http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/
Timemachine is a JACK app for recording sounds that have just happened.
It can also be used as a generic JACK sound recorder. Read the website for
more retails.
Changes
* Now builds properly without LASH installed (thanks to Joern Nettingsmeier)
* Can specify recording format on command line (wav or w64)
* Filename extension reflects the format (ie .w64 to help user confusion)
* Can specify ports to connect to on the command line
* Desktop icon (thanks to Anarcat) pixmaps/timemachine-icon.png
Known Bugs / Omisions
* There is a race condition - locks up the app, but recordings are OK.
Not fixed, as I dont understand the problem fully, and I've not
received a patch for it.
* TM wont auto-connect to JACK hardware capture ports, I've had one
request for this, but dont care enough to add it right now.
- Steve
Hi everybody,
After the holiday season, and late for the 1st anniversary, here comes
another dot release for QjackCtl, the Qt GUI for the JACK Audio Connection
Kit:
Qjackctl 0.2.10 is out, with some minor enhancements and fixes.
>From the change log:
- New pre-shutdown script setup option, allowing to specify a shell-script
to be run before the JACK server daemon is shutted-down. This overrides
any previous shutdown script setting, which should be now moved onto the
existing post-shutdown script option, as to keep old procedural behaviour.
- Avoid stopping JACK prematurely with QProcess::kill() (oneliner fix);
stopping JACK will now take a little bit longer, but hopefully will take
the time to cleanup properly (thanks to Kjetil Matheussen).
- ALSA driver Duplex mode accepts alternate Input or Output device name.
- Context menu reset option is now always enabled (yet another suggestion
from Sampo Savolainen).
- Main display background gets shinny effect; adjusted system tray
background palette color mode.
- Priority and setup control is now a spinbox ranging from 0..89 (as
suggested by Florian Schmidt). Same for Periods/Buffer.
- Patchbay connection lines are now drawn correctly when items are
scrolled out of view. Additionally, the connection lines can now be
optionally drawn as bezier spline curves (big thanks to Wilfried Huss).
Just head to the homepage:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
or, in case that's not up-to-date yet, to sourceforge's project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl
Hope you enjoy.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hi all,
I am pleased to announce the first beta release
(and the first public release, as well) of
Aqualung, a music player for GNU/Linux
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Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net
Aqualung is a new music player for the GNU/Linux operating system.
It plays audio files from your filesystem and has the feature of
inserting _no_gaps_ between adjacent tracks.
Aqualung is released under the GNU General Public License.
Features at a glance
====================
Supported file formats:
* Almost all sample-based, uncompressed formats (eg. WAV, AIFF, AU
etc.), files encoded with FLAC (the Free Lossless Audio Codec), Ogg
Vorbis and MPEG Audio files (including, but not limited to, MP3) are
supported. Naturally, any of these files can be mono or stereo.
Supported output devices:
* OSS and ALSA driver interface, as well as support for connecting to
the JACK Audio Connection Kit.
Key features:
* Continuous, gap-free playback of consecutive tracks! Your ears get
exactly what is in the files -- no silence inserted in between.
* Ability to convert sample rates between the input file and the
output device, in high quality. (Thanks to libsamplerate!)
* LADSPA plugin support -- you can use any suitable LADSPA plugin to
enhance the music you are listening to.
Some other niceties:
* Internally working volume and balance controls (not touching the
soundcard mixer).
* Support for multiple skins; changing them is possible at any time.
* Support for random seeking during playback.
* Track repeat, List repeat and Shuffle mode (besides normal playback)
* All windows are sizable. You can stretch the main window
horizontally for more accurate seeking.
* State persistence via XML config files. Aqualung will come up in the
same state as it was when you closed it, including playback modes,
volume & balance settings, currently processing LADSPA plugins,
window sizes, positions & visibility, and other miscellaneous
options.
In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a Music Store that is an
XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.
Hope you will like this program. Please report any problems.
Tom
Greetings,
I have released a first version of my LADSPA host Soundtank which
holds instruments for you to play.
The project website is <a
href="http://www.nymu.net/soundtank">www.nymu.net/soundtank</a>
In this program, you can use any LADSPA plugin with a pitch control as
a softsynth; multiple instances handle polyphony and MIDI control is
handled through user-customizeable Event Maps. As a perk, I have
included a command to automatically create Event Maps, ensuring you
instant gratification.
Soundtank is a shell for audio work. Instead of a directory heirarchy,
Signal Path objects hold other objects in ordered lists. The order
dictates the audio signal flow. There are alternate versions of the
shell commands you are familiar with, such as: ls, cd, rm, mv. This
should make it easy to learn to use.
This is a native ALSA app, with full duplex support in JACK, and an
ALSA Sequencer MIDI port is created for every active object. All audio
generation/filtering is handled by LADSPA plugins. Furthermore,
objects are saved to human readable, flat-file format XML files.
