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The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose.
FREEDOM 1:
The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish.
FREEDOM 2:
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others.
FREEDOM 3:
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others.

In this comprehensive article, we are going to look into what is BorgBackup and how to backup and restore files with Borg in Linux and Unix-like systems.

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Developers at Motion Twin / Evil Empire have announced Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea DLC that will be releasing in early  2022 (Q1) and it has a teaser.

The developer has said it will cost $4.99 at release, which will help continue to fund another year of free updates for Dead Cells along with the next project from Motion Twin. The Queen and the Sea finishes the path started with The Bad Seed and Fatal Falls, giving you a new ending to the game.

"Battle your way through sunken shipwrecks, scale a soaring lighthouse and confront your deadliest foe yet. If you manage to make it through all that, maybe you’ll finally get off this god-forsaken island...

This late-game content will give you an alternative to the High Peak Castle/Derelict Distillery and Throne Room biomes."

Watch video on YouTube.com

While they said it will get another year of free updates, that's pretty much the minimum they're going for. Sounds like they will go longer if the game and DLC continue selling well enough and they only just did a big cross-over.

You can pick up Dead Cells from Humble Store, GOG and Steam.

• Ubisoft Could Work on 'Rainbow Six Siege' Proton Support If More Linux Users Show Interest - It's FOSS News

  Rainbow Six Siege is a popular multiplayer FPS game that utilizes the BattleEye anti-cheat engine.

  Primarily, it does not support Linux. However, now that anti-cheat engines like BattleEye and Easy Anti-Cheat have added official support for Proton, many Linux users hope to get support for popular multiplayer titles that did not work with Linux.

  Of course, you can always have Windows in dual-boot to play those titles. But, many users use Linux exclusively and cannot play Rainbow Six Siege even if they want to (or have it in their Steam library).

• Collabora announced Venus, 3D accelerated Vulkan in QEMU | GamingOnLinux

  Well this is quite exciting. Collabora, the open source consulting firm that often works with Valve, has announced the experimental Venus driver for 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU. For those not familiar, QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

  "Running graphics applications in a Guest OS can be annoying as they are generally greedy of computing resources, and that can slow you down or give you a bad experience in terms of graphics performance. Being able to accelerate all this by offloading the workload to the hardware can be a great deal. The VirtIO-GPU virtual GPU device comes into play here, allowing a Guest OS to send graphics commands to it through OpenGL or Vulkan. While we are already there with OpenGL, we can not say the same for Vulkan. Well, until now."

• As GOG struggles, Steam hit a new high of 27M people online

  Recently we had news that DRM-free store GOG has been struggling with losses, and here's Steam continuing to just smash through previous records.

  With the previous all-time high of 26,922,926 users online back in April 2021, on November 28 it yet again broke the record with 27,384,959 according to SteamDB. At the time the record hit, around 7.8 million were actually in-game and while it's of course spread across so many, the winner continues to be Valve's own free to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with about 915,791 online playing.

• Valve reportedly developing a Half-Life shooter-strategy hybrid | GamingOnLinux

  There's been some reports circulating thanks to YouTuber Tyler McVicker (previously known as Valve News Network) that goes into some detail about what Valve is up to. Seems like we might get an RTS/FPS hybrid for the Steam Deck. It seems that Half-Life 3 continues to not be a thing too.

  Sounds like it will be called Citadel, or perhaps Half-Life: Citadel and will be "a co-operative, competitive, asymmetric, third-person, first-person, RTS, FPS, shooter-hybrid thing that takes place in the Half-Life universe" according to McVicker. Matches seem like they will be some sort of battle between NPCs, with you earning things to give to them using a wave-based system for the battling. The video states that Source 2 has been significantly upgraded with a new lighting system, and new NPC systems too. It's a lot to take in and sounds pretty wild.

• The Elder Scrolls: Arena reimplementation OpenTESArena gets a big upgrade | GamingOnLinux

  While it's currently still in heavy development, OpenTESArena is another great example of what can be done with open source with it reimplementing The Elder Scrolls: Arena in a modern cross-platform game engine. It requires a copy of the original game for the data files, which you can get free officially.

  It's not quite playable — yet, but it is showing massive promise and a new release is out now.

• How to run Windows software on Linux

  In this article you will learn how to run windows applications on Linux/Ubuntu 18.04 using Wine and other alternatives. Wine ( Wine Is Not an Emulator ), is an open source application which is provided as a compatibility layer in Linux . It is used to bridge the gap between Linux and windows worlds so that applications that are meant for Windows could run on Linux.
  An emulator or a virtual machine would simulate internal Windows logic whereas Wine would transform Windows logic into native UNIX/POSIX compliant logic.

  This is said, not all Windows based applications can run on Linux and even if they do run, their behavior will differ from that in their natural Windows environment. Wine has a database (AppDB) which lists all applications that have been properly tested and confirmed to work on Linux.

