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You won't fit more synths into 6HP of Eurorack (or VCV Rack module) than the newest ALM/Busy Circuits module, MCO v2. It's a wavetable synth, an additive synth, a Roland JP8000 voice, a vocoder, a 90s VA, a bass and drum synth, and a SID chip emulation all in one. The post ALM’s new MCO mk2 packs a studio of classic digital synths into 6HP, VCV appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Week highlights: new LibrePCB release, GIMP 3.0rc2 is being delayed, FreeCAD team is hacking tirelessly at the next version, OpenSCAD team makes more integrations. GIMP Jehan announced on his Patreon account that the second release candidate of 3.0 is being delayed due to GNOME’s infrastructure changes. In the meantime, he started working on a new API for non-destructive filters, including adding them from scripts. At the same time, Øyvind Kolås started patching the layers blending code to use perceptual space by default for certain blending modes. FreeCAD Since the v1.0 release last week, maintainers have been meeting twice a week to go through the backlog of pull requests. There were over 250 of them, the list is now down to nearly 180, so there’s more work to be done. The two sets of patches I’d like to mention here were both contributed by Pierre-Louis Boyer (ex-Ondsel). First, Pierre-Louis has been enhancing what you can do with external geometry. Some of the patches have already landed, like being able to apply transform tools (e.g. Offset) to external geometry. Others, like creating external geometry from a face, are still being reviewed. It has already been implemented in RealThunder’s fork, but as RT indicated, the feature is hard to isolate in the code because it’s intertwined with his toponaming changes. So now we are getting an implementation from scratch in the upstream repo. Pierre-Louis’s other work involves refactoring datums to make them more of a core feature with some enhancements. This stems from his earlier attempt to implement markers for the Assembly workbench to aid the top-down design approach. Markers are essentially LCS, and so are the joints in assemblies. The idea was to create a part, add a marker to its feature in the Assembly branch, and then use it as a reference when you create the next part in context. Preliminary patches have been merged, a more deep change is being reviewed. There’s some news in the grants department too. I mentioned this project at the end of the v1.0 review, but Kacper’s grant application was approved this week by the FPA General Assembly. He will work on transparent previews for various PD operations such as Pad, Loft, Fillet, and others. This will be the first stage of unifying Part and Part Design. In the proposal, Kacper mentions further stages that are out of the scope for this grant: Add more multi-solid capabilities to Part Design Allow using features from other workbenches in the Part Design workbench Merging duplicated features, such as Extrude / Pad / Pocket, Chamfer, Fillet etc. OpenSCAD I haven’t looked at changes in the project for a long time, plus they haven’t done any releases since 2021. Most recently, Marius Kintel added support for multiple 3D printing services. Currently, the support covers PCBWay, Print A Thing, OctoPrint, and sending a file to a local slicer. The team has been spending some time to switch to Qt6 lately, too. Among more curious things — Folkert van Heusden recently added support for exporting PovRay scripts and has PovRay animation support in the works. LibrePCB 1.2.0 Urban Bruhin released a major new version of LibrePCB. Highlights: KiCad Library importing, with some limitations Datasheet overlay for footprints Opening datasheets from schematic Specctra DSN exporting / SES importing Various productivity improvements incl. mass importing of symbol pins from datasheets, moving & aligning multiple footprint objects at once, copying properties from one footprint object to other objects, and more. Dark theme on Windows. You can find details in the release announcement. Kdenlive The team announced that the next Kdenlive Café will be on the 3rd of December at 8 PM UTC. It’s their monthly online meeting between developers and users. You can join them at Join us at: https://meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr. The next release, 24.12, is expected on the second Tuesday of December. Artworks 3D art for the Europa game, by Jaspreet Singh. Jaspreet modeled various temples, buildings, and robotic animals. All work done in Blender. Sin City by Sami Dahdouh, made with Blender and Krita: Skies of Solitude by Mukitul Islam, made with Blender The Scent of Autumn by Yao Chan, made with Blender: Pirate Bay Fluid and Ocean simulation by BlindIllusionist (via Blendernation): Fun stuff Blender origin story (via Blendernation):

