After a nail-biting wait on the edge of your seats, the Eye-Candy Release
is upon us!
As promised, the donate/wait goal is now fulfilled and the GUIs for the
Infamous Plugins are all released. A lot has changed (even the install
process), so check them out. Find them at our new site:
http://ssj71.github.io/infamousPlugins
As usual please report any bugs you find!
As a side note, the donate-wait thing worked pretty well for me, despite
resulting in a "deadlock". Since the project was done, and not enough
people were interested financially I was able to move on to working on
other projects for 11 months (osc2midi and rkr lv2 are the results). I may
or may not try it again, but really, if you have several projects that you
can rotate around, "just wait" isn't so bad. The whole goal is to bring
income to our much-needed developers, I realize that, but this does
generate a bit of buzz and a month of time was bought back, which was more
than I'd ever received before. Huge thanks to the donors!
And to all:
enjoy!
_Spencer (ssj71)
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It
doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI
synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use
the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use
the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from
another instrument or MIDI file player.
The precompiled packages include the GeneralUser GS SoundFont by S.Christian
Collins (http://www.schristiancollins.com/generaluser.php) ready to use
with the FluidSynth output driver (also included in these packages, providing
beautiful sounds out of the box).
Changes for v0.6.1:
* Fixes for ALSA (Linux) and Windows input drivers,
(provided by Drumstick 1.0.1 libraries)
* Packaged using the Qt Frameworks 5.5.0
* Fixed ticket #27: save keyboard maps with default xml extension
* Fixed ticket #29: display input event noteon with velocity=0 as noteoff
* Color palette management fixes
* Updated Russian and Serbian translations
Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms: CMake 3.0, Qt 5.1 and
Drumstick 1.0 or later.
Please use the mailing list <vmpk-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> for questions
and comments. Thanks.
Copyright (C) 2008-2015, Pedro López-Cabanillas and others
License: GPL v3
More info
http://vmpk.sourceforge.net
Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files/0.6.1
Drumstick is a set of MIDI libraries using C++/Qt5 idioms and style. Includes
a C++ wrapper around the ALSA library sequencer interface: ALSA sequencer
provides software support for MIDI technology on Linux. A complementary
library provides classes for processing SMF (Standard MIDI files: .MID/.KAR),
Cakewalk (.WRK), and Overture (.OVE) file formats. A multiplatform realtime
MIDI I/O library is also provided with ALSA, OSS, Windows, Mac OSX, Network
and FluidSynth direct output backends.
Changes for v1.0.1
* RT library: Fix for ticket #4: ALSA Midi Input not working
* RT library: Fixed windows midi input
Compilation minimum requirements for all platforms: CMake 3.0 and Qt 5.1
Copyright (C) 2009-2015, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
License: GPL v2 or later
Project web site
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick
Online documentation
http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/docs/
Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumstick/files/1.0.1/
Release 0.33.0 is out,
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 and is full Midi (learn)
and remote (Web-interface/ GUI) controllable (bluez / avahi)
Changelog:
This release comes with the old User Interface and reflect only changes
in the plugin section.
New Plugins in guitarix
A new Wah plugin with manual/auto/alien mode and the following emulated
wah wah's to select from:
Colorsond Wah
DallasArbiter Wah
Foxx Wah
JEN Wah
Maestro Boomer Wah
Selmer Wah
Vox Wah
A new Fuzz section with emulations of the:
Astrotone Fuzz
Dunlop Fuzzface
Fuzzface Roger Mayer Mods
Fuzzface Fuller Mods
Foxeylady
Hornet
Sustainer
Muff
Screaming Bird
Colorsound Tonebender
Vintage Fuzzmaster
Ruiner
Fat Furry Freak
Fuzz Drive
and emulations of:
LPB-1 Linear power Booster
High Frequency Brightener
Hogs Foot
Dallas Rangemaster
Buffer Booster
Transistor Buffer
Colorsound Overdrive
Guitarix is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Please refer to our project page for more information:
http://guitarix.org
Download Site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
regards
hermann
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HI all!
Would you like 40 more effect plugins?
After many months of persistence I have ported the Rakarrack effects to lv2
format. With each effect, the individual effect presets have been ported as
well. I am very excited about this project and hope that this can keep the
Rakarrack project as one of the highlights of linux audio. Rakarrack is
currently in need of a proper maintainer. So if you are interested please
contact the developers! I made these ports such that all changes could be
ported back into the main codebase.
The porting took a lot of manual entry of matching parameter bounds and
indices etc.. So as you test and use these, please report any strange
behaviour you notice (such as changing the "gain" parameter actually
changed the decay time, etc.). I will be trying to test these but it will
take me quite some time to give them all a good shake down.Current status
is that they all can be loaded by Carla and Jalv, with some audio testing
on a few by me, and some testing by other parties. No known issues
currently exist.
