*OpenLab OpenNight*
Open night is a night of performances where people can come along and try
out their new open-source based creations in front of an audience, or just
have a jam (e.g. wife swap, etc). Anyone is free to join in - just add your
name on the wiki page (
http://www.pawfal.org/openlabwiki/index.php?page=OpenNight) or get in
contact on the mailing list (
http://lists.pawfal.org/listinfo.cgi/openlab-pawfal.org) or send us a mail
to rrmunro at gmail.
Performances can be from 10-25min, they can be work in progress or finished
pieces, or just anything you want to play in front of an audience. It good
to know how long they will be so we can fit as many in as possible.
*About OpenLab London*
Openlab is a loose collective of artists centred around London, UK, who use
and develop open source software and technology for music, art, noise,
performances, and just about anything else they feel like doing with it.
Openlab organises performances, talks, workshops, events, and beer-y
meetings across the UK for like-minded individuals to share and exchange
ideas and let loose their creative inner daemons. Our main mission, besides
being a support group/drinking club, is to promote the use of open source
software and media by demonstrating how damn cool it is.
http://www.pawfal.org/openlabwiki/fish.png
Hi,
I would like to announce the 4th release of lashstudio module.
This new release adds two more applications to the usual lash-centred suite,
they are: dino sequencer and specimen sampler.
Lashstudio is a quick and dirty, LASH centered, suite of applications. It is
packed as a squashfs module for Puppy Linux.
Endlessly playing around with linux audio applications, I was thrilled when
I realized that some of these applications can be used with LASH (LASH being
a nice feature of linux audio, trying to wrap many applications at once).
Also an ardent Puppy user, I found that Puppy offers a great environment for
running audio and midi applications without the imminent need for special
system configurations or to patch the kernel for real-time capabilities. So,
I tried to figure out a LASH only setup with synthesizers, samplers and
effects, midi sequencers, audio recording and other sound and midi apps.
After some time of compiling and testing, the first lashstudio sfs module
was born and it looked like a great way of tasting the speed, the
practicality and the power of linux audio apps and of Puppy Linux
altogether.
So, the adventure continues with more fun!
Download at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lashstudio/files/lashstudio-r4/lashstudio-…
Webpage: http://lashstudio.sourceforge.net/
Regards,
Marius
I'm pleased to announce the release of Non-DAW and Non-Mixer version
1.0.0. Some version numbers have been skipped, as a lot time as gone
without an official release. Those who have followed Non-DAW via git
will only notice a few changes, most of them pushed very recently.
The chief advancement provided by this release is the long overdue
inclusion of the Non-Mixer. This completes the Non triad and should
cover the needs of many, some in ways I haven't yet imagined (it
covers my needs almost completely).
Non-Mixer is a stand-alone modular mixer application for JACK. It
hosts several internal modules, one of which hosts LADSPA plugins. All
parameters can be controlled through the GUI or externally via Control
Voltage signals [the native control sequence output of Non-DAW] (but a
MIDI<->CV gateway program exists, for other uses). It has the unique
feature of each strip having its own JACK client, which has promising
implications for parallel processing. Non Mixer also has a fast, light
FLTK GUI, which finds no problem in rendering hundreds of strips. I
have plans to add support for DSSI plugins.
Currently, Non-DAW and Non-Mixer are kept in the same repository, even
though they are entirely independent applications. I have already
begun to restructure the repository and build system and I plan to
split the repositories for the two projects out completely, as time
allows.
This release is dedicated to Deanna, whose untimely demise, in
addition to the rumors of my own death, has reminded me of my
mortality and the necessity of realizing my dreams while I still have
the opportunity. I will not be discouraged, so don't bother trying. I
will resist blind adherence to the status quo, as I always have--but
now even more fiercely. Progress will not happen on its own. It must
be forced along by individuals of power, wisdom, and vision; which we
should all aspire to become. But I digress.
Non-DAW and Non-Mixer (and Non-Sequencer) can be acquired via git from
the URLs listed on the Non website:
http://non.tuxfamily.org
A shortlog from v0.5.0 to v1.0.0 follows:
Jonathan Moore Liles (224):
Remove dependence on FLTK >= 1.1.8.
