Linux-audio-dev July 2015

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by Tim Goetze

http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html The latest release of the caps audio plugin suite contains a number of bug fixes and improvements as well as changes intended to make it more suitable for low-power systems. http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#CHANGES Most notably, support for a variety of little-used features has been dropped, reducing the binary size by roughly a third. There's also a new plugin implementing simplistic linear emulation of several guitar amplifier loudspeaker cabinets with reduced computational complexity: http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#CabinetIII The compressor plugins now report current gain reduction: http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.html#Compress http://quitte.de/dsp/caps_0.9.24.tar.bz2 Cheers, Tim

7 years, 3 months

[LAD] Tascam US-16x08 0644:8047

by Greg

Greetings, I am fairly new to USB dev (in linux in particular, but also in general), but I would very much like to try to get support for the above device working in snd-usb-audio. - Is this an appropriate place to discuss snd-usb-audio? - Are there any recommended reading pointers for behavior of the quirk table? I patched parse_audio_format_rates_v2(), get_sample_rate_v2(), and set_sample_rate_v2(), and through some sort of beginner luck was able to get aplay audio out of the first two channels. That was incomplete hackery though (eg fixed sample rate), and I would like to learn how to properly add quirk support. There have been other reports that this device worked OOTB, but I fail to see how! I've also been examining the traffic to the device with wireshark and a win7 vm, but the learning curve for USB is a bit steep, so I am digesting. (: If anyone can provide suggestions on lsusb output alone, here's what I have: http://pastebin.com/pA9MLQet cheers, Greg [x-post from alsa-devel due to empty thread - see: http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2015-July/094682.html]

9 years, 4 months

[LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.7.0 - The Muon Base is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Ahoy! Stepping up to Summer'15 release frenzy stage scene, in it's fourth and hopefully last act, Qtractor 0.7.0 (muon base beta) is out! 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. As a major highlight to this release, there's the advent of regular MIDI controllers mapping/assignment to main application menu command actions, just like normal PC-keyboard shortcuts, is being introduced (cf. main menu Help/Shortcuts...). Have a 'hotta' Summer'15 ;) 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-0.7.0.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.2): http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE 13.2): http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.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 [6] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5]) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds. - Revised MIDI Controlllers catch-up algorithm. - Mixer multi-row layout gets a little bit of a fairness fix. - Non-continuous MIDI Controllers now have their Hook and Latch options disabled as those are found not applicable, - As an alternative to PC-keyboard shortcuts, MIDI controllers are now also assignable and configurable for any of the main menu command actions, all from the same old configuration dialog (Help/Shortcuts...). - Fixed missing Track and Clip sub-menus from Edit/context-menu that were found AWOL ever since after the Lazy Tachyon beta release (> 0.6.6). - An off-by-one bar position (as in BBT, bar, beat and ticks) has been purportedly fixed as long as LV2 Time/Position atom event transfer goes. - French (fr) translation line to desktop file added (patch by Olivier Humbert, thanks). - A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore sub-routine is now in effect. - Improved MIDI clip editor resilience across tempo and time-signature changes. - Keyboard shortcuts configuration (Help/Shortcuts...) now lists complete menu/action path where available. - Fixed in-flight VST plugin editor (GUI) resizing. - Added support to LV2UI_portMap extension, found really handy for the cases where you have multiple plugins with different port configurations and a single common UI to drive them all (pull request by Hanspeter Portner aka. ventosus, 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 [6] http://linuxaudio.org See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/917 Enjoy && keep the fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

