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[linux-audio-announce] LilyPond 2.0 - make beautiful music prints

by Han-Wen Nienhuys

Dear music enthousiasts, LilyPond version 2.0 was released today. LilyPond is an automated music notation system: it is used to make gorgeous sheet music. It is libre software ("open source"), and available for most Unix flavors, including Linux and MacOS X, and MS Windows. Use it for your music too! For this version, we have dramatically simplified many parts of the syntax, making it easier to use than ever before. Other improvements include quarter-tone accidentals, and conditional inclusion of music fragments. With version 2.0, we have a solid platform for working on notation and typography features for coming versions. Downloads, examples and documentation are available from the website, http://lilypond.org A big thank-you goes out to our hackers and bughunters: Mats Bengtsson, Heikki Junes, Juergen Reuter, Antonio Palama, Benjamin Milde, Daniel Berjon Diez, David Bobroff, David Rayleigh Arnold, Erik Ronstroem, Fabio dos Santos, Fodor Bertalan, Frederic Bron, Graham Parcival, Ian Bailey-Mortimer, John Williams, Josza Marton, Marco Caliari, Matthieu Amiguet, Michael Welsh Duggan, Patrick Atamaniuk, Paul Scott, Pedro Kroeger, Peter Lutek, Richard Schoeller, Thorkil Wolvendans, and Werner Trobin Happy music printing, Han-Wen Nienhuys & Jan Nieuwenhuizen (core development team) New features in 2.0 since 1.8 ***************************** * Crescendos can now be drawn dotted or dashed. * Quarter tones are now supported. They are entered by suffixing `ih' for a half-sharp and `eh' for a half-flat. Hence, the following is an ascending list of pitches: ceses ceseh ces ceh c cih cis cisih cisis * The following constructs have been removed from the syntax: \duration #SCHEME-DURATION \pitch #SCHEME-PITCH \outputproperty FUNC SYMBOL = VALUE For `\outputproperty', the following may be substituted: \applyoutput #(outputproperty-compatibility FUNC SYMBOL VALUE) * Clefs may now be transposed arbitrarily, for example \clef "G_8" \clef "G_15" \clef "G_9" * The syntax for chords and simultaneous music have changed. Chords are entered as <PITCHES> while simultaneous music is entered as <<..MUSIC LIST..>> In effect, the meanings of both have been swapped relative to their 1.8 definition. The syntax for lists in `\markup' has changed alongside, but figured bass mode was not changed, i.e.: \markup { \center <..LIST OF MARKUPS..> } \figure { <FIGURES> } As chords the more often used than simultaneous music, this change will save keystrokes. * Each music expression can now be tagged, to make different printed versions from the same music expression. In the following example, we see two versions of a piece of music, one for the full score, and one with cue notes for the instrumental part: << \tag #'part << { c4 f2 g4 } % in the part, we have cue-notes \\ R1 >> \tag #'score R1 % in the score: only a rest >> The same can be applied to articulations, texts, etc.: they are made by prepending -\tag #YOUR-TAGS to an articulation, for example, c4-\tag #'with-fingerings -4 -\tag #'with-strings \6 This defines a note, which has a conditional fingering and a string-number indication. * The settings for chord-fingering are more flexible. You can specify a list where fingerings may be placed, eg. \property Voice.fingeringOrientations = #'(left down) This will put the fingering for the lowest note below the chord, and the rest to the left. * The script previously known as `ly2dvi' has been renamed to `lilypond'. The binary itself is now installed as `lilypond-bin'. * Markup text (ie. general text formatting) may now be used for lyrics too. * Two new commands for grace notes have been added, `\acciaccatura' and `\appoggiatura', \appoggiatura f8 e4 \acciaccatura g8 f4 Both reflect the traditional meanings of acciaccatura and appogiatura, and both insert insert a slur from the first grace note to the main note. * Layout options for grace notes are now stored in a context property, and may now be set separately from musical content. * The `\new' command will create a context with a unique name automatically. Hence, for multi-staff scores, it is no longer necessary to invent arbitrary context names. For example, a two-staff score may be created by \simultaneous { \new Staff { NOTES FOR 1ST STAFF } \new Staff { NOTES FOR 2ND STAFF } } * Octave checks make octave errors easier to correct. The syntax is \octave PITCH This checks that PITCH (without octave) yields PITCH (with octave) in \relative mode. If not, a warning is printed, and the octave is corrected. * All articulations must now be entered postfix. For example, c8[( d8]) is a pair of beamed slurred eighth notes. * The definition of `\relative' has been simplified. Octaves are now always propagated in the order that music is entered. In the following example, PRE \repeat "unfold" 3 BODY \alternative { ALT1 ALT2 } POST the octave of BODY is based on PRE, the starting octave of ALT1 on BODY, the starting octave of ALT2 on ALT1, and the starting octave of POST on ALT2. The same mechanism is used