Linux-audio-user February 2018

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[Eurorack] Expert Sleepers ES-8 USB Interface and Linux?

by Mario Lang

Hi. Quite a shot into the dark, but: Is anyone here by chance into eurorack modular and has tried the Expert Sleepers ES-8 USB Interface with Linux yet? It claims to be class compliant, but you never know... -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕

5 years, 7 months

[OT] Going to superbooth, cheap train ride anyone?

by Jeanette C.

Hey hey, not Linux specific, but I'm sure a few of you might go. If anyone's willing to go from Dortmund or Hamm (NRW, Germany) on wednesday, returning on sunday, I'm willing to share. Ticket will be 37.5%. I'll probably check out the itinerary next week and choose fixed trains. For anyone else who might be coming from other places, meeting up is always fun. Best wishes, Jeanette -------- * website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/fsilvain Don't worry, you're gonna be alright, But Cinderella's got to go <3 (Britney Spears)

5 years, 7 months

Fwd: [Faudiostream-users] IFC-18: 2nd Call for Papers - International Faust Conference - Deadline Extended!

by Albert Graef

[Apologies for cross posting, please circulate widely.] *New submission deadline: March 26, 2018* 1st International Faust Conference - Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany), July 17-18, 2018 The International Faust Conference (IFC-18: http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de) will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg University <http://www.uni-mainz.de/> of Mainz (Germany) on July 17-18, 2018. It aims at gathering developers and users of the Faust programming language <http://faust.grame.fr/> to present current projects and discuss future directions for Faust and its community. Participants will be able to share their work through paper presentations. A series of round tables on various topics will serve as a platform to brainstorm on Faust's features, semantics, tools, applications, etc. to determine future directions for this language. Open spaces for demos and workshops will be available for participants to openly share their ongoing projects with the rest of the community. As a special event, the winner of GRAME's Faust Open-Source Software Competition will be announced during IFC-18. IFC-18 is free and everyone is welcome to attend! *Call for Papers* We welcome submissions from academic, professional, independent programmers, artists, etc. We solicit original papers centered around the Faust programming language <http://faust.grame.fr/> in the following categories: - Original research - Technology tutorial - Artistic project report (e.g., installation, composition, etc.) Paper should be up to 14 pages in length, non anonymous, and formatted according to this template <http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de/misc/IFC-18-templates.zip>. *Submissions should be carried out via our EasyChair portal <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifc18>*. All submissions are subject to peer review. Acceptance may be conditional upon changes being made to the paper as directed by reviewers. Accepted papers will be published on-line as well as in the IFC-18 proceedings paper version. They will be presented by their author(s) at IFC-18 as 15 minutes presentations (+ 5 minutes for questions). Feel free to contact us if you have any question. *Important Dates* - Papers submission deadline: March 26, 2018 March 2, 2018 - Notification of Acceptance: May 5, 2018 May 1, 2018 - Camera-Ready Version: June 1, 2018 *Call for Round Table Topics* A series of round tables on the following themes will take place both afternoons of IFC-18: - Faust Tools (e.g., Architectures, IDE, Faust Code Generator, On-Line Services, etc.) - DSP in Faust and Faust Libraries (e.g., New Algorithms, New Libraries, Missing Functions, etc.) - Faust Compiler and Semantics - Other Topics/Open Session We solicit topic suggestions from the Faust community for each of these themes. Topics can be submitted by means of this Google form <https://goo.gl/forms/0fBYxk28jlRdtqRM2>. They will be introduced during the round tables by the session chair. *Contact* Please, address your questions to: ifc18(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de Conference website: http://www.ifc18.uni-mainz.de -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany Email: aggraef(a)gmail.com WWW: https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef

5 years, 7 months

linuxaudio.org is back online!

