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by Ivica Ico Bukvic

> On Sat, May 3, 2008 03:27, salsaman(a)xs4all.nl wrote: > > Hi all, > > after some long and protracted discussion with the jack developers on > > their mailing list, I have come to the conclusion that they will > probably > > never accept the videojack patches into the main jack trunk. I also made > > some suggestions to make jack startup easier for non-technical users, > and > > these were rejected. The attitude seems to be that the goal of jack is > > simply to make a high quality server for audio, and if this means adding > > complexity to the startup, requiring kernel patches, etc. then so be it. > > > > Some of the jack developers suggested to me that I look into using > > pulseaudio (http://www.pulseaudio.org/) since it seems more suited to my > > needs. I haven't had a chance to look into it deeply yet, but it looks > > like an interesting project. > > > > As a result of all this, here is what I suggest: > > > > - we maintain our own fork of jack based on the current videojack code > and > > clients and backport any fixes from the main jack trunk as well as we > can. > > For this it would be nice to have a CVS/SVN set up. > > > > - use the vjack-devel mailing list from BEK to discuss development of > this > > branch > > > > - look into pulseaudio, and see if it might be possible to make a > > "pulsevideo" - if it seems possible and wise, approach the pulseaudio > > developers and see if they are more open to accepting non-audio patches. > > > > - discuss the pros and cons of writing something like videojack from > > scratch - basically, what is needed - a server that provides timing and > > calls callbacks and uses shared memory to pass framebuffers; client code > > which connects to the server and sets up the callbacks; control > interfaces > > to list, connect, and disconnect the clients > > - or maybe it's better to make a stripped down version of vjack that > only > > handles video ? > > - think about whether we want to be able to synch with audio from jack > > and/or pulseaudio. > > > > Please discuss... > > > > > > Salsaman. > > http://lives.sf.net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > piksel mailing list > > piksel(a)bek.no > > https://www.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/piksel > > http://www.piksel.no > > > > > > Well, since nobody else seems to have an opinion on this, I guess I will > go ahead with what I suggested. > > Here is what I plan to do: > > 1) register a project on sourceforge (vjack.sf.net ?) > 2) check the current videojack code in to subversion; set up basic web > page for vjack (this can later be pointed to jackvideo.org) > > 3) check the changelog for jack and backport any important fixes > 4) trim down the codebase - remove all drivers except the "dummy" driver > 5) change all occurances of "jack" to "vjack", eg in function names and > enums; create libvjack > 6) update all clients "jack" -> "vjack" > 7) make the changes necessary for vjack - make rate a float; change > default rc file to ~/.vjackdrc and allow an enviroment parameter to > override the default location; change default server name from "default" > to "video0"; allow vjack_connect, vjack_disconnect and vjack_lsp to > specify a server name > 8) create basic documentation and HOWTOs > > Since this is quite a lot to do, are there any volunteers to help with > this ? > > > > Salsaman. > http://lives.sf.net > > > > -- > "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims." > - R. Buckminster Fuller > > _______________________________________________ > piksel mailing list > piksel(a)bek.no > https://www.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/piksel > http://www.piksel.no Although I obviously do not know the whole story, this to me is highly disturbing. Having video sync (like MIDI sync that is apparently being worked on) within Jack would allow us to do professional sample-accurate multimedia production. The alternative suggested above simply reinforces the problem JACK in and of itself faces in respect to myriad of other (mostly subpar) solutions. Given that we have a lot of contributors in our midst who apparently are unable to find common language (so they go on to reinvent the wheel with their own often incomplete implementation), it would be nice to see LAD community (especially considering as small as it is) not propagate this unfortunate predicament. Once again, please note that the aforesaid is my gut-reaction as I obviously am not familiar with the innards of this matter. Best wishes, ico

17 years, 4 months

Re: [LAD] [Jack-Devel] [piksel] Re : The future of videojack ?

