planet.linuxaudio.org http://planet.linuxaudio.org/atom.xml 2010-09-07T07:01:31+00:00 Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org Quickshot Icon and Logo http://thorwil.wordpress.com/?p=1051 2010-09-06T20:17:53+00:00 <p>Quickshot&#8217;s goal is to streamline the process of taking a series of screenshots with specific setups and in varying languages for documentation purposes. It&#8217;s a spin-off of the Ubuntu Manual project and currently being rewritten to better meat the needs of other projects.</p> <p>I first created an icon. Combining a camera liked used for generic screenshot tools with any other parts proved to be problematic in composition and recognizability. So I went with a more abstract approach, with a <em>one out of a series</em> concept to represent what Quickshot is about:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1053" title="quickshot_icon_set" src="http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/quickshot_icon_set.png?w=336&h=256" alt="" width="336" height="256" /></p> <p>While an icon could make for an acceptable symbol for a logo, I felt this isn&#8217;t the case here. The contrast and coloring of the dark version is inspired by a camera flash. The bright version is for in-application use, where the other would feel too heavy.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1052" title="quickshot_bright_and_dark" src="http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/quickshot_bright_and_dark.png?w=176&h=251" alt="" width="176" height="251" /></p> <br />Filed under: <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/icons/">Icons</a>, <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/logos/">Logos</a>, <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/planet-ubuntu/">Planet Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/ubuntu-manual-project/">Ubuntu Manual Project</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thorwil.wordpress.com/1051/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thorwil.wordpress.com&blog=938467&post=1051&subd=thorwil&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Thorwil's http://thorwil.wordpress.com Thorwil's Design for Free Software http://thorwil.wordpress.com/feed/ 2010-09-06T21:00:20+00:00 GNonLin 0.10.16 stable releases http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/#2010-09-06T17:20:00Z 2010-09-06T16:01:10+00:00 <p> The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a new release of the GNonLin set of plugins in the 0.10 GStreamer stable release series. </p><p> Check out release notes for <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gnonlin/0.10.16.html">gnonlin</a> or download tarballs for <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gnonlin/gnonlin-0.10.16.tar.bz2">gnonlin</a> </p> GStreamer News http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/ GStreamer News Latest news from the GStreamer project http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/rss-1.0.xml 2010-09-06T16:01:10+00:00 The Music from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. http://bmccosar.wordpress.com/?p=1136 2010-09-06T13:43:52+00:00 <p>Crossroads time, again.</p> <p>In January and February of this year, I spent <a href="http://bmccosar.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/the-end/">a lot of time and energy</a> getting the word out about the impending demise of <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/">Jamendo</a>, the site which hosts <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/bruce.h.mccosar">all of my music</a>.</p> <p>We saved it!  And there were promises of changes and improvements to come.</p> <p>I haven&#8217;t seen any.  In fact, all I&#8217;ve seen is my page hits and plays drop from the top 200 to &#8220;unlisted&#8221;.  The site has pretty much stayed exactly the same, in terms of its interface and its loyal cadre of bugs.</p> <p>Now, I&#8217;ve been with Jamendo from almost the beginning &#8212; but here&#8217;s the point: why bother making new music if no one cares?  Through these last two difficult years, there have been times that the only thing keeping me playing music was the thought that it mattered to someone else.</p> <p>You can see the effects also on this blog.  This is the place where I discuss my music.  As the numbers dropped, so did my number of posts.</p> <p>As I&#8217;ve contemplated starting work on an eighth album, the main thing holding me back is this: I could create the greatest album of my entire life, and it could vanish into obscurity hours after being published.</p> <p>And face it: very few people care for good music.  I can flip on MTV and prove that.  I&#8217;m not some young chick with dance moves and a pitch-corrected &#8220;singing&#8221; voice.  I&#8217;m only a composer, theoretician, and multi-instrumentalist.</p> <p>So has the time has come for me to burn everything down and start over again?  Will this blog still be here in 2011?</p> <p>I&#8217;m not sure.  I am seriously considering dropping everything and disappearing into my own private Bermuda Triangle.</p> <p>Call it &#8220;Pre-Emptive Vanishing.&#8221;</p> <p>On the other hand, back at the beginning of this year, I searched for other places to host my music.  A lot of things have changed since then, more than likely &#8212; nine months of internet time is time enough for entire categories of sites to rise and fall.  So I guess I have to start my search anew.</p> <p>Like many other Earthly species, it&#8217;s find a new home . . . or go extinct.</p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/bmccosar.wordpress.com/1136/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bmccosar.wordpress.com&blog=572617&post=1136&subd=bmccosar&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Bruce H. McCosar http://bmccosar.wordpress.com Bruce H. McCosar Welcome to the music blog of Jamendo artist Bruce H. McCosar http://bmccosar.wordpress.com/feed/ 2010-09-06T14:01:11+00:00 ladish-0.3 is much closer now http://nedko.tumblr.com/post/1071495365 2010-09-05T21:01:48+00:00 <p>As some of you know, the main goal for the next release is to implement rooms and save/load of projects in rooms. Although this feature may get few tweaks here and there, I’m happy to announce that I consider it finished now.</p> <p><!-- more -->The code in git has no known regressions against ladish-0.2. If you feel brave, you are welcome to try it.</p> <p>I plan to release ladish-0.3 around New Year’s Eve (almost 4 months ahead). In the following months I’ll try to do the rest of the scheduled work.</p> <p>The Discuss LADI mailing list has been quite silent recently but the IRC channel is quite the opposite. distrozapper, falxtx and nick87720z are especially active. distrozapper is testing ladish on regular basis. falxtx is working mainly on integration of LADI technologies into the KXStudio Linux distribution and he made some nice ladish-aware tools, especially klaudia and festige. nick87720z is working on a new ladish feature - the ability to adopt processes/programs that were started externally.<br /><br />Some of you may have noticed that jack-1.9.6 was recently released. distrozapper reports problems on his machine. It works fine on mine though. More reports are needed, so please try jack-1.9.6 and report. The ladish git submodule for jack is currently set to contain jack-1.9.6 + no-self-connect stuff (the ladi branch). The jack repo also has a tag named ladi-1.9.5 . This tag contains all ladi-related fixes<br />against jack-1.9.5 (that are part of 1.9.6 too) plus the no-self-connect changeset.<br /><br /></p> Nedko http://nedko.tumblr.com/ Nedko http://nedko.tumblr.com/tagged/linuxaudio/rss 2010-09-07T07:00:23+00:00 Self playing Bayan built nearly 22 years ago http://hackaday.com/?p=27985 2010-09-05T16:19:56+00:00 <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27987" title="Doesn't he look so happy? Maybe Russians have the inability to smile, it explains everything. Don't you think?" src="http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/accordion.png?w=470&h=321" alt="" width="470" height="321" /></p> <p><a href="http://video.mail.ru/mail/dva_dva_pro/_myvideo/2.html?leader_from_main=1">The year is 1988</a>, where a Russian engineer [Vladimir Demin] has combined a Bayan, or button accordion, with several (we lost count at about 96) solenoids. If that alone doesn&#8217;t blow your mind the computer, also hand built by [Vladimir], controls the whole process leaving the operator to only work the bellows. <span>Putting truth to the fact in Soviet Russia, accordion plays you</span>. We wish we could find some more information about the instrument, but curse our inability to read Russian. Alas check after the break for a shorter version of the video in the link above.</p> <p>Related: <a href="http://hackaday.com/2009/12/28/moolodeon-electric-accordion/">Electronic accordion doesn&#8217;t compare</a>.</p> <p><span id="more-27985"></span></p> <p><span><a href="http://hackaday.com/2010/09/05/self-playing-bayan-built-nearly-22-years-ago/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/KIK78jQo_0s/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27985/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackaday.com&blog=4779443&post=27985&subd=hackadaycom&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Hack a Day » digital audio hacks http://hackaday.com Hack a Day » digital audio hacks Fresh hacks every day http://hackaday.com/category/digital-audio-hacks/feed/ 2010-09-06T15:00:26+00:00 Shovel…guitar? http://hackaday.com/?p=27967 2010-09-04T15:30:00+00:00 <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27968" title="I was tempted to leave a note about how the video starts off with yelling and cursing and pretty much doesn't stop. But then I thought, what if he was just speaking normal Russian? I wouldn't want to offend." src="http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/post-3-12832846344648.jpg?w=470&h=314" alt="" width="470" height="314" /></p> <p>We didn&#8217;t believe this hack at all when we saw it, or rather heard it. Surly a <a href="http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/09/01/the-awesome-guitar-made-out-of-a-shovel/#more-17380">guitar made out of a shovel</a> couldn&#8217;t sound decent. But the video (after the jump, skip to 2:40 for the jam) to our untrained ears sounded pretty rad. Could be the supremely well done wood work, proper use of tools, high tech pickups, or maybe Russian magic, we don&#8217;t know.</p> <p>In fact, if you continue the video it doesn&#8217;t stop there. The creators also made a 2 string bass and a few other instruments from shovels. Do I smell a new shovel hero?</p> <p>Related: Guitars made out of things that <a href="http://hackaday.com/2009/10/15/nes-guitar/">should not be guitars</a>.</p> <p>[Thanks Paul]</p> <p><span id="more-27967"></span></p> <p><span><a href="http://hackaday.com/2010/09/04/shovel-guitar/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/RG7mhJbGFUI/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27967/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27967/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27967/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27967/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27967/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27967/" /></a> 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audio hacks http://hackaday.com Hack a Day » digital audio hacks Fresh hacks every day http://hackaday.com/category/digital-audio-hacks/feed/ 2010-09-06T15:00:26+00:00 GStreamer OpenGL plug-in module 0.10.2 release http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/#2010-09-04T14:30:00Z 2010-09-04T14:30:00+00:00 <p> The GStreamer team is proud to announce a new release of the gst-plugins-gl OpenGL integration module. </p><p> Check out release notes <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-plugins-gl/0.10.2.html">here</a>, or download tarballs from <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-gl/gst-plugins-gl-0.10.2.tar.bz2">here</a>. </p> GStreamer News http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/ GStreamer News Latest news from the GStreamer project http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/rss-1.0.xml 2010-09-06T16:01:10+00:00 [LAA] Patchage 0.4.5, Raul 0.7.0, FlowCanvas 0.6.4 Released http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/4/173311 2010-09-04T09:01:19+00:00 From: David Robillard &lt;dave@...&gt;<br /> Subject: [LAA] Patchage 0.4.5, Raul 0.7.0, FlowCanvas 0.6.4 Released<br /> Date: Sep 4, 8:32 am 2010<br /> <br /> By popular request (i.e. two people), a new release of Patchage is out, <br />along with its dependencies Raul and FlowCanvas. <br /> <br />Downloads, documentation, and more information available at: <br />http://drobilla.net/software/patchage <br />http://drobilla.net/software/raul/ <br />http://drobilla.net/software/flowcanvas <br /> <br />Patchage Changes: <br /> * Install SVG icon <br /> * Fix compilation without Jack <br /> * Improve performance when dragging modules <br /> * Bump FlowCanvas dependency to 0.6.0 <br /> * Upgrade to waf 1.5.18 <br /> <br />Raul Changes: <br /> * Add several unit tests <br /> * Use malloc'd memory for RingBuffer/SRSWQueue (instead of a new'd <br />array) <br /> * Fancy coloured console/logging I/O (raul/log.hpp) <br /> * More flexible Path and better URI support <br /> * Atom updates, including new "Blank" Atom for storing dictionaries <br /> with URI keys (ala JavaScript "objects", but RDF compatible) <br /> * Remove stack stuff from Array and create new ArrayStack <br /> * Make Symbol and URI more opaque and use Glib string interning <br /> * Add Configuration class for app command line option handling <br /> * Use operator in TableImpl instead of > so it needn't be defined <br /> * Add IntrusivePtr, a trivial #define of boost::intrusive_ptr which is <br /> useful for hard realtime things (since adding and dropping refs is <br /> realtime safe, which is not true of shared_ptr) <br /> * Remove TimeSlice <br /> <br />FlowCanvas Changes: <br /> * Consistently call Item::store_location when items are moved, <br /> previous versions didn't on arrange or when dragging a selection <br /> * Fix centering (e.g. on arrange, initial view) <br /> * Upgrade to waf 1.5.18 <br /> <br />Share and Enjoy, <br /> <br />-dr <br /> <br /> <br />_______________________________________________ <br />Linux-audio-announce mailing list <br />Linux-audio-announce@lists.linuxaudio.org <br />http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-announce <br /><p><a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/4/173311">read more</a></p> laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org This list informs subscribers about new releases or events and is not intended for discussion.The announce list is moderated and each post needs to be approved by the list maintainer. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:04+00:00 [LAA] QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.1.0 Out Now! http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/4/173310 2010-09-04T09:01:19+00:00 From: Rui Nuno Capela &lt;rncbc@...&gt;<br /> Subject: [LAA] QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.1.0 Out Now!<br /> Date: Sep 4, 8:32 am 2010<br /> <br /> Howdy! <br /> <br />It's been a long summer hasn't it? Bad news is that laudable 'spring <br />cleaning' has slipped a bunch and in fact, is still on going with no end <br />on sight, exactly as the 'uber-procrastinator' predicted! ;) <br /> <br />Nevertheless, QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.1.0 are out now! <br /> <br />This release marks the fact that QmidiCtl [1] is now made available from <br />the official Maemo 5 repository [3]. So that you can download and <br />install it directly from your N900 [4]. You'll find it on the Multimedia <br />section. Second, QmidiCtl [1] is now fully configurable with regard to <br />which MIDI events are sent and/or recognized. It's not MMC-exclusive <br />anymore. Third, QmidiNet [2] also talks JACK-MIDI now. Although (very) <br />experimentally. And you don't have to opt out on ALSA-MIDI. You can have <br />both MIDI interfaces running as long as you please. <br /> <br />Finally, Paul de Vries shows us a magnificent video re. How To: Setup <br />QmidiCtl on The Nokia N900 with Renoise [5]. Alas, it's on Windows and <br />using ipMIDI [8] as the gateway back-end. No sweat :) If Renoise [6] is <br />to run on Linux he would use QmidiNet [2] or multimidicast [7]. Take <br />note that the latter only does ALSA MIDI and doesn't handle MIDI SysEx <br />messages as certain as MMC is. Kudos to Paul. <br /> <br />See also: <br /> <br /> http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/233 <br /> <br />Websites: <br /> <br /> http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net <br /> http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net <br /> <br />Project pages: <br /> <br /> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl <br /> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet <br /> <br />Downloads: <br /> <br /> - source tarballs: <br /> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0.tar.gz <br /> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0.tar.gz <br /> <br /> - source package (openSUSE 11.3): <br /> <br />http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.src.rpm <br /> <br />http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.src.rpm <br /> <br /> - binary packages (openSUSE 11.3): <br /> <br />http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.i586.rpm <br /> <br />http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidictl/qmidictl-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.x86_64.rpm <br /> <br />http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.i586.rpm <br /> <br />http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.1.0-1.rncbc.suse113.x86_64.rpm <br /> <br /> - binary packages (Maemo 5): <br /> http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl <br /> <br />Weblog (upstream support): <br /> <br /> http://www.rncbc.org <br /> <br />License: <br /> <br /> QmidiNet and QmidiCtl are both free, open-source software, <br />distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) <br />version 2 or later. <br /> <br /> <br />References: <br /> <br />[1] QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast <br /> http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net <br /> <br />[2] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast <br /> http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net <br /> <br />[3] Maemo.org - Home of the Maemo community <br /> http://www.maemo.org <br /> <br />[4] Maemo.org - Downloads: QmidiCtl <br /> http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl <br /> <br />[5] How To: Setup QmidiCtl on The Nokia N900 with Renoise <br /> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hnZwnAdsk <br /> <br />[6] Renoise <br /> http://www.renoise.com <br /> <br />[7] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over <br />network <br /> http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast <br /> <br />[8] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN <br /> http://nerds.de <br /> <br /> <br />Cheers &amp;&amp; Enjoy <br />-- <br />rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela <br />_______________________________________________ <br />Linux-audio-announce mailing list <br />Linux-audio-announce@lists.linuxaudio.org <br />http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-announce <br /><p><a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/4/173310">read more</a></p> laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org This list informs subscribers about new releases or events and is not intended for discussion.The announce list is moderated and each post needs to be approved by the list maintainer. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:04+00:00 Video Interview With Yours Truly http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/google-video 2010-09-03T22:42:00+00:00 <p>Google just published a <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/09/interviews-from-guadec-part-3.html">video interview with yours truly</a>. Watch it! Oh, and Vincent, I even put on a red shirt for you!</p> TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB http://0pointer.de/blog TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB Lennart's Blog http://0pointer.de/blog/index.rss20 2010-09-07T07:01:30+00:00 Drumstick Time tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982925173228101953.post-2960407475072302761 2010-09-03T20:00:35+00:00 A new Drumstick version is in the oven, with two tasty novelties:<br /><br />1. OVE file parsing support (files created by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overture_%28software%29">Overture program</a>).<br />The code for this feature has been contributed by Rui Fan. This file format can be played by the included program drumstick-guiplayer, in addition to the SMF and WRK formats. There is also a new drumstick-dumpove CLI utility to inspect the file contents as text.<br /><br />2. Acquisition of real-time priority, using <a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/rtkit.html">RealtimeKit</a>.<br />Until now, the thread processing MIDI input from ALSA tried to acquire real-time priority using the <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/2/sched_setscheduler">RLIMIT_RTPRIO mechanism</a>, which requires some configuration and administration work. If the above mechanism is not available, now Drumstick tries to acquire real-time priority from RealtimeKit.<br /><br />This release is scheduled for sometime during next week.<br /><br />What's next?<br /><br />At this moment there are two libraries: drumstick-alsa (Linux) and drumstick-file. There will be two more: drumstick-win and drumstick-mac. The foundations of these two new libraries are already implemented in KMid2. On the other hand, it is desirable to unify all the backends for all platforms and file formats under a single set of multiplatform interfaces: drumstick-simple. VMPK will benefit from this, because replacing RtMIDI by Drumstick will be easier to implement features like <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2968877&group_id=236429&atid=1100310">MIDI file recording</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2142327&group_id=236429&atid=1100310">playback</a> and <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2445772&group_id=236429&atid=1100310">arpeggiator</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6982925173228101953-2960407475072302761?l=midi-clorianos.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas noreply@blogger.com http://midi-clorianos.blogspot.com/search/label/MIDI Midichlorians in the blood Blog about MIDI, software, music, Linux, KDE, light sabers and Jedi garments tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982925173228101953 2010-09-03T20:00:35+00:00 QmidiCtl, QmidiNet 0.1.0 Out Now! http://www.rncbc.org/233 at http://www.rncbc.org/drupal 2010-09-03T20:00:00+00:00 <p><img src="http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/files/qmidinet.png" title="QmidiNet" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="4" />Howdy! It's been a long summer hasn't it? Bad news is that laudable spring cleaning has slipped a bunch and in fact, is still on going with no end on sight, exactly as the <em>uber-procrastinator</em> predicted! ;)</p> <p>Nevertheless, <a href="http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net">QmidiCtl</a>, <a href="http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net">QmidiNet</a> 0.1.0 are out now!</p> <p><img src="http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/files/qmidictl-nokia-n900-1.png" title="QmidiCtl on a N900" align="center" hspace="4" vspace="4" /></p> <p>This release marks the fact that <a href="http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net">QmidiCtl</a> is now made available from the <a href="http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/qmidictl/">official Maemo 5 repository</a>. So that you can <a href="http://maemo.org/downloads/product/raw/Maemo5/qmidictl/?get_installfile">download and install</a> it directly from your N900. You'll find it on the <a href="http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5/multimedia/">Multimedia</a> section. Second, <a href="http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net">QmidiCtl</a> is now fully configurable with regard to which MIDI events are sent and/or recognized. It's not MMC-exclusive anymore. Third, <a href="http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net">QmidiNet</a> also talks <a href="http://jackaudio.org">JACK</a>-MIDI now. Although (very) experimentally. And you don't have to opt out on <a href="http://www.alsa-project.org">ALSA</a>-MIDI. You can have both MIDI interfaces running as long as you please.</p> <p>Finally, Paul de Vries shows us a magnificent video re. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hnZwnAdsk">How To: Setup QmidiCtl on The Nokia N900 with Renoise</a>. Alas, it's on Windows and using <a href="http://nerds.de">ipMIDI</a> as the gateway back-end. No sweat :) If <a href="http://www.renoise.com/">Renoise</a> is to run on Linux he would use <a href="http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net">QmidiNet</a> or <a href="http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast">multimidicast</a>. Take note that the latter only does ALSA MIDI and doesn't handle MIDI SysEx messages as certain as MMC is. Kudos to Paul.</p> <p><a href="http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/233" target="_blank">read more</a></p> rncbc.org http://www.rncbc.org/drupal rncbc.org Show-off my open-source stuff, mostly of the Linux Audio/MIDI genre http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/rss.xml 2010-09-07T07:01:18+00:00 [LAA] EMutrix v0.1 released http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/3/173269 2010-09-03T11:00:53+00:00 From: Camilo Polymeris &lt;cpolymeris@...&gt;<br /> Subject: [LAA] EMutrix v0.1 released<br /> Date: Sep 3, 10:38 am 2010<br /> <br /> Hello <br />EMutrix is a simple, easy-to-use graphical mixer application for EMU <br />1010 based cards like the E-MU 1212m, E-Mu 1616m and E-MU 1820 models. <br /> <br />I am releasing the first source package of EMutrix, version 0.1 at <br />http://emutrix.googlecode.com <br /> <br />It is mostly functional, allowing arbitrary routing between the card's <br />multiple inputs, outputs and ALSA, setting clock rate and pads. More <br />features to come in future versions. Try it out if you have an E-Mu <br />card! <br /> <br />Any comments welcome. <br />Greetings, <br />Camilo <br /> <br />_______________________________________________ <br />Linux-audio-announce mailing list <br />Linux-audio-announce@lists.linuxaudio.org <br />http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-announce <br /><p><a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/3/173269">read more</a></p> laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org This list informs subscribers about new releases or events and is not intended for discussion.The announce list is moderated and each post needs to be approved by the list maintainer. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:04+00:00 GStreamer Good Plugins 0.10.25, Ugly Plugins 0.10.16, Bad Plugins 0.10.20 stable releases http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/#2010-09-03T01:00:00Z 2010-09-03T01:00:00+00:00 <p> The GStreamer team is excited to announce new releases of the gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-ugly and gst-plugins-bad modules for the 0.10 GStreamer stable release series. </p><p> For more details, check out the release notes for <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-plugins-good/0.10.25.html">gst-plugins-good</a>, <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-plugins-ugly/0.10.16.html">gst-plugins-ugly</a>, and <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-plugins-bad/0.10.20.html">gst-plugins-bad</a>, or download tarballs for <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-good/gst-plugins-good-0.10.25.tar.bz2">gst-plugins-good</a>, <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.16.tar.bz2">gst-plugins-ugly</a>, <a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.20.tar.bz2">gst-plugins-bad</a> directly. </p> GStreamer News http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/ GStreamer News Latest news from the GStreamer project http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/news/rss-1.0.xml 2010-09-06T16:01:10+00:00 The LilyPond Report #20 http://news.lilynet.net/The-LilyPond-Report-20 2010-09-02T14:54:22+00:00 <div class="rss_chapo"><p>This short, informal opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community. It is not meant to be an exhaustive <a href="http://lilypond.org/doc/" class="spip_out">documentation resource</a>. Reader comments are, of course, welcome (see at the bottom of this page).