+ Linux Audio Blog +

collected news, musings, ramblings with regard to Linux ...

Last Update: Sat Sep 30 07:19:37 2006

+ Let's face it! + Yes, it's sad but true. J Zar is right . Let's face the facts: I am no longer studying, I have a job, I have a real life and I [...] and last but most importantly not least go and make some music and let us know how you did it . Cheers Jan

+ RSS feed fixed? + Some of you reported problems with the RSS feed resulting in a certain article constantly being marked as new. According to the [...] its format to conform to this definition. Please let me know whether above problems persist. In other news I'm back on-line.

+ no, not dead yet + It's not all my fault. I'm posting this from work as a short follow-up to these comments . At home, my ISP has kept me off-line [...] meantime have a listen to James Shuttleworth' latest attempt and compare it to his usual style ( via LAU ). I'll be back.

+ just a sign of life + Sorry, way too much real life lately. A very attractive job offer, a new GF (who's very attractive as well) ... I won't complain. [...] which comes with a moderately sophisticated user management system. Anyone out there feeling motivated to join me as an author?

+ mhWaveEdit 1.3.8 released + mhWaveEdit is a program for playing, editing, and recording sound files. It supports .wav files and a few other formats. It is [...] adds variable-speed playback. It fixes some bugs from the previous release. Download version 1.3.8 via freshmeat

+ gnomeradio 1.6 released + Gnomeradio is another FM radio tuner writen in GTK+. It should work with every FM tuner card that is supported by video4linux. [...] a major rework, and should now be much more GNOME HIG-compliant and easy to use. Download verison 1.6 via freshmeat

+ Helix Player 1.0.4 Gold released + The Helix Player is an audio and video player based on the Helix DNA Client engine. The GTK+ version includes a Mozilla browser [...] which includes support for several non-open source components has been released in version 10.0.4 Gold. via freshmeat

+ first (?) soundtrack entirely produced on Linux + Just wanted to share with you the professional soundtrack I wrote for a short movie, since there are no rights/contract [...] some instruments, some are live. Soundtrack: http://www.reduz.com.ar/sisteria/ Juan Linietsky via LAU

+ KMetronome 0.5 released + KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with KDE interface, based on the ALSA sequencer. The intended audience is musicians and music [...] problem under Fedora Core 3 fixed automake-1.6 problems Download version 0.5 via freshmeat and LAA

+ customized Linux Audio live CD based on dyne:bolic + Dyne:bolic has lots of power, but you might have some special needs. For example, maybe you want to include some of your own [...] at spot.river-styx.com And while you're there don't miss the other articles related to dyne:bolic. Tom Szylagyi via LAU

+ Denemo 0.7.3beta2 released + Denemo is a unique score editor which exports notation to LilyPond and ABC music formats. It also acts as a frontend for Csound [...] Auto save is here to help. Lots and lots of Bug fixes Download version 0.7.3beta2 Aaron Mehl via LAD

+ Amuc - the Amsterdam Music Composer + Wouter Boeke introduced Amuc , a program for composing music, via LAA . This app is focused on the art of music [...] It is original code, or partly copied from other free software. At one place I mentioned the names of the original authors.

+ At the Sounding Edge: What's Going On with Csound? + The current issue of Dave Phillip's LA column in the Linux Journal introduces the sound synthesis language Csound . This [...] going on in the latest development branch of Csound, known to its programmers and users as Csound5. Read more at LJ.com

+ Shayne's diggin' + Shayne O'Connor via LAU : this has taken me ages ... dog knows why ... ten years, in fact :) [...] Editor - wow, it rocks!) hope you all enjoy ... and now to check out the back issues of music made with linux :)

+ MusicKit 5.5.1 released + The MusicKit is an object-oriented software system for building music, sound, signal processing, and MIDI applications. The [...] utilities, applications and sample score documents. Announcement and changes Download version 5.5.1 via freshmeat

+ Aeolus mailing lists and wiki + Yes, I'm still alive. Yes, I've been busy. Fons Adriaensen's synthesized pipe organ Aeolus has two new mailing lists and a [...] m

+ BEAST/BSE 0.6.5 released + Beast is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application. It offers multiple input methods like multitrack, piano [...] are Bulgarian and Kinyarwanda. Download version 0.6.5 via freshmeat and LAA Sorry for the delay, Tim. :)

+ GNUsound 0.7 released + GNUsound is a sound editor for GNU/Linux. It supports multiple tracks, multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32-bit samples. It can [...] and incorporates a major GUI redesign including first-class GNOME2 support. Download version 0.7 via freshmeat

+ Tutka 0.12.3 released + Tutka is a tracker style MIDI sequencer for Linux. It is similar to programs like SoundTracker, ProTracker, and FastTracker, [...] support were implemented. Preliminary Jack transport support was added. Download version 0.12.3 via freshmeat

+ Jackbeat 0.4.3 released + Jackbeat is an audio sequencer with support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Featuring a drum-machine-like interface, it is [...] folders was fixed, and a conflict with Jack port names has been resolved. Download version 0.4.3 via freshmeat