Hello all,
FAVE is an event for people who are interested in free and open source
creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. The 2006 event
is taking place at Limehouse Town Hall in London, England on Saturday
the 25th of November.
There will be lightning talks on software topics, followed by
performances from artists which use free software. Please get in touch
if you would like to be involved, by mailing fave at fave.org.uk or by
joining the mailing list:
http://lists.serverone.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/3avc
The FAVE 2006 Team
Hello folks,
I guess the title says it all. In an ongoing effort to consolidate online
Linux audio resources, Linuxaudio.org has launched a new portal which
encapsulates all sub-domains hosted under the linuxaudio.org umbrella.
Should you happen to have any questions, concerns, and most importantly
suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best wishes,
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Linuxaudio.org Director
Virginia Tech
Department of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-1137
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
ico(a)linuxaudio.org
http://www.music.vt.edu/people/faculty/bukvic
ROSEGARDEN 1.4.0 RELEASED
The Rosegarden team are delighted to announce the release of version
1.4.0 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation
editor for Linux.
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
This is a particularly exciting release for the Rosegarden project.
It includes a number of interesting new features, many of which we
expect to build upon further in future releases. It also contains
significant code contributions from a greater number of people than
any previous Rosegarden release, including D. Michael McIntyre, Pedro
Lopez-Cabanillas, Heikki Junes, Stephen Torri, Magnus Johansson, Vince
Negri and Martin Shepherd as well as Chris Cannam, Guillaume Laurent,
and a number of active translators.
Significant new features include:
* You can now record to multiple MIDI tracks at once from different
devices and/or channels.
* There is a new track parameter box which can be used to select the
playback instrument for a track, recording filters, and the default
parameters for new segments created on that track.
* You can now create tracks identified with particular real-world
performance instruments, so that new segments subsequently created on
those tracks inherit the right clef, transposition and note range for
each instrument (notes outside that range are displayed in a different
colour in the notation editor). A database of around 300 instruments
is included, courtesy of Erik Magnus Johansson of Eolin KB
(http://www.kandav.com/eolin/).
* The composition no longer has a fixed duration. In previous releases
it was necessary to adjust the composition duration manually in order
to record or create segments longer than the default duration. As of
this release, the composition extends itself as you record or drag
out new segments.
* If you add a key change across multiple segments that differ in
performance transposition, you can now choose to have the key
transposed automatically for each segment.
* You can now enter special directives in the notation editor
that will be interpreted when creating LilyPond output, to achieve
effects that are possible in LilyPond but not yet supported in
Rosegarden (glissandi, arpeggios, segno/coda etc).
* Soprano clef has been added.
* Lilypond export now supports LilyPond 2.8 and has a new feature to
merge multiple staffs as voices into one LilyPond staff, a new option
to group staffs with a system bracket, as well as a huge number of bug
fixes and performance improvements, which have tremendously improved
the reliability and usefulness of the export engine.
* You can choose to display the parameter boxes in a tabbed layout
as an alternative to the default vertical stack. In the tabbed
layout you can display a much greater number of MIDI controllers
than was previously possible.
* You can now cut, copy and paste "ranges" within a composition
(cross-sections of all segments and tempo and time signature changes
between two given end points in time).
* There are new functions to split selected segments at an arbitrary
time, and to split segments according to the MIDI device used to
record them (which can be applied retrospectively to recordings made
with Rosegarden 1.0 and newer).
* The facilities for adding and editing markers (labelled positions in
time) and setting loop ranges have been improved in a number of ways.
* Tempos can now be "ramped" (smoothly changing from an initial to a
final tempo over a period of time).
* The tempo ruler has been overhauled and now permits in-place
editing of the tempo map with the mouse (with undo and redo, of
course).
* You can finally zoom in and out of editing views using the mouse wheel
(with Ctrl pressed).
* The Panic function is now accessible from all transport toolbars.
* When step-recording notes from a MIDI device, you can now enter chords
simply by playing overlapping notes.
* Rosegarden can now respond to MIDI Start, Stop and Continue system
messages (as well as MMC/MTC), and send MMC Locate messages (as well
as Play and Stop).
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
Download from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/
Snd-ls is a distribution of Bill Schottstaedt's sound editor SND.
Its target is people that don't know scheme very well, and don't want
to spend too much time configuring Snd. It can also serve
as a quick introduction to Snd and how it can be set up.
Changes 0.9.6.2 -> 0.9.7.0
---------------------------
-Updated Snd from 8.0/2.4.2006 to 8.4/13.9.2006. Many important fixes.
-Added --fast-math as default cflags option.
-Various fixes.
On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the
immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.74. 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:
Security Vulnerability -- Allowed users to execute commands with
the Run Shell Command macro with permissions of the user running
the ripcd(8) daemon (normally 'root').
Timescaling Playouts -- Fixed a bug that was causing timescaled
events to terminate prematurely under certain circumstances.
Log Error Checking -- Fixed issues that were preventing changes in
a cart's status in RDLibrary from being properly reflected in an
already-loaded RDAirPlay log.
JACK/ALSA Playout Optimization -- Increased the size of the audio
ringbuffer for JACK and ALSA drivers.
See the ChangeLog for further details.
Library Versions:
This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.2 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 120, 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!
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| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development |
| | Salem Radio Labs |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| True leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is to what |
| it ought to be. |
| -- Virginia Allan |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Our good friends at Kara Moon Productions have added a forum and will be
adding some "power user tutorials" and other examples on their web site.
These folks have been giving the development of your program a big boast
in the last weeks, so I encourage your support.
Visit and participate at: http://www.kara-moon.com
Stay tuned for a new version in the next few weeks.
And a favor: If any of you have experience with some of the budget web
hosts (BlueHost, HostMonster, etc) would you drop me a line. Yes, I'm
thinking of using one of these as a host.
Have fun with your music and with MMA!
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bvdp(a)xplornet.com
WWW: http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp
On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the
immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.73. 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:
Group Colors -- It is now possible to assign a color to each cart
group, allowing the group to be easily discerned within library
lists and logs.
RDAirPlay User Interface Tweaks -- The Estimated and Scheduled
start time columns in the Full Log widget have been swapped.
RDLogManager -- Embedded breaks from the music log are now
associated with the start time of the following music event, rather
than the preceding event.
Many Bugfixes, especially pertaining to voicetracking and correct
log playout. See the ChangeLog for details.
AudioScience Driver:
Due to stability issues with the 3.xx ASI driver versions, it is
recommended that v 2.96 or earlier ASI drivers be used with this
version of Rivendell.
Library Versions:
This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.2 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:
As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after
upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to
be applied.
Cheers!
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development |
| | Salem Radio Labs |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Be bold, and don't fear failure. Treat failure as a blessing, |
| because mediocre goals are poison. |
| -- Dan Goldin |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
======= Announcing version 1.3 of Amuc =========
Amuc (the Amsterdam Music Composer) is a Linux tool for composing and
playing music. This version has quite some modifications, and now also
can import MIDI files. From its homepage
http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/amuc/index.html
you can hear a performance of Piano Concerto nr.2 (first movement)
by D.Shostakovich, with the original notes (read from a MIDI file) but
totally different sounds. This concerto, containing more notes then I
ever could write, shows that a brilliant composition keeps its strength
even if fully turned over electronically!
Beta 0.23 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now
available for downloading. Included in this release:
A number of minor bugfixes; new RNDSEED command;
a number of new and improved library files.
MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks
for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain
pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details
please visit:
http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp/mma/
If you have any questions or comments, please send them
to: bvdp(a)xplornet.com
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bvdp(a)xplornet.com
WWW: http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp
Hello all,
64 Studio 0.9.4 is the first release candidate for the 64 Studio 1.0
distribution.
The CD image will install a custom Debian system specialised for
multimedia content creation, including a NUMA-enabled SMP Linux 2.6.17
kernel with realtime preemption for dual Opteron systems.
If you don't have a 64-bit machine available, we now provide an
alternative installer for 32-bit PCs - it's the same software, just
built with i386 binaries.
Download links and mirrors are here:
http://64studio.com/wiki/DownloadAnInstaller
(More mirrors would be welcome, as we prepare the 1.0 release - we can
provide you with an rsync feed).
For more details, and to post bug reports, please visit http://64studio.com/
Known bugs in this release:
* DRI support is not enabled in the kernel for some AGP video cards
* Printconf and portmap take too long to configure during the install
* Synaptic may produce an error message until the 'Reload' button is clicked
Enjoy!