The free/FLOSS DJ tool Mixxx has quietly evolved into a powerful software DJ tool that rivals commercial alternatives. And it's open to whatever hardware controller you want, thanks to developer and community support. The just-released 2.4.2 for Linux, macOS, and Windows builds on that with new and updated controller compatibility. The post Tired of controller lock-in? Mixxx is a free DJ alternative; 2.4.2 out now appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Week highlights: this was a pretty eventful week, with major new releases of Blender, FreeCAD, and Zrythm. Inkscape Rafał Siejakowski proposed an enhancement to Inkscape’s Node tool: being able to edit arcs in paths as arcs, with arc-specific controls: You can grab a build from the merge request’s pipelines. Blender 4.3 As usual, the new version of Blender arrived with a gazillion new features and improvements. There’s no competing against official release notes, so here are just some release highlights: Rendering: Light Linking and Shadow Linking in Eevee, Metallic BSDF. Compositing: Eevee passes are now available for interactive compositing. UV editing: a new iterative unwrapping method, “Minimum Stretch”, provides less distortion. Geometry nodes now work with Grease Pencil data smoothly. The Grease Pencil’s engine was rewritten for better architecture and performance. Over a hundred default sculpting brushes and improved user interface for working with brushes. Areas can now be torn out and docked back freely. There’s a video too: FreeCAD 1.0 This is a huge milestone for the project that has been over 20 years in the making. Frankly, I don’t know why it took the FreeCAD team this long to accept the truth that many of their users rely on the software in their daily work. Projects with fewer features and worse UI have larger version numbers, and numerology is hard and probably pointless to beat. The answer could be in the toponaming issue, though. I already covered the news in a separate post (and completely forgot to mention the new logo), so here are some of the highlights: Toponaming issue largely mitigated. Brand-new Assembly workbench built-in, developed by the Ondsel team, with exploded. views and BOM generation (both parametric). New features and major quality-of-life improvements in Sketcher and TechDraw. The Path workbench has been renamed to CAM and now ships with a new toolpath simulator. The Arch, BIM, and NativeIFC workbenches have been merged into one BIM workbench and now feature direct IFC editing. New ways to analyze models in the FEM workbench. PrusaSlicer becomes flatpak-only This is only the first alpha release of PrusaSlicer v2.9.0, but Prusa announced they will only be providing Linux builds in flatpak from now on. The popular 3D printers vendor found testing AppImage builds on multiple Linux distributions challenging and supporting both libfuse2 and libfuse3 too cumbersome. Flatpak solves both issues for them. Meanwhile, the upcoming release is full of awesome: multiple beds in the scene, Printables integration, scarf seams (masking visible seams on smooth surfaced by overlapping extrusions), fuzzy skin improvements, and more. Zrythm 1.0.0 After 5 years of development, Alexandros Theodotou released Zrythm 1.0, a free/libre DAW that, I dare say, has some fine-tuning for electronic music production. It’s also one of those DAWs where you see more videos of playing back a real project than tutorials or reviews. There isn’t much of a changelog to look at because Alexandros made frequent beta releases. The Features page should give you a pretty good idea about what the application is capable of, though. Just a few highlights: Regular audio and MIDI, as well as chord tracks Context-sensitive clip editor in the bottom panel Free stretching of audio and MIDI clips Bounce in place Support for VST2, VST3, LV2, CLAP, AU (macOS-only), and JSFX plugins, with plugin sandboxing and automation Automatic project backups Hardware-accelerated UI (GTK4) The GTK4-based UI is not for long: Alexandros has already started porting everything to Qt6/QML (UI) and JUCE (lower-level things). Here are the details of the plan. The monetization model is close to Ardour’s: you can either build the source code yourself or get ready-to-use builds for a small fee. The difference is that with Zrythm, you get several tiers, including a small annual subscription fee for everything included. The downloads page is here. Artworks “Convoy” by Sami Dahdouh, made with Blender and Krita: “Ghyslaine” by Blender-Fan, made with GIMP, Blender, Krita: “Page of Swords” by Sylvia Ritter, made with Krita:

Cheers! qpwgraph v0.8.0 (mid-autumn'24) is released! Change-log: A new Patchbay/Manage... feature dialog is introduced, targeting the currently loaded patchbay, allowing the removal and cleanup of connection rules that are no longer used, obsolete or simply not applicable anymore. Force an actual complete graph refresh on main View/Refresh... Introducing the new Graph/Options... dialog, to where the most general option settings have been (re)moved from the main Help menu. Introducing Graph/Options.../Filter to hide nodes by node name pattern (blacklist). Fix default PipeWire node nickname if given empty. Description: qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl. Project page: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph Downloads: source tarball: qpwgraph-0.8.0.tar.gz qpwgraph-0.8.0.tar.gz.sig source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): qpwgraph-0.8.0-45.1.src.rpm binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): qpwgraph-0.8.0-45.1.x86_64.rpm Flatpak package: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qpwgraph Git repos: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph.git (official) https://github.com/rncbc/qpwgraph.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qpwgraph.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qpwgraph.git License: qpwgraph is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Enjoy!

