From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu  Fri Feb  3 00:19:20 2006
From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (Kjetil S. Matheussen)
Date: Fri Feb  3 08:34:01 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] jack_capture v0.2.0 (Re: [ANN]
	jack_capture v0.0.1)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511250032270.1055@ttleush.stanford.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511250032270.1055@ttleush.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602022117280.1142@ttleush.stanford.edu>



http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/


CHANGES
0.1.1 -> 0.2.0:
  *Automatically disconnect and connect ports while program is running.
   Previously, the
   connections where only set up when the program started.
  *Added make install.
  *Various smaller changes.



On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:

>
> http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/
>
>
>
> ABOUT
> -----
> jack_capture is a small simple program 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.
>
>
>
> USAGE
> -----
> jack_capture [-f filename] [ -b bitdepth ] [-c channels] [ -B bufsize ]
>
> Filename is by default auotogenerated to something like 
> "jack_capture_<date+exact_time>.wav"
> Bitdepth is by default FLOAT.
> Channels is by default 2.
> Bufsize is by default 262144.
>
>
>
>
> ACKNOWLEDGMENT
> --------------
> Mostly based on the jackrec program in the jack distribution
> made by Paul Davies and Jack O'Quin. Automatic filename generation
> code taken from the timemachine program by Steve Harries.
>
>
>
>
>
From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu  Fri Feb  3 18:51:03 2006
From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (Kjetil S. Matheussen)
Date: Sun Feb  5 06:28:20 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] jack_capture v0.2.1
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602022117280.1142@ttleush.stanford.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511250032270.1055@ttleush.stanford.edu>
	<Pine.LNX.4.61.0602022117280.1142@ttleush.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602031549380.1142@ttleush.stanford.edu>


Cesare Marilungo wrote:
> line 371:
> char *optstring = "d:c:b:B:h";
>
> 'd' should have been 'f'. Sorry, I already found this when got v0.1.1
> and forgot to write you. :-)


Thanks! New version is up at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/


0.2.0 -> 0.2.1:
  * Removed optional -f argument (that didn't work anyway) for setting the
    filename. Usage for program is now:
    "jack_capture [ -b bitdepth ] [-c channels] [ -B bufsize ] [filename]"
    Thanks to Cesare Marilungo for pointing out the bug.
  * Sound filename is also printed to the screen.



From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu  Sun Feb  5 17:56:01 2006
From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (Kjetil S. Matheussen)
Date: Tue Feb  7 09:02:36 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] jack_capture v0.2.2
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602031549380.1142@ttleush.stanford.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511250032270.1055@ttleush.stanford.edu>
	<Pine.LNX.4.61.0602022117280.1142@ttleush.stanford.edu>
	<Pine.LNX.4.61.0602031549380.1142@ttleush.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602051453100.1149@ttleush.stanford.edu>


(Sorry for all the double-postings. I have no idea why that happens.)

ABOUT
-----
jack_capture is a small simple program 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.


CHANGES
-------
0.2.1 -> 0.2.2:
  *Only connect/disconnect ports if its necessary. This puts less stress on the jack system
   and avoids possible never ending connect/reconnecting loops.
  *Replaced the timemachine-way of automatically setting filename by a much simpler one. Now the
   autogenerated filename is just jack_capture_<n>.wav: jack_capture_1.wav, jack_capture_2.wav,
   jack_capture_3.wav and so on.
  *If jack is shut down during recording, stop the recording properly.
  *Various smaller changes.


http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetism/src/



From parumi at iua.upf.es  Thu Feb  9 08:02:12 2006
From: parumi at iua.upf.es (Pau Arumi)
Date: Sat Feb 11 16:39:23 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] CLAM 0.90 Released
Message-ID: <43EB3D54.3010802@iua.upf.es>


  Wed Feb 8 2006   CLAM 0.90 Released
======================================

?New multiplied build-system, fancy applications and inter-
  connectivity'

     What is CLAM?
     CLAM is a framework for research and application development
     in the Audio and Music Domain. It offers a conceptual model
     as well as tools for the analysis, synthesis and processing
     of audio signals.


We are glad to announce that our new 0.90 release is already
available at our (also brand new) website: http://clam.iua.upf.edu.
This release represents a big step forward to our soon to come
first stable 1.0 release and includes major improvements.

For the first time the CLAM framework and all related applications
are available in binary form for all major platforms: deb packages
are provided for Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux, dmg images for Mac OSX
and setup executables for Windows. This change has represented a
complete but necessary (and painful!) rework of our build system,
which is now based on small binary libraries and uses Scons as
the build tool. We expect it to reduce drastically the complexity
of the compilation and installation of clam applications for the
end-user.

Other major improvements include a complete rework of the SMSTools,
application GUI, which is now based on Qt, as well as many
additions to the Annotator app.

A CLAM Network can now also become an Open Sound Control (OSC)
node, opening up the possibility of interconnection to external
applications. In the 'Application Prototyping' chapter we'd like
to mention that we have also added complete tools to create both
VST and LADSPA plugins out of a previously designed network.
It is also worth noticing the possibility of creating stand-alone
applications with a GUI created using the great Qt-designer and
the CLAM Qt-plugins. Such standalone applications can behave
either as a Jack client (for GNU/Linux and Mac OSX) or use audio
backends like alsa or Portaudio.

Please read these and other improvements in the attached changelog
and visit our website and/our mailing list for further announcements.

Although we are continuing to work toward the 1.0 release and we
expect to come up with new improvements soon, we hope all these
additions already convert the framework into a more usable and
useful tool and, as always, we expect as much feedback as possible
from all our users.


The CLAM team



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                                CLAM ChangeLog

2006-02-07 CLAM_0_90_0

  'New multiplatform build-system, fancy applications and interconnectivity'

     * Building and packaging
          + New build system based on scons
          + Binary libraries
          + Standard library installation
          + CLAM applications just link against the libraries
          + CLAM and all provided applications are working multiplatform
            (Linux/MacOSX/Windows)
          + Easy to use installers for MacOSX, Windows and Linux (Debian)
          + Ported to g++ 4.0
     * Rappid prototyping infrastructure
          + New external-generators/sinks and
            external-control-senders/receiver classes.
               o They glue specific architecture (jack, portaudio,
                 ladspa, vst) ports with a clam network.
     * New hierarchy of network-players classes, with these (final)
       classes:
          + JACKNetworkPlayer,
          + PortAudioNetworkPlayer,
          + BlockingNetworkPlayer,
     * LADSPA Plugins (Linux): A generic plugin that embeds a network can be 
	easily created by just providing the path to a valid network xml file.
     * VST Plugins (Mac/Windows): A generic plugin that embeds a network can be 
	easily created by just providing the path to a valid network xml file.
     * OSC (Open Sound Control): A network (for instance from the Network Editor) 
	can now send an receive OSC messages and interconnect to other applications 
	that follow this protocol.
     * MIDI files
          + New classes to read/write standard MIDI files
     * Qt Visualization Module
          + Support for multidisplay plots.
          + BPFEditor: multiple BPF allowed
          + Faster rendering of plots using buffered pixmaps
     * QtSMSTools2: New! A total rewrite of SMSTools2 GUI using the Qt
       toolkit.
          + Multidisplay implementation sharing common axis
               o Spectrogram (Color,Black&White)
               o Improved player: audio and fundamental frequency
               o More suitable dialogs to configure projects
     * NetworkEditor
          + New callback audio-driving mode. This allow different modes
            (specified as command line options)
               o Jack client mode (not in Windows)
               o PortAudio mode
               o Blocking mode
     * Annotator
          + New segment editor:
               o Different annotation restrictions depending on the
                 schema. Right now:
                    # Continuous segmentation (no gap)
                    # Discontinous segmentation (gaps but not overlaps)
               o Consistent dragging
               o Tooltips are faster to appear
               o Tooltips say just the position of the hovered element
                 instead the cursor position.
               o Hovering highlights the limit
          + Optimizations on the song switching and on the display
          + Inserting and removing segments now has its reflexion on the
            pool
          + Playing the wav and the auralization on different channels.
          + Description schema browser
          + Now, viable projects can be built from the interface
    * Spectral Analysis Synthesis
          + FFTOoura:
                o By defining a compilation flag, FFTOoura can be choosen 
		instead of fftw by default
                o FFTOoura is now also implemented in the inverse FFT process


2005-07-21 CLAM_0_8_0

  'Prototyper with streaming SMS transformations'

     * SMS Transformations on the network editor:
          + All SMS Transformations have been refactored in order to work
            in streaming mode and not only in offline mode.
     * New Prototyping way:
          + Prototyper: Allows to bind a Qt desinger interface to a
            Network XML definition so you can have an CLAM GUI
            application up an running without a single line of code.
            Current features:
               o It uses the widget names and classes to Automagically
                 relate widgets to processings, ports and controls.
               o Binds sliders, knobs and so to in-controls on the
                 network
               o Binds monitoring plots to out-ports on the network
               o Binds buttons to play/stop actions on the network
     * QtPlots add-ons:
          + Editable segmentation marks on all the plots
          + QtSpectrogram:
               o Plot to view sonogram (Color/B&W)
          + BPFEditor:
               o Editable/auralizable plot (Audio and MIDI support)
     * Compiler compatibility:
          + CLAM and its applications now compiles in GNU g++3.4 (as well
            as 3.3)
     * Audio file I/O facilities:
          + MP3 I/O: Bug fixed: that prevented XING headers from being
            used to compute duration
          + MP3 I/O: Bug fixed in conversion from milliseconds to seconds
          + Vorbis I/O: Feature addition: now the # of samples is
            computed for Vorbis bitstreams
     * Memory leak review:
          + FFT internal buffer was not freed on destruction
     * XML related changes:
          + Now XmlStorage::Dump does indentation by default. A new
            optional parameter disables indentation.
          + XercesC 2.6 is required in order to pass the tests and be
            memory leak free (even 2.3 should be enough to compile and
            run CLAM).
          + XML Storage Error Handling (This solves issue #0000022):
               o Catchable CLAM::XmlStorageErr excepetions are thrown
                 whenever:
                    # I/O error happens
                    # Malformed XML is readed
                    # Read elements or contents does not match with CLAM
                      objects structure
                    # CLAM objects detect some semantic constraints.
          + XPath (like) navigation (This solves issue #0000045):
               o The implementation of XmlStorage::Select allows using:
                    # XmlStorage::AppendToDocument(object, path,
                      filename)
                    # XmlStorage::RestoreFromFragment(object, path,
                      istream)
                    # Using atomic primitives for doing some similar
                      hacks like writing fragments of the XML for an
                      object to disk.
          + Alternative XML Backends (LibXml++)
               o Unification of the way XmlStorage interfaces the library
                 dependant code.
               o LibXml++ Backend implemented. It is planned to be the
                 default backend on future releases but still some work
                 is needed to get the error messages correctly reported.
     * Network refactoring:
          + Published{In|Out}{Controls|Ports} ->
            {In|Out}{Control|Port}Registry
     * Descriptors:
          + SpectralDescriptors::HighFrequencyCoefficent ->
            HighFrequencyContent as specified by the original literature.
     * Other:
          + ConnectPorts overloaded to connect free ports (that is not
            belonging to any processing, normally used for injecting or
            extracting data)
     * Build System:
          + Changes in order to not abort ./configure script when some
            library is not found (and not specifyed with the
            --without-libname option)

2004-11-18 CLAM_0_7_0

  'Easier deployment, better plots and Processing Networks'

   etc.

From dave at pawfal.org  Fri Feb 10 05:39:15 2006
From: dave at pawfal.org (Dave Griffiths)
Date: Sat Feb 11 16:39:25 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] fastbreeder (a genetic programming synth)
Message-ID: <44359.193.203.82.226.1139567955.squirrel@www.webmail.pawfal.org>

An experimental genetic programming synthesiser. This program is free
software, developed for linux, using jack for audio.

