I’ve been using Calf pack of DSSI/LV2 audio plug-ins and instruments for a while now (vintage delay is my fav), so since I’m used to bleeding edge software I decided to clone its git repo and see what they’ve been cooking for the next release.
After so many years of geeky interfaces native effects on Linux don’t look like complete crap anymore 
The upcoming version will also feature several equalizers (already in git), and the very next thing I’m going to do is build it with –enable-experimental to enable “50 small LV2 plug-ins made specifically with modular hosts in mind”. Jeez, you free software developers just don’t seem to be able to stop making us excited recently
For some reason I missed The Great Return of Jörg Anders. If you missed that story, here is a quick reference.
In late 90s Dr. Jörg Anders created a free/libre musical score editor called NoteEdit. For some reason it didn’t get much acknowledgement which (but not only this reason) subsequently led to departure of Mr. Anders from the project which actually left the project headless for several months. Then it was picked by several guys who maintained it until ca. 2006 when they started a new project called Canorus.
Now Jörg Anders is back with a GTK+/Cairo application called NtEd which has two most anticipated features implemented: brackets and page layout. Here is an obligatory screenshot
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January 18, 2007 in
Sound.
One of the projects I’be been involved into from the very beginning is Free!Music. It started in early 2002 from two ideas:
- There is something deeply wrong with the way record labels do their business and the way music is promoted.
- Why not have a CD of freely redistributable music as an addition to a Linux distribution?
The first idea came from EXIT project — a music band that doesn’t restrict itself to any particular music genre, playing a fusion of them, often doing jam sessions with musicians who play from jazz to folk to rock music. They were the first to release their tracks under terms of OpenMusic license that was further reevaluated and turned into Free!Music declaration.
The second idea came from ALT Linux — a russian Linux vendor who started as Mandrake and SuSE distributor, then soon quit that business and started it’s own apt-rpm based distribution, doing solutions based on it, being involved into russian e-government project etc.
We had some participants from ex-USSR countries before, but recently the project has become truly international. Yann Bennoist, guitar wizard of famous Space band, who did session work with Mireille Mathieu, Michel Legrand, Patricia Kaas and others has joined us and published four tracks under terms of Free!Music declaration:
Feel free to checkout them, read the interview with Yann and listen to other songs. Oh well, and we have Internet radio playing all published songs 24 hours/day
Nah, and for those socialized — we have a last.fm group 
Published on
November 17, 2006 in
Sound.
If you haven’t considered going to FAVE this year, please do so if possible 
This is an event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. It features workshops, talks and performances from free software developers and artists. The 2006 event is taking place at Limehouse Town Hall in London, England on Saturday the 25th of November. Highlights this year include:
- Andy Farnell presents a workshop on synthetic audio in Pure Data
- Steve Harris gives a talk on LV2, the new plugin standard
- Mutant electronic punk from Jamka, over from Slovakia
- Conor O’Tuama, recording acoustic music in Ireland
- Biomusic from Simon Egan, featuring plants and animal organs
- Live coding from Dave Griffiths and Alex
- A demo of the 64 Studio distro from Daniel James
- Olivier Laruelle and Chun Lee play with Desiredata
- Rob Munro remixes TV with Pd, Gem and OSC
- Karsten Gebbert and Evan Raskob
http://www.fave.org.uk/
