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[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.6.5

by Tim Janik

BEAST/BSE version 0.6.5 is available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.6/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.6/ This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as screenshots can be found at: http://beast.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots/index.html This development series of BEAST has a lot of the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound generation back-end separated from all GUI activities. Outstanding new features include support for skins, many sample file formats, MIDI file import abilities, an improved piano roll widget, the track editor which allows for easy selection of synthesisers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs, mixer support, unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities and MIDI automation. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.6.5: * New supported file formats: GUS Patches - Load patchfiles as ordinary samples [Stefan Westerfeld] BseWave - A new tool bsewavetool allows creation and compression of multi-sample files which can be loaded by beast. This tool is experimental and not currently being installed, ask questions or report problems with it on beast(a)gnome.org. * New Effects: Saturator - Saturate audio signals, implements various saturation types. * New scripts: Track Busses - Automatically create mixer busses for tracks * Fixed MIDI file import to create required mixer setup * Added playback position indicator to piano roll * Fixate zoom position while zooming piano roll * Fixed saving of BseMixer state to BSE files * Improved sample file caching algorith * Improved BSE file parsing robustness * AMD64 fixes [Stefan Westerfeld] * Lots of miscellaneous bug fixes * Updated British English translation [David Lodge] * Updated Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Dutch translation [Tino Meinen] * Updated Spanish translation [Jorge Gonzalez] * Added Bulgarian translation [Iassen Pramatarov] * Added Kinyarwanda translation [Steve Murphy] --- ciaoTJ

19 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Ecasound 2.4.1 released

by Kai Vehmanen

1. Summary of changes aRts-plugin was added back to the distribution package and code for mp3 header parsing was rewritten. A new playlist mode was added to ecaplay. Many updates have been made to user and programmer documentation. --- 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 * Sources for the aRts plugin were accidentally left out from the v2.4.0 release. This release again has the plugin. * The mp3 header parsing code has been partially written. This fixes various problems in using mp3 files with broken or uncommon header layout and contents. * In addition to numerous minor bugfixes, a playlist mode has been added to ecaplay. See the following ecasound-list post: http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2005/03/0027.html * Minor new features: ability to reset ecasignalview peak statistics by sending a SIGHUP signal to the process, extended support for describing effect preset parameters (see the User's Guide for details). * Various build system improvements: compile errors with egcs-2.91.66, updated to new versions of autoconf and automake, fixed compiling outside the main source directory, added the ability to define a custom pkgdatadir at make time. * Documentation updates: new sections to the INSTALL file, many updates to the Ecasound Programmer's Guide and new sections to the User's Guide. * Bug fixes: serious bug in -gc (crop gate) operator, problems in parsing LADSPA plugins such as the SCx compressors which have colon characters in their port descriptions. Full list of changes is available at: - http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php. --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes * Note to distribution package maintainers: The Ecasound Programming Guide has been rewritten in plain ascii (used to be LaTeX) with optional support for reStructured text. I recommended packaging only the ascii version (ecasound_programmers_guide.txt) to the distribution package. Although there are make rules for creating the html version with rst2html (from python-docutils package), these are not meant for general use. There have been no changes to the other manuals (ECI and User's guides). --- 5. Contributors to this release Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes * Julian Dobson, Kai Vehmanen (1) Improved mechanism for mp3 header parsing. * Alexey Shchepin (1) Fix to a bug in time crop gate operator (-gc). * Junichi Uekawa (1) Support for specifying custom datadir forecasoundrc. Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed) * Brad Fuller (1) Output to stdout even though -q has been specified * Adam Linson (1) Errors in ecasound-iam manpage. * Junichi Uekawa (1) aRts support was missing from 2.4.0 release. Feature suggestions - Ideas that led to new features (items) * Peter Lutek (1): Ability to reset ecasignalview peak statistic --- 6. Links and files Web site (and mirrors): http://www.eca.cx (fi) http://ecasound.seul.org (us) http://ecasound.sourceforge.net (us) Source packages: http://ecasound.seul.org/download http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.4.1.tar.gz md5sum: 48b75215252d21dddf5216cae27a5f4b List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support: See http://www.eca.cx/download.php -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

19 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] 64 Studio - a new distribution for creative x86_64 users

by Daniel James

Hello all, 64 Studio is a collection of software designed specifically for content creation on x86_64 hardware (that's AMD's 64-bit CPUs and Intel's EMT64 chips), including audio, video and design applications. It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other customisations. It will be marketed to hardware OEMs in the creative workstation and laptop markets as an alternative to the 64-bit version of Windows XP, or OS X on Apple hardware. We are currently working on a prototype. Our next step will be a CD-ROM installer image which will be distributed to beta testers. If you're interested in this project, please see the FAQ on the website, or join our mailing list. http://64studio.com/ Cheers Daniel

