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New Jamoma release ! We are happy to announce that Jamoma Modular 0.5.2 for Mac is now released. Please visit Jamoma download page to grab a copy of the installer. A lot of work has been done since the last release (dating back to June ... [More] 2010): new features, bug fixes from a list too long to be detailed here. We hope you enjoy this new step. We are unfortunately not able to propose a Windows release at this time because of the lack of developers involved in this platform. If you want to help testing, developing and building installers for Windows, please get in touch with Jamoma members. As usual, thanks for your support and feedback. [Less]

Some time ago, Adrian Gierakowski shared a nice patch showing use of a new jcom.hub feature to mix between presets. Today, Adrian just posted a message on the Jamoma User forum to annouce some of his modules are now public. This ... [More] "ag.granular.suite" collection contains a number of FTM/Gabor-based modules for granulation processes and control. Be sure to watch Adrian's video inserted below to have an overview of the nice features his modules have. ag.granular.suite tutorial 01 - overview from Adrian Gierakowski on Vimeo. It is really nice to know about people's use of Jamoma. If you would like to have some of your modules available in the User Library or featured on this blog, please get in touch with us thru the forum. [Less]

Some time ago, Adrian Gierakowski shared a nice patch showing use of a new jcom.hub feature to mix between presets. Today, Adrian just posted a message on the Jamoma User forum to annouce some of his modules are now public. This ... [More] "ag.granular.suite" collection contains a number of FTM/Gabor-based modules for granulation processes and control. Be sure to watch Adrian's video inserted below to have an overview of the nice features his modules have. ag.granular.suite tutorial 01 - overview from Adrian Gierakowski on Vimeo. It is really nice to know about people's use of Jamoma. If you would like to have some of your modules available in the User Library or featured on this blog, please get in touch with us thru the forum. [Less]

Some time ago, Adrian Gierakowski shared a nice patch showing use of a new jcom.hub feature to mix between presets. Today, Adrian just posted a message on the Jamoma User forum to annouce some of his modules are now public. This ... [More] "ag.granular.suite" collection contains a number of FTM/Gabor-based modules for granulation processes and control. Be sure to watch Adrian's video inserted below to have an overview of the nice features his modules have. ag.granular.suite tutorial 01 - overview from Adrian Gierakowski on Vimeo. It is really nice to know about people's use of Jamoma. If you would like to have some of your modules available in the User Library or featured on this blog, please get in touch with us thru the forum. [Less]

Would there be a better way to inaugurate the first 2011 blog post than wishing you all a happy new year, full of exciting and successful creative projects ? We at Jamoma feel 2010 was a pretty nice year of work. As you certainly noticed by ... [More] following our -quasi- monthly blog post series, a lot of stuff has been going on: some significant developments has been happening on the Jamoma Audio Graph and Jamoma Graph allowing some great applications, various maintenance releases of Jamoma Modular fixing bugs and bringing improvements, version 0.6 getting closer, more publications and nice art projects. We are also very happy to see more people such as Ricardo del Pozo or Navid Navab sharing their work on Jamoma modules in the UserLib. Feel welcome to join them! A new beta version of Jamoma Modular for Mac has just been released. Be sure to head to Jamoma download page to give a look at the recent changes. Next month in Jamoma Now enough looked back at 2010. What is next? Thanks to BEK ’s invitation, the whole Jamoma team will meet in Bergen from January 31th to February 6th for a special developer workshop. This week promises to be a very productive one and we hope to see some nice stuff coming out of it. Workshops like this one are very important for Jamoma development and we are really thankful to have this support from BEK and other organizations involved such as didascalie.net, fourMs lab from the University of Oslo, Galamus, GMEA and Ircam. The first version of the schedule has been published on the forum. The workshop aims at fixing some issues, bringing some new features and enhance a number of areas. It will also be the occasion for the team to review our roadmap and discuss the future of Jamoma with attention. While the list of participants for this workshop is already booked, interested users are more than welcome to get in touch with developers through the mailing lists/forum to submit feature requests and issues you would like us to consider for future developments. More than anything, Jamoma is community driven and we certainly value users’ feedback. Thanks for your continuous support. Best, [Less]

Diemo Schwarz made a nice little tool that generates default templates for the touchOSC app for iPad automatically from the parameter declaration of a Jamoma module. How cool is that? Read more and download for free at Diemo's page.

As always, the last couple of months saw a nice amount of work getting done. In case you did not have the chance to follow this closely, here are some highlights. Releases On the visible tip of the ... [More] iceberg, a new beta of Jamoma Modular 0.5.2 for Mac was released on the 10th of November. Beside some bug fixes, Jamoma Modular was added some nice stuff. New modules In addition to a new component called jcom.autoexpose%, Alexander Refsum Jensenius brought jmod.sonifyer~ dedicated – you guess it – to the sonification of motiongram. Read more on Alexander’s blog post or watch his nice screencast included below. Jamoma Modular now also has a new module allowing communication with the Qualisys motion capture system, thanks to Kristian Nymoen. New features An exciting feature has been added to jcom.hub. Thanks to Diemo Schwarz, that you probably know as the author of the great CataRT software, jcom.hub now offers the possibility to interpolate between various presets. Speaking of jcom.hub’s built-in features, one can now export modules’ documentation as LaTeX formatted files. The documentation creation is fully backward compatible and options are defined as arguments to /documentation/generate message as detailed below: - documentation/generate —> opens save dialog to generate html file - documentation/generate html —> opens save dialog to generate html file - documentation/generate foo —> opens save dialog to generate html file - documentation/generate tex —> opens save dialog to generate tex file - documentation/generate html filename —> will generate html file with the name ‘filename’ - documentation/generate tex filename —> will generate tex file with the name ‘filename’ User Library The UserLib welcomes Ricardo Del Pozo who shares some useful and elegant modules. No doubt some of you will enjoy Ricardo’s audio and video modules resulting from his efforts to implement HC Gilje’s Video Projection Tools in Jamoma. Thanks to Julien Rabin and Nils Peters’s combined efforts, the UserLib has a handy package of modules wrapped around Soundhack externals. If you have been enjoying Tom Erbe’s now famous FX plugins, chances are that you will also like his Max externals. Please direct your browser to Soundhack.com and download this nice set of externals to start enjoying the modules. Finally, Nils Peters also started working on a Jamoma bridge to MusicSpace developed by François Pachet’s team at Sony CSL lab in Paris. Be sure to visit its dedicated page to learn more about this interesting project and its implementation for Max/MSP. And a one more thing: best of all, the UserLib now has an independent installer that you can get at the usual Jamoma download page. Jamoma Audio graph 74objects recently offered a sneak peek of his upcoming product Plugtastic. As previously mentioned, Plugtastic which is currently in development uses features of Jamoma Audio Graph implementation for MaxMSP. Be sure to watch the sneak peek below from 74objects’ Youtube channel. We are really happy to see developments using some of the Jamoma framework possibilities and we hope to hear from yours. On the artistic side, Trond Lossius collaborated with Jon Arne Mogstad and Jeremy Welsh for the installation named PLEASE NOTE AFTER IMAGE which is currently being exhibited at the Bergen Art Museum. Based on processed B-format recordings, the sound is generated in realtime using Jamoma Modular + Jamoma Audio Graph, output thru an array of 16 loudspeakers and has been playing without interruption since the 29th of October. As we move toward more developments, it is really nice to see that Jamoma Audio Graph is not only useful for creation, but also mature and stable. Keep an eye on Trond’s website to read more details about it soon. Public appearance At the beginning of the month, Timothy Place was invited to give some lectures for the Digital Arts Program of the Stetson University. Jamoma also had an appearance at the last AES convention in San Francisco in Nils’ SpatDIF presentation at the workshop on “Standards for Multichannel Audio Distribution”. As always, thanks to all of you for your support. We look forward to hear from you on Jamoma forums and other socialplaces. [Less]

From our desire to continuously improve and extend Jamoma documentation, we decided to create a dedicated repository on Github. Why another Jamoma repository? As some of you might have noticed, until now ... [More] , some parts of Jamoma have still remained not as much documented as we would like. With this new repository, we think documentation should be much easier for us to maintain. This also means that for you readers, as we spend less time maintaining documentation, we should be able to spend more time writing some new content alongside with regular Jamoma core developments. Moreover, just like with other branches of Jamoma project, you can freely check out the repository and are welcomed to contribute. How to get the repository? Git users can head for Github and clone the project using the following url: [email protected]:jamoma/JamomaDoc.git If you do not feel like using Git, an archive of the project can also be downloaded as a .zip compressed file for example. We will also add pretty soon a dedicated place on Jamoma to access this growing documentation. Of course, Jamoma Modular users will get the new doc with the next maintenance release. How to contribute? If you have Git installed, just go to Github and clone the repository to start working on it. If you just can not help by writing some documentation, be sure your feedbacks are still greatly appreciated. In addition to our regular forum, we also set up a dedicated tracker where you can log some ideas, tutorial requests or just point out some typos which may have skipped from our attention. If you can not wait to give us a hand on Jamoma Documentation, be sure to grab the repository and have a look at the "Tools" folder where you will find to get you started some Textile templates that we use as our format of choice. As a bonus, Textmate users will most likely enjoy a special JamomaDoc bundle providing some handy snippets and shortcuts. In any case, be sure to keep an eye on this new repository as we spend some time to centralize the various valuable information disseminated in the wikis, repositories and other Jamoma places. We hope our efforts to improve Jamoma documentation will help you work on some exciting projects and are waiting for your feedback. [Less]

