Linux-audio-user April 2022

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Re: [LAU] New Software: Tembro, All-in-one instrument (Sampler or Rompler)

by Laborejo Software Suite

Hello list, >Any way to tell it once and for all to NOT autoconnect to system:* ? >FA In Tembro Git, and all my other programs, I replaced autoconnect with a default-off setting (in the menus) to autoconnect the mixer etc. ports on startup. Nils

3 years, 10 months

[LAU] Lost soundfont

by Will Godfrey

I'm trying to recover an old project, and it uses a specific soundfont P51f.sf2 (not PC51f.sf2). I've somehow lost the copy of this I once had and can't seem to find it online. Any help most gratefully received. -- Will J Godfrey https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/ http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

3 years, 10 months

[LAU] Mamba v2.3 released

by Hermann Meyer

Mamba v2.3 is released. It's a virtual MIDI keyboard with some unique features. Mamba comes with some predefined Key-maps, but you could define your own to your needs with the integrated key-map editor. Mamba supports jack-interconnect-ALSA MIDI in and out. Jack and ALSA connections could be managed within the connection menu. Every channel use it's own Color to display the played Notes per channel. Mamba could load and play MIDI files, either by load them over the integrated file browser or by drag and drop them on the keyboard. Mamba is as well a 16 Channel MIDI Live Looper, you could record/play loops in sync or freely. Mamba have integrated fluidsynth support, so you could easily load your preferred soundfont, with the integrated file browser or per drag and drop. With the integrated Fluidsynth GUI you could control all needed settings for Fluidsynth. Project page: https://github.com/brummer10/Mamba Latest release: https://github.com/brummer10/Mamba/releases/tag/v2.3 Latest prebuild binary: https://github.com/brummer10/Mamba/releases/download/Latest/Mamba.zip regards hermann

3 years, 10 months

[LAU] [music] Pick me up

by Jeanette C.

Hey hey, just some energetic analogue electro: https://youtu.be/EIOLr1RJuUo OGG version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7a12zqzhmbmvi4u/pick_me_up.ogg Sound engines were all analogue, the drums were even sequenced in hardware, because the RD-8 allows for polymetric sequencing and has simple probability features, nothing that I have readily available in the box. Because of the analogue nature and heavy multitracking it required all the more attention in mixing and that was a joy! Feedback is welcome. Enjoy! Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c I believe We all have one true love Somewhere in this world <3 (Britney Spears)

3 years, 10 months

[LAU] New LV2 Plugin MetalTone released v0.1

by Hermann Meyer

MetalTone is modeled after the renowned BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone(*), a high gain distortion pedal with an advanced EQ section. It has standard active EQ controls with a massive 15dB of cut/boost range for the lows and highs. It also sports a parametric active EQ for the mids with two controls: the frequency, and the boost/cut amount. The midfreq parameter has a very wide range, going from 200Hz all the way to 5kHz. As a result, it's better to think of it simply as a single highly flexible active EQ, and disregard the idea that it's only for shaping the mids. (*) 'Other product names modeled in this software are trademarks of their respective companies that do not endorse and are not associated or affiliated with this software. BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone is a trademark or trade name of another manufacturer and was used merely to identify the product whose sound was reviewed in the creation of this product. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.' Download here: https://github.com/brummer10/MetalTone/releases/tag/v0.1

3 years, 10 months

Re: [LAU] New Software: Tembro, All-in-one instrument (Sampler or Rompler)

by Laborejo Software Suite

>Contrary to what you may think, setting up a system like this is quite >common in 'proaudio'. Wich means it is absolutely insane to autoconnect >any application that does not even have a volume control to such an output. I think it is possible to discuss this manner in a less agitated way. Ardour has jack autoconnect, Qtractor has autoconnect. In Ardour for the very same usecase, which is even named the same: "Auditioner". "Contrary to what you may think" this is not a bad comparison because one is a sampler and the others are DAWs. All of them produce sound, all of them have no sound ready when you start a new project. And Tembro indeed has volume controls. One for the auditioner port and a one for the mixer port, for each instrument. The individual instrument outputs have no volume controls, and they are not autoconnected. >NOT connecting should be the default. I am not against this. But convenience and a quick setup *are* important.

3 years, 10 months

Re: [LAU] New Software: Tembro, All-in-one instrument (Sampler or Rompler)

by Laborejo Software Suite

Hello list, >Any way to tell it once and for all to NOT autoconnect to system:* ? >FA 1) If you start Tembro via NSM there will be no connections made, at all. 2) If you start it standalone it will connect the auditioner port, which is very much intended, and the summing stereo channels. I consider both of these non-proaudio preview options, where you want quick results. The real ports, which are individual instrument outputs, are never auto-connected. 3) That said, to make this behaviour optional, saved in ~/.config and with a command line switch, is already on my todo list. Next release. I hope this answers the questions. Yours, Nils

3 years, 10 months

[LAU] New Software: Tembro, All-in-one instrument (Sampler or Rompler)

by Laborejo Software Suite

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the first release of Tembro, the all-in-one instrument. Tembro (which is Esperanto for musical "Timbre") is a virtual software instrument based on samples. All instruments are permanently built-in, there is no option to load your own files. New instruments are only added with new releases, old ones are never removed. That makes Tembro reliable, predictable, portable and compatible. All projects and all users have the same "instrument" with the same instrument sounds, numbering system, midi controls… ; a solid basis for communication and collaboration. To indicate this initial release we start with version number 0.5.0. The majority of the envisioned feature set is implemented, but there is still a lot to do. Feedback is very much welcome. It is released under GPLv3. You can find all releases as sources here. Also check your distribution for packages in a few days after this announcement, please. https://laborejo.org/downloads/ Greetings, Laborejo Software Suite https://www.laborejo.org/

3 years, 10 months

[LAU] [ANN] Announcing the Unofficial Pro-Audio Arch Package Repository (Beta Phase)

by Christopher Arndt

# Announcing the Unofficial Pro-Audio Arch Package Repository (Beta Phase) ## Where? <https://arch.osamc.de/> ## What? An actively maintained binary package repo for Arch Linux of free and open source pro-audio software. The repository only provides packages that are not already in the official Arch Linux repository. The repository is maintained and tested for both x86_64 and aarch64 (Arch Linux ARM) architectures. ## Why? 1. We are convinced that Arch Linux is currently the best free platform for audio production and we want to help improving it further. 2. Having more up-to-date and easy to install packages of useful audio production software is always a good thing. 3. The pro-audio packages in the `extra` and `community` package repositories are currently maintained by only one person. We want to distribute the workload and spread the packing expertise between more people and decrease the "bus-factor". 4. We want to create packages, which can eventually be migrated to the official repositories with no or minimal changes. We do not intend to duplicate the packaging efforts from the official repos. ## How? See the web site for instructions on how to add the repository to your Arch System (or derivatives). The repository is also listed on the [Unofficial user repositories] page on the Arch Wiki. We are still stabilizing the build process and packaging conventions. While this is going on, we consider the repository to be in a *Beta quality stage*. We currently have around two dozen projects packaged and ready to install and plan to add many more over time. We try to announce important changes on IRC (`#archlinux-proaudio` on `irc.libera.chat`) and always keep the information on the Arch Wiki page up to date. **Note:** *Our build process is currently not based on the official Arch Linux `devtools`, but we adhere strictly to the Arch Packaging guidelines and test all package builds via our CI. With the Arch Packaging infrastructure expected to evolve significantly in the near future, we plan to adapt our tooling to whatever the outcome of that will be. ## Contributing Contributions are welcome! To suggest software for inclusion in the repo open a GitHub issue. ### PKGBUILD and CI Code Repository and Issue Tracker: https://github.com/osam-cologne/archlinux-proaudio ### Team-Chat Discussion and coordination of the project happens on the Sonoj Rocket Chat instance. If you are interested in helping out or have questions or suggestions, join the general chat room (no registration required, English): <https://chat.sonoj.org/channel/english> [Unofficial user repositories]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories#proaudio

3 years, 10 months

[LAU] Release: Agordejo (NSM GUI) Version 0.4.0

by Laborejo Software Suite

Ladies and Gentlemen, hereby the Laborejo Software Suite announces a feature-release. You can now download Agordejo in version 0.4.0 https://laborejo.org/downloads/agordejo-0.4.0.tar.gz Signature : https://laborejo.org/downloads/agordejo-0.4.0.tar.gz.sig All software is released under GPLv3. Agordejo (Esperanto: 'place to set things up') is a music production session manager. It is used to start your programs, remember their (JACK) interconnections and make your life easier in general. It does not re-invent the wheel but instead uses the New-Session-Manager daemon and enhances it with some tricks of its own, that always remain 100% compatible with the original sessions. Changelog Highlights: * Initial startup-check for old $HOME session root vs new XDG root. (nsm 1.6.0) * Offers to move the session files to the new location. * Support nsmd 1.6.0 lockfiles. Older nsmd versions still work. * On startup give a choice to connect to an already running session (nsmd 1.6.0) * Remove internal program- and icon-database and replace with dynamic XDG based lookup. * pyxdg >=0.27 is now a dependency https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg/ * Add a nsm-data desktop file with nsm tags and "no-display", so it can be found by Agordejo. You can find all releases as sources here. https://laborejo.org/downloads Also check your distribution for packages in a few days after this announcement, please. For more information, a multi-language user manual, build instructions and git access please visit https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo P.S. New Session Manager also had a new release today: https://jackaudio.org/news/2022/04/15/new-session-manager-v160.html Greetings, Laborejo Software Suite https://www.laborejo.org

3 years, 10 months

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