BLOP is a set of LADSPA plugins - after way too long, it's up to v0.2.6
Website: http://blop.sf.net
This release includes:
* Full RDF metadata, for use with liblrdf
* Bandlimited oscillators (no aliasing noise)
Sawtooth
Square
Variable width pulse
Variable slope triangle
Improved performance and quality (fixed some stupid
mistakes) over v0.2.5
4 Pole Moog-type resonant filter
Tuned, stable LADSPA version of this filter:
http://musicdsp.org/archive.php?classid=3#26
Two ADSRs
Single gate with variable threshold
Gate + Trigger variant (New since v0.2.5)
Analogue-Style Step Sequencer (New since v0.2.5)
Random wave generator, amplifier, 1V/Octave->Hz convertor ('fmod') and a
few other useful things.
Enjoy,
Mike
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Sweep 0.5.4 Development Release
-------------------------------
Sweep is a sound wave editor, and it is now also generally useful as a
flexible recording and playback tool. Inside lives a pesky little virtual
stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.
This development release is available as a source tarball at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.5.4.tar.gz?download
Changes since version 0.5.3 (September 5 2002) include bug fixes for
playback during destructive operations and for edits of tiny regions,
and improvements in configuration checks for libsndfile-1.0.0.
Additionally, scrubbing is now working for reverse playback, and has been
tuned for responsiveness independent of sample rate.
There is now a web page introducing Scrubby and outlining a few simple
editing and live performance techniques:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/scrub.html
Summary of library dependencies:
* GTK+ 1.2 (standard in most distributions)
* libsndfile-1.0.0, available at:
http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/libsndfile-1.0.0.tar.gz
* libtdb, available in many distributions or at:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tdb
Screenshot:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/images/screenshots/sweep_20020813.p…
Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes
almost everything you would expect in a sound editor, and then some:
* precise, vinyl like scrubbing
* looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback
* playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks
* looped and reverse recording
* internationalisation
* multichannel and 32 bit floating point file support
* LADSPA 1.1 effects support
* multiple views, discontinuous selections
* easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming
* unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history
* multithreaded background processing
* shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes
Help wanted! Sweep needs testing; please report any problems encountered!
Urgent development is required in the following areas: ALSA and Jack support,
updating of translations and user documentation. (NB. Sweep works fine with
ALSA under OSS emulation -- the native ALSA support needs some fixing).
Sweep is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License.
More information is available at:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/
Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting the
development of this project.
enjoy :)
Conrad.
GStreamer "Hottest Pick" 0.6.0 released[*]
The GStreamer team is happy to announce our first ABI stable release
series. The 0.6.x series of the GStreamer streaming-media framework.
At this point in time GStreamer is fully functional for creating
audio-based applications, as shown by applications such as
gnome-sound-recorder, Rhythmbox and nautilus-media.
Video-based applications still have some issues at this point, but we
plan on solving those issues during the 0.6.x series in an ABI
compatible way.
We will also be releasing a development 0.7 release series, in which we
will work on such things as the remaining video issues and the
interactivity support which is needed for DVD menus and SWF (Flash).
This means developers working on apps needing these services can use the
0.7 series for development and then enable 0.6 support as these
additions optionally get backported to 0.6 once they are stable and work
well.
Thread issues and GStreamer
Many of GStreamer's features relies heavily on threads. Unfortunately
everything is not rosy in the Linux world of threads. If you have a
glibc version installed compiled with i686 optimizations (which uses a
different codepath than standard i386 glibc), there is a good chance you
will experience thread-related crashes in gstreamer-based applications.
There are a few workarounds to this available.
* You can use an i386 glibc package instead. (Since this is the
only one shipping with Debian, debian users do not experience
this issue.)
* You can also try running the gstreamer-based applications using
the command-line option --gst-scheduler=opt, which invokes a
newly created scheduler that does not use threads. This
scheduler is very new however so you might encounter other
issues when using it. Please report issues to our bugzilla.
The GStreamer applications we ship all check for both gstreamer-0.6,
gstreamer-libs-0.6 and gstreamer-play-0.6; if those aren't found the 0.7
version of those files are checked for. We suggest anyone making
GStreamer-based apps do the same.