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This article explains how to get Guake drop-down terminal to work properly under Wayland (GNOME). I've tested this using GNOME desktop running on Ubuntu 21.10 with a single monitor, because I currently don't have access to multiple monitors.

Guake is a Python-based drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop which includes split terminal functionality, session save/restore (restores panes and tabs), support for transparency, and many other features. 

It's inspired by the famous Quake console - the terminal stays hidden until you press a key (default is F12). Execute a command, then press the same key again to hide the terminal, going back to your previous task without breaking your workflow. You can also set Guake to automatically hide when it loses focus.

SSH banner warnings are necessary when companies or organizations want to display a stern warning to discourage unauthorized parties from accessing a server. These warnings are displayed just before the password prompt so that

After my previous two tutorials on installing, basic configurations and remotely accessing Zentyal PDC from a Windows-based node, it’s time to apply some degree of security and configurations on your users and computers that are joined onto your domain through creating Organizational Units (OU) and enabling GPO (Group Policy).

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I take no responsibility for these collection of best ways to destroy Microsoft Windows!

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There are many ways of obtaining information about the hardware you are using. The simplest and most reliable source is your system itself.

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Sun Aug 14 10:36:37 2016, this is the birth date of BespokeSynth. Since that date, BespokeSynth has grown a lot; both in terms of its user base and the size of its codebase. BespokeSynth is an application for performing modular synthesis. Because it has been written by a newcomer to modular synthesis, it is quite different from the usual modular synthesizer. Note: I am the manager of the LinuxMAO / Audinux Copr repository.

Installation

Disclaimer: Copr is not officially supported by Fedora infrastructure. Use packages at your own risk.

That said, let’s have some fun.

To install BespokeSynth, use the linuxmao (for Fedora 33, 34) / audinux (for Fedora 35) Copr repository.

$ dnf copr enable ycollet/audinux # For Fedora 35 and above
$ dnf copr enable ycollet/linuxmao # For Fedora 33 and 34

Then, as the root user:

$ dnf install BespokeSynth

Rapid Overview

Here is what BespokeSynth looks like at startup:

Some groups of modules populate the BespokeSynth canvas by default:

• a transport module to control the tempo/measure;
• a scale module to control the harmony of the noters played by some modules;
• a gain/splitter/outputs to export the sound produced in BespokeSynth to the outside.

By default, BespokeSynth draws a Lissajous figure in the background of the canvas during audio playback.

The menu has a play/pause button to trigger the audio process, and some standard menus for file operations (like a menu for settings, and some menus to access the various BespokeSynth modules).

Some shortcuts are really useful to improve your workflow under BespokeSynth:

• Ctrl + wheel : Zoom;
• Space + mouse : translate canvas;
• Letter key in the canvas : shows a list of modules with name beginning with this letter;
• Click + drag : select an area;
• Click on a selected area + drag : move the selected modules;
• Backspace : delete a module or a selection;
• Alt+Click on module+Drag : duplicate a module.

How to draw a wire

Click on the circle output of a module and, while the button is clicked, move the mouse to the module you want to connect to.

How to delete a wire

Click on the wire and push Backspace.

Autoconnect two modules

Grab a module by the title bar and hold Left Shift while the module is grabbed. Move the mouse so that the output circle of the grabbed module touches the module you want to connect to.

You can access some additional parameters for a module by clicking on the right arrow icon in the title bar of the module.

You now have enough information about BespokeSynth to be able to perform some experiments. Start with a really simple experiment. This experiment will be gradually completed by the remainder of this guide.

A simple experiment

As a first experiment, put a notesequencer module, an oscillator, and an effect chain on the BespokeCanvas.

Connect the notesequencer to the oscillator by dragging a wire between these two modules. Or by using the auto-connect procedure described above.

The auto-connect procedure is particularly useful in the live context because it allows connecting modules without any interruption in the generated noise.

Next, Connect the output of the oscillator to the effect chain and the output of the effect chain to the gain module. Add an effect to the effect chain module by clicking on the add effect drop-down menu of the effect chain and then select delay. Repeat this procedure to add the freeverb effect. In the delay effect, click the amount area and set the value to about 0.3.

Setting the oscillator

Try changing some parameters on the oscillator/notesequencer/effect chain modules like the unison/detune and the shuffle/soften parameters. You can also try to change the scale and check what changed after that.

Press the play button in the menu bar to generate your new sound.

Check the help page and look for oscillator and notesequencer:

Setting the notesequencer

In the notesequencer, you can click on each cell to activate a note and click on the lower row cells to adjust the volume of the note. You can also click on the buttons pitch, len or vol to set a random value for each of these parameters. The length of the sequence can be set in the length area.

