From bvdp at xplornet.com Fri Sep 1 18:40:41 2006 From: bvdp at xplornet.com (Bob van der Poel) Date: Sun Sep 3 17:18:18 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Beta 0.23 now available! Message-ID: <44F8B6E9.2050006@xplornet.com> Beta 0.23 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: A number of minor bugfixes; new RNDSEED command; a number of new and improved library files. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bvdp@xplornet.com -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bvdp@xplornet.com WWW: http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp From w.boeke at chello.nl Mon Sep 11 10:25:06 2006 From: w.boeke at chello.nl (W.Boeke) Date: Tue Sep 12 02:37:28 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] A new version of Amuc Message-ID: <450571C2.70301@chello.nl> ======= Announcing version 1.3 of Amuc ========= Amuc (the Amsterdam Music Composer) is a Linux tool for composing and playing music. This version has quite some modifications, and now also can import MIDI files. From its homepage http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/amuc/index.html you can hear a performance of Piano Concerto nr.2 (first movement) by D.Shostakovich, with the original notes (read from a MIDI file) but totally different sounds. This concerto, containing more notes then I ever could write, shows that a brilliant composition keeps its strength even if fully turned over electronically! From fredg at salemradiolabs.com Mon Sep 11 14:19:32 2006 From: fredg at salemradiolabs.com (Fred Gleason) Date: Tue Sep 12 02:37:53 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.73 Message-ID: <200609111419.33236.fredg@salemradiolabs.com> On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.73. 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: Group Colors -- It is now possible to assign a color to each cart group, allowing the group to be easily discerned within library lists and logs. RDAirPlay User Interface Tweaks -- The Estimated and Scheduled start time columns in the Full Log widget have been swapped. RDLogManager -- Embedded breaks from the music log are now associated with the start time of the following music event, rather than the preceding event. Many Bugfixes, especially pertaining to voicetracking and correct log playout. See the ChangeLog for details. AudioScience Driver: Due to stability issues with the 3.xx ASI driver versions, it is recommended that v 2.96 or earlier ASI drivers be used with this version of Rivendell. Library Versions: This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.2 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: As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Be bold, and don't fear failure. Treat failure as a blessing, | | because mediocre goals are poison. | | -- Dan Goldin | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| From bvdp at xplornet.com Thu Sep 14 12:49:43 2006 From: bvdp at xplornet.com (Bob van der Poel) Date: Thu Sep 14 13:54:22 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] New MMA forum Message-ID: <45098827.904@xplornet.com> Our good friends at Kara Moon Productions have added a forum and will be adding some "power user tutorials" and other examples on their web site. These folks have been giving the development of your program a big boast in the last weeks, so I encourage your support. Visit and participate at: http://www.kara-moon.com Stay tuned for a new version in the next few weeks. And a favor: If any of you have experience with some of the budget web hosts (BlueHost, HostMonster, etc) would you drop me a line. Yes, I'm thinking of using one of these as a host. Have fun with your music and with MMA! -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bvdp@xplornet.com WWW: http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp From fredg at salemradiolabs.com Mon Sep 18 15:51:08 2006 From: fredg at salemradiolabs.com (Fred Gleason) Date: Tue Sep 19 15:15:45 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Rivendell v0.9.74 Message-ID: <200609181551.09126.fredg@salemradiolabs.com> On behalf of the Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the immediate release of Rivendell v0.9.74. 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: Security Vulnerability -- Allowed users to execute commands with the Run Shell Command macro with permissions of the user running the ripcd(8) daemon (normally 'root'). Timescaling Playouts -- Fixed a bug that was causing timescaled events to terminate prematurely under certain circumstances. Log Error Checking -- Fixed issues that were preventing changes in a cart's status in RDLibrary from being properly reflected in an already-loaded RDAirPlay log. JACK/ALSA Playout Optimization -- Increased the size of the audio ringbuffer for JACK and ALSA drivers. See the ChangeLog for further details. Library Versions: This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.97.2 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 120, 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 | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | True leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is to what | | it ought to be. | | -- Virginia Allan | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| From k.s.matheussen at notam02.no Mon Sep 18 19:02:11 2006 From: k.s.matheussen at notam02.no (Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen) Date: Tue Sep 19 15:15:46 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] SND-ls V0.9.7.0 Message-ID: Download from http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/src/ Snd-ls is a distribution of Bill Schottstaedt's 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 0.9.6.2 -> 0.9.7.0 --------------------------- -Updated Snd from 8.0/2.4.2006 to 8.4/13.9.2006. Many important fixes. -Added --fast-math as default cflags option. -Various fixes. From ico at vt.edu Wed Sep 20 22:08:21 2006 From: ico at vt.edu (Ivica Ico Bukvic) Date: Sat Sep 23 03:31:34 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] portal.linuxaudio.org launched Message-ID: <003001c6dd22$d0c49ad0$0502a8c0@64BitBadass> Hello folks, I guess the title says it all. In an ongoing effort to consolidate online Linux audio resources, Linuxaudio.org has launched a new portal which encapsulates all sub-domains hosted under the linuxaudio.org umbrella. Should you happen to have any questions, concerns, and most importantly suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Linuxaudio.org Director Virginia Tech Department of Music - 0240 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-1137 (540) 231-5034 (fax) ico@linuxaudio.org http://www.music.vt.edu/people/faculty/bukvic From cannam at all-day-breakfast.com Tue Sep 19 17:13:39 2006 From: cannam at all-day-breakfast.com (Chris Cannam) Date: Sat Sep 23 03:31:36 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden 1.4.0 released Message-ID: <200609192213.40049.cannam@all-day-breakfast.com> ROSEGARDEN 1.4.0 RELEASED The Rosegarden team are delighted to announce the release of version 1.4.0 of Rosegarden, an audio and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux. http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ This is a particularly exciting release for the Rosegarden project. It includes a number of interesting new features, many of which we expect to build upon further in future releases. It also contains significant code contributions from a greater number of people than any previous Rosegarden release, including D. Michael McIntyre, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, Heikki Junes, Stephen Torri, Magnus Johansson, Vince Negri and Martin Shepherd as well as Chris Cannam, Guillaume Laurent, and a number of active translators. Significant new features include: * You can now record to multiple MIDI tracks at once from different devices and/or channels. * There is a new track parameter box which can be used to select the playback instrument for a track, recording filters, and the default parameters for new segments created on that track. * You can now create tracks identified with particular real-world performance instruments, so that new segments subsequently created on those tracks inherit the right clef, transposition and note range for each instrument (notes outside that range are displayed in a different colour in the notation editor). A database of around 300 instruments is included, courtesy of Erik Magnus Johansson of Eolin KB (http://www.kandav.com/eolin/). * The composition no longer has a fixed duration. In previous releases it was necessary to adjust the composition duration manually in order to record or create segments longer than the default duration. As of this release, the composition extends itself as you record or drag out new segments. * If you add a key change across multiple segments that differ in performance transposition, you can now choose to have the key transposed automatically for each segment. * You can now enter special directives in the notation editor that will be interpreted when creating LilyPond output, to achieve effects that are possible in LilyPond but not yet supported in Rosegarden (glissandi, arpeggios, segno/coda etc). * Soprano clef has been added. * Lilypond export now supports LilyPond 2.8 and has a new feature to merge multiple staffs as voices into one LilyPond staff, a new option to group staffs with a system bracket, as well as a huge number of bug fixes and performance improvements, which have tremendously improved the reliability and usefulness of the export engine. * You can choose to display the parameter boxes in a tabbed layout as an alternative to the default vertical stack. In the tabbed layout you can display a much greater number of MIDI controllers than was previously possible. * You can now cut, copy and paste "ranges" within a composition (cross-sections of all segments and tempo and time signature changes between two given end points in time). * There are new functions to split selected segments at an arbitrary time, and to split segments according to the MIDI device used to record them (which can be applied retrospectively to recordings made with Rosegarden 1.0 and newer). * The facilities for adding and editing markers (labelled positions in time) and setting loop ranges have been improved in a number of ways. * Tempos can now be "ramped" (smoothly changing from an initial to a final tempo over a period of time). * The tempo ruler has been overhauled and now permits in-place editing of the tempo map with the mouse (with undo and redo, of course). * You can finally zoom in and out of editing views using the mouse wheel (with Ctrl pressed). * The Panic function is now accessible from all transport toolbars. * When step-recording notes from a MIDI device, you can now enter chords simply by playing overlapping notes. * Rosegarden can now respond to MIDI Start, Stop and Continue system messages (as well as MMC/MTC), and send MMC Locate messages (as well as Play and Stop). 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. Chris From bvdp at xplornet.com Wed Sep 27 19:46:09 2006 From: bvdp at xplornet.com (Bob van der Poel) Date: Sat Sep 30 16:26:04 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] MMA 1.0-RC1 Released Message-ID: <451B0D41.9070902@xplornet.com> Version 1.0-RC1 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: Chord generation enhancements: Inversion notation. MIDI: MidiInc: new options; MIDISPLIT for output tracks; MIDITNAME to name MIDI tracks; MIDIMARK sets markers. Useability: SeqRndWeight (for balancing SEQRND selection); RNDSET for selections; changed PAN -> MIDIPAN, PORTAMENTO -> MIDIGLIS and CHANNELVOLUME -> MIDIVOLUME. New library creation section in tutorial. This really is a version 1 release candidate. Please let me know if anything is broken before we release the real 1.0! MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp/mma/ or http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bvdp@xplornet.com -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bvdp@xplornet.com WWW: http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp From fave at fave.org.uk Tue Sep 26 09:49:25 2006 From: fave at fave.org.uk (FAVE 2006) Date: Sat Sep 30 16:26:08 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] FAVE 2006: London, 25th November - call for participants Message-ID: <45192FE5.4000104@fave.org.uk> Hello all, FAVE is an event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. The 2006 event is taking place at Limehouse Town Hall in London, England on Saturday the 25th of November. There will be lightning talks on software topics, followed by performances from artists which use free software. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved, by mailing fave at fave.org.uk or by joining the mailing list: http://lists.serverone.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/3avc The FAVE 2006 Team From tricia at ccrma.Stanford.EDU Thu Sep 28 14:00:18 2006 From: tricia at ccrma.Stanford.EDU (Tricia Schroeter) Date: Sat Sep 30 16:26:11 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Faculty Position Opening at CCRMA Message-ID: <1159466418.22126.22.camel@cmn36.stanford.edu> Dear friends. Please note the following search announcement for a junior faculty position at CCRMA: The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University hopes to fill a junior faculty (tenure-track) position in computer music*. The field of specialization is open, and might be, for example, in psychoacoustics, composition, engineering, new areas of performance, or a combination of interests. Teaching responsibilities at the undergraduate and graduate levels will include courses in the candidate's areas of expertise. Stanford University is an affirmative-action employer. The appointment can begin in the fall quarter of either 2007 or 2008. Candidates should send a letter of interest containing a brief description of relevant experience, a current curriculum vitae, and names and addresses (physical, e-mail, and FAX, if possible) of three referees to: CCRMA Search Committee Attn: Debbie Barney Department of Music 541 Lasuen Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-3076 The preferred date for receipt of the above materials is on or before December 1, 2006. Please do not send any supplementary materials at this time. __________________ * Computer music is a multidisciplinary field drawing on more traditional fields such as music composition and theory, engineering, psychology, computer science, physics, and applied mathematics. Qualified candidates may have doctoral degrees in any of these or related areas. An overview of CCRMA research and teaching programs is available at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Generating Logs with RDLogManager Chapter 8 ? Voice Tracker Chapter 9 ? Rivendell Macro Language (RML) Chapter 10 ? Interfacing with the Linux Ecosystem: RMLSend and RDImport Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. The Rivendell Operations Guide is made available under Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-alike license, and is available for download now at: http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/download.shtml. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development | | | Salem Radio Labs | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Do not try to think outside of the box. That's impossible. Instead, | | realise the truth. There is no box. | | --Quoted by "larsmjoh" on GrokLaw.net | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| From perex at suse.cz Fri Sep 29 13:35:33 2006 From: perex at suse.cz (Jaroslav Kysela) Date: Sat Sep 30 16:26:15 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [alsa-announce] ALSA 1.0.13 final Message-ID: Hello all, ALSA packages 1.0.13 final are available for download. Only the alsa-oss package is missing (no changes from 1.0.12). Changes between 1.0.12 and 1.0.13: http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-12--v1-0-13.txt Changes between 1.0.13rc3 and 1.0.13: http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-13rc3--v1-0-13.txt Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SUSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-announce mailing list Alsa-announce@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-announce From a at gaydenko.com Sat Sep 30 17:12:57 2006 From: a at gaydenko.com (Andrew Gaydenko) Date: Tue Oct 3 06:02:05 2006 Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] QLoud v.0.19 - plotting much faster Message-ID: <200610010112.57134@goldspace.net> QLoud is a tool to measure loudspeaker frequency and step responses and distortions. Find it here: http://gaydenko.com/qloud/ Changes: - small bug fixed, - plotting (smoothing) is *much* faster now. Andrew