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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.

20 years, 8 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

20 years, 8 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

20 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

20 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-announce] njl-plugins 0.2

by Nick Lamb

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/njl-plugins/njl-plugins-0.2.… An implementation of the continuous Risset scale gives me the confidence to announce this suite of LADSPA plugins. Thanks to Steve Harris for his invaluable contributions to the design and implementation. Also, if any XMMS LADSPA users lurk on this list, a bugfixed version is now available from my home page along with all my Linux audio software. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/ Nick.

20 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-announce] [LOCAL] Finland, Helsinki. Linux sound expert needed.

by Markku Reunanen

Dear Linux audio users, I'm sending this message on behalf of Sophea Lerner (masa(a)siba.fi) of Sibelius Academy. They're urgently looking for a Linux audio expert for a project they're running this spring. Please contact Sophea directly for more information since I'm not involved in the project. Here's the email I got: --- hello :) we really need a linux audio person to help out on our very special hybrid radio broadcast... ääniradio 2.0 is an experimental open content radio station running alongside pixelACHE 2005 and providing a venue for particle / wave workshop on hybrid radio practices. the work environment is based in the aurala open studio project at centre for music & technology in helsinki. the broadcast will include lots of live multisite performances and participatory radio events. this would be a very interesting temporary role for the right person, starting immediately - now till late april... face to face working is good - but we'll also consider someone working remotely at first and then joining us for the main festival broadcast in helsinki 10-20 april approx. it will be a very intensive project - lots of people are working hard for free and it's getting super busy so we are looking for person/people with initiative and heaps of creative troubleshooting skills to help with tasks including... basic up keep tasks on debian and redhat machines security and software updates etc ensuring back up, logging and archiving systems are running possible reinstalls on 1-2 machines set up and troubleshooting of alsa and audio hardware configurations installing and configuring various linux audio packages working with alsa - osc / pd - php/mysql - vnc configurations - icecast / muse streaming environments - apache etc liaising with code artists to integrate experimental broadcast software onto our system on a mutual aid basis. documenting tasks for others to continue later helping to refine and maintain operations workflow contributing to ongoing tech development plan for future broadcasts mac os x experience also very useful cool under pressure, systematic and thorough yet flexible, good communication skills and sense of humour definite plusses if you happen to know someone clueful who is made for this gig, please put them in touch asap! thanks sophea http://aura.siba.fi/particlewave http://aura.siba.fi/aaniradio --- # Markku Reunanen # marq(a)iki.fi # 050-5393321 # TaiK/Mlab # TKK/TML #

20 years, 8 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Ecasound 2.4.0 released

