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by hermann

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

16 years, 3 months

[LAA] introducing l2ork

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

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/

16 years, 3 months

[LAA] Salon Linux 2010 Paris

by Maurizio De Cecco

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/

16 years, 3 months

[LAA] [ANN] Ecasound 2.7.0 released

by Kai Vehmanen

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 --

16 years, 3 months

[LAA] Second version of alsa-midi-latency-test released (v0.0.2)

by Jakob Flierl

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

16 years, 3 months

[LAA] Sonic Visualiser v1.7 now available!

by Chris Cannam

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

16 years, 3 months

[LAA] Qtractor 0.4.3 (fussy doula) released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

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

16 years, 3 months

[LAA] eContact! issus 11.3: open source

by Jörn Nettingsmeier

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

16 years, 4 months

[LAA] QjackCtl 0.3.5 slipped away!

by Rui Nuno Capela

A classic needs no introduction. QjackCtl 0.3.5 slipped away! Website: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.5.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.5-1.rncbc.suse111.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 11.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.5-1.rncbc.suse111.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.3.5-1.rncbc.suse111.x8… - binary packages (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.5-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.5-1.rncbc.ubuntu804_… - binary packages (Ubuntu 9.04): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.5-1.rncbc.ubuntu904_… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl_0.3.5-1.rncbc.ubuntu904_… Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: QjackCtl is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Late support for UTF-8 encoded client/port names. - Allow only one single patchbay connection to or from an exclusive socket (mitigating bug #2859119). - Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build targets (--enable-debug). - Probable fix on the audio connections with regard to client/port (re)name changes (an ancient bug reported by Fons Adriaensen). - Portaudio device selector is now available (after a patch handed by Torben Hohn and Stephane Letz). - A couple of primitive D-Bus interface slots have been introduced, giving the option to start/stop the jackd server from the system bus eg. via dbus-send --system / org.rncbc.qjackctl.start (.stop), (a nice addition supplied by Robin Gareus, thanks). - New command line option (-a, --active-patchbay=[path]) to specify and activate a given patchbay definition file (a simple patch sent by John Schneiderman, thanks). - Added one significant digit to DSP Load percentage status display. - Tentative support for netjack (slave) by adding the "net" driver to the existing backend driver options on the Setup/Settings section. - Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons. - New patchbay snapshot now raises the dirty flag and allows for the immediate salvage of patchbay definition profile. - Conditional build for JACK port aliases support (JACK >= 0.109.2). - Alternate icon sizes other than default 16x16, are now effective to the Connections widget (Setup/Dislay/Connections Window/Icon size). Enjoy, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc at rncbc dot org http://www.rncbc.org

16 years, 4 months

[LAA] phasex-0.12.0-pre1

by William Weston

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

16 years, 4 months

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