Linux-audio-user December 2009

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What did 2009 bring us and what are your Linux audio wishes for 2010?

by rosea grammostola

Hi, Maybe it's nice to look what this year has brought us when it comes to good (maybe bad ;) ) Linux audio applications and developments. Some kind of evaluation of 2009 with conclusion for 2010. Mmh Let me start, random order: 1) Jack2 has become (very) stable 2) Ardour 2.8.4 is very stable, has LV2 support 3) New graphical LV2 plugins 4) LinuxDSP 5) Openoctave project, which makes Linux Audio more useful also for pro's. Including the openoctavemidi sequencer. 6) Pulseaudio was a mess, but works better with JACK now 7) Ubuntustudio 9.10 finally an Ubuntu Studio which performs pretty well. 8) LADISH, session handler for Linux Audio. Could be a major breakthrough for the workflow on Linux. 9) It's able to use Blender with Jack via a patch 10) New Calf plugins 11) Linuxsampler 1.0 12) PHASEX improvements 13) Zynaddsubfx 2.4 and Yoshimi! 14) Adi has joined the Debian Multimedia team and maintains a lot of packages now! :) 15) Kernels >= *.31 works great for RT even without patch! 16) Lilypond has improved tablature functionality now. 17) Frescobaldi is get smoother and smoother 18 NtEd and Mscore have reach a more mature status as WYIWYG notation editors 19) At least NtEd and Denemo are having Jack support and are able to add custom channel, which makes it easy to connect them to Linuxsampler for example 20) Moore is found alive :) 21) Ardour gets more income and reach the donation minimum (almost) every month now (with thanks to the community who helped improving the donation system. 22) Netjack2 ... Wishes: 1) Openoctave teams keeps up the good work 2) Ardour3 release, I hope it is as nice as they say it is. 3) Commercial products like pianoteq starting to use LV2 4) We get an nice Linux Audio session handler (improvements of LADISH and maybe an non-dbus alternative session handler by Fons et. al. ;) ) 5) More widely implementation of JACK midi 6) Maybe a sort Pd for Ardour as they have Max for Ableton Live? 7 Maybe a sort of Ableton Live for Linux (maybe in combi with LADISH) 8) improvements for Zynaddsubfx, maybe as LV2 plugin, GUI improvements? 9) Denemo reach version 1 and that it will be able to have more then one long bar... 10) More instruments synths 11) Linuxdsp becomes GPL and gathers enough income 12) More people joining the Debian Multimedia Team 13) Mixbus for Linux 14) Video apps, like Blender get JACK support 15) Better plugins infrastructure on Linux (important one atm!) 16) Good LAC2010 in Utrecht NL., with nice presentations ... Next... :) \r

15 years, 11 months

Don't think I've posted this here before.

by Folderol

A slightly unusual arrangement of the classic. Hope you like it. http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Silent_Night.ogg or http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Silent_Night.mp3 -- 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.

15 years, 11 months

Fwd: Re: [LAD] mx44...2?

by james morris

--- Original Message --- Date: 12/24/2009 From: "Jens M Andreasen" <jens.andreasen(a)comhem.se> Subject: Re: [LAD] mx44...2? Mx44 bumped to version 2 http://web.comhem.se/luna/ New in Mx44.2: Copy/paste of individual oscillators. Choice of temperament (Natural, Mean, Well- and Even tempered.) Optional auto-connect to jackd, optional patch location OSS deleted as well as numerous other bugs, thanks to James Morris who contributed heavily to this release. > >Release at dawn on Christmas Evenings Day? > > Yes :-) > Consider it done!

15 years, 11 months

Best wishes for the Holidays

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

Please allow me to echo what many others have already said so eloquently on the LA* lists: On behalf of the Linuxaudio.org consortium, L2Ork, and personally I would like to extend very best Holiday wishes to all LA* users, developers, artists, enthusiasts, supporters, contributors, companies, and sponsors. May we have many more years of a thriving community and bountiful creativity. Likewise, I would like to express deepest gratitude to all who have contributed towards making audio on Linux not only possible but also remarkable! After all, Linuxaudio.org, L2Ork, or many of my personal projects would've never been possible without your talents and generous contributions! 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/

15 years, 11 months

Happy Holidays, LAU!

by Josh Lawrence

I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy holidays. Whatever part of the world you are in, whatever holiday you celebrate around this time of year, I hope that you and your loved ones have a wonderful time together. This time of year can also be a challenge for those who have lost loved ones, who might be struggling in the bad economy, live under repressive governments. To those who are, my thoughts are with you. Here's to the close of 2009, and best wishes for the new year. -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

15 years, 11 months

Qsynth: Why oh why

by lanas

All, When choosing another sound from a soundfount such as the one distributed by Fedora: FuildR3_GM (148398306 bytes) and having the preview option on, why does Qsynth, from time to time, outputs a disturbing loud noise instead of the chosen instrument ? This runs on Fedora 8 x86_64 and I reckon this could be considered as outdated. Was this bug fixed in recent versions ? Cheers.

15 years, 11 months

Finding/fixing denormals?

by Ken Restivo

Any general advice for the non-DSP-literate on finding/fixing denormals? I've been playing around with Beatrix, using an interesting unofficial patch submitted here some years ago, which adds ALSA MIDI and JACK output support. It works, after I added a check for none on's of zero velocity, and for MIDI channel greater than 3. It's a great Hammond simulator, more accurate than AZR-3. But it has some denormal problems. With no notes playing, it quickly sucks up maximum CPU usage. Looks to me like it isn't running in RT mode either, but I can fix that... once I fix the runaway CPU problem. But I don't know crap about DSP. Any quick hacks I could use to attempt to trace and locate the source of the problem, or quick fixes to try? Also, it quickly gets to clipping mode when at maximum volume. I'd like to add a scale for master volume to bring it down a notch. This may be related to the denormal too, so that'd be a second-order problem. Sadly, due to the Beatrix license, I can't post the few (very minor) patches I've done to get it working, nor can anyone help me by fixing this problem and sending me a patch either. But it sounds great, and, if I can fix these one or two problems, I will definitely use it live (when playing a venue which lacks a real B3). -ken

15 years, 11 months

new song - kaiken kauniin

by Tapani Sysimetsä

Hi, Here's a new song that I thought i'd like to share: http://tapanisysimetsa.bandcamp.com/track/kaiken-kauniin http://users.utu.fi/totaha/sysimetsa/tapani_sysimetsa_-_kaiken_kauniin.ogg It's slightly different from the other songs that I've been working with lately, but anyhow I think it's going to be included in my first album, due to be out in January 2010. I've no idea about the genre. I used Ardour, Qsynth and Hydrogen with Debian/64Studio. Plus acoustic guitar, mic, and yes, melodica! Greetings, Tapani

15 years, 11 months

Sort of seasonal

by Folderol

After my website revamp, I did a quick check through the files to make sure none had suffered any bit-rot, and with the weather lately thought this was rather appropriate :) http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Snowflake.ogg or http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Snowflake.mp3 -- 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.

15 years, 11 months

hosting of jpmidi

by David Adler

jpmidi is offline since a few months. It's announce mail from 2007: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.jackit/15870 Is anyone interested in hosting it, or does a GPL orphanage exist without me knowing? I still have a tarball. Just by being potentially useful/instructive open source code it is IMHO worth occupying a few K somewhere in the web, though jack-smf-utils provides a superset of its functionality.

15 years, 11 months

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Linux-audio-user December 2009