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"Sonoj", a community organized event about Open Source Music Production struggles to get funded. Please help

by Nils, Sonoj Convention

(Disclaimer: I am an organizer of this event) In less than a month the "Sonoj Convention" shall happen. [quote]Admission is free. You will be able to enjoy demonstrations, talks and workshops about music production through open source software. Hands-on tutorials and workflow presentations can be expected. Everything will be recorded and released as online videos afterwards. [/quote] Please consider helping us by donating and spreading the word. You will get some appreciation through the "Reward" system on the website. For that we are asking for some modest donations here: https://www.startnext.com/en/sonoj Currently it looks like that this will not succeed, as you can see from the link above. This is the usual "all or nothing" platform that only gives you money if the goal is reached, otherwise donors get their money back. However, despite submitting the event announcements and several updates to nearly one hundred on-topic websites, magazines (including posting it ourselves on KVR, Reddit etc.) and blogs there is nearly zero response. That excludes the Linux Audio Scene itself, which was very supportive to this day (at least the news, not the donations). I was hoping that Sonoj could be an event that brings in people from the "outside", that are not already well connected with Linux Audio. It seems I was wrong. So here I am in one of the last places I wanted to ask for donations, because this is the crowd that usually already gives a lot, be it their own time, development of software or actual donations to well deserving projects. Please consider helping us by donating and spreading the word. You will get some appreciation through the "Reward" system on the website. https://www.startnext.com/en/sonoj Yours Nils, for the Sonoj Convention https://www.sonoj.org

7 years, 11 months

fluidsynth 1.1.8 has been released

by Tom M.

fluidsynth 1.1.8 is a minor maintenance release to address some issues introduced in 1.1.7: Download: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/releases/tag/v1.1.8 API: http://www.fluidsynth.org/api/ Website: http://www.fluidsynth.org FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont(tm) 2 specifications. It can read MIDI events from the MIDI input device and render them to the audio device. It can also play MIDI files. Tom Moebert FluidSynth Developer Team

7 years, 11 months

Rivendell v2.17.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.17.0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** Changes: New RML. Added the 'Air Gate' ['AG'] RML to permit conditional execution of RML on the basis of the status of the On-Air flag. New Icons. Implemented a new icon set, with individualized icons for each Rivendell module. A big thanks to Josh Edelstein <edelsteinj(a)rfa.org> for the artwork! User Authentication. It is now possible to configure RDLogin to require entry of the user-name, rather than picking the name off of a list. See the 'Show User List in RDLogin' checkbox in RDAdmin->SystemSettings. New Switcher/GPIO Devices. Support has been added for the following Switcher/GPIO devices: Broadcast Tools Universal 4.1 MLR>>Web Switcher WheatNet LIO WheatNet SLIO Dropbox Enhancements. Added the ability to force imports to be imported as mono, as well as the ability to reset an individual dropbox. Log Rendering (EXPERIMENTAL). It is now possible to 'render' a log as a single audio object (file or cart/cut) without the need to play it out while capturing the audio in realtime. Render support is available through the 'Render' button in RDLogEdit and through the command-line rdrender(1) utility. See the rdrender(1) man page for details. Web API. Many fixes and enhancements to improve operation. See the ChangeLog for details. Provisioning Support. Added a [Provisioning] section to rd.conf(5) with directives to facilitate the automatic provisioning of Rivendell instances. See the comments in the [Provisioning] section of the sample rd.conf(5) file. Various other bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/> Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the | | plane will fly. | | -- Donald Douglas | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

