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pg800: a Roland MKS70 tone editor for GNU/Linux (GTK3)

by Guido Aulisi

Hi, this is a tone editor for the (old) Roland MKS70 analogue/digital synthesizer. It can edit a single tone and send it to the synth, like a real PG800 programmer. It can also load sysex bulk dumps and send a single tone to the synth. This is a beta release, it can be pulled from github: https://github.com/tartina/pg800 CIao Guido

9 years, 5 months

Rivendell v2.13.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.13.0. 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 RLM. Added a 'rlm_walltime' RLM for the Paravel Systems WallTime clock. New Utility. Added an rdexport(8) command utility. See the rdexport(1) man page for details. New Report. Added a 'Cut Log' report that includes the Description field for played events. Various other bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 255, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/> <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/>> Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | | -- Cicero | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

9 years, 5 months

reMID.lv2 (that's right. a chiptune plugin.)

by Spencer Jackson

So I've been keeping this project quiet cause I wanted it to be a big surprise, but I may as well let you in on the secret now. Announcing: reMID.lv2! https://github.com/ssj71/reMID.lv2 reMID.lv2 is a reboot of the codebase for the little known project reMID (http://gp2x.org/remid/). It is a midi implementation of a SID6581/8580 chip famously designed into the commodore64 computer using the reSID library. I've heard many requests for a chiptune plugin, and thought this one would be pretty cool so I started the long process of refactoring the code to make it appropriate for a plugin last year. And now it works. It also works as a standalone jack application. True to the commodore64, this loads files to set the registers of the chip and "instruments" defined in the file can be scripted to make instrument programs that allow per-note arpeggiation, filter sweeps, PWM, or whatever your mind can come up with. I selected this codebase because of this powerful feature (and 'cause bitrot makes me sad). Unlike the commodore64 though, this plugin has polyphony (configurable up to 128) so its actually a bank of SID chips. You can now use all 3 oscillators for your sound design rather than to get triphony (is that a real thing?). The plugin UI only provides a dialog to load instrument files (standalone must load through the command line options). The original reMID was designed to allow a single instance to have different sounds on each midi channel and program change, so you could just use a sequencer and 1 reMID to do a whole chiptune track. That capability is still there but I realize that its much more common workflow to have 1 plugin in each track with a single instrument so I made that possible. You can work both ways. This architecture also allows drumkits to be made with a different sound on each note. For the more common latter workflow you just load the plugin and open the file chooser to find the .conf file you want. If you decide to edit it you'll have to use a text editor like vim or gedit or kate or whatever. Open the instrument file in the editor, make your changes and reload the instrument file in the plugin. Its a little weird, but I hope its not a deal breaker for folks. I was able to make a couple instruments pretty quickly last night by just copying one of the existing files and tweaking some stuff. I hope this workflow will work for you. There is some documentation in the readme, and the default instruments.conf file. Several instrument files provide examples as well as presets to give you an idea of some sonic possibilities. The full documentation for programming remains at the original project's site: http://gp2x.org/remid/inst_config.php Please give it a whirl (it has very few dependencies and should be easy to install, just follow the readme) and let me have some feedback. New instruments would be a great contribution as well as any bug reports or patches. Some notes: 1. qtractor doesn't support file loading through a generic UI. Therefore only the presets allow you to load different instruments. One workaround is to edit the .ttl files to add your own presets with your instrument files. 2. there is no DAW automation available. Exposing the parameters to allow tweaking the registers in realtime and automation is on the roadmap, but it's going to be a long way out. Some deep architectural challenges require a lot of refactoring before that becomes feasible. It would actually be much quicker if I just make a second plugin that does not have the scripting capability, basically like an LV2 port of the lmms SID plugin (https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=SID). If you have an opinion on whether this scripting is worth keeping for the version 2 reMID or not I'd like to hear your thoughts. ENJOY! _Spencer

9 years, 6 months

[ANN] Radium 3.8.2

by Kjetil Matheussen

Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface. It's inspired by trackers, but also uses graphics to show musical data. A couple of demo song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG7FOfPFssQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp0wDH-OQlA Some classic 8 bit 4 channel tracker modules played in Radium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hNFQqtq2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGtlJKmGLNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i49fmYPH49k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yesS2hdLr9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOEvbEi-sOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLTxxvqYzl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_lQL8Fb8LU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMdZM0mlt_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6006cPKK1w Changes between 3.1.3 and 3.8.3: * Lots of interface improvements * Lots of stability fixes * Lots of efficiency improvements * Multi-core processing. * New color configuration dialog. * Optional play cursor. (Instead of scrolling the editor while playing, a red horizontal line moves down instead.) * Loop when playing range. * Improved font rendering, especially for white text on dark background. * Load and save VST FXB and FXP files. * Automatic backup every minute if there are unsaved edits and not playing. * Import MOD and XM files. * Optionally edit cents / velocities / vx by text instead of graphics, like in regular trackers.

