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[linux-audio-announce] liboggz 0.9.3 Release

by Conrad Parker

Oggz 0.9.3 Release ------------------ Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzinfo, oggzdump, oggzdiff, oggzmerge, oggzrip, oggz-scan and oggz-validate. liboggz is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio format. This release is available as a source tarball at: http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/download/liboggz-0.9.3.tar.gz New in this release: * New oggz-scan tool (silvia) oggz-scan displays timestamps of characteristic features in an Ogg file. 'oggz-scan --keyframes file.ogg' displays timestamps of unforced Theora keyframes, which are a useful rough approximation of shot boundaries. Results can be output as plain text, CMML or HTML. * Improvements to oggz-validate: - added page-level validation, ensuring that a page that ends zero packets has the correct granulepos, -1. (MikeS) - added a check that any Theora bos pages come before Vorbis and Speex bos pages. (ticket:156) (conrad) - correct handling of chained files (ticket: 162) (conrad) * win32 build fix for oggz tools (j^) * Other bugfixes / closed tickets: liboggz: replace internal typedef of oggz_off_t, use off_t instead of long (ticket:161) (Grayfox) examples/fix-eos: discard trailing incomplete packets from the end of the stream. (MikeS) remove autogenerated manpages (ticket:155) (conrad, silvia) About Oggz ---------- Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzinfo, oggzdump, oggzdiff, oggzmerge, oggzrip, oggz-scan and oggz-validate. liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while presenting the following API niceties: * Full API documentation * Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior. The entire test suite can be run under valgrind if available. * Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32 and Symbian OS. May work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf. For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files and Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are provided in the source distribution. * Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams, to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail if you try to write illegally structured packets. * A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close interface to raw Ogg files. * Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides callback based notification when this queue is empty * A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis, FLAC, CMML and Ogg Skeleton headers without requiring linking to those libraries. This allows efficient use on servers and other devices that need to parse and seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do a full media decode. Full documentation of the liboggz API, customization and installation, and mux and demux examples can be read online at: http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/ Tools ----- The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools, which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams: * oggzinfo: Display information about one or more Ogg files and their bitstreams. * oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file from such a hexdump. * oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output differences. * oggzmerge: Merge Ogg files together, interleaving pages in order of presentation time. * oggzrip: Extract one or more logical bitstreams from an Ogg file. * oggz-scan: Scan an Ogg file and output characteristic landmarks. * oggz-validate: Validate the Ogg framing of one or more files. License ------- Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD style license. More information is available online at the Oggz homepage: http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/ enjoy :) -- Conrad Parker Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia http://www.annodex.net/ http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] WhySynth DSSI softsynth

by Sean Bolton

Introducing WhySynth, a DSSI softsynth plugin. WhySynth, as in 'Y'-synth, the super-sized, frankensteinized, evolved and mutated, still rather dorky younger sibling of Xsynth-DSSI. WhySynth, as in (I sometimes ask), "_why_ am I working on another softsynth instead of on paying gigs?" (Following my bliss? Addiction? One last shot at misspent youth?) WhySynth, as in a mostly-new design featuring: - 4 oscillators per voice, in your choice of 6 modes (minBLEP, wavecycle, asynchronous granular, FM, waveshaper, and noise), - 2 filters, also in multiple flavors, - flexible routing and mixdown to stereo output, - 3 (or is it 6?) LFOs (instrument-wide, per-voice, and multiphase), - 5 multi-mode envelope generators, - abundant modulation options, - and effects (well, Tim Goetze's Versatile plate reverb is all at the moment, unless you count the DC-blocker anti-effect). WhySynth is a work in progress. Actually, since the kid was born, progress has slowed to a near-utter standstill, but if I can't release often, I might as well release early. Get your tarball, boring screenshot, and html-ized README today at: http://home.jps.net/~musound/whysynth.html then get your butts back to making cool music -- however you define that. Cheers, -Sean

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] MMA version 0.16

by Bob van der Poel

I'm pleased to announce the release of my program mma - Musical MIDI Accompaniment version: Beta 0.16 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. MMA is very versatile and generates excellent tracks. It comes with an extensive user-extendable library with a variety of patterns for various popular rhythms, an extensive user manual, and many demo songs. MMA is a command line driven program. It creates MIDI files which need a sequencer or MIDI file play program. MMA is written in Python. You'll need Python 2.3 (or later) for MMA to function. MMA is supplied in 4 tar.gz archives. Included: mma-bin -- the main script and library files. mma-html -- documentation in HTML format. mma-pdf -- documentation in PDF format. mma-songs -- a collection of about 230 songs in MMA format. If you get all four download packages the total size is still less than 1.5 megabytes. MMA is currently in final BETAs. We are hoping for a 1.0 release in winter 2005. Right now we need help in debugging the program, creating songs for distribution, and new and improved library files. Best of all, MMA is free. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It has been developed on a Linux platform, but should be usable on just about any system. A detailed page now exists on our web site on how-to install on a Windows system. MMA is available on my personal home page: http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bvdp(a)uniserve.com Beta 0.16: Lots of little bug fixes, new SWINGMODE, more note offset and length options, NOTESPAN directive, better KEYSIG support, enhanced VOLUME options, negative offsets (prior bar) in patterns. You really need to read the DOCS for all this! Comments appreciated! -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bvdp(a)uniserve.com WWW: http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Qsynth 0.2.4 released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi all, Let me spread the word:) finally there comes this bug and some other usability fixes on today's latest Qsynth 0.2.4 release. As you might know already, Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application, written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit, using Qt Designer. Please check it out from: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net Upgrade is highly recommended as this one fixes a very annoying crash bug that has been lurking for ages. As simply pasted from the change-log: - All widget captions changed to include proper application title prefix. - Attempt to bring those aging autoconf templates to date; sample SPEC file for RPM build is now being included and generated at configure time. - Missing icons on channel and soundfont setup context menus are now up; bank/program splitter widget added to channel preset dialog. - An abrupt segfault on engine restart have been finally fixed; this issue has been quite an annoyance which has been around for ages and was a highly probable showstopper just when restarting an engine due to changes on the setup settings. Not anymore, hopefully. - New tool buttons were added to the main widget, for adding a new engine and removing the current one, while trying to increase the visibility of multiple fluidsynth engine capability (for new users, at least :) - Set to use QApplication::setMainWidget() instead of registering the traditional lastWindowClosed() signal to quit() /slot, just to let the -geometry command line argument have some optional effect on X11. - Minor configure and Makefile install fixes, as Debian and Mac OS X specialties. Also, install does the right thing with target file modes (thanks to Matt Flax and Ebrahim Mayat, for pointing these out). - Fixed output disability when messages limit option is turned off (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl for spotting this one, while on qjackctl). Hope you enjoy. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.53

by Fred Gleason

I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell-0.9.53. Rivendell is a fully copy-lefted audio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. Further information, including screenshots, source code and RPMs for select Linux distributions can be found at: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/ >From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- v0.9.53 -- 09/28/2005 Changes: RDCatch Enhancements. It is now possible to configure a single record 'window' in RDCatch and configure multiple shorter recordings within that window to be started by means of GPI closures. Asynchronous Macro Carts. It's now possible to designate a macro cart as to be executed 'Asynchronously', meaning that, when executed within a log in RDAirPlay, any Sleep ['SP'] RMLs contained within the cart will not delay subsequent log events, but *will* delay subsequent RML statements within the cart itself. This can be useful for achieving various special effects, such as starting a music bed and then playing a seperately carted dry voiceover on top of it. RDLibrary Enhancements. RDLibrary will now give explicit warning about various out-of-parameter conditions (like audio carts that contain no audio). It's now also possible to specify the 'Forced Length' of a cart (for timescaling purposes) without obscuring the actual average length of the cart. Many Bugfixes. Especially with regard to RDCatch, MPEG encoding and electronic log reconciliation (ELR) functionality. See the ChangeLog for details. Library Versions: This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.94.0 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 *** Rivendell v0.9.53 is available for download now at: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | On-line, adj.: | | The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a | | computer. | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] KMidimon 0.4.1

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMidimon is an application to monitor MIDI events coming from a MIDI external port or application via the ALSA sequencer. It is especially useful if you want to debug MIDI software or your MIDI setup. http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kmidimon/ New features for release 0.4.1: * Show/hide columns via Preferences dialog and a context menu * Option for translating universal sysex messages * Format sysex with 2 hex digits per byte * Option for using fixed font * Redesigned Preferences dialog, available even when recording * Internationalization updates * Spanish translation updated * New antialiased icons * RPM files available for Mandriva 10.2 Other major features: * Easy to use KDE graphic user interface * Based on ALSA sequencer. * Customizable event filters and sequencer parameters * Supports all MIDI messages and some ALSA messages * Saves to a text file the recorded event list * GPL licensed Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kmidimon-0.4.1.tar.gz?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kmidimon-0.4.1.tar.bz2?downlo…

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Om 0.2.0

by Dave Robillard

Om 0.2.0 is out (after far too long) Om is a realtime OSC controlled modular synthesizer (effects processor, etc, etc) for Jack systems with LADSPA and/or DSSI plugins. This release is dramatically improved from the previous (0.1.1). The most user visible changes are: - Redesigned/polished GUI - Better DSSI support - Object (node, patch, etc) renaming - Python bindings (through the pyom client) - LASH support (preliminary) - Many bugfixes and performance improvements All the usual stuff available at http://om-synth.nongnu.org Enjoy, -DR-

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] ALSA MIDI Kommander

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

ALSA MIDI Kommander is a DCOP [1] interface exposing many ALSA Sequencer [2] features for shell scripts, Kommander scripts [3], or KDE programs requiring MIDI Sequencer services. A few MIDI utilities have been developed with this tool, which can be used both as programming examples and as real work tools. The main program, "kaseq" is a single executable, used as a DCOP service program. It runs as a daemon, allowing only a single running instance, and providing a system tray icon to give visual feedback for MIDI activity, and a way to control the program execution itself. It depends on KDE 3.x and the Qt library. More information at this provisional project site: http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kaseq/ Downloads http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134956&package_id=164… Source packages http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kaseq-0.2.3.tar.bz2?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kmetronome/kaseq-0.2.3.tar.gz?download Copyright (C) 2005, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <plcl AT users.sourceforge.net> Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) References [1] DCOP http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/dcop.html [2] ALSA Sequencer API http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/seq.html [3] Kommander http://kommander.kdewebdev.org/

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] remix.linux - a creative commons enhanced audio CMS for linux audio users

by Shayne O'Connor

What is remix.linux? remix.linux provides a place for subscribers of the Linux Audio Users list to share/remix/extend/master each others work, with the freedoms offered by Creative Commons licenses. It is inspired by ccMixter and powered by ccHost. While the emphasis is on samples and remixing, anyone who doesn't have access to a webserver to put their original songs may upload complete songs here (though you are encouraged to make the seperate tracks available, too). What Can I Do on remix.linux? You can upload samples, songs, accapellas, spoken-word, remixes, midi files, flac, ogg, mp3, your sample of a duck-fart, etc, etc ... so long as they were created/recorded with a Linux Audio Application. You can rate submissions, review them, remix them, explain them, ignore them. You can stream all submissions/artists/tags, or subscribe to podcast feeds of them. How Do I Use remix.linux? Just register here: http://remix.machinehasnoagenda.com/media/register It is quick and simple and doesn't even require a confirmation email! Once you have signed up, create your profile and start uploading/downloading/remixing!!!!

20 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Patchage 0.2.3 Released

by Dave Robillard

Hi all, Patchage is a modular patch bay for Jack and Alsa (MIDI) applications. More information, screenshot, downloads, etc, available at: http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchage/ This release features updated LASH support (optionally depends on the recent LASH 0.5.0 release). Patchage will restore module locations, and it's window size/location along with a session. Also new are a few bugfixes related to incorrectly split modules, configuration file loading, and hiding useless system modules. Enjoy, -DR-

20 years, 2 months

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