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Lisalo 1.0 - LinuxSampler Loader (Working File for Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra included)

by Nils

This is the Release of Lisalo 1.0 Grab it here, no installing required: git clone git://github.com/nilsgey/Lisalo.git Lisalo - Linux Sampler Loader Linux Sampler Loader is a command line program that loads entire directories of sample files or takes instructions from a meta .lsl file with relative paths to samples. This program exists because you can't share linuxsampler lscp files or even move files around on your own disk. Lscp files only work with absolute paths and are too low level anyway. Now you can quickly and easily load sampled instruments without even starting a GUI. The lsl files are very simple, see example.lsl, and can be shipped around with your sfz sample package like the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra (lsl file already included in this release) Version 1.0 Licensed under GPLv3 by Nils Gey, June 2012 Only dependencies are Python and Linuxsampler. https://github.com/nilsgey/Lisalo info(a)laborejo.org irc.freenode.org #laborejo

13 years, 6 months

Look for volunteers for Free Music Instrument Tuner

by Gilles Degottex

Hi all, I created this software in 2004, but I can't develop it anymore, maintain it or even answer the mails I receive about it. http://home.gna.org/fmit http://gna.org/projects/fmit I'm therefore looking for volunteer(s) to recover the project: manage it, maintain it, develop it if motivated, etc. The current state of the software is fairly good, I think. It has been updated to Qt4 last year. I think it's quite stable because most of the mails I receive from users are about how to select the recording channel in their OS mixer ... FMIT is accessible from Ubuntu repositories (universe) and was accessible under Fedora but they removed it since I can't maintain it anymore. Please look at the website for more details and screenshots. Besides the fact that I want it to stay open-source, I don't have particular wish about its future (hmmm, stay simple and expandable maybe). So, if someone is interested, please contact me. All the best, Gilles -- FORTH - ICS Vasilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385 GR 71110 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Mobile: +30 6942 207403 Work: +30 2810 391580

13 years, 6 months

[ANN] Praxis LIVE build:120620

by Neil C Smith

Hi All, A new build of Praxis LIVE makes its way into the light. Highlights include new audio components and audio API improvements, cross-platform video capture (yes, Linux has always been there!), and live GLSL coding. Website - http://code.google.com/p/praxis Release notes - http://code.google.com/p/praxis/wiki/ReleaseNotes Blog post - http://praxisintermedia.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/praxis-live-build120620/ Praxis is a Java-based modular framework for live creative play with video, images, audio, and other media. Its primary focus is on the easy development of generative and interactive media installations, as well as live performance. Praxis LIVE is a graphical, patcher-style interface for developing Praxis projects 'on the fly'. Praxis is developed by UK Artist and Technologist Neil C Smith. It is partly inspired by projects such as AudioMulch, Bidule and Isadora, and to a lesser extent Pure Data and Processing; however, it is not intended to be a clone of any of them. Thanks for listening, best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net Praxis - open-source intermedia system for live creative play http://code.google.com/p/praxis OpenEye - specialist web solutions for the cultural, education, charitable and local government sectors. http://openeye.info

13 years, 6 months

CueFrog.pd: theatre cue player framework initial release

by Jörn Nettingsmeier

hi everyone! thanks to the excellent pd documentation out there and lots of hand holding by friendly pd gurus on this list and elsewhere, here's my humble take at creating a theatre cue player with pd that does what i need... all the heavy lifting is done by august black's excellent readanysf~, thanks for making this tool available! CueFrog is designed to be multi-instance capable, so you can create as many decks as your machine can handle, and makes use of lots of send/receive ports to simulate some kind of object-oriented encapsulation stuff, based on my (limited) understanding of a model/view/controller paradigm. grab it: http://stackingdwarves.net/public_stuff/software/CueFrog/CueFrog-0.0.2.tar.… it's documented, so you should get it going in no time. i'm sure there are many quirks there, and i found out it's very easy to create race conditions in pd, so no warranties :) comments and suggestions for improvements are most welcome. i have a vbap-based panning automation in the works (which has already been used live at a theatre festival), but the code is in oh-my-good-tomorrow-is-dress-rehearsal shape, so forgive me for withholding it another month or so. and before you ask: frogs are cute. and when the director makes me jump, i need tools that jump along :-D best, jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Tel. +49 177 7937487 Meister für Veranstaltungstechnik (Bühne/Studio) Tonmeister VDT http://stackingdwarves.net

