Hi all,
SLV2 is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible
for host applications.
Unlike LADSPA, LV2 is (more or less) designed with the assumption that
hosts will use a library to discover/load/use plugins. SLV2 is one such
library, which does the Right Thing with as little burden on host
authors as possible.
This release corresponds to the new stable LV2 release, Revision 1.
More information, API documentation, and downloads can be found here:
http://drobilla.net/software/slv2/
Enjoy,
- Dave Robillard (aka drobilla)
Announcing the first stable release of the LV2 specification.
LV2 is a simple but extensible successor of LADSPA, intended to address
the limitations of LADSPA which many applications have outgrown. By
creating LV2 "extensions" (which can be done independently), virtually
any feature is possible for LV2 plugins and hosts.
This release (revision 1) has been in active use by many projects for
several months, including several extensions for advanced features
beyond the capabilities of LADSPA or DSSI.
Strong long-term compatibility is a primary goal of LV2: all future
revisions of LV2 will remain backwards compatible with previous
revisions.
All the components of the "core" LV2 specification are packaged here:
http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2core-1.tar.gz
Distributions are encouraged to include this package.
More information, downloads, and links to LV2-using projects can be
found at:
http://lv2plug.in/
Happy hacking,
~ The LV2 team
Version 2.2 of jack-keyboard can be downloaded from
http://pin.if.uz.zgora.pl/~trasz/jack-keyboard/jack-keyboard-2.2.tar.gz
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?
dssi-vst 0.6 released!
======================
The 0.6 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 0.6 release contains a single fix to a crash on startup in the
vsthost program. In other respects it is unchanged from 0.5.
Chris
Can't hold it anymore... :)
Since its primordial presentation on the LAC2007@TU-Berlin, almost one
year ago, I guess it's finally ready for an official public release. So
here it goes.
Qtractor development has been going stealthy but has been matured
nicely. Still alpha however, but quite practical nevertheless. Or so I
believe. Yes, things might get bumpy, faster or slower though, we never
know in advance. And quite frankly I don't give a damn whether how it
might progress from now. But it will progress, that's what I shall write
here engraved ;) Trust me.
Qtractor has been my hobby, kind of personal purpose in life and should
stay in that status for quite some time. You probably have noticed
there's too many buts in this discourse of mine, and guess what? there
follows some more for your pleasant delight.
As long as all its ecosystem bears sustainability; no hidden thoughts;
it's all about JACK, ALSA and ultimately Linux that I'm counting on.
I've made myself ascertain: I will make no effort, whatsoever, in doing
any kind of cross-platform dance. Although it seem feasible, just don't
expect that kind of behavior from this side of the party. I'm not
obliged to. I'm happy now with what I've got and to what has been
achieve in this recent years. Linux is my home and you better get it
right, I'm comfortable with it.
It could be seen as my "masterpiece", although you might find I'm no
master at all. Take it as my pet project, because, in fact, it is just
that, really! If you feel minimally interested, you might want to come
along and be welcome. I'll cherish you, that's what friends are. Willing
to share the journey, and follow the turns. No commitments, just fun!
Now, after that bunch of BS, let's get the facts straight, right behind
the thoughts:
Qtractor 0.1.0 (frivolous debutante) has been released!
Good grief. As always, everyone is welcome to grab the source and also
some selected binary packages, available from the official project site:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Direct link for the source tarball download:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.0.tar.gz
For the clueless, a refurbished whitepaper is also available:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.0-whitepaper.pdf
Also of note is this (strong) invitation to follow my personal blurbs,
right from the upstream blog and forum site:
http://www.rncbc.org
Here follows the change-log. as recorded since that one last previous
pre-release, which was tagged as 0.0.9.778 (adolescence prime) on the
late year:
- Audio clip time-stretching makes its debut, with code adapted and
refactored from the SoundTouch library, under the (L)GPL umbrella.
- New "Options.../Audio/Playback/Quick seek time-stretching" global
option, providing a quick seek mode (hierarchical search) while
doing all audio buffer time-stretching.
- Changing session tempo will automatically apply the corresponding
time-stretch percent factor to all in-place audio clips. Audio
clip dialog also includes a new time-stretch property setting.
- Tempo changes are now affecting clip offsets correctly, keeping
the clip offset constant in time units (ticks), as are clip start
and length properties already.
