From radarsat1 at gmail.com Sat Jul 1 16:46:04 2006 From: radarsat1 at gmail.com (Stephen Sinclair) Date: Sun Jul 2 19:03:46 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] LoopDub version 0.2 released Message-ID: <9b3e2dc20607011346o1499795av23e7f063290cd740@mail.gmail.com> LoopDub is a cross-platform software for live loop manipulation. Currently Linux is mainly supported, though Windows and OS X can compile it with a little work. (Hopefully this will be streamlined by the next version.) It has been far too long that the CVS has had more features than the release version, so without further ado... Changes in this version include: - Program-change for MIDI (see programs.ini.example) - Load "background samples" that can be switched quickly Currently only supported by program-change functionality. - "Switch" button to change to background sample - Compiles, with a little work, on Windows and OS X in addition to Linux - Remembers MIDI settings in ~/.loopdub.midi.conf See "loopdub.midi.conf.example" for details. - Logarithmic sliders! So much better. (Applies to Cutoff & Resonance) - Clicking a folder now sets all filebrowsers to same folder. For more info and download, see: http://loopdub.sf.net From remon at vt.shuis.tudelft.nl Tue Jul 4 15:41:48 2006 From: remon at vt.shuis.tudelft.nl (Remon Sijrier) Date: Thu Jul 6 10:58:16 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Traverso, a multitrack audio recording, editing and mixing program for GNU/Linux Message-ID: <200607042141.48684.remon@vt.shuis.tudelft.nl> The Traverso Team is happy to announce the release of Traverso 0.30.0, a GPL licensed multitrack audio recording and editing program for GNU/Linux. This release is the first in a series towards the final 1.0.0 release. Traverso offers an innovative User Interface concept, with which it tries to differ from other multitrack audio applications and, more importantly, provides a powerfull tool to easy and quickly record or import, edit and mix songs. Website addresses: The source, distribution packages (Debian, Gentoo), or ready to run binaries can be obtained from the Project's website which is hosted on Savannah: Project central development webpage: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/traverso/ Download link: http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=traverso User Interface concept: Traverso uses a contextual interaction interface. Instead of using (only) the mouse to operate on certain objects, the mouse and keyboard are used together to control the program. This results in a higher flexibility to controll the program compared to the 2 or 3 mouse buttons available if the mouse was used alone. The mouse only has to move on an object and all functions become available by pressing a key on the keyboard. This is more efficient and requires less interaction than selecting the object and choosing the function from a menu. Since the object under the mouse cursor is automatically selected, this concept is called "soft selection". It differs also from the more generally known "key shortcuts" which do not operate in a context, or only on "hard selected" objects. To help new users to learn this way of controlling an application, Traverso offers "Contextual Menus", a detailed help file, and a tutorial on the web site. Internals: Traverso is a native Qt program which uses the new Qt 4.1 toolkit. This makes it a lightweight, fast program which is light on system resources. It uses the highly popular libsoundfile and libsamplerate libraries to read/write from/to audio files. Both audio file reads and writes are done with use of lockless ringbuffers to improve real time audio processing behaviour. Both ALSA (native) and Jack are supported, and great care is taken to make the internal sound processing routines Real Time friendly. The audio processing is done with normalized 32 bit floats. See the Changelog for more details. Where to place Traverso: The goal of Traverso is to create an easy, fast to controll and workflow based audio recording and editing application, and certainly isn't supposed to be a second Ardour/Audacity/other ! The interface concept, though not completely unknown, has been taken to a higher level than most applications have done, and as such is an experiment which so far has seen good results! Traverso still lacks a number of features, however major components have been created including un/redo framework, a 100% seperation of Core and GUI, and reasonable solid playback/recording routines, either using native ALSA or Jack which can be switched at runtime. History: Traverso is a fork of the Protux project, and continued on the code base as of September 2005. We hope Traverso will be of any use for you, and we encourage you to use it. We would be very pleased if you give your valuable feedback, so we can make Traverso better than we ever have hoped it would be! The Traverso Team. From lazzaro at eecs.berkeley.edu Mon Jul 3 22:46:23 2006 From: lazzaro at eecs.berkeley.edu (lazzaro) Date: Thu Jul 6 10:58:18 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Sfront 0.90 released Message-ID: <7E3E1995-6178-413D-A87A-F69732E029B8@eecs.berkeley.edu> Hi laa-folk, Announcing the release of sfront 0.90 7/03/06, available for download from: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html For those of you unfamiliar with sfront, here's a short bio: Sfront compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs that generate audio when executed. MP4-SA is a standard for normative algorithmic sound, that combines an audio signal processing language (SAOL) with score languages (SASL, and the legacy MIDI File Format). Under Linux and Mac OS X, sfront supports real-time, low-latency audio input/output, local MIDI input from soundcards, and networked MIDI input using RTP and SIP. A SIP server hosted on the Berkeley campus manages sessions. The documentation includes a book about SAOL programming. The change log for 0.90: [1] Sfront has been relicensed to use the BSD license (without the advertising clause). [2] If the SAOL global parameter interp is set to 1, sfront uses band-limited windowed sinc function interpolation for most normative interpolations defined in the MPEG standard (opcodes such as doscil, oscil, tableread, fracdelay, etc). An exception is the grain() core opcode, which still uses linear interpolation when interp=1. As a convenience, sfront has new command-line options to adjust the interpolation algorithm (-interp, -sinc_zcross, and -sinc_pilen). [3] 64-bit integer arithmetic is now used in the implementation of phase pointers for most core opcodes (the grain() opcode is an exception, grain uses float phase pointers). This change fixes the phase slipping problems reported by Florian Walter. [4] 8-bit and 24-bit WAV and AIFF files are now supported by the sample wavetable generator, and by the -ain fname.{wav,aif} and -aout fname.{wav,aif} drivers. See -aout for output syntax. [5] It is now possible to specify the input channel of a stereo WAV or AIFF file used by the sample wavetable generator, using the "filname.wav@n", when n = 0 or 1. This supports the creation of SAOL sample playback engines that access a database of stereo samples. [6] The network musical performance library has been updated to reflect the final RTP MIDI payload format that will appear in IESG-approved Internet-Drafts, that should appear as IETF RFCs later this year. [7] A few bug fixes. (a) The fir, iir, and reverb core opcodes may now be used as oparrays, fixing a bug reported by Jonathan Beyer. (b) Constant tables defined in the startup instrument no longer cause a run-time crash. (c) Table imports in the startup instrument that would produce a run-time error now generate a warning message, fixing a bug reported by Robert of all-your-bass. --- John Lazzaro http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu --- From nedko at arnaudov.name Wed Jul 5 04:54:45 2006 From: nedko at arnaudov.name (Nedko Arnaudov) Date: Thu Jul 6 10:58:19 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] naconnect was born Message-ID: <38217b280607050154h5ac81ffbr8508ecc0c4394f68@mail.gmail.com> naconnect is, like its inspiration aconnect, an ALSA MIDI sequencer connection manager. However, it uses ncurses instead of simple command line. What it can do in current version: * View current connections, manual refresh. * Disconnect and connect. Arrows are used to select what to connect/disconnect. * Shortcuts are documented on the screen itself. * Don't expect it to run on dummy terminals. Tested so far with xterm and Linux terminal. Screenshot: http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/naconnect/naconnect-r85.png Download: http://nedko.arnaudov.name/soft/naconnect/ From sales at trinityaudiogroup.com Fri Jul 7 00:29:54 2006 From: sales at trinityaudiogroup.com (sales@trinityaudiogroup.com) Date: Fri Jul 14 12:04:00 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Portable Linux DAW Message-ID: <20060706212954.98ea611a88c914ceab43ad6b1595a89e.4a09c487d8.wbe@email.secureserver.net> Hi all, I just wanted to let everyone know that we had our first article written at www.linuxdevices.com about our portable linux DAW. Our website is www.trinityaudiogroup.com. Thank you Ronald Stewart From parumi at iua.upf.edu Tue Jul 11 12:34:08 2006 From: parumi at iua.upf.edu (Pau Arumi) Date: Fri Jul 14 12:04:03 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] CLAM has won the 2006 ACM Open Source Multimedia Contest Message-ID: <44B3D300.9070303@iua.upf.edu> It is our pleasure to announce that CLAM [1] has won the 2006 ACM Open Source Multimedia Contest. CLAM is an open-source C++ framework for doing research and application development in the audio and music domain. It offers a conceptual model for audio systems, a repository of processing algorithms, data types, and tools , as well as applications for analysis, synthesis and processing of audio signals. These features can be exploited to build cross-platform applications or to build rapid prototypes. CLAM is coordinated by Xavier Amatriain at the University of California Santa Barbara but is mostly developed at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain) by a team led by Pau Arumi and David Garcia. CLAM is now being developed thanks to a grant from the STSI at the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya). According to the jury: "CLAM is a remarkably comprehensive system with impressive capabilities". The award will be presented in the forthcoming ACM Multimedia Conference [2]. The ACM Open Source Competition is a prestigious international contest that is now in its third year. Last year, for instance, the award was given to the OpenVidia library for GPU accelerated Computer Vision [3]. This award culminates 5 years of ongoing research and development and the authors wish to thank all the past developers as well as all of our users and people who have given support throughout these years. The CLAM development