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Renoise 2.0 Beta 1 music sequencing software now available!

by Conner Bw

Details & Download http://www.renoise.com/new/ Introducing Renoise 2.0 Renoise 2.0 provides unprecedented granular control over audio, now with a range of new features targeting traditional recording artists and composers. A unique approach when compared with mainstream music sequencers, Renoise’s streamlined workflow delivers professional results on Windows, Macintosh, or Linux. Why spend hours cobbling beats together with a mouse when you can do it in seconds with a few keystrokes? Whether you’re an audio vetran or just starting out, Renoise is the perfect compliment for anyone looking for something new. Many artists from every genre have seen the light long ago. Renoise 2.0, with an entirely overhauled audio engine, is like staring into the sun. What's new in Renoise 2.0? Renoise 2.0 incorporates several fundamental changes. Some aspects have changed so revolutionary that it completely revitalizes the way you make music in Renoise. Moreover, this massive engine overhaul is essential for behemoth features in later releases. -- Timing & Precision Higher resolutions are now possible without unintuitive hacks like changing the amount of ticks or doubling the BPM. A new note delay column vastly improves recording precision, be it jamming with your MIDI gear or laying down tracks with your QWERTY keyboard. Speed is replaced by more powerful and easier to use LPB and TPL settings. -- PDC Renoise joins other state-of-the-art sequencers with a unique built-in implementation of plugin delay compensation. Not only does Renoise automatically fix unwanted plug-in latencies, it also compensates your MIDI gear and midi cables wired to other hosts. One of the most innovative PDC implementations ever has arrived. -- Audio Units Mac users rejoice! The developers finally caved and added support for your toys, too. Support for Audio Units alongside VST and LADSPA makes Renoise one of the only sequencers with support for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Every platform, no plugin left behind. -- Improved Plugin Support Better performance and compatibility for VST brings less audio latency related crackles on songs that use lots of VSTi instruments, multi output VSTi/AU instruments support, and the ability to send notes to VST/AU effects. -- And More! High-precision filters, drag and drop, quantization, bigger disk browser, pimped plug-in browser, windows clipboard integration, improved audio latency when recording, optimizations, GUI improvements, the list goes on! 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. -- http://www.renoise.com/ _________________________________________________________________

17 years, 3 months

[ANN] jack_capture V0.9.30 and Rollendurcmesserzeitsammler V0.0.7

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D jack_capture ============ jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack. Its default operation is to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file. (But it can do a number of other operations as well...) Note: This version includes Hermann Meyer's jack_capture_gui2 program. "jack_capture_gui2" is a nice graphical frontend for for jack_capture with lots of options. Many thanks to Herman for the contribution. Changes 0.9.23 -> 0.9.30: *Added Hermann Meyer's jack_capture_gui2 program. jack_capture_gui2 is a nice graphical frontend for for jack_capture with lots of options. Many thanks to Herman for the contribution. *Don't exit in case port is not found. *Print runtime warning and error messages on top of the console to avoid printing the console meter yet another time. (it's much prettier also) *Fixed a bug that could cause (and especially after the switch from calloc to my_calloc apparantely) segfault when specifying --port more than once. Thanks to Peder Hedlund for spotting the bug. *Print error instead of segfaulting when a specified jack port does not exist. *Removed -g option and changed -O0 to -O2. (Oops, don't know how long that's been there) *Make sure the stop semaphore is initialized before it might be called. *Changed the --recording-time / -d option to record exactly the correct number of frames. (The format for the option is still in seconds though). This fixes the problem where the wall clock and the soundcard clock drifts apart. *Always increase the buffer size with 2 seconds when more than than half the buffer is used, unless maximum buffer size is reached. *Added the --maxbufsize / -MB option which sets maximum buffer size. Default value is 40 seconds. *Decreased the default buffer size from 20 to 10 seconds. *Changed internal data representation from lockless ringbuffer to lockless lifo and fifo stacks. Unmodified lifo/fifo code taken from midishare. (Copyright Grame 1999-2005) Rollendurchmesserzeitsammler v0.0.7 ------------------------------------ The Audio Rollendurchmesserzeitsammler is a conservative garbage collector especially made for running inside an audio DSP thread. 0.0.5 -> 0.0.7 * Cleaned up source a bit. * Fixed a bug in "tar_entering_audio_thread" which caused it to return false if currently copying a different heap. * Cleaned up the critical section handling between the DSP thread and the sweep thread. (it was really messy)

17 years, 3 months

Patchage 0.4.2

by Dave Robillard

Patchage is a graphical modular patch bay for audio/MIDI systems based on JACK, LASH, and ALSA. This release adds: - Support for the new LASH D-BUS interface (currently LASH SVN only) - Improved LASH GUI (from Nedko Arnaudov's ladi-patchage branch) - Quick/easy connection of groups of ports in one action (select all the ports and press enter) Also released in parallel are the two libraries Patchage depends on, raul 0.5.1 and flowcanvas 0.5.1. More information, screenshot, downloads, etc. available at: http://drobilla.net/software/patchage http://drobilla.net/software/raul http://drobilla.net/software/flowcanvas Packages for all 3 projects are available for Debian unstable (sid). For repository details see http://wiki.drobilla.net/Debian Enjoy, -dr

