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!
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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
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
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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
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!
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| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer |
| | Paravel Systems |
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| People who make no mistakes do not usually make anything. |
| -- Anonymous |
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Hello all,
Ecasound 2.5.0 has been released! Releases notes follow:
1. Summary of changes in this release
-------------------------------------
A set of new input types, including a tone generator, audio looper,
selector and sequencer ("playat"), have been added. Ecasound EWF file
support has gone through a major refactoring. Threshold gate functionality
has been extended. The Ecasound Emacs mode has been updated with more ECI
commands. The usual set of bugs have been fixed.
2. What is Ecasound?
--------------------
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio
processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback,
recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect
processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports
a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms.
Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their
parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators
and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included
in the package.
Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can
also be run on many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X
and Solaris. Limited support for Windows is available through
Cygwin. Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control
Interface (ECI) is licensed under the LGPL.
3. Changes since in 2.5.x series
--------------------------------
v2.5.0:
* Added a new audio looper object. For instance "-i:audioloop,foo.wav"
will play "foo.wav" and loop it indefinitely. See http://eca.cx/examples
and ecasound(1) man page for more information.
* Added a new audio selector object. Specifying
"-i:select,5,15.2,foo.wav" will play out 15.2sec of
"foo.wav", starting at position 5sec (i.e. selects range
5.0-20.2sec). See http://eca.cx/examples and ecasound(1)
man page for more information.
* Added a new sequencer object that allows to play audio
clips at a given position. Specifying
"-i:playat,25.0,foo.wav" will play out "foo.wav"
starting at position 25.0sec (i.e. the first 25.0secs
will be silent and then "foo.wav" is played from
the beginning). See http://eca.cx/examples and ecasound(1)
man page for more information.
* Ability to stack audio objects. For instance
"-i audioloop,reverse,select,10,15,foo.wav" will loop
a reversed 15sec segment taken from 10sec onwards
from 'file.wav'.
* Code for Ecasound Wave Files (EWF) has been mostly rewritten
to fix longstanding bugs and design issues. This release also
marks the ability to write to EWF files as a deprecated feature
that will be removed in a later release. One new feature is
the ability to specify parameters in terms of samples instead
of seconds.
* Added a simple tone generator object. For example '-i:tone,sine,440,10.3'
will produce a 440Hz sine tone with duration of 10.3 seconds. This input
type will be especially useful for reproducing bugs in complicated
chainsetups, without the need to exchange complete session data (which
usually are composed of large amounts of audio files).
* Added 'reopen-count' parameter to threshold gate (-ge) operator.
For instance when recording vinyl/tapes, this allows to automatically
restart recording when a new track is started. When the gate is
closed, no audio is passed through to the output file, but
otherwise recording is kept running. Patch from Andrew Lees.
* Major update to the "Ecasound Examples": http://eca.cx/examples
* Updates to ecasound.el (ecasound emacs mode): new ECI commands
exported.
* Various bugs (in runtime functionality, documentation as well as
build issues) have been fixed.
Full list of changes is available at:
- http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php
4. Interface and configuration file changes
-------------------------------------------
The interactive mode commands 'cop-add' and 'ctrl-add' now allow
aternate syntax: both "-<id_string>:par1,...,parN" and
"<id_string>:par1,...,parN" are now accepted. So while previously
only "cop-add -efl:400" was recognized, now programs can
also use the more sane looking "cop-add efl:400" variant.
Output of "cs-status" (aka "status", "st") command has
changed. More details are now printed about active chainsetups,
while inactive setups are just listed. Previously one had to
use multiple separate status commands ("cs-status", "aio-status"
and "cop-status") to get a good overview of what is happening.
The intent is to now print all essential information with
just one command, while more detailed information is still
available through the separate commands.
5. Contributors to 2.5.x series
-------------------------------
Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes
v2.5.0:
* Cyril Brulebois (1) [cyrilbrulebois]
Compilation error with GCC-4.3. Reported as Debian
bug #454890.
* Fabian Groffen (1) [grobian]
Fixed Mac OS X 10.5 build error.
