Freecycle 0.5alpha is out!
Lot of new features in this release, among which a fully functional midi
subsystem, allowing the assignement of midi notes to locked beatlines and
realtime playing of midi note events. Freecycle now supports drag n'drop
from/to or within Freecycle. Moreover, it allows the drag n'droped waves to
be stacked and assigned to a scene.
The other new addition to Freecycle is the SoundFont export, allowing easy
integration of the work done with Freecycle with the sequencer software such
as Muse or Rosegarden.
Last, but not least, thanks to the sustained effort of Mat Rowlands
(podulator), Freecycle has now an illustrated manual
(http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freecycle/freecycle-manual-1.0.0.tar.gz )describing
all the features. This manual can be used standalone, or integrated with Qt
help system directly from Freecycle.
The compilation is a bit complicated, please read the README before attempting
the build.
New dependencies:
-portaudio
-portmidi
-libinstpatch
Enjoy!
Predrag Viceic
1. Summary of changes
Support for the ALSA sequencer API has been added. A few bugs related
to .ewf file processing have been fixed. A serious problem in the
disk i/o subsystem, which caused system freezes in some conditions,
has been fixed. Disk subsystem performance has also improved
slighly in this release.
---
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
* Support for the ALSA MIDI Sequencer API. See
< http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/MIDI-HOWTO-10.html >
for an good introduction of what can be done with the ALSA sequencer
subsystem. For instructions on how to use it with Ecasound, see
< http://eca.cx/ecasound/Documentation/examples.html#midi-io >,
and the ecasound(1) man page.
* Important bugfixes to the disk i/o subsystem. A severe bug causing
system freezes when using -z:db with very large buffersizes has
been fixed. This also closes Debian bug #317900:
< http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317900 >
* Bugfixes to .ewf file support. Debugging code for .ewf processing
was accidentally left enabled to the 2.4.2 release, causing very
verbose console output when processing ewf-files. A bug in the
interaction between .ewf files and the disk i/o subsystem, was also
fixed.
* The --{disable,enable}-jack configure switch was broken
in 2.4.2 release. Luckily this has affected only a minority
of users, as by default JACK is enabled whenever the necessary
headers and libraries are present at compile-time.
Full list of changes is available at:
- http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php.
---
4. Interface and configuration file changes
None in this release.
---
5. Contributors to this release
Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes
* Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas [pedrolz] (1)
Support for ALSA MIDI sequencer.
Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed)
* Pedro Antonio Fructuoso Merino (2)
Bug in using 'ao-remove' to remove JACK objects. The disk
i/o system freeze bug.
* Arieh Skliarouk, Junichi Uekawa, Tom Rosenfeld (1)
The disk i/o system freeze bug.
* Julien Claassen (1)
Ewf + -z:db bugs.
* Valery -at- vslash -dot com (1)
Failed runtime check when run on FreeBSD 5.3
* Kamil Wencel (1)
Bugs with combining resampling and JACK input/outputs.
---
6. Links and files
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-2.4.3.tar.gz
md5sum: ea4af6ffa9f00743270151927f7b4584
List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support:
See http://eca.cx/ecasound/download.php
--
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Mon Aug 22 2005 -- Sweep 0.8.4 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-0.8.4.tar.gz?download
New in this release
-------------------
This is maintainance release, including:
* updates for ALSA 1.0 (Daniel Dreschers, Charles Turner),
* a new Polish translation (Radoslaw Korzeniewski),
* an updated russian translation (Alex Prokoudine),
* a small fix to the German translation, and
* various minor tweaks and improvements.
Release plans
-------------
This is likely to be the last Sweep release based on GTK+-1.2. Further
development will use GTK+-2.0 for the interface.
Over the last year, Peter Shorthose has developed a comprehensive set of
GTK+-2.0 patches for Sweep, and will handle their merging and ongoing
release management towards Sweep 1.0. Welcome Peter!
Development news
----------------
The trunk of sweep CVS has been migrated to a new Subversion repository.
You can check it out by:
svn co http://svn.metadecks.org/sweep/trunk sweep
svn.metadecks.org can also be browsed via trac at:
http://trac.metadecks.org/
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 :)
Conrad.
Hi,
all packages except alsa-firmare were released - version name is
1.0.10rc1. Please, test the packages and report the bugs (especially
packaging and compilation problems) to the ALSA bug-tracking-system.
The changelog from 1.0.9b is on the ALSA main web site.
Jaroslav
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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
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All:
I would like to announce the Mondrian Project. Mondrian is an attempt
to create a text-based setting for writing and performing music. It
currently consists of the following parts:
- a simple music description language intended to be small and
keystroke efficient
- a Mondrian-to-MIDI converter
- interactive sequencers intended to play Mondrian code in a
live performance
- sequencer plugins for vi and emacs that turn text editors into
musical instruments
You can find Mondrian at
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~brinkman/software/mondrian/
There's an online demo that'll let you try the language without
the need to install anything.
Any feedback would be appreciated!
Peter
Download from
*************
http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/snd/
About
*****
Snd-ls is a distribution of the 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
*******
0.9.4.0 -> 0.9.5.1
------------------
-Upgraded SND to V7.15 from 17.8.2005. Many important changes.
-Various improvements in the user-interface.
-Upgraded snd to V7.15 from 12.8.2005. Many important changes.
-Various other things.
-Upgraded various rt-stuff.
-Upgraded various rt-stuff++
-Removed jack_set_server_dir guile-binding from rt-engine.scm, because its
removed from the newer versions of jack.
--
Patchage is a modular patch bay for Jack (audio) and Alsa (Midi).
This released fixes numerous bugs, adds a few GUI enhancements, and has
preliminary (untested) LASH support.
More information, screenshots, requirements, and download available at
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchage/
Enjoy,
-DR-
+++ only 3 days left... +++
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-- Piksel05 - october 16-23. 2005
-- call for participation
-- deadline 15. august 2005
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Piksel[1] is an annual event for artists and developers working with open
source audiovisual software tools. Part workshop, part festival, it is
organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK)
[2] and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging
ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops,
performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of open source.
Piksel05 will take place in Bergen october 16. - 23. 2005.
The development, and therefore use, of digital technology today is mainly
controlled by multinational corporations. Despite the prospects of
technology expanding the means of artistic expression, the commercial
demands of the software industries severely limit them instead. Piksel is
focusing on the open source movement as a strategy for regaining artistic
control of the technology, but also a means to bring attention to the close
connections between art, politics, technology and economy.
One of the results of the past Piksel events is the initiation of the Piksel
Video Framework for 'interoperability between various free software
applications dealing with video manipulation techniques'[3].
Piksel05 will also feature the release of the Piksel LiveCD[4], a Linux
distribution containing the software used and developed at Piksel. The
package contains a suite of innovative audiovisual and artistic software,
free video plugins, and documentation from the past Piksel events.
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open CALL for PARTICIPATION
The last two Piksel events has focused on live art/audiovisual performance,
but for Piksel05 the main focus will be an exhibition in collaboration with
Hordaland Kunstsenter[5].
For the exhibition and other parts of the program we are interested in
submissions in the following categories:
1. Installations and interactive work
Audiovisual installations created and run solely using open source software.
The theme for the exhibition will be loosely related to 'games' and the gaming
experience.
2. Audiovisual performance
Live art realised by the use of open source software.
3. Software
Innovative artistic tools or software art released under an open licence.
Please send documentation material - preferably as a URL to online
documentation with images/video to piksel05(a)bek.no
Deadline - august 15. 2005
Use this form for submitting (or go to the online form at
http://www.piksel.no/piksel05/subform.html):
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1. Name of artist(s), email adr.