You might think that visualizing music with lasers would be a complicated and difficult affair. In fact, it’s remarkably simple if you want it to be, and [byte_thrasher] shows us just how easy it can be. At heart, what you’re trying to do is make a laser trace out waveforms of the music you’re listening to, right? So you just need a way to move the laser’s beam along with the sound waves from whatever you’re listening to. You might be thinking about putting a laser on the head of a servo-operated platform fed movement instructions from a digital music file, but you’d be way over-complicating things. You already have something that moves with the music you play — a speaker! [byte_thrasher’s] concept is simple. Get a Bluetooth speaker, and stick it in a bowl. Cover the bowl with a flexible membrane, like plastic wrap. Stick a small piece of mirror on the plastic. When you play music with the speaker, the mirror will vibrate and move in turn. All you then have to do is aim a safe laser in a safe direction such that it bounces off the mirror and projects on to a surface. Then, the laser will dance with your tunes, and it’ll probably look pretty cool! We’ve seen some beautiful laser visual effects before, too. Just be careful and keep your power levels safe and your beams pointing where they should be. put a bluetooth speaker in a bowl, cover the bowl with plastic wrap pulled taut, glue a shard of mirror to the plastic wrap, point a laser beam at the mirror so that it bounces off towards the ceiling, play music, enjoy pic.twitter.com/Vs6lBJihCg — avi (@byte_thrasher) November 9, 2024

JJ-FZF is a TUI (Terminal-based User Interface) for Jujutsu, built on top of fzf. It centers around the jj log view, providing key bindings for common operations on JJ/Git repositories. About six months ago, I revisited JJ, drawn in by its promise of Automatic rebase and conflict resolution. I have…

Hello again, Qtractor 1.4.0 (halloween'24) is out! Change-log: Improved color contrast on track and clip title labels, when given track foreground and background colors are too similar in lightness. Clip/Split now also applies to multiple selected clips, on any other track than current, if the split point (play-head) is found within. Clip Merge/Export... audio clips now taking the internal audio resolution (ie. 64 frames/period), independent to former JACK/Pipewire buffer-size/period. New Clip Mute state property introduced. New MIDI clip tool option: Normalize / Compress. Prepping up next development cycle (Qt >= 6.8) Description: Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. Website: https://qtractor.org Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files source tarball: qtractor-1.4.0.tar.gz source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): qtractor-1.4.0-6.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm binary package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): qtractor-1.4.0-6.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm AppImage packages: qtractor-1.4.0-6.1.x86_64.AppImage Flatpak package: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qtractor Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ static rendering: https://qtractor.org/doc user manual & how-to's: qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf License: Qtractor is free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Cheers && Keep having (lotsa) fun!

As most git users are aware, the default branch name in git changed from master to main a while ago. Since I maintain projects created both before and after this change, some maintenance tasks have become more difficult to automate as a result (and I'm a sucker for consistency). I put off dealing with this because I was planning to make master branches disappear at the same time APIs are broken, but that wasn't a good idea for several reasons beyond the scope of this post. So, I've changed all of my personal projects, and all projects maintained under the LV2 umbrella, to use main. If you're tracking any of those repositories, maintain packaging infrastructure, or similar, please update your local trees and/or configuration accordingly. It's best to rename the local branch with git, since this preserves your local reftree and avoids accidental use of the old name: git branch -m master main

The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the new stable 1.24 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and a security fix and it should be safe to update from 1.24.x. Highlighted bugfixes: gst-rtsp-server security fix GstAggregator start time selection and latency query fixes for force-live mode audioconvert: fix dynamic handling of mix matrix, and accept custom upstream event for setting one encodebin: fix parser selection for encoders that support multiple codecs flvmux improvments for pipelines where timestamps don't start at 0 glcontext: egl: Unrestrict the support base DRM formats kms: Add IMX-DCSS auto-detection in sink and fix stride with planar formats in allocator macOS main application event loop fixes mpegtsdemux: Handle PTS/DTS wraparound with ignore-pcr=true playbin3, decodebin3, parsebin, urisourcebin: fix races, and improve stability and stream-collection handling rtpmanager: fix early RTCP SR generation for sparse streams like metadata qml6glsrc: Reduce capture delay qtdemux: fix parsing of rotation matrix with 180 degree rotation rtpav1depay: added wait-for-keyframe and request-keyframe properties srt: make work with newer libsrt versions and don't re-connect on authentication failure v4l2 fixes and improvement webrtcsink, webrtcbin and whepsrc fixes cerbero: fix Python 3.13 compatibility, g-i with newer setuptools, bootstrap on Arch Linux; iOS build fixes Ship qroverlay plugin in binary packages Various bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and other stability and reliability improvements See the GStreamer 1.24.9 release notes for more details. Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be available shortly.

