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The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce Ubuntu Studio 26.10, code-named “Stonking Stingray.” This marks Ubuntu Studio’s 39th release.

Ubuntu Studio 26.10 is a standard release and will be supported for 9 months, until July 2027.

Building on the 26.04 LTS release, this cycle focuses on making Ubuntu Studio easier to tailor to your workflow: a more flexible installer, a rebuilt Audio Configuration layout, and a new set of tools for making music with code.

For full technical details, known issues, and upgrade instructions, please see the Ubuntu Studio 26.10 Stonking Stingray Release Notes.

You can download Ubuntu Studio 26.10 from the download page.

Major Highlights

Make music with code: Sonic Pi and SuperCollider

Ubuntu Studio’s audio package selections now include Sonic Pi, SuperCollider, and the SuperCollider 3 plugin suite, giving you a complete live-coding and algorithmic-composition toolkit alongside Ardour, Carla, and the rest of the audio stack. Also new is JNoise, a simple white/pink noise generator included purely for its utility, handy for testing audio setups and room or speaker checks.

The inclusion of Sonic Pi was inspired by DJ_Dave, a musician who builds and performs entire tracks as live code. While she currently uses Strudel, a browser-based live-coding environment, similar results can be obtained with Sonic Pi: write a few lines, hear them loop instantly, and keep reshaping the music as it plays. Sonic Pi runs natively on your desktop and is built on top of SuperCollider’s synthesis engine, so you can start with simple loops and samples and grow into deeper sound design.

If you have ever wanted to try live coding, there has never been an easier way to get started on Ubuntu Studio.

Choose exactly the packages you want

Ubuntu Studio Installer now lets you expand a metapackage’s Depends and Recommends lists and select individual packages, so you are no longer limited to all-or-nothing workflow bundles.

A cleaner Audio Configuration

Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration now uses a single-window, tabbed control-panel layout, with PipeWire quantum settings organized on the Audio tab and clearer controls overall.

The installer also now offers the PipeWire settings widget or extension appropriate to your detected desktop environment.

New in 26.10

• Individual package selection from metapackages in Ubuntu Studio Installer
• Single-window, tabbed Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration with clearer PipeWire quantum controls
• New audio applications, available through Ubuntu Studio’s audio package selections:
  • Sonic Pi — A live-coding environment for creating music with code.
  • SuperCollider — An environment for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
  • SuperCollider 3 plugins — The SC3 plugin suite, extending SuperCollider’s available unit generators.
  • JNoise — A command-line white/pink noise generator, included for its utility.
• Updated audio tools, including RaySession, Patchance, Geonkick, BChoppr, Loopino, and harpwise

Major Package Upgrades

• OBS Studio 32.2.2
• FreeShow 1.6.6 (snap)
• QPrompt 2.0.2
• RaySession 0.18.0
• Patchance 1.4.0
• DistroAV 6.2.1 for NDI support in OBS Studio
• Kdenlive 26.08.1
• Krita 6.0.3
• GIMP 3.2.6
• Ardour 9.8.0
• Scribus 1.6.6
• Audacity 3.7.8

For the complete software version list, see the release notes. There are many other improvements, too numerous to list here.

Only Install What You Need

Some users want everything preinstalled, while others prefer to start lean and add tools only as needed. Both approaches are fully supported.

If you want a lightweight starting point, choose the minimal install option in the installer. You will get the Ubuntu Studio desktop experience, theming, and core configuration, then add only the workflows you want with Ubuntu Studio Installer: audio, graphics, video, photography, and publishing. With this release, you can go one step further and pick individual packages within each workflow.

If you want a complete creative workstation out of the box, the full install remains available.

You can also start from any official Ubuntu flavor and add Ubuntu Studio workflows without reinstalling.

Special Notes

The Ubuntu Studio 26.10 disk image (ISO) exceeds 4 GB and cannot be reliably written to some file systems such as FAT32, and may not be readable when burned to a standard DVD.

We recommend using a compatible file system for downloads and creating a bootable USB stick.

Minimum installation media requirements:

• Dual-Layer DVD or 8 GB USB drive

Release images are available here.

Upgrade Notes

If you are running Ubuntu Studio 25.10 or Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS, you can upgrade to 26.10.

