On behalf of the guitarix team I'm proud to announce Guitarix Version 0.11 Guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar amplifier and is designed to achieve nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds. Guitarix uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit as its audio backend and brings to the jack audio graph a mono amplifier input/output port, and a FX mono input with two (stereo) output ports. Guitarix provides a jack midi input port to connect a midi controller (midi learn) and a (3 channel) jack midi output port, feed by a (scalable) mix of the tuner and a beat-detector. Release 0.11.0 comes with following changes : Users visible changes: - new version of the impulse response parameter editor. You can now graphically define a gain line to be applied to the IR data, e.g. emphasize a part of the early reflections or damping the reverb tail to make it fit to your guitar sound. - the multi-line distortion effect now has 4 frequency bands and is better optimized - fix regression from version 0.10.0: now the default preset file is created again if it doesn't exist (e.g. in new installations). Changes that might be interesting for Developers: We put the Guitarix widgets into a library, with the goal of making them usable independently from Guitarix. You can build it as shared library and there's a c++ (gtkmm) wrapper, a python wrapper and glade support. Check it out and look for examples in those directories, or just build a nice looking display with the glade editor, and of course ask in our Guitarix forum (it's still alpha). As a side note, Guitarix is now in debian (unstable), of course at the moment still the previous version 0.10. have fun _________________________________________________________________________ guitarix is licensed under the GPL. Project page with screenshots: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ please report bugs and suggestions in our forum here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/ ________________________________________________________________________ For capture, guitarix uses the great 'jack_capture' (version >= 0.9.30) written by Kjetil S. Matheussen. If you don't have it installed, you can look here: http://old.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D For extra Impulse Responses, guitarix uses the zita-convolver library, and, for up/down sampling we use zita-resampler, both written by Fons Adriaensen. If you don't have it installed, get it here: http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html We use the marvellous faust compiler to build the amp and effects and will say thanks to : Julius Smith http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/ : Albert Graef http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html#Faust : Yann Orlary http://faust.grame.fr/ ________________________________________________________________________ For faust users : All used Faust dsp files are included in /guitarix/src/faust, the resulting cc files are in /guitarix/src/faust-generated The tools we use to convert (post-processing and plot) the resulting faust cpp files to the needed include format, stay in the /guitarix/tools directory. ________________________________________________________________________ regards Hermann Meyer, James Warden, Andreas Degert