falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Rezound with a small update for Qt5 support looks quite decent.

Maybe a good alternative to Audacity?

Last month there was no "kxstudio monthly report", due to special circumstances not having a whole lot of stuff to mention/talk about.
But no news is bad news, kinda... So I published a mini-patreon update just now https://www.patreon.com/posts/51164697

Can you imagine Audacity using Qt and Carla's custom theme?

I guess it would look a little something like this...

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works on a real windows too, trying quickly in a VM with a custom theme.

btw, I did not know before, but wxwidgets supports Qt... that leads to some interesting ideas 🤔

Progress on custom Audacity build.
win64 binary building and running via Wine for quick testing (yes, cross-compiled mingw64 stuff from Linux)
Recording works, LV2 plugins are available to use, which is nice to see.
Still on the tweaking of build system. Will try win32 builds next, then macOS-universal.

Telemetry tracking coming to an audio editor near you!

Their decision is official.
(Not hot-linking to PR in question on purpose)

> We're closing this PR. We've taken on board 'no Google' and 'no Yandex' and Muse are now looking for a good alternative (thanks to those who recommended other open source solutions by the way). Please understand that this will take a little time to organize and a concrete plan will be published soon - at any rate this week.

the updated link is now https://peertube.kx.studio/videos/watch/83c2cfdb-012d-421d-b4fb-2dd585a6d0a5

but seeing as there is no notification for when a live stream starts, I might go to the path of using non-unique URL (which then in this case does announce it)

Testing the waters for livestreaming...

https://peertube.kx.studio/videos/watch/3d20ce29-606e-40ce-ae40-c933470f0400

Still no idea how live-comments will work.

Glad to see 'right to repair' getting some mainstream public attention.
Starting from Louis Rossmann that is pushing hard for it as much as he can, to big YouTube channels like LTT and MKBHD talking about it as well.
Leaving here some links to all those 3 videos.

Rossmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npd_xDuNi9k
LTT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvVafMi0l68
MKBHD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTbrXiIzUt4

PS: I know it is YouTube, not everybody likes it, but it is where most video creators and audience are at the moment.

I do not know where this comes from, someone shared it at work.
But pretty funny and informative at the same time

under ideal conditions, I am having 10ms latency for browser audio "recording".
this does not take into account internet/network, just local.
it is not very stable at that, often being at 20ms and at worse 40ms.
I dont think it is possible to go lower than this for the inputs.

now, from my tests before the playback latency is usually much lower, but still have to find a good way for this in native code and no more python...

Been doing some tests regarding audio latency in browsers, with intention of lowering it for realtime use.

The results are not so great...
https://github.com/falkTX/webaudio-latency-tests

WIP, have some ideas still on things to try.

PS: Yes I did try WebRTC as well, but that doesn't matter for these tests yet because I am still running everything locally.

Apparently this is what happens when you mistankenly have a while loop on a realtime function...

System is locked up yes. Maybe SSH still works so I can kill my rogue tool.. worst case sys rq reisub to the rescue...

Lockups happen sometimes while testing, but didnt expect for it affect graphics 😱

Surprise, JACK output support for FFmpeg.
so we can receive audio from rtp, udp, pulse, alsa, whatever else and redirect straight to jack \o/

https://github.com/falkTX/FFmpeg/commit/24cf47cb96ada42b8b033a495a786b9d1b1902c4

And also an update to JACK2.
https://jackaudio.org/news/2021/04/15/jack2-v1918-release.html