Version 0.11.0 of the [P]hase [H]armonic [A]dvanced [S]ynthesis
[EX]periment is ready for download (source tarball and FC6 RPMs) at:
http://sysex.net/phasex/
This release contains many fixes and improvements and is highly
recommended for all PHASEX users. Here's a brief list (see the
ChangeLog for more details):
Engine fixes: Filters and oscillator bandlimiting are now properly
tuned (taking into account filter oversampling) and work as
documented. Calculations for lookup tables are more accurate. The
envelope curve has been improved and sounds a lot more natural.
Additional bugfixes are found in the ALSA MIDI startup and JACK
shutdown code.
Engine optimizations: A few simple optimizations have been worked
out, with an average of about 30% CPU cycle reduction per voice, and
about 30MB of memory overall. For custom builds, the engine can
easily be fine-tuned in phasex.h, and the --enable-arch= configure
option supports all x86 CPU types supported by gcc-4.1.2.
Improved patch bank: The entire bank is preloaded into memory.
There is now support for patches in alternate directories. The
memory modes have been reworked (and finally documented in the
runtime help system). Multiple patches from a directory may now be
loaded into the patch bank at once.
GUI updates: Special thanks goes out to Pete Shorthose for providing
the initial backing store code and some pearls of GTK wisdom to make
window redrawing and tab switching faster and smoother. For those
of you who haven't done so already, now would be a good time to
enable backing store in your X server.
Knob and control updates: Scroll wheel support has been added to
the knobs and alternate controls. Middle-click centering of knobs
is more responsive. The cumbersome combobox lists have been changed
to detent knobs with clickable value labels.
Parameter locking: Parameters can now be locked down to their
current values, effectively blocking out program changes, patch
loads, and MIDI controller messages on a per-parameter basis.
New settings: The base A4 tuning frequency and backing store can
now be set in the preferences dialog.
Cheers!
--ww
--
/* William Weston <weston(a)sysex.net> */
Hi,
Announcing the latest release to the quicktoots archive.
DJing with Freewheeling & Hydrogen.
DJing is an artform and freewheeling with JACK on Linux makes it
possible to amaze your audience with live remixes of rare cuts and
hidden gems that when put together produce sample Heaven...
Ringheims Auto shows us how it's done.
http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org
As always we would love to have more submissions on new ways to use the
latest tools. If you are interested in having your name up in lights let
me know.
-----------------------
Background:
The purpose of the Quicktoots are to provide a community resource of
informative guides for using Linux audio applications.
The Quicktoots are the brainchild of Dave Phillips the man responsible
for the most comprehensive webpage devoted to Linux audio applications.
The Linux Sound and Midi page. This has now been taken over by the
community and moved to the Linux-Sound Application Index your one stop
resource for Linux sound software.
http://apps.linuxaudio.org/
If you are in the position to link to any of the quicktoots please link
to the main page. That way we can keep more accurate statistics on the
amount of people viewing the pages.
If you are interested in contributing to the Quicktoots please let us
know. All work must be submitted me and we I will give advice or make
changes to ensure our publishing standard is met. If you are not able to
send html don't worry because I am willing to format any braindumps.
Enjoy.
-----------------------
Cheers.
--
Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd.
Http://www.boosthardware.comHttp://lau.linuxaudio.org - The Linux Audio Users guide
========================================
"Anything your mind can see you can manifest physically, then it will
become reality" - Macka B
Hi
I released horgand-1.09.
No new features, but a hard work to improve the sound engine, now is decent.
Also is fixed the crash with RT-Kernels, and some minor bugs.
This is the last release with my own code because at last a DSP guru is
involved on this project and I think we have good perspectives and will
rewrite all.
You can find at http://horgand.berlios.de
Thanks
Josep
Linux Audio Conference 2008
Lectures / Demos / Workshops / Concerts / Linux Soundnight
Köln/Cologne, 28.2.-2.3.2008
The 6th Linux Audio Conference is taking place in Cologne (Germany) Feb 28th to
March 2nd 2008.