team. [1] http://www.clam.iua.upf.edu [2] http://www.mmdb.ece.ucsb.edu/acmmm06/ [3] http://openvidia.sourceforge.net/ From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu Tue Jul 11 21:11:57 2006 From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (Kjetil S. Matheussen) Date: Fri Jul 14 12:04:07 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] jack_capture V0.3.1, das_watchdog V0.2.2 and Mammut V0.22 Message-ID: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/ jack_capture ************************************************************************* jack_capture is a small program to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file without having to patch jack connections, fiddle around with fileformats, or set options on the argument line. This is the program I always wanted to have for jack, but no one made. So here it is. Changes 0.2.4 -> 0.3.1: ----------------------- *Reduced CPU usage a lot because of better disk handling. (25% -> 1%) *Make sure the rest of the recorded file is not garbage in case of an overrun. *Added the port argument, which can be specified many times and accepts both input and output port names (including regexp expressions). This makes jack_capture to completely replace jackrec. *Rewrote buffer handling. Silence is now inserted when underruns occure. Previously, the file became shorter than the recording in case of underrun. It can still happen though, but much more seldom, and a warning about that will be printed to the terminal. *Last rests of jackrec code has been rewritten. Well, all the code with substance, at least. *Nicified code a lot. *More efficient way of handling overruns. *Fixed really stupid compilation error. Thanks to Dragan Noveski for spotting it. das_watchdog ************************************************************************* 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 0.2.2->0.2.3 -------------------- *Fixed commandline arguments for increasetime, checktime and waittime. *Nicified source a bit Mammut ************************************************************************* Mammut will FFT your sound in one single gigantic analysis (no windows). These spectral data, where the development in time is incorporated in mysterious ways, may then be transformed by different algorithms prior to resynthesis. An interesting aspect of Mammut is its completely non-intuitive sound transformation approach. Changes 0.21->0.22 ------------------ *Added patch and instructions from Owen Green on how to make mammut compile on OSX. Thanks! (Sorry, I forgot to release this version for almost a year...) From jaromil at dyne.org Thu Jul 13 07:10:37 2006 From: jaromil at dyne.org (jaromil) Date: Fri Jul 14 12:04:10 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] dyne:bolic 2.1 codename DHORUBA Message-ID: <20060713111037.GC27671@dyne.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 annunciazio'! annunciazio'! dyne.org foundation proudly present: 8 8 8 o 8 8 8 .oPYo8 o o odYo. .oPYo. 88 8oPYo. .oPYo. 8 o8 .oPYo. 8 8 8 8 8' `8 8oooo8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 ' 8 8 8 8 8 8 8. 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 . `YooP' `YooP8 8 8 `Yooo' 88 `YooP' `YooP' 8 8 `YooP' :.....::....8 ..::..:.....:..::.....::.....:..:..:.....: :::::::::ooP'.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::...::::::: version 2.1 :: codename DHORUBA :::: 100% FREE MULTIMEDIA GNU/LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM RASTA SOFTWARE FOR THE FREEDOM OF CREATION the complete system is free to download and copy, go on ____ _ http://dynebolic.org _ _____ ___ __ http://dynebolic.org __ ____ __ ___ http://dynebolic.org ___ ___ _ ____ http://dynebolic.org ____ __ ISO CD image of 633 Mbytes :: WHAT IS DYNE:BOLIC ? Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest installation ever! Your older system is untouched and comes back booting without CD. Dyne:bolic is user-friendly: recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, modem, network and USB) and offers a vast range of software for multimedia production: audio and video manipulation, sound composition and synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer2peer filesharing, web browsing, veejaying, desktop publishing, word processing, cd burning, email, encryption, anonymity tools and more. All software is free and there is no market operation behind dyne:bolic, just a communal effort to widen access to modern technology and let people be Free to Create. Dyne:bolic is being developed since more than 5 years and optimized to run also on older machines commonly found in Africa America Asia Europe India and Oceania. It includes code from hundreds of programmers all around the world, with a lively community of artists, teachers and developers who use, distribute and adapt this platform according to their needs and desires. This operating system is a grassroot effort to share independent knowledge, it keeps away from commercial speculations and capitalist corporations, because CREATIONS WANT TO BE FREE. :: EXCLUSIVE RELEASE ON METAMUTE :: http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/Dyne:bolic-2-download-new-exclusive-release :: FOR ACTIVISM IN CRISIS AREAS http://streamtime.org We imagine improvised expressive devices like a CD that turns your PC into an on line streaming studio. Imagine a mob that creates a traffic jam. Think of the religious policeman in London, the konfused kollege kid and the jealous dentist in Baghdad and the jailed blogger blogging on in Cairo. Building autonomous networks in extreme conditions. Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and networks in the fields of media, arts, culture and activism in crisis areas, like Iraq. Streamtime offers a diffuse environment for developing do-it-yourself media. We focus on a cultural sense of finding your own way in the quagmire that is Iraq, and its representation in the global media. We should not try to change politics in order to foster cultural change; we should support cultural manifestation in order to force political change. :: THIS IS RASTA SOFTWARE Jah Rastafari Livity bless our Freedom! This is free software, share it for the good of yourself and your people, respect others and let them express, be free and let others be free. Live long and prosper in Peace! But, no Peace without Justice. This software is about Resistence inna Babylon world which tries to control more and more the way we communicate and share information and knowledge. This software is for all those who cannot afford to have the latest expensive hardware to speak out their words of consciousness and good will. This software has a full range of applications for production and not only consumption of information, it's a full multimedia studio, you don't need to buy anything to express yourself. Freedom and sharing of knowledge are solid principles for evolution and that's where this software comes from. Inna babylon, money is the main requirement to make a voice possible to be heard by others. Capitalist and fundamentalist governments all around the world rule with huge TV monopolies spreading their propaganda, silencing all criticism. This is a struggle for Redemption from existing operating systems which always require new expensive hardware for doing the same as ever: give us free players but make us pay for producing our own voices. And the one who protects you rips you off, as the Arabs say. Dyne:bolic is a tool to produce and publish yourself, freely. There is nothing to consume here, there is all you need to create. :: WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE? DHORUBA is a complete rebuild and modular rewrite of the whole system, enhanced for full usability and open for developers to join maintenance. Recent versions of audio and video tools provide a fully featured multimedia studio out of the box, ready for being employed at home, in classrooms and in media centers. === new dyne:II core features: - - it is a multiuser system, user interaction can be secured - - it includes all compiler and development tools needed to build dyne - - you can write modifications in the /usr system and save them - - it has advanced thin client functionality, booting from usb and net - - it's modular, so you can easily add and combine different software - - it's slick and snappy like the preceeding dyne:bolic, even better ;) === updates and fixes in 2.1 - - upgraded to kernel 2.6.17 - - fix to dock and nest on USB storage - - support for LVM and raid volumes - - network file system tools - - new in Audio: Seq24, SooperLooper, Rosegarden, Icecast - - fixes to MuSE (updated to devel version) - - better vga detection - - misc fixes to desktop usability === upgrading from version 1 To upgrade from version 1 to 2 just replace the dyne/ directory with the new one, or run the CD and answer yes when prompted. Before upgrading you have to manually backup the personal contents of your old nest and import them to a new one. Please note that: - - version 2 is not running on XBOX game consoles - - version 2 does not include the OpenMosix clustering system === development history The dyne:II core has been compiled from scratch by Jaromil and Smilzo in 2005. During 2006 Jaromil completed a full rewrite of startup, nesting, docking, configuration and sdk scripts, aided by the experienced testing of Aymeric Antonios and Chun of Goto10. The new foundation of the dyne:II core opens up the development to more people, providing a modular packaging system for software collections and the possibility to customize the liveCD with your favourite applications. So it is born Pure:dyne, as the first dyne:II customization focusing on real time audio/video processing with pure data. Developers Lounge -> http://dev.dynebolic.org === roadmap We salute and support all development done outside the capitalist empire, to produce and distribute low power and affordable computers. We look forward to support chinese dragons and simputers, solid state workstations and all kind of 100$ laptops. In fact, we are there already, the next step in this development will be adoption of a cross-platform build environment to cover all kinds of hardware around. Mantainance of dyne:II core is kept by Jaromil releasing updates for the core part; hackers are welcome to join and take mantainance of modular software collections. :: BIG UP \o/ to DEVELOPERS & FRIENDS First of all salutes and great respects to the many developers who have written software included in dyne:bolic: a long list of names that is impossible to include here, you'll find information about them inside the CD and in the documentation of each software. People and organizations helping with ver.2 development and good vibes: === Dyne.org / FreakNet hackers http://dyne.org http://freaknet.org Alpt, Asbesto, Kysucix, Xant, Newmark, Nightolo, DinDon, Sandman, Crash, Godog, Voyager, Pallotron, Fredd, Kobaiashi, Mr.Goil, Godog, Niels, Acme, Adam, Robert, Cjm, Jaromil === Goto10 http://www.goto10.org