We are starting to have a really nice collection of applications under
development using GStreamer. If you are looking for something specific
check out our applications status page:
http://www.gstreamer.net/status/?category=2
Features
* Pipeline based media architecture
* Over 130 plugins
* All parts interchangeable
* Few dependencies, only glib, popt and libxml for core (libxml
optional)
* Python Language bindings
* Good documentation
* Will be widely deployed through bundling with GNOME 2.2
* Design catering also for applications needing low-latency
* Highly portable, already running on most mainstream CPU's
* Modular design and use of 3rd party best of breed libraries
means no bloat
* LGPL licensing lays no restrictions on application developers
licensing.
* Easy for applications to ship their own plugins to the core as
needed
* Compiles with both GCC and Forte compilers
* Tested to run on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris
GStreamer Homepage
More details on these features can be found on the project's website,
http://gstreamer.net/.
Download and build instructions:
http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.6.0/
Support and Bugs
We use Gnome's Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org) 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 FreeBSD, 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.
Contributors to this release
Patches to the core of Gstreamer
* Wim Taymans <wim.taymans(AT)chello.be>
* Erik Walthinsen <omega(AT)temple-baptist.com>
* Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas(AT)apestaart.org>
* David I. Lehn <dlehn(AT)vt.edu>
* David Schleef <ds(AT)schleef.org>
* Brian Cameron <brian.cameron(AT)sun.com>
* Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu(AT)pobox.com>
Plugins and Sample Applications
* Julien MOUTTE <jmoutte(AT)electronic-group.com>
* Cameron Hutchison <camh+gst(AT)xdna.net>
* Ronald Bultje <rbultje(AT)ronald.bitfreak.net>
* Steve Baker <stevebaker_org(AT)yahoo.co.uk>
* Iain Holmes <iain(AT)prettypeople.org>
* Jérémy Simon <jsimon13(AT)yahoo.fr>
* Jan Schmidt <thaytan(AT)mad.scientist.com>
* Daniel Fischer <dan(AT)f3c.com>
* Martin Schlemmer <azarah(AT)gentoo.org>
* Andrew Turner <zombie(AT)4free.co.nz>
* Owen Fraser-Green <owen(AT)discobabe.net>
* Leif Morgan Johnson <lmjohns3(AT)eos.ncsu.edu>
* Benjamin Otte <in7y118(AT)public.uni-hamburg.de>
Misc
* Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus(AT)gnome.org>
* Alp Toker <alp(AT)atoker.com>
[*]: GStreamer is Hottest Pick in the UK Linux Format #36, out now !
Changes:
- Bug when .ecasoundrc was not in ~/ directory (Ecasound 2.2.0)
- Bug when no ladspa directory defined in ecasoundrc
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tkeca
Regards,
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Hi,
Tkeca 1.0.1 was released.
Changes:
- Added GNU General Public License.
- Added 'About TKECA' button.
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amSynth - Analogue Modelling SYNTHesizer
****************************************
amSynth 1.0-rc2, code-named "jack", is now available!!
Get the source code at http://amsynthe.sourceforge.net/amSynth
Changes in this release:
* you've been waiting for it -- JACK audio output support!!
* completely revised ./configure & build system - will adapt features to
libraries installed, proper 'make install' target...
* launch a virtual keyboard from the amSynth menu!
* transparent per-user installation for first time users
* build fixes galore, now compiles fine on latest GCC versions
Enjoy!
(and any problems with it please get in touch, details on website)
-Nick d-.-b
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Hi all,
Just to share the good news that Linux got some exposure in the latest
edition of the Organised Sound journal (pub. by UK's Cambridge
Journals).
Stuff covered is RTMix, as well as JACK/Linux audio. Big thanks go to
Paul Davis for the help with the benchmark info, as well as everyone
else in the Linux community who have made Linux a formidable multimedia
platform.
For more info on the journal see (it's just an abstract page about the
actual journal -- I am still trying to find out how to locate the darn
article online :-)
http://titles.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=oso
Cheers!
Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer, multimedia sculptor,
programmer, webmaster & computer consultant
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico
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"To be is to do" - Socrates
"To do is to be" - Sartre
"Do be do be do" - Sinatra
"2b || ! 2b" - ?
"I am" - God
1. A short summary of changes
Sliders for parameter control and text inputs for
lower and upper bounds have been added as well as
support for LADSPA-1.1 and ecasound effect parameter
hints. There has been some user interface improvements
and a native JACK support has been added. Updated to
use the new ecasound-2.2 libraries.
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2. What is ecamegapedal?