19 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] [OT] Linux soundapps site updated

by Dave Phillips

Greetings: If you don't know the drill: http://linux-sound.org (USA) http://linuxsound.atnet.at (Europe) http://linuxsound.jp (Japan) As usual the Japanese site will update later this evening. Please note that my old Bright.net addresses and pages are gone now. If you have a page containing a link to the old Bright.net site for these pages please update it to one of the new URLs. Note too that my email address is also no longer at Bright.net, please update your address book as necessary. Best, dp

19 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] Glame 2.0.1 released

by laugeo2＠free.fr

Hello, Glame 2.0.1 has been released : - More Gnome-2 desktop integration (requires Gtk+ 2.6) - Better wave drawing - Better XRUN handling with low latency recording You can get Glame here : http://glame.sourceforge.net/ Please report problems via Sourceforge bug tracker or Glame mailing list. Glame developers

19 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANNOUNCE] KMetronome 0.3 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Hi all, KMetronome is a MIDI based metronome using the ALSA sequencer. It uses MIDI for sound generation instead of digital audio, allowing low CPU usage and very accurate timing thanks to the ALSA sequencer. This is the first public release. Features * Easy to use KDE graphic user interface. * MIDI only. Can be used with software- or external MIDI synthesizers. * Based on the ALSA sequencer. Provides input and output ports. * Highly customizable parameters. * Optional built-in connection manager, it can be used with external connection managers. * External transport control: play - stop - continue commands, can be controlled using DCOP or MIDI Realtime System messages. * GPL licensed It has basically the same features and similar look of my old kylix "ametro" program, but this time it is a pure C++ program. Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome Regards, Pedro

19 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] KGuitar 0.5

by Alexandre Prokoudine

Michael Yakshin announces KGuitar release 0.5 at last: * Build system is refreshed (updated from current KDE SDK), obsolete things removed, should compile smoothly on most boxes. TeTeX support is not installed by default. * Huge refactoring work inside KGuitar: greatly improved internal architecture, modularized all import / export procedures, improved options handling. * More KDE3 standartization: better and cleaner shell / KPart separation, standartized UI, actions, KDE-based dialogs with standard features and cleaner API, better support for BiDi interfaces, numerous layout fixes in lots of windows. * Pretty full-featured Guitar Pro 4 import support. Imports smoothly most of the files I've tested it on, had some known problems with percussion tracks, but generally comprehends almost all difficulties in GP4 files and gracefully ignores them. More testing and patches are welcome! * Improved song / track printing / display - now all tabulature / notestaff rendering is maintained in single class and both displaying and printing use the same codebase. It made possible displaying note scores on screen while editing tabs - however, it requires Feta fonts installed, as previously for printing. Check out the documentation for instructions. * Chord dialog - added chord finder: you can enter pure text name of chord in top chord name string, push one button and you'll get chord diagrams, fingerings and other info instantly. Chord finder also supplies a "Quick insert by name" button that makes entering something like "Am / C / F / E" chord rhythm a breeze. * Melody editor - got lots of improvements: added scales & modes showing on fretboard, added more inlay/graphics options, working action / advance functions that act as stated in options page. * Song properties - added simple tempo support in song properties dialog - that "initial tempo" was in file format for ages, but, finally, it's user-editable. * MIDI playback improvements - much better monitoring due to absolute time values in MIDI events, fixed stuck notes after song stop, lost patch/bank presets, etc. Added panic (shut down all notes) after stop and tempo track support. * Multiple usability fixes: more column duration actions, keyboard combos to move cursor by 1 bar (currently bound to Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right), chord dialog - better tab ordering, default pushbutton, accelerators for non-default functions (Ctrl+Enter and Shift+Enter). * Lots of other fixes: gcc3.4 compatibility, MusicXML DTD 0.7a support, proper status bar handling, proper updates when pasting / select all / delete track, fixed compile errors without TSE3, selection of negative track bug, lots of display problems with TrackPrint usage, mouse select handling bug, multiple memory leaks and segfaults. Now go to http://kguitar.sourceforge.net/ and download this awesome software.

19 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] PSindustrializer 0.24

by Alexandre Prokoudine

New version of PSindustrializer, a tool for physical modelling of sound, has been released by its new developer Yuri Aliaev. This version features gtk2 port (please use --disable-openGL, if you are compiling it with gtk+-2.6.4) and several fixes. You can grab this new version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/industrializer

19 years, 7 months

[linux-audio-announce] StreetFire Sound Labs joins linuxaudio.org

by Daniel James

Hello all, StreetFire Sound Labs is the 20th and newest member of the linuxaudio.org consortium. This San Francisco company designs open audio hardware based on Linux, and its first product is a networked audio server that can control and manage Sony CD jukeboxes. For more details, see: http://www.streetfiresound.com/ Cheers Daniel James Director http://linuxaudio.org

19 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-announce] kluppe 0.4

by d13b

dear LAUsers! kluppe 0.4 is out kluppe is a jackified loopplayer for linux. new features include *) adjustable metric grid *) CV sync - this allows external jack-apps to control kluppe's playback *) many bugfixes as always you can download it here: http://dieb13.klingt.org/content/projects/kluppe.html please let me know if you need help, find bugs or desperately miss features. regards d13b

19 years, 8 months

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