CDM: linux

28 Nov '23 17:04 MINIDEXED puts 8 DX7 emulators on a USB stick It's a TX816 on a keychain! Someone ("Kevin"?) has put together a Raspberry Pi Zero-based build that lets you carry around eight DX7 emulator instances on a USB stick. The post MINIDEXED puts 8 DX7 emulators on a USB stick appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

26 Nov '23 18:51 New in GIMP: paint tools can autoexpand layers now Automatically expanding layers is a new feature coming in the next development release of GIMP. Let’s see how it works, where it excels and where it needs further improvement. Expanding the layers Let’s say we have a 4K image with a smaller layer in the middle. Usually, when you use any of the painting tools like a Paintbrush or even a Clone tool, these tools will stop working right at the layer’s border. No matter what you do, the layer boundary cannot be crossed. But now these tools have a new option called Expand Layers. Let’s enable it and try again with a paintbrush. As you can see, GIMP...

Libre Arts

23 Nov '23 16:51 GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule Jehan Pages who is the lead developer and maintainer of GIMP made an announcement on Patreon yesterday. GIMP 3.0 is tentatively scheduled for release in May 2024. The plan is to announce the release at the next Libre Graphics Meeting conference in France. There is a page that details the roadmap. So let’s talk about the paint points: stopping development of new features while trying to get non-destructive editing into 3.0, making more API changes, fixing a load of bugs. Below goes edited transcript of the video. Feature freeze Right off the bat, the proposal is to start with a feature freeze...

CDM: linux

20 Nov '23 12:58 This script makes endless looping samples out of YouTube Okay, before someone takes this down - ColugoMusic has made a script that's ready to generate endless random YouTube audio clips and fill up your hard drive! And who wouldn't want that? The post This script makes endless looping samples out of YouTube appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

20 Nov '23 12:46 Free utility converts between multisample formats: ConvertWithMoss Take any multisample format (including WAV files), and output in any other multisample format: meet ConvertWithMoss, free and open-source software for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Newly-added: TAL's excellent TAL-Sampler (pictured). The post Free utility converts between multisample formats: ConvertWithMoss appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

08 Nov '23 09:51 Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now? Disclaimer: this post is an extended transcript of the video below. If you’ve been around long enough, you probably remember a project called Glimpse. Originally it was an attempt to create a fork of GIMP for the name change. Then that project got an offspring, Glimpse NX, where a new image editor with a cleaner, more approachable user interface was supposed to be developed. Neither project was successful, but this is one of the mockups they came up with: I vividly remember that when I first saw this, I thought: “Looks interesting, but there is just no way this is going to work!”. And the main...

Libre Arts

07 Nov '23 08:51 Weekly recap — 7 November 2023 Week highlights: new major releases of Audacity, BlenderBIM, SpectMorph, new features in GIMP. Edited transcript of the video goes below. GIMP Jacob Boerema added support for 16- and 32- bit per channel DDS files in GIMP, which should make quite a few game designers happy. Tiios patch is already in the main development branch, so it will be part of the next release. Cassidie Grogan submitted a patch that updates the existing DICOM files viewer to use the GDCM library. DICOM files are commonly used to store CT, MRI, X-ray, and ultrasound scans. The plugin that GIMP currently has is all custom...

CDM: linux

06 Nov '23 11:39 ShowMIDI is the free MIDI visualization utility you’ve been waiting for Finally, here's a MIDI utility that shows you just the information you need about MIDI activity, instead of dumping a massive list of messages on the screen. ShowMIDI is free and open source, with builds for macOS, Windows, and Linux, thanks to developer Geert Bevin. The post ShowMIDI is the free MIDI visualization utility you’ve been waiting for appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

30 Oct '23 16:51 Weekly recap — 30 October 2023 Week highlights: new features coming to GIMP and Krita, Scribus is getting a facelift with Indigo UI, FreeCAD is undergoing a sketching workflow revamp, Ardour is getting Launchpad X support. As an experiment, I made a video version of the recap. I’m getting rusty with videos, the audio isn’t great, and there are some bloopers. But hey, let’s improve on that the next time! GIMP Mark Sweeney is getting really active with improving GIMP here and there. Some of the more recent patches he submitted: smoothing brush pressure, this makes pen pressure transitions much smoother picking black/white...

CDM: linux

27 Oct '23 19:44 Fortnite gets a modular synth and custom music engine: Patchwork + UE Every once in a while, the kind of cool thing you'd imagine does happen. So Harmonix, the music game dev, is still thriving at Epic, and they've got a surprise. They've built a full-blown modular synth that runs inside Fortnite, thanks to Unreal Engine and MetaSounds. And it's capable of everything from letting creators add their own interactive music engine to multiplayer music, concerts, and more. The post Fortnite gets a modular synth and custom music engine: Patchwork + UE appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Ubuntu Studio

24 Oct '23 20:44 Community Updates October 2023 In consideration of some ongoing issues, we thought we’d give some insight into a few things going on right now. Upgrades to 23.10 Unfortunately, as of this writing, upgrades to 23.10 have not yet been enabled due to a blocking bug in the release upgrader. The fix is in place, but must be manually verified by the team in charge of the release upgrader only after the new development cycle opens up for 24.04. For more details, please see the Ubuntu Discourse. Closure of Matrix Rooms Due to the disabling of Libera’s Matrix to IRC bridge, we had to make the hard decision to close the Matrix rooms...

KXStudio

24 Oct '23 10:30 Cardinal 23.10 released Hello again everyone, it is time for another Cardinal release. Cardinal is a free and open-source virtual modular synthesizer plugin. It is based on the popular VCV Rack but with a focus on being a fully self-contained plugin version. This is mostly a maintenance update, focused primarily on bug fixes. Changelog Fix clipboard (regression in 23.09) Fix initial OpenGL state for some systems Fix macOS horizontal scroll Fix state save/restore with non-english locales Fix "user dir" on Windows, was causing settings persistence to fail Set main variant as synth type Set X11 window icon for...

Drobilla

23 Oct '23 00:14 Lilv 0.24.22 Lilv 0.24.22 has been released. Lilv is a C library to make the use of LV2 plugins as simple as possible for applications. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/lilv. Changes: Allow LILV_API to be defined by the user Clean up code Clean up inconsistent tool command line interfaces Convert man pages to mdoc Fix crash when plugins pass NULL to the LV2_State_Retrieve_Function Fix dependencies in pkg-config file Fix potential crash when writing state files fails Order plugin classes by URI Override pkg-config dependency within meson Remove junk files from documentation install...

Drobilla

23 Oct '23 00:11 Suil 0.10.20 Suil 0.10.20 has been released. Suil is a library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/suil. Changes: Allow SUIL_API to be defined by the user Fix dependencies in pkg-config file Only check for Gtk Quartz support on MacOS Override pkg-config dependency within meson Remove Gtk in Qt and Qt in Gtk wrappers Remove junk files from documentation install Replace duplicated dox_to_sphinx script with sphinxygen dependency

Drobilla

23 Oct '23 00:06 Sratom 0.6.16 Sratom 0.6.16 has been released. Sratom is a small library for serializing LV2 atoms. Sratom reads/writes atoms from/to RDF, allowing them to be converted between binary and text or stored in a model. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/sratom. Changes: Clean up code Constrain relative URI references to the base URI Fix dependencies in pkg-config file Override pkg-config dependency within meson Remove junk files from documentation install Replace duplicated dox_to_sphinx script with sphinxygen dependency

Drobilla

22 Oct '23 23:59 Sord 0.16.16 Sord 0.16.16 has been released. Sord is a lightweight C library for storing RDF statements in memory. For more information, see http://drobilla.net/software/sord. Changes: Allow SORD_API to be defined by the user Fix command line help interface of sord_validate Fix dependencies in pkg-config file Override pkg-config dependency within meson Port sord_validate to pcre2 Switch to external zix dependency

Drobilla

22 Oct '23 23:36 Serd 0.32.0 Serd 0.32.0 has been released. Serd is a lightweight C library for working with RDF data. Changes: Add Windows path separator support to serd_node_new_file_uri() Add long "help" and "version" options to serdi Add options to disable html or singlehtml documentation Add serd_reader_skip_until_byte() to public API Allow SERD_API to be defined by the user Avoid creating test files in the current directory Avoid using ASCII grave as a quote Check for POSIX features with the build system Clean up and improve test suite Clean up code Fix crash when trying to read chunks without starting Fix hang when...

Drobilla

22 Oct '23 22:56 Zix 0.4.2 Zix 0.4.2 has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures. Changes: Clean up documentation build Fix documentation build in a virtualenv Improve test suite code coverage

Libre Arts

22 Oct '23 09:51 Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023 Week highlights: new releases of LightZone, OSPRay, and Ardour, exciting changes coming to Krita. Inkscape A huge amount of changes lately come from Daniel Boles and Tavmjong Bah, both working on the GTK4 port of the program. Meanwhile the rest of the team is getting ready to release 1.3.1 with bugfixes. Krita Dmitry Kazakov started redesigning transform masks so that animation keyframes for them wouldn’t be deleted on undo. This bug made animated transform masks pretty much unusable, so this is a kind of a big deal. Isaac Fleetwood is implementing a curvilinear perspective assistant that...

CDM: linux

18 Oct '23 17:03 Bitwig Studio 5.1 adds filters, waveshapers, voice stacking tools Everybody gets more waveshapers! Bitwig just announced Studio 5.1 with new waveshapers, new filters, polyphonic voice stacking, and a Bite dual oscillator, plus other enhancements. The post Bitwig Studio 5.1 adds filters, waveshapers, voice stacking tools appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

16 Oct '23 16:51 Weekly-ish recap — 16 October 2023 Quite a few things happened since the last recap. Let’s focus on the main ones. Highlights: new major releases of Krita and Ardour, major changes in FreeCAD, two commercial wavetable synths get open-sourced, Focusrite lends a hand to a drivers/UI developer for Linux. GIMP Thanks to CmykStudent, GIMP now supports ASE, ACB, and SBZ color palettes. The latter file format is that of SwatchBooker, a semi-forgotten FOSS color palette editor. There are some interesting changes in the pipeline. E.g. Mark Sweeney submitted a patch that adds the rendering of a brush center when painting with a pressure...

Autostatic

14 Oct '23 12:50 Balancing act At the moment everything seems a bit like a balancing act. First on a physical level, as I’m currently recovering from surgery one of the things I have to learn again is to find my balance, literally. While recovering I can’t do very much hobby stuff in the analogue domain so I swayed a bit to the digital domain again. About 6 years ago I bought a Mixbus 32C license but found myself using Ardour more and more. During the pandemic I took a subscription and from then on I basically started using Ardour exclusively. Still remember the first time I opened up Ardour back in the 00’s, to me it was...

CDM: linux

13 Oct '23 18:00 Pamela’s PRO Workout joins ALM Busy Circuits modules for VCV Rack It's a hardware module. But it's also a software module in the free (paid plug-in) host VCV Rack. The do-everything, clock-based multipurpose voltage-sending Pamela's Pro Workout is the latest module from ALM Busy Circuits to make the hardware-software crossover. And it joins a number of modules there - many of them free (including some news there, too). The post Pamela’s PRO Workout joins ALM Busy Circuits modules for VCV Rack appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Ubuntu Studio

12 Oct '23 16:57 Ubuntu Studio 23.10 Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu Studio 23.10, code-named “Mantic Minotaur”. This marks Ubuntu Studio’s 33rd release. This release is a regular release and as such, it is supported for 9 months (until July 2024). 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. You can download Ubuntu Studio 23.10 from our download page. Upgrading Instructions for upgrading are included in the release notes. New This Release Ubiquity System...

CDM: linux

11 Oct '23 20:35 VCV Rack, free modular, adds four more free modules to play with VCV Rack, the software Eurorack modular you can use standalone for free, has four handy modules for your patching enjoyment. The post VCV Rack, free modular, adds four more free modules to play with appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

27 Sep '23 13:18 Could a new DAW file exchange format help you move projects around? So far, it's got just two DAWs behind it - Bitwig Studio and PreSonus Studio One - but DAWproject's creators hope the format will become a new open standard that lets you move projects between software. The post Could a new DAW file exchange format help you move projects around? appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Ubuntu Studio

22 Sep '23 18:19 Ubuntu Studio 23.10 Beta Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 23.10, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur”. While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper installer bugs, you may find some bugs within. This image is, however, mostly representative of what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 23.10 is released on October 12, 2023. Special Notes The Ubuntu Studio 23.10 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 DVD. For this reason, we recommend downloading to a compatible file system. When...