I am currently working on porting the preset banks to Carla rack presets.
This will allow us to load any of the presets from Rakarrack and insert it
as a single plugin in Ardour or other hosts. I would like to get the
community started testing these in parallel with my effort. Once I have
that done I will announce a second beta.
Not all of the effects were ported, since some were duplicate code, direct
copies of ladspa plugins, or redundant of other lv2 plugins (like the
looper or colvolotron). The interface was kept close to Rakarrack, but some
parameter changes were made for the intent of clarity, such as wet/dry -
instead of the original -64 is all wet, 0 a 50/50 wet/dry mix, 63 dry, now
0 means all wet, 127 all dry. Parameter names were altered in places as
well (e.g. St. Df. now is labeled "Left/Right LFO delay"). Case by case
feedback on these decisions is also welcome.
For those unfamiliar with Rakarrack, here are all the effects, marked to
show which are in this new plugin bundle:
EFFECTS (X - done, W - won't do, + - done with missing features)
[X] Lineal EQ
[X] Compressor
[X] Distortion
[W] Overdrive - exact same engine as distortion, but has fewer controls,
presets were added to dist.
[X] Echo
[X] Chorus
[W] Phaser - I'm not planning to do this. I'm only interested in the analog
phaser version
[X] Analog Phaser
[W] Flanger - this is identical to the chorus, presets from this will be
included there
[X] Reverb
[X] Parametric EQ
[X] Cabinet Emulation
[X] AutoPan/Stereo Expander
[+] Harmonizer - midi mode was not ported
[X] Musical Delay
[W] Noise Gate - Direct copy of Steve Harris's Gate ladspa plugin
[X] WahWah
[X] AlienWah
[X] Derelict
[X] Valve
[X] Dual Flange
[X] Ring
[X] Exciter
[X] DistBand
[X] Arpie
[X] Expander
[X] Shuffle
[X] Synthfilter
[X] VaryBand
[W] Convolotron - other excellent lv2 convolution engines already exist
[W] Looper - other good lv2 loopers exist
[X] MuTroMojo
[X] Echoverse
[X] CoilCrafter
[X] ShelfBoost
[X] Vocoder
[X] Sustainer
[X] Sequence
[X] Shifter
[X] StompBox - an extra plugin for fuzz mode was added, as interface is
different
[X] Reverbtron
[X] Echotron
[+] StereoHarm - no midi mode
[X] CompBand
[X] Opticaltrem
[X] Vibe
[X] Infinity
Further help using them can be found at
http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/effects.html . I hope you all find these
enjoyable, and make great music with them.
Please download and try them at:
http://github.com/ssj71/rkrlv2
Enjoy!
_Spencer
Ahoy!
Stepping up to Summer'15 release frenzy stage scene, in it's fourth and
hopefully last act,
Qtractor 0.7.0 (muon base beta) is out!
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.
As a major highlight to this release, there's the advent of regular MIDI
controllers mapping/assignment to main application menu command actions,
just like normal PC-keyboard shortcuts, is being introduced (cf. main
menu Help/Shortcuts...).
Have a 'hotta' Summer'15 ;)
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-0.7.0.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm
- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpmhttp://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.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 [6] software,
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5])
version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- Revised MIDI Controlllers catch-up algorithm.
- Mixer multi-row layout gets a little bit of a fairness fix.
- Non-continuous MIDI Controllers now have their Hook and Latch options
disabled as those are found not applicable,
- As an alternative to PC-keyboard shortcuts, MIDI controllers are now
also assignable and configurable for any of the main menu command
actions, all from the same old configuration dialog (Help/Shortcuts...).
- Fixed missing Track and Clip sub-menus from Edit/context-menu that
were found AWOL ever since after the Lazy Tachyon beta release (> 0.6.6).
- An off-by-one bar position (as in BBT, bar, beat and ticks) has been
purportedly fixed as long as LV2 Time/Position atom event transfer goes.
- French (fr) translation line to desktop file added (patch by Olivier
Humbert, thanks).
- A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
sub-routine is now in effect.
- Improved MIDI clip editor resilience across tempo and time-signature
changes.
- Keyboard shortcuts configuration (Help/Shortcuts...) now lists
complete menu/action path where available.
- Fixed in-flight VST plugin editor (GUI) resizing.
- Added support to LV2UI_portMap extension, found really handy for the
cases where you have multiple plugins with different port configurations
and a single common UI to drive them all (pull request by Hanspeter
Portner aka. ventosus, thanks).
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] GPL - GNU General Public License
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
[6] http://linuxaudio.org
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/917
Enjoy && keep the fun.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela