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[ANN] a2jmidid version 5 "Athos" released

by Nedko Arnaudov

a2jmidid is a project that aims to ease usage of legacy ALSA sequencer applications, in a JACK MIDI enabled system. a2jmidid implementation is based on jack-alsamidi-0.5 that is [almost] same as jackd ALSA "seq" MIDI backend, both created by Dmitry Baikov. Static bridges are based on code by Sean Bolton and Lars Luthman. Homepage with screenshots: http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/ Tarball download: http://download.gna.org/a2jmidid/ Changes since version 4: * Fix thight loop on D-Bus disconnect * D-Bus signals for bridge start and stop * Fixed alsamidi "disappearing output" bug. (backport from jack1) * MIDI note-off normalization fix from Dave Robillard (Backport from jack1) * Removed wrong assert from alsa_seqmidi.c reported by Ken Ellinwood (Backport from jack1) * Mark anything that looks like a hardware port as physical&terminal (Backport from jack1/jack2) * Fix potential crash when D-Bus is not used * Support for multiple ALSA clients with same name * Merge midibridge changeset by Paul Davis that is expected to fix midi event timing problems that some people have reported. -- Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>

15 years, 10 months

Call for projects - make art 2009 - what the fork?!

by propaganda＠goto10.org

sorry for OOPS, please don't PANIC -- _ _ _ ____ _ _ _______|_| | |_ _| | _|____|_ | | _|_| | _____| | _|__|_ | | |____| | | |___|_| | |_____ | | |__| | | | ____ | | ___|_ | _____| | | | | | |_ | | | | |_|_ | |_______ |_|_ |_| |___| |_| |_| |_| |_________| |_|_ ____ _______ _________ |_| _|____|_ | _____|_ |___ ___|_ _ | |____| | | |_____|_| | | |_| |_| from | __ | | _ _| | | 7 to 13 | | |_ | | | |_|___ _|_| DECEMBER 09 |_| |_| |_| |___| |_| MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art -- CALL FOR PROJECTS -- make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The fourth edition of make art – What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 7th to the 13th of December 2009. make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition, focused on the encounter between digital art and free software. We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS works and projects: music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software demos, and installations. This year make art focuses on distributed and open practices in FLOSS art. 'What the fork?!' is about decentralisation. Forking is the new black. Forking, copying the source code of a project and continuing work on the copy instead of the original, used to have a bad reputation. It would split a project and its developer community in pieces, leading to different, often incompatible, projects. Wasted effort, rivalry and developer fights were all associated concepts. This is history. Forking a project with the intention to compete with it is another story, but the freedom to fork enables quick implementation of features and customization, bypassing acquiring committer status, bugfix or feature request protocol, working in a distributed way, together with others but not necessarily towards one goal, working from one source, cross-fertilising, inspiring, copying, patching, improving, experimenting, changing direction, and merging. This practice is boosted by decentralised software development tools, such as Darcs, Mercurial and Git. It's not about quick hacks, but about creating room to experiment, letting go of the one working copy and creating a multiplicity of ideas. Deadline : 15th of July 2009. For more details, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/call -- :*

15 years, 10 months

Invada Studio Plugins (LADSPA & LV2) updates

by Fraser

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, Just a quick note to advise there are new versions of the Invada Studio Plugins available. These releases are mainly a bugfix releases. LADSPA (version 0.3.1) * Added karmic package * Fixed a bug where compressor release couldn't go past 2s. * Eliminate DC offset from Tube. * Updated ER reflection process in line with LV2 version. More information & tarball download: http://www.invadarecords.com/Downloads.php?ID=00000263 Ubuntu packages: https://launchpad.net/~invada/+archive/ppa LV2 (version 1.0.1) * Fixed multiple errors in RDF files. * Fixed missing linker libs in makefile. * Improved host compatibility. * Disabled tool-tips while widgets are active.. More information & tarball download: http://www.invadarecords.com/Downloads.php?ID=00000264 Ubuntu packages: https://launchpad.net/~invada/+archive/ppa Regards, Fraser https://launchpad.net/invada-studio -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKKimQNZroiEh4erwRAi9jAJ4gphnlQurfpVbyP9TmRSSxE1gbiwCeIBox i78wj63ZqA8NqQhwvHLzrbA= =a7zP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

