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[Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around]
Florance, 17 January 2004
+++ AGNULA JOINS THE LINUXAUDIO.ORG CONSORTIUM
AGNULA is proud to announce it has joined the Linuxaudio.org
Consortium.
+++
AGNULA is proud to announce it has joined the Linuxaudio.org
Consortium [0], which brings together the leading projects and
companies working in the field of professional audio systems based on
Libre Software.
Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of companies and libre
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.
Inside the AGNULA project we are excited to join the Linux Audio
consortium. Since we base our work on the principle of maximum
co-operation, typical of Free Software projects, we can only applaud
the effort to unite the key GNU/Linux players in the audio software
industry and community. We are looking forward to contributing our
experience to the expertise provided by consortium members, with the
common goal of developing ever better Linux-based systems for
professional audio work.
Other members of the Linuxaudio.org consortium include:
ALSA project (supported by SUSE)
Ardour project
Audacity project
Boost Hardware
Core Sound
Dyne:bolic project
Fervent Software
4Front Technologies
JACK project
JAMin project
Linux Audio Systems
Lionstracs
MandrakeSoft
Mirror Image Studios
Plugin.org.uk project
Rosegarden project
+++
About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded by the
European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action
IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). The project aims
to spread Free 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.linuxaudio.org/
Quite a long time ago now, Richard Bown and I decided we were going to
set up a sort of magazine website for musicians using Linux. It
wouldn't be a developer site or a pro-audio site or even particularly
a technology site, it would just be a site for individuals who were
interested in doing music.
We registered the name linuxmusician.com, and then, inevitably,
contrived to do absolutely nothing at all with it for the next
eighteen months. It became very clear very quickly, as always, that
we simply wouldn't have the time to write a substantial amount of
material for it. The subsequent appearance of the handy QuickToots
site at djcj.org also seemed to reduce the need for some of the
content we'd been hoping to write or solicit.
Recently though we decided that enough was enough, and that we should
just launch the damn thing with the few contributions we could make
plus a community article-submission facility and at the least give it
the chance to flop gracelessly instead of never being launched at
all. So one install of Mambo later, and we present
http://www.linuxmusician.com/
At the moment there is one (1) complete article on there, plus two
brief stubs of articles; there's a links page with hardly any links
yet, and a copy of the bownie.com Guide to Home Recording. We will
continue to post stuff that we come up with, but also if you take a
moment to register you are then very welcome to submit articles,
news, and links. It's not a complete slash/scoop-style community
moderation system; for example, there's currently no comment system
at all. But we're very open to ideas and concoctions that other
people might want to suggest.
Chris
Hello lists,
I am pleased to announce the initial release of Visecas 0.3.1.
Visecas is a graphical user interface (GTK+) for Ecasound
[http://eca.cx/ecasound], a software package written by Kai Vehmanen
which is designed for multitrack audio processing.
It aims to provide full access to all Ecasound's object by preserving
Ecasound's semantic (which means you do not edit tracks and regions but
chains and audio objects).
Please visit Visecas' webpage at http://visecas.sourceforge.net
This release includes the following features:
* start Visecas as you would start Ecasound (all arguments are
passed on)
* display and control chainsetup's status (valid, connected,
looped, etc.)
* add, remove, rename, mute, bypass chains
* add, remove, attach audio objects
* add, remove, control operators
* control chainsetup position via hscale
* display and control engine status
* edit Ecasound's preferences
Have fun!
Jan
Thursday, 15th January 2004 - The Internet
LINUXAUDIO.ORG CONSORTIUM LAUNCHED TO CREATE PROFESSIONAL AUDIO TOOLS
Launched today with 17 members, Linuxaudio.org[1] brings together the
leading projects and companies working in the field of professional
audio systems based on libre software.[2]
Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of companies and libre
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.
Organisations of all sizes and individuals are involved in audio
development on Linux kernel based platforms. Until the launch of
Linuxaudio.org, there has not been a formal organisation to assist
and promote the development of this technology. Linuxaudio.org takes
its inspiration from the Open Source Development Lab[3], where Linux
kernel development is co-ordinated, and the Consumer Electronics
Linux Forum[4]. Both of these organisations have attracted broad
support from the leading companies in their respective fields.
