A stable release, version 15.12, 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
- Lots of minor bug fixes
- Added RPITCH for random "mistakes"
- Added SUBROUTINES
- Added FretNoise option for Plectrum tracks
- Much better keysignature handling
- A "whole wack" of library files which were missing are now in the distro
- 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
Registration for WAC 2016 is now open.
To register, please visit http://webaudio.gatech.edu<http://webaudio.gatech.edu/>.
The 2nd Web Audio Conference (WAC) will be held April 4-6, 2016 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. WAC is an international conference dedicated to web audio technologies and applications. 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. WAC welcomes industry engineers, R&D scientists, academic researchers, artists, and students from fields such as web development, music technology, computer music, and audio applications. The first Web Audio Conference was held in January 2015 at IRCAM and Mozilla in Paris, France. WAC 2016 is sponsored by the Georgia Tech College of Architecture and by Dolby.
The keynote speakers for WAC 2016 are Helen Thorington and Frank Melchior. The conference will feature over 75 papers, posters, talks, demos, artworks, and musical performances, a plenary session with the W3C working group on the Web Audio API, a hack session, tutorials, and related activities.
The conference takes place at Georgia Tech, a major research university located in midtown Atlanta, with convenient access from Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (the busiest passenger airport in the world). The conference venue, Georgia Tech's Academy of Medicine, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and houses the chandelier seen in the movie "Gone with the Wind." The venue is a short walk to the Georgia Tech campus, dining, shopping, nightlife, the conference hotel, and the city's main subway line.
Registration rates are as follows:
Early Bird Registration (by February 15th):
$250 regular registration
$100 student registration
Late Registration (after February 15th):
$400 regular registration
$200 student registration
For all accepted papers, posters, talks, demos, artworks, and performances, at least one author must register for and attend the conference.
TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAM
The WAC 2016 organizing committee plans to award a small number of travel and registration grants. The grants will waive registration fees and cover a portion of travel expenses for recipients.
To be eligible for consideration for a travel grant, you must:
- have a paper, poster, talk, demo, artwork, and/or performance accepted for presentation at WAC 2016
- belong to a population that is underrepresented in the WAC community
- not have attended WAC 2015
- not have financial support from your institution to attend WAC 2016
To apply for a travel grant, write a one-page letter of application that confirms your eligibility, describes how attendance at WAC 2016 will be of benefit to you and to any communities and/or organizations you are involved in, and includes your contact information and origin city for travel.
Travel grant applications are due by *February 1st, 2016* and should be sent as a PDF attachment to webaudio(a)gatech.edu.
Season greetings y'all,
As cheesy as it might go, as a must already,
Qtractor 0.7.2 (tacky gluon beta) is out!
Quite frankly, there's nothing really stopping you from an upgrade or
rather update to taste! :)
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.
Major highlights for this dot release are:
* MIDI Track/Instrument bank/programs menu (NEW)
* VST plug-ins preset/bank (FXP/FXB) files support (NEW)
* Duplicate track menu command (NEW)
* XRUN status bar indicator (NEW)
And, of course, Qtractor [1] is now built to Qt5 [2] as per configure
default.
Hope you 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-0.7.2.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm
- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpmhttp://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.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:
- Yet another audio/MIDI time drift correction fix, now giving it some
slack while turnaround looping on tempo changes.
- Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix platforms.
- MIDI Track/Instrument cascading pop-up menus have been added, to main
and MIDI clip editor windows.
- VST Plugin preset/bank files support (FXB/FXP) is now being integrated
to the generic Plugin/Properties widget dialog.
- Added new Track/Duplicate menu command.
- Added simple XRUN red indicator to status bar.
- Make sure program change/presets are not selected on possibly
multi-timbral instrument plugins when inserted on a MIDI bus.
- Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
- Fixed a potential crash-bug on first enabling either once the audio or
MIDI metronomes.
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
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/975
Hope you enjoy && have fun.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
Along the dusty road into the small western town, the infamous gang
approaches. They ride up, bringing along the usual uneasy feeling. What
trouble will it be this time? It's soon apparent that in addition to sundry
bugfixes and improving tweaks among the group, a new brother has joined the
bandits...
the infamous lushlife!
https://youtu.be/7-jbAm7YU5c
This fully featured Artificial Double Tracker (ADT) plugin has up to 6
channels of doubling, each with controllable detuning, delay, gain,
panning, and 2 lfos (per channel). It can do everything from thin beatle
effects to lush choruses. To learn more go to
http://ssj71.github.io/infamousPlugins/
But wait, this plugin cannot fully maraude with the others; the GUI is
being held for ransom! Its sentence is 50 days, but you could pitch in for
an early bail. Every $2 donated will move the release up 1 day. The plugin
itsself is in the releases section ready to download and try, but for the
GUI, you have to donate, or just wait. All source code will be released by
28 January 2016, unless donations buy it down to an earlier date.
Also I'll accept bartering for donations. Presets, documentation, demos,
videos, songs, ANYTHING for any project that builds up the linux audio
community can be used. Contact me and tell me what you'll do and we'll work
out a "value" for how many days I'll knock off.
One additional point of note regarding the lushlife GUI, the host generated
UI allows you to go to very extreme values (2 octaves up or down!), whereas
the GUI limits it to the more useful (and natural sounding) middle ground.
This way the GUI provides better resolution for tweaking in the critical
regions.
