After months of beta testing, Renoise 2.0 release candidate 1 has arrived.
This version is "free as in beer" and looking for Linux testers outside the registered user base.
Download:
http://www.renoise.com/download/renoise/
What's new:
ttp://www.renoise.com/new/
About Renoise:
Renoise has a different approach to making music compared to conventional sequencers, called Tracking. Tracking comes from the demoscene that pushes technical limits to show off coding skills, art, and music beyond what is thought possible.
Renoise was originally written from code by the late Arguru. In 2000 the new Renoise team started to take tracking software into a new standard of quality, enabling users to make music on par with mainstream sequencers, while still keeping the proven design principles of years gone by.
With Renoise 2.0 a generation of oldschool trackers and contemporary musicians looking for something "different" have reason to celebrate.
Track on!
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http://www.renoise.com/
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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 fixes a serious bug which even caused a compilation
error. In order to avoid such errors in future, the code has been
cleaned up, and virtually all compiler warnings are now fixed as
well. In addition, the tutorial revision continued, and some
distribution strategies have been optimised.
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
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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
SLV2 is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible
for applications.
This is a bugfix release. 0.6.1 failed to recognize any LV2 features.
Upgrading is strongly recommended. Let us all just pretend that 0.6.1
never existed. 0.6.1 is not to be invited to any parties. It will sit
alone for the holidays, cursing haste and drinking alone.
Changes this release:
- Fix feature detection
- Add --no-jack configure flag for building without jack dependency
(i.e. don't build jack clients; slv2 itself never depends on jack)
<http://drobilla.net/software/slv2>
Happy Hacking,
-dr
In this release:
* zynjacku codebase updated to the latest state of LV2 art. Especially,
event MIDI port synths are now supported.
* The tarball now contains lv2rack - a host for LV2 effect plugins.
* Saving/restoring of presets. Does not work for dynparam plugins yet.
* LASH support (autodetected at runtime).
* Lot of general fixes that should make zynjacku more usable.
I would like to thank Krzysztof Foltman for adding support for
some LV2 extensions and Martin Raspaud for helping with slv2
compatibility during my LADI quest.
zynjacku is JACK based, GTK (2.x) host for LV2 synths. It has one JACK
MIDI input port (routed to all hosted synths) and one (two for stereo
synths) JACK audio output port per plugin. Such design provides
multi-timbral sound by running several synth plugins.
zynjacku is a nunchaku weapon for JACK audio synthesis. You have solid
parts for synthesis itself and you have flexible part that allows
synthesis to suit your needs.
lv2rack is a host for LV2 effect plugins.
You need slv2 library, Pyhton bindings for PATH and lv2dynparam host
library to compile zynjacku tarball.
Project homepage with screenshots:
http://home.gna.org/zynjacku/
Get tarball from here:
https://gna.org/files/?group=zynjacku
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Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>
Version 0.3.2
http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/
* Fixes a bug relating to a gap between the pre-buffer and the
realtime recording.
* Adds OSC control starting and stopping recordings
* Adds an option to make the filenames Windows friendly
* Update to match current JACK API
The repository is now hosted at github, at http://github.com/swh/timemachine/tree/master
, should anyone wish to develop it further.
- Steve
Tarball containing D-Bus patched jack 0.115.6 is available here:
http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus-0.…http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus-0.…
D-Bus modifications add optional autodetected support for the D-Bus
based server control system.
D-Bus is object model that provides IPC mechanism. D-Bus supports
autoactivation of objects, thus making it simple and reliable to code a
"single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and
daemons on demand when their services are needed.
* Simplified single thread model for control and monitor
applications. Various D-Bus language bindings make it trivial to
write control and monitor applications using scripting languages like
Python, Ruby, Perl, etc..
* JACK has log file (~/.log/jack/jackdbus.log) that is available for
inspection even when autoactivation happens because of first JACK
application is launched.
* There is real configuration file used to persist settings that can be
manipulated through configuration interface of JACK D-Bus object.
* Improved graph inspection and control mechanism. JACK graph is
versioned. Connections, ports and clients have unique (monotonically
increasing) numeric IDs.
* High level abstraction of JACK settings. Allows applications that can
configure JACK to expose parameters that were not known at compile
(or tarball release) time.
