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 1.6 of Sonic Visualiser is now available.
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
This is a bugfix release. For details, please read the release notes at:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=695075
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. Vamp plugins for onset,
pitch and note detection, tempo tracking, chromagram analysis,
constant-Q spectrogram, spectral centroid, power curve, key
estimation, tonal change detection, harmonic spectrogram, adaptive
multi-resolution spectrogram, structural segmentation, note
transcription, wavelet scaleogram, timbral similarity, audio alignment
calculation and a large number of low-level spectral features are
available. There is also a comprehensive SDK for use by developers
of Vamp plugins and hosts. For more information about Vamp plugins,
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 1.6 release is available now as binaries for Linux,
OS/X, and Windows, and in source code form.
Chris
Announcing the new public beta release of phasex! All phasex users
are encouraged to upgrade. Since the days of 0.11.1, all known bugs
and many annoying quirks have been worked out, making
PHASEX-0.12.0-beta3 is the most stable, best sounding, and most
studio friendly release yet:
* Fixed all currently known crash issues and build issues. Code has
been updated for newer versions of gcc, gtk, and glibc. Realtime
threading issues have been fine-tined, using realtime locks where
appropriate. The build system has been fixed up for newer
distributions and includes default optimizations for the entire x86
family (run './configure --enable-arch=foo', where foo is an
architecture supported by your version of gcc).
* Sound quality has been greatly refined by reshaping envelope
curves (eliminating pops and clicks), adding hermite interpolation
to the chorus (removing fuzziness from chorus), adding fine tuning
to oscillator frequencies and FM amounts, adding sampled oscillators
(currently with Juno-106 and vocal samples), fixing portamento
and key triggering logic, and more.
* The JACK code has been reworked to allow multiple instances with
persistent instance numbers and resilience to JACK crashes and
restarts.
* The GUI has been refined slightly, with a new color scheme, patch
folders in the file dialog shortcuts list, and a couple slight
optimizations to the knob code.
* There's more. See http://sysex.net/phasex/beta for details if
you're that curious.
Since 0.12.0-beta2, fixes have been implented for GTK >= 2.16
(fixing Fedora 11 builds), the max polyphony has been turned into a
runtime configurable setting, and the build system and default
architecture specific optimizations have been fixed up some more.
Source tarball and arch specific Fedora 11 RPMS are now available
for download:
http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0beta3.tar.gzhttp://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.src.rpmhttp://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i386.rpmhttp://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i586.rpmhttp://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i686.rpmhttp://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.athlon.rpmhttp://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.amd64.rpmhttp://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.x86_64.rpmhttp://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.ia32e.rpm
Build reports and bug reports, and package build files for all
distributions are highly welcome. This is the final beta for
0.12.0. Any build and crash issues reported in the next two weeks
will be fixed for the 0.12.0 stable release. Please direct any
feedback to weston(a)sysex.net.
The latest version of phasex can always be found at:
http://sysex.net/phasex
For those of you who use git:
git clone http://sysex.net/git/phasex.git
Thank you all for your support, feedback, and contributions over the
years, helping to make PHASEX what it is today.
Happy music making!
--ww
Due to popular request,
delivered to you in cross-posting-visionrama,
and until stocks last!
(French version at the bottom)
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DECEMBER 09 |_| |_| |_| |___| |_|
MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?!
distributed and open practices in FLOSS art
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CALL FOR PROJECTS: Extended deadline, July 22
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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.
Extended deadline : 22nd of July 2009.
For more details, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/call
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MAKE ART 2009 - "What The Fork?!"
pratiques distribuées et ouvertes en art FLOSS
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APPEL A PROJETS: Prolongé jusqu'au 22 Juillet
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make art est un festival international dédié à l'intégration des
Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS[1]) dans l'art numérique.
La quatrième édition de make art – "What The Fork?!" pratiques
distribuées et ouvertes en art FLOSS – se déroule à Poitiers (FR), du 7
au 13 décembre 2009.
make art propose des performances, des présentations, des ateliers et
une exposition, centrés sur la rencontre entre l'art numérique et le
logiciel libre.
Nous recherchons actuellement des projets récents, innovants, basés sur
des logiciels libres et open source : performances musicales et
audiovisuelles, présentations, démonstrations de logiciels et
installations.
Cette année make art sera centré sur les pratiques distribuées et
ouvertes en art FLOSS. Dans 'What the fork?!' il est question de
décentralisation. Le fork c'est le bien. La pratique du Fork, qui
consiste à copier le code source d'un projet puis de continuer à
travailler sur une copie plutôt que l'original, a ouvent eu mauvaise
réputation. Car cela engendrerait une scission au sein du projet et de
l'équipe de développeurs, et conduirait à des projets différents et
souvent incompatibles. Efforts gaspillés, rivalités et querelles de
développeurs, autant de concepts qui y sont associés. Tout ça c'est de
l'histoire ancienne et créer le fork d'un projet dans l'intention de
rivaliser est encore une autre histoire. La liberté de faire un fork
permet la mise en oeuvre rapide de nouvelles fonctionnalités et de
personnalisations, en contournant la nécessité d'acquérir le statut de
celui qui dépose et valide (le "committer"), en contournant les
protocoles de corrections de bug ou de demandes de nouvelles
fonctionnalités, en travaillant de manière distribuée, ensemble avec
d'autres sans être obligé de suivre le même et unique objectif, tout en
travaillant depuis la même source, mais en opérant par fertilisation
croisée, en insufflant, en copiant, en patchant, en améliorant, en
expérimentant, en changeant de direction et en fusionnant. Cette
pratique est largement boostée par les outils décentralisés de
développement de logiciel tels que Darcs, Mercurial ou Git. Il ne s'agit
pas de hacks faits à la va-vite, mais la création d'une chambre
d'expérimentation, qui laisse de côté la copie unique du travail et qui
démultiplie les idées.