Because 26.10 is a standard release, systems running an LTS are by default only prompted for new LTS releases. To be prompted for 26.10, open Software Sources, go to the Updates tab, and set Notify me of a new Ubuntu version to For any new version. Ubuntu Studio 25.10 users are normally prompted already, but should verify this setting. If you do not receive a notification, make sure plasma-distro-release-notifier is installed.

Detailed upgrade instructions are available in the release notes.

If you installed the 26.10 beta, you do not need to reinstall: keep your system updated and it will automatically become the final release.

Known Issues

• The Time Zone tab in System Settings > Date & Time may appear blank because of a missing Qt6 Location dependency in plasma-workspace. As a workaround, run sudo apt install qml6-module-qtlocation in a terminal.
• On first login for a newly created user, you will be prompted to reboot to apply the audio-production group configuration. This is intentional and works around the installer’s inability to configure the first user as part of the “audio” group or to add new users to it automatically.
• Ubuntu Studio shares KDE Plasma and core Ubuntu components with other Ubuntu flavors, so some known issues overlap with Kubuntu and Ubuntu:
  • Kubuntu release notes
  • Ubuntu release notes

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does Ubuntu Studio contain snaps? A: Yes. Mozilla’s distribution agreement with Canonical changed, and Ubuntu was forced to no longer distribute Firefox as a native .deb package. After numerous improvements, Firefox performs just as well as the native .deb did. Thunderbird is also a snap so that its maintainers can deliver security patches faster, in cooperation with Canonical.

FreeShow is an Electron-based application. Electron applications cannot be packaged as traditional Debian source packages, which Launchpad requires for the Ubuntu archive, but they can be built as snaps, so FreeShow is included as a snap. To keep theming consistent, all included themes are also snapped alongside the .deb versions.

We are working with Canonical to raise the quality of snaps with each release, and we ask that you give them a chance instead of writing them off completely.

Q: Will you make an ISO with {my favorite desktop environment}? A: That would require creating an entirely new flavor of Ubuntu, which means going through the official flavor application process. As a volunteer-run project, we do not have the time or resources to do so. Instead, download the official flavor for the desktop environment of your choice and use Ubuntu Studio Installer to add Ubuntu Studio’s benefits without converting that flavor to Ubuntu Studio.

Q: What if I don’t want all these packages installed on my machine? A: See “Only Install What You Need” above. Use the minimal install option, then add only the metapackages, configurations, or individual packages you want with Ubuntu Studio Installer.

Contributors & Thank You

Special thanks this cycle go to many familiar contributors from prior releases, including:

• Eylul Dogruel: artwork and visual design
• Ross Gammon: upstream Debian development and testing
• Sebastien Ramacher: upstream Debian development
• Dennis Braun: upstream Debian development
• Rik Mills: Plasma and Kubuntu collaboration
• Scarlett Moore: Plasma and Kubuntu collaboration
• Aaron Rainbolt: Plasma and Kubuntu collaboration
• Michael Mikowski: Plasma and Kubuntu collaboration
• Len Ovens: testing and workflow insight, support and help
• Mauro Gaspari: tutorials, promotion, and documentation
• Utkarsh Gupta: Ubuntu Release Team support and collaboration
• Florent “Skia” Jacquet: Ubuntu Release Team support and collaboration
• Michael Hudson-Doyle: Ubuntu Release Team support and collaboration
• Erich Eickmeyer: project leadership, packaging, and direction

Ubuntu Studio is built by a volunteer community of developers, testers, artists, translators, documenters, and users. Thank you to everyone who tested the beta, reported bugs, submitted improvements, and helped shape this release.

Thank you also to DJ_Dave for the inspiration behind Sonic Pi’s inclusion.

Support Ubuntu Studio

Ubuntu Studio is built by volunteers, but volunteer work still comes with real costs. Our project lead, Erich Eickmeyer, works long hours on this project while trying to generate a part-time income.

If Ubuntu Studio helps your creative work, your teaching, your studio, or your community, please consider supporting the project financially. Donations help keep the infrastructure running and make it easier to keep improving the tools, packaging, and user experience that go into each release.

