From fredg at salemradiolabs.com Fri Dec 1 14:25:14 2006 From: fredg at salemradiolabs.com (Fred Gleason) Date: Sat Dec 2 12:14:29 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.77 Message-ID: <200612011425.14930.fredg@salemradiolabs.com> On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.77. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** This is a bugfix version of Rivendell. Issues addressed include the following: Broken PLAY Transitions -- Fixes random hangs and log stopdowns between events with PLAY transition type. Audio Importation Issues -- Fixes various issues with autotrimming and level normalization. RDLogManager Timed-Start Attributes -- Fixes a problem where an event would fail receive a Hard Time 'Start Immediately' attribute if the Pre-Import Carts list was empty. See the ChangeLog for further details. Library Versions: This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.4 and librhpi-0.94.7 be installed. If installing from RPM, the version of the currently installed libraries can be determined by doing: rpm -q libradio rpm -q librhpi Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 126, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's | | supposed to do. | | -- Robert A. Heinlein | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| From bob at mellowood.ca Sun Dec 3 17:40:36 2006 From: bob at mellowood.ca (Bob van der Poel) Date: Mon Dec 4 13:50:14 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] New MMA feature: melody creation Message-ID: <45735264.7090400@mellowood.ca> This is for the brave ones who like to try new things! I've been playing a bit getting MMA to auto-generate melodies. A few discussions with one enthusiastic user and some false starts later, I've come up with the idea of having a new track I've called an ARIA. Using pattern definitions, much like those used in other MMA tracks, you set a framework for MMA to generate a melody over a given set of chord changes. Honestly, this will never put a real composer out of business ... but it is fun. I've put up a skeleton version of mma-1.0-b up on http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ Please download and give it a try. The package really does assume you know how to install things on your own, no installer. Shout if problems. And, do let me know what you think. Either via private email or on our discussion board: http://www.kara-moon.com/forum/index.php?board=21.0 -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca From indigo at bitglue.com Mon Dec 4 23:50:24 2006 From: indigo at bitglue.com (Phil Frost) Date: Tue Dec 5 05:33:13 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] pyalsa - python midi wrappers and useful MIDI <-> alsa mixer Message-ID: <20061205045024.GA4653@unununium.org> Quite a while ago I developed some python interfaces to the less realtime critical components of the ALSA library, including most of the MIDI and mixer interfaces. I also developed an application in Python that can bind ALSA mixer elements to MIDI CC messages. It has no GUI by design, and can send feedback as CC messages when the mixer state changes (useful if you have a MIDI control surface with motorized faders like the BCF2000). I had intended to put some polish on the thing and then announce it, but that was about a year ago and it hasn't happened, so I now announce the project at . From fredg at salemradiolabs.com Wed Dec 6 08:09:22 2006 From: fredg at salemradiolabs.com (Fred Gleason) Date: Thu Dec 7 13:38:20 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.79 Message-ID: <200612060809.22964.fredg@salemradiolabs.com> On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.79. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** Changes: Pausing SoundPanel Buttons -- It is now possible to configure RDAirPlay so that touching a playing SoundPanel button causes the playout to pause rather than stop. This is enabled by checking the 'Enable Button Pausing' checkbox in RDAdmin->ManageHosts->RDAirPlay. Bugfixes -- Fixed a database schema problem that was causing Pre- and Post-Import lists in RDLogManager to appear empty when editing events. See the ChangeLog for further details. Library Versions: This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.4 and librhpi-0.94.7 be installed. If installing from RPM, the version of the currently installed libraries can be determined by doing: rpm -q libradio rpm -q librhpi Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 128, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the | | ocean level wouldn't cure. | | -- Ross MacDonald | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| From nescivi at gmail.com Wed Dec 6 10:08:10 2006 From: nescivi at gmail.com (nescivi) Date: Thu Dec 7 13:40:06 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Reminder::Linux Audio Conference #5 (LAC2007): Call for Papers - Music Message-ID: <1353106228.20061206160810@gmail.com> Dear all, this is the second call for papers for the 5th Linux Audio Developers Conference (LAC2007). This is a reminder since some people might not have received the last call or might just