Last summer in Jamoma While various activities were slowing down during summer break, we not only took the chance to enjoy the sunny weather outside (and we hope you did as well), but also spent more time on Jamoma development. ... [More] Development Change of license First of all, please note that the license under which Jamoma code is distributed changed from LGPL to BSD. Our intention remain the same : Jamoma can be used in both open source and commercial products Jamoma get credited when being used Jamoma developers are not responsible for problems that may occur when using our software. In addition to being shorter and easier to understand, we believe this change of license will bring more flexibility to what can be done with Jamoma. If you have been holding-off from releasing software based on Jamoma, this is your chance. A summary and a link to the full BSD license can be found here. OSX: Dynamic Libraries Jamoma frameworks are now compiled as .dylib binaries instead of the previously used .framework bundles. The most noticeable advantage is that you will now be able to have different versions of Jamoma installed on your computer. This takes effect with Jamoma 0.5.2 ß1 for OSX users and is available on the Jamoma.org download page. Jamoma Audio Graph More continuous work has been made by Tim Place, Trond Lossius and Nils Peters on Jamoma Audio Graph. Besides improvements with regards to performance, stability, and flexibility, the use of Jamoma Audio Graph has been extended by a new project called Plugtastic by 74Objects. With Plugtastic, audio graphs designed in Max can now be exported not only to Ruby or C++, but also as fully functional AudioUnit plug-ins. Plugtastic is currently in the alpha testing phase of development. Jamoma Node Lib Alongside with Audio Graph, Jamoma NodeLib which constitutes the second main development area leading to Jamoma Modular 0.6 is coming along very well. Thanks to Théo De La Hogue's efforts, the foundations of the next major release start to take a good shape and a second prototype introducing patching in Max based on MVC principles has been shared. As big as the change will be, more design brainstormings and discussions has yet to happen on the Developer forum/mail-list. If you want to keep yourself up-to-date or share your impressions, be sure to subscribe if you haven't done so already. Jamoma Modular 0.5.x Along regular bug fixes and other improvements, Jamoma Modular has been added a new component called jcom.webservice. Thanks to Trond Lossius, Mac users will now be able to "control and monitor Web Sharing, the service enabling the computer to function as a web server, from within Max and jamoma". Also, as previously mentioned, Alexander Refsum Jensenius added a nice feature to jmod.motiongram% to allow slit-scanning-like motion analysis with Jamoma. The classic slit-scanning technique was been implemented in another new Jamoma module: jmod.slitscan%. The third new module in the Jamoma distribution is jmod.spectrogram~, a module that computes and displays a spectrogram from an incoming audio stream. Jamoma on Windows Making Jamoma Modular available on both OSX and Windows has always been an important exigence to us. Unfortunately, our limited resources make it hard to keep up with development on Windows. We continue to desire making synchronized Mac and PC releases. If you can bring any help to Jamoma development on Windows, please get in touch with us to help make this happen. There is no doubt that this will be appreciated by the whole Jamoma community. Publications During 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Trond Lossius presented the paper "The Jamoma Audio Graph Layer" written by himself along with Tim Place and Nils Peters. Proceeding of the DAFx10 are now online and the paper can be read here. Projects using Jamoma Electric violin in digital space : Victoria Johnson, Norwegian Academy of Music "Hypermusic" : Alexander Refsum Jensenius (University of Oslo) Adaptation / volume : Ricardo Del Pozo (BEK) And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing : Verdensteatret Ghost Arcitectures : Jeremy Welsh (KHIB) and Trond Lossius (KHIB/BEK) At the Zoo : Karen Kipphoff (KHIB) and Trond Lossius (KHIB/BEK) Community As mentioned earlier on the blog, Jamoma made one more step in social networking! In addition to Facebook page, you can now find us on identi.ca, thanks to Andreas Tolf Tolfsen and on Twitter. For the geek amongst you, while the Twitter jamomaproject account is used to share various information related to Jamoma development or interests, follow jamomadev to keep an eye on Jamoma development by reading on Twitter Git commits messages. Ain't it great ? As always, thank you all for your support and feedback. [Less]

To facilitate maintenance of Jamoma's source code, Jamoma has now its own residence at github. Please change your bookmarks from http://github.com/tap to http://github.com/jamoma.Here is a good thread from the jamoma devel-list which explains some details.