http://puredyne.goto10.org Aymeric, Marloes, Antonios, Chun === Metro Olografix http://olografix.org Smilzo, Superattilius, Groucho/K6, SugoDiPesce, Blended, Hunicus, Isazi === Netherlands Media Art Institute http://www.montevideo.nl/en Montevideo / Time Based Arts === Streamtime http://streamtime.org Bassam, Cecile, JoJo, Xname === ASCII http://www.scii.nl -> the robotic resistance crew === the Xiph foundation http://www.xiph.org === Indymedia http://www.indymedia.org and all the activists involved! And more... Ish, Kapel, Jagadeesh, Lawrence, Arun, Melindo, the FSF India and the NID Ahmedabad, BEK.no, the Folk Festival in Louga (Senegal), the squatters of Amsterdam, Neural.it, Stomfi, Paul Davis, Menglef, Ivana, Gisle, Armin, Lambru, Chmod, Xaver, Rino, Marko, Lupone, Kingdom of Piracy, Macchina, Giacomo Verde, Artificialia, the Italian Hackmeeting, WhatTheHack, Ecoteca, the Chaos League, MetaMute .... and even more ..... to all the many people sending good vibes, sharing ospitality, suggestions and helping organizing the things that keep all this alive: hearful THANKS! :: contribute TO DYNE:BOLIC ! ->>>> JOIN OUR MAILINGLIST: http://lists.dyne.org/dynebolic ->>>> CONTRIBUTE DOCUMENTATION: http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic (wiki) ->>>> BUG REPORT ONLINE INTERFACE: http://bugs.dyne.org Please consider that the dyne:bolic project is an independent effort relying on occasional support from non-profit, grant-making and business organizations willing to sustain development of free and opensource software like this. Dyne:bolic relies on support from individuals like you to preserve, protect and promote the freedom it gives to its users. Please show your appreciation with an act of generosity! Make your donation, even dimes can help -> http://dyne.org/donate.php so far, we got 500$ in 5 years on paypal. thanks, really a lot, serious! you have been a few but you really believe this crazy idea of freak developers didn't you? well we do exist and can live on low budget! and we're rockin'! :) Now in case you are an organization, company or official institution, consider Dyne.org is a foundation and can provide you with official papers about donations, plus you can be mentioned and linked on the upcoming BIG THANKS page. We struggle to keep this effort independent, therefore the only income for this project is the community itself. thanks everyone! :: DISCLAIMER dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is copyleft (C)2001-2006 by Denis "Jaromil" Roio This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Several redistributed binaries are copyrighted by the respective authors, it is documented in the accompanying manual of the distribution. dyne.org is available to provide the source of the included binaries upon request, all the included software can be redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL license and, in some cases, the X/BSD license. For more informations refer to the web pages on http://dynebolic.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEtiote2QxhLU0C14RAuUJAJ9fIxE/7GNw2WCL6hAvhx6t39Ou3ACfRr3V IsQjTIPT+cdg28+ckaDnihY= =zSoS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From cannam at all-day-breakfast.com Fri Jul 14 08:45:57 2006 From: cannam at all-day-breakfast.com (Chris Cannam) Date: Fri Jul 14 12:04:13 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Rosegarden 1.2.4 released Message-ID: <200607141345.57698.cannam@all-day-breakfast.com> ROSEGARDEN 1.2.4 RELEASED Miscellaneous locations -- Bastille day, 2006 The Rosegarden team are pleased to announce the release of version 1.2.4 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ The 1.2.4 release addresses several issues with the prior 1.2.3 feature release. 1.2.4 introduces no new application features. Fixes in this release include, briefly: * Avoid crash on startup if /dev/snd/seq does not exist * Fix incorrect sequencer status report ("no driver") * Fix MIDI Text Marker export * Fix text encoding for Lilypond 2.6 (UTF8 instead of ISO-8859-1) * Fix stuck notes in matrix after pressing a stop button * Fix crash when erasing a duplicated key signature * Fix crash when switching documents with a tempo editor window open * Fix incorrect sorting and insertion logic in marker editor * Fix hang in main canvas when a segment has zero duration * Fix audio preview display for repeating audio segments * Update percussion matrix when a different drum mapping is selected * Avoid crash when deleting a device with percussion matrix open * Fix matrix display for notes outside range of current key mapping * Ensure correct segment is acted on when clicking overlapping segments * Fix sequencer crash when playing back tiny audio files * Avoid display hang when too many segments overlap * Fix several build system bugs, and compilation with gcc-4.1.2 This release also includes several new MIDI device definition (.rgd) files, as well as updates for Catalan, Russian, Swedish, Czech and Italian translations, and a completely new Finnish translation from Heikki Johannes Junes. Special thanks go to Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas for preparing the release. 