What is Marlin?
Its a Sample Editor.
It edits Samples.
It uses GNOME and GTK+2
It looks pretty
What's changed? Ermmm
* We do stuff with any metadata a file may have.
* Should load and save markers in wavfiles if you have a recent
enough GStreamer (HEAD branch)
* More paste options, and more silly features like halving
selections
* Hmmm...
* Oh, the CD ripp^wextractor should work again, and if you have
Musicbrainz installed it'll get details from there and use them
in naming samples.
* Markers can be added and editted and used for minor editting jobs
* In the file selector there's preview details of sound samples.
* Errr...
* Bound to be other stuff I've forgotten (Can you tell I'm putting
lots of thought into this announcement?)
* Oh yeah...
* It has a thumbnail of the whole sample in the overview bar now.
Soundforge doesn't even do that!
What does it look like?
http://marlin.sourceforge.net/marlin-track-marker.png is a good
screenshot. There's others kicking around that site.
Some are out of date.
Where can I get it?
Rumour has it you can download it here
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53043
You shouldn't always believe rumours though...
Can I help?
Please do, I have no real clue what I'm doing. In fact as David Devant
and His Spirit Wife once sang "We're making it up as we go along,
humming a half remembered song. When we woke up, we thought, whats the
big deal...then we remembered, this is for real". Only the first line of
that really was relevant, but I thought I'd do the whole thing. People
to work on docs would be nice...translators too.
Testers really welcome, and audio engineers can tell me what they want
Marlin to do. I'd love to have feedback.
What do I need?
GNOME 2.4. It'll be moving to gnome2.6 base soon, but it'll still work
on 2.4 for the time being.
If you want track listings in the CD ripp^wextractor then you'll need
Musicbrainz.
GStreamer 0.7+ is required. HEAD CVS would be preferable cos then you'll
get extra stuff, but 0.7.1 should be fine if thats all you have and
can't be bothered fighting Sourceforge's anoncvs stuff.
Is there a website?
Yes.
Where is it?
http://marlin.sf.net
Is there a roadmap so we can see where you're heading?
Yes! I spent hours making one, cos all the cool projects have one, and
we want to at least give the impression we're a cool project.
http://marlin.sourceforge.net/road-trip2.png
Any art commissioning, just ask me. I'm great at art. You're bound to be
able to tell.
As usual, all donations of
a) Old guitar effects
b) Fender Jaguar/Telecaster guitars
c) Money
d) Soundcards that work with ALSA and aren't limited to 48Khz
(dumb Extigy)
e) bugfixes and feature patches
Will be greatfully received, although, and I'm getting realistic here,
not really expected.
Hasta La Vista Baybee!
iain
--
"Things like Destiny's Child are just repressed sexuality. It happens
with boys and men too. I feel embarrassed for them when I listen to
Stereophonics or Coldplay. That's not music for men." -- Alec Empire
Hi,
GNUsound 0.6.1 was released. This is a maintenance release to fix a
few critical bugs. I really wanted to skip this release and go
straight for 0.7, but there's too much work to be done on that version
still, and the 0.6 bugs are quite serious.
Changes from version 0.6:
Fixed bug where channels past 4 wouldn't play (by removing unrolled
mixer_mux()'s, they hardly added any speed anyway).
Fixed possible crash drawing markers (Jens Mauer).
Fixed crash canceling "File Save" dialog.
Fixed crash on machines with MMX but without MMX2 (original Pentium).
Download at the usual place:
http://awacs.dhs.org/software/gnusound
Thanks,
Pascal.
Hi,
This announcement is to inform you that a new version of MusE (0.6.2) has just
been released.
MusE is a multitrack virtual studio for Linux based on audio and midi
sequencing.
Brief list of features:
- MIDI sequencer with:
- pianoroll
- drum editor
- score editor
- Integrated softsynths
- Support for external MIDI equipment
- Audio sequencing with:
- LADSPA plugins
- Alsa output/input
- Jack output/input
- LADCCA support
- MusE is translated to Russian, Spanish, French and Swedish.
* For screenshots and more information, check the homepage.
http://lmuse.sourceforge.net.
Release 0.6.2 has a large number of improvements and bugfixes, current users
are encouraged to upgrade.
Changes since 0.6.1 include:
- Many many usability improvements in Arranger, Drum editor and Piano roll,
including lots of new shortcuts.
- Vastly improved FluidSynth integration.
- Some new documentation (still way too little though).
- Lots of bugfixes, including velocity event handling, saveAs, LADSPA path,
project path.
- Improved RT performance.
- 64bit arch fixes.
- and lots more, check the ChangeLog.