For those who build ardour from source, please read: git/master is now considered an unstable pre-release branch. The “pianorule” branch has been merged, and will cause significant breakage for a while yet. master has been tagged 9.0-pre0 which will (a) cause a major version switch (b) will generally display the pre-release warning dialog every time unless you grep the source code to find the name of the file to create to disable it. If you need to build an earlier version of Ardour from a git repository, please use git checkout VERSION first to avoid building this unstable master branch. We will be working over the next few months to get this into shape for a 9.0 release with several notable new features (region FX, clip recording and clip editing among them). 23 posts - 10 participants Read full topic

Ardour 8.10 is now available for Linux, Windows and macOS. As with the last several releases, 8.9 turned out to have at least a couple of new major issues that required a hot-fix. We believe that we have corrected issues with performance caused by scheduling of disk input/output threads (these problems tended to be system dependent, but were very real on systems where they occured). Importing SMF (MIDI) via drag-n-drop now uses the file name once again. Content-slipping a region correctly causes an update of the playback buffers so you can hear the result as expected. In addition to those hot-fixes, 8.10 sees small updates to all our non-default color themes, a new MIDI binding map for the M-Audio Axiom 49 MkII and a new Lua script to duplicate regions on the grid. This is intended to be the last release of the 8.x series. Our git repository is now at 9.0-pre0, and should no longer be considered stable or usable for production work now that it contains what was the “pianorule” branch. Over the next few months, we will be working hard to get this into shape for a 9.0 release with several notable new features. Download as usual with the full release notes (for 8.7 - 8.10) at the normal place. 27 posts - 12 participants Read full topic