- Mixer splitter sizes are now properly saved/restored when hidden.
- Extended multi-selection is now featured on the files widget; all
drag and drop functionality has been almost completely rewritten.
- SSE optimization is now enabled where available (via configure).
- Options for having separate dedicated ports for the audition/pre-
listening player output, audio metronome output, MIDI control
input/output and MIDI metronome output, are now in place.
- A brand new subtle option sneaks in, affecting the drag-and-drop
of the main track-view: View/Options.../Drop multiple audio files
into the same track, whether to drop multiple external files into
new or existing track as concatenated audio clips.
- The audio metronome makes its debut as an alternative to the MIDI
existing one; parameters include bar and beat audio sample files,
accessible from the View/Options.../Audio/Metronome dialog.
- Files widget action refactorization; the files context menu gets
its due item icons and a new menu item for direct audio player
accessibility.
- MIDI time resolution changes (ppqn, ticks per beat) now tries to
keep all session MIDI clip times unchanged as far as possible.
- MIDI channel volume and panning control change events, CC#7 and
CC#10 respectively, are now rendered unfiltered on playback .
- First rendition of the long due implementation of an audition or
pre-listening audio player is now in place; the files window got
this new play/stop control button on its lower-right corner.
- Actual instrument definition note (keys) and controller names are
now in effect on the MIDI editor, whenever applicable.
- Fixed instrument bank selection method, "Bank MSB" (2), which was
broken enough to never send the correct bank number.
- Mouse-wheel horizontal scrolling is now accessible on every view,
while pressing a modifier key (Shift or Ctrl).
- New auto-backward transport option: when enabled the playhead will
be reset backward automatically whenever transport stops playing.
- A suicide-crash has been fixed while invoking the bus dialog from
the respective mixer bus strip context menu.
- Master (default) buses are always set to Duplex mode, being now
an enforced update policy while on the Buses dialog.
- A stupid lockup bug (infinite loop) was spotted on the track bus
assignment method and squashed (thanks, lexridge).
- New keyboard shortcuts for toggling the Connections tool (F8) and
the mighty Mixer tool (F9) windows.
- Avoid showing a context menu while right-clicking on time rulers.
- Audio clip waveform drawing gets additional closing points.
- It is now possible to change the length/size of a clip by dragging
its left or right edges, while in the main track-view. Shift+drag
will also time-stretch to the resulting audio clip length.
- Another off-by-one mistake was corrected, which was causing audio
clips to go out-of-sync on loop turnover boundary; also changed
the loop turnaround strategy, now honoring already cached periods.
- A race-condition has been mitigated in the audio-buffer thread,
that was exposed and lead to sudden application freezing upon
changing some composite audio clip commands.
- Take absolute audio peak values only, making peak files a little
bit shorter and hopefully faster to load and draw as waveforms.
Ah, never's too late to wish you all a Happy New Year!
Cheers && Enjoy
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce
the release of Rivendell v0.9.84. Rivendell is a full-featured radio
automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It
is available under the GNU General Public License. From the NEWS file:
*** snip snip ***
Changes:
Podcasting Subsystem. A major new subsystem has been added that permits
automated generation and posting of audio podcasts from RDCatch, as well as
a new RDCastManager module for manual content posting and management of
existing podcast episodes. RDCastManager is available in both Desktop and
online web-based environments.
Axia LiveWire Support. Full switcher support for LiveWire node devices has
been added. See the relevant section in 'SWITCHERS.txt' for details.
Backup Supervisor Support. It is now possible to configure the Logitek
vGuest driver to automatically fail over to a backup Supervisor instance in
the event of failure of the primary Supervisor.
Cart Auditioning. It is now possible to audition audio in the cart picker
dialog before placement of the cart into a log.
Audio Editor Integration. It is now possible to configure an external
audio editor to be send audio directly from the cart picker dialog.
Asynchronous Library Searches. Added the ability to search the Library
asynchronously to allow efficient use with very large libraries.
BugFixes. A major emphasis in this version of Rivendell has been in
finding and correcting known bugs. See the ChangeLog for details.
Database Update:
This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 155, 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.
As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow
any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied.
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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| Focus on the dream, not the competition. |
| -- Nemesis Racing Team motto |
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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
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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.
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***** 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.
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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
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
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