have forgotten about the deadlines by now (08 Jan 2007 : Deadline for submission of papers, worshops, tutorials, demos, hands on demos and music). The conference is organized by the TU-Berlin in cooperation with people of the Linux Audio Developers mailing list, the music festival Inventionen 2007 and the Humboldt University of Berlin. The LAC2007 is taking place at the TU-Berlin, Germany from the 22nd - 25th of March 2007. We have introduced some new tracks. Besides the category for papers, demos and workshops, calls for tutorials and hands on demos have been added. The tutorials aim is to give new (potential) users an overview of the possibilities of Linux Audio Software and how to get started. The LAC2007 provides a computer pool (LA Pool) where developers can give an introduction to their software and where participants can try out Linux Audio Software during the conference. This has been combined in the call hands on demos. Since the TU-Berlin is installing a new Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) system the call for music has been extended by a call for compositions for this system. Music that can be used for radio airplay can be submitted, and will after acceptance by the Campusradio of the TU Berlin, be played during the conference. More detailed Information can be found in the 'Call for Papers' attached to this email or on the website at: www.lac.tu-berlin.de We are looking forward to many interesting submissions for the Linux Audio Conference 2007 and hope to see you in Berlin in 2007! Please feel free to forward this email to anybody who is interested. On behalf of the LAC2007 organisation team, Marije Baalman and Simon Schampijer -------------- next part -------------- Call for the Linux Audio Conference 2007 - 22nd - 25th of March 2007 taking place at the Technische Universität Berlin in cooperation with Inventionen 2007 and the Humboldt University of Berlin This call includes: Call for Papers Call for Demos Call for Hands On Demos Call for Workshops Call for Tutorials Call for Music (categories: Concert, Club, Radio and Wave Field Synthesis) ----------------------------- Call for Papers We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing based on Linux and open source software. Papers can focus on technical, artistic or scientific issues and can target developers or users. This includes (but is not limited to) the following categories: Computer Music Music Production Instruments Drivers and Sound Architecture Audio Distributions Generic (Usage, Documentation etc.) The conference is held in English. Length of a paper is 4-8 pages. Papers have to include an abstract (50-100 words). The abstract will be published separately on the conference website once the paper has been accepted. Also, papers should include up to 5 keywords. In general talks should take 20-30 minutes followed by 5 minutes discussion. Please notify us if you need a special technical setup. The technical standard setup will be: microphone (head set) projector with XVGA input (resolution 1024x768) stereo speaker setup with mini jack input a PC with a pdf viewer How to submit File format is PDF, formatted for A4 paper. Make use of the templates for paper formatting available at: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/download/templates-lac2007.tar.gz See our check list to ensure that you do not forget to enclose all necessary information. Send your paper and all necessary information by 8 Jan 2007 via email to this address: lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de You will be notified by 05 Feb 2007 whether your paper has been accepted. The reviewers may ask you to modify your paper in order to be accepted. The deadline for the final version is March 1, 2007. Important Dates 08 Jan 2007: Paper submission deadline 05 Feb 2007: Notification of acceptance 01 Mar 2007: Final version deadline 22 - 25 March 2007: Conference ----------------------------- Call for Demos You do not need to write a whole paper, but rather a short abstract only (50-100 words). This category is mainly thought for software demos. Be aware though that in case of too many submissions papers take priority over demos... See section "Call for Papers" for info on the duration of talks and the technical setup. ----------------------------- Call for Hands On Demos A new item of the LAC 2007 is LA Pool: a pool with Linux audio computers, on which programs can be demonstrated. To give a "hands on" demo you can reserve LA Pool for 1 hour, of which ca. 20 minutes can be used as a general introduction and the rest should be free for participants to try out the program and ask questions. A Hands On demo can be held in addition to a Paper Presentation or as the presentation for the Demo, so you need to either submit a paper or an abstract as mentioned above. Additionally, you need to give us a version of your software, with clear installation instructions and requirements, so that we can install the software on the Pool before the conference. How to submit See our check list to ensure that you do not forget to enclose all necessary information. Send your abstract and all necessary information by 8 Jan 2007 via email to this address: lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de Deadline for submissions is 08 Jan 2007. You will be notified by 05 Feb 2007 whether your submission has been accepted. ----------------------------- Call for Workshops With respect to their content workshops do not differ from talks: Workshops can have technical focus as well as artistic or scientific focus. Workshops can be targeted to developers as well as users. See section "Call for Papers" for more info on this. The shape of the workshop is completely up to you. E.g. it can be tutorial-like ("how to write an ALSA driver/ a jack application/ a LADSPA plugin/ etc.") or it can be BOFS-like (e.g. a meeting of like-minded users and/or developers to exchange experience and knowledge about a specific topic), or it can be anything in between. Workshops can take place in seminar rooms or in a public space like the TU Lichthof. Depending on the location, attendance might be limited to ca 10 people. We strongly encourage you to submit early. It will be more likely to get a free slot and it will be easier for attendants to know about the workshop if it is published on the conference website. If you expect the attendants to prepare their laptops for your workshop (e.g. by installing some software) or if there are other requirements, please note so in your abstract. How to submit: See our check list to ensure that you do not forget to enclose all necessary information. Send an abstract (ca. 50-100 words) and all necessary information via email to this address: lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de The abstract will be published on the conference website once the workshop has been accepted (not before 01 March 2007 though). Submission deadline is 05 Feb 2007. You will be notified by 01 March 2007 whether your submission has been accepted. ----------------------------- Call for Tutorials New in this edition of the Linux Audio Conference will be a Tutorial track for new users. This Tutorial track will be hosted by the Media Science Department of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Proposals for additions to this Tutorial program are welcome. The aim of this Tutorial track is to give new (potential) users an overview of the possibilities of Linux Audio Software and how to get started. The difference to workshops is that the tutorials are given in a lecture environment and should focus on how to make music with Linux, more than going into specifics of certain programs. The tutorial track is supported by the LA Pool facility as attendants can try out the software themselves with hands on support. Send a short description of your proposed Tutorial topic (ca. 50-100 words), via email to this address: lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de Submission deadline is 08 Jan 2007. You will be notified by 05 Feb 2007 whether your submission has been accepted. Criteria will be based upon creating a full fledged Tutorial program for Linux Audio. ----------------------------- Call for Music The conference will include several concerts. We are looking for music that has been produced completely or mostly under Linux and/or with open source software: Serious compositions, Electronica, Chill-Out, Ambient etc. Indicate whether you want to have your piece played in a concert like environment or a club like environment. Additionally you can submit Radio music (see below) and Wave Field Synthesis music (see also below). Additionally you are welcome to give a talk about your piece. We encourage you especially to show how you made the piece using open source software. Please send a short abstract (ca. 50-100 words) if you want to give a talk. If you want to participate, send your composition(s) to this address: LAC2007 - Call for Music Institute of Communications Research Sekretariat EN 8 Einsteinufer 17 D-10587 Berlin Germany Make use of one of the following media formats: Media: Audio-CD, DVD, DVD-R or CD-R File formats: aiff or wav Channels: mono, stereo, multi-channel and multi-mono (8 channels is no problem, more than 8 must be discussed). Samplerate: 44.1 or 48 kHz Resolution: 16 or 24 bit Include the following items with your submission (in English): A filled-out and signed printout of the form available here: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/download/musicagreement.pdf For the printed program and to be published online and on the conference CD, in continuous text (no table or list please): A short commentary on the composition(s) (each ca. 150 words) A short Curriculum Vitae (ca. 100 words) Deadline for submissions is 08 Jan 2007. A jury will select the compositions that will be performed/played. Furthermore, the jury will give out three prices to participants to contribute to their travel expenses. Besides artistic criteria and technical reasons, these criteria apply for the selection: Tape pieces or pieces which are performed by the composers themselves will generally have more chances to get included. If we get more pieces than we can include in the program, composers