KXStudio

17 Sep '23 08:55 Cardinal 23.09 released Hello again everyone, it is time for another Cardinal release. Cardinal is a free and open-source virtual modular synthesizer plugin. It is based on the popular VCV Rack but with a focus on being a fully self-contained plugin version. The main change for this release is making the OSC remote control an official feature, with some initial documentation here. Then also the usual set of fixes and a few module updates. As an extra, Cardinal has its own website now, living at cardinal.kx.studio with the online/wasm version still accessible by clicking "Try Live". Changelog Add OSC Remote control Do...

Ubuntu Studio

13 Sep '23 18:08 A Message from the Project Lead Dear Ubuntu Studio Community, I want to thank you all for the amazing generosity that you all showed when we asked for financial contributions back in May. We were able to raise over $1,000 USD since, which was a humongous help. I know that my family and I are beyond grateful. That said, circumstances for my family and I haven’t changed that much and are likely not to change. For safety reasons, my wife and I have chosen to pull our son from his regular public school and are having him do online school, which means that I must stay at home with him. This does, however, mean that I have more...

Libre Arts

03 Sep '23 09:51 Weekly recap — 3 September 2023 This is a comparatively short recap, because there haven’t been all that many changes and releases. Highlights: new features in Inkscape and FreeCAD, new releases of BlenderBIM and libwacom, cool new stuff in Ardour. Inkscape The Swatches dock UI has been recently updated by Mike Kowalski. You can see the full list of changes in the merge request description, the most interesting ones (to me) are: new UI for selecting palettes: a multi-column list like in the new LPE dock; searching for color by their names; loading of palettes from files, with support for ACB and ASE palette files by Adobe...

CDM: linux

31 Aug '23 10:03 Batch-process video, free: new FFmpeg Explorer filter tool works visually ffmpeg is a powerful but sometimes daunting free and open source video command line tool. Developer Sam Lavigne has found a way to make it easier to explore its complex filter processing tools - giving it a node-based patching interface for trying out filters in a browser. And Sam is looking for testers. The post Batch-process video, free: new FFmpeg Explorer filter tool works visually appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

29 Aug '23 14:31 Traktor X1 MK3 is NI’s compact DJ controller, refined: hands-on In the first glimpse of new-generation hardware from NI, the company is offering an MK3 revision of its Traktor X1 controller. The X1 line has always found some fans at for its simplicity and compact size. This version adds additional controls, lots of aesthetic touches, and functionality that incorporates what had previously required user hacks. So what can it do at launch - for Traktor, or even as a MIDI controller for other software? The post Traktor X1 MK3 is NI’s compact DJ controller, refined: hands-on appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

29 Aug '23 11:59 You can play rave classic game wipEout in the browser – for now Pygnosis' 1995 PlayStation launch title introduced the combination of futuristic anti-gravity racing and 90s rave music. And it came complete with music by legendary Welsh game composer CoLD SToRAGE - arguably eclipsing even tracks in later editions that included Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, and Orbital. And now Wipeout arrives in a browser port of a source code leak - and it's a fascinating technical portrait, and least while it lasts. The post You can play rave classic game wipEout in the browser – for now appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

29 Aug '23 11:55 You can play rave classic game wipEout in the browser – for now 1995 saw the PlayStation launch title from Pygnosis that launched the combination of futuristic anti-gravity racing and 90s rave music - complete with music by legendary Welsh game composer CoLD SToRAGE that holds up alongside later editions with Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, and Orbital. And now it's in a browser port of a source code leak - and it's a fascinating technical portrait while it lasts. The post You can play rave classic game wipEout in the browser – for now appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

28 Aug '23 23:43 40% off Polyend Tracker, and your best last-chance summer sale deals Reverb has another banner exclusive sale - and this time, both the USA and Europe get to enjoy. Polyend's full-sized Tracker is 40% off, for US$359 or less (USA) / €399 (Europe). Plus in other deal news, it's your last chance on some summer sales, if there are some plug-ins you've been eyeing. It's the last days of summer CDM Deals edition, or "back to school", or ... "just leave me alone to play with Tracker for the rest of the year", you pick. The post 40% off Polyend Tracker, and your best last-chance summer sale deals appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

28 Aug '23 17:51 Weekly recap — 28 August 2023 Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, LSP plugins, Geonkick, Sigil; great new features in GIMP and Ardour; a new materials system is coming to FreeCAD, some rather depressing news about Olive. GIMP CmykStudent added Adobe Swatch Exchange palette importing, with support for RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, and LAB CIE palette colors. Inkscape Martin Owens has been busy with various things related to text support in CMYK PDF exporting. You can support his work on Patreon. FreeCAD A lot of work has been going into modernizing the C++ code for C++17 compliance lately. This is all done by Werner Mayer...

Ubuntu Studio

28 Aug '23 16:54 Ubuntu 23.10 Testing Week Ubuntu Studio is participating in Ubuntu Testing Week starting today through Friday, September 1st! We will be releasing Ubuntu Studio 23.10 Mantic Minotaur Beta on September 21st, and then the final will release a few weeks after on October 12th. However, we’d like to squash as many bugs as possible, and to do so, we need as much testing as possible. This is a coordinated effort with all flavors of Ubuntu. To see how to get involved, follow this link!

Drobilla

24 Aug '23 03:25 Zix 0.4.0 Zix 0.4.0 has been released. Zix is a lightweight C library of portability wrappers and data structures.

Drobilla

24 Aug '23 00:49 Sphinxygen 1.0.4 Sphinxygen 1.0.4 has been released. Sphinxygen is a Python module/script that generates Sphinx markup to describe a C API, from an XML description extracted by Doxygen. Changes: Handle anonymous structs without the "@" placeholder

Libre Arts

21 Aug '23 09:51 Weekly recap — 21 August 2023 Double-week highlights: new releases of Qucs-S, Bespoke Synth, and VCV Rack, progress with GIMP’s autoexpanding layers and CMYK PDF exporting in Inkscape, exciting changes in Ardour. GIMP The most interesting bit of news is actually from late July: More code in review, by another #GSoC intern, Shubham Daule, doing a really great work so far: ability to grow layers as you paint past their boundaries.I was not planning this in @GIMP_Official 3.0 initially, and it's not merged yet. Yet seeing progress, it might get in! pic.twitter.com/ILTtnjFgtf— @ZeMarmot@fosstodon.org (@zemarmot) July 27, 2023...

Midichlorians in the blood

07 Aug '23 15:16 Summer releases 2023 Barcelona Trees v0.0.5 has been released. This is the third Beta release of this program, that was already mentioned here some time ago. The new features are: Database updated using the 2023_2T datasets from Open Data BCN Added Dutch translation by @Vistaus: Thanks! Window Client Side Decorations on all platforms (except Android) Build system migrated to CMake Git Submodules for android_openssl and libq7zip Migrated to Qt 6.5.2 The last one is interesting, because the Location Maps were removed from Qt 6.0, but they came again in 6.5 so the migration was possible. Another interesting point is...

