Ladies and gentlemen,
the second annual Sonoj Convention 2018 takes place in less than a
month. (October 27th, 28th. Cologne, Germany).
The event is about music production with open source software.
1) Last Call!
Almost all seats are taken, now is probably the last chance for you to
register as a visitor. Simply send an e-mail with your name to
info(a)sonoj.org or use the form on our website.
https://sonoj.org/#registration
2) Please Help! Fundraising has been quite slow so far, therefore we are
going to do a fundraising-week from Monday, October the 1st to Sunday
the 7th!
Why should you care if you don't attend? How much is needed? Read more
at https://sonoj.org/fundraiser
In short, you have two options:
Bank Transfer (preferred) to Nils Hilbricht / Sonoj Convention
IBAN: DE34500105175557832057
BIC: INGDDEFFXXX
Paypal to info(a)sonoj.org (IDV76FF39PH6E3W) The amount is entirely your
choice. Thank you very much!
We would be happy to hear from you!
Regards,
Nils
https://www.sonoj.org
There are only two days (and some) left to vote for your favourite
tracks in The Open Source Music FM Synthesizer Challenge:
https://fmchallenge.osamc.de/vote/
We have 15 fantastic entries, please show your appreciation by voting.
So far we have 28 voters. Can we reach 50 or 60?!
As an incentive, we'll GIVE AWAY one license of the Cadmium synthesizer
by LHI Audio to a voter selected by draw. See the "Prizes" page for more
information:
https://fmchallenge.osamc.de/prizes/
See you at the Sonoj Convention!
--
The Operator,
Christopher Arndt
Open Source Audio Meeting Cologne
https://fmchallenge.osamc.de/
fmchallenge(a)osamc.de
Dear LAU,
our interpretation of the "In Nomine" of Mr. Picforth (published around
1570) is a crossover between Early Music and Ambience:
https://youtu.be/90Yfa5O2jx0
This piece is part of our concert program "Harmony of the Spheres",
where we spatialize acoustic instruments in low delay real-time, using
only FLOSS tools. I introduced early versions of the tools (TASCAR) at
LAC2012 and LAC2015, the configuration files used for this piece and all
the tools can be found here:
https://github.com/gisogrimm/tascar/blob/master/examples/picforth.tsc
We also have a 6th order horizontal Ambisonics track of this video
available for download:
http://orlandoviols.de/picforth_clip5_hoa2d.wav
(FuMa normalization, ACN channel sequence).
Enjoy!
Giso
ardour2fpx
==========
Convert an Ardour VST presets XML file to VST2 FXP preset files.
What is it?
The Open Source DAW Ardour saves user presets for VST plugins in its own
XML format. Unfortunately, most proprietary DAWs expect presets for VST2
plugins as FXP files. This makes it very hard to share presets for VST2
plugins between users of Ardour and those propietary DAWs.
The ardour2fxp script converts Ardour VST preset files to FXP preset
files, so they can be imported when using the same plug-ins in another DAW.
Where to get it?
https://github.com/SpotlightKid/ardour2fxp
or via pip:
pip install ardour2fxp
How to use?
After installation, the ardour2fxp script can be used like this:
ardour2fxp ~/.config/ardour5/presets/vst-1094861636 my-presets
This will create an FXP (extension .fxp) file for every preset in the
Ardour preset file (vst-1094861636 in the example above). FXP files will
be put into sub-directories of the output directory given as the second
command line argument (my-presets in the example). The FXP files will be
named after the preset label (with spaces replaced with underscores) and
the sub-directories will be named after the plug-in identifier
(1094861636 -> "ABCD" in the example).
*Share & Enjoy*
Christopher Arndt
I've posted about this various places, but seem to have forgotten here :(
However, it's all good 'cos I keep remembering bits I'd forgotten about :)
Some time ago I was again delighted to get an invite to set up a free stand
for Yoshimi at Synthfest UK (now in it's 3rd year). This took place in
Sheffield Saturday, 6th October.
The event went very well. Better I think that last year. It was certainly
bigger, and I think the visitors more clued up about what to expect. Our stand
was well placed and also got more attention that last year. I'm sure the
posters helped - you really couldn't miss them :)
The posters were designed by one of Yoshimi's Little Band of Helpers, and a
musician friend who was also attending the event has contacts with a digital
printing company. They produced them at no cost - along with some flyers.
As well as the main laptop on speakers, I had a netbook set up with a two
octave mini-keyboard and a pair of phones. The people who tried it were really
impressed with the performance on such a small setup.
There was also some discussion about running Yoshimi on a Raspberry Pi - all
housed in a small box with a minimal touch screen - Interesting idea.
People are definitely less 'scared' of Linux these days, which is good,
although again, there was some discussion about porting Yoshimi to the Mac. My
attitude has always been that I'm fine with that and will help where I can, but
know nothing about the architecture so wouldn't be able to do any of the work
myself - especially as I'm still up to my eyeballs with work already :(
I was surprised that nobody at all mooted the idea of a port to Windows.
Another of YLBoH produced a pretty sophisticated backing track, playing on
parts 18-28 while parts 1-16 were on Solo-TwoWay. It certainly got people's
attention, as did the fact the whole lot was pulled in with just a Rosegarden
file and a Yoshimi State file, so ideal for gigging.
There were no blind people there this year, but one guy, who remembered the
command line feature from last year, really liked the new extensions into the
synth engines.
The greatest, most pleasant surprise was the (fairly elderly) wife of a friend
who was quite interested in the actual sound banks, and impressed with the
reproduction quality. She is actually a folk musician and has always used real
instruments, but seemed quite comfortable using the keyboard to play some of
the piano-like sounds.
Below are links to some photos I quickly took just as the event was about to
open. I'll leave them on my website for a week or two.
www.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_01.jpgwww.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_02.jpgwww.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_03.jpgwww.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_04.jpgwww.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_05.jpgwww.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_06.jpgwww.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_07.jpgwww.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_08.jpgwww.musically.me.uk/Photos/Synthfest2018/Synthfest2018_09.jpg
--
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.
> Hmm, do they work on Ubuntu 18.04's Gnome3-based user interface
> running on top of Wayland (without X)?
AFAIK any X client will work in a Wayland session just fine, thanks to
XWayland.
JS
Hi Synthusiasts!
the submission period for the Open Source Music FM Synthesizer Challenge
has ended and the competition entries are now waiting for your votes!
We have a fantastic turnout of 15 great tracks, to which you can listen
here:
https://fmchallenge.osamc.de/list/
Voting is open to everybody (email registration required) and runs until
the end of 2018-10-24.
Please honour the labour that went into the competition entries and show
your appreciation by casting your vote here:
https://fmchallenge.osamc.de/vote/
--
The Operator,
Christopher Arndt
Open Source Audio Meeting Cologne
https://fmchallenge.osamc.de/
fmchallenge(a)osamc.de