13 years, 6 months

ALSA multi plugin and JACK xrun callbacks

by bart＠magnetophon.nl

Hi Everybody, My name is Bart, this is my first post here, though some have met me on IRC. Thanks for making Linux audio what it is! I started using Linux in 2004 with DeMuDi, and have never looked back. I'm trying to get my pcm_multi to work without with jackd. Some of you seem to have got this down, with or without "ghost xruns". Jörn seems to imply in the quoted thread that tschack is the answer, but it gives me the most xruns of all jack implementations. Who has got this working? Who want to help me get to the bottom of this? Google has been a great help so far, but I'm not sure what to try or what to google anymore. :( So far I've tried: *jackdmp1.9.9 *jackd1 (1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2) *http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/jack/dbus/jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus-0.121.3.tar.gz *https://github.com/adiknoth/tschack.git All tested with the 3 kernels mentioned below. The nedko jack with the avlinux kernel sometimes goes without xruns for quite a long while, but sometimes gives lots of them. I haven't found the pattern behind it yet. My system is fully tuned, according to realTimeConfigQuickScan.pl the only exceptions: cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor: No such file or directory Checking CPU Governors... CPU 0: '' CPU 1: '' CPU 2: '' CPU 3: '' - not good I assume this is because my cpu's are running full speed. Kernel with Real-Time Preemption... not found - not good Checking if kernel system timer is set to 1000 hz... not found - not good But I'm running 3.2.0-2-rt-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Jun 1 20:28:43 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux. I've also tried linux-image-3.0.32-avl-8 from avlinux, debian 3.2.0-2 vanilla. Here is my .asoundrc: https://github.com/StudioDotfiles/DotRepo/blob/master/asoundrc I'm runing jack like this: jackd -d alsa -r 44100 -p 4096 -d rme9636_64 The two rme9636 soundcards are on their own irq's, with priorities just below the timers. Jack with just one card works like a charm. Is there any other info needed? Thanks a lot, Bart. On 01/14/2011 11:12 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > On 01/14/2011 10:39 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > >> i had it crash once when loading a really demanding session, but with >> another average ardour project, it has now played fine and without >> glitches for 10 minutes or so, while the xrun count goes through the roof. > > alas. i spoke to soon: > > after i added a 6x1 convolver and an ambdec instance > jack2 bails out reproducibly after a couple minutes more, with a > "floating point exception". so more testing. > > meanwhile, i'd like to know what these xruns are, and i wouldn't be too > surprised if the eventual crash is actually related to the message > buffer or some internal error counter wrapping... jack2 gets nervous when i use a session with four jconvolver instances: JackPosixMutex::Unlock res = 1 Unknown request 4294967295 jackd: ../common/JackGraphManager.cpp:45: void Jack::JackGraphManager::AssertPort(jack_port_id_t): Assertion `port_index < fPortMax' failed. Aborted the cpu is not maxed out, afaics. tschack handles this scenario just fine, and it doesn't spew error messages on the console. if i monitor it in qjackctl, the xrun count increases at the usual rate, though. btw: qjackctl becomes a major cpu burden in this pathological case. lookes like it's the error messages. i've seen it at up to 40% of one core.