Date limite prolongée: 22 juillet 2009.
[1] FLOSS : Free/Libre/Open Source Software
Pour plus d'informations :
http://makeart.goto10.org/call/index.fr.html
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On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce
the release of Rivendell v1.5.0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio
automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It
is available under the GNU General Public License. Changes in this release
include (from the NEWS file):
*** snip snip ***
Changes:
New RLM Plug-in. A new plug-in for the Innovonics model 713 RDS
encoder has been added.
Podcast System Enhancements. It is now possible to post new episodes via
the remote web interface.
Bugfixes, particularly affecting the Post Point Counter in RDAirPlay, stream
leakage issues in caed(8) and various database consistency issues in
RDLogManager. See the ChangeLog for details.
Database Update:
This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 179, and will
automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema
version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo.
As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow
any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied.
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Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
Cheers!
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| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer |
| | Paravel Systems |
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| The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
| --Uttered during a 1971 meeting at Xerox PARC |
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xwax 0.5 is now available: http://www.xwax.co.uk/
xwax is open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux. It allows DJs and
turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC
and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded
vinyls.
It's designed for both beat mixing and scratch mixing. Needle drops, pitch
changes, scratching, spinbacks and rewinds are all supported, and feel
just like the audio is pressed onto the vinyl itself.
The major changes between v0.4 and v0.5:
* Rewritten timecode decoder with improved resolution and accuracy
* Timecode support for MixVibes vinyls
* JACK audio device support
* Configurable sample rates
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Hi Everyone,
I've released a new version of the Invada LV2 plugins. Major changes are:
* Added new plugin: 'Delay - Munge'.
A delay with non-linear response in the feedback loop. The 'munge' affect is
more noticeable the higher the feedback. Also features a LFO and delay calculator.
Screenshot:
http://www.invadarecords.com/images/downloads/Screenshot-Invada_Delay_Munge…
* Added new plugin: 'Test Tones'
This was more for myself but others may appreciate this. Just a simple sine
oscillator but via the custom GUI the frequency can be set to well known
calibration and musical frequencies. Useful if you need to fault find, calibrate
analogue equipment or if desperate to tune an instrument when you have no tuner
handy.
* Eliminated 'zipping' from changing controls.
All plugins now handle parameter changes (across the entire range) without
producing any audio artefacts ('zipping' noises). No issues with automation of
controls.
* Filters now adjustable from the display
Adjust filters by dragging the response curve about one the display within the
filter plugins.
* Some RDF updates
+ ladspa URN as per
http://lists.lv2plug.in/pipermail/devel-lv2plug.in/2009-June/000226.html
+ Added extended port properties to rdf (log)
* Numerous tweaks/improvements.
People using lv2rack version 4 should upgrade to version 5 before using this
release as I've backed out a workaround from version 1.0.1 which was done just
to support version 4 of lv2rack.
Download is here: http://www.invadarecords.com/Downloads.php?ID=00000264
Ubuntu packages here: https://launchpad.net/~invada/+archive/ppa
cheers,
Fraser
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Hi,
I proudly released version 0.1 of uli-plugins, a collection of LV2 plug
ins. ULI is the abbreviation for *U*lis-*L*v2-*I*nserts.
The release contains a simple series of logic gates. Namely an AND,
NAND, OR, NOR, XOR, XNOR and a NOT.
It's hosted on sourceforge:
http://uli-plugins.sourceforge.net
Regards
Uli
Hi everyone,
A new release of my minimalistic sequencer, namely Jackbeat 0.7.2, is out!
Grab it from: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org
News
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- Track solo controls have been added, OSC bindings included
- Minor file access and user interface bugs have been fixed
- Jackbeat now runs on Windows in addition to Mac OS X and Linux
ChangeLog
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jackbeat (0.7.2)
* #14: add filters in file dialogs
* #18: add track solo controls
* #37: fix opening jab files whose path contains spaces
* #39: fix conflict between single-letter shortcuts and UI input
* win32 support: now cross-compiles on Linux with mingw32
* wipe temporary directories in a more secure manner
* fix bogus modified status when changing current track
* libtool isn't needed anymore
* some consolidation
Enjoy
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Olivier
Sorry for the crossposting, but the statistics show that only some people have subscribed to all three lists.
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Just after one month the Denemo project has released a new version of its music notation program. Denemo 0.8.6, which is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS (via third-party builds) as source and binaries. The software is distributed under the GPL. Denemos notation-functionality is ready for daily and professional use and aims to be the only tool you ever need for notation and an Open Source alternative to Finale, Sibelius or other unfree software, because the tools for producing art and culture should be free.
Notable new features are
- Downloading new commands and edit scripts between releases
- MIDI out, Tempo and Volume changes and insertion of arbitrary MIDI messages at any point in the music.
- Edit lyrics in text editor and see the syllable placement as you type. Multiple verses per voice allowed.
- Pasting LilyPond text directly into the Denemo window. By pasting the actual music text a Denemo editable score can be created from almost any LilyPond file.
- With JACK, the playback starts from the cursor or plays back the selection if there is one. All this happens withoutre-creating the MIDI data, and in any case without generating external files.
Official support, beneath our website, is avaible via our IRC channel #denemo on irc.freenode.net.
For future improvements our team searches for additional developers. If you are interested in notation and midi-sequencing please join the team!
Website: http://www.denemo.org
Additional information:
GNU Denemo is a free, GPL, open source music notation editor for Linux, MacOS and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, or played in via MIDI controller, or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your computer's soundcard.