Make mute and solo buttons more colorful.
Fix offset error in selection rectangle.
Don't lose track of timeline focus when window loses focus.
Provide a keybinding/menu entry for track renaming.
Add action to set range from region position and length.
Handle very long port names.
Make normalization work properly with looped regions.
Improve the appearance of rec/mute/solo buttons.
Add solo and record blinkers to TLE.
Oops. Fix order of reference in track destructor.
Use exact JACK client name in LASH initialization.
Add module information to debugging output.
Don't quit on escape key.
Show disk usage in TLE.
Take fades into consideration when splitting regions.
Formally disconnect from JACK at exit.
Properly handle removal of a track's active sequence.
Add option to remove all but the current take.
Remove extraneous inclusions of const.h
Oops. Write journal entries in proper order when generating snapshot.
Set value of 'show all takes' toggle correctly when updating menus.
Fix log entry parser for values containing ":" (colons).
Use timestamps (of creation) for take names instead of sequential numbers.
Add total MB free'd to output of 'remove-unused-sources' script.
Oops. Remove debugging noise from console output.
remove-unused-sources: Include peak files in deletion and size calculation.
Draw inactive takes in a darker hue.
remove-unused-sources: Fix source detection regex and add -m (move) option (now the default)
Fix occasional segfault upon loading snapshots.
Clean up sequence widget label drawing behavior.
Don't make an assertion when drawing empty regions.
Add 'Denormalize' to Audio_Region context menu.
Disable some Audio_Region context menu items when appropriate.
Display Y-axis value for control points on mouse over.
Fix selection bug for Control Points.
Cleanup capture code and eliminate off-by-one-buffer bug when bouncing tracks.
Clean up signedness problems in Loggable ID treatment.
Add LASH connection indicator to GUI along with --no-lash command line option.
Implement storage and loading of unjournaled state for Loggable objects.
Use a hash instead of an array for indexing loggables.
Add some error checking to unjournaled state save/load.
Remove unnecessary code from unjournaled state loader.
Use a single hash table for storing loggables and unjournaled state.
Remove unnecessary debugging output.
Don't leak memory in handling of unjournaled state.
Implement capture-offset latency compensation.
Give newly created track the focus.
Save unjournaled state on LASH save file event.
Don't lose timeline settings on LASH save event...
Clean up region trimming code.
Clean up region splitting code.
Clean up journal transaction buffer code to avoid overflow.
Assert whenever an invalid journal entry is encountered.
Don't allow transport relocation while recording.
Check for makedepend command in configure script.
Add 'ar' to required commands in configure script.
Fl_Arc_Dial: Don't forget to execute callback for mousewheel events
Soften the glare effect in FL_BURNISHED_OVAL_BOX
Fl_Arc_Dial: Draw value over face of dial
Implement Fl_Flowpack.
Implement Fl_Labelpad_Group
Fl_Sometimes_Input: Draw a box.
Refactor common components of Timeline and Mixer into nonlib/
Makefile: disable function inlining when building for debugging.
Timeline: Try to make the window fill the screen at startup.
Make boxtype drawn on Fl_Sometimes_Input's up mode configurable.
Configure: Don't forget to eval result of 'ask' function.
Make optimized drawing of timeline canvas a compile-time option.
Make doublebuffering of the timeline sub-window a compile-time option.
Make use of a sub-window for the timeline a compile-time option.
Update some copyright years.
LASH_Engine: Add missing include.
Timeline: Add blinker to indicate that one or more sequence widgets is selected.
Timeline: Don't forget to journal edits to time and tempo points!
Fl_Sometimes_Input: Add omitted include.
Fl_Labelpad_Group: Measure using actual font of widget instead of always FL_HELVETICA.
Timeline: Always resize tracks Fl_Pack.
Don't die if user picks a popup menu item with no callback set (e.g. a submenu node).
Timeline: Don't die if the user cancels a Track's manual channels set dialog.
Add some profiling output for project loading.
