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by Torsten Anders

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 -- Torsten Anders Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research University of Plymouth Office: +44-1752-586219 Private: +44-1752-558917 http://strasheela.sourceforge.net http://www.torsten-anders.de

17 years

PianoBooster version 0.5.0 has just been released

by Louis B.

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

17 years

rakarrack-0.3.0 is released

by Josep Andreu

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 -- Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net> -- Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>

17 years

jackctlmmc (kinda sorta) release

by Alex Montgomery

Hello, We'd like to announce a new release of jackctlmmc, a command line tool for driving JACK transport using Midi Machine Code that you can download here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=245788 or get the code here: http://repo.or.cz/w/jackctlmmc.git The program is still in its infancy but it should work for most MMC devices. It currently supports the following MMC commands: Play / Deferred Play - start transport Stop - stop transport Rewind - go to time 0 Goto: go to the specified SMPTE time It's a pretty simple command line utility for now, but we'll be working on a QT front end soon. To use jackctlmmc: 1) start the program on the command line: ./jackctlmmc -f <your device's SMPTE frame rate> -t <jitter tolerance in milliseconds> You can also specify -v if you want it to output messages in the console for all MMC commands it's handling, which is useful for testing. 2) connect your midi port to jackctlmmc using either aconnect or JACK's connect (you will have to specify JACK's midi driver as "seq" if you want to connect using JACK). For the goto command to work, jackctlmmc needs to know your device frame rate which you can specify with -f, or use the default 30 fps. Some MMC devices (like my BR900CD 8-track) are awfully spammy with their goto messages, so we've implemented a jitter tolerance (specified in milliseconds on the command line with -t, defaulting to 50) so jackctlmmc will ignore goto commands that are already close enough to the current JACK transport time. There's still a lot of work to do on the application, but we've been getting emails asking for progress updates, so we decided to do a quick release now. Hopefully it's useful to people other than ourselves. -- Alex

17 years

[ANN] guitarix third release

by hermann meyer

guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar amplifier for jack(Jack Audio Connektion Kit) with one input and two outputs. Designed to get nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds. There are controls for bass, treble, gain, preamp, balance, distortion, freeverb, impulse response (), crybaby(wah) and echo . A fixed resonator will be used when distortion is disabled. For 'pressure' in the sound you can use the feedback and feedforward sliders. changelog: guitarix (0.03.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * add advanced setting widgets for distortion, freeverb, ImpulseResponse and Crybaby * rework the jconv settings window * split code guitarix (0.02.9a-1) unstable; urgency=low * bugfix for run jconv port handling * bugfix a typo in the Makefile for the LADSPAPATH guitarix (0.02.9-1) unstable; urgency=low * add a wet/dry fader for jconv guitarix (0.02.8-1) unstable; urgency=low * add more settings for jconv guitarix based on Gtk, a great part is also realesed as ladspa plugin. guitarix is licensed under GPL Homepage with screenshots: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ guitarix use now svn. You can browse the repostory here: http://guitarix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/guitarix/ For capture guitarix make use of jack_capture ver >= 0.9.30 from Kjetil S. Matheussen. If you dont have it installed, look here: http://old.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D For Impulse Response guitarix make use of jconv from Fons Adriaensen. If you dont have it installed, look here: http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html I use faust to build the prototype and will say thanks to : Julius Smith http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/ : Albert Graef http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/ag.html : Yann Orlary http://faust.grame.fr/ regards hermann

17 years

[FFADO-devel] [ANN] FFADO 2.0 Release Candidate 1 (1.999.40) available

by Pieter Palmers

Hi, The FFADO team is proud to announce the first release candidate for FFADO 2.0. This release candidate is intended to collect feedback about the library under wide-spread usage. The code should be free of major bugs. We are looking for packagers that are interested in creating packages for their favorite distribution. Please contact us if you can help us out with this. Release and download information: http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/rc1 Currently, the installation options are: * manual build from source [http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/rc1] * semi-automatic build from source into a 'sandbox' [http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/SandboxInstalls] * APT repository for Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy (possibly others) [http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/apt] Please test and report issues at our TRAC at http://subversion.ffado.org/ or at the mailing list (ffado-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net). Please take note of http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/WritingGoodTickets when reporting bugs. We ask all users of FreeBoB that are not yet testing FFADO to try this release candidate. Note that FFADO can co-exist with FreeBoB without any problems, so you can revert back to your original setup very easily. Enjoy, Pieter Palmers ffado.org