15 years, 10 months

Qtractor 0.4.2 (flaunty demoness) is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! Greatest thanks goes to Mathias Krause aka gizzmo, who contributed with the fundamental code to the new MIDI controller mapping functionality that now widens the Qtractor horizon with regard from generic control surfaces. Being the Behringer BCF2000 [1] a notable example, control feedback is fully supported so that those fancy motorized faders, knobs and lights, actually reflect the whole mixing and editing session state. Some pre-made files are here provided for your conveniency: "bcx2000.qtc" [2] is to import into Qtractor (View/Controllers...) and a couple of presets goes into your BCF2000, "Qtractor_Mixer_1-8.syx" [3] and "Qtractor_Mixer_9-16.syx" [4], respectively for the first and second set of eight channel/track strips. Ah, the previous hardwired support for the JLCooper-like controls, provided by the Tascam US-224 and US-428 (via us428control), is now optional. You can have it back by just adding this file, "usx2y.qtc" [5], to the controllers map. That's it: Qtractor 0.4.2 (flaunty demoness) is out! Release highlights: * MIDI controller mapping (mixer) (NEW) * Audio/MIDI multi-clip merge (NEW) * Multi-clip selection export (NEW) * Improved snap precision on drag/moving clips (FIXED) * and some other asorted fixes (see change-log;) Description: Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ on top of Qt Software's Qt4 framework, having JACK and ALSA as its main infrastructures and Linux as native and exclusive platform. Specially suited to the lone-wolf composer, arranger and (re)creative music-maker personal home-studio, it still hopes to evolve as a fairly featured desktop audio/MIDI workstation or at least, a prototypical part of it ;) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.2.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 11.1) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.2-1.rncbc.suse111.sr… - binary package (openSUSE 11.1) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.2-1.rncbc.suse111.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.2-1.rncbc.suse111.x8… - binary package (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor_0.4.2-1.rncbc.ubuntu804.… - user manual (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. Features: - Multi-track audio and MIDI sequencing and recording. - Developed on pure Qt4 C++ application framework (no Qt3 nor KDE dependencies). - Uses JACK for audio and ALSA sequencer for MIDI as multimedia infrastructures. - Traditional multi-track tape recorder control paradigm. - Audio file formats support: OGG (via libvorbis), MP3 (via libmad, playback only), WAV, FLAC, AIFF and many, many more (via linsndfile). - Standard MIDI files support (SMF format 0 and 1). - Non-destructive, non-linear editing. - Unlimited number of tracks per session/project. - Unlimited number of overlapping clips per track. - XML encoded session/project description file. - Point-and-click, multi-select, drag-and-drop interaction (drag, move, drop, cut, copy, paste, delete, split, merge) - Unlimited undo/redo. - Built-in mixer and monitor controls. - Built-in connection patchbay control and persistence (a-la QjackCtl). - LADSPA, DSSI and native VST plug-ins support. - Unlimited number of plug-ins per track or bus. - Plug-in presets, programs and chunk/configurations support. - Audio/MIDI clip fade-in/out (linear, quadratic, cubic). - Audio/MIDI clip gain/volume, normalize and export. - Audio clip time-stretching (WSOLA-like or via librubberband), pitch-shifting (also via librubberband) and seamless sample-rate conversion (via libsamplerate). - Audio/MIDI track export (mix-down, merge). - Audio/MIDI metronome bar/beat clicks. - Unlimited tempo/time-signature map. - MIDI clip editor (matrix/piano roll). - MIDI instrument definitions (a-la Cakewalk(tm)). - MIDI controller mapping (mixer). - JACK transport sync master. - MMC control surface enabled. - MIDI Song Position cueuing support. - Configurable keyboard shortcuts. Change-log: - The MIDI clip editor (piano-roll/matrix editor), the main track view as well, have been subject to usability fixing, the most notable avoids clearing current selection as much as possible when updating view contents (eg. changing zoom levels does not reset current selection anymore). - MIDI tracks channel bank/program and controller stuff are now only issued when the respective bus connections have changed, seldom on every playback start. - MIDI controller mapping infrastructure, with file based configuration management (see View/Controllers...), is now in place, following an original contribution from gizzmo aka Mathias Krause. - Plugin chain buffer reset on playback start/stop is not guarded by a momentary plugin de/activation anymore. - Clip export may now be applied to multiple clips, sharing common refactored code and same semantics as merging of current selected clips. - Improved, may be just fixed yet again, audio track export synchronization and reliability. - Clip merge is now featured both for audio and MIDI tracks (see Edit/Clip/Merge...). - Improved, or better said, fixed (again) the precision of multi-clip final positioning as result of drag/move and paste operations in main track view (as in bug #2741611). - MIDI track program number is now listed in 1-128 range, in an attempt to be consistent with corresponding MIDI track dialog drop-down list. - MIDI editor snap grid lines get slight different color then regular beat divisions. - Reset local tempo map cursor on newer MIDI file imports in a tentative to fix incidental but random crashes. URLs: [1] http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/BCF2000.aspx [2] http://www.rncbc.org/datahub/bcx2000.qtc [3] http://www.rncbc.org/datahub/Qtractor_Mixer_1-8.syx [4] http://www.rncbc.org/datahub/Qtractor_Mixer_9-16.syx [5] http://www.rncbc.org/datahub/usx2y.qtc Cheers && Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