by Kai Vehmanen

1. Summary of changes An annoying bug with handling filenames with whitespace has been fixed. Integration with libsamplerate and other resamplers has received a lot of attention and many bugs have been fixed. Error reporting has been improved when loading invalid chainsetups. A new sum-mixdown mode has been added to the engine. Some minor cosmetic changes have been made to the output produced by the console ecasound interface. A log message history mechanism has been added to the engine to help ECI app and script development. --- 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 * Fixed a bug present in 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 releases which broke handling spaces in filenames. This affected all file formats handled via external tools (ogg/mp3/flac/m4a/...). * Improved support for handling commas in parameters such as filenames given to ECI commands and to the console ecasound interface. A section on "Filenames with commas not handled correctly" was added to the Ecasound User's Guide that provides more information about how commas and other special characters are handled by ecasound. * Log message history added. The EIAM command 'int-log-history' shows you the recent log messages printed via Ecasound subsystem, and 'int-set-log-history-length' sets the history buffer size. This should be a very useful tool for debugging ECI scripts and apps (insert int-log-history at suitable places in your code to get a detailed log of what happened in the engine). * Cosmetic changes to ecasound output. In the interactive mode (does not affect wellformed output or -D), ecasound now wraps all lines so that they fit into 74 columns. I've copied the "... " prefix style from the python interpreter to print messages that do not fit on one line. * Code added to analyze problems with chainsetups. If you now make common errors like: ecasound -i foo.wav -i foo.bar -o rtnull or ecasound -a:1 -i foo.wav -a:2 -i bar.wav -o rtnull ... ecasound will try to explain what is wrong with the configuration. This is related to edi-40, "Update to error and warning reporting mechanisms", development item. * Integration with libsamplerate and other resamplers has received a lot of attention and many bugs have been fixed. Special thanks to Aaron Heller, Kamil Wencel and Julien Claassen for the extensive testing! * Fixed segfaults related to buffersize and samplerate change events from JACK. Ecasound now gracefully shuts down if one of these events is received. Note that Ecasound is still not able to adapt to a new buffersize or samplerate on the fly. * A new 'sum' mixing mode has been introduced. Traditionally Ecasound has used the averaging method of mixing multiple input channels into one output channel. This avoids the risk of clipping, but can lead to suprising results in certain use-cases. The 'sum' method is closer to the way an analog mixer works. To retain backwards compability, the 'avg' mixing mode is still used as the default. Full list of changes is available at: - http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes * In string lists returned by ECI commands, all commas are now escaped with backslashes. This change was needed to make unambiguous parsing of the return values possible. * Ecasound console output is pretty-printed to fit 74 columns. This does not affect output in well-formed (-d:256) and plain-text (-D) modes. --- 5. Contributors to this release Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes * Vitaly Belostotsky and Junichi Uekawa (1): Bugs in compressor presets defined in effect_presets * Steve Harris and Tim Blechmann (1): Float anti-denormal routines from swh-plugins * Eric Dantan Rzewnicki (1): Manpage fixes Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed) * Jan Weil (3): Comma-escaping problems with EIAM return values * Aaron Heller, Kamil Wencel and Julien Claassen (1): Bugs in resampling with libsamplerate. * Didier Bellamy (1): Bug in aac/m4a encoding * Erik de Castro Lopo (1): Bug in resampling with libsamplerate * Jesse Chappell (1): Bug in resampling with libsamplerate * Frederik Eaton (1): Whitespace handling bugs ogg/mp3/ext support * Mario Lang (1): Regex metachars in LADSPA plugin description fields were not properly escaped * Philippe Schelté aka Dubphil (1): Denormal problems in Ecasound filters. * Junichi Uekawa (1): Whitespace handling bugs ogg/mp3/ext support. --- 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-2.4.0.tar.gz md5sum: 31693eb47ddb8b6f1ff8616c86265afe List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support: See http://www.eca.cx/download.php -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!

20 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] AMD to sponsor linuxaudio.org stand at Sounds Expo

by Daniel James

Hello all, AMD has offered significant sponsorship which will allow linuxaudio.org to have a stand at the Sounds Expo music technology trade show in London, 14-16 April 2005. This will be our second exhibit at Sounds Expo, following generous sponsorship from the AGNULA project last year. As you may know, AMD has worked closely with the Linux development community to ensure that Linux can run natively on its 64-bit x86 processors. There is also at least one shipping Linux-based pro audio product on the market with an AMD processor inside. I will be at Sounds Expo in person, but other people who can help on the stand are also needed, mostly to answer questions about Linux and libre software from musicians, sound engineers and hardware manufacturers. It need not be for all three days - if you can help out on just one day, that would be great. This is a great opportunity to once again put libre audio software directly in front of the target users, so please help if you can. Cheers! Daniel James Director http://linuxaudio.org

20 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] New Audio Libre PDF article: The Audacity of it!

by Daniel James

Hello all, LinuxUser & Developer magazine is running a series called Audio Libre. A new PDF article on the Audacity project is now available. There is also an article in issue 46 on free software for streaming media, written by Martin Howse. Both articles can be downloaded from: http://linuxaudio.org/en/press/ Cheers! Daniel James Director http://linuxaudio.org

