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Posted on October 31, 2006 - by jono

Highlight your fave open musician

This is an important blog post, and everyone should read it and think about it. That includes you, who is already tempted to skip over this blog post and read bash.org. Shame on you. Think of the children….

The whole ethos behind Jokosher is about making music production simple with Open Source, but part of this process is highlighting the great work of musicians who make music that is freely available, typically under the Creative Commons. We kicked this off in Jokosher 0.1 by including everyone’s favourite 80s robot imitation, J5, in our New Project dialog box. The photo of J5 was taken at GUADEC.

So, with 0.2 coming up soon, we want to put another notable musician with this open ethos into the dialog box. This is where we need your help. Let us know (reply to this blog entry, talk to us in the IRC channel, use the mailing list, shout out of a window) which musician you feel needs highlighting, and which photo we should use of them. Naturally, this photo will need to be under the same license as Jokosher (GPL v2) for inclusion, and you just let us know exactly why that person should be chosen. How have they helped the availability of free music?


Posted on October 31, 2006 - by jono

Jokosher 0.2, nearly frozen

Well, after some months of hacking, Jokosher 0.2 enters its freeze at 12.00am on Nov 1st.

0.2 has a bunch of new features:

  • Volume Curve Mixing – with an intuitive selection system, you can easily draw volume curves that occur in realtime.
  • Effects Support – Jokosher 0.2 includes support for LADSPA effects. This opens up your projects to all kinds of potential.
  • Effects Presets – in addition to LADSPA support, you can now load and save effects presets, making it easier to find and reuse those all important effects combinations.
  • Better Mixing Tools – panning and master volume fading are now included.
  • International Support – Jokosher 0.2 will be available in a number of different languages, so you can have your studio in your own language.
  • Extensions – in 0.2 we now include support for third party extensions. This allows third party developers to make their own extensions with our extensions API. We will also ship some sample applications with Jokosher 0.2.
  • Click Track – play perfectly in time with a configurable metronome.
  • Low Latency Recording – reduced latency when recording and playing back audio at the same time.

Tonight I hacked in the click track, lukas added his extension manager, Aq hacked on his freesound extension, and a bunch of other patches have gone in. We are on target to hit our freeze, and then a good solid few weeks bug fixing.

This is where you ‘orrible lot come in. We need you to test Jokosher, and do lots testing for us. You will need a recent GStreamer CVS (see this page to set it up) and Jokosher out of subversion. We want as much feedback as possible about how well Jokosher is working. For more details of how to submit a bug report, head over to this page.

Its really great to see a nice development team forming – we have some great hackers here, and I think we should be able to spit out a nice solid release, with your help. :)