Fastbreeder is essentially a 4 button synth. The idea is to grow code by
choosing from a range of automatically generated variations of functions,
you don't have to know how they work, but each function creates a sound
which can be selected by you. The following generation is then created
containing mutants of your chosen sound. You can refine and develop the
sound just by auditioning and choosing the best one each time.

http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fastbreeder/

For those in the London UK area, I'm doing a short show and tell of this
app at the next dorkbot: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotlondon/

cheers,

dave

From leslie.polzer at gmx.net  Sat Feb 11 06:59:18 2006
From: leslie.polzer at gmx.net (leslie.polzer@gmx.net)
Date: Sat Feb 11 16:39:26 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] JACK Rack 1.4.5rc1 released
Message-ID: <20060211115918.GA31615@wintermute>


JACK Rack 1.4.5rc1 has been released.

JACK Rack is a fast and easy to use serial LADSPA plugin host with
support for MIDI, LASH and, to some extent, LRDF.

Changes:
 * JACK connection loss now employs automatic reconnect
 * widgets controlled via MIDI now get all their channels updated
 * added french translation
 * applied patch from Mark Vitek that supports the latest LASH API
 * changes
 * corrected MIDI controller numbering (reported by James Stone)
 * internal: introduced flexible status and error handlers

You can get it at
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jack-rack/jack-rack-1.4.5rc1.tar.gz?download

Please test this release candidate as it may still contain some
small quirks.

  Thank you!

    Leslie


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From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu  Sun Feb 12 23:46:08 2006
From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (Kjetil S. Matheussen)
Date: Sat Feb 18 04:11:36 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] das_watchdog 0.0.1 and jack_capture
	v0.2.3
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602122040070.1815@ttleush.stanford.edu>



Download from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/


Das_Watchdog
============

ABOUT
-----
Das_Watchdog is a program heavily and shamefully inspired by the 
rt_watchdog program made by Florian Schmidt: 
http://tapas.affenbande.org/?page_id=38

However, this one has some improvements:

1. It works with 2.4 kernels as well as 2.6. (well, at least I think it
    works with 2.6...)
2. Instead of permanently setting all realtime processes to run
    non-realtime, das_watchdog only sets them temporary.
3. When the watchdog kicks in, an X window should pop up that tells you
    whats happening. (just close it after reading the message).


INSTALLING
----------
make
cp das_watchdog /usr/local/sbin/
echo '/usr/local/sbin/das_watchdog & >/dev/null' >>/etc/rc.local
reboot


REQUIREMENTS
------------
tcl/tk. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(computing))




Jack_capture
============

ABOUT
-----
jack_capture is a small simple program 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.

CHANGES
-------
0.2.2 -> 0.2.3:
  *Added -z argument that choose number of leading zeros.
  *Various changes.


From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu  Wed Feb 15 21:12:39 2006
From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (Kjetil S. Matheussen)
Date: Sat Feb 18 04:11:38 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] das_watchdog 0.1.2
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602131705170.1223@ttleush.stanford.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602131705170.1223@ttleush.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602151750330.1148@ttleush.stanford.edu>



Sorry for all the announcements. I think I got it right now. ;-)


I have fixed up the compilation problems, corrected the DISPLAY 
environment variable, and let both the program and makefile give
warning/error if the softirq-timer/0 or ksoftirqd/0 processes aren't 
set to have highest priority.

It might still not work, but at least you get a message about /why/ it 
doesn't work, and what you can do to fix it.

(Running "chrt -f -p 99 `ps -A |grep softirq-timer/0 |awk '{print $1}'`"
for all processors (change the "0" in "softirq-timer/0" for each 
additional processor) is probably a good tip to make it work.)



REQUIREMENTS
------------
xmessage (should be a part of X11)
libgtop2 (should be a part gnome. No, das_watchdog is not a gnome-program.)



