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With the help of Achenar (i.e. Earthen Records), we've produced a new video for beginners. Check out the Renoise Homepage to watch it. Me personally? I'm a fan of the thick Scottish accent. There's even a Japanese (日本語) version on YouTube (click the triangular button in the bottom right corner, and turn ON the captions). Pass it on.
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With the help of Achenar (i.e. Earthen Records), we've produced a new video for beginners. Check out the Renoise Homepage to watch it. Me personally? I'm a fan of the thick Scottish accent. There's even a Japanese (日本語) version on YouTube (click the triangular button in the bottom right corner, and turn ON the captions). Pass it on.
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Yes, it's more snippets, as Christopher and I continued to test, and much of what we're doing is behind the scenes.
Despite the quiet blog traffic, we've been busy, not only with our own projects, but working towards our project goal of unified applications and utilities in one environment.
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Ardour 2.8.4 is here! It has been a month of mostly bug fixing activity, but some nice fixes they certainly are and we've included a couple of new features just to keep you all interested and paying attention. If you use BWF files for anything, this update is critical, because we have fixed a very serious error in the way we generate the header for such files. As of this writing, this is planned to be the last release of Ardour 2.X before 3.0alpha is announced (unless there are any critical breakages in this release). Read more details below ...
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The results of the Efficient Music Compo have been calculated and the winner was announced in a live internet radio show. For those who missed it, you can download it now: Efficient Music Compo Show [50MB].
Check out the complete list of Efficient Music Compo Results.
Peter Kirn from CDM has posted a summary of the compo and picked a winner for the Renoise license. Read the full story here: Tracker Tracks: Winners of the Efficient Music Competition Span Genres, Moods.
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The The Efficient Music Competition is almost over and we want YOU to vote. The submitted songs combine awesomeness with low CPU usage which is exactly what we are looking for. All that remains is picking the winning song. Vote now - the voting booths are closing this Sunday.
We will conclude the Efficient Music Competition with an internet radio show hosted by MC Ron from Indamixx. He is going to broadcast a selection of the songs in record chart style. The show starts with the low tiers and moves up to the number one. The winner of the competition gets the Indamixx Netbook. The radio station will be at http://www.indamixx.com/indamixx-radio.html under channel "Renoise Competition". Stay tuned for the exact broadcast time.
Note that the competitions songs are also excellent learning material. Just in case you're looking for examples in the form of self-contained Renoise XRNS songs that don't rely on VSTs... Well, here they are.
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Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built
for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or
professional. http://www.ubuntustudio.org
The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its sixth release: Ubuntu
Studio 9.10 "Karmic Koala". With this release, which you can download
in a 1.4GB DVD, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages,
targeted at audio producers, video producers and graphic designers.
Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the Linux-based multimedia workstation.
Downloads of the install DVD are available here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/9.10/release
For Ubuntu Studio 9.10 we have continued to grow our feature set,
update packages, and fix critical bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio
user experience.
We are happy to announce that the real time kernel will be an official
upstream release patch. It will be installed by default if the audio
task is selected. We have tested it heavily and are very happy with it's
performance in audio environments.
Features/Improvements:
* Official upstream RT kernel release (i.e. it's very stable)
* Font meta package added to the graphics meta, which installs
literally hundreds of free fonts
* Xwax (http://xwax.co.uk) and a2jmidid (http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/)
packaged and added to the audio meta-package
* Xjadeo (http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/) added to the video meta
* Network tools like NetworkManager and Pidgin will be available on
the DVD disc repository but not installed by default
* Firewire libraries are now upgraded to 2.0
* MANY newer versions of applications (Ardour, Gimp, Blender,
Inkscape, Audacity, Kino, Scribus, Denemo, Hugin, etc...)
for exact versions please see: http://packages.ubuntu.com
See the Ubuntu release notes for other non Ubuntu Studio specific changes.
As our wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio states, "our
aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools
that GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation and production. We
also want to spotlight what's out there, and show users tools they
might not know to exist."
Thanks to all who helped in Ubuntu Studio 9.10's creation!
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Sometimes when you're watching online videos on youtube or other sites, you want to save some of them for later offline playback. You've probably heard of Firefox extensions like DownloadHeloper that can do this, but sometimes you may only have a bare version of Firefox, or perhaps a different browser, one that doesn't have a plugin for doing this. Using the tip below, you can save videos no matter what browser you're using.
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The O is for October, harvest time here in NW Ohio USA. A beat-slicer, a book review, and a milestone release compose this trio of reviews for the Fall season in Linux audio fashion.
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Over the past few months I've been drifting into the world of Linux video applications and development. I've already written a review of the LiVES video editor, and I've made occasional reference to the Kino editor. Recently a reader asked if I'd tried a recent version of Kdenlive. I started looking into it and I liked what I saw. The following article is an account of my continuing experience with the latest codebase from the project.
