Q-Audio 2.0 and Q-Synth 1.0 released
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Q is a functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus. Q-Audio 2.0 is a major update, which now supports ALSA and Jack via PortAudio v19, and also adds Fourier transform operations via FFTW3. Q-Synth 1.1 is a minor update which fixes some bugs in the SuperCollider synth definitions and adds support for Q-Audio 2.0. Moreover, RPMs for PortAudio v19 (required for Q-Audio 2.0) and SuperCollider (required for Q-Synth 1.1, if you want to work with the SC interface) are now available in the deps section of the download area.   More information about the Q project can be found on the Q website at http://q-lang.sourceforge.net  You can find the latest releases here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=103968 https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=115655 Enjoy!
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This entry is a little off my regular beat, but its substance is of great importance to all users of Linux audio software. To get straight to the point, it's about money and two projects in real need of significant financial support, the Ardour hard disk recorder/digital audio workstation and the Hydrogen rhythm programmer/drum machine. Both projects are well along in their development cycles, both have achieved great status not only in the Linux audio software world but on OSX as well, and both need financing for their planned evolution. Ardour and Hydrogen are two of Linux's finest programs for musicians, rivalling their commercial counterparts and providing libre alternatives to the intense vendor lock-in typical of the Win/Mac sound and music software worlds. These are truly important projects that deserve your support and financial backing.
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The code for the first open source "intimate interface" to connect sex toy hardware to Second Life is posted by qDot Bunnyhug. Have at it. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Ion Audio introduces two new vinyl record turntables that feature direct USB output.
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Fully functional support for the VST plugin standard is one of the most important remaining problems for the Linux audio world. VST plugins are ubiquitous in the Win/Mac audio worlds, they are employed extensively in professional and desktop music software, and it may be no exaggeration to claim that the VST standard has revolutionized computer-based creation of music and sound. Given its great popularity this writer believes that stable VST support would give Windows users a compelling reason to try Linux as an alternate or replacement platform, especially if they have a sizeable investment of money and experience in their collection of VST plugins.
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Sony makes the body a living capacitator by sending audio signals through it. From Crave, CNET's gadget blog.
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Conky is an advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo   This is the next maintenance release for Conky, prompted by bugs introduced in 1.4.6.  Also notable is changes/clarifications made to licensing.  If you have any problems with the licensing changes (ie. someone got left out of AUTHORS) please let us know.  Summary of changes is as follows:      * Check for pkg-config >=0.19     * Use timed_thread for mpd     * Fixed issue with SIGPIPE and mpd     * Updated COPYING (with more clarifications)     * Updated vim/nano syntax files.     * Added $hwmon var, similar to $i2c and $platform.     * Added var $platform which is similar to $i2c and accommodates the conversion       of many devices from /sys/bus/i2c/devices to /sys/bus/platform/devices.     * Removed config item post_21_kernel since it forced all i2c device lookups       to go to /sys/bus/platform/devices and some people may need a mix of both         i2c and platform devices.     * Clarifying licensing     * RSS support     * Wireless support for Linux  Regards,  Brenden
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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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âOne of the best new features in all of the Final Cut Studio family,â maintains Kevin McAuliffe (CreativeMac) âis the addition of surround sound mixing to Soundtrack Pro 2.â To illustrate, McAuliffe takes readers step-by-step through a simple âsurroundâ tutorial. âThis great and easy to use feature in STP2,â he concludes, âlets you mix your entire show in surround, export your mix as surround, and then take your submix, switch it back to â1,2â, and you now have a downmix to stereo from 5.1 for a stereo version of your show.â
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Speaker center Why take two speakers with you when you're out with your iPod when you can take four? That's audio-accessory maker QDOS' pitch for its Genesis 360Â° portable sound system.â¦
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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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Latest PECL Releases:PHK 1.4.0automap 1.1.0mqseries 0.11.0perforce 1.0.0
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Wav2MP3 Wizard is the lightest, easiest and one of the fastest Audio Converting programs. Select your files, convert them to MP3/OGG and decode them back, using one of the 10 easy pre-setup profiles, or make your own! High quality audio in just seconds! The Wav2MP3 Wizard team after a long period of work is proud to bring you the brand new v3.1, with fully automated batch encoding, proving to be one of the fastest and easiest audio conversion software available!   