To see more, go to <a
href="http://www.nymu.net/soundtank">www.nymu.net/soundtank</a>
thanks and best wishes,
--jacob
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Florence, 28 August 2004
+++ AGNULA/DEMUDI 1.2.0-rc3 IS OUT
The third release candidate of AGNULA/DeMuDI 1.2.0, the Debian-based
GNU/Linux distribution for audio, has been released.
+++
The third release candidate of AGNULA/DeMuDI 1.2.0, the Debian-based
GNU/Linux distribution for audio, has been released.
As this release is going to be the final candidate for the 1.2.0, we
would like to invite all the audio developers whose application is
included to test the distribution and check that everything is ok with
their software.
The available packages along with their versions can be checked here:
http://apt.agnula.org/demudi/indices/Available
We apologise in advance in case some applications are slightly out of
date (we freezed the release nearly one month ago). We plan provide
package updates after the actual 1.2.0 release, but minor fixes are
welcome.
Instructions on how to download and install it can be found here:
http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/demudi_1_2_0_iso
and a list of frequently asked questions here:
http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/1.2.0-FAQ
Highlights:
o Installer
* Fixed keyboard layout configuration for X
* Uncommenting external APT sources when the network is configured
* Fixed wrong /dev/cdrom link
o Configuration:
* Fixed gkrellm font size
* Workaround for broken solfege resource file
Feel free report all bugs, requests, criticisms using our development
portal [0].
Instructions on how to report bugs and requests are available here:
http://www.agnula.org/development/agnula_bugs_requests/
We hope you enjoy AGNULA/DeMuDi! For any information, do not hesitate
to contact us writing to:
<info(a)agnula.org>
And/or visiting our web site, http://www.agnula.org/.
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About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded until
April 2004 by the European Commission (number of contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing as a
volunteer based project, aiming to spread Libre Software in the
professional audio/video arena.
Best regards,
--
The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org
Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"
[0] http://devel.agnula.org/
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Florence, 27 August 2004
+++ "Audio/Video streaming with Free Software" workshop at Firenze World Vision
On Sep 23, 2004, Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia will host
a one-day workshop on Audio/Video streaming with Free Software during
Firenze World Vision 2004, which will be held in Florence (Italy).
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On Sep 23, 2004, Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia will host
a one-day workshop on Audio/Video streaming with Free Software during
Firenze World Vision 2004, which will be held in Florence (Italy).
The intent is to make this workshop a meeting place for sharing
information about the different experiences in Europe about this
theme.
The aim is to:
- exchange best practices at regional level about the Free Streaming
effort (client/server platforms, free codecs, etc, etc)
- start a network of contacts in order to improve the social impact of
these experiences
Amongst the invited speakers:
Francois Déchelle (IRCAM)
Juan Carlos de Martin (CNR-Politecnico di Torino)
Michael Sparks (BBC R&D)
Stuart Cunningham (BBC R&D)
Andrea Glorioso (MIU-FT)
Manuel Lora (Xiph Foundation)
We look forward to seeing you at this workshop, to share and discuss
with us and with the speakers your ideas on the role of Free Software
in the streaming arena, what you feel should be the best practices in
this domain, what the next steps are in order to foster Free Software
acceptance into the Audio/Video streaming community.
All presentations will be given in the english language. An
italian-english translation service will be available for the Q&A
session, after each talk.
Further information on the workshop will be published on:
http://www.miu-ft.org/what/events/20040923.fwv.str/
For more details, feel free to contact:
Nicola Giosmin <n.giosmin(a)miu.firenzetecnologia.it>
and/or our office in Florence:
Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia
Borgo Albizi 15/a
50122 Firenze
Italy
Tel. no: +39 055 2001561
Fax. no: +39 055 2345762
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About Firenze Tecnologia: Firenze Tecnologia is the special agency of
the Chamber of Commerce of Florence devoted to study and facilitation
of technological innovation in the florentinian and tuscanian areas.
Please check: <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it/>.
About Media Innovation Unit: Media Innovation Unit is the research
unit of Firenze Tecnologia, devoted to research, development and
promotion of Free Software, Libre Content, Open Networks and New
Media.
About Firenze World Vision: Firenze World Vision is the event which
annually gathers the protagonists of innovation and of contemporary
communication processes, who compare their "visions" of the future.
Firenze World Vision deals with theory and practice, with ideas and
products, with global change and the ways our daily life is going to
change, well aware that the keys to read the contemporary world can be
found only through a multiform approach, without preconstituted views.
Please check: <http://www.firenzeworldvision.it/>.
The Sound Description Interchange Format (SDIF) is an established standard for
the well-defined and extensible interchange of a variety of sound analysis
data, including sound descriptions such as spectral, sinusoidal, resonance,
time-domain, and higher-level models.