The Academy of Media Arts[1], Cologne, is proud to host the Linux Audio Conference
2008[2], where once a year programmers and artists, musicians, composers and
practioneers gather to discuss and explore new and important developments in
making music and sounds with Linux and Open Source software.
The Linux Audio Conference is both a meeting of developers writing audio
software for Linux as it is a music festival, where artists from all over the
world show how free software can create fresh and exciting new sounds.
A wide range of workshops, talks and presentations will once again prove, how
Tux, the friendly penguin, spreads its little wings into areas, that no longer
are the realm for the big fish alone - like computer music, sound engineering
and audio distribution. The LAC aims at bringing together developers and users
of Linux and open source audio software with the goal of information sharing,
project discussions, making (and dancing to) music.
Each day of the conference there will be a concert which features music
composed and created with open source software.
Stay tuned for the various calls for Papers, Music and Workshops bound to
appear on the new LAC website - http://lac.linuxaudio.org - right after the
summer break.
The team of LAC2008 is working hard to make the LAC Cologne again a successful
and most of all fun event for all visitors and participants. If you have
further questions, want to cooperate with us or just cannot wait anymore, you
can always contact us by email: lac(a)linuxaudio.org
Hear you in 2008!
Frank Barknecht and Martin Rumori
LAC2008
Mail: lac(a)linuxaudio.org
Web: http://lac.linuxaudio.org
[1] http://www.khm.de
[2] http://lac.linuxaudio.org
64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content
creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools. A remix
of Debian, it comes in both AMD64/Intel64 and 32-bit flavours, to run on
nearly all PC hardware.
64 Studio 2.0 is designed to retain compatibility with Debian Etch, to
create a long-lived and stable creative desktop. We 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 underway quickly. It's our target that users
should be able to get from a blank hard disc to a fully
hardware-optimised and usable creative desktop in just half an hour.
Rather than a fork of Debian, our package improvements are returned
directly to Debian Sid, and our releases are built from Debian sources.
We have also uploaded new multimedia packages to Debian, which are now
available to all users of Debian and Debian-derived distributions.
The second stable release of 64 Studio is named after Electrical Audio,
Steve Albini's studio in Chicago, USA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_Audio
Downloads
DVD-R ISO images for amd64 and i386 are available here:
http://www.64studio.com/download
If you would like to mirror the stable release installers, you can do so
with:
rsync://64studio.com/installer
Please let us know of any new public mirrors.
Upgrades
You can also upgrade from a 1.0 install, or from previous testing
releases, using our stable APT repository:
deb http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/stable 64studio main
and running the 64studio-upgrade script (as root), or pressing the 'Mark
all upgrades' then 'Apply' buttons in the Synaptic package manager. To
avoid system breakage, please comment out or uncheck any third-party
repositories (for example an official Debian one) first, as these might
interfere with the upgrade procedure. If you have a large number of
systems to upgrade, you may wish to mirror the stable branch from our
APT server:
rsync://64studio.com/apt
Installation
The DVD image will install Debian with X.org, the Gnome desktop, Linux
kernel 2.6.21 with realtime preemption patches (supporting both
single-core and SMP systems) and a selection of creative applications,
as well as the internet and office tools a creative user is likely to
need for their daily work. Adding favourite packages from Debian is as
easy as apt-get, or a few clicks in Synaptic.
To install, burn the iso image to DVD-R, put the disc into the DVD drive
on the target machine and reboot it. After the reboot, make sure you see
a screen with the Debian logo on it. If you don't see the Debian logo,
please check that your computer is configured to boot from the DVD
drive. You may need to make changes in the BIOS settings of your PC to
alter the boot sequence.
Live CD version
For the first time, we also have a Live CD version of 64 Studio
available, which is based on the Debian Live framework. This version
does not contain all of the tools included on the install DVD, because
it is designed to fit on a 700MB CD-R. You can download iso images here:
http://www.64studio.com/download
We would welcome feedback about which additional tools users would like
to see in the 64 Studio Live distribution.