for all other music expressions, except the chord. Backwards compatibility is retained through a special program option, which is set through #(ly:set-option 'old-relative) * Windows users can double click a `.ly' file to process and view it automagically through the new `lily-wins' frontend. New features in 1.8 since 1.6 ***************************** * The chord entry code has been completely rewritten. It is now cleaner and more flexible. * A new syntax has been added for text entry. This syntax is more friendly than the old mechanism, and it is implemented in a more robust and modular way. For more information, refer to the section on "Text markup" in the notation manual. * The integration of the input language and Scheme has been made deeper: you can now use LilyPond identifiers in Scheme, and use Scheme expressions instead of LilyPond identifiers. * The internal representation of music has been cleaned up completely and converted to Scheme data structures. The representation may be exported as XML. * A new uniform postfix syntax for articulation has been introduced. A beamed slurred pair of eighth notes can be entered as c8-[-( d8-]-) In version 2.0, postfix syntax will be the only syntax available, and the dashes will become optional. This will simplify the language: all articulations can be entered as postfix, in any order. * A new syntax has been added for chords: << PITCHES >> It is not necessary to update files to this syntax, but it will be for using LilyPond version 2.0. In version 2.0, this syntax will be changed to < PITCHES > for chords, and \simultaneous { .. } for simultaneous music. To convert your files from <PITCHES> to <<PITCHES>>, use the script included in buildscripts/convert-new-chords.py This change was introduced for the following reasons * It solves the "start score with chord" problem, where you have to state \context Voice explicitly when a chord was the start of a Staff or Score. * With the new syntax, it is possible to distinguish between articulations (or fingerings) which are for a single chord note, and which are for the entire chord. This allows for per-note fingerings, and is more logical on the whole. * User code may now be executed during interpreting. The syntax for this code is \applycontext #SCHEME-FUNCTION * User code may now be executed on arbitrary grobs during interpreting. The syntax for this feature is \applyoutput #SCHEME-FUNCTION SCHEME-FUNCTION takes a single argument, and is called for every grob that is created in the current context. * New algorithms for chord-name formatting have been installed. They can be tuned and have ergonomic syntax for entering exceptions. * Texts may now be put on multimeasure rests, e.g. R1*20^\markup { "GP" } * Ancient notation now prints ligatures in Gregorian square neumes notation, roughly following the typographical style of the Liber hymnarius of Solesmes, published in 1983. Ligatures are still printed without the proper line breaking and horizontal spacing. * Glissandi can now be printed using the zigzag style. * LilyPond can now print clusters. The syntax is \apply #notes-to-clusters { NOTE NOTE .. } * For irregular meters, beat grouping marks can be printed. The syntax for this is #(set-time-signature 7 8 '(3 2 2)) * Nested horizontal brackets for music analysis can now be printed: NOTE-\startGroup .. NOTE-\stopGroup * Ottava brackets are now fully supported as a feature. The syntax is #(set-octavation 1) * Metronome markings are printed when a \tempo command is processed. * Fingerings can be put on chords horizontally. * The appearance of various glyphs has been fine-tuned. * Different types of percent style repeats may now be nested. * The emacs support has been extended. * The manual has been completely revised and extended. New features in 1.6 since 1.4 ***************************** * Support for figured bass and tablature. * Completely rewritten beam formatting: provides much better output now. * Completely revised and improved music font. * Completely rewritten MIDI import support. * Completely rewritten grace note support. Practically speaking this means that grace notes can be slurred to normal normal notes. * Improved accidental handling and formatting: styles for producing cautionaries may vary, and complex collisions between accidentals of a chord are handled much better. * Better spacing: both globally and locally. This includes subtle details like optical stem spacing. * More support for ancient notation: mensural ligatures, ambitus (pitch range) of voices, more shapes, etc. * More support for piano notation: bracket pedals, directed arpeggios, arpeggio brackets. * Easier music polyphonic music entry. * More extensibility, many speedups and bugfixes * The manual has been thoroughly revised. * Development is now hosted at http://savannah.gnu.org, and sources can be downloaded through anonymous CVS. * Support for windows: LilyPond is part of the cygwin distribution, which comes with a user-friendly installer. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen(a)cs.uu.nl | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] (no subject)

