FOR IMMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Paul Davis, Founder & Lead Developer
paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com
+1 610 667 4807
ARDOUR 2.0 RELEASED FOR OS X AND LINUX
Philadelphia, USA April 30th, 2007
The developers of Ardour are happy to announce the release of version
2.0 of the award winning digital audio workstation. Ardour transforms
any computer running Linux or OS X into a tool to record, edit and mix
multi-track audio. You can produce CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just
experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Version 2.0 is
available as an OS X (10.4) universal package
(http://ardour.org/files/releases/Ardour-2.0.dmg) and also as source
code (http://ardour.org/files/releases/ardour-2.0.tar.bz2). Linux
distributions will have prebuilt binaries available in the near future.
Nearly 2 years of work have gone into this new version. Along the way
a huge number of bugs were fixed, performance and workflow were
improved, and many new features were added. Highlights of version 2.0
compared to the last stable release (0.99) include:
* new user interface featuring:
- more accessible menus
- improved overall GUI design
- instant accelerator key rebinding direct from menus
* destructive recording ("dubbing") capabilities (as used by
the new Harrison Xdubber)
* undo/redo across program startup/shutdown
* redesigned and more stable support for VST
* support for 24 bit integer native files in addition to
32 bit float as in 0.99
* modular support for hardware control surfaces, including the
Frontier Designs Tranzport and Mackie Control Protocol devices
In addition there are literally hundreds of minor fixes and smaller
features that have accumulated during the work on 2.0. This new
version is fully backward-compatible with older releases of Ardour,
and can be installed in parallel with them. Please note that older
versions cannot load sessions saved by Ardour 2.0.
With the release of 2.0, the project's development will accelerate as
it returns to focusing on major features and workflow. We also look
forward to the results of this summer's Google Summer of Code projects
involving MIDI editing and surround panning. We expect to release
version 2.1 within a few months, containing new features that have
been under development but were not merged into this release.
Ardour is available for free download from the ardour.org website. We
encourage users to support the development of the software through
subscriptions and donations. The software itself is available free of
charge.
ABOUT ARDOUR
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive
editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful
mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, `persistent undo',
multi-language support, destructive track punching modes, timecode
synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie
Control Universal. The program has a completely flexible "anything to
anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as
your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video
features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample
rates.
Started in 2000 by one of the founding programmers at Amazon.com,
Ardour is developed by a worldwide group of programmers with testing
and feedback from a widely distributed network of musicians and audio
engineers. Running on Linux and OS X, it strives to meet the needs of
professional users. Ardour has received commercial sponsorship from
major console manufacturers, Google and others. Many of Ardour's
developers have also participated in the development of JACK, the de
facto standard for inter-application audio routing on OS X and Linux.
Ardour is released under the GNU Public License (GPL), providing its
users the ability to freely modify, redistribute and learn.
For more information, please visit www.ardour.org
Awhile back, someone on the list was asking about an MP3 player type of
thing that could also be used as a portable music recording device.
An audiophile friend of mine has an iAudio LX5 or XL5 (something like
that, I forget the last part of the model). It has a very very clean
stereo line-in connection, and can record audio as FLAC or WAV. He's
been using it to digitize his collection of vinyl albums. Tonight we
listened to the digitized version of a performance of Handel's concerti
grossi (the vinyl is over 40 years old). The digitized sound quality was
marvelous.
It works beautifully with Linux - just plug in the USB cable and his
Linux systems see the 30GB hard drive with no problems.
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Hi all,
I have Studio 64 (i386 version on a 386 machine). I managed to get the usb
tascam us 122
up and running. I changed the soundcard in some applications, eg. hydrogen,
audacity, etc to the second card (hw:1 - tascam), however, I cannot find any
place where I can change it in amarok, mplayer, and rosegarden.
Actually, in Rosegarden it is recognised, but everything is muted for some
reason. Here is some infor from rosegarden:
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Rosegarden 1.4.0 - AlsaDriver - alsa-lib version 1.0.12
JackDriver::initialiseAudio - JACK server not running
ALSA Client information:
14,0 - (Midi Through, Midi Through Port-0) (DUPLEX) [ctype 2, ptype 2, cap
99]
20,0 - (TASCAM US-X2Y, TASCAM US-X2Y MIDI 1) (DUPLEX) [ctype 2, ptype 2, cap
127]
Creating device 0 in Play mode for connection 20:0 TASCAM US-X2Y MIDI 1
(duplex)
Default device name for this device is MIDI external device
Creating device 1 in Record mode for connection 20:0 TASCAM US-X2Y MIDI 1
(duplex)
Default device name for this device is MIDI hardware input device
Creating device 2 in Play mode for connection 14:0 Midi Through Port-0
(duplex) (not connecting)
Default device name for this device is MIDI output system device
Creating device 3 in Record mode for connection 14:0 Midi Through Port-0
(duplex) (not connecting)
Default device name for this device is MIDI input system device
Current timer set to "system timer"
AlsaDriver::initialiseMidi - initialised MIDI subsystem
ALSA Client information:
14,0 - (Midi Through, Midi Through Port-0) (DUPLEX) [ctype 2, ptype 2, cap
99]
20,0 - (TASCAM US-X2Y, TASCAM US-X2Y MIDI 1) (DUPLEX) [ctype 2, ptype 2, cap
127]
AlsaDriver::setPlausibleConnection: connection like 64:0 M Audio Audiophile
24/96 MIDI (duplex) requested for device 0
AlsaDriver::setPlausibleConnection: nothing suitable available
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Any ideas would be much appreciated:)
Thank you very much
Marcin
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Hello
I did a rewrite of JackMiniMix.
