This week we talk about Leigh Dyer's tutorials about using seq24, the new theory ninja blog and PipeManMusic's new HPR series.

This episode is chock full of tips and tricks for using Ardour. Also, there is an update on the current recording project and Mike shares a track he is working on.

This week we introduce Mike Holstein as a regular host on OSMP.

New for this episode was taken from here shamelessly.

http://www.linuxaudio.org/node/118

Software Releases:

- RD3 Groovebox is an Android app that combines a 303-style bass synth and sequencer with an 808-style drum sequencer that includes sounds from various classic drum machines: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.mikrosonic.RD3

- Dream Studio Official Release - Dream Studio is based on Ubuntu Gnu/Linux. - http://secondbedroomstudio.blogspot.com/ checkout the devs music at: http://dickmacinnis.com/

- Tango Studio 1.0 Code Name " Karmasutra " - A complete Live (GNU/LINUX) distribution for musicians and professionals studios. Tango Studio is based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.1 - http://tangostudio.tuxfamily.org/en/tangostudio

Audio Releases:

- irc user ronj released the 'source code' stems from his albums - http://www.flyingmolehill.com/2010/09/source-code.html

Tips:

- MusicRadar has published a list of the top 10 Android music-making apps: http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/the-best-android-music-making-apps-in-the-world-today-276167/11

- Improve your ability to work with Ardour on a Netbook by utilizing the font scaling option. Within Ardour, click Window - Preferences - Misc. In this screen you can drag the selector for font scaling to the left and you will notice that everything shrinks - the font size and the boxes and windows and everything scale with it. Close out of that and you can also maximize screen real estate by removing some of the markers just above your master track. Right click in there and you can de-select some of the items such as CD Markers etc. Finally, if you know your Ardour keyboard shortcuts, you can press F11 to maximize the tracks workspace making it easier to work with all your tracks on a small screen.

IRC user Stuzz links to this article updating on the state of all things Ardour - http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ecology-ardour

IRC user and GNU World Order podcast host Klaatu has a great episode centered around Audacity but covering general audio topics as well. http://www.thebadapples.info/audiophile/gnuWorldOrder_6x01.ogg

Gear:

Announcements:

- Scott Lavendar has created a wiki page where we can add our workflow scenarios. This information will help shape the future direction of the UbuntuStudio project, and will make a nice place for us to go and gt ideas for set up, and how to do certain tasks. - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Workflows

- tertl3(William Blackburn) has written a (Fedora)wiki article about real-time tweakage which includes raboof's perl script! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_for_Musicians/Real-Time_Utilities#Real_Time_Audio_Production:Taking_it_a_Step_Further

- Mutable Instruments, an open hardware collective, has announced availability of their new synth, the Shruthi-1. It's a hybrid digital/analogue monophonic synth, with the hardware schematics under a CC licence and the firmware under the GPL. http://mutable-instruments.net/shruthi1

- DATE GOES HERE for a weekend? where we talk each other into donating to an opensource audio project. maybe monthly ardour subscriptions?

Tech Segment:

Dan continues his recording adventure - Guitars are recorded now - talks about Mumble room collaboration.

Listener Feedback:

Contact Info:

Wiki:

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E-Mails

osmp@pipemanmusic.com

Twitter and Identi.ca:

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http://identi.ca/pipemanmusic

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Blogs:

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IRC:

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Software Releases:

- PUMA:PUredata Monome Abstractions (Puredata collection of abstractions wrapping around the Monome OSC protocol, to ease and speed up the process of developing Monome applications).

Find it here: http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=app:puma

Development of PHASEX, a great analogue-style soft-synth, has been restarted thanks to an unofficial fork called "phasex-dev". The first release, Milestone 1, is now available -- it adds LASH support and fixes various bugs. Future releases aim to add support for JACK MIDI and LADISH: http://disabled.github.com/phasex-dev/

Audio Releases:

- IRC user seegwen mentions this track: http://vimeo.com/13995902 performed partly using a puredata application which itself is written using PUMA.

