2006/01/30: soniK 1.0beta1
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About soniK
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soniK is an open source digital audio editor for Linux, using the KDE
platform. soniK allows you to record, edit and process sounds on your
computer.
soniK's main features include:
* Record & play audio using your computer's soundcard
* Visualise the audio as a waveform or a spectrogram
* Edit the audio and transform it with a wide variety of plugins
* Generate new sounds
For screenshots, downloads & more information see:
http://sonik.sourceforge.net/
Getting soniK
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soniK can be downloaded from http://sonik.sourceforge.net/download.html
Binary packages are available for Debian sarge, Kubuntu 5.10, Kubuntu 5.04 and
Fedora Core 4.
Release Information
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This is the first beta release for soniK 1.0.
Please test it and report any problems or bugs using the tracker at
http://sonik.sourceforge.net . Also, please send any other feedback to
sonik-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net
Known issues:
- Selection display is corrupted on Kubuntu 5.10 (will be fixed in next beta)
- Don't expect too much from the plugin devel packages yet!
--
Rob Walker <rob(a)tenfoot.org.uk>
http://www.tenfoot.org.uk
Liblo, the Lite OSC library, is an implementation of the Open Sound
Control protocol for POSIX systems*. It is written in ANSI C99 and
released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is designed to make
developing OSC applictions as easy as possible.
http://liblo.sourceforge.net/
nick.
Changes:
* New Maintainer (me!)
* Fixed pthread resource leak, when stopping server
* IPv6 is now disabled by default
* Fixed bug where sockets weren't closed when replying to messages
* Split off resolve_address into seperate create_socket function
* Only creates new sockets when needed
* Added lo_send_from, lo_send_message_from and lo_send_bundle_from
First Ecasound release of 2006 is here!
1. Summary of changes
---------------------
A severe bug related to audio routing in the engine has been fixed. It is
now possible to set initial values for any MIDI-CC controlled effect
parameters. Many minor bugfixes and improvements have been made to the
Ecasound Control Interface implementation. Some improvements have been
also made to the ecasignalview utility.
2. What is Ecasound?
--------------------
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio
processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and
format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing,
recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs,
outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in
various ways, and their
parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs.
A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package.
Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can also be run on
many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris. Limited
support for Windows is available through Cygwin. Ecasound is licensed under the
GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licensed under the LGPL.
3. Changes since last release
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* A severe bug was fixed in the engine mixer code. In cases where an
input is connected to multiple chains, and one or more inputs
have reached end of stream state, the resulting mix is not
handled properly.
* Ability to set initial values for MIDI-CC controlled effect
parameters has been added. This allows to avoid initial jumps
in the parameter values.
* New interactive mode commands: ai-describe, ao-describe, cop-describe
and ctrl-describe commands. These commands allow describing session
state using the Ecasound Option Syntax. See ecasound-iam(1) for
detailed description.
* Many bugfixes that affect applications utilizing the Ecasound Control
Interface (ECI).
* And more bugfixes, see the full list of changes.
Full list of changes is available at:
- http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php.
4. Interface and configuration file changes
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None in this release.
5. Contributors to this release
-------------------------------
Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes
* Stuart Allie [allies] (1)
ECI-C parser overflow.
* Markus Grabner [grabner] (1)
Updated RPM spec-file for x86_64 support.
Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed)
* Junichi Uekawa (2)
Bug in -etf operator.
Comma-bug in ecasignalview.
* Michael Willoughby (2)
Bug in 'c-select'.
Unnecessary DBC runtime check warnings.
* Rocco <linuxmedia2(a)netscape.n...> (1)
Bug in the engine mixdown routines.
* Pedro Antonio Fructuoso Merino (1)
Bug in seeking mp3 files.
* Dave Serls (1)
Segfault related to preset object cleanup (sfbug:1412200).
* Stephen Stocker (1)
Ecasignalview compile error.
Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items)
* Adam Linson (1)
Setting initial values for MIDI-controlled parameters.
6. Links and files
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Web site (and mirrors):
http://eca.cx (fi)
http://ecasound.seul.org (us)
http://ecasound.sourceforge.net (us)
Source packages:
http://ecasound.seul.org/downloadhttp://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.4.4.tar.gz
md5sum: 3032a157f736bb38426b2ebcc92c6513
List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support:
See http://eca.cx/ecasound/download.php
--
links, my public keys, etc at http://eca.cx/kv
I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v0.9.65. Rivendell is a
full-featured Radio Automation System that is available under the GNU Public
License. From the NEWS file:
*** snip snip ***
This is a bugfix release of Rivendell. Among the issues corrected
are:
RDLogManager issues, including a problem with autofill events when
the associated traffic or music import source has no matching
events.
Problems with Services whose name contained one or more spaces.
Full details are in the ChangeLog.
Library Versions:
This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.95.1 and
librhpi-0.94.4 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.
*** snip snip ***
Further information, including download links can be found at:
http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
Cheers!
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Announcing the 20060122 release of WhySynth, a DSSI softsynth
plugin.
New since the last major release:
* A new oscillator mode, based on Nasca O. Paul's gorgeous
PADsynth algorithm.
* A new filter mode, essentially the low-pass filter from amSynth.
* A new dual delay effect.
* Improved and extended wavetables.
* More patches.
* Lots of cleanups and bug fixes, including fixes for more stable
operation especially under Rosegarden, and for compilation on
Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'.
Find WhySynth here:
http://home.jps.net/~musound/whysynth.html
More information on the DSSI plugin standard, available hosts
and plugins can be found here:
http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
WhySynth is written and copyright (c) 2006 by Sean Bolton,
under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
A minor update of hexter, the Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin,
is now available at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?
group_id=104230&package_id=134428
Changes include:
* The coarse frequency of each operator now can be controlled in
real time via MIDI control changes.
* Fixes for RPM, gcc 2.9x and 4.x, and Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'.
More information about hexter and DSSI can be found at:
http://dssi.sourceforge.net/hexter.html
hexter is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c)2006 under
the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.
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[Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around]
Florence, January 18th
Firenze Tecnologia [0], the Italian agency that has financially
sustained the AGNULA project since April 2003, will not fund it
anymore, because of the need to reallocate financial resources on
other projects.
AGNULA is now, to all practical extents and until further notice, a
fully volunteer-based project.
Best regards,
--
The AGNULA Team info at agnula.org
Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"
[0] http://www.firenzetecnologia.it
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:32:56 +0100
Message-ID: <87bqy9n53r.fsf(a)miu-ft.org>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux)
Wed Jan 18 2006 -- Sweep 0.9.0 Released
=======================================
Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and
compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including
WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and
LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus
called
Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.9.0.tar.gz?download
New in this release
-------------------
This release is the first in a new unstable series.
Changes include:
* sweep now uses gtk2 for it's interface
* improved mp3 detection and loading
* a new SVG icon for sweep (Alex Kloss)
* corrected a note to key mapping for pc keyboard playback (Paul
Brossier)
* an updated Spanish translation (Waldo Ramirez Montano)
* an updated Polish translation (Radoslaw Korzeniewski)
* more minor tweaks and improvements.
Release plans
-------------
This first release based on gtk2 begins what we hope will be a short
lived unstable series, leading up to the stable 1.0 release.
The priority will be ensuring that the gtk2 port really is complete
and bug free, but it's likely that a few important or useful new
features will be squeezed in.
Hopefully including:
* jack support
* simple file loading via drag and drop
* some form of LADSPA plugin browser (with bookmarks, search etc)
* modular drivers (no more hardcoded default)
When 1.0 is released, work will begin on what will become sweep 2.0.
this will be based around Conrad's libremix library and will enable
sweep
to perform on disk editing (removing the need to load entire files
into
memory), non destructive editing and much more besides.
Development news
----------------
The only significant change over 0.8.4 comes from the use of gtk2
for the interface. as such, you will now need gtk-2.0 (version 2.2.0 or
greater)
and it's dependencies to use sweep and the associated development
packages
to build sweep 0.9.0 from source.
gtk-2.0 can be found here:
http://www.gtk.org/
Or via your distribution's package system. (apt, rpm etc)
See here for information on accessing or contributing to sweep's
development code:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/development.html
You can find a nice overview of recent changes or report bugs
here:
http://trac.metadecks.org/sweep/
And of course, drop by our irc channel #sweep on irc.freenode.net and
you
can talk to us directly.
Further information
-------------------
Screenshots:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/screenshots/
Some interesting audio recordings of Scrubby are at:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/demos.html
Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It
includes
almost everything you would expect in a sample editor, and then some:
* precise, vinyl like scrubbing
* looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback
* playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks
* looped and reverse recording
* internationalisation
* multichannel and 32 bit floating point PCM file support
* support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed audio files
* sample rate conversion and channel operations
* LADSPA 1.1 effects support
* multiple views, discontinuous selections
* easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming
* unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history
* multithreaded background processing
* shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes
Sweep is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License.
More information is available at:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/
Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting the
development of this project.
enjoy :)
Hello all,
Linuxaudio.org has released its first compilation CD of music by artists
using libre software - Tux Power! Every single part of the CD was made
on Linux, including all the music, the mastering (with Jamin) and the
artwork (with Scribus).
Tracklist:
Dave Griffiths - Latiaxis
Torben Hohn - Wo sind wir
Kai Vehmanen - Traaginen runnoja
Brian Redfern - Zusa
Frank Barknecht - Invitation to the Pure Data Trigger Gang Bang
The FSB's - Babylon
Eric Devost - RagReggae
Robert Jonnsson - Norma
RachelAPP - I want some sweets
X-11 - Can't put me down
Austin Acton - One Percent
Ryan Gallagher - Departure
Michal Seta - In a vacuum
Aaron Johnson - Planetscape
J.C. Wilson - 1 of 5
Joseph Sarlo - The Scent of Vanilla
Ivica Bukvic - SlipStream Scapes V: Lullaby
Full preview versions of the tracks in Ogg Vorbis format are available
to download from:
http://linuxaudio.org/en/music/
You can also download a tarball containing all the Vorbis files and a
readme file with details of the software used by the artists featured on
the compilation:
http://linuxaudio.org/en/music/tuxpower-ogg.tar.gz
If you would like to distribute this CD, a full set of WAV files and a
PDF of insert artwork are available on request. Offers of mirrors would
be very welcome.
Cheers!
Daniel James
