Hi all,
We're excited about the upcoming Linux Audio Conference, featuring a
tightly packed diverse schedule with 77 events by over 100 persons!
The conference schedule has just been published at
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2014/program
Apart from presentations, there are workshops, a poster-session and five
concerts in 3 days. The 4th day of the conference is dedicated to an
excursion: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2014/excursion a simple overview of
the complete schedule can be found in the printable version of the program.
If you want to attend and have not yet done so, please register at
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2014/registration
Looking forward to seeing you all in May at the ZKM.
yours truly,
robin - LAC'14 team
Hi! I am Thiago and i'm starting to use the alsa api. I'm testing one
function to make the sound capture and i got this input/output error. I
don't get it why this is happening...so, please...some kind soul can help
me?
Thanks
hello,
thanks to nama and ML archive, i now know about
https://github.com/navicore/Jacks perl api
I'm missing a callback to know the current transport position (either
in seconds or BBT).
Is there any way to get it from perl ?
(i'm currently having trouble to make jack.osc doing the same job)
thanks,
Raphaël
I use sometimes qjackctl to control transport during work in qtractor, because
when in qtractor i open track properties to test various plugins, all other
gui is unavailable, excepting only plugins gui.
But this ugly popup on closing of qjackctl window is a bit annoying. My final
goal was to get it with option like "Don't remind anymore", but even getting
messages appeared not very easy.
My implementation uses notify-send utility, which in ubuntu is packaged in
libnotify-bin package. Arch wiki says, that libnotify is good for both gnome
and qt4 apps, but it seems, but basic libnotify api, written on C, is
glib/gobject-based, and i can't find libnotifymm (same glib, but on c++) in
neither ubuntu nor portage. Though in gentoo i found even some kde stuff,
using libnotify %).
I just tried to send patch for qjackctl in uncompressed form, which itself is
≈430Kb, and nothing appeared in archive. I'm sure, that it is due to size
limit.
However, e.g., on gentoo proaudio mailing list it is usual to send patches and
ebuilds uncompressed for easier review directly from mail (mailing list web ui
and probably some mail clients even display them as part of message).
Since it is first time, when i send some materials to this list, i did as
usually. It would be better to have some error feedback - those, trying to
write to list without registration at least get feedback about denial.
Once again, it's springtime.
Once again, the planet revolved and stepped forward against its mother star.
Hence the <em>three bees</em> release... it won't be that far fetched if
you find this naming a deliberate pun riddle indeed--the wise will know
already while the clueless will get it sudden in a couple of days ;)
Well, no big surprises nor earthshaking features are being here pitched
then, just some small and otherwise humble improvements and fixes and
what not.
Nevertheless and not just for the record that is, it marks the day of a
long overdue and severely procrastinated <em>beta</em> phase release.
Whatever. It's dang official now: one step closer to <em>omega</em>, no
doubt ;)
Contrary to, maybe, newer generations, I <em>always</em> strive to say
the least. As to say about literal face-value meaning, as written and
read on timeless textbooks, it's all left in between the lines or, this
part is the one I like most, left over as an exercise--in some kind of
healthy masochism, perhaps :).
No wonder,
Qtractor 0.6.0 (byte bald beta) is now released!
Release highlights:
* Plugin automation high resolution option (NEW)
* Plugin 'About' page (NEW)
* Native DE dialogs option (NEW)
* Follow play-head slack time (NEW)
* MIDI RPN/NRPN 14-bit controllers input (FIX)
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.0.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 13.1):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.0-10.rncbc.suse131.s…
- binary packages (openSUSE 13.1):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.0-10.rncbc.suse131.i…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.0-10.rncbc.suse131.x…
- quick start guide & user manual (outdated):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf
- help wanted (on Qtractor Wiki ;))
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) version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- New user option added: on whether to save plugins automation values
with higher resolution as possible, using 14-bit NRPN: cf.
View/Options.../Plugins/Experimental/High resolution plugin automation
(default=off).
- Generic native plugin dialogs now shows an additional "About" last
page where authorship credits are due.
- A new user preference option is now in place for whether to use
desktop environment's own native file requester/browser dialogs
(View/Options.../Display/Dialogs/Use native dialogs).
- A bit of slack have been introduced to put "Follow Playhead" (aka.
auto-scroll view mode) on hold, while doing in-flight selection edit moves.
- Fixed some user interface related annoyances while on the MIDI
Controllers mappings (ie. View/Controllers...).
- Fixed port origin on MIDI RPN/NRPN 14-bit controllers input.
- A discretionary plug-in unique identifier have been devised for when
more than one from the same type are inserted on a bus or track chain,
avoiding destructive clashing of automation data.
- Horizontal scrolling shift+mouse-wheel direction now reversed.
- LV2 Dyn(amic)-manifest support is now optional (default=off); cf.
View/Options.../Plugins/Experimental/LV2 Dynamic Manifest support).
- The following options, although decieved on View/Options... as global
configuration options, were always and still are proper session instance
properties: (JACK) Transport mode, MMC mode, MMC device, MIDI SPP and
MIDI Clock modes, are now shown there reflecting the current open
session state.
- A couple of run-time circumventions have been hacked in, both strictly
related to when NSM session management is in charge: 1) the new session
template feature is disabled (was aborting initial NSM new client
additions); 2) the native (as from the desktop environment eg. KDE) file
browser/requester dialogs are disabled (were taking too long to list the
current directory on first time invocation).
- Update current automation/curve nodes selection while changing
horizontal (time axis) zoom levels.
- One liner's attempt to make it consistent behaviour on resizing and
moving multiple selected notes or events while on the MIDI clip editor
(aka. piano-roll; after a ticket request from Daniel MacDonald aka.
danboid, thanks).
- Introducing tiny quarter-note/crotchet/seminima/beat icon on all
snap-to-beat selection items get a new icon :).
- Corrected some audio buffering boundary conditions that were causing
dead-loops/freezes while merging some audio clips.
- Session auto-save period was chronically reduced to one third of its
user setting; non critical but fixed now.
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/772
See you all on LAC2014@ZKM-Karlsruhe!
and have a happy new springtime, cheers!
Enjoy && yet again, have (lots of) fun.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
Hello. It is my first attempt of serious (rather massive than advanced) DAW
usage - i used it in montage of own "playlist" from some favorite tracks,
which is not to be published anywhere at all, just for personal fun.
One track is very long, while in one place i needed only some specific parts,
which i joined not very precise. And just for fine tuning of that i used one
delay effect, whose name i don't recall - can only say, that it is dublicated
with different max ranges, from which i used least available (0,01 s).
And there is problem: resulting hearable delay randomly changes in some small
range near of one phase.
Did not research this problem better - just eliminated that fading.