13 years, 6 months

[ANN] Qtractor 0.5.5 - The Foxtrot Uniform swings out!

by Rui Capela

Here it goes. Mostly a LV2 1.0.0 compliance release with some fixes from the stash and fewer candies from the jar. On the darker/brighter side (your choice) there's news on the LV2 atom(ic) fall-out now being officially over. A new dawn has commenced, quite as every day follows every night may I add. Dang! I'd better stop right here and save you all from that boring trivialities. Let's go with the plain, interesting facts: Qtractor 0.5.5 (foxtrot uniform) swings out! Release highlights: * LV2 Atom/MIDI support (NEW) * LV2 Worker/Schedule support (NEW) * LV2 Presets support (NEW) * LV2 Time/position support (NEW) * LV2 Programs/instrument support (NEW) * MIDI plugin event timing on tempo changes (FIX) * Loop-recording/takes audio sync (FIX) * Quick start guide and user manual (NEW) * Russian and Italian translations (NEW) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.5.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.5-4.rncbc.suse121.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.1): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.5-4.rncbc.suse121.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.5-4.rncbc.suse121.x8… - brand new (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: - Auto-monitored MIDI tracks were missing their pass-through to their respective MIDI output bus plugin chains, now fixed and letting any multi-timbral instrument plugin to get a peek from auto-monitoring. - New user option/preference to whether to open a plugin's editor (GUI) by default, when available (cf. View/Options.../Plugins/Editor). - Clicking and/or dragging for rubber-band selection on main track-view canvas doesn't change the edit-head and -tail positions anymore. - Backward and Forward transport commands now have an additional stop at first clip start point. - LV2 Atom/MIDI buffering support is finally entering the scene; LV2 Worker/Schedule support is also included in a bold attempt to convey non-MIDI event transfers between plugin and its UI. - MIDI Clip editor (aka. piano-roll) and MIDI Tools fix: avoid note-on events of zero velocity, which conventionally equates to a dangling note-off event and dropped into oblivion sooner or later. There's no more need for Shift/Ctrl keyboard modifier to change in one single step all the MIDI events that are currently selected (now consistent with drag-move). - LV2 Presets support now entering effective operational status; a new local option has been added (cf. View/Options.../Plugins/Paths/LV2 Presets directory; default is ~/.lv2). - Dropped XInitThreads() head call as it was never useful but on those early days of JUCE VST plugins. - Italian (it) translation added (by Massimo Callegari, thanks). - Clip fade-in/out dragging now follows snap-to-beat setting. - Late modern eye-candy indulgence: alternate shaded stripes, on every other bar as in a "zebra" background option for the main tracks and MIDI clip editor views (cf. View/Snap/Zebra). - LV2 Time/position information is now being supported through special designated plugin input ports (after suggestion by Filipe Coelho aka. falktx). Additionally, the time/position information report has been corrected and complemented for VST plugins. - Audio vs. MIDI time drift correction has been slightly improved against rogue tempo changes across looping cycles. - Honor tempo/timing on MIDI instrument plugins. Happy regression fix on getting MIDI note-offs at looping ends back in business; all the necessary bumming for MIDI plugins to play nice in face of tempo changes and whenever playback is started from anywhere but the beginning of the time-line (ie. frame zero); thanks to rvega aka. Rafael Vega, for the heads-up). - Audio clip wave-forms were being displayed in inverted phase (ie. upside-down) all this time ever since day one. What a shame! - LV2 Programs interface is getting initial experimental status, to let LV2 instrument plugins get on par with the DSSI and VST crowd for MIDI bank/program instrument inventory and selection support (a sidetrack complot with Filipe Coelho aka. falktx, thanks:). - Dropped the old but entirely useless LV2 URI-unmap feature, now being superseded by official LV2 URID (un)mapper. - Russian (ru) translation added (by Alexandre Prokoudine, thanks). - SLV2 deprecation process started, effective now at configure time. - Added include <unistd.h> to shut up gcc 4.7 build failures (patch by Alessio Treglia, closing bug #3514794). - Another approach avoiding recursive observer widget updates. Also applies to mixer, monitor and track state buttons. - Update to latest LV2 state extension (by David Robillard, thanks). - Loop-recording/take number displayed on clip title, respectively. - Make(ing) -jN parallel builds now available for the masses. - A one buffer period slack on audio engine's loop turn-around logic might just have fixed an illusive report on loop-recording/takes going progressively out-of-sync, most notably when recording under large audio buffer period sizes (>= 1024 frames/buffer). - Editing MIDI while playback is rolling, doesn't mute the track any more, adding a point to the live editing experience. - Finer granularity for direct access parameter mouse wheel changes. - Dropped a dumb optimization for short full-cached multiple linked/ref-counted audio clips which were incidentally out-of-sync after rewind/backward playback. Once again and uncertain to be the last take on this, got fixed (probably related to some oddity reported by Louigi Verona, thanks). Enjoy! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