You can support Ubuntu Studio here:

Get Involved

Ubuntu Studio is a community project driven by volunteers. If you would like to contribute your time through packaging, documentation, testing, user support, or promotion, we would love your help:

What do you do when software is feeling a little, well, disposable? Hardware, for one. Universal Audio has updated its Volt line of USB audio interfaces with built-in processing for preamp tone and dynamics, and on the higher-end models, "smart" displays and extras like ADAT input. (Hint: that can solve some of your connection problems to outboard mixer/Eurorack modules/whatever.) And these interfaces are really not expensive, starting at $149.

The post UA Volt Gen 2, Max: built-in dynamics and preamp tone, displays, more appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

As a portable media player, Microsoft’s Zune simply couldn’t compete with Apple’s juggernaut iPod — the latter essentially becoming the de facto personal media player until smartphones took over. But in 2026 it might be Microsoft that gets the last laugh, as thanks to [rsheldiii] the Zune can now play Super Mario 64.

The software is based on sm64ex, and notably doesn’t include the ROM file necessary to actually run the game. But presuming a legal dump of a cartridge has been done, building and loading it onto a Zune HD is straightforward enough. From there the player is presented with a controller interface on the device’s touchscreen overlaid with the video output from the game. Some interesting things are happening in the background here as well, like using NVIDIA’s Tegra tools to pre-compile shaders so the 2009-era processor can handle the rest of the gameplay.

Although it didn’t enjoy the mainstream success of the iPod, the Zune was actually a pretty solid device, and even though the last of them rolled off the assembly line back in 2012, there’s still a fairly active userbase for it. Modern improvements have added Bluetooth and solid-state drive upgrades for them have been available almost since they were first released.

The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the new stable 1.28 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework!

This release only contains bug fixes as well as a number of security fixes. It should be safe to update from 1.28.x, and we recommend you do so at your earliest convenience.

Highlighted bugfixes:

• Various security fixes and playback fixes
• Fix adaptivedemux2 HLS and DASH playback regression
• Fix FLAC audio seeking regression
• Various RTP depayloader and RTSP client SDP handling fixes
• MXF demuxer: Added support for reading AAF AIFF-AIFC audio
• VA-API compositor: Fix alpha blending with Intel driver
• Windows media audio/video seeking improvements
• AMD AMF AV1 video encoder force-keyframe fixes
• Fix endless drain in some FFmpeg wrapper audio encoders and support dual mono
• hlssink3 improvements
• ISOBMFF dash/iso/fmp4 muxer fixes for timestamp rollover in 2036
• cerbero: Rework checksum verification to allow mirror retries
• Various bug fixes, build fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements

See the GStreamer 1.28.8 release notes for more details.

Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be available shortly and will be published on the Downloads page.

Although the feature has been deleted from newer models, there was a time when Amazon’s Echo devices included a 3.5 mm “aux” input jack that let you connect other audio sources to the smart speaker. Alexa would even let you switch over to an external source with a voice command — or at least, it used to.

As first reported by Reddit user [n8-sd], Amazon has started informing users that voice control over the 3.5 mm jack is no longer supported. While the physical input will still function on models equipped with it, if you want to mute the audio coming from an external device you’ll have to wade through the Alexa smartphone application to do it.

In a statement to Ars Technica, an Amazon rep confirmed that voice control over the auxiliary input has been removed as of the latest software version, and that their analytics showed not many people were using the feature in the first place. They also pointed out that no changes have been made to voice control of Bluetooth devices. While we don’t doubt that the total number of users that were physically plugging an audio source into their Echos was probably low in the grand scheme of things, that doesn’t really explain why such a simple feature needed to be actively removed.

Some commenters have theorized that the real reason behind the change is the fact that Amazon has no way of monitoring what users are playing over the auxiliary input. Since cataloging and selling the media consumption habits of users is big business these days, that’s a problem. While they might prefer to disable the feature entirely, they know that would stir up some bad press, so they’re opting to simply make it more annoying to use. We’re not saying we entirely buy this explanation, but it’s not the craziest thing we’ve ever heard either.

Although the Echo devices have never been particularly hackable, they have enjoyed a certain amount of success with tech-savvy users, making it all the more disappointing to see the ecosystem seemingly becoming less capable over time.