This release 3.8.6 of the Ircam SDIF library and tools gives you the latest
improvements such as:
- thread safety
- faster operation
- reading from pipes
- API completion and bug fixes
Sites:
- http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn/sdif/
- http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/index.php3
- http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/wiki/index.php?pagename=HomePage
Have a nice day...
...Diemo
--
Diemo Schwarz, Ph.D. -- http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn/schwarz
Real-Time Applications Team -- http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/temps-reel
IRCAM - Centre Pompidou -- 1, place Igor-Stravinsky, 75004 Paris, France
Phone +33-1-4478-4879 -- Fax +33-1-4478-1540
Version 3.8.6 2004-08-26 Niels Bogaards and Axel Roebel
* SDIF now thread save if pthreads are available.
Version 3.8.5 2004-07-13 Axel Roebel
* read byte counter fixes
Version 3.8.4 2004-06-17 Axel Roebel
* fixed sdifextract padding calculation.
Version 3.8.3 2004-06-03 Diemo Schwarz
* profiling harness showed some waste of cycles -->
* optimisations give overall run time improvement of 40% on read/write
Version 3.8.2 2004-05-03 Axel Roebel and Diemo Schwarz
* reading from pipes possible
Version 3.8.1 2004-02-10 Axel Roebel
* Handling of the warning for sdiftypes file changed
Version 3.8.0 2004-01-29 Diemo Schwarz
* API and compilation completion, MacOSX portability
* Added support for types eInt1 and eUInt1.
See ChangeLog for previous versions:
Version 3.7.5 2003-05-24 Axel Röbel
Version 3.7.4 2003-05-23 Diemo Schwarz
Version 3.7.3 2003-03-07 Axel Roebel
Version 3.7.2 2002-12-17 Axel Roebel, Patrice Tisserand
Version 3.7.1 2002-10-30 Diemo Schwarz, Patrice Tisserand
Version 3.7.0 2002-09-20 Diemo Schwarz
Version 3.6 2002-08-05 Axel Roebel
Version 3.5
Version 3.4
Version 3.3
dssi-vst is a DSSI wrapper plugin for VST plugins. It enables any
compliant DSSI host to use VST instruments and effects. It requires
Wine, liblo-0.9, dssi.h, and the Steinberg VST SDK headers to build.
http://sf.net/projects/dssi/http://www.winehq.org/http://plugin.org.uk/liblo/http://www.steinberg.net/steinberg/ygrabit/index.html
dssi-vst is self-contained code, it doesn't use vstserver or libfst.
There's no very compelling reason for that, and there's nothing
inventive about it, but it works quite well for me with all two of
the existing DSSI hosts.
dssi-vst is licenced under the GPL with an additional exemption to
cover the non-redistributability of the Steinberg SDK headers. This
means it is technically not Free Software in the Debian/FSF sense.
Again, see the README for more details.
Chris
liblo is an implementation of the Open Sound Control[1] protocol for POSIX
systems. It is released under the GPL. It is written in ANSI C.
http://plugin.org.uk/liblo/
This release adds: (over the last stable release, 0.5)
* Nonblocking mesage dispatcher (useful for single GUI-thread
applications, eg Qt, GTK+)
* bugfixes to URL handling (0.6 - 0.8 broke DSSI)
* UNIX domain (FIFO) socket server/client support
* TCP domain socket server/client support
* A method to stop server threads
* Better regression tests (testlo)
* Fixed memory leaks
* More documentation
* Dynamic library building fixes
- Steve
[1] http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/
TAP-plugins 0.7.0 released.
Homepage: http://tap-plugins.sf.net
Reminder: the docs are in a separately downloadable package, get it
from the same place!
New plugins (as always, check the docs for detailed usage info):
* TAP Chorus/Flanger
An implementation capable of creating traditional Chorus and Flanger
effects, spiced up a bit to make use of stereo processing. It sounds
best on guitar and synth tracks.
* TAP Sigmoid Booster
This plugin applies a time-invariant nonlinear amplitude transfer
function to the signal. Depending on the signal and the plugin
settings, various related effects (compression, soft limiting,
emulation of tape saturation, mild distortion) can be achieved.
* TAP TubeWarmth
Adds the character of vacuum tube amplification to your audio tracks
by emulating the sonically desirable nonlinear characteristics of
triodes. In addition, this plugin also supports emulating analog
tape saturation.
Fixes:
* Caught denormal problem causing large CPU peaks in TAP Stereo Echo.
Hopefully there are no more infected plugins in my collection; I
carefully inspected all feedback loops in all plugins. But that
don't mean a thing; please do not hesitate to complain if you still
experience such bad behaviour in any plugin.
Hope you enjoy this release. Please report any problems.
Tom