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by Len Ovens

On Sat, 19 Jan 2019, Will Godfrey wrote: > I've just been told about this. > https://www.midi.org/articles-old/the-midi-manufacturers-association-mma-an… > > Looks like we might have quite a lot of work to do :/ While the 5pin din may be gone (not really, musicians like vintage gear), MIDI 1.0 is not dead. It apears it has taken a sledge hammer to get people to use VST3 and the MMA doesn't really have the same power. I think that MIDI 1.0 is going to be around for a long time yet and that all new controllers will have the abillity to send MIDI 1.0. In my experience as a musician, I meet a lot of piano players for whom the difference bewteen MIDI 1 and MIDI 2 is just a number (like 192k ADC) and would not affect their performance. However, I have not met very many keyboard artists aside from those who work from their bedroom and who's music I only hear on youtube, soundcloud, etc. I do not know how much difference MIDI 2 would make for most of these people either. Epecially concidering how many of them use either their qwerty kb to enter notes or a one or two octave unit without even velocity... In fact MIDI 2 seems to be a thing mostly for non-kb instruments or computer generated material (most of which is probably using CV instead of MIDI anyway). MIDI 1 was huge, My DX7 supported MIDI before the spec was complete. It is easy to show off in the music store and sell. I expect the switch to MIDI 2 will be a much longer road, very hard to show off from a keyboard. Well thats my opinion anyway. -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net

6 years, 9 months

Potential MIDI headaches?

by Will Godfrey

I've just been told about this. https://www.midi.org/articles-old/the-midi-manufacturers-association-mma-an… Looks like we might have quite a lot of work to do :/ -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

6 years, 9 months

You couldn't make it up

by Will Godfrey

I've just read an item on "The Register" about a network connected high performance oscilloscope... with no security. That's as in Zero, None, Keine. That might not seem a big deal, except that this sort of kit tends to reside in research labs, so evilCorp (tm) could snoop on what a competitor is working on, and pretty quickly work out not only what it is, but how well it's performing. Said evilCorp could then plant some nasty that casually looks around to see what other kit is on the network. Presumably this also potentially opens a door to sabotage. Anyway, that got me thinking (yes I know) Has anyone thought of connecting an AD converter to a Raspberry Pi to make a high resolution, but comparatively low bandwidth oscilloscope for audio work? Say 16bit 500k. I'm thinking it could possibly be connected via I2C or SPI, both of which are supported on the Pi... or even {cough} ethernet {cough} BTW I'm not talking about connecting to bitscope - that only has 8bit resolution and the module itself has no gain control and is easily overloaded :( -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

6 years, 10 months

Custom JACK MIDI port names for osc2midi ?

by Jonathan E. Brickman

I have a need to run three osc2midi clients (m2o) on a single JACK server. Is there a way to customize their JACK port names? I can engineer to use osc2midi, osc2midi-01, and osc2mid-02, i.e., the automatic JACK-given names, but I was hoping for something more self-documenting. I took a look at jackdriver.c, but did not find where I could insert a JACK port name string. -- Jonathan E. Brickman jeb(a)ponderworthy.com <mailto:jeb@ponderworthy.com> (785)233-9977 Hear us at ponderworthy.com <http://ponderworthy.com/> -- CDs and MP3 available! <http://ponderworthy.com/ad-astra/ad-astra.html> Music of compassion; fire, and life!!!

6 years, 10 months

[ANN] QmidiCtl 0.5.3 - An Early Winter'19 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello and Happy New Year! QmidiCt 0.5.3 (early winter'19) is out! QmidiCt [1] is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [6] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows [7]. QmidiCt [1] was long ago designed for the Maemo [8] enabled handheld devices, namely the late Nokia N900 [9] and promoted to the Maemo Package [10] repositories. Nevertheless, QmidiCtl [1] may still be found effective as a regular desktop application and recently as an Android application as well. See also: QmidiNet [2] - A MIDI network gateway via UDP/IP multicast. Website: http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3-15.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3-15.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [11] package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3-5.x86_64.AppImage - Android package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.3-8.apk https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.rncbc.qmidictl https://qmidictl.en.aptoide.com/ Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidictl/code https://github.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qmidictl.git Change-log (since An(other) Early Summer'18 release [12]): - Added proper display names to Command and Control Type entry fields on Configure dialog (ie. MIDI controller assignments dialog). - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more. - AppData/AppStream metadata is now settled under an all permissive license (FSFAP); also updated to be the most compliant with latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation. License: QmidiCt [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [4] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later [5]. References: [1] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net [2] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net [3] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [4] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [5] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [6] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [7] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN http://nerds.de [8] Maemo.org - Home of the Maemo community http://www.maemo.org [9] Maemo.org Wiki - Nokia N900 http://wiki.maemo.org/Nokia_N900 [10] Maemo.org - Downloads: QmidiCtl http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl [11] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere http://appimage.org/ [12] QmidiCtl 0.5.2 - An(nother) Early Summer'18 Release http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1921 See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1975 Enjoy && have fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

