Laborejo, Esperanto for "Workshop", is used to craft music through notation. It is a Lilypond GUI front-end, a MIDI creator and finally a tool collection to inspire and help you compose.
Laborejo 0.6 is released.
It now has an internal soundfont (and sfz) engine, comes with a lightweight General Midi sample set and supports jack midi outputs.
New Midi-In implementation.
Parameters and values for both engines are separated. You can use the same file for big orchestrated playback with gigabytes over gigabytes of sampled instruments and external synthesizers and maintain a parallel General Midi version which can be played back even if the samples are not there or running (laptop, work in a train, "just compose for 10 minutes", send it to friends for a preview etc.)
This marks the end of the Alpha phase and beginning of the Beta phase. That means the current features are enough to make and handle a reasonable range of music and notation and also that the save format is now stable. If you manage to save a file you will be able to load it in later versions.
Versions from now up to 1.0 will be only bug fixes and improvements:
Stability, Performance, Documentation, Convenience as well as Look&Feel.
(There are a few new features I would like to see in 1.0, but these are convenience features that do not disturb the save format or internal data format. Read-Only)
Documentation and Translation can now be based on a somewhat stable program. Yes, there will be documentation.
Cross Platform versions, stand-alone/portable packages and collaboration with distribution package maintainers is now on the Roadmap.
Further information and instructions
Connect to Laborejos Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus!
https://www.facebook.com/Laborejohttps://twitter.com/#!/Laborejohttps://plus.google.com/b/116744898976321238325/
Screenshot: http://www.laborejo.org/images/screenshots/latestscreenshot.png
Download: https://github.com/nilsgey/Laborejo/tarball/0.6
Dependencies and Compilation instrunctions: http://www.laborejo.org/Download
Start the GUI Editor with:
./laborejo-qt
For commandline parameters:
./laborejo-qt --help
and the Collection Editor with:
./laborejo-collection-editor
Then use the number- and cursor keys for immediate success!
Check Help->Manual for navigational and note/rest entry keys. Everything else is in the menus.
Greetings,
Nils
http://www.laborejo.org
Hi,
Some of you might be interested in my new project. It's been a few years
in the making
http://channellinux.com
We have big plans for this new project. Please let me know if you come
across anything that you think would be interesting for the viewing
audience and please link to the site everywhere you have an opportunity.
If you help me to grow the traffic and keep the content coming it will pay
back to the community tenfold.
Please refrain from replying to this post with content links or feedback
on the site. I'm sure everyone knows my position by now so I will refrain
from commenting on replies to this post too :-)
TECHNICAL
I have created two separate threads for this on each list so if people
want to navel gaze and politic, please refrain from doing that on LAD ;-)
The site is designed to work on all screen sizes but has only been tested
on Firefox and Chrome. I am not interested in testing on other browsers.
The ones that don't work are either broken or do not have a large enough
user base to justify my time.
I am interested in results on small screen mobile devices. Not because I
don't know what will happen but because I would like to hear some more
ideas for how to tweak the layout to work more effectively. If you have
any ideas for that please reply to this thread ON LAD ONLY or send me a
direct email.
Ideas for UX improvements on usability or additional media types like
livecast, radio and audio streaming will also be very helpful. As above
please send me a separate email or eply to this thread ON LAD ONLY. I know
some of you on this list have many years of experience in the industry so
your ideas will be taken seriously and implemented with gusto.
Due to the "BETA" mode this is not a finished product. I am posting here
as a preliminary announcement to get some usability testing and feedback
results from a wider pool of knowledgable technical users. At a later date
I will push for an official release announcement.
ADVERTISING
The long term plan for this project is to generate income from advertising
just like a regular TV/Radio station and feed that back to the community
by paying people to create content. During the Beta period I am offering
free advertising to interested companies to allow me to test and iron out
the usability for a new format of internet advertising across multiple
devices. This is still fresh ground so no one has really nailed it yet.
I have several companies already participating but I am still working out
the display mechanism for the various ads that have been provided to me
across all devices and screen sizes.
If you have thoughts on ways to achieve this please reply to this thread
ON LAD ONLY
BACKGROUND
Linux Audio and Multimedia has a large and thriving community of
developers, creators, artists and users. FLOSS and GNU/Linux has an even
larger global community of people who are passionate about their OS of
choice and wear the badge of FLOSS and GNU/Linux proudly whenever they
have the chance. One thing has been missing. A dedicated Channel for all
things Linux Multimedia. Sure, there are lots of news sites out there and
many communities and people that produce digital content but no one has
really taken on the task of collating all the various media spread out
across the internet into a one stop and easy access portal.
But why stop there?
GNU/Linux is the dominant operating system on the planet and enables or
creates billions of dollars in revenue for some of the largest companies
on the planet. As a global community we effectively power the internet,
create the worlds best movies, participate in and drive scientific
progress at the highest level, power the next generation of green
technology, send rockets into space, enable governments to operate
efficiently and even feed and power the world.