Enhancing your first patch

Some good modules

You can now complete your patch (the whole set of modules + connections is called a patch) and add some more modules. You have the possibility to use drums with the following modules:

• drumsequencer: it the same kind of modules as the notesequencer with the difference that drums don’t require notes, just triggers which makes it a lot easier to use to program rythms;
• drumplayer: a samples based drum synthesizer which uses samples you just have to drag and drop in this module. There are some samples available in your Documents/BespokeSynth/drums directory;
• drumsynth: a pure synthesized drum which is based on noise and sine generators;
• Multitrack recorder: you can use this module if you want to record several audio tracks from you patch (we call patch a set of interconnected modules);
• Arpegiator: this module can create a nice sequence of notes using just one triggering note;
• Seaofgrain: this module use a “section” of a sample as a source wave to be transformed into sound generator;
• Fubble: with this module, you can draw at hand the temporal evolution of some parameters;
• Circlesequencer: a 4 notes sequencer with some habilities for polyrythms;
• Polyrythms: a polyrythms sequencer;
• Chorder: yes, as its name suggests, you can manage chord with BespokeSynth.

Playing with drums

Connect the drumsequencer to the drumsynth and connect the drumsynth to the gain. The drumsequencer is organized by row. The bottom row corresponds to row 0 and the top row is row 7. Row 0 of drumsequencer will control the bottom left cell of drumsynth.

Setting a drum synthesizer

The drumsynth is composed of two audio sources:

• a sound generator (sin, saw, square, triangle);
• a noise generator.

The first areas of a cell are dedicated to the sound envelope.

When you click on the first half of an envelope, you can change the position of the envelope peak. When you click on the second half of the envelope, you can change the slope of the envelope.

To set the sound of your drum, tune the envelopes and volumes as shown above.

You can achieve the same result by using a drumplayer and drag and dropping some drum samples which are available in your Documents/BespokeSynth/drums directory.

Using LFO / automation on modules parameters

Every parameter in BespokeSynth can be modulated by a LFO. To access the LFO parameters, right-click on a parameter you want to modulate and a LFO window will be displayed which can be detached from the parameter window by clicking on pin.

You can also perform some kind of automation control of a parameter using a curvelooper module.

Organizing songs

All the modules can be activated/deactivated by clicking on the little circle on the left of the title bar.

To organize a song, you can use a selector module that can send an activation signal to various parameters in general and to this activation button in particular.

For example, to manage a three drum part, you can use the following patch.

Another approach is to use a notegate to enable/disable the note flow from the drumsequencer.

Communication with the outside

Three shapes of midicontroller

First, drop a midicontroller in the BespokeSynth canvas.

The midicontroller can have various shapes depending on the hide/layout/list checked. For this experiment, use the list shape. The midicontroller is quite powerful. You can write a JSON file to customize the shape of the midicontroller GUI:

The Akai LPD8 MIDI controller

For this experiment, I will use the Akai LPD8 MIDI controller which has eight knobs and eight event triggers:

The event triggers can be used to send a note to a module. They can also be used for program change.

Connecting everything

First, set the controller in the first drop-down menu of the midicontroller to LPD8 (the one I connected to the PC). Then, click on the add button.

Next, play with the button so that the MIDI identity of the button is displayed at the bottom of the module. Here, the button has MIDI cc 10. So enter 10 in the first cell (the one next to the cc label).

To connect this button to the delay parameter of the delay effect, click on the little button on the left of the slider label and drag and drop it onto the delay parameter.

Now that the LPD8 MIDI knob is connected to the delay parameter, it can be used to change the value of the delay effect.

In the videorama section below, there is a tutorial made by Ryan Chalidor about the use of MIDI things in BespokeSynth.

A demo with sound

Here is a small demo of a connection of an Akai LPD8 to BespokeSynth from my YouTube channel:

In the above example, I used a knob of the LPD8 to control the value of the delay effect. To avoid a staircase effect due to the discrete nature of the evolution of the MIDI control signal, I used a smoother to transform this staircase signal into a continuous one.

Recording

You can record your work by clicking on the writing menu entry. This will record your session in the recording directory (~/Documents/BespokeSynth).

You can also use the multitrackrecorder module to record several tracks. You can add more tracks via the “add track” button:

• The record button triggers the recording;
• The clean button cleans everything (all the tracks);
• The bounce button will write all the tracks in separated files in your recording directory.

Videorama

Here is a quick overview of BespokeSynth by the developer of BespokeSynth (Ryan Chalidor).

Here is a Bespoke Midi mapping tutorial from the developer of BespokeSynth (Ryan Chalidor).

The Audacity sound editor is one of those open source applications that filled a niche that seemingly nobody else realized existed. Initially developed at Carnegie Mellon University at a time when many people still thought computers were just for office and schoolwork, and you required special DSP peripherals for serious multimedia work. Audacity recognized that, occasionally, the average computer user needed to edit audio. The Audacity team has consistently provided an open source application for recording and cleaning up sound in the two decades since.

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