13 years, 6 months

LV2 Atom Sequence timestamps

by Jeremy Salwen

Hi All, >From what I can tell, it looks like the LV2 Atom Sequence specification allows you to send events with arbitrary units for the timestamp. I have a few questions about this: 1. How are we to know whether a particular unit uses the *double* field in the timestamp union, or the *uint64_t *field in the timestamp union. 2. The specification says "The unit field is either a URID that described an appropriate time stamp type, or may be 0 where a default stamp type is known." In what circumstances would the timestamp be known? When can I expect to see a zero in that field? 3. Are the timestamps absolute times? Or relative to the previous event? Or relative to the start of the audio chunk? Does it depend on the units used? 4. Why does the documentation<http://lv2plug.in/doc/html/structLV2__Atom__Sequence__Body.html>show |FRAMES |SUBFRMS| as the timestamp field? From what I can tell, there is no unit which includes frames and subframes subdivided that way, and the sampler example </> just uses the full 64 bits as a frames field. Is this just a relic from the old event port documentation? (the diagram seems familiar). 5. How are hosts/plugins supposed to deal with the multiplicity of units? For example, suppose I'm a plugin or host that wants to receive MIDI data. How am I supposed to know what timestamp unit to expect? Is there a facility for converting between different units automatically? The only extra information required to convert between any two time units would be the bpm and sample rate. It would be rather annoying to have to implement a bunch of unit conversion code in every host/plugin you write in order to make sure it can handle any unit which is tossed at it. Thanks, Jeremy

13 years, 6 months

Units convention for LADSPA plugin latency parameter?

by Joel Roth

Hi, Many LADSPA plugins use one of their parameters to report latency they add to their signal chain. I wonder if there is a convention that these plugins report the latency value in a common unit, or is it necessary for me to examine the documentation of each plugin case-by-case. Regards, Joel -- Joel Roth

13 years, 6 months

Plugin buffer size restrictions

by David Robillard

Hello laddies, I am making an LV2 extension for accessing and/or restricting the buffer size. This is straightforward, but I need to know just what restrictions are actually needed by various sorts of DSP. The sort of thing we're looking for here is "buffer size is always at least 123 frames" or "buffer size is always a power of 2" or "buffer size is always a multiple of 123". I know "multiple of a power of two" is needed for convolution. Not sure what else... -dr

13 years, 6 months

Re: [LAD] drumreplacer license

by Kaspar Bumke

On 31 May 2012 03:41, Kaspar Bumke <kaspar.bumke(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > Just tested out drumreplacer. Seems to work well. I am going to go through > the code and see if I can use it as a basis for a more advanced > drumreplacer. > > For now I was just making an Arch Linux AUR package and was wondering > about the license (have to put it in the package). Is it just public domain > or did I miss something? > > Regards, > > Kaspar > On 31 May 2012 09:38, Marc R.J. Brevoort <mrjb(a)dnd.utwente.nl> wrote: > Hi Kaspar, > > > Just tested out drumreplacer. Seems to work well. I am going to go through >> the code and see if I can use it as a basis for a more advanced >> drumreplacer. >> > > At present it's pretty basic. It does peak detection by looking if a wave > goes over its treshold level, then (if I remember correctly) > starts a counter to see how long it takes to get to another treshold > level to extract MIDI velocity. In other words, at the moment it works > entirely in the amplitude domain. This works pretty well for multi-track > recordings, but for existing stereo tracks, doing the work in the frequency > domain might work better. > > > For now I was just making an Arch Linux AUR package and was wondering >> about >> the license (have to put it in the package). Is it just public domain or >> did >> I miss something? >> > > I usually think of my packages as GPL'ish, but granted, in this case I > probably forgot explicitly mentioning a licensing scheme, which means > at the moment it's officially under copyright law. Obviously far more > restrictive than I intended. > > I have a slant towards GPL as this will help guaruantee that the > source code is going to remain accessible to the public to tinker with. > So as far as I'm concerned you can release it as GPL and keep this > email as evidence that I've given you written permission to do that. > Adding the generic LICENSE.txt file to the package should suffice. > > Good luck. If you need any help explaining the code let me know. I'll do > my best (though it's 3 years back by now!) > > Best, > Marc > On 31 May 2012 14:43, Kaspar Bumke <kaspar.bumke(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Marc, > > > I have a slant towards GPL as this will help guaruantee that the >> source code is going to remain accessible to the public to tinker with. >> So as far as I'm concerned you can release it as GPL and keep this >> email as evidence that I've given you written permission to do that. >> Adding the generic LICENSE.txt file to the package should suffice. >> >> > Cool, I marked it as GPL which means GPLv2 or later. Are you OK with that? > Common licenses are available by default so they don't need to be in the > package. > > I needed to add a stdlib.h include to src/lib/convertlib.h to make it > compile with gcc 4.7 by the way. > > Good luck. If you need any help explaining the code let me know. I'll do >> my best (though it's 3 years back by now!) > > > I have started looking through the code. The FLTK stuff is a bit confusing > to me so I think I will start out by trying to extract the Jack process and > plugging that into the simple command line jack client. I want to make an > OSC controlled back-end seperate from the GUI so that one day maybe I could > put it in an embedded system to make an open source drum brain! I can see > that you started out with a frontend and backend directories but looks like > you ended putting everything in the frontend. > > > At present it's pretty basic. It does peak detection by looking if a wave >> goes over its treshold level, then (if I remember correctly) >> starts a counter to see how long it takes to get to another treshold >> level to extract MIDI velocity. In other words, at the moment it works >> entirely in the amplitude domain. This works pretty well for multi-track >> recordings, but for existing stereo tracks, doing the work in the frequency >> domain might work better. >> > > Ah OK, cool. I am really glad I found your project as this is a basic > enough example for me to start understanding just how to simply get audio > in and MIDI out, once I have that down I will look at the signal processing > in more detail, do FFTs etc and maybe a neural network.. haha who knows. > You wouldn't happen to have any recommended reading on the theory behind > drum replacement techniques? Any tips on what you changed from 0.1 to 0.2 > that made that crucial difference in performance? > > Kind Regards, > > Kaspar > On 31 May 2012 22:21, Marc R.J. Brevoort <mrjb(a)dnd.utwente.nl> wrote: > Hi Kaspar, > > > Cool, I marked it as GPL which means GPLv2 or later. Are you OK with that? >> > Absolutely. > > > I needed to add a stdlib.h include to src/lib/convertlib.h to make it >> compile with gcc 4.7 by the way. >> > > I guess it's already starting to show its age a bit ;) > > > I have started looking through the code. The