On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce
the release of Rivendell v1.0.0rc2. 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:
AMB-OS AMR-100 Receiver Support. Support has been added for importing
the 'Native MP2' format files generated by the Westport Communications
AMR-100 satellite receiver used by the AMB-OS system.
RDDbCheck Enhancements. Added a check for orphaned database tables to
RDDbCheck.
Timescaling Fixes. A bug has been fixed that affected the precision of
timescaling parameters when applied to long-form programs.
Temp File Cleanup. A bug has been fixed that was causing temporary files
to be left behind after manually posting audio to a podcast feed.
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.
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Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
Cheers!
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| | Paravel Systems |
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| Be bold, and don't fear failure. Treat failure as a blessing, |
| because mediocre goals are poison. |
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SLV2 is a library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible
for applications.
Changes this release:
- Reworked API to be more future-proof and support plugin ports of
various types (e.g. not just float ala LADSPA).
- Various performance improvements (extreme improvements with a recent
enough version of redland/librdf)
- Support for 'scale points' (e.g. combo box ports)
- Support plugins with binaries in locations other than the top level of
the plugin bundle
- Support for new generic LV2 events (replaces old MIDI) in bundled
hosts
- Several bug fixes
- Other things I forget
Upgrading (and, for developers, updating code to the new API) strongly
recommended.
Source available at http://drobilla.net/software/slv2
Packages for amd64 Debian unstable are available, for details see:
http://wiki.drobilla.net/Debian
Enjoy,
-Dave Robillard
Patchage is a graphical modular patch bay for audio/MIDI systems
based on JACK, LASH, and ALSA.
This release fixes several bugs, and adds support for the new Jack D-Bus
control interface. Two libraries which Patchage depends on are also
released in parallel: raul 0.5.0 and flowcanvas 0.5.0.
Upgrading is recommended.
More information, screenshot, downloads, etc. available at:
http://drobilla.net/software/patchagehttp://drobilla.net/software/raulhttp://drobilla.net/software/flowcanvas
Packages for all 3 projects are available for amd64 Debian unstable, for
details see:
http://wiki.drobilla.net/Debian
Enjoy,
-Dave Robillard
jack_capture
============
jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack. It's 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.
Normal URL:
http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D
Note that the above link doesn't seem to currently work
because of something which seems to be www upgrade
at Notam. But this link does seem to work for now:
http://old.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D
0.9.10 -> 0.9.17:
-----------------
*Made sure the process thread won't continue sending
data when jack_capture is told to quit. This
led to a race conditions when recording too many channels
at once (which was 256 channels on my machine).
*Added the jack_capture_gui script, based on code
by Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen's.
*Replaced sh by bash to make it work in ubuntu.
*Fixed exact port name match and gen_setformat. Thanks to
Gabriel J.L. Beckers for reporting the bugs.
*Increased the time the console meter is displayed in red from
50ms to 2000ms. (when the recorded jack value is equal to or
higher than 1.0.)
*Added the -dBr argument to specify reference level when using
the console dB meter.
*Added the -mr argument to specify reference level when using
the meterbridge meter.
*Added peak indicators to the console meter. Code to do so taken
from meterbridge by Steve Harris.
*Updated --help and README with the new options.
*Added option "-mt" to change meterbridge type. Current valid
options are vu (default), ppm, dpm, jf or sco. It's not necesarry
to specify "-mb" if using "-mt".
*Added option "-dB" to get a dB meter for the console meter.
*Added examples how to record ogg and mp3 files using the -ws option.
*Decreased default buffersize from 60 to 20 seconds.
(I even had trouble provocing underruns using a minimal
0.05 seconds long buffer, so 60 seconds was obviously overkill)
*Fixed message and error printing to stderr when
vu meter is running.
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
**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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MAKE ART 2008 - OpenOS
CALL FOR PROJECTS
Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.
The third edition of make art - OpenOS - will take place in
Poitiers (FR), from the 24th to the 30th of November 2008.
make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an
exhibition, focused on the blurred line between art and software
programming.
We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS based works and
projects: music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software
demos, and installations.
This year make art focuses on the *OpenOS*: artistic, free, creative use
of the Operating System, hackability and modularity of FLOSS and
GNU/Linux, scripts as digital glue between applications, enhanced
possibilities for the technical expression of ideas, user empowerment and
artistic freedom.
For more details, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/call
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NOVEMBRE 08 |_| |_| |_| |___| |_|
MAKE ART 2008 - OpenOS
APPEL A PROJET
make art est un festival international dédié à l'intégration des
Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS[1]) dans l'art numérique.
La troisième édition de make art – OpenOS - se déroule
à Poitiers (FR), du 24 au 30 novembre 2008.
make art propose des performances, des présentations, des
workshops et une exposition, centrés sur la rencontre entre l'art
numérique et le logiciel libre.
Nous recherchons actuellement des projets récents, innovants, basés
sur des logiciels libres et open source : performances musicales et
audio-visuelles, présentations, démonstrations de logiciels et
installations.
Cette année make art portera une attention particulière à l'OpenOS:
l'utilisation artistique, libre, créative du système d'exploitation
(OS[2]), la "hackabilité" et la modularité des Logiciels Libre et Open
Source (FLOSS) et de GNU/Linux, les scripts comme glu numérique pour
interconnecter les applications, les possibilités accrues pour
l'expression technique des idées, l'autonomisation de l'utilisateur
(empowerment) et la liberté artistique.