by salsaman＠xs4all.nl

On Wed, May 7, 2008 22:04, Stéphane Letz wrote: > > Le 7 mai 08 à 21:37, Juuso Alasuutari a écrit : > >> Stéphane Letz wrote: >>> Video in jack1 won't happen because of several reasons that can be >>> explained again: we want to fix and release jack1 soon and video >>> in jack is a too big change to be integrated in the current state >>> of the proposed patch. >>> The future of jack is now jack2, based on the jackdmp new >>> implementation (http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html). A lot of >>> work has already been done in this code base that is now API >>> equivalent to jack2. New features are already worked on like the >>> DBUS based control (developed in the "control" branch) and NetJack >>> rework (developed in the "network" branch). >>> I think a combined "video + audio in a unique server" approach is >>> perfectly possible: this would require having 2 separated graph >>> for audio and video running at their own rate. Video and audio >>> would be done in different callbacks and thus handled in different >>> threads (probably running at 2 different priorities so that audio >>> can "interrupt" video). Obviously doing that the right way would >>> require a bit of work, but is probably much easier to design and >>> implement in jackd2 codebase. >>> Thus I think a better overall approach to avoid "video jack fork" >>> is to work in this direction, possibly by implementing video jack >>> with the "separated server" idea first (since is is easier to >>> implement). This could be started right away in a jack2 branch. >> >> I'll throw in my 2 Euro cents. >> >> If the VideoJACK crowd feels that JACK2 development is taking too >> slow and decide to continue with their fork, may I suggest that we >> all still discuss and draft a proper video API together? If a fork >> happens out of practical reasons, it would be best to make sure >> that switching video software to use JACK2 later on will be as >> painless as possible. >> >> Technical issues aside, I wish that those affiliated with VideoJACK >> do not feel that their needs are neglected by the JACK developers. >> I hope that the recent discussion has proved that people in this >> camp are willing to improve JACK in this respect. Perhaps we could >> move on and try to find more common ground? >> >> Juuso > > Yes sure. > > Where is the latest state of the video patch for jack? I can have a > look and see how easy/difficult it would be to implement that in a > jackdmp/jack2 branch. > > Stephane > > _______________________________________________ > piksel mailing list > piksel(a)bek.no > https://www.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/piksel > http://www.piksel.no > > Please forward to the LAD mailing list, since I am not subscribed there, and unable to post. I will just describe briefly the current API. It would be nice everybody would agree that this is OK, otherwise please can we resolve this quickly - the project is going slowly enough as it is. ---------------------------------------------------------- The videojack patch adds a new port type - video. #define JACK_VIDEO_PORT_TYPE 2 There is no mixing function for video, since there are dozens or maybe hundreds of different ways to mix two or more video frames together; all mixing is done by a host application. Therefore each video buffer can have only one source, but may have multiple sinks. The size of the video buffer is initially set to 0x0, and the colorspace is set to the default (JACK_VIDEO_COLORSPACE_RGBA32). The source client only may set the frame size at any time, and may also change the colorspace. Although only RGBA32 is supported officially, other colorspaces may be used in private networks. The source client sets width and height using: int jack_video_set_width_and_height (jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port, uint32_t width, uint32_t height) and may set the colorspace with: int jack_video_set_colorspace(jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port, jack_video_colorspace_t cspace) These functions may only be called after the client is activated by the source. The functions also set the buffer size to 4*width*height. Likewise, there are the functions: uint32_t jack_video_get_width(jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port) uint32_t jack_video_get_height(jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port) jack_video_colorspace_t jack_video_get_colorspace(jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port) A client may set callbacks for these: int jack_set_video_colorspace_callback (jack_client_t *client, JackVideoColorspaceCallback video_colorspace_callback, void *arg); int jack_set_video_size_callback (jack_client_t *client, JackVideoSizeCallback video_size_callback, void *arg); Although probably the client would only get a buffer size change message, since jack can only send one message per change (seems to be a limitation in jackd). There is also a convenience function: void* jack_video_get_framebuffer(jack_port_t* video_port) which just does: return jack_port_get_buffer (video_port, 1); And that's it ! This is enough to get video working in jack. There are a couple of changes I plan to make, which are just nice-to- have: - make rate a float (for the video clock) - use an environment variable to define the location of ~/.jackdrc (this will go away if video and audio clocks can be combined in one server) Also I will patch jack_connect, jack_disconnect, and jack_lsp to take a server name. This is necessary right now if running two servers, video and audio. But it seems like a good idea to keep it in anyway. And as suggested, jack_set_video_process_callback() will just call jack_set_process_callback() (for now). Later it could link to a video clock in a combined server. There was a further suggestion that the input client can set a "frame count", which can be read by the output clients. This should also be feasable. -------------------------------------------------------- The current code is at: http://bekstation.bek.no/piksel/pikseldev/jack-vjack5.tar.bz2 The startup parameters I use are: /usr/bin/jackd -p 10 -t 40 -d dummy -r 25 -p 1 -P 0 -C 0 Note the last -p 1 is necessary, otherwise you get a floating point exception. All other parameters can be adjusted as necessary. There are also various clients - jack_video_test_generator and jack_video_output are shipped by default. On the piksel site there is a hacked version of camorama: http://bekstation.bek.no/piksel/pikseldev/camorama-vjack.tar.bz2 and ekiga: http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/ekiga-2.0.12-hacked-for-vjack.tar.bz2 LiVES also supports vjack in an vjack out. You must compile it with --enable-vjack. The vjack output client can be selected in Preferences/Playback. The input client (generator) must be bound to an effect key (VJ/Realtime effect mapping), and then activated. Regards, Salsaman. _______________________________________________ Jack-Devel mailing list Jack-Devel(a)lists.jackaudio.org http://lists.jackaudio.org/listinfo.cgi/jack-devel-jackaudio.org

