The first unified LV2 release, LV2 1.0.0, is out.
This release merges the previous lv2core package with all the official
extension packages, as well as example plugins, lv2specgen, and
additional data. From a developer point of view, the biggest change is
that all LV2 API headers can be used by simply checking for the single
pkg-config package "lv2" (for compatibility the previous "lv2core"
package is still installed). Implementations are encouraged to abandon
the "copy paste headers" practice and depend on this package instead.
With this release, several new extensions have become stable that
together greatly increase the power of LV2: atom, log, parameters,
patch, port-groups, port-props, resize-port, state, time, worker.
Download: http://lv2plug.in/spec/lv2-1.0.0.tar.bz2
Documentation and more detailed change logs: http://lv2plug.in/ns/
More information about LV2: http://lv2plug.in/
Enjoy,
-dr
With some help I found many missing but needed features in osc2midi. These
have been added and are ready for release.
OSC2MIDI is a highly configurable osc to jack midi (and back) bridge for
linux. It is useful for controlling jack midi apps with a mobile device, or
controlling OSC apps like Ardour or the Non-Daw applications with a midi
device, or any application of communicating between osc and midi devices.
Configuration is done through a simple text file, with several examples
included.
notable changes since version 0:
-can now use constant arguments or even ranges of constants in the OSC or
the Midi message to map lots of messages quickly
-You can linearly scale values on the osc or midi message side making it
much easier when writing maps for converting midi to osc
-You can map single values from osc or midi messages to multiple values on
the other side
-Mappings are now installed to a more conventional location (/usr/share)
and mappings in the home directory take priority over default maps if name
matches.
-Various bugfixes
You can download it for free and freedom at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/osc2midi/files/
Thanks to all who have reported bugs and helped out!
_Spencer
Hi,
during LAC2015 in Mainz last week, I gave a lightning talk on what I called
"The LAC2014 Percussion Combo". It was a presentation about a little field
recording session conducted one year earlier, during LAC2014 in Karlsruhe,
and what I made out of it.
The data is now finally online, including the actual sample library kit
(individual wav files) with a mapping file for Hydrogen, a tiny demo
pattern, and a demo song called "That's LAC" that came to life "out of nowhere" -
well, I guess I'll simply call it my first Linux Audio "release" ever :-).
Read all about it here: http://linuxaudio.de/wp/?p=158
Thanks go out to the individual artists whose performance I had the honour
to record: Marc Groenewegen, Pjotr Lasschuit, Nils Gey, Bernard Tressol,
Michael Seeber, Stefano Pedrinazzi, Marie-Kristin Meier, and Fernando Lopez-Lezcano.
Enjoy,
Frank
Optimization and cosmetic changes:
* introduced simplifications on the level of internal language;
* changed default values of some parameters;
* some characters have been replaced with pretty Unicode symbols;
* improved manual.
In my opinion now MIDA is more or less mature and I want to try to
create similar tool (language) for algorithmic automation for various
DAWs. I could use significant portion of MIDA code for it, not sure when
it will available. If you're interested and you have any
ideas/propositions please email me.
----
MIDA is a minimalistic declarative language for algorithmic generation
of MIDI files. MIDA can help you create variative elements in your music
in a very simple way. More about it here: https://mrkkrp.github.io/mida/
----
GitHub repository: https://github.com/mrkkrp/mida
... cos today we release Yoshimi V 1.3.4
--
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.
And finally, for the wrap of the pre-LAC2015@JGU-Mainz [1] release
party, no other than the 'crown jewel' of the whole Qstuff* bunch ;)
Qtractor 0.6.6 (lazy tachyon beta) is out!
Release highlights:
* LV2 and VST plugins GUI position persistence (NEW)
* MIDI clip editor record/overdub note rendering (FIX)
* VST plugin recursive discovery/search path (NEW)
* VST-shell sub-plugins support (FIX)
* also some old and new lurking bugs squashed.
Qtractor [2] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written
in C++ with the Qt4 framework. 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.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.sr…
- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.i5…http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.x8…
- quick start guide & user manual (see also: the wiki):
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf
- wiki (help really wanted!):
http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
Weblog (upstream support):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms
of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5]) version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- MIDI clip record/reopen to/from SMF format 0 has been fixed.
- LV2 and VST plugins GUI editor widget position is preserved across
hide/show cycles.
- Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData [6].
- Added a "Don't ask this again" prompt option to zip/archive extrated
directory removal/replace warning messages.
- MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) gets lingering notes properly shown
while on record/overdubbing.
- Current highlighted client/port connections are now drawn with thicker
connector lines.
- Fixing segfaults due to QClipboard::mimeData() returning an invalid
null pointer while on Qt5 and Weston.
- Return of an old hack/fix for some native VST plugins with GUI editor,
on whether to skip the explicit shared library unloading on close and
thus avoid some mysterious crashes on session and/or application exit.
- Force reset of plugin selection list when any of the plugin search
paths change (in View/Options.../Plugins/Paths).
- Recursive VST plugin search is now in effect for inventory and
discovery on path sub-directories (VST only).
- Non-dummy scannig for regular VST, non-shell plugins, were doomed to
infinite-loop freezes on discovery, now fixed.
References:
[1] LAC2015@JGU-Mainz - Linux Audio Conference 2015
The Open Source Music and Sound Conference
April 9-12 @ Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Germany
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/
[2] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
[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] AppData Specification
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/879
Enjoy && keep the fun.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
MIDA 0.4.1 released, changes:
* dramatically improved efficiency, now very long compositions can be
quickly rendered;
* lexer: changed style of comments, shell-like comments adopted;
* changed alias of notes: dièse is written now as `s` not as `#`, so
middle octave is: `c5`, `cs5`, `d5`, `ds5`, `e5`, etc.;
* now there are alias for all supported (in MIDI) pitches from 0 to 127,
that is: from `c0` to `g10` (alias `c10` -- `g10` added);
* changed alias of modulation signs, reason for such change is purely
technical -- all alias now are predefined definitions, rather than
syntactic sugar, so all alias must be valid identifiers;
* identifiers can contain underline sign (`_`);
* arbitrary number of files can be specified for loading (from command
line, as well as from interactive REPL);
* many purely technical changes that are difficult to explain concisely,
but they should be mentioned, most important being addition of test
suite and ability to generate source files from syntax trees;
* added command line options: `--license` and `--version`.
So, here are some syntax changes, this is because the project is still
in flux, but it's settling down.
Where to get: https://github.com/mrkkrp/mida/releases/tag/0.4.1
Docs online: https://mrkkrp.github.io/mida/
Best,
-- Mark Karpov