Libre Arts

07 Aug '23 07:51 Weekly recap — 7 August 2023 Highlights of the last few weeks: new releases of Inkscape, FreeCAD, LSP plugins, MuseScore, first beta of Krita 5.2, CMYK PDFs are coming in Inkscape v1.4, and more. GIMP The patch by mr.fantastic adding support for on-canvas alignment and even distribution has finally been merged to the main development branch. I just reviewed and merged new snapping features in GIMP by mr.fantastic:1. snapping by layer's bounding box ◰ (side and center);2. snapping by equidistance 📏 between 3 layers.To be discovered in the next dev version of @GIMP_Official (2.99.18… or who knows 3.0.0-RC1? 😜) pic.twitter...

KXStudio

04 Aug '23 10:19 Carla 2.5.6 released Hi everyone, a new release for the Carla Plugin Host is here, v2.5.6 which includes some important fixes including a regression when used together with the (yet to be released) v2.6.x discovery tools. Changelog Fix compatibility of plugin discovery with newer 2.6.x tools Fix crash when using JACK under Linux ARM Fix carla-lv2 pre-run with 0 frames Fix carla-vst GUI for high-dpi screens Fix carla-native-plugin library exported symbols Show custom error message when trying to start JACK driver without JACK Skip special treatment for LADISH (do not set session management hints) Downloads To...

MOD Devices

27 Jul '23 23:09 Modeling amps and pedals for the AIDA-X: Best practices Content Overview Content OverviewWhat amp settings should I use?Do I include the boosters/speaker cabinet/cab sim in the chain?Deliberately including speakers in the chainBad practice: two cabinets or no cabinets at allUse a suitable input.wav fileDownload the official input.wav file provided by MOD AudioMatch file size, WAV format and ratesCreating your own input.wav fileTry to match db peaks and aim for a -6db peakDifferent training models; from “very light” to “heavy”What kind of models to deliver? Different qualities? Different gain settings?What does “validation patience limit reached”...

CDM: linux

27 Jul '23 10:44 monome, teletype are free in VCV Rack – and hardware is returning this fall monome - the iconic grid and the project that produced it - are having a nice summer. Hardware is being assembled. And even if you've got zero money, you can give monome tools a try in the free VCV Rack grid, including on-screen grids, the powerfully programmable teletype module, and more. The post monome, teletype are free in VCV Rack – and hardware is returning this fall appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Ubuntu Studio

20 Jul '23 14:03 Ubuntu Studio 22.10 Has Reached End-Of-Life (EOL) As of July 20, 2022, all flavors of Ubuntu 22.10, including Ubuntu Studio 22.10, codenamed “Kinetic Kudu”, have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no more updates of any kind, including security updates, for this release of Ubuntu. If you have not already done so, please upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 23.04 via the instructions provided here. No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule. Regular Ubuntu releases, meaning those that are between the Long-Term Support releases, are supported for 9 months and users are...

CDM: linux

18 Jul '23 12:35 cables.gl, free patchable visuals in the browser, gets new features and tutorials It's free. It's patchable / node-based. It's low-code - but you can hack those shaders where you want. It's cables.gl, and it's been getting steady updates and a ton of new tutorials, now in Español alongside the English (and as we learn to speak shader). Perfect for tweaking, understanding graphics, and making your next hit music video. The post cables.gl, free patchable visuals in the browser, gets new features and tutorials appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

17 Jul '23 16:30 TouchOSC controller does iOS, Android, desktop, gamepads – and keeps getting better Same as it ever was: if you want a touch controller, or a mobile controller of your own design, the easy default answer is simple. It's TouchOSC. And today's little bump-update is a good time to talk about it again. The post TouchOSC controller does iOS, Android, desktop, gamepads – and keeps getting better appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

KXStudio

15 Jul '23 20:10 Cardinal 23.07 released Hello yet again everyone, it is time for another Cardinal release. Cardinal is a free and open-source virtual modular synthesizer plugin. It is based on the popular VCV Rack but with a focus on being a fully self-contained plugin version. There are quite a few nice changes this time, from finally allowing global user settings to improved audio plugin hosting. Let's go throught the main changes... Global user settings As per user request Cardinal now defines a user directory for patches, modules settings and other details. This came as a necessity for the updated Ildaeil module, which needs to...

KXStudio

15 Jul '23 14:10 Ildaeil v1.3 released Hello again everyone, a new release of Ildaeil is here. Ildaeil is mini-plugin host working as a plugin, allowing one-to-one plugin format reusage. The idea is to load it as a plugin inside your DAW and then the other "real" plugin inside Ildaeil. This allows, for example, a VST3 host to load LV2 plugins and vice-versa. The main changes this time are automatic binary plugin scanning, exposing plugin presets and simplified standalone. The automatic binary plugin scanning makes Ildaeil able to quickly list and load even more plugins than before. Scanned plugins are cached so the scan only...

Libre Arts

10 Jul '23 10:34 Weekly recap — 10 July 2023 Week highlights: new releases of GIMP, Godot, Armory3D, libjpeg-turbo, fancy new features in Ardour, update on Inkscape v1.3 release status. GIMP 2.99.16 The new version is finally out. This is not the development stage where things get super fancy. The major news is that the GTK3 port is finally done. The rest is mostly quality-of-life improvements, improved file formats support, and suchlike. The next release is likely to be along these lines, except probably less new features (on-canvas alignment and distribution will hopefully be in v2.99.18, unless things go really wrong). Inkscape Martin...

Libre Arts

03 Jul '23 08:51 Weekly recap — 3 July 2023 Been away for family reasons, hence missing the previous updates and being slightly late with this one. Post highlights: new releases of darktable, Blender, BlenderBIM, Flowblade, Ardour. GIMP The team is about to release v2.99.16. It’s been a long time since the last unstable snapshot, so it’s good the release is finally coming. Jehan also published a report about the Wilber Week in Amsterdam, the team’s first offline gathering since 2019. There are two main takeaways for me personally. First of all, release candidates of v3.0 are still possible in 2023. Right now, the team is pushing...