who are attending the conference are preferred. Terms and conditions for participation can be found in the form mentioned above. This form includes among other things: I will receive no fees whether my composition is played or not. GEMA fees (in case of performance) will be paid by the organizer. The material I send to the TU Berlin will not be returned. Additionally to this Call for Music, during the late night concerts there will be an open stage: "Plug & Chill - The Linux Jam Nights" where attendants of the conference are invited to perform their pieces in a more club-like context. There is no deadline for this, so people can decide during the conference if they want to participate. However if you already know that you want to participate do not hesitate to inform us. Send us an email to lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de and include a description of your equipment and a short characterization of your music (keywords only). During the conference it is possible to register at the info desk. Note that there is a time limit for "Plug & Chill". If we have received too many registrations already you might not get a slot. Contributions to "Plug & Chill" should not exceed 10 min. There will be a room at the TU Berlin where people can meet during the conference and rehearse for "Plug & Chill". ----------------------------- Radio Music A new category in the Music call is the call for music that can be used for radio airplay. In cooperation with the Campusradio (http://www.campusradio-online.de) of the TU Berlin, who will do a live report on the conference, we invite composers, musicians and producers of Music made or recorded and mastered with Open Source tools, to submit their works. If you want to participate, send an email to: lac2007-radio AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de with a link to your audio files. Alternately, send your music to the address above, with the addition: LAC2007 - Call for Music Radio Make use of one of the following media formats: Media: Audio-CD, DVD, DVD-R or CD-R File formats: aiff or wav or ogg Channels: mono or stereo Samplerate: 44.1 or 48 kHz Resolution: 16 or 24 bit Include the following items with your submission (in English): A filled-out and signed printout of the form available here (sent by mail, or by fax to: +49 30 31421143): http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/download/musicagreement.pdf Deadline for submissions is 05 Feb 2007. The choice of which pieces are played is in the hands of the Campusradio crew. A program listing will be on their website http://www.campusradio-online.de shortly before the conference. ----------------------------- Wave Field Synthesis Music Shortly before the conference, a new Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) system will be installed in one of the lecture halls of the TU Berlin. We are looking for composers who are interested in creating a composition for this system or who have already written pieces for WFS, which could be played on the system. The WFS system will be based on the sWONDER software (http://swonder.sourceforge.net), and can be controlled by OSC. For more information, please contact us at lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de As there is no standard format for WFS material yet, we ask for a elaborate description of the piece and some examples of previous works. To prepare the piece for performance, it will be necessary for the composer to be present a few days before the conference. We will support efforts to get funding for this from external organizations (such as DAAD). Send your material to this address: LAC2007 - Call for WFS Music Institute of Communications Research Sekretariat EN 8 Einsteinufer 17 D-10587 Berlin Germany Make use of one of the following media formats: Media: Audio-CD, DVD, DVD-R or CD-R File formats: aiff or wav Channels: mono, stereo, multi-channel and multi-mono (8 channels is no problem, more than 8 must be discussed). Samplerate: 44.1 or 48 kHz Resolution: 16 or 24 bit Include the following items with your submission (in English): A filled-out and signed printout of the form available on: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/download/musicagreement.pdf For the printed program and to be published online and on the conference CD, in continuous text (no table or list please): A short commentary on the composition(s) (each ca. 150 words) A short Curriculum Vitae (ca. 100 words) Deadline for submissions is 08 Jan 2007. Terms and conditions for participation can be found in the form mentioned above. This form includes among other things: I will receive no fees whether my composition is played or not. GEMA fees (in case of performance) will be paid by the organizer. The material I send to the TU Berlin will not be returned. From daniel at 64studio.com Fri Dec 8 21:02:46 2006 From: daniel at 64studio.com (Daniel James) Date: Sat Dec 9 15:21:58 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] 64 Studio talk at Linux Movies meeting in Los Angeles Message-ID: <52309.76.170.66.23.1165629766.squirrel@webmail.64studio.com> Hello