Rui Nuno Capela has announced a fourth beta of his Vee One Suite of plugins, which includes an old school polyphonic synthesizer (synthv1), a polyphonic sampler (samplv1) and a drum-kit sampler (drumkv1). The changelog for this release is as follows - Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData. Introducing LV2 port-groups. Improved envelope widget nodes click-and-drag precision...Read more
This month we talked to Markus Schmidt. Markus has been a member of the Calf team since 2009. As well as being the brains behind many of the Calf plugins, Markus is also responsible for the design of every visual aspect of Calf. Hi Markus, thank you for taking the time to do this interview. Where do you live, and what do you do for a living? I'm living in Braunschweig , an average small town in...Read more
Fans of MuseScore will be happy to know that version 2.0 is getting closer. A date for the release candidate has now been set for March. Full details about the release schedule can be found at the MuseScore forum . You'll also find a useful rundown of the features in the up and coming 2.0 release on this blog post .Read more
The 2.5.0 Release of ZynAddSubFX is now available. This release is mainly focused on fixing some of the core architectural flaws that have historically existed. As a result this release should behave much better under jack and interfacing with the realtime side of things is much easier now. For full details, check out fundamental's post over at linuxmusicians.comRead more
Due to a recent call from the Guitarix devs for a graphic designer, Markus Schmidt from Calf Studio Gear has got in touch with them and taken on the task. For those who don't know who Markus is, he has not only created a lot of the Calf plugins but is also the guy responsible for their graphical interfaces. Markus has posted an image of his first Guitarix mock up, and it looks great! Check out...Read more
Drumgizmo v0.9.8 has just been released. Beside the usual minor bug fixes, there has also been a lot of work done on the command line version of Drumgizmo. Of note, the devs have also fixed a long standing bug that meant most drum hits reported a hit energy of 0 while using the DRSKit . This was an issue with certain system locales. If you were affected by this bug, you'll be glad to know that...Read more
Aurélien Leblond has just announced version 1.1.0 of ams-lv2 , which are LV2 plugin ports of the internal modules found in Alsa Modular Synth . The two main "features" of this version are: Ported tons of additional plugins from AMS (VCEnv & VCEnv II, Multiphase LFO, VC Organ, etc.) Ported the changes from version AMS 2.1.1 (Bit Grinder, Hysteresis, the bug fixes, etc.) In addition, this...Read more
Update your bookmarks! In case you haven't noticed, the AV Linux forums have recently been moved. You can now find the forums at - http://geekconnection.org/remastersys/forums/index.phpRead more
Markus Schmidt has posted a new video demonstrating the many plugins of the Calf Studio Gear suite. The Calf developers are currently working towards a new stable release. The version of Calf used in the screencast is 0.0.60pre2+. Check it out! */Read more
The Guitarix devs have done a redesign of their rack units . If you have any feedback, let them know. Also, they are still looking for anyone interested in helping them do a complete redesign of Guitarix, so if you are handy with graphics do get in touch with the Guitarix guys.Read more