Hi there,
Maybe some of you agree with me, that this has been the longest since
last dot release and the new one with the least brand new features count
being introduced. Aha no big deal I say, the uber-procrastinator is just
roaring its ugly head once more, specially after a beloved summer
vacation season. Whatever.
Qtractor 0.5.6 (golf tango) is now released!
One of the interesting dots, if not the most, is that LV2 State Files
interface implementation, once in a gruesome SNAFU support status, is
now officially over. For the laymen it means that any files, referenced
by those LV2 plug-ins which implement the LV2 State Files interface,
will get righteously bundled to an archive/zip session file (suffix or
extension .qtz), all other cases remain untouched. That should add up
some notches on the session portability and archival ranks and purposes.
Besides, LV2 1.0.0 compliance status is now closed business. I hope.
Moving on, slowly forward...
Release highlights:
* LV2 State Files support (NEW)
* Unused files clean-up removal (NEW)
* Edit/Insert empty range (NEW)
* MIME Document types and icons (NEW)
* Improved plug-in state resilience (FIX)
* French and Japanese translations (NEW)
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.6.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 12.2):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.6-2.rncbc.suse122.sr…
- binary packages (openSUSE 12.2):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.6-2.rncbc.suse122.i5…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.6-2.rncbc.suse122.x8…
- quick start guide & user manual:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf
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:
- The dedicated audio outputs setting for instrument plugins was not in
effect as default global option for new MIDI tracks, now fixed,
hopefully (thanks to danboid aka. Daniel MacDonald persistence).
- An immediate Files widget cleanup option is now made available, as to
select and remove all unused file entries.
- MIDI track (un)solo/mute reset clip event sequence fixing; definite
regression to MIDI track's occasional muting bug while clip editing and
playback is rolling.
- Apologies due on this one: shift/ctrl keyboard modifiers are back in
business to change MIDI events currently selected in one single step
while on MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll). Sorry.
- Japanese (ja) translation added (by Takashi Sakamoto).
- General time-scale bar, beat and tempo rounding fixing.
- Keyboard shortcuts configuration (Help/Shortcuts...) now checks and
warns for already assigned key sequences.
- The View/Snap menu is now listed as fully accessible actions, making
each snap-per-beat setting assignable to a keyboard shortcut (after a
feature request by danboid aka. Daniel MacDonald, thanks).
- Fixed MIDI resize tool, now applying symmetric proportional changes to
pitch-bend event values [-8191, +8191].
- Fixed re-loading of LV2 Presets that are newly created/saved during
current session; actually delete and remove a LV2 Preset if found in the
file-system (as suggested by Jiri Prochaszka aka. Anchakor, thanks again).
- Preset drop-down list is now sorted, on plugin properties dialog.
- After a long absence, edit(blue) cursor vertical lines are back on the
MIDI clip editor views (aka. piano-roll).
- LV2 1.0.0 compliance phase II: LV2 State Files support completed.
- Updated to newer LV2 External UI extension support (now maintained by
Filipe Coelho aka. falktx).
- Brand new editing tool: empty range insertion, split/moving clips or
events forward the specified edit-head/tail interval, defaults to next
measure or bar (cf. menu Edit/Insert/Range, Track Range).
- Don't show the waiting cursor anymore when loading any plugins which
might have a nice native editor (GUI) and options are set to show it.
- MIDI clip editor now hopefully rid of random but persistent muting, a
slight regression to editing while playback is rolling.
- A MIDI file player's bug, evident while transport rolling in looped
mode, has been fixed with yet another oneliner patch (kind by Jiri
Prochaszka aka. Anchakor, thanks again).
- LV2 plugins with a Qt4 GUI (guess what or whom?) are now guaranteed to
some reasonable window type like Qt::Widget but not Qt::Dialog nor
Qt::Popup, preventing those from standing always on top while on some
window managers or desktop environments (a simple addition by Jiri
Prochaszka aka. Anchakor, thanks).
- MIME type icons support for session (*.qtr *.qtr), template (*.qtt)
and zip/archive (*.qtz) are now being introduced.
- LV2 State Files feature support is shamelessly getting real trial, now
letting files referenced in LV2 plugin states to be seamlessly included
when saving to a zip/archive file bundle (.qtz suffix). Added some
virtual destructor stubs to shut up gcc 4.7 warnings.
- Improved plugin state resilience, now finally with parameter name
matching, specifically targeted on loading old sessions or plugin preset
files (.qtx), preserving old saved plugin states as much as possible in
face of rogue or discrete parameter index renumbering, due naturally on
any plugin's life cycle ie. upgrades etc.;)
- Added some more snap-to-beat divisors (Beat/14, /21 and /28) due on
feature request ticket, while dropping highest, probably useless one
(Beat/128).
- New French (fr) translation added (by Yann Collette, thanks).
- Slight late optimization on vertical zebra/grid lines drawing.
Enjoy!
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
Hi All,
Praxis LIVE is an open-source, graphical environment for rapid
development of intermedia performance tools, projections and
interactive spaces.
A new build of Praxis LIVE is now available for download. While this
is mainly a bug fix release, it does see the Praxis command line
player added to the main installation, and work which paves the way
for distributing Praxis projects as standalone applications (coming
separately in the next couple of weeks).
Website - http://code.google.com/p/praxis
Release notes - http://code.google.com/p/praxis/wiki/ReleaseNotes
Videos - http://praxisintermedia.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/video-rough-cuts-1/
If any of you who've been playing with Praxis LIVE would be interested
in submitting example projects for the next release, please get in
touch with me off-list.
Thanks and best wishes,
Neil
--
Neil C Smith
Artist : Technologist : Adviser
http://neilcsmith.net
Hi there,
Does anyone have Steve Harris' new email address? steve(a)plugin.org.uk
fails with "550 5.1.2 Bad destination system address".
Anyway, some of you who package or copied code from meterbridge may be
interested in this as well.
-=-=-=-=-
Hi Steve,
Haven't seen you around much on LAD. I hope this email finds you well.
Are you still maintaining meterbridge? I've stumbled over a bug in 0.9.2
The IEC scale is not continuous. Attached patch resolves the issue.
I don't have access to the IEC-268-18 specs, so I can't tell if the
patch is correct, but it does fix the discontinuity between -60db and
-50db. To make it obvious, here's the annotated iec_scale(float db):
if (db < -70.0f) {
def = 0.0f;
} else if (db < -60.0f) {
def = (db + 70.0f) * 0.25f; // 0.0 .. 2.5
} else if (db < -50.0f) {
// def = (db + 60.0f) * 0.5f + 5.0f; // 5.0 .. 10.0 // bug? v0.9.2
def = (db + 60.0f) * 0.5f + 2.5f; // 2.5 .. 7.5 // fix!
} else if (db < -40.0f) {
def = (db + 50.0f) * 0.75f + 7.5; // 7.5 .. 15.0
} else if (db < -30.0f) {
def = (db + 40.0f) * 1.5f + 15.0f; // 15.0 .. 30.0
} else if (db < -20.0f) {
def = (db + 30.0f) * 2.0f + 30.0f; // 30.0 .. 50.0
} else if (db < 0.0f) {
def = (db + 20.0f) * 2.5f + 50.0f; // 50.0 .. 100.0
} else {
def = 100.0f;
}
Furthermore, the DPM image has a couple of problems:
The markers at -10, -19, -20, -25, -30, -35, -55 are off by one pixel
(they need to be moved 1px down), the -45db marker is correct.
The marks for -40, and -50 are missing and it's easy to mistake the
-45db and -55db marks to correspond to the -40db, -50db annotations.
Last but not least, the minus-signs of all annotation does not align
with the marks and the font used for the annotation text is somewhat
blurry..
All fixed in attached image.
Cheers!
robin
Hello all,
Release 1.2.0 of libzita-resampler now include the 'zretune'
app which resamples an audio file by (the inverse of) a ratio
given in cents. The output file will have the same nominal
sample rate as the input. The effect is to change the pitch
AND the lenght of the original file. For small pitch changes
(+/- a semitone) the modified length of a sample probably
won't matter much.
For example
zretune --cent 50 input.wav output.wav
will result in a file that sounds a quarter tone higher
and is about 1.5 percent shorter.
Enjoy !
--
FA
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
Hi all,
Ico - director of linuxaudio.org - arranged to quadruple the disk-space
for our servers.
Amongst other things, this will allow us to host large
sample-collections (an endeavor Nils has started) as well as prepare for
videos from the upcoming Linux-Audio-Conference.
linuxaudio.org services will be offline for 5-10 mins later today
(around 45 min from now).
26/Sept - 16:00 UTC
thanks for your understanding.
robin
Hi,
Over the week or so, I've build some fuse filesystem filters flac files
on-the-fly
using the zita convolver. This makes it real easy to play
around with files and filters. In particular with systems that otherwise
don't support stream convolving, but just can read files.
This is in its early stages, but should be already pretty usable. To see
what is going on, it
includes a little webserver that gives a status page of what files are
currently being accessed.
(from the README:)
This fuse filesystem takes an original path to a directory with flac-files
and provides these files at the mount point. Accessing audio files will
automatically convolve these on-the-fly using the zita convolver by
Fons Adriaensen. You can directly use filter configuration files that you
have
for jconvolver/fconvolver.
https://github.com/hzeller/folve
So if this is something you're interested in, check it out, provide
feedback patches :)
-henner
We are pleased to announce that linux.conf.au 2013 (LCA2013) will once again
include the Multimedia and Music miniconf. LCA2013 will be held in
Canberra, Australia from 28 January to 2 February 2013, and the Multimedia
and Music miniconf provides an opportunity for produces and consumers of
multimedia and music content to meet and explore all aspects of production
and playback of music, audio and video on open-source platforms.
