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Mixxx 1.6 has been released. Mixxx is currently the most popular open source djing software package, providing everything you need to make your mixes in a completely open source environment. This release adds vinyl control working with any soundcard and supports a much wider range of MIDI controllers than previous releases. Mixxx 1.6 is available for Linux, Intel Mac and Windows.

..after the Chuck vs. SuperCollider livecode battle at ICMC2005, this had to happen.

Pd won 9-6 to Max! Several people, however, pointed out there was only one person on the MAX team while there were two representing Pd. more...

Earlier this week, Marcos Guglielmetti, a member of the LAU list has released a CD compilation produced entirely using Linux. more...

linuxaudio.org is looking for 2-3 additional editor/admins to support and consolidate our services. If you are interested join the linux-audio-developers mailing list.

Our otherwise reliable and excellent newsfeed is taking the summer off to graduate, and linuxaudio.org uses the time to improve upon infrastructure, perform upgrades and www-maintenance. We do not expect any downtime but you may temporarily encounter longer loading times.

In the meantime ardour 2.5 has been unleashed and July has seen a blast of releases: Sonic Visualizer bumps to Version 1.3, rivendell is closing in on a 1.0 release and guitarix will rock the summer. For a full list of announcements check out the linux-audio-announce list.

Ardour 2.4 is out and brings along a lot of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Highlights are Freesound integration, per track faders in the editor window, GUIs and automation for AU plugins and, most importantly, filetype icons. Read the full release announcement for details.

Ardour is the award winning digital audio workstation, transforming any computer running Linux or OS X into a tool to record, edit and mix multi-track audio.

FreeBob 1.0.10 has been released. This is a maintenance release addressing a few issues and enabling usage of e.g. the Focusrite Saffire Pro. FreeBob and its successor, FFADO, provide support for FireWire based audio devices on Linux.

Csound 5.08 has been released. It comes with new French and Spanish translations, fixes some bugs and includes new opcodes, an opcode to control JACK among them. Csound is a sound design, music synthesis, and signal processing system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms.

64 Studio 2.1rc1, the first release candidate for the forthcoming stable 2.1 version, has been made available for download. 64 Studio is a GNU/Linux multimedia distribution aiming to provide a long-lived and stable creative desktop and running on nearly all PC hardware.

Qtractor 0.1.2 "Frantic Dame" has been released. This release mainly fixes a few issues, as well as adding a new clip-split command and improving the MIDI editor selection. Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit.

The Linuxaudio.org Consortium welcomes two new members!

EMA Tech. is a French company specialised in building custom DAWs and DVWs, based on free software. Additionally, they provide software support and integration services for the a/v market, along with related activities such as mobile recording and show management.

BEAST, the Bedevilled Audio System, is a sequencer and modular synthesizer for UNIXoid systems. Its features include multitrack editing, real-time synthesis support, precise timing down to sample granularity, MIDI automation and full scriptability in scheme.