The Linuxaudio.org consortium does not charge membership fees, as this
would disadvantage small libre software projects and specialist
companies who are already making a substantial contribution to Linux
audio by developing and releasing software for free download.
However, there will be sponsorship opportunities for member
organisations. This sponsorship could take the form of support for
members attending audio industry events and conferences, or the
donation of hardware to software developers and test facilities.
Members of the consortium at the launch include:
AGNULA project
Libre software and music
ALSA project (supported by SUSE)
Soundcard drivers and utilities for Linux
Ardour project
Digital audio workstation for Linux
Audacity project
Cross-platform multitrack recorder and editor
Boost Hardware
Custom built portable Linux DAW and DJ machines
Core Sound
Portable recording hardware and microphone manufacturers
Dyne:bolic project
Linux distribution running from CD-ROM
Fervent Software
The company behind the Rosegarden sequencer
4Front Technologies
Developers of Open Sound System and 3D audio technologies
JACK project
Low latency audio server for Linux
JAMin project
Mastering tool for the JACK audio server
Linux Audio Systems
The company supporting the Ardour DAW
Lionstracs
Linux-based workstation keyboard manufacturers
MandrakeSoft
Publisher of the Mandrake Linux distribution
Mirror Image Studios
Linux based recording studio
Plugin.org.uk project
Home of many LADSPA effects plugins
Rosegarden project
MIDI and audio sequencer for Linux
Linuxaudio.org members are expected to agree to the conditions set out
in the Policy[5] document. On joining the consortium, each member can
nominate an individual that will represent it on the Linuxaudio.org
Management Board. Projects and companies interested in joining the
consortium can apply by contacting the Director, Daniel James, or the
Chair of the Management Board, Dave Phillips. Contact information is
available on the Linuxaudio.org site.
"As Mandrake Linux is gaining momentum in the multimedia field,
MandrakeSoft is very happy to join the Linux Audio consortium. Such
an organisation is needed to promote the use of Linux as a platform
of choice for running professional audio applications", said François
Bancilhon, CEO of MandrakeSoft[6].
Andrea Glorioso of the AGNULA[7] libre software and music project
commented "The AGNULA project is excited to join the Linux Audio
consortium. Since we base our work on the principle of maximum
co-operation, typical of Free Software projects, we can only applaud
the effort to unite the key GNU/Linux players in the audio software
industry and community. We are looking forward to contributing our
experience to the expertise provided by consortium members, with the
common goal of developing ever better Linux-based systems
for professional audio work."
"4Front enthusiastically supports the Linuxaudio.org consortium and
the timing is just right for a consortium to promote the development
of audio and multimedia applications on Linux. 4Front has been laying
the foundation for audio on Linux since the very beginning with Open
Sound System" said Dev Mazumdar, President of 4Front Technologies[8].
Chris Cannam from the Rosegarden[9] sequencer project added "This
initiative is exactly what the Linux audio world needs, and the
timing couldn't be better. The Linux community has a development
model that should be of interest to professional users everywhere,
and a great many interesting technologies and applications already.
It's time to start introducing them to the world."
*ends*
Notes
[1] http://linuxaudio.org/
[2] We use the term 'libre software' rather than 'free software' or
'open source', because some people get the wrong idea and assume that
free means 'free-as-in-beer'. Since some consortium members are
producing commercial products, that assumption won't always be
correct. We don't use the term Open Source, because while libre
software has source code available, not all publically available
source code is released under a libre licence - the best known libre
software licence being the GNU GPL.
[3] http://osdl.org/
[4] http://celinuxforum.org/
[5] http://linuxaudio.org/en/policy.html
[6] http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
[7] http://agnula.org/
[8] http://www.opensound.com/
[9] http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/
Hi,
GNUsound 0.6.2 was released.
Changes from 0.6.1:
Fixed bug where mute/solo buttons weren't correctly being selected
when tracks were vertically scrolled.
Added mouse wheel support, mouse wheel now controls zoom.
Download at the usual place:
http://awacs.dhs.org/software/gnusound
Thanks,
Pascal.
Today Glame 1.0.2 stable was released. This is a bugfixing release
focussing on fixing the known issues with the New Posix Threading Library
(NPTL) shipped with recent libc and 2.6 Linux kernel (and unfortunately
also with RedHat 9.0 and Fedora distributions). Apart from this you'll
notice some improvements in the importing of Mp3 and Ogg files, namely,
you can cancel them now.
