On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the
immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.79. 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:
Pausing SoundPanel Buttons -- It is now possible to configure
RDAirPlay so that touching a playing SoundPanel button causes the
playout to pause rather than stop. This is enabled by checking the
'Enable Button Pausing' checkbox in
RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDAirPlay.
Bugfixes -- Fixed a database schema problem that was causing Pre-
and Post-Import lists in RDLogManager to appear empty when editing
events.
See the ChangeLog for further details.
Library Versions:
This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.4 and
librhpi-0.94.7 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 128, 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.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
Cheers!
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development |
| | Salem Radio Labs |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the |
| ocean level wouldn't cure. |
| -- Ross MacDonald |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Quite a while ago I developed some python interfaces to the less
realtime critical components of the ALSA library, including most of the
MIDI and mixer interfaces.
I also developed an application in Python that can bind ALSA mixer
elements to MIDI CC messages. It has no GUI by design, and can send
feedback as CC messages when the mixer state changes (useful if you have
a MIDI control surface with motorized faders like the BCF2000).
I had intended to put some polish on the thing and then announce it, but
that was about a year ago and it hasn't happened, so I now announce the
project at <http://bitglue.com/pyalsa>.
This is for the brave ones who like to try new things!
I've been playing a bit getting MMA to auto-generate melodies. A few
discussions with one enthusiastic user and some false starts later, I've
come up with the idea of having a new track I've called an ARIA. Using
pattern definitions, much like those used in other MMA tracks, you set a
framework for MMA to generate a melody over a given set of chord changes.
Honestly, this will never put a real composer out of business ... but it
is fun.
I've put up a skeleton version of mma-1.0-b up on
http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/
Please download and give it a try. The package really does assume you
know how to install things on your own, no installer.
Shout if problems. And, do let me know what you think. Either via
private email or on our discussion board:
http://www.kara-moon.com/forum/index.php?board=21.0
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the
immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.77. 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 ***
This is a bugfix version of Rivendell. Issues addressed include the
following:
Broken PLAY Transitions -- Fixes random hangs and log stopdowns
between events with PLAY transition type.
Audio Importation Issues -- Fixes various issues with autotrimming
and level normalization.
RDLogManager Timed-Start Attributes -- Fixes a problem where an
event would fail receive a Hard Time 'Start Immediately' attribute
if the Pre-Import Carts list was empty.
See the ChangeLog for further details.
Library Versions:
This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.4 and
librhpi-0.94.7 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 126, 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.
*** snip snip ***
Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
Cheers!
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development |
| | Salem Radio Labs |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's |
| supposed to do. |
| -- Robert A. Heinlein |
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xjadeo-0.4.0-rc1 - X Jack Video Monitor
http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/
Xjadeo is a simple movie player that synchronizes video to an external
time source such as jack transport. It is intended to aid sound
composition to a video clip.
This is a rewrite of the previous 0.1 release and a
conclusion of the ongoing development during the last year.
New Features include
* displays: Xv, x11+imlib2
* fullscreen and letterbox video
* improved video file reading via ffmpeg
* on screen display
* configuration file
* LASH - session management
* optional GUI - qjadeo
* remote control interface
* Midi Time Clock quarterframe sync
* documentation
* OSX support (experimental)
Release Notes:
Mixing ffmepg and Xv may produce unexpected effects on some
architectures. Please report them as those are the main reason for this
release-candidate: http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/doc/ar01s03.html#problems
Although there are many new Features, only the on-screen-display might
have an impact on the perfomance of xjadeo. since 0.3.13 xjadeo
uses gettimeofday(3) for it's internal timekeeping. - it appears that
using clock(3) was a major-bug in the original xjadeo code, though not
harmful.
The default xjadeo configuration is to run with a low profile:
Additional Features need to be enabled explicitly (LASH is an
exception). Performance highly depends on the Codec and geometry of the
video file: the -K, -k arguments allow to seek many file formats - but
is intended only for preview!
http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/doc/ar01s03.html#video_formats
There are open ends in osX support: This version includes workarounds
for use with ffmpeg on PPC. , but they might not work for all versions
of ffmpeg. - Are you an intel-mac user who succeeded to run 'make test'
in the ffmpeg svn src? - give us a wink :)
http://packman.links2linux.org/package/xjadeo/ provides SuSE-RPMs for
i586 and also for x64-64bit. many thanks! We are pleasantly surprised,
since we expected serious video-Codec and xjadeo-Xv problems for 64 bit
architecture. We have not tested any of the RPMs ourselves. - imlib
display + mjpeg codec should work though.
A beta-devel debian package can be built from source and the
xjadeo.spec.in is intended for FC4 RPMs.
robin /at/ gareus /dot/ org
luisgarrido /at/ users /dot/ sourceforge /dot/ net
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Press Release - The Internet, 29th November 2006
64 Studio 1.0 'Olympic' released!
*********************************
Creative and native free software on AMD64 multi-core
-----------------------------------------------------
The 64 Studio project produces a distribution of native free software
for digital content creation on x86_64 hardware (AMD's 64-bit CPUs and
Intel's EM64T chips). After eighteen months of development, the project
has made its first stable release available for free download. It is
named in recognition of the work of Glyn Johns and Eddie Kramer at
Olympic Studios in London.
The distribution is based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux,
testing branch, but with a specialised package selection and lots of
other customisations. The 64 Studio project also produces a 32-bit
edition for legacy PC hardware.
Download sites
--------------
Install CD images for version 1.0 (both 64-bit and 32-bit builds) are
available for download from the following sites...
Primary site:
ftp://download.64studio.com/
UK mirrors:
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/images.64studio.com/ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/images.64studio.com/
US mirror:
http://download.linuxaudio.org/64studio/
Please use the mirror which is closest to you. The .iso image can be
burned to a 700MB CD-R using any popular CD burning software. There is
also a readme file featuring basic installation instructions, with
several translations available (Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian,
Norwegian, and Spanish).