</p></div> <div class="rss_texte"><span class="csfoo somm"></span><div class="cs_sommaire cs_sommaire_avec_fond" id="outil_sommaire"> <div class="cs_sommaire_inner"> <div class="cs_sommaire_titre_avec_fond"> Table of contents </div> <ul> <li><a title="Editorial" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire_0">Editorial</a></li><li><a title="Release news" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire_1">Release news</a></li><li><a title="OMET: Online Music Editing Tools" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire_2">OMET: Online Music Editing Tools</a></li><li><a title="News from the Frog Pond" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire_3">News from the Frog Pond</a></li><li><a title="Bug Report of the Report" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire_4">Bug Report of the Report</a></li><li><a title="LSR Snippets" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire_5">LSR Snippets</a></li> </ul> </div> </div><span class="csfoo somm"></span><p>Welcome to this twentieth issue of the <i>LilyPond Report</i>! </p> <h3 class="spip" id="outil_sommaire_0"><a title="Table of contents" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire" class="sommaire_ancre"> </a>Editorial</h3> <p><i>by Graham Percival</i></p> <p>Here's another LilyPond Report. Enjoy.</p> <h3 class="spip" id="outil_sommaire_1"><a title="Table of contents" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire" class="sommaire_ancre"> </a>Release news</h3> <p><i>by Graham Percival</i></p> <p>The current stable release is 2.12.3-2; all normal users should be engraving with this version. We have no plans on making any more 2.12 releases.</p> <p>The current development release is 2.13.31. This release currently has 5 known Critical issues, but 3 of those were recorded after the previous Report. We're definitely making progress towards the first alpha release of 2.14. Finally, the infamous issue 989 has finally been fixed; many thanks to everybody who worked on it, especially Phil Holmes and James Lowe!</p> <h3 class="spip" id="outil_sommaire_2"><a title="Table of contents" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire" class="sommaire_ancre"> </a>OMET: Online Music Editing Tools</h3> <p><strong>Leveraging Ajax, the DOM and Lilypond for a web-based notation editor</strong></p> <p>Mike Blackstock wrote a nice review of his tool:</p> <p><a href="http://www.omet.ca/lilyreport/lilypondreport.html" class="spip_out">http://www.omet.ca/lilyreport/lilypondreport.html</a></p> <h3 class="spip" id="outil_sommaire_3"><a title="Table of contents" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire" class="sommaire_ancre"> </a>News from the Frog Pond</h3> <p>The Frogs are ordinary LilyPond users who have chosen to get <br />involved in their favorite software's development. Fixing bugs, implementing new features, documenting the source code: there's a lot to be done, but most importantly: this is a chance for everyone to learn more about LilyPond, about Free Software, about programming… and to have fun. If you're curious about any of it, then the word is: Join the Frogs!</p> <p>The Frogs have two new members: Wols (working on a capo option to the chordname engraver), and William (cleaning up our CSS files). Ian continues the difficult task of upgrading our scheme files to work with the upcoming guile 2.0.</p> <h3 class="spip" id="outil_sommaire_4"><a title="Table of contents" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire" class="sommaire_ancre"> </a>Bug Report of the Report</h3> <p><i>by Phil Holmes</i></p> <p>Patrick Schmidt reported <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2010-08/msg00330.html" class="spip_out">some difficulties</a> with \autoBeamOff when setting some vocal music. He reported that it has no effect on other voices, even when used in a global variable. He also noted some strange effects in combination with 16th notes and \partcombine.</p> <p>Carl Sorensen replied that \autoBeamOff is simply an alias for \set autoBeaming = ##f, which means that, by default, it actually only applies in the Voice context. Given that this is not documented, it's not surprising that it's not obvious. I then found an almost identical bug report from 2003, and suggested it was time to fix the documentation. Ralph Palmer raised it as Issue #1227, and Carl provided a fix in build 2.13.31.</p> <p>Carl also commented that the bug Patrick identified when using \partcombine is very challenging to try to fix. However, it can be worked around using set Staff.autoBeaming = ##f</p> <p>Why have I selected this as bug report of the report? Well - I thought it was interesting to be reminded about how it's important to consider which context contains the property you're trying to change. And secondly, it was nice to be able to report that an untracked bug from 2003 has been fixed.</p> <p>So remember to watch your contexts if you're using \autoBeamOff!</p> <h3 class="spip" id="outil_sommaire_5"><a title="Table of contents" href="http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend#outil_sommaire" class="sommaire_ancre"> </a>LSR Snippets</h3> <p><i>by Valentin Villenave</i></p> <p>If you're a newcomer to LilyPond, you might not be familiar with the LSR yet; the <a href="http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/" class="spip_out">LilyPond Snippet Repository</a> is a user-contributed library of LilyPond tricks, ranging from simple yet helpful examples to sophisticated mind-challenging code magic.</p> <p>Browsing through our mailing list archives, I recently found this <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-09/msg00083.html" class="spip_out">nice trick</a> that Trevor Daniels shared with us about two years ago; of course I immediately added it to the LSR:</p> <center><strong><a href="http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=699" class="spip_out">Background color</a></strong></center> <p><span class="csfoo htmla"></span><span class="spip_document_417 spip_documents spip_documents_center"> <img src="http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L275xH57/Image-9-09601.png" width="275" height="57" alt="" /></span><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span></p> <p>This simple yet efficient snippet takes advantage of LilyPond's ability to manage different layers ans superimpose them through the, well, <span class="csfoo htmla"></span><code class="spip_code" dir="ltr">'layer</code><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span> property. A very, very large colored rectangle is drawn in a <span class="csfoo htmla"></span><code class="spip_code" dir="ltr">markup</code><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span> object all over the page.</p> <p>A few questions remain: how to automatically make the rectangle size match the page dimensions? How to use images instead of plain colors, for a nice watermark effect? how to find a better anchor point for the markup? etc.</p> <p>If you have ideas to improve this method, please <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/_Valentin-Villenave_" class="spip_in">let me know</a> and send us your nicely decorated music sheets!</p> <p><span class="csfoo htmla"></span><span class="spip_document_81 spip_documents spip_documents_center"> <img src="http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L125xH100/lesite-d163a.png" width="125" height="100" alt="" /></span><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span></p> <p>That concludes the twentieth issue of The LilyPond Report. Next installment is expected on October 1st; please <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/_Valentin-Villenave_" class="spip_in">send</a> <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/_Graham-Percival_" class="spip_in">us</a> your contributions before September 22!</p> <p>Cheers, <br />Graham Percival, Valentin Villenave</p></div> LilyPond news http://news.lilynet.net/ LilyPond news Welcome to the LilyPond community newsletter! http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend 2010-09-07T07:00:27+00:00 [LAA] FluidSynth 1.1.2 has been released! http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/2/173246 2010-09-02T09:00:56+00:00 From: David Henningsson &lt;diwic@...&gt;<br /> Subject: [LAA] FluidSynth 1.1.2 has been released!<br /> Date: Sep 2, 8:44 am 2010<br /> <br /> On the behalf of the FluidSynth developer team, I'm proud to announce <br />version 1.1.2 of FluidSynth! <br /> <br />Bigger changes include a redesign of threads and thread safety, and a <br />new preferred build system - CMake. Other changes include settings for <br />MIDI bank selection and voice overflow, and a fair amount of minor <br />enhancements and bug fixes. <br /> <br />The latest release can be downloaded at: <br />https://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidsynth/files/ <br />A more complete changelog is at: <br />https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/ChangeLog1_1_2 <br /> <br />For this release, I would like to give a big thanks to: <br /> * Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, for the new build system, and a lot of bug <br /> fixes <br /> * The jOrgan community (Sven Meier, Bernd Casper, and others) who <br /> have been very helpful in testing the new release <br /> * Ebrahim Mayat for taking care of the MacOS X port <br /> * All other people who have tested the code before its release, <br /> suggested patches and helped to trace down bugs, as well as being <br /> active on the mailing list, helping the developer team to take <br /> the right decisions. <br /> <br />Now go enjoy the new release! <br /> <br /> David Henningsson <br /> FluidSynth Developer Team <br /> <br />_______________________________________________ <br />Linux-audio-announce mailing list <br />Linux-audio-announce@lists.linuxaudio.org <br />http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-announce <br /><p><a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/2/173246">read more</a></p> laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org This list informs subscribers about new releases or events and is not intended for discussion.The announce list is moderated and each post needs to be approved by the list maintainer. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:04+00:00 [LAA] ON2: Test Signals, 22 - 24 October, Berlin http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/1/173190 2010-09-01T09:01:15+00:00 From: Daniel James &lt;daniel@...&gt;<br /> Subject: [LAA] ON2: Test Signals, 22 - 24 October, Berlin<br /> Date: Sep 1, 8:58 am 2010<br /> <br /> Dates for “ON2: Test Signals”, which will bring together software <br />developers and radio practitioners to demonstrate, discuss and develop <br />new ways of applying software to radio, have been announced. ON2 will <br />take place from Friday 22 October - Sun 24 October in the Haus der <br />Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany. <br /> <br />“Far from killing radio, the internet is actually behind a remarkable <br />resurgence,” says festival producer Adam Thomas from Sourcefabric, the <br />not-for-profit organisation responsible for the leading open source <br />radio software Campcaster. “We’re seeing an increasing number of <br />community and non-commercial stations use software and the internet in <br />hugely innovative ways to boost listener figures across all platforms.” <br /> <br />Two such stations, reboot.fm, Berlin’s free cultural radio station and <br />user-generated radio pioneers Open Broadcast from Switzerland, are <br />official partners of the festival. <br /> <br />Also appearing at the festival will be radio futurologist James <br />Cridland, Mozilla Drumbeat’s Henrik Moltke, and representatives from <br />Creative Commons, 64 Studio, Unikom, Global Radio, RadioDNS, <br />newthinking, Mekong ICT and Radio Aporee. Alongside many other radio and <br />software organisations, they will provide three days of expert keynotes, <br />open presentations, hands-on workshops, one-on-one mentoring and social <br />events. <br /> <br />ON2 are currently considering applications to hold a workshop or <br />presentation in the fields of software and radio. To apply, please write <br />to contact@sourcefabric.org with a summary of your idea and project. <br /> <br />Public events will be free to attend, but sign up is required. The <br />festival will be of particular interest to radio station managers, open <br />source developers, web entrepreneurs, hardware hackers and journalists. <br /> <br />The festival is an official satellite event of transmediale, festival <br />for art and digital culture and is the first in a series of open-source <br />workshop events supported by the Free Culture Incubator. The festival is <br />also partnered by Mute, a magazine dedicated to exploring culture and <br />politics after the net. This is the second version of the festival <br />following one held in June 2010 in Basel, Switzerland. <br /> <br />More information: <br /> <br />Festival wiki: http://wiki.sourcefabric.org/display/ON2 <br />Sourcefabric: http://www.sourcefabric.org <br />reboot.fm: http://reboot.fm <br />Open Broadcast: http://www.openbroadcast.ch <br />transmediale: http://transmediale.de <br />Mute magazine: http://metamute.org/ <br />Free Culture Incubator: www.transmediale.de/en/fci <br />Haus der Kulturen der Welt: http://www.hkw.de/ <br /> <br />or write to Adam at contact@sourcefabric.org <br /> <br />---- <br />ends <br />_______________________________________________ <br />Linux-audio-announce mailing list <br />Linux-audio-announce@lists.linuxaudio.org <br />http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-announce <br /><p><a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/1/173190">read more</a></p> laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org This list informs subscribers about new releases or events and is not intended for discussion.The announce list is moderated and each post needs to be approved by the list maintainer. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:04+00:00 [LAA] jMax Phoenix beta 0.6 is out http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/1/173189 2010-09-01T09:01:15+00:00 From: Maurizio De Cecco &lt;jmax@...&gt;<br /> Subject: [LAA] jMax Phoenix beta 0.6 is out<br /> Date: Sep 1, 8:58 am 2010<br /> <br /> After many month of development, we are proud to announce the version <br />0.6 beta of jMax Phoenix. <br /> <br />The major highlights for this version are: <br /> - A first version of the puredata source compatibility kit, including <br />the build system and a full example of recompiled object library. <br /> - A large set of usability bug fixed; all the bugs preventing a <br />smooth work flow have been fixed. <br /> - Error handling improvements: most of the bugs and configuration <br />errors now results in error messages, and not unexplained freezes. <br /> - A set of examples and tutorials has been recovered from old ISPW <br />archives; they are not updated to include all the major jMax <br />functionalities, but it is better than nothing. <br /> <br />Full release notes are available in the release notes section of the <br />projet site. <br /> <br />This release has been tested on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio 10.04, Debian <br />5, Fedora 13 and Mandriva Spring 2010; check the installation <br />instruction on the projet site for specific caveats for Debian and Fedora. <br /> <br />The Puredata compatibility sub-project has been *very* time consuming; <br />in order to better manage my scarce time resources, <br />we need some user feedback (and possibly help) to be able to evaluate <br />the actual interest of pursuing this development direction. <br /> <br />For more information and download and installation instructions go to <br />http://www.jmax-phoenix.org/. <br /> <br />For contacting the project team: contact@jmax-phoenix.org <br /> <br />The jMax Phoenix team <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />_______________________________________________ <br />Linux-audio-announce mailing list <br />Linux-audio-announce@lists.linuxaudio.org <br />http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-announce <br /><p><a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/9/1/173189">read more</a></p> laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org This list informs subscribers about new releases or events and is not intended for discussion.The announce list is moderated and each post needs to be approved by the list maintainer. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:04+00:00 In Photos: Discovering Sound Making, Electronics at Culturefix NYC http://createdigitalmusic.com/?p=13135 2010-09-01T05:47:04+00:00 <p></p> <div class="imgcaption">Photos above: Jennifer Meagher, with additional photography by myself.</div> <p>Handmade Music found a new home on New York&#8217;s Lower East Side, at <a href="http://culturefixny.com/">Culturefix</a>, an electronics boutique cum gallery, bar, and tapas. The philosophy of this event has long been to simply open the doors, letting a community of people come together, make some noise, and have fun and learn. So we&#8217;re indebted to the people who made it happen &#8211; and I think there were some lessons to hopefully reproduce.</p> <p>And yes, part of why I share this is I hope we can work over time to provide more resources, so that it&#8217;s easier to organize events and workshops to involve people in discovering the music technologies about which we&#8217;re passionate.<br /> <img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/09/neuro_smomid.jpg" alt="" title="neuro_smomid" width="580" height="398" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13145" /></p> <div class="imgcaption">Left: Ted Hayes and Neurohedron, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mattron/">Mattron</a> (see his <a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/open-source/feed/www.virb.com/snazzmammoth">Virb</a> <a href="http://www.virb.com/colorform">pages</a>.) Right: Nick and his Smomid guitar. Photo courtesy Lem Fugitt / <a href="http://www.robots-dreams.com/">Robots-Dreams</a>.</div> <p>Highlights:<span id="more-13135"></span></p> <p><strong>Great food and drink and art.</strong> First, I owe huge thanks to Ari and Cole and the whole staff of <a href="http://culturefixny.com/">Culturefix</a> for serving up delicious food and drinks in the kitchen/bar. There&#8217;s no reason tech has to be served on an empty stomach. I gather some purchases went down up in their drool-worthy audio boutique. (I, uh, bought a mixer&#8230;) But perhaps best of all, it was nice being in a gallery with an active show and being surrounded with texture and visual inspiration.</p> <p><strong>Lots of people soldering and making electronics, even for the first time.</strong> We had a wide group of people try out the 1976 phototheremin, an original design by <a href="http://www.forrestmims.org/">Forrest M. Mims III</a> adapted and executed by <a href="http://ericarcher.net/">Eric Archer</a>. Simplicity makes a difference: Forrest&#8217;s original design uses a tiny number of parts, which makes it ideal for a workshop &#8211; fewer solder points. Folks who had never soldered before nailed it in no time at all; Brian Biggs&#8217; young children even got in on the action. We benefited from having a mix of people who had soldered before and some who hadn&#8217;t. Result: everyone one had a great time. (Thanks, great participants!) And apart from one case of swapped transistors, remedied with a desoldering gun, we had a 100% success rate. I think this is an ideal way to learn; I hope we can do more of these and perhaps create a new library of these projects for the online age.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p_kirn/4946919681/" title="Handmade Music: Phototheremin workshop by p_kirn, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/4946919681_87457ff185.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Handmade Music: Phototheremin workshop" /></a></p> <p>Video and more photos by Joe Saavedra, who helped out with the workshop:</p> <p></p> <p><strong>Chip music, invented guitars, dodecahedron side by side.</strong> Guitarist Nick Demopoulos captivated the crowd with his homemade <a href="http://www.nickdemopoulos.com/smomidelements/smomid2.html">Smomid guitar controller</a>, which aligned MIDI pitches with touch-sensitive strips arranged as frets, for a controller more comfortable for guitar. Ted Hayes talked about the fine details of construction and three-dimensional layouts for sequencers on his <a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/projects/neurohedron">Neurohedron</a> &#8211; a particular enough task that I think we should probably cover it in more detail with Ted. <a href="http://pulsewavenyc.com">Pulsewave</a>, the NYC-based chip music series, offered chip music. What was interesting about that was that, by taking it out its usual venue, the music reached a largely unfamiliar crowd. (A number of people were hearing chip music for the first time.) This put the notion of making music with Nintendo handhelds alongside other hacks and DIY solutions for music. Thanks to Peter Swimm for making this happen.</p> <p><img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/09/kriskeyser.jpg" alt="" title="kriskeyser" width="375" height="500" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13155" /></p> <div class="imgcaption"><a href="http://kriskeyser.bandcamp.com/">Kris Keyser</a> looks on. Photo courtesy Lem Fugitt / <a href="http://www.robots-dreams.com/">Robots-Dreams</a>.</div> <p><img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/09/mariaapril_music0.jpg" alt="" title="mariaapril_music0" width="580" height="387" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13158" /><br /> <img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/09/mariaapril_music1.jpg" alt="" title="mariaapril_music1" width="580" height="387" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13159" /></p> <div class="imgcaption">Above: <a href="http://dapantz.com/">DePantz</a>, as captured by photographer Maria April. Maria described these images after taking them as expressing how the music felt to her.</div> <h3>Live videos</h3> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Thanks to Robots Dreams for the additional photos and videos. If you haven&#8217;t seen this superb hacker-friendly site, it&#8217;s a definite don&#8217;t miss:<br /> <a href="http://www.robots-dreams.com/">http://www.robots-dreams.com/</a></p> <p>And to everyone, yes, we&#8217;ll do this again, as well as work on ways of sharing these events across geographic distance, whether that&#8217;s publishing additional kit and workshop ideas, promoting events in different places, or &#8230; well, really, anything else you&#8217;d suggest.</p> Create Digital Music » open-source http://createdigitalmusic.com Create Digital Music » open-source The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/open-source/feed/ 2010-09-07T01:00:29+00:00 Soundhack Goodness, Now as Pd and Max External Objects http://createdigitalmusic.com/?p=13169 2010-09-01T05:46:52+00:00 <p><img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/09/delay-ss.png" alt="" title="delay-ss" width="580" height="274" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13171" /></p> <p>Soundhack, the free audio tool for the Mac developed by audio wizard Tom Erbe, was long a beloved tool for doing strange and wonderful things for sound. It was followed by Spectral Shapers, Mac and Windows plug-ins that built on some of those ideas to do more &#8220;timbral morphing&#8221; with recorded audio. That includes &#8220;timbral filtering&#8221; and noise-reducing expansion with spectralcompand, drawn morphing filter shapes with morphfilter, audio positioning with binaural, and a terrific spectralgate for creative dynamics processing.</p> <p>In what can only come as great news to lovers of patching in the free and open source Pure Data (Pd) and commercial Max/MSP environments alike, those tools are now in beta as objects to include in your own patches. These patching environments really do feel like the virtual modular studios they are. Included:</p> <blockquote><p>+binaural, +morphfilter, +spectralcompand, +spectralgate, +decimate, +chebyshev, +matrix, +compand, +delay, +pitchdelay and +bubbler</p></blockquote> <p>This release promises a few bugs, so use at your own risk and write good, precise bug reports if you hit any trouble. Windows Max support isn&#8217;t there yet, but Mac Max support is, and Pd users can enjoy the software on Mac, Windows, Linux, and even 64-bit Linux. More updates coming later this summer.</p> <p><a href="http://www.soundhack.com/externs.php">http://www.soundhack.com/externs.php</a></p> Create Digital Music » Linux http://createdigitalmusic.com Create Digital Music » Linux The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/linux/feed/ 2010-09-07T01:00:23+00:00 [LAA] guitarix-0.11.1 Bug fix release http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/8/26/173011 2010-08-31T14:06:56+00:00 From: &lt;@...&gt;<br /> Subject: [LAA] guitarix-0.11.1 Bug fix release<br /> Date: Aug 26, 9:20 am 2010<br /> <br /> On behalf of the guitarix team I'm proud to announce <br /> <br />Guitarix Version 0.11.1 Bug fix release <br /> <br />Guitarix is a simple Linux Rock Guitar amplifier and is designed <br />to achieve nice thrash/metal/rock/blues guitar sounds. <br />Guitarix uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit as its audio backend <br />and brings to the jack audio graph a mono amplifier input/output port, <br />and a FX mono input with two (stereo) output ports. <br /> <br />Guitarix provides a jack midi input port to connect a midi controller <br />(midi learn) and a (3 channel) jack midi output port, feed by a <br />(scalable) mix of the tuner and a beat-detector. <br /> <br />Release 0.11.1 comes with following changes : <br /> * fix Bug Echo/Chorus/Delay/Slooper don't work <br /> * add pre/post processing switch to all mono Effects <br /> <br /> <br /> We put the Guitarix widgets into a library, with the goal of <br /> making them usable independently from Guitarix. You can build <br /> it as shared library and there's a c++ (gtkmm) wrapper, a python <br /> wrapper and glade support. Check it out and look for examples <br /> in those directories, or just build a nice looking display with the <br /> glade editor, and of course ask in our Guitarix forum (it's still <br /> alpha). <br /> <br />As a side note, Guitarix is now in debian(sid/squeeze/Experimental) , <br /> <br />have fun <br />_________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />guitarix is licensed under the GPL. <br /> <br />Project page with screenshots: <br /> http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/ <br /> <br />download: <br /> http://sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix/ <br /> <br />please report bugs and suggestions in our forum here: <br /> http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/guitarix/ <br />________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />For capture, guitarix uses the great 'jack_capture' <br />(version >= 0.9.30) written by Kjetil S. Matheussen. <br />If you don't have it installed, <br />you can look here: <br /> <br /> http://old.notam02.no/arkiv/src/?M=D <br /> <br />For extra Impulse Responses, guitarix uses the <br />zita-convolver library, and, <br />for up/down sampling we use zita-resampler, <br />both written by Fons Adriaensen. <br />If you don't have it installed, get it here: <br /> <br /> http://www.kokkinizita.net/linuxaudio/index.html <br /> <br />We use the marvellous faust compiler to build the amp and effects and <br />will say <br />thanks to <br /> <br /> : Julius Smith <br /> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/realsimple/faust/ <br /> <br /> : Albert Graef <br /> http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html#Faust <br /> <br /> : Yann Orlary <br /> http://faust.grame.fr/ <br />________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />For faust users : <br /> <br />All used Faust dsp files are included in /guitarix/src/faust, <br />the resulting cc files are in /guitarix/src/faust-generated <br />The tools we use to convert (post-processing and plot) <br />the resulting faust cpp files to the needed include format, <br />stay in the /guitarix/tools directory. <br />________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br /> regards <br /> <br /> Hermann Meyer, James Warden, Andreas Degert <br /> <br />_______________________________________________ <br />Linux-audio-announce mailing list <br />Linux-audio-announce@lists.linuxaudio.org <br />http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-announce <br /><p><a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/8/26/173011">read more</a></p> laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org This list informs subscribers about new releases or events and is not intended for discussion.The announce list is moderated and each post needs to be approved by the list maintainer. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:04+00:00 [LAA] [ANN] Ecasound 2.7.2 released http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/8/20/172892 2010-08-31T14:06:56+00:00 From: &lt;@...&gt;<br /> Subject: [LAA] [ANN] Ecasound 2.7.2 released<br /> Date: Aug 20, 9:11 am 2010<br /> <br /> 1. Summary of changes in this release <br />------------------------------------- <br /> <br />Manual gate feature has been added. Bugs have been fixed in saving <br />chainsetup state, seeking with resample objects and with cygwin support. <br /> <br />2. What is Ecasound? <br />-------------------- <br /> <br />Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. <br />It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format <br />conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, <br />recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio <br />inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be <br />combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by <br />operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console mode <br />user-interface is included in the package. <br /> <br />Primary platform for running Ecasound is GNU/Linux. Ecasound can also be <br />run on many UNIX-derived systems such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris. <br />Limited support for Windows is available through Cygwin. Ecasound is <br />licensed under the GPL. The Ecasound Control Interface (ECI) is licensed <br />under the LGPL. <br /> <br />3. Changes in 2.7.x series <br />-------------------------- <br /> <br />v2.7.2: <br /> <br />* Manual gate (-gm) added. See ecasound(1) for docs. <br /> <br />* liboil now enabled by default if its development files are <br /> found when running configure. <br /> <br />* Bugfixes. <br /> <br />v2.7.1: <br /> <br />* Bugfixes. <br /> <br />v2.7.0: <br /> <br />* Open Sound Control (OSC) support. See the initial announcement <br /> mail sent to ecasound-list: <br /> http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2009/04/0036-fixed.html <br /> Current interface is documented at: <br /> http://eca.cx/ecasound/Documentation/ecasound_osc_interface.txt <br /> The interface is still limited and subject to change in <br /> later releases, but it's a start. <br /> <br />* New '-chorder' operator that allows to reorder channels of <br /> an audio stream. Also duplication and omission of certain <br /> channels is possible. See ecasound(1) man page for more <br /> information. <br /> <br />* Added new amplify/gain variant '-eadb' that allows to specify <br /> the gain in dB. See the related mail thread: <br /> http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2009/03/0034.html <br /> <br />* Refactored POSIX signal handling in ecasound. See the following <br /> mail for some rationale, as well as a list of changes. <br /> See mail thread: <br /> http://eca.cx/ecasound-list/2009/02/0027.html <br /> <br />* Various optimizations to Ecasound inner loops using <br /> the liboil library. See http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/ <br /> To enable the optimizations, liboil-0.3 development files <br /> need to be installed and '--enable-liboil' must be passed <br /> to Ecasound's configure script. <br /> <br />* New 'cop-get' interactive mode command. See the updated <br /> ecasound-iam(1) manual page for further info. <br /> <br />Full list of changes is available at: <br /> - http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/history.php <br /> <br />4. Interface and configuration file changes in 2.7 series <br />--------------------------------------------------------- <br /> <br />v2.7.0: <br /> <br />Output of '-ev' operator has been renewed. <br /> <br />The name for default chainsetup created from command line is now <br />"untitled-chainsetup". <br /> <br />Most of the entries in the installed ecasoundrc file <br />(in ${prefix}/share/ecasound/ecasoundrc), are now commented <br />out by default. <br /> <br />Major changes to the libecasound library public interface. <br />This should not really affect anyone anymore, as direct use of <br />libecasound has been discouraged for a long time and it is <br />available only as a static library, but just in case someone <br />is still using it. See libecasound/ChangeLog for a detailed <br />list of changes. <br /> <br />5. Contributors to 2.7 series <br />----------------------------- [<a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/8/20/172892">message continues</a>]<p><a href="http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/2010/8/20/172892">read more</a></p> laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org laa mailing list - Linuxaudio.org This list informs subscribers about new releases or events and is not intended for discussion.The announce list is moderated and each post needs to be approved by the list maintainer. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/laa/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:04+00:00 Ghetto guitar synth with Linux/Ingen http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/guitar-synth-linux-ingen/ 2010-08-31T14:05:28+00:00 By unfortunate historical accident the term "guitar synth" seems to have become synonymous with "guitar-like MIDI controller", which is odd as MIDI is fundamentally quite poor at representing the way guitars are played. I wanted to try ditching the MIDI ...... Joe Button - Linux audio http://www.joebutton.co.uk/ Joe Button - Linux audio Entries tagged 'Linux audio' from Joe Button's blog http://www.joebutton.co.uk/rss/tag/linux-audio/ 2010-09-07T07:00:03+00:00 New Wine: Running Windows Music &amp; Sound Applications Under Wine 1.2 http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/1013688 at http://www.linuxjournal.com 2010-08-31T14:00:00+00:00 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-node-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-wine-running-windows-music-sound-applications-under-wine-12" class="imagecache imagecache-node-page imagecache-linked imagecache-node-page_linked"><img src="http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/ufiles/imagecache/node-page/nodeimage/story/Winehq_logo_glass.png" alt="New Wine logo here." title="Wine is for music too." class="imagecache imagecache-node-page" width="200" height="313" /></a> </div> </div> </div> <!--paging_filter--><p> Wine runs many Windows programs nicely these days, including more and more serious music applications. Dave profiles some of those applications running under the latest &amp; greatest Wine 1.2 <span class="read-more"><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-wine-running-windows-music-sound-applications-under-wine-12"> more>></a></span></p> audio http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/all audio http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/all/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:13+00:00 Inkscape Tiled Clones http://thorwil.wordpress.com/?p=1027 2010-08-30T11:20:16+00:00 <p><a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a> has this dialog hidden in <em>Edit</em> -&gt; <em>Clone</em> -&gt; <em>Create Tiled Clones&#8230;</em>:</p> <p><img src="http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/wallpaper_groups1.png?w=176&h=1023" alt="" title="wallpaper_groups" width="176" height="1023" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1049" /></p> <p>It has been <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=949023.59842.qm%40web110308.mail.gq1.yahoo.com">brought up on the Inkscape-devel list</a> and I decided to have a closer look.</p> <p>Inkscape defaults to shifting the clones by 100% width of the selected object for columns and 100% height for rows. So the parameters on the <em>Shift</em> page are actually about the deviation from that, but the interface doesn&#8217;t make that clear at all.</p> <p><em>Shift</em> and <em>Scale</em> only take %, but should allow absolute values with a unit of the user&#8217;s choice.</p> <p><em>Rows, columns</em> wouldn&#8217;t make sense for radial arrangements that should also be possible.</p> <p><em>Width, height</em>: it could be made clearer that this option will fill the specified area and in what directions (original defines top left).</p> <p><em>Use saved size and position of the tile</em> checkbox: what is the use case for this option?<br /> The tool-tip shows that this needs a lot of explanation: <em>&#8220;Pretend that the size and position of the tile are the same as the last time you tiled it (if any), instead of using the current size&#8221;</em>.</p> <p>The Exponent parameter on the <em>Shift</em> and <em>Scale</em> pages depends on the tool-tip to explain that it defines whether rows will be spaced evenly (1), converge (1).</p> <p>Trace page: Well, non of my tests produced anything sensible or useful.</p> <p>The <em>Symmetry</em> page only contains a pop-up list (what GTK+ erroneously calls a combo box) full of mysterious items: </p> <p><img src="http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/screenshot_create_tiled_clones_symmetry_list.png?w=334&h=461" alt="" title="screenshot_create_tiled_clones_symmetry_list" width="334" height="461" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1030" /></p> <p>These are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group">the 17 wallpaper groups</a>, all possible tilings with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translational_symmetry">translational symmetry</a>. I don&#8217;t think knowledge of these should be expected. At the very least, the term <em>wallpaper groups</em> should be mentioned. Even once you know what this is about, the descriptions might not help you much with recalling the patterns or with predicting the outcome based on the selected object.</p> <p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group">Wikipedia article</a> includes diagrams, but I didn&#8217;t find them to help much. <a href="http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles-Symmetries.html">A page of Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program</a> is much better. There are 11 groups based on rectangles (2 of them can be parallelograms), 1 on right-angled rectangles (rectangles cut apart diagonally) and 5 on hexagon subdivisions.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s an attempt at creating the most simple schematics, leaving out points of rotation and mirror axes to just depict orientation. The place taken by the selected object is darkened:</p> <p><img src="http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/wallpaper_groups.png?w=176&h=1023" alt="" title="wallpaper_groups" width="176" height="1023" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1031" /></p> <p>These could be added to the descriptions given now.</p> <br />Filed under: <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/conception/">Conception</a>, <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/planet-ubuntu/">Planet Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/user-experience/">User Experience</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thorwil.wordpress.com/1027/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thorwil.wordpress.com&blog=938467&post=1027&subd=thorwil&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Thorwil's http://thorwil.wordpress.com Thorwil's Design for Free Software http://thorwil.wordpress.com/feed/ 2010-09-06T21:00:20+00:00 The Open Source Musician Podcast Episode #44 - Android Phones ROCK! http://www.opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/b64127c5d6517966078b8f6dd4362558 2010-08-30T01:08:07+00:00 <dl><dd>Title: </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd>Banter: </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd>Software Releases: <dl><dd> - AV Linux 4.0 "Black n' Blue" Edition <dl><dd><dl><dd><a class="external free" title="http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html">http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd><dl><dd> - Ardour 2.8.11 is now available from <a class="external free" title="http://ardour.org/download" rel="nofollow" href="http://ardour.org/download">http://ardour.org/download</a> <dl><dd><dl><dd> It contains only 1 change from 2.8.10, but its an important one: </dd><dd> * Do not prevent transport operations after an export (and potentially at other times) </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd><dl><dd> - Denemo 0.8.18 Release - Free and Open Music Notation Editor <dl><dd><dl><dd> Too many additions to mention here. Just check it out at </dd><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://denemo.org/index.php/Get_Denemo" rel="nofollow" href="http://denemo.org/index.php/Get_Denemo">http://denemo.org/index.php/Get_Denemo</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> - guitarix 0.10.0 is now availabe at: <a class="external free" title="http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow" href="http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/">http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/</a> <dl><dd><dl><dd> lots of new features, including added tonestack and amp models, a cabinet impulse response module, a simple looper, and selectable distortion and EQ models </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> - LMMS 0.4.7 <a class="external free" title="http://lmms.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow" href="http://lmms.sourceforge.net/">http://lmms.sourceforge.net/</a> <dl><dd><dl><dd> This version is a maintainance release of the 0.4.x series available for both Linux and Windows </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd>Audio Releases: </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd>Tips: <dl><dd> IRC User ScottL (Scott Lavender of Ubuntu Studio fame) has a great video link explaining Ubuntu Studio - helpful also in that it goes into what Jackd is and shows how to use hydrogen and ardour together. <a class="external free" title="http://vimeo.com/12454464" rel="nofollow" href="http://vimeo.com/12454464">http://vimeo.com/12454464</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd><dl><dd> IRC User Stuzz has a link to a Linux Audio Users (LAU) mailing list thread he found useful, regarding quality acoustic drumkits for use with hydrogen - <a class="external free" title="http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-July/071176.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-July/071176.html">http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-July/071176.html</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> IRC User Autostatic links us up to the Guitarix blog where you can find cool videos on use cases: <a class="external free" title="http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/guitarix/" rel="nofollow" href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/guitarix/">http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/guitarix/</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd>IRC User Unixhag found this episodes cute and fun themed link... An OSM Waffle recipe! <a class="external free" title="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/40-a-day/osm-waffle-recipe/index.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/40-a-day/osm-waffle-recipe/index.html">http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/40-a-day/osm-waffle-recipe/index.html</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd>Gear: <dl><dd> - DIY microphone kits and resources - (holstein) <dl><dd><dl><dd><a class="external free" title="http://www.scotthelmke.com/microphones.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.scotthelmke.com/microphones.html">http://www.scotthelmke.com/microphones.html</a> </dd><dd><a class="external free" title="http://www.ribbonmic.rickshawrecords.com/diymickits.html" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ribbonmic.rickshawrecords.com/diymickits.html">http://www.ribbonmic.rickshawrecords.com/diymickits.html</a> </dd><dd><a class="external free" title="http://www.mp3forkidz.com/mic/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mp3forkidz.com/mic/">http://www.mp3forkidz.com/mic/</a> </dd><dd><a class="external free" title="http://www.diymic.com/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.diymic.com/">http://www.diymic.com/</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd><dl><dd> - IRC User Stuzz shows a link of the progress of the pandora gaming device as a linux music making device. <a class="external free" title="http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54484-pandora-as-a-midi-sequencing-workstation/" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54484-pandora-as-a-midi-sequencing-workstation/">http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54484-pandora-as-a-midi-sequencing-workstation/</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> - IRC user lsd posted a link to the next-generation kit version of the Monome grid controller, which will soon be available for pre-order. The new kit lets you build up to a 16x16 board that connects to your PC via a single USB port. Pricing starts at US$220 for the basic 8x8 kit, without a case or LEDs <a class="external free" title="http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=tech:mk" rel="nofollow" href="http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=tech:mk">http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=tech:mk</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd>Announcements: </dd></dl> <ul> <li>Rakarrack 0.5.8 "Equinox" released June 21, 2010. Significant feature upgrade and bug fixes. A summer gift to the FOSS community. </li> </ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>15:47 &lt; Transmogrifox&gt; Anybody who follows Rakarrack git (development): we have recently added multi-band compressor and also an analog tremolo model, "Opticaltrem" </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> - MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync (holstein) <dl><dd><dl><dd><a class="external free" title="http://sourceforge.net/projects/arpage/" rel="nofollow" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/arpage/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/arpage/</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <p>Finally! OSMP Theme song tracks posted - 1 Bzip of the entire Ardour session, and individual FLAC's to cull for remix. <a class="external free" title="http://www.archive.org/details/OpenSourceMusicianPodcastThemeSongardourSessionForRemix" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.archive.org/details/OpenSourceMusicianPodcastThemeSongardourSessionForRemix">http://www.archive.org/details/OpenSourceMusicianPodcastThemeSongardourSessionForRemix</a></p> <dl><dd>Rants/Calling BS: </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd>Tech Segment: </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd>Listener Feedback: </dd></dl> <p>&nbsp;</p> <dl><dd>Contact Info: </dd></dl> <dl><dd> Wiki: </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://opensourcemusician.com" rel="nofollow" href="http://opensourcemusician.com/">http://opensourcemusician.com</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd> E-Mails </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> osmp@pipemanmusic.com </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd> Twitter and Identi.ca: </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://twitter.com/pipemanmusic" rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/pipemanmusic">http://twitter.com/pipemanmusic</a> </dd><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://identi.ca/pipemanmusic" rel="nofollow" href="http://identi.ca/pipemanmusic">http://identi.ca/pipemanmusic</a> </dd><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://identi.ca/guitarman" rel="nofollow" href="http://identi.ca/guitarman">http://identi.ca/guitarman</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd> Blogs: </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" href="http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com/">http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com</a> </dd><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://deadbeatguitarist.com/?feed=rss2" rel="nofollow" href="http://deadbeatguitarist.com/?feed=rss2">http://deadbeatguitarist.com/?feed=rss2</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd> Voicemail: </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com" rel="nofollow" href="http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/">http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd> Forums: </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> <a class="external free" title="http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=41" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=41">http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=41</a> </dd></dl> </dd><dd> IRC: </dd></dl> <dl><dd><dl><dd> <a class="external text" title="http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=OSMGuest.&channels=opensourcemusicians" rel="nofollow" href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=OSMGuest.&channels=opensourcemusicians">#opensourcemusicians on Freenode</a> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> <dl><dd>Podcast Out! </dd></dl> Open Source Musician Podcast http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com Open Source Musician Podcast Your guide to Open Source for the musician. http://www.opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/rss 2010-09-07T07:01:22+00:00 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License Full Circle Magazine Logo 4 http://thorwil.wordpress.com/?p=1021 2010-08-29T18:11:06+00:00 <p><a href="http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-40/">The Full Circle Magazine (Issue #40)</a> is out, with a new logo:</p> <p><img src="http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/full_circle_magazin.png?w=77&h=77" alt="" title="full_circle_magazin" width="77" height="77" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1022" /></p> <p>Ronnie Tucker (editor) liked the middle variant of <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/full-circle-magazine-logo-3/">the last set posted</a>, but considered it too plain. While I don&#8217;t agree, I preferred to offer this final solution instead of him going with something entirely different <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> <br />Filed under: <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/logos/">Logos</a>, <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/planet-ubuntu/">Planet Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://thorwil.wordpress.com/category/ubuntu/">Ubuntu</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/thorwil.wordpress.com/1021/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thorwil.wordpress.com&blog=938467&post=1021&subd=thorwil&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Thorwil's http://thorwil.wordpress.com Thorwil's Design for Free Software http://thorwil.wordpress.com/feed/ 2010-09-06T21:00:20+00:00 monome Me: Community Tour, Tunes to Hear http://createdigitalmusic.com/?p=13079 2010-08-28T00:46:56+00:00 <p><img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/08/monometour1.jpg" alt="" title="monometour1" width="580" height="435" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13081" /></p> <div class="imgcaption">Pauk (Pau Cabruja) using a Monome 256 attached to a guitar strap, photo by Lara<br /> Jaruchik. Courtesy monome Community Tour</div> <p>The monome is coming to your town. Unlike tours organized by commercial product vendors, a grassroots effort by monome users pledges to share the music made with the monome and give back to a larger community.</p> <p>It&#8217;s hard to explain the monome. It&#8217;s part tool, part lifestyle. And its openness comes in large part from the community of artists who use it, and embrace the controller&#8217;s sustainable production and unique design. In fact, it&#8217;s hard to explain just what a monome <em>is</em>: this USB-connected grid of light-up buttons is, by design, a blank canvas. It&#8217;s what the community has brought to that canvas that has made the monome a surprise revolution. That passion sometimes even makes it an object of ridicule &#8211; but let the monome artists show your their chops and love, and all but the coldest hearts melt.</p> <p>Organizer Frank Rose shares some thoughts on the monome tour.</p> <p>And since it is as much about the users and their music, we&#8217;ve got some music for you to hear. (If you&#8217;re using Chrome/Chromium, you can easily queue up all these tracks using the wonderful <a href="http://www.extension.fm/">ExtensionFM</a> &#8211; anyone have something similar on Firefox?)</p> <p><img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/08/monometour2.jpg" alt="" title="monometour2" width="580" height="435" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13086" /><span id="more-13079"></span></p> <p>The tour kicks off in Boston, but eventually leaves American shores for Canada, Austria, and Spain &#8211; and more dates around the world are in the works. (Got a lead on a venue in your town? Give a shout.)</p> <p>09.03.2010 – Boston, MA<br /> 09.04.2010 – NYC, NY<br /> 09.06.2010 – Daytona, FL<br /> 09.07.2010 – Houston, TX<br /> 09.11.2010 – Boulder, CO<br /> 09.12.2010 – Denver, CO<br /> 09.13.2010 – Sante Fe, NM<br /> 09.15.2010 – San Diego, CA<br /> 09.16.2010 – Fullerton, CA<br /> 09.17.2010 – Los Angeles, CA<br /> 09.18.2010 – Santa Cruz, CA<br /> 09.19.2010 – San Francisco, CA<br /> 09.21.2010 – Portland, OR<br /> 09.22.2010 – Seattle, WA<br /> 09.24.2010 – Toronto, ON<br /> 10.01.2010 – Edmonton, AB<br /> 10.16.2010 – Linz, Austria<br /> 11.05.2010 – Barcelona, Spain</p> <p>Each city has a different lineup (which to me is part of the appeal), and dates are changing, so keep your eyes on their site for the latest:</p> <p><a href="http://monometour.com/">http://monometour.com/</a></p> <p>There are workshop/build days in Boulder and Santa Fe, as well.</p> <p>The tour also will be accompanied by a <a href="http://monometour.com/compilation/">compilation 2-disc, 33-track, international music release</a>, all made with monome and initially available only at the tour stops &#8211; so go hear some live music.</p> <p>Frank Rose shares more details with CDM:</p> <blockquote><p>We created a compilation that will be available exclusively at tour dates and if there&#8217;s any left over, I&#8217;ll sell them on the website. Proceeds will go to the performing artists. Any profit afterwards, in the community spirit, will be given away to some deserving charity. 33 songs on 2 discs, featuring only monome community members including Daedelus and Edison.</p> <p>Schpligidy (Tanner Christiansen) brought up the idea of putting together a tour in April. Tanner got busy, and I took up the role of energizer and got the ball rolling. People signed up to play, others volunteered to organize events in their town. I don&#8217;t have alot of experience booking shows so I went forward, as I do with most things, just winging it. It&#8217;s worked out fairly well, with some bumps. </p> <p>The goal is really just to tour and have fun. I think the result, for me anyways, is that I&#8217;ll actually meet some of these folks I&#8217;ve only talked to online. Of course, we all want to share our own personal creations with a greater audience. The monome is just a thread that all of us have in common. It&#8217;s used more as a vehicle for the tour rather than a mechanism for proselytizing.</p></blockquote> <p>I&#8217;ll get to catch up with the NYC lineup: Portable Sunsets, Makingthenoise, NO SIR E, The Alpha Nerd, Watson, %, Galapagoose, Cigarette Operahouse.</p> <p><img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/08/monome_daedelus.jpg" alt="" title="monome_daedelus" width="580" height="312" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13087" /></p> <h3>Hear the music&#8230;</h3> <p>Note that <a href="http://soundcloud.com/thealphanerd">TheAlphaNerd&#8217;s</a> music is all available free, via a Creative Commons license.</p> <p> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/thealphanerd/jittery-fingers">Jittery Fingers</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/thealphanerd">TheAlphaNerd</a></span> </p> <p> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/watsonsound/untitled-as-of-yet">Watson &#8211; Fields at Home</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/watsonsound">watson</a></span> </p> <p> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/l_raja_l/microwavedbulletsdontkillaliens-peopledo">MicrowavedBulletsDon&#8217;tKillAliens PeopleDo</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/l_raja_l">_raja_</a></span> </p> <p> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/noiseflowr/go-to-sleep-slowly-short-mix">Go to sleep slowly (short mix)</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/noiseflowr">noiseflowr</a></span> </p> <p>Noiseflowr also has a remix of the lovely Caribou Sun track:<br /> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/noiseflowr/sun-remix-ver-4">Caribou &#8211; Sun (noiseflowr organistic mix)</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/noiseflowr">noiseflowr</a></span> </p> <p>More tracks, for listening exclusively on SoundCloud:<br /> <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pauk/electric-jazzmine">http://soundcloud.com/pauk/electric-jazzmine</a></p> <p><a href="http://soundcloud.com/cigarette-operahouse/double-queen">http://soundcloud.com/cigarette-operahouse/double-queen</a></p> <p>And for access to everything in the monome community:<br /> <a href="http://monome.org/">http://monome.org/</a></p> Create Digital Music » open-source http://createdigitalmusic.com Create Digital Music » open-source The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/open-source/feed/ 2010-09-07T01:00:29+00:00 Swedish introduction to music production in linux http://linuxaudioblog.com/?p=712 2010-08-27T22:08:06+00:00 <p>I&#8217;m writing a Swedish introduction to Linux and music production for the curious studio freaks at studio.se. Honor to them for having a separate linux section! I&#8217;m keeping it up to date and you are most welcome to give feedback.</p> <p><a title="Introduktion till musik i Linux" href="http://forum.studio.se/index.php?showtopic=66319" target="_blank">Vad har jag för möjligheter att skapa musik med Linux?</a></p> <p><a href="http://linuxaudioblog.com/wp-content/uploads/MusikiLinux.