raskolnikov | 3 Apr 14:47
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Psychosynth 0.3.0 is out!

Hello mates, I am proud to announce the first release of GNU Psychosynth
made from Berlin, this such an amazing city for anybody interested in
electronic music! Go ahead and download…

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/psychosynth/psychosynth-0.3.0.tar.gz

Among the changes, it includes:

- Passive OSC support such that you can control it from your hardware,
   scripts and other music programs. The OSC API is documented here:

    http://psychosynth.com/index.php/OSC_interface_manual

- Now compiles with GCC 4.7 too.
- Now compiles with latest Ogre and CEGUI releases, making it possible
   to get Debian and Ubuntu packages working back soon.
- High latency problem in ALSA fixed.
- No longer crashes when changing audio settings.
- All sorts of minor fixes.

I hope you like it!

JP

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Release preparation

Hi Alex,

The release is already here:

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/psychosynth/psychosynth-0.3.0.tar.gz

I will make the announcement tomorrow. It seems that there are problems
with psychosynth.com, I just contacted Nacho to figure it out...

JP

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Now compiles on newer Debian/Ubuntu!

Hello!

I just made the changes for the program to compile in newer 
Debian/Ubuntu. It seems that CEGUI 0.7.x comes with the OgreRenderer 
distributed in the same package!  But also they changed their API so I 
had to change some more stuff...

Alex, can you check if it builds on Ubuntu/Trisquel?  The next days I 
will do some more bugfixing (with the CEGUI upgrade there are some 
windows with wrong size) and make a release.

Btw, Alex, I recently got a MacBook from my company and was considering 
on trying out to build it there...  The only library missing in MacPorts 
is CEGUI, and for output we can use jackd so we don't need to write a 
CoreAudio layer.  Do you know an easy way to build a typical Dmg from an 
autotools program?  Or maybe should we distribute only through MacPorts 
to encourage Free Software usage...?

Cheers!

JP

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Re: psychosynth-devel Digest, Vol 17, Issue 1

Thanks! What I mean by 'power users' is artists that use the software as a primary tool for the music they
create, or more so exstenivly. It would be a list of artist that like to use it. If people like that artist
they would see that psychosynth would give them that sound. Its win-win.

I will get started on some quirky sound samples this  week and post them to a private dl link.

Keep it up and thanks again for this awesome software.

Robert
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Robert Walthall | 13 Oct 06:14
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Samples and Power Users

Hey dev team. I love using this program and plan on using it live. I am a modular synth sound/noise artist and was wondering if I could send some sound samples for the next distro of this program. I hope to see MIDI support too. For being alpha this is definitely amazing and can do way more than reactable can.

I also would like to pitch the idea of a 'power user' section on the web page. Most software sites have them and could draw more traffic. I am not trying to brag about my music in anyway, but if there was a section for power users I would be honored to be on it. I just got done playing the largest noise festival to date (NorCal Noisefest) and I am going to be doing some shows with psychosynth projected on the wall behind my set-up. 

My music can be found at 1iL.tumblr.com

~Robert (One Infinite Loop)
Aleksander Morgado | 8 Jul 12:52
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libceguiogre-dev ¿?

Hey JP,

In Ubuntu Oneiric there is no longer a proper libceguiogre package. When
I try to install libceguiogre-dev from the repos, a broken deps error is
launched. Reported in Launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ogre/+bug/805557

According to the replies on the bugreport, it seems that the ogre source
package no longer depends on cegui, and no longer will generate a
libceguiogre...

What should we do with this?

Cheers,

--

-- 
Aleksander
Andreas | 28 May 13:19
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Psychosynth on Debian

Hello all,
 
I am trying to install Psychosynth on my Debian 2.30.2.
Psychosynth is asking for the libogremain-1.4.6, but in my repository there is only libogremain-1.4.9 and higher available.
I tried all, but Psychosynth is asking for 1.4.6.
Can anybody help me with that problem?
Is there any other Synaptic source available, where I can download 1.4.6
 
Best regards
 
Andreas
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Gil-import merged into trunk -- testers wanted

Hello,

I just merged into trunk all the heavy work in the gil-import branch.
This also fixes a couple of quite annoying bugs and the codebase has
changed a lot and thus I believe it is worth making a 0.2.0 release.

The changelog includes:

- New audio processing and I/O subsystem based on template programming
for generic yet efficient sound signals.
- The extreme latency when using ALSA bug seems to be fixed.
- No longer depend on libvorbis, libsndfile can now handle ogg and flac
files too.
- No longer depend on sigc++, using boost::signals which, which is a bit
slower but neglibe and this simplifies the dependencies.
- The mouse wheel now scrolls in the object selector.
- The object selector no longer lets mouse clicks pass through.
- Backwards reproducing a sample works a bit better now too.
- Some new niceties in the framework base layer.

Known issues:

- The program crashes when trying to open a mono sample.
- The program crashes when failing to open the output device.
- The program may crash in some new situations.
- Changing the number of channels and sampling rate is, well, undefined
behaviour.