* Andrew Lees (1) [andrewl]
Added 'reopen-count' parameter to '-ge'.
Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed)
v2.5.0:
* Julien Claassen (2)
Traced down a severe error in the development builds related
to parsing and handling JACK connection parameters. Bugs
in the refactored EWF code.
* Rocco (2)
Bugs in the new 'audioloop' object. Bug in JACK server
connection management.
* Duphil (1)
Bug in 'cs-save/cs-save-as'.
* Jan Weil (1)
Bug in 'cs-status' output.
* Sergei Steshenko (1)
Sloppy parsing of "loop" device arguments
Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items)
v2.5.0:
* Sergei Steshenko (1)
Ability to use string tags as loop device identifiers
Participants of the Last Minute Test Release Effort
v2.5.0:
* Brad Bowman
* Julien Claassen
* Dubphil
* Rocco
6. Links and files
------------------
Web site (and mirrors):
http://eca.cx (fi)
http://ecasound.seul.org (us)
http://ecasound.sourceforge.net (us)
Source packages:
http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.5.0.tar.gz
md5sum: abec6ab833d9322ba102fa563bc3e258
List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support:
See http://eca.cx/ecasound/download.php
--
The CLAM team enraptured to announce the 1.3.0 release of CLAM [1], the C++
framework for audio and music, code name ''The Shooting of the Flying Plugins
release''.
Highlights of this release are:
- Automatic binary generation of LADSPA plugins containing the network you are
editing in NetworkEditor.
- Also a new simple API to code CLAM based Ladspa by hand. See [2]
- More FAUST integration into network editor: edit faust code, compile,
reload, view the svg diagrams (Natanael Olaiz GSoC)
- Lots of usability enhancements on the NetworkEditor: cut&paste, context
menus to connect ports, keyboard shortcuts, default double click actions, and
a processing tree filter (Natanael Olaiz GSoC)
- Annotator has also enhanced its functionality (Wang Jun GSoC):
- You can build a project that aggregates content from several extractors
- Extractors may have a config file
- Extractors can write back data (useful if the extractor is a database of
webservice and needs to upload modifications)
- New ProgressControl widget and paired AudioFileMemoryLoader processing to
support seeking (Pawel Bartkiewicz GSoC)
- A bunch of new 3D spatialization processings from CI Barcelona Media[3]
audio research group.
- Scripts [4] and graphical front-end [5] to generate a native CLAM plugin
project from scratch.
- Experimental Python bindings [6]
- TickExtractor example is compiling again (many thanks to Amaury Hazan from
MTG-UPF)
- Development deployment for Windows native compilation using MinGW (Wang Jun
GSoC)
And a lot of small nice features and fixes you will appreciate for sure.
Source and binary packages for different platforms are available at the CLAM
download page [7]. See also: development screenshots [8], the CHANGELOG [9],
and the version migration guide [10].
We are also very excited on what next releases promise us. Some ongoing work:
- Generating other types of network based plugins and programs (LV2, JACK,
VST...),
- Subnetworks (Natanael Olaiz GSoC)
- Improved OSC support, 3D scene descriptors parametrization receivers
processings and Blender exporter to the spatialization processing
choreographer. (Natanael Olaiz GSoC) [11]
- Typed controls (Francisco Tufro GSoC)
- A new musician-oriented standalone chord extraction application (Pawel
Bartkiewicz GSoC)
[1] http://clam.iua.upf.edu
[2] http://iua-share.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/Building_a_LADSPA_plugin
[3] http://www.barcelonamedia.org/
[4]
http://audiores.uint8.com.ar/blog/2008/07/07/clam-processing-generator-scri…
[5]
http://clam.iua.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/Image:ProcessingCodeGenerator.…
[6] http://audiores.uint8.com.ar/blog/2008/08/03/interactive-clam-programming/
[7] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/download.html
[8] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/Development_screenshots
[9] http://iua-share.upf.edu/svn/clam/trunk/CLAM/CHANGES
[10] http://iua-share.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/Version_Migration_Guide
[11] http://dadaisonline.blogspot.com/search/label/blender related blogging
--
David García Garzón
(Work) dgarcia at iua dot upf anotherdot es
http://www.iua.upf.edu/~dgarcia
Hi all,
klick 0.8.0 is out, as well as the first release of its GUI frontend,
gtklick.
klick
=====
klick is an advanced command-line based metronome for JACK. Features include
tempo maps, four built-in sounds to choose from, JACK transport support,
and a lot more.
Changes in version 0.8.0:
* There's a new "interactive mode" that allows you to change tempo, meter
and volume while klick is running. This one was long overdue.
* klick now speaks OSC. Currently only the most basic features can be
controlled via OSC, but more will be implemented in the future.
http://das.nasophon.de/klick/
gtklick
=======
gtklick is a GTK metronome that uses klick as its backend. It's written in
Python, and communicates with klick through OSC.
gtklick is intentionally much more simple than klick, and does not support
any of its more advanced features.
http://das.nasophon.de/gtklick/
Cheers,
Dominic
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
**Piksel08: code dreams
december 4-7 2008
Bergen, Norway
How does code dream? What are the dreams of code?
Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded
reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic
vision, yet exist within economies of capital, the dream factory of
mainstream technology. Within the chance meeting of sewing machine and
umbrella on the dissecting table, hardware and software are flattened.
Piksel08: code dreams explores the dreams of this soft machine; bachelors
coding for pleasure, reverse engineering paranoiac constructs of the real,
automatic coding practice, soft hardware, and everyday magic.
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
**open call:
1. Installations
Projects related to the code dreams theme including but not restricted to:
reverse engineering, soft hardware, code poetry, novel instruction sets,
invisible exploration, ghosted computation...
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 DIY hardware projects to apply.
3. Software/Hardware
Innovative DIY hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art
released under an open licence.
<<<<<< Deadline - august 15. 2008 >>>>>>
Please use the online submit form at:
http://piksel.no/piksel08/subform.html
or send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online
documentation with images/video to piksel08 [AT] piksel [DOT] no
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
**subsections:
**real code
real.co.[de][re] actively explores code which has strong effects on the real,
constructing the world through prediction and description. The twelve hour
real.co.[de][re] session will attempt the active construction of a working
code model (of any form) which addresses a flattening of the distinction
between software and hardware, to resolve a new political reference for real
core code.
**abstract code
Abstract code is software whose results can be invisible, a software
implementing different layers of action at the same time.
Abstract code is a connection to parallel worlds, a poetic formula dealing
with outer forces. Code is art, its action is subtile, effective, magic.
procedural text
maledictions, oracles, iambi, hymn, formula, refrains, hypnotic sentences,
prayers, and other.
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
Piksel is supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway,
Vestnorsk Filmsenter, Hordaland County Council and others.
More info: http://piksel.no
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On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce
the release of Rivendell v1.0.0rc5. 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 broken compile on gcc-4.3.x.
Removed limitations on using various 'special' (e.g. quotation and
apostrophe) characters in database fields.
Fixed problems with importing files with UTF-8-encoded names.
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!
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| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer |
| | Paravel Systems |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Do not try to think outside of the box. That's impossible. Instead, |
| realise the truth. There is no box. |
| --Quoted by "larsmjoh" on GrokLaw.net |
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Mixxx is currently the most popular open source djing software
package, providing everything you need to make your mixes in a
completely open source environment.
The Mixxx development team is proud to announce the release of version
1.6.0, representing 16 months of development. It is available for
Linux, Intel Mac and Windows. For a full list of changes, please see
our blog at http://mixxxblog.blogspot.org. Some highlights are:
* Vinyl control - Use your turntables to drive Mixxx with generic
soundcards, no more being tied to branded hardware by proprietary
software
* Better hardware support - Mixxx 1.6.0 supports a much wider range of
MIDI controllers to previous releases
* Stability - Many stability issues have been fixed
* Better BPM detection
* A better media library
We'd love for you to try it out and let us know what you think whether
you're an existing user or new to Mixxx. Head over to
http://www.mixxx.org to download.
Thanks,
Adam Davison on behalf of the Mixxx development team