The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu Studio 24.10 code-named “Oracular Oriole”. This marks Ubuntu Studio’s 35th release. This release is a Regular release and as such, it is supported for 9 months, until July 2025. Since it’s just out, you may experience some issues, so you might want to wait a bit before upgrading. Please see the release notes for a more complete list of changes and known issues. Listed here are some of the major highlights. You can download Ubuntu Studio 24.10 from our download page. Special Notes The Ubuntu Studio 24.10 disk image (ISO) exceeds 4 GB and cannot be downloaded to some file systems such as FAT32 and may not be readable when burned to a standard DVD. For this reason, we recommend downloading to a compatible file system. When creating a boot medium, we recommend creating a bootable USB stick with the ISO image or burning to a Dual-Layer DVD. Minimum installation media requirements: Dual-Layer DVD or 8GB USB drive. Images can be obtained from this link: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/24.10/release/ Full updated information, including Upgrade Instructions, are available in the Release Notes. Upgrades from 24.04 LTS should be enabled within a month after release, so we appreciate your patience. New This Release Minimal Installation We have now implemented minimal installations in the system installer. This will let you install a minimal desktop to get going and then install what you need via Ubuntu Studio Installer. This will make a faster installation process and lets you customize what you need for your personal Studio. Unfortunately, at least for the time being, we also had to get rid of the default shortcuts in the panel since it would cause an error when loading without the applications being installed. A solution for this is coming in 25.04. Generic Kernel The Generic Ubuntu Kernel is now fully capable of low-latency workloads. As such, with this release, we have switched from the LowLatency Kernel to the Generic Kernel with the boot options to enable the low-latency configuration enabled by default. These options can be changed via Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration and customized depending on your use-case and your workload. If you don’t need the low-latency and wish to have a computer that is more energy-efficient, you may wish to turn off all three options. The choice is yours. Plasma 6 Ubuntu Studio, in cooperation with Kubuntu, switched to Plasma 6 this cycle. This switch was not without issues, so we expect many of the issues to be Plasma 6 related, especially when it comes to the default configuration and theming. New Look Ubuntu Studio had been using the same theming, “Materia” (except for the 22.04 LTS release which was a re-colored Breeze theme) since 19.04. However, Materia has gone dead upstream. To stay consistent, we found a fork called “Orchis” which seems to match closely and have switched to that.As you can see from the screenshot, it has more vivid colors, round corners, and a more modern look. We hope you enjoy it. We are aware of a bug involving a dark bar under windows which may be an issue, but sometimes switching the window decorations to another variation of the theme is a solution. PipeWire 1.2.4 This release contains PipeWire 1.2. With PipeWire 1.2, FireWire devices requiring FFADO are supported. Do note that the Ubuntu Studio team does not have any FireWire devices and could not test this. PipeWire’s JACK compatibility is configured to use out-of-the-box and is zero-latency internally. System latency is configurable via Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration. However, if you would rather use straight JACK 2 instead, that’s also possible. Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration can disable and enable PipeWire’s JACK compatibility on-the-fly. From there, you can simply use JACK via QJackCtl. Complete Deprecation of PulseAudio/JACK setup/Studio Controls Due to the maturity of PipeWire, the traditional PulseAudio/JACK setup, where JACK would be started/stopped by Studio Controls and bridged to PulseAudio, is now fully deprecated and the option is not offered anymore. This configuration is no longer installable via Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration. Studio Controls may return someday as a PipeWire fine-tuning solution, but for now it is unsupported by the developer. Ardour 8.6 While this does not represent the latest release of Ardour, Ardour 8.6 is a great release. If you would like the latest release, we highly recommend purchasing one-time or subscribing to Ardour directly from the developers to help support this wonderful application. To help support Ardour’s funding, you may obtain later versions directly from ardour.org. To do so, please one-time purchase or subscribe to Ardour from their website. If you wish to get later versions of Ardour from us, you will have to wait until the next regular release of Ubuntu Studio, due in April 2025. Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration’s Dummy Audio Device now also has a much-requested Dummy Audio Input. Additionally as described above, Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration has an option to configure the default boot parameters that are commonly used to enable the low-latency capabilities of the Linux kernel used in Ubuntu. For more information about that, see the Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration page. We’re back on Matrix You’ll notice that the menu links to our support chat and on our website will now take you to a Matrix chat. This is due to the Ubuntu community carving its own space within the Matrix federation. However, this is not only a support chat. This is also a creativity discussion chat. You can pass ideas to each other and you’re welcome to it if the topic remains within those confines. However, if a moderator or admin warns you that you’re getting off-topic (or the intention for the chat room), please heed the warning. This is a persistent connection, meaning if you close the window (or chat), it won’t lose your place as you may only need to sign back in to resume the chat. Frequently Asked Questions Q: Does Ubuntu Studio contain snaps?A: Yes. Mozilla’s distribution agreement with Canonical changed, and Ubuntu was forced to no longer distribute Firefox in a native .deb package. We have found that, after numerous improvements, Firefox now performs just as well as the native .deb package did. Thunderbird also became a snap so that the maintainers can get security patches delivered faster. Additionally, Freeshow is an Electron-based application. Electron-based applications cannot be packaged in the Ubuntu repositories in that they cannot be packaged in a traditional Debian source package. While such apps do have a build system to create a .deb binary package, it circumvents the source package build system in Launchpad, which is required when packaging for Ubuntu. However, Electron apps also have a facility for creating snaps, which can be uploaded and included. Therefore, for Freeshow to be included in Ubuntu Studio, it had to be packaged as a snap. We have additional snaps that are Ubuntu-specific, such as the Firmware Updater and the Security Center. Contrary to popular myth, Ubuntu does not have any plans to switch all packages to snaps, nor do we. Q: Will you make an ISO with {my favorite desktop environment}?A: To do so would require creating an entirely new flavor of Ubuntu, which would require going through the Official Ubuntu Flavor application process. Since we’re completely volunteer-run, we don’t have the time or resources to do this. Instead, we recommend you download the official flavor for the desktop environment of your choice and use Ubuntu Studio Installer to get Ubuntu Studio – which does *not* convert that flavor to Ubuntu Studio but adds its benefits. Q: What if I don’t want all these packages installed on my machine?A: Simply use the Ubuntu Studio Installer to remove the features of Ubuntu Studio you don’t want or need! Get Involved! A wonderful way to contribute is to get involved with the project directly! We’re always looking for new volunteers to help with packaging, documentation, tutorials, user support, and MORE! Check out all the ways you can contribute! Our project leader, Erich Eickmeyer, is now working on Ubuntu Studio at least part-time, and is hoping that the users of Ubuntu Studio can give enough to generate a monthly part-time income. We’re not there, but if every Ubuntu Studio user donated monthly, we’d be there! Your donations are appreciated! If other distributions can do it, surely we can! See the sidebar for ways to give! Special Thanks Huge special thanks for this release go to: Eylul Dogruel: Artwork, Graphics DesignRoss Gammon: Upstream Debian Developer, Testing, Email SupportSebastien Ramacher: Upstream Debian DeveloperDennis Braun: Upstream Debian DeveloperRik Mills: Kubuntu Council Member, help with Plasma desktopScarlett Moore: Kubuntu Project Lead, help with Plasma desktopCristian Delgado: Translations for Ubuntu Studio MenuDan Bungert: Subiquity, seed fixesLen Ovens: Testing, insightWim Taymans: Creator of PipeWireMauro Gaspari: Tutorials, Promotion, and Documentation, Testing, keeping Erich saneKrytarik Raido: IRC Moderator, Mailing List ModeratorErich Eickmeyer: Project Leader, Packaging, Development, Direction, Treasurer