Madrona Labs' patchable West Coast synth is one of the most playable, exploration-friendly, unique instruments around -- a piece of software to last. And it comes with a reverb companion, now on Linux, too as a free demo you can beta-test. The big news: Aalto 2 is coming this fall for macOS, Windows -- and Linux, too.

The post West Coast, with penguins: Aaltoverb on Linux; Aalto 2 coming soon appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

 Believe it or not, I do still exist. And I do some projects still.
Sometimes.

Anyway, I've been starting to play more with hardware synths because I don't have  a dedicated studio space right now to set up softsynths and I just want to play around without messing with computers and wiring everything up. Regardless of the reason I wanted to be able to connect my KMI kboard up to my Korg Volca FM or my just arrived AMYboard but to do so requires a USB Midi Host. There are devices for sale that do this, but I realized that I have a device in a box that will do this already.

 So I dug out my raspberry pi zero W and a new project was born.

First thing I set up on the pi was a bash script that will parse the output of aconnect (an alsa utility that can list all midi devices/ports). It looks like this:


#!/bin/bash
LOGFILE="/var/log/midi-connector.log"
echo "$(date) - MIDI event triggered" >> $LOGFILE

# Function to connect available MIDI ports
connect_midi()
{
    # Find the client IDs of all connected mid devices
    # This grabs any non-system MIDI ports available
    PORTS=($(aconnect -l | awk '/^client/ { if (/card=/) { c=$2; sub(/:/,"",c); v=1 } else { v=0 } } v && /^ +[0-9]+/ { print c":"$1 }'))

    # Then loop through them:
    for port in "${PORTS[@]}"; do
        echo "Found hardware port: $port" >> $LOGFILE
    done
    listsize=${#PORTS[@]}

    for (( i=0; i < listsize; i++ )); do
        for (( j=i+1; j < listsize; j++ )); do
            
            port_a="${PORTS[i]}"
            port_b="${PORTS[j]}"
        
            # Extract just the client number (everything before the colon)
            client_a="${port_a%:*}"
            client_b="${port_b%:*}"
            
            # Only connect if they belong to different hardware clients
            if [ "$client_a" != "$client_b" ]; then
                
                # Connect Port A to Port B
                aconnect "$port_a" "$port_b"
                
                # Connect Port B to Port A
                aconnect "$port_b" "$port_a"
                
                echo "connecting $port_a $port_b" >> $LOGFILE
            fi
        done
    done
    
}

connect_midi

I saved that as /usr/local/bin/midi-connector.sh then did a chmod to make it executable.

sudo chmod 700 /usr/local/bin/midi-connector.sh

Next you need a udev rule that will run whenever a USB device is connected. Paste this one line into /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-midi.rules:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACES}=="*:0103*", TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="midi-connect@$env{NAME}.service"

That line tells the USB manager that when a newly connected USB device is a midi device then run a systemd service. So we have to make that systemd service next.

In a new file called /etc/systemd/system/midi-connect.service put the following:

[Unit]
Description=Auto-connect USB MIDI for %I
After=sound.target alsa-restore.service local-fs.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
# Give ALSA 2 seconds to fully spawn the client nodes in the background safely
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 2
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/midi-connector.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Alsa takes a second after the udev rule fires to get the midi port ready so we have a little delay before we run the connector script, then the script goes and takes care of it. We also have this set up to run once at boot in addition to when udev launches it in case I power it on with everything connected (or in case the system browns out which happened a couple times).

That's all it takes. If you don't want to reboot just run:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

to reload the pieces then you should be able to plug in any usb midi devices and they'll all start sending messages to each other.

So overall how well does it achieve the goal? I don't love how long it takes to boot (a couple minutes). And it seems like the system is fickle. Not sure I'm ready to rely on it if I were doing real gigs or something. The USB hat POGO pins aren't a supre great connection so I found better luck powering through the Pi USB port directly rather than through the USB hat power input. If I were to do this properly I'd use a rp2040 based chip and make a custom firmware which should boot much faster than a full OS on a single core that I have now. But this was quicker.

 Anyway. I did a thing. You can now too. Enjoy!

In 2024 we opened the MOD OS images, so anyone could change the software and share the result. One Dwarf owner did exactly that. Seventeen releases later, Starless has its own community, and it changed how we develop MOD OS. Here is his story, in his own words, and what it led to.

Why I started Starless

By Andrea Del Signore

I first heard about MOD in its early days through the open source world, which I’ve always been passionate about. Then I lost track of it, until I came across an ad for a used Dwarf and bought it.

At the time my main unit was a Line 6 Helix LT, and I immediately saw the Dwarf’s potential: a compact device with creative routing options, a perfect fit for my acoustic and classical guitar rig. But a few software limitations made me doubt it could work live for me. They were small details, but vital ones. I couldn’t change a pedalboard’s parameters on the fly without a computer, not even to turn down a reverb or adjust an EQ. The plugins and the creative possibilities were there, but those few gaps kept me dragging the big, heavy Helix to every gig.

Then I noticed that almost all the sources were available on GitHub and that, in theory, I could modify the software and patch the official images. I spent the next three or four evenings on the couch reading code and setting my first goals. The plan was simple. First, a minimal change to get familiar with the codebase. Then, the few features I needed to play live without worrying, so I could finally replace the Helix.

After a few weeks of trial and error I built my first image. It introduced port groups in the UI and two complementary ways to edit pedalboard parameters: new firmware and a new mobile-friendly page, now known as the Performance View.

From there, the community stepped in. Abotte, Rom, Fer and others adopted the image, tested it and gave me feedback, and that is how Starless was born. The name comes from what I was working on at the time: a classical guitar arrangement of King Crimson’s song of the same name.

A few months later I sold my Helix and kept adding features that help both while editing and during performances. Today other talented developers, such as Stefan and Andy, are helping me refine Starless for use cases beyond my own.

I want to thank Abotte, Toferyu, Remy, Rom, Fer, Zwabo, UnvisualStudio and many others, along with the MOD team for the help in the very first days. And finally, Gianfranco and MOD Audio, for so warmly welcoming the development of this project.

What Starless is today

Starless is an alternative OS for the MOD Dwarf, made possible by the open images we published with MOD OS 1.13.5 in October 2024. It is now on version 17, and its latest release added, among other things:

• Complete pedalboard editing from the Dwarf itself, no computer needed
• Tone3000 support in the NAM, cabinet and IR loaders
• Stereo cables and cable teleporting, for tidier pedalboards
• A per-plugin CPU monitor, mouse-wheel zoom and a canvas that resizes itself as you add plugins

AndyCap has also been working on mapping the same control to the Dwarf’s own controls, MIDI, CC and CV at the same time, now in beta. See it in action on the forum.

Try Starless

Starless is Andrea’s project, with its own name, schedule and decisions. It is an unofficial image, so MOD does not provide support for it. The community does, on the forum.

1. Back up first. Use the Backup & Restore function in the web interface (see the MOD wiki).
2. Install the latest Starless image as a manual upgrade. Your pedalboards and downloaded plugins stay where they are.
3. Ask on the forum if anything is unclear. Here is one Dwarf owner’s first install, step by step.

What Starless changed: the new MOD OS release flow

Starless showed us something important. When the software is open, the people who use it every day will improve it, and their work deserves a real way into the product. So we changed how official MOD OS releases are made.

MOD OS is now released through three channels, a model inspired by how long-running open source projects like Debian work:

The first release candidate under this flow is MOD OS 1.14, and it is already built from community work. It brings Tone3000 into the web interface, so you can browse and load captures directly on your device, and a “Report an Issue” button, so testing is one click away. The announcement of the new flow publicly thanked five community contributors: Andrea Del Signore, Andy Cap, Remy D, Stefan D and Mark Melvin.

In other words: what happened with Starless is now how MOD OS moves forward. Community work flows in, gets tested in the open, and ships.

Join in

All of this happens on the forum, through people testing, reporting problems and asking for features. Try a release candidate and tell us what breaks. Try Starless and tell Andrea what you would like next. And if you have your own idea for MOD, the forum is where it starts.

