On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce
the release of Rivendell v1.3.0. 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):
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Changes:
Podcast System Enhancements. Support has been added to allow
interoperation with third-party podcast traffic measurement and
verification systems. It is also now possible to override the default
ordering of episodes and configure automatic redirection of feed
subscriptions.
RDLogManager Enhancements. It is now possible to configure log import
under-/over-fill warnings even for non-autofill events. When generating
import warnings, RDLogManager will now warn if the dayparting parameters
would cause a scheduled event to be unplayable at its scheduled time. An
overall length counter has also been added for the Pre- and Post-Import
lists in the Edit Event dialog.
New RML. A new 'Message Box' ['MB'] RML has been added that allows a
popup message to sent to any Rivendell workstation. (Be sure to see the
'MESSAGE_BOX.txt' file for information on configuring X11 to work properly
with this feature).
RLM Changes. An 'rlm_album' field has been added to the metadata fields
and the API version incremented to '1'. A new plugin ('rlm_ando') has been
added to allow interconnection with the Ando Media Ad Injector System.
Bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details.
Database Update:
This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 174, 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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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 1.5 of Sonic Visualiser is now available.
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
This release contains a small number of new features and a larger
number of bug fixes over the previous 1.4 release. For more details,
please read the release notes at:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=668854
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, structural
segmentation, 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 1.5 release is available now in source code form
or as binaries for Linux, OS/X, and Windows.
Chris
[slightly late]
Version 1.3 of the Rubber Band library is now available.
http://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/
Rubber Band is an audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library and
utility designed for musical applications. It allows you to change the
tempo and pitch of an audio recording independently of one another.
Version 1.3 is a maintenance release. It fixes a bug that may cause
incorrect output during the first process block of some audio files,
when processing in offline mode. It also fixes a small number of build
issues and more minor bugs. The library is binary compatible with
version 1.2.
Chris
Hiho,
I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.2 of MotionTrackOSC.
MotionTrackOSC is a small program that does motiontracking on either a camera
image or a video file. The tracked motion is output to a client via osc.
The program is based on the libraries
OpenCV - http://opencv.willowgarage.com
liblo - http://liblo.sourceforge.net
MotionTrackOSC is distributed with some SuperCollider classes and help files,
so you can start and use the program from and with that program.
For downloads and more info, please see:
http://www.nescivi.nl/?page_id=93
sincerely,
Marije
Hello Krzysztof,
Sorry it seems we missed that one on our happiness to the new release.
Canorus is a free music score editor (successor of NoteEdit). The main
features are listed on our GSoC 2009 application page:
http://socghop.appspot.com/org_app/show/google/gsoc2009/canorus
Thanks for the hint and kind regards,
Reinhard
Krzysztof Foltman schrieb:
> Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
>> After more than a year of an active development Canorus team is proud to
>> announce immediate release of Canorus version 0.7beta.
>>
>> You can download it here:
>> https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6144
>>
>> Release 0.6 was skipped for various stability, timing and
>> reorganizational issues.
>>
>> Users should test the beta release thoroughly and report any bugs to our
>> devel mailing list for the final version to be released in two to three
>> weeks.
>>
>> Translation strings are now frozen until the final version, so
>> translators are welcome to translate Canorus to their language and post
>> translations of the GUI and the User's manual until Sunday, 22nd March
>> 2009 24:00 CET!
>>
> Okay okay okay. But the announcement, 5 paragraphs long, didn't tell
> what Canorus *is* :)
>
> I know, everyone can check the website or guess from the changelog - but
> you can safely assume that majority of people who will read your
> announcement are too lazy to do that ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Krzysztof
>
>
--
Software-Engineer, Developer of User Interfaces
Project: Canorus - the next generation music score editor -
http://canorus.berlios.de
GnuPG Public Key available on request
Howdy!
It's been quite a while since last time (Fluffy Doll on Xmas:). However,
Qtractor is back again on track and this time with great news. And the
big news are that this pet is leaving its rusty four-on-the-floor cage
and spreading it's musical genre targets. Still a bedroom/home-studio
sequencer though, but not for the techno-boy/girl only anymore--if one
may trump about it, it's getting a general-purpose sticker now.
And what makes it like just that? One long due feature, now stroked by
implementation lightning: Tempo/Time-signature Map. Or in other words:
project sessions may now have multiple parts with different tempo (BPM)
and/or time-signatures.
Tempo/time-signature map is/was a very pervasive feature change.
Although deeply internal, as it's only evidently visible from the new
View/Tempo Map... interactive yet primitive dialog, it is also
accessible by double-clicking on the time rulers (main track-view and
MIDI clip editors) and by left-clicking over the main tempo spin-box,
which also introduces the time-signature figures as seen from the
current play-head position.
One should probably say that this is the major change in Qtractor
internals since its primordial inception. No doubt, we're still in
/alpha/ status. It surely will take a (another) while, a year or so, for
a similar payload take a lift, ever again. No sweat. Watch for next
favorite feature requests, like MIDI controller map/learn/feedback and
automation. Coming next, soon, hopefully :)
A few words of caution must be said now. It is of paramount interest for
all of you who already use Qtractor for any (small) project or
prototype, to be prepared for less amenable surprises. Being
optimistically wise, there's a very good chance that all new workings
will bring a better experience overall. But given the whole nature and
depth of what got through, it is wise enough to have your backups at
hand and up to date. Don't hesitate asking for help, in any case.
Caveat emptor!
So, with no further ado, there it is:
Qtractor 0.4.0 (foxy dryad) is now released!
Good old intro/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 ;)
Release highlights:
* Tempo-map/Time-signature support. (NEW)
* MIDI Song Position cueueing support. (NEW)
* MIDI Clip Quantize command. (NEW)
* Zoom direction mode option (NEW)
* MP3 audio format support (FIXED)
* and many other assorted fixes and brand new bugs ;)
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
- source tarball
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.4.0.tar.gz
- user manual
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-user-manual.pdf
(nb. yes, it's the same old, dusty and outdated manual, sorry)
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)
- 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))
- JACK transport sync master.
- MMC control surface enabled.
- MIDI Song Position cueuing support.
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
Change-log:
- MIDI (re)connections fix; now caring for the ALSA client and port
textual names only, avoiding as much as possible, any reliance on those
volatile client and port numbers.
- Transport/Backward and Forward commands may now reset to immediate
full start or end of session locations, by just pressing the Shift or
Ctrl keyboard modifiers and clicking their respective toolbar buttons.
- Default session/MIDI resolution has been set to 960 ticks per beat
(960 TPQN, where a beat equals a quarter-note); it is worth of note that
the previous default resolution was set to one order of maginute lower,
ie. 96 TPQN ;).
- Making (dis)connections now also flags session as dirty.
- Internal Audio/MIDI engines queue/time drift correction takes a brand
new approach, specially adapted to rolling tempo/time-siganture changes.
- MIDI monitor refresh-cycle slight internal optimization.
- Converted obsolete QMessageBox forms to standard buttons.
- Transport/Rewind and Fast-forward commands may now be set to
double-speed, by pressing the Shift or Ctrl modifiers while clicking
their respective tool buttons.
- MIDI clip editor zoom ratios are now saved and preserved across sessions.
- Time-signature is now directly accessible from the main tempo spin-box
which also reflects current tempo status.
- Time/frame spin-boxes now allow to step change each field
individually, depending on the cursor beam position.
- Make sure that Transport/Follow playhead option is only effective when
playback is actually rolling.
- Primordial attempt to include MIDI Song Position Pointer (SPP), Song
Start, Stop and Continue sequencing support.
- A completely new time-scale infrastructure is now in place, with full
support for session tempo and time-signature map; this long due feature
is primarily accessible through the main menu, View/Tempo Map...; also
by double-clicking on the the main window and MIDI clip editor time
rulers and left-clicking on the main toolbar tempo/signature spin-box.
- Moving and resizing individual clips now cares for track proper
ordering and overlapping changes, avoiding nasty out of sequence clips
and other unpredictable effects.
- An expedite MIDI clip quantize command is now available from the main
track view menu (Edit/Clip/Quantize), which simply applies the current
snap-to-beat setting to a MIDI clip range selection.
- Fixed that hideous bug affecting overlapped audio clips when playhead
gets moved backward, causing the playback of those audio clips in
particular, go out of sync.
- Tracks are now limited to their minimum height, specially effective in
face of vertical zooming.
- Zoom mode option introduced (on menu View/Zoom/Horizontal, Vertical, All).
- Tempo beat type is a new session property; however it is not yet user
modifiable and currently disabled to default MIDI quarter note (1/4).
- All open MIDI clip editor time-scales are now updated and corrected
when the main session time base changes (tempo, time-signature,
resolution, etc.)
- MIDI metronome fixed, preventing duplicate click events.
- MP3 audio file decoding was broken for way too long and falling short
for every file with custom frames, ID3 tags and comments. Got shamefully
fixed.
- Time signature denominator (ie. beat divisor) is now an accessible and
effective session property.
- Attempt to retain original size (clip length) of all audio clips when
changing the global session tempo and automatic time-stretching is not
an option.
Cheers && Enjoy!
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
After more than a year of an active development Canorus team is proud to
announce immediate release of Canorus version 0.7beta.
You can download it here:
https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6144
Release 0.6 was skipped for various stability, timing and
reorganizational issues.
Users should test the beta release thoroughly and report any bugs to our
devel mailing list for the final version to be released in two to three
weeks.
Translation strings are now frozen until the final version, so
translators are welcome to translate Canorus to their language and post
translations of the GUI and the User's manual until Sunday, 22nd March
2009 24:00 CET!
Best wishes.
Matevž Jekovec
Canorus development team
http://www.canorus.org
Changelog:
- Added support for printing and preview of score.
- Added integrated Midi recorder.
- Added resources storage inside the document.
- Added User's guide.
- Added transposition support.
- GUI improvements:
- Anti-aliasing in score view.