by Han-Wen Nienhuys

Subject: LilyPond 2.0 prerelease available X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: hanwen(a)cs.uu.nl FCC: ~/persoonlijk/Mail/sent I have just released Lilypond 1.9.8. Relative to 1.9.7, it has a number of small bugfixes and sports dotted hairpin crescendos. However, this release also marks the end of my 2.0 release TODO list. In other words, 1.9.8 is the first (and hopefully only) LilyPond 2.0 release candidate. Please download and test it as widely as possible, before it is released some time next week. Enjoy! Han-Wen New features in 2.0 since 1.8 ***************************** * Crescendos can now be drawn dotted or stippled. * Quarter tones are now supported. They are entered by suffixing `ih' for a half-sharp and `eh' for a half-flat. Hence, the following is an ascending list of pitches: ceses ceseh ces ceh c cih cis cisih cisis * The following constructs have been removed from the syntax: \duration #SCHEME-DURATION \pitch #SCHEME-PITCH \outputproperty FUNC SYMBOL = VALUE For `\outputproperty', the following may be substituted: \applyoutput #(outputproperty-compatibility FUNC SYMBOL VALUE) * Clefs may now be transposed arbitrarily, for example \clef "G_8" \clef "G_15" \clef "G_9" * The syntax for chords and simultaneous music have changed. Chords are entered as <PITCHES> while simultaneous music is entered as <<..MUSIC LIST..>> In effect, the meanings of both have been swapped relative to their 1.8 definition. The syntax for lists in `\markup' has changed alongside, but figured bass mode was not changed, i.e.: \markup { \center <..LIST OF MARKUPS..> } \figure { <figures> } As chords the more often used than simultaneous music, this change will save keystrokes. * Each music expression can now be tagged, to make different printed versions from the same music expression. In the following example, we see two versions of a piece of music, one for the full score, and one with cue notes for the instrumental part: < \tag #'part < { c4 f2 g } % in the part, we have cue-notes \\ R1 > \tag #'score R1 % in the score: only a rest > The same can be applied to articulations, texts, etc.: they are made by prepending -\tag #YOUR-TAGS to an articulation, for example, c4-\tag #'with-fingerings -4 -\tag #'with-strings \6 This defines a note, which has a conditional fingering and a string-number indication. * The settings for chord-fingering are more flexible. You can specify a list where fingerings may be placed, eg. \property Voice.fingeringOrientations = #'(left down) This will put the fingering for the lowest note below the chord, and the rest to the left. * The script previously known as `ly2dvi' has been renamed to `lilypond'. The binary itself is now installed as `lilypond-bin'. * Markup text (ie. general text formatting) may now be used for lyrics too. * Two new commands for grace notes have been added, `\acciaccatura' and `\appoggiatura', \appoggiatura f8 e4 \acciaccatura g8 f4 Both reflect the traditional meanings of acciaccatura and appogiatura, and both insert insert a slur from the first grace note to the main note. * Layout options for grace notes are now stored in a context property, and may now be set separately from musical content. * The `\new' command will create a context with a unique name automatically. Hence, for multi-staff scores, it is no longer necessary to invent arbitrary context names. For example, a two-staff score may be created by \simultaneous { \new Staff { NOTES FOR 1ST STAFF } \new Staff { NOTES FOR 2ND STAFF } } * Octave checks make octave errors easier to correct. The syntax is \octave PITCH This checks that PITCH (without octave) yields PITCH (with octave) in \relative mode. If not, a warning is printed, and the octave is corrected. * All articulations must now be entered postfix. For example, c8[( d8]) is a pair of beamed slurred eighth notes. * The definition of `\relative' has been simplified. Octaves are now always propagated in the order that music is entered. In the following example, PRE \repeat "unfold" 3 BODY \alternative { ALT1 ALT2 } POST the octave of BODY is based on PRE, the starting octave of ALT1 on BODY, the starting octave of ALT2 on ALT1, and the starting octave of POST on ALT2. The same mechanism is used for all other music expressions, except the chord. Backwards compatibility is retained through a special program option, which is set through #(ly:set-option 'old-relative) -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen(a)cs.uu.nl | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Lemux version 0.2

