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by Dominique Michel

AlsaPlayer license is changed to GPL-v3. In consequence, all the AlsaPlayer related packages are updated. AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players. ##################################### AlsaPlayer-0.99.80-rc2 is the new GTK2 release of this versatile audio player. A lot of debugging and improvements has been made on the GTK2 interface (and under the surface too). The GTK1 interface was removed in the process. GTK2 is now fully internationalized and a few languages are provided. Extended header support in mp3 file is added, so the console will not complain anymore about this, and the user's experience is improved. Every user is encouraged to upgrade AlsaPlayer and help with development, bug reports, feature requests, translations... We need your help with a few things: * Bug reports * Feature requests * Artwork contributions * Translation for more languages and improvement of the existing ones. ************************************* FftSope-1.0.6 FftScope is a nice visualization plugin for AlsaPlayer. It is now under GPL-v3 and the GTK1 interface is removed from the package. The GTK2 interface provide the same level of functionality as before. ********************************* python-alsaplayer-0.3.1 These are python bindings for the AlsaPlayer library. The intent is to provide a set of bindings that closely mirror the C library, leaving more complex functionality for purely python modules. This release update the license to GPL-v3 or later. ************************************ This is the initial release of this midi input plugin for alsaplayer. It is derived from Tuukka Toivonen's TiMidity and reflects the work of a number of other people (see AUTHORS). Compile and install it in alsaplayer's input/ plugin directory, install a soundfont, then you can play midi files with alsaplayer. #################################### I hope you will enjoy those releases and AlsaPlayer's very nice GTK2 interface! -- Dominique Michel -- N.B.: Tous les emails que je reçois sont filtrés par spamassassin avant de me parvenir.

18 years, 5 months

[ANN] QjackCtl 0.3.0 (unstable-qt4) has been released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everyone, I am humbly proud to announce that yet another one of my linux-audio `cutie-suite` application has bitten the Qt4 dust. Yes, it's time for QjackCtl 0.3.0 (unstable-qt4) to be released, fresh from the CVS oven (hmmm... this makes it the second oxymoron on one post; gotta fix this :) Although the ChageLog doesn't go into many details, there were many subtle bugs fixed but plenty as more were blindly introduced, as always. I count on your eyeballs to make them shallow ;) So it was: - Qt4 migration was complete. Care must be taken with this new configuration file and location: this release starts a new one from scratch and won't reuse any of the previous existing ones, although cut and paste might help if you know what you're doing :) - On a last-minute addition, the "firewire" audio backend driver option has been also included, supporting the ffado.org project which is evolving where "freebob" is leaving (thanks to Klaus Zimmermann for this one). The usual place where the new source tarball can be grabbed: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Cheers && Enjoy, -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

18 years, 5 months

Traverso 0.41.0 released

by Remon Sijrier

The Traverso development team is pleased to announce the release of Traverso 0.41.0 Traverso is a cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite with a clean and innovative interface targeted for home and professional use. Changes in this release: - New AudioClip Edit Dialog - Reworked and much improved External Processing Dialog - Jack transport control support added - A number of important bug fixes, including the audible glitch when playing over splitpoint - Improved default theme (better contrast) Source tarball and installers for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows are available at the *Download page* <http://traverso-daw.org/download.html> Due the nature of some of the bugs fixed, it's recommended to upgrade to this new release!! Enjoy! The Traverso team.

18 years, 5 months

[ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta8 released

by Tom Szilagyi

The authors are proud to announce the release of Aqualung 0.9beta8. Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at GNU/Linux, today also running on other operating systems such as FreeBSD and MS Windows. We are striving to create one of the finest music players available, with respect to sound quality, stability, features and ease of use. This release is the latest in a series of beta releases on our way to the future stable release of Aqualung 1.0, which is anticipated to be released at the end of this year. The current release adds support for internet radio and tabbed playlists, also containing several smaller improvements and important bugfixes. The ChangeLog for this release is listed below. Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net Enjoy, Tom 2007-07-07 Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net> * Aqualung 0.9beta8 http://aqualung.sf.net This is a major release bringing significant new functionality and many important fixes. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Major additions: * Support for internet radio streams using Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio encoding. * Tabbed playlist support, very similar in concept to the tabbed browsing feature of Firefox. Smaller fixes, rewrites and additions have been also done, particularly to the following areas: * Cut/copy/paste functionality implemented in playlist. Works with the usual Ctrl-X/C/V key combinations. * MPEG decoder: more robust in case of corrupt UBR files. * Command-line local and remote file loading. * M3U and PLS parsers. * HTTP proxy handling. * RVA handling: now supports setting a default value for unmeasured tracks. * Icons and Documentation. * Added Italian translation.

18 years, 5 months

First release candidate for 64 Studio 2.0 - "Safe as Milk"

by Daniel James

64 Studio develops a distribution of native free software for digital content creation on x86_64 hardware. It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other tweaks. We also produce custom versions for our OEM partners, and a 32-bit edition for legacy PC hardware. We are glad to announce that 64 Studio 2.0-rc1 has been released. The codename for this release is shamelessly lifted from the second track on Strictly Personal, the second album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. Or the original title of the band's first album, whatever you prefer :-) Please note that is still a testing release, so if you want to stick to the stable version of 64 Studio just use the 1.0 installer. However we think this release is in pretty good shape, and expect to release 2.0-final later this month. The changelog is available here: http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/ChangeLog-2.0-rc1 and ISO images for amd64 and i386 here: http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio_2.0-rc1_amd64.iso http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio_2.0-rc1_i386.iso You can also upgrade from a 1.0 install, or from previous testing releases, using our testing APT repository: deb http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/testing 64studio main and running the 64studio-upgrade script, or clicking the 'Mark all upgrades' button in the Synaptic package manager. To avoid system breakage, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU COMMENT OUT ANY OTHER APT REPOSITORIES (for example Debian ones), as they might interfere with the upgrade procedure. Happy testing!

18 years, 5 months

[ANN] Qsynth 0.3.0 (unstable-qt4) has been released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everyone, Qsynth 0.3.0 is now out for you to try and guess what? This marks the point of no return to the aging Qt3 framework. Yes, Qt4 migration was complete. Hints from the change-log might be shallow, but nevertheless: - Qt4 migration has comenced and is now complete. Care must be taken with this new configuration file and location: this release starts a new one from scratch and won't reuse any of the previous existing ones, although cut and paste might help if you know what you'll be doing :) - Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps; application desktop entry file is now included in installation; spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant; initial debianization. - Default font option names were adjusted to "Sans Serif" and "Monospace", wherever available. - The "keep child windows always on top" option is not set as default anymore, because window focus behavior gets tricky on some desktop environments (eg. Mac OS X, Gnome). - Autoconf (configure) scripting gets an update. Good grief. All this is rteadily available from the usual place: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Cheers && Enjoy & -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

18 years, 5 months

[ANN] QjackCtl 0.2.23 released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everyone, Not much to say, but an apologise: QjackCtl 0.2.23 has been released and is the one first ever introducing explicit JACK MIDI support (JACK >= 0.107.0). The version minor number did not bump as promised. Fact is I'm making that reservation for the coming and ever nearer Qt4 migration. So near that it will crash land around now sooner than after ;) The change-log says all the lesser bits too: - JACK MIDI support is now being introduced. Connections window now has a brand new MIDI tab, the older being renamed to ALSA, as for the ALSA/MIDI sequencer conveniency. The server settings now include the MIDI driver setup option (ALSA backend only). - Application icon is now installed to ${prefix}/share/pixmaps; application desktop entry file is now included in installation; spec file (RPM) is now a bit more openSUSE compliant; initial debianization. - Invalidation of the JACK client handle is now forced right on jack_shutdown notification, preventing a most probable fatal crash due to jack_deactivate and/or jack_client_close being called after the jack_watchdog kicks in. - Default font option names were adjusted to "Sans Serif" and "Monospace", wherever available. - The "keep child windows always on top" option is not set as default anymore, because window focus behavior gets tricky on some desktop environments (eg. Mac OS X, Gnome). - Autoconf (configure) scripting gets an update. Of course, official source tarball is made available from the project site: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Enjoy, as always :) -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

18 years, 5 months

Aeolus Quickstart Guide and Primer

by Daniel James

Hello all, Steve A has written two guides to the Aeolus organ synth, available now on the 64 Studio site: http://www.64studio.com/quickstart_aeolus Covers basic setup http://www.64studio.com/primer_aeolus For more advanced use An Aeolus package is available in recent development releases of 64 Studio, and will be featured in our forthcoming 2.0 release. Cheers! Daniel

18 years, 6 months

Deadline extension: Audio Mostly 2007 - 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound

by Marc-Olivier Barre

Dear colleagues, you are cordially invited to participate at the 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound - Audio Mostly 2007. Due to a many requests we decided to extend the deadline for your abstract submissions until June 22, 2007. Looking forward to hear you at Audio Mostly 2007, Holger Grossmann on behalf of the Audio Mostly Conference Committee ------------- Please forward this call for papers to anyone who may be interested in participating with our apologies for multiple postings. ------------- Audio Mostly 2007 – 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound http://www.audiomostly.com September 27 - 28, 2007 Ilmenau, Germany hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT CALL FOR PAPERS ------------- Audio in all its forms – music, sound effects, or dialogue - holds tremendous potential to engage, convey narrative, inform, dramatize and enthrall. However, in computer-based environments, for example games, nowadays the interaction abilities through and with sound are still underrepresented. The Audio Mostly Conference provides a venue to explore and promote this untapped potential of audio by bringing together audio experts, content creators, interaction designers, and behavioral researchers. Our area of interest covers new sound applications that demand or allow for some kind of interactive response from their listener, particularly in scenarios where screens and keyboards are unavailable, unsuitable or disturbing. This area implies cognitive research and psychology, as well as technological innovations in audio analysis, processing and rendering. The aim is to both describe and push the boundaries of sound-based interaction in various domains, such as gaming, serious gaming, education, entertainment, safety and healthcare. Paper Submissions: We ask researchers, composers, game developers, audio engineers, etc. who are interested in sharing their results, perspectives and insight to a multidisciplinary audience to submit abstracts of 300-500 words for paper or poster submissions before June 22, 2007. Please specify if your abstract is for a paper or a poster. Also position papers from industrial strategists are welcome. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by July 8, 2007. Final submissions are due on August 24, 2007. Areas of Interest (including but not limited to): - Games designed around audio and sound - Interactivity through sound and speech - Semantic speech, music, sound analysis - Music recommendations and user feedback - Semantic audio processing - Cognition of sound and music - New auditory user interfaces - Sound design for games - Spatial audio rendering - Interactive composing & authoring of music - Audio in teaching - Sound in mobile applications - New developments for audio broadcasting, podcasting and audiobooks - Future uses of sound Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission - June 22 Notification of acceptances - July 8 Final paper submission - August 24 Deadline for registration - September 7 Conference - September 27-28 For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.audiomostly.com/ or contact us at info(a)audiomostly.com Furthermore, we plan to focus a special paper session on the area of children's media, an area that is of special interest to our region here in Thuringia (see http://invest-in-thueringen.org/fileadmin/www/pdfs/EN/publications/flyer-me…). Thus, any submissions dedicated to the questions of audio interaction in media applications for kids or adolescents, such as audio & learning, music education or games for children, etc. are in particular welcome.

18 years, 6 months

[ann] CAPS 0.4.0

by Tim Goetze

The C* Audio Plugin Suite reincarnates as version 0.4.0. CAPS is a collection of LADSPA plugins enjoying worldwide favour for its instrument amplifier emulation. In addition, it provides a sizeable assortment of acclaimed audio DSP units, sound generators and effects. CAPS is distributed as open source under the terms of the GNU Public License. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html http://quitte.de/dsp/caps_0.4.0.tar.gz This release sees the addition of the fine work of David Yeh at CCRMA on the emulation of classic tube amplifier tone stack circuits (more here: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~dtyeh/tonestack/ ). Three new plugins are building on the tone stack: ToneStack and ToneStackLT offer isolated implementations, while the new AmpVTS unit combines a refined AmpV and a ToneStack circuit. I'm very grateful to David for his brilliant contribution, and I'm quite positive that those who actively use the CAPS Amps will share this sentiment. Also primarily aimed at the discerning guitarist is the new AutoWah plugin, offering a versatile rendition of this classic audio effect. The last new plugin is Eq2x2, a two-channel 10-band graphic equalizer modeled after an analogue design. -*- Beyond the new plugins, this release also brings tons of major improvements "under the hood". All plugins have been hardened to work glitch-free in the face of invalid control input. Much effort has also been spent on further elimination of denormal numbers everywhere. Parameter smoothing (which is performed in order to prevent zipper noise) has been refined never to occur at the start of processing. The build process can now be configured to take advantage of the SSE and SSE3 extensions on the i686 platform, providing slight performance gains and automatic denormal protection. The HTML documentation has been thoroughly updated to reflect all changes. Finally, thanks to Paul Winkler CAPS now comes with an improved RDF file containing plugin categorisation. For the near-complete list of changes please see http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#Changelog -*- Don't hesitate to let me know what you think. Enjoy, and thank you for using CAPS, Tim

18 years, 6 months

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