CHANGES
-------
0.1.0->0.1.2
* Added check for the ksoftrqd/0 process as well as the softirq-timer/0 process.
* Added check for SCHED_OTHER of the timing process as well as priority.
* Removed debug-printing.
* Added extensive checks both when compiling and when running about the
   priority of the "softirq-timer/0" process:
   - ***If "softirq-timer/0" is not set to a very high priority (99), the
        watchdog most probably will not work.***
   - The default priority for softirq-timer/0 seems to be 1. However, for
     real time work, it must be set higher to get reliable timing. Set it
     to 99.
   - If softirq-timer/0 is set to less than 99, das_watchdog will refuse to
     compile unless you force it to by editing the makefile. When running
     das_watchdog, it will only give a warning if the priority is set too
     low.
* Changed the DISPLAY environment variable to ":0.0" instead of
   "localhost:0.0". Seems to work for everyone now.
* Switched from libgtop to libgtop2.



Download from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/


From cannam at all-day-breakfast.com  Tue Feb 14 03:43:23 2006
From: cannam at all-day-breakfast.com (Chris Cannam)
Date: Sat Feb 18 04:12:09 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden-4 1.2.3 released
Message-ID: <200602140843.23884.cannam@all-day-breakfast.com>

The Rosegarden team are delighted to announce the release of version
1.2.3 of Rosegarden 4, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical
notation editor for Linux.

Rosegarden is among the largest and most insanely ambitious Linux
music software projects, and is the only Linux application to offer
full composition and recording capabilities to musicians who prefer to
use classical notation.

? ?http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

The long-awaited 1.2.3 release of Rosegarden-4 offers a variety of new
features, bug fixes and enhancements. ?These include:

?* The main segment canvas has been rewritten and is now faster, more
? ?responsive, more accurate, and marginally prettier than before.
? ?(This work proved much more complex than hoped, and accounts for
? ?much of the time spent since the 1.0 release a year ago.)

?* A new percussion matrix editor has been added. ?MIDI devices can
? ?have user-configurable percussion key maps, stored in the same
? ?device files as bank and program definitions. ?Users are invited to
? ?contribute their own.

?* Multi-track audio recording and simultaneous recording of audio and
? ?MIDI are now supported.

?* A "project packager" has been introduced and integrated,
? ?facilitating the exchange of complete Rosegarden projects including
? ?associated audio data and any other required files.

?* The Lilypond export function has been updated for Lilypond 2.6 and
? ?features a new Preview mode.

?* You can now control Rosegarden's mixer and other twiddly bits using
? ?an external MIDI controller device such as the Behringer BCF2000.

?* Rosegarden is now capable of synchronising to MIDI Time Code in
? ?master and slave modes (thanks to Vince Negri). ?MMC master and
? ?slave are also now supported.
? ?
?* Rosegarden's ALSA MIDI ports can now be connected and controlled
? ?using an external ALSA connection manager such as qjackctl (thanks
? ?to Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas).

?* The default sequencer timer selection should be better behaved than
? ?in 1.0 (eliminating the dreaded "Rosegarden only plays the first
? ?note" problem).

?* Effects plugins can now be applied to groups of audio instruments
? ?at the buss stage.
?
?* Many new icons and improved versions of old icons have been added
? ?(thanks to Vladimir Savic).

?* The build system now uses scons instead of autotools.

This release also sees hundreds of bug fixes, including fixes to some
long-standing issues with DSSI plugin support, JACK transport
synchronisation, and punch-in recording.

For more information about Rosegarden and what it can do for you,
please see

? ?http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

Rosegarden is Free Software under the GNU General Public License.
From capocasa at gmx.net  Wed Feb 15 00:20:36 2006
From: capocasa at gmx.net (Carlo Capocasa)
Date: Sat Feb 18 04:12:11 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [Ann] Shelljam 0.0.2 MIDI keyboard
Message-ID: <43F2BA24.4020505@gmx.net>

Hi,

Announcing Shelljam version 0.0.2. Shelljam is a way of playing
electronic music live using standard computer hardware. It is
implemented using fast portable libraries.

It is designed to be suitable for live performance and studio work.

http://shelljam.sourceforge.net

Carlo

From jlittler at mstation.org  Wed Feb 15 06:08:51 2006
From: jlittler at mstation.org (John Littler)
Date: Sat Feb 18 04:12:13 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Bleepfest: London, UK
Message-ID: <03EF3167-18B0-4779-A4D4-31BCC5B4F0FC@mstation.org>

Hi All,
I don't know how many of you are in or near London,
England but we're having an event called Bleepfest in the
crypt of Christchurch Spitalfields near Spitalfields Market.

