We are jubilous to announce CLAM 1.2 'GSoCket plugged-in release'. We had to wait for some months to make this release as we had to redeploy the multiplatform release infrastructure [1]. Thus, the feature buffer for this release is pretty full. It incorporates both, the results of the Summer of Code [2] students work and the involvement of David and Pau with Barcelona Media Foundation Audio Research Lab[3]. We want to thank the involvement of GSoC students Hernan Hordiales[4], Bennet Kolasinsky[5], Greg Kellum[6], Andreas Calvo, Roman Goj[7] and Abe Kazemzadeh, Google Inc, and Barcelona Media audio lab members for their precious involvement in CLAM. [1] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/testfarm/ [2] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/GSoC_2007 [3] http://www.barcelonamedia.org/index.php/linies/10/en [4] http://h.ordia.com.ar [5] http://bennettdoesclam.blogspot.com [6] http://gregkellum.com [7] http://ro-baczek.blogspot.com A summarized list of changes follows. See also the CHANGES files[8] for details, or the development screenshots[9] for a visual guided tour. As usual binary packages for Windows, MacOSX and several flavors of Linux are available to download. [8] http://iua-share.upf.edu/svn/clam/trunk/CLAM/CHANGES [9] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/Development_screenshots Summary of changes: The most exciting feature is the new plugin system (acalvo) which enables third party algorithms to be distributed separately from the core binaries. LADSPA plugins support has been enhanced and a first iteration on FAUST[10] integration. The wiki[11] contains very nice how-to's that cover most of that. [10] http://faust.grame.fr/ [11] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/wikis/clam Most of the GSoC work come as plugins: a SMS Synthesizer (gkellum), a Voice synthesis/analysis (akazem) and some some cool guitar effects (hordia). Also not included as plugins but in the main repository several enhancements have been done on the SMS transformations (hordia) and the tonal analysis (rgoj). Some interesting work has been done on the Barcelona Media Audio Lab on having a system to simulate 3D room acoustics which can be reproduced on several exhibition systems. Some precomputed room databases are available to try. Check the wiki NetworkEditor Tutorial for more information. Regarding the applications, Network Editor incorporates new usability enhancements, a new on-line Tutorial and a new Spectrogram like view. The Annotator received Bennet Kolasinsky attention improving its the flexibility of its interface, the practical effects are multiple segmentation and low-level descriptors panes and that we are pretty close to visualization and auralization plugins. Enjoy. The CLAM Team