6 years, 10 months

Berlin Linux Audio meeting @ c-base 2019-01-08

by Daniel Swärd

Hi all. Next meeting at c-base is on Tuesday 2019-01-08. As usual I'll be in the mainhall from 20:00. Main mail discussion thread in LAU... Cheers /Daniel

6 years, 10 months

Problems delivering mail to certain mail providers

by David Runge

Hey all, some of you (e.g. users of free.fr [1]) are currently seeing problems with the LAD/LAU mailing lists. It seems to be triggered by those mail servers still trying to negotiate handshakes using obsolete and unsafe SSLv3 ciphers. Several of you might have received an unsubscription notice from the mailing list. Please note, that this is not done out of malice, but because after several connection drops, mailman will automatically kick subscribers off the list - which is usually good for non-existing mail hosts or mail addresses. However, in this particular instance I think it is due to us not allowing those SSLv3 ciphers anymore (most mail providers actually don't) and have not done so since the beginning of the year (configuration-wise nothing has changed significantly in quite some time either, which is even more pointing in an outwards direction). The only solution to this - to my opinion - is to fix your mail server setup (if you operate your own mail server) or ask your mail provider to fix theirs (if you are using someone else's services). You can validate the functionality of your TLS setup [2] before and/or afterwards. If both are non-viable options for you, I suggest switching to a mail provider, that has a more well-maintained and configured mail server setup (as we're able to deliver to other mail providers just fine). Best, David [1] https://ssl-tools.net/mailservers/free.fr [2] https://ssl-tools.net/mailservers/ -- https://sleepmap.de

6 years, 11 months

[ANN] Vee One Suite 0.9.4 - A Late Autumn'18 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings! The 'Vee One Suite' of so called 'old-school' software instruments, synthv1 [1] as a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer, samplv1 [2] a polyphonic sampler synthesizer, drumkv1 [3] as yet another drum-kit sampler and padthv1 [4] as a polyphonic additive synthesizer, are all being released for the late in Autumn'18. All still available in dual format: - a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session [5], NSM (Non Session management [6]) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI [7] input support; - a LV2 instrument plug-in [8]. The changes for this special season are the following: - Make sure all LV2 state sample file references are resolved to their original and canonical file-paths (not symlinks). (applies to samplv1 [2] and drumkv1 [3] only) - Fixed a severe bug on saving the LV2 plug-in state: the sample file reference was being saved with the wrong name identifier and thus gone missing on every session or state reload thereafter.(applies to samplv1 [2] only) - Sample waveform drawing is a bit more keen to precision. - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more. - Normalized wavetable oscillator phasors. - Added missing include <unistd.h> to shut up some stricter compilers from build failures. The 'Vee One Suite' are free, open-source Linux Audio [10] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [11] version 2 or later. And here they go again! **synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer [1] ** synthv1 0.9.4 (late-autumn'18) released! synthv1 is an old-school all-digital 4-oscillator subtractive polyphonic synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://synthv1.sourceforge.io http://synthv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/synthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.9.4.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.9.4-41.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.9.4-41.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): http://download.sf.net/synthv1/synthv1-0.9.4-8.x86_64.AppImage git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/synthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/synthv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/synthv1.git **samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler [2]** samplv1 0.9.4 (late-autumn'18) released! samplv1 is an old-school polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://samplv1.sourceforge.io http://samplv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/samplv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.9.4.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.9.4-41.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.9.4-41.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): http://download.sf.net/samplv1/samplv1-0.9.4-8.x86_64.AppImage git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/samplv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/samplv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/samplv1.git **drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler [3]** drumkv1 0.9.4 (late-autumn'18) released! drumkv1 is an old-school drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx. LV2 URI: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: https://drumkv1.sourceforge.io http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumkv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.9.4.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.9.4-37.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.9.4-37.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): http://download.sf.net/drumkv1/drumkv1-0.9.4-8.x86_64.AppImage git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/drumkv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/drumkv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/drumkv1.git **padthv1 - an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer [4]** padthv1 0.9.4 (late-autumn'18) released! padthv1 is an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer with stereo fx. padthv1 is based on the PADsynth algorithm by Paul Nasca, as a special variant of additive synthesis. LV2 URI: http://padthv1.sourceforge.net/lv2 website: http://padthv1.sourceforge.net https://padthv1.sourceforge.io downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/padthv1/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-0.9.4.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-0.9.4-8.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-0.9.4-8.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - AppImage [9] package (JACK stand-alone only): http://download.sf.net/padthv1/padthv1-0.9.4-8.x86_64.AppImage git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/padthv1/code https://github.com/rncbc/padthv1.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/padthv1.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/padthv1.git References: [1] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/ [2] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/ [3] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/ [4] padthv1 - an old-school polyphonic additive synthesizer http://padthv1.sourceforge.net/ [5] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org/ [6] NSM, Non Session Management http://non.tuxfamily.org/nsm/ [7] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [8] LV2, Audio Plugin Standard, the extensible successor of LADSPA http://lv2plug.in/ [9] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere http://appimage.org/ [10] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [11] GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1960 Enjoy && As always please, have lots of fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