Ecamegapedal is a real-time effect processor software with
a graphical user interface for controlling the effect
parameters. It is meant to be used as a virtual guitar-fx
or studio effect box. In addition to real-time operation,
ecamegapedal also supports reading from and writing to audio
files. All audio object and effect plugin types provided by the
ecasound libraries are supported. This includes ALSA, JACK,
OSS, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA
plugins and multi-operator effect presets. Ecamegapedal's
implementation is based on ecasound and Qt libraries.
Ecamegapedal is licensed under the GPL.
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3. Changes since the last stable release
* Added native JACK support. If compiled with JACK support
enabled, ecamegapedal will upon startup fetch the
current engine parameters from the JACK server, and
initialize the ecamegapedal configuration to work
with JACK. In practice this means that you don't
have to manually set the buffersize and sample rate
parameters to use ecamegapedal with JACK.
* Support for LADSPA-1.1 and ecasound effect parameter
hints.
* Text inputs for overriding default upper and lower
bounds for parameter values.
* Sliders for controlling parameter values.
* Pixmaps for transport control buttons.
* Takes advantage of the newly released ecasound 2.2.0
libraries (does not work with older ecasound releases).
* Should work with all released Qt2 and Qt3 versions.
Tested with qt-2.3.2, qt-3.0.5 and qt-3.1.1.
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4. Contributors
Patches
Kai Vehmanen
Arto Hamara
Bug Hunting
Jaakko Prattala
Justin Rosander
Junichi Uekawa
Feature proposals
Dan Lyons
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5. Links and files
Web sites:
http://www.eca.cxhttp://www.eca.cx/ecamegapedalhttp://jackit.sourceforge.net
Source and binary packages:
http://ecasound.seul.org/downloadhttp://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecamegapedal-0.4.0.tar.gz
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Audio software for Linux!
I've fixed some build issues and theoretically made it slightly more
efficient. If you managed to build 0.0.1 theres no real point in you
upgrading.
Theres also now a webpage of sorts, with a screenshot ;)
http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/
- Steve
k_jack is a jack reimplementation, and mammut is a very special sound
transformating sound editor.
Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/
New in mammut v0.14->v0.15:
---------------------------
-Removed the synth transform. It was not supposed to be there and had no
function.
-Fixed the wobble transform. Segfaulted with mono-files. (Bug found
by Dave Phillips)
k_jack V0.0.0.5 ALPHA - EXPERIMENTAL
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ABOUT
k_jack currently consists of k_jackd~, libk_jack and libaipc.
k_jackd~ is a jack server external for pure-data.
libk_jack is (supposed to be) a (somewhat) libjack compatible
library.
Jack applications that want to contact k_jackd~ instead
of jackd must (somehow) be linked with libk_jack and
libaipc instead of libjack.
k_jackd~ does not speak with libjack, and jackd does not
speak with libk_jack.
libaipc is a library for audio interprocess communication,
based on code from the vstserver. A preview version is
included with this version of k_jack. (API is not settled.)
By using libaipc for interprocess communication, and letting
PD take care of various low/mid/high-level audio-stuff,
only a few hundred lines of code is currently used for this
implementation of a simple jack system.
k_jackd~ and libk_jack are not based on the jack sourcecode
found at jackit.sf.net, except for protos in the header files.
COMPILE
1. Go into the aipc/src folder and write make to compile up
libaipc.a
2. Go into the library folder and write make to compile up
libk_jack.a
3. Write make to compile up k_jack~.pd_linux.
4. Relink you jack application(s) somehow.
USAGE
1. Start pd with the "-lib k_jackd~" option.
2. Start a jack application linked with libk_jack.
3. Make an object in pd called "k_jackd~ <clientname>".
Correct number of inlets and outlets will be made
automaticly.
That should be it. Later, when things get more stable, point 3
can do point 2 automaticly.
WHY
use k_jackd~ ?
1. Simple. Only the clientname is used, not the portnames.
2. Easy and powerful interface to control the audioflow.
3. Good performance. Shouldn't be necessary to run as root.
TESTED CLIENTS
simple_client, freqtweak, ceres.
BUGS
Crashes pretty often. Does not clean up. Huge risk of not
freeing shared memory in the current implementation: Client
must exit before server, and client must not crash. And
server must not crash.
CONTACT
Send ideas (especially about the k_jackd~ object syntax),
comments (especially about the libaipc API), questions,
code, food, etc. to k.s.matheussen(a)notam02.no
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