Here's the promo ... as a general note,

What: Computer and electronic music demo day

When: March 25th from 5 PM to 10 PM (these hours might increase)

Where: London! Christchurch Spitalfields Crypt, by the market a few  
minutes
from Liverpool St Station

Who: musicians, bedroom or serious, boppers, thinkers, listeners

Music Genres: unlimited!

entry: UK2

Bleepfest 06 will be a part-day and night event that will be like the
Demos of old and where people can have the option to display what
they're doing "off stage" to small groups around them or to plug into
the PA and be an "event". Events will have time spaces between them so
that everybody else isn't drowned out.

The object is to attract people who like to play with music as well as
people who are quite serious about it. The object is also to create a
fun and friendly environment where people can wander around and get new
ideas.

While the event is operating system agnostic, and there are Linux people
already signed up to come along, it would be nice to have more, and
in particular if people want to run advocacy tables or whatever, that
would be most welcome. The only charge will be the small entry fee.

for more info:
http://mstation.org/bleepfest
or email me

Cheers
John

From fredg at salemradiolabs.com  Wed Feb 15 15:29:05 2006
From: fredg at salemradiolabs.com (Fred Gleason)
Date: Sat Feb 18 04:12:14 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.66
Message-ID: <200602151529.06369.fredg@salemradiolabs.com>

I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v0.9.66.   Rivendell is a 
full-featured Radio Automation System that is available under the GNU General 
Public License.  From the NEWS file:

*** snip snip ***
Changes:
   CD Ripper Enhancements.  Major enhancements have been made to the
   CD ripper functionality in the RDLibrary module, including:

      CD-TEXT Support. The rippers now use CD-TEXT data in
      preference to the FreeDB.  If no CD-TEXT data is found on a
      disk, then the FreeDB is searched as before.

      International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) Support.  If
      found, the rippers will now record the ISRC string from each
      track.  These strings can be viewed and/or edited in the
      'CutInfo/Record' dialog box.

      Automatic Cart/Cut Generation.  In the Full Disk ripper, it's
      now possible to rip an entire CD into the system with just a few
      mouse clicks.  This can be done on a track-by-track basis by
      clicking the 'Add New Cart' button in the Select Cut dialog, or
      for all the tracks at once by clicking the 'Set All New Carts'
      button.

   New Build Targets.  It's now possible to build Rivendell as a 
   Slackware package by doing 'make slack' (requires the Slackware
   packaging tools) or as a SLAX module by doing 'make slax' (requires
   the Linux-live scripts and the Slackware packaging tools).

   RDCatch Enhancements.  The previous hard-coded system-wide limit of
   16 RDCatch decks has been removed, making it possible to configure
   and use an arbitrarily large number of decks.

   Miscellaneous Bugfixes.  See the ChangeLog.

Library Versions:
   This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.96.1 and
   librhpi-0.94.5 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:
   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, including download links can be found at:

        http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/

Cheers!


|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development  |
|                           |             Salem Radio Labs                |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                 Focus on the dream, not the competition.                |
|                                           -- Nemesis Racing Team motto  |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu  Mon Feb 20 16:36:41 2006
From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (Kjetil S. Matheussen)
Date: Tue Feb 21 21:22:58 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] E-Radium V0.61e and Das_Watchdog V0.2.0
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602201325140.1232@ttleush.stanford.edu>



Download from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/


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E-radium
--------
E-radium is Radium and a special version of E-UAE (with support for 
realtime scheduling and alsa midi). Radium is a unique type of music
event editor made to be efficient and give all sorts of possibilities. 
The user interface is inspired by trackers, but Radium is generally a lot 
more versatile and can be used for all kind of genres. 
http://www.notam02.no/radium/

Warning: E-radium does not seem to work on 64bit machines. :-(

Changes 0.61d->0.61e
--------------------
-Run XInitThreads(). Should fix e-radium in case you got xlib async
  errors. (Fix for SMP machines)


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Das_Watchdog
------------
Das_Watchdog is a general watchdog for the linux operating system that
should be run in the background at all times to ensure a realtime process
won't hang the machine.