2. Short bio/CV
3. Category
4. URL to online documentation
5. Short statement about the work(s)
6. List of software used in the creation/presentation of the work(s)
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Or send by snailmail to:
BEK
att: Gisle Froysland
C. Sundtsgt. 55
5004 Bergen
Norway
More info: http://www.piksel.no/piksel05
piksel05 is produced in cooperation with Kunsthoegskolen in Bergen dep The
Academy of Fine Arts, Hordaland Kunstsenter. Supported by PNEK, Bergen
Kommune, Norsk Kulturfond, BergArt.
links:
[1] http://www.piksel.no
[2] http://www.bek.no
[3] http://www.piksel.org
[4] http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/PikseLiveCD
[5] http://www.kunstsenter.no
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www.220hex.orgwww.r3aktor.comhttp://mob.bek.no
1. Summary of changes
Ecasignalview user-interface has been improved. A set of new commands
for modifying effect parameters was added to interactive mode. Many
bugs have been fixed in documentation, JACK transport support, build
system and elsewhere. A severe bug in the "reverse" audio object was
fixed.
---
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
* A set of new commands, "ctrlp-*", for modifying effect parameter
controllers was added to interactive mode. See ecasound-iam(1)
man page for full details. These commands can be used either
in the interactive console mode, or from applications using
the ECI API (see http://www.eca.cx/eci ).
* Many improvements have been made to the ecasignalview
user-interface. Ecasignalview is a console-mode signal
monitor.
* A severe bug in the "reverse" audio object was found and
fixed in this release.
Full list of changes is available at:
- http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php.
---
4. Interface and configuration file changes
None in this release.
---
5. Contributors to this release
Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes
* Allie Stuart (2)
New EIAM command set for controller parameters (ctrlp-*),
bugfixes.
* Jeffrey Cunningham (2)
New features to ecasignalview.
* Kyle Kirkland (1)
Bugfix to ecasound.spec
Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed)
* Julien Claassen (1)
Bug with .ewf files when loaded from a saved chainsetup (.ecs).
* Olivier Guilyardi, Jack O'Quin (1)
Prolems with JACK transport support and ecasound's
batch mode.
* Peter Lutek (1)
Problems with JACK transport and ecasignalview.
Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items)
* Pierre Lorenzon (1):
Ability to run in daemon mode without need for interactive
mode.
---
6. Links and files
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-2.4.2.tar.gz
md5sum: 77c10152f5a15da13f7876f0da30d592
List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support:
See http://eca.cx/ecasound/download.php
--
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liboscqs is a library to provide a Query System and Service Discovery for
applications using the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol [1]. The initial
proposal for the OSC Query System was provided by Andrew W. Schmeder and
Matthew Wright in July 2004 [2]. The next paragraph has their abstract:
A Query System is proposed for inter-application control scenarios. The
queries enable namespace exploration, documentation, type-signature,
return-type-signature and parameter constraint specification, current-value
polling, identification of common interpretation maps via osc-schema, and
error reporting.
See [2] for the full paper describing their proposal. This project is the
result [3] of the various discussions that followed, but remains very close
to the original proposal.
Besides a Query System, this library provides Service Discovery. This allows
applications to annouce their presence locally and on a whole computer network.
For more information, source tarballs, RPM packages, and Debian packages please
see the homepage at:
http://liboscqs.sourceforge.net/
- Martin
Factfile:
- liboscqs uses liblo [4] as an OSC server. Thanks Steve!
- The liboscqs source uses the scons [5] build tool
- liboscqs supports Service Discovery using either Howl or Spread
- liboscqs has only tested on Linux so far, but the intent is to support all
POSIX systems.
- liboscqs is FSH 2.3 compliant.
References:
[1] http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/
[2] http://www.opensoundcontrol.org/papers/query_system/
[3] http://liboscqs.sourceforge.net/schema/OSCQS-schema-0.0.1.pdf
[4] http://plugin.org.uk/liblo/
[5] http://www.scons.org/