Why not take things to the next level and create a truly cross device
experience for mobile, desktop and TV? We have the knowledge to make it
happen.
However there is also a problem facing the global pool of artists and
developers who dedicate their time to FLOSS multimedia. We don't get the
kind of financial support that we deserve for all our efforts. The big
companies barely spend a fraction of their wealth on supporting and
growing the FLOSS multimedia tools that enable us to entertain the world.
What can we do about that? We don't have to sit here crying into our milk.
We can generate our own income and feed that back into the community by
promoting and marketing to the global community of people interested in
FLOSS and GNU/Linux. It doesn't mean we have sold out. It just means we
are using what we have got to make things better.
Channel Linux is in Beta mode and it might stay like that for some time.
The first step is growing the traffic to the site. The next step is taking
that traffic and making it work for us. Companies are prepared to pay
serious cash if they have a guaranteed way to reach their target market.
So what does it all mean? We need content, lots of it. We need
constructive feedback and suggestions for making the site really hit the
sweet spot of usability and entertainment. And we need your links, tweets,
facebook likes and passionate evangelism to help us grow the traffic to
the kind of numbers that companies with serious cash are prepared to spend
their money on.
We have the capacity if we choose to use it. I hope you are prepared for
the ride :-)
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Digital / Boost Hardware Ltd
MFP -- Music For Programmers
Release 0.02, "Making Fine Progress"
I'm pleased to announce an updated release of MFP, containing many
fixes and improvements. It is still not anywhere near a "production"
level, but is becoming more and more usable. Your interest and
participation are invited!
A summary of changes is below. Please see the GitHub issue tracker
for complete details:
https://github.com/bgribble/mfp
Changes since initial release v0.01:
----------------------------------------
* #30: Fix RMS calculation in [ampl~]
* #37: Add [s~], [r~] and different via graphics for signals
* #41: Clean up SSE vs non-SSE, add tests for non-SSE build
* #42: Make parameter setting non-locking; add mfp_alloc thread
for non-blocking memory allocation; in general, clean up
RT components of operation
* #43: Refactor color name usage to avoid API breakage with
different versions of Clutter python bindings
* #44: Fix broken tests
* #46: Add ability to load .so extension libraries with new DSP types
* #47: Handle JACK block size changes at runtime
* #48: Add [latency] object to report JACK input and output latency
changes to patches
About MFP:
----------------------------------------
MFP is an environment for visually composing computer programs, with
an emphasis on music and real-time audio synthesis and analysis. It's
very much inspired by Miller Puckette's Pure Data (pd) and Max/MSP,
with a bit of LabView and TouchOSC for good measure. It is targeted
at musicians, recording engineers, and software developers who like
the "patching" dataflow metaphor for constructing audio synthesis,
processing, and analysis networks.
MFP is a completely new code base, written in Python and C, with a
Clutter UI. It has been under development by a solo developer (me!),
as a spare-time project for several years.
Compared to Pure Data, its nearest relative, MFP is superficially
pretty similar but differs in a few key ways:
* MFP uses Python data natively. Any literal data entered in the
UI is parsed by the Python evaluator, and any Python value is a
legitimate "message" on the dataflow network
* MFP provides fairly raw access to Python constructs if desired.
For example, the built-in Python console allows live coding of
Python functions as patch elements at runtime.
* Name resolution and namespacing are addressed more robustly,
with explicit support for lexical scoping
* The UI is largely keyboard-driven, with a modal input system
that feels a bit like vim. The graphical presentation is a
single-window style with layers rather than multiple windows.
* There is fairly deep integration of Open Sound Control (OSC), with
every patch element having an OSC address and the ability to learn
any other desired address.
The code is still in early days, but has reached a point in its
lifecycle where at least some interesting workflows are operational
and it can be used for a good number of things. I think MFP is now
ripe for those with an experimental streak and/or development skills
to grab it, use it, and contribute to its design and development.
The code and issue tracker are hosted on GitHub:
https://github.com/bgribble/mfp
You can find an introductory paper (submitted to LAC-2013) and
accompanying screenshots, some sample patches, and a few other bits of
documentation in the doc directory of the GitHub repo. The README
at the top level of the source tree contains dependency, build,
and getting-started information.
Thanks,
Bill Gribble
On March 8, 2013 11:47:52 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 16:37 -0500, Tim E. Real wrote:
> > On March 8, 2013 09:31:50 PM Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > IIRC Muse can mute individual clips, but Muse never was
> > > able to run on my machine. I tested it for different distros, in
> > > different years.
> >
> > Howdy, Ralf.
> > Can you give us an idea of why this might be?
> > Any clues at all, like choice of kernels, tweaks, RTIRQs etc.
> > Can you briefly describe the hardware involved?
> > I imagine you must run a pretty tight setup there.
> >
> > Your experience with MusE is important to us.
> > We'd like to try to correct whatever the problem is, with your help.
>
> I'm short in time this month, I can spend some time at the end of the
> month and install Muse again.
