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
2009-12-15 0.3.1
* Russian translation. Thanks to Serguey G Basalaev
* French translation, and updated German translation. Thanks to Frank Kober
* Czech translation. Thanks to Pavel Fric
* Persistent state per channel for banks, instruments, and controllers
* New setting in preferences dialog: drums MIDI channel
* Selection of drums instrument, for GM, GS and XG standard devices
* Show percussion names above the piano keys in drums channel
* Moved the "show note names" option from preferences dialog to view menu
* Extra controls: new button types for one shot controllers and SysEx messages
Copyright (C) 2008-2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v3
More info
http://vmpk.sourceforge.net
Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files
openSUSE build service, RPM packages
http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&q=VMPK
Regards,
Pedro
jack_mixer is a GTK+ JACK audio mixer app with a look similar to its
hardware counterpart. It has lot of useful features, apart from being
able to mix multiple JACK audio streams. It is licensed under GPL
version 2 (or later).
http://home.gna.org/jackmixer/http://gna.org/projects/jackmixer/http://download.gna.org/jackmixer/jack_mixer-7.tar.gz
Nedko Arnaudov gave me maintenance in October and here comes a first
release since I accepted, hopefully I got everything right.
What changed since version 6?
* New maintainer, thanks Nedko for everything!
* New icon by Lapo Calamandrei
* Option to have a gradient in the vumeters
* Option to use stock GtkScale widget for volume and balance
* Rewrite of the C/Python binding (this removed the dependency on SWIG)
* Improve performance when drawing vumeters
* New menu items to load/save settings
* New "Channel Properties" dialog, allowing to change assigned MIDI CCs
* Automatic post fader outputs for input channels
* Possibility to add new output channels, besides main mix
* New "monitor" output, assignable to any output channel, or input
channel (in which case it will take its prefader volume)
* Removal of PyXML dependency
Thanks to Nedko Arnaudov, Lapo Calamandrei, Arnout Engelen, and
Krzysztof Foltman for their contributions!
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 0.05.5-1 comes with some changes:
* set dependency of Gtk+ down to version 2.12 (for stable users, introduced by James Morris, thanks James)
* make effects moveable (reorder effect chain)
have fun
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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 'jconvolver' or the older '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://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html#Faust
: Yann Orlary
http://faust.grame.fr/
regards
Hermann Meyer & James Warden
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Dear fellow FOSS enthusiasts,
Last week's L2Ork debut was a great success with the performance hall packed and people standing in the back. We've had a tremendous amount of positive feedback and it has been truly heart-touching to learn that people genuinely cared about and were moved by what we had to share. As some of you may be already aware, our story also made the Slashdot and our server has received close to a half a million hits since its posting. Likewise, we've been featured on regional TV channels as well as various international news outlets.
As our thanks to all who have so generously supported us both in person and through the endless corners of the internet, we've posted a track from our weekend recording session. "Citadel" is a piece for soprano and L2Ork that uses a poem by Ivan Gundulic, a famous Croatian poet from the Baroque era. The piece was recorded in a beautifully reverberant Burruss rotunda on the Virginia Tech campus. No post-processing has been applied to the recording beyond a minor eq to soften lows.
To listen please visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/ and click on the Media->Jukebox, or simply click on the link in what is currently the top post on the L2Ork blog.
Once again, thank you all for your kind support. We will be starting a public l2ork-dev list soon, so if you wish to contribute, participate, or start your own L2Ork, please do not hesitate to join in on the discussion. Likewise, should you feel compelled to leave a comment, please feel free to do so on our jukebox page (no registration required).
Best wishes,
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
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/
Patchage 0.4.3 is released.
Changes this version:
* Switch to waf build system
* Fix compilation with GCC 4.4
* Better ALSA support
* Massive performance improvements when ALSA is enabled
* Center on startup
Raul and FlowCanvas, libraries Patchage depends on, also have new
releases (both 0.6.0) with many improvements. Upgrading is recommended.
More information, downloads, etc. available at:
http://drobilla.net/software/patchage/
Enjoy,
-dr
Hi,
I have been attempting to keep track of all the releases posted over the
past year since the inaugural Linux Audio Musicians Best of mix was
released in Nov 08.
I'm pleased to announce that the latest Annual Best of Mix for 2009 is
now up for your listening pleasure.
http://djcj.org/audio/lam
- In general the level of craftsmanship and musicality has improved
greatly over the past year. Nice work everyone!!!
- I'm open to suggestions for more music to add to the mix and please
let me know if you spot any mistakes.
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey - DJ Kotau
Boost Hardware Ltd - DJCJ . ORG
This is a quick guitarix update to cover the new release of jconvolver eg. jconv
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.
To cover the renaming of jconv to jconvolver, guitarix-0.05.3-1
looks now first for jconvolver, if it isn't installed,
it looks for jconv.
Also a patch from Michal Seben (OpenSuse) is added to cover a build fail
at openSUSE:Factory.
Thanks Michal. :-)
Additional, there is a (rt) 2 Channel delay chooser for the output to jconv,
and the Chorus effect work in Stereo now.
have fun
________________________________________________________________________
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://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html#Faust
: Yann Orlary
http://faust.grame.fr/
guitarix is licensed under the GPL.
regards
Hermann Meyer & James Warden
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Sorry for X posting
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Munro <rrmunro(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:56 AM
Subject: Fwd: Reminder: Opennight#2 - 7:30p Thursday, 3rd Dec 09 @ The
Roebuck, 50 Great Dover Street SE1 4YG
To: openlab <openlab(a)lists.pawfal.org>
Hey Everybody,
OPenLab OpenNight a night of performances where people can come along and
try out their new stuff in front of an audience, or just have a jam.
So the 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.
*Of course all the performances have to use at least some open-source
software.*
So for anyone out there who has been working on some stuff or if you have
been doing workshops and want to put your new found skills to the test -
then jump in click the edit button and put your name up ....
Just a reminder for the next OpenLab opennight on this Thursday 3rd December
@ 7:30p, the line up so far is:
* *Rob Munro* : (PD+Processing) (15-20min)
* *Jonny Stutters* : (SuperCollider+Processing) (15mins)
* *Ryan Jordan* : (PD and maybe Arduino, sensors, strobes, but maybe not)
19mins
* *Cane Toad Orchestra* : (din, variseq, violin) : 24 minutes
* *Crank* : homespun electronics and software.
* *Andy Farnell* : PD performance.
If you want to join in .. it's never too late, just add yourself on the wiki
or let me know.
http://www.pawfal.org/openlabwiki/index.php?page=OpenNight
*Address:*
*Opennight 3rd December 09: The Roebuck*
THE ROEBUCK PUB
50 Great Dover Street SE1 4YG
T. 020 7357 7324
E. info(a)theroebuck.net
W: http://theroebuck.net
Map: google maps<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=SE1+4YG&sll=51.…>
Flyer a bit less low-fi this time. Please distribute everywhere you like.
The attached one is very low quality. There are higher quality images here:
small: http://www.robmunro.net/misc/on2_flyer_sm.png
Large: http://www.robmunro.net/misc/on2_flyer.png
hope to catch you there ...
robm