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by Rui Nuno Capela

Season greetings, As (almost) everybody knows already, or ought to, Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ on the Qt4 framework and Linux is about its native platform. Thus, JACK and ALSA are the main infrastructures that fit to purpose, respectively for audio and MIDI. Also a known fact is that this is nothing more than my pet, hobby, spare-time-burner, whatever project, but... it's actually my own dogfood where digital music making and (re)creation matters. Yep. I still have this sublime hope to make it evolve as a fairly featured Desktop Audio/MIDI Workstation, one special and dedicated to the personal homestudio. As joked many times before, it's perfectly tagged for the techno-boy bedroom home-studio, but techno-girls can also apply ;). You tell me. Qtractor 0.1.2 (frantic dame) is out! As obvious as in any respectable easter egg ;) This time, some important fixes have sneaked in and other are surely popping and will be lurking out. Main ones go down like this: * You can finally create new clips from scratch. * Track record monitoring with audio effects applied. * New Track/View menu items, all shortcut configurable. * Overlapped clips rendering hopefully fixed. * Improved MIDI editor selection. * New clip-split command. * VST plug-in parameters are now undo/redo-able (mostly). You can grab the new stuff from the usual project site: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Direct download links: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.2.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.2-user-manual.pdf Wait, please take a note: if you ever feel you're having something to say, a heads-up call or just a direction to point, do not ever hesitate in having your worries known upstream. Please, feel welcome at my http://www.rncbc.org Now the plain change-log follows, since she was just a futile duchess: - Session length fixed (yet again) while extend recording; also improved follow-playhead switching while playback/recording. - Whitespace sanitization gets leaner for all recorded filenames. - Run-time SSE optimization detection has been improved while on configure; additionally, IEEE 32bit float specific optimizations have also sneaked in. - SSE optimization is now featured over all audio monitoring, and most specially on audio bus buffering, lowering the CPU burden a bit while doing track and bus gain, pan, metering and mix-down. - Fixed MIDI clip move into new track, preserving the original channel, bank and program whenever possible. - Fixed session cursor seeking, specially regarding overlapped clips, once gain. - The MIDI editor gets new menu access to current MIDI clip track (see File/Track/Inputs, Outputs, Properties); selection of MIDI events has also been improved, specially regarding overlapped note events. - Clip split command enters the stage (see Edit/Clip/Split) about splitting the current (selected) clip at the current playhead position (red cursor line). - Creating new clips from scratch is now finally permitted (see Edit/Clip/New...); additionally, the clip properties dialog is now also allowing for changing the filename (and track/channel as special to MIDI clips). - Record armed tracks are now properly monitored and fed through their own output audio bus on mix-down, which includes plug-in effects processing. - The files widget get alternating coloured rows. - VST plug-in preset values are now being restored properly; individual parameter changes are now being queued for the also convenient undo/redo command pattern. - Some audio clip buffer-sync tweaks have sneaked in, improving and fixing the rendering of full-overlapped, integrally cached and/or offset clips altogether. - Stuffed one primordial shot on XInitThreads() at the main head, and let native VST plug-ins start behaving as they should, or not; this might be in fact problematic and dangerous for people who won't ever try the JUCE based plugins as from JUCETICE (http://www.anticore.org/jucetice), due to some broken locking mechanism in xcb; thanks anyway to mighty kRAkEn/gORe@JUCETICE for this precious hint and from who knows best. - True deterministic session length update has due fixed. - Track menu has new accessible actions: Track/Inputs - show current track input bus connections; Track/Outputs - show current track output bus connections; Track/State/Record - arm current track for recording; Track/State/Mute - mute current track; Track/State/Solo - solo current track; Track/Navigate/First - make current the first track; Track/Navigate/Previous - make current the previous track; Track/Navigate/Next - make current the next track; Track/Navigate/Last - make current the last track; Track/Move/Top - move current track to top; Track/Move/Up - move current track up; Track/Move/Down - move current track down; Track/Move/Bottom - move current track to bottom; - View menus have new accessible actions: View/Zoom/In - horizontal and vertical zoom-in (Ctrl +); View/Zoom/Out - horizontal and vertical zoom-out (Ctrl -); View/Zoom/Reset - reset both zoom levels to default; View/Snap - select current snap-per-beat setting; - Plug-in forms don't auto-open on session reload anymore. - Keyboard shortcuts icon item (Help/Shortcuts...) sneaks in. That's all folks. For the time being... :) Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