Installation
------------
The CD image will install Debian with X.org, the Gnome 2.14 desktop,
Linux kernel 2.6.17 with realtime preemption patches (a realtime SMP
kernel for AMD64 dual core and multi-processor machines is available on
the 64-bit CD) and a selection of creative applications. These
applications cover audio and music, video, 2D and 3D graphics,
publishing for the web or print, and the internet and office tools a
creative user is likely to need for their daily work. Adding favourite
packages from Debian testing is as easy as apt-get, or a few clicks in
Synaptic.
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 testers. 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 faster processor and at least 512MB 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 mailing list:
http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
For other communication, please have a look at
http://64studio.com/wiki/ContactsPage or see the
http://64studio.com/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions page.
Community and business model
----------------------------
Developers and users who are interested in getting involved with the 64
Studio project would be most welcome. The aim of the project is to
create a distribution with full (but completely optional) commercial
support, which will generate revenue to pay free software developers.
The 64 Studio Ltd. company, which supports the free software project, is
also producing custom distributions for commercial partners with
Linux-based audio products.
Press contacts
--------------
64 Studio project director Daniel James and lead developer Free
Ekanayaka are available for interview by email or phone. Please contact
daniel at 64studio dot com for any enquiries. A screenshot of the
distribution is available at http://64studio.com/
**ends
Announcing the latest release of ghostess, a lightweight
Gtk+ host for DSSI plugins:
http://home.jps.net/~musound/ghostess-20061127.tar.gz
New in this release:
- bug fixes, build enhancements and code cleanups.
- code to export patch lists to Freewheeling.
- support for the latest JACK MIDI transport.
- blinky lights indicating MIDI activity.
ghostess is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c)2006 under
the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
DSSI is an audio plugin API for software instruments and effects,
based on LADSPA, the ALSA sequencer event types, and OSC (Open
Sound Control) communications. Learn more about it here:
http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy!
-Sean
On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the
immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.76. 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:
New/Extended RMLs -- A new 'Toggle On Air Flag' [TA] RML has been
added that toggles the 'On Air Mode' of RDAirPlay. A new argument
added to the 'Start Next' [PN] RML allows log meta-events to be
automatically skipped (useful primarily when integrating with mixer
surfaces in Manual or LiveAssist modes).
Log Refreshing -- It is now possible to 'refresh' a log while
playing out, thus preserving the view of what has already been
played in the Full Log widget while still loading updated log
elements. Such refreshing can be done either manually or
configured on either a log-by-log or service-by-service basis to
happen automatically whenever log updates are saved to the database.
New AsPlayed Reports -- A 'Technical Report' has been added that
captures extended playout information from RDAirPlay (such as the
cause of an event start). A 'SoundExchange Statutory License
Report' has also been added that can be used to generate data in a
format suitable for direct submission of music playout data to
SoundExchange.
Printable Reports -- It's now possible to generate ASCII-formatted
and printable reports about virtually every aspect of Rivendell
operation, including Cart/Cut lists, Logs, RDCatch events and
more, by touching the 'Reports' button in the respective Rivendell
modules. The choice of external viewer/editor used can be set by
means of the VISUAL environmental variable (default is 'vi' on
Linux, 'Notepad' on Win32).
Log Data Importer Changes -- The parser parameters for 'Length' in
RDADmin->ManageServices has been split into sections to allow
specification by hours, minutes and seconds as well as the previously
supported plain seconds.
Audio Auditioning -- It's now possible to audition audio directly
from the Edit Log dialog in RDLogEdit and the Edit Event dialog in
RDLogManager. No attempt is made evaluate rotation logic when
auditioning -- merely the first valid audio found in the selected
cart is played.
Cart Validity Indication (EXPERIMENTAL) -- The color-coding of
Carts and Cuts in RDLibrary has been altered so as to show the
event's 'playability' *at the instant the event is viewed*. The
yellow 'conditional' indication has been retired.
Many Bugfixes -- See the ChangeLog for details.
Library Versions:
This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.4 and
librhpi-0.94.7 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 126, 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.
*** snip snip ***
Further information, screenshots and download links are available at:
http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
Cheers!
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development |
| | Salem Radio Labs |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Focus on the dream, not the competition. |
| -- Nemesis Racing Team motto |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Jackbeat 0.6
============
Jackbeat is an audio sequencer running on Linux and Mac OS X.
Get it from: http://www.samalyse.com/jackbeat
NEWS:
- The drummachine interface is more interactive and features VU meters
- The JACK realtime thread now uses ringbuffers, for syscall-free operation
- Support for Mac OS X is now complete
- Various other minor issues have been fixed
- Jackbeat is now available through Subversion
Enjoy :)
--
Olivier Guilyardi - Samalyse
Sorry for X, please >>
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CALL FOR PROJECTS - performances, installations and lectures
Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration
of free/libre and open source software in electronic arts.
The second edition of Make Art will take place in Poitiers (FR),
from the 2nd to the 8th of April 2007.
Make Art offers performances, exhibitions, lectures and workshops,
focused on the blurred line between art and software programming.
The event is dedicated to artists who create their own tools, and
apply the same rules to art as to free software development.
We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS based works and
projects: performances, lectures, software presentations,
installations...
Our focus is on works that involve innovative tools for artists,
artificial intelligence/life, open hardware myths and realities
and human machine interaction.
Please copy/paste the application form (http://makeart.goto10.org)
in your favorite email client, fill it and send it to us with
attached documents at:
makeart2007 -at- goto10 -dot- org
DEADLINE : Saturday 9th of December 2006