9 years, 6 months

Qtractor 0.7.7 - The Haziest Photon is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everybody, On the wrap of the late miniLAC2016(a)c-base.org Berlin (April 8-10) [7][8], where this Yet Same Old Qstuff* (continued) workshop [9] babbling of yours truly (slides, videos[10]) was taken place. There's really one (big) thing to keep in mind, as always: Qtractor [1] is not, never was, meant to be a 'do-it-all' monolith DAW. Quite frankly it isn't a 'pure' modular model either. Maybe we can agree on calling it a 'hybrid' perhaps? And still, all this time, it has been just truthful to its original mission statement--modulo some Qt [2] major version numbers--nb. it started on Qt3 (2005-2007), then Qt4 (2008-2014), it is now Qt5 full throttle. It must have been like start saying uh. this is probably the best dot or rather beta release of them all! Now, Qtractor 0.7.7 (haziest photon) is out! Everybody is here compelled to update. Leave no excuses behind. As for the 'mission statement' coined above, you know it's the same as ever was (and it now goes to eleven years in the making [11]): 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.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm 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 Change-log: - LV2 UI Touch feature/interface support added. - MIDI aware plug-ins are now void from multiple or parallel instantiation. - MIDI tracks and buses plug-in chains now honor the number of effective audio channels from the assigned audio output bus; dedicated audio output ports will keep default to the stereo two channels. - Plug-in rescan option has been added to plug-ins selection dialog (yet another suggestion by Frank Neumann, thanks). - Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant given that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido Scholz, thanks). - Immediate visual sync has been added to main and MIDI clip editor thumb-views (a request by Frank Neumann, thanks). - Fixed an old MIDI clip editor contents disappearing bug, which manifested when drawing free-hand (ie. Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw is on) over and behind its start/beginning position (while in the lower view pane). 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 [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] miniLAC, a more compact, community-driven version of the yearly Linux Audio Conference http://minilac.linuxaudio.org [8] c-base.org, Berlin http://c-base.org [9] Yet Same Old Qstuff* (continued) workshop http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/index.php/Workshop#Yet_Same_Old_Qstuff.2A_.28… [10] slides: http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/index.php/File:Lac2016_qstuff_slides.pdf videos: http://media.ccc.de/v/minilac16-yetsameoldqstuff [11] Siskel & Ebert - "This Is Spinal Tap" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1033 Enjoy && Have fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

9 years, 6 months

[LAU] [LAD] Guitarix 0.35.0 released

by Hermann Meyer

The Guitarix developers proudly present Guitarix release 0.35.0 Guitarix is a tube amplifier simulation for jack (Linux), with an additional mono and a stereo effect rack. Guitarix includes a large list of plugins[*] and support LADSPA / LV2 plugs as well. The guitarix engine is designed for LIVE usage, and feature ultra fast, glitch and click free, preset switching, full Midi and/or remote controllable (Web UI not included in the distributed tar ball). This release introduce the new GUI design by Markus Schmidt aka. boomshop Beside that, it comes with a couple of fixes and some new plugins. Also included be the MOD UI's for the LV2 plugins used by the MOD[*] For all changes, please check out the changelog. Please refer to our project page for more information: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ Download Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ Forum: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/forum/ Please consider visiting our forum or leaving a message on guitarix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:guitarix-developer@lists.sourceforge.net> regards hermann [*] http://moddevices.com/

9 years, 6 months

KMI KBoard Editor

by Spencer Jackson

Hi all: I picked up one of these KMI kboards and wanted to play with the configuration settings, but couldn't get their editor to work through wine, so I wrote a python script that edits and dumps the sysex for configuration. Its very utilitarian, but already I'm glad I wrote it since every instrument seems to play better with slightly different settings. Of course this program is offered without any guarantees, especially since its messing with hardware. If anyone has or considers getting one of these keyboards he or she can keep this project in mind for configuring it in linux. https://github.com/ssj71/kboard-editor later, _Spencer

9 years, 6 months

Rivendell v2.12.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.12.0. 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: Sequential Cut Play-Out. Cuts can now be configured on a per-cart basis to play in a set sequential order rather than by relative weight value. New Switcher Support. Support has been added for the Broadcast Tools ADMS 44.22 and SS 4.1 MLR switchers. New RML. A 'Copy Cut' ['CP'] RML has been added that allows cuts to be copied between carts. RDLogEdit Changes. Added a 'Show Only Recent Logs' checkbox. New Web API Methods. The following new methods have been added to the web API: AssignSchedCode ListCartSchedCodes ListSchedCodes UnassignSchedCode Database Schema Reversion. Added an rdrevert(8) command to allow database schema changes to be reverted to an earlier version (experimental). Documentation Changes. The documentation has been converted to XML-DocBook5. Various other bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 254, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/> <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ <http://www.rivendellaudio.org/>> Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | "No, `Eureka!' is Greek for `This bath is too hot!'" | | -- Dr. Who | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|

9 years, 6 months

Commercial synthesizer for Linux released: Monique

by Monoplugs | Thomas Arndt

Hallo Linux Audio User, a few days ago Monoplugs has released Monique - a unique monophonic synthesizer made for bass and lead sounds. Available as standalone and native Linux VST 32 & 64 bit. You can test this synthesizer for free, but note, it is a commercial project. More you can find on the Monique website: http://Monique.Monoplugs.com Here the trailer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPsa-3aAFms More videos and tutorials you can find here: http://magazine.monoplugs.com/category/monique-synthesizer/ If you like you can join the discussion on the LinuxMusicians forum: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=15558 Or on KVR forum: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=459681 Or gearslutz forum: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-product-alert/1077291-monoplugs-release… Sincerly, Thomas Arndt Monoplugs