7 years, 11 months

[LAU] [LAD] Guitarix 0.36.0 released

by Hermann Meyer

Guitarix release 0.36.0 Guitarix is a tube amplifier simulation for jack (Linux), with an additional mono and a stereo effect rack. Guitarix includes a large list of LV2 and LADSPA plugins, and support LADSPA / LV2 plugs as well in it's racks. The guitarix engine is designed for LIVE usage, and feature ultra fast, glitch and click free preset switching and is full Midi and remote controllable (the Web UI is not included in the distributed tar ball). This release add a couple of features to the lately introduced DrumSequencer plugin. It add 2 more toms, it add beat repeat/skip switches, it add the possibility to add a sequence (Preset) to the current one, switch to previous/next preset, . . or load a slected preset (sequence) all controllable with Midi CC. Also it introduce new Midi Note ON to CC support, means, you could control toggle switches with Midi Note On messages now (continues control). Also it introduce a new option to load Stereo plugs as Mono plugs, eg. before the amp. This is in special useful for the famous rkrlv2 plugs: https://github.com/ssj71/rkrlv2 + new configure options --fontdir (set font install directory) and --no-font-cache-update (dont automatically update the font cache) + fix build with --no-lv2-gui option + add new style "Gold" + fix GxAmplifier re-init convolver on buffersize change ( Ardour loops) + fix jack transport support + also fix midi clock and bpm sync support + fix load online preset in remote UI + fix trim label in Lv2/Ladspa plugins beside that a couple of changes have been made under the hut. Refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.org Download Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ Forum: https://guitarix.sourceforge.io/forum/ Consider visiting our forum or leaving a message on guitarix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net enjoy and keep on rooking. regards hermann

7 years, 11 months

spectmorph-0.3.4

by Stefan Westerfeld

spectmorph-0.3.4 has been released. Overview of Changes in spectmorph-0.3.4: ---------------------------------------- * Added optional ADSR Envelope * Make LV2 and VST plugin stereo to allow supporting stereo in the future * LV2 plugin description fixes * Added about dialog to plugin/smjack UI * Remove BEAST plugin (plugin code will be moved to BEAST) * Fixed compilation for newer g++ >= 6 (std::fabs) * Get rid of some malloc() calls in linear morphing What is SpectMorph? ------------------- SpectMorph is a free software project which allows to analyze samples of musical instruments, and to combine them (morphing). It can be used to construct hybrid sounds, for instance a sound between a trumpet and a flute; or smooth transitions, for instance a sound that starts as a trumpet and then gradually changes to a flute. SpectMorph ships with many ready-to-use instruments which can be combined using morphing. SpectMorph is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 3 Integrating SpectMorph into your Work ------------------------------------- In order to make music that contains SpectMorph, you currently need to use Linux. There are four ways of integrating SpectMorph sounds into music you create: - LV2 Plugin, for any sequencer that supports it. - VST Plugin, especially for proprietary solutions that don't support LV2. - JACK Client. - BEAST Module, integrating into BEASTs modular environment. Note that at this point, we may still change the way sound synthesis works, so newer versions of SpectMorph may sound (slightly) different than the current version. Links: ------ Website: http://www.spectmorph.org Download: http://www.spectmorph.org/downloads/spectmorph-0.3.4.tar.bz2 There are many audio demos on the website, which demonstrate morphing between instruments. -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan

7 years, 11 months

Qtractor 0.8.4 - End of Summer'17 release!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Yes, it's been like clockwork... Every two months or so, you stumbled with a brand new dot release, code-named after some of the same adjective-plus-noun (or vice versa) code-names. You knew the thrill and yet it lands no more. First, the code-naming joke has been just a parody--or was it the other way around?--to some well known Linux-distro 'alimalistic' code-name series. Then on it got rogue into some directed puns--remember the date when BitWig Studio 1.0 was first released? Yeah, the "Byte Bald" was there for the pun, on the very same day :) Well, that's all gone by now. Northern hemisphere seasons are the new norm and that's about two main reasons: first, it's where I live; second, due to an undeniable global warming effect pervading the globe, all geographical temperate zones are simply on the edge of extinction. More or less in a couple of decades or so. For the sake of brevity, I will just leave it like paying homage to those natural concepts that are facing an inexorable fate. And yet, there're still the good news: Qtractor 0.8.4 (end of summer'17) released! Change-log: - Assigned MIDI Controllers to plug-in's Activate switch are now finally saved and (re)loaded properly across sessions. - Audio clip panning option property is now being introduced. - Out-of-process (aka. dummy) VST plug-in inventory scanning now restarts automatically and resumes processing in case of a premature exit/crash; VST plug-in inventory scan/cache persistency is now in place. - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from build/configure template chains. - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file (formerly AppData). - Changing the View/Options.../Display/Custom/Style theme takes effect immediately unless it's back to "(default)". - Slightly slower but better approximation to IEEE 32bit floating point cubic root ie. cbrtf(). Description: Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Website: http://qtractor.org http://qtractor.sourceforge.net https://qtractor.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.4.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.4-32.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tubleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.4-32.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.4-32.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [7] packages: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.4-2.i686.AppImage http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.8.4-2.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: http://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc - user manual & how-to's: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.sourceforge.net http://qtractor.org [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere http://appimage.org/ See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1851 Enjoy && Keep having fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

