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by james jwm-art net

Pre-release of Wav Composer Not Toilet 1.26 wcnt is a not-real-time commandline text-file-based modular synth/sequencer/sampler for GNU/Linux to generate WAV audio files. Download from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=76646&package_id=256… Website: http://wcnt.sourceforge.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the second release building up to wcnt-1.26 Since wcnt-1.25.5, the program has undergone many important changes. * libsndfile: the audio file IO lib from mega-nerd.com allows wcnt to read and write *WAV* audio in other data formats besides 16bit pcm. Consequently, all 16bit 'audio' inputs and outputs have been removed. *** Make sure you have it installed *** :) * LADSPA: a number of modules (9) have been created to use a select few LADSPA plugins. These provide much better filters, reverb, limiting, and compression. More might be added in future. * orbit module: impliments three orbit fractals which iterate upon a trigger, and the output of which is scaled (via an iteration test) within the -1.0 to +1.0 range. * adsr_scaler data object: allows indivdual sections of previously defined adsr modules to be scaled on the time axis. it's quick and easy. * improved command line option handling: help describing the command line options. several new options such as --dont-run and --no-title. module help now lists the modules sorted into three alphabetical collumns to make life easier. * many memory leaks plugged, and numerous operational bugs squashed. * no more -ffast_math compiler optimizations causing dodgy calculations. * removed sine_wave and tri_wave modules altogether. * wave module: a new easy-to-use module for quickly generating sine, triangle, and sawtooth waveforms and a number of variations of these outputting in the 0.0 to +1.0 range (instead of -1.0 to +1.0). * wave_phase module: comes close to the old sine_wave and triangle_wave implimentations. seperate phase trigger and phase_step inputs, and seperate phase_step input for a shaping waveform. improved algorythm means it's more likely to do what it's meant to :). new parameter to invert every other phase (or every other partial phase etc), combined with shaping (ie multiplication of two waveforms) allows a greater variety of waveforms to be created. * dc_filter and rms modules: no longer do their calculations in such an extremely deffective manner. * deg_size type inputs and outputs renamed to the far more sensible phase_step type. * constant_freq and constant_note: two new constant modules which output translations of their parameter, so they're independant of the sample rate unlike doing the same thing with the constant module. * balance module: this is the modifier module renamed to show what it actually does: balance two signals. * modifier module: does something much more interesting than balance two signals - ie combining two waveforms to create a third. * many code changes and improvments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Please note the online help at wcnt.sf.net is now out of date. I've begun working on inline help, the beginnings of which are included as a number of text files. The text files provide short descriptions and guidlines on the usages of individual modules. ***** All your old .wc files will now be broken with this version. Sorry - things change as I slowly learn. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Download from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=76646&package_id=256… Website: http://wcnt.sourceforge.net best regards, james jwm-art net

17 years, 5 months

[ANN] AZR3-JACK released

by Lars Luthman

This JACK program is a port of the free VST plugin AZR-3. It is a tonewheel organ with drawbars, distortion and rotating speakers. The original was written by Rumpelrausch Täips. The organ has three sections, two polyphonic with 9 drawbars each and one monophonic bass section with 5 drawbars. The two polyphonic sections respond to events on MIDI channel 1 and 2, and an optional keyboard split function makes the bass section listen to the lower keys on channel 1. The three sections have separate sustain and percussion switches as well as separate volume controls, and the two polyphonic sections have separate vibrato settings. All three sections are mixed and sent through the distortion effect and the rotating speakers simulator, where the modulation wheel can be used to switch between fast and slow rotation, and the fast and slow rotation speeds themselves can be changed separately for the lower and upper frequencies. Get it at http://ll-plugins.nongnu.org/azr3/ --ll

17 years, 6 months

ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden 1.6.1 released

by Chris Cannam

ROSEGARDEN 1.6.1 RELEASED The Rosegarden team announce the release of version 1.6.1 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ This is a bug fix release, fixing a couple of significant bugs in the recent 1.6.0 feature release. Users are advised to upgrade forthwith. Chris