17 years, 4 months

FW: [piksel] [Jack-Devel] Re : The future of videojack ?

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

FYI -----Original Message----- From: piksel-bounces(a)bek.no [mailto:piksel-bounces@bek.no] On Behalf Of salsaman(a)xs4all.nl Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:31 PM To: p1k53l workshop Cc: jack-devel(a)lists.jackaudio.org Subject: Re: [piksel] [Jack-Devel] Re : The future of videojack ? On Wed, May 7, 2008 22:04, Stéphane Letz wrote: > > Le 7 mai 08 à 21:37, Juuso Alasuutari a écrit : > >> Stéphane Letz wrote: >>> Video in jack1 won't happen because of several reasons that can be >>> explained again: we want to fix and release jack1 soon and video >>> in jack is a too big change to be integrated in the current state >>> of the proposed patch. >>> The future of jack is now jack2, based on the jackdmp new >>> implementation (http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html). A lot of >>> work has already been done in this code base that is now API >>> equivalent to jack2. New features are already worked on like the >>> DBUS based control (developed in the "control" branch) and NetJack >>> rework (developed in the "network" branch). >>> I think a combined "video + audio in a unique server" approach is >>> perfectly possible: this would require having 2 separated graph >>> for audio and video running at their own rate. Video and audio >>> would be done in different callbacks and thus handled in different >>> threads (probably running at 2 different priorities so that audio >>> can "interrupt" video). Obviously doing that the right way would >>> require a bit of work, but is probably much easier to design and >>> implement in jackd2 codebase. >>> Thus I think a better overall approach to avoid "video jack fork" >>> is to work in this direction, possibly by implementing video jack >>> with the "separated server" idea first (since is is easier to >>> implement). This could be started right away in a jack2 branch. >> >> I'll throw in my 2 Euro cents. >> >> If the VideoJACK crowd feels that JACK2 development is taking too >> slow and decide to continue with their fork, may I suggest that we >> all still discuss and draft a proper video API together? If a fork >> happens out of practical reasons, it would be best to make sure >> that switching video software to use JACK2 later on will be as >> painless as possible. >> >> Technical issues aside, I wish that those affiliated with VideoJACK >> do not feel that their needs are neglected by the JACK developers. >> I hope that the recent discussion has proved that people in this >> camp are willing to improve JACK in this respect. Perhaps we could >> move on and try to find more common ground? >> >> Juuso > > Yes sure. > > Where is the latest state of the video patch for jack? I can have a > look and see how easy/difficult it would be to implement that in a > jackdmp/jack2 branch. > > Stephane > > _______________________________________________ > piksel mailing list > piksel(a)bek.no > https://www.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/piksel > http://www.piksel.no > > Please forward to the LAD mailing list, since I am not subscribed there, and unable to post. I will just describe briefly the current API. It would be nice everybody would agree that this is OK, otherwise please can we resolve this quickly - the project is going slowly enough as it is. ---------------------------------------------------------- The videojack patch adds a new port type - video. #define JACK_VIDEO_PORT_TYPE 2 There is no mixing function for video, since there are dozens or maybe hundreds of different ways to mix two or more video frames together; all mixing is done by a host application. Therefore each video buffer can have