Hey,
Here's to all southerners for whom the so called Summer'15 didn't
made much sense...
Beg your pardon yet and again, but it's that time of year when
grapefruit is about ripening, pretty fast and maybe late, at least on
the northern hemisphere. No worries: harvesting has already been carried
away. So it's your call now, wether it makes for ugly bad wine or,
pretty good vinegar...
"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine so that I may wet my mind and say
something clever." --Aristophanes
never mind,
Qtractor 0.7.1 (meson dope beta) is released!
Now, for the clueless:
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.
And for the ones who can aptly tell a TL;DR apart from a hangover:
Besides the incidental bug-fixes and proverbial business-as-usual
stance for this dot release, the most probable and hopefully significant
news about it, is that this will the last to build against Qt4 by
default. The time has come to move on up to Qt5. Remember that a Qt5
build is and has been possible already for ages now but somewhat
relegated on a subpar status due to the once lack of support for all
non-Qt5 LV2 plug-ins GUIs out there. Not anymore! Starting from this
very release onwards there's this so called <em>native</em> LV2 GTK2 and
X11 UI support on Qt5. Also thriving, drobilla's libsuil is being
updated to par just that as well. So things are all aligning up nigh.
A special note to the voluntary packager: if you choose, for any
reason you may find commendable, to build, package and distribute a Qt5
build (via ./configure --enable-qt5 ...) please be sure that every LV2
plug-ins around that take Qt as its UI framework are also build,
packaged and distributed on the same premises, otherwise they might just
fail and crash Qtractor [1] on show. Among those are of course the one
comprised by the 'Vee One Suite', namely synthv1 [9], samplv1 [10] and
drumkv1 [11], of course.
Also as a(nother) side note: It has been for quite some time there's
an alternate github.com [7] repository which is kept in sync with the
sf.net one [8]. However, this doesn't mean that the Qtractor [1] project
is about to migrate to brand new hosting whatsoever: the original
upstream source code repository is, will be, as ever was, always kept
somewhere else still in this world and universe. It's a Git [12] world
out nowadays and as the mottos says, --everything-is-local,
--distributed-is-the-new-centralized ;)
Enjoy.
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
- source tarball:
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.1.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.1-19.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm
- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.1-19.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpmhttp://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.1-19.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm
- wiki (help wanted!):
http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
Weblog (upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
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.
Change-log:
- Fixed an ages old MIDI track/channel instrument mapping (bank,
program) issue that prevented normal all-shut-up messages from being
sent to MIDI output buses/ports on playback stop.
- Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now in both
ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
- Fixed port on MIDI 14-bit controllers input caching.
- Fixed false value readings on the MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll)
tool-tips, when dragging a note velocity or controller value outside the
acceptable nominal range (eg. 0-127).
- Added LV2_BUF_SIZE__nominalBlockLength option support (patch by falktx
aka. Filipe Coelho, thanks).
- Fixed wrong initial tempo/time-signature display when session is
loaded from command line.
- LV2 plug-in UI GTK2 and X11 in Qt5 host native support added.
- Transport/Auto Backward feature now honoring (auto return) to same
current location precedence as Transport/Backward.
- Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11 (cf.
configure --enable-xunique).
- MIDI Tools/Transpose, Resize duration display format (frames, time or
BBT) have been fixed.
- Build fix for Qt5.5 (patch by KaOS, thanks).
- MIDI Tools/Quantize et al. are tentatively being corrected to take
event times as relative to THE beginning of session, instead of MIDI
clip start location.
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] Qtractor Git repository on github.comhttp://github.com/rncbc/qtractor
[8] Qtractor Git repository on sourceforge.nethttp://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code
[9] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer
http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/
[10] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler
http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/
[11] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler
http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/
[12] Git distributed version control system
http://git-scm.com
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/960
Enjoy && have fun.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
Hello all,
This qmidiarp release dares to come about a year after the last one...and yet
again: not much new stuff, but some more bugs squeeeezed, thanks to some
courageous reporters. And, after all, it's a lifesign isn't it? In other
words, updating is of course highly recommended.
