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
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
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
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** Piksel09
november 19-22 2009
Bergen, Norway
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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.
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** 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
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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
--
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
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
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.
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
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
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!