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-713 aligncenter" title="MusikiLinux" src="http://linuxaudioblog.com/wp-content/uploads/MusikiLinux.jpeg" alt="Musik i Linux" width="500" height="179" /></a></p> Linux Audio Blog http://linuxaudioblog.com Linux Audio Blog Common obstacles and break throughs in the daily linux music production work http://linuxaudioblog.com/?feed=rss2 2010-08-31T14:07:11+00:00 Airport Express speaker mashup http://hackaday.com/?p=27633 2010-08-27T18:00:10+00:00 <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27634" title="airport-express-speakers" src="http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/airport-express-speakers.jpg?w=470&h=193" alt="" width="470" height="193" /></p> <p>[Wei] salvaged the internals from an Airport Express that had a blown power supply. From there he built this <a href="http://weistudio.com/weistudio/weistudio/Entries/2010/8/18_Build_your_Air_Speaker.html">streaming music box</a>. The case is from an IKEA clock with the face removed. He added some decorative fabric around a grill to make an acoustically transparent front panel. Inside you&#8217;ll find the Airport guts connected to a USB charger (replaces the dead PSU) and a set of powered stereo speakers. This simple mashup looks good and frees up space in your junk-parts box.</p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27633/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackaday.com&blog=4779443&post=27633&subd=hackadaycom&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Hack a Day » digital audio hacks http://hackaday.com Hack a Day » digital audio hacks Fresh hacks every day http://hackaday.com/category/digital-audio-hacks/feed/ 2010-09-06T15:00:26+00:00 iPhone drum machine isn’t synthesized http://hackaday.com/?p=27612 2010-08-27T16:00:40+00:00 <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-27613" title="iphone-drum-machine" src="http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/iphone-drum-machine.jpg?w=470&h=257" alt="" width="470" height="257" /></p> <p>There was a time when a drummer would grab some sticks and lay out a groove using the items around him as instruments. [Lsa Wilson] would rather not work quite that hard and has chosen to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_RzqQX0Bs">do the same thing by tapping on an iPhone screen</a>. As you can see in the clip after the break, many of the items in the room around him have been fitted with solenoids. Each is connected to an Arduino which is then controlled by <a href="http://opensoundcontrol.org/">Open Sound Control</a> and interfaced with the iPhone via <a href="http://opensoundcontrol.org/">TouchOSC</a>. We love the sounds being created and can&#8217;t help being reminded of <a href="http://hackaday.com/2009/11/20/multixylophoniomnibus/">the Multixylophoniomnibus</a>.</p> <br /> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/facebook/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/twitter/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/hackadaycom.wordpress.com/27612/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hackaday.com&blog=4779443&post=27612&subd=hackadaycom&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /> Hack a Day » digital audio hacks http://hackaday.com Hack a Day » digital audio hacks Fresh hacks every day http://hackaday.com/category/digital-audio-hacks/feed/ 2010-09-06T15:00:26+00:00 PHASEX Development Branch http://linuxaudio.org/113 at http://linuxaudio.org 2010-08-27T08:35:34+00:00 <p>PHASEX is a great polyphonic softsynth that can create a lot of usable and interesting sounds. Unfortunately development seems to have halted and the server on which sysex.net resides seems down. A few weeks before the server went off-line someone that goes by the handle of disabled decided to revive development of this great softsynth and set up the <a href="http://disabled.github.com/phasex-dev/">PHASEX Development Branch</a> project. Today the first stable version, Milestone 1, has been released with some long desired features. To name just a few:<br /> - a Panic button has been added<br /> - Sustain pedals now work with this version<br /> - The GTK System theme now works<br /> - The naming scheme of multiple instances has been changed<br /> - An extra -n (--n) option has been added to set the name of a PHASEX instance</p> <p>phasex-dev Milestone 1 can be downloaded from <a href="http://github.com/disabled/phasex-dev/downloads">disabled's github page</a>.</p> Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org/feed/news Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org/feed/news 2010-09-07T07:00:22+00:00 Extreme Time-stretched Hamsterdance and Free and Open Source Sound Treasures http://createdigitalmusic.com/?p=12967 2010-08-25T15:28:54+00:00 <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/twodolla/2049586378/" title="A 3 Year Old's Dream by twodolla, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2250/2049586378_7ac9d788c1.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="A 3 Year Old's Dream" /></a></p> <div class="imgcaption">Before Bieber, there was Hamsterdance &#8211; what in 1998 counted for viral on the Internet. In today&#8217;s ever-geekier times, even obscure sound software can go viral. Photo (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC-BY</a>) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/twodolla/">twodolla / Wendy</a>.</div> <p>In this age of the 24-hour news cycle and instant publication of stories, sometimes it&#8217;s good to slow down and wait. And thus, while for whatever reason I didn&#8217;t get around to mentioning the extreme audio stretching of a certain <a href="http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/08/17/justin-bieber-meets-inception-u-smile-800-slower/">Justin Bieber track (see Synthtopia)</a>, I can&#8217;t let an ethereal, ambient reworking of 1998 Internet hit Hamsterdance go unnoticed, here shared on SoundCloud.</p> <p>As it happens, while folks have taken notice of one of the tools, this strange Web meme opens a door on a lot of free and open source sound software goodness.</p> <p> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/stefan-anion/hamsterdance-stretched-to-800">HamsterDance Stretched to 800%</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/stefan-anion">Stefan Anion</a></span> </p> <p>Thanks to creator Stefan Anion aka <a href="http://www.stefananion.com">Stefan Weise</a> for sending his work our way.</p> <p>The technique is catching on; now we get to play the game of spotting which producers slip this software into tracks coming out in the next 12-24 months. You can thank free and open source software: Paul Nasca aka Nasca Octavian PAUL has released two tools that use the magic of FFTs, a mathematical process by which it&#8217;s possible to transform time and frequency information quickly. HyperMammut (another cool tool that does huge, single-window FFTs on sound and image) and Paul&#8217;s Extreme Stretch (the tool used on Justin&#8217;s track) are GPLv2-licensed. Lifehacker even did their own <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5615442/how-to-create-your-own-slowed+down-ambient-epics">how-to on the topic</a>.<span id="more-12967"></span></p> <p><a href="http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/">http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/</a> Documentation and software page<br /> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hypermammut/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/hypermammut/</a> SourceForge home of both Extreme Stretch and HyperMammut (Windows binary, Linux source)<br /> <a href="http://music.cornwarning.com/2010/04/06/paulstretch-new-build-for-the-new-decade/">Paulstretch Mac Port</a> for PPC/Intel &#8211; your mileage may vary, as this is an unofficial port; let us know how it goes for you in comments, Mac users</p> <p>Note that Paul is also the author of the terrific <a href="http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/">ZynAddSubFX</a> open-source soft synth. (Look closely, closely at the title and guess at the feature set and synthesis technique.)</p> <p>See also the software Mammut on which HyperMammut was based; the former is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Via Anders in comments:</p> <blockquote><p>I would like to mention that hypermammut is based on NOTAM ´s (Norwegian Center for technology in music and the arts) Mammut programmed by Øivind Hammer and Kjetil Matheussen</p></blockquote> <p>Download: <a href="http://www.notam02.no/index.php?/eng/Technology-and-text/Software/Mammut">http://www.notam02.no/index.php?/eng/Technology-and-text/Software/Mammut</a></p> <p>I&#8217;d love to see some of the basic notions of this technique adapted to similar real-time patches. (<a href="http://puredata.info">Pd</a>, ho!) Ideas, sonic wizards?</p> <p>After I was first introduced to the program in the early 90s at a program at Oberlin&#8217;s TIMARA electronic tech center, I spent much of that decade addicted to convolution in Tom Erbe&#8217;s strange and wonderful <a href="http://www.soundhack.com/">SoundHack</a>, another free sound-shaping tool for the Mac. I watched as the convolution process evolved from something I let run overnight (literally) to something that took an hour or so to something that became near-instantaneous, corresponding to the extraordinary forward march of processing speed. </p> <p>It&#8217;s clear that some of these more obscure processes are going mainstream. It&#8217;s likewise evident that, as this audio has gone viral, SoundCloud really has become the &#8220;Flickr of audio&#8221; I predicted it might <a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/10/09/soundcloud-here-like-flickr-for-music/">when it was launched back in 2008</a>. So, I guess we&#8217;ll have to go and find some new sound design secret. We&#8217;d better just not tell the rest of you. I know I&#8217;m good at keeping lots of secr&#8230; doh!</p> <p></p> Create Digital Music » open-source http://createdigitalmusic.com Create Digital Music » open-source The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/open-source/feed/ 2010-09-07T01:00:29+00:00 26.August Elektronengehirn and much more live on Stubnitz in Hamburg tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-3212219889863893049 2010-08-25T11:35:47+00:00 <p class="gigdate">Do, 26.08.2010, 20:00 Uhr</p><p class="gigtitle"><a href="http://www.stubnitz.com">STUBNoIse</a></p><p class="giginfo">Konzertabend mit<br /><br />Ramunas Jaras (ENDICHE VIS.SAT)<br />Elektronengehirn<br />Jetzmann<br />Y4HK Soundsystem<br /><br />TBC<br />RENOISED<br />--------------------------<br />ENDICHE VIS.SAT<br /><br />ramunas jaras is a lithuanian artist known for his inventive musical ventures and multi-stylistic stage productions. jaras is a performance artist, musician, and author. he has organized countless actions, both orchestrated and spontaneous. he is also known for his solo theatrical work as ENDICHE VIS.SAT.<br /><br />--------------------------<br />Elektronengehirn: Geburt Der Kunst, erster bis dritter Satz<br /><br />Der Französische Künstler Robert Filliou erklärte 1963 den 17. Januar als Geburtstag der Kunst. Dieses Ereignis wird international mit verschiedenen Ausstellungen, Performances und Konzerten gefeiert, so auch 2010 im Grazer Medienkunstlabor ESC. Als Mitglied der PD-Graz Gruppe komponierte Malte Steiner aka Elektronengehirn das Stück 'Geburt Der Kunst' in mehreren Sätzen mit der Open Source Software Pure Data und führte das Stück von Hamburg aus via Internet in Graz auf.<br />Am 26. August ist 'Geburt Der Kunst' zum ersten mal in Hamburg vor Ort zu hören.<br />--------------------------<br />Y4HK Soundsystem<br />Die stubnitz-sealectors präsentieren ihren soundtrack vom schiff.<br />JETZMANN<br />Musiker (Bass, Elektronik), Texter, Moderator bei Radio Gagarin (FSK Hamburg), dem Fachmagazin für musikalisch Randständiges, komponiert für Choreographien live:noise mit bass/gitarre,looper,feedbacks mal mit text,mal mit film<br />TBC (harshnoise hamburg)<br />sagt eigentlich schon genug.tbc wird euch was zu hören geben,verlasst euch drauf.<br />RENOISED<br />spielt e-gitarre ohne computer oder andere playbacks diesesmal erzählt er mit seinem instrument "a sailors tale" und träumt sich damit auf und in die weltmeere </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-3212219889863893049?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 sphereflake http://lam.fugal.net/songs/show/653 2010-08-25T08:35:15+00:00 <p>http://sciencegirlrecords.com/chr15m/squeakyshoecore/</p> chr15m http://lam.fugal.net/ LAM Music Made With Linux http://lam.fugal.net/ 2010-08-31T14:06:46+00:00 Squeaky Squeaky Squeak http://mccormick.cx/news/tags/entries/squeaky-squeaky-squeak 2010-08-25T08:31:00+00:00 <p><img src="http://mccormick.cx/gfx/blogref/squeakyshoecore-small.png" alt="squeakyshoecore" /> </p> <p>I finished this new tune a few days ago but I'm only just getting around to releasing it. Go to the <a href="http://sciencegirlrecords.com/chr15m/squeakyshoecore">squeakyshoecore page</a> and click song five to hear it. </p> <p><a href="http://mccormick.cx/projects/GarageAcidLab/">Here are the Pure Data patches used to create this music</a>. </p> Chris McCormick - News http://mccormick.cx/news Chris McCormick - News Chris McCormick - News http://mccormick.cx/news/tags/music.rss 2010-09-07T07:01:07+00:00 Copyright 2008- Chris McCormick New CALF Audio Plugin Pack http://linuxaudio.org/112 at http://linuxaudio.org 2010-08-24T09:43:20+00:00 <p>There's a new version available of the 0.018 branch of the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/calf/">CALF Audio Plugin Pack</a>. According to the changelog not a lot changed, a few bugs got squashed, but since this is the first update in over a year it shouldn't just pass under the radar unnoticed.</p> Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org/feed/news Linuxaudio.org http://linuxaudio.org/feed/news 2010-09-07T07:00:22+00:00 Bliss and the art of root. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681982291772014930.post-1390396142843553794 2010-08-23T11:44:40+00:00 I tried to resist, really I did. I fought the allure that comes from the latest and greatest as long as possible. I ignored that newer phones where getting the latest and greatest Android and I was still on 2.1, which I enjoyed and was grateful when the over the air update arrived. However, we have a need for honesty, I'm only human, and I'm subject to wanting the latest and greatest. One option would have been to get a new phone and that would have been a practical one if it wasn't for the fact that I don't want a new contract and I don't have any money. So what's a faithful free software advocate to do but exercise his DMCA given rights and root baby, ROOT!<br /><br />I have the sad, forgotten by its Android brethren phone, HTC Droid Eris. Knowing full well that it's OTA update future was as bleak as Minnesota's hope of wining an NFL championship. I had little hope of just holding out for Verizon to come through and give me 2.2 OTA. So, I looked into custom ROM options and lo and behold, what should my wonder eyes meet, but a shiny fully functional Froyo port for the Eris on the xda-developers forums by a guy that goes by the handle Kaos.<br /><br />So, first things first, we need to root. For this I used the one click root also available on the xda forums. It's as simple as running the app, rebooting holding the down volume button and the power, flashing the zip file the app places on your sd card and BAM!, you have root. Now, if all you want is simple things like the ability to tether over wi-fi then this is enough. However, if you want the whole Froyo enchilada it's time to load KaosFroyo.<br /><br />Kaosfroyo rom is a port of Cyanoginmod 6 to the Eris and overclocked by default to 710mhz. The steps I used to flash are as follows.<br /><br />1. Download the rom zip onto the SD card(Don't place it in a folder).<br />2. Reboot the phone into recovery mode(hold down vol-down and power then select recovery from the menu with the track ball.<br />3. Back up the existing rom using Nandbackup.<br />4. Wipe the Android and Dalvek partitions.<br />5. Flash the rom with the flash utility.<br /><br />There you have it. Froyo on your Eris. What will this give you? Faster, speak to text everywhere, live wallpapers and the ability to tweak your phone to your heart's content. Is it worth it? Hell yeah it is.<br /><br />After flashing I was given an extremely in-depth tutorial on setting up and tweaking the phone by a very patient and knowledgable IRC user in #droideris on andirc. His handle is the_fly and if you see him in there tell him to get his tutorial on a blog soon so I don't have to remember it all. :)<br /><br />So, Thank you very much XDA developer, Kaos, the_fly and all the rest of the people behind Android and it's hacker community. You ROCK!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2681982291772014930-1390396142843553794?l=pipemanmusic.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> PipeMan PipeManMusic@gmail.com http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com/ PipeManMusic Music, family, Linux, pod casting and general geekdom. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2681982291772014930 2010-08-31T14:07:08+00:00 systemd Status Update http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-update 2010-08-23T11:32:00+00:00 <p>It has been a while <a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">since my original announcement of systemd</a>. Here's a little status update, on what happened since then. For simplicity's sake I'll just list here what we worked on in a bulleted list, with no particular order and without trying to cover this comprehensively:</p> <ul> <li>systemd has been accepted as Feature for Fedora 14, and as it looks right now everything worked out nicely and we'll ship F14 with systemd as init system.</li> <li>We added a number of additional unit types: <tt>.timer</tt> for cron-style timer-based activation of services, <tt>.swap</tt> exposes swap files and partitions the same way we handle mount points, and <tt>.path</tt> can be used to activate units dependending on the existance/creation of files or fill status of spool directories.</li> <li>We hooked systemd up to SELinux: systemd is now capabale of properly labelling directories, sockets and FIFOs it creates according to the SELinux policy for the services we maintain.</li> <li>We hooked systemd up to the Linux auditing subsystem: as first init system at all systemd now generates auditing records for all services it starts/stops, including their failure status.</li> <li>We hooked systemd up to TCP wrappers, for all socket connections it accepts.</li> <li>We hooked systemd up to PAM, so that optionally, when systemd runs a service as a different user it initializes the usual PAM session setup and teardown hooks.</li> <li>We hooked systemd up to D-Bus, so that D-Bus passes activation requests to systemd and systemd becomes the central point for all kinds of activation, thus greatly extending the control of the execution environment of bus activated services, and making them accessible through the same utilities as SysV services. Also, this enables us to do race-free parallelized start-up for D-Bus services and their clients, thus speeding up things even further.</li> <li>systemd is now able to handle various Debian and OpenSUSE-specific extensions to the classic SysV init script formats natively, on top of the Fedora extensions we already parse.</li> <li>The D-Bus coverage of the systemd interface is now complete, allowing both introspection of runtime data and of parsed configuration data. It's fun now to introspect systemd with <a href="http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2010/08/gdbus1-bash-completion.html"><tt>gdbus</tt></a> or <tt>d-feet</tt>.</li> <li>We added a <a href="http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/pam_systemd.html">systemd PAM module</a>, which assigns the processes of each user session to its own cgroup in the systemd cgroup tree. This also enables reliable killing of all processes associated with a session when the user logs out. This also manages a secure per-user <tt>/var/run</tt>-style directory which is supposed to be used for sockets and similar files that shall be cleaned up when the user logs out.</li> <li>There's a new tool <a href="http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd-cgls.html"><tt>systemd-cgls</tt></a>, which plots a pretty process tree based on the systemd cgroup hierarchy. It's really pretty. Try it!</li> <li>We now have our own cgroup hierarchy beneath <tt>/cgroup/systemd</tt> (though is will move to <tt>/sys/fs/</tt> before the F14 release).</li> <li>We have pretty code that automatically spawns a getty on a serial port when the kernel console is redirected to a serial TTY.</li> <li><tt>systemctl</tt> got beefed up substantially (it can even draw dependency graphs now, via <tt>dot</tt>!), and the SysV compatiblity tools were extended to more completely and correctly support what was historically provided by SysV. For example, we'll now warn the user when systemd service files have changed but systemd was not asked to reload its configuration. Also, you can now use systemd's native client tools to reboot or shut-down an Upstart or sysvinit system, to facilitate upgrades.</li> <li>We provide a <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/plain/src/sd-daemon.h">reference implementation</a> for the socket activation and other APIs for nicer interaction with systemd.</li> <li>We have a pretty complete <a href="http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/">set of documentation</a> now, <a href="http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/daemon.html">some of it</a> even extending to areas not directly related to systemd itself.</li> <li>Quite a number of upstream packages now ship with systemd service files out-of-the-box now, that work across all distributions that have adopted systemd. It is our intention to unify the boot and service management between distributions with systemd, and this shows fruits already. Furthermore a number of upstream packages now ship our patches for socket-based activation.</li> <li>Even more options that control the process execution environment or the sockets we create are now supported.</li> <li>Earlier today I began my series of blog stories on <a href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1">systemd for administrators</a>.</li> <li>We reimplemented almost all boot-up and shutdown scripts of the standard Fedora install in much smaller, simpler and faster C utilities, or in systemd itself. Most of this will not be enabled in F14 however, even though it is shipped with systemd upstream. With this enabled the entire Linux system gains a completely new feeling as the number of shells we spawn approaches zero, and the PID of the first user terminal is way &lt; 500 now, and the early boot-up is fully parallelized. We looked at the boot scripts of Fedora, OpenSUSE and Debian and distilled from this a list of functionality that makes up the early boot process and reimplemented this in C, if possible following the bahaviour of one of the existing implementations from these three distributions. This turned out to be much less effort than anticipated, and we are actually quite excited about this. Look forward to the fruits of this work in F15, when we might be able to present you a shell-less boot at least for standard desktop/laptop systems.</li> <li>We spent some time reinvestigating the current syslog logic, and came up with an elegant and simple scheme to provide <tt>/dev/log</tt> compatible logging right from the time systemd is first initialized right until the time the kernel halts the machine. Through the wonders of socket based activation we first connect the <tt>/dev/log</tt> socket with a minimal bridge to the kernel log buffer (<tt>kmsg</tt>) and then, as soon as the real syslog is started up as part of the later bootup phase, we dynamically replace this minimal bridge by the real syslog daemon -- without losing a single log message. Since one of the first things the real syslog daemon does is flushing the kernel log buffer into log files, all logged messages will sooner or later be stored on disk, regardless whether they have been generated during early boot, late boot or system runtime. On top of that if the syslog daemon terminates or is shut down during runtime, the bridge becomes active again and log output is written to kmsg again. The same applies when the system goes down. This provides a simple an robust way how we can ensure that no logs will ever be lost again, and logging is available from the beginning of boot-up to the end of shut-down. Plymouth will most likely adopt a similar scheme for initrd logging, thus ensuring that everything ever logged on the system will properly end up in the log files, whether it comes from the kernel, from the initrd, from early-boot, from runtime or shutdown. And if syslogd is not around, <tt>dmesg</tt> will provide you with access to the log messages. While this bridge is part of systemd upstream, we'll most likely enable this bridge in Fedora only starting with F15. Also note that embedded systems that have no interest in shipping a full syslogd solution can simply use this syslog bridge during the entire runtime, and thus making the kernel log buffer the centralized log storage, with all the advantages this offers: zero disk IO at runtime, access to serial and netconsole logging, and remote debug access to the kernel log buffer.</li> <li>We now install autofs units for many "API" kernel virtual file systems by default, such as <tt>binfmt_misc</tt> or <tt>hugetlbfs</tt>. That means that the file system access is readily available, client code no longer has to manually load the respective kernel modules, as they are autoloaded on first access of the file system. This has many advantages: it is not only faster to set up during boot, but also simpler for applications, as they can just assume the functionality is available. On top of that permission problems for the initialization go away, since manual module loading requires root privileges.</li> <li>Many smaller fixes and enhancements, all across the board, which if mentioned here would make this blog story another blog novel. Suffice to say, we did a lot of polishing to ready systemd for F14.</li> </ul> <p>All in all, systemd is progressing nicely, and the features we have been working on in the last months are without exception features not existing in any other of the init systems available on Linux and our feature set already was far ahead of what the older init implementations provide. And we have quite a bit planned for the future. So, stay tuned!</p> <p>Also note that I'll speak about systemd at <a href="http://www.linux-kongress.org/2010/program.html">LinuxKongress 2010</a> in Nuremberg, Germany. Later this year I'll also be speaking at the <a href="http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw/proposals/873">Linux Plumbers Conference</a> in Boston, MA. Make sure to drop by if you want to learn about systemd or discuss exiciting new ideas or features with us.</p> TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB http://0pointer.de/blog TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB Lennart's Blog http://0pointer.de/blog/index.rss20 2010-09-07T07:01:30+00:00 systemd for Administrators, Part 1 http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-1 2010-08-23T08:22:00+00:00 <p>As many of you know, <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd">systemd</a> is the new Fedora init system, starting with F14, and it is also on its way to being adopted in a number of other distributions as well (for example, <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Systemd">OpenSUSE</a>). For administrators systemd provides a variety of new features and changes and enhances the administrative process substantially. This blog story is the first part of a series of articles I plan to post roughly every week for the next months. In every post I will try to explain one new feature of systemd. Many of these features are small and simple, so these stories should be interesting to a broader audience. However, from time to time we'll dive a little bit deeper into the great new features systemd provides you with.</p> <h4>Verifying Bootup</h4> <p>Traditionally, when booting up a Linux system, you see a lot of little messages passing by on your screen. As we work on speeding up and parallelizing the boot process these messages are becoming visible for a shorter and shorter time only and be less and less readable -- if they are shown at all, given we use graphical boot splash technology like Plymouth these days. Nonetheless the information of the boot screens was and still is very relevant, because it shows you for each service that is being started as part of bootup, wether it managed to start up successfully or failed (with those green or red <tt>[ OK ]</tt> or <tt>[ FAILED ]</tt> indicators). To improve the situation for machines that boot up fast and parallelized and to make this information more nicely available during runtime, we added a feature to systemd that tracks and remembers for each service whether it started up successfully, whether it exited with a non-zero exit code, whether it timed out, or whether it terminated abnormally (by segfaulting or similar), both during start-up and runtime. By simply typing <tt>systemctl</tt> in your shell you can query the state of all services, both systemd native and SysV/LSB services:</p> <pre>[root@lambda] ~# systemctl UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION dev-hugepages.automount loaded active running Huge Pages File System Automount Point dev-mqueue.automount loaded active running POSIX Message Queue File System Automount Point proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount loaded active waiting Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point sys-kernel-debug.automount loaded active waiting Debug File System Automount Point sys-kernel-security.automount loaded active waiting Security File System Automount Point sys-devices-pc...0000:02:00.0-net-eth0.device loaded active plugged 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller <i>[...]</i> sys-devices-virtual-tty-tty9.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty9 -.mount loaded active mounted / boot.mount loaded active mounted /boot dev-hugepages.mount loaded active mounted Huge Pages File System dev-mqueue.mount loaded active mounted POSIX Message Queue File System home.mount loaded active mounted /home proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount loaded active mounted Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System abrtd.service loaded active running ABRT Automated Bug Reporting Tool accounts-daemon.service loaded active running Accounts Service acpid.service loaded active running ACPI Event Daemon atd.service loaded active running Execution Queue Daemon auditd.service loaded active running Security Auditing Service avahi-daemon.service loaded active running Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack bluetooth.service loaded active running Bluetooth Manager console-kit-daemon.service loaded active running Console Manager cpuspeed.service loaded active exited LSB: processor frequency scaling support crond.service loaded active running Command Scheduler cups.service loaded active running CUPS Printing Service dbus.service loaded active running D-Bus System Message Bus getty@tty2.service loaded active running Getty on tty2 getty@tty3.service loaded active running Getty on tty3 getty@tty4.service loaded active running Getty on tty4 getty@tty5.service loaded active running Getty on tty5 getty@tty6.service loaded active running Getty on tty6 haldaemon.service loaded active running Hardware Manager hdapsd@sda.service loaded active running sda shock protection daemon irqbalance.service loaded active running LSB: start and stop irqbalance daemon iscsi.service loaded active exited LSB: Starts and stops login and scanning of iSCSI devices. iscsid.service loaded active exited LSB: Starts and stops login iSCSI daemon. livesys-late.service loaded active exited LSB: Late init script for live image. livesys.service loaded active exited LSB: Init script for live image. lvm2-monitor.service loaded active exited LSB: Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling mdmonitor.service loaded active running LSB: Start and stop the MD software RAID monitor modem-manager.service loaded active running Modem Manager netfs.service loaded active exited LSB: Mount and unmount network filesystems. NetworkManager.service loaded active running Network Manager ntpd.service loaded <span><b>maintenance maintenance</b></span> Network Time Service polkitd.service loaded active running Policy Manager prefdm.service loaded active running Display Manager rc-local.service loaded active exited /etc/rc.local Compatibility rpcbind.service loaded active running RPC Portmapper Service rsyslog.service loaded active running System Logging Service rtkit-daemon.service loaded active running RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service sendmail.service loaded active running LSB: start and stop sendmail sshd@172.31.0.53:22-172.31.0.4:36368.service loaded active running SSH Per-Connection Server sysinit.service loaded active running System Initialization systemd-logger.service loaded active running systemd Logging Daemon udev-post.service loaded active exited LSB: Moves the generated persistent udev rules to /etc/udev/rules.d udisks.service loaded active running Disk Manager upowerd.service loaded active running Power Manager wpa_supplicant.service loaded active running Wi-Fi Security Service avahi-daemon.socket loaded active listening Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Activation Socket cups.socket loaded active listening CUPS Printing Service Sockets dbus.socket loaded active running dbus.socket rpcbind.socket loaded active listening RPC Portmapper Socket sshd.socket loaded active listening sshd.socket systemd-initctl.socket loaded active listening systemd /dev/initctl Compatibility Socket systemd-logger.socket loaded active running systemd Logging Socket systemd-shutdownd.socket loaded active listening systemd Delayed Shutdown Socket dev-disk-by\x1...x1db22a\x1d870f1adf2732.swap loaded active active /dev/disk/by-uuid/fd626ef7-34a4-4958-b22a-870f1adf2732 basic.target loaded active active Basic System bluetooth.target loaded active active Bluetooth dbus.target loaded active active D-Bus getty.target loaded active active Login Prompts graphical.target loaded active active Graphical Interface local-fs.target loaded active active Local File Systems multi-user.target loaded active active Multi-User network.target loaded active active Network remote-fs.target loaded active active Remote File Systems sockets.target loaded active active Sockets swap.target loaded active active Swap sysinit.target loaded active active System Initialization LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded. ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB. SUB = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type. JOB = Pending job for the unit. 221 units listed. Pass --all to see inactive units, too. [root@lambda] ~#</pre> <p>(I have shortened the output above a little, and removed a few lines not relevant for this blog post.)</p> <p>Look at the ACTIVE column, which shows you the high-level state of a service (or in fact of any kind of unit systemd maintains, which can be more than just services, but we'll have a look on this in a later blog posting), whether it is <i>active</i> (i.e. running), <i>inactive</i> (i.e. not running) or in any other state. If you look closely you'll see one item in the list that is marked <i>maintenance</i> and highlighted in red. This informs you about a service that failed to run or otherwise encountered a problem. In this case this is ntpd. Now, let's find out what actually happened to ntpd, with the <tt>systemctl status</tt> command:</p> <pre>[root@lambda] ~# systemctl status ntpd.service ntpd.service - Network Time Service Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/ntpd.service) Active: <span><b>maintenance</b></span> Main: 953 (code=exited, status=255) CGroup: name=systemd:/systemd-1/ntpd.service [root@lambda] ~#</pre> <p>This shows us that NTP terminated during runtime (when it ran as PID 953), and tells us exactly the error condition: the process exited with an exit status of 255.</p> <p>In a later systemd version, we plan to hook this up to ABRT, <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=622773">as soon as this enhancement request is fixed</a>. Then, if <tt>systemctl status</tt> shows you information about a service that crashed it will direct you right-away to the appropriate crash dump in ABRT.</p> <p><b>Summary:</b> use <tt>systemctl</tt> and <tt>systemctl status</tt> as modern, more complete replacements for the traditional boot-up status messages of SysV services. <tt>systemctl status</tt> not only captures in more detail the error condition but also shows runtime errors in addition to start-up errors.</p> <p>That's it for this week, make sure to come back next week, for the next posting about systemd for administrators!</p> TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB http://0pointer.de/blog TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB Lennart's Blog http://0pointer.de/blog/index.rss20 2010-09-07T07:01:30+00:00 LLVM Backend for DDC : Milestone #2. http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/2010/08/22/llvm_milestone2.atom 2010-08-22T03:43:00+00:00 <p> For a couple of weeks after AusHac 2010 I didn't manage to find any time to working on DDC at all, but I'm now back on it and late last week I reached the second milestone on the <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/DDC/llvm_backend.html"> LLVM backend for DDC</a>. The backend now has the ability to box and unbox 32 bit integers and perform simple arithmetic operations on valid combinations of them. </p> <p> Disciple code that can currently be compiled correctly via LLVM includes basic stuff like: </p> <pre class="code"> identInt :: Int -&gt; Int identInt a = a plusOneInt :: Int -&gt; Int plusOneInt x = x + 1 addInt :: Int -&gt; Int -&gt; Int addInt a b = a + b addInt32U :: Int32# -&gt; Int32# -&gt; Int32# addInt32U a b = a + b addMixedInt :: Int32# -&gt; Int -&gt; Int addMixedInt a b = boxInt32 (a + unboxInt32 b) cafOneInt :: Int cafOneInt = 1 plusOne :: Int -&gt; Int plusOne x = x + cafOneInt </pre> <p> where <b><tt>Int32#</tt></b> specifies an unboxed 32 bit integer and <b><tt>Int32</tt></b> specifies the boxed version. </p> <p> While writing the Haskell code for DDC, I'm finding that its easiest to generate LLVM code for a specific narrow case first and then generalize it as more cases come to light. I also found that the way I had been doing the LLVM code generation was tedious and ugly, invloving lots of concatenation of small lists. To fix this I built myself an <b><tt>LlvmM</tt></b> monad on top of the <b><tt>StateT</tt></b> monad: </p> <pre class="code"> type LlvmM = StateT [[LlvmStatement]] IO </pre> <p> Using this I can then generate a block of LLVM code as a list of <b><tt>LlvmStatement</tt></b>s and add it to the monad using an <b><tt>addBlock</tt></b> function which basically pushes the blocks of code down onto a stack: </p> <pre class="code"> addBlock :: [LlvmStatement] -&gt; LlvmM () addBlock code = do state &lt;- get put (code : state) </pre> <p> The <b><tt>addBlock</tt></b> function is then used as the base building block for a bunch of more specific functions like these: </p> <pre class="code"> unboxInt32 :: LlvmVar -&gt; LlvmM LlvmVar unboxInt32 objptr | getVarType objptr == pObj = do int32 &lt;- lift $ newUniqueReg i32 iptr0 &lt;- lift $ newUniqueNamedReg "iptr0" (pLift i32) iptr1 &lt;- lift $ newUniqueNamedReg "iptr1" (pLift i32) addBlock [ Comment [ show int32 ++ " = unboxInt32 (" ++ show objptr ++ ")" ] , Assignment iptr0 (GetElemPtr True objptr [llvmWordLitVar 0, i32LitVar 0]) , Assignment iptr1 (GetElemPtr True iptr0 [llvmWordLitVar 1]) , Assignment int32 (Load iptr1) ] return int32 readSlot :: Int -&gt; LlvmM LlvmVar readSlot 0 = do dstreg &lt;- lift $ newUniqueNamedReg "slot.0" pObj addBlock [ Comment [ show dstreg ++ " = readSlot 0" ] , Assignment dstreg (Load localSlotBase) ] return dstreg readSlot n | n &gt; 0 = do dstreg &lt;- lift $ newUniqueNamedReg ("slot." ++ show n) pObj r0 &lt;- lift $ newUniqueReg pObj addBlock [ Comment [ show dstreg ++ " = readSlot " ++ show n ] , Assignment r0 (GetElemPtr True localSlotBase [llvmWordLitVar n]) , Assignment dstreg (Load (pVarLift r0)) ] return dstreg readSlot n = panic stage $ "readSlot with slot == " ++ show n </pre> <p> which are finally hooked up to do things like: </p> <pre class="code"> llvmVarOfExp (XUnbox ty@TCon{} (XSlot v _ i)) = do objptr &lt;- readSlot i unboxAny (toLlvmType ty) objptr llvmVarOfExp (XUnbox ty@TCon{} (XForce (XSlot _ _ i))) = do orig &lt;- readSlot i forced &lt;- forceObj orig unboxAny (toLlvmType ty) forced </pre> <p> When the code generation of a single function is complete it the list of <b><tt>LlvmStatement</tt></b> blocks is then retrieved, reversed and concatenated to produce the list of <b><tt>LlvmStatement</tt></b>s for the function. </p> <p> With the <b><tt>LlvmM</tt></b> monad in place converting DDC's Sea AST into LLVM code is now pretty straight forward. Its just a matter of finding and implementing all the missing pieces. </p> Erik de Castro Lopo erikd@mega-nerd.com m3ga blog An ocassional rant http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/index.atom 2010-08-31T14:06:03+00:00 Copyright 2006-2010 Erik de Castro Lopo fingerplay: a midi controller for android http://wootangent.net/?p=723 2010-08-21T07:24:13+00:00 <p>I&#8217;ve been slack in updating ye olde blog, but I have an excuse &#8212; I got a new phone! It&#8217;s a HTC Desire, running Android of course, and I&#8217;ve been having great fun trying different apps and discovering what I can do with it. I started a lengthy post covering my thoughts on both the Desire and Android, but in lieu of finishing that, I present you instead with an introduction to <a href="http://thesundancekid.net/blog/fingerplay-midi/">FingerPlay MIDI</a>, a very cool MIDI controller app for Android.</p> <p><span id="more-723"></span><br /> FingerPlay gives you a selection of controllers &#8212; sliders, X/Y controllers, and drum pads &#8212; all of which send MIDI messages via Wi-Fi to a tiny Java-based server app on a PC. There, you can connect the MIDI output to whatever app you like, just as you would with any other MIDI controller gear. The controls are set up in separate &#8220;pages&#8221;; a scroll bar on the right switches between the pages.</p> <p>I did some quick testing, using the drum pads to trigger drum pads in Hydrogen, and using the sliders and pads to control the gain and muting of individual loops within SooperLooper, and it did a great job, responding quickly and smoothly to my input.</p> <div id="attachment_724" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wootangent.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fp1.png"><img src="http://wootangent.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fp1-600x360.png" alt="" title="FingerPlay MIDI pad page" width="600" height="360" class="size-medium wp-image-724" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">FingerPlay MIDI's pad page</p></div> <div id="attachment_725" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wootangent.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fp2.png"><img src="http://wootangent.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/fp2-600x360.png" alt="" title="FingerPlay MIDI slider page" width="600" height="360" class="size-medium wp-image-725" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">FingerPlay MIDI's slider page</p></div> <p>Here are the steps I followed to get it up and running:</p> <ol> <li>Install the FingerPlay MIDI app on your device, and download and extract the server app from the <a href="http://thesundancekid.net/blog/fingerplay-midi/">FingerPlay MIDI site</a></li> <li>Load the ALSA &#8220;virmidi&#8221; driver:<br /> <code>sudo modprobe snd-virmidi</code> </li> <li>Launch the server app:<br /> <code>java -jar FingerPlayServer.jar</code> </li> <li>Connect the &#8220;Virtual Raw MIDI 1-0&#8243; ALSA MIDI device up to whatever app you want to control.</li> <li>On the phone, launch FingerPlay MIDI, and hit the icon in the top right corner to open the settings screen. Set the &#8220;Server Address&#8221; to your PC&#8217;s IP address (or hostname), and click the &#8220;Connect to Server&#8221; button.</li> <li>Scroll further down on the settings page and open the &#8220;MIDI Out Device&#8221; option. In the list, select the top &#8220;VirMIDI&#8221; option &#8212; in my case, it&#8217;s &#8220;[hw:1,0,0]&#8220;.</li> <li>Exit the settings and start hitting some controls!</li> </ol> <p>You can use the usual tools of choice to see what MIDI messages are actually coming out for each control &#8212; I tend to use QMidiRoute, since it also lets you remap or process the messages if you need to. As you&#8217;d expect, the sliders and X/Y controls send MIDI CCs, while the pads send notes. With Hydrogen, I had to transpose the pads up an octave to match what Hydrogen was expecting, but when I did, tapping out drum lines seemed quite responsive.</p> <p>One thing to watch out for with tools that have MIDI learn features, like SooperLooper, is that the sliders and X/Y controls send &#8220;trigger&#8221; CCs when they&#8217;re touched in any way, as well as the CCs you&#8217;d expect. I had better luck with SooperLooper when I set up the bindings manually instead. My bindings file is available <a href="http://wootangent.net/~lsd/music/fingerplaybinding.slb">here</a>.</p> woo, tangent » Music http://wootangent.net woo, tangent » Music lsd's rants about games, music, linux, and technology http://wootangent.net/feed/?cat=7 2010-08-31T14:06:05+00:00 Dear Lazy Web, http://0pointer.de/blog/lenovo-laptop-codes 2010-08-19T11:27:00+00:00 <p>does anybody know how to decode those Lenovo ThinkPad model IDs? I am interested in the T410s. For example, there's the model NUK3AGE, and there's NUHFXGE, and there's NUHYXGE. Some web sites claim NUK3AGE has Nvidia graphics, others claim VGA is Intel-only. Some web sites claim it has a touch screen, others say the contrary. The Lenovo web site isn't helpful to figure out the differences between the models and what the feature set of the various models really is. I figured out the GE suffix indicates a german keyboard, but what about the remaining code? Anybody knows how to decypher those IDs or knows a reliable source explaining their feature set?</p> <p>Love,</p> <p>Lennart</p> TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB http://0pointer.de/blog TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB Lennart's Blog http://0pointer.de/blog/index.rss20 2010-09-07T07:01:30+00:00 Algorithmic Music Composition With Linux - athenaCL http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/1013042 at http://www.linuxjournal.com 2010-08-16T15:46:42+00:00 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-node-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/algorithmic-music-composition-linux-athenacl" class="imagecache imagecache-node-page imagecache-linked imagecache-node-page_linked"><img src="http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/ufiles/imagecache/node-page/nodeimage/story/flexatone.png" alt="It's the logo for flexatone.net." title="Flexatone: Hifi Productions at flexatone.net" class="imagecache imagecache-node-page" width="200" height="157" /></a> </div> </div> </div> <!--paging_filter--><p> In this conclusion to my survey of algorithmic music composition systems for Linux I present Christopher Ariza's <a href="http://www.flexatone.net/athena.html">athenaCL</a>.<span class="read-more"><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/algorithmic-music-composition-linux-athenacl"> more>></a></span></p> audio http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/all audio http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/all/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:13+00:00 NeiSynth v0.1 http://linuxaudioblog.com/?p=709 2010-08-15T19:07:42+00:00 <p>NeiSynth, a sound bank for Specimen is now ready for release. All sounds are generated with the &#8220;cat&#8221; command that you can read about in the popular post <a href="http://linuxaudioblog.com/?p=9">convert an image to music</a>.</p> <p><p>Your browser does not support the audio tag.</p></p> <p><a title="NeiSynth demo" href="http://linuxaudioblog.com/wp-content/uploads/NeiSynth.ogg">demo song</a> | <a title="NeiSynth" href="http://linuxaudioblog.com/wp-content/uploads/NeiSynth_v0.1.tar.gz">download NeiSynth</a></p> Linux Audio Blog http://linuxaudioblog.com Linux Audio Blog Common obstacles and break throughs in the daily linux music production work http://linuxaudioblog.com/?feed=rss2 2010-08-31T14:07:11+00:00 Linux video editing workshop 22. August Hamburg tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-2348538593011685111 2010-08-15T06:32:08+00:00 From 14:00 till open end Malte Steiner lecture about video formats, gives an overview of the free open source applications available for Linux and gives a practical demonstration from capturing via editing till finishing a DVD and online video.<div><br /></div><div>Software includes <a href="http://cinelerra.org/">Cinelerra</a>, <a href="http://www.kinodv.org/">Kino</a>, <a href="http://www.openmovieeditor.org/">OpenMovieEditor</a> and more. The workshop is free and no registration necessary but would be great if you drop an email to steiner AT block4 DOT com stating your particular interests in this workshop.Bring your laptop with an installed version of Cinelerra, internet wont be available on location.It happens to be at </div><div><a href="http://targetautonopop.org">Unlimited Liability</a> art store</div><div>Norderstr. 71 ug<br />20097 Hamburg, Germany<br />targetautonopop.org<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-2348538593011685111?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 Unlimited Liability reopens tonight tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-2562051203470061482 2010-08-15T05:51:09+00:00 Tonight, 15. August, at 19:00, opens Unlimited Liability, Michel Chevaliers temp art store. On the 22. August I give a workshop on Linux videoediting there, starting at 14:00.<br /><br />15. August–17. Oktober<br />Do-Fr: 15-20h<br />Sa-So: 12-20h<br />Norderstr. 71 ug<br />20097 Hamburg<br />http://targetautonopop.org/<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-2562051203470061482?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 Flattr? Hmmm... http://nedko.tumblr.com/post/944338748 2010-08-12T23:22:00+00:00 <p>Today a clever guy came to the #ladi IRC channel and told me about <a href="http://flattr.com/"><a href="http://flattr.com/">http://flattr.com/</a></a>. Indeed Flattr looks like a good way to donate a fixed amount of money per month (the minimum is €2) to the world of things one likes.<!-- more -->You click on icons that represent “things” and at the end of the month your fixed donation is split (equally) among things that you liked. These things can be anything, from software projects to blog entries, from video to photos and music. It looks like a good way to donate to small open source projects that are often lead by a single person. The world of Linux Audio is full of such projects and as a test, I’ve used some of the donations I’ve received in past to register myself. For good or bad this is needed: in order to register “things” that can get income, one has to give money as well.</p> <p>I like the video that explains the Flattr and in general the site looks nice and is not too heavy. The absence of OpenID login was unexpected though and was somewhat annoying. Hey! It is 2010!</p> <p>So I’ve registered ladish as a “thing” and looked for cool software that I use on regular basis and some Linux Audio software that I like. The only one I’ve found is the Jacker by Leonard Ritter (a.k.a paniq) - a JACK-MIDI sequencer with tracker interface. I’ll definitively like to split my donation into more parts if other Linux Audio software developers register their cool projects. To name a few: epichord, calf, yoshimi, phasex, ingen, dino and the non-things.</p> Nedko http://nedko.tumblr.com/ Nedko http://nedko.tumblr.com/tagged/linuxaudio/rss 2010-09-07T07:00:23+00:00 More Free Synthesis Goodness: QuteCsound Screencast, Csound with Processing http://createdigitalmusic.com/?p=12747 2010-08-12T15:11:33+00:00 <p></p> <p>For all the wonderful tools and toys for sound out there, sometimes you want to find the couple of tools that, like a great kitchen knife, can accomplish the majority of what you actually need. (And as with the kitchen knife, while it may not eliminate your desire for all those other gadgets, it&#8217;s worth some sharpening.) So it is with something like Csound, the tested-and-tried, free synthesis tool. Jim Aikin looked at the QuteCsound front end recently, which puts the power of Csound in a more friendly work environment.</p> <p>Via <a href="http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/08/10/qutecsound-csound-computer-music-programming/">Synthtopia</a>, there&#8217;s also now a screencast series that covers using QuteCsound, starting with digging into presets. (Yes, that&#8217;s right &#8211; presets. And here you thought you were going to have to do a lot of coding to have any fun.) </p> <p>I find two YouTube users uploading how-to screencasts:<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/mantaraya36">http://www.youtube.com/user/mantaraya36</a> (author of the series starting at top)<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ketchupok">http://www.youtube.com/user/ketchupok</a> (start with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcQ3ReqJTM">&#8220;Where to start?&#8221;</a></p> <p>Also worth following is Jacob Joaquin&#8217;s excellent Csound Blog, hosted on Noisepages:<br /> <a href="http://csoundblog.com/">http://csoundblog.com/</a><br /> and on Twitter, follow <a href="http://twitter.com/TheCsoundBlog">@TheCsoundBlog</a></p> <p>It&#8217;s very early in development (&#8220;alpha&#8221;), but Jacob is already doing amazing things integrating Processing, the non-coder-friendly, artist sketchbook-style coding language, with Csound, in a <a href="http://csoundblog.com/2010/08/announcing-csoundo/">new library called Csoundo</a>. That&#8217;s an ideal combination, because you can do logic and visuals quickly in Processing, then turn to Csound for audio. This is where I imagine work in two of Csound&#8217;s most popular rivals &#8211; the object-oriented, OSC-savvy SuperCollider and visual patching, Max-descendent Pure Data &#8211; may lead, as well. Check out <a href="http://csoundblog.com/2010/08/the-future-of-csoundo/">Jacob&#8217;s roadmap for more</a>.</p> <p>By the way, I hear some folks are having some trouble building QuteCsound on Ubuntu, so I&#8217;ll see what the issue is, and write up some instructions and send them over to Jacob for his blog.</p> <p>It&#8217;s a good time for Csound and free synthesis in general. With this work accelerating, I think doing a series of absolute-beginner tutorials will be very doable soon. And there&#8217;s no reason you can&#8217;t integrate a tool like this with your favorite host of choice, from Ableton to Cubase.</p> Create Digital Music » Linux http://createdigitalmusic.com Create Digital Music » Linux The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/linux/feed/ 2010-09-07T01:00:23+00:00 Announcing Csoundo — A Csound Library for Processing http://www.csounds.com/1430 at http://www.csounds.com 2010-08-11T17:20:20+00:00 <p>I’m happy to announce the first ALPHA release of <a href="http://github.com/jacobjoaquin/Csoundo">Csoundo</a>, a Csound library for <a href="http://processing.org/">Processing</a>. Processing is <em>"an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions."</em> With Csoundo, users can explore audio with visuals, export f-tables to custom high resolution SVG graphs, and create custom GUI interfaces to their synths. Video of Csoundo in action can be seen <a href="http://csoundblog.com/2010/08/csound-processing-experiment-i/">here</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://github.com/jacobjoaquin/Csoundo/downloads">Download Csoundo</a></p> <p>Members of the Csound community have reported successfully running Csoundo on OS X, Windows and Linux. OS X requires version <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound5/csound5.12/">5.12.4</a>. Linux requires special handling, see this <a href="http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Announce-Csoundo-Processing-Library-td2268382.html#a2268382">Csound mailing list thread</a> for details.</p> <p><a href="http://www.csounds.com/node/1430">read more</a></p> cSounds.com http://www.csounds.com cSounds.com Csound is a sound design, music synthesis, and signal processing system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. [Read more] Quick links: download Csound | tutorials | online manual | forums http://www.csounds.com/rss.xml 2010-09-07T07:01:15+00:00 Saturday, 14. August schedule tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-1838998585266938662 2010-08-10T08:49:41+00:00 Finally! Saturday concert schedule confirmed, Notstandskomitee play 21:00. The exact schedule is:<br />16:00-18:00 Steffi<br />18:00-20:00 Evapori &amp; Jetzmann<br />20:00-21:00 Ditterich v. Euler-Donnersperg<br />21:00-22:00 Notstandskomitee<br />22:00-24:00 Max<br />24:00-X DJs Evapori/Jetzmann &amp; Steffi &amp; Max<br /><br />I created a webpage with some infos: <a href="http://block4.com/index.php?id=122">http://block4.com/index.php?id=122</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-1838998585266938662?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 Pakistan flood tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-7483451361288529106 2010-08-09T14:31:51+00:00 Pakistan flood victim count is higher than Haiti, so where are the 'donate', 'lets make music for', 'lets put banner on our websites' thingis and stuff like that?<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100809/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_floods">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100809/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_floods</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-7483451361288529106?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 hilbert curve http://lam.fugal.net/songs/show/652 2010-08-09T13:23:12+00:00 <p>http://sciencegirlrecords.com/chr15m/squeakyshoecore</p> chr15m http://lam.fugal.net/ LAM Music Made With Linux http://lam.fugal.net/ 2010-08-31T14:06:46+00:00 Squeakyshoecore GarageAcidLab source release http://mccormick.cx/news/tags/entries/squeakyshoecore-garageacidlab-source-release 2010-08-09T13:13:00+00:00 <p><img src="http://mccormick.cx/gfx/blogref/squeakyshoecore-small.png" alt="squeakyshoecore" /> </p> <p>I have uploaded a <a href="http://sciencegirlrecords.com/chr15m/squeakyshoecore">new squeakyshoecore tune called Hilbert Curve, named after my favorite fractal. Czech it here</a>. </p> <p>Also, <a href="http://mccormick.cx/projects/GarageAcidLab/">here are the Pure Data patches which are used to make this music</a>. You can control them with a midi controller. </p> Chris McCormick - News http://mccormick.cx/news Chris McCormick - News Chris McCormick - News http://mccormick.cx/news/tags/music.rss 2010-09-07T07:01:07+00:00 Copyright 2008- Chris McCormick 6 new screencasts on QuteCsound tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-8286553121881755738 2010-08-09T10:42:31+00:00 6 new screencasts on Csound frontend <a href="http://qutecsound.sourceforge.net/">QuteCsound</a> available:<br /><br />Presets tutorial:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlCTxmzcS0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlCTxmzcS0</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES-ZfanF3c">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES-ZfanF3c</a><br /><br />Live Events tutorial:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WU7DzdUmE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WU7DzdUmE</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3eO7o349k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3eO7o349k</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMzp6556Kw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMzp6556Kw</a><br /><br />New editing features in 0.6.0:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1qPlnyv88">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1qPlnyv88</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-8286553121881755738?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 New QuteCsound screencasts http://www.csounds.com/1426 at http://www.csounds.com 2010-08-08T19:04:32+00:00 <p>Hi all,</p> <p>Since I haven't got around to making proper documentation of some recent features in QuteCsound, I decided to do a couple of screencasts.</p> <p>Presets tutorial:<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlCTxmzcS0" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlCTxmzcS0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlCTxmzcS0</a><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES-ZfanF3c" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES-ZfanF3c">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES-ZfanF3c</a></p> <p>Live Events tutorial:<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WU7DzdUmE" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WU7DzdUmE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WU7DzdUmE</a><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3eO7o349k" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3eO7o349k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3eO7o349k</a><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMzp6556Kw" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMzp6556Kw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMzp6556Kw</a></p> <p>New editing features in 0.6.0:<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1qPlnyv88" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1qPlnyv88">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1qPlnyv88</a></p> <p>I hope they are useful.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Andrés</p> cSounds.com http://www.csounds.com cSounds.com Csound is a sound design, music synthesis, and signal processing system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. [Read more] Quick links: download Csound | tutorials | online manual | forums http://www.csounds.com/rss.xml 2010-09-07T07:01:15+00:00 Out of town http://www.restivo.org/blog/?p=524 2010-08-08T05:54:45+00:00 <p>Better Than Lahar ventured out of town for the first time ever. We worked a bar in Sacramento. It went well; there&#8217;s a small but thriving music scene out there. The trip was long, hot, and sweaty, but otherwise uneventful. We&#8217;re not working at all for the rest of the month, as everyone pretty much goes on vacation. I was going to use the time to catch up on some woodshedding and solo material, but the reality is I&#8217;ll probably end up spending most of it trying to get back on my feet financially after having been smacked upside the head with a lot of unexpected medical and maintenance expenses. Poverty is challenging.</p> <p>But, coming September, Better Than Lahar starts back up with a few shows working with bands who are passing through the Bay Area, which may mean some more touring work for us as well to go and visit their home cities later on.</p> ken restivo ken@restivo.org http://www.restivo.org/blog ken's blog http://www.restivo.org/blog/feed 2010-08-31T14:06:29+00:00 ©ken restivo JACK over network http://nedko.tumblr.com/post/919266972 2010-08-07T21:52:33+00:00 <p>Today I’ve tried to create a working netjack setup over Internet. I was curious whether the netjack technology has reached a usable by general public state.</p> <p>I’ve tried two tools that aim to simplify such setups: The Mike Cookson`s jack-netmanager-gtk-0.2.3.1 and and Torben Hohn`s <em></em>netjackconnect-0.8.</p> <p>The jack-netmanager-gtk suggested to install it and I did it in “~/opt/”, but it will be useful if it can be started without installing it. It presents a GUI dialog with options. Without much knowledge of netjack technology I was not sure what to do. I’ve got some information from the wiki page about netjack1 at jackaudio.org, but it was not enough. That wiki page does not give overview on how to setup the firewall, does not give overview of the communication channels and does not tells much about the (UDP) ports being used. I’ve been pointed by Torben to try his netjackconnect (aka njc). The use of njc requires registration on the <a href="http://hochstrom.endofinternet.org/">http://hochstrom.endofinternet.org/</a> site and it does not even start if ran manually. Maybe this approach is intentional and is supposed to track and control netjack interactions over Internet, something I definitively don’t like. Global tracker is definitively a good thing, but only if it is optional and not forced.</p> <p>A JACK Internet connectivity manager should present a dialog a choice of whether to connect to user supplied IP address or to use a tracker. List of such trackers should be configurable with the default one being hosted under jackaudio.org. All connectivity options should be negotiated directly between peers and not through a man-in-the-middle tracker site. Sending connectivity parameters to the tracker should be suggested but optional and should default to *privacy*.</p> <p>The netjack1 documentation should contain an overview of the the interaction between involved software components. The network communication channel(s) should be explicitly described and the UDP firewall “puncturing” should be mentioned as well.</p> <p>I’ve set up the netone (jack2) driver with alsa_out. The audio sent to to soundcard ports was chopped and it remained chopped even with high buffer sizes (big latencies). With big buffer size, I’ve tracked chops to “delay” lines in alsa_out output, but it was not obvious whether these lines are errors or part of normal output.</p> Nedko http://nedko.tumblr.com/ Nedko http://nedko.tumblr.com/tagged/linuxaudio/rss 2010-09-07T07:00:23+00:00 Electronic Music Stands tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982925173228101953.post-8222698523172556532 2010-08-06T23:41:55+00:00 We are in full swing of electronic books, bubbles that are likely to explode into a new phase of the war between the old and new generations of publishers, content providers and consumers. It is likely that <a href="http://imslp.org/wiki/1812_Overture,_Op.49_%28Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr_Ilyich%29">sheet music enter the battlefield</a>.<br /><br />Before proceeding I must warn you about two facts. One: despite the name of the blog, I am a Trekkie. Two: I am not a neutral observer. In my opinion traditional books publishing, as well as media labels, are going to lose. Those not able to adapt to changing times will disappear. Resistance is futile.<br /><br />The musicians are going to adopt electronic lecterns sooner rather than later. The electronic scores begin to replace the editions printed on dead trees, as is already happening with books. There are some solutions on the market, more or less primitive.<br /><br /><a href="http://corporate.freehandmusic.com/products-musicpadpro.php">MusicPad:</a> Hardware and software.<br />How could you describe it? It is like a Kindle with legs. There is a "Master" version with twice the surface. Among its outstanding features: it is completely silent. Great virtue, because silence is also music.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.musicreader.net/">MusicReader:</a> Software only.<br />"The facto MusicPad Killer", they say. It is a program with Windows and Mac versions, which has more than just a page viewer. There is an optional accessory for turning pages with the foot. It can display half pages enlarged, as an aid to accessibility. Integrated additional functions: recorder, player, metronome and tuner.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.estand.com/info">eStand:</a> Software for Windows, page viewer.<br /><br />All of them are readers for electronic formats such as PDF or similar, showing pages, sections or page sets. MusicReader seems the most complete, yet is far from perfect. Some desirable features for an electronic music stand:<br /><ul><li>Pages no, thanks. The pages have no musical function and are mainly a nuisance. No pedal to turn pages, automatic scrolling is much better. Bookmarks, notes, sections, movements, labels, individually numbered bars. Everything indexed and easily searchable.</li></ul><ul><li>Size does matter. The musicians are supposed to have good ear, but nothing is said about sight. So it is better if the size of the staves is adjustable. For this reason, PDF is not very well suited for scores, it may be necessary to adjust the layout depending on the available area of representation. In this sense, the graphical representation of music resembles the visual organization of the widgets in graphical user interfaces.</li></ul><ul><li>Content indexing, cross referenced, not only metadata but all the data resulting from semantic content analysis. For example: tessitura of the parts (lowest and highest notes used by each voice and instrument in the composition) for each one of the scores in the library. With this data available, it may be possible to filter the appropriate pieces for different levels of students. Publishers must provide rich metadata, MIDI sequences, critical texts, and musicological analysis. It is not just changing the medium of the product, it is about changing the cellulose based mindset, into another way of thinking based on information.</li></ul><ul><li>Metronome. Probably many of the users will be students, so it will be convenient to have a metronome at the same place, taking the rhythm meter and the speed automatically from the values in the score. And of course, in addition to the optional audio reference, each bar should be highlighted while playing, keeping the current bar clearly visible in a central position, taking control of the scroll function, even when the metronome is quiet. Something like <a href="http://www.livesheetmusic.com/">this.</a></li></ul><ul><li>Pitch tuner, recorder, playback. Computer: add an accompaniment. Computer: change the clarinet by an oboe. Computer: pause recording ...</li></ul><div align="center"><br />Star Trek TNG 6/8: "A Fistful of Datas"</div><ul><li>High connectivity: USB, Bluetooth, WiFi, Ethernet ...</li></ul><ul><li>If there is a small or large group of musicians, they may want to synchronize the electronic stands, loading and unloading documents and synchronizing the timers/metronomes.</li></ul>We already have almost all the required technology as free software:<br /><ul><li>Music Typesetting, engraving PDF or PostScript scores: Lilypond.</li><li>Programs, libraries and components to display these documents: Okular.</li><li>Sequencers, synthesizers and MIDI players: KMid.</li><li>Free content: <a href="http://www.mutopiaproject.org/">www.mutopiaproject.org</a></li></ul><br />We have the opportunity to occupy a niche in musical education, and from here future musicians shall develop the habit of using free software. Perhaps with time, even to generate free content.<br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><br />Star Trek Voyager 5/22: "Someone to Watch Over Me"</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6982925173228101953-8222698523172556532?l=midi-clorianos.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas noreply@blogger.com http://midi-clorianos.blogspot.com/search/label/MIDI Midichlorians in the blood Blog about MIDI, software, music, Linux, KDE, light sabers and Jedi garments tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982925173228101953 2010-09-03T20:00:35+00:00 The Most From Free Software: Book Review, Getting Things Made, Un-Procrastination http://createdigitalmusic.com/?p=12607 2010-08-06T15:24:15+00:00 <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/denisemattox/3381256733/" title="134: A Round Tuit by niseag03, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3571/3381256733_07034a77ff.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="134: A Round Tuit" /></a></p> <div class="imgcaption"><strong>Is it time to get a round tuit?</strong> Photo (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC-BY-ND</a>) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/denisemattox/">Denise Mattox</a>.</div> <p><em>For this book review, we welcome guest writer <a href="http://obiwannabe.co.uk/">Andy Farnell</a>, who himself <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Designing-Sound-Andy-Farnell/dp/0956088600">has a terrific book</a> on interactive sound design and free modular patching environment Pure Data, entitled Designing Sound. It began as a review of a book on using free software &#8211; but it could be, more than that, a chance to fight procrastination. And while this runs the gamut, including graphics and design and not just sound, that could be even more relevant to those of us who need to delve into those other areas for our creative work. -Ed.</em></p> <p>We all have a stack of things to get round to one day. Building a website. Making a video. Writing a book or recording an album. Allow me to share with you ten days that will transform your list of could do, would do, always going to do&#8230; into a list of exciting projects you&#8217;ve started.</p> <p>That&#8217;s how long it took me to flick through Daniel James&#8217; &#8220;Crafting Digital Media&#8221;, a light-reading compendium of software wisdom published by APress and weighing in at just under 400 pages.</p> <p>It takes two of the major excuses for procrastination, &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand the interface, so I&#8217;m waiting for someone to show me.&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t have the money to buy the latest software&#8221;, and stomps them in the face with a giant boot.<br /> <img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/08/cdmediacover.jpg" alt="" title="cdmediacover" width="580" height="435" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12614" /><br /> <span id="more-12607"></span></p> <p>There are roughly eight topics, or chunks of knowledge covered.</p> <p>The first is about photography, with demonstrations in F-Spot, GThumb and GIMP &#8212; all the free tools you need to transfer, manipulate, and polish high-quality digital images.</p> <p>Every software package in the book is a free, open source product that can be legally downloaded and used. These are not shareware or limited trial programs, but full versions of powerful, standards compatible applications &#8212; all modern free software with reliable, polished interfaces and powerful features. The book also comes with a CD containing Ubuntu 9.04.</p> <p>The second chapter concerns illustration and font design. This is a whistle stop tour of modern scalable vector graphics tools and techniques, touching on Inkscape, FontForge, and GIMP again, showing you how to import, export, convert and edit high quality multi-layered scalable graphics.</p> <p>Next comes 2D animation, where KToon and Synfig are demonstrated, showing the basic concepts of frame sequencing and tweening. And naturally, 3D modelling follows, with a look at Blender, the immensely-powerful 3D object design and rendering package with auxiliary game engine.</p> <p>Although each section covers a complete production concept, it isn&#8217;t tiring or exhaustive. Just enough guidance is given to launch the program, explore the features, introduce the key concepts and leave you to play. If you actually follow along with the software examples, it&#8217;s a truly exciting journey, as you go to sleep each night with your head exploding with possibilities.</p> <p>The art of publishing is the next adventure, with explorations of page layout, document structure, creating PDFs, posters, books and flyers. Subjects like fonts, typography, kerning and color processes are explained through examples with the Scribus application.</p> <p>As a musician, you might be wondering where the audio tools are. The book doesn&#8217;t disappoint. There&#8217;s something for even experienced users in this compendium of tools spanning three chapters. Packages such as Mixx, Hydrogen, Jack, Seq24, Alsa Modular, Audacity, Ardour, and JAMin are explored in the context of all the common tasks like podcasting, recording, sequencing, effecting, compressing and mastering, EQ, CD production, and creating your own streaming server.</p> <p><img src="http://createdigitalmusic.com/images/2010/08/cdmedia_closeup.jpg" alt="" title="cdmedia_closeup" width="580" height="435" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12615" /></p> <p>As an old fart who has just discovered YouTube, I found the next section on video editing to be very helpful since I&#8217;ve just started to explore making video tutorials. The now comical proliferation of incompatible video formats and codecs, a depressing indictment of the failure of standards, are cut through in short order. Daniel lays down the basics of formats and their conversion using AVIdemux, cropping and resizing while preserving high quality, and basic editing using Kino and the Open Movie Editor. A quick treatment of audio sync, titles and effects wraps up the section nicely.</p> <p>Web development is the last chapter on software packages. Arguably there are so many choices for Web2.0 site design that it&#8217;s hard to justify any particular one. This book opts for solid and proven Drupal, along with a tour of the industry standard Apache web server, MySQL back-end, and Icecast media server to give a user-driven internet radio station as the chapter example.</p> <p>Each of these topics is an entire profession in itself, about which shelves of books could be written, so don&#8217;t expect to become much of an an expert in any. What &#8220;Crafting Digital Media&#8221; does is open the door and get you started producing content very quickly. From there the opportunities are up to you. </p> <p>As well as gently throwing in up-to-date anecdotal knowledge and asides from his encyclopaedic knowledge of modern media software, Daniel ties together the various threads into a whole that leaves you feeling empowered to start any new digital production project.</p> <p>Let&#8217;s face it, the key to most pieces of software is a few simple steps, a few core commands, that seem so easy once you know them that you want to kick yourself for not trying sooner. Getting over that initial barrier is what this book offers.</p> <p>The book would be a fantastic companion to new users of Ubuntu Studio, Pure:Dyne or 64Studio distributions, though several of the packages are multi-platform, so are available for Mac and Windows too. <em>Ed.: Indeed, a large number of the tools are cross-platform &#8211; GIMP, FontForge, and Inkscape run on Mac and Windows, and Ardour on Mac. But then again, if you&#8217;ve got a Mac or PC, this is a great time to explore Linux a bit as a second OS, and all this software is available to you. Graphics software should even run acceptably virtualized. -PK</em></p> <p>Title: Crafting Digital Media<br /> Author: Daniel James<br /> Publisher: Apress<br /> Year: 2009<br /> ISBN: 9781430218876<br /> Price: $29 (RRP:$40)</p> <p></p> Create Digital Music » Linux http://createdigitalmusic.com Create Digital Music » Linux The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/linux/feed/ 2010-09-07T01:00:23+00:00 Notstandskomitee concert 14. August Hamburg tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-7356218133864113559 2010-08-06T04:47:11+00:00 I perform another Notstandskomitee outdoor gig on 14. August in Hamburg. Its a small art and music festival at Bullerdeich, Hammerbrook. More details soon...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-7356218133864113559?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 Pentarpeggio http://lam.fugal.net/songs/show/651 2010-08-05T16:53:15+00:00 beatpanic http://lam.fugal.net/ LAM Music Made With Linux http://lam.fugal.net/ 2010-08-31T14:06:46+00:00 Monthly Round-Up #1 - August 2010 http://linuxmusicians.autostatic.com/1@linuxmusicians.autostatic.com/ 2010-08-05T13:00:00+00:00 <p>Dear all,</p><p>There's simply so much going on in the Linux audio world. Not only new versions of numerous applications or completely new projects and specialized distros but also the growing amount of music made with Linux. I'd like this editorial initiative to provide an overview of what happened the past month in the Linux audio field, as far as possible of course.</p><p>The idea for an editorial actually comes from the <a href="http://www.linuxmao.org/" target="_blank">LinuxMAO</a> site, a French community site dedicated to making music with GNU/Linux. They've been publishing editorials for a few years now and are getting better and better at it, amalgamating and extracting all the necessary info in articles crammed with interesting stuff. Basically, they've done all the work already and as a Francophone I can loosely base this editorial, and hopefully the ones to come, on their great work. So thanks guys, <a href="http://www.linuxmao.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=UserPagepianolivier" target="_blank">pianolivier</a> in particular!</p><p>I posted <a href="http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2583" target="_blank">a topic on publishing an editorial</a> a while ago and I'd like to thank everyone who provided feedback. Still, any help for possible future editorials is welcome, and hopefully now that there's something up on the web the enthusiasm to contribute might grow.</p><p>Best,</p><p>Jeremy aka <a href="http://www.autostatic.com/" target="_blank">AutoStatic</a></p> <hr /><p>1. <a href="http://linuxmusicians.autostatic.comindex.php?page=entry&uid=1#news" target="_self">Linux audio news</a><br />2. <a href="http://linuxmusicians.autostatic.com#music_made_with_linux" target="_self">Music made with Linux</a><br />3. <a href="http://linuxmusicians.autostatic.com#new_versions" target="_self">New versions, new projects</a><a href="http://linuxmusicians.autostatic.com#news" target="_self"><br /></a></p> <hr /><h2>Linux audio news</h2><p><a href="http://www.louigiverona.ru/" target="_blank">Louigi Verona</a> gives an update on his <a href="http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=misc&t=cap" target="_blank">Collaborative Ambient Project</a> (CAP).<br /><a href="http://www.sysimetsa.urli.net/" target="_blank">t-sys</a> <a href="http://forum.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2805" target="_blank">announces</a> the upcoming release of <a href="http://www.renoise.com/about/what-s-new-2-6/" target="_blank">Renoise 2.6 </a>on the<a href="http://forum.linuxmusicians.com/" target="_blank"> LinuxMusicians forum</a>. The <a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/" target="_blank">Create Digital Music</a> blog also dedicates <a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/07/19/renoise-2-6-could-set-new-bar-for-control-customization-openness/" target="_blank">a full article</a> on this upcoming release.<br />The devs from <a href="http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">Rakarrack</a> are just unstoppable and are already working hard on an <a href="http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/blog/2010/07/momentum/" target="_blank">upcoming 0.6.0 release</a>.<br /><a href="http://arnout.engelen.eu/" target="_blank">Raboof</a> has made a <a href="http://forum.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2798" target="_blank">start</a> on adding a GUI for his <a href="http://realtimeconfigquickscan.googlecode.com/hg/realTimeConfigQuickScan.pl" target="_blank">realtimequickconfigscan</a> script.</p> <hr /><h2><a id="music_made_with_linux"></a>Music made with Linux</h2><p>A little selection of interesting tracks made entirely or partly with Linux.</p><h4><a href="http://wootangent.net/" target="_blank">Pneuman</a> - Phase Transition</h4><p>Great driving track that builds up steadily. Even though the chord progression and melody lines of this track are minimal it's <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pneuman" target="_blank">pneuman</a> aka <a href="http://wootangent.net/" target="_blank">lsd</a>'s ear for detail that constantly draws your attention. <div id="audioplayerholder1" class="pivotx-media"> <p><a href="http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/releases/phasetransition/phasetransition.mp3">Download <tt>phasetransition.mp3</tt>.</a></p> <p>Playing "phasetransition".</p> </div> <!-- script element removed --> </p><h4><br /><a href="http://jwm-art.net/" target="_blank">James W. Morris</a> - Approaching</h4><p>Quiet, gentle track evolving around a repetitive pattern. Beautiful in its minimalism. <div id="audioplayerholder2" class="pivotx-media"> <p><a href="http://linuxmusicians.autostatic.com/media/jameswmorris-approaching.mp3">Download <tt>jameswmorris-approaching.mp3</tt>.</a></p> <p>Playing "jameswmorris-approaching".</p> </div> <!-- script element removed --> </p><h4><br /><a href="http://sciencegirlrecords.com/chr15m/squeakyshoecore/" target="_blank">chr15m (Chris McCormick)</a> - Cryptocerus</h4><p>Squeakyshoecore aka algorhythmic acid aka idm with a tinge of electro. Cryptic description aye? Well, that should get you curious. <div id="audioplayerholder3" class="pivotx-media"> <p><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/squeakyshoecore/02-cryptocerus.mp3">Download <tt>02-cryptocerus.mp3</tt>.</a></p> <p>Playing "02-cryptocerus".</p> </div> <!-- script element removed --> </p> <h4><br /><a href="http://www.louigiverona.ru/" target="_blank">Louigi Verona</a> - Sunset</h4><p>Screencast of an uplifting track that should put a smile on your face. <div id="youtubeholder1" class="pivotx-media"> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/XlGN3COQC68">Visit this page on YouTube.</a></p> <p>Youtube video "XlGN3COQC68".</p> </div> <!-- script element removed --> </p> <hr /><h2><a id="new_versions"></a>New versions, new projects</h2><p>Software updates and freshly started projects!</p><h4>July 2: <a href="http://space.twc.de/~stefan/spectmorph.php" target="_blank">SpectMorph</a> 0.0.3</h4><ul><li>Added encoder algorithm to find attack envelope, this makes piano sound much more realistic</li><li>Introduced smwavset tool, which allows managing instruments consisting of many samples<br />- encoding/decoding a set of samples<br />- delta operation for comparing errors of sets of samples</li><li>smextract can now provide an overview of how many bytes in an .sm file can be attributed to which fields</li><li>Documentation updates</li><li>Refactoring, cleanups</li></ul><h4>July 5: <a href="http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123.php" target="_blank">gst123</a> 0.1.2</h4><ul><li>Added -a option to select audio driver (oss, alsa) and device (/dev/dsp1, hw:1)</li><li>Fix crash triggered when closing the video window (thanks Siddhesh Poyarekar)</li><li>Improved configure check (works now if ncurses headers are not in /usr/include)</li></ul><h4>July 6: <a href="http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">Drumstick</a> 0.4.0</h4><ul><li>smfplayer renamed as guiplayer, with a new windows layout and supporting Cakewalk WRK files playback</li><li>Subdirectory "tests" renamed as "utils"</li><li>Visibility attribute for public classes</li></ul><h4>July 7: <a href="http://ardour.org/" target="_blank">Ardour</a> 2.8.11</h4><ul><li>Do not prevent transport operations after an export (and potentially at other times)</li></ul><h4>July 7: <a href="http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/" target="_blank">StretchPlayer</a> 0.502</h4><ul><li>Reduced Xorg load (was typ. 20-30% CPU even when idle)</li><li>Fix build errors on 64-bit systems (incompatible integer types)</li><li>Add CMake USE_COMPOSITING option to explicitly disable compositing features</li></ul><h4>July 8: <a href="http://denemo.org/" target="_blank">Denemo</a> 0.8.18</h4><ul><li>Default behavior is now non-modal</li><li>You can choose one out of four Shortcut systems, including the "Classic" one.</li><li>an easy to understand and very slick interface via keyboard</li><li>seamless integration with MIDI controllers</li><li>Better Paste command.</li><li>Musical Snippets - store musical riffs/motifs to be pasted at will or as rhythmic templates for playing over.</li><li>Maximize the space for the score (with/without user's choice of menus).</li><li>Standard View - window size, zoom, number of systems etc</li><li>No-Menu version of this view</li><li>Page View - user chooses a window size, zoom and number of systems, which is stored with the movement for instant recall.</li><li>Single keyboard shortcut for toggling between these views (Esc by default).</li><li>MIDI transport work for JACK users.</li><li>Fix Chord Symbols for music starting with triplets, grace notes etc.</li><li>Fix display of dotted rests</li><li>Arbitrary Tuplets built in: correct MIDI output as well as engraving, of course.