 Hey, that's ANFA and you're watching a Liber audio quarterly release packed quarter four update of 2020 Can you see me? Can you hear me? Is everything good? It seems like I should have audio and video and Even my t-shirt Alrighty seems everything is fine. I See there are 16 people watching I have actually more 17 Welcome. This is a live transmission No editing. Okay, let's get to the bone Or to the meat rather So there's a new website that hosts the updates about audio software releases free and open source audio software releases and And the address is Liber AV dot org Slash updates, I guess or just go to Liber AV dot org and hit the updates button on top now There's a filter here. You can specify the time window from which you want to Display that the releases and the quarterly release packed if you don't know is an agreement in the open source audio software community software development community to Release some software updates fix some bugs Do at least minimum changes actually of course like positive changes like improvements to the software and Make a release to let people know that hey this software project is alive We are doing something. We're changing things. We're updating things. We're fixing bugs. We're adding new features so it's a it's a It's an agreement to motivate the developers to release more often especially if these developers tend to release once a year and then for the whole 12 months You're wondering is this project still alive even like ah so that's that this is Quarterly release packed and on the Lib a Libra AV dot org website. There's a juice releases listed so I'm gonna cover all of these that happens in a Roughly in the middle of October because that's when this quarter 4 quarterly release packed Is is going on The ideal date is 15th. So actually Precisely the middle of the month, but you can release a few days earlier a few days later. You still count in this window alrighty First up is liquid SFZ 0.2.1 and liquid SFZ is a plugin that plays SFZ sampled instruments. I have used liquid SFZ a little bit Because I'm using SFZ sampled instruments Dibber Resources licensed under CC0 Or in public domain or stuff like that to make orchestral music because well You can't really synthesize You can't easily at least easily you can't synthesize an Orchestral piece that will be convincing of course you can convey the theme the mood and the nature of the music But it's still gonna sound synthetic at least quite at least partially because there's so much tiny detail in The real acoustic instruments and and performances that it's really important to have sampled instruments for that Anyway liquids SFZ is a plugin that you can use to play them I've heard that liquid SFZ loads all the sampled in all the samples required to play the instrument into memory So it can be memory intensive And but we have another SFZ playing Plug-in on this list today that does something different and I'll cover this when we get to it So that's liquid SFZ Next up we have a new release of Jack actually there were two releases and There's quite a lot of new changes and I think that an exciting thing for Windows users is That there's new releases for Windows and I've seen a lot of fixes Regarding Windows and also Mac OS So we can read that Jack one nine sixteen is a Quick-fixed release after one nine fifteen which had some problems mmm, and the most interesting stuff we can read here is that There is now automated builds for Mac OS and Windows And they've increased the number of maximum clients and ports clients is basically programs that Run in Jack and ports is well the connection pins inputs and outputs for each program now Jack session was a Session management program and it was deprecated and now NSM is to be used instead NSM is The non session manager protocol so a new implementation I believe the the library is now called new session manager, which is a fork of the original project Due to some difficulties in working with the original developer Right Windows registry key. Yeah, that sounds nice and if you go to Jack audio org and Go to downloads You will see that now there's OS X downloads and Windows downloads and there is There's installers for 32 and 64 bits as well as jet source code available Now some time ago. I've had a lot of questions about Jack Jack running on Windows and why there are no downloads and indeed temporarily there the Windows builds were not available But they are now and since the building system is now automated. These are going to Be on par with the Linux versions. So all the new fixes and features are gonna be there and Yeah, maybe I could even try using running Jack on on my On my Windows system my it's it's a system I use for work. Actually, I don't own I don't own a Windows machine at home But I have a machine at work, which I do some audio stuff on Windows But I haven't used Jack there Yep, so that's Jack Liquid SFZ yep Next up is Python RT MIDI 1.4.6 and this is by Chris Arndt Known as spotlight kid in the community and I've seen him around on the rocket chat or discord server and I think this is some library for programmers to work with MIDI in Python Not super interested in this stuff. Let's focus on the more sound making the software Next up we have Sphiz 0.5.0 and this is gonna be interesting By Jean-Pierre Simalando and Paul Ferrand, I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right So Sphiz is a cross-platform SFZ parser and rendering library Lv2 plugin and VST free plugin and basically Sphiz is a plugin that allows you to play SFZ sampled instruments And it's a very nice one how it differs from liquid SFZ. I think Mostly is that it's disk streaming. So it's like caching the sound files and reading them from the disk when they are needed instead of storing everything in RAM, which is Way more resourceful for with memory, but of course it's gonna require some hard disk operation. However, I've never had any performance problems with it and what they've added is Flexible envelope generators, modulation sources, added basic support for LFOs Envelope generators and LFOs can now throw your EQs and filters. A new GUI has been added and it's coming to the Lv2 and VST plugin Oh, it's coming. Okay. So it's the same GUI Yeah, that's a big one and I actually wanted to show you this so I had some trouble because well, I'm running this