Latest released version is 0.4.1 [jackmix-0.4.1.tar.gz].

Ever struggled with a number of jack applications on your desktop everyone using its own master volume-fader but not one common place for all the volumes directly accessible?

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The first version is ready for download and testing. See here for installation instructions and a first tutorial.

Thinking about self-configuring redundant network-storage I figured that there should be versions of the data. And somehow the network has to remember the last version number.

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TapStart

The Location: A normal room. Well, perhaps not a normal room but a normal practice room filled with lots of musical instruments, keyboards, computers, amplifiers with speakers and such.

The Parties concerned: Several musicians playing different instruments but - sadly - no drummer. The computer will take its place as many times before.

The Occasion: The musicians are gathered for a small jam-session. No well-known songs to play, maybe not even a predefined song structure.

Someone just starts to play and after a while his/her tempo has settled.

Now, how do you get the tempo into the computer to have him play the drums at the right speed?

Well, you have TapStart fired up among all the synths and sequencers and you just tap the beats on its main button to get the tempo and after four beats right on the first beat of the next bar the jack transport rolls starting hydrogen (or any other sequencer/drum computer). And now the fun starts...

Features

Basicly TapStart measures a tempo you tap. But:

• It sends OSC-messages with the tempo or delay to customizable hosts and paths.
• It updates the Jack tempo on each click (=new averaged tempo).
• It can start the Jack transport after tapping a defined number of beats.

Download and Installation

TapStart uses ofqf for sending the OSC-messages. Therefor ofqf 0.1.1 or later is needed.

TapStart itself is available as a first 0.1 release. This one works but the buildsystem is rather limited but also simple:

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"JackMix (Un)L(e)ashed"

From the "doing-my-exams-I-need-a-break"- and the "long-long-time-ago"-depth. comes the next release of JackMix.

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Osc for Qt4

Why? - Examples - Download! - Installation

ofqf is a native OSC implementation in Qt4. Native means that ofqf doesn't depend on other external libs (except for QtCore and QtNetwork) and ofqf isn't just a wrapper around liblo or something.

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"Sliders vs. Knobs"

From the "programming during Linux-Audio-Conference"-depth. comes the next release of JackMix.

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Latest (hopefully) stable version in this branch is: jackmix-0.0.3.tar.gz.

Be sure to apply jackmix-0.0.3-r1.diff to make configure require Qt>=3.2.

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"One step back, two ahead!"

After almost two years of silence I managed to put together a new release of JackMix. The name explained: Comparing to jackmix:0.1.0 some experimental features are dropped. On the other hand this release is the first to use scons for the buildsystem and qt4 for the toolkit.

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Kde's value oriented taste evaluation

the problem

Every day I download new nice pictures from kde-look.org. Some of them are really good, some are nice but not really outstanding.

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While transferring my drupal-page onto the strato-account I experienced a strange problem: strato allows only 8MB of memory for php-scripts. Drupal's image routines for scaling use more than that.

So adding images bigger then ~640x480 pixels isn't possible. Thats why I started working on a new module which takes pre-scaled images in a special directory and imports these images into drupal.

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