Attempt to fix sign error in declicking logic for 64-bit systems.
Timeline: Attempt to constrain main window to size of screen, but don't automatically fill the screen.
Don't allow process callback to be invoked between Engine and JACK::Client destruction.
Control Sequences should output control voltage values between 0.0 and 1.0, not -1.0 and 1.0.
Allow the removal of annotation sequences via a context menu.
User can temporarily disable snapping by holding down 's'.
Make it optional (Options/Behavior/...) wether or not stopping the transport disables global record.
Ignore events with modifiers in Timeline::handle() to avoid eating keyboard event for global rec enable.
Add context menu entries (with keybindings) to Track for record, mute, and solo.
Add FL_Menu keybinding to popup Track context menu.
Assign a shortcut to 'Transport' submenu.
Add entries (with keybindings) for size to Track context menu.
Properly set default color scheme.
Remove (deprecated) LASH support.
Implement Mixer.
Mixer: Fix memory error and fill newly allocated chain buffers with silence.
Mixer: Properly handle multiple plugin instances in one Plugin module..
Mixer: Fix orientation of vertical sliders in Module_Parameter_Editor
Mixer: Make main scrollbar work again.
Mixer: Hide panner widget until it's ready to be connected to something...
Mixer: Teach modules how to serializer their input port settings.
Mixer: Share (reuse) buffers between all chains.
Mixer: Fix optimized meter drawing.
Mixer: Don't redraw mixer strips unnecessarily.
Mixer: Clean up some compiler warnings.
Mixer: Allow peaks to be reset on mouse click in Meter_Module
Mixer: Improve the mousewheel behavior of Fl_Arc_Dial and add Fl_Value_SliderX.
Mixer: Don't forget to remove timeouts in destructors!
Mixer: Changes to support project saving/loading.
Split New_Project_Dialog out into FL/ to share with mixer.
JACK_Module: Don't forget to shutdown input ports in destructor.
Mixer: Add menubar.
Mixer: GUI Cleanups. Also, permit moving of strips to the left/right.
Mixer: Implement "quit" command.
Mixer: Gain_Module now accepts gain in dB.
Timeline: Add blinker to indicate that one or more sequence widgets is selected.
Mixer: Fix one-off in vertical position of DPM.
Mixer: Clip module labels.
Module_Parameter_Editor: Use Fl_Menu_Button instead of Fl_Choice to improve layout.
Mixer/Module: Save/restore 'active' state.
Mixer_Strip: Don't forget strip's color.
Mixer: Don't forget to save and load controllers.
Module_Parameter_Editor: Hide the module name label because it rarely fits in the window.
Mixer: Fix race condition causing invalid read in process thread of Meter_Indicator_Module.
Mixer/Plugin_Module: Properly manage number of plugin instances.
Mixer: Rearrange so that each mixer strip runs as its own JACK client.
Add hack to support 'renaming' of JACK::Client.
Mixer: Fix plugin loading chicken/egg problem.
Mixer/Plugin_Module: Don't die because user picks a category instead of a plugin.
Fix bug in plugin input configuration.
When recreating ports after 'renaming' a jack client, sort by mode, then alpha.
Cleanup.
Timeline: Always resize tracks Fl_Pack.
Mixer: Add a Mono Panner module.
Silence warnings about asprintf return value.
Mixer: Allow user to add internal modules as well as plugins to a chain.
Mixer: Improve chain insert debugging messages.
Mixer/Chain: Avoid renaming JACK clients unnecessarily.
Mixer: Fix invalid read in module picker.
Mixer: GUI Tweaks.
Mixer: Use doublebuffering for main window.
Mixer: Fix box type of strip name widgets.
Mixer: Draw inactive modules in darker colors.
Mixer: Don't require a connected control input for processing audio in Gain_Module.
Make the interval of Fl_Blinker configurable.
JACK doesn't like it if you set a slow-sync callback and don't act like a slow-sync client...
Timeline: Add a blinker for pending seek.
Mixer: Put chian modules inside an Fl_Scroll.
Mixer: Decrease the default height of Plugin_Module's.