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The "optimize your song like hell" aka Renoise/Indamixx/CDM compo has a new name; The Efficient Music Competition. We have just opened a new mini-site on renoise.com, where you can upload and download songs, discuss optimization techniques and vote for competition entries - in a special kind of way.
Together with the new website and new name, we have a new deadline as well: October 25th.
The Efficient Music Competition mini-site
The goal of the competition remains the same. You have to write a song in Renoise that is efficient enough to run on a netbook. One would think that's not too hard, considering trackers have been around since man made fire and PCs had the brainpower of a cobblestone. It appears we have been spoiled with high quality effects nowadays, turning the concept into a worthy challenge.
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Sometime mid-morning on October 5th, ardour.org was either hacked into or suffered some kind of fatal software bit-rot. After many stomach churning hours, the site has been restored, upgraded to Drupal 6.14 and should be working normally. If you notice anything unusual or broken, please comment here.
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I cooked up a little Renoise tutorial for beginners using the "How to make a jerkin' beat step-by-step tutorial" at Indamixx.com. Count the amount of times I say "alright" and win a prize.
Speaking of Indamixx, we are running a challenging music contest. We are giving away one of their Netbooks for the best low-power Renoise song. Go to CreateDigitalMusic for the details. You need to send in your music before 15 October.
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Expectations- the window
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Harrison, the manufacturer of world-class analog and digital consoles, along with Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour are proud to announce Mixbus®, a customized version of Ardour for OS X.
Mixbus enhances Ardour by providing critical mixing functions in a knob-per-function interface called "True Analog Mixing"(tm). True Analog Mixing is based on Harrison's renowned 32-Series and MR-Series console designs, combined with Harrison's proprietary digital mixing technology. Mixbus enables the user to record, edit, and mix a musical performance "in the box" while achieving a sound that harkens back to the golden age of album recordings.
Read more about Mixbus below ...
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Due to popular demand, I have just created a new page on the site for dowloading the helper scripts for The Open Octave Project Pipeline.
http://www.openoctave.org/downloads/ooscripts
Enjoy!
NOTE: these scripts need user modification to run properly.
more to come on using the scripts!......
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Finally! :)
I have put together a quick technical overview of The Open Octave Project Pipeline.
You can watch the original .ogv here:
http://openoctave.linuxproaudio.org/openoctave_tech_overview.ogv
You can watch them in HD on youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/christophercherrett
Enjoy!
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To minimize the impact of SEO (search engine optimization) spamming, I have turned off the ability to use links in forum posts and comments. I'm not happy about doing this, but from reviewing the forum for the last couple of months, outbound links are not really that common. If you want to post a link to some music you released, or some other cool technology, just type the URL inline and forum readers can get to it with a little bit more action on their part. For example, you should all be familiar with http://ardour.org/ by now ...
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Expectations-The OS2
In any system, the kernel is the beating heart. And it continues to be my view that a computer kernel is a marvel of engineering, and vision.
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When I began collecting links for the Linux Sound & Music Applications pages I frequented a variety of announcement and news services. Some of those services are no longer with us, some have been superceded by more comprehensive and modern channels, and a few have remained as primary sources for new and updated Linux audio software. SourceForge is one of those long-lived services that have remained relevant to my searches for new and interesting sound and music applications, so I decided to surf the Forge to find recent and maybe some not-so-recent developments in the world of Linux audio.
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In this article I finish the process we started in the last episode. Read on for the thrilling denouement.
The Build
After all the preparation described in the first part of this article the build process itself is rather anticlimactic. Building from sources with the GNU autotools is this easy :
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In the days before we started using computers in the home and studio for writing and recording orchestrally based music, manuscript, or "parchment" was the desktop of the day. Unlike a computer monitor, manuscript didn't need batteries, or power, and if you made a mistake, you used an eraser to perform the modern day equivalent of cut or delete.
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Recently I've received some mail asking for a brief explanation on how to build Linux audio applications from source code packages. Ask and ye shall receive, hence the following simple guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the downright mystified. Compiling software is hardly rocket science, and if an old guitar-picker like myself can do it certainly you can too.
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I started in Linux nearly 2 years ago, after a very clever campaign run by a colleague called Dave Phillips, who eventually wore me down, and left me little choice but to try, my interest piqued.
It seemed a lot to take in that time, and there are still moments where the learning curve is fairly steep.
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Ardour 3 is still not ready for testing by non-developing users, but I wanted to provide a preview of the way the "inline" MIDI editing system is taking shape, and to provide a record of key- and mouse-bindings for future manual writers.