[1] FLOSS: Free/Libre/Open Source Software
[2] OS:Operating System
Pour plus de détail, veuillez visiter l'adresse suivante :
http://makeart.goto10.org/call/index.fr.html
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Hi list,
not sure if this was mentioned here before (I hardly find the time to read
the LA* lists regularly these days), but someone from IRC let me know that
the VST/VSTi plugin suite by Paul Kellett has been released by its author
as source, see here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=230958
I don't have a Windows-based audio system so I cannot judge about the
quality of his plugins, but I am pretty confident (from what I know and read
about his work) that these could be pretty fine, perhaps an interesting
alternative or addendum to, say, the swh-plugins. Should be a cornucopia for
interested LADSPA/LV2 porters, anyway :-). As it seems, there is already a
binary of a ported package at http://linux-vst.com/download/mda_linux.tar.gz
No idea who managed to convince Paul to do this, but big thanks to both
of you for arranging this! This should be a quite valuable resource, for
DSP coders and finally also for users.
Regards,
Frank
Version 1.1 of libsmf can be downloaded from:
http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/libsmf/libsmf-1.1.tar.gz
Libsmf is a library for loading and writing Standard MIDI Files, i.e.
files with the ".mid" extension. The only dependancy is glib. It was
tested under Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
Please note that, by default, libsmf is built with lots of asserts,
which make it slower; for example, inside smf_save, there is some code
that loads the newly saved file and compares it with what it was
supposed to save. If some operation takes noticeable amount of time,
try to recompile libsmf with -DNDEBUG to disable asserts.
http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/libsmf/
API documentation is here:
http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/libsmf/doc/
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If you cut off my head, what would I say? Me and my head, or me and my body?
Call for Participation
================
Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS)
Developer Workshop
Thursday 15 - Friday 16 January 2009
Hobart (Tasmania), Australia
http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2009/
Important Dates:
Submissions open: 11th June 2008
Submissions close: 15th August 2008
Notification: 30th September 2008
What is FOMS:
Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS) is a developer workshop to
widen cooperation and interoperability among open source media
projects. Meet and discuss your plans for the next 12 months and forge
relationships with other developers to unwind the kinks, making open
media kick ever more ass.
This is a call for participation in the third FOMS meeting, which will
be held in Hobart, Australia over two days in January leading up to
linux.conf.au 2009.
The FOMS meeting is organised by developers for developers.
FOMS caters for developers with topics of interest in and related to:
* open audio & video codecs
* open audio & media frameworks
* audio infrastructure
* web video (HTML5 audio/video) and crossover with open source
* mobile video
* open audio & video applications
* open metadata
* open media standards
The proximity to linux.conf.au allows us also to discuss audio- and
video-related issues with the developers of Open Source kernel,
networking and desktop systems.
How to attend / submit:
FOMS attendees will be developers of open media software from the
community as well as professional delegates from companies with a
background and interest in this space. The attendance fee for
professional delegates is A$420 - community participation is free.
Attendees are expected to have a background in open media software.
If you would like to attend, please contact
foms-committee(at)lists.annodex.net and tell us why you should be
there. Also mention if you require travel assistance.
Coincident Conferences:
Since FOMS2009 is happening the week before linux.conf.au, in the same
city, you may want to consider submitting a proposal for that
conference as well.
Travel Funding:
FOMS highly values it's developer attendees. FOMS has provided a
limited number of sponsorships for travel funding for the best
developers since it's beginning. Further travel sponsorship can be
achieved by being an accepted speaker to linux.conf.au. The Linux
Foundation also has travel sponsorships to important events like FOMS
and LCA.
64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content
creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools. A remix
of Debian 4.0 'Etch', it comes in both AMD64/Intel64 and 32-bit
flavours, to run on nearly all PC hardware. We aim to combine the
stability and quality of Etch with a specialised real-time preemption
kernel and the latest creative tools demanded by multimedia artists. Our
tweaks to Debian include simplified installation and default settings
which help get production started quickly.
Version 2.1 is the first update to the second stable release of 64
Studio. It is named after a song by Jorge Ben, recorded by Os Mutantes
and covered by The Bees. New versions of applications such as Ardour and
Rosegarden are the main reason to upgrade, plus general bugfixes and
updates from Etch. It's not meant to be a bleeding edge release; it only
contains necessary changes. Some distros aim to give you the latest of
everything, but we prefer our stable branch to concentrate on long-term
usability. In that respect, it's similar to Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS.
It's a recommended upgrade for all 64 Studio users, without fear of
system breakage.
Upgrades from previous 64 Studio releases
-----------------------------------------
Full upgrade instructions for the command line or Synaptic are available
at: http://www.64studio.com/upgrade
A new apt mirror for the stable branch is now available at:
deb http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/64studio.com/apt/ 64studio main
Thanks to the Computer Science department at the University of Kent in
the UK - you guys rock, and roll :-)
New 64 Studio installations
---------------------------
DVD-R image mirrors are listed here: http://www.64studio.com/download
Checking the integrity of your download with md5sum is strongly recommended.
Release notes are available in Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish - thanks
again to all our translators!
For users without a DVD burner, images for the 64 Studio 2.0 Live CD are
still available from our download mirrors. We also recommend the live CD
for users who want to check out 64 Studio without installing.
Contact the 64 Studio project
-----------------------------
For more details, to join our mailing lists and forums, or to post bug
reports, please visit:
http://www.64studio.com/
We hope you enjoy being creative with free software!