Tips:

Create Digital Music posted an article on Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch, which was used on the 800%-stretched Justin Bieber song that recently went viral: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/08/25/extreme-time-stretched-hamsterdance-and-free-and-open-source-sound-treasures/

IRC user [lsd] has an article on his blog detailing FingerPlay MIDI, an Android app that turns your phone in to a MIDI control surface. It sends MIDI data via Wifi to a PC running a server app: http://wootangent.net/2010/08/fingerplay-a-midi-controller-for-android/

http://linuxaudio.org/node/115

Announcements:

Tunestorm 03 - unapolageticly poppy song

Tech Segment:

Dan goes over recording a new tune

Wiki:

http://opensourcemusician.com

E-Mails

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Twitter and Identi.ca:

http://twitter.com/pipemanmusic

http://identi.ca/pipemanmusic

http://identi.ca/guitarman

Blogs:

http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com

http://deadbeatguitarist.com/?feed=rss2

Voicemail:

http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com

Forums:

http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=41

IRC:

#opensourcemusicians on Freenode

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Title:

Banter:

Software Releases:

- AV Linux 4.0 "Black n' Blue" Edition

http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html

- Ardour 2.8.11 is now available from http://ardour.org/download

It contains only 1 change from 2.8.10, but its an important one:

* Do not prevent transport operations after an export (and potentially at other times)

- Denemo 0.8.18 Release - Free and Open Music Notation Editor

Too many additions to mention here. Just check it out at

http://denemo.org/index.php/Get_Denemo

- guitarix 0.10.0 is now availabe at: http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/

lots of new features, including added tonestack and amp models, a cabinet impulse response module, a simple looper, and selectable distortion and EQ models

- LMMS 0.4.7 http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

This version is a maintainance release of the 0.4.x series available for both Linux and Windows

Audio Releases:

Tips:

IRC User ScottL (Scott Lavender of Ubuntu Studio fame) has a great video link explaining Ubuntu Studio - helpful also in that it goes into what Jackd is and shows how to use hydrogen and ardour together. http://vimeo.com/12454464

IRC User Stuzz has a link to a Linux Audio Users (LAU) mailing list thread he found useful, regarding quality acoustic drumkits for use with hydrogen - http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-July/071176.html

IRC User Autostatic links us up to the Guitarix blog where you can find cool videos on use cases: http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/guitarix/

IRC User Unixhag found this episodes cute and fun themed link... An OSM Waffle recipe! http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/40-a-day/osm-waffle-recipe/index.html

Gear:

- DIY microphone kits and resources - (holstein)

http://www.scotthelmke.com/microphones.html

http://www.ribbonmic.rickshawrecords.com/diymickits.html

http://www.mp3forkidz.com/mic/

http://www.diymic.com/

- IRC User Stuzz shows a link of the progress of the pandora gaming device as a linux music making device. http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/54484-pandora-as-a-midi-sequencing-workstation/

- IRC user lsd posted a link to the next-generation kit version of the Monome grid controller, which will soon be available for pre-order. The new kit lets you build up to a 16x16 board that connects to your PC via a single USB port. Pricing starts at US$220 for the basic 8x8 kit, without a case or LEDs http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=tech:mk

Announcements:

• Rakarrack 0.5.8 "Equinox" released June 21, 2010. Significant feature upgrade and bug fixes. A summer gift to the FOSS community.

15:47 < Transmogrifox> Anybody who follows Rakarrack git (development): we have recently added multi-band compressor and also an analog tremolo model, "Opticaltrem"

- MIDI Arpeggiator w/ JACK Tempo Sync (holstein)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/arpage/

Finally! OSMP Theme song tracks posted - 1 Bzip of the entire Ardour session, and individual FLAC's to cull for remix. http://www.archive.org/details/OpenSourceMusicianPodcastThemeSongardourSessionForRemix

Rants/Calling BS:

Tech Segment:

Listener Feedback:

Contact Info:

Wiki:

http://opensourcemusician.com

E-Mails

osmp@pipemanmusic.com

Twitter and Identi.ca:

http://twitter.com/pipemanmusic

http://identi.ca/pipemanmusic

http://identi.ca/guitarman

Blogs:

http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com

http://deadbeatguitarist.com/?feed=rss2

Voicemail:

http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com

Forums:

http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=41

IRC:

#opensourcemusicians on Freenode

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Open Source Musician Podcast Episode #43 - What you Mumblin' about Jack?

Title:

Banter:

Software Releases:

Butt (Broadcast Using This Tool) Version 0.1.12 (2010-04-10) - Has minor changes and is the last planned release. Butt is now able to connect automatically after startup, it has shortened time between connect attempts (fixes Shouted.FM connection problems) and lastly, there is improved wrong password detection for shoutcast. http://sourceforge.net/projects/butt/files/butt/butt-0.1.12/

- Ardour 2.8.10 is released primarily to fix an annoying regression in 2.8.9:

keyboard presses and releases are now correctly sent to Ardour

created plugin GUIs (e.g. for LADSPA plugins), making it possible to

use the keyboard to set parameter values and define preset names.

- Musescore 0.9..6 is out http://musescore.org/en/node/6010 (rlameiro) :D

We are proud to annouce the release of MuseScore 0.9.6, our best and most stable release up to date!

Downloads are available for Windows, Mac, Ubuntu and a Linux tarball.

This release comes with many new features, a lot of fixed bugs, new and updated translations, an improved plugin framework and many more improvements.

- Pd extended 0.42.5 Release Candidate 2 is out!

Of course we missed somethings, so now we have 0.42.5-rc2! Fixed since 0.42.5-rc1:

* 64-bit builds on Ubuntu

* 64-bit build on Mac OS X 10.6/Snow Leopard, minus Gem, hid, and pidip (Carbon)

* fixed [plugin~] crashes, now also builds on Mac OS X and Windows

* Pd-extended shows in the GNOME menus again

There are of course many bug fixes and additions since 0.41.4, here are some highlights:

* fixing Graph-On-Parent GUI bugs

* complete 64-bit support for GNU/Linux

* full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (32-bit)

* a brand new Help Browser that shows all installed libraries

For more details, check the notes on the release wiki page:

http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease

You can download builds for Debian, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows:

http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html

- Darkice has had a patch submitted to add support for pulse audio:

http://code.google.com/p/darkice/issues/detail?id=25

Audio Releases:

Tips:

Something to watch - IRC User Stuzz lets us know about some development going on with Linux based handheld gaming device to make it a portable audio device. There's talk of developers 'racing' each other to get music software ported to the Pandora, and one mentioned he'd had a look at porting Ardour over. Audacity is about done already. Also MIDI is working (plugging a USB-MIDI cable in), Seq24 and ZynAddSubFx are underway. See these links:

http://www.open-pandora.org/

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/49917-csoundpd-pro-audio/page__p__762440&#entry762440

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/51424-pandora-audiomusic-sequencermixer/page__st__15

Gear:

Announcements:

Rants/Calling BS:

Tech Segment:

Listener Feedback:

Contact Info:

Wiki:

http://opensourcemusician.com

E-Mails

osmp@pipemanmusic.com

Twitter and Identi.ca:

http://twitter.com/pipemanmusic http://identi.ca/pipemanmusic http://identi.ca/guitarman

Blogs:

http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com http://deadbeatguitarist.com/?feed=rss2

Voicemail:

http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com Forums: http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=41 IRC: irc.freenode.net/#opensourcemusicians

Podcast Out!

Song: remix of Conquest of Paradise from Vangelis done by Filipe (aka falktx in IRC)

Band Website:

Direct Download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/opensourcemusician/OSMPEpisode43.mp3

Open Source Musician Podcast Episode #42

Title:

Banter:

Software Releases:

Ardour 2.8.8 is primarily a bugfix release, but also has dramatic improvements to automation editing. Perhaps more exciting "This is the last feature-adding release of the 2.8 series. The next release of Ardour will be version 3.0-alpha1" http://ardour.org/node/3599 Couple of days later Ardour 2.8.9 is released to fix "the infamous mute bug (which caused the mute button to do nothing)" which was thought to be fixed in 2.8.8 http://ardour.org/node/3611

guitarix 0.08.0 release sounds like it's working hard to compete with Rakarrack! This release adds new BiQuad and Moog filters, a new flanger, a new tube simulator, a new parametric EQ, and adjustable oversampling http://guitarix.sourceforge.net/

first version of The Salamander Grand Piano, a new piano sample library for LinuxSampler. It's a Yamaha C5 grand piano sampled in stereo with 16 velocity layers for each note, and it's just under 2GB in size. It uses the new .sfz sample format, so it only works with LinuxSampler CVS at the moment http://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/SalamanderGrandPiano.tar.bz2

Qtractor 0.4.6 is out with a bunch of fixes and a few new features, including a number of piano roll editor improvements: http://qtractor.sf.net/

IRC User rlameiro informs of a KDE based Linux audio distro called KXStudio. KXStudio 10.0.4.1 was just released in both 32 and 64bit versions. It's based on Ubuntu and has Jack2 and PulsetoJack on at boot. Official URL: http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/ Steve takes it out for a spin and blogs about it: http://deadbeatguitarist.com/kxstudio-rocks-my-socks-off/#more-40