all, If anyone is in the Los Angeles area next Thursday the 14th, I'll be giving a talk about 64 Studio at the Linux Movies meeting on that evening - please see the attachment for the details. Cheers! Daniel -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Robin Rowe Subject: [Linuxmovies-general] 64 Studio Linux and Daniel James at Linux Movies on Dec 14th Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:09:13 -0800 Size: 5363 Url: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/attachments/20061209/a2a43f91/Linuxmovies-general64StudioLinuxandDanielJamesatLinuxMoviesonDec14th.mht From propaganda at goto10.org Sun Dec 10 20:06:20 2006 From: propaganda at goto10.org (propaganda@goto10.org) Date: Mon Dec 11 04:46:52 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] pure:dyne 2.3.6 release - a GNU/Linux distro for media artists Message-ID: <20061211010620.GC536@goto10.org> sorry for X please >> :: PURE:DYNE - EXTENDED PLAY * . * ,--. * . ,---. --.,--.--.--.,---. --.,-' |--. ,--.--,--, ,---. * | .-. | || | .--' .-. :--' .-. |\ ' / \ .-. : * | '-' ' '' ' | --.--. `-' | \ ' | || | --. . | -' `----' --' `----'--'`---' -' / `--''--'`----' `--' goto10.org vs dyne.org `---' * . In this world of parallel dynes, pure:dyne [osc~ 440] has been created to provide a complete and | ready made environment for artists and | \m awesome developers who are looking for a system | /) duuude! dedicated to real time audio and video [dac~] (\ processing. The dyne:II project provides tools and an optimized platform to try out and work on a large range of applications. The pure:dyne customization by goto10 comes with optimized and tested software such as supercollider, icecast, csound, packet forth, fluxus and much more, including of course pure data and a great collection of essential externals and abstractions (PDP, PiDiP, Gem, GridFlow, RRadical, PixelTango ...). Thanks to the dyne:II compatibility all the Home Studio "classics" have not been forgotten (Ardour, LADSPA, seq24, Rezound ...) and numerous essential graphics software are also bundled (Inkscape, Gimp, Blender ...). The pure:dyne project is a growing community effort maintained by media artists for media artists. It is an ideal platform for audiovisual performances, installations and FLOSS+ART workshops. It is available as both a dyne:II compatible module, and a full low latency desktop i686 Live GNU/Linux distribution, working from hard drive, CD, CF/MD or USB key. --- Key Features: - Jack oriented GNU/Linux distribution - Complete FLOSS Home studio solution and live performance system - No bloat ! fast minimal desktops (fluxbox, evilwm, dwm) - Live Distribution (works the same on CD, HD, USB, ...) - multiuser support - Low Latency Kernel (Ingo Molnar's -rt kernel patches) - Support for Firewire audio devices (FreeBoB inside) - Optional support for NVIDIA and ATI evil blobs - mmx + sse gcc optimisations applied when relevant - Compatible with any dyne:II modules - Easy installation, maintenance and update - SDK tools (dynesdk + milkman) and gcc included for customisations - International Languages support ---- * * * Download -> http://puredyne.goto10.org . IRC server -> irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne MailingList -> http://lists.goto10.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/puredyne Bug Tracker -> http://bugs.dyne.org (section puredyne) dyne:bolic -> http://dynebolic.org ---- * . pure:dyne developers are : * Aymeric Mansoux - http://320x200.goto10.org * Chun Lee - http://sonicvariable.goto10.org . Antonios Galanopoulos - http://stereocilia.goto10.org dyne:II developers are : Denis "Jaromil" Rojo - http://rastasoft.org Alex "Smilzo" Gnoli - http://sfrajone.org goto10 would like to thank the Digital Research Unit of Huddersfield for for their help and support during the take off of this project. goto10 would also like to thank jaromil for providing such a lovely modular system and for keeping on pointing the way out of babylon ;) :* From tim at klingt.org Sun Dec 10 05:23:56 2006 From: tim at klingt.org (Tim Blechmann) Date: Mon Dec 11 04:46:56 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ann] pnpd-0.00.2 Message-ID: <1165746236.9239.13.camel@localhost> hi all, (sorry for cross-posting) i'd like to announce the first release of pnpd, that's actually usable for audio synthesis. as i was able to use it in a concert last week, i consider it as reasonably stable, however, it's still in an early stage of development. pnpd is a new computer music system. it's based on a dataflow syntax, that is closely related to pd or max/msp, although it introduces some new concepts. at the moment, it doesn't contain a graphic user interface, but a text-based patcher language. it can be controlled via osc and support audio i/o via portaudio, the dsp backend is highly optimized for performance, especially for cpus supporting sse instructions. at the moment, it's not documented very well, however, there are a few test patches to describe the patcher language. the basic procedure is writing a patcher file, compiling it into the xml file for pnpd an loading that