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Artists Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner have been artists in residency in the Life on a Leaf house for the month of September. On Sunday 27.9, they will host an event at the Leaf house presenting some of the artistic processes they have worked with, as solo concerts, scores and software art. The event will start at 16.00 until 19.00, and there will be time to hang out and have conversations with the artists.
https://www.lifeonaleaf.fi/en/events

The GStreamer Conference team is pleased to announce that the preliminary list of talks, abstracts, and speaker biographies is now available for this year's lineup of talks and speakers, covering again an exciting range of topics!

The GStreamer Conference 2026 will take place on 10-11 October 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic, followed by a hackfest.

Details about the conference, hackfest and how to register can be found on the conference website.

This year's topics and speakers:

• GStreamer State of the Union
  Tim-Philipp Müller, Centricular
• Fulfilling a Childhood Dream: Video Streaming for Remotely Controlling a Train
  Rainhard Driessler & Simon Himmelbauer, A&R Tech
• A new MPEG-TS demuxer in Rust
  Edward Hervey, Centricular
• That F#$%ing AI Talk - Debugging GStreamer With AI Tools
  Ray Tiley, Tightrope Media Systems
• GstVA and GstVulkan updates
  Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Igalia
• Building a Ringbuffer - Going in circles with V4L2 and PipeWire
  Simon Himmelbauer, A&R Tech
• GStreamer 20 years of fun
  Stéphane Cerveau, Igalia
• Permissions, Isolation and Streams: Redesigning WirePlumber's Core
  Julian Bouzas, Collabora
• GStreamer highlights in Servo
  Xabier Rodríguez Calvar, Igalia
• Write once, run anywhere inference with GStreamer
  Sebastian Dröge, Centricular
• Every Camera Is a Snowflake: Building a VMS That Works With Thousands of Device Models
  James Nickerson, IP Configure
• The Quest for Python Analytics
  Aaron Boxer, Collabora
• WebRTC in the Wild: It Works on My Network
  Jake Foytik, IP Configure
• Rock, paper, scissors
  Xabier Rodríguez Calvar, Igalia
• Exploring GStreamer as a media backend for game engines
  Dominique Leroux
• Embedded Reality: GStreamer Versioning strategy on SoC Products
  Kye Yeon Ko, LGE
• WebRTC take 2, a decade later
  Matthew Waters, Centricular
• Gst-Audit: A graphical way to instrument your pipeline
  Jorge Zapata, Fluendo
• A GStreamer-Based Performance Evaluation Tool for End-to-End Visual AI Pipelines
  Jan Gorecki, Intel
• A new Media Source Extensions implementation in GStreamer for cross-platform apps
  Sebastian Dröge, Centricular
• GStreamer as a Foundation for Vision AI Edge Solutions
  Tomasz Janczak, Intel
• Local transcription and translation with GStreamer: whisper.cpp + llama.cpp
  Sebastian Dröge, Centricular
• How GStreamer is used in WebKit
  Enrique Ocaña González, Igalia
• librice: challenges with sans-io
  Matthew Waters, Centricular
• Ingesting thousands of streams over SRT on the same endpoint
  Jonas Danielsson, Spiideo
• Multithreading in GStreamer: how do flushes work
  Alicia Boya García, Igalia
• GStreamer 2.x without breaking API ?
  Edward Hervey, Centricular
• Outsourcing the boring work: setting up LLM agents for fixing bugs in legacy software
  Kim Schmider, A&R Tech
• Real-time offshore crane teleoperations powered by GStreamer
  Adam Blonsky, Palfinger
• Dolby/AC-4: The plan to support the Dolby ecosystem in GStreamer
  Pablo García & Maciej Sabiniok, Fluendo
• Color, tracing and WebAssembly: a year of GStreamer for video editing
  Thibault Saunier, Igalia
• Fluster over the course of 2026
  Rubén Gonzalez, Fluendo
• SIL 2 Video Streaming - Functional Safety from Lens to Glass
  Rainhard Driessler, A&R Tech
• Secure Video Path Done the Right Way
  Nicolas Dufresne, Collabora
• Making GStreamer Feel Native in Zig
  Per Andersen, TV2
• Restream and GStreamer, a success story.
  Loïc Le Page, Igalia
• When the robots came for our parsers: GStreamer security in the age of LLMs
  Sebastian Dröge, Centricular
• Digitally Signed Content & C2PA
  Diego Nieto Munoz, Fluendo
• Unifying GstAnalytics Metadata: Achieving Cross-Vendor Interoperability in Video Analytics
  Oskar Fiedot, Intel; Pep Cots, Milestone Systems; Daniel Morin, Collabora
• Whither GStreamer 2.0 ? - Overview, Presentations and Panel Discussion
  Various speakers, tbd
• Whisper transcriber
  Mathieu Duponchelle, Centricular
• GstVulkan in Production: Lessons from the Real World
  Anders Hellerup Madsen, Veo Technologies
• Per pipeline logs tracer
  Mathieu Duponchelle, Centricular
• Why is MPEG-TS so hard?
  Jan Schmidt, Centricular
• Let's solve our long standing issues: time for GStreamer 2.0 ?
  Thibault Saunier, Igalia
• Latency is bad, isn't it?
  Jan Schmidt, Centricular
• Let's renegotiate!
  Mathieu Duponchelle, Centricular
• GStreamer in and out of the box
  Jan Schmidt, Centricular
• ...and more to come
• Submit your talk or lightning talk now!

Many thanks to our amazing sponsors ‒ Platinum sponsors Centricular, Pexip, and Igalia, Gold sponsors Axis Communications and Collabora, Fluendo, and Silver sponsor Tightrope Media Systems, and our Media Partner UbiCast without whom the conference would not be possible in this form.

We hope to see you all in Prague soon!

Don't forget to register as soon as possible if you're planning on joining us, so we can order enough food and drinks!

There's also a hackfest after the conference.

David García Goñi released a new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, Novation, and now Korg devices.

Device support

Elektroid 3.4 introduced support for several devices:

• KORG prologue, minilogue xd and NTS-1 (units only);
• Elektron Monomachine SFX-60 + MKII.

Additionally, there is now support for uploading Elektron Syntakt samples.

The next version will be coming with MFB Tanzmaus support, the code is already in the development tree.

Fixes

David also added a Preferences option to disable safety questions and fixed model cycles renaming and preset uploading to Microfreak units and.

Elektroid is available in source code and as a flatpak build. The program also builds on macOS, but there is no DMG yet.

Malte Steiner's generative projection piece ‘retexturizing: recontextualizing‘ for the open house Konstrundan event at Life on a Leaf 6. September in Turku (FI). A computer generates and animates randomly collages out of 1892 image fragments of processed real estate ads from Steiner's project The Big Crash, Art for the pending burst of the real estate bubble . Programmed in Pure Data / Gem, running on a Linux computer.

A new release of gst123, my commandline media player based on GStreamer is available. The main new “feature” is probably that it now can play videos without crashing on Wayland, although it still relies on Xwayland to do so. See release link for full list of changes.

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Prerequisites

Installation

dd if=/path/to/downloads/a3vtl_VERSION.img of=/dev/sdb

Persistence

Getting Started

Advanced -- Shell script to create USB drive

#!/bin/bash
# the disk-device to use: 
DEVICE=/dev/sdb # or /dev/mmcblk0 or /dev/hdb ,...

URL=http://robin.linuxaudio.org/a3vtl_latest.img
URL=http://rg42.org/d/a3vtl_latest.img

# Download the image and write it to the disk:
curl http://rg42.org/d/a3vtl_latest.img | dd of=$DEVICE bs=64k

### OPTIONAL: ###  
# re-read the partition-table after the image has been written
partprobe $DEVICE
# create a 2nd partition using the rest of the space on the device..
echo -e "n\np\n2\n\n\np\nw\n" | fdisk $DEVICE
# ..and create an ext4 filesystem on it, labeled live-rw'
mkfs.ext4 -L live-rw ${DEVICE}2

MDA.lv2 1.2.12 has been released. This is a port of the MDA VST plugins to LV2.

Changes:

• Avoid over-use of yielding meson options
• Fix build with MSVC 2022
• Fix strict aliasing violation
• Fix use of uninitialized values in TalkBox
• Improve const-correctness
• Remove development symbols from modules by default
• Use a deterministic and more uniform RNG