For some demo tracks that are made with MusE check here:
http://www.helgo.net/gavel/lunar/index.html
(with many thanks to the author and MusE hacker, Mathias Lundgren)
Last but not least, MusE recently moved!
MusE is now available at http://lmuse.sourceforge.net.
Have fun!
/The MusE development team
BEAST/BSE version 0.5.5 is available for download at:
ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.5
or
http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.5
BEAST (the Bedevilled Audio SysTem) is a graphical front-end to
BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine), a library for music composition,
audio synthesis, MIDI processing and sample manipulation.
The project is hosted at:
http://beast.gtk.org
This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of
the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound
generation back-end separated from all GUI activities.
The most outstanding new features are the demo song, the effect and
instrument management abilities, the track editor which allowes
for easy selection of synthesizers or samples as track sources, loop
support in songs and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities.
Note, if you encounter problems with .bse files from previous BEAST
versions, this may indicate bugs at the compatibility layer.
A bug report accompanied by the problematic file can be send to the
mailing list and is likely to get you a fixed file in return.
Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.5.5:
* New (or ported) modules:
DavCanyonDelay - Canyon Echo by David A. Bartold
BseMidiInput - Monophonic MIDI Keyboard input module
BseBalance - Stereo panorama position module
ArtsCompressor - Mono and stereo compressor [Stefan Westerfeld]
* Added utility script to crop and duplicate parts [Stefan Westerfeld]
* Added "Party Monster" demo song [Stefan Westerfeld]
* Implemented ability to use sequencer as modulation source
* Added support for external MIDI events in song tracks
* Added .bse file playback facility to bsesh
* Added support for C++ Plugins
* Now installs bse-plugin-generator for simple creation of C++ Modules
* Added manual pages for installed executables
* Lots of small MIDI handling fixes
* Fixed MP3 loader
* Major GUI improvements
* Registered MIME types for .bse files, provided .desktop file
* Made search paths for various resources user configurable
* Added prototype support to IDL compiler [Stefan Westerfeld]
* Work around PTH poll() bug on NetBSD [Ben Collver, Tim Janik]
* Support NetBSD sound device names [Ben Collver]
* Added i18n infrastrukture for BEAST and BSE [Christian Neumair, Tim Janik]
* Added Azerbaijani translation [Metin Amiroff]
* Added Russian translation [Alexandre Prokoudine]
* Added Serbian translation [Danilo Segan]
* Added Swedish translation [Christian Rose]
* Added German translation [Christian Neumair]
* Added Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac]
* Added Dutch translation [Vincent van Adrighem]
* Lots of bug fixes
---
ciaoTJ
The GStreamer team is happy to announce our first release in the 0.7.x
development series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework. The goal
of this release series is to stabilize it towards a 0.8 release which
will be part of the GNOME 2.6 release. This development series and the
ABI/API stable 0.8 release series that is to follow it also hoped to
increase our chances of KDE choosing GStreamer as their multimedia
framework for KDE 4.0. We are already working with KDE developers to
make that happen, with the KDE Jukebox application JuK by Scott Wheeler
already using GStreamer.
The 0.7.1 series is a development series and is aimed at developers. It
is NOT 100% API/ABI compatible with the stable 0.6.x series. This means
you can not use this release to upgrade your current GStreamer
installation and expect your GStreamer applications to keep working. It
is parallel installable with the 0.6.x series however.
This development series contains a lot of improvements compared to the
0.6.x series and is a much better foundation for building advanced video
handling applications. Below we list most of the major changes and
additions. Most are included in this first release, but not all are
complete yet as they will be in time for the 0.8.0 release.
New/improved features in 0.7.x series
* Improved gst-launch syntax
* Stronger more flexible debug system
* Improved threading
* Improved Solaris and SPARC architecture support
* Cleaned up licensing, core 100% LGPL
* New ASF demuxer and muxer
* New Quicktime demuxer
* AVI muxer/encoder
* Working ALSA sound output, ALSA mixing support in the pipeline
* Misc new plugins and misc dead plugins removed
* Internationalized error handling
* A much improved testsuite
* improved content negotiation system
* New interface based audio mixer support
* New best of breed typefinding
* Interactivity support for DVD menus and Flash animations
Applications
As mentioned there are some changes in API/ABI for this release. Many
applications will probably be source compatible between 0.6.x. and 0.7.x
however. Rhythmbox for instance works very well when compiled on 0.7.x.
Gst-player do not work accross releases however, so we will make a
separate release of gst-player with the needed fixes for it to work with
0.7.x.
GStreamer Homepage
More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
http://gstreamer.net/.
