G'day.
setBfree is a MIDI-controlled, software synthesizer designed to imitate
the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound
modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and
products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie.
http://setbfree.orghttps://github.com/pantherb/setBfree
It's been over 18 months since the last release and setBfree just
reached another major milestone: It now features a proper GUI that
allows to configure various aspects that have previously only been
accessible via text config files (the config and program file-format
itself has not changed). The GUI is available as LV2 and standalone jack
application and the old tcl/tk prototype UI was removed for good.
visit https://vimeo.com/130633814 for a demo.
The 2nd big change was reworking the Leslie: The horn now spins
counter-clockwise (same as the real thing) and we finally managed to
track down the aliasing noise that was audible during acceleration and
deceleration. Since various users play guitar and some even cello
through it, an animated LV2 GUI was added for the whirl-speaker
emulation and it has also been made available as standalone jack client.
Advanced settings such as microphone angle, position, horn radius, etc
are now also exposed (both for the organ as well as the LV2). The UI
looks like
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pantherb/setBfree/master/doc/b_whirl.png
Other notable changes include new addition of presets for Kurzweil and
Korg CX3 and updates to portability (ARM-CPU/RPi, Windows + OSX
versions). The full list of over 300 changes since 0.7.5 is available as
git log.
Binaries for Intel platform, GNU/Linux, OSX and Windows are available
from https://github.com/pantherb/setBfree/releases/latest
though for Linux most distros will pick this up as usual.
Many thanks to Axel 'the C.L.A.' Müller and Jean-Luc Nest who provided
valuable feedback and inspiring music during the development cycle.
happy playing,
robin + will
Version 2.6 of the Vamp plugin SDK is now available.
http://www.vamp-plugins.org/
Vamp is a plugin API for audio analysis and feature extraction plugins
written in C or C++. Its SDK features an easy-to-use set of C++ classes
for plugin and host developers, a reference host implementation, example
plugins, and documentation. It is supported across Linux, OS/X, and
Windows.
A documentation guide to writing plugins using the Vamp SDK can be found
at http://www.vamp-plugins.org/guide.pdf.
Version 2.6 is a bugfix and minor enhancement release. For more details,
see the changelog at
http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/vamp-plugin-sdk/repository/entry/C…
Chris
Ambisonics has a strong community using Linux, therefore I ask the community
herein for art works:
"Pure Ambisonics" == "Ambisonics as an art form" is the hypotheses
We are searching for different works, which need not be recent ones, also
historic ones are of interest. Preferring higher order 3D, we take any order
3D or 2D as long it represents a wave-field as a spatial audio work ready for
concert. To test this thesis a concert is scheduled:
- PURE Ambisonics Concert & the Night of Ambisonics -
September 18th at ICSA 2015 in Graz
Preferring the AmbiX format, we also take other formats as long the
description has enough information to convert them to this domain.
More INFO on the CALL:
http://ambisonics.iem.at/icsa2015/pure-ambisonics-concert
mfG
winfried
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Institut 17 Elektronische Musik und Akustik
8010 Graz, Inffeldgasse 10/III
E-Mail ritsch(a)iem.at
Homepage http://iem.at/ritsch
Mobil ++436642439369
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V 1.3.5-rc
I don't usually post here about release candidates, but there have been a lot
of changes since V 1.3.4
Some, like vector control were demomstrated to a handful of people at LAC 2015,
others are a direct response to suggestions there, and there is a roadmap we're
following too.
Before making a full release I'd very much like comments. What you like, what
you don't and what's just 'meh'. So please grab the current snapshot.
In brief:
User interface
Visual identification of use of any/all three synth engines
Part number and name added to all editing window title bars
Also voice number to AddSynth oscillator editor
Scroll wheel control of all rotary knobs +Ctrl for very fine control
Horizontal as well as vertical drag of rotary knobs
Revised some layouts and removed redundant controls and refreshes
System
On demand jack port creation for part outputs
NRPNs inc 14bit & increment/decrement
Also Zyn compatible ones (with some extensions)
16, 32 or 64 semi-independent parts
Vector control
Direct part control
Miscellany
The 'docs' directory now gets installed, although still scrappy text files
There is a new historical branch (currently with versions 0.010 to 0.038)
Yoshimi is now mirrored https://github.com/abrolag/yoshimi
Of course the original is still http://sourceforge.net/projects/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.
Hi all,
New images are ready for testing ;)
io GNU/Linux is a Live DVD/USB based on Debian Sid and focused on multimedia.
Kernel 4.0.4 and 4.0.4-rt, Jack2+AlsaLoop as default sound server (can be
easily changed to Jack2+ZitaBridge, Jack2+PulseAudio, PulseAudio or Alsa)
e18 as desktop environment and a big collection of installed software... Full
persistence for USB install (with encryption) and more stuff...
For more infos: manual, packages list, screenshots, video etc... Visit:
-> http://io.gnu.linux.free.fr
-> https://sourceforge.net/projects/io-gnu-linux/
Installer has been rewritten, and a lot of work has been done to improve
security of live persistent users.
Feedbacks welcome, enjoy :)
MK
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Ahoy!
Spring cleaning is over and before the summer heat takes over here's
something to shake off the winter from the previous release.
x42-plugins is a collection of cross platform LV2 audio/midi plugins,
currently featuring over 80 plugins from 11 repositories.
https://github.com/x42/x42-pluginshttp://gareus.org/misc/x42-plugins/x42-plugins-20150530.tar.xz
(sha1sum 1a16a8ceff1f279ba92b9ca5c12aeb668725794b)
enjoy,
robin
Significant changes since the last release (20141101)
* fil4.lv2 [new] (equalizer)
- 4 Band Parametric with additional High/Low shelfs and Hi/Lo Pass
and graphical display. Based on Fons Adriaensen LADSPA fil-plugins
- equivalent analog gain (zero phase shift) at nyquist
- zero latency
* meters.lv2 (measurement & visualization)
- new BBC M6 (mid/side) meter
- fix port label for true-peak meter
- combined GUI shared lib (dramatic reduction of deployment size)
* balance.lv2 (stereo conditioner)
- fix texture clamping (issues with some graphics card)
- add multisampling (nicer graphics)
* convo.lv2 (zero latency convolution)
- remember display (and announce) last/currently used IR
- tweak GUI-less mode (allows host to set/query IR file;
automatable)
- reset channel assignment when replacing the IR file
(mono, stereo, true-stereo modes)
* midifilter.lv2
- fix potential overflow of midi-delaylines
* all plugins:
- update GUI font-scaling where applicable
- various openGL fixes (GL context separation)
- portability issues all plugins now run on Linux, OSX, Windows
and various CPU architectures.
- gtk variant has been deprecated (needs explicit BUILDGTK=yes)
For a complete list of changes, please see the individual repositories:
https://github.com/x42/balance.lv2https://github.com/x42/convoLV2https://github.com/x42/fil4.lv2https://github.com/x42/meters.lv2https://github.com/x42/midifilter.lv2https://github.com/x42/mixtri.lv2https://github.com/x42/nodelay.lv2https://github.com/x42/onsettrigger.lv2https://github.com/x42/sisco.lv2https://github.com/x42/tuna.lv2https://github.com/x42/xfade.lv2
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At the Linux Audio Conference 2014 in Karlsruhe [1] there was an excursion
to the museum of mechanical music instruments in Bruchsal. [2] In the
museum they sold music boxes as a souvenir that can be programmed by punch
tapes. [3] I wrote a simple Haskell program that converts a MIDI file to
the punch tape. [4] As an example I arranged a song of a colleague for the
music box. [5,6,7]
Unfortunately, the music box is restricted to whole tones (i.e. no "black
keys") and it cannot play the same note again in a short time interval. My
prefered solution would be to print the graphics on an empty punch tape,
but I could not obtain an empty one. They are only sold with a printed
grid. Furthermore the original punch tapes are not made of paper but of
plastic. I do not know whether you can print on it using a plain laser or
ink jet. I might try thick paper instead but I suspect that it will wear
out quickly. However I already know that my laser printer cannot handle
the length of the original stripes. Thus I printed the graphics with
original width but shrunken length to regular paper and transfered the
dots from there to the punch tape manually.
[1] http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2014/
[2] http://www.dmm-bruchsal.de/
[3] http://www.amazon.de/Spieluhr/dp/B001WNZOVO/
[4] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/midi-music-box
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjnM-aRoYic
[6] http://www.amazon.de/Schlafaepfel/dp/B003IDM06I/
[7] http://hub.darcs.net/thielema/livesequencer-example/browse/Herbst.hs
Hi everybody,
I'm announcing the first release of my lookahead limiter: LazyLimiter v0.3.01
https://magnetophon.github.io/LazyLimiter/
This is my attempt of a clean yet fast brick-wall limiter.
Thanks to Sampo Savolainen for providing the initial inspiration.
Very special thanks to Yann Orlarey, who spent an evening at LAC2015
with me, to optimize the algorithm and make this thing actually usable.
I'm looking forward to your feedback!
Cheers,
Bart.
It's alive!
Qtractor 0.6.7 (lepton acid beta) is out!
Release highlights:
* MIDI instrument rendering on audio export (NEW)
* MIDI clip editor view/event criteria persistence (NEW)
* MIDI clip editor resilience on record/overdub (FIX)
* Generic plugin form position persistence (NEW)
* JACK Transport/Timebase master option (NEW)
and yet more tiny lurking critters swatted ;)
Well, the major highlight to this release is in fact this brand new and
way long overdue feature, seamlessly integrated to the faithful and
regular audio track export function: MIDI track instrument plug-in
rendering and mix-down (aka. freeze) is now real, as long their audio
output goes onto selected buses, aka. stems, mix-groups, whatever a
mix/mastering head would name it! nb. on the (very esquisite) Qtractor
arch-model parlance, those are just called "audio output buses" and that
ain't gonna change, any time soon, so stop it! A word of caution must be
told by now: dedicated (JACK) audio output ports are off-the-grid, so
sorry.
Maybe this silently makes a notch towards the DAW epitome, though
Qtractor still claims to be just a plain and honest sequencer--with yet
another DAW-like feature addition--the same as it ever was.
Nuff said.
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.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.sr…
- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.i5…http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.x8…
- wiki (help 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 editor (aka. piano-roll) position, size, and view/event type
criteria are now persistent, across session and user preferences
application state.
- Generic plugin form widget position is now also preserved across
open/save session cycles.
- MIDI clip editor resilience is about to get an improvement, fe. it
doesn't close on stopping record/overdub anymore.
- Introducing (JACK) Timebase master setting as an option to Transport
mode (cf. View/Options.../General/Transport/Timebase).
- LV2 plug-in MIDI/Event support now slanted for deprecation.
- Spanish (es) translation added, by avid Reyes Pucheta.
- It's live: audio track export (cf. Track/Export Tracks/Audio...) has
been deeply refactored to finally include MIDI track/instrument plugins
rendering (aka. freeze) on selected audio output buses on mix-down.
(EXPERIMENTAL)
- MIDI file player now does (N)RPN 14-bit controller events.
- Track properties dialog output bus switch fix/optimization; also fixed
multiple DSSI instance reference count on close.
- Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- German (de) translation update (by Guido Scholz, 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
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/894
Enjoy && keep the fun.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