9 years, 6 months

Beast 0.10.0 and Rapicorn 16.0.0

by Tim Janik

Rapicorn is a toolkit for declarative UIs and SVG-based theming, see: http://rapicorn.org/ https://testbit.eu/pub/dists/rapicorn/ Beast is an audio composer and modular synthesis application, see: http://beast.testbit.eu/ https://testbit.eu/pub/dists/beast/ Lots of work went into the build system and linux distribution porting lately and it's starting to pay off. As I type this, the build machines are running hot, building packages based on the new versions. Once they are done, new binary packages for installation can be found here: https://bintray.com/beast-team/deb This is another one in a series of recent releases that have changed a lot under the hood but yet have little user interface visible impacts. That's going to change in the future, but before that point, here come some notable new features for developers. With recent improvements to the IDL compiler in Rapicorn, the BSE library could be wrapped in Python, so it is now possible to run the following little program in Python: import Bse, time Bse.server.register_core_plugins() time.sleep (1.5) # give time to load plugins prj = Bse.server.create_project ("example") prj.restore_from_file ("/usr/share/beast/demo/partymonster.bse") prj.play() # listen... ;-) Starting with this release, we'll use a more stringent versioning scheme, to summarize: * MAJOR: Increments on major API breaks, *forces* ABI break, resets MINOR, MICRO * MINOR: Increments for significant changes or ABI breaks, resets MICRO * MICRO: Increments with every release, increments must *not* break ABI * ABI change: Increments MAJOR or MINOR and resets MICRO Also MAJOR ideally reflects the year a major release was started. Please test and provide feedback so we can improve the experience. The detailed NEWS are appended for the curious. Rapicorn 16.0.0: (2016-04-07) * Remove internal librsvg copy, require an installed librsvg-2.0. * Provide enum meta information for enum values stored in Any. * Provide change notification signals for Parameter. * Cleanup threads via atexit(3). * Added support for auxillary data on IDL sequence and record definitions. * Added compatibility code to downgrade cython requirement to 0.20.1 for trusty. * Added fixes for g++-4.8.4 and libtool >= 1.5.2. * Grow Any content to enable structured type and small string optimizations. * Remove remove Atomic<> in favour of the "Construct On First Use Idiom". * Improved exception specifications to satisfy cython-0.23.3. * Reduced unit testing time, individually and by tuning the benchmark timers. * Use xvfb-run(1) to run X11 related unit tests. * Support and use the TAP protocol for unit test evaluation. * New versioning: Releases increase MAJOR for major API changes. * New versioning: Releases increase MINOR in case of any ABI breaks. * New versioning: Releases increase MICRO for backwards compatibility. * New versioning: The MAJOR number ideally matches the release year. * The Python module alias remans 'Rapicorn', stored in Rapicorn_15/. * C++ namespace changed to 'Rapicorn', files install under 'rapicorn-$MAJOR'. * The librapicorn shared library supports installation of multiple versions. * Many build system fixes and integration of travis-ci builds. * Automatically built Debian packages are now on http://bintray.com/beast-team/. * The file debian/copyright now contains an accurate licensing account. * Install cython headers to allow IDL Python bindings outside Rapicorn. * Add AutoSeeder class to provide good non-deterministic seeding entropy. * Add PCG-32 which provides fast but well distributed pseudo random numbers. * Include a random_secret() in hash functions to avoid collision attacks. * Use Python enum classes and C++11 enum classes in IDL code generation. * Fixed shebang to reliably find Python2.7. [Milk Brewster] Beast 0.10.0: (2016-04-07) * Memory leak and stability fixes. * Removal of deprecated Glib/Gtk+ functions. * A new binary 'bsetool' subsumes several old utilities. * Removal of unused utilities and several places with dead code. * Several classes are now (fully) ported to new AIDA IDL: SNet Track TrackPart Bus SampleFileInfo Project MusicalTuning NoteDescription Icon * More porting work to use Rapicorn C++11 utilities. * Fixes for g++-4.9 which has become a hard dependency. * Support and use the TAP protocol for unit test evaluation. * New versioning: Releases increase MAJOR for major API changes. * New versioning: Releases increase MINOR in case of any ABI breaks. * New versioning: Releases increase MICRO for backwards compatibility. * Now libbse supports parallel installation of runtime library packages. * Now various program and module installation paths include MAJOR. * Fix build issues with external libbse plugins. * Fix LADSPAv1 plugin registration failing to detect some plugins. * Provide C++11 API for undo/redo functions. * Add pybse API wrapper that allows Python to 'import Bse'. * Start a Python interpreter from Beast. * Split up Beast main() methods to run event loop from Python. * Port libbse to use C++11 scoped enums. -- Yours sincerely, Tim Janik https://testbit.eu/timj/ Free software author.

9 years, 7 months

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