into the command line interpreter. it's still alpha software, but it's important that it's getting used to find bugs/problems. website: https://tim.klingt.org/pnpd mailinglist: https://tim.klingt.org/pnpd/community/pnpd-dev-list tarball: https://tim.klingt.org/pnpd/download/releases/pnpd-0.00.2.tar.bz2 atm, it's only tested under linux, but it shouldn't be hard, to port it to windos or osx. cheers ... tim -- tim@klingt.org ICQ: 96771783 http://www.mokabar.tk You can play a shoestring if you're sincere John Coltrane -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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You can visually prototype standalone apps (or audio plugins): Edit audio networks with NetworkEditor, then edit its UI using Qt Designer and CLAM widgets plugins. Finally, Prototyper let you run the audio network with its UI. This is better shown in this quick tutorial: http://iua-share.upf.es/wikis/clam/index.php/Network_Editor_tutorial This release comes with many new processings, mostly spectral transformations. But we want to highlight the tonal-analysis which does chords identification at real-time, and its related visualizations. This code is based on the work done by researchers at Queen Mary University (London) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). More credits are in the About box. These and many other improvements can be found in the ChangeLog: http://clam.iua.upf.edu/ChangeLog.txt This release brings new packages for Linux (Debian sid, Ubuntu edgy) and Windows installers. In Linux, you can simply add new sources to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://clam.iua.upf.edu/download/linux-debian-sid ./ deb http://clam.iua.upf.edu/download/linux-ubuntu-edgly ./ Both Linux and Windows comes with desktop integration and several examples ready to use. Mac OSX packages will be catching up next weeks. Bug reports and any feedback is very welcomed (and needed). The CLAM team -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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What is Ecasound? -------------------- Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode user-interface is included in the package. Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can also be run on many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris. Limited support for Windows is available through Cygwin. Ecasound is licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licensed under the LGPL. 3. Changes since last release ----------------------------- * Full read/write support for flac files with support for seeking. Requires libsndfile 1.0.12 or newer. * Some bugs in setting the ecasound return value have been fixed. Ecasound now properly signals errors like insufficient write permissions, or running out of storage space during processing, via non-zero return values. The possible return values are now also documented in ecasound(1). * A new debugging mechanism controlled by ECASOUND_LOGFILE and ECASOUND_LOGLEVEL environment variables. This is meant especially for debugging ECI applications, and scripted uses of ecasound. You can test this for instance by issuing: sh> ECASOUND_LOGLEVEL=ecalog.txt ecaplay *.wav And look at 'ecalog.txt' afterwards. This mechanism for ECI debugging really should have been there from the start. See ecasound(1) for more details. * A set of new audio operators have been added for channel routing/mixing: -chcopy (alias for -erc), -chmove, -chmute and -chmix (alias for -erm). See the full documentation in ecasound(1). * The in-tree sources for readline-4.0 have been removed from the package. Originally, some time around 1999, readline was included to the package due to numerous problems with Linux distros of the time that came with old versions of readline. This however no longer is the case. Nowadays, pretty much all non-ancient systems have at least readline-4.0, and most have already readline-5.0. Ancient machines are however still supported. To this end, ecasound now provides an option to compile with readline disabled. * Various bugfixes including: severe memory handling error in ECI C implementation, bugs in processing 24/32bit big-endian audio files, problems with interactive mode commands operating on controllers, handling loop devices when saving chainsetup state, batch processing of setups with mp3/ogg/flac/aac outputs, build errors on cygwin, ... * Sourceforge.net bug items affected: #1415814, #1531042, #1456510 Full list of changes is available at: - http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php 4. Interface and configuration file changes ------------------------------------------- None in this release. 5. Contributors to this release ------------------------------- Patches - Accepted code, documentation and build system changes * Stuart Allie (2) Segfaults in processing 'ctrlp-*' commands. Problem in saving chainsetups with loop devices. * Pedro Antonio Fructuoso Merino (2) Patch to fix segfault when parsing escaped user input. Patch to fix audible glitches from loop devices when seeking. * Aaron Heller (1) Patch to fix bugs in big-endian support. * Chris Head (1) Patch to ecasignalview build errors on cygwin. Bug Hunting - Reports that led to bugfixes (items closed) * Zrajm Akfohg (1) Bug in ecasound process return values. * Florian Ladstaedter (1) Invalid headers in created flac files. * Pedro Antonio Fructuoso Merino (1) Seg.fault when removing loop devices. * Koen (kbr at patat dot .org) (1) Segfault when parsing escaped user input. * Kurt Konolige (1) Bug with 'rw 0'. * Brad Bowman, Stuart Allie, Joel Roth (1) Severe memory handling bug in libecasoundc (ECI C API) 6. Links and files ------------------ Web site (and mirrors): http://eca.cx (fi) http://ecasound.seul.org (us) http://ecasound.sourceforge.net (us) Source packages: http://ecasound.seul.org/download http://ecasound.seul.org/download/ecasound-2.4.5.tar.gz md5sum: b5a4f39245e505941f26c5c2c3b80e1c List of distributions with maintained Ecasound support: See http://eca.cx/ecasound/download.php -- links, my public keys, etc at http://eca.cx/kv From stefan_nitschke at hotmail.com Sun Dec 24 09:34:38 2006 From: stefan_nitschke at hotmail.com (Stefan Nitschke) Date: Sun Dec 24 15:51:38 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] rtsynth 1.9.5 alsa+jack (x86 binaries only) Message-ID: I am happy that i can announce a new version of RTSynth for both ALSA and jack available at www.linux-sound.org/rtsynth Please note: This is (as usual) a binary distribution for x86 systems only. Recent changes: - Fixed a bug with real time scheduling on newer Linux kernels (2.6.x). - Jack version: Added support for dynamically loadable jack driver module. Full source code of the module is provided. - Added new command line option "-p" or "--polyvoice". If this option is given RTSynth will use 3 oscillator/filter units per midi note. This results in somewhat smoother but not necessarily better sounds. merry Xmas, Stefan _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.com/ From k.s.matheussen at notam02.no Fri Dec 22 04:44:10 2006 From: k.s.matheussen at notam02.no (Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen) Date: Sun Dec 24 15:51:41 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] das_watchdog V0.2.5 and jack_capture V0.9.3 Message-ID: Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/ das_watchdog 0.2.5 ================== Whenever a program locks up the machine, das_watchdog will temporarily sets all realtime process to non-realtime for 8 seconds. You will get an xmessage window up on the screen whenever that happens. Changes 0.2.4->0.2.5 -------------------- *Let the test thread run with SCHED_FIFO priority using the lowest priority. Should hopefully stop all the unnecessary reports. (This change has been tested quite thoroughly) jack_capture v0.9.3 =================== jack_capture is a program for recording soundfiles with jack. Its default operation is to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file. This is the program I always wanted to have for jack, but no one made. So here it is. Note: Anyone using 0.9.2 should upgrade to 0.9.3! 0.9.2 will most likely hang during startup. :-( (I'm going to start testing my software before releasing from now on, this one was very embarrasing.) Distros: If there is a system for doing so, you should mark 0.9.2 as unusable. Changes 0.3.9 -> 0.9.3 ----------------------- *Fixed horrible deadlock in 0.9.2. Bug found by Ken Restivo. *Fix for a potensional deadlock. *Added the --silent/-s argument. *Some smaller fixes. *If recording to wav (the default) and the the 4GB limitation is reached, automatically close the file and continue writing to a new file with an autogenerated name. *Added the --version/-v argument. *Changed default number of zeros in the autogenerated filename to 1. *Better error output. *Autogenerate code to check if various formats are supported by sndlibfile. *Bumped version up to 0.9. jack_capture should reach a 1.0 state quite soon. *Changed the name of --recording-time to --duration to match -d. From marcospcmusica at gmail.com Tue Dec 26 23:14:10 2006 From: marcospcmusica at gmail.com (Marcos Guglielmetti) Date: Wed Dec 27 07:21:38 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Musix 0.79 released! Message-ID: <200612270514.11001.marcospcmusica@gmail.com> Live-CD download: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu+linux-distros/ututo-e/MusixGNU+Linux-0.79b19.iso ? More info:? http://www.musix.org.ar/en/download.html ? Cheers, -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) * Videos, programas y otras cosas en: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ * Reporte de errores a: https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php?title=Problemas-Bugs *IRC: #musix channel on freenode * Torrent Download: https://e.ututo.org.ar/utiles/torrent/MusixGNU-Linux0.59.iso.torrent From nixx2097 at users.sourceforge.net Wed Dec 27 07:17:57 2006 From: nixx2097 at users.sourceforge.net (Nick) Date: Wed Dec 27 07:21:41 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] amSynth 1.2.0 Message-ID: <916253ed0612270417n25f2ae88obb31a1a54d3a1486@mail.gmail.com> amSynth version 1.2.0 is now available! Changes