(Revised and resent because the original message to LAU was rejected.)
Dynamic Range Destroyer (DRD.lv2 or simply DRD) is an audio compressor plugin
that aims to remove changes in volume from an audio stream. This effect is
also called auto volume levelling, volume normalization, or "stable volume."
It supports mono, stereo, 6-channel, and 8-channel streams, and it preserves
the balance among channels.
DRD is not a peak limiter, and it does not drop the volume to avoid or
prevent clipping. Its behavior is intentionally similar to that of the
compand filter of FFmpeg.
https://github.com/DaveFlater/DRD
To install as a global system audio filter for Linux with PipeWire, see
https://flaterco.com/kb/audio/pipewire/volume.html
This month's theme is "angry music" and the time limit is 4 minutes.
My entry is a cover... of Ride Of The Valkyries (and you don't get much angrier
than those!) I started with a couple of free on-line MIDI files, but wasn't
happy with either of them, so took the best one, then modified it with bits of
the other one, along with comparative listening to actual recordings (no two of
these were even mostly similar), finally getting creative with my own ideas.
It's all Yoshimi... instrument patches in no particular order:
Synth Strings * 2
Full Strings
Wet Brass
Wet Brass2
Prophesy
Post Horn
Clarinet
Yet Another Flute
{percussion}
Crash Full 2
Hugh's Kit
Slow Cymbal (created just for this)
Ride Crash
Soft Kick
You can find it here (it won't stay there much after this month)
http://www.musically.me.uk/Misc/2507_folderol_Ride_Of_The_Valkyries.mp3
--
Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'}
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.
Hi LAU and LAD,
It seems that (FLOSS) audio editors (not DAWs) are all either
dead/obsolate (mhwaveditor, rezound), in strange development states
(Audacity, Tenacity).
Tenacity, the most promising (albeit with its audacity-inherited
idiosyncrasies) has a really annoying bug [1] which makes it take ages
to load [1] - IMHO a no go for an audio editor IMHO (plus its
multi-track-ness like Audacity makes it overload for a few use cases).
The only more-or-less usable one at the moment is ocenaudio which is not
free software (and also has some UI quirks, but that's maybe personal).
I've been a fan of mhWaveEdit for its mix of simplicity and
configurability, but as an abandoned GTK2 application it shows its problems.
Is this kind of software not interesting any more? Are people using DAWs
for everything?
Are people even using, or interested / committed in using Linux Audio
any more?
As LAC approaches (unfortunately I won't be able to attend, even though
it's in Europe), why not try to spark some debate :-P
Lorenzo
[1] https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/549
JACK Rack 1.5.0 is out!
Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jack-rack/files/jack-rack/
Git repo: https://sourceforge.net/p/jack-rack/git/ci/master/tree/
Home page: https://jack-rack.sourceforge.net/
It's been 18 years since the last release, but for those of you who
still have a use for a lightweight LADSPA plugin host, here's a version
that'll build with modern compilers (although it still needs GTK+ 2) and
includes several other improvements contributed by users over the last
couple of decades.
If you're maintaining a package of this, note that the dependencies have
changed and the tarball is signed by my newer GPG key.
Changes in this release:
* Update the code so that it can be built with any language standard
from ANSI C to C23. (The previous release doesn't build with GCC 15,
which defaults to C23.)
* Fix memory leaks and other minor problems reported by GCC and Clang's
analysis tools.
* Update the build system to support current autotools.
* Don't try to link against the GNOME 2 libraries, and make the About
window available without them (patch from James Morris).
* Replace a call to a LASH internal function with a glib equivalent.
* Rework the rack saving/loading code to be more robust against damaged
files or missing plugins.
* Use zlib for compression in the rack saving/loading code, as libxml2
often isn't built with compression support these days. If you built
the previous release of JACK Rack against a recent libxml2, you won't
have been able to open old compressed rack files; you can now.
* Dependencies: make libxml2 and zlib mandatory,
use pkg-config to find lrdf like the other libraries, and link with
libm and libdl (based on patches from James Morris).
* Add support for jack-session (implemented by Torben Holm, plus a fix
by Peter Nelson).
* Move the repository from CVS to Git.
* Fix bugs in MIDI controls (patch from Peter Nelson).
* Add a Czech translation (patch from Pavel Fric).
* Update the Russian translation (patch from Alexandre Prokoudine).
* Check for an appropriate GTK+ version (reported by Steven
Chamberlain).
If you encounter any problems, or if you've got any further patches
sitting around that I didn't find when trawling for them, please get in
touch with me.
Thanks!
Adam
--
Adam Sampson <ats(a)offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