It's not open-source, but Pianoteq is now available in an entry-level version, called "Pianoteq Play", for 99 euro. It's a physically-modeled piano instrument, with a native Linux port that runs as a stand-alone JACK app. This new version removes the ability to customise your own pianos, but the sound engine is identical to the (249 euro) full version. http://pianoteq.com/

There's also an interview with the Pianoteq developers on Create Digital Music, which discusses porting to Linux: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/05/31/makers-of-pianoteq-talk-piano-modeling-developing-for-linux/

IRC User notKlattu has posted the fruits of the GNU Linux Multimedia Sprint. A collection of over 3GB of sample banks, brushes, fonts, sound fonts, blender plugins, icons and more! A torrent download or selective file download can be browsed. Full details at: http://www.skyehaven.net/blog/linux-multimedia-sprint/

Audio Releases:

Tips:

IRC User amstan reminds us of the up to the minute ppa for ubuntu music software - shown on this forum post

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1350304

IRC User rlameiro shares a link to a YouTube playlist with a very good tutorial to Pure Data aka Pd http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=12DC9A161D8DC5DC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&v=rtgGol-I4gA

Rakarrack announcements: 1) We have made significant progress with CPU usage improvement in some of the more expensive FX like Convolotron... In Settings (as of today) you can set the internal sample rate for many of the FX ... upsampling added specifically for waveshaper class. Waveshaper is used in all distortions, so every distortion can be oversampled independently from the rest of the program.2) New effect in git repository will be included in the next release: Echotron. Text-file programmable multi-tap delay with up to 8 MuTroMojo filters for the first 8 taps, and up to 127 taps available. Good default text files will be standard with Rakarrack so no configuration is required...however the ability to edit the text files may appeal to the tweakers. Delay line modulation is implemented in the GUI, so multi-tap chorus and flanging is possible.

ALSO - rakarrack now has a DONATE button http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=215888

Rakarrack trying to make a release soon. We're looking for user presets to include in the default bank, and most of all, good beta-testing. Please stress the program and try to do odd things and report bugs to us :) If your presets use a custom .wav file, .rvb, or .dly file, please remember to include those when you submit presets.

IRC User raboof lets us know that the Linux Audio Conference 2010 materials are posted here: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/?page=program

Identi.ca user Dennisgut mentions this URL for CC licensed samples, loops and shots - http://audio.ibeat.org/

IRC User [lsd] has a great blog post on in the box recording http://blag.linuxgamers.net/2010/05/thinking-inside-the-box/

Scott Lavender mentions that rakarrack-0.4.2 is built in his PPA for Ubuntu Studio 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Currently rakarrack-0.30 is available for Lucid from the official repositories. Also found in his Lucid PPA are zynjacku/LV2rack. The PPA can be added with ppa:slavender/lucid.

Scott Lavender pointed out an email that deals with a couple of important bugs in Ubuntu Studio - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2010-May/006277.html .

* The Ardour mute bug manifests itself when trying to mute on playback, when the mute button is pushed it does not actually mute the track. To enable mute for tracks that are already created, right clicking the mute button shows the available mute options, select those that apply. To enable mute for new project and new tracks in existing projects, edit ~/.ardour2/ardour.rc file as shown in the email.

* The network-admin bug manifests itself (usually first noticed after Ubuntu Studio installation) by a grayed out network configuration options. When vanilla Ubuntu went to network-manager (instead of gnome-network-admin) a patch was added to gnome-network-admin preventing users from adjust network options in it, resulting in a single place to configure networks. But since Ubuntu Studio does use network-manager (it has caused additional latency in audio recording) and uses gnome-network-admin (which doesn't) this has obviously become a problem. Since gnome-network-admin doesn't appear to be installed on vanilla Ubuntu by default we are hoping it will not be considered a 'regression' to remove the patch so that Ubuntu Studio users can configure their network options. Until then, as a work around, you can find network-manager and/or network-manager-applet on the Ubuntu Studio DVD. See the email for details.

