Linux-audio-user December 2017

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[LAU] [New music]: With an aching heart...

by Jeanette C.

Hey hey, ...is the title of the new piece. Here's the music: http://juliencoder.de/nama/with_an_aching_heart.ogg http://juliencoder.de/nama/with_an_aching_heart.mp3 What is it? It ended up as a rearrangement of parts of J.S. Bach's fugue in Eflat minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I and Musorgsky's The old castle (fropm pictures at an exhibition) with a few changes, played on lovely synths and vocalised by me. Inspired by Clannad's (Theme for) Harry's game, though, alas, much darker. Still, the message remains: show a little kindness. Not because of the season (you've seen me Scrooge'ing), but just because. What's used: external hardware: DSI Prophet-12 for strings, pad, flute-like sound and one choir. Arturia MiniBrute for basses. Software: the wonderful Gigatron, free Mellotron library in GigaStudio format, a commercial Slina (string ensemble) and carillon library, also in Gig format. Jconvolver for the reverb on the vocals. Recording and mixing in Nama with the hlelp of many LADSPA plugins. So thanks to everyone who made this possible! Love you guys. Feedback is welcome. :) With kindness, Jeanette -------- * website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c Ain't no way I'll be lonely <3 (Britney Spears)

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] RME AIO/9632 expansion boards AI4S-192 and AO4S-192

by Marek Cupák

Hello, it seems I can't find any info about these. Has someone tried them with the AIO? Thanks, Marek

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] QMidiArp-0.6.5 maintenance release

by Frank Kober

Dear all, here is QMidiArp 0.6.5. Another year has passed, and qmidiarp again only slightly changes, improves, adapts itself. A few more factory patterns were added to the Arpeggiator, a new "As Played" repeat mode has sneaked in, and for making things easier the MIDI OMNI mode is now default when modules are added. QMidiArp also builds against Qt5 by default now (it's about time ;) ), no more --enable-qt5 needed at configure stage. Enjoy! Frank -------------- Here is the full changelog: qmidiarp-0.6.5 (2017-12-17) *Improvements* o MIDI OMNI Mode receiving on all MIDI channels is now available and even default for all modules. o Arp: Some more 'factory' patterns added to the LV2 presets and to the .qmidiarprc file. Latter requires deleting the original one in the home directory and launching the standalone application. o Arp: New pattern repeat mode "As Played" for following the played note order instead of reorganizing them up, down or random. o Arp: For deliberately clearing buffered incoming notes the modules now all react to ALL_NOTES_OFF and ALL_SOUND_OFF MIDI messages. o LV2: The DSP ("generic") parameter interface has gotten some improvements for better usability (thanks Holger Wirtz for input on this) *Fixed Bugs* o LV2: Latch mode was not working properly when using release function. o LV2 Arp: when running with host transport sync, transport start caused received notes to be cleared. This also cleared those notes received before the transport was starting and led to missed notes especially in qtractor. This should work better now. (Thanks to Webmadman for reporting, and to Rui). o Seq and LFO: the "Note Off" option had no effect (regression). o Recent Files menu in main app displayed extra characters with Qt5. *General changes* o Building against Qt5 is now default. No more --enable-qt5 needed. o LV2: Category set to MIDIPlugin instead of Instrument o The DSP classes including the LV2 DSP modules no longer use Qt libraries. However the LV2 and App GUIs do. o New build configure options for more flexibility --enable-alsa (default=yes) set no for building on systems without alsa --enable-buildapp (default=yes) set no for building only LV2 modules --enable-lv2-pluginuis (default=yes) set no for LV2 module dsps only *Website* http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/ *Download* https://download.sf.net/qmidiarp/qmidiarp/0.6.5/qmidiarp-0.6.5.tar.bz2 *Description* QMidiArp is a MIDI arpeggiator, phrase generator and controller LFO for ALSA and JACK. It can run multiple synchronized arpeggiators, LFOs and step sequencers. The modules are also available as LV2 plugins with Qt user interface. *SCM Repos* https://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidiarp/code https://github.com/emuse/qmidiarp

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] QMidiArp-0.6.5 maintenance release

by Frank Kober

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] QMidiArp-0.6.5 maintenance release

by Frank Kober

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] Festive Yoshimi

by Will Godfrey

V 1.5.5 - Mistle Thrush Some users wanted a way to store the Controllers settings with an instrument. These can make quite a dramatic difference to the sound. There is now a superset of instruments that can be saved instead of, or as well as, the standard ones. On loading, Yoshimi will look for the extended version first. This applies to instruments in banks as well as externally saved ones. If you have an extended type loaded the instrument name will be a mid-blue instead of black. This is reflected in the stored instruments in bank slots. From now on any improvements we make to instrument patches will be applied in full to the extended version, and as much as is viable (in a compatible form) to the standard ones. Under no circumstances will we change standard patch format. There are many hundreds of these in the wild, and musicians may have their own reasons for preferring them (and older versions of the synth). There was a strange, really ancient bug in 'legato' where if you fumble and hit two keys pretty much together you end up with alternate silent notes until you lift all keys. This has now been comprehensively fixed. While we concentrate on larger issues we don't neglect the smaller ones. For example: You can't have legato mode and drum mode at the same time, but this hasn't been obvious. From now on, if you have drum mode set then try to set legato, you'll still see the setting, but as drum mode takes priority, the legato text will be shown in red. Cancel drum mode (making legato valid) and the text will turn black again. If you are using a legato MIDI pedal, Yoshimi's part 'mode' will show this change, and again will turn red if an instrument with drum mode is on that part. Load and save dialogues intelligently recognise the history lists and offer the appropriate first choice. External instrument loads and saves are now also remembered. For saves, on a fresh start you will offered your home directory regardless of where yoshimi has been launched from, but uniquely, in the case of saving external instruments you will always be offered the name of the instrument in the currently selected part - prefixed with the home directory. There is now a specific menu item in 'State' (Save as Default) for saving the current complete setup as the default. This will always be saved to Yoshimi's config directory and will not show in history lists. If "Settings...->Switches->Start With Default State" has been set, and a default state has been saved, not only will a complete restart load this, but a master 'Reset' will load this instead of doing a first-time default reset. A final detail with the history lists is that in each list type, the last used item will be placed at the top of the list. This is especially useful when you want to continually save/load an item you are currently working on. When first implemented MIDI-learn was limited conservatively to 128 lines. With experience of its actual performance this has now been increased to 200. The CLI has had attention too. A few more controls have been enabled, and the existing ones smartened up and made more consistent. As an aside, there is a new experimental branch with an interface that *only* works via the CLI - not ready for prime time yet. Yoshimi can now run happily with jack on BSD systems. Techie bits. There are a lot more minor optimisations throughout the code. This has resulted in an overall drop in code size, as well as some critical operations being slightly faster. The last few contentious parameter changes have now been made thread safe, and by default we run with NO mutex locks (the calls are there but return 'empty'). There is a single queue that all settings pass through so there should be no possibility of interference... Well, that's the theory :) CMakeLists.txt now has a specific option for older X86 processors. Also, if none of the build options are set then not even sse extensions will be included. How Yoshimi will handle on such an old processor is left as an exercise for the student :P Yoshimi source code is available from either: https://sourceforge.net/projects/yoshimi Or: https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi Our list archive is at: https://www.freelists.org/archive/yoshimi To post, email to yoshimi(a)freelists.org -- 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.

