mouse-button
and move the mouse horizontal, leave the ctrl and hold mouse-button
for fine tune), or like real knobs (turn them around)
* convolution unit based on zita-convolver is now integrated in the engine
* presets could change with Midi Program Messages
* I'm sure I have some things forgotten to mention here.
Check out the new great sound of the faust optimized sources.
To the midi learn function: a middle mouse button click on a controller pop's
up a little widget, move the midi controller you will use, the controller number
is shown in the widget. Press OK when you've done. That's it.
By the way, a right click on a controller pop up a spinbox for direct enter
the value with your keyboard.
have fun
________________________________________________________________________
guitarix is licensed under the GPL.
Project page with screenshots:
http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/
download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
please report bugs or suggestions here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/
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 by Fons Adriaensen.
If you don't have it installed, you can look here:
http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html
We use faust 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 :
You could find the tools we use to convert (and plot) the resulting faust cpp
files to the needed include format in the /guitarix/tools directory.
Faust dsp files are in /guitarix/src/faust and the resulting cc files are in
/guitarix/src/faust-cc
As default we have disable faust for build, if you wane play with the faust
expressions, simply add --faust to the ./waf configure step, then faust
will be used to rebuild the included faust-cc files.
regards
Hermann Meyer, James Warden, Andreas Degert
Okay, the release early and often mantra is winning me over. MMA 1.4d
has been released. Get it at
http://mellowood.ca/mma/downloads.html#developer
This release has a number of bug fixes and some new MIDI commands.
MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks
for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain
pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details
please visit:
http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/
--
**** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars ****
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
gst123-0.0.1 has been released.
Overview of Changes in gst123-0.0.1:
------------------------------------
* initial public release
What is gst123?
---------------
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:
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Website: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123.php
Download: http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123/gst123-0.0.1.tar.gz
--
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan
aj-snapshot
I would like to announce that I've written a small
command line utility to store/restore all current JACK
and/or ALSA (midi) connection to/from an XML file.
I've released it under GPLv3, and you can download
the tarball at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aj-snapshot/
You can also clone the git repository with:
git clone git://gitorious.org/aj-snapshot/aj-snapshot.git
Please report any bugs at sourceforge, so I can make
the program better for everyone.
Greetings,
Lieven Moors
In the spirit of "release early, release often," I am pleased to
announce the release of Composite 0.006. This release marks the
completion of the LV2 Sampler Plugin, which supports Hydrogen drum
kits.
STATUS
------
Composite is a project with a large vision. Here is the status of the
different components:
composite-gui: Alpha (i.e. "a broken version of Hydrogen")
compoiste_sampler (LV2): production/stable, no GUI
libTritium: Not a public API, yet.
LINKS
-----
Composite: http://gabe.is-a-geek.org/composite/
Plugin Docs: file:///home/gabriel/code/composite-planning/plugins/sampler/1
Tarball: http://gabe.is-a-geek.org/composite/releases/composite-0.006.tar.bz2
Git: http://gitorious.org/compositegit://gitorious.org/composite/composite.git
HOW TO USE THE PLUGIN
---------------------
To use the plugin, you need the following:
* A program (host) that loads LV2 plugins.
* A MIDI controller.
* An audio output device. :-)
The following LV2 hosts are known to work with this plugin:
Ingen http://drobilla.net/blog/software/ingen/
lv2_jack_host http://drobilla.net/software/slv2/
The following is known to _not_ work:
zynjacku (Uses a different MIDI port type)
If you don't have a hardware MIDI controller, I suggest using
jack-keyboard (http://jack-keyboard.sourceforge.net/).
The first time you run the sampler, it will create a file
~/.composite/data/presets/default.xml, which will set up presets on
Bank 0 for the two default drum kits (GMkit and TR808EmulationKit).
Sending MIDI PC 0 and PC 1 will switch between the two kits. See
composite_sampler(1) for more information on setting up presets.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
----------------
With this release, I would especially like to thank:
Harry Van Haaren - For help with testing. This release has much
more polish because of you.
David Robillard - For general help with Ingen and LV2. I also
stole a lot of great design ideas from Ingen.
Peace,
Gabriel M. Beddingfield