</li><li>Diatonic Transposition: Shift notes and chords up and down respecting the current key signature.</li><li>Support for figured bass extenders, including those with no starting figure.</li><li>Cursor can be highlighted, making it easier to locate</li><li>Page turning is animated: as the last line starts to play, the page visibly turns at the top.</li><li>Purely rhythmic notes playback using percussion - click tracks more easily generated.</li><li>Split Notes and Chords to smaller notes while preserving the original duration (make a quarter note two 8th or tuplet of 8th or 7-tuplet)</li><li>Duplicate a Note or Chord as command</li><li>Command line interface for interactive scheme use</li><li>Support for the "French" clef (G on bottom line)</li></ul><h4>July 8: <a href="http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">Yoshimi</a> 0.058.1</h4><ul><li>Switch fftw planner flag from FFTW_MEASURE back to FFTW_ESTIMATE</li></ul><h4>July 8: <a href="http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">KXStudio</a> 10.04.2</h4><ul><li>KDE 4.4.5 (from Kubuntu Updates PPA) has been enabled by default</li><li>Added Jack2-Simple-Config, KMidiMon and KMetronome to default install</li><li>Added "kxstudio-minimal-desktop" script</li><li>Added more Audio Plugins (ls16, nekorgan, nekosynth, zynaddsubfx-dssi, pxu, naspro, etc)</li><li>ALSA is now routed directly to Jack, instead of going through PulseAudio</li><li>Wine patched with Realtime Scheduling (check the Tutorials page for details)</li><li>FFMpeg 0.6 and Mplayer 1.0~rc3, added 'vlc-git' and 'vlc-110' optional packages</li><li>ArdourVST now fully works on both 32bit and 64bit</li><li>Jack-Mixer was unable to start</li><li>QJackCtl was not able to stop Jack</li><li>NVIDIA driver can now be installed on realtime kernels (using the "nvidia-current" package)</li><li>Updated applications to their latest versions</li></ul><h4>July 11: <a href="http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">Guitarix</a> 0.10.0</h4><ul><li>Add tonestack models</li><li>Add 2nd amp model</li><li>Add cabinet impulse response module</li><li>Add Patch Info widget</li><li>Add Preset File Load/Export option</li><li>Add simple looper</li><li>Add Oscilloscope and tuner state to main settings</li><li>Selectable distortion model (multi/single line)</li><li>Selectable EQ model (fixed/scalable freq)</li><li>Free mem when not used (delay lines)</li><li>Reworked GUI</li><li>Fix various bugs</li></ul><h4>July 13: <a href="http://drumstick.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">Drumstick</a> 0.4.1</h4><ul><li>Removed PCH build option</li><li>Fixed bug in class SequencerInputThread: realtime priority must be applied in run() instead of start() to avoid changing the scheduling policy of the parent. This is a problem when running FluidSynth in systems affected by a glib-2.22 bug that has not yet been fixed. Reference: <a href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599079" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599079</a>&nbsp; </li></ul><h4>July 13: <a href="http://www.spek-project.org/" target="_blank">Spek</a> 0.6</h4><ul><li>Switch from GStreamer to FFmpeg libraries for audio decoding. This speeds up the overall analysis by a factor of 1.5 to 2</li><li>Decode audio and perform the analysis in separate threads. This makes the analysis 1.3~1.8 times faster on multi-core systems (issue 11)</li><li>Check for a new version once a week and notify when it becomes available (issue 27)</li></ul><h4>July 15: <a href="http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">XJadeo</a> 0.4.11</h4><ul><li>New default parameters:<br />&nbsp;- screen-update-fps = filefps (use '-f 10' for prev. default)<br />&nbsp;- MTC-quarter-frame: on (use '-c' to disable it)</li><li>Added JACK-MIDI port for MTC (./configure --enable-midi=jack )</li><li>System-V IPC remote ctrl mode (OSX does not support POSIX-MQ)</li><li>xjremote is now part of the OSX bundle</li><li>Added '{' and '}' keyboard shortcuts to modify time-offset in larger steps</li><li>Many small remote-ctl extensions for ardour3 integration<br />&nbsp;- allow to disable some GUI interactions (close window, left-mouse-click)<br />&nbsp;- added aliases for full-screen &amp; position remote-ctrl commands (alphabetical order of commands now does the right thing: size, position, fullscreen -&gt; size, xy, zoom)</li></ul><h4>July 18: <a href="http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/stretchplayer/" target="_blank">StretchPlayer</a> 0.503</h4><ul><li>This release simply removes the Debian packaging from the official tarball. However, Debian packaging is still provided.</li></ul><h4>July 19: <a href="http://ebuswell.github.com/Cshellsynth/" target="_blank">Cshellsynth</a> 0.5 <span>NEW!</span></h4><ul><li>Cshellsynth is a library for synthesizing sound using the Jack Audio Connection Kit on<br />Linux.&nbsp; It optionally includes a module for ruby suitable for livecoding.</li></ul><h4>July 21: <a href="http://www.klactoveedsedstene.com/" target="_blank">Klactoveedsedstene</a> 2.1</h4><ul><li>Bug fixes and minor enhancements</li><li>Increased Album Art search timeout value. The old value had become to small, as the search algorithm is constantly being improved, thus taking longer time to find the optimal image</li></ul><h4>July 24: <a href="http://gtk-apps.org/content/show.php/JACK+Network+Manager?content=122327" target="_blank">JACK Network Manager</a> 0.2.3</h4><ul><li>Name changed from jack-netsource-gui to jack-netmanager-gtk (humany name - JACK Network Manager), since jack_netsource is just a wrapper, controlling jack "netmanager" module</li><li>Presets support, deprecating creation of script with tray support, due to ability to reuse ordinary scripts by JACK Network Manager itself. During of preset saving name is requested and approriate script is stored in presets directory</li><li>Ability to start sources at LADISH rooms</li><li>ladish_launch is deprecated. ladish_control snewapp and rnewapp commands used instead</li><li>Improved desktop launcher</li><li>New system tray icons; added application icon, unwantedly removed from 0.2.2</li><li>Fixed help text</li><li>Options for jack_netsource from various jack versions are stored in separated file now</li><li>Internationalization of bash scripts through gettext</li><li>Build system improvements: all text files are configured - e.g., instalation prefix now is working. Configured files are stored into separate build directory, which is autonomous and can be distributed. Also, uninstalation is available.</li><li>Internationalization improvements: added update-locales script, which updates template with translations at once, and localization of bash scripts through gettext.</li></ul><h4>July 25: <a href="http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">XJadeo</a> 0.4.12</h4><ul><li>Updated '--help' text to reflect new default values introduced in 0.4.11</li><li>Allow to select midi-driver at runtime (JACK-MIDI, ALSA-sequencer, portmidi, ALSA-raw-midi).</li><li>Fixed rounding error for non-integer framerates in the Remote-ctrl SMPTE-text parser (xjadeo+JACK or MTC is not affected; it's only relevant when using 'seek &lt;integer&gt;' instead of 'seek SMPTE' remote-ctl commands)</li><li>Fixed unresponsive Alert messages (OSX)</li><li>Added JACK-Midi to menu (OSX)</li><li>Dropped releasing Debian packages on sf.net since xjadeo is now officially available in Debian</li></ul><h4>July 26: <a href="http://qutecsound.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">QuteCsound</a> 0.6.0</h4><ul><li>New XML Widget format for storing widgets. If file only contains the old widget format a backup file is saved just in case</li><li>The new format allows many new funtionality like:<br />- Font, Font size, Font Color and background in a larger number of widgets.<br />- Rounded borders and border width in various widgets.<br />- Font sizes are now approximate pixel values, which provides better cross-platform font cmpatibility and a broader selection of sizes<br />- x and y zoom for scope and graph widget<br />- If only old widget format is present in the file, a backup copy is saved with extension .old-format<br />- Minimum and maximum values for spinbox, controller and scroll number<br />- Adjustable ranges for controller widgets</li><li>Presets for Widgets are now available, and they will be stored as XML text in the csd file. They can be used from the right click menu in the widget panel. Reserved channels "_GetPresetName", "_GetPresetNumber", "_SetPreset" and "_SetPresetIndex", which allows control of presets from Csound or other widgets</li><li>New reserved channel "_MBrowse" for buttons, which allows selection of multiple files, which are separated by the "," character</li><li>Font scaling and Font Offset configuration option for control over global font rendering size</li><li>Added bookmarks in inspector (any comment starting by ";;" in a csd file or "##" in python file is treated as a bookmark)</li><li>Added option to save using Windows or Unix Line Endings (only for saved files-text in editor still uses Unix line breaks...)</li><li>Added option for specifying python executable</li><li>New Live Event Controller, which simplifies usage of live event sheets</li><li>Implemented looping and setting/saving loop points for live event sheets</li><li>Added "append rows" and "appends columns" for event sheets</li><li>Graph widget now sends values when an index is selected</li><li>Added second channel to Graph widget which sends/receives f-table number instead of index</li><li>New Filter Lab, Mixdown_Player, SF_Splitter, SF_Merger, Jukebox, Spatialization examples</li><li>Auto indent when previous line is indented</li><li>Added option to have widgets open the properties dialog automatically when they are created (enabled by default)</li><li>Added center vertically and center horizontally widget layout options</li><li>Added menu option to display file information</li><li>Added menu option to set full screen view</li><li>Added option to hide toolbar</li><li>Added menu item for showing Opcode Quick Reference page from manual</li><li>Added option to change shortcut for Utilities Dialog</li><li>Default "New File" is now set in a text box in the config dialog, not a separate file</li><li>Added filtering for some unnecessary console messages from Csound</li><li>Added auto join option to minimize user interaction when opening orc/sco files</li><li>Horrible memory leak from API graphs, QuteCsound consumed memory at a terrible pace</li><li>-i flag is not added to options if it is empty. This is done to allow using only flags like: "-+rtaudio=alsa -odac" without forcing -i</li><li>Fixed beeping when key is pressed in widget layout (OS X)</li><li>About Dialog is now shorter for smaller screens</li><li>Improved syntax popup menu (now distinguishes whether first word is a variable or an opcode to decide whether to pop up menu on next word). Don't show syntax completion if line previously has "opcode" or "instr" text</li><li>If something has been typed, autocomplete does not add the output arguments, just the opcode name and input arguments</li><li>Non csd files no longer parse the widget text, even if it is there</li><li>Fixed addition of blank lines at end when saving</li><li>Record button unlatches on stop</li><li>Fixed inspector update when switching tabs</li><li>Status bar syntax is now only shown for csd and orc files</li><li>Non python and non csd files are now not syntax highlighted</li><li>Fixed editor sluggishness by running the inspector update on a slow timer</li><li>Added logic to avoid completion pop up menu if an opcode has already been used in the line or if there is a = operator in the line</li><li>Auto complete now adds the correct rate text (previously the same text was added, no matter what rate was chosen)</li><li>Widgets no longer disappear if dragged to be too small</li><li>Reorganized configuration dialog to make it fit in smaller screens</li><li>Inspector now maintains state (collapsed/expanded) of items</li><li>Fixed browse button for SSDIR</li><li>Removed option to remove scrollbars. They are always active now. This option was added when there was instability from scrollbars</li><li>Tooltip showing channel name shows up in edit mode as well</li><li>Fixed bug in qutecsound::runUtility ("free" was being called on argv which is allocated on stack, not heap)</li><li>Truncate jack names if greater than 16 characters</li><li>Graph widgets now paint curves, even if they are created after Csound has started</li><li>Event sheet actions now register as a single event for undo purposes</li><li>Added kill Line and kill to End of Line actions</li><li>Fixed pasting of rich text in editor (paste from open office calc was resulting in extraneous text and formatting)</li><li>New build system thanks to Andy Fillebrown, which keeps build products more organized and performs a "configure" style step in qmake which looks for the required dependencies</li><li>New concurrency model. invalue now changes the channels for all widgets synchronously. Might also have a positive effect on performance, as widgets are only updated through a timer which will usually run slower than k-rate. Threading model is now clearer, and should be now crash proof (hopefully)</li></ul><h4>July 27: <a href="http://www.loomer.co.uk/aspect.htm" target="_blank">Loomer Aspect</a> 1.6.1</h4><ul><li>New built-in Preset Browser with support for xml, fxp, and fxb preset files</li><li>Presets can now have meta-data, such as author name, notes, and tags. Use meta-data to search your preset library</li><li>Hot-swap preset browsing: quickly step through and preview presets in context</li><li>Various host compatibility fixes</li><li>Audio-rate pitch modulation of Oscillator 1 from Oscillator 2 now works</li><li>Sample &amp; Hold module's latched value is now correctly reset when the the input source is removed</li><li>Much faster GUI response</li><li>Slight reduction in CPU usage on particularily complex presets</li><li>Vastly reduced start-up time</li><li>Clearer font rendering: a larger font is now used for menu items</li><li>Additional and improved factory presets</li></ul><h4>July 28: <a href="http://github.com/harryhaaren/PreHear" target="_blank">PreHear</a> <span>NEW!</span></h4><ul><li>A simple sample auditioning program, allows the playback of .wav,.au,.aiff files</li><li>It uses JACK as its backend, and will *not* currently resample to JACK's audio rate, it<br />will just pump out the sample. Just so you know</li></ul><h4>July 28: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/talentledhack/" target="_blank">TalentedHack</a> 1.81</h4><ul><li>Made Midi ports optional thanks to Gabriel Beddingfield</li></ul><h4>July 28: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/talentledhack/" target="_blank">TalentedHack</a> 1.82</h4><ul><li>Fixed linking issue with GCC 4.4. Fixed Makefile to include dependencies folder in tarballs</li></ul><h4>July 29: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/talentledhack/" target="_blank">TalentedHack</a> 1.83</h4><ul><li>Cleaned up the branding so it won't be confused with Autotalent any more</li></ul><h4>July 31: <a href="http://cryptomys.de/horo/Connie/index.html" target="_blank">Connie</a> 0.4.3</h4><ul><li>Removed freeverb and added a JCRev style reverb (less cpu usage) <a href="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Schroeder_Reverberator_called_JCRev.html" target="_blank">http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Schroeder_Reverberator_called_JCRev.html</a></li><li>DSP optimization, denormal handling</li><li>Source code clean up</li><li>Two binaries: connie_i386 and connie_sse (&gt;= PIII with sse unit) called at runtime by a wrapper script</li><li>Changed program options</li></ul><hr /> Jeremy jeremy@autostatic.com http://linuxmusicians.autostatic.com/ LinuxMusicians Blog creating music freely http://linuxmusicians.autostatic.com/rss 2010-09-07T07:01:05+00:00 Copyright 2010 exhibition and radio performance 10. September tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-5494384311830496361 2010-08-05T09:54:35+00:00 My next exhibition is in the Galerie Linda Hamburg on 10. September. Its sad because this nice gallery where I exhibited 2006 and 2009 has to close, they got thrown out by their landlord for no appearant reason. So its the last day exhibition with 70 artist, each one get 1m x 1m, I am going to have a small interactive installation there, certainly made with Pure Data.<br /><br />At that evening I am at Radio FSK and do a radioconcert as Elektronengehirn. I am now thinking about combining that...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-5494384311830496361?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 From Gedit to Geany. http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/2010/08/04/gedit_geany.atom 2010-08-04T11:17:00+00:00 <p> After effectively <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/rip_nedit.html"> giving up on Nedit</a>, my text editor of choice for the last fifteen years, I gave Gedit a serious try. </p> <p> For a full two weeks, I stuck with Gedit, including the intense 2&#189; day hacking session of <a href="http://random.axman6.com/blog/?p=219"> AusHac2010</a>. Unfortunately, switching from a very full featured editor like Nedit to Gedit was painful. There were a bunch of features that I had grown used to that were just absent or inconvienient in Gedit. The problem is that Gedit aims to be a relatively full featured programmer's editor while still being the default easy-to-use editor in GNOME. As far as I am concerned, these two aims are in conflict, making Gedit an adequate simple text editor and a poor editor for advanced coders. </p> <p> After butting my head against basic usability issues with Gedit I was even considered either modifying it extensively using plugins or maybe even forking it and maintaining a forked version. Yes, that would be a huge pain in the neck, but fortunately that will not now be necessary. </p> <p> In response to my blog post titled <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/rip_nedit.html"> <i>"R.I.P. Nedit"</i></a> fellow Haskell hacker and Debian Haskell Group member <a href="https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/"> Joachim Breitner</a> suggested I have a look at the <a href="http://www.geany.org/"> Geany text editor and IDE</a>. </p> <p> Geany is obviously a tool aimed squarely as an editor for full time, committed programmers. Its also much more than just an editor, in that it has many features of an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). In fact, when I first fired it up it looked like this (click for a larger view): </p> <br /> <center> <a href="http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Img/geany-default.png"> <img src="http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Img/geany-default-small.png" border="0" alt="Geany default window" /> </a> </center> <br /> <p> On seeing this I initially thought Geany was not for me. Fortunately I found that the extra IDE-like features can easily be hidden, providing me with a simple-to-use, highly configurable, advanced text editor. The features I really like are: </p> <ul> <li>High degree of configurability, including key bindings. </li> <li>Syntax highlighting (configurable) for a huge number of languages. </li> <li>Custom syntax highlighting (ie user definable highlighting for languages not currently supported by Geany). </li> <li>Regex search and search/replace. </li> <li>Search and replace within a selected area only. </li> <li>Highlighting of matching braces and brackets. </li> <li>Language specific editing modes and auto indentation. </li> <li>Go to specified line number. </li> <li>Plugins. </li> </ul> <p> There are still a few little niggles, but nothing like the pain I experienced trying to use Gedit. For instance, when run from the command line, Geany will open new files in a tab of an existing Geany instance. With multiple desktop workspaces, this is sub optimal. It would be much nicer if Geany would start a new instance if there was not already an instance running on the current workspace. After a brief inspection of the Gedit sources (Gedit has the desired feature), I came up with a fix for this issue which I will be submitting to the Geany development mailing list after a couple of days of testing. </p> <p> Another minor issue (shared with Gedit) is that of fonts. Nedit uses bitmap fonts while Geany (and Gedit) use TrueType fonts. When I choose light coloured fonts on a black background I find the fonts in Geany (and Gedit) a lot fuzzier than the same size fonts in Nedit. I've tried a number of different fonts including <a href="http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html"> Inconsolata</a> but I've currently settled on <a href="http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page"> DejaVu Sans Mono</a> although I'm not entirely satisfied. </p> <p> Currently my Geany setup (editing some Haskell code) looks like this: </p> <br /> <center> <img src="http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Img/geany-modded.png" border="0" alt="Geany modified config" /> </center> <br /> <p> Light text on a black background with highlighting using a small number of colours; red for types, green for literals, yellow for keywords etc. </p> <p> Geany is a great text editor. For any committed coders currently using either Nedit or Gedit and not entirely happy, I strongly recommend that you give Geany a try. </p> Erik de Castro Lopo erikd@mega-nerd.com m3ga blog An ocassional rant http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/index.atom 2010-08-31T14:06:03+00:00 Copyright 2006-2010 Erik de Castro Lopo The LilyPond Report #19 http://news.lilynet.net/The-LilyPond-Report-19 2010-08-03T21:47:46+00:00 <div class="rss_chapo"><p>This short, informal opinion column is about the LilyPond project: its team, its world, its community. It is not meant to be an exhaustive documentation resource. Reader comments are, of course, welcome (see at the bottom of this page).</p></div> <div class="rss_texte"><p>Welcome to this nineteenth issue of the <i>LilyPond Report</i>!</p> <p>Let's open this issue with a disclaimer: yes, this installment was supposed to go online on July the 1st (per special request of Graham). Although it has been mostly ready for more than a month, one of the editors felt unhappy with the lack of long articles, thorough features and verbose investigations. (Which may give you a hint as to why said editor is regularly qualified as <i>fluffy</i> by his colleague Graham Percival.)</p> <p>Anyway, my sincere apologies about the delay; let me wish you a (late) happy Canada Day, Independence Day, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Day_%28Church_of_the_SubGenius%29" class="spip_out">X day</a>, to all! <br /><i>Valentin "fluffy" Villenave</i></p> <h3 class="spip">Editorial</h3> <p><i>by Valentin Villenave</i>.</p> <p>Here's that time again, where everything seems to take forever, when the <i>LilyPond Report</i> is unbelievably late, etc.</p> <p>It is probably true of any Free Software community: time tends to lengthen and things tend to decay. Take any given deadline, forecast, roadmap or whatnot… but when you come back months later, chances are nothing has worked out according to plan.</p> <p>This, of course, can be observed a lot more in volunteer-driven projects like ours, but the (somehow) good news is, we're not alone. <span class="csfoo htmla"></span><span class="spip_document_410 spip_documents spip_documents_right"><img src="http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L207xH169/Logo_UsageGua42a-fcce7.png" width="207" height="169" alt="" /></span><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span>Look, for instance, at the <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/" class="spip_out">Fedora project</a>, arguably one of the top-three most interesting GNU/Linux distributions out there: in a <a href="http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/shipping-on-time-is-a-feature-for-fedora-14/" class="spip_out">recent blog post</a>, its Program Manager John Poelstra has asked for "<i>more discipline and fortitude</i>", and presented as a "<i>challenge</i>" that the distribution's 14th release would ship on time… Time will tell.</p> <p>On a similar note, a while back we had <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/The-LilyPond-Report-15#outil_sommaire_2" class="spip_in">noted</a> that Linus Torvalds was <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/7/15/2497614" class="spip_out">thinking about</a> changing the Linux Kernel version numbering scheme: "<i>instead of releasing 2.6.26, maybe we could have 2008.7 instead</i>" <br />Two years later, we're at 2.6.35… and the old numbering scheme has never been better (thanks for asking).</p> <p>To anyone who's been involved with the LilyPond project, such situations will probably look quite familiar. Our "stable" releases are a good example thereof: waiting for 2.10 to appear seemed like an eternity, but was nothing compared to the wait for 2.12 (as <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-01/msg00480.html" class="spip_out">Mats alluded to</a>), and whilst 2.14 was supposed to include a smaller number of new features, and be out of the door in no time, this release has yet to appear. Let's not even mention the next major version: as we <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/The-LilyPond-Report-15#outil_sommaire_2" class="spip_in">already pointed out</a>, LilyPond 3.0 has been discussed since 2004!</p> <p>What causes such phenomena? Is there something we can do to improve the situation (hint: the answer is yes, obviously)? Quite a few answers are to be found in Graham's recent and insightful <a href="http://percival-music.ca/blog/2010-08-01-sustainable-development.html" class="spip_out">paper</a> which we'll talk more about below.</p> <h3 class="spip">Coming up next month…</h3> <p>What about the <i>LilyPond Report</i>? Can we expect to reach a more regular release cycle? Well, we're working on it. Starting next month, the <i>Report</i> will be run on a <strong>monthly</strong> basis, with a slightly revamped layout, and a new shorter, "low-fluff" writing style. The installments should be shorter, easier to read, and more to the point.</p> <p>Next issue will be published on September the 1st, and it should include a feature about online LilyPond editors — no installation required; just surf to a website, type away, and view the output! Please <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/_Valentin-Villenave_" class="spip_in">contact</a> <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/_Graham-Percival_" class="spip_in">us</a> if you are working on such a system. All contributions are to be sent before August 22; anything that we'll receive after this point will be… preciously kept for our October issue!</p> <h3 class="spip">Release news</h3> <p><i>by Graham</i></p> <p>The current stable release is 2.12.3-2; all normal users should be engraving with this version. We have no plans on making any more 2.12 releases.</p> <p>The current development release is 2.13.28. This release has 8 Critical issues (plus 7 affecting the new website), with patches pending for some of them. The good news is that half of these issues were added since the last Report, so we are making progress. The bad news is that <a href="http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=989" class="spip_out">issue 989</a> (ensure that no information is only in the regtests) is still open — but Phil Holmes and James Lowe have recently begun seriously working on this, so I'm optimistic that it will be resolved before the next Report. <img alt=":)" title=":)" class="no_image_filtrer format_png" src="http://news.lilynet.net/plugins/auto/couteau_suisse/img/smileys/sourire.png" width="19" height="19" /></p> <h3 class="spip">Conference sightings!</h3> <p><i>by Valentin</i></p> <dl class="spip_document_416 spip_documents spip_documents_center"> <dt><img src="http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L480xH320/php7jMBtRPM-7d302.jpg" width="480" height="320" alt="JPEG - 44.5 kb" /></dt> <dt class="crayon document-titre-416 spip_doc_titre"><strong>The 2010 Libre Software Meeting</strong></dt> <dd class="crayon document-descriptif-416 spip_doc_descriptif">Unfortunately, none of your editors appears thereabove. But still, you get the picture. </dd> </dl> <p>Obviously, this summer's bigger event (with regards to the LilyPond community) was the <a href="http://2010.rmll.info/" class="spip_out"><strong>2010 Libre Software Meeting</strong></a> in Bordeaux, France, where our Graham "Grumpy" Percival had been officially invited (thanks to our French contributor John Mandereau, who had the brilliant idea to get in touch with the LSM staff).</p> <p>This gave Graham a chance to <a href="http://percival-music.ca/blog/2010-07-12-bordeaux-city.html" class="spip_out">discover some French oddities</a>, and to meet with a few members of our French community, namely John, yours truly and — last but not least — <i>Master</i> <a href="http://nicolas.sceaux.free.fr/" class="spip_out">Nicolas Sceaux</a>.</p> <p>As announced in the previous <i>Report</i>, Graham was to give a <a href="http://2010.rmll.info/Sustainability-in-F-OSS-developers-as-a-non-renewable-resource.html" class="spip_out">lecture</a> entitled <i>Sustainability in F/OSS: developers as a non-renewable resource</i>. Here's the pitch:</p> <blockquote class="spip"> <p> The time and energy which developers spend on open-source projects is not an infinite resource. Developer effort can stall due to external demands on their time (such as family, career, or health), but also due to internal factors (such as a loss of motivation or interest). Long-term projects (5+ years old) should try to engage in sustainable development practices. How can we retain developer interest? How can we prepare for the inevitable loss of developers? How can we train the next generation of developers?</p> <p> This talk draws upon experiences from GNU/LilyPond (a 14-year old sheet music typesetter), but makes general suggestions (and warnings!) for users, developers, and project leaders.</p> </blockquote> <p>Graham's talk was quite interesting (however it had unfortunately not been given any visibility whatsoever, which caused Graham to give his talk to a merely empty classroom…). It did raise several questions and quite a few interesting answers; Graham was kind enough to put his slides <a href="http://percival-music.ca/blog/2010-08-01-sustainable-development.html" class="spip_out">on his blog</a>, in a slightly improved and clarified version, so feel free to have a look!</p> <dl class="spip_document_412 spip_documents spip_documents_center"> <dt><a href="http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/sustainable.pdf" title="PDF - 333.2 kb" type="application/pdf"><img src="http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L52xH52/pdf-eb697.png" width="52" height="52" alt="PDF - 333.2 kb" /></a></dt> </dl> <p>To be honest, this kind of official, big-time events can get really boring really quick. However, it did allow us to make a few acquaintances: some people in this <a href="http://ofset.org/" class="spip_out"><strong>OFSET</strong></a> (Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching) were very much interested in LilyPond, and we also had a meeting with a couple of <a href="http://musescore.org/" class="spip_out"><strong>MuseScore</strong></a> developers (whom we now know they do read the <i>LilyReport</i>! Hi guys! <img alt=";)" title=";)" class="no_image_filtrer format_png" src="http://news.lilynet.net/plugins/auto/couteau_suisse/img/smileys/clin_d-oeil.png" width="19" height="19" /> )</p> <p>And of course, nothing can be compared to the experience of meeting the actual Graham Percival for the first time, face-to-face. However, let's not spoil it in case it could happen to you in the future, dear readers: this is one of these things one has to live by oneself.</p> <h3 class="spip">News from the Frog Pond</h3> <blockquote class="spip"> <p> The Frogs are ordinary LilyPond users who have chosen to get involved in their favorite software's development. Fixing bugs, implementing new features, documenting the source code: there's a lot to be done, but most importantly: this is a chance for everyone to learn more about LilyPond, about Free Software, about programming… and to have fun. If you're curious about any of it, then the word is: Join the Frogs!</p> </blockquote> <p>The Frog Pond has been fairly still for the past two months; work has continued on preparing for our switch to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/news.html" class="spip_out">guile 2.0</a>, and mixing ties and harmonics in tablature.</p> <h3 class="spip">Snippet of the Report</h3> <p>This month's snippet has been (re-)discovered by <a href="http://www.laymusic.org/" class="spip_out">Laura Conrad</a>, thanks to a <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-03/msg00537.html" class="spip_out">post</a> by Kieren MacMillan in March.</p> <p><strong>How to multiply (or divide) note values in Lily</strong> <br /><i>by Laura Conrad</i></p> <blockquote class="spip"> <p> I use Lily mainly to transcribe Renaissance music, which I then play with the <a href="http://www.laymusic.org/windband.html" class="spip_out">Cantabile Band</a>, and publish on <a href="http://www.serpentpublications.org/" class="spip_out">SerpentPublications.org</a>. I believe that it's easier to play without the confusing barlines that modern editors insist on inserting. Sometimes I transcribe from the facsimiles as they were printed in the sixteenth or early seventeenth century, but often, I'm transcribing from a modern edition.</p> <p>Besides inserting confusing barlines, modern editors often change the note values — if the composer was thinking in a whole note beat, and using quarter notes for runs and ornaments, a twentieth century editor will often turn the whole notes into quarter notes, and the quarter notes into sixteenth notes.</p> <p>I originally started transcribing in <a href="http://abcnotation.com/" class="spip_out">ABC</a>, which has a default note length, so doubling or quadrupling the note values is just a matter of changing all the L: statements to use a different default.</p> <p>This is a feature I had missed in lilypond, but then last March there was a <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2010-03/msg00537.html" class="spip_out">post</a> that called my attention to <a href="http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=305" class="spip_out"><strong>this snippet</strong></a>.</p> <p>So now I have a file called "slower.ly", which I include in my lilypond for pieces where I need to change the note values. It looks like this:</p> <div class="spip_code" dir="ltr"><code>looksSlower =<br /> #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)<br /> (let ((new-music (ly:music-deep-copy music)))<br /> (shift-duration-log new-music -1 0)<br /> new-music))</code></div> <dl class="spip_document_413 spip_documents spip_documents_center"> <dt><a href="http://news.lilynet.net/IMG/zip/slower.ly.zip" title="Zip - 236 bytes" type="application/zip"><img src="http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L52xH52/zip-2bcd4.png" width="52" height="52" alt="Zip - 236 bytes" /></a></dt> </dl> <p>This doubles the note values. The first number in (shift-duration-log new-music -1 0) would be "-2" if I needed to quadruple them, or "1" if I wanted to halve them.</p> <p>In my code that prints the part or the score, I have the line:</p> <div class="spip_code" dir="ltr"><code>\include "slower.ly"</code></div> <p>And when I've finished the proofreading where I have to keep referring back to my original source, I change the lines:</p> <div class="spip_code" dir="ltr"><code>\context Staff="default"<br /> {<br /> \testnotes<br /> }</code></div> <p>to:</p> <div class="spip_code" dir="ltr"><code>\context Staff="default"<br /> {<br /> \looksSlower{\testnotes}<br /> }</code></div> <p>So here you can see the same note entry producing both note values: <span class="csfoo htmla"></span><span class="spip_document_414 spip_documents spip_documents_center"> <img src="http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L500xH123/test-2-83cb0.png" width="500" height="123" alt="" /></span><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span></p> </blockquote> <h3 class="spip">Bug Report of the Report</h3> <p>The big news about bugs is our vastly-expanded <a href="http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/bug-squad-setup" class="spip_out">Bug Squad</a>! We now have 8 Bug Squad members; one for each day of the week, with two on Friday. In addition, we have now caught up on all the old bug reports sent to <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond" class="spip_out"><span class="csfoo htmla"></span><code class="spip_code" dir="ltr">bug-lilypond</code><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span></a>.</p> <p>If you have reported a bug which was not fixed in 2.13.28 and is not in our issue tracker, please report it again by following the instructions on:</p> <p><a href="http://lilypond.org/website/bug-reports.html" class="spip_out">http://lilypond.org/website/bug-rep…</a></p> <p>Please note that emails to <span class="csfoo htmla"></span><code class="spip_code" dir="ltr">lilypond-user</code><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span> or <span class="csfoo htmla"></span><code class="spip_code" dir="ltr">lilypond-devel</code><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span> do not consistute proper bug reports — we only have enough resources to deal with the dedicated <span class="csfoo htmla"></span><code class="spip_code" dir="ltr">bug-lilypond</code><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span> mailing list.</p> <p><span class="csfoo htmla"></span><span class="spip_document_81 spip_documents spip_documents_center"> <img src="http://news.lilynet.net/local/cache-vignettes/L125xH100/lesite-d163a.png" width="125" height="100" alt="" /></span><span class="csfoo htmlb"></span></p> <p>That concludes the nineteenth issue of The LilyPond Report. Next installment is expected on September 1st; please <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/_Valentin-Villenave_" class="spip_in">send</a> <a href="http://news.lilynet.net/_Graham-Percival_" class="spip_in">us</a> your contributions before August 22!</p> <p>Cheers, <br />Graham Percival &amp; Valentin Villenave</p></div> LilyPond news http://news.lilynet.net/ LilyPond news Welcome to the LilyPond community newsletter! http://news.lilynet.net/spip.php?page=backend 2010-09-07T07:00:27+00:00 Me too! http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/bad-lennart 2010-08-03T11:22:00+00:00 <p>I too forgot to mention that my accommodation at GUADEC was sponsored by the GNOME Foundation. Thanks guys!</p> <p><img alt="Sponsored" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2o81e3u4ZFU/TFfrnz00y6I/AAAAAAAAAW0/h8eVbnSRcc4/s400/sponsored-badge-simple.png" width="213" height="213" /></p> TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB http://0pointer.de/blog TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB Lennart's Blog http://0pointer.de/blog/index.rss20 2010-09-07T07:01:30+00:00 Introducing CsoundAC: Algorithmic Composition With Csound And Python http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/1012197 at http://www.linuxjournal.com 2010-08-03T11:00:00+00:00 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-node-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-csoundac-algorithmic-composition-csound-and-python" class="imagecache imagecache-node-page imagecache-linked imagecache-node-page_linked"><img src="http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/ufiles/imagecache/node-page/nodeimage/story/little-csoundac-scite.png" alt="An image of the SciTE editor with CsoundAC code." title="SciTE runs Python and CsoundAC." class="imagecache imagecache-node-page" width="200" height="276" /></a> </div> </div> </div> <!--paging_filter--><p> What happens when the world's most powerful waveform compiler meets one of the world's most popular programming languages ? Find out how one programmer makes it all work out in this introduction to CsoundAC. <span class="read-more"><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-csoundac-algorithmic-composition-csound-and-python"> more>></a></span></p> audio http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/all audio http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/184/all/feed 2010-09-07T07:01:13+00:00 Bourbonese Qualk tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-4160932805415161523 2010-08-03T08:35:20+00:00 <div>Anyone remembering Bourbonese Qualk? The whole backcatalogue can be downloaded for free at</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.bourbonesequalk.net">http://www.bourbonesequalk.net</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-4160932805415161523?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 Beating a Dead Horse http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/i-am-more-awesome-than-canonical 2010-08-02T23:46:00+00:00 <p>I guess it's a bit beating a dead horse, but I had a good laugh today when <a href="http://www.neary-consulting.com/index.php/services/gnome-census/">I learned</a> that I alone contributed more to GNOME than the entirety of Canonical, and only 800 additional commits seperating me from being more awesome than Nokia.</p> <p><tt>/me is amused</tt></p> TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB http://0pointer.de/blog TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB Lennart's Blog http://0pointer.de/blog/index.rss20 2010-09-07T07:01:30+00:00 Interview With Yours Truly http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/i-like-listening-to-myself 2010-08-02T15:13:00+00:00 <p><a href="http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/ogg/160">Here's a podcast interview with yours truly</a> where I speak a little about PulseAudio and systemd. Seek to 64:43 for my lovely impetuous voice. There's also an interview with Owen just before mine.</p> TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB http://0pointer.de/blog TBFKAYIBYNYAAYB Lennart's Blog http://0pointer.de/blog/index.rss20 2010-09-07T07:01:30+00:00 lecture 2.August Linux Audio tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-2760692969949248260 2010-07-31T06:33:49+00:00 I am going to lecture about Linux Audio and production with open source tools at Linux Stammtisch <a href="http://centrosociale.breitaufgestellt.de">Centro Sociale Hamburg</a> on Monday, the 2. August, 20:00. I will show Ardour, Pure Data, Csound, Qtractor, Alsa Modular Synthesizer, Minicomputer and more.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-2760692969949248260?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 PyConAU 2010 Video http://mccormick.cx/news/tags/entries/pyconau-2010-video 2010-07-31T06:15:00+00:00 <p>I am ridiculously behind on blogging because of the amount of contract work I have going on at the moment (working Saturdays and weeknights until 2am - not fun!) Anyway, I'll stop whining now. </p> <p>Below is a video of the talk I gave at PyCon AU at the end of June. In it I talk about my time working for London based "reactive music" company, RjDj, and also about my video game <a href="http://infiniteplatformer.com/">Infinite8BitPlatformer</a>. </p> <p>I haven't posted an Infinite8BitPlatformer update for ages, and I have been meaning to do so since a lot of progress has been made since my last post, but here's a quick update: </p> <ul> <li> Multiplayer code: this is going really well. It's almost at the point of beta release. </li> <li> Contributors: another person has started contributing to the codebase. I am hopefully going to be merging his code this weekend. Julian has put basic chat into the multiplayer code, among other tweaks and bugfixes, and a huge amount of very useful information for other people looking to contribute. He's been very patient about my lack of time! </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Anyway, back to work. </p> Chris McCormick - News http://mccormick.cx/news Chris McCormick - News Chris McCormick - News http://mccormick.cx/news/tags/music.rss 2010-09-07T07:01:07+00:00 Copyright 2008- Chris McCormick Alan W. Moore in Hamburg tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-1454710632195683473 2010-07-28T05:47:03+00:00 Alan W. Moore is in town and going to have 2 lectures. Tonight (28.7.) he speaks about the “House Magic” project at <a href="http://www.frise.de">Frise</a> Hamburg, 20:00.<br /><br />Alan W. Moore, art historian and retired artist, speaks about the “House Magic” project. This “bureau of foreign correspondence” (himself) is a years-long project dedicated to explaining the movement of occupied social centers – besetzten Häusern mit politischen Richtung aka “Centro Sociale Occupato Autogestione” (CSOA) – to a U.S. audience. The first show was produced by the visual arts collective at ABC No Rio in NYC last year, and included “wallpaper,” stencils, banners, videos, books and dossiers from the internet. Later shows of this mobile archive were in Chicago and Philadelphia. Moore's research trip this summer has taken him to London, Madrid and now Hamburg. Auf Englisch mit some Deutschliches interpolation. With pictures.<br /><br />Tomorrow 20:00 he speaks at <a href="http://www.targetautonopop.org/index.php?page=deutsch">Unlimited Liability</a> (Norderstr. 71 ug) about "New York Art Gangs, post-'68"<br />--"Artists' groups do not make objects so much as they make changes"--<br /><br />Beginning with the Arts Workers Coalition in 1969, NYC artists formed groups to advance their agendas and ideas. The arising of the Soho district, Gordon Matta-Clark, P.S. 1, Artists Meeting and Art &amp; Language New York, Colab and punk art, Political Art Documentation group, and Group Material comprise a trajectory or lineage of politicized artistic practice. Today sees a resurgence of collective formations in the USA, and also a consideration of collective practice in itself. Alan Moore was a critic, video artist, and member of Colab, ABC No Rio, MWF Video Club, and hangs out with 16 Beaver Group. He is doctor (without medicine), and teaches when he can afford to. He is in Hamburg researching for "House Magic," an information project on European occupied social centers. <div><br /><a href="http://collaborativeprojectsarchive.wikispaces.com/">http://collaborativeprojectsarchive.wikispaces.com/ </a><br /><a href="http://collectiva.wikispaces.com/House+Magic">http://collectiva.wikispaces.com/House+Magic</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-1454710632195683473?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 go west tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-6611500080077964457 2010-07-27T14:21:26+00:00 The last couble of weeks a friend of mine from Toronto is riding from Ontario to B.C., on horseback. Although he has no direct wireless connection, on some stops he can update the blog and gallery. Pretty amazing journey through Canada:<br /><br /><a href="http://gowestyoungmen.com/">http://gowestyoungmen.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-6611500080077964457?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00 R.I.P. Nedit http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/2010/07/27/rip_nedit.atom 2010-07-27T12:18:00+00:00 <p> For serious programmers, the text editor they user is an intensely personal thing. Try suggesting to an Emacs user that they should switch to Vim or vice-versa. Most would shudder at the thought. </p> <p> My choice of editor for the last 15 years has been Nedit, the <a href="http://www.nedit.org/"> Nirvana Editor</a>. Nedit has been an outstanding editor; feature full yet easy to use. When I first started using it, Nedit was a closed source binary-only download but sometime in the late 1990s, it was released under the GNU GPL. </p> <p> Unfortunately Nedit has been suffering from bit rot and neglect for a number of years. The main problem is that it uses the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_%28widget_toolkit%29"> Motif widget toolkit</a>. For open source, there are basically two options for Motif; <a href="http://lesstif.sourceforge.net/"> Lesstif</a>, an LGPL reimplementation of Motif which has been basically unmaintained for a number of years, or <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/"> OpenMotif</a> released under a license which is in no way <a href="http://www.opensource.org/"> OSI approved</a>. On top of that, Nedit still doesn't support UTF-8, mainly because Lesstif doesn't support it. </p> <p> I have, in the past, tried to fix bugs in Nedit, but the bugs are not really in Nedit itself, but in an interaction between Nedit whichever Motif library it is linked against and the underlying X libraries. Depending on whether Nedit is linked against Lesstif and OpenMotif, Nedit will display different sets of bugs. I have tried fixing bugs in Nedit linked against Lesstif, but got absolutely nowhere. Lesstif is one of the few code bases I have ever worked on that I was completely unable to make progress on. </p> <p> With Nedit getting flakier with each passing year I finally decided to switch to a new editor. I had already discounted Emacs and Vim; switching from Nedit to either of those two archaic beasts was going to be way too painful. Of all the FOSS editors available, <a href="http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/"> Gedit</a> seemed to be the closest in features to Nedit. </p> <p> Unfortunately, Gedit does not compare well with Nedit feature wise. To me it seems to try to be simultaneously as simple as possible and to have as many features as possible and the features don't seem to fit together all that well from a usability point of view. On top of that, it lacks the following: </p> <ul> <li>Regex search and regex search/replace. Apparently there is a regex search/replace plugin, but that uses a different hot key combination that literal search/repalce. Nedit on the other hand uses the same dialog box for literal and regex search/replaces; with a toggle button to switch between literal and regex searches. </li> <li>Search and replace within the selected area only. </li> <li>Highlighting of matching braces and brackets. </li> <li>Language specific editing modes and auto indentation. </li> <li>A macro language allowing further customisation. </li> <li>A simple, quick way to go to a particular line number (for Gedit, Control-L is supposed to work, but doesn't). </li> </ul> <p> On top of that Gedit could also do with some improved key bindings and some improvements to its syntax highlighting patterns. The Ocaml syntax highlighting is particularly poor. </p> <p> I'm now going to try to use Gedit, by customising its setup and and using the plugin system to see if I can regain the features that made Nedit such a pleasure to use. </p> Erik de Castro Lopo erikd@mega-nerd.com m3ga blog An ocassional rant http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/index.atom 2010-08-31T14:06:03+00:00 Copyright 2006-2010 Erik de Castro Lopo Windows Denemo in-between release 0.8.19a http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6444 2010-07-26T15:31:03+00:00 <div><p>Here is an installer for an unstable 0.8.19 for Windows users. <br /> <a href="http://www.nilsgey.de/denemo-0.8.19a.exe">http://www.nilsgey.de/denemo-0.8.19a.exe</a> <br /> Linux users can compile themselves, but in Windows its too hard. Even we compile cross on Linux for Windows. <br /> </p> <p>Oh, and forget "unstable", in reality it likely to be better than the last release, after all we improve things and do not make them worse :) Look at the fantastic new cursor, for example!<br /> </p></div> Nils Gey GNU Denemo, a gtk+ frontend to GNU Lilypond - News http://savannah.gnu.org/news/atom.php?group=denemo 2010-08-31T14:07:09+00:00 new track: phase transition http://wootangent.net/?p=703 2010-07-26T07:46:00+00:00 <p>It&#8217;s been about six weeks since I posted my little SooperLooper jam, and here it is in its final form, or at least what became of it. This was a difficult one to pull together &#8212; I initially just polished my sketch version of it, but that didn&#8217;t give me the results I was after, so I ended up ditching that effort and re-arranging it from scratch, finally getting an inspiration for the central progression and ending last week. Once I had that idea, it didn&#8217;t take long on the weekend to flesh it out.</p> <p>This is another Seq24/Hydrogen/Ardour recording, with Blofeld synths, though I also created my own drum sounds (mostly on the Blofeld again) for this one. I also used PHASEX as the synth for the lead arpeggio &#8212; it&#8217;s a simple patch, but I really liked how it sounded, so it stayed in the final version.</p> <p><b>EDIT:</b> Turns out that the download links were broken! I&#8217;ve fixed them now, so if you had trouble downloading, please try again now.</p> <p><!-- degradable html5 audio and video plugin --><div class="audio_wrap html5audio"><a href="http://wootangent.net/~lsd/music/releases/phasetransition/phasetransition.mp3" title="Click to open" id="f-html5audio-0">Audio MP3</a></div><br /> <a href="http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/releases/phasetransition/phasetransition.mp3">mp3</a> | <a href="http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/releases/phasetransition/phasetransition.ogg">ogg</a> | <a href="http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/releases/phasetransition/phasetransition.flac">flac</a> | 5 minutes 4 seconds</p> woo, tangent » Music http://wootangent.net woo, tangent » Music lsd's rants about games, music, linux, and technology http://wootangent.net/feed/?cat=7 2010-08-31T14:06:05+00:00 Future of KMid tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982925173228101953.post-748888252713430036 2010-07-24T18:55:24+00:00 The next version of KMid is in the kitchen right now, and it will have 2.4.0 as identifier. Tentatively, August 15th shall be the release date.<br /><br />The main novelty is KMidPart, a component that implements the <a href="http://www.purinchu.net/kdelibs-apidocs/interfaces/kmediaplayer/html/index.html">interface KMediaPlayer</a>, playing MIDI/Karaoke files and using KMid infrastructure. The component shares the same configuration as the main program, so by default the MIDI port selection and Soft Synth will be common. This component by default shows only a play/stop combined button and a slider for the time position, in addition to the actions Play/Pause/Stop. Hidden, but selectable by means of KMediaPlayer::View interface methods, there are several additional controls: pause button, volume, pitch transpose and tempo (speed). The following pictures show the minimum and complete user interface respectively.<br /><br /><div class="separator"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cz-WEo1KrN4/TEsVlODegcI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/Gpf8m1RkAvQ/s1600/kmidtest1.png"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cz-WEo1KrN4/TEsVlODegcI/AAAAAAAAA1Q/Gpf8m1RkAvQ/s1600/kmidtest1.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cz-WEo1KrN4/TEsVqkqgOeI/AAAAAAAAA1U/PWSoSqG8YXg/s1600/kmidtest2.png"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cz-WEo1KrN4/TEsVqkqgOeI/AAAAAAAAA1U/PWSoSqG8YXg/s1600/kmidtest2.png" /></a></div><br />Once installed the new version of KMid, the KMidPart component is immediately available in Konqueror, either as file manager or web browser, since it is a simple standard KParts/ReadOnlyPart service. Examples of web sites that can benefit from this component can be <a href="http://anaigeon.free.fr/">anaigeon.free.fr</a> and <a href="http://www.greekmidi.com/">greekmidi.com</a>.<br /><br />Of course, this component is available to all fellow KDE developers so they can include MIDI playback in other programs. The programming API is quite simple, as demonstrated by two examples in C++ and Python included in the examples directory. If the KMediaPlayer interface is not enough, there are other methods and additional signals available through DBus.<br /><br />From here, KMid will continue to evolve. I am considering further integration with KDE desktop technologies. For example, standard MIDI files are not scanned or indexed currently, but much of their metadata could be exploited with Nepomuk: tonality, rhythm, tempo, number of tracks and instruments. The settings of the songs, now stored in individual text files, may also be candidates for better integration. Another candidate for integration would be Solid, publishing system MIDI ports. Integrating KMid backends in Phonon can not be addressed at this time, but maybe in the future Phonon may evolve and such integration become possible.<br /><br />Further integration into KDE unfortunately means less chance for KMid users of using it on Windows and Mac OSX. Although there are ports of KDE for those operating systems, both communities are not very active. I have received a suggestion that KMid does not need to depend on KDE, but only Qt4. This would make possible to distribute KMid binaries for Windows and Mac easily. I'm not especially interested in this option, followed for instance by the Rosegarden project, sacrificing both functionality and community by this way.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6982925173228101953-748888252713430036?l=midi-clorianos.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas noreply@blogger.com http://midi-clorianos.blogspot.com/search/label/MIDI Midichlorians in the blood Blog about MIDI, software, music, Linux, KDE, light sabers and Jedi garments tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6982925173228101953 2010-09-03T20:00:35+00:00 Notstandskomitee Automatenmusik on iTunes available tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887.post-5884030321359803168 2010-07-22T06:41:17+00:00 <span class="lh">The 4. CD album of Notstandskomitee from 2001 is now available on</span><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/automatenmusik/id383400418"> iTunes</a><br /><br />Like the previous release, the split album Y2K with Cyberthreat, all electronic tracks are instrumental, bordering on the IDM area.<br /><span class="lh"><br />The main synthesizer was the Nord Modular 1, all sequencing is done internally with its step sequencers. Additionally Csound, some other hardware synths and effects where used.</span><br /><br />Physical release was in 2001 on Block 4, available on vinyl LP and CD with bonustracks, which are all included in this digital release.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8499220157995559887-5884030321359803168?l=elektronengehirn.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> herrsteiner noreply@blogger.com http://elektronengehirn.blogspot.com/ blog4 A blog about the projects of Hamburg medialab Block 4 (http://www.block4.com) and the projects Elektronengehirn, Notstandskomitee, Das Kombinat. Also loosly connected is Akustikkoppler, Xyramat and the art project Urban Units. This blog includes news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more, both internal and external news when we found something interesting. tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8499220157995559887 2010-08-31T14:06:48+00:00