midi

Ardour 4.1 has just been released. This release sees the addition of some interesting new features, along with the usual bug fixes.

Here's a rundown of some of the new features -

Input gain control - Audio and bus mixer strips now have an input gain control, allowing you to increase or attenuate the input signal by up to 20 dB.

Version 0.8 of setBfree, the DSP Tonewheel Organ emulator, has just been released. setBfree is designed to "imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie." setBfree is available as an LV2 plugin. There is also a JACK standalone version available.

OpenAV have been hard at work testing their plugins to make sure they are working on the MOD platform. OpenAV will be attending the Sonar+D event in Barcelona along with the MOD team. The MOD team are one of the 10 finalists for the Sonar+D StartUp competition.

Robin Gareus has just announced the latest release of x42-plugins, which is a collection of cross platform LV2 audio/MIDI plugins, currently featuring over 80 plugins from 11 repositories.

The x42-plugins collection consists of the following -

Qtractor 0.6.7, codenamed "The Lepton Acid", has just been released. Highlights of this release include -

Version 0.9.6 of Giada Loop Machine has been released. Some of the improvements for this version, codename 'Flammarion engraving', are -

Harry van Haaren from OpenAV has just posted an update on Fabla 2's progress along with a nice demo of some of it's capabilities. Check it out!

Rui Nuno Capela has just announced a new release of his Vee One Suite of plugins. The plugin suite is available in the LV2 plugin format as well as standalone JACK clients, with NSM support. There are 3 plugins in the suite. They are as follows -

Synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer
Samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler
Drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler