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.
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Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>
sorry for OOPS,
please don't PANIC
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MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?!
distributed and open practices in FLOSS art
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CALL FOR PROJECTS
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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.
Deadline : 15th of July 2009.
For more details, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/call
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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
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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!
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
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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.
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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
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.
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More info at: http://www.renoise.com/
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
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)