15 years, 10 months

[ANN] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.5 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

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 2009-05-31 0.2.5 * Bender returns to zero when the mouse is released * Dialogs: help "WhatIsThis?" * Updated spanish translation and help file * Import Sound Font Instruments * MIDI IN always enabled on Linux and Mac * Implemented RFE# 2779744 - new option: window always on top * Fix for bug# 2790316 - startup crash in OSX when no MIDI port is present Copyright (C) 2008-2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 More info http://vmpk.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk Sources http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.5.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.5.tar.gz Windows setup package (static build including Qt4.5.1 runtime) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.5-setup.exe OSX universal binary bundle (static build including Qt4.5.1 runtime) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.5-bundle.zip openSUSE RPM packages http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=vmpk Regards, Pedro

15 years, 11 months

[ANN] invada-studio-plugins-lv2-1.0.0

by Fraser

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everyone, I'm pleased to announce the initial 'LV2' release of the Invada Studio Plugins which feature plugin GUI's along with a new 'Stereo Phaser' plugin. The plugins have been tested on Arch 2009.02, Ubuntu Hardy and Ubuntu Jaunty (amd64) using Ardour 2.8 & Lars Luthman's Elven but if you come across something that doesn't look right (or is plain broken) please log it as a bug via the Invada Studio Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/invada-studio More information & source download can be found here: http://www.invadarecords.com/Downloads.php?ID=00000264 For those running Ubuntu or derivatives, packages for Hardy, Jaunty, Intrepid & Karmic exist in the Invada PPA: https://launchpad.net/~invada/+archive/ppa Any Feedback / comments welcome. Enjoy! Fraser. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKIO/1NZroiEh4erwRArYFAJwO6dYaLr2m3vHPji/DYQA5muvE/gCfYfYj S30U9TNMJPG5CJ4dJZ80c6A= =/Om7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

15 years, 11 months

Aqualung on Mac OS X

by Tom Szilagyi

Hi all, Seablade has been working hard to create a native Mac OS X version of Aqualung. The work builds upon the earlier sessions concerning Aqualung's OS X support (also by Seablade, around the time Aqualung 0.9beta8 was current). It is my pleasure to announce that the port has just reached the status where it should be interesting to the general public. Please point your browsers to: http://aqualung.factorial.hu/macosx The port is currently considered experimental, with some feature limitations, but should be fairly stable nevertheless. Feedback and discussion is welcome on the Aqualung-friends mailing list, so I would like to ask all Mac enthusiasts to show their love and send high-quality bug reports (you need to be a subscriber to post to the list). Finally I would like to publicly thank Seablade for creating this port. Thanks, Tom