by Joost Yervante Damad

Lemux is a collection of (GPL) LADSPA instruments based on devices from the openMSX emulator and other sources (e.g. sidplay2). Changes against 0.1: - all instruments are working, currently: - SCCChannel (e.g. from Konami games) (a 32 byte 8bit looped samples instrument) - PSGChannel (the standard sound chip from MSX) (a 1/2 square wave with noise and AM) - MUSICChannel (the FM OPLL chip from MSX-MUSIC) (a 2 operator FM chip, with 15 standard instruments and 1 custom FM instrument that is fully configurable) - MUSICDrum (FM OPLL Drums) (5 standard drum sounds from OPLL) - SID (The full C64 audio chip) - instrument volumes are now normalized More info (and audio samples) can be found at the website: http://lumatec.be/joost/lemux/ Greetings, Joost Damad

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] jackEQ: dj eq and meter.

by Patrick Shirkey

http://jackeq.sf.net. (only cvs, gtk+-2.0). For those of you who are interested in DJ/CJ tools, tools for live performance, and LADSPA plugin guis, you may be interested in a new app we are creating based on the code from JAMin. It's called jackEQ. The core is a new plugin Steve Harris released recently called DJ EQ which is a three band EQ commonly found on dj mixing consoles. It's currently only available in the swh-snapshots directory. jackEQ is in its infancy but we now have 4 stereo (8 mono) i/o channels with eq, meters and independant gain control. All channels are routed to a master and monitor output or you can take them direct out too. I would like it to be able to do all these things eventually: 2 x cross faders (all channels and combinations) unlimited channels. jack port connection ala freq tweak style Beat counting support controlled via keyboard or other dj console. With the above I can now use my four channel (USB) card as a complete djing tool. You could also use a two channel card in a similar (mono) way. The monitor is assignable to seperate output channels than the master outs for simple previewing of tracks. All the channels are routed through it with a simple button press if needed. The eq's are adjusted before the signal arrives at the monitor. This is how I intend to use it: mon ch1 ch2 ch3 ch4 echo |-------|------------|---|---->internal---->ardour out1&2 out3&4 external--------->sound system ------------ I have been wanting this functionality for the past 4 years. Now I can start mixing demos/albums from the comfort of home. Big ups to Steve for providing the bulk of the knowledge base, the JAMin crew for making the gui happen and the LADs for keeping it real with da open source flavah. If you don't know this you don't know JACK. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://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

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Lemux version 0.1

by Joost Yervante Damad

What is it? Lemux is a collection of (GPL) LADSPA instruments based on devices from the openMSX emulator and other sources (e.g. sidplay2). It is long from finished, but some instruments are already very usable. I only tested them with alsamodular, and I'd love to hear from people who try them with another LADSPA host. Any other feedback is also highly appreciated. More info can be found at the website: http://lumatec.be/joost/lemux/ Greetings, Joost

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] Vstserver v0.2.7

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

(I'm crossposting this to linux-audio-user since there so few reading laa, for some strange reason, and that people often seems to be surprised this program exist, even though it has existed for nearly a year.) Vstserver is a program that must be running when using programs using vstlib. Vstlib is a library that can be used by programs to run windows vst audio plugins under i386linux/i386freebsd/i386solaris/i386etc. (May require som modifications for other os-es than i386linux). HISTORY 0.2.6 -> 0.2.7: -The vstserver program does not refuse to load a plugin if the release version number (Ie. 7 in 0.2.7) for the server differs from the library release version number for the client contacting the server. -Fixed a typo that made processing of blocks larger than 1024 produce silence only. Bug reported by Dave Phillips. -Latest version of wine from www.winehq.com still works fine with vstserver. If it doesnt, this one should: http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/vstserver-0.2.7-wine.tar.bz2 --

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] ANN: ladspavst v0.1.3

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/ vst ladspa plugin v0.1.3 - stable ---------------------------------- -Hard RT safe mode. Enabled by setting the "LADSPAVST_RT" environment variable to 1. Works quite well. While typing this I'm at the same time running ardour with a period of 128 processing five vst plugins. It may lower the soundquality (clicks, silence and loops) though, so LADSPAVST_RT should not be set by default. But realtime programs like Ardour won't work very well without it. It also introduce a latency on one period size for the processed data. -Stop parameterthread temporarily when accessing vst sockets from other threads. -Set parameter directly after connecting a port. -Removed the run_adding code. It did not behave correctly. -Added a note to the lisense. --