FLTK stuff is a bit confusing >> to me so I think I will start out by trying to extract the Jack process >> and >> plugging that into the simple command line jack client. I want to make an >> OSC controlled back-end seperate from the GUI so that one day maybe I >> could >> put it in an embedded system to make an open source drum brain! I can see >> that you started out with a frontend and backend directories but looks >> like >> you ended putting everything in the frontend. >> > > Correct, I based the empty application on another one I did earlier but > couldn't be bothered to do proper frontend-backend separation in its early > stages. That's probably a mistake. > > > Ah OK, cool. I am really glad I found your project as this is a basic >> enough example for me to start understanding just how to simply get audio >> in >> and MIDI out >> > > You'll also notice that it's JACK audio in, but rather than JACK MIDI out, > it's ALSA MIDI out instead. Reason is that when I wrote drumreplacer, JACK > MIDI was basically unsupported, even by JACK tools such as qjackctl. Things > probably have changed at least somewhat, three years down the line. > > Some explanation on how things work - do with it as you please. > > As you've noticed, most of the magic happens in > UserInterface::jack_process(). > > The peak scanning: As an input wave is being scanned faster than realtime, > one can't simply send out MIDI at the moment a peak is detected. Peaks at > the end of a wave snippet would be triggered too > quickly compared to peaks at the start of a wave snippet. Instead, > the output has to be scheduled so that the latency between wave > peak and MIDI trigger remains constant. (This is why the MIDI triggering > is done through Fl::add_timeout() instead of just playing the note). > > If I recall correctly, the previous, 1-track version of drumreplacer > didn't schedule notes at all and therefore to keep beats steady, > it needed to use very small buffers and always had to triggered its > notes immediately. Obviously this would result in poor performance. > > More about the note triggering: One thing to keep in mind is that > Fl::add_timeout() is really a user-interface function. The delay is > specified as milliseconds, but in reality it's not quite that > accurate. Ideally, instead of a user interface timeout one would use > a sample-accurate MIDI note scheduler. > > User interface controls: > > - Sens. is sensitivity, the level at which the note will trigger. > - Res, the resolution - how often a note is allowed to retrigger. > Related to variable "retrig" in the code. > - Mid ch, note, are the MIDI channel and note number being output > when the audio surpasses the treshold > - Min veloc and Max veloc are the minimum and maximum velocity settings at > which the note is played. If a note only reaches treshold value, it will be > played ad minimum velocity; if it reaches maximum value (+1 or -1 as > float), it will be played at the maximum given velocity. > > > One clever bit is that when a note is scheduled for playback, the actual > velocity at which it will be played isn't known yet because that is only > determined *after* the treshold level is reached. > The note playback is scheduled, and at that time the velocity value is set > to "minimum velocity". > > But meanwhile, before the MIDI is sent out, the wave scanning proceeds- > and may update the velocity to the highest found peak, until either the > resolution knob timeout occurs (after which peak detection is reset) or > until the MIDI note schedule demands the note to be played immediately, in > which case it will be played at the highest velocity found between > triggering the note and the actual playback event. > > Hope this helps! > > Best, > Marc I copied the whole conversation to LAD just because I like lurking on there and reading technical discussions I don't fully understand. Hope that's all right with you. You'll also notice that it's JACK audio in, but rather than JACK MIDI out, > it's ALSA MIDI out instead. Reason is that when I wrote drumreplacer, JACK > MIDI was basically unsupported, even by JACK tools such as qjackctl. Things > probably have changed at least somewhat, three years down the line. > That's weird, because it appears as a Jack MIDI program/device in Jack (qjackctl) which I noticed right away because my MIDI-USB devices appear under ALSA and it is a (minor) annoyance to deal with the two different MIDIs and get them to connect. Most things still seem to default to ALSA these days for better or for worse (maybe someone from LAD could chime in here with their wealth of knowledge--accurate to 1/1000 of a second it says in your comments, is that still the case? is that bad?). Some explanation on how things work - do with it as you please. > Thanks so much the explanation. I may hit you up with more questions as I dive more into the code. Kind Regards, Kaspar

13 years, 6 months

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