Calf Studio Gear - Audio Plugin Pack

Just in time for Linux Audio Conference 2015, we are presenting the new release of Calf. This release features: a large number of new plugins from the Calf Team members and some new contributors technology updates to reflect the evolution of the ... [More] LV2 plugin specification many improvements, both in terms of user interface and the plugin functionality bug fixes for the framework and the plugins Thanks to: jhammen, falkTX, distrozapper, SadKo, David Robillard, Pere Ràfols Soler, domohawk, Adrian Knoth, drgreenthumb, Bill Kirkpatrick, Wladimir van der Laan and others for all the patches, bug reports, testing, investigative work and other valuable contributions. 16 New Plug-Ins: Emphasis Mono Compressor Compensation Delay Transient Designer Tape Simulator X-Over 2 Band X-Over 3 Band X-Over 4 Band Crusher Vocoder Ring Modulator Haas Stereo Enhancer Sidechain Limiter Reverse Delay 30 Band Graphical Equalizer Envelope Filter Updates To Plug-Ins: EQ: seamless frequency changes EQ: M-S and L/R filters EQ: Analyzer and individual filter graphs, zoomable graph Multiband devices: Linkwitz-Riley crossovers Analyzer: new viewing modes, zoom fader Limiters: oversampling Sidechain devices with dedicated inputs Fluidsynth: dedicated Preset per MIDI channel Reverb: increased pre-delay range Wavetable: lots of improvements (still considered experimental) Vintage Delay: tap tempo button, sync to host Monosynth: Unison in OSC2, transpose in OSC1 Saturator/Exciter/Bass Enhancer: autmatic oversampling Transient Designer: filters for envelope detection Lots of updates to different UIs Updates To Rack: Connect window Plug-in menu with submenus and icons Multi column layout Updates To Framework: Seamless bypass MIDI control for parameters Jack session support Automation Value entries for all widgets Frequency handles in graphs Rewrite of line graph (more features, better performance, better api) Rewrite of the GTK user interface to get rid of gtk engines (everything is drawn in Cairo now) Rewrite of knobs for better accuracy Design updates in UI VU-Meters with dB Manuals: better menu, more plug-in descriptions, new design Connect window for calfjcakhost Check RDF files with Sordi Other: Better appearance of plug-ins in Ardour menu New icon [Less]

This version of Calf includes several major additions and enhancements, mostly thanks to the new team members, Markus Schmidt and Christian Holschuh. There are too many changes to mention, but the most important are: - new GUI theme, to make Calf ... [More] more usable and aesthetically pleasing - several mastering-oriented plug-ins: * equalizers of varying complexity * a large number of dynamics-oriented plugins - compressors, limiters and gates - simple, sidechain and multiband * distortion-like plugins: exciter, saturator and bass enhancer (using work of Tom Szilagyi) * powerful multi-function analyzer to produce spectrograms, phase correlation diagrams and plain old spectrum analysis graphs * tools for working with mono vs stereo signals - other plugins: de-esser, pulsator (a tremolo/autopanner plug-in), a simple wrapper for Fluidsynth soundfont player - various enhancements for Monosynth and Organ synthesizers - improved and simplified internal architecture - improved support for LV2 plug-in standard Unfortunately, in order to reduce complexity and required maintenance effort, we had to discontinue support for legacy plug-in formats - LADSPA and DSSI. However, a third-party fork is available with that functionality re-added, for people who still use legacy tools. The small plug-in set has also been removed. Those plug-ins have different use cases, and should probably have been spun-off as a separate project - had there been any volunteers to do that. [Less]

Version 0.0.16.2 has been released. No radical changes in core functionality this time. One new effect has been added, a multi-tap stereo chorus plugin, quite predictably called MultiChorus. However, this release can potentially be interesting to ... [More] hard-core users of LV2-based modular synthesizers (particularly a modular synthesizer Ingen created by Dave Robillard), as it contains a completely new set of about 60 small LV2 plugins. Those plugins cover areas like logic gates, flip-flops, multiplexers, counters, arithmetic operators, basic oscillators and filters (1st and 2nd order) and similar "discrete" modules. They are of limited usefulness for now, so they are disabled by default. Use --enable-experimental configure option to enable them. For more information about Ingen, see http://drobilla.net/software/ingen/ NOTE: Version 0.0.16 had a serious bug that prevented LV2 and DSSI GUIs for MultiChorus from working correctly. It has been fixed in 0.0.16.2. [Less]

This is the first release from the New(tm) Improved(tm) two-person Calf development team. First of all, it contains one new plugin, Compressor, which has been created by the new member, Thor Harald Johansen. The new plugin is intended to provide ... [More] quality and ease of use comparable to a professional compressor. There are also major improvements in graphical interfaces of most of the plugins. The new interfaces use custom layouts, and some plugins have additional graphical displays to assist in parameter adjustments. The compatibility with the emerging LV2 standard has been improved, and special emphasis was put on making GUI capabilities comparable to the standalone version. Unfortunately, only some hosts support the advanced user interface elements (as for now, at least Ardour 2.7 and zynjacku/lv2rack seem to be 100% compatible). Aside from these major changes, there are minor improvements too. More Organ presets were added. The modulation effects gained a Dry Amount knob, making it possible to use them as Send effects too (the previous versions only worked as Insert effects). Large parts of the code has been cleaned up, and comments were added in many places. [Less]

This version contains significant improvements and fixes for Monosynth, both the synth itself and the DSSI and JACK wrappers. Preset handling is improved, and provided are some "factory" presets for Monosynth. Have fun trying it out, and of course, please report any bugs you find.

Current SVN version contains two new instruments - organ synth (poor-man's emulation of one manual of B3 organ and rotary speaker) and monosynth (a simple but capable monophonic virtual analogue synthesizer). Both instruments have a JACK host ... [More] version (calfjackhost) and a simple DSSI version (tested successfully with jack-dssi-host). That instruments are currently fully functional, but there's plenty of room for improvement - it's just a question of deciding which features are more desirable. I'm open to suggestions. Keep in mind that in order to get the new instruments (and not just effects, which are finished/released), configure script must be run with --enable-experimental option. Have fun, and report bugs please (including the "doesn't compile on my machine" type of bugs)! [Less]

The new version contains an "official" release of Monosynth (with several last-minute improvements like portamento and better envelope), as well as various bugfixes. Calf currently supports LADSPA (effects only), JACK (0.103.0 or newer) and DSSI. ... [More] It supports DSSI for effects as well, so the initial parameter values may be more reasonable. Happy testing! [Less]

Winter holidays are over, and 0.0.10 is available. This release adds the GUI to the DSSI plugins, mouse wheel support in non-PHAT knobs and more features as well as bugfixes in Reverb. For those who also missed the unannounced 0.0.9 - be sure to ... [More] download this release. It also includes numerous additions and improvements in Monosynth, new knobs and dynamically updated filter graph, improved JACK host and denormal fixes everywhere. [Less]

First pre-alpha version of Calf has been released. It contains three plugins - a simple 12dB lowpass/highpass resonant filter, a flanger and a reverb, in two versions - as LADSPA plugin and as a standalone JACK client application, with a simple GUI ... [More] using GTK+ and PHAT library. They have been optimized for audio quality, not speed, and I hope to speed up the implementation considerably in future. I also plan to add support for more plugin interfaces and improve existing support for LADSPA and JACK. Have fun and please report bugs and feature requests! [Less]

As an experiment, I've decided to migrate the source code repository to use Git distributed version control system instead of previously used Subversion. The source code is now available at the following address: git://repo.or.cz/calf.git To ... [More] get Calf from repository, use: git clone git://repo.or.cz/calf.git calf To update to the newest version, use: git pull The web interface for browsing changes in the repository is available at: http://repo.or.cz/w/calf.git The migration has been done with lots of help from Nedko Arnaudov (thanks!). [Less]