17 years, 6 months

[ANN] QjackCtl 0.3.2 (unstable-qt4) released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, It must be what should be called one late "Fall cleaning": right after yesterday's Qsynth release, and before going into full-speed season compromises, I'll just let it all go as is :) That's it, the world-famous Qt GUI front-end to the incomparable JACK Audio Connection Kit is here and now, shouting for a general heads-up. Sort of ;) QjackCtl 0.3.2 (unstable-qt4) has been released! It's all in the change-log: - Patchbay port matching has been slightly extended, this time allowing for the multiple or as many-to-many connections between socket plugs, provided these are specified in proper regex form (after a patch proposed by Dave Moore, thanks). - A new option to start the program minimized when the system tray icon is enabled, is now available from Setup/Misc/Start minimized to system tray (as kindly suggested by Marc-Olivier Barre). - Regression from QSystemTrayIcon (Qt4 >= 4.2) implementation, at least on X11 environments: while the main application widget was minimized to the system-tray, closing any other top-level widget was causing the immediate and unexpected application shutdown. - Some portaudio backend settings are now being enabled, specially suited for the jackdmp flavouring. - Server mode display blinking, usually shown as the RT indicator, is now an option (Setup/Display/Blink server mode indicator when started). - Tool/child windows position and size preservation fixed. - The connections/patchbay auto-refresh option has been finally removed due to several user requests, although deprecated for quite some time now it has been the probable cause of some periodic xrun occurrences due to graph-locking in jackd (while making Geoff Beasley angry in the process:). - Messages line limit was not being checked, now honored. - Simple as it could ever be, the build executive summary report is now given on configure. - Patchbay snapshot got its socket and port ordering back. - ALSA Sequencer support is now an optional feature on setup, preventing the annoying "MIDI patchbay will be not available" warning message, ruining window placement on Linux systems where the snd-midi-seq kernel module is not loaded or not favorable (eg. OSS) at startup (by request from Jussi Laako). - Get configure to try and detect the correct qmake location and insert it the search order, so let the qt4 tools take precedence when --with-qt option is given and older qt3 ones coexist and are found located ahead in the PATH. - The connections widget is now being properly refreshed, due to some quirk in the QTreeWidget which was preventing some items, specially the expanded ones, to disappear in the void. Meanwhile, with a hand from Stephane Letz, the client/port lookup method was changed to prevent duplicated, missing entries or worse, crashes due to weird behaved windows applications. - The xrun count stats can now be reset simply by middle clicking on the systray icon or the main window's display area (thanks to patch sent by Dominic Sacre). - An improved version of the "shiny" background image was issued. The original somehow looked like two different images put together, probably most apparent on a bright TFT screen (by Dominic Sacre). - A warning is now being issued, asking whether one wants to remove a corresponding Patchbay connection, when client/ports are being disconnected over the Connections window, thus avoiding automatic reconnection annoyance due to normal active Patchbay behavior. - The infamous "Keep child windows always on top" global option is now supposed to behave a little better when disabled, layering child windows as naturally as far the window manager dictates. - Input/Output Channel setting is now allowed to be greater than 32; the special default text is now displayed, also on Input/Output Latency and Priority settings spin-boxes. - Andreas Persson just sent a patch that makes it possible to compile and run qjackctl with Qt version 4.1. Applied without hesitation, thanks. Hurry, the source tarball, as some other binary forms, might be found in the usual and official place: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

17 years, 6 months

[ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta9 released

by Tom Szilagyi

The Aqualung development team is pleased to announce the latest release of the Aqualung music player. Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, today also running on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks. The ChangeLog lists major new features and is included below. Packagers, please note that from this release, TagLib is no longer a dependency of Aqualung. Website: http://aqualung.sf.net Enjoy, Tom 2007-12-19 Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net> * Aqualung 0.9beta9 http://aqualung.sf.net This is a major release bringing significant new functionality and many important fixes. All users are encouraged to upgrade. As always, the up-to-date User Manual is available at: http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/?tab=docs Major additions: * Fundamentally new Metadata system, using native decoders and private code instead of TagLib to provide complete support for reading and writing metadata, including ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, APE, Ogg Xiph comments and FLAC picture frames, as well as read-only support for ReplayGain in Musepack stream data and various metadata received in internet radio streams. Aqualung also provides a batch tagger facility to quickly propagate Music Store metadata to file metadata. * Support for podcasts. Aqualung can subscribe to RSS and Atom audio podcasts, and automatically download and add new files to the Music Store. Optional limits for the age, size and number of downloaded files can be set. * Support for exporting files from Music Store or Playlist with audio transcoding and intelligent metadata transfer. Useful for burning your favourite tracks to CD, filling your portable player, etc. * Aqualung now compiles and runs on OpenBSD. * Smoother skin changing. * Option to disable skin support (for themed environments). * Lots of fixes, cleanups & refactoring. DROPPED DEPENDENCIES: * TagLib is not used anymore.