Ardour 8.8 turned out to have a couple of major issues. Many users experienced crashes at random times that were caused by a subtle change in how waveforms were drawn, introduced in 8.8. It also turned out that MIDI notes immediately at the start of playback were ignored. Both of these have been fixed (and also the nightly website has been restored to proper functioning), and so 8.9 is now released and available. You can download it as usual. We apologize for the lapse in quality control that led to these mistakes in the 8.8 release. 16 posts - 10 participants Read full topic

It’s 2024. You’ve probably got one or more pairs of wireless headphones around the house. [Barnso] prefers wired headphones with a long cable, but he also decries the fact that it often gets tangled in his chair. The solution? A pulley system to make everything easier. The concept is simple. [Barnso]’s system uses three pulleys. The headphone cable goes to the PC, and then runs over the first pulley. It then runs under a second pulley which is free to move, but weighted so that it naturally wants to fall down under gravity. The cable then comes back up over a third pulley, and then runs to the headphones on [Barnso]’s head. Basically, it’s a super simple cable retraction mechanism that keeps the long headphone cable organized and in one place. It’s nice to see a simple mechanism that makes life easier, particularly one that solves a problem so many of us have faced in real life. The construction shown in the video is almost (intentionally?) maddeningly hacky but it does the job. If you prefer to go wireless, though, we can show you how to do that too.

The GStreamer Conference team is pleased to announce that the full conference schedule including talk abstracts and speaker biographies is now available for this year's lineup of talks and speakers, covering again an exciting range of topics! The GStreamer Conference 2024 will take place on 7-8 October 2024 in Montréal, Canada, followed by a hackfest. Details about the conference, hackfest and how to register can be found on the conference website. This year's topics and speakers: GStreamer State of the Union Tim-Philipp Müller, Centricular HLS master playlist management made easy Sanchayan Maity, Asymptotic What's going on in my pipelines? Guillaume Desmottes GStreamer Nervous System for AI Brain : Introducing Python Analytics Aaron Boxer, Collabora New developments with the WebRTC crate Mathieu Duponchelle, Centricular Real-Time Network Audio with GStreamer on Windows Taruntej Kanakamalla, Asymptotic GStreamer & Rust: What has happened over the last 5 years Sebastian Dröge, Centricular It’s time for some clock rate matching Arun Raghavan, Asymptotic Embedded audio policies made easy with WirePlumber George Kiagiadakis, Collabora GStreamer Vulkan Video: 2024 edition Stéphane Cerveau, Igalia; Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Igalia librice: a sans-IO ICE networking library Matthew Waters, Centricular Open Standards for Media including ST 2110 and IPMX Dan Maloney, Matrox Video State of QUIC in GStreamer Sanchayan Maity, Asymptotic Gst.WASM Launched Jorge Zapata, Fluendo A New RTSP Source Element Written in Rust Nirbheek Chauhan, Centricular GStreamer NVIDIA memory in Jetson: looking for an efficient way to process video frames when handling raw CUDA kernels Diego Nieto Munoz, Fluendo From GL to your Encoder, Zero-Copy Made Possible Nicolas Dufresne, Collabora unixfd: Zero-copy multi-process pipeline Xavier Claessens, Netflix GStreamer Meets GPAC: Enhancing GStreamer's Capabilities through GPAC Integration Deniz Ugur, Motion Spell Update on Encrypted Media Extensions in GStreamer Jordan Yelloz, Collabora Which plugin should I use on Windows? Seungha Yang, Centricular GstWebRTC / WebKit state of the union Philippe Normand, Igalia; Carlos Bentzen, Igalia How we rewrote GStreamer in Elixir - 8 years later Mateusz Front, Software Mansion Video Editing with GStreamer: an update Thibault Saunier, Igalia GStreamer RTP sessions in Rust Matthew Waters, Centricular AI-assisted video encoding with AMD Alveo MA35D Jakub Adam, Collabora TV channel in the cloud with GStreamer Jurijs Satcs, Veset.tv Tea. Earl Grey. Hot. Automated Air-Ground Communication with GStreamer Aaron Boxer, Collabora Real time volumetric video streaming Sudarshan Bisht, Nokia Gst-Analytics: Advancements in Machine Learning and Analytics Pipeline Daniel Morin, Collabora Experiences during the development of point cloud encoding for real-time 3D video streaming using GStreamer Jozsef Szabo, Nokia HDR in GTK Matthias Clasen, RedHat macOS and iOS Support: Recent History and Near Future Nirbheek Chauhan, Centricular AMD's Video Processing Engine Harry Wentland, AMD Windows Graphics Stack Improvements – Direct3D12 Seungha Yang, Centricular Raven AI Engine: a framework to develop AI computer vision GStreamer elements Andoni Morales Alastruey, Fluendo Learnings of building a scaleable webrtc media pipeline in rust using gstreamer Ramyak Mehra, Dyte LiveKit Support for GStreamer WebRTC Elements Jordan Yelloz, Collabora Perfect Harmony: How we synchronized Audio and Video from Multiple Sources using GStreamer for Seamless Real-Time Streaming Tokunbo Quaye, IPS; Michael Yackavage, IPS Developing and debugging on Windows, Fluendo experience. Rubén Gonzalez, Fluendo; Diego Nieto Munoz, Fluendo Playback support, 2024 update Edward Hervey, Centricular Streamlining Video Presentation and Recording with GStreamer-Based Processing Tomasz Mikołajczyk GStreamer and display clock synchronization Jochen Henneberg, Centricular Scenic and GStreamer on stage : collaborative theater adventures at the Society for Arts and Technology Olivier Gauthier, Society for Arts and Technology GStreamer and VR Jan Schmidt, Centricular Lightning Talks: GQuark in GStreamer structures — What nonsense! Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Integration testing video with Test Containers by example Johannes Nel, Genius Sports Silhouette, the ML/PipeWire-powered virtual camera device app George Kiagiadakis, Collabora Last year's updates in Fluster Rubén Gonzalez, Fluendo A new GStreamer plugin to leverage the skia 2D drawing library Thibault Saunier, Igalia New RTP payloaders & depayloaders in Rust Sebastian Dröge, Centricular How easy it is to write a video sink plugin ramyak mehra, Dyte Closed Captions: Additional Things GStreamer Can Do Matthew Waters, Centricular Is an H264 encoder base class for hardware accelerated API possible? Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Igalia Effects of a GStreamer version upgrade on Yocto-based application Michael Yackavage, IPS GstVA updates Victor Manuel Jáquez Leal, Igalia GStreamer plugin updates on webOS as a platform Seungwook Cha, LG Electronics An update on GStreamer validate Thibault Saunier, Igalia Fluendo and Cerbero, testing challenges Jorge Zapata, Fluendo Yet another V4L2 update Nicolas Dufresne, Collabora A new Windows web browser source plugin - webview2 Seungha Yang, Centricular Seeking Perfection: Challenges and Solution attempts in Implementing HLS Stream Seeking with RTP Synchronization Using GStreamer Tokunbo Quaye, IPS ...and more to come Submit your lightning talk now! Many thanks to our amazing sponsors ‒ Platinum sponsors Collabora, Igalia, and Pexip, Gold sponsors Centricular, La Société des Arts Technologiques, Axis Communications, and Genius Sports, and Silver sponsors Laerdal Labs, asymptotic, Cablecast, and Fluendo, without whom the conference would not be possible in this form. We hope to see you all in Montréal! Don't forget to register as soon as possible if you're planning on joining us, so we can order enough food and drinks!