in this release: ----------------------------------- + nicer graphics (including new knob graphics) + fixed crash upon startup on some machines + handle all notes off midi message + new about dialog + improved per-user installation process http://downloads.sourceforge.net/amsynthe/amSynth-1.2.0.tar.gz /nixx From timj at gtk.org Wed Dec 27 19:37:33 2006 From: timj at gtk.org (Tim Janik) Date: Fri Dec 29 17:26:36 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.1 Message-ID: BEAST/BSE version 0.7.1 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.1 are available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.7/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/ Amongst other things, this release fixes a security vulnerability that was discovered in artswrapper earlier this year, details: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2916 An upgrade from earlier BEAST versions is highly recommended. This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. BSE-ALSA is an ALSA driver for BSE. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org The "Bedevilled" portion of the names has no religious background, refer to the About page for more details: http://beast.gtk.org/about A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as screenshots can be found at: http://beast.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots/index.html The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in online forums like the Beast Help Desk, Beast Bugzilla or the mailing list, all of which can be reached through http://beast.gtk.org/. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.1: * Fixed SUID security vulnerability by validating success of seteuid/setreuid, related security advisories, describing the vulnerability: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2916 # artswrapper http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4447 # X.Org * Added factor 2 SSE-optimized up/down resampler [Stefan Westerfeld] * Added support for varying musical tuning systems: - 12-TET, 7-TET, 5-TET, - Diatonic-Scale, Indian-Scale, Pythagorean-Tuning, - Pentatonic-5-Limit, Pentatonic-Blues, Pentatonic-Gogo, - Quarter-Comma-Meantone, Silbermann-Sorge, - Werckmeister-3, Werckmeister-4, Werckmeister-5, Werckmeister-6, Kirnberger-3 and Young [Hanno Behrens, Tim Janik] * Module changes and additions: Quantizer - Simulate 1-32 Bit quantization effects DavXTalStrings - Added semitone transposition function [Stefan Westerfeld] DavOrgan - Added semitone transposition function [Stefan Westerfeld] Summation - Added difference channel [Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld] * Fixed exported symbol set to simplify external plugin building * Improved startup time by linking multiple plugins into a single library * Fixed LADSPA plugin loading to bind symbols only locally * Reduced debugging spew for LADSPA plugins * Fixed WWW browser launching to cope with launcher script errors * Improved performance of floating point block operations * Extended test suite and overall test coverage * Applied miscellaneous accelerator and cosmetic fixes * Improved documentation and label strings * Fixed library dependencies in bse.pc * Fixed tact numbers in TrackRoll #346916 [Stefan Westerfeld] * Fixed all reported beast crashes: #340437 #347319 * Other bug fixes: #364041 #386862 #387364 #336366 #353135 #353442 * Fixes for gcc-3.3 and GNU/kFreeBSD * Updated Italian translation [Petrecca Michele] Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.1: * Fixes to adapt to BEAST-0.7.1 --- ciaoTJ From sts at media.aau.dk Thu Dec 28 12:12:24 2006 From: sts at media.aau.dk (Stefania) Date: Fri Dec 29 17:26:53 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ICMC 2007 Message-ID: <20061228171326.CB2A7706C5@mail.imi.aau.dk> Apologies for cross-posting. ------------------------------------------------------------ ICMC 2007 - Immersed music International Computer Music Conference Aug. 27-Sept.1, 2007. Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.icmc2007.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Submission deadlines: April 30th, 2007. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We are pleased to announce the general call for submission to the International Computer Music Conference 2007, which will take place at Holmen Island in Copenhagen starting Monday, August 27 and ending Saturday, September 1st, 2007. We invite original contributions in all areas of the computer music field in a number of formats. We are also open to any proposal, and encourage all submissions, including those that do not fit the categories below. * Call for music, video, and installations (deadline April 30th, 2007) * Call for papers, posters, and demonstrations (deadline April 30th, 2007) * Call for panels, workshops and special events (deadline April 30th, 2007) * Call for exhibitors (deadline June 1st, 2007) For further information please visit the website www.icmc2007.net We are looking forward to your contributions! The ICMC 2007 Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/attachments/20061228/a218be59/attachment.html