Hardware requirements
Please note that these releases are free software, and come with no
warranty. However, the software does actually install and run on the
project's dual processor Opteron, dual core Athlon 64 and single core
Turion test hardware, and is already in daily use by many of the
project's community members. The 32-bit version has been tested on a
variety of older PC hardware, including a Via C3 and a dual Pentium Pro,
but the project suggests a practical minimum of a 1GHz processor and at
least 256MB RAM to take full advantage of the distribution's features.
If you would like to send feedback or make a suggestion for improvement,
please subscribe to the 64studio-devel or 64studio-users mailing lists:
http://lists.64studio.com/
There are also forums on the http://www.64studio.com/ site; registration
is required before you can post. For other communication, please have a
look at the contacts page at http://www.64studio.com/contact or see the
Frequently Asked Questions pages.
Community and business model
Developers and users who are interested in getting involved with the 64
Studio project are most welcome. We have an active and friendly
community, with lots of creative and helpful people in it. The 64 Studio
Ltd. company, which supports the free software project, now offers
commercial support to end users of the distribution:
http://www.64studio.com/support
It is also producing custom distributions for commercial partners with
Linux-based audio products.
Thanks!
The 64 Studio team would like to thank the Debian Project and the
upstream developers for all the code, and our ISP Bytemark Hosting for
their support. We would also like to thank the Oregon State University
Open Source Lab and Linuxaudio.org for providing download mirrors. Not
least we would like to thank all the 64 Studio community members who
have contributed bug fixes, test reports, documentation and a
considerable amount of their time to the project, over the last two years.
[Appologies for the cross-posting]
[Please DON'T use reply-to-all to reply on this email]
Hi all,
With this I'm hoping to gather some data that can help us in convincing
the firewire device manufacturers that we are of some significance to
their sales (I'm actually wondering if we are...). So I would like to
ask everyone on these lists that has/considers/considered purchasing a
firewire audio device if they would be so kind as to answer the
following questionnaire.
** Those that have bought one or more firewire devices...
* can you provide which device(s), preferably with their GUID (can be
found out using gscanbus or sometimes on the device itself)
* Do they work with linux?
** Those that considered buying a firewire device:
* What device(s) did you consider buying?
* What device did you go for in the end (if applicable)?
* To what extent was the lack of Linux support a determining factor in
your decision?
** Those that consider buying a firewire device:
* What device(s) are you consider buying?
* How important is Linux support for you?
** any comments?
It would be nice if you would reply to this email with the answers
inlined with the questions. Please don't reply-to-all but reply to
pieterp(a)joow.be in order not to spam the mailing list with these
answers. It would also be nice if you left the subject line intact such
that I can auto-filter these messages.
Again, sorry to bother you guys with this, but it's a bit difficult to
convince manufacturers without some decent data.
Thanks,
Pieter Palmers
ffado.org
PS: If you know other freebob/ffado users that are not subscribed to
these list please pass this mail on.
Hi again,
QjackCtl 0.3.1a (unstable-qt4) crash-fix released!
This is an emergency crash-fix release and everyone is envited to ditch
yesterdays one.
The change-log just says it all:
- An immediate showstopper crash upon client start was irradicated,
which was affecting those with the system-tray icon disabled,
as is the default (thanks to Ken Ellinwood for first reporting
this sloppy one).
Again, the fix source tarball is made available from:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl
Cheers && Enjoy,
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Greetings y'all,
Just one week after a no-regrets migration, here comes this second
iteration over the Qt4 framework for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
"cutie" GUI front-end that everybody loves or at least ought to :)
QjackCtl 0.3.1 (unstable-qt4) is out!
The main feature on this release, besides for the bug-fixes, is that
it's the very first time ever QjackCtl is made available to build and
run on all major desktop platforms: X11/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Yes
you read it right, Windows, and it is thought to behave consistently on
all those. One just have to take advantage from the Qt4 open-source
edition and license which in fact is the same as QjackCtl's: GPL2.
Yes, there's no turning back. QjackCtl is definitely a Qt4 application,
this release marking the departure from the old, aged Qt3 code base,
despite this one being tagged as "stable-qt3" anyway. The current branch
has "unstable-qt4" on its middle name still, but not for long ;)
Being a so-called shallowed bug-fix release, the change-log says some
thingies that were shoved out, and nothing about the ones that still are
creepin':
- The current DSP load percentage activity is now also displayed on the
system-tray icon tooltip.
- An illusive but nasty Connections/Patchbay item tooltip crash bug has
been hopefully fixed (Qt >= 4.3).
- Now using QSystemTrayIcon class facility if available (Qt4 >= 4.2)
making the system-tray option available on most platforms, notably on
Windows and Mac OS X (EXPERIMENTAL).
- Usage of QProcess class has been severely refactored, now using
QProcess::start() instead of QProcess::startDetached(), giving much
tighter control over the started jackd(mp) process. Downside is that
QjackCtl lost its ability and option to leave the process detached upon
quitting the application. Too bad.
- A new eye-candy bit has sneaked in: server mode display, that is the
RT indicator, now blinks when server/client is started/active.
- Combo-box setup history has been corrected on restore, which was
discarding the very initial default (factory) contents.
- Now that Qt4 is accessible to open-source Windows appplications,
there's some experimental stuff sneaking in for jackdmp support on win32
(http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html).
- Connections list items were initially sorted in descending order by
default. Fixed. Client items are now naturally sorted, again.
As usual, the source tarball might be found here:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl
Cheers && Enjoy,
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Greetings,
So after the great Qt4 migration, which was almost couple of weeks ago
already, here comes the so-called shallowed bug-fix release of this
"cutie" FluidSynth GUI:
Qsynth 0.3.1 (unstable-qt4) has been released!
As said, some bug-fixes have popped in and others are still hidden in
the closet. Notable changes were:
- Now using QSystemTrayIcon class facility if available (Qt4 >= 4.2)
making the system-tray option available on most platforms, notably on
Windows and Mac OS X (EXPERIMENTAL).
- Combo-box setup history has been corrected on restore, which was
discarding the very initial default (factory) contents.
- One programming error has been corrected, which was affecting the
editable preset combo-boxes usability.
- Soundfont context menu is now available again even when the setup
dialog soundfont list is empty.
- About form link is now browseable externally.
- Updated README-OSX (thanks to Ebrahim Mayat again).
Grab it while it's hot:
http://qsynth.sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth
Enjoy && Cheers,
--
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 v0.9.81. 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:
Automatic Dropbox Mode. A new dialog, 'RDAdmin->ManageHosts->Dropboxes'
has been added that allows multiple dropbox import services to be easily
configured and modified.
Integrated Music Scheduler. It is now possible to define music categories
and schedule music playouts with RDLogManager.
RDPanel Module. A new 'RDPanel' module has been added that consists of a
'full screen' version of the SoundPanel widget found in RDAirPlay.
Configuration is done in RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDPanel, and is completely
independent of the configuration of the SoundPanel in RDAirPlay.
SoundPanel Changes. Several changes in the operation of the SoundPanels
(both in RDAirPlay and RDPanel) have been made, including:
1) Improved Panel Navigation. Instead of traversing the set of available
panels linearly by means of left- and right-arrow buttons, the desired
panel can now be selected directly by means of a drop-down menu.
2) Nameable Panels. It's now possible to give each panel a user-defined
name.
3) Hook Mode. Playouts can be set to play either the full audio content
or just the designated hook material on a playout-by-playout basis.
4) Customizable Default Labels. Default button labels can be now defined
by means of wildcards in the 'Label Template' control in
RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDAirPlay or RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDPanel.
Many bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details.
Library Versions:
This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.98.0 and
librhpi-0.94.8 be installed. If installing from RPM, the version of
the currently installed libraries can be determined by doing:
rpm -q libradio
rpm -q librhpi
Database Update:
This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 139, 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.
Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.rivendellaudio.org/
Cheers!
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