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[linux-audio-announce] linuxmusician.com: a website of sorts

by Chris Cannam

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

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Visecas 0.3.1

by Jan Weil

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

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] LINUXAUDIO.ORG CONSORTIUM LAUNCHED TO CREATE PROFESSIONAL AUDIO TOOLS

by Daniel James

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/

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] GNUsound 0.6.2 released

by Pascal Haakmat

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.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] Glame 1.0.2 released.

by Richard Guenther

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.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: JAMin [0.8.0] first JACK Audio Mastering interface release

by Jack O'Quin

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?download http://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.

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] Rosegarden-4-0.9.6 released

by Chris Cannam

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

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] Q 4.6 released

by Dr.Graef＠t-online.de

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

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] [alsa-announce] ALSA release 1.0.1

by Jaroslav Kysela

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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Alsa-announce mailing list Alsa-announce(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-announce

21 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-announce] Linux Audio Mini-Conf @ LCA2004

by Conrad Parker

The Linux Audio Mini-Conf @ LCA2004 will be held on the Monday Jan 12 2004, preceding linux.conf.au, Australia's national Linux conference. In keeping with the developer focus of linux.conf.au, this mini-conf will allow Linux audio developers to meet and share ideas, and also to discuss audio-related issues with the developers of the kernel, networking and desktop systems. For all users, this will be a great way to see and hear the variety of tools available. Full details are available at: http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2004/ Day programme: 10:00 Mark Greenaway: Linux Audio demos 12:00 Peter Chubb: Typesetting music with Lilypond 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Tim Opie: jMusic and audio synthesis 15:00 Erik de Castro Lopo: The PDAudio Project 15:45 Pause 16:00 Conrad Parker: Remix 16:30 Andre Pang: DJing Beyond the Turntable Night: Linux Audio demos and jamming! 18:00 Jam session at the Queens Arms (88 Wright Street) Everyone attending linux.conf.au (not just the audio miniconf) is invited to the evening's jam session and demos. Those who are musically inclined are of course welcome to bring laptops or instruments, or to simply have a go with what's there. Dinner is available: the Queens Arms' kitchen will be open from 18:00 to 20:30. Linux.conf.au -- http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Linux Audio Mini-Conf -- http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2004/ Penguin Party Pants ---> Adelaide! Conrad.

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