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Ardour 2.4 released

burkhard — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:01:54 -0400

Ardour 2.4 is out and brings along a lot of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Highlights are Freesound integration, per track faders in the editor window, GUIs and automation for AU plugins and, most importantly, filetype icons. Read the full release announcement for details.

Ardour is the award winning digital audio workstation, transforming any computer running Linux or OS X into a tool to record, edit and mix multi-track audio.

FreeBoB 1.0.10 released

burkhard — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:45:07 -0400

FreeBob 1.0.10 has been released. This is a maintenance release addressing a few issues and enabling usage of e.g. the Focusrite Saffire Pro. FreeBob and its successor, FFADO, provide support for FireWire based audio devices on Linux.

Csound 5.08 released

burkhard — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:48:50 -0400

Csound 5.08 has been released. It comes with new French and Spanish translations, fixes some bugs and includes new opcodes, an opcode to control JACK among them. Csound is a sound design, music synthesis, and signal processing system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms.

64 Studio 2.1rc1 released

burkhard — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:37:27 -0400

64 Studio 2.1rc1, the first release candidate for the forthcoming stable 2.1 version, has been made available for download. 64 Studio is a GNU/Linux multimedia distribution aiming to provide a long-lived and stable creative desktop and running on nearly all PC hardware.

Qtractor 0.1.2 has been released

burkhard — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:30:51 -0400

Qtractor 0.1.2 "Frantic Dame" has been released. This release mainly fixes a few issues, as well as adding a new clip-split command and improving the MIDI editor selection. Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit.

New members: EMA Tech. and BEAST

burkhard — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:04:39 -0400

The Linuxaudio.org Consortium welcomes two new members!

EMA Tech. is a French company specialised in building custom DAWs and DVWs, based on free software. Additionally, they provide software support and integration services for the a/v market, along with related activities such as mobile recording and show management.

BEAST, the Bedevilled Audio System, is a sequencer and modular synthesizer for UNIXoid systems. Its features include multitrack editing, real-time synthesis support, precise timing down to sample granularity, MIDI automation and full scriptability in scheme.

Sonic Visualiser 1.2 has been released

burkhard — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:12:30 -0400

Version 1.2 of Sonic Visualiser, an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files, is now available. It comes with some cool new features: audio alignment capabilities and a new measurement tool among others. Read the release announcement for details.

Sonic Visualiser utilises the Vamp plugin API for audio feature extraction. The Vamp plugin SDK 1.2 has been released recently. Additionally, a new version of the Queen Mary plugin set - including plugins like a note onset detector, a beat tracker, a tempo estimator and a key estimator, developed at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London - is available for download.

Qtractor 0.1.1 has been released

burkhard — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:44:51 -0400

Qtractor 0.1.1 "The Futile Duchess" has been released! Improvements include native Linux VST plugin support, DSSI plugin support, configurable keyboard shortcuts as well as a draft user manual. Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit.

64 Studio and Ubuntu Studio now available pre-installed

burkhard — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:31:43 -0400

eRacks, a company based in Orange, California, now offers quiet studio
machines with a choice of 64 Studio or Ubuntu Studio pre-installed.

Ardour 2.3 released

admin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:32:45 -0500

Ardour 2.3 was released today. There are major new features in the audio analysis and tempo management domain. Provisional LV2 support is also included. Read the release announcement for details.

Ardour is the award winning digital audio workstation, transforming any computer running Linux or OS X into a tool to record, edit and mix multi-track audio.