Building a Better Soundtrap
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After centuries of guesswork, architects have a high-tech way to hear the acoustics of buildings they haven't yet built.
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Judging by the number of hits tallied for Troubleshooting Linux Audio Part 1 it seems the topic is of interest to many readers. Alas, I must apologize to everyone waiting for the next parts of the series. Various events have kept me from completing it in short order, but you may rest assured that it will return in my next installment. Meanwhile, this week we'll look at two excellent applications that are coming into greater use here at Studio Dave, the LiVES video editor for Linux, and Reaper (yes, again), a native Windows audio/MIDI sequencer running under Wine.
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A start-upâs first product, modeled on the human ear, curbs background noise.
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Calling GarageBand â08 âpretty impressive,â Asher Fulero (Remix) confesses that multitake recording is âone of my favorite new featuresâ and calls the new VIsual EQ a âpro-level nugget.â  âWith spectral analysis overlaid atop the EQ curve, you can drag the four curve points and see the results on the signal in real time. Support for 24-bit recording, playback and output (24-bit-capable audio interface required) lends even more of a professional edge, as do the new mastering options that offer a host of preset master-track effect chains.â
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As promised, the second part of this series presents still more commercially available music and sound software for Linux. Come see (and hear) what your money will buy...   read more
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In this final section I'll present some MIDI-specific troubleshooting tips, along with a brief description of the setup here at StudioDave, a few closing remarks, and of course some links to the Linux music-maker du jour.  read more
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The Camera Raw plug-in improves noise reduction and sharpening.
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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with audio cd rip front-end. Currently supported formats are mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, mp4, ape, mpc, mac, radio streaming and podcasts.   The aTunes, Jajuk and Jukes audio player projects are pleased to  announce the start of close collaboration on shared ressources. The  three projects aim at providing full-featured cross-platform jukeboxes  for advanced users. As a first result, the Jukebox Power Pack has been  released. It contains the three applications bundled together. Jukebox  Power Pack is the fruit of the first collaboration efforts. Included  with the package is the excellent album Kogani from Suerte. It  symbolizes the spirit with which the software is created, namely  collaboration in an open and creative environment. The Jukebox Power  Pack is able to run on all Java 6-ready platforms, including Microsoft  Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris. Jukebox Power Pack can be downloaded at   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161929&package_id=242026
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The MP3 players get a splash of color -- and better earbuds. In Listening Post.
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Scientists think they can improve your hearing with stem cells and electrodes. If you have an iPod, you should probably listen up. Randy Dotinga reports from the AAAS meeting in San Francisco.
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KGuitar is powerful KDE-based music tabulature editor with support of guitar, drums, classic note scores, MIDI synthesizer output, chord, scales, modes, melody and rhythm construction and analysis tools, lots of tab effects, Guitar Pro files import.   After a long period of silence, I'm pleased to announce KGuitar 0.5.1 - a major bugfix release that covers most of issues for the last few years :)      * Compatiblity fixes: added support for autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10, gcc 4.2. Removed last bits of qt2->qt3 transition deprecations. Internal structures refactoring.     * Added zoom level (Ctrl Minus, Ctrl Plus), introducing multiple bars per row, automatically tuning to available window width;     * Finally introduced new exception-based framework for converters load/save. Makes converters much more bullet-proof and easier to write and debug.     * Guitar Pro import undergone major rewrite. Now it properly loads all gp4 files I have. Guitar Pro v3 and v5 formats are coming next. Anyway, Guitar Pro loader is now much more helpful about what errors it gets and less crash-prone. It detects and helps debug problems it encounters.     * Lots of displaying, mouse and keyboard control, printing fixes and prettifying. Track pane now has a header and it's synchronized with track list. Melody editor now has trapezoid and shark fin inlays.     * New QMap-based API for song metainformation - stores not a fixed number of fields, but key=value pairs.     * Misc things: project transitioned to Subversion.  As always, comments and especially bug reports are welcome. Also keep in mind that KGuitar is now registered at http://www.ohloh.net/projects/8959?p=KGuitar - so, take a look there too :)
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There is a new release of Rosegarden, a MIDI and Audio Sequencer and Notation Editor for Linux. This exciting release includes a number of significant new features, including true multitrack MIDI recording, ramped tempos, cut and paste of time ranges across all segments, better Lilypond output, better support for transposing instruments, and a database of acoustic instrument ranges, transpositions, and clefs.   To download, go to this page: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4932
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It's a relaxed entry this time, an update on some recent happenings in the Linux audio world. Without further preamble, let's take a look at some of the good things going on there.
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Broadband Instruments, a stealth company first covered here, launches its Slacker music ecosystem soon. In Listening Post.
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Early attempts have been marred by high cost and low performance. Now, Avnera thinks it has the answer.Photos: Cutting the speaker cord
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Development of native Linux audio plugins and softsynths may not be so relentlessly rapid as it is in the Windows and Mac sound software worlds, but new things do appear. This week I profile a cool new (well, relatively new) Linux softsynth, William Weston's Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment, also known as Phasex. read more
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Aussie developers use secondary mics for noise suppression Adding a second microphone to a Bluetooth headset significantly improves its ability to capture speech by making it more effective at noise cancellation and suppression, according to Australian audio software developer Dynamic Hearing.â¦