This document is subject to updates and corrections at any time
Ardour's MIDI editing is based on a few basic principles:
- Editing should be done without having to enter a new window
- Editing should be driven by the keyboard as much as possible
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According to its developers Guitarix is a monaural amplifier designed for creating the distorted sounds typical of thrash, heavy metal, blues, and other rock guitar styles. In fact, Guitarix is capable of much more than distortion sounds. In this article I'll remove the software speaker grill and pull out the virtual chassis to take a closer look at the sonic possibilities of this "simple mono amplifier".
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LMMS is music creation software similar to programs such as GarageBand for OSX and FL Studio for Windows. Those programs are designed to streamline the process of making music with a computer in order to get new users into music composition as quickly and painlessly as possible. Their feature sets include preset audio loops, MIDI tracks, and other ready-made musical materials available for immediate use in a piece. Their GUIs invite involvement in the process of making music and it's clear that the designers want the user to have fun with the program and the process. In this mini-review we'll see if LMMS lives up to the precedents set by those programs.
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A startup and shutdown "session manager"......?
In any serious working environment, one intent certainly holds true. The ability to start everything up and just have it all ready to roll. We've already started work on this, and are building a working script to cater for two use cases, a midi input and editing project setting, called "playback", and an audio recording environment, called "recording". But why two of them, and not just 1 all singing, all dancing, startup script?
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A quick update on what we've been up to recently.
Just yesterday, Vladimir Savic completed the first set of new icons he's been working on for OpenoctaveMidi, and he's done a grand job. The new icons look great as a set, and Vladimir's keen eye for detail shows, in the elegance of the design, and the unobtrusive nature of the pics.
Thanks Vlamidir for a good job well done!
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One of the common questions we get here at linuxjournal.com is how we produce our videos. Shawn produced a howto video on some ways of doing it. The following describes how I capture my videos and also the script that I use to add the Linux Journal logo watermark to it.
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So wow. Here it is. The end of the road for me as lead of Studio. My plan was always to head up 4 releases and Intrepid marks that.
Besides the end of my commitment my personal situation has changed. I have recently accepted a CAD job that will be taking up much of my time. Along with a greater focus on other commitments.
I will still be involved with Studio and Ubuntu just not to the same degree. Seems to be a place many of us get to. :) I will mostly be
involved with Studio/Ubuntu art and testing. I'm also sure I'll get sucked somewhat into a slight management role in Studio. I'll deal with
that as it comes. :)
My replacement will be Luis de Bethencourt. He has been involved with Studio for
quite a while and will able to make future releases even better.
Thanx to all in the Ubuntu community who have helped me and Studio get to where it is. Without you, Studio would not exist.
This ain't goodbye. ;)
-Cory K. (_MMA_)
announcement mail threads:
ubuntu-devel-discuss
ubuntustudio-devel-discuss
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Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the
GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or professional.
The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its fourth release: Ubuntu Studio
8.10. With this release, which you can download in a 1.2GB DVD,
Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages, targeted at audio, video
and graphics users. Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the creation of Linux-based
multimedia workstations.
For Ubuntu Studio 8.10 we have continued to update packages and fix critical
bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio user experience.
We are sad to announce the real time kernel won't be installed by default in
Ubuntu Studio in this release. Because of some issues that were out of our
control, the real time kernel in this release has some problems: only supports
one processor (even on dual core machines) and suspend/hibernation/shutdown
don't work properly because of conflicts with the Network Manager. We are
doing our best to get these fixed, the kernel is in the repository for those
who want it anyway and an upgrade with the pristine version will be available
soon.
This means that for the time being, we recommend our users that depend on the
real time kernel to stay with our 8.04 for now. This has motivated us to
save the some of the new artwork concept for the 9.04 release.
With any luck we will hope to have a point release with a fully working -rt
kernel.
The art in this release has stayed relatively the same. Only a default wallpaper
switch and minor metacity updates. This will be the norm for all future releases.
Where only every other release gets a facelift.
Features/Fixes/Improvements:
* New Ardour's version (and for all architectures).
* Audacity fully working.
* Update of all software packages.
See the Ubuntu press release notes for other non Ubuntu Studio specific changes.
As our wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio states, "our
aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools that
GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation and production. We also want to
spotlight what's out there, and show users tools they might not know to exist."
Thanks to all who helped in Ubuntu Studio 8.10's creation!
Download it now
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As usual with each release we've polished our GTK theme, keeping the same style but with new ideas. Totally new cool Usplash and GDM artwork. Default wallpapers have been selected from the best of the creative commons stock in flickr, and customized menu includes Audio and Video subsections.
Checkout the wiki to see more of the new artwork.
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WOW! UDS-Boston rocked! We got to put faces to names and get a lot of groundwork laid for Hardy. Id love to go and list all the people who helped us over Gutsy but that's a long list. ;)
On behalf of the entire Ubuntu Studio team thank you all.