6 years, 11 months

[ANN] Qtractor 0.9.3 - The End of Autumn'18 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Finally! Qtractor 0.9.3 (end-of-autumn'18 beta) is out! All the changes that were simply 'decrastinated' for this season are as follows: - Auto-backward now skips the end-of-session location. - Audio clip time-stretching and pitch-shifting limits are now 10-fold in either direction. - Custom color (palette) theme editor introduced; color (palette) theme changes are now effective immediately, except on default. - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more. - Recover audio and MIDI dedicated port connections when changing any of the Metronome, Player and/or Control option settings. - Fix MIDI track (and bus) bank/program reset to none. - Anti-glitch micro-fade-in is disabled on audio clips with zero offset. - Audio and MIDI file players also stopped on Transport / Panic command. - LV2 plug-in UI GTK2 and X11 in Qt5 host native support are now disabled on default configure. - Get rid of symlink duplicates on the default plugin search paths. - According to Debian policy and guidelines, the out-of process plugin scanner (qtractor_plugin_scan) is now installed to $LIBDIR/qtractor. Description: Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Website: http://qtractor.org http://qtractor.sourceforge.net https://qtractor.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.3.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.3-38.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.3-38.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] packages: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.3-8.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: http://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.org http://qtractor.sourceforge.net https://qtractor.sourceforge.io [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere http://appimage.org/ See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1958 Enjoy && Keep thefun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

6 years, 11 months

[ANN] Qsampler 0.5.3 - An(other) End of Autumn'18 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello again, No more excuses left: please upgrade! Qsampler 0.5.3 (end-od-autumn'18) is released! Qsampler [1] is a LinuxSampler [2] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer [3]. Website: https://qsampler.sourceforge.io http://qsampler.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.3.tar.gz http://download.sf.net/qsampler/liblscp-0.6.0.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.3-27.rncbc.suse.src.rpm http://download.sf.net/qsampler/liblscp-0.6.0-24.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.3-27.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm http://download.sf.net/qsampler/liblscp6-0.6.0-24.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm http://download.sf.net/qsampler/liblscp-devel-0.6.0-24.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [6] package: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.3-4.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qsampler/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsampler.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsampler.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsampler.git Change-log: - Avoid saving plug-in sampler channels and related devices to regular LSCP (*.lscp) session files. - Fixed MIDI and Audio device selection on the common sampler channel settings dialog. - Old deprecated Qt4 build support is no more. - AppStream metadata updated to be the most compliant with latest freedesktop.org specification and recommendation. License: Qsampler [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [4] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later [5]. See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1957 References: [1] Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface http://qsampler.sourceforge.net [2] LinuxSampler - The Linux Sampler Project A modular, streaming capable, realtime audio sampler http://www.linuxsampler.org [3] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [4] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [5] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [6] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere http://appimage.org/ Enjoy && have (lots of) fun! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

6 years, 11 months

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