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
Version 1.4 of the Rubber Band library is now available.
Rubber Band is an audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library and
utility designed for musical applications. It allows you to change the
tempo and pitch of an audio recording independently of one another.
http://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/
This maintenance release contains a fix for a hang when faced with
some very peculiar stretch factors, and a fix for some incorrect
threading condition usage.
Chris
Sonic Annotator is a utility program for batch feature extraction from
audio files. It runs Vamp audio analysis plugins with specified
parameters on audio files, and writes the result features in a
selection of formats, in particular as RDF using the Audio Features
and Event ontologies, or as simple CSV files.
Version 0.4 is now available.
For more details and for downloads, please see
http://www.omras2.org/SonicAnnotator
Sonic Annotator was developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen
Mary, University of London. It was funded by the EPSRC through the
OMRAS2 project and is Free Software published under the GNU General
Public License.
Chris
Version 2.1 of the Vamp plugin SDK is now available.
http://www.vamp-plugins.org/
Vamp is a plugin API for audio analysis and feature extraction plugins written
in C or C++. Its SDK features an easy-to-use set of C++ classes for plugin
and host developers, a reference host implementation, example plugins, and
documentation. It is supported across Linux, OS/X, Windows, and Solaris.
A documentation guide to writing plugins using the Vamp SDK can be found at
http://www.vamp-plugins.org/guide.pdf.
Version 2.1 is a maintenance release which contains a number of bug fixes
and a new set of skeleton source code files for use by plugin developers.
All of the fixes are relevant to host code only: there is no need to recompile
or re-link any plugins that have been linked with 2.0 against the new release.
Chris
Hi all,
I've just released a new version of Timemachine, incorporating a patch
from Adam Sampson (and others) at http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/
It can now be configures to start recording when the input level rises
over some threashold, and stop when it falls below for some specified
period of time, making it easier to do hands-free recordings.
Enjoy,
Steve