17 years, 3 months

[ANN] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.1.0

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

This is the first public release of Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. It is a MIDI event generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. VMPK has been tested in Linux and Windows, but maybe you can build it also in Mac OSX and SGI Irix. If you can compile and test the program in those systems, please drop me a mail. The Virtual Keyboard by Takashi Iway (vkeybd) has been the inspiration for this one. It is a wonderful piece of software and has served us well for many years. Thanks! VMPK is written in C++ using two free and platform independent frameworks: Qt4 (4.3 or newer is needed) and RtMIDI for MIDI input/output. It uses ALSA sequencer in Linux, WinMM in Windows and CoreMIDI in Mac OSX, which are the native MIDI systems in each supported platform. See: http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/ The alphanumeric keyboard mapping can be configured from inside the program using the GUI interface, and the settings are stored in XML files. Some maps for Spanish, German and French keyboard layouts are provided. VMPK can send program changes and controllers to a MIDI synth. The definitions for different standards and devices can be provided as .INS files, the same format used by Qtractor, TSE3, Cakewalk and Sonar. This software is in a very early alpha stage. Please feel free to contact me to ask questions, report bugs, and propose new features. You can use the tracking system at SourceForge project site. Copyright (C) 2008, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 Web site: http://vmpk.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk Download sources: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.1.0.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.1.0.tar.gz Download openSUSE RPM packages: http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=vmpk Regards, Pedro

17 years, 3 months

Qtractor 0.2.1 (fainty diva) released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Howdy! Vacation time is now gone and the rentrée is upon us, at least on this hemisphere side of the globe ;) Silly season, beloved August, summertime it is. And before it's too late, I'm proud to announce that a new alpha has summoned to the challenge: Qtractor 0.2.1 (fainty diva) has been released! Release highlights: - Gradient eye-candy (NEW) - DSSI multi-instance plug-in issue fixed - Clip waveform/piano-roll rendered while recording (NEW) - MIDI pitch-bend, omni-channel filtering and recording fixes - Play-head positioning in the thumb-view (NEW) - And many few more (see change-log below:) For the clueless: Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework [1]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio [2] and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI [3] are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Author: Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc dot org> Weblog: http://wwww.rncbc.org Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor License: Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [15] version 2 or later. Features: - Multi-track audio and MIDI sequencing and recording. - Developed on pure Qt4 C++ application framework [1] (no Qt3 nor KDE dependencies). - Uses JACK [2] for audio and ALSA [3] sequencer for MIDI as multimedia infrastructures. - Traditional multi-track tape recorder control paradigm. - Audio file formats support: OGG (via libvorbis [6]), MP3 (via libmad [7], playback only), WAV, FLAC, AIFF and many, many more (via linsndfile [4]). - Standard MIDI files support (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 files (SDI). - 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 [13]). - LADSPA [5], DSSI [11] and native VSTi [12] 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 clip time-stretching (WSOLA-like or via librubberband [9]), pitch-shifting (via librubberband [9]) and seemless sample-rate conversion (via libsamplerate [8]). - Audio/MIDI track export (mix-down, merge). - Audio/MIDI metronome bar/beat clicks. - MIDI clip editor (piano roll). - MIDI instrument definitions (a-la Cakewalk(tm) [15]) - JACK transport sync master. - MMC control surface enabled. - Configurable keyboard shortcuts. Requirements: - mandatory libqt4 [1] libjack [2] libasound [3] libsndfile [4] LADSPA [5] - optional libvorbis [6] libmad [7] libsamplerate [8] librubberband [9] liblo [10] DSSI [11] VST-SDK [12] Download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.2.1.tar.gz Change-log: 0.2.1 2008-08-30 The Faint Diva - Gradient eye-candy now featured for clips, tracks and mixer strips widget backgrounds, disabled on configure time (--disable-gradient). - MIDI pitch-bend/wheel events are now captured/recorded properly; in fact, there was this ancient bug, now squashed, as all MIDI clips weren't being stored at all if there weren't a single note event captured. - MIDI channel translation is finally in effect on monitored tracks, specially the ones set in omni-channel input mode. - MIDI open files dialog gets a few more file filter types now. - Playhead position is now shown, updated and can be also set on the main toolbar session thumb-view (shift-click to set the playhead). - The floating selection, as shown for a clipboard pasting operation, has been corrected regarding time scale (horizontal zoom) changes, while in the main track-view. Also fixed final position snapping precision (spotted in bug #2055846). - Current tempo and snap-per-beat setting now survive session cycling. - DSSI plugins implementing run_multiple_synths (eg. fluidsynth-dssi) are now formally supported according to the DSSI spec (hopefully); note that previously one could only have one DSSI plugin instance loaded in session in any given time, otherwise a sudden crash was in sure demand when either plugin got activated (fixes bug #2048198). - Audio plugin outputs now overrides each other when the number of output ports does not match the number of mix-down audio channels and thus fixing a nasty crash bug in the process. - All custom font sizes are now set relative to default global font. - Changing loop points by dragging on the time rulers is now mapped as undoable/redoable commands as it ought to be ever since. - Drop-span option (View/Options.../Drop multiple audio files into the same track) now takes into effect the current session snap-per-beat setting when concatenating multiple audio clips. - All plugins get their default bank/program selected on insertion. - Make record armed tracks muted for playback, a needed regression to let both audio and MIDI tracks behave consistently regarding input monitor switching through output. - Fixed a pretty old and shameless bug regarding MIDI clip recording, in which cases the queue start time offset was not taken into account, with captured events being recorded with erratic long delays. - Almost complete refactoring of the clumsy audio peak file classes, possibly making it even clumsier but straight neverthless, with the noble and final aim to build it in-flight and draw the waveforms while recording is rolling. - Recording clips get their initial name labels drawn while fade-in/out handles are dropped as found pretty useless while recording. - Escape key now closes connections and mixer widgets as found usual. Disclaimer: Qtractor is (still) in some alpha stage of development, although already functional it surely has a plenty of lurking bugs. It also lacks some features that some might find critical in the application field. All is (still) not lost, as the following are among the ones planned to be worked on in the times to come (not in any particular order): - Automation and MIDI controller mapping. - Session/project templates. - Puch-in/out and loop recording (takes). - Audio clip cross-fading. - Audio effect send/return aux. inserts. - Clip locking, muting, normalize (gain). - LV2 plug-in support. - JACK MIDI support. - Tempo and key signature map. - Paste-repeat command. - MIDI SysEx manager. - MIDI event list editor. - MIDI editor (piano roll) draw mode. - MIDI groove/swing quantize. - OSC interface. - Scripting. - Etc. etc. References: [1] Qt4 (core, gui, xml), C++ class library and tools for crossplatform development and internationalization http://www.trolltech.org/products/qt/ [2] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org/ [3] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [4] libsndfile, C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ [5] LADSPA, Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API http://www.ladspa.org/ [6] libvorbis (enc, file), Ogg Vorbis audio compression http://xiph.org/vorbis/ [7] libmad, High-quality MPEG audio decoder http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ [8] libsamplerate, The secret rabbit code, C library for audio sample rate conversion http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/ [9] librubberband, Rubber Band Audio Time Stretcher, an audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library http://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/ [10] liblo, Lightweight OSC implementation (needed for DSSI GUI support) http://liblo.sourceforge.net/ [11] DSSI, an API for soft synth plugins with custom user interfaces http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ [12] VST SDK, Steinberg's Virtual Studio Technology (see README.VST) http://www.steinberg.net/ [13] QjackCtl - JACK Qt GUI Interface http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net [14] GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [15] Cakewalk (by Roland), powerful and easy-to-use tools for Windows-based music and sound production http://www.cakewalk.com/ Cheers && Enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc at rncbc dot org http://www.rncbc.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user

17 years, 3 months

Qtractor 0.2.1 (fainty diva) released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

17 years, 3 months

Rivendell v1.0.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm very pleased to announce the release of the first full production release of Rivendell. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system that is targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It has all of the features one would expect in a modern radio automation system, including fully interactive voicetracking, podcast origination and support for a huge array of third-party broadcast hardware and software. Rivendell runs on the GNU/Linux operating system and can make use of a full spectrum of audio hardware, from inexpensive 'Sound Blaster' cards to top-of-the-line professional audio adapters manufactured by AudioScience Corporation. Rivendell is available under the GNU General Public License. Full system source code, screen shots, documentation and a try-it-before-you-install-it live demonstration CD image are available for download at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | It was the Tree, his Tree, finished. | | -- J.R.R. Tolkien | | "Leaf by Niggle" | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

17 years, 3 months

Amuc 1.7 released

by W.Boeke

Announcing Amuc version 1.7: http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/amuc/index.html Amuc (the Amsterdam Music Composer) is an audio application for composing and playing music. With this version it is more or less loosing its innocence ... Amuc now interfaces with Jack, and text and graphics are neatly anti-alias'ed. What has remained is its speedy operation. As a little joke you can listen to this "audio greeting card": http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/amuc/hi-woody.ogg

17 years, 3 months

Strasheela 0.9.6 released

by Torsten Anders

Hello, 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 supports new techniques for constraining the musical form, and demonstrates them in examples. Also, the definition of complex distribution strategies (variable orderings in the search) is simplified by special constructor functions. Several further examples have been added, and many other extensions and bug fixes have been made; see the list of changes for details. 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 Anders -- 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, 3 months

Rivendell v1.0.0rc6

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.0.0rc6. 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): *** snip snip *** Changes: Fixed a problem where ripped cuts would show an incorrect length if Autotrim was enabled. Fixed a problem with saving the 'Editor Command' field in RDAdmin->ManageHosts. Brought the 'build slack' target for making a Slackware package up to date. Fixed a minor build problem when building without JACK support. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 159, 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. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | People who make no mistakes do not usually make anything. | | -- Anonymous | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

17 years, 3 months

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