- Music fonts not installed anymore.
- Show note name when inserting notes.
- Integrated User's guide browser.
- Import/Export improvements:
- Basic MusicXml import
- Basic Midi import
- LilyPond now exports partial measure, uptext, downtext and rehersal
marks
- New export filters to PDF and SVG based on LilyPond
- Plugin improvements:
- setSelection() and selection added to scripting engine.
- rebuildUi() and repaintUi() added to scripting engine.
- Added separator action for menus.
- Model improvements:
- Added color property to music element.
- Added facilities for calculating intervals from/to music pitches and key
signatures.
- Redesigned key signature, diatonic key and diatonic pitch.
- Redesigned playable length and absolute length.
- Shipped Python 2.5 on Microsoft Windows.
- Support for Qt4.4.
- Official support for Mac OS X.
Kind regards,
Reinhard Katzmann
--
Software-Engineer, Developer of User Interfaces
Project: Canorus - the next generation music score editor -
http://canorus.berlios.de
GnuPG Public Key available on request
Hi all,
(And apologies for cross posting)
I'm pleased to announce QuteCsound version 0.4. This version
incorporates new features and bug fixes arising from the 3 previous
Release Candidate releases.
QuteCsound is a simple frontend for Csound featuring a highlighting
editor with autocomplete, interactive widgets and integrated help. It
is a cross-platform drop in replacement for MacCsound (it can open
files created in MacCsound), and aims to be a simple yet powerful and
complete development environment for Csound.
QuteCsound 0.4 has been tested on Windows, OS X, Linux and Solaris,
and it is free software released under the GPL.
You can get it here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=227265&package_id=275…
There's more information here:
http://qutecsound.sourceforge.net/
Questions, comments and suggestions can be posted to the main Csound
mailing list, or join the QuteCsound users mailing list at:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qutecsound-users
Thanks very much to all the people (particularly Joachim Heintz), who
have provided great feedback and ideas to improve QuteCsound. Also a
big thanks to Andy Fillebrown for the fixes for Windows and for
preparing the Windows installers.
Enjoy!
Andrés
Changes from version 0.4RC2:
New:
- Added "_Browse" channel for value buttons, which open a browse file
dialog and send the selected file name to any widget with the same
channel which can receive strings, like LineEdit. Added this feature
to the reserved channels example.
- New tutorials and example files, with clearer names. The examples
can now be run directly WITHOUT saving, which is very handy especially
for testing audio IO.
- Console text font color can now be changed
- Added a close tab button on the right corner of the tabs panel.
- Modified execute code for Windows (for external utilities and terminal)
- Added option to enable/disable line wrap
- Added clear option to console context menus
- MacCsound output filename is now parsed and added to the options
- Added new FM and additive examples
Fixed:
- Improved stability
- Files with extensions different to csd, orc and sco can now be opened
- External programs and terminal are now launched correctly on all platforms
- Fixed storing changes in widget panel when tab changes
- Graph widget now displays graphs generated by ftgen
- Widget values are now properly sent for the first control period
- Files now open properly on OS X when double clicked from the Finder
- Fixed problem when buffering messages
- Fixed problems with filenames with spaces when rendering or opening
in external programs
- MacCsound sections are only created if save Widgets preference is set
- New default file more consistent with current state.
- Files are now not marked as modified when changing tabs
- Fixed path of Manual for newer versions
- Fixed resizing and moving widget edit frames when changed from the
properties dialog
Heyda,
sorry for cross-posting: the first version of
"alsa-midi-latency-test"
is available at: http://github.com/koppi/alsa-midi-latency-test/
The console application aims to become a Linux drop-in-replacement for
the Windows application "MidiTest":
http://earthvegaconnection.com/evc/products/miditest/index.html
It would be nice to hear some feedback, especially from
- linux-audio-tuning users (-- what latencies are you measuring?!) and from
- alsa-developers (-- would be nice, to include this tool to the
alsa-utils package).
Kind regards,
++Jakob
Dear all,
Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition
system. Users declaratively state a music theory and the computer
generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is
formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of
rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some
aspects are expressed by variables (unknowns). Music constraint
programming is style-independent and is well-suited for highly
complex theories (e.g. a fully-fledged theory of harmony). Results
can be output into various formats including MIDI, Lilypond, and Csound.
This release brings many small-scale improvements and extensions to
Strasheela. Most importantly, the implementation of Schoenberg's
Theory of Harmony as CSP has been documented (HTML with sound
examples), Strasheela now supports adaptive just intonation, the
music representation has be extended by several convenient
constructors, and a number of pattern constraints have been added.
Also, some bug fixes have been made.
For more information on Strasheela, please visit
http://strasheela.sourceforge.net/
Changes are described at
http://strasheela.sourceforge.net/strasheela/doc/Changes.html
This release can be downloaded from:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=167225
Best
Torsten
--
Torsten Anders
Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research
University of Plymouth
Office: +44-1752-586219
Private: +44-1752-558917
http://strasheela.sourceforge.nethttp://www.torsten-anders.de