Changes 0.1.2->0.2.0
---------------------
* Don't do anything if no process priorities are changed, when
   watchdogging.
* Added the --force option, that sets the priority of all timer processes
   to FIFO/99.
* Added the das_watchdog /etc/init.d script provided by Stefan Kersten.
   (das_watchdog.rc)
* Added the --verbose option.
* Check that its the same process when setting back old priority.
* Don't set back to old priority if the priority has been changed in the
   mean time.
* Added options for setting increasetime, checktime and waittime.
   (--increasetime, --checktime and --waittime)
* Don't change the priority of any timer process when watchdogging.
* Smaller code cleanups.


From darkpeak at gmail.com  Tue Feb 21 09:25:49 2006
From: darkpeak at gmail.com (jake harries)
Date: Tue Feb 21 21:23:01 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] FW: l.o.s.s - open source sound project
Message-ID: <24da7d060602210625m57e1843y6490a623f4e431fd@mail.gmail.com>

----Original Message-----
From: Ed Carter <ed@lowtech.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list SONICARTSNET
<sonicartsnet@sheffield.ac.uk>
Sent: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:40:19 GMT
Subject: l.o.s.s - open source sound project

 [Apologies for cross-posting, please circulate where appropriate.]

 http://loss.access-space.org

 The l.o.s.s project promotes and supports the use of free, open source
music software, in conjunction with Creative Commons (CC) licensing
which accepts and encourages sharing.

 As well as a CD of curated work (also available for free download),
the project's online presence is intended to become a focal point for
artists working with open source software, and releasing their work
through CC licenses. Please visit the website for details of how to
contribute tracks.

 The aim of the project was not to portray any kind of 'open source'
sound, but to offer an array of some of the interesting work people are
creating with what is available. The result is an incredibly diverse
compilation of internationally renowned artists, encompassing
electronica, soundscapes, hiphop and electro-acoustic amongst other
styles.

 Contributions for the CD include work by Nullpointer, Ava, Edge
Effect, Jake Harries, Collective Motion, Panayiotis Kokoras, DJ Auto,
Chaos Butterfly, Slub, Minimal Turntablist Crew and Elektronengehirn.

 Even the artwork was produced using open source techniques by Matt
Gray (Ava), and the album was mastered at Mirror Image Studios in
Minneapolis, again, using the Linux operating system and libre
software.

 The project is run by the registered charity Access Space, a free
media lab based in Sheffield, promoting open source software and using
recycled hardware.

 More info, and downloads of more open source music, visit:

 http://www.loss.access-space.org



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From daniel at 64studio.com  Wed Feb 22 05:02:29 2006
From: daniel at 64studio.com (Daniel James)
Date: Thu Feb 23 15:20:04 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] 64 Studio and Lionstracs at Sounds Expo 2006
Message-ID: <43FC36B5.6040203@64studio.com>

Hello all,

Linuxaudio.org members 64 Studio and Lionstracs will be exhibiting at
the Sounds Expo trade show in London on the 9-11th March this year:

http://www.sounds-expo.co.uk/

If you'd like to help out with the stand, or just pay us a visit, please 
let me know.

Cheers!

Daniel

From daniel at 64studio.com  Thu Feb 23 10:09:53 2006
From: daniel at 64studio.com (Daniel James)
Date: Thu Feb 23 15:20:07 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] 64 Studio article in Free Software magazine
Message-ID: <43FDD041.9040307@64studio.com>

Hello all,

In issue 10 of Free Software Magazine there is a feature about the 64 
Studio distribution, which includes many audio applications:

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_10/c64_studio_project/

If you are registered on Digg.com, you can digg this article to share it 
with your friends:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Studio_64

Cheers!

