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by Luis Garrido

Howdy! First release of the pretentiously named "ladspa-lgv-plugins" includes at the moment just one very simple but very convenient plugin: monomix. No more plugins are scheduled in the near future, but never say never, so I kept it open. It is not rocket science, just a way of easily deal with recordings that use full stereo separation. monomix combines the left and right channels of an stereo audio input into a dual mono output. Its interface offers four preset combinations (L+R, L-R, L-only, R-only) and one customizable mode. This allows to eliminate, isolate or enhance different channels on stereo recordings. In a nutshell, I use it when I work on my jazz chops with Aebersold or Snidero play-alongs. Just stick it at the output of your media player of choice (I like Sonic Visualiser meself: waveform display, speed control, looping, peak frequency analysis for transcription... with a bit of tinkering SV could be tailored as an invaluable tool for performing music students, perhaps I'll give it a go some day, so many projects, so little free time...) Tarball, spec definition and SVN repo at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ladspa-lgv/ Cheers, Luis

16 years, 7 months

Qsynth 0.3.4 released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! Simple as it could be, Qsynth 0.3.4 released! Description: Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth. FluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser based on the Soundfont specification. Website: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.4.tar.gz Weblog: http://www.rncbc.org License: Qsynth is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Command line option parsing has been slightly refactored to allow custom override through extraordinary fluidsynth option settings (eg. -o name=value; fixes bug #2781579). - Main form layout has been given a little bit more slack space, just to accommodate some longer text label translations (eg. German). - Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons. - Saved channel presets are now effectively loaded on engine startup. - Russian translation added (thanks to Alexandre Prokoudine). - Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes. - Qt Software logo update. - Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions. - Slight optimizations to the output peak meters refresh rate. - MIDI and audio device names are now user selectable options through respective drop-down lists on each engine setup dialog. - New knob style: Skulpture. Cheers && Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

16 years, 7 months

SuperCollider 3.3 released

by Dan S

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server. Many changes since 3.2; here are some headlines: * scvim and sced are now part of the main bundle, for using vim or gedit as your sc code editor * New UGens added: * BEQSuite filter UGens (popular set of nice-sounding filters) * PartConv (efficient frequency-domain convolution) * SendReply (sends arrays from server to the language client) * VDiskIn (like DiskIn but with variable rate) * LFGauss * Buffer recording/playback UGens used to be limited to 16-channel; now they can handle massively multi-channel audio * LocalBuf framework allows synths to create/free their own “private” buffers, simplifying buffer management in many situations * GUI system updates: easier syntax, plus a major update of GUI documentation * Various behind-the-scenes efficiency improvements, for a sleeker audio server that can do more on a given machine Source packages for linux can be found at http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads/ Ubuntu debs are on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~supercollider/+archive/ppa Best, Dan -- http://www.mcld.co.uk

16 years, 7 months

Piksel09 :: Call for Projects

by h220

[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] ** Piksel09 november 19-22 2009 Bergen, Norway [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] Piksel [1] is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway,and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of FLOSS & art. This years event - Piksel09 - continues the exploration of free/libre and open source technologies and it’s myriad of expressions within the arts. Piksel09 is organised in collaboration with Gallery 3,14 [2] and Lydgalleriet [3] which will host this years exhibitions, Bergen Kunstmuseum [4] hosting the presentations and panels, and Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark [5] hosting the evening events. [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] ** open CALL for PROJECTS For the exhibitions and other parts of the programme we currently seek projects in the following categories: 1. Installations Projects to be included in the exhibitions at Galleri 3,14 and Lydgalleriet. The works must be programmed by and running on free and open source software and/or open/DIY hardware. 2. Audiovisual performance Live art realised by the use of free and open source software. We specially encourage live coding and open/DIY hardware projects to apply. 3. Presentations Innovative DIY hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art released under an open licence. (Also includes presentations of artistic projects realised using these technologies.) 4. Workshops Hands on workshops utilising free software and/or open/DIY hardware for artistic use. !!!!!!!!!! Deadline - july 15. 2009 !!!!!!!!!! Please use the online submit form at: http://piksel.no/ocs or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online documentation with images/video to piksel09 [AT] piksel [DOT] no [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] Contact: Piksel att: Gisle Fr0ysland Georgernes Verft 12 5011 Bergen Norway More info: http://www.piksel.no Piksel09 is supported by Arts Council Norway, City of Bergen Cultural Office, Hordaland County Cultural Office and others. links: [1] http://www.piksel.no [2] http://www.stiftelsen314.com [3] http://www.lydgalleriet.no [4] http://www.bergenartmuseum.no [5] http://www.kunsthall.no/default.asp?k=6 --