17 years, 1 month

[ANN] Snd-Rt homepage update, Snd-ls V0.9.8.13 and jack_capture V0.9.7

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

Snd-Rt ====== Snd-rt is a realtime music programming environment running inside the Snd sound editor. The homepage has been updated with links, papers and many examples on how to create GUI's and how to access Faust. The old fancy design is still kept unchanged. http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/doc/snd-rt/ Snd-ls V0.9.8.13 ================ Snd-ls is a distribution of Bill Schottstaedt's sound editor SND. (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/) Its target is people that don't know scheme very well, and don't want to spend too much time configuring Snd. It can also serve as a quick introduction to Snd and how it can be set up. Snd-ls also serves as base code for the San-Dysth softsynth (http://www.notam02.no/~kjetism/sandysth/) and the Snd-rt music programming language (http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/doc/snd-rt) http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/snd/ Changes 0.9.8.5 -> 0.9.8.13 --------------------------- -Updated Snd-Rt. (unguote-splicing, gui) -Updated Snd-Rt. (gui, dynamic scoping, oscil* etc.) -Updated Snd-Rt. (timer) -Updated Snd-Rt. (timer, faust, definstrument) -Updated Snd-Rt. Faust support. -Fixed rt timer. Previously it only ran 3 hours before giving negative numbers. Now it should run approx. 13 million years. (not tested) -Removed access to removed functions in jack. -Updated eval-c.scm. 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...) http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/ 0.9.6 -> 0.9.7: *Don't segfault if the opening of a subsequent wav soundfile fails. (ie. if the 4GB limitation is reached on the old file and jack_capture continues writing on a new file.)

17 years, 1 month

[ANN] KMetronome 0.8.1 Released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Hi, KMetronome is a GPL licensed MIDI metronome with KDE 3 interface, based on the ALSA sequencer. More details here: http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net Important bugs fixed in this release: * Fix a compilation error using GCC 4. * Fix MIDI output for QSynth/Fluidsynth and other soft synths. It uses now longer (configurable) durations, or even avoids using note off events entirely (new user option). * Schedule always one bar ahead of current time, to avoid the nasty little gaps between patterns, seen sometimes when using the program under heavy CPU load. Download http://downloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kmetronome-0.8.1.tar.bz2?downlo… Regards, Pedro

17 years, 1 month

[ANN] jack-keyboard 2.3

by Edward Tomasz Napierala

Version 2.3 of jack-keyboard can be downloaded from: http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/jack-keyboard/jack-keyboard-2.3.tar.gz List of changes is here: http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/jack-keyboard/changelog.html jack-keyboard is a virtual MIDI keyboard - a program that allows you to send JACK MIDI events (play ;-) using your PC keyboard. It's somewhat similar to vkeybd, except it uses JACK MIDI instead of ALSA, and the keyboard mapping is much better - it uses the same layout as trackers (like Impulse Tracker) did, so you have two and half octaves under your fingers. -- If you cut off my head, what would I say? Me and my head, or me and my body?

17 years, 1 month

64 Studio 2.1rc1 is out

by Daniel James

Hi all! We are glad to announce that 64 Studio 2.1rc1, the first release candidate for our forthcoming stable 2.1 version, has been made available for download. Please note that is a testing release, so if you want to stick to the stable version of 64 Studio, please use 2.0 for now. However, 2.1rc1 is in generally good shape, and shouldn't present any nasty surprises. ISO images for AMD64 and i386 are here, with md5sums: http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio_2.1rc1_amd64.iso http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio_2.1rc1_amd64.iso.md5sum http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio_2.1rc1_i386.iso http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio_2.1rc1_i386.iso.md5sum The i386 build is a 32-bit edition which runs on almost all PCs. Choose the AMD64 build for optimal performance on recent PCs. You can also upgrade from a plain 2.0 install or from previous testing releases using our testing APT repository: deb http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/testing 64studio main and running apt-get dist-upgrade (or click the upgrade button in the Synaptic package manager). To avoid breakages, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU COMMENT OUT OR UNCHECK ANY OTHER APT REPOSITORY (for example the Debian ones), as they might interfere with the upgrade procedure. Known bugs in 2.1rc1 include: 1. After logging in, the Gnome splash hangs around until you click it. 2. Gnome menu icons are missing for Scribus, Hexter and Nekobee. 3. The myspell-fr package is installed by default, but not other languages. This means Icedove can only spellcheck in French. 4. The System Tools -> Sysinfo menu item does not function. Bug reports are welcome on our development mailing list: http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel or directly on our Trac development site: http://trac.64studio.com/64studio/ Happy testing! The 64 Studio team