>
> The PC is an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI with an on-board ATI Radeon X 1250-based
> graphics, in the past I sometimes replaced it by a PCIe NVIDIA GeForce
> 7200 GS.
>
> In the past the PC first had one, later two TerraTec EWX 24/96 ICE1712
> PCI cards, for more then a year I'm using it with those two cards for
> MIDI and a RME HDSPe AIO for MIDI and audio.
>
> The CPU always was and still is an AMD Athlon 64-bit dual-core BE-2350
> 2.1 GHz. I started with 2 GiB RAM, but early extended to 4 GiB.
>
> FWIW the PCIe RME card not only is bad supported, on my machine I still
> get xruns with very high latency, when using the RME card, but Muse
> already had issues on my machine, when I used the TerraTec cards only,
> that can be used without xruns at a passable latency.
>
> I'm usually using self-build kernel-rt in the past 2.6.x and today 3.x.
>
> Nothing does share the IRQ with a sound card.
>
> I also tried to tune the machine by:
>
> ### Bluetooth
> service bluetooth stop
>
> ### TerraTec EWX 24/96
> modprobe -r snd_ice1712
>
> ### Others
> modprobe -r firewire-ohci
> modprobe -r firewire_core
> service cups stop
> modprobe -r ppdev # parallel port
> modprobe -r lp # printer
>
> ### Unbinding devices
> echo -n "0000:00:13.2" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ohci_hcd/unbind
> echo -n "0000:00:13.4" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ohci_hcd/unbind
>
> This doesn't improve the situation. However, xruns were not the issues,
> IIRC Muse usually freeze and is completely unusable here. Architecture
> of the Linux usually is 64-bit, I don't know if I ever tried Muse on a
> 32-bit install. I'm using Jack2 only, first regarding to the alsarawmidi
> switch, to get rid of MIDI hardware jitter and because Jack1 never
> worked on this Computer and also not on my first PC, an ASRock K7VT2
> with an 800 MHz single core, 32-bit Athlon. All versions of Jack1 I
> tested, not only the version that was known to do this, disconnected
> clients.
>
> Onboard audio always is disabled, Northbridge AMD 690G, Southbridge ATI
> SB600, 1 * PCI Express x16, 1 * PCI Express x1, 2 * PCI.
>
> At the moment I'm booted to Arch Linux, the only installed audio
> software at the moment are Jack2 and Simple Sysexxer and I've got no
> time to test Muse right now. >= 22. March I might have some time to test
> Muse. If I should forget to test Muse, at the end of this month or
> during next month please ask me again.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
OK. Great! Thanks for the info. I'll wait a while.
I also run MusE on an AMD 64, an Athlon. It is single-core, a bit old now.
With a Delta1010 ice1712 card.
I blacklisted my on-board audio because even when I disable it in BIOS, the
OS still somehow finds it and pollutes the daily ordering of device listings.
There is a MusE command-line debug switch -D which gives us information.
Sometimes it can be a plugin or soft synth misbehaving with us.
There are switches to turn off loading of the plugins and soft synths.
Hopefully these will help narrow it down.
I fixed a freeze or two recently, kind of obscure though.
Current release is 2.1.1, next is due out soon, plenty of great new fixes
and features, and new online docs. Would be cool if you could run a
recent version but it might require building source but it's not too hard.
We have removed the Doxygen requirement for example :)
As a midi editor she's fairly advanced, per-drum or note midi controllers
like poly-aftertouch for example.
But, gulp, we're about to face some seeerious competition on two fronts.
Oh, apologies for breaking in on this Bitwig thread, carry on.
And congratulations to the Ardour team expecting the new baby!
'Gonna hand out some cigars?
Tim.
I'm looking for a simple tool where I can point it at an http audio stream, define a number of seconds to detect silence and exit with a non-zero status if silence is detected. It seems like this should be easy but I've been search high and low for such a utility and nothing simple exists. Unfortunately I'm not much of a developer, but this doesn't seem like it would be that difficult. Maybe it's harder than I think, hence no tool that I can find.
Thanks
-jeremy
I have obviously been a bit out of the loop not noticing this before,
but anyway, the Steem Source was released under GPL on July 01, 2011.
It's got MIDI in it which is why this is interesting for us. There are
lots of editors for antique synths out there (or for their emulations)
as well as a bunch of funny auto-composers (M, Ludvig) and other
MIDI-toys. The original Steinberg Cubase Light is still freeware if you
need a 16-track sequencer.
http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21263
/j
--
JMA - Harlequin
http://web.comhem.se/mx44turbo/cute/harlequin.mp3
Hi,
If you have a Linux oriented company that would like to receive some free
promotion to a global audience please get in touch with me directly.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Hi all,
This weekend, starting a midnight (EST), Saturday morning (Mar 9), the
Systems Support Group at Virginia Tech has scheduled storage maintenance.
The storage that supports linuxaudio.org will be unavailable from
midnight until noon Saturday (EST) and hence the server will be offline.
thanks for your understanding.
robin
