Greetings all,
I wanted to share with you my latest Linux-based and Linuxaudio.org-related
project that has been sucking up most of my time over the past year or so to
the point it seemed as if I have disappeared off the face of the Earth.
Needless to mention it continues to alter my sleeping/eating patterns with
unprecedented aptitude and with no end in sight ;-).
http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/
Best wishes,
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
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/
Hallo,
this message is to inform the community that in the next edition of the
the "Salon Linux 2010", in march 2010 in Paris, a french Linux event
including a conference cycle, there will be a session around
professional music and video creation with free software.
You can find the call for contribution at
http://www.confsolutionslinuxparis.com/.
The call talk about contribution and not paper because actually
only a presentation is required, not a paper.
We are looking mostly for overviews of availables solutions or
in depth presentations of mainstream ''products''.
Unfortunately, the communication must be in french :-< ...
Feel free to distribute this mail where do you think it may be
appropriate, or to contact me to get more details.
Maurizio De Cecco
--
Music: http://www.myspace.com/mauriziodececco
Blog: http://maurizio.dececco.name/
Software: http://www.jmax-phoenix.org/
Hello all,
Ecasound 2.7.0 has been released! Releases notes follow:
0. Special note: Ten years of Ecasound!
---------------------------------------
This is the 10th year anniversary release for Ecasound! The first public
version, 1.1.4r1, of Ecasound, licensed under GPL, was released on 30th
June 1999. See the following mailing list post for a quick rundown of what
has happened so far:
- http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2009/07/0004.html
1. Summary of changes in this release
-------------------------------------
Initial Open Sound Control (OSC) interface for parameter control has
been added. New '-chorder' and '-eadb' options, and 'cop-get'
interactive mode command, have been added. Optional build time support
has been added for using liboil to optimize inner loops, giving a
small performance boost to many common use-scenarios. Various bugs
fixed in JACK support, mp3 output and option parsing. Fixes to build
problems in Mac OS X.
2. What is Ecasound?
--------------------
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing.
It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format
conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing,
recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio
inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be
combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by
operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode
user-interface is included in the package.
Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can also be
run on many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
Limited support for Windows is available through Cygwin. Ecasound is
licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licensed
under the LGPL.
3. Changes in 2.7.x series
--------------------------
v2.7.0:
* Open Sound Control (OSC) support. See the initial announcement
mail sent to ecasound-list:
http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2009/04/0036-fixed.html
Current interface is documented at:
http://eca.cx/ecasound/Documentation/ecasound_osc_interface.txt
The interface is still limited and subject to change in
later releases, but it's a start.
* New '-chorder' operator that allows to reorder channels of
an audio stream. Also duplication and omission of certain
channels is possible. See ecasound(1) man page for more
information.
* Added new amplify/gain variant '-eadb' that allows to specify
the gain in dB. See the related mail thread:
http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2009/03/0034.html
* Refactored POSIX signal handling in ecasound. See the following
mail for some rationale, as well as a list of changes.
See mail thread:
http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2009/02/0027.html
* Various optimizations to Ecasound inner loops using
the liboil library. See http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/
To enable the optimizations, liboil-0.3 development files
need to be installed and '--enable-liboil' must be passed
to Ecasound's configure script.
* New 'cop-get' interactive mode command. See the updated
ecasound-iam(1) manual page for further info.
Full list of changes is available at:
- http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php
4. Interface and configuration file changes in 2.7 series
---------------------------------------------------------
v2.7.0:
Output of '-ev' operator has been renewed.
The name for default chainsetup created from command line is now
"untitled-chainsetup".
Most of the entries in the installed ecasoundrc file
(in ${prefix}/share/ecasound/ecasoundrc), are now commented
out by default.
Major changes to the libecasound library public interface.
This should not really affect anyone anymore, as direct use of
libecasound has been discouraged for a long time and it is
available only as a static library, but just in case someone
is still using it. See libecasound/ChangeLog for a detailed
list of changes.
5. Contributors to 2.7 series
-----------------------------
Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Extracted with 'git-shortlog -s':
v2.7.0:
- Adam Linson (1)
- Jeremy Hughes (1)
- Junichi Uekawa (1)
- Kai Vehmanen (203)
Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
v2.7.0:
* Oliver Oli (2)
various bugs in new OSC support
* RProgrammer @ sf.net (1)
uninstall target broken on OS X (sfbug:1283448)
* Jason Galyon (1)
frontend parser bug for '-E' option
Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
v2.7.0:
* Julien Claassen (1)
OSC support
* Klaus Schulz (1)
-eadb chainop
6. Links and files
------------------
Web site (and mirrors):
http://eca.cx/ecasound (fi)
http://ecasound.seul.org (us)
http://ecasound.sourceforge.net (us)
Source package:
http://eca.cx/ecasound/download.php
ecasound-2.7.0.tar.gz, md5sum:
0311307fa4fb4f085178843b3cec477a
List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support:
See http://eca.cx/ecasound/download.php
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Hi LAA,
the second release (v0.0.2) of "alsa-midi-latency-test" is available at:
http://github.com/koppi/alsa-midi-latency-test/
alsa-midi-latency-test measures the roundtrip time of a MIDI message
in the alsa subsystem of the linux kernel using a high precision
timer. It calculates the worst case roundtrip time of all sent MIDI
messages and displays a histogram of the rountrip time jitter.
The console application aims to become a Linux drop-in-replacement for
the windows application "MidiTest":
http://earthvegaconnection.com/evc/products/miditest/index.html
The second release of alsa-midi-latency-test includes a number of bug
fixes with the high precision timer code. It also includes some
benchmark results for future reference:
http://github.com/koppi/alsa-midi-latency-test/tree/master/benchmarks/
Any kind of feedback is greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
++Jakob
Sonic Visualiser is an application for inspecting and analysing the
contents of music audio files. It combines powerful waveform and
spectral visualisation tools with automated feature extraction plugins
and annotation capabilities.
Version 1.7 of Sonic Visualiser is now available.
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
This release contains a number of new features, enhancements, and
bug fixes. For more details, please read the release notes at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sv1/files/sonic-visualiser/1.7/CHANGELOG/d…
Sonic Visualiser contains advanced waveform and spectrogram viewers,
as well as editors for many sorts of audio annotations. Besides
visualisation, it can make and play selections based on the locations
of automatically detected features, seamlessly loop playback of single
or multiple noncontiguous regions, synthesise annotations for
playback, slow down playback while retaining display synchronisation,
and show the ongoing alignment in time between multiple recordings of
a piece with different timings.
Sonic Visualiser supports the Vamp plugin API for plugins that extract
descriptive or analytical data from audio. For more information
about Vamp plugins, including plugin downloads and resources for
developers, please see:
http://www.vamp-plugins.org/
Sonic Visualiser was developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen
Mary, University of London:
http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/
Ongoing work on Sonic Visualiser and audio feature representation in
the semantic web is carried out as part of the OMRAS2 project funded
by the EPSRC. See
http://omras2.org/
for more information.
Sonic Visualiser is Free Software distributed under the GNU General
Public License. The 1.7 release is available now in source code form
or as binaries for Linux, OS/X, Windows, and OpenSolaris.
Chris
Fall is upon us.
Summer is gone. Trivial speaking, as it marks yet one's another
birthday, mine that is. It also marks the approaching bankruptcy of this
funny F&D release code-names. One can also think as the last and stable
release before a probable next generation do break all loose. Automation
and full MIDI control is popping up over the horizon. So take all
children home and be prepared for the worst. Nah, don't be that afraid.
With some help from good friends, everything can and shall be arranged.
No second thoughts. No hard feelings. Meanwhile...
Qtractor 0.4.3 (fussy doula) released!
Release highlights:
* Audio send/return aux. inserts (NEW)
* Mixer peak meters gradient eye-candy (NEW)
* MIDI System Exclusive (SysEx) setup manager (NEW)
* MIDI Playback/Queue timer resolution option (NEW)
* MIDI Instrument definitions from SoundFont 2 files (NEW)
* MIDI Output bus default instrument (NEW)
* Buses dialog manager update (FIX)
* Plugin references by label (FIX)
* First audio metronome beat/bar (FIX)
* Ghost clip selections (FIX)
* Overlapping MIDI clips (FIX)
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.3.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 11.1):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.3-1.rncbc.suse111.sr…
- binary packages (openSUSE 11.1):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.3-1.rncbc.suse111.i5…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.3-1.rncbc.suse111.x8…
- binary packages (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.3-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.3-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_…
- binary packages (Ubuntu 9.04):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.3-1.rncbc.ubuntu904_…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.3-1.rncbc.ubuntu904_…
- user manual (ever still outdated):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-user-manual.pdf
Weblog (upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- External preset files are not removed nor deleted from the file-system
anymore.
- Connections support for UTF-8 encoded client/port names.
- Force track and clip properties dialog widget to be modal as it should
from their beginning dawn.
- Audio effect send/return aux. inserts are implemented as special
pseudo-plugins (Plugins/Inserts).
- Reset play-head position on auto-backward and keep playback rolling
when continue past end transport option is not set.
- MIDI clip editor (aka piano-roll/matrix aditor) gets better on the
virtual piano keyboard eye-candy side of things ;).
- Plugins are now also referenced by label, avoiding plugin index
clash/misses eg. when plugin object file/path changes or is moved
externally.
- Keyboard focus is now cleared/reset from the main toolbar time and
tempo spin-boxes when editing gets finished (eg. Enter key is pressed).
- First audio metronome beat/bar now played back correctly (fixes bug
#2841437).
- Client to/from port (dis)connections now found consistent as good
ol'QjackCtl behavior (fixes bug #2834657).
- All dirty open MIDI clip editors are now prompted to save before the
main application closes (fixes bug #2835516).
- Mixer level meters get their long deserved gradient look.
- Fixed any ghost clip selections that were haunting the main track
view, specially after undo/redo.
- Increased tolerance on reading corrupt MIDI files (SMF).
- A MIDI SysEx manager is being finally introduced, in some primordial
rather basic form though. MIDI System Exclusive (SysEx) event strings
may now be freely assigned to MIDI output buses only, allowing for
proper setup of external outboard MIDI equipment. Each bus may have an
unlimited SysEx queue that gets sent out on every connection change (see
View/Buses.../MIDI/SysEx...).
- A default MIDI instrument name may now be assigned to any MIDI output
bus (see View/Buses.../MIDI).
- More legacy headers, stdio.h and stdlib.h, are yet again necessary to
build with gcc/g++ >= 4.4 (as patch noted by Alexis Ballier on Gentoo
bug report #274168, thanks).
- Bus manager dialog (View/Buses...) gets new columns on the left pane
buses list as for displaying number of channels and bus mode.
- Crash when updating bus probably fixed (bug #2811630).
- Fixed glitch displaying beat snap/grid lines on MIDI clip editor,
incidental to clips located at absolute zero time.
- Overlapped MIDI clips were rendering garbled note events to DSSI/VSTi
plugins, now fixed.
- New MIDI Playback/Queue timer (resolution) option is now available
(see View/Options.../MIDI).
- MIDI instrument definitions may now be imported from plain SoundFont
files.
Cheers && Enjoy.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc dot org
http://www.rncbc.org
canadian magazine eContact! is running an issue dedicated to open source
audio software. enjoy, jörn
PRESS RELEASE -- for immediate diffusion / pour diffusion immédiate
Please forward at large.
Communauté électroacoustique canadienne
(CEC) Canadian Electroacoustic Community
eContact! 11.3
Logiciels audio « open source » / Open Source for Audio Application
[F] eContact! 11.3 s'intéresse au logiciel libre et ses applications
dans les domaines du son et de l'audio. Le numéro offre notamment un
guide d'initiation, l'Open Source Travel Guide [wiki] -- qui est
lui-même un outil libre comme son nom l'indique -- ainsi que des
articles abordant les raisons pour lesquelles les gens et les
institutions actives en électroacoustique créent et utilisent des outils
et des environnements logiciels libres.
[E] eContact! 11.3 takes a look at open source and its application in
the audio and sound world. The issue features an Open Source Travel
Guide [wiki] -- an open resource in itself -- and articles discussing
the reasons why and the ways in which people and institutions involved
in electroacoustics are using and developing open source tools and
environments.
http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/11_3
--
Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC) Canadian Electroacoustic
Community
http://econtact.ca | http://sonus.ca | http://cec.concordia.ca/jttp/2009
Announcing phasex-0.12.0-pre1:
The pre-release is here. It's stable. It builds cleanly. No build
errors or warnings. No runtime errors or crashes. No glitches.
If no bugs are found in the next week, then this code (with the
addition of some brand-new patches) will become the stable release.
Changes since phasex-0.12.0-beta4:
- Build system overhaul. GCC version detection for better arch-
specific optimization (compiles clean with gcc-3.4.x or higher).
Atom builds fall back to next-best optimizations for GCC < 4.5.x.
New --enable-32bit and --cpu-power-level= flags and better user
variable handling for ./configure. Missing -lpthread in link phase
is fixed.
- Velocity control for the amplifier. Better aftertouch handling.
- Scheduling policy defaults to SCHED_RR, and can be changed in the
settings at runtime.
- Broken ringbuffer code has been fixed. No more glitches (unless you
have actually run out of CPU).
- Theme loading has been fixed. Now properly detects if the nodoka
theme engine is installed, and quietly falls back to an engineless
theme.
- Fullscreen and Maximize interaction have been fixed.
- New command line options: -m (--midi-channel=), -f (--fullscreen),
and -M (--maximize). Loading a patch by name or by program number
on the command line now finds the appropriate patch in the patchbank.
- The lurking patch name corruption bug has been fixed!
- And more. See the ChangeLog for details...
Download phasex and hear for yourself...
http://sysex.net/phasex/
Alternatively, you can utilize the git repositoty:
git clone http://sysex.net/git/phasex.git
Cheers,
--ww
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It
doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI
synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use
the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use
the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another
instrument or MIDI file player.
Changelog
2009-09-27 0.3.0
* merged vpiano 0.8 widget
* implemented RFE #2106022: better looking keys using SVG graphics.
* implemented RFE #2848623: raw keyboard support, raw keyboard map editor.
* implemented RFE #2790324: extra controls tool bar: new extra controllers
(knobs and on/off buttons) with customizable labels which can be assigned to
arbitrary MIDI controllers.
* German translation, by Andreas Steinel
Copyright (C) 2008-2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v3
More info
http://vmpk.sourceforge.net
Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files
Regards,
Pedro