KXStudio

04 Jun '23 15:52 Carla 2.5.5 released Hello again everyone, a new release for the Carla Plugin Host is here, v2.5.5 which brings a couple of fixes to the v2.5 series and internal tweaks for its future integration in OBS. Worth noting that future releases of Cardinal and Ildaeil will depend on this version (or later) for their audio plugin discovery support. Changelog Allow IPC during plugin discovery (controlled by external tools) Expose a few extra APIs in carla-utils library Install extra carla-utils related headers during `make install` Fix invalid/empty LV2 paths for compatibility with lilv Fix LV2 plugin state for plugin...

SFZFormat.com

03 Jun '23 11:43 Bootstrap 5.3.0 with color modes Bootstrap updated to v5.3.0 which supports color modes, which means that if your system uses a dark color theme, it will adapt to your visual preferences on browsers that supports it. Highlight.js will adapt to the chosen theme, so the sfz examples will be shown with it.

CDM: linux

01 Jun '23 20:08 VCV Rack has a new manual for all its free modules – and it’s a great modular tutorial VCV Rack, the free and open-source host, has added a new illustrated manual for all its free modules. (Free docs, free host, free modules - got it?) It's a great intro or refresher -- those pictures illustrate a lot of concepts that can elude even advanced synthesists. That makes this worth a look whether you've got a hardware Eurorack rig or are just getting started in software. The post VCV Rack has a new manual for all its free modules – and it’s a great modular tutorial appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

31 May '23 10:40 RNBO news: JavaScript + Web interactive audiovisuals, RNBO included in Live 11.3 You might have missed it or thought this was about Push, but RNBO is included for all Max for Live users in Live 11.3. And in other RNBO news, folks are already combining sound and visuals on the Web with RNBO and JavaScript. The post RNBO news: JavaScript + Web interactive audiovisuals, RNBO included in Live 11.3 appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

28 May '23 13:51 Weekly recap — 28 May 2023 Once again, a very short recap. Week highlights: Blender Studio announces their next open movie project, Intel Open Image Denoise 2.0 is out with major improvements, Krita and Ardour are getting new features. GIMP When I posted last week that the GIMP team was meeting somewhere in the EU, I had no idea where. And now that I know, wow! Not only Simon Budig went back to contributing, Michael Natterer is back too. There’s also Niels De Graef helping with general stuff like the build system, and Carlos Garnacho (GNOME) sending various patches. Krita Lots of bugfixing this week, but here are some...

Libre Arts

21 May '23 07:51 Weekly recap — 21 May 2023 Week highlights: Blender 3.6 beta is out, MLT gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork. GIMP The GIMP team is meeting live this week somewhere in the EU, for the first time since 2019. Yesterday we kicked up @GIMP_Official's Wilber Week, the meeting of GIMP's developers with nice pizzas.Our artist in residence, @AryeomHan, molded a Wilber-shaped pizza dough! What better way to start an event for a creative software?! pic.twitter.com/EAnrkqBadm— @ZeMarmot@fosstodon.org (@zemarmot) May 20, 2023 They’ve been patching...

Libre Arts

14 May '23 15:43 Weekly recap — 14 May 2023 This is a very brief recap. Highlights: further steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP, new features in Krita, new releases of OpenToonz and PlugData. GIMP Two patches by CmykStudent have been merged to the main development branch: The color picker tool and the Sample Points dock now have a grayscale color picking mode. The FITS plugin now uses the cfitsio library, the next outcome is simplified code and support for compressed FITS files in 8/16/32 bit and float/double precision. More importantly, CmykStudent shared the first results of his GSoC project where he is adding initial non...

Ubuntu Studio

10 May '23 19:59 We Need Your Help It’s not very often that we come to you, our users, asking for financial donations, yet here we are. We have fallen on some rough times here at the Ubuntu Studio project. First of all, donations have dropped considerably. We understand the world financial climate has not been easy for any of us, and it has become harder for all of us to live. However, we do believe that if we all work together, we can help each other out. Ubuntu Studio is given entirely free. Those that create it aren’t paid to do so; it is a completely volunteer project. It’s not perfect, but we do try to make it the easiest...

CDM: linux

08 May '23 16:23 Get an ultra-realistic modeled cymbal plug-in for free: CHAIR EXC!TE CYMBAL Chair Audio quietly launched a new plug-in, and it's both free and wonderful. EXC!TE CYMBAL is, no exaggeration, realistic enough that you'll do a double-take knowing this is a physical model and not in any way sampled. The post Get an ultra-realistic modeled cymbal plug-in for free: CHAIR EXC!TE CYMBAL appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

MOD Devices

08 May '23 12:33 Neural Modeling What’s Neural Modeling? Neural modeling in the context of guitar equipment refers to the use of artificial neural networks to create digital versions of analog amplifiers and effect pedals. By training a neural network on the responses of various amplifier circuits and effect pedal designs to different input signals, it is possible to create a model that accurately simulates the behavior of the original hardware. This technique can be applied to a wide range of guitar amplifiers and effect pedals, including distortion pedals, overdrive pedals, and fuzz pedals, among others. The resulting...

Libre Arts

07 May '23 07:51 Weekly recap — 7 May 2023 Week highlights: Google Summer of Code 2023 project announced, new releases of DreamWorks MoonRay, BlenderBIM, dav1d, new features in FreeCAD and Ardour. GSoC 2023 projects Google announced Summer of Code 2023 projects this week. Just to name a few of them: non-destructive editing, text tool improvements, and automatic layer expansion in GIMP; updated look of canvas controls and the first shot at GTK4 port in Inkscape; nodes preview in the shader editor in Blender; enhanced BrickSchema support in IfcOpenShell and BlenderBIM; full revamp of doing measurements with FreeCAD; closing credits...

Libre Arts

06 May '23 09:51 GSoC 2023 projects have been announced Google Summer of Code 2023 projects have just been announced, so I thought I’d do a quick overview of what’s coming. This year, some things are totally expected, but there are also some very nice surprises. Let’s get on with this. GIMP Last year’s GSoC champion CmykStudent will be working on an initial implementation of non-destructive editing. This will be a three-part project: Research into workflows Basic implementation that would allow attaching a GEGL operation to bitmap and text layers PSD plugin update to add the importing of layers styles and adjustment layers In a nutshell, you should...

Libre Arts

30 Apr '23 07:51 Weekly recap — 30 April 2023 Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, Ardour, Audacity, Brickworks, Dragonfly Reverb, new features in GIMP, Krita, FreeCAD, Mayo. GIMP GIMP is still getting small improvements despite the shift of the focus towards stabilizing for v3.0. Two new features this week: Middle Gray option for automatic filling of new layer, uses CIELAB’s 50% lightness (18.42% luminance) Photoshop-specific data like clipping paths and guides can now be loaded when opening JPEG and TIFF files After a lot of help and review from @jacobboerema, the next version of GIMP will import PSD metadata from JPEGs and TIFF...

Ubuntu Studio

28 Apr '23 16:18 Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS has reached End-Of-Life Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS reached the end of its three years of supported life provided by the Ubuntu Studio team. All users are urged to upgrade to 22.04 LTS at this time. This means that the Xfce, audio, video, graphics, photography, and publishing components of your system will no longer receive updates, plus we at Ubuntu Studio will no longer support it after today, 28-April-2023, though your base packages from Ubuntu will continue to receive security updates from Ubuntu until 2025 since Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu Core continue to receive updates. Please note that...

KXStudio

25 Apr '23 13:21 Introducing AIDA-X Hello everyone, I would like to introduce a new audio plugin - AIDA-X. AIDA-X is an Amp Model Player, it loads models of AI trained music gear which you can then play in real-time. Its main intended use is to provide high fidelity simulations of amplifiers. However, it is also possible to run entire signal chains consisting of any combination of amp, cab, dist, drive, fuzz, boost and eq. See https://github.com/AidaDSP/AIDA-X for more details on the project, including documentation and downloads. Behind the scenes AIDA-X uses RTNeural, which does the heavy lifting for model processing. Similar...

Libre Arts

25 Apr '23 07:51 Audacity 3.3.0 released The release notes for Audacity 3.3.0 say it’s “focused on under-the-hood changes”. It’s true, but there are some very useful and long-anticipated new features too. Number one feature, in my opinion, is the newly added musical time ruler. Instead of minutes and seconds you get bars and beats (the toggle is in the right-click menu for the time ruler): So now if you record music to Audacity and make quick mixes, things get vastly better. They get even better than that when you enable the newly added Tempo Time Signature toolbar and enable snapping to beats (the Snap toggle now has its own toolbar...

Libre Arts

23 Apr '23 07:51 Weekly recap — 23 April 2023 Week highlights: new releases of BeeRef’s fork, Armory3D, and topologicpy, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD, Inkscape is looking for an experienced GTK4 developer. GIMP We shouldn’t be expecting lots of new features at this stage of development, but CmykStudent squeezed a few things in anyway. GIMP now loads indexed ILBM, Amiga PBM, and ACBM images. Inkscape Not much going on in terms of new features as the dev cycle is wrapping up for v1.3 release. The big news is that the team is now looking for a full-time developer to boost GTK4 migration. The project is expected to last 16 weeks. BeeRef...

Ubuntu Studio

20 Apr '23 16:39 Ubuntu Studio 23.04 Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu Studio 23.04, code-named “Lunar Lobster”. This marks Ubuntu Studio’s 33rd release. This release is a regular release and as such, it is supported for 9 months (until January 2024). 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 complete list of changes and known issues. You can download Ubuntu Studio 23.04 from our download page. Upgrading Instructions for upgrading are included in the release notes. New This Release Plasma Desktop 5.27...

Libre Arts

16 Apr '23 07:51 Weekly recap — 16 April 2023 Week highlights: new versions of Curtail, Pitivi, and Zrythm, new features in GIMP, UX/UI updates in FreeCAD, updates of Krita and Blender add-ons. GIMP The Search Actions dialog now shows menu paths and is able to locate GEGL operations that haven’t been registered in the menu. The next version of @GIMP_Official will be able to show menu path for commands you search for so that you know where they are and don't need to search the next time pic.twitter.com/NTruwENUQO— Libre Arts (@lgworld) April 13, 2023 Moreover, generated GEGL operations are now automatically listed in a new Filters >...

SFZTtools

15 Apr '23 00:06 sfizz Release 1.2.1 release Mac OS Installer (#93 #1087) Updated bundled dependencies and added more options to use those preinstalled in system (#1104 #1117 #1143 #1145 #1149) CI: Various updates and fixes for GitHub Actions; removed Travis and Appveyor Add LFO frequency as an EG target (#1103) New image_controls opcode to add a background image on UI’ Controls tab (#1156) Disabled temporarily the embedded sample test Parse 0-valued note ons as note offs (#1072 #1073) Correct a bug with dynamic updates on offed EGs (#2 #1088) jack: Wait for CLI thread to finish on quit (#1097) Fix libsndfile build and add CI (#1112...

Ubuntu Studio

13 Apr '23 15:07 Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS reaching End-Of-Life on April 28th 2023 In a few short weeks, Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS will reach the end of its three years of supported life provided by the Ubuntu Studio team. All users are urged to upgrade to 22.04 LTS at this time. This means that the Xfce, audio, video, graphics, photography, and publishing components of your system will no longer receive updates, plus we at Ubuntu Studio won’t support it after 28-April-2023, though your base packages from Ubuntu will continue to receive security updates from Ubuntu until 2025 since Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu Core continue to receive updates...

MOD Devices

12 Apr '23 10:50 Guide: Capturing a Guitar Amplifier This post is an extension of the Neural Modeling Guide. For more info on the whole process, please visit the general guide page. Capturing the sound of a guitar amplifier is crucial for creating an AI model that simulates its effect accurately. In this post, we will discuss the process of capturing the sound of a guitar amplifier for generating both single amp head and combo models. We will share examples of captures of two classic amps, wiring diagrams, pictures, and an input.wav file with various input signals for training the AI model. The end result: Capturing the output of the amplifier...

MOD Devices

11 Apr '23 12:31 Guide: AIDA-X Training with Colab Welcome to the AIDA-X model training guide. Here’s what you need to know and do to create custom models for the AIDA-X plugin. We aim to create an AI model that can simulate the effect of a guitar amplifier or pedal using neural networks. The creation of models for AIDA-X consists of three steps: 1. Data CaptureCapture the sound of the amp or pedal you want to clone. 2. Train the modelUsing our colab notebook, train an AI model according to your quality specs. 3. Export your model fileLoad your file in any version of the AIDA-X player. Share it with other users. 1. Data Capture To train an AI...

Libre Arts

09 Apr '23 07:51 Weekly recap — 9 April 2023 This is a shorter-than-usual recap. Week highlights: OpenShot 3.1.0 released, GIMP and Krita get new features, Jabier Arraiza is leaving Inkscape. GIMP Several nice little patches are making their way to future GIMP 3.0. Now when you try to shut down the system while the program is still running, it will warn you about losing unsaved changes, successfully tested on Linux so far: New in @GIMP_Official development version (future 3.0): the program will now inhibit logout/power-off on systems which support it (usually it displays a warning allowing you to confirm the shutdown anyway or not) when...

Libre Arts

02 Apr '23 09:51 Weekly recap — 2 April 2023 Week highlights: new releases of Blender, QCAD, Qtractor, first pre-release of Inkscape 1.3, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, Ardour. GIMP CmykStudent added initial support for the QOI file format that is intended to be a replacement for PNG with lossless compression and faster encoding. There was an earlier plugin for GIMP 2.10 by Piotr Fusik, that served as an inspiration. There was a request for QOI (Quite OK Image) format support. It turned out to be *really* easy to implement with the qoi.h library, so I put together a plug-in for 2.99 that can load and export this format. I'll test it more...

Ubuntu Studio

31 Mar '23 12:23 Ubuntu Studio 23.04 Beta Released The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 23.10, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”. While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper installer bugs, you may find some bugs within. This image is, however, mostly representative of what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 23.04 is released on April 20, 2023. Special notes: The Ubuntu Studio 22.10 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 DVD. For this reason, we recommend downloading to a compatible file system. When creating...

Libre Arts

26 Mar '23 15:51 Weekly recap — 26 March 2023 Week highlights: new releases of topologicpy and LSP plugins, new features and improvements in GIMP, Inkscape, FreeCAD, Olive, automatic generation of subtitles from audio is coming to Kdenlive. GIMP There’s some minor porting of various file support plugins to GimpProcedureDialog API going on. Other than that, no major changes. A very nice first patch proposed by Stephan Lenor improves the performance of matrix calculations. This is a little too technical, but operations with matrices are fairly common in imaging software, so this affects a lot of GIMP features. A very easy example would be...

Libre Arts

19 Mar '23 16:51 Weekly recap — 19 March 2023 Week highlights: DreamWorks Animation releases source code of MoonRay renderer, new beta and final releases of Siril, HDRView, MFEKglif, QGIS, major changes coming to FreeCAD. GIMP CmykStudent is proposing to start working on real non-destructive editing in GIMP this summer within the GSoC program. Here is their proposal. All projects ideas for GSoC and generally for internships are here. Meanwhile, mr.fantastic continues hacking on the on-canvas alignment feature when moving layers. It crashes when locking to an equidistant position (backtrace already provided to developer), but yes, the on...

CDM: linux

15 Mar '23 11:22 Audio Damage Replicant plug-in rebuilt in v3, looks great, does way more than stutter Replicant 3 might be the most unique of Audio Damage's entire stable of plug-ins. The new version is rebuilt from the ground up, comes packed with new slice effects, and yet has a more capable, cleaner UI. It might just be the kind of software update that re-launches IDM as a genre. The post Audio Damage Replicant plug-in rebuilt in v3, looks great, does way more than stutter appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

14 Mar '23 11:06 RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console ReBirth, the software recreations of the TB-303 and TR-808, helped launch Propellerhead (now Reason Studios) and demonstrated acid could be made on a PC. Now, imagine that software in 2023 but - much lower fidelity. Like, much worse. 128x128 pixel UI worse. The post RP-8 is a “demake” of the ReBirth RB-338 for the PICO-8 fantasy console appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

KXStudio

13 Mar '23 21:21 Carla 2.5.4 released Hello again everyone, a new Carla release is here, v2.5.4 which brings a couple of fixes to the v2.5 series. Carla is an audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. It has some nice features like automation of parameters via MIDI CC (and send output back as MIDI too) and full OSC control. Changelog Fix crash/regression when using LV2 plugins without worker extension Fix compat with PyQt >= PyQt 5.15.8 Fix macOS build Simplify JACK event handling, now using a single queue on the main thread Downloads To download Carla binaries or source code, jump on over to the...

Libre Arts

12 Mar '23 20:51 Weekly recap — 12 March 2023 Week highlights: new features in GIMP and HDRview, new releases of Armory 3D, Blender BIM, VCV Rack, and plugdata. GIMP CmykStudent added a checkbox that temporarily disables the floating on-canvas toolbar for the Text tool. The patch is currently sitting in the Merge Requests queue. An even more interesting patch is coming from a new contributor, mr.fantastic. How would you feel about GIMP being able to snap borders of layers to borders of other layers? Or equidistant distribution? That’s exactly what’s in the pipeline right now. There’s no snapping visualization yet, but the snapping and...

fundimental

12 Mar '23 05:00 System Profiling with Perfetto Programs aren’t perfect and that doesn’t mean just bugs. Quite often a program will accomplish it’s goal, but not as quickly as both developers and users would like. Solving performance problems can be complicated, but it often starts at identifying why a program is slow via profiling. Profiling informs what a codebase is doing, how the work is being done, in what order code is being executed, and quite often highlights the hotspots where a few lines of code account for most of the time. Programmers have a wide variety of tools for profiling nowadays, though like most tools they do have trade...

CDM: linux

07 Mar '23 14:06 Free tool dumps KORG minilogue xd patches into images – plus patch sheets for volca modular Korg sound design fans, you'll want this: a user has made a free tool that automatically generates images from program presets. (Sounds like a great idea for other synths, too - and we get into other geeky scripts here, as well.) And now is a good time to revisit free patch sheets for volca modular, though for that you'll need drawing software ... or a pen. The post Free tool dumps KORG minilogue xd patches into images – plus patch sheets for volca modular appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

05 Mar '23 20:51 Weekly recap — 5 March 2023 Still settling in, shorter recap again. Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and Godot, new features in Krita and Inkscape. GIMP 2.10.34 The GIMP team released another update in the stable series, mostly with bugfixes and some minor new features backported from the 2.99 series. Notable changes: TIFF support improvements Exporting of paths to PSD now possible Exporting to JPEG XL now possible, metadata now imported Transparency now handled on importing and exporting to PDF The Set Image Canvas Size dialog now has a template selector Fixes in the desktop color picker Meanwhile CmykStudent...

KXStudio

28 Feb '23 13:55 Cardinal 23.02 released Hello again everyone, it is time for another Cardinal release. Cardinal is a free and open-source virtual modular synthesizer plugin. It is based on the popular VCV Rack but with a focus on being a fully self-contained plugin version. The main change for this release is the introduction of a "Mini" variant. This is a special variant with a very small, hand-picked module selection and limited IO (2 audio ports plus 5 CV). There are 2 main reasons for this variant to exist: make it easier for users new to the modular world to get a working setup, by only having some of the best possible modules...

Drobilla

27 Feb '23 21:09 Sphinxygen 1.0.2 Sphinxygen 1.0.2 has been released. Sphinxygen is a Python module/script that generates Sphinx markup to describe a C API, from an XML description extracted by Doxygen. Changes: Add command line flags to print version Fix links to documentation groups

Libre Arts

26 Feb '23 16:51 Weekly recap — 26 February 2023 Week highlights: new release of darktable and Zrythm, new WIP features in Krita, new AVL drumkit, Blender changes release schedule with the 4.x. series. Less software news, more artworks this time. GIMP Not much going on in the main development branch, but CmykStudent is as active as ever in Git branches and the merge requests section. They rewrote old GIMP’s code to import ACO palette files to use babl. As the result, GIMP can now handle ACO file where colors are defined in CIE LAB. There’s also further progress with importing SwatchBooker files. Krita Agata Cacko and Amy Spark fixed a bunch...

Libre Arts

19 Feb '23 20:04 Weekly recap — 19 February 2023 I’m traveling this week, so this is a very short recap. Week highlights: major changes in Krita, new releases of KiCad, Glaxnimate, CAD Sketcher for Blender, Ardour, and Yoshimi. GIMP The user-invisible port of GIMP to GAction continues. The vast majority of changes is in a branch right now. CmykStudent created an importer for SwatchBooker’s files that support flat color palettes, gradients, and patterns. I've got working code to import SwatchBooker palettes in GIMP (thanks @NielsDeGraef for the GMarkupParser help)!Now I need more .sbz files to test - all I have is ones with CIE Lab colors. If...

Drobilla

14 Feb '23 04:38 In Search of the Ultimate Compile-Time Configuration System One of the many programming side quests I embark on from time to time is finding the best way to do compile-time configuration in C and C++ code. This is one of those characteristically C things that most projects need to do, but that has no well-established best practice. What you can find is all over the place, and often pretty half-baked just to suit the particularities of the "official" build. Let's try to come up with something better. Ideal requirements: Ability to enable or disable any features from the command line by defining symbols, including the ability to override or completely...

Libre Arts

12 Feb '23 12:51 Weekly recap — 12 February 2023 Week highlights: new version of CadQuery, new features in Krita, Inkscape, Kdenlive, Olive. Krita For Krita, the merge requests section is probably a little more interesting than what’s going on in the main development branch right now. There’s a node editor for vector layers proposed, as well as various UX/UI improvements and minor features for the bundle and resource manager. All that coming to version 5.2 later on. Inkscape The most important change this week is the major update of PDF importing by Martin Owens. Not only he redesigned the dialog and added displaying the list of fonts: He...

Libre Arts

05 Feb '23 17:51 Weekly recap — 5 February 2023 Week highlights: new features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour, Mayo review, Paul Davis in the Bezos movie, and more. GIMP Not much coding activity this week, but CmykStudent added importing/exporting support for the PAM file format and ported the IFS Fractal plugin to GAction. Meanwhile, Jehan wrote and published a 2022 recap for the project. The most important part? I am currently planning GIMP 3.0.0 release in 2023, or at least our first release candidates. OurPaint Our Paint is a new digital painting program built with a custom toolkit. I haven’t investigated it much yet, but it...

CDM: linux

03 Feb '23 18:59 Inflation, begone: SunVox is still donationware, and 2.1 makes it slicker and more powerful The runs-on-any-OS modular music studio got a major 2.1 update this week, with better high-res graphics, a new keyboard, and more. It's a synth. It's a tracker. It runs on Raspberry Pi so you can make your own mobile music hardware. It's stupidly good - and those keys make it easy to jam with on the go. SunVox is a bright music maker even in hard times. The post Inflation, begone: SunVox is still donationware, and 2.1 makes it slicker and more powerful appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

02 Feb '23 15:23 Learn modular MetaSounds in Unreal, free, and start thinking in procedural sound It was once the stuff of dreams -- a patchable, modular environment for sound, synthesis, music, and procedural generative audio. Now it's free (MetaSounds) in a free game engine (Unreal Engine). You just have to learn to use it - which is why this free comprehensive tutorial series by our friend Matt Spendlove is a must. The post Learn modular MetaSounds in Unreal, free, and start thinking in procedural sound appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

Libre Arts

31 Jan '23 08:15 Introducing Mayo So you have a 3D design file and you only need to view it, you don’t like the idea of launching an entire 3D CAD program like FreeCAD, and you are on Linux. What do you do? I’m giving you Mayo, an open-source viewer by Hugues Delorme, based on the OpenCASCADE kernel. You can inspect a 3D or a 2D design, explore its hierarchy, make plane sections, measure distances and surfaces, and export it to another file format. Let’s take a look at what’s available here. As is usual in these cases, the article below is an edited transcript of the video. Importing/Exporting Mayo reads common exchange and...

Libre Arts

29 Jan '23 13:25 Weekly recap — 29 January 2023 Week highlights: Pixar makes a new USD release, Autodesk releases Open RV and DNEG releases xSTUDIO, FreeCAD contributor starts an open-core company. GIMP Jehan and CmykStudent recently started porting plugins from GtkAction to GAction, which is the last major milestone blocking the release of v3.0. Turns out, this is not as straightforward as they might hope it would be, over to Jehan: This […] gave me a good overview of the various missing features in GAction (compared to GtkAction) and how we’ll have to implement this in GIMP core. I now have a very clear path of what remains to be done. On...

CDM: linux

27 Jan '23 16:34 Surge XT hybrid synth is now a free set of modules for VCV Rack Free meets free: in a labor-of-love community project, soft synth Surge XT is now available as an exquisitely designed set of modules for VCV Rack. It combines two of the best open-source projects for software synthesis lovers, bringing new ways of patching to both. And that means all this power is on macOS, Windows, and Linux, all three. The post Surge XT hybrid synth is now a free set of modules for VCV Rack appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.

CDM: linux

23 Jan '23 21:48 Tuning into Arabic music: electronic-vocal duo Rust and Hany Manja (with Bitwig Studio download) Making instruments work in tune with musicians and singers means making them work with more than 12-tone equal temperament alone. So it's great to see this profile of Hany Manja and his duo Rust with Petra Hawi. Plus Bitwig Studio users can get your hands (and ears) into the action - with a Micropitch download. The post Tuning into Arabic music: electronic-vocal duo Rust and Hany Manja (with Bitwig Studio download) appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music.