20 years, 9 months

[linux-audio-announce] GOTO10 Pure Data Workshop in the Netherlands Media Art Institute

by goto10

sorry for X and Y _pd.workshop 4+1 days 23-3-2005 until 27-3-2005 Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam in collaboration with goto10.org Guests Tom Schouten (Author of PDP, video processing within PD, Belgium) and Aymeric Mansoux (Artist, France) Fee 150,- Euros Admission Due to the limited capacity, applicants will be selected according to relevant experience and motivation. Please note all materials should be written in English. Applicants can send a mail stating name, adress, telephonenumber, and a short overview of your skills and motivation to : carlijn at montevideo.nl BEFORE MARCH 11th _Pure Data Pure-Data is a "real-time" graphical programming environment for audio and graphical processing. It was planned as a free, better and more stable Max/fts, which has also been developed by Miller Smith Puckette at IRCAM. It is used as a rapid prototype-software for DSP-algorithms, and also as a music instrument and universal multimedia-software. Being a mature project now, Pure-Data is getting more and more popular in the academic field for teaching and exploring computer music and new media art. It's hard to describe the possibilities of such an environment as its field of creation is almost infinite. From audio processing, to video, 2D/3D, interactivity, on-line experimentation, streaming and sensors, Pure-Data can handle all of these and provide a rock stable system which is perfect for performances and installations of any kind. _PDP PDP is a set of external objects to PD developed by Tom Schouten. They are based on the idea of processing data in packets. While it is primarily used for video, the basic structure of PDP allows any kind of data to be processed into any other kind of data. Images can be converted to textures, that can be changed into sound, re-rendered again as image, and so on. The possibilities are endless. _Presentation Sunday March 27th (from 15:00 until 17:00) a presentation of the workshop will take place. This presentation will be open to an audience invited by the participants. A short overview of the workshop will be given and the participants can share the creations they have made with each other and with the audience. Tom Schouten (BE) Artist and author of PDP. PDP is a set of external objects to PD developed by Tom Schouten, and are based on the idea of processing data in packets. While it is primarily used for video, the basic structure of PDP allows any kind of data to be processed into any other kind of data. http://zwizwa.goto10.org Aymeric Mansoux (FR) Artist and co-founder of Goto10, an organization dedicated to set up, produce, and support electronic arts. Since the mid-nineties Aymeric Mansoux has taken part in many experiments based on the internet and the emergence of networks as a cultural fact. http://320x200.goto10.org _Schedule _Day 1 10.30 ? 13.00 coffee, tea, introductions and a general presentation of pd 13.45 ? 15.45 demonstration of a few patches as an apéritif 16.00 ? 18.00 introduction to pd: subpatches and basic audio synthesis _Day 2 10.30 ? 13.00 intermediate pd I: abstractions and simple audio sampling 13.45 ? 15.45 introduction to pdp 16.00 ? 18.00 intermediate pd II: graph on parent _Day 3 10.30 ? 13.00 advanced pdp I 13.45 ? 15.45 advanced pdp II 16.00 ? 18.00 pd networking: netsend, netreceive, pdp packets send, open sound controll _Day 4 10.30 ? 13.00 Groups of 2 or 3 will build their own application 13.45 ? 15.45 Groups of 2 or 3 will build their own application 16.00 ? 18.00 Groups of 2 or 3 will build their own application _Day 5 15.00 ? 17.00 Presentation of the workshop and the mini-projects for an invited audience, with drinks and donuts _A message from the trenches: PDP has been working on linux for quite a while. For OSX there is minimal support. The last year PDP has undergone a major restructuring which mainly aims at a wider platform support and 2D/3D drawing primitives (aka 3DP). For the OSX users out there: keep an eye on it! We plan to add Altivec, Quicktime and OpenGL support to use them macs for what they're worth. goto10.

20 years, 9 months

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