only one source, but may have multiple sinks. The size of the video buffer is initially set to 0x0, and the colorspace is set to the default (JACK_VIDEO_COLORSPACE_RGBA32). The source client only may set the frame size at any time, and may also change the colorspace. Although only RGBA32 is supported officially, other colorspaces may be used in private networks. The source client sets width and height using: int jack_video_set_width_and_height (jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port, uint32_t width, uint32_t height) and may set the colorspace with: int jack_video_set_colorspace(jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port, jack_video_colorspace_t cspace) These functions may only be called after the client is activated by the source. The functions also set the buffer size to 4*width*height. Likewise, there are the functions: uint32_t jack_video_get_width(jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port) uint32_t jack_video_get_height(jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port) jack_video_colorspace_t jack_video_get_colorspace(jack_client_t *client, jack_port_t *port) A client may set callbacks for these: int jack_set_video_colorspace_callback (jack_client_t *client, JackVideoColorspaceCallback video_colorspace_callback, void *arg); int jack_set_video_size_callback (jack_client_t *client, JackVideoSizeCallback video_size_callback, void *arg); Although probably the client would only get a buffer size change message, since jack can only send one message per change (seems to be a limitation in jackd). There is also a convenience function: void* jack_video_get_framebuffer(jack_port_t* video_port) which just does: return jack_port_get_buffer (video_port, 1); And that's it ! This is enough to get video working in jack. There are a couple of changes I plan to make, which are just nice-to-have: - make rate a float (for the video clock) - use an environment variable to define the location of ~/.jackdrc (this will go away if video and audio clocks can be combined in one server) Also I will patch jack_connect, jack_disconnect, and jack_lsp to take a server name. This is necessary right now if running two servers, video and audio. But it seems like a good idea to keep it in anyway. And as suggested, jack_set_video_process_callback() will just call jack_set_process_callback() (for now). Later it could link to a video clock in a combined server. There was a further suggestion that the input client can set a "frame count", which can be read by the output clients. This should also be feasable. -------------------------------------------------------- The current code is at: http://bekstation.bek.no/piksel/pikseldev/jack-vjack5.tar.bz2 The startup parameters I use are: /usr/bin/jackd -p 10 -t 40 -d dummy -r 25 -p 1 -P 0 -C 0 Note the last -p 1 is necessary, otherwise you get a floating point exception. All other parameters can be adjusted as necessary. There are also various clients - jack_video_test_generator and jack_video_output are shipped by default. On the piksel site there is a hacked version of camorama: http://bekstation.bek.no/piksel/pikseldev/camorama-vjack.tar.bz2 and ekiga: http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/ekiga-2.0.12-hacked-for-vjack.tar.bz2 LiVES also supports vjack in an vjack out. You must compile it with --enable-vjack. The vjack output client can be selected in Preferences/Playback. The input client (generator) must be bound to an effect key (VJ/Realtime effect mapping), and then activated. Regards, Salsaman. _______________________________________________ piksel mailing list piksel(a)bek.no https://www.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/piksel http://www.piksel.no

17 years, 4 months

Re : The future of videojack ?