17 years

Ardour 2.7 released

by Paul Davis

After a frenetic month getting things ready for the SAE version of Ardour, I am happy to announce the public release of Ardour 2.7. For the first time this includes public versions for OS X Intel: http://releases.ardour.org/Ardour2-Intel-4225.zip PPC: http://releases.ardour.org/Ardour2-PPC-4225.zip as well as our usual source tarball: http://releases.ardour.org/ardour-2.7-4225.tar.bz2 This release is dominated by dramatic improvements in OS X GUI performance and startup time, but it also contains a lot of significant bug fixes. However, somewhat to my surprise, Ardour also accumulated quite a lot of nice new features since 2.6.1 as you can see below. FEATURES Overall dramatic improvements in OS X GUI performance New action to rotate editor/mixer window stacking New action to cycle through mouse modes Plugin windows can now have keyboard focus locked to them Add missing extensions to exported files based on selected file type Loop/Range ruler now visible by default Default crossfade is now -3dB cut Crossfade presets changed to include -6dB cut and two S-curves (icons sadly not changed yet) New support for Wiimote control (experimental, disabled by default, and not possible on OS X) Selected tracks are always visible when scrolling through with select-next-track or select-previous-track Skip non-active and hidden tracks with select-previous-track and select-next-track Several new tooltips all over the place and better tooltip colors On OS X, Button2 can be emulated with Ctrl-Option-Button1 Busses are never auto-connected to physical inputs Unmodified clicking in canvas rulers now sets playhead position, similar to existing behaviour in the "real" rulers. Use Ctrl- (Linux) or Command (OS X)-click/drag for new markers/ranges. Crossfade-editor specific keybindings: space => play xfade, left-arrow => play fade out, ctrl-left-arrow => dry fade out, right-arrow => play fade in, ctrl-right-arrow => dry fade in Drag-n-Drop from OS X Finder now more reliable but no longer supports MP3 or AAC (will be reverted in the future) Start position and Sync position clocks added popup region editor Better stay-on-top behaviour for certain windows LV2 port notification fix for GUI updating New German translation New post-export nag screen Per-track OSC control of solo/mute/rec-enable and gain FIXES Removed suggestion that users can save while disconnected from JACK Corrected reversed handling of "show-editor-mixer" state on startup Fixed crasher caused by changing gain with transport stopped & panner bypassed Correct reverse logic for making h/w monitoring available given h/w capabilities Fix confusing relabelling of plugin bypass button Prevent double registration of ALSA sequencer ports Correctly initialize JACK timeout parameter when starting JACK Ignore triple-clicks on mute/solo/rec-enable button Momentary solo/mute now works Fix serious error when calculating interpolated Curve values (will cause tiny, almost certainly undetectable changes in automation and fade curves, but may also remove clicks) Fix quoting in TOC files wrap PBD::Thread... signals in a mutex to avoid crashing during startup as multiple threads "emit" the signal Make comboboxes a little bigger on X11 B|B|T clocks measuring duration now use zero-based values New regions created by AudioFilters (Reverse/TimeFX/Transpose) inherit all relevant settings of their ancestor Fix for incorrect reading of fade out curve under a few circumstances Catch exceptions while loading AudioUnits Correct some glitches with playhead motion when looping/reversing Fix failure when opening a session by double-clicking the session file icon (OS X) Fix loss of "current dialog" tracking when exiting a dialog via a button (could cause crash on next Ctrl-w) Detect no-installed-JACK on OS X to avoid silent crashes for new users DEVELOPMENT GTK/OSX patch now in SVN Check build host for broken mutex-based glib atomic ops Two versions of clearlooks now in SVN - older, for X11 (crisp!), and newer for OS X (faster!) CONTRIBUTORS MASSIVE thanks to Nick Mainsbridge who, with the financial support of SAE and his own dedication to the cause, pulled off a minor miracle with OS X GUI performance, as well as many SAE-specific fixes and improvements. Other work and fixes: Sampo Savolainen, Don Fredricks, Krzysztof Foltman, Dave Robillard, and the plumber himself, Paul Davis

17 years

Italian podcast on Libre music and GNU/Linux

by Marco Milanesi

hi all, I'm here to announce a new (maybe the first) italian podcast on free/libre music and GNU/Linux. the selection goes from swimming pig, hitmuri, lapoc, msound, kpanic and last but not least Ken Restivo remixed by Garry Ogle all presented by msound's voice in italian language. ok, enough babbling the link is: http://gnufunk.org/node/32 Resources, we have: Site: http://www.gnufunk.org mailing list: http://gnufunk.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxaudio-it irc channel: #la-it(a)irc.freenode.net (you are welcome) happy listening! (for italian people and not) ciao, Marco -- ,= ,-_-. =. ------------------------------------------------------- + ((_/)o o(\_)) jabber:kpanic@jabber.linux.it/msn:kpanic@muppetslab.org | `-'(. .)`- #muppetslab(a)irc.freenode.net | \_/ Music is interface |

17 years

Tardigrade Inc. : Tapeutape-0.1.1 and Tranches-0.1.1, Tutorials

by Florent Berthaut

Hi everyone, I've released new versions of Tapeutape (virtual sampler) and Tranches(beatrepeat/redirect/rearrange). There are also tutorials for both of them. More informations on : http://www.tardigrade-inc.com/index.php/En/News Regards Florent

17 years

[ANN] SLV2 0.6.1

by Dave Robillard

SLV2 is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. Changes this release: - I18N support, courtesy Lars Luthman - New functions: slv2_port_get_value, slv2_instance_get_extension_data - Fix slv2_plugin_get_supported_features - Fancy new build system - Some Mac portability stuff I think? Probably some other stuff too Upgrading is not a life or death matter... OR IS IT?! More information, documentation, downloads, free beer, etc, at: <http://drobilla.net/software/slv2> Enjoy, -dr

17 years

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