Have fun with QMidiArp 0.6.2, below are the list of changes and links
Frank
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qmidiarp-0.6.2 (2015-10-06)
Fixed Bugs
o Arp: Regression: Latch mode caused the first note playing on
forever and other annoyances (Bug #12 reported by Alois Cochard)
o Seq: Small position error of the helper tick line relative to the
notes placed
o Seq: Note length values saved to file were not correct and had no
correct default (Bug #14 reported by Steve Grace)
o LV2 Seq and Lfo: Display was not correct when diminishing resolution
or length in plugin UI
Minor improvement
o LV2 Seq: Vertical zoom values are part of the controls and therefore
saved in presets as well
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QMidiArp is a MIDI arpeggiator, phrase generator and controller LFO for JACK
and ALSA. It can run multiple synchronized arpeggiators, LFOs and step
sequencers. The modules are also available as LV2 plugins with Qt user
interface. All in all it is a handy live tool.
Website
http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/
Download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidiarp/files/qmidiarp/0.6.2/qmidiarp-0.6.…
There is now also a github repo that will be kept in sync with the sf repo for
the time being
https://github.com/emuse/qmidiarp
The 2nd Web Audio Conference (WAC) will be held April 4-6, 2016 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The keynote speakers for WAC 2016 are Helen Thorington and Frank Melchior. Submissions for papers, talks, posters, demos, performances, and artworks are due October 15, 2015 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. To submit your work, visit http://webaudio.gatech.edu/node/22.
WAC is an international conference dedicated to web audio technologies and applications. The conference welcomes web developers, music technologists, computer musicians, application designers, researchers, and people involved in web standards. The conference addresses research, development, design, and standards concerned with emerging audio-related web technologies such as Web Audio API, Web RTC, WebSockets and Javascript. It is open to industry engineers, R&D scientists, academic researchers, artists, and students. The first Web Audio Conference was held in January 2015 at IRCAM and Mozilla in Paris, France.
The Internet has become much more than a simple storage and delivery network for audio files, as modern web browsers on desktop and mobile devices bring new user experiences and interaction opportunities. New and emerging web technologies and standards now allow applications to create and manipulate sound in real-time at near-native speeds, enabling the creation of a new generation of web-based applications that mimic the capabilities of desktop software while leveraging unique opportunities afforded by the web in areas such as social collaboration, user experience, cloud computing, and portability. The Web Audio Conference focuses on innovative work by artists, researchers, and engineers in industry and academia, highlighting new standards, tools, APIs, and practices as well as innovative web audio applications for musical performance, education, research, collaboration, and production.
Contributions to the second edition of the Web Audio Conference are encouraged in the following areas:
Web Audio API, Web MIDI, Web RTC, and other existing or emerging web standards for audio and music
Development tools, practices, and strategies of web audio applications
Innovative audio and music based web applications
Client-side audio processing (real-time or non real-time)
Audio data and metadata formats and network delivery
Server-side audio processing and client access
Client-side audio engine and audio rendering
Frameworks for audio synthesis, processing, and transformation
Web-based audio visualization and/or sonification
Multimedia integration
Web-based live coding environments for music
Web standards and use of standards within audio based web projects
Hardware and tangible interfaces in web applications
Codecs and standards for remote audio transmission
Any other innovative work related to web audio that does not fall into the above categories
We welcome submissions in the following tracks: paper, poster, demo, performance, and artwork. All submissions will be single-blind peer reviewed. The conference proceedings, which will include both papers (for papers and posters) and abstracts (for demos, performances, and artworks), will be published online in SmartTech, Georgia Tech’s archival open-access repository.
Papers: Submit a 4-6 page paper to be given as an oral presentation.
Talks: Submit an abstract to be given as an oral presentation.
Posters: Submit a 2-4 page paper to be presented at a poster session.
Demos: Submit an abstract to be presented at a hands-on demo session. Demo submissions should include a title, a one-paragraph abstract and a complete list of technical requirements (including anything expected to be provided by the conference organizers).
Performances: Submit a performance making creative use of web-based audio applications. Performances can include elements such as audience device participation, web-based interfaces, WebMIDI, WebSockets, and/or other imaginative approaches to web technology. Submissions must include a title, a one-paragraph abstract of the performance, a link to video documentation of the work, a complete list of technical requirements (including anything expected to be provided by conference organizers), and names and one-paragraph biographies of all musicians involved in the performance.
Artworks: Submit a sonic web artwork or interactive application which makes significant use of web audio standards such as Web Audio API or WebMIDI in conjunction with other technologies such as HTML5 graphics, WebGL, and/or interactivity. Works must be suitable for presentation on a computer kiosk with headphones. They will be featured at the conference venue throughout the conference and on the conference web site. Submissions must include a title, one-paragraph abstract of the work, a link to access the work, and names and one-paragraph biographies of the author(s).
Tutorials: If you are interested in running a tutorial session at the conference, please contact the organizers directly (webaudio at gatech dot edu).
Important Dates
October 15, 2015 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time: submission deadline
December 1, 2015: author notification
March 1, 2016: camera-ready papers and abstracts due
April 4-6, 2016: conference
At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference in order to present their work.
Submission Templates and Submission System
Submission templates are available on the conference web site at http://webaudio.gatech.edu/node/22
The submission system is open at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WAC2016/
We are pleased to announce the release of Yoshimi V1.3.6
Principal features for this release are the introduction of controls from the
command line, covering many setup options, as well as extensive
root/bank/instrument management. Some of these new controls are also available
to MIDI via new NRPNs.
Vector control has been extended so that there are four independent 'features'
that each axis can control,
ALSA audio has had a makeover, and will now work at your sound card's best bit
depth - not just 16 bit (as it used to be).
In the 'examples' directory there is a complete song set, 'OutThere.mid' and
'OutThere.xmz'. Together these produce a fairly complex 12 part tune that makes
Yoshimi work quite hard.
More information on these and other features are in the 'doc' directory.
Yoshimi source code can be obtained either from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi
or:
https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi
Our mailing list is now:
http://www.freelists.org/list/yoshimi
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
A stable release, version 15.09, of MMA--Musical MIDI Accompaniment
is available for downloading. In addition to a number of bug fixes
and optimizations, MMA now features:
- Works with Python 2.7 or 3.x
- Number of minor bug fixes
- Added RPITCH for random "mistakes"
- Added SUBROUTINES
- Added FretNoise option for Plectrum tracks
- Other minor enhancements
Please read the file text/CHANGES-15 for a complete list of changes.
MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks
for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain
pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details
please visit:
http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/
If you have any questions or comments, please send
them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca
--
**** Listen to my FREE CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars ****
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Rivendell v2.11.0. 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 RDCatch Up/Download Protocols. Added support for 'sftp' and 'scp'
protocols .
MP4/AAC File Importation. Added support for importing MP4/AAC audio
files. (See the 'INSTALL' file for details regarding additional
libraries required to activate).
New Switcher Support. Added support for the Ross NK series of video
switcher via the Ross SCP/A module. See the 'SWITCHERS'txt' file for
details.
PCM24 Support. Added support for using PCM24 in the core audio library.
CD Ripper. Refactored CD ripper code to provide faster and more
reliable operation.
Various other bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details.
Database Update:
This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 245, 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/>
Cheers!