by Stéphane Letz

>Well, this has been discussed to death on the jack-devel lists. I can see that from an audio developer's point of view, > it would be nice to have video within the same >server as audio. >However, there are fundamental differences between video and audio, which make this in my mind impractical. > Firstly, there is the problem of latency - for audio, generally the aim is to have a latency < 4ms. For video - > since we are dealing with much larger chunks of data, a >latency an order of magnitude greater than this is usually acceptible. >Second, the timing is different. For audio generally you have a 1024 sample buffer and a rate of 44.1KHz or 48KHz. Video requires usually something like 25fps. > So you can either have two clocks, or you can split the video into chunks (ugh), both solutions have problems. > If you can solve these problems, then there is absolutely nothing stopping you running video and audio in the same server > (Video simply adds a new port type). Regards, Salsaman. Video in jack1 won't happen because of several reasons that can be explained again: we want to fix and release jack1 soon and video in jack is a too big change to be integrated in the current state of the proposed patch. The future of jack is now jack2, based on the jackdmp new implementation (http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html). A lot of work has already been done in this code base that is now API equivalent to jack2. New features are already worked on like the DBUS based control (developed in the "control" branch) and NetJack rework (developed in the "network" branch). I think a combined "video + audio in a unique server" approach is perfectly possible: this would require having 2 separated graph for audio and video running at their own rate. Video and audio would be done in different callbacks and thus handled in different threads (probably running at 2 different priorities so that audio can "interrupt" video). Obviously doing that the right way would require a bit of work, but is probably much easier to design and implement in jackd2 codebase. Thus I think a better overall approach to avoid "video jack fork" is to work in this direction, possibly by implementing video jack with the "separated server" idea first (since is is easier to implement). This could be started right away in a jack2 branch. What do you think? Stephane

17 years, 4 months

Re: [LAD] jack feature request

by Emanuel Rumpf

17 years, 4 months

Re: [LAD] jack feature request

by Emanuel Rumpf

2008/5/4, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com>: > the thing to do is to > fire up aplay with a long audio file, then put the laptop into suspend. > if it comes back from suspend with working playback, its a JACK issue. > otherwise, its an ALSA card-specific driver issue. > > > that's crazy ... I'm only getting errors now, when trying to play with aplay or alsaplayer (see bottom) haven't had this errors in the past. maybe my alsa-version is to new? although the card is working with jack... anything wrong with the options? # cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc3 (Wed Mar 14 07:25:50 2007 UTC). # cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.21.5-rt18-b1 (root@mech) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070601 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Jun 27 17:06:15 CEST 2007 $ aplay -c 1 -r 48000 -D hw:1,0 ultra_test4.wav Playing WAVE 'ultra_test4.wav' : Signed 24 bit Little Endian in 3bytes, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:923: Channels count non available $ aplay -D default:CARD=UA25 ultra_test4.wav Playing WAVE 'ultra_test4.wav' : Signed 24 bit Little Endian in 3bytes, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono Speicherzugriffsfehler (==memory access error) $ alsaplayer -r -oalsa -d hw:1,0 ultra_test4.wav error on set_format SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16 Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S24_3LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 24 FRAME_BITS: 48 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 48000 PERIOD_TIME: [1000 1820438) PERIOD_SIZE: [48 87381] PERIOD_BYTES: [288 524286] PERIODS: [2 1024] BUFFER_TIME: [2000 3640875] BUFFER_SIZE: [96 174762] BUFFER_BYTES: [576 1048572] TICK_TIME: 1000 error on set_format SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16 Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S24_3LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 24 FRAME_BITS: 48 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 48000 PERIOD_TIME: [1000 1820438) PERIOD_SIZE: [48 87381] PERIOD_BYTES: [288 524286] PERIODS: [2 1024] BUFFER_TIME: [2000 3640875] BUFFER_SIZE: [96 174762] BUFFER_BYTES: [576 1048572] TICK_TIME: 1000 failed to configure output device...trying OSS error on set_format SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16 Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S24_3LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 24 FRAME_BITS: 48 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 48000 PERIOD_TIME: [1000 1820438) PERIOD_SIZE: [48 87381] PERIOD_BYTES: [288 524286] PERIODS: [2 1024] BUFFER_TIME: [2000 3640875] BUFFER_SIZE: [96 174762] BUFFER_BYTES: [576 1048572] TICK_TIME: 1000 error on set_format SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16 Unavailable hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S24_3LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 24 FRAME_BITS: 48 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 48000 PERIOD_TIME: [1000 1820438) PERIOD_SIZE: [48 87381] PERIOD_BYTES: [288 524286] PERIODS: [2 1024] BUFFER_TIME: [2000 3640875] BUFFER_SIZE: [96 174762] BUFFER_BYTES: [576 1048572] TICK_TIME: 1000 failed to configure output device...trying OSS