Add option to tile mixer strips into 1, 2, or 3 rows.
Mixer: Scan for plugins in a background thread.
Mixer: Add context menu for Controllers. Save/load control mode.
Mixer: Make chain background color match mixer strip.
Mixer: Explicitly destroy chian when tearing down mixer strip.
Mixer: Show peak value in tooltip on DPMs.
Disable mouse-over highlighting of mixer strip name fields.
Implement Fl_Packscroller, an alternative to Fl_Scroll better suited to containing vertical Fl_Packs.
Use Fl_Packscroller for modules in Chain.
Don't bother drawing a DPM if it's clipped.
Mixer: Define minimum height for mixer strips.
Mixer: Make spatialization control visible again (but it's still not connected to anything)
Mixer: Add some stuff to the menubar.
Mixer: Implement Project/Open menu option.
Mixer: Add stuff to Options/ menu. Save and load options.
Mixer: Apply appropriate change required by 66daa1.
Split About Dialog off into FL/
Fix the new project dialog.
Mixer: Make sure process queue is rebuilt upon binding of controls.
Mixer: Add Help/Manual option to menubar.
Mixer: Make insert-before work for meter indicator module.
Mixer: Cleanup.
Mixer: Allow the WM to kill the mixer window.
Mixer: Attempt to improve the behavior of single-row display mode.
Prevent Timeline and Mixer from attempting to open each other's project formats.
Mixer: Add context menu to mixer strips.
Fl_Packscroller: Let children have a go at events...
FL/menu_popup: Call menu's callback if menu item lacks one.
Mixer: Add context menus for modules.
Mixer: Clean up event handling.
Mixer: Respond appropriately to JACK buffer size callback.
Attempt to cope with failure to create JACK clients and ports.
Add documentation for mixer and restructure supporting tree.
Mixer: Add color chooser to mixer strip context menu.
Add section on control voltages to mixer doc.
Centralize color schemes.
Mixer: Middle click toggles module activation state.
Mixer: Add click-to-focus for mixer strips.
Mixer: Fix restrip rename menu option.
Update mixer documentation.
Enforce JACK client name length restrictions.
Mixer: Separate out public project commands.
Mixer: Don't allow any strips to be created without an open projcet.
Make logo used in About_Dialog an option.
Makefile: Remove some noise from dependency generation output
Fix syntax error in TLE.fl
Mixer: Implement cut/copy/paste for modules.
Mixer: Improve keyboard focus.
Mixer: Add more keybindings to modules.
Mixer: Use a toggle in module context menu for bypass instead of separate activate/deactivate items.
Update mixer documentation.
Mixer: Make chains look better in the Light scheme.
Fl_Flowpack: Flow mode should default to on!
Mixer: tweak the size of GUI elements.
Mixer: Don't show mixer strip label.
Mixer: Show project name on menubar.
Mixer: Set X class of main window.
Mixer: Warn if user attempts to quit without saving.
Mixer: Don't show label for Meter module...
Mixer: Fix "Help" menu item.
Update mixer screenshots.
Mixer: Support specifying an instance name on the command line (--instance)
Prefix main window titles with "Non DAW : "
Mixer: Clean up some compiler warnings.
Massively reoganize tree.
Timeline: Hide seek blinker, which may not be particularly useful.
Mixer: Don't show module context menu for Meter_Indicator_Module.
Fl_Packscroller: Don't eat unwanted FL_PUSH events.
Bump version.
Tweak build system.
New logo for Non-DAW.
Improve logo for Non-Mixer.
FL: Make About_Dialog more dynamic.
Last minute documentation updates.
Peter Nelson (1):
Don't silence input ports.
--
Feb 01 2010,
Jonathan Moore Liles
It is my pleasure to announce the latest release of Aqualung,
an advanced, cross-platform, gapless music player.
This release adds some features and many bugfixes - all users
are encouraged to upgrade.
Please see the Aqualung website for general information,
downloads, documentation etc: http://aqualung.factorial.hu
The Win32 build is up-to-date with the release. The OSX bundle
will be updated at a later time.