in Karla This is my live performance setup, but I'm gonna add it here What's the worst that could happen? Yeah, so maybe you can even hear some sounds Let's route this out to All right, yeah, I'm playing it So here is the new GUI for SFZ Nice one. By the way, I designed this logo for them think it came out great So by default Sphys plays a Sinewave instrument, but we can load up any Any instrument we want I have named my folder on this soundfonts even though Soundfont is only referring to the SF2 Format it's it's a brand name and SFZs are not soundfonts Let's find something. Maybe I want all strings section performance. Yay So I'm playing on my MIDI keyboard. You can see in Karla here the keys light up And here we have double basses It works. What you can do is well, you have this home tab and you have some information about the instrument loaded There are some controls. I think they're not yet implemented perfectly It's just I think this is like to be implemented because I loaded a few instruments. I'd never seen anything come up here and There's settings for the synthesizer engine polyphony is how many voices can play When playing some patches, I've actually Yeah, you can hear these sounds are stopping is because I'm except It's because I'm exceeding the limit of voices, but we can rise it up This is torture testing. You can see the number of voices right here and Basically, if you play a lot of notes at once they are all going to decay or release and overlay on top of your that's like That's a lot of sounds to sum together So it comes by default is going with 64 voices and then we have over sampling now this changes the internal sampling rates at which is synthesizer is working and of course times one is the Sound server sampling rate or the host sampling rate times two is twice that etc which Helps eliminate any aliasing that could be a result of Pitch shifting the samples and some other processing because SFZ is not just for playing samples there is a lot of different things possible actually you can build synthesizers in it and The most in incredible thing about the SFZ format is that it's It's plain text and it's so easy to just make a basic instrument that you just look up a website SFZ tutorial and you just write some Text and you put some sound files into the folder with that text file you name it dot SFZ you load it in and also SFZ Supports hot reloading so it automatically watches if the instrument you're making or Loaded has changed and if it detects it changed it will automatically reload it and update the sound so you can have like a midi loop playing your Instrument and you can tweak the text file Defining the instrument and SFZ will automatically update that However, I've tried this over sampling and it costs some weird glitches. So I think it's a little bit buggy still So be careful with that now there's preload size and I think this is I believe that SFZ to work has to like load at least a short amount of every Sound file that it's going to play Because when you hit a note it has to play it back immediately before it can query the hard drive and say hey, I need that file now so I think what it does it's is it's preloading all the Small chunks of all the samples and while it has all that in the memory It can use it right away and in that time when it's playing it from the memory It can say to this. Oh, give me that sample now So it never stutters. I Actually don't know how it works in the inside probably if you have like slow disc you can rise this and Have it stutter less or something. I never had it stutter unless I play way too much sounds and Next we have tuning which was you can load a tuning file So oh actually that's funny. This is the logo Hey, it's my work my design on for design Yep, you can also change the root key change the frequency tuning and there's also stretching. I don't know never try this Yay It also should allows you to edit file never pressed this that may crash everything. Oh it didn't it opened a text editor Oh, and here you can see a basic sfz file So all of this is a comment And it's great out and there is something defining control as a group the simplest sfz sample is SFZ instrument is just one line which says that you want to play this way file or something else and then you can slowly add Layers and layers and like more information and I actually used sfz and Sphys to play randomized sound effects because for a for a game trailer I had like I had to add sound effects for a scene where a machine gun was shooting and hitting some some terrain and The game had multiple different sound effects that could possibly play when a bullet hits Ground or wall so these were randomized So instead of loading all of these sound files into my ardor session and and placing them manually and randomizing them manually I Just whipped up a very simple sfz file that would play the sample randomly every time and I just let it do the randomization Which worked perfectly and saved me a lot of time sfz is awesome Sphys is awesome. I'm really happy to see this plugin being developed because we really do need a great open source Sampler or a sfz player. There is an instrument called sforzando, but it's not open source and Sphys is the only thing we have which is really Open source and I think that's great. So I highly recommend you check out Sphys and Give the developers a hug. Alrighty, let's go To the next thing Jack mixer negative 14. I don't know if that's a real version number By Frederick better at all et al. I don't know how to read this Okay, I haven't used Jack mixer in a while. Let's see if that something. Oh, it's version negative 14 interesting Wow K 20 and K 14 scales nice. That's that's good I'm actually using the K 20 system and I've calibrated my headphones and my speaker monitor speakers I don't have like a special equipment, but I've Read the references. It's like you should be able to speak and Have a regular conversation when the sound is playing and I just calibrated it to that and then I Marked my headphone knobs and monitor gain knobs or volume knobs with The levels and I'm using K 20 to mix which is helpful When it sounds too loud, it is too loud when it sounds too quiet, it is too quiet. That's very good You can trust your ears better Alrighty and next we have Carla. Oh, there's a release announcement mmm, I see Carla 2.2 released on October 10th 12th, sorry This is the announcement for the coverage of the car host if you don't know Carla is Philip here close platform I'll be plugin which can also run as a plug-in. Yes, this release announcement comes quite a few days after I was initially tagged and builds uploaded I moved to a different place everything got a bit delayed with that and also me getting a small but well Needed break anyway back to the topic at hand contrary to previous releases There are no many graphical changes this time, but lots of stuff under the hood One very important note for developers is that the native API to access to Carla as plug-in as used by a mess is still API and the API wise backwards compatible with 2.0, but the API and the API of Carla is I'm not a developer. Sorry And I don't think you are a developer too. That's a huge graph. My goodness Holy cow, how did you not get lost in this? Well, well, this is this is really huge Okay, my Carla graph isn't that big. It's only this big This is my live streaming setup All righty and last but not least is Mamba 1.6 release by Herman Mayer and and Mamba is a virtual MIDI keyboard and MIDI live looper for Jack audio connection kit All right, and I've actually got Mamba installed to show you how it works. It looks really nice and It's a virtual keyboard. What we can do is connect it to Jack input Jack output. Oh Can't really connect it also input Oh We can have it monitor or visualize my keyboard my physical keyboard Yeah, I don't know what it does too much. There's looping involved. There's a built-in Fluid synth which is playing sound fonts that is that is SF2 sounds not SFZ's And some other stuff, I don't know haven't used it much, but maybe you'll find it very useful and That's all the releases I wanted to cover in this live stream Now if we reset this we can see quite a lot more releases that happened in outside of the given time frame and One a few things. I haven't mentioned before is Zero rhythm has got a 1.0 alpha release Actually a couple of these you can see alpha 2 alpha 3 alpha 4. I Haven't actually tested it yet Didn't have much time to do that Caesar CJ says hi, Anfa. Hi Caesar Ovid says that Although I'm gonna be flagged for No You can make a joke these days. Wow Yeah, so zero of them got a 1.0 release recently Also open MPT not MTP MPT Now the funny thing Actually my first ever Album that I've released published made was made with open MPT, which is Modplug trucker it's a tracker and It was way before I use Linux So no actually I was running Ubuntu when I finished it I started this album in Windows, I believe with those XP and then I switched to Ubuntu 704 or something like that and I finished it through running open MPT in wine Yeah, I Wonder if they have Linux builds available If you are into trackers open MPT is probably one of the most decent ones Okay, so they it runs on Windows 7 or Wine 1.8 or newer. Okay, so they don't build for Linux, but they do consider Wine as a target. That's interesting Yeah So after I've made this album with open MPT I found about LMS and my next albums up to now all have been released All my released albums have been made with LMS There's also Jamolus which has released a version of free 512 and it seems to be a Real-time jam session over the internet tool and I would like to get into that and maybe look into how it works What is it because that sounds interesting? I Haven't run it. I don't know how to run it or how to use it, but it could be interesting So here we have Jamolus. Oh There's a build for Android Jamolus is open source software and runs on the Windows Mac OS or and Linux. It's based on the Qt framework and uses the opus audio codec That's good choice because opus is the best thing for audio via network It has it can have extremely low latency Completion contribution is there are the Linux builds available or is it only going to be source files? Source code, okay, so we would need to build it Unless someone has built it for us already and for that reason I'm gonna check out my software manager Octopy and I'm gonna type in Jamolus All right, so it seems the default mangero repositories don't have anything but the arch user repository does And turn a jam session software. Okay. I may check this out Sometime Yay. All right. That's all I wanted to show you today. I Want to tell you that I am in the middle of editing the ardor media tutorial the complete ardor media tutorial and I'm thinking about maybe Releasing the progress in chunks to the patreon subscribers supporters as Like early access and then after it's all done. I will also factor in some feedback from the viewers there and release a Final version complete in one huge video, which would probably last like I think this is gonna be like two to three hours long Because I'm already at 20 minutes and I haven't even processed my footage from one day and I've had five days of recording. Of course every day had different amount of footage recorded, but There's a lot of work and I wouldn't want you to keep you waiting for another three months before I finish that project So I thought maybe I'll release it in chunks for patrons So that also they they see that I'm doing work and not just slacking off all the time drinking coffee and Such stuff Lifeline says video in the length of a movie Wow Yeah, you probably could just go to cinema and watch it I think I also have some pretty decent jokes in that video already in the first 20 minutes There's like three jokes and I think at least two are really decent So I hope it's going to be also entertaining and not just extra dry and Unwatchable because that's not the point alrighty I'll cut it short here Thank you so much for watching. Thanks for coming to see this live. There's 50 people watching. Wow. I didn't expect that I hope You get excited for new Which window wait a minute which Browser. Oh, that's the breath. No, that's not the breath which browser window Okay Okay, I lost it. I think I closed it and not minimized it never mind Yeah So, yeah, thanks for watching Thanks for coming to see this knife also huge. Thanks to all the people who are supporting my work financially and If you the reviewer would like to join them, please go to patreon.com Slash Anfa or Libra pay comm slash Anfa huh now go and Get the new software and make some music with it. Have fun