Hydrogen 0.8.1 is out!!
Features:
__General__
* Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based
on QT 3
* Sample-based streo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au
and .aiff formats
__Sequencer and mixer__
* Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to
chain patterns into a song
* Up to 64 ticks per pattern with induvidual level per event and variable
pattern length
* 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities
* Ability to import/export song files
* Unique human velocity, human time and swing functions
* Tempo-sync'd delay bus
* Export to .wav
__Other__
* OSS and Jack audio drivers, with assignable Jack ports
* ALSA MIDI input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL)
* Import/export of drumkits
Changelog:
* Midi and CPU activity widgets
* Jack transport slave mode
* Multiple jack outputs
* Resizable song editor
* Seek in song clicking in the song editor
* New mixer
* 32 instruments
* Custom pattern size
* Per instrument output (jack driver)
* MMC/MTC support (experimental)
* i18n support
Download:
http.//hydrogen.sf.net
Enjoy!!
--
Alessandro <Comix> Cominu
http://hydrogen.sf.net
e-mail: comix(a)despammed.com
Icq: 116354077
Linux User # 203765
[...Codito Ergo Sum...]
Hi all,
the following announcement gets sent to all of linux-audio-dev,
linux-audio-user and linux-audio-announce mailing lists in order to
reach as many possible interested parties as possible; I'm sorry if you
receive this twice or even more often.
I would be glad if we get a lot of participation from your side!
Frank
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>From April 29th to May 2nd, 2004, the Institute for Music and Acoustics
of ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany, will host the 2nd conference of the
Linux Audio Developers (LAD). As a new feature there will be
presentations of music in addition to technical talks. For this, we
are looking for music that has been produced completely or mostly
under Linux.
We are looking for:
* Interesting demos of sound synthesis, sound processing, etc.
* "Classical" computer music compositions, to be played in a concert
setting
* Pieces from areas such as Electronica, Chill-Out, Ambient etc.
If you would like to participate, please send your composition(s)
to this address:
Linux Sound Night
ZKM, Institut fuer Musik und Akustik
Lorenzstr. 19
D-76135 Karlsruhe
Germany
Please make use of one of the following media formats:
- Audio-CD, DVD or CD-ROM
Possible audio file formats: aiff or wav; mono, stereo or multi-channel;
44.1 or 48 kHz; 16 or 24 bit resolution.
Please include the following items with your submission (in English):
* A short commentary on the compositions
* A short Curriculum Vitae
* A completed and signed printout of the form available here:
http://www.zkm.de/lad
Deadline for submissions is February 29th, 2004.
A jury will select the compositions that will be performed/played.
The jury will award 3 grants to participants to contribute to their travel
expenses.
Terms and conditions for participation can be found in the form above.
Up-to-date information about the conference is available here:
http://www.zkm.de/lad
Hi!
gmorgan is a .. Rhythm Station, an organ with auto-accompaniment and a
"small" Band in a Linux Box. Uses MIDI and the ALSA sequencer for play the
rhythm patterns. Styles, patterns , sounds, and the mixer settings, can be
edited and saved.
Program is released GNU/GPL version 2.
== v0.18 (10/12/2003) ==
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added full extensive documentation in .pdf and .sxv
formats. Thanks to Gilles Maire.
- Format file of patterns changed, hardly reduced size.
- Added miscelaneous edit functions.
- Parts of code rewrited to impove speed.
- Solved major and minor bugs.
- Pattern Added.
REQUERIMENTS
--------------------------
Linux
ALSA
Fltk
Midi Keyboard (Optional).
Available in:
http://gmorgan.sf.nethttp://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/soudfontcombi/gmorgan.htmlhttp://www.telefonica.net/web/soudfontcombi/gmorgan.htmlhttp://perso.wanadoo.fr/guy.clotilde/GMORGAN/index.html
Grettings
Josep
hello linux audio enthusiasts!
reading lwn.net this morning i found that the linux journal has a new
linux audio column in their online edition, written by dave phillips.
the current issue is at
http://www.linuxjournal.com//article.php?sid=7283 .
the content of this first issue will not be news to you, since it's
basically a plug for the world's finest linux audio mailing lists, which
you already seem to know about :)
still, it's an interesting read, and it has had an effect already: about
30 new subscriptions (in addition to the usual continous growth) since
wednesday... (see http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribe.php3 .)
to all new readers: welcome aboard!
best,
jörn
--
To someone whose only tool is a hammer, each problem looks like a nail.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, EWD838
Jörn Nettingsmeier
Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany
http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server)
http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)
1. A short summary of changes
Support has been added for libsndfile. This allows to access
a number of new audio file formats such as W64, PVF and VOC
files. Integration with libaudiofile and MikMod has also
been improved. Bugs in the native Python ECI implementation
have been fixed. Rubyecasound, a Ruby ECI implementation, has
been added to the package. A serious memory-leak in list
handling functions of the C ECI implementation was fixed. This
bugfix also affects C++, Perl and PHP ECI implementations.
Compiling Ecamegapedal works again as the header files
missing from the previous 2.3.1 release are now again
included in the dist-package. Many minor bugs have been fixed.
---
2. What is Ecasound?
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio
processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback,
recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect
processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports
a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms.
Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their
parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators
and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included
in the package.
Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface
(ECI) is licensed under the LGPL.
---
3. Changes since last release
* Rubyecasound, a Ruby ECI implementation, has been added
to the package. Developer documentation can be found
at <http://eca.cx/eci>. Rubyecasound was developed by
Jan Weil.