IRC user [lsd] spotted a Hydrogen version of GSCW, a free, high-quality drumkit. The Hydrogen version comes as two separate kits, and they each have a tonne of velocity layers, so with proper programming they can add a lot of variety to a mix http://www.autodafe.net/gscw-drum-kit-for-hydrogen-drum-machine.html

Gear:

Announcements:

IRC user Xuco is calling out to the community. GPUL is having a conference on audio and video using free/open source tools. They are requesting people submit proposals on talks. The deadline to receive the proposals is June 27th, the notification of acceptance is June 28th. The event itself is to be held in the School of Informatics, Universidade da Coruña between July 12th and July 15, 2010. Full details at: http://gpul.org/?q=node/117

Rants/Calling BS:

Tech Segment:

Listener Feedback:

Update - Jim in Chesapeake, Virginia has purchased a UCA-222 to transfer his cassette tapes to digital form and it 'just works'.

Contact Info:

Wiki:

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E-Mails

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Blogs:

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Voicemail:

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Podcast Out!

Song: Plastic People (Look at them) by Chris Adams (aka kernel_geek in IRC and opensaucemusic on youtube.

Band Website: http://youtube.com/opensaucemusic http://opensaucemusic.bandcamp.com

Direct Download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/opensourcemusician/OSMPEpisode42.mp3

Open Source Musician Podcast

Episode #41 - Tunestorm #02 Reveal

Tunestorm02 guidelines: http://opensourcemusician.com/index.php/Tunestorm02

Audio Releases:

Household Fiend - SymmetricalSounds (sim) - http://soundcloud.com/symmetricalsounds

Labelle - Stuzz - http://stuzz.lineof7s.com

Frozen Summer - Leigh Dyer (lsd) - http://blag.linuxgamers.net/

Tunestorm02 - Chris Adams (kernel_geek) - http://youtube.com/opensaucemusic http://opensaucemusic.bandcamp.com/

Downtown Jug Band Blues - Mike Holstein (holstein) http://www.myspace.com/mikeholstein

Not So Tunestormy - (fuxter) http://fuxter.blogspot.com/

Phil Collins on CDROM - Steve Baer (guitarman) - http://deadbeatguitarist.com

Tupperwars - Gwen Coffy (seegwen) - http://gwen.coffy.name

Contact Info:

Wiki:

http://opensourcemusician.com

E-Mails

osmp@pipemanmusic.com

Twitter and Identi.ca:

http://twitter.com/pipemanmusic http://identi.ca/pipemanmusic http://identi.ca/guitarman

Blogs:

http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com http://deadbeatguitarist.com/?feed=rss2

Voicemail:

http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com Forums: http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=41 IRC: irc.freenode.net/#opensourcemusicians

Podcast Out!

Direct download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/opensourcemusician/OSMPEpisode41.mp3

Open Source Musician Podcast Episode #40 - It's good to be regular.

Title:

Banter:

Software Releases:

Audio Releases:

http://music.betterthanlahar.com/album/bench-seats-are-for-lovers

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/65138

Tips:

change in editing /etc/security/limits.conf in debian testing effects ubuntu lucid as well

LAU Lister Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas announces the release of Kmid 2.3.0. KMid is a MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE4. It runs in Linux, using the ALSA Sequencer. Changes for this release are: Changes for this release: New Mac OSX and Windows backends. Fixes in ALSA sequencer backend - don't set an explicit output pool size, using the default size instead. Unconditionally reload MIDI devices before checking the available outputs. Drumstick shared libraries v0.3.1 are recommended. Project home at http://userbase.kde.org/KMid2

A collection of IR files can be found at http://www.isophonics.net/content/room-impulse-response-data-set

IRC User and Rakarrak Dev Transmogrifox has made a youtube video demonstrating the new stompbox addition to rakarrack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVXIOPB4g98

IRC USer and Rakarrack Dev Transmogrifox reports convolution reverb is now functional in git. "Reverbtron" is the name of the module, made as sort of a sister to the Convolotron.

IRC User Stuzz trips over a site with a comprehensive collection of synth related articles: http://synth.freehostia.com/

Gear:

Announcements:

Tunestorm update

Rants/Calling BS:

Tech Segment:

Listener Feedback:

Shout out and thanks to IRC user kernel_geek for editing episode 38 and 39 for us. Job well done - thanks for the help!

Contact Info:

Wiki:

http://opensourcemusician.com

E-Mails

osmp@pipemanmusic.com

Twitter and Identi.ca:

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Blogs:

http://pipemanmusic.blogspot.com http://deadbeatguitarist.com/?feed=rss2

Voicemail:

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Podcast Out!

Song by The Pums - To Be Alive.

Band website: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/65138

Direct Download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/opensourcemusician/OSMPEpisode40.mp3