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 torbenh at gmx.de Fri Jul 14 10:19:10 2006 From: torbenh at gmx.de (torbenh@gmx.de) Date: Fri Jul 14 12:04:15 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] netjack-0.12 - Low Latency Network Audio Driver Message-ID: <20060714141909.GA7913@mobilat> hi. netjack-0.12 is released. Netjack is a jack-driver which uses the network card. On the other end of the network there is a normal jack-client. So its possible, to share a single soundcard between several laptops. This release finally handles the packet disordering UDP does. Thus high channel counts can now be achieved. However a 24ch in/out link over 100Mbit gave me a major "net xrun" storm on vanilla 2.6.15 kernel. At a roundtrip latency of 2.9ms that is. It was reliable with 5.8ms. 16 channels gave me some "net xruns", which i could not hear though. i expect this performance to increase when using an rt-kernel with the network-irq set to rt-prio. So please report back. Additionally to the audio transport, netjack provides sample accurate transport syncronisation. The roundtrip latency is compensated for. get it while its hot at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140191 there is no link on http://netjack.sf.net because the project shell servers are down. -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language From timj at gtk.org Sun Jul 16 11:41:29 2006 From: timj at gtk.org (Tim Janik) Date: Fri Jul 21 11:29:23 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.0 Message-ID: BEAST/BSE version 0.7.0 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.0 are available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.7/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/ 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 0.7.0: * Renamed scheme shell to bsescm * Optimized core functions for MMX/SSE with runtime CPU detection * Fixed CPU profiler to work with newer Linux kernels * New probing code for optimized volume meters and FFT scopes * Plugins/Module changes: StandardOscillator - Added semitone transposition function FreeVerb - Fixed distortions due to subnormal handling GusPatchEnvelope - Better approximation of GUS Patch envelopes [Stefan] Adder - Deprecated in favour of BseSummation Constant - Number of output channels reduced to 4 DavSynDrum - Fixed retrigger logic [Stefan] * Added support for MMX/SSE-optimized plugins * Converted runtime documentation system to use a local web browser * Relicensed all example scripts and BSE files under an "AS IS" license * New loadable Instruments/Effects: BQS Organ BQS SynDrum BQS Fretless Bass [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Queek Synth BQS MoogSaw Bass [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Merp Pad BQS Compressor [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Reverb [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Saturation And Reverb [Stefan Westerfeld] * Major code reorganizations, only one library is installed now: libbse * Vastly extended test coverage of many core mechanisms * Moved source base to automake-1.9 and added support for gcc-4.2 * Lots of major and minor fixes and improvements * Bugzilla issues resolved: #337703, #342186, #343301, #340386, #340307 * Updated Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] * Updated German translation [Hendrik Richter, Jens Seidel] * Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador] * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Italian translation [Petrecca Michele] * Updated Catalan translation [Gil Forcada] * Updated Dutch translation [Vincent van Adrighem] * Updated Swedish translation [Daniel Nylander] * Added Nepali translation [Pawan Chitrakar] Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.0: * Build fixes for BEAST-0.7.0 * Moved source base to automake-1.9 and added support for gcc-4.2 --- ciaoTJ From marcospcmusica at gmail.com Wed Jul 19 08:19:25 2006 From: marcospcmusica at gmail.com (Marcos Guglielmetti) Date: Fri Jul 21 11:29:26 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Musix 0.50, released! Message-ID: <200607191419.25226.marcospcmusica@gmail.com> =Musix 0.50 released!= Thanks to the support of the Ututo Proyect, FSF, Ourproject, and to the usual collaborators, the Musix project has just released Musix 0.50, whose programs were tested for over 1 month, time that allowed us to solve some problems over Musix 0.49, and to make the more relevant software updates. Musix 0.50 can be consider the more stable and functional Musix version until now, also, 0.50 can update old Musix versions, as instance Musix 0.40 could be updated without re-install all the system. Musix counts with its own software package repository that has been growing. It is hoped to incorporate new software nonavailable in Debian, like mplayer or cinelerra (video edition), or Wired. The Musix project has offered several speeches in different institutions during 2005 and 2006, affirming the commitment with the diffusion of free software among musicians, sound engineers and users in general. Important programs/packages updated * Knoppix-installer was updated (taking parts from Knoppix 5.0.1): Now you can update a single package or a group of packages from your actual Musix installed on HD. As instance, you can upgrade Musix 0.40 to 0.50 without re-install the system. * Rosegarden4 1.2.3 should work ok (record audio without crashing). The problem was in an old .rg file. * Installed: linux-image-2.6.16-1-multimedia-486 from 64studio, Removed kernel-image-2.6.13-1-multimedia-386 from aGNUla/DeMuDi * Gparted installed: it's more updated than qtparted, qtparted was removed. Now the installation process should be better. ==050 New programs/packages installed== * Added better support for desktop in German and Portuguese languages (deb package created with files for