DrumGizmo 0.9.18 Released!
DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform
drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums
in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to
that of mixing a real drumkit that has been recorded with a multimic setup.
This release is primarily a bugfix release but a few new features also
managed to sneak in.
Highlights:
* Sample selection algorithm now behaves a lot better when using a
small sample set.
* Error reporting has been drastically improved when loading
drum-kits.
* Sample normalization option has been added.
As usual read the detailed description of all the new shiny features,
including some audio samples [1].
And now, without further ado, go grab 0.9.18!!! [2]
[1]: https://drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=changelog:drumgizmo-0.9.18
[2]: http://www.drumgizmo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=getting_drumgizmo
The end is near! Fortunately only the end of our preparations.
Only four days left until this year's Sonoj Convention.
For the spontaneous among you there is still an opportunity to sign up
and visit. Just enter your name on https://sonoj.org/register.html .
Considering the many mails you've received so far, it can be assumed
that you're currently in Antarctica and therefore can't actually
participate.
Therefore now for the last time (this year):
Please help us finance our non-profit event by donating an amount of
your choice. We accept bank transfers and PayPal:
https://sonoj.org/donate.html
And finally I would be happy to see you during the two days in our video
stream. There will be a chat this year (it already exists), so you can
ask questions and comment.
The stream is on the Sonoj page, or here:
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/sonoj2019
Best regards,
Nils
Sonoj Convention
Dear Open Source Musicians and Music Lovers,
the submission period for the Open Source Music Nexus 2019 Challenge
has ended and the competition entries are now waiting for your votes!
There are eight submissions to the competition and they are very
stylistically diverse, so there should be something enjoyable for
everybody.
You can listen to the entries here:
https://nexus-challenge.osamc.de/vote/
(If the audio players do not show up in your browser, click the
"Download" button for each track to go to its page on archive.org.)
Voting is open to everybody* and runs until the end of Saturday of the
coming week (2019-10-26 23:59 UTC).
Please honor the labor that went into the competition entries and show
your appreciation by casting your vote!
* (Email registration required. The email address is only used for
logging in and sending out the results.)
--
Christopher Arndt
Open Source Audio Meeting Cologne
https://nexus-challenge.osamc.de/
challenge(a)osamc.de
The first release of GxMatchEq.
A Matching Equalizer to apply a EQ curve from on source to a other source.
GxMatchEq analyze the spectral profile of a sound source, analyze the
spectral profile of a sound destination, and calculate the EQ settings
needed to make the destination match the source.
Source analyses could be saved as 'Profiles' and reused for as many
destinations as you wish.
Match curves could be saved as presets to reuse the same settings when
ever needed.
Project page:
https://github.com/brummer10/GxMatchEQ.lv2
release:
https://github.com/brummer10/GxMatchEQ.lv2/releases
enjoy.
Yo:
I know this project has been in beta for a ridiculous amount of time, but I
still haven't mustered the time and effort to give everything a proper
test. However we have had a few community contributed fixes which warrants
a new release. Thanks to Robin (x42) we now have a working Vibe effect and
the bypass has been improved in all the effects (which probably won't be
very noticeable to users).
Happy LARD (Linux Audio Release Day)!
https://github.com/ssj71/rkrlv2/releases/tag/beta_3
_Spencer (ssj71)
Hola,
I'm pleased to announce version 0.1.0-beta2 of the *midiomatic* plugin
collection as the first public beta release.
What is it?
-----------
*midiomatic* is a small collection of MIDI filter, generator and
processor plugins in LV2 and VST2 format.
This collection arose from the desire to test whether it is viable to
implement MIDI processing plugins with the DISTRHO Plugin Framework (DPF).
This is the first public release and the project is still considered to
be in beta stage. The MIDISysFilter and MIDIPBToCC plugins are already
considered stable but the MIDICCRecorder plugin is still experimental.
I'm planning to add more plugins to the collection. Requests and ideas
for plugins welcome.
Where to get it?
----------------
https://github.com/SpotlightKid/midiomatic
or, for Arch Linux users, from the AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/midiomatic/
*Share & Enjoy*
Christopher Arndt
Ciao tutti!
I'm pleased to announce that version 1.3.1 of *python-rtmidi* has just
been released!
What is it?
-----------
python-rtmidi is a Python binding for RtMidi, a set of C++ classes which
provides a cross-platform API for realtime MIDI input / output.
python-rtmidi supports Python 2 and Python 3 (3.4+) and is available for
Linux, macOS (OS X) and Windows.
What's new?
-----------
This is a bugfix release with only minor enhancements.
The major changes are:
* RtMidi C++ level exceptions, when thrown, do not print the error
message to stderr anymore.
* RtMidi C++ exceptions are now caught when creating RtMidiIn/Out
instances and converted into a Python rtmidi.SystemError exception.
* Helper functions in rtmidi.midiutil now raise sub-classes of
rtmidi.RtMidiError wherever appropriate.
* When the JACK backend can't be initialized (e.g. when the server isn't
running) it causes a DRIVER_ERROR instead of just a printing a WARNING.
* Various improvements to the included example scripts.
* Various small documentation wording changes and typo fixes.
For a detailed list of changes, see the change log here:
https://github.com/SpotlightKid/python-rtmidi/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst
Where to get it?
----------------
https://github.com/SpotlightKid/python-rtmidi
or via pip:
pip install python-rtmidi
(Pre-compiled binary wheels for Windows and macOS for several Python
versions in 32 and 64 bit variants are provided.)
or, for Arch Linux users, from the AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-rtmidi/
How to use it?
--------------
Please read the documentation here:
https://spotlightkid.github.io/python-rtmidi/
*Share & Enjoy*
Christopher Arndt
Hallöle!
a new version 1.4.0 of *jack-select* has just been released!
What is it?
*jack-select* is a systray app to set the JACK configuration from
QjackCtl presets via DBus. It displays an icon in the system tray of
your desktop, which shows the status of the JACK audio server and when
you click on it, a menu pops up, which lets you quickly select from the
JACK configuration presets you created with QjackCtl. This allows you to
switch between different audio setups with just two mouse clicks.
*jack-select* works with the DBus-version of JACK only. It is written in
Python 3 using the ``PyGObject`` bindings for GTK 3. Python 2 is not
supported.
What's new?
* The configuration file path can be given via command line option
* When a preset name is given on the command line (or the -d option
is used), activate the (default) preset also when jack-select was
not already running.
* Updated man page.
* Major internal code restructuring.
* Map all JACK settings to a D-BUS type explicitly.
* Support 'slave-driver' engine parameter (this is not present in
QjackCtl's configuration file, though).
Where to get it?
https://github.com/SpotlightKid/jack-select
or via pip (but see the "Requirements" section in the README first):
pip install jack-select
or, for Arch Linux users, from the AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jack-select/
How to use it?
`man jack-select` or see the README file here:
https://github.com/SpotlightKid/jack-select/blob/master/README.md
*Share & Enjoy*
Christopher Arndt