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On the 4th and 5th of November 2017 you can attend the Sonoj Convention in Cologne, Germany. Admission is free. You will be able to enjoy demonstrations, talks and workshops about music production through open source software. Hands-on tutorials and workflow presentations can be expected. The Sonoj Convention is a great opportunity to meet like-minded people, maybe even to have engaging discussions! Every man and woman is welcome, no matter your musical or technological background.

Max/MSP users can now easily convert their Gen objects into LV2 plugins, add them to the roster of MOD Duo plugins and bring them to the stage!

The Linux Audio Conference 2017 is under way and this year, Ardour and JACK creator/developer, Paul Davis talked about Linux audio and his thoughts on where things currently stand with his presentation "20 years of open source audio: Success, Failure and the In-between".

Ecuadorian / Canadian experimental veterans ZARAZA have just released their 3rd album Spasms of Rebirth.

It was entirely recorded using Libre Music tools:

• Fedora 25
• Ardour (all mixing)
• Guitarix (all guitars and bass)
• Hydrogen (drums)
• Calf plugins (for mixing in Ardour)
• Audacity (mastering)

Olivier has translated our Drumgizmo article to French for his LibraZiK project website. The French translation of the article can be found here.

jack-matchmaker is a small command line utility that listens to JACK port registrations by clients and connects them when they match one of the port pattern pairs given on the command line at startup. jack-matchmaker never disconnects any ports.

The new episode of the great OSM Podcast is out!

John Option have just released a new song called "Lifestyle obsession", accompanied as always by a video. Their new song, as with all of John Option releases, is published under the terms of the Creative Commons License Attribution Share Alike.

Fans of Rui Nuno Capela's Qstuff* take heed, he has just released the following end of summer updates to his suite of software -

• QjackCtl 0.4.3
• Qsynth 0.4.2
• Qsampler 0.4.1
• QXGEdit 0.4.1
• QmidiCtl 0.4.1
• QmidiNet 0.4.1

For a full run down of the changelogs, check out Rui's announcement over at rncbc.org