7 years, 12 months

Open Source Musician Ep. 85 - Louis, Author of the Digits 2 synth

by Spencer Jackson

After a long unintentional break, the OSM is back! Lots of news, some tunes, and an interview focused on the recent open-sourcing of the Digits Synth! Stay tuned for the next tunestorm in November in collaboration with Sonoj ( http://www.sonoj.org/). https://archive.org/details/OSMP85 Hope you enjoy! _Spencer

8 years

fluidsynth 1.1.7 has been released

by Tom M.

Dear community, after long time of inactivity, development for fluidsynth got rolling again, leading to the 1.1.7 maintenance release I hereby announce. Highlights of this release include the support of MuseScore's vorbis compressed SF3 files (thanks to fabiangreffrath <https://github.com/fabiangreffrath>). We also addressed a license issue and consistently re-licensed fluidsynth under the terms of the LGPL-2.1+. As usual there are plenty of bug fixes and a few other new features, so feel free to check out the changelog <https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/wiki/ChangeLog#fluidsynth-117>. NOTE: fluidsynth's home is now to be found at Github: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth Download: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/releases/tag/v1.1.7 API: http://www.fluidsynth.org/api/ Website: http://www.fluidsynth.org Tom Moebert FluidSynth Developer Team

8 years

[ANN] Radium 5.0.10

by Kjetil Matheussen

Radium is a vertical music editor. Radium is inspired by trackers, but uses more graphics to show musical data. Radium also supports MIDI sequencing and hard disk recording. Radium has features like smooth scrolling, zooming, automation, piano roll, embedded Pure Data (Pd), and embedded Faust. * Homepage: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ * Screenshot: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/radium_4_9_20.png * Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/KjetilMatheussen/videos * Demonstration video by Tobias Lutzenkirchen showing some of the features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwmT0G5EwM (Radium 3.9.1) *Demonstration video showing developing Faust programs inside Radium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJm9Lox1WFA Changes between 4.8.2 and 5.0.10: * Lots of bug fixes and minor improvements. * Audio: Don't apply volume when bypassing. * Piano roll: Improved eraser functionality. * Editor: Move the swing sub tracks to the left of the piano roll. * Mixer strips: Show automation values. * Mixer strips: Quickly enable or disable plugins and sends. * GUI: Make F11 switch full screen for all windows. * Audio: Scan plugins in a separate process. * Audio: Apply correct initial automation values when starting to play. * Mixer: Configuration editor. * Documentation: Many improvements. * Audio: Always connect and disconnect several connections simultaneously, not one by one. * Mixer strips: Faster graphics. * Menus: Improve keyboard navigation. * Sequencer: Faster to move blocks while playing. * Faust Development: Fix various GUI issues. * Audio: Support Jack transport in order to sample-accurately synchronize to e.g. Ardour or Bitwig. * GUI: Program includes a new "Edit" tab in the main window. * GUI: Fix various keyboard focus issues * 594 other changes. (613 git commits).

8 years

Announce GSequencer v1.0.0-beta

by Joël Krähemann

Hi all, Advanced Gtk+ Sequencer v1.0.0-beta available. https://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8940 Would be nice to know your thoughts or opinions. http://www.nongnu.org/gsequencer/ Final release's main goal is providing an operable XMLRPC-C server. The prototypes are included within tarball. By Joël

8 years

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