Hello,
JJack 0.1 - Java bridge API for JACK has initially been released.
http://jjack.berlios.de/
JJack is a framework for the Java programming language that allows
creating and running portable audio processor clients for the JACK Audio
Connection Kit.
There are 3 alternative ways to run JJack clients:
- using the JJack shell application
- as JavaBeans
- as standalone application
Please let me know if you have created a Java audio application with
JJack, it can be made available for download on the JJack site if you like.
If someone knows how to compile the native bridge library libjjack.c for
other OSs than Linux, please send the resulting binary to me.
Co-developers are always welcome.
Make noise.
Jens
ROSEGARDEN-4 0.9.8 RELEASED
===========================
The Rosegarden team are pleased to announce the release of
Rosegarden-4 0.9.8, an audio and MIDI sequencer and score editor
for Linux.
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
This release is primarily focused on bugfix, performance and usability
improvements over 0.9.7, including significant optimisations to the
main editing canvas, sequencer and GUI memory leak fixes, faster and
better notation editing and printing, and dozens of other fixes. It
also contains a handful of new features including MIDI mixer window,
ottava and fingering marks in notation, and a redesigned audio segment
manager.
Features of Rosegarden include:
o Score, piano-roll, event list and track overview editors
o MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK
o Audio plugin support using LADSPA
o Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
o MIDI file I/O, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML export
o Clear and consistent KDE-based user interface
o Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
o User interface in Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh,
Italian, Swedish and Estonian, as well as UK and US English.
Chris
Oggz 0.8.3 Release
------------------
liboggz is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container
developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio
format.
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/download/liboggz-0.8.3.tar.gz
New in this release:
* Theora header parsing updated for Theora alpha3
* fixes for win32 build procedure
* improved API documentation for seeking, OGGZ_AUTO and OggzIO
About Oggz
----------
Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzdump and oggzdiff.
liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while
presenting the following API niceties:
* Full API documentation.
* Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior.
* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX and Win32. May
work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf. For Win32: nmake
Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files and Visual C++ 6.0
workspace files are provided in the source distribution.
* Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams,
to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail
if you try to write illegally structured packets.
* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
interface to raw Ogg files.
* Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides
callback based notification when this queue is empty
* A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg
data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec
streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis and Annodex
headers without requiring linking to those libraries. This allows
efficient use on servers and other devices that need to parse and
seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do a full media decode.
Full documentation of the liboggz API, customization and installation,
and mux and demux examples can be read online at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/
Tools
-----
The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams:
* oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file
from such a hexdump.
* oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output
differences Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD-style
license.
License
-------
Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.
More information is available online at the Oggz homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/
FishSound 0.6.2 Release
-----------------------
libfishsound provides a simple programming interface for decoding and
encoding audio data using Xiph.Org codecs (Vorbis and Speex).
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libfishsound/download/libfishsound-0.6.2.ta…
This release includes improved handling of first and last blocks of data
(bos and eos packets in Ogg):
* new fish_sound_prepare_truncation() API call
* improved encdec-audio test to keep track of frames in and out,
and warn if unequal. (Currently not set to FAIL on this condition
as it appears to be common for Speex)
It also includes updates to the Win32 nmake build files.
About libfishsound
------------------
libfishsound by itself is designed to handle raw codec streams from a
lower level layer such as UDP datagrams. When these codecs are used in
files, they are commonly encapsulated in Ogg to produce Ogg Vorbis
and Speex files.
libfishsound is a wrapper around the existing codec libraries and provides
a consistent, higher-level programming interface. It has been designed for
use in a wide variety of applications; it has no direct dependencies on
Annodex or Ogg encapsulation, though it is most commonly used in conjunction
with liboggz to decode or encode Ogg encapsulated Vorbis or Speex files.
FishSound has been developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX and
Win32. It probably also works on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf.
For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files and
Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are all provided in the source distribution.
Full documentation of the FishSound API, customization and installation,
and complete examples of Ogg Vorbis and Speex decoding and encoding are
provided in the source tarball, and can be read online at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libfishsound/html/
FishSound is Free Software, available under a BSD-style license.
More information is available online at the FishSound homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/libfishsound/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/
The latest version of the realtime Linux Security Module is now
available on SourceForge...
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/realtime-lsm/realtime-lsm-0.1.1.tar.gz?d…
This release handles changes to the capabilities structure introduced
in Linux 2.6.6, but still works with earlier 2.6 kernels. There are
no functional changes. Unless you are running 2.6.6, there is no need
to upgrade. Changes in the 2.6.6 kernel makefiles affect the
procedure for building the realtime-lsm. Please consult the INSTALL
instructions for details.
The realtime LSM is an installable kernel module that enables realtime
capabilities for any 2.6 kernel without needing to directly patch the
kernel. It was written by Torben Hohn and Jack O'Quin, who make no
warranty concerning the safety, security or even stability of your
system when using it. It is provided under the provisions of the GPL.
--
joq
Hi,
msAlsaSeq, an ALSA driver for the Linux version of Grame's MidiShare
(http://www.grame.fr/MidiShare/), is now available in MidiShare cvs
(http://www.grame.fr/MidiShare/SCPP/dev.html). You can find it in the
development branch (-r dev) in the src/linux/drivers/alsa directory.
The driver lets you connect to ALSA devices and other ALSA sequencer
clients from MidiShare applications. It can be used instead of the
msRawMidi, msRawSerial and msInetDriver clients if you're running ALSA
instead of plain ol' OSS (which you should ;-). It also allows you to
map ALSA client ports to corresponding MidiShare ports. A manpage is
included.
Please direct comments and bug reports to the midishare-dev list or
Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de.
Enjoy!
Albert
--
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email: Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de, ag(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
WWW: http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag
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[Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around]
Florence, 12 May 2004
+++ THE AGNULA PROJECT PROTESTS AGAINST SOFTWARE PATENTS
In September 2003, the European Parliament had voted to maintain and
reinforce the exclusion of software and business methods from
patentability. The AGNULA project will "black-out" the home pages of
its sites (`www.agnula.org', `devel.agnula.org', `muzik.agnula.org')
to strongly protests against this act of disrespect towards the
European Parliament - which is directly elected by european citizens -
and against patents on software, data formats and abstract ideas.
+++
In September 2003, the European Parliament had voted to maintain and
reinforce the exclusion of software and business methods from
patentability. On May 5 2004, the Irish Presidency managed to secure
a qualified majority for a counter-proposal to the software patents
directive, with only a few countries - including Belgium and Germany -
showing resistance. This proposal discards all limiting amendments
from the European Parliament, reinstates the laxist provisions from
the Commission, adding direct patentability of data structures and
process descriptions as icing on the cake.
The AGNULA project strongly protests against this act of disrespect
towards the European Parliament - which is directly elected by
european citizens - and against patents on software, data formats and
abstract ideas.
The AGNULA project fully supports the Foundation for a Free
Information Infrastructure (FFII [0]) and all other groups that,
throughout Europe and the rest of the world, are fighting against
patentability software and abstract ideas.
You can find further information on why patents on software and
abstract ideas are a very bad thing (not only for Libre Software but
for all software creators) here:
http://swpat.ffii.org/http://fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat/letter-20040510.en.html
Please support our protest by obscuring your pages and/or helping FFII
in their struggle. You can find ways to do it here:
http://www.ffii.org/ffii-cgi/aktiv?f=euparl&l=en
+++
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://www.ffii.org/
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[Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around]
Florence, 12 May 2004
+++ THE AGNULA PROJECT @ creAzione
The AGNULA project has been invited to "creAzione", a three-day (20-22
May 2004) long event on the "creative use of technology", organized by
ASNM S.p.a. and BIC La Fucina at Laboratorio Innovazione Breda.
Specifically, the AGNULA project has been invited as guest speaker
during the "Free Software" day. Andrea Glorioso, Damien Cirotteau,
Davide Fugazza and Free Ekanayaka will talk about the AGNULA project,
the AGNULA/DeMuDi distribution and the AGNULA Libre Music web portal.
+++
The AGNULA project has been invited to "creAzione", a three-day (20-22
May 2004) long event on the "creative use of technology", organized by
ASNM S.p.a. and BIC La Fucina at Laboratorio Innovazione Breda.
Specifically, the AGNULA project has been invited as guest speaker
during the "Free Software" day. Andrea Glorioso, Damien Cirotteau,
Davide Fugazza and Free Ekanayaka will talk about the AGNULA project,
the AGNULA/DeMuDi distribution and the AGNULA Libre Music web portal.
The event will take place in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan, Italy) at
Laboratorio Innovazione Breda:
http://www.asnm.com/ita/index.php
Directions how to reach the place can be found here:
http://www.asnm.com/ita/dove/stradale.htm
Or you can use the wonderful Maporama web site:
http://www.maporama.com
The "creAzione" days will focus on the analysis of how technical and
technological tools can and will interact with human creativity in the
digital age, as well as on understanding how creativity can become the
starting point of succesful business activities in the near future.
The AGNULA team will be present on saturnday, May 22, and will give
three speeches during the event:
(1) AGNULA: past, present and future
Andrea Glorioso <sama(a)miu-ft.org>
(2) AGNULA/DeMuDi: a libre GNU/Linux Debian-based distribution for
professional audio
Free Ekanayaka <free(a)miu-ft.org>
Damien Cirotteau <damien(a)miu-ft.org>
(3) AGNULA Libre Music: libre contents for free spreading of knowledge
Andrea Glorioso <sama(a)miu-ft.org>
Davide Fugazza <fugaz(a)miu-ft.org>
The precise timeline for the event is yet to be determined, but AGNULA
talks will probably happen early in the afternoon (14:00-17:00).
+++
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"
hi...
i just wanted to announce the release of galan-0.3.0_beta6.
This release has vst(i) support through libfst.
So if you ever wanted to wire up networks of vst plugins and
instruments, you can do this now.
fst is available here:
http://linuxaudiosystems.com/fst/fst-1.5.tar.gz
we have some issues with the embedding of windows into the app.
it will work if you set managed = "N" in your wine config.
and it will work with IcwWM and fluxbox.
for other windowmanagers i cant tell.
i hope to find this issue so that it works with every windowmanager
soon.
and for those who dont know. gAlan is a mixture of pd and reaktor.
there is eventprocessing, and there are two windows: one for the
schematics and one for the controls.
in the controls window you can have several panels with custom
background images. look here for an example of an instrument built with
gAlan:
http://galan.sourceforge.net/anti-aliased-knobs.png
galan supports subpatches. and polyphony is already possible (but i will
refine that a lot in the future)
the documentation is not very good, and the example patches are a little
old.
but i hope the stuff which you can add from the Lib/ menu gets you
started quite easyly.
the download page is here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/galan
--
torben Hohn
http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language
May 10, 2004 - The Xiph.org Foundation has joined the Linuxaudio.org
consortium, becoming the newest member and bringing the total number
of members to nineteen.
Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of companies and
software projects using Linux kernel based systems and other libre
software for audio work, with an emphasis on professional tools for
the music, recording and broadcast industries. The consortium aims to
co-ordinate joint projects between members, collaborate on the
promotion of Linux based systems for audio tasks, and provide a
single point of contact for prospective industry partners.
Daniel James, Linuxaudio.org director, commented: "With the welcome
addition of the Xiph.org Foundation, our consortium now has members
working on all aspects of Linux audio. The Xiph.org Foundation codec
projects and related software perfectly complement existing members'
work on hardware, drivers, applications, plugins and Linux
distributions. Together, we can now offer complete Linux-based
solutions to the audio industry and user communities all over the
world."
The Xiph.org Foundation is a not-for-project multimedia research and
development company, focused on the creation of next generation
codecs and tools for audio and video that are both open and
royalty-free. Current projects include the Vorbis audio codec for
general purpose audio compression, the Speex codec for voice
compression, and the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC).
More information on the Linuxaudio.org consortium and the Xiph.org
Foundation can be obtained by visiting our respective websites:
http://www.linuxaudio.org/http://www.xiph.org/
Press contacts: Daniel James at (daniel at linuxaudio dot org) and
Jack Moffitt at (jack at xiph dot org)
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