Take a more detailed look at what changed since version 3.0:  * REMOVAL: Removed the ID3Tag options from the Main dialog as they were pretty useless and confusing; default values for ID3Tags can still be set by the File Dialog (see Help File for more) * IMPROVEMENT: Fully automatic batch (multiple files) encoding, not requiring you to click OK between files * ADDITION: Added the File dialog; by double-clicking on any file on the list you can view all its ID3Tag properties as well as select its destination after encoding * ADDITION: Ability to change all ID3Tag information in all files in the list with a few clicks, or clear them * ADDITION: All ID3Tag information is copied from the Main form to the File form (appears when double-clicking on a file in the list) * IMPROVEMENT: Separated Options dialog in tabs (suggested by Paul Jay Schrenker) * CHANGE: There is no "Enable/Disable Multiple Files", as the list always appears now; the program can detect whether the list contains one or more files but acts the same * CHANGE: There is no "Show Save As... dialog before encoding" option, as the user can select where he wants each file to be saved by double-clicking on it on the list; change made for the capability of automatic batch encoding * REMOVAL: Removed color-fading * OCX COMPONENT CHANGE: Now using msdxm.ocx instead of amovie.ocx, due to limited capabilities and bugs of the latter * CORRECTION: List is not cleared after encoding, but is still cleared if user clicks on Cancel button * BUG CORRECTIONS: Corrected bugs on file selection, Main dialog being disabled to user, ID3Tags being disabled after adding more than one file to list and many other minor bugs * IMPROVEMENT: Cleaned up the code, removed all unused entries for smaller size and faster use * ADDITION: Added German language * OTHER: Some other fixes and additions I can't remember after all this time...   NOTES:  * The released versions do not mention in their helpfile that the German language has been added, although the installer does. This has been considered a minor mistake, and will be fixed in the next release.  * Notice that we will not be releasing the Light Version of the source code anymore. The packages that will be available are: Installer, Zipped and Source.  The latest installer can be found here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=90441&package_id=95185  Enjoy another version of Wav2MP3 Wizard!  *The Leftos Open-Source Development Group*
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Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (see At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl and HDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the mind behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.
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A comprehensive suite of professional tools, Logic Studio provides everything musicians need to create, produce and perform in the studio and on the stage. Logic Studio features Logic Pro 8âa major upgrade that combines an intuitive new interface with Logicâs renowned sound quality and rock-solid timingâand introduces MainStage, an innovative new live performance application that turns the Mac into a streamlined live rig. In addition, Logic Studio includes SoundTrack Pro 2, Appleâs professional audio post production software; Studio Instruments, made up of 40 pristine quality instruments; Studio Effects, with 80 professional effect plug-ins; a vast Studio Sound Library; and a powerful set of production utilities. Available now, Logic Studio sells for just $499.
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An overview of the creation and evolution of MIDI, from early standalone equipment to an all-in-one computerized composition environment.
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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with audio cd rip frontend. Currently supported formats are mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, mp4, and radio streaming.  Changelog:  - Added year and genre fields to CD ripper (Thomas Beckers) - Added saving of currently selected AudioScrobbler panel (Thomas Beckers) - Added brighter tray icons for Windows Vista (Thomas Beckers) - Added icons in About menu (Thomas Beckers) - Added an entry for enabling/disabling Audioscrobbler panel (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Persistent split pane divider location (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Null pointer when deleting a radio station (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Icons doesn't change from "play" to "pause" [Bug 1818060] (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: "Clear Tag" option freezes UI - Updated Substance Look And Feel version to 4.0 - Repository refresh improved: now checks modification date - FIX: duplicate entries on stats - FIX: Null pointer on Amazon album search - FIX: aTunes freezes at startup when no repository found - Added button for search filter in playlist bar and moved playlist bar to the bottom (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added saving of last used settings in CD ripper (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added filename and pathname checking for export tool (Sylain Gaudard) - Added CTRL-F keybinding to search filter in playlist panel and allowed switching it off by pressing a second time the search filter button (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added Terracotta and Sunset themes avaible in Substance 4.0 (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added new icon for search field reset (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added tooltips to playlist search filter (Sylvain Gaudard) - Reduced font size of file properties panel to allow longer filenames (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Adapted preferences dialog for greek translation in order to display the complete text (Sylvain Gaudard, Pavlos Paraskeuopoulos) - FIX: Null pointer when file properties panel gets enabled if no song in playlist [Bug 1810167] (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Race condition in mplayer handler (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: aTunes launches several mplayer instances [Bug 1818064] (Thomas Beckers, Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Updated cdda2wav.exe to version 2.01.01a35 to fix compatibility with Windows Vista (Thomas Beckers, Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Race condition on AudioScrobbler service - Added device features: auto-mount devices, copy from and to repository - FIX: Set default max memory to 128MB (previously was 64MB) - AudioScrobbler Album information visual changes - AudioScrobbler Artist information visual changes - AudioScrobbler Similar artist information visual changes - Added Artist Bio at AudioScrobbler panel - FIX: aTunes would not play the next file with non-english version of mplayer (Bertrand Florat)