Hi,
QjackCtl 0.2.17 update release is out.
Directly from the change log:
- Systemic I/O Latency settings are now featured for the alsa, oss and
coreaudio backends, letting you specify the known latency of external
hardware for client aware compensation purposes (thanks to Wolfgang Woehl,
for the reminder).
- Update on last backstage changes to the coreaudio backend options (due
to Stéphane Letz. Thanks).
As always, you can grab the source tarball from the usual place:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl
Enjoy!
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hello all,
LinuxUser & Developer magazine is running a series called Audio Libre.
A new PDF article is now available on Jaromil and Rastasoft, covering
the dyne:bolic multimedia distribution and more.
The article can be downloaded from:
http://linuxaudio.org/en/press/
If anyone has ideas for articles they would like to see in this
series, please let me know. Issue 50 has an article on GStreamer, and
issue 51 will cover LinuxSampler, but after that I'm open to
suggestions!
Cheers
Daniel
QjackCtl 0.2.16 is finally out!
After laying around for a long time in the backyard (aka CVS:), the Qt
front-end to the one-of-a-kind JACK audio server daemon is finally made
public. Rejoyce!
As one can read from the changelog:
- ALSA sequencer client/port name changes are now properly detected on the
MIDI connections widget (as noted by Chris Cannam. Thanks).
- Long overdue transport buttons (rewind, backward and forward) finally
landed onto the main control window, at last :).
- Duplication (copy) of patchbay socket items was added.
- Do not ever try to start the JACK server if there's one already found
running, on which case the client-only mode of operation is then activated
(as kindly suggested by Orm Finnendahl, thanks).
- After several Mac OS X user requests, ALSA/MIDI sequencer support is now
an option, otherwise detected at configure time and conditionally compiled
in if, and only if, ALSA is found available (which has been a primordial
assumption on Linux systems:). Ah, and that just makes for the blind
inclusion of another backend driver option: coreaudio.
- Actual OSS device selection menu now featured on setup dialog; these
adds to the device selection button menus for the OSS driver settings.
- Delayed geometry setup of windows upon startup was added as an optional
workaround to subtle problems due to window decoration information not
being available at window creation time on some window managers (as patch
proposed by Dirk Jagdmann. Thanks).
- Fixed some minor but rather old bug that was quitting the application
abruptly, when one switches off the system tray icon while the main
application widget is hidden.
- Cancel is now an option when creating a new patchbay definition.
- Context menus are finally littered with icons.
- 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).
You can get away with it from the usual place:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl
Enjoy!
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hello all,
64 Studio Ltd. is a company developing a collection of software for
digital content creation on x86_64 hardware (that's AMD's 64-bit CPUs
and Intel's EM64T chips). It's based on the pure 64 port of Debian
GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other
customisations.
Like to see the work in progress? You can now download an iso image
for version 0.2.0 alpha. This will install Debian Pure 64 with X.org,
the Gnome desktop and an initial selection of creative applications
including music, graphics and publishing tools.
http://images.64studio.com/
Please note that there is no low-latency kernel package included in
this version, and that this release is provided for testing only.
Problems in this release include wrongly configured apt sources,
useful packages missing or not installed by default, confusing menus
and assorted warnings during installation. There are probably plenty
of other things wrong with it as well, which is why we're calling
this an alpha release. But it does actually install and run on our
Opteron test hardware, so it's a start : )
Needless to say, anyone who is interested in getting involved with the
64 Studio project is most welcome. Our aim is to create a
distribution with full (but completely optional) commercial support,
which will generate revenue to pay free software developers.
Cheers!
Daniel
Version 0.2.1 of the Oscilloscope DSSI plugin is now available here:
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d00-llu/music_dssi.php?lang=en
It has fixes for some bugs spotted by Sean Bolton:
- The GUI will now actually quit when it receives a /quit command from
the plugin host
- There will be no /tmp/dssi_shm_tmpfile_* files left behind when the
plugin and GUI exits
- The Makefile uses pkg-config to get the compiler flags for DSSI, so
it should work now even if your DSSI header is installed in a
non-standard directory
Thanks to feedback from Sean Bolton and Chris Cannam on the DSSI
mailing list I know also know that the plugin works with
ghostess-20050516 and the latest CVS version of Rosegarden (but not
with any releases of Rosegarden).
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Lars Luthman
PGP key: http://www.d.kth.se/~d00-llu/pgp_key.php
Fingerprint: FCA7 C790 19B9 322D EB7A E1B3 4371 4650 04C7 7E2E
Here is an oscilloscope DSSI plugin that I've been hacking on the last
few weeks:
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d00-llu/music_dssi.php?lang=en
It has two audio input ports and will display the two input signals as
two waves in the display. The trigger level and direction is
controllable, as well as the amplification and offset for each channel
and the time resolution.