It's the last week of our exhibitions.They are open today 12:00 - 18:00 Oksasenkatu 11 in HelsinkiTina Mariane Krogh Madsen : [proximity] sensing in, sensing outMalte Steiner : Abolute Power : OhnmachtThis week our exhibitions are open Wednesday - Friday: 12:00 - 18:00Saturday - Sunday: 12:00 - 17:00On Saturday the 28. there is additionally from 18.00 – 20.00 a Sound event with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen, and TMS (Madsen & Malte Steiner) https://oksasenkatu11.fi/

The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole”. While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper installer bugs, you will find some bugs within. This image is, however, mostly representative of what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 24.10 is released on October 10, 2024. Special Notes The Ubuntu Studio 24.10 image (ISO) exceeds 4 GB and cannot be downloaded to some file systems such as FAT32 and may not be readable when burned to a DVD. For this reason, we recommend downloading to a compatible file system. When creating a boot medium, we recommend creating a bootable USB stick with the ISO image or burning to a Dual-Layer DVD. Images can be obtained from this link: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/24.10/beta/ Full updated information, including Upgrade Instructions, are available in the Release Notes. New Features This Release Plasma 6.1 is now the default desktop environment, an upgrade from Plasma 5.27. This may have some unknown bugs that we’re ironing out as we go along, along with theming.Ubuntu’s Generic Kernel is now capable of the same low latency processing as Ubuntu’s lowlatency kernel when certain boot parameters are used. Additionally, the lowlatency kernel is eventually going to be deprecated. With this in mind, we have switched to the generic kernel with the low latency boot parameters enabled by default. These boot parameters can be tweaked in Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuation.Minimal Install Option for new installations. This allows users to install Ubuntu Studio and customize what they need later with Ubuntu Studio Installer.Orchis is now our default theme, which replaces Materia, our default theme since 19.04. Materia has stopped development, so we decided to PipeWire continues to improve with every release and now includes FFADO support. Version 1.2.3Ubuntu Studio Installer‘s included Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration utility for fine-tuning the PipeWire setup now includes the ability to create or remove a dummy audio input device. Version 1.30The legacy PulseAudio/JACK has been deprecated and discontinued, is no longer supported, and is no longer an option to use. Going forward, PipeWire or JACK are the only options. PipeWire’s JACK integration can be disabled from Ubuntu Studio Audio Configuration to use JACK by itself with QJackCtl, or via other means. Major Package Upgrades Ardour version 8.6.0Qtractor version 1.1OBS Studio version 30.2.3Audacity version 3.6.1digiKam version 8.4.0Kdenlive version 24.08.1Krita version 5.2.3 There are many other improvements, too numerous to list here. We encourage you to look around the freely-downloadable ISO image. Known Issues Due to the transition to Plasma 6 and Qt6, there may be some theming inconsistencies, especially for those upgrading. To work around these issues, reapply the default theme using System Settings and select “Orchis-dark” from Kvantum Manager.Some graphics cards might find the transparency in the Orchis theme difficult to work with. For that reason, you can switch to “Orchis-dark-solid” in the Kvantum Manager. Feedback is welcome, and if the transparency becomes too burdensome, we can switch to the solid theme by default.The new minimal install mode will not load the desktop properly with the extra icons (gimp, krita, patchance, etc.) in the top bar, so those had to be removed by default. If you find them useful, you can add them by right-clicking in the menu and clicking “Pin to Task Manager”. We apologize for the inconvenience. Official Ubuntu Studio release notes can be found at https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-24-10-release-notes/ Further known issues, mostly pertaining to the desktop environment, can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OracularOriole/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu Additionally, the main Ubuntu release notes contain more generic issues: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-notes/44878 How You Can Help Please test using the test cases on https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com. All you need is a Launchpad account to get started. Additionally, we need financial contributions. Our project lead, Erich Eickmeyer, is working long hours on this project and trying to generate a part-time income. Go here to see how you can contribute financially (options are also in the sidebar). Frequently Asked Questions Q: Does Ubuntu Studio contain snaps?A: Yes. Mozilla’s distribution agreement with Canonical changed, and Ubuntu was forced to no longer distribute Firefox in a native .deb package. We have found that, after numerous improvements, Firefox now performs just as well as the native .deb package did. Thunderbird is also a snap this cycle in order for the maintainers to get security patches delivered faster. Additionally, Freeshow is an Electron-based application. Electron-based applications cannot be packaged in the Ubuntu repositories in that they cannot be packaged in a traditional Debian source package. While such apps do have a build system to create a .deb binary package, it circumvents the source package build system in Launchpad, which is required when packaging for Ubuntu. However, Electron apps also have a facility for creating snaps, which can be uploaded and included. Therefore, for Freeshow to be included in Ubuntu Studio, it had to be packaged as a snap.Also, to keep theming consistent, all included themes are snapped in addition to the included .deb versions so that snaps stay consistent with out themes. We are working with Canonical to make sure that the quality of snaps goes up with each release, so we please ask that you give snaps a chance instead of writing them off completely. Q: If I install this Beta release, will I have to reinstall when the final release comes out?A: No. If you keep it updated, your installation will automatically become the final release. However, if Audacity returns to the Ubuntu repositories before final release, then you might end-up with a double-installation of Audacity. Removal instructions of one or the other will be made available in a future post. Q: Will you make an ISO with {my favorite desktop environment}?A: To do so would require creating an entirely new flavor of Ubuntu, which would require going through the Official Ubuntu Flavor application process. Since we’re completely volunteer-run, we don’t have the time or resources to do this. Instead, we recommend you download the official flavor for the desktop environment of your choice and use Ubuntu Studio Installer to get Ubuntu Studio – which does *not* convert that flavor to Ubuntu Studio but adds its benefits. Q: What if I don’t want all these packages installed on my machine?A: We now include a minimal install option. Install using the minimal install option, then use Ubuntu Studio Installer to install what you need for your very own content creation studio.

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this week in Oksasenkatu 11 Helsinki:Wednesday - Friday: both exhibitions (Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen : [proximity] sensing in, sensing outMalte Steiner : Abolute Power : Ohnmacht) open from 12:00 - 18:00Friday the 20th 17:00 - 19:00 : Deep Listening session with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen (please sign up on info[at]tmkm[dot]dk)Saturday - Sunday: both exhibitions open from 12:00 - 17:00(picture below is from Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen exhibition [proximity] sensing in, sensing out)