icewm and rox-filer). * Traverso 0.30 (A multitrack audio recorder/editor) * Terminatorx 3.82 installed (terminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data). * Created and installed a package with firmware GPL for devices MIDISport/Midiman USB 1x1, 2x2, 4x4, 8x8 y USB-2-MIDI (Steinberg) https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/EZ-USB * Installed: clearlook theme for GTK2 (Clearlooks GTK+ 2.x engine and theme) and KDE (Clone of GNOME's Clearlooks theme for KDE) * Grubconf was installed (it has a bug) * Icecast was installed (Ogg Vorbis and MP3 streaming media server) ==Others changes== * Improved Video hardware detection * Musix can be installed on Serial ATA hard disks * Added a text console menu created by Francisco Tufro, it also lets you change the video settings, read the User's Manual, and other tasks. * New wallpapers * The system name (Musix GNU/Linux) was corrected into the GRUB boot menu * Added new script for audio card configuration for testing: /etc/init.d/alsasound (apparently it works only with udev). It does not yet participates in the boot process. * The behavior to access to the Admin desktop was changed (stills needs other modifications) * Created "KDE-to-Rox" desktop, which takes icons in kdesktop (of the KDE desktop in ~/Desktop) and transfers them to the desktop using Rox-Filer. Besides, the "complete" KDE desktop can even be initiated from there. * Removed residual configuration files ==Solved problems== Generally speaking, this problems has been solved: * Solved Portuguese keyboard bug in text console? (ln -s /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt-latin1.kmap.gz /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/pt.kmap.gz) * Bug fixes into rosegarden+* scripts * KDM (desktop manager) takes too long to launch, solved * After updated GTK, some desktop icons disappear, solved * After the installation, the system reboots Ok ==Known problems in Musix 0.50== * Translation to french, italian and german languages needs more work. * Apparently, the 'bootfrom=' boot parameter ("cheatcode") does not work from the 2.6.16-beyond4.1 kernel. * In some PCs there is a problem with the network configuration that this scrip performs: /etc/init.d/networking A modified script ( /etc/init.d/networking-fix ) was added so that the ones who have this problem can solve it easily. ==Next version, Musix 0.59== * Hundreds of software packages will be updated * ... maybe squashfs will be used into the live-cd (more space to include more software) * a DVD version could be a nice idea :-D -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * 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 From eric at zhevny.com Fri Jul 21 11:09:27 2006 From: eric at zhevny.com (Eric Dantan Rzewnicki) Date: Fri Jul 21 11:29:28 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] New specimen list and home Message-ID: <20060721150927.GQ2864@zhevny.com> Hello all, I've set up a mailing list for specimen: http://zhevny.com/mailman/listinfo/specimen Additionally the web site now lives at http://zhevny.com/specimen. This is a minimal re-working of Pete's old site. More improvements to follow. Let me know if anything is badly broken. (I know the guide is broken, but I need to re-do it with new screenshots anyway.) I just changed the dns record for zhevny.com to point to a new host earlier today. The TTL was set to 1 day, so some of you may get pointed to the old box. Let me know if you have any issues, or just try again a little later. Thanks, Eric Rz. From fredg at salemradiolabs.com Fri Jul 21 16:56:51 2006 From: fredg at salemradiolabs.com (Fred Gleason) Date: Tue Jul 25 17:47:37 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.69 Message-ID: <200607211656.51466.fredg@salemradiolabs.com> On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.69. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. This release, featuring the debut of full voicetracking and log customization capabilities, marks a significant milestone for the project, with all modules now feature-complete. From the NEWS file: *** snip snip *** Changes: Voicetracking. A major new feature in this version, voicetracking gives operators the ability to insert dynamic, "one-off" audio content into individual logs as well as the ability to individually customize each segue transition of a log. Carts for voicetracked content are automatically created and deleted "on-the-fly" by the system, with no need for individual cart management in the Library. RDLogManager Changes. The sequence for generating logs in RDLogManager has been completely overhauled, making it now possible to generate a log and apply voice tracks even before Traffic import data are available (so-called "incremental log linking"). Several features have also been added to support operation with music-intensive formats, such as the ability to schedule embedded voicetracks and spots sets from external music scheduling systems (currently only tested with RCS Selector). RDDBCheck. A utility for checking consistency of the Rivendell database. For information, do (as root): rddbcheck --help Many, Many Bugfixes. See the ChangeLog for details. Library Versions: This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.1 and librhpi-0.94.6 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 screenshots, documentation and 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 marcospcmusica at gmail.com Sat Jul 22 10:54:45 2006 From: marcospcmusica at gmail.com (Marcos