It's now called JackMixDesk has a configurable number of mono/stereo
channels, pre and post sends, LASH support, a XML config file and an
additional GTK interface which can be started on demand.
Im working on a SVG knob widget to make the interface use less ram and
I'm planning to implement MIDI support.
If you have comments or find any bugs, please let me know.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jackmixdesk/
Ulrich Lorenz Schlueter
this is of topic.
> If things go well, instead of borrowing the guitar player's Korg
> Triton (as I had to do for the last show), I will be playing my new
> Linux laptop.
I've seen people mention that the "play" on their laptop many times on
this list, but I've never really understood how they do it? Like that
laptop-battle mentioned some weeks ago. Are you livecoding or looping
with freewheeling, or what? I've seen samples been mentioned. Is there
any documentation on the net? I would love to see how other people do
their music (especially sample-based).
> I want to plant a huge Tux sticker right in the center of the laptop
> cover. It's a barebones so it has no markings of its own; I get to put
> on my own. I've seen a logo of Tux wearing headphones too, which I'd
> like to find.
Try searching for "linux stickers" on google. Also, the spraypainted
two-color tux mentioned in another post seems really cool! I would love
to get one of those when I buy a laptop.
Martin
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NICE WORK!!
I posted binary Debian packages for i386 and amd64, and source package at:
http://www/projects/debian/various-etch-audio-backports/
I had to whack your -m64, etc. optimizations from the Makefile in order to build the packages. I'm pretty sure that gcc automatically uses the proper -m option for whatever arch it is being built on.
But I've been playing with the new AMS for the last hour or two. Lots of fun. The new version seems subjectively to use less CPU and be more stable, but I don't have any formal test case to know for sure.
Again, nice work!
- -ken
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:26:47PM +0200, Malte Steiner wrote:
> Alsa Modular Synthesizer 1.8.8 RC1
>
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Hi everybody,
thanks to aliki and jace of Fons Adriaensen I was able to create a first IR of
my studio/living room:
http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/files/downloads/arnolds_home.tar.gz
(http://www.arnoldarts.de/drupal/?q=node/574 for details)
Question of the day: Is it possible to create IRs with aliki not via sweep but
via delta pulse?
I do have some locations which I would love to sample but I can't transport my
speakers there.
Have a nice day/night,
Arnold
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I'm the guy with the ASUS Z96F that, by default, puts nearly *everything* onto one IRQ line.
I've been reading up on pirq, mainly here:
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-4.html
and here:
http://old.lwn.net/1998/0205/io-apic.html
I've also got my annotated output from dump_pirq, here:
http://www.restivo.org/projects/asus/pirq.txt
And system details here:
http://www.restivo.org/projects/asus/system-details/
dump_pirq mostly jibes with what's in /proc/interrupts-- "link 0x60" is what dump_pirq reports as "irq 5" and shows up on my machine as irq 16: the one with everything (disk drive, video controller, audio chip, and firewire) on it.
The ideal thing would be if the BIOS allowed me to route some of these devices onto different INT lines (A,B,C,D), so that they'd end up on different "link" lines, as I am told is the case on ThinkPads. Or even better if they let me route the INTs to different "link" lines (if that's even possible). However, ASUS basically uses the stock AMI BIOS and doesn't seem to have a whole lot of interest and/or expertise in messing with it much. Adding a user interface for a new bit of functionality is a big job-- the kind of thing that IBM would invest the time to do--, but I can't see ASUS being able to justify that amount of work. It would bloat their BIOS and create a whole new set of bugs and support nightmares.
But I've seen hints that it may be possible to do this with Linux, outside of the BIOS.
I'm not clear on exactly what pirq does. It seems to me that all it does is define which "link" line gets assigned to which IRQ number (i.e. 11, 5, 7, etc.) which is pretty useless. I can't imagine caring about which *number* a shared interrupt line gets assigned to. If there are only 5 "link" lines, as is the case on my machine, It seems what I need is to move specific subdevices from one link to another (if that's all that is possible to do). Then again, it'd also be nice if that "unrouted" link 0x68 could get routed to an actual interrupt-- and if pirq can do that, then that would make 6 interrupts to spread things out among, instead of 5. Again, only if it's possible to assign an INT to a "link" via software-- it might be hard-wired in some cases.
I read a tantalizing fragment of information that implies that there are setpci commands which will move devices onto different INT lines. However, I can't seem to find that reference, nor any more details on it, or instructions on how to use it for that purpose. But the setpci docs have reference to "INTERRUPT_LINE", and "INTERRUPT_PIN" constants... ooh cool. It'd also be nice to know if the operations are reversible, i.e. if they persist through the boot process. Otherwise I suppose I can create an initrd with a script that'll run at boot time to set all these things. I'm assuming I have to move the interrupts before the driver for that device is loaded, so I'd essentially turn the initrd into a secondary BIOS. It's also be nice to know that if I hose it up, I can just reboot to get everything back the way it was.
It would be super spiffy if pirq, or setpci, or something else (grub?), would let me override these very poor default BIOS assignments of routes between each devices's INT line and its "link" line, which is apparently what the BIOS's on ThinkPads are doing.
The ASUS people have been very nice, but I've reached point at which they shrug and go, "Hmm, well it works fine on Windows.". I'm guessing that the interrupts are clumped up on Windows just as badly as on Linux, but, who knows, maybe Windows does pirq/setpci or similar magick to space the interrupts out a bit better.
- -ken
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Anyone happen to know if one can 'unpack' or convert cfk files for casio
keyboards.
My understanding (and please correct me!!) is that a cfk file is a
package containing different data types which can be downloaded to a
casio keyboard (but, the keyboard doesn't understand a cfk itself).
Thanks.
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EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