17 years, 4 months

Re: [LAD] jack feature request

by Emanuel Rumpf

2008/5/4, Justin Smith <noisesmith(a)gmail.com>: > Some sound cards have suspend reset issues, could this be part of the problem? > I'm using a usb-card (edirol ua-25) as jack-output, if that matters. Setting jack timeout to 5000 msec didn't help it. Jack is running in RT mode.

17 years, 4 months

jack feature request

by Emanuel Rumpf

make jack and jackified apps work with hibernate-ram reasons: - It's great coming back to my/your pc and have it ready in seconds - saves energy - saves money - might help the nature - better system integration - no requirement to close jack and all jack-apps, when hibernating - improved acceptance as THE audioserver cheers

17 years, 4 months

Fwd: DAFxTRa 2008: announcement and call for participation

by stefan kersten

i'm sure the linux audio community has something to contribute to this initiative! Begin forwarded message: > From: "Graham Coleman" <gcoleman(a)iua.upf.edu> > Date: 25. April 2008 18:01:28 GMT+02:00 > Subject: DAFxTRa 2008: announcement and call for participation > > Apologies for multiple postings. We will attempt a public evaluation > of digital audio effects. We encourage your feedback and > participation. > > -- > Salutations! > > We announce and call for your participation in a cross-community > evaluation of audio effects. > > DAFxTRa 2008 (DAFx Transformation RAting) is a new initiative > promoted by > MTG-UPF and DAFx-08 aimed at evaluating and comparing algorithms for > audio effects. > Our goal is to have the main evaluation in September 2008 during > DAFx-08 > (http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/dafx08/) but to make it happen we need > the > involvement of the audio effects research community. > > We do not know of any major initiative to compare audio effects > algorithms, which might be the related to the difficulty of the > evaluation task. It is hard because it requires standardized > procedures for > carefully controlled subjective experiments. But we believe > that now is the time to try it, so we can all learn from the > process and in > turn improve our audio effects algorithms. > > Inspired by the success of MIREX in the evaluation of Music > Information > Retrieval algorithms, and having acquired some experience by > organizing the > audio description contest at ISMIR 2004-Barcelona, we want to > promote a > similar initiative for the digital audio effects community. > > However most audio effects tasks do not afford an objective > measure of ground truth, like in MIR, and thus we have to define > specific evaluation strategies. We want to do it by involving the > developers of algorithms interested in participating and by specifying > with them the evaluation process. The participants should learn > from the > process and the whole DAFx community should benefit from it. > > Our initial aims are the following: > 1. Propose several audio effects categories. Initial proposal: time- > scaling, > pitch-shifting, source separation, morphing, distortion effects and > deconstruction. > 2. Select the categories for which there is a sufficient number of > participants. > 3. Select sounds from Freesound (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu) to be > used as test sounds for each category. > 4. Define the evaluation procedure for each category. > 5. Ask the participants to submit the transformed sounds (not the > algorithms). > 6. Perform the evaluation both live at DAFx-08 and also online in > Freesound. > 7. Publish the results of the evaluation. > > Our proposed time-line is: > - 1st August 2008: Finalize categories and evaluation procedures > - 30th August 2008: Submit transformed sounds > - 1st-4th September 2008: Run life evaluations at DAFx-08 Conference > - 10th-30th September 2008: Run on-line evaluations on the > Freesound site > - 15th October 2008: Publish the results > > If you are interested in participating or in getting involved in the > process join the DAFxTRa mailing list > (http://iua-mail.upf.es/mailman/listinfo/dafx-eval) for an open > discussion. > Results of the discussion and organizational details of the evaluation > will be posted in a wiki (http://smcnetwork.org/wiki/DafxTRa2008) > > Your input and ideas will be most welcome. > > Graham Coleman (MTG-UPF) (contact person) > Jordi Bonada (MTG-UPF) > Perfecto Herrera (MTG-UPF) > Xavier Serra (MTG-UPF)