Guglielmetti) Date: Tue Jul 25 17:47:39 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] New Colombo hydrogen drumkit deb package (3.4 mb), and musix-freepats-extras Message-ID: <200607221654.45463.marcospcmusica@gmail.com> Hi, I made it and upload it to our server: Add to your sources.list: # Musix GNU+Linux repository deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./ Also there is the musix-freepats-extras package -------------------------------------------------------- musix-colombo-drumkit Description: Package: musix-colombo-drumkit Priority: optional Section: musix Source: musix-colombo-drumkit Installed-Size: 3.4 MB Maintainer: Marcos Guglielmetti (Musix/GNU-Linux) Architecture: all Version: 1.0 Provides: musix-colombo-drumkit Recommends: musix-bin-scripts, hydrogen, swami, qsynth, fluidsynth, timidity, rosegarden, noteedit, asfxload Description: Musix's Hydrogen Colombo Drumkit You can find the complete set of samples here: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/sound-samples/Colombo-Acustic-Drumkit There are 10.9 MB into 92 sound samples. . This drumkit is a small version of 3.4 MB. and installs on: /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/ColomboAcousticDrumkit . Colombo drums are handcraft drums made in La Plata, Argentina by a man called Colombo. . Drum details Wooden toms, snare and bassdrum Toms: 12X8 13X9 16X16 (hi, mid, low-foor) Bassdrum: 21X14 Snare "piccolo" 14X4 Aquarian patch set. Crash 16'' Sabian "B8 Pro, Thin Crash" Crash 20'' Paiste 1000 "Power Crash 20''", made in Switzerland Hihat Paiste 1000 14'' "Rude", made in Switzerland . Licence: GNU GPL v2 or later, see COPYING and README for details -- Marcos Guglielmetti * Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre * CD Donwload: (http://www.musix.org.ar/en/) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) * 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 From kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu Fri Jul 28 03:25:26 2006 From: kjetil at ccrma.stanford.edu (kjetil@ccrma.stanford.edu) Date: Wed Aug 2 06:06:11 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] das_watchdog V0.2.4 and jack_capture V0.3.7 Message-ID: New source location: http://www.notam02.no/~kjetism/src/ (Sorry, I have temporarily lost access to both my previously used upload directories) das_watchdog ************************************************************************* 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 0.2.3->0.2.4 -------------------- *Test if the xmessage program found during the make process is a valid executable. If not, search the $PATH instead. This should fix it for Gentoo when the pro-audio overlay is updated to at least this version. *Various modifications for the High Res Timer, which should be used instead of setting the timer interrupt process to SCHED_FIFO/99. jack_capture ************************************************************************* jack_capture is a small program to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file without having to patch jack connections, fiddle around with fileformats, or set options on the argument line. This is the program I always wanted to have for jack, but no one made. So here it is. Changes 0.3.1 -> 0.3.7: ----------------------- *Fixed potentional buffer underrun error. *Fixed potentional ringbuffer size allocation miscalculation. *Better way to set leading zeros in filename. Thanks to Melanie. *Better underrun handling. Thanks to Dmitry Baikov. *Added support for jack buffer size change. *Removed some unnecessary code and comments *Beautified code a bit. *Fixed a bug in the reconnection code. *Beautified code a lot. *Changed bufsize argument to accept seconds instead of frames. Default buffer size is 60 seconds. *Improved documentation and help option. *Beautified source a bit. *Fixed bug in ringbuffer size allocation. *Fixed so that more than one instance of jack_capture can run at once. From lazzaro at eecs.berkeley.edu Sun Jul 30 19:29:22 2006 From: lazzaro at eecs.berkeley.edu (lazzaro) Date: Wed Aug 2 06:06:14 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] sfront 0.91 - 7/30/06 - released Message-ID: <477843E7-D049-4C07-89CB-FD76E09EF27F@eecs.berkeley.edu> Hi laa-folk, Announcing the release of sfront 0.91 7/30/06, available for download from: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/sfman/user/install/ index.html#download Here is the change log: [1] Bug fix: sfront now defaults to writing 16-bit WAV and AIFF files, and the command-line flags for specifying 16-bit WAV and AIFF files now work correctly (thanks to Francois Pinot). [2] Bug fixes in the documentation and implementation of the custom control driver API (thanks to Francois Pinot). For those of you unfamiliar with sfront, here's a short bio: Sfront compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs that generate audio when executed. MP4-SA is a standard for normative algorithmic sound, that combines an audio signal processing language (SAOL) with score languages (SASL, and the legacy MIDI File Format). Under Linux and Mac OS X, sfront supports real-time, low-latency audio input/output, local MIDI input from soundcards, and networked MIDI input using RTP and SIP. A SIP server hosted on the Berkeley campus manages sessions. The documentation includes a book about SAOL programming. Learn more at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html --- John Lazzaro http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu ---