The C* Audio Plugin Suite reaches version 0.4.5.
http://quitte.de/dsp/caps.htmlhttp://quitte.de/dsp/caps_0.4.5.tar.gz
CAPS is a collection of refined LADSPA units covering a wide range of
applications, from stompbox classics to experimental oscillators.
CAPS is distributed as open source under the terms of the GNU Public
License.
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This release brings a new plugin, "Narrower", which reduces the
perceived width of a stereophonic image. Frequent users of headphones
will appreciate the increased subtlety of the listening experience as
well as the reduced fatigue caused by "superstereo" recordings.
Other than that, some minor bugs have been fixed and the accompanying
PDF data sheet has been improved (frequency response plots now use log
scale: http://quitte.de/dsp/caps-0.4.5.pdf ).
The build configuration tool "configure.py" has been modified to
handle python3's errant ways in graceful manner.
Upgrading is recommended unless you have no need for the new plugin
and the current version is working fine for you.
-*-
Enjoy, and thank you for using CAPS,
Tim
gx_head is a simple guitar mono tube amplifier simulation based
on the work we have done in the guitarix project.
gx_head provide different tube models and tonestack models, so you can
simply adjust the amp-model to your needs.
gx_head comes with a bunch of in-build effects, like distortion, crybaby,
autowah, phaser, flanger, echo, delay, . . .
The effects could ordered in two Racks, on for the mono effects, witch
could be load for pre or post processing, and one for the stereo
effects, witch could only used in post processing.
Effects are loadable over the menu, a pop-up menu in the racks, or a
plugin bar. Settings could saved/load as presets.
gx_head comes with some factory settings provided by guitarix/gx_head
friends "funkmuscle", "zettberlin" and "StudioDave" thanks therefore.
All UI controllers could connected over jack midi via MIDI learn with
your external MIDI controllers.
gx_head is comes, thanks to
Pablo Fernández with Spanish ,
Ivan Tarozzi with Italian,
jy with French translation.
Thanks to the new project member Pete Shorthose we could fix a old Bug
in libgxw/gxwmm related to 64 bit systems, also Pete have add
animation support for knobs in libgxw/gxwmm.
new features in short:
* add tube 6DJ8
* add clean tube modes
* reworked drive controller (bypass <-> wet)
* add clipper
* add mono level controller
* add French translation by jy
* add TACTILE skin by Pete Shorthose
* add knob animation support by Pete Shorthose
* add new knob images by Pete Shorthose
* add new switch images by Pete Shorthose
* fix 64bit related bug in libgxw by Pete Shorthose
* add factory settings by Dave Phillips
* add 3band EQ + sharper
* add tremolo by transmogrifox (Rakarrack)
have fun
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gx_head is licensed under the GPL.
screen-shots and sound examples:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/guitarix/
direct download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/files/gx_head/gx_head-0.14.0.tar.b…
download site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/
please report bugs and suggestions in our forum:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/
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For extra Impulse Responses, gx_head uses the
zita-convolver library, and,
for resampling we use zita-resampler,
both written by Fons Adriaensen.
http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/index.html
We use the marvellous faust compiler to build the amp and effects and will say
thanks to
: Julius Smith
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/
: Albert Graef
http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html#Faust
: Yann Orlary
http://faust.grame.fr/
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For faust users :
All used Faust dsp files are included in /gx_head/src/faust,
the resulting .cc files are in /gx_head/src/faust-generated
The tools we use to convert (post-processing and plot)
the resulting faust cpp files to the needed include format,
stay in the /gx_head/tools directory.
________________________________________________________________________
regards
guitarix development team
Season greetings!
It's spring-cleaning time once again.
Dust has severely piled up and brand old mite is already lurking around.
That's the bad news. Good news are there are plans for this FluidSynth
gooey front-end, you know it's about Qsynth. Alas, plans are follow
today's "slip release" though.
Finally, you may say. Not that there's any big (not even small) new
features being slung out today. In fact, there's just a lousy couple of
the same old crap. Never mind. Big plans are all about getting some
channel controllers--also known as generators--into the picture. Yes,
finally. It means amplitude, filter envelope generators, LFO modulators,
knobs and sliders gore fest and what not. I hear you thinking that's all
what a synth is about. And you're damn right. Dropping an initial,
"synth" has been in the name all this time hasn't it? Right, it has been
a pretty old plan, ever since early dawn. Well, it still is... a plan.
As always, I won't make any promises, which would be a terrible thing to
do, specially from one who keeps calling himself the
"über-procrastinator". Yeah, I'm sure you know me from previous
auto-proclamations. Back to subject at hand, there it is.
Qsynth 0.3.6 slipped away from the dust!
Website:
http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth
Downloads:
- source tarball:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 11.4):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse114.src.rpm
- binary packages (openSUSE 11.4):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse114.i586.r…http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6-2.rncbc.suse114.x86_64…
- binary packages (Windows):
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.6-setup.exe
Change-log:
- Main window layout fixing with regard to its user preferred size and
recall when system-tray icon is not enabled.
- Channels list preset items now activated on double-click.
- Desktop environment session shutdown (eg. logout) is now tapped for
graceful application exit, even though the main window is active
(visible) and minimizing to system tray is enabled. Both were causing
first shutdown/logout attempt to abort. Not anymore, hopefully ;).
- libX11 is now being added explicitly to the build link phase, as seen
necessary on some bleeding-edge distros eg. Fedora 13, Debian 6.
- General standard dialog buttons layout is now in place.
- CMake build system. It was silently available in 0.3.5, but now it is
officially unveiled.
- Fixed a couple of dangling pointers.
- Mac OSX: Enabled the MIDI name Id option for CoreMIDI driver ports,
added the icon to the app bundle.
Weblog (upstream support, yours truly):
http://www.rncbc.org
License:
Qsynth is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
Cheers && Enjoy.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Hi,
Petri-Foo is a fork of the Specimen sampler project created in
February 2011. The first source-code release of Petri-Foo is now
available to download and build and is available directly from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/petri-foo/files/Source/petri-foo-0.0.1.tar.…
Many of the features of Petri-Foo are almost identical to Specimen except:
Modulation:
* decoupled LFOs and Envelopes from parameters
(modulation sources can be chosen independently
for each parameter).
* LFOs themselves can be frequency modulated
* Keyboard tracking.
Sampler:
* improved sample viewer
* improved drawing code using Cairo
* faster waveform drawing after window damage.
* additional 'to end' playback option.
* fades for playback and cross-fades for looping
Voice:
* improved mono/legato operation
* improved envelope behaviour for mono/legato operation
Plus many other changes less visible to the user.
Petri-foo is not well tested at all. Part of the purpose of this
release is to hopefully find users to test Petri-Foo and to report
bugs and other problems, and ideas for continued development. More
information for those interested can be found on the Petri-Foo
homepage.
The Petri-Foo homepage can be visited at:
http://petri-foo.sourceforge.net/index.html
Cheers,
James.
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:29:03AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Just a full quote for the list, I guess Stephen's mail hasn't reached
anyone but me due to subscribers-only policy on LAD.
> > On 04/05/11 11:53, Christoph Kuhr wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > > apparently the ASUS 890FX mainboard has a yukon 88e8059 nic, which i
> > > have not verified yet.
> >
> > To be precise, it's only the Crosshair IV Formular 890FX, all others
> > either have Realtek or Intel.
> >
> > > the marvell yukon 88e8059 specs say this nic is avb ready.
> >
> > Indeed, at least if we believe the little PDF provided by Marvell.
> >
> > I don't know exactly what this means, it seems they support multiple
> > RX/TX queues, so AVB packages might end up in a priority lane while bulk
> > traffic is handled via a different queue.
>
> It has 2 Tx queues, but one is not used because it really doesn't
> offer any benefit. The sync Tx queue doesn't fit the Linux
> multiple Tx queue model.
>
> > They also support hardware timestamping. The Linux driver in question is
> > sky2, in sky2.h, they already have some PTP related defines, but the
> > sky2.c doesn't make use of them.
>
> The hardware timestamping is also disabled in Linux for a couple
> of reasons. First the wraparound of the timestamp is not well
> documented, but more importantly timestamping and RSS hash can
> not be combined and RSS hash seemed more useful.
--
mail: adi(a)thur.de http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver
Again its me just another list,
apparently the ASUS 890FX mainboard has a yukon 88e8059 nic, which i
have not verified yet.
the marvell yukon 88e8059 specs say this nic is avb ready.
is there anyone who can verify this?
bye Ck
Dear Friends and fellow L2Ork and Pd enthusiasts,
I would greatly appreciate it if you would please distribute the following announcement.
The spring is in the air, which means it is time for the spring DISIS (http://disis.music.vt.edu) and L2Ork (http://l2ork.music.vt.edu) events. To start the season right, this past Friday L2Ork had a sneak preview performance at Roanoke College. More so, this coming weekend we are having a truly special series of events with the return of the Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra whom we've been working with this semester. In addition, the spring DISIS event will also include guest artists and scholars Ron Coulter, Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, and Dave Phillips. The upcoming events include:
Thursday April 7 @ 3:30-4:45pm in DISIS presentation by Brad Garton
Friday 10am-1pm lectures in the Arts Armory by Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, and Dave Phillips (free admission)
Friday April 8 @ 7pm in Dumas Center (Roanoke, VA) children's concert featuring Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra and L2Ork
Saturday April 9 @ 7pm in Squires Recital Salon children's benefit concert (an Arts Fusion event) featuring Boys & Girls Club laptop orchestra and L2Ork followed by a hands-on laptop orchestra demo session for kids and families ($5 general, $3 children/students/seniors, with all proceeds benefiting Boys & Girls Club)
Saturday April 9 @ 8pm in Squires Recital Salon benefit concert (an Arts Fusion event) featuring Ron Coulter, Brad Garton, Peter Kirn, Dave Phillips, and L2Ork ($5 general, $3 children/students/seniors, with all proceeds benefiting Boys & Girls Club)
This year we've also partnered up with the Virginia Tech Kids' Tech University program to expand our outreach to young audiences. For additional info on the upcoming events, please visit our Events page or our Facebook Event page (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136468179758733). To keep up with the latest updates, join us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117918141555131).
As if that weren't exciting enough, earlier this weekend we've made yet another public release of pd-l2ork (http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56) with even more cool features and fixes (changelog: http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/data/pd/Changelog). Our site has been also updated with the new promotional materials and photos. Yet, in the spirit of Steve Jobs' keynote speeches we've left the best for last. Stay tuned for more exciting updates soon ;-)
For additional info on L2Ork, visit http://l2ork.music.vt.edu.
Best wishes,
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
ico(a)vt.edu
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/
I have a couple of sound adapters labeled
Sek'd Prodif 96
They are known to be a good card. However I have been
unable to find any drivers for Linux for these. I have
not been able to find a Users Manual either.
Does anyone have any information regarding these cards?
I would like to use them on either an OpenSUSE 11.2
or Ubuntu 10.04 system running Rivendell if possible.
__Reid__
Reid Fletcher, WB7CJO