by Jeremy Jongepier

Dear all, We just enabled all mail services for linuxaudio.org again. All mailing lists are working again and mail can be sent and received for the linuxaudio.org domain. A short recap of what happened is that linuxaudio.org got compromised on January 29th, probably with a compromised private SSH key or password from an account with shell access. The attacker checked the kernel, saw that it was vulnerable to Dirty COW¹, pulled in an exploit and got root. This was quickly discovered by the IT department of Virginia Tech University that disconnected the server from the internet and started a forensic investigation procedure. As part of their IT security policy the server had to be reinstalled and everything had to be set up from scratch again. In the meanwhile I built an alternative setup and after some discussion we agreed on moving linuxaudio.org away from the Virginia Tech server. So linuxaudio.org got a new home after 15 years at Virginia Tech². We're very, very thankful that we could host linuxaudio.org on their servers and we can't stress enough how grateful we are for all the work that has been done on the side of Virginia Tech after the hack. linuxaudio.org now lives at Fuga³, a fully open source OpenStack⁴ cloud based in The Netherlands. Fuga is part of Cyso⁵, the company I work for. The linuxaudio.org ecosystem now consists of three separate servers, a web server, a mail server and a storage server. We rebuilt everything with portability and scalability in mind with a strong focus on security. You can never prevent passwords or SSH keys getting into the hands of hackers but we'll try to keep the servers as up to date as we can to narrow down the attack surface as much as possible. A big thank you to all those who helped out! It was quite a ride but it seems as if most part of the linuxaudio.org ecosystem is accessible again. If you find any web pages, downloads or other bits and parts that don't work properly then please let us know so we can take a look at it. Many thanks in advance and also many thanks for bearing with us! Best, Jeremy Jongepier root(a)linuxaudio.org ¹ https://dirtycow.ninja/ ² https://icat.vt.edu/ ³ https://fuga.cloud/ ⁴ https://www.openstack.org/ ⁴ https://cyso.com/en/

5 years, 7 months

LAC 2018: 2nd Call for Papers / Works

by David Runge

[Apologies for cross-postings] [Please distribute] LAC 2018: 2nd Call for Papers / Works Conference date: 7th - 10th June 2018 The Linux Audio Conference 2018 will be hosted at c-base, Berlin - in partnership with the Electronic Music Studio (TU Berlin) and Spektrum: https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The deadline for all submissions has been extended: March 15th, 2018 (23:59 UTC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions may include: - Papers - Posters - Workshops - Music Performances - Multimedia Installations For more details see the CFP on the website: https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2018/pages/cfp/ Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin! The Linux Audio Conference 2018 team

5 years, 7 months

The Box of No Return: a MultiJACK-based synthesizer

by Jonathan E. Brickman

Running beautifully: https://ponderworthy.github.io/the-box-of-no-return/ Four JACK servers in toto, just one connected to hardware. Patches all on the soft servers, most FX on soft, reverb only on hard; I only need one reverb setting for all, and reverb does eat a lot of JACK resources. Lots and lots of CPU left over for more patches and patch components. If I run out of JACK DSP on my third soft server I'll just add another, although I plan to run two small patches on the third, should not be a problem. Apart from finally uncracking my unused CPU and RAM capacity, there was an unexpected benefit: when a patch overloads, the whole device does not go down -- and the single JACK server which does have the overload, recovers silently, after about a quarter second, and zita-njbridge reconnects automatically, and everything is back. No static, no major badness, no nothing. My gratitude again to Fons !!! And everyone else involved of course. My first patch is quite big (three twin-patch Yoshimis), and I'm running the whole at twice the sampling rate (96kHz instead of 48), and the rare overloads appear to have been caused by a bit of duplicate JACK wiring -- but it sure is nice to know that the whole synth will not go down, or send horror through the PA, if just one patch overloads. -- Jonathan E. Brickman jeb(a)ponderworthy.com (785)233-9977 Hear us at http://ponderworthy.comcom -- CDs and MP3 now available! Music of compassion; fire, and life!!!

5 years, 7 months

MWSD - software to help edit the Waldorf Microwave II/XT

by Jeanette C.