17 years, 1 month

The Fantasy Project

by Stefan Westerfeld

Hi! The Fantasy Project is an annual challenge. Each artist who participates can create his own song, as long as he uses the lyrics given below ("Jean Lucs Poem") unchanged. All styles of music, such as classical, blues, rock, metal, rap, dance, techno, house, ... are welcome. http://space.twc.de/~stefan/fantasyIII http://space.twc.de/~stefan/fantasyII Cu... Stefan -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

17 years, 1 month

[ANNOUNCE] pytagsfs version 0.5.0

by Forest Bond

Hi, [I've sent this message to several large mailing lists. Please be sure any replies don't get sent to all of them, i.e. don't use the Reply-to-all feature of your mail client.] I'm pleased to announce the release of pytagsfs version 0.5.0. This release includes significant enhancements as well as critical bug fixes: * Support for Python 2.4. * Support for source tree monitoring with Gamin; pytagsfs should now be cross-platform compatible. * Improved performance handling updates to the source tree. * Support for more graceful handling of path collisions. * Fixes for two serious bugs affecting data integrity (#195476, #195477). The full set of changes for this release is available: http://www.pytagsfs.org/Changelogs/0.5.0 To download this release: http://www.pytagsfs.org/Download pytagsfs is a FUSE filesystem that designed to present multiple views of tagged media files. For instance, a directory tree containing audio files could be mapped to a new directory structure organizing those same files by album, genre, release date, etc. For a more thorough introduction, see: http://www.pytagsfs.org/Introduction Please visit http://www.pytagsfs.org to obtain more information. Please pardon the particularly young and fresh website. I'll be adding more content there shortly. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Feedback is appreciated. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net

17 years, 1 month

[ANN] Snd-ls V0.9.8.5 and San Dysth V0.1.1

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

Snd-ls V0.9.8.5 =============== Snd-ls is a distribution of Bill Schottstaedt's sound editor SND. (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/) Its target is people that don't know scheme very well, and don't want to spend too much time configuring Snd. It can also serve as a quick introduction to Snd and how it can be set up. Snd-ls also serves as base code for the San-Dysth softsynth (http://www.notam02.no/~kjetism/sandysth/) and the Snd-rt music programming language (http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/doc/snd-rt) Changes 0.9.8.3 -> 0.9.8.5 -------------------------- -Updated Snd-rt. -Fixed player -Fixed append -Updated Snd-rt. Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/snd/ San Dysth V0.1.1 ================ This softsynth has controls to generate various kinds of sounds inbetween white noise and pure tones. It also provides controllers to disturb the generated sound by using a "period counter" to extend the variety of the generated output. Common usage for the softsynth is organ-like sound, organic-like sound, alien-like sounds, water-like sounds, and various kinds of noise (noise artists could find this softsynth most useful). Change from V0.1.0: * Fixed load/save dialog. http://www.notam02.no/~kjetism/sandysth/

17 years, 1 month

[ANN] pyjackctl 1.0 released

by Marc-Olivier Barre

Hi, Pyjackctl 1.0 is out. let's just call that the "lac2008" release :-) This project was created to take advantage of Nedko Arnaudov's JACK Audio Connection Kit (improvements) patches, especially the dbus proof of concept patch. It offers basic functionalities to control a JACK daemon over a dbus interface (start/stop, configure, etc.), it also includes a jack log viewer, a wmdock applet and a script to display jack's state on a G15 keyboard's LCD. Those curious of how it looks will find a set of screenshots on the homepage. You are welcome to test and comment. homepage : http://www.marcochapeau.org/software/pyjackctl download : http://www.marcochapeau.org/files/pyjackctl-1.0.tar.gz The necessary set of jack patches can be found here : http://sharesource.org/project/jack/ Please keep in mind that this is a proof of concept to explore new ideas, not a finished product. __________________ Marc-Olivier Barre, MarcO'Chapeau.

17 years, 1 month

Amuc version 1.6

by W.Boeke

Amuc (the Amsterdam Music Composer) version 1.6 is available now. This version is aiming more at "real composers", who are not supposed te be computer geeks also. So more menu's and less need to use the command line. Also a Debian package is available, so you don't need a development environment in order to install Amuc. It is available from sourceforge or from Amuc's homepage: http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/amuc/index.html Here you also can find some demo songs and the manual. Amuc is a light-weight tool for composing and playing music. 'Light-weight' in the sense of not needing graphical or other toolkits. It is very fast and offers useful features to help the inexperienced composer. It also incorporates a pitch extractor, translating a wave file to notes. Regards, Wouter Boeke

17 years, 1 month

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