Currently there are some minor differences between jack1 jackdbus and
jack2 jackdbus:
* There is no parameter constraints support (no enums and no ranges)
* No get client pid function (probably affects lash)
* Settings file (in ~/.config/jack/) is conf-jack1.xml instead of
conf.xml, because jack1 and jack2 settings and not really compatible.
When configured with D-Bus support, jack_control is
installed. jack_control is simple commandline interface for jackdbus.
Other tools that can communicate with JACK through D-Bus:
* LADItools (tray icon, configuration, etc.)
* Patchage (and lpatchage too)
* LASH 0.6.x (may not work properly with jack1 jackdbus implementation)
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Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>
The version 0.0.17 of Calf Audio Plugin Pack has been released. This is
the first release after Calf team gained a second plugin developer, Thor
Harald Johansen.
Calf is a set of open source instruments and effects for digital audio
workstations. Multiple plugin interfaces are supported: LV2, DSSI, JACK
(standalone application) and, for slightly outdated hosts, LADSPA.
The plugins are equipped with GTK+-based graphical user interfaces. Some
of these interfaces contain live (and accurate) graphs for easier
control over parameters. Unfortunately, that functionality is only
available in standalone version, or LV2 versions when used with Ardour
2.7, Zynjacku or LV2Rack.
Calf contains the following effects and instruments:
- (new in 0.0.17) smooth-sounding dynamic compressor
- (new in 0.0.16) multi-tap chorus
- organ-like polyphonic synthesizer
- a simple monophonic subtractive synthesizer
- tape-like delay
- reverb
- multimode filter with parameter smoothing (inertia)
- flanger
- phaser
Example screenshots:
http://calf.sf.net/multichorus2.pnghttp://calf.sf.net/compressor2.png
Recent versions of Calf also contain a set of about 50 plugins for
modular LV2 hosts (like Dave Robillard's Ingen). Logic gates and
flip-flops, basic filters, oscillators, multiplexers, arithmetic
operators - and other building blocks for creating interesting patches.
The source version of Calf can be downloaded from the following page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=211458
Calf home page:
http://calf.sf.net/
The Calf Team
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 improves Strasheela's export of sound synthesis
formats. For example, expressive timing of scores can be defined by
time shift functions. Predefined MIDI file export now supports also
non-note events like continuous controllers (e.g., pitch bend,
aftertouch, CC) and a global tempo curve. Additional examples have
been added, and further extensions and bug fixes have been made as
well.
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
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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
PianoBooster version 0.5.0 has just been released, this is the first
ever release of PianoBooster.
If you dabble in music and have a Midi Piano keyboard lying around
then give PianoBooster a go as it actually makes sight reading music
fun!!!!!
To see what it is all about take a look at the screen shot:
http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/images/LinuxScreenShot.png
First choose a MIDI file (the Easy Play Beethoven is a good one -- see
the download page for where this can be found) then select which part
that you want to play along with (e.g. the piano part or the strings
part etc). Then select the "left" hand or the "right" hand or if you
are feeling really brave choose "both hands" and try to play along.
The "Follow You" mode make it really easy to sight read the scrolling
notes as the whole accompaniment will stop and wait for you to find
and play the right notes.
The accuracy bar monitors how well you are playing. If you are skilled
enough the accuracy bar will go right to the end and then turn blue.
But every time you are too slow or playing out of time, then the
accuracy bar slips back a bit.
You can watch a video of it in action on YouTube:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7YaDllVreuM
Piano Booster 0.5.0 is released under the GPL and is available at
SourceForge on this page:
http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/download.html
L o u i s B a r m a n
Hi
I released rakarrack-0.3.0, this is a bug fix version with few improvements.
http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/
Bugs Fixed:
- Excessive CPU usage when no input signal.
- Excessive CPU usage when jack port is disconnected.
- fltk Plastic schema.
- Shorcuts.
- --no-gui option.
- MIDI implementation.
- other minor bugs.
New:
- Up to 84 parameters can be controlled via MIDI control message. http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/help.html#midispec
- Save/Load config for each instance of rakarrack.
- Documentation re-write.
Thanks
Josep
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Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>
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Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>