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| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer |
| | Paravel Systems |
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| Focus on the dream, not the competition. |
| -- Nemesis Racing Team motto |
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Apologies for x-posting,
Following over dozen minor releases, yesterday pd-l2ork team has
unveiled our latest major release, version 20150917. Release highlights
include:
Release highlights:
*Expanded K12 module
*Pd-L2Ork can now coexist with other releases without any package conflicts
*Drawing optimizations
*New convenience functions, like comments with endlines and labels with
spaces
*Comprehensive Raspberry PI GPIO with PWM and I2S/MCP3008 (for analog
ins) support
*New version of L2Ork-centric libcwiid library fork offering support for
all versions of Nintendo-branded wiimotes, including the new MotionPlus
Inside, as well as the support for interleaved passthrough mode (e.g.
MotionPlus + Nunchuk)
*Code refactoring
*Bunch of minor and aesthetic fixes
*Last release (barring any major bugs) prior to the next major release
featuring node-webkit GUI (node-webkit version is currently in alpha
stage of development)
For a changelog and a more detailed overview, please visit:
http://puredata.info/downloads/Pd-L2Ork/releases/20150917
To download pd-l2ork:
http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56
NB: Currently only Ubuntu 14.04 64bit build is available, with 32bit and
Raspberry Pi builds forthcoming.
About Pd-L2Ork
Pd-L2Ork is a fork of the ubiquitous Pure-Data focusing on improved user
interface, expanded collection of externals, and an advanced SVG-enabled
graphical front-end. Originally it was introduced as the core
infrastructure for the Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork
http://l2ork.icat.vt.edu), and has since expanded to include K-12
learning module with a unique learning environment offering adaptable
granularity that has been utilized in over dozen maker workshops and
initiatives, including the Raspberry Pi Orchestra program for middle
school children introduced in the summer 2014. Today, pd-l2ork is being
developed by a growing number of international collaborators and
contributors.
For additional info L2Ork and pd-l2ork:
http://l2ork.icat.vt.edu
More about the founding author:
http://ico.bukvic.net
Best,
--
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Associate Professor
Computer Music
ICAT Senior Fellow
Director -- DISIS, L2Ork
Virginia Tech
School of Performing Arts – 0141
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
ico(a)vt.edu
www.performingarts.vt.edudisis.icat.vt.edul2ork.icat.vt.edu
[Please disseminate. Apologies for cross-posting]
ISMIR 2015 Reminder for Late-breaking Demo Contributions
We would like to remind you of the possibility to submit extended
abstracts to the ISMIR 2015 late-breaking demo session. This session is
dedicated to the presentation of preliminary results, ideas, applications
or system prototypes that are not yet fully formed nor systematically
evaluated, but of interest to the MIR community.
Authors are encouraged to submit extended one-page (preferred) or
two-page (maximum) abstracts to the late-breaking demo session here:
https://www.softconf.com/f/ismir2015-lbd/
Submit your late-breaking demo contribution in PDF format according to
one of the following templates:
http://ismir2015.uma.es/submissionstemplates/ISMIR2015-LBD_tex_template.ziphttp://ismir2015.uma.es/submissionstemplates/ISMIR2015-LBD_word_template.zip
Submissions do not need to be anonymized. Please note that all
late-breaking demo presentations will be posters and they may include or
not a demo component. Submissions must clearly state if there is to be a
demonstration component, and briefly address any special technical
requirements.
To guarantee the proper allocation of the late-breaking demos in the
conference venue, the submission system will be closed by October 26,
2015 . We will screen submissions for formatting compliance after they
are received, acceptance/rejection notifications will be sent to authors
as soon as the submissions are screened. Please try to upload finished
abstracts instead of placeholder documents. This will largely facilitate
our job to decide which contributions to accept.
Note that at least one author of an accepted late-breaking demo abstract
must be registered for the conference and present the work there.
All questions should be directly addressed to the ISMIR 2015
late-breaking demo chairs at mailto:ismir2015-latebreak@ismir.net.
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International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
Am Wolfsmantel 33
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Phone +49 9131 85-20538
Fax +49 9131 85-20524
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