Check them out at http://ssj71.github.io/infamousPlugins
For more info about donations and the GUI release go to
http://ssj71.github.io/infamousPlugins/donate.html
Enjoy!
_Spencer (ssj71)
Would you be interested in becoming the project lead for Ubuntu Studio,
or know someone who could?
Ubuntu Studio will have its first ever vote for a project lead in 2016.
Read more about it here -
http://ubuntustudio.org/2015/12/project-lead-vote-2016/
After an unintentional hiatus, the show is back! We've moved hosts away
from libsyn to archive.org which allows us to provide alternative download
formats like flac and ogg. All 71 episodes can now be found at
https://archive.org/details/osmpodcast.
71 you ask?
That's right, a new episode is now out! I chat with falkTX about MOD and
sundry other things. We also announce the opening of a new tunestorm due 1
January!
https://archive.org/details/OSMP71
OSMP Episode 71 - Talking with Filipe about MOD
We've moved to archive.org! You can find all the episodes now at
https://archive.org/details/osmpodcast
and each episode is at https://archive.org/details/OSMP71 etc.
Interview with falkTX and we talk a lot about the MOD pedal (moddevices.com)
We decide to do another tunestorm. Tunestorm 13 is themed "holiday." Record
an original composition about any holiday and send it in by 1 Jan 2016!
(See opensourcemusician.com/index.php/Tunestorm for more info).
Send entries to contributions at opensourcemusician dot com
Contact Info:
Email: contributions at opensourcemusician dot com
Wiki: http://opensourcemusician.com
IRC: irc.freenode.net/#opensourcemusicians
Enjoy!
_Spencer
Zynaddsubfx 2.5.2 - “The Space of Two Weeks” Release
A mere three months after the last release, the Zynaddsubfx team proudly
announces Version 2.5.2, the “Space of Two Weeks” release. In addition to
stability improvements, it adds some exciting and useful new features:
* Add MIDI-Learn serialization - this allows for midi mappings to be saved
and loaded, a huge boon for midi control workflow.
* Add pink noise source - pink noise is usually considered the most
“musical” or natural of noise sources, like rain, waterfalls, or ocean
waves.
* Restore mousewheel functionality - a sorely missed feature, provides easy
and consistent course and fine tuning of parameters. Mouse drag has
matching behavior now as well.
* Restore bank LSB/MSB MIDI support - makes all presets in a bank
selectable by MIDI.
* Improve tip windows - if enabled, shows you helpful tips you never knew
on startup.
* Improve oscdoc output - this utility documents all the OSC messages that
can control zyn and lists and describes them at
http://fundamental-code.com/zyn-ports2/ These messages could be used by OSC
apps on remote machines, android or iOS devices to control zyn.
* Restore External Oscillator/Modulator functionality - now you can use
external sources for new audio waveforms, or modulation signals.
* Remove remaining globals - a feat in itself, this results in safer,
cleaner, better designed code, additional stability, and sets the stage for
using zyn as a plugin.
* Fix UI connection bugs - this improves the workflow and reliability for
those using zyn in headless systems, controlling it through the zyn user
interface on a remote machine.
* Added shortcuts on edit buttons - holding shift or control when opening
the edit window of several features now opens a different, commonly useful
window (i.e. shift+click of the ADsynth edit button brings up the voice
list window).
* Other miscellaneous bug fixes
For more detail on these improvements read the in-depth announcement on the
mailing list (
https://sourceforge.net/p/zynaddsubfx/mailman/message/34609692/).
Thanks to all who contributed bug reports and feedback! We can always use
more! This release has commits from Mark McCurry, Christopher Oliver,
Filipe Coelho, Johannes Lorenz, and Hans Selasky, with translation from
Oliver Humbert. Naturally, we recommend all users and packagers update to
take advantage of these fixes and features.
Now go make some noise!
--Team Zyn.
Project Page:
http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net/
Download:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx/files/zynaddsubfx/2.5.2/
Mailing List:
https://sourceforge.net/p/zynaddsubfx/mailman/
Forums:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=47
Bug/Feature Tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/p/zynaddsubfx/bugs/?source=navbar
IRC:
##zynaddsubfx on FreeNode
Release 0.34.0 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:
add BOSS OC-2 partial emulation LV2 plugin (by drgreenthumb)
add gx_hogsfoot.lv2 gx_mole.lv2 and gx_rangem.lv2
add gx_plugins AxeFace, BassFuzz, Buzz and the Mole
add Gx_Wah.lv2 plugin
add colorsound bass wah plugin emulation
add Roland Wah add Jen Bass Wah emulation
add bitdowner distortion plugin (by Viacheslav Lotsmanov)
add volume control to gcb95 plug
add file browser and file load support to dubber (livelooper) plugin
add play all button to the dubber (livelooper) plugin
add support to import LV2 plugin presets into guitarix
add 24-edo tuner option
add 53-edo tuner option
disable LILV_OPTION_DYN_MANIFEST to avoid crashes from naspro-bridges
(dssi).
add online preset download widget (requires libwebkit-1.0)
thanks to lfz for creating https://musical-artifacts.com/
fix GxAmplifier-x GxAmplifierStereo-X and GxCabinet for the new ardour
buffersize behave.
implement double click on plugin handle remove plugin from rack
fix guitarix build for the new libsigc++ library and the new GCC5 compiler.
guitarix use now the default build flag -std=c++11
(you can disable it, see ./waf --help for more optional flags)
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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