On behalf of the FluidSynth development team, I'm happy to announce
the release of FluidSynth 1.1.0 "A More Solid Fluid".
This is the result of a 6 month development cycle and is the most
significant release since 1.0.0.
FluidSynth is a software wavetable synthesizer based on the SoundFont
2 specification.
http://fluidsynth.resonance.org
New features and changes:
* Extensive work on making FluidSynth more thread safe, resulting in
better stability.
* Audio file rendering for MIDI to audio file conversion, faster
than realtime (#15).
* Optional libsndfile support for file rendering in different audio
file formats (wav, flac, ogg vorbis, etc) (#30).
* Audio and MIDI are synchronized for MIDI file playback.
* Server can be specified for Jack audio and MIDI drivers.
* Jack audio and MIDI is now synchronized (when same Jack server used).
* MIDI file playback is now timed correctly, even with large audio
buffer sizes.
* Fixed issue with missing percussion in MIDI files caused by very
short notes, using synth.min-note-length setting (#1).
* Improved support for MIDI tuning standard, including SYSEX support
and realtime tuning activation.
* Multi-core support for utilizing multiple CPUs for synthesis or
increasing speed of file rendering.
* Voices for a note-on event are started synchronously (#46).
* TCP/IP shell server support for windows (#20).
* Improved settings output (-o help) (alphabetically sorted and
string options listed).
* Audio driver (-a) and MIDI driver (-m) options now accept "help"
and list available options (#41).
* Added audio.realtime-prio and midi.realtime-prio for controlling
realtime scheduling of some audio and MIDI drivers.
* Default priority levels of audio and MIDI threads set to 60 and 50
respectively.
* All yes/no string boolean settings converted to integer toggle
settings (with backwards compatibility).
* glib is now a required dependency.
* Updated README-OSX
* Added "voice_count" shell command for getting current number of
active voices.
New command line options:
-F, --fast-render=[file]
-T, --audio-file-type
-O, --audio-file-format
-E, --audio-file-endian
New or changed parameters:
* Audio file output settings: audio.file.endian, audio.file.format,
audio.file.name, audio.file.type, audio.sample-format
* Realtime scheduling settings: audio.realtime-prio, midi.realtime-prio
* Jack settings: audio.jack.server and midi.jack.server
* Other settings: player.reset-synth, player.timing-source,
synth.cpu-cores (experimental), synth.min-note-length
Bug fixes and minor changes:
* Fixed enabling of high priority scheduling in many audio drivers.
* Fixed bank selection logic
* Build fixes for mingw and VC++ builds on Windows
* Fix default values (after MIDI reset) to be more consistent with
MIDI spec (#29).
* Removed VintageDreamsWaves-v2.sf2 since it wasn't under a free license.
* Solaris build fix (#52)
* Implemented fluid_player_set_loop (#33)
* Fixed scaletune error (#26)
* Fixed synth reset between songs (#31)
* Fixed pitch bend error in Windows MIDI driver (#54)
* Skip remaining track data in MIDI file after EOT (#53)
* Bug fix in MIDI router where mutex was left locked with MIDI
system reset message.
* Help command now shows list of topics instead of General help.
* Fixed non-blocking in alsa_raw, alsa_seq and OSS MIDI drivers.
* Fixed segfault on config file load (#45).
Changes affecting developers:
* Developer API docs overhauled and now very complete.
* Lots of code cleanup in fluid_synth.c, fluid_chorus.c,
fluid_reverb.c and fluid_chan.c.
* Improved use of settings hints for all settings.
* char * arguments changed to const char * for many function prototypes.
* Many new API functions.
See "Whats new in 1.1.0?" section in developer API documentation for
more details:
http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/docs/api/index.html#NewIn1_1_0
Contributors
------------
Josh Green
David Henningsson
Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
Ebrahim Mayat
And many others!
Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built
for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or
professional. http://www.ubuntustudio.org
The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its sixth release: Ubuntu
Studio 9.10 "Karmic Koala". With this release, which you can download
in a 1.4GB DVD, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages,
targeted at audio producers, video producers and graphic designers.
Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the Linux-based multimedia workstation.
Downloads of the install DVD are available here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release
For Ubuntu Studio 9.10 we have continued to grow our feature set,
update packages, and fix critical bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio
user experience.
We are happy to announce that the real time kernel will be an official
upstream release patch. It will be installed by default if the audio
task is selected. We have tested it heavily and are very happy with it's
performance in audio environments.
Features/Improvements:
* Official upstream RT kernel release (i.e. it's very stable)
* Font meta package added to the graphics meta, which installs
literally hundreds of free fonts
* Xwax (http://xwax.co.uk) and a2jmidid (http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/)
packaged and added to the audio meta-package
* Xjadeo (http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/) added to the video meta
* Network tools like NetworkManager and Pidgin will be available on
the DVD disc repository but not installed by default
* Firewire libraries are now upgraded to 2.0
* MANY newer versions of applications (Ardour, Gimp, Blender,
Inkscape, Audacity, Kino, Scribus, Denemo, Hugin, etc...)
for exact versions please see: http://packages.ubuntu.com
See the Ubuntu release notes for other non Ubuntu Studio specific changes.
As our wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio states, "our
aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools
that GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation and production. We
also want to spotlight what's out there, and show users tools they
might not know to exist."
Thanks to all who helped in Ubuntu Studio 9.10's creation!
VamPy, a Python wrapper for the Vamp plugin API, is now available.
Using VamPy you can write audio analysis or visualisation plugins for
use in Vamp hosts with a quick and dynamic environment that is
somewhat like working in Matlab or other high-level modelling
environments. VamPy has full two-way support for NumPy, an efficient
numerical library for Python, and for the dynamic typing of Python.
You can download VamPy from :
http://www.vamp-plugins.org/vampy.html
VamPy was written by Gyorgy Fazekas at the Centre for Digital Music,
Queen Mary University of London and is published under a BSD-style
license.
Chris
[Note: This announcement is about closed-source software]
Version 1.6.1 of the QM Vamp Plugins -- a set of audio analysis plugins in the
Vamp plugin format, developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary,
University of London -- is now available for download.
Plugins included are note onset detector, beat and barline tracker, tempo
estimator, key estimator, tonal change detector, structural segmenter, timbral
and rhythmic similarity, wavelet scaleogram, adaptive spectrogram, note
transcription, chromagram, constant-Q spectrogram, and MFCC calculation.
This is a bug-fix release, fixing a failure to correctly smooth the
onset detection function which caused the onset and beat tracking
plugins occasionally to miss onsets or find spurious ones.
For downloads, please see:
http://isophonics.net/QMVampPlugins
The plugins are available in binary form only and may be freely used for any
purpose, and redistributed for non-commercial purposes only. Supported
platforms are 32- and 64-bit Linux, 32-bit Windows, and OS/X 10.4 or newer
(Intel/PPC universal).
For documentation of these plugins, please see:
http://www.vamp-plugins.org/plugin-doc/qm-vamp-plugins.html
Chris
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 1.7.1 of Sonic Visualiser is now available.
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
This release contains a small number of enhancements and bug fixes.
For more information, please read the change log at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sv1/files/sonic-visualiser/1.7.1/CHANGELOG…
Chris
I'm happy to announce a new release from guitarix
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 0.05.1-1 comes with some major changes:
* new jack/port/server connect/monitor/control features
* new level meters
* new noise gate, noise sharper, chorus, bass booster
* new gain control for the jconv input
* reworked jconv settings widget
* a bit polish the GUI
* new skins and reworked skin menu
* various bug fixes
have fun
________________________________________________________________________
The standalone version of guitarix is based on GTK2+.
But guitarix is also released as a suite of LADSPA plugins
and can be used in e.g. ardour.
guitarix is licensed under the GPL.
Project page with screenshots:
http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/
download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
For capture, guitarix uses the external application
'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
convolution application 'jconv' created by Fons Adriaensen.
If you don't have it installed, you can look here:
http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html
I(hermann) use faust to build the prototype and will say
thanks to
: Julius Smith
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/
: Albert Graef
http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/ag.html
: Yann Orlary
http://faust.grame.fr/
regards
Hermann Meyer & James Warden
------------------------------------------
guitarix-dev team
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
--
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
