Loop-based Music Composition With Linux, Pt. 2
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In this second and final part I'll demonstrate some of the loop-specific tools I've found in Ardour, Reaper, and Audacity. Tutorials and links to project demos are included, so warm up your headphones and let's get loopy.
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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.
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Freeverb3 library includes high quality freeverb, nreverb and impulse response reverb. Oversampling feature provides higher quality of audio processing. This library includes XMMS plugins, audacious plugins, BMP beep media player plugins and sample programs, which enable you to test the audio effects easily.    Version 2.0.0 includes following bug fixes and features. - Precision of float/double/ldouble support. - fast convolution algorithm - New Double Fragment Buffer Zero Latency Algorithm - SIMD codes for 3DNow!/SSE/SSE2 - merge of libsamplerate Project page at http://freeverb3.sourceforge.net
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Dual-layer disc to smooth hi-def format adoption
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Michael Kimsal points out the posting of the latest part of his "Grails for PHP developers" series to his blog site - Part Five of the series.   I've put up the latest installment in my "Grails for PHP developers".  Rather than delve too much more in to Grails head on, I'm taking this installment (and at least the next one) to delve more in to the Groovy language itself.  Groovy offers similarities to PHP, but also many differences which can trip you up if you're not careful.  I'll try to lay those out as best I can in the next couple of installments.   This new part of the series goes back and puts the spotlight on GRoovy, the base of the Groovy/Grails combo. He talks about working with variables and arrays as containers for multiple pieces of data and some possible gotchas that could come up along the way.
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OpenSong is a free software application for managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship leaders and musicians! This next release contains quite a few bug fixes, set list printing, proxy support, module loading, a new background image chooser, backgrounds folders, songs folders, multiple themes per song, key field, aka field, key line field, ccli import now imports the new song fields, configurable alert font, live scripture browsing during presentations, HTML song export, and more! Everything has been moved around and optimized. Now with multiple language support. This is a great update to 0.9.8.   You can find the latest release here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108754&package_id=117409
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Popular music notation software adds sound library, 'snippets' database, and new options.
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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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At last we reach the final installment of this series, the question &amp; answer stage in which we'll consider some of the common problems encountered with audio and MIDI on Linux, along with some common and perhaps not-so-common solutions to those problems. We've looked at some indispensable items for your Linux system troubleshooting toolkit, now let's see how they are applied.
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DevShed continues their series looking at some of the fundamentals of working with PHP in this new tutorial posted today. It looks at one of the flow control statements the language has to offer and a very useful data structure - the switch statement and arrays.   In our last exciting adventure (back in early November), we braved crocodiles, ravenous editors, most of the PHP statements, and beginning loops. In this edition we'll cover the final statement, the Switch, and discuss arrays. So sit back, order your R2D2 robot to bring you a cold, frosty Jolt Cola, and let's get cracking.   They start with a simple example of a switch statement (to echo out strings) and follow it with a detailed description of the different sorts of arrays - numeric indexed, associative and multidimensional versions.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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The JyAALib project is a Java/Jython implementation of the Asynchronous Action Framework based in Pure Object Oriented Concepts. The Massive Parallel Framework in Python Language - Full Compatible with Jython-JAVA.   New Beta version 1.9 is available for the PyAALib-JyAALib : The Massive Parallel Framework in Python Language - Full Compatible with Jython-JAVA
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A simple to use C#-based DSP-environment that allows simulation of signal processing applications with visual feedback. It features runtime editable structures like Filter, FFT/IFFT, Sampler. Parameter can interactively be changed during simulation.   The first version of Metis has just been released.
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Recently I've been working with the transport synchronization capabilities of the JACK audio server. This article is a report on those capabilities as tested with a variety of Linux audio applications under the JAD and 64 Studio distributions. JACK: The 1-minute Profile read more
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The AccessMusic project provides a set of tools for creating accessible music which are freely available to download. These tools allow you to convert music scores from traditional western music notation to formats for the Blind and visually impaired.   As part of the i-Maestro project the accessible music production code was extended to provide accessible "viewers" that could be coupled onto any existing music notation editor. The code for these interfaces is provided in the hope that it can be of use in other projects. For I-Maestro the interfaces were coupled to a Symbolic Music Representation editor developed by the University of Florence. However they were designed with reusability in mind to allow easy coupling onto any editor.  See http://accessmusic.sourceforge.net/interfaces.php for further details.  Source code will be uploaded to subversion over the next couple of days.
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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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A discussion of how to use frame styles in OOo Writer.