16 years, 7 months

SLV2 0.6.4

by David Robillard

SLV2 is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes this release: * Add generic query interface to allow arbitrary querying of data * Combine similar headers (reduce code duplication) * Upgrade to waf 1.5.6 * Add man pages for utilities This version adds API, but is binary backwards compatible with the previous release. The new query API is the most significant change: this allows host/plugin authors to directly access any data whatsoever in plugin data files (via SPARQL queries) without depending on the SLV2 API to provide explicit support for extensions/etc. More information, downloads, etc, at: <http://drobilla.net/software/slv2> Enjoy, -dr

16 years, 7 months

midish 0.4.0 released

by Alexandre Ratchov

Hi, I'm pleased to annonce the release of Midish version 0.4.0. Midish is a MIDI sequencer/filter with a shell-like interface. This release provides significant improvements, including: * new simplified interface requiring less scripting * smarter and improved MIDI merger * new track and filter editing functions * native support for the ALSA sequencer (linux only) * more powerful -- but simpler -- filter * basic command completion in the readline(3) frontend * support for editting during playback/recording The old builtin functions have not been removed, thus upgrading from version 0.3.x to version 0.4.x is transparent. Linux users, must update their device settings, replacing the unix style ``/dev/midiXX'' names with the corresponding ALSA sequencer ports. General info about midish is available here: http://caoua.org/midish/ The sources are here: http://caoua.org/midish/midish-0.4.0.tar.gz The list of important changes is here: http://caoua.org/midish/manual.html#changes_04 Enjoy! -- Alexandre

16 years, 7 months

LAC2009: Conference material (papers, photos and more) now online

by Frank Neumann

Hi, I finally got my ass up to prepare some pages about the Linux Audio Conference 2009 (LAC2009) in Parma with photos, conference material (PDFs) and "bonus material". Now available at the same link that was published here before - http://lad.linuxaudio.org/events/2009_cdm/ Enjoy, Frank PS: If you have made photos and written a report for the event and would like to have a link added to the URL above, let me know.

16 years, 7 months

Jackbeat 0.7.0

by Olivier Guilyardi

Hi everyone, After more than a year of development, I'm pleased to announce the release of Jackbeat 0.7.0. Grab it from: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org Jackbeat is an audio sequencer running on Linux and Mac OS X, for musicians and sound artists: * Drummachine interface with animations for easy and playful editing * Built for both composition and live setups with high interactivity needs * Extremely easy to use but yet powerful by connecting with other applications and plugins using JACK and OSC * Loads and saves .jab files, Jackbeat's xml+tar open file format * Supports native audio devices, PulseAudio and JACK NEWS: * The GUI has been re-designed for the pleasure of the eye and more ergonomy * New shortcuts, knobs and waveform animation bring more interactivity * OSC is now supported with a fair amount of methods and events * Mac OS X integration has been much improved * ALSA, CoreAudio and PulseAudio are now directly supported in addition to JACK * Several bugs and usability issues have been fixed * The internal architecture has been improved Package maintainers will certainly want to have look at the ChangeLog to learn about the new dependencies: http://jackbeat.samalyse.org/browser/tags/release-0.7.0/ChangeLog Enjoy -- Olivier

16 years, 7 months

PHASEX home page revived

by Dave Phillips

Greetings, The Web site for the PHASEX softsynth has been rehabilitated and is now on-line : http://linux-sound.org/phasex/ Packages are available in tarball and RPM (Fedora 6) formats. Please note that this is not an update. I've merely put the site back on-line. Enjoy ! Best, dp

16 years, 7 months

Ubuntu Studio 9.04

by Eric Hedekar

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or professional. The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its fifth release: Ubuntu Studio 9.04. With this release, which you can download in a 1.2GB DVD, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages, targeted at audio, video and graphics users. Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the creation of Linux-based multimedia workstations. For Ubuntu Studio 9.04 we have continued to update packages and fix critical bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio user experience. We are happy to announce the real time kernel will be installed by default in Ubuntu Studio in this release, if the audio task is selected. We have tested it heavily and are happy with it's performance in audio environments. The art has had a cool facelift. The gtk theme has been improved staying in the 'Studio' style. Plus the gdm theme has been switched to some great new eyecandy. New applications included: * FFADO firewire soundcard drivers * Calf audio plugins * LMMS (updated and included in the meta packages) Features/Fixes/Improvements: * Heavily tested 2.6.28 realtime kernel for low-latency audio work * Jack Connection Kit upgraded to 0.116.1 (a major improvement) * Ardour upgraded to 2.7.1 * Fresh ubuntustudio-looks improvements * Addition to Ubuntu Studio Controls to allow users to maintain o Ctr+Alt+Backspace behavior See the Ubuntu release notes for other non Ubuntu Studio specific changes. See http://calf.sourceforge.net/ for more information about CALF. As our wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio states, "our aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools that GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation and production. We also want to spotlight what's out there, and show users tools they might not know to exist." Thanks to all who helped in Ubuntu Studio 9.04's creation!

16 years, 7 months

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