The Multimedia and Music miniconf call for papers is now open. We would
love to see wide-ranging proposals from across the FOSS multimedia and music
community:
- from developers of open-source multimedia and music software, discussing
new and upcoming features, clever solutions to problems or interesting
ideas they are exploring
- from users who have built up a workflow which they want to share
- from anyone who is doing awesome things with open-source audio and video
software that they want to tell the world about
Presentation slots of 20 and 50 minutes (plus 5 minutes question time) will
be available, with the number of 50 minute talks being determined by the
number of proposals received. Past Multimedia and Music miniconfs have
featured both user-focused tutorials and talks aimed at developers; please
browse our past miniconf websites to see the diverse range of presentations
we have had in the past:
* http://www.annodex.org/events/lca2013_mmm/#previous
To submit a proposal please email your proposal to one of the organisers as
described on our "Call for papers" page at:
http://www.annodex.org/events/lca2013_mmm/pmwiki.php/Main/CallForPapers
The call for papers is open-ended but priority will be given to those who
submit proposals prior to 30 October 2012.
For more information about the Multimedia and Music miniconf please contact
either Jonathan Woithe (jwoithe(a)atrad.com.au) or Silvia Pfeiffer
(silviapfeiffer1(a)gmail.com).
The FFADO project is pleased to announce the long-awaited version 2.1.0.
With improved stability, many bugfixes and a large number of newly supported
devices this version represents 2 years work by the small but dedicated
FFADO team. All users of FFADO are encouraged to upgrade.
This source-only release can be downloaded from
http://www.ffado.org/files/libffado-2.1.0.tgz
FFADO is brought to you thanks to the work of Daniel Wagner, Pieter Palmers,
Philippe Carriere, Adrian Knoth, Arnold Krille, Jonathan Woithe and the many
people who have tested FFADO against their devices, provided patches and
given suggestions.
Changes and additions in FFADO 2.1:
* Significantly improved support for the new "juju" firewire stack
found in
newer kernels
* Support for JACK freewheeling mode and set-buffer-size operation
* Lower CPU usage
* udev rules included in FFADO to give user access to audio device files
* More stable streaming
* Fix crash when realtime system clock was set
* Fix race conditions and invalid memory accesses on shutdown
* Fixes for clean compilation on recent gcc versions (up to 4.7)
* ffado-diag enhanced to aid debugging efforts
* Many bugs fixed
New DICE-based devices supported in FFADO 2.1 (up to 96 kHz rate only):
* Alesis (no mixer support):
io|14
io|26
Multimix16 Firewire
* FlexRadio Systems (no mixer support):
Flex-5000
* Focusrite:
Saffire PRO 40 (44.1 kHz, 48 kHz and 88.2 kHz only)
Saffire PRO 24
Saffire PRO 24 DSP (audio streaming and mixer only: no DSP)
Saffire PRO 14 (no mixer or router control)
Liquid Saffire 56 (experimental: 44.1/48 kHz only, no mixer/router)
* Lexicon (generic mixer):
I-ONIX_FW810S
* DnR (no mixer):
Axum Firewire IO card 16x16
* M-Audio (basic audio with generic mixer):
ProFire 2626
ProFire 610
* Presonus:
Firestudio Project (generic mixer)
Firestudio Tube (generic mixer)
Firestudio Mobile (no mixer)
Studiolive_1642 (no mixer)
Studiolive_2442 (no mixer)
* TCAT (audio only):
DiceII EVM (1)
DiceII EVM (2)
DiceII EVM (4)
* TC Electronic:
Konnekt 24D (no mixer support)
Konnekt 8 (no mixer support)
Studio Konnekt 48 (no mixer support)
Konnekt Live (no mixer support)
Desktop Konnekt 6 (no mixer support)
ImpactTwin (generic mixer only)
* Weiss Engineering Ltd. (no mixer support):
ADC 2
Vesta
Minerva
AFI 1
TAG DAC1
INT 202
DAC 202
Other new devices supported by FFADO 2.1:
* RME (no MIDI I/O support yet)
Fireface 400
Fireface 800
* MOTU
896 mk 3 (audio only, no mixer yet)
Traveller mk 3 (experimental)
Ultralite mk 3 (experimental)
Ultralite hybrid (firewire only, experimental)
* FCA-202, and possibly other Oxford FW-92x devices
* Mackie Onyx i
* M-Audio Ozonic (no mixer)
* Phonic HelixBoard 24 Universal (no mixer)
* Tascam IF-FW/DM (experimental, incomplete)
* Yahama GO46
Just spotted on YouTube: http://youtu.be/imkVkRg-geI
For those that don't know, JUCE is a monolithic C++ library that helps
you write cross-platform audio applications.
I am a bit concerned by the time it seems to be taking to do JIT
compilation. What do you think? Would you use it?
More details and discussion here:
http://rawmaterialsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9793