Hey hey, if anyone has a Waldorf Microwave II/XT synthesizer and is interested, I have written a small tool to display either straight MIDI/SysEx data or the display content on the computer. It was meant for blind users, but can also be used to do remote work on it. Current featurs: * direct MIDI/SysEx display (masking long data dumps by friendly, accurate messages) * showing the display content of the Microwave II/XT * autodetecting the MWII or doing it manually. The program uses RtMidi for the communication. The github repo is here: https://github.com/fsilvain/mwsd.git Since this is my very first fully complete software package, I'd be glad for any feedback. 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)

5 years, 7 months

TEST -- IGNORE

by Fons Adriaensen

TEST - IGNORE -- FA

5 years, 7 months

CALL - Reminder + Extended Deadline - Thresholds of the Algorithmic - ALMAT @ BEK

by IOhannes m zmoelnig

Call for Applications: Workshop-in-Exposition: Thresholds of the Algorithmic Bergen (NO), June 2018. **Reminder and extended deadline: 23 February 2018** (sorry for x-posting -- please distribute) Algorithms have been used in music and sound art even before the emergence of “computer music” in the 1950s, but today we witness an entire new wave of interest, reflected in festivals, genres, publications and research projects. It is the very notion of algorithms that is shifting. They are no longer an abstract formalisation, but emerge from artistic praxis and experimentation and become entangled in it. Almat and BEK are happy to announce a call for participation in a workshop-in-exposition taking place in Bergen, Norway, June 2018. This will be a part of BEK and Notam’s ongoing series of workshops for advanced users. It is a hybrid format that places the workshop inside an exhibition context, where the exposed works and artefacts form the basis of the workshop’s activity. Instead of “closed works”, what is exposed to the general public are objects, sounds or installations that are open to engagement and reconfiguration during the workshop. Algorithms that Matter (Almat) is an artistic research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, PEEK AR 403-GBL, and based at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) in Graz, Austria. BEK and Notam are centers for innovation and use of technology in music and the arts in Norway. Both Notam and BEK have a strong focus on education, and strive to establish new goals and provide new impulses for current music technologists and artists. - https://almat.iem.at - http://www.bek.no - http://www.notam02.no - Full text of the call: https://almat.iem.at/assets/downloads/almat-bek_call2018.pdf - Application form: https://almat.iem.at/assets/downloads/almat-bek_form2018.pdf ## Theme and Format Thresholds are locations of transitions, points where one modality becomes another, where a qualitative change occurs. In physics the point where an aggregate state changes—the phase transition—is a distinguished transitional location were the properties of the adjacent states become evident. Similarly, in this workshop-in-exposition we want to study the properties of the algorithmic by putting ourselves in threshold positions and actively shape them. More than merely separating two sides, one can spend time on a threshold, move along a ridge, performing a tightrope walk while trying not to fall to either side. Situated within the Almat artistic research project, this event aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers in the field of digital art, sound art and computational aesthetics. The hybrid format of workshop-in-exposition puts on display works of the participants pertaining to the theme, and at the same time avails them for interrogation, discussion and reconfiguration during the week long workshop. The full call embeds a list of three different ‘thresholds’ from which the applicants should point out a specific one, that they recognise as being addressed by their own artistic work. This will act both as a point for further exploration during the workshop and as a bridge towards audience perception. ## Application Please read carefully the call and fill out the form provided at https://almat.iem.at/call2018.html and send it to almat(a)iem.at along with the required accompanying documents. We aim at a balance of gender and background of the applicants. Conditions: - Duration of exhibition: from 08 June to 17 June 2018 - Start date (in situ): 04 June 2018 (preparation and set up from 04 June to 08 June 2018) - End date: 17 June 2018 - Applicants must be present during the workshop. - Workshop fee must be paid by confirmed participants (see form) **Application deadline: 23 February 2018** (e-mail reception, 24:00 CET) If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at almat(a)iem.at. --- iem.at | kug.ac.at | bek.no | notam02.no | fwf.ac.at

5 years, 7 months

[Music] Tundra Tango !

by jonetsu

A song-snapshot of a journey across the tundra. 2 acoustic guitars sharing the lead ostinato. With acoustic bass guitar and drums marking the steps and synths coloring the landscape. And an oasis in sight. https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/tundra-tango Cheers.

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Linux-audio-user February 2018