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] [ANN] The QStuff* End of Autumn'17 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Hello everybody! The Qstuff* End of Autumn'17 release bundle is getting wrapped up... * QjackCtl 0.5.0 * Qsynth 0.5.0 * QXGEdit 0.5.0 * QmidiCtl 0.5.0 * QmidiNet 0.5.0 Please enjoy this classic batch and have lots of fun! **QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface [1]** QjackCtl 0.5.0 (end-of-autumn'17) released! QjackCtl [1] is a(n ageing but still) simple Qt [6] application to control the JACK [7] sound server, for the Linux Audio [11] infrastructure. Website: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.0-29.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.0-29.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.0-29.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [19] packages: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.0-1.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qjackctl/code https://github.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git Change-log: - Current preset is always taken into account if ever changes while the Setup dialog is hidden (eg. via context menu). - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from build/configure template chains. - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file (formerly AppData). **Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface [2]** Qsynth 0.5.0 (end-of-autumn'17) released! Qsynth [2] is a FluidSynth [9] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt [6] framework using Qt Designer. Website: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net https://qsynth.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.0-11.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.0-11.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.0-11.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [19] packages: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.0-1.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qsynth/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsynth.git Change-log: - Added *.SF3 to soundfont files filter on Setup > Soundfonts > Open... file dialog. - Increased Soundfont bank-offset limit to 16384 (was 128). - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from build/configure template chains. - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file (formerly AppData). **QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor [3]** QXGEdit 0.5.0 (end-of-autumn'17) released! QXGEdit [3] is a live XG instrument editor, specialized on editing MIDI System Exclusive files (.syx) for the Yamaha DB50XG [13] and thus probably a baseline for many other XG devices. Website: http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.0-11.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.0-11.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.0-11.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [19] packages: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.0-1.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qxgedit/code https://github.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git Change-log: - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from build/configure template chains. - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file (formerly AppData). - Changing the View/Options.../General/Widget style theme now takes effect immediately unless it's to "(default)". **QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast [4]** QmidiCtl 0.5.0 (end-of-autumn'17) released! QmidiCtl [4] is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [14] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI [15] for Windows. QmidiCtl [5] has been primarily designed for the Maemo [16] enabled handheld devices, namely the Nokia N900 [17] and also being promoted to the Maemo Package repositories [20]. Nevertheless, QmidiCtl may still be found effective as a regular desktop application as well. 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-0.5.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.0-12.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.0-12.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.0-12.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [19] packages: http://download.sf.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.5.0-1.x86_64.AppImage 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: - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from build/configure template chains. - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file (formerly AppData). **QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast [5]** QmidiNet 0.5.0 (end-of-autumn'17) released! QmidiNet [5] is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA-MIDI and JACK-MIDI) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [14] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI [15] for Windows. Website: http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.0.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.0-13.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.0-13.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.0-13.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [19] packages: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.0-1.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidinet/code https://github.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git Change-log: - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from build/configure template chains. - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file (formerly AppData). License: All of the Qstuff* are free, open-source Linux Audio [11] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [12]) version 2 or later. References: [1] QjackCtl - A JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net [2] Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface http://qsynth.sourceforge.net [3] QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net [4] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net [5] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net [6] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [7] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [8] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [9] FluidSynth - A SoundFont Synthesizer A real-time software synthesizer based on SoundFont 2 specifications http://www.fluidsynth.org [10] LinuxSampler - The Linux Sampler Project A modular, streaming capable, realtime audio sampler http://www.linuxsampler.org [11] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [12] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [13] Yamaha DB50XG http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/may96/yamahadb50xg.html [14] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [15] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN http://nerds.de [16] Maemo.org - Home of the Maemo community http://www.maemo.org [17] Maemo.org Wiki - Nokia N900 http://wiki.maemo.org/Nokia_N900 [18] Maemo.org - Downloads: QmidiCtl http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl [19] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere http://appimage.org/ See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1876 Enjoy && keep having fun! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] [New music] Lip of reality (between song and soundscape)

by Jeanette C.

Hey hey, just released this: http://juliencoder.de/nama/lip_of_reality.mp3 http://juliencoder.de/nama/lip_of_reality.ogg The intention of content: to paint a dark, mysterious and terrifying place, a cave. The technical inspiration: a demonstration of impulse response reverbs to a friend. Technical details: drone made in Csound based on the aeroacoustic model, originally proposed by R. Selfridge and coded in Csound by myself and a simple three-operator chain of PM oscillators: 2:2:5 (modulator:carrier ratios) ad a looping envelop to modulate the depth of PM. A sampled piano and multiple recordings of my own voice. Enjoy and if you feel like a comment: I'd be only too grateful for it. :) Best wishes, Jeanette -------- * website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c I love the things you say And I love the love your touch conveys <3 (Britney Spears)

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] [Music] Meander-1 + DiscoDSP back online

by jonetsu

DiscoDSP, the makers of Discovery Pro, the Bliss sampler, and home of the OBx-D Oberheim emulation, all available for Linux, is back online after a few moths off. By coincidence, I have this short track made yesterday which features Discovery Pro on the lead, as well as the OBx-D on a pedal tone. It's what I'd call a 'techno' track although I'm really not that good about finding tags. https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/meander-1 Comments welcomed. Cheers.

8 years, 2 months

[LAU] [ANN] QSampler 0.5.0, liblscp 0.6.0 - An(other) Autumn'17 Release

by Rui Nuno Capela

Greetings! On the tail but still fresh LinuxSampler 2.1.0 [2] release... Qsampler 0.5.0, liblscp 0.6.0 (autumn'17) released! Qsampler [1] is a LinuxSampler [2] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer [3]. Website: http://qsampler.sourceforge.net https://qsampler.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler/files - source tarballs: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.0.tar.gz http://download.sf.net/qsampler/liblscp-0.6.0.tar.gz - source packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.0-24.rncbc.suse.src.rpm http://download.sf.net/qsampler/liblscp-0.6.0-24.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.0-24.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qsampler/liblscp6-0.6.0-24.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qsampler/liblscp-devel-0.6.0-24.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.0-24.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] packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.0-1.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: http://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: - French (fr) translation added by Olivier Humbert (qsampler_fr.ts). - Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from build/configure template chains. - Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file (formerly AppData). License: Qsampler [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [4] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5]) version 2 or later. 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/ See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1875 Enjoy && keep the fun! -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

8 years, 2 months

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