Users and distributors are encouraged to upgrade.
The release can be fetched from your favorite SourceForge mirror or
directly at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/glame/glame-1.0.2.tar.gz?download
Happy glaming,
Richard.
The first stable release (0.8.0) of JAMin - the JACK Audio Mastering
interface is now available for download.
JAMin is a GPL licenced, state-of-the-art realtime mastering processor
designed to bring out the detail in recorded music and provide the
final layer of polish. Every effort has been made to ensure a clean,
distortion-free signal path. All processing elements use linear-phase
filtering, ensuring that no phase distortion is introduced.
JAMin runs on Linux using the JACK Audio Connection Kit, a low-latency
audio server, which can connect a number of different applications to
an audio device, and also allow them to share audio among themselves.
Homepage
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/
Download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jamin/jamin-0.8.0.tar.gz?downloadhttp://plugin.org.uk/jamin/http://www.joq.us/jamin/
Installation instructions + requirements
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/ALSA_JACK_JAMin.html
Usage instructions
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/Using_JAMin.html
Features
* Linear filters
* JACK I/O
* 1024-band hand-drawn EQ with parametric controls
* 30-band graphic EQ
* Spectrum analyser
* 3-band peak compressor
* Lookahead brick-wall limiter
* 3-band stereo processing
* Presets and scenes
* Loudness maximiser
--
JAMin is (c) 2004 J. Depner, S. Harris, J. O'Quin, R. Parker and P. Shirkey.
The Rosegarden team announce the release of Rosegarden-4 0.9.6, an
audio and MIDI sequencer and score editor for Linux. To download the
source package, go to the homepage at
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
This release is primarily to address a significant problem with 0.9.5
that was seriously affecting sequencer timing performance for some
users. For this reason we strongly recommend an upgrade. Be aware
that one of the fixes in this release mandates the use of Qt 3.1 or
newer to build; Qt 3.0 is no longer supported.
This release also contains new translations of the GUI into Italian,
Swedish and Estonian, thanks to Daniele Medri, Stefan Asserhäll, and
Hasso Tepper. These are in addition to the existing support for US
and UK English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, and Welsh.
Chris
Q is a multi-platform functional programming language based on term
rewriting, which comes with a collection of useful addon modules for
system, scientific and multimedia programming. Release 4.6 of Q is now
available, along with Q-Audio 1.2 and Q-Midi 1.12.
Q 4.6 provides a much improved GGI module and a new ImageMagick module,
both very useful for programming graphics in Q. Q-Audio 1.2 features a
new module to display audio data in a GGI visual and a sample graphical
audio player application. Q-Midi 1.12 sports some minor fixes and a
simplified Windows install procedure.
Downloads and more information about the Q project can be found on the Q
website at http://q-lang.sourceforge.net
Enjoy!
--
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Email: Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de, ag(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
WWW: http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag
Hello all,
this is our first final ALSA release with number 1.0.1. As you all
expected, there are only minor fixes against 1.0.0rc2.
The 1.0 code is a direct successor of the 0.9 code which firstly
introduced the completely reworked APIs since 0.5 version. Our focus is
to offer a hardware abstraction layer for all kinds of hardware including
proffesional equipment.
I would like to say a strong THANK YOU to all people who
contributed to this project. Namely: Abramo Bagnara, Takashi Iwai, Paul
Davis, Clemens Ladisch, Massimo Piccioni and all others.
Changes since 1.0.0rc2:
* alsa-driver
- added --with-redhat switch to force RedHat kernel detection
- fixed system timer behaviour
- OSS PCM emulation
- added OSS_ALSAEMULVER ioctl to identify ALSA driver
- changed whole-frag (default again) => partial-frag
- small corrections in snd_pcm_oss_get_ptr()
- USB audio fix
- RME9652 - fixed driver load
- GUS - fixed race - scheduling in interrupt
* alsa-lib
- added ipc_perm option for direct plugins (dsnoop, dmix, dshare)
- fixed range settings for simple mixer
- added asym plugin
- alisp work (not too much important at the moment)
Jaroslav
-----
Jaroslav Kysela <perex(a)suse.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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