17 years, 6 months

[ANN] Qsynth 0.3.2 (unstable-qt4) is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Yes, it's about time. Much as the long due FluidSynth 1.0.8 release, really "Its about funky time!". Time also for season greetings and some gift exchange. Don't ask for a second best, here you have the finest pair of socks for the holiday ;) Qsynth 0.3.2 (unstable-qt4) is out! The official download site is, as always have been: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Straight from the change-log: - A new option to start the program minimized when the system tray icon is enabled, is now available from Setup/Misc/Start minimized to system tray. - Regression from QSystemTrayIcon (Qt4 >= 4.2) implementation, at least on X11 environments: while the main application widget was minimized to the system-tray, closing any other top-level widget was causing the immediate and unexpected application shutdown. - Minor corrections on the output peak meter scale aesthetics. - Tool/child windows position and size preservation fixed. - Orphaned MIDI device name no longer mistaken when switching between MIDI drivers on engine setup. - A bit more of precision is achieved over the output peak meters. - Messages line limit was not being checked, now honored. - Simple as it could ever be, the build executive summary report is now given on configure. - Get configure to try and detect the correct qmake location and insert it the search order, so let the qt4 tools take precedence when --with-qt option is given and older qt3 ones coexist and are found located ahead in the PATH. - The infamous "Keep child windows always on top" global option is now supposed to behave a little better when disabled, layering child windows as naturally as far the window manager dictates. - Inspired on Andreas Persson patch, while on qjackctl-devel, which made it possible to compile and run with older Qt 4.1, similar arrangements were carried out on qsynth too, without hesitation. - Main panel spin-boxes gets accelerated when stressed (Qt >= 4.2). Cheers && Enjoy, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

17 years, 6 months

[ANN] Traverso 0.42.0

by Remon

The Traverso development team is pleased to announce the release of Traverso 0.42.0 About Traverso: Traverso is a GPL licensed, cross platform program for recording and mixing music, speech, and sounds on the computer Important changes in this release: * Read and write support for Ogg Vorbis, WavPack, FLAC and MP3 * On the fly sample rate conversion * A simple yet effective Project backup and restore system * Better use of available hard disk bandwidth * Encoding formats for recording added: W64 and WavPack * 3 new themes added, notably the medium-contrast and ubuntu theme * Fixed a number of bugs, added new ones and various improvements all over the place * User Manual translated into German and Portuguese Source tarball and installers for Mac OS X and Windows are available on the download page [1] Distribution packages are being created, with some (openSUSE, Gentoo) allready available for installation. We welcome any feedback in the forums [2], user mailing list [3] or internet relay chat, channel #traverso Enjoy! The Traverso team. [1] http://traverso-daw.org/ [2] http://traverso-daw.org/forum/ [3] http://savannah.nongnu.org/mail/?group=traverso

17 years, 6 months

Rubber Band v1.0.1 - an audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library and utility

by Chris Cannam

Rubber Band is an audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library and utility designed for musical applications. http://www.breakfastquay.com/rubberband/ It includes a library that supports a sample-accurate multithreaded offline mode and a real-time lock-free streaming mode; a command-line utility program; and a LADSPA pitch-shifter plugin. Rubber Band is Free Software under the GNU GPL. This small update (v1.0.1) fixes an option parsing bug and a dodgy bit of #ifdef nesting. The core code is the same as in 1.0. Chris

17 years, 6 months

[ANN] dssi-vst 0.5

by Chris Cannam

dssi-vst 0.5 released! ====================== The 0.5 release of dssi-vst is now available. dssi-vst is a DSSI plugin wrapper for Win32 VST effects and instruments with GUI support, allowing them to be loaded into any DSSI host. dssi-vst is available from the download page at http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ The 0.5 release now comes with Javier Serrano Polo's VST-compatibility header, as previously distributed in LMMS. (Actually, this header was already compatible with dssi-vst -- no modifications to dssi-vst were necessary -- it's just that the header is now included in the package.) This permits it to be compiled without the official VST SDK and distributed under pure GPL. No guarantees are made as to the reliability of the results; your feedback is welcome, but please bear in mind that I will not do any development work on the compatibility header myself for legal reasons. The 0.5 release is also (finally) compatible with version 2.4r2 of the official SDK, should you wish to use it. Chris

17 years, 6 months

ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden 1.6.0 released

by Chris Cannam

ROSEGARDEN 1.6.0 RELEASED The Rosegarden team are giddy with probably short-lived delight at the release of version 1.6.0 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ This is a feature release; a brief list of new features is as follows: * Diatonic transpose * Fretboards * Marker ruler usability improvements * Multiple lines of lyrics * Highlight overlapping notes in notation editor * Better LilyPond output dialog, preview through Lilypond, print through LilyPond from segment and notation views * In-place LilyPond header value editing in LilyPond option dialog * Transposition of the staff shown in LilyPond output * Show current segment colour in raw note ruler, permit cycling through segments on single staff in notation * Menus and configuration dialog reorganised for easier access and greater clarity * Infrared remote control: Support for IRKick * Add track(s) in middle * Use RTC timer when recent kernel and ALSA versions are detected * Expanded documentation * Reorganised configuration dialog into standard/advanced options * Some revised example files * Nice new splash screen A more detailed feature and bug-fix checklist for this release can be read at http://rosegarden.wiki.sourceforge.net/Things+To+Do+for+1.6.0 . For more information about Rosegarden and what it can do for you, please see http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden is Free Software under the GNU General Public License. Chris

17 years, 6 months

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