10 years, 6 months

[LAD] [ANN] Vee One Suite 0.7.0 - Seventh beta release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi everyone, The 'Vee One Suite' of 'old-school' software instruments, aka. the 'gang of three' have gone through yet another milestone: synthv1 [1], as one polyphonic synthesizer, samplv1 [2], a polyphonic sampler and drumkv1 [3], as one drum-kit sampler, are now part of the Summer'15 release frenzy :) Still available in dual form: - a pure stand-alone JACK [4] client with JACK-session, NSM [5] (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA [6] MIDI input support; - a LV2 [7] instrument plug-in. Common change-log follows: - Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds. - Reset ramps after LV2 control port reconnection; small fixes to LV2.ttl (pull-requests by Hanspeter Portner aka. ventosus, on synthv1, thanks). - MIDI Controllers/Programs is now an optional feature on the LV2 plugin forms, as some LV2 hosts might enforce the purity restriction to input control ports as being absolutely read-only parameter values from a plugin's instance perspective. - MIDI Controller mapping/learn is now possible on all parameter control knobs; with global configuration also available on the Help/Configure dialog. - French (fr) translation line to desktop file added (by Olivier Humbert, thanks). The Vee One Suite are free and open-source Linux Audio [9] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [8] version 2 or later. Here they go! **synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer [1]** synthv1 0.7.0 (sixth official beta) is out! synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/synthv1-0.7.0.tar.gz - source package: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/synthv1-0.7.0-23.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm - binary packages: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/synthv1-0.7.0-23.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm http://www.rncbc.org/archive/synthv1-0.7.0-23.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm **samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler [2]** samplv1 0.7.0 (sixth official beta) is out! samplv1 is an old-school polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/samplv1-0.7.0.tar.gz - source package: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/samplv1-0.7.0-23.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm - binary packages: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/samplv1-0.7.0-23.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm http://www.rncbc.org/archive/samplv1-0.7.0-23.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm **drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler [3]** drumkv1 0.7.0 (sixth official beta) is out! drumkv1 is an old-school drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumkv1/files - source tarball: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/drumkv1-0.7.0.tar.gz - source package: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/drumkv1-0.7.0-19.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm - binary packages: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/drumkv1-0.7.0-19.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm http://www.rncbc.org/archive/drumkv1-0.7.0-19.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm References: [1] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/ [2] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/ [3] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/ [4] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org/ [5] NSM, Non Session Management http://non.tuxfamily.org/nsm/ [6] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [7] LV2, Audio Plugin Standard, the extensible successor of LADSPA http://lv2plug.in/ [8] GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [9] http://linuxaudio.org See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/916 Enjoy && keep the fun ;) -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

10 years, 6 months

[LAD] RtAudio on archlinux

by Marc Nostromo [M-.-n]

Hi ! This is is my first post to the list, I hope the topic is appropriate. I'm an application developer and I've been using RtAudio/RtMidi for years as cross-platform backend for audio and MIDI. It never failed to work on me beautifully... until last week. I've recently installed a raspberry pi 2 with the latest arch linux distribution available and, for some reason, RtMidi doesn't report connected interfaces. However, amidi does show them which makes me think that alsa is properly configured. [root@piewzei tests]# amidi -l Dir Device Name IO hw:1,0,0 MS-20 Controller MIDI 1 [root@piewzei tests]# ./midiprobe Compiled APIs: Linux ALSA Current input API: Linux ALSA There are 1 MIDI input sources available. Input Port #1: Midi Through 14:0 Current output API: Linux ALSA There are 1 MIDI output ports available. Output Port #1: Midi Through 14:0 I could bother the nice people at McGill but I guess there's something very specific to my setup and I'd like to debug it myself. Would anyone have an idea of what could lead to this behavior ? Thanks for any pointers, Marc. -- http://marc-nostromo.com

10 years, 6 months

[LAD] PyNSMClient 2.0 - Non Session Manager support for your python program in one file

by Nils Gey

Hello list, I just put PyNSMClient 2.0 on my github page. https://github.com/nilsgey/pynsm2 It is a Non Session Manager Client-Library in one file with no dependencies except Python3 (and NSMd of course). It is designed to make it easier for your program to support non session management. There is an example file which is a complete program with a PyQt5 GUI and a JACK noise generator output. Both the example and the lib-file are documented. Additionally there is a small README.md License is LGPL. The client is largely untested and there are some NSM-API features missing, but it should be easier to use and be more stable than version 1. Real testing and a proper release will begin once I use my own lib with Laborejo2 ( in development behind the scenes). Have a nice day, Nils http://www.nilsgey.de irc: #laborejo on freenode.

10 years, 6 months

[LAD] AVB not so dead after all

by Reuben Martin

I thought I would post this since there was a big conversation here a while back about AES67 and the slow death of AVB due to lack of support. Well I was talking with a guy from Meyer Sound who told me that AVB has been resurrected from the dead. Apparently Cisco and other large network hardware vendors were willing to back it as long as it was made more generic to accommodate industrial uses that are also time-sensitive. So apparently it has been re-branded as “Time-Sensitive Networking” and has a lot more momentum behind it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Sensitive_Networking http://www.commercialintegrator.com/article/rebranding_avb_4_key_takeaways_… So make of it what you will. :) I just found it to be interesting. -Reuben

10 years, 6 months

[LAD] Details about Mackie Control or Mackie Human User Interface

by Takashi Sakamoto

Hi all, I'm a ALSA developer. I currently focus on developing sound drivers for devices on IEEE 1394 bus. In this developing period for Linux 4.3, I'm working for TASCAM FireWire series such as FW-1884 and FW-1082. Well, are there some developers who have enough knowledgement about MIDI messaging rule for Mackie Control or Mackie Human User Interface(HUI)? As long as investigating FW-1082 and FW-1884, these two models transfer control messages over IEEE 1394 isochronous packets, The shape of these messages is similar to bitmap. In detail, see my RFC on alsa-devel: [alsa-devel] [RFC][PATCH 26/37] ALSA: firewire-tascam: add MMAP support to show status and control message http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2015-July/094817.html To enable userspace applications to handle these messages, a converter to MIDI messages is required, as Windows/OS X drivers did. In my original plan, I off-load this task to userspace driver applications by adding mmap(2)ed page. While, due to some reasons, it's better to implement the converter into kernel driver. As long as I know, for these models, there're three types of the converter; usual MIDI messages such as Control Change (CC), Mackie Control and Mackie Human User Interface, while I have a little knowledgement about the latter two types. For this occasion, I want to know the details. If a cost to implement one of these two types, I'll use it for the converter. Else, I use usual MIDI messages for my patchset to ALSA upstream. Thanks Takashi Sakamoto

10 years, 6 months

[LAD] [ANN] Summer'15 release frenzy pt.2 - Qsampler 0.3.1 is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

The Summer'15 release frenzy continues... ;) On the wake of LinuxSampler 2.0.0 release [1], Qsampler 0.3.1 is out! [2] And it lands at the precise moment sourceforge.net outage disaster [5] is still going through hopefully out of recovery hell. Also worth noting is that Qsampler [2] is now raked as a genuine Qt5 [3] application, leaving Qt4 behind but still an option. Qsampler [2] is a LinuxSampler [1] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt [3] framework using Qt Designer. Website: http://qsampler.sourceforge.net (still unavailable [5] at this time :() Downloads: - source tarballs: http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/ http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/qsampler-0.3.1.tar.bz2 - binary packages: http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/rpms/ http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/rpms/qsampler-0.3.1-16.rncbc.suse… http://download.linuxsampler.org/packages/rpms/qsampler-0.3.1-16.rncbc.suse… Change-log: - Fixed configure script's Qt include directory lookup for some 64bit Linux flavours. - Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script. - A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore sub-routine is now in effect. (EXPERIMENTAL) - Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds. License: Qsampler [2] is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [4]) version 2 or later. See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/914 References: [1] http://www.linuxsampler.org [2] http://qsampler.sourceforge.net [3] http://qt.io [4] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [5] http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-infrastructure-and-service-restorat… Enjoy && have fun! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

10 years, 6 months

[LAD] [ANN] QjackCtl 0.4.0 is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hi all, as in through the hottest of summers--as southerners can't even wait--here comes part one: QjackCtl 0.4.0 (summer'15) is out! though aside that everybody knows this already, QjackCtl is a (maybe not so any more but) simple Qt [3] application to control the JACK [2] sound server, for the Linux Audio infrastructure. website: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.4.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.4.0-23.rncbc.suse132.sr… - binary packages: http://download.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.4.0-23.rncbc.suse132.i5… http://download.sourceforge.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.4.0-23.rncbc.suse132.x8… Change-log: - Some windows fixes added (patch by Kjetil Matheussen, thanks). - Most advanced Setup/Settings are moved into new Setup/Advanced settings tab; limit range for the real-time priority setting, now having 6 as absolute minimum valid value (after patches by Robin Gareus, thanks). - A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore sub-routine is now in effect (EXPERIMENTAL) - Delayed geometry setup for widget windows upon startup has been deprecated and scrapped altogether. - Setup/settings dialog tab is going into some layout changes; also got rid of old patchbay auto-refresh timer cruft, which was previously hidden/disabled. - New socket names are now automatically inferred from selected client names while on the Patchbay widget, Socket dialog. - Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds. - German (de) translation update (by Guido Scholz, thanks). License: QjackCtl stands free, still open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [4]) version 2 or later. Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/912 References: [1] QjackCtl - A JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net [2] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [3] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [4] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html Enjoy && have a whole hot'ta Summer'15 fun! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

10 years, 6 months

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Linux-audio-dev July 2015