Download details
Information on tarballs etc. on http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.7.1/
Support and Bugs
We use Gnome's Bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests. The
"product name" is GStreamer (capital G). Please do the following before
writing a bug report :
gst-feedback &> feedback 2>&1
and attach the file "feedback" to your bug report, so that we have some
information useful in the debugging process.
Developers
GStreamer is hosted on SourceForge. All code is in CVS and can be
checked out from there. Interested developers of the core library,
plug-ins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary.
We are still looking for people with access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix and
True64 that would be willing to try building and testing GStreamer.
Patches fixing such problems are also more than welcome.
*
Hi all,
LADCCA's now reached a state where I reckon it's worth releasing again.
It's pretty stable for me, and it now seems to do what it should without
any hiccups. I'm releasing alsa patch bay and jack rack along with it
as the only changes are support for the new ladcca version. ALSA Patch
Bay has had 1.0-ness for a while now so I'm taking the opportunity to
bump the version. There's only two other supported apps at the moment,
muse, which already has 0.4.0 support in cvs and fluidsynth, a patch for
which is included in the tarball.
From the ladcca NEWS file:
* low level tcp protocol has changed along with a lot of structure clean
ups on the client- and server-side.
* added low level protocol versioning
* well defined server interface protocol (that works! :) this has been
the bulk of the work that's added two more properties to cca_event_t,
client_id and project, bumped the major version of the high level
protocol and caused more changes to the low level protocol
* new high level normal client event, CCA_Server_Lost
* removed CCA_Use_Jack and CCA_Use_Alsa client flags; sending the server
the jack client name or alsa client id now suffices
* major amounts of cleanups and fixes
* server now saves project info in XML which means a new dependency on
libxml2
* socket stuff now uses protocol-agnostic system calls and the server
defaults to IPv6. an entry in /etc/services is required to support
this. make install will install an entry if there isn't one present.
this can be disabled with a configure option, --disable-serv-inst.
there's also a new option for ladccad, --no-ipv6 which, suprisingly,
stops the server using ipv6.
* the --with-default-dir configure option and -d ladccad option now set
the directory relative to $HOME, rather than being a system-wide
directory
* project directories now get cleaned up if they haven't been saved
* updated the manual
Patches
* fluidsynth cvs
http://pkl.net/~node/ladcca.htmlhttp://pkl.net/~node/alsa-patch-bay.htmlhttp://pkl.net/~node/jack-rack.html
Bob
--
Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>
"At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at
Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in
Outlook's preview pane." -- Gabe Newell on the Half-Life 2 source leak
Hi,
Version 1.9.2 of RTSynth for ALSA is available for download.
This is mainly a clean-up and speed-up version.
Get your copy at the RTSynth home page http://www.linux-sound.org/rtsynth/
Cleanups:
- removed all old examples as they had been completely outdated. Added
examples
matching the current version.
- reduced internal buffer sizes to a minimum.
- locking down of memory when used in real time mode has been completed.
- Midi thread runs now by default in non real time mode. This change ensures
that the audio stream will never be interrupted by a Midi event. You can
still
force Midi real time mode from the command line.
Improvements:
- pitch bend frequency adjustment has been improved.
- added 6-pole formant filter to the multi output filter unit.
- added gain controller to pm-resonators in drum synth.
cheers,
Stefan
P.S. A new version for the jack audio connection kit will be available soon.
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ametro 0.4 - ALSA MIDI Metronome
********************************
This program is a little, simple MIDI Metronome using the ALSA sequencer,
made in Kylix (Object Pascal) and using ALSAPAS: ALSA Library Bindings for
Pascal.
Bug reports and comments are welcome.
Sources, binary and RPM packages for Mandrake 9.1 are available here:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/plcl/ametro/ametro-en.htmlhttp://alsapas.alturl.com
Enjoy!
Hi all,
This is not a release of any new code; it's just a trivial compilation
fix for the 0.3 tree:
* fixed a missing #include
http://pkl.net/~node/ladcca.html
Bob
--
Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh>
"At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at
Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in
Outlook's preview pane." -- Gabe Newell on the Half-Life 2 source leak
Initial package release of jackEQ-0.3.3 is now available from sf.net.
http://jackeq.sf.net
TODO:
internally assigning jack i/os
multiple interfaces - Long interface
- Tall interface (current)
extra button functionality - mostly for ease of use
unlimited channel support (mostly a gui design issue)
variety of xfader gain slopes for better mixing.
MIDI fader console support.
Enjoy.
--
Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd.
Http://www.boosthardware.comHttp://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide
========================================
Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No!
We want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything
I've ever done.
Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002
The Scotsman