Daniel


From dlphillips at woh.rr.com  Sat Feb 25 09:27:08 2006
From: dlphillips at woh.rr.com (Dave Phillips)
Date: Mon Feb 27 17:42:18 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Linux soundapps pages updated
Message-ID: <4400693C.1060902@woh.rr.com>

Greetings:

  And another one hits the information goatpath :

    http://linuxsound.atnet.at   (Europe)

    http://linuxsound.jp   (Japan)

    http://linux-sound.org   (USA)

Best,

dp
From davidrclark at earthlink.net  Sun Feb 26 12:18:32 2006
From: davidrclark at earthlink.net (davidrclark@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Feb 27 17:42:21 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Mic-In-Room Simulator
Message-ID: <E1FDPXT-0003vN-00@pop-knobcone.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Greetings to all,

Announcing grad_Boxster for creating impulse response functions 
(IR's) for rectangular parallelepipeds --- for example concert 
halls modelled as giant boxes --- but using the *gradient* of the 
solution field projected on a direction specified by the user, 
similar to the operation of a pressure-gradient microphone ---  in 
a room.

At the URL below is a link to this package for downloading as well 
as a NON-optimized, alternating demo of grad_Boxster versus 
Boxster (i.e. "ordinary stereo versus binaural" or even "speakers 
versus headphones"): 

http://home.earthlink.net/~davidrclark

grad2_Boxster is also available for simulating second-order mics 
in rooms.  Extending grad_Boxster, the gradient of the first-order 
projection is computed and projected onto a second direction 
specified by the user. 

By combining IR's from Boxster (pressure mic), grad_Boxster 
(first-order mic), and grad2_Boxster (second-order), it should be 
possible to simulate any type of mic setup and combination of 
setups in any room that could be considered to be a box.  Starting 
with dry, monophonic recordings made in a dead room, one should be 
able to simulate very sophisticated mic setups in a concert hall, 
then assemble them into a mix, simulating an ensemble recording, 
all with a physically consistent model.

The demo contrasts simulation of nearly coincident pressure-
gradient mics (grad_Boxster) in a 12,500 m3 concert hall versus 
binaural omni pressure mics (Boxster, no HRTF) in the same hall 
with the same separation between mics for both.  The only 
difference for the first half of the demo is whether or not the 
gradient is computed, yet the sounds are very different both with 
speakers and with headphones (esp. the latter).  In the second 
half, the positions of the guitars are slightly different (maximal 
separation for either).

---------------------------

In short, grad_Boxster can be used to simulate ordinary stereo 
recordings (Blumlein, etc.) in the same manner that Boxster can be 
used for simulating binaural recordings, complete with reverb, echo, 
stereo separation, and so on --- but with physical consistency.  As 
a side effect, both new programs provide other "knobs" for extending 
sample generation capability.  All programs can be run either from 
a PyGtk GUI or from the command line.

Regards to all,
Dave

Dave Clark



From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu  Mon Feb 27 17:05:33 2006
From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (Kjetil S. Matheussen)
Date: Mon Feb 27 17:42:23 2006
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Snd-ls V0.9.5.4 and Das_Watchdog V0.2.1
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602271357360.1506@ttleush.stanford.edu>


Download from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/


Snd-ls v0.9.5.4
================

Contains
--------
Snd v7.15 from 17.8.2005

About
-----
Snd-ls is a distribution of the sound editor Snd. Its target is
people that don't know scheme very well, and don't want
to spend too much time configuring Snd. It can also serve
as a quick introduction to Snd and how it can be set up.

Changes 0.9.5.3 -> 0.9.5.4
--------------------------
-Changed default resampling quality to SRC_SINC_BEST_QUALITY
-Added workaround for shift-handling across various keyboard settings.
  (shortcuts for zoom in and undo works with american keyboards now.)
-Added check for Guile 1.8. Snd-ls crashes with guile 1.8.
  (all versions I have tried of 1.7 seems to work though...)
-Use JackPortIsPhysical instead of "alsa_pcm" when finding jack ports.
-Updated the rt stuff to latest versions.



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Das_Watchdog V0.2.1
===================

About
-----
Das_Watchdog is a general watchdog for the linux operating system that
should be runned in the background at all times to ensure a realtime 
process won't hang the machine.

Changes 0.2.0->0.2.1
--------------------
*Cleaned up source a bit.
*Properly find number of timer processes.
*Added shortcuts for optargs.