* Some files were missing from the previous 2.3.1 release
dist-package. This caused the "make check" test procedure
to fail, and also prevented from compiling Ecamegapedal
against 2.3.1. In 2.3.2 the missing files are once again
included in the dist-package.
* Libsndfile support has been added to Ecasound
(development item 'edi-33'). Support for libaudiofile
has also been improved in this release. The user
can now compile in support for both libraries at
the same time. It is possible to use command-line options
to select which library to use for a given file. Similar
improvements have been made to the MikMod support.
See the ecasound(1) man page for more details.
* Some bugs in libsamplerate integration have been fixed.
Upgrading to libsamplerate version 0.0.15 or newer is
recommended. This release contains a few important fixes
that affect Ecasound. A few examples of resampling
with Ecasound have been added to the docs:
<http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/Documentation/examples.html>.
* A severe memory-leak bug was found and fixed in the C ECI
implementation. This bug affects applications that heavily
use EIAM commands that return lists of strings. The C ECI
is used by C++, Perl, PHP and Python ECI implementations.
* Bugs in the native Python ECI implementation have been
fixed. The C-based Python ECI implementation is still
selected as the default, but you can override this with
the '--enable-pyecasound=python' option to configure.
Note, 'native' here means that ECI API is implemented without
linking to any Ecasound libraries. Instead the ECI implementation
forks 'ecasound' binary on the background and communicates with it
using pipes. This allows for clear decoupling between ECI apps
and specific Ecasound version. More information about ECI can
be found at <http://www.eca.cx/eci>.
Full list of changes is available at
<http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/history.html>.
---
4. Interface and configuration file changes
None.
---
5. Contributors
Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes
Jan Weil (2) -- rubyecasound ECI implementation, new docs
Mark de Wever (1) -- typo in libecasoundc-config usage
Kai Vehmanen (various)
Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed)
Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (1) -- preset.h not installed
Jan Weil (1) -- the ecacontrol.py bug
---
6. Links and files
Web sites:
http://www.eca.cxhttp://www.eca.cx/ecasoundhttp://www.eca.cx/eci
Source packages:
http://ecasound.seul.org/downloadhttp://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.3.2.tar.gz
Distributions with maintained Ecasound support:
Agnula - http://www.agnula.org
AltLinux - http://www.altlinux.com
Debian - http://www.debian.org
FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html
Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org
Mandrake - http://www.mandrake.org
PLD Linux - http://www.pld.org.pl
SuSE Linux - http://www.suse.de/en
Contrib Packages and Add-On Distributions:
AudioSlack for Slackware - http://www.audioslack.com
PlanetCCRMA for RedHat/Fedora
- http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software
Thac's RPMs for Mandrake - http://rpm.nyvalls.seApps.kde.com packages for Mandrake/Redhat/SuSE
- http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/info/id/2146
Note! Distributors do not necessarily provide packages for
the very latest Ecasound version.
--
http://www.eca.cx
Audio software for Linux!
Changes:
- Bug when Fw 5'' and Rew 5'' in Seconds Format
- Bug in LADSPA effects that use srate. Tkeca assumes 44100 (Thanks to
Mark de Wever for report this bug)
- Bug in effects names when loading an saved file. (Thanks to Mark de
Wever for report this bug)
- Pre-roll using temporary files
- Metronome (like an effect)
- html User Manual
http://tkeca.sourceforge.net
Jack 0.91.1 has been released.
Changes:
New iec61883 driver. Very experimental; this is just to get it out
there. 61883 is the standard for audio+midi over firewire. Run
configure with --enable-iec61883 to compile it. It requires libraw1394.
Added callback for notifying clients when entering freewheeling mode and
leaving it:
int jack_set_freewheel_callback (jack_client_t *client,
JackFreewheelCallback freewheel_callback,
void *arg);
Bugs fixed.
Compiler warnings removed.
Taybin Rutkin
Announcing release jackEQ-0.3.8 now available from sf.net and cvs commit
too.
http://jackeq.sf.net
Added io-menu.c for internally assigning jack ports.
Uses the latest swh-plugins 0.4.3. We now check the latency for the djeq
plugin (although we don't do anything with it).
TODO:
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
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In the past few weeks I've been working on defining a new standard
called FlacPak for compressing MIDI instrument patch files. This format
uses FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and zlib to compress audio and
binary data respectively. By using FLAC for audio and exploiting other
characteristics of instrument files (stereo samples, differing bit
widths, etc) much better compression can be achieved then if just using
a binary compressor.
Currently SoundFont, Downloadable Sounds (DLS) and GigaSampler files are
supported. Adding support for a particular instrument format means
creating a specific file handler for that format. The decoder on the
other hand is generic and sees the resulting file as interleaved binary
and audio data. This means other instrument formats can be added in a
backwards compatible manner. This also means that FlacPak isn't limited
to just instrument patch formats, pretty much any binary/audio combined
data format might benefit from FlacPak (provided the audio is
mono/stereo 8/16/24 bit).
The current reference FlacPak implementation is part of the libInstPatch
library that is in active development. A CVS tarball of libInstPatch was
made to help in getting feedback from users on the current design of
FlacPak so that the format can be finalized.
To read more about FlacPak:
http://swami.sourceforge.net/flacpak.php
To get right to the download (libinstpatch-cvs_20031201.tar.bz2):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=47510
I welcome any feedback on this format and the results obtained. The
Swami development list can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=47510
I still haven't tested it a whole lot so don't trust your data with it
yet. There is also a lot more tuning that can be done to get the
compression higher :) Cheers.
Josh Green