17 years, 4 months

[ANN] Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings, After another quarantine period, I am pleased to announce (yet) another maintenance release of my flag-ship toy, Qtractor, an Audio/MIDI multi-track "bedroom" sequencer for the techno-boy (and girl:). Probably, the major feature highlight for this release, is the new optional support for in-place audio clip pitch-shifting through Chris Cannam's Rubber Band Audio Time Stretcher library. This one alone just closes the gap on the techno-boy/girl bedroom-studio prospects, so let's move along, nothing really new to see here :) However, given there were many inner changes in the audio rendering engine everything might just sound a lot less glitchy than previous releases. Therefore, everybody is welcome to upgrade. And please, don't be shy ;) Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) has been released! Grab it while visiting the project pages: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Here's some direct links to the most wanted pieces: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.3.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.3-user-manual.pdf And don't (ever) forget to drop by, over the upstream :) http://www.rncbc.org As usual, the complete change log is worth a look too, for the record: - As one may find convenient sometimes, the global time display format (frames, time or BBT) may now be changed on the main transport time spin-box context menu. - Left-clicking on the track list number column now toggles all track content clip selection. - Prevent audio-buffer initialization mashups when editing short audio clips while playback is rolling and within clip region. - Audio peak files gets a bit simplified, dropping the peak frame count from its header; peak waveform graphics are now rendered as straight lines when over the end of audio file. - The drop-span option (View/Options.../Drop multiple audio files into the same track) now also applies when importing tracks (as in Track/Import Tracks/Audio...) to concatenate multiple audio clips into one and the same new track. - Audio and MIDI meter level colors are now user configurable (as global configuration options, View/Options.../Display/Meters) - First attempt for Qt4.4 build support, regarding the bundled atomic primitives, which have changed upstream as advertised (thanks to Paul Thomas, for spotting this one first time). - Record monitor switch is now an accessible button option on all track mixer strips; for visual consistency, the old bus "thru" switch button has been renamed to "monitor". - Force track-view position reset to origin on session close. - Fixed segfault on inserting an external file into files widget. - Mixer splitter sizes are now better saved/restored when closed. - Track record monitoring is now a state option, being toggled from the Track/State/Monitor menu; applies both to audio end MIDI tracks: when set all input will be pass-through to the current assigned output bus, including track plug-ins chain. - Session dialog gets split in its own tab components, between descriptive, time and view configuration ones. - Drifting correction among audio and MIDI engines is now back, but avoided while recording or should it be while looping? (EXPERIMENTAL REGRESSION) - Time-stretching percent value gets its semantics inverted, as thought consistent with ones general sense for relative stretching ie., lower to shrink and higher to make longer. this is a major up-side-down change and should affect all sessions saved with time-stretched audio clips. - Slack space in main tracks and MIDI clip editor views are now proportional to viewport width, leaving enough room for drag and moving content past the current session length, specially at the lower zoom levels. - Clip end time is now also shown on tool-tip. - When armed for recording, MIDI tracks are now monitored and filtered through their own output bus, thus having the same behavior as audio tracks; this also implies that all record armed tracks won't playback their current content material when recording is engaged and rolling; track mute and solo states are now honored on record monitoring. - Audio clip pitch-shifting makes its first appearance, with the optional help from Chris Cannam's RubberBand library. - A new MIDI editor tool is available: note/pitch randomize. - Avoid (re)setting the default session directory if a session cannot be open or loaded for some reason. - Another nastiness bites the dust: a subtle but progressive drifting has been swept away from the audio buffer looping; zero buffer flushing is now also taken into account, which was the cause for serious drifting on time-stretched clips. - A major digital audio processing bug was tamed: audio clip fade-in/outs are now linearly piece-wise applied, even at the clip edges, giving a much smoother rendering and thus mitigating the nasty click-and-pop artifacts that were in fact due to some early design optimization with a poor and sloppy implementation. Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

17 years, 4 months

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