These issues are, in a way, a feature -- the new code is much better at
checking unexpected conditions and throws exceptions accordingly.
However, the UI code yet does not try to catch and correct most of these
exceptions, thus the "crashes". I know I could fix this before the
release, but is worthless work given the heavy refactoring that is about
to happen in upper layers too, and still the program is perfectly able
to operate in normal conditions.

I suggest any readers of this list to give the new code in trunk a try
before the release and drop their impressions here.

Thanks a lot,

JP

Thomas Goirand | 20 Mar 04:32
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Re: psychosynth in Squeeze

On 03/19/2011 08:48 PM, Juan Pedro Bolívar Puente wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> On 19/03/11 13:38, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm Thomas, and I'm a DD. I tried to used your software in Squeeze, but
>> as you didn't provide a amd64 version, I tried to build it myself.
>>
>> First of all, your control file isn't right, it misses many build
>> dependencies. I tried to add some that I found needed, there must be
>> some more needed, but at least that's a start. I've attached the
>> resulting debian/control file to this email. Please fix your
>> debian/control file as well.
>>
>> Now, even having libsoundtouch1-dev installed on my system, the
>> ./configure script fails with the following error:
>>
>> configure: error:
>>
>> ***
>> *** You need libsoundtouch to compile the program.
>> *** Install it and run this script again.
>> ***
>>
>> make: *** [config.status] Error 1
>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
>>
>> Do you have any idea how to fix it?
>>
> 
> Thanks a lot for your interest in the software. As you say,
> libsoundtouch1 can't be found on Debian Sid now. The problem is that for
> some reason the libosundtouch name provided by it's .pc file changed
> recently -- after the Squeeze release when Sid gets active again :p
> Actually, the software can't be compiled in pure Debian Sid at all
> because libceguiogre (or libceguiogrerenderer or sth like that) is
> missing --probably because it is incompatible with Ogre 1.7 that is
> shipped with Sid.

All you say above might be truth, however, I'm trying to compile in
Squeeze right now, not in SID.

> Anyway, the control file is very outdated and I lack enough Debian
> knowledge to keep it clean and updated.

I can help... :)

> Have you tried compiling it --normaly, not via the control file-- in
> Squeeze? That should work and give you a starting point.

That's the point, it does *not* work at all.The ./configure script fails
as said above.

> On the other hand, I expect to make a new release in a few days/weeeks
> that includes all the code rewrite that is being held as part of my
> Masther Thesis project. That release should work (almost) on Debian, not
> taking into account the libceguiogre issue needed to build the 3D UI.

I first want to *try* your software in Squeeze for my own use, because I
love playing with music software. Then, if I like it, I will help to
have it reach SID. There's no hurry for that 2nd part, but the sooner
you start, the better it is, because that can be a long process.

> I actually do need one; I sent an RFP long time ago with no luck [1]. I
> appreciate a your collaboration.

Then, you've found one! :)

But it seems you didn't understand what a sponsor is. I don't want to be
the *debian maintainer* for your package (I got enough work to do on
other packages), but I am OK to help you to be that maintainer, and I
can upload your package into Debian, which is what a sponsor does.

> Btw, Alexander Morgado is already maintaining a Ubuntu/Trisquel PPA.
> You can find more information on the webpage. If you want to contact
> him to join efforts you could join the psychosynth-devel@...
> mailing list.

Ok, maybe that's a good starting point so that we have a team of people
working on Debian packaging. However, I have to say that I'm not
interested at all by Ubuntu, which disappointed me multiple time. I just
want things to be done for Debian, and if by miracle, Ubuntu guys
succeed in importing our Debian work without issue, then fine...

Thomas

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Want to contribute? Join the Collaborative Roadmap!

Hello mates!

“If only I a got a cent for every time I’m told to implement a MacOSX
port...”

Wait a second. Thanks to Flattr (http://www.flattr.com) I actually can
get a cent every time I’m told to port Psychosynth to MacOSX and,
eventually, get convinced to do so. Or maybe, somebody else might think:
“Hey! I want to implement that MacOSX port and get all those collected
cents.” Allright, just send a patch, and the money is yours

This is the basic idea of the new Collaborative Roadmap. Every user can
vote for a feature by donating some cents to the software. Any developer
can go ahead and code that feature and get that money. All this is done
thanks to Flattr, a new social micro-payment system specially useful to
contribute volunteered libre works.

More information in this blogpost:
http://planet.gnu.org/psychosynth/?p=20

The Collaborative Roadmap can be accessed here:
http://www.psychosynth.com/index.php/Collaborative_Roadmap

I hope you like the idea. Every feedback is very wellcome!

JP

PS: Alexander Morgado: You could add the Ubuntu packages to Flattr and
to the list in that collaborative roadmap and get paid directly for it.

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Indamixx pro, a Meego based music production oriented tablet


The subject says it all. The future of GNU/Psychosynth?

http://indamixx.com/

JP

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