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Version 0.3.2 of liblrdf

by Steve Harris

Doesn't add any features, but builds with raptor 1.0.0 and removes a dependency on the LADSPA SDK. Now requires raptor 0.9.11+ and pkg-config http://plugin.org.uk/lrdf/liblrdf-0.3.2.tar.gz liblrdf is a library for handling RDF desciptions of plugins. It allows them to be categorised and thier metadata to be queried without loading the .so files. RDF is a W3C standard for metadata: http://www.w3.org/RDF/ A categorisation of the CMT library is available: http://plugin.org.uk/lrdf/cmt.rdf And swh-plugins comes with an RDF description of itsself. - Steve

22 years, 2 months

[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] ALSA Patch Bay 0.5.2

by Bob Ham

Hi, Just a compilation fix: * fixed a missing parameter that stopped compilation with recent GCC versions http://pkl.net/~node/alsa-patch-bay.html Bob -- Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh> Can you say "death chambers at Guantanamo with no real trial"?

22 years, 3 months

[linux-audio-announce] ecasound 2.3.0 released

by Kai Vehmanen

1. A short summary of changes A set of severe bugs in audio mixing code have been fixed. Pyecasound build process has been improved. Reporting chainsetup parsing errors has been improved significantly. Support for the JACK 0.80 transport interface has been added. Support for reading and writing aiff, snd and au files has been fixed. Changes have been made to ensure correct operation with the NPTL package recently added to Linux kernel and glibc. A serious bug in metronome timing was fixed. Minor bugs in dynamic sample rate changes, MIDI-server initialization and the ewf file format 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 * Support for JACK 0.80 transport interface. The recently released JACK 0.80.0 marks another milestone for Linux audio development. The new transport interface allows concurrent use of multiple independent audio applications with full sample-accurate transport synchronization. This release of Ecasound provides full support for the new transport API. See the following links to ecasound-list postings that give examples of how to use Ecasound with the new transport API: http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2003/08/0005.html http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2003/08/0070.html * Metronome timing bug. There was a subtle bug in the pulse gate operator that is used to generate the metronome signal. This bug caused a small (<0.5%) timing error in metronome speed. The bug has been fixed, but the change in speed might cause problems for working with sessions recorded with previous versions of Ecasound. Thanks to Carsten Bauer for finding the bug. Full list of changes is available at <http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/history.html>. --- 4. Interface and configuration file changes Libecasound interface version number was incremented to 11. This release is backwards compatible with interface versions 9 and 10. See 'ecasound/libecasound/ChangeLog' for a detailed list of changes. Libkvutils interface version number was incremented to 6. This release is backwards compatible with versions 5 and 4. See 'ecasound/kvutils/ChangeLog' for a detailed list of changes. Note! Using libecasound and libkvutils outside Ecasound has been discouraged since the release of 2.2.0 in Jan 2003. The interface changes introduced in this 2.3.0 release should only affect a small group of distributors and developers. Apps such as Ecamegapedal need to be recompiled only if you want to take advantage of the new features introduced in the latest Ecasound release. --- 5. Contributors Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes Kai Vehmanen (various) Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed) Jeremy Hall (3) -- non-default chainsetup srates, mixdown signal leak bug, pyecasound install Junichi Uekawa (3) -- non-default chainsetup srates, pyecasound install, gcc-3.3 verification Janne Halttunen (2) -- locale-settings broke map-* commands, MIDI-server startup bug Vegard Lima (2) -- feedback bug, ewf srate bug Carsten Bauer (1) -- timing bug in metronome and pulse gate Ismail Donmez (1) -- build errors with sys-readline option Lars Henrik Mai (1) -- aiff/au/snd bug Stephan Niemz (1) -- non-default chainsetup srates Al Oemens (1) -- reporting chainsetup parsing errors Oliver Thuns (1) -- -ei big shift-x values Tommi Uimonen (1) -- problems with ecasignalview channel meter layout --- 6. Links and files Web sites: http://www.eca.cx http://www.eca.cx/ecasound Source packages: http://ecasound.seul.org/download http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.3.0.tar.gz Distributions with maintained Ecasound support: Agnula - http://www.agnula.org Debian - http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/ecasound2.2.html DeMuDi - http://www.demudi.org FreeBSD - http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org PLD Linux - http://www.pld.org.pl PlanetCCRMA - http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software SuSE Linux - http://www.suse.de/en Contrib Packages for Distributions: Mandrake - http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ Slackware - http://www.audioslack.com Various distros - 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!

22 years, 3 months

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