Note that this plugin will NOT work with jack-dssi-host from version 0.9
of the DSSI package since that does not support audio input ports. It
will work with jack-dssi-host or Om from current CVS (I haven't tested
it with Rosegarden). Om 0.1.1 and earlier will not work because of an
optimisation that breaks this type of plugins.
The plugin includes a DSSIUIClient class that might be of interest to
plugin UI writers using libsigc++ and Glibmm - it handles all the
required communication with the plugin host and exposes public member
functions and signals for the UI -> host and host -> UI OSC commands
specified in the DSSI RFC. It can also handle the nasty business of
setting up an initial shared memory segment for the plugin and the UI
(the actual implementation of the shared memory handling is in a
separate C file, so it could be useful for people who don't use libsigc
++ and Glibmm or even C++). Source code documentation is here
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d00-llu/plugins/ll-scope/dox/html/classDSSI…
and here
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d00-llu/plugins/ll-scope/dox/html/dssi__shm…
For more details about the plugin, read the README file in the source
package.
It's all GPL.
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Lars Luthman
PGP key: http://www.d.kth.se/~d00-llu/pgp_key.php
Fingerprint: FCA7 C790 19B9 322D EB7A E1B3 4371 4650 04C7 7E2E
Hello all,
thank you to all ALSA team members and all other hackers involved
in the ALSA project, I can announce next ALSA release 1.0.9. There are
many changes since 1.0.8 and you can find them at this URL:
http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-8--v1-0-9.txt
Jaroslav
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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
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BEAST/BSE version 0.6.6, BSE-ALSA version 0.6.6 and BSE-PortAudio
version 0.6.6 are 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. BSE-ALSA is an ALSA driver
and BSE-PortAudio is an experimental PortAudio driver for BSE.
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.htmlhttp://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 0.6.6:
* Improved error messages
* Improved script handling
* Implemented translation of scheme script strings
* Fixed closing of unsaved projects
* Fixed project Save vs. Save As behaviour
* Fixed localized numbers being written to .bse files
* Fixed sample embedding in .bse files (0.6.5 did not store all samples)
* Fixed stale header files, left out by make uninstall
* Rewrote message dialogs and message mechanisms
* Ported MIDI event recording script to new BSE core
* Updated Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger]
* Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac]
* Updated Italian translation [Petrecca Michele]
* Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador]
* Added Basque translation [Hizkuntza Politikarako Sailburuordetza]
Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.6.6:
* Build fixes for BEAST-0.6.6
Overview of Changes in BSE-PortAudio 0.6.6:
* Build fixes for BEAST-0.6.6
* Plugged memory leaks
* Fixed error handling
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ciaoTJ
LinuxSampler [1] is a modular, streaming capable sampler. It was designed
decoupled from any user interface, that is as sampler backend which can be
controlled via network connection from an arbitrary place, using a custom,
ASCII based protocol called LSCP [2].
[1] http://www.linuxsampler.org
[2] http://www.linuxsampler.org/documentation.html
Focus of this first release was an adequate support of the Gigasampler format,
including experimental support for the new Gigasampler v3 format. For a
complete list what is already covered and what is not, check the features
site [3].
[3] http://www.linuxsampler.org/features.html
Planned next:
* strong synthesis optimizations
* support for further sampler formats
* instrument database system
* implementation of further control interfaces like OSC [4]
* SMP and network cluster support
* as ports to other OSs are already on the pipe, maybe a new name :P
You might want to use QSampler [5] as convenient graphical frontend to
LinuxSampler. You can get everything from the downloads site [6].
[4] http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/
[5] http://qsampler.sourceforge.net
[6] http://www.linuxsampler.org/downloads.html
CU
Christian
Hi,
After a long time laying in the backyard, QSynth 0.2.3 is being released
to the world :)
Qsynth is a Qt GUI front-end application to the excellent fluidsynth
soundfont2 engine.
You can check it out, right away from:
http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
The fine print goes like there's no really big new features on this. After
all its only a minor dot-realease. As you may find from reading the
changelog, there's a:
- New option for system tray icon and menu, which is known to be effective
on KDE enabled desktops; support for freedesktop.org's system tray
protocol specification has been included so this maybe also effective on
Gnome2.
- Setup options for alternate MIDI and Audio devices were introduced.
- Output level meters get smoother and slightly layout optimized.
- Set to ignore the SIGPIPE ("Broken pipe") signal, where available, as
the default handler is usually fatal when a JACK client is zombified
abruptly.
- Messages window limit is now enforced only when the line count exceeds
in one third the user configured line count maximum; if Qt 3.2.0+ is in
use, the QTextView widget is otherwise set to the optimized Qt::LogText
format.
- Updated Mac OS X build instructions (README-OSX, by Ebrahim Mayat).
That's it.
Enjoy!
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