15 years, 11 months

Renoise 2.1 - Think Vertically

by Dac Chartrand

A direct link to the Linux demo, for the impatient: http://downloads.renoise.com/download/Renoise_2_1_0_Demo.tar.bz2 -=-=- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Berlin, May 27th, 2009 - Hot on the heels of glowing praise for Renoise 2.0 by Computer Music magazine (issue #138, may 2009), the new Renoise 2.1 seemlessly integrates with other DAWs & Audio Tools by introducing ReWire support on OSX/Windows and Jack Transport on Linux. Along side VST/VSTi, Audio Unit and LADSPA plug-in support; with native Windows, Macintosh and Linux versions available; Renoise 2.1 is one of the most versatile music sequencers on the scene, like a hex machine. So affordable, why wouldn't you integrate it into your workflow? ABOUT RENOISE: A unique approach when compared with mainstream music sequencers, Renoise’s streamlined workflow delivers professional results. Renoise 2.1 is a complete music production environment with support for FX and instrument plug-ins, automatic plug-in delay compensation, multi- core load balancing, MIDI i/o, audio recording, flexible audio output, parameter automation, and much more. Renoise is a mod tracker. If you’ve never used a tracker before, don’t be put off by the machine-code-like appearance of the main editing screen. Ultimately, it’s just a display of simple note and effects information that is easily understood and, for the proficient user, makes the creation of music far quicker than is possible in traditional sequencers. Why spend hours cobbling beats together with a mouse when you can do it in seconds with a few keystrokes? Whether you’re an audio veteran or just starting out, Renoise is the perfect complement for anyone looking for something new. CHANGELOG: With over a month of beta testing behind it, Renoise 2.1 is now ready to go. + Full ReWire Slave & Master support (on Windows & OSX) ReWire allows you to connect and synchronize multiple software applications, so that you can run them side by side while passing Audio/MIDI information between them. For example, you could connect Renoise to Logic, program your drums in Renoise, while arranging the bulk of your song in Logic. Or you could connect both Reason and Ableton Live to Renoise, arrange your track in Renoise, control Reason's built-in synthesizers, and play around with loops in Live. All it takes is some ReWire enabled software and you are good to go. ReWire has two modes, both of which are fully supported by Renoise: *ReWire Master* (ReWire Mixer) and *ReWire Slave* (ReWire Synth) + Jack Transport Support (Linux only) Similar to ReWire, Renoise now supports the Jack transport protocol. Jack transport allows Linux users to start, stop and reposition multiple audio programs, all connected/running through Jack. + New Pattern Sequencer Features: - Decoupled Sequencer Playback Now Possible: This new feature allows the user to detach the current playback position from the edit position. This lets you edit a pattern while other patterns are playing. - Live Pattern Triggering: Patterns can now be "scheduled" for playback via a new column in the Pattern Sequencer. Without stopping playback you can now trigger new sequences in the song "in real time". + New meta devices (Modulation / Automation Device fun): - *Hydra Device: Automate/change/broadcast multiple FX parameters with a single parameter. Think of this as a magic slider, which connects itself to up to 9 other parameters - allowing you to change multiple settings with just one slider or automation. - *Keytracking Device: Modulates parameters depending on an instruments key (note) value. Like what the "*Velocity Device" does with Velocities, the Keytracking device does with Keys/Notes. - *MIDI Control Device This device replaces the old "MIDI-CC Device", finally offering Pitchbend, Channel Pressure, Program Change & regular controller (CC) in a single device. -- More info at: http://www.renoise.com/

15 years, 11 months

SLV2 0.6.6

by David Robillard

SLV2 is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes this release: * Add manual pages for utilities * Reduce plugin load overhead (on-demand querying with finer granularity) * Fix compilation on Mac OS X This version is fully compatible with the previous version (0.6.4). More information, downloads, documentation, etc. at: <http://drobilla.net/software/slv2> Enjoy, -dr

15 years, 11 months

MIDIMon - GTK+ based MIDI Monitor

by Mark Vitek

Available in tarball or SVN at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/midimon/ Features: - JACK / ALSA MIDI Drivers - Capture to file (text file only currently) - Currently Available in Source Distribution Only (tarball or svn)

15 years, 11 months

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