New Additions for Winter 2006/2007:
- Aldrin Leonard Ritter's interpretation of the famous Buzz tracker/sequencer
- Aliki alpha software for room impulse response measurement, more goodness from Fons Adriaensen
- ASIO for WINE a proof-of-concept driver from Robert Reif
- Breakage "an artificially intelligent drum machine", from Ollie Glass, requires Java
- CMask source code now publicly available
- Csound Realtime Examples a great collection from Iain McCurdy
- FlashPlayer9 now available for Linux
- FreeADSP "free, audio-oriented, real-time, cross-platform DSP software" from Stefano D'Angelo
- FreeBoB "The FreeBoB project aims to provide a generic solution for using Firewire (semi-)pro-audio devices in Linux", good news from Pieter Palmers and the FreeBoB development team
- GLASHCtl GTK interface for controlling LASH, from Lars Luthman
- Impro-Visor "a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos", very cool Java-based app from Bob Keller
- LoopDub Stephen Sinclair's "cross-platform software for live loop manipulation"
- Miditoys turns a Playstation2 into a MIDI control surface
- Milkytracker a new module tracker inspired by Fast Tracker 2
- Nomad patch editor/librarian for the Nord Modular synthesizer
- OOoLilyPond a neat macro for inserting LilyPond-created music notation into OpenOffice.org documents, from Samuel Hartmann
- Plugins: Q & Faust for Pd very cool stuff from Dr. Albert Graef
- QLoud Andrew Gaydenko's "tool to measure loudspeaker frequency and step responses and distortions"
- Qtractor an audio/MIDI sequencer from Rui Nuno Capela
- Rotter "Recording of Transmission/Audio Logger", logging software for radio stations, requires JACK
- TAPESTREA "Techniques And Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation, and Rendering of Environmental Audio", which Ge Wang assures us is a new way to design sound
- Traverso multitrack audio recording and editing program from Remon Sijrier & the Traverso Team
- Trinity Linux-based portable DAW from the Trinity Audio Group
- Vmwaredspjack adds JACK support to Petr Vandrovec's vmwaredsp
- YASS yet another scrolling scope, this one from Fons Adriaensen
- bcx2000edit editor for the Behringer BCR2000/BCF2000 MIDI control surfaces, from Pieter Palmers
- foo scriptable/interactive non-realtime sound synthesis and audio processing environment, from Martin Rumori and the foo Crew
- jack_mixer GTK-based audio mixer for JACK, from Nedko Arnaudov
- jack_oscrolloscope realtime waveform viewer from Dominic Sacré
- kbdz transforms USB PC keyboards/mice into MIDI controllers
- naconnect an ncurses-based ALSA MIDI sequencer connection manager
- nekosynth DSSI synth plugin pleasure from Gordon JC Pearce
- psycops Csound score generation library for Python
- pyalsa MIDI wrappers for Python, from Phil Frost
- rme.el Mario Lang's Emacs interface to the RME Multiface matrix mixer
- stygmorgan organ with auto-accompaniment features, more good stuff from Holborn
- ys2mma converts Yamaha STY files to MMA format
Updated:
- 64Studio version 1.0 now available
- ALSA updated to version 1.0.13
- Amuc new release 1.3 now online
- Ardour2 public beta 7 now available
- Audioscience driver version 300 now available online
- BEAST/BSE leaps to release version 0.7.0
- Ceres rises to version 0.46 (Kjetil's been busy)
- CLAM moves forward to release version 0.91.0
- Common Music advances to version 2.9.1
- Csound advances to version 5.04
- Dynebolic release 2.2 freely available
- E-Radium sitting at level 0.61f
- Faust Online new interactive Web site, new software packages, new plugins for Pd and SuperCollider3
- FreeWheeling updated to version 0.5.3
- Gneutronica upgraded to version 0.32
- JACK charges to release version 0.102.0
- Mammut advances to version 0.22
- Musical MIDI Accompaniment (MMA) milestone release 1.0 now online
- Musix new release 0.59 available for download now
- Mx44 updated to Mx44.1
- NoteEdit now at level 2.8.1, the last major release for this program
- QJackCtl version 0.2.21 is out and running in the wild
- Rivendell surges to version level 0.9.77
- Rosegarden release number 1.4.0 is ready to roll
- San Dsynth release version 0.9.7.7 online now
- Simple Sysexxer Christoph Eckert offers version 0.1.1 to the public
- Snd notches up to version 8.6
- Snd-ls version 0.9.7.n now available
- Specimen new mail list, new home page, new maintainer (Eric Rzewnicki)
- SWH Plugins updated to version 0.4.15
- Wired progresses to version 0.4 alpha
- aubio updated to version 0.3.1
- blue version 0.109.0 now online
- bristol leaps to level 0.9.5-89
- fluxus updated to release number 0.10
- ghostess rolls up to release 20061127
- jackbeat version 0.6 now available
- jack_capture & das_watchdog Kjetil Mattheussen's updates online now
- kluppe grows to release level 0.6.5
- mpg123 lives at a new Web site and seeks interested developers
- netjack vaults to version 0.12
- sfront rises to release level 0.91
- soniK attains 1.0 status
- wcnt sidles up to release version 1.25
- xjadeo ascends to level 0.4.0-rc1
Newsworthy:
- CLAM wins the 2006 ACM Open Source Multimedia Contest, congratulations to Pau, David, and all the team !
- How To Get Effective Low-latency Performance On Your Linux Box advice from Aaron Krister Johnson
- LAC 2007: Call For Papers yes, it's coming soon, the next Linux Audio Conference, to be held in Berlin, March 2007
- LAU FAQ Wiki a wiki for those frequently-asked questions from Linux audio users, thanks to Patrick Shirkey
- Linux Rock Star excellent new site for interviews, new app listings, and more for Linux sound people
- Linuxaudio Italia "una mailing list Italiana che vuole ricalcare la filosofia di linux-audio-user", grazie a Marco Milanesi e Emillo Grilli
- MakeArt2007 - Call For Projects "Make Art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of free/libre and open source software in electronic arts."
- MMA Forum a new site for exchanging information about Bob van de Poel's Musical MIDI Arranger (see above)
- portal.linuxaudio.org Linuxaudio.org strives to consolidate online audio resources for Linx user
- Rivendell Operations Guide provides a full tour of the Rivendell system, courtesy Fred Gleason and the Rivendell Development Team
- Studio Forum - Linux a support/discussion forum in Swedish and Norwegian for newcomers to Linux audio