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
Hi!
I'm trying to get JACK working on this great tiny box:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ jackd -dalsa
jackdmp 1.9.9
Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
Copyright 2004-2012 Grame.
jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Cannot lock down 82274202 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)
Bus error
As ALSA is OK (i.e. aplay is playing good) and RAM=192M, is there any JACK
parameter I could tune in to reduce the memory size lock?
This pb seems unresolved yet:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=5787
Yomguy
Hi All,
A new build of JAudioLibs is now available for download, including
improvements to the JNAJack Java bindings for JACK. Primarily this
adds support for client and port registration callbacks, port
connection callbacks, graph reorder callbacks and querying port
connections. A huge thank you to Chuck Ritola for providing the bulk
of this code.
Website - http://code.google.com/p/java-audio-utils/
Release notes - http://code.google.com/p/java-audio-utils/wiki/ReleaseNotes
Best wishes,
Neil
--
Neil C Smith
Artist : Technologist : Adviser
http://neilcsmith.net
Folks,
Is there a Linux program out there that i can throw a wave file at that
will tell me what the lowest and highest frequencies are in it, where
they are and at what dB they occur?
I was listening to some dubstep today and wondering how low it really
went. I would bet that most of the "bassy" music i have doesn't even go
below 30 hz.
Thanks,
Bearcat
I'm pleased to announce the 20120903 release of WhySynth, a DSSI
softsynth plugin.
New since my last release announcement:
* One new oscillator mode (Wavecycle Chorus) and four new filter modes
(resonz, high-pass and band-reject, with thanks to Luke Andrew).
* Some new patches.
* An icon for desktop use.
* A bug fix for an ugly click that would occur when using portamento in
monophonic mode.
* WhySynth development is now hosted on Github.
Find WhySynth here:
http://smbolton.com/whysynth.html
More information on the DSSI plugin standard, available hosts
and plugins can be found here:
http://dssi.sourceforge.net/
WhySynth is written and copyright (c) 2012 by Sean Bolton,
under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
I know this is somewhat already covered in this discussion, but this is
straight from the head of Chicken Systems (a friend of mine). I asked
him if there was any way beyond converting the samples (which Translator
can do just fine) to get the Kontakt samples into Linux, and this was
his reply:
"All the scripting is lost, there's nothing really to convert it to
since no other platform is as intelligent. Of course, EastWest uses
Python and I forgot what MachFive 3 uses, but I'm not sure how demanded
such a conversion is."
So, until NI ports Kontakt to Linux, or someone else makes an equivalent
or better sampler for Linux, we'll have to stick with some form of
Windows. Unless I've missed it, has anyone gotten it to work with Wine,
or through Windows in VirtualBox? I'm building a machine that will have
most versions of Windows as VirtualBoxes, just to experiment with it, &
to get away from Windows, albeit slowly, but this isn't my DAW, just a
strong Linux (Fedora 17) box.
-Tom
Dyrnwyn Studios & Workshops
Blomkest, MN
I wanted to mention that Pianoteq does provide a linux VST which does
work in Ardour and Qtractor. However, the default version provides 5
output channels which Ardour does not seem to like (because it expects
stereo output). However, if you append "_2chan" to the plugin library
name (e.g. Pianoteq.so to Pianoteq_2chan.so) , the plugin will output
only 2 channels and work happily in Ardour.