The release changelog is listed below.
Enjoy,
Tom
* * *
Aqualung 0.9beta11
http://aqualung.factorial.hu
* Add PulseAudio support as contributed by PCMan plus a few minor
fixes.
* Added option for starting Aqualung hidden in tray. Useful when
running Aqualung automatically after login.
* Implement auto roll to active track functionality. Thanks to Chris
Craig for the excellent patch.
* Support new Musepack API (patch by Yavor Doganov)
* New keybinding: Ctrl-S to stop after currently playing song has
ended. Thanks to cobines for the patch.
* Add support for more versatile mouse-systray interaction. Thanks to
cobines for the excellent patch.
* Added support for new GtkTooltip API (since 2.12). Fixed tooltip
disappearing issue because of too frequent tooltip updates.
* Automatically add/remove stores when they become available or
disappear (most likely due to mount/unmount operations). Modified
stores will not be removed automatically.
* Add support for an application_title lua function separate from the
playlist_title lua function, so that the window title and the main
title label of the player is configurable from Lua.
* Don't require restart to update programmable title format file
* Don't use sndfile's Ogg decoder (always use native Ogg library)
* Fix FFmpeg headers detection in configure script
* Fix compiler warnings on 64 bit. Thanks to Zoltan Kovacs for the
patch.
* Fix crash on 64 bit when Aqualung is compiled without SRC support
and file contains metadata. Thanks to Zoltan Kovacs for tracking the
problem and providing the patch.
* Fixed crash when pasting into playlist without copying first (empty
clipboard).
* Fix a suspected regression: space toggles state of combined
play/pause button when a file is loaded.
* Fix lockup at end of playlist.
* Fixed a crash that occurred when clicked on a picture of a file in
the File Info dialog and the file format did not support metadata.
* Fix playlist column size allocation by eliminating manual/delayed
calculations and utilizing the built-in COLUMN_AUTOSIZE feature
instead.
* Fix crash when invoking the File Info dialog for an MPEG internet
radio.
* Fix inversion of enabled/diasbled state of tooltips.
* Fix crash when loading .m3u with invalid filename.
* Updated translations: German, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian
* New translations:
Japanese by Norihiro Yoneda
French by Julien Lavergne
* Up-to-date user documentation
just released the version 1.4 of the softwaresynthesizer Minicomputer
for Linux. Its mainly a bugfix release:
- fix: names of patches and multis were displayed wrong, only the last
letters which are usually blanks
- fix: change so that it can be now compiled without being in C99 mode
- new: using alsaseq eventfilter to receive only events that are processed
more at
http://minicomputer.sourceforge.net/
--
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media art + development
http://www.block4.com
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http://twitter.com/herrsteiner
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Hi,
since the webpage for the Linux Audio Conference 2010(*) was unclear on the
deadline for paper submissions, please let me clarify this here:
The deadline for _paper submissions_ is February 14th, 2010. Until yesterday,
the webpage incorrectly mentioned "Call for Abstracts", which should have read
"Call for Papers" instead. This has been corrected now.
Additionally, some information about the desired size and other constraints
for paper submissions has been added to the web page mentioned below.
Please feel free to forward this mail to whatever people/mailing lists are
suitable.
Sorry for the trouble,
Frank, on behalf of the LAC2010 organization team
(*) http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/?page=participation
KMid2 is a MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE4. It runs in Linux, using the ALSA
Sequencer.
KMid2 plays to hardware MIDI devices or software synthesizers. It supports
playlists, MIDI mapper, 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). KMid2 runs in Linux, using the ALSA Sequencer.
Changes in this release 0.2:
* External soft-synths can be automatically launched at startup. A new page
including FluidSynth and TiMidity++ settings has been added to the
configuration dialog.
* Each channel may be labeled in a text field besides each channel number.
* New "lock instrument" button in the channels window to override the song's
predefined instruments.
* Settings per song can be saved and automatically retrieved, including text
encoding, volume, pitch, rhythm, channel labels and fixed instruments.
* The sample songs location is added to the places navigation panel in the
open dialog.
* Several other usability enhancements.
More info:
http://userbase.kde.org/KMid2
Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
KMid2 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=kmid2
Regards,
Pedro
Dear all,
the deadline for submission of papers for the Linux Audio Conference 2010(*)
is coming closer (February 14th, 2010), and (like last year) the amount of
submissions so far is..quite small. However, without papers and presentations
this kind of conference cannot exist.
I believe that most of the prospective paper submitters out there will probably
wait until the very last minute (I recall in one case there was even a bit of
a debate about "what exact time, and what time zone please?" :-), but it would
be helpful to get an idea of the upcoming submissions.
For this reason I am asking that if you plan to submit a paper, to give us/me
a short notice (title, topic) of your planned paper (direct reply, no need to
send that information to any of the addressed lists). This would help us in
planning the next necessary steps.
By the way, we are not considering to extend the paper deadline this year.
Please feel free to forward this mail to whatever people/mailing lists are
suitable.
Regards,
Frank Neumann, on behalf of the LAC2010 organization team
(*) See http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010
(I don't agree about the linux-audio-* mailing list
announcement policy, so from now on, program announcements
will only be posted to linux-audio-announce(a)lists.linuxaudio.org !)
Download from
=============
http://archive.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?C=M;O=D
jack_capture
============
jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack.
The default operation of the program is executed by writing "jack_capture"
in the terminal without any extra command line options:
$ jack_capture
...which will record what you hear in your loudspeakers
into a stereo wav file.
Most important new features since 0.9.36
========================================
* Direct support for mp3 using liblame.
* Console cleanup. Terminal should not be messy
when quitting jack_capture.
* Better buffering schemes.
* Less used memory.
Features
========
* Autogenerated filenames are unique and humanly readable.
* The 4GB size barrier for wav files is handled by continuing
writing to new files when reaching 4GB.
* Supports all soundfile formats supported by sndfile.
(wav, aiff, ogg, flac, wavex, au, etc.) (option: -f <format>)
* Supports mp3 by using liblame. (option: -mp3)
* Option for writing raw 16 bit data to stdout. (option: -ws)
* Built-in console meter, plus option for automatically starting
and stopping the Meterbridge jack meter program. Port
connections to Meterbridge are done automatically, and
on the fly, by jack_capture.
* jack_capture can connect to any input or output jack port.
When "connecting" to a jack input port (i.e. a writable
port), jack_capture constantly monitors which jack ports
which are connected to the input port, and make sure
jack_capture is always connected to the same ports.
In other words, jack_capture will reconnect its ports
automatically during recording to match the connections
of the ports. This is for instance convenient when
recording the playback ports since jack_capture can be
started first, and then other programs can start and
stop at any moment while all sound still should be recorded.
* No limit on the number of jack ports jack_capture can connect to.
(I.e. the --port argument can be specified more than once, plus
that it accepts wildcard arguments. For instance,
jack_capture --port "*"
will connect to all current jack ports, both input and output
ports, except jack_capture's own ports.)
* Buffers are automatically increased during runtime to prevent
underruns and to avoid wasting memory by preallocating too much.
(handled by using lockless atomic fifo/lifo queues to store
temporary sound data instead of ringbuffers)
* The disk thread is automatically reniced to a higher priority when
using more than half of the buffer.
* Significantly better recording performance than Ardour.
(probably because jack_capture writes all channels into
only one file and that it is not creating peak files).
(tested on athlonXP)
* No problem writing at least 256 channels of 32 bit wav at once to a
local hard drive. (tested on icore7)
Announcing the release of Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1 LiveOS [nds & x86]
=====================================================================
About
-----
Guitar-ZyX(tm) is a LiveDVD/USB operating system distribution, that
can immediately boot both your Nintendo(tm)-DS, and your x86/64 PC,
into a guitar pre-amp f/x processing appliance, complete with
wireless dual screen touchpad remote control. You can even velcro
or embed the NDS in your guitar if so inclined. In addition to
switching among 77+ different f/x presets, the NDS remote control's
touchscreen can also linearly control any two of about a hundred
independent f/x parameters in real-time. I.e. a very cost effective
TouchScreenWhammyPad.
Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1 uses the excellent Rakarrack open source guitar-f/x
software to provide effects. Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1 is derived from
Fedora(tm)-11 and has compatable full access to the upstream software
repositories including updates.
Guitar-ZyX is entirely free and open source software, with all source
available, for both the PC and NDS components. All necessary
compilers and build tools are also included, allowing anyone to
modify and enhance in any way their imagination and code-fu skills
allow.
=====================================================================
Information
-----------
Guitar-ZyX is currently an *alpha* release. NO WARRANTY. Use at
your own risk. Interested alpha-testers are encouraged to provide
feedback on what works, and what still needs to be improved.
For information on many other features, and the best current
documentation, please review the latest release notes, available here
filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/guitarzyx/relnotes/index.html
or visit the main project page
http://filteredperception.org/smiley/projects/guitarzyx
=====================================================================
What's New In Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1
------------------------------
Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1 is primarily a major upstream rebasing release.
That is, now f11 based. But there are many enhancments to
'sidestream' projects. Here are the details-
Guitar-ZyX MCP ::
Version 0.2* of the MCP now includes a main menu system. This allows
access to the filesystem in order to launch other applications such
as DSOrganize, and dozens of ZyXdevSuite examples. Browsing visible
SSIDs is now supported, and many more menu accessible features are
just around the corner. There is now a command to download and
execute updated MCP code via wifi, vastly easing development.
Rakarrack-0.4.0.dmc ::
The latest prerelease CVS sources including the fruits of my new cvs
write access are included. Josep Andreu has made many bugfixes and
improvements, including new skinnability and font scaling. Ryan
Billing has added new DSP modules, which I'll eventually understand
enough to properly explain. And my Global Wet/Dry is now an upstream
feature with a slider even(FX%). And more presets from all of us.
Rolling Echo is kind of interesting, while Tricky Dick is just an
homage to a crook.
Breaking News: rakarrack-0.4.2 with midi-learn was released the same
day as Guitar-ZyX-0.4.1. An update will be available at some point,
though compiling from source should be trivial for anyone interested.
Guitar-ZyX JaMode ::
The big sledgehammer session initiation scripts have been vastly
improved. Now, when you select one of the JaMode commands from the
ZyX submenu of the mainmenu, they will execute much more quickly, as
well as utilizing an aesthetic splash screen with progressbar during
the transition. There is one to launch a recording session, one to
launch a practice (non-recording) session, and one to return to the
normal desktop audio system.
desmume-0.9.5 ::
Every aspect of the MCP can now me developed and tested via
emulation, except sadly wifi/networking. But still, that is a vast
improvement over the bugs that were interfering with input handling
in prior versions while in a 3D mode. Sound works, virtual cflash
fatfs of the current directory sortof works, scaling the window, ....
(recording movies still seems broken though)
ZyX-LiveInstaller-0.2.2 ::
The same enhancements and bugfixes that led to its availability in
the official Blueberry release of SugarOnAStick, are now included
in Guitar-ZyX as well. Many bugfixes, thanks to a much broader
range of testing.
VirOS and *ZyX ::
Enhancements have been made to VirOS which make it robust and
possible to build across major ancestor releases. Also, many other
things, particularly in the traits, have been massively cleaned up,
though probably as much cleanup remains to be done. Time will tell
if this facilitates a much more rapid rebasing against f12. Note,
that it will still be another release or two before integration with
the relatively new upstream bootsplash is done. This is because f12
introduces a major rewrite of the initramfs infrastructure.
qemu-0.11.1 ::
/usr/local/bin/qemu is based on upstream sources, with kqemu support
intact, which on my laptop yields a greater than 100% speedup even
with linux kernel 2.6 for both the guest and host.
Games ::
Standard gnome-games like freecell/solitaire, and chess are
available. Frozen Bubble is also included - a much better rip off
than the one I coded partially in assembly more than a decade ago
for a CoE project. And most importantly, PokerTH is now available
for all of your open source online texas holdem needs.
...
peace...
-dmc
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