Re: [LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.1.2 (frantic dame) is out!

From: <hollunder@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 01:52:04 EET

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:24:08 +0000
Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@rncbc.org> wrote:

> Season greetings,
>
> As (almost) everybody knows already, or ought to, Qtractor is an
> Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ on the
> Qt4 framework and Linux is about its native platform. Thus, JACK and
> ALSA are the main infrastructures that fit to purpose, respectively
> for audio and MIDI.
>
> Also a known fact is that this is nothing more than my pet, hobby,
> spare-time-burner, whatever project, but... it's actually my own
> dogfood where digital music making and (re)creation matters. Yep. I
> still have this sublime hope to make it evolve as a fairly featured
> Desktop Audio/MIDI Workstation, one special and dedicated to the
> personal homeĀ­studio. As joked many times before, it's perfectly
> tagged for the techno-boy bedroom home-studio, but techno-girls can
> also apply ;). You tell me.
>
> Qtractor 0.1.2 (frantic dame) is out!
>
> As obvious as in any respectable easter egg ;)
>
> This time, some important fixes have sneaked in and other are surely
> popping and will be lurking out. Main ones go down like this:
>
> * You can finally create new clips from scratch.
> * Track record monitoring with audio effects applied.
> * New Track/View menu items, all shortcut configurable.
> * Overlapped clips rendering hopefully fixed.
> * Improved MIDI editor selection.
> * New clip-split command.
> * VST plug-in parameters are now undo/redo-able (mostly).
>
> You can grab the new stuff from the usual project site:
>
> http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
>
> Direct download links:
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.2.tar.gz
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.2-user-manual.pdf
>
> Wait, please take a note: if you ever feel you're having something to
> say, a heads-up call or just a direction to point, do not ever
> hesitate in having your worries known upstream. Please, feel welcome
> at my
>
> http://www.rncbc.org
>
> Now the plain change-log follows, since she was just a futile duchess:
>
> - Session length fixed (yet again) while extend recording; also
> improved follow-playhead switching while playback/recording.
>
> - Whitespace sanitization gets leaner for all recorded filenames.
>
> - Run-time SSE optimization detection has been improved while on
> configure; additionally, IEEE 32bit float specific optimizations
> have also sneaked in.
>
> - SSE optimization is now featured over all audio monitoring, and
> most specially on audio bus buffering, lowering the CPU burden a
> bit while doing track and bus gain, pan, metering and mix-down.
>
> - Fixed MIDI clip move into new track, preserving the original
> channel, bank and program whenever possible.
>
> - Fixed session cursor seeking, specially regarding overlapped
> clips, once gain.
>
> - The MIDI editor gets new menu access to current MIDI clip track
> (see File/Track/Inputs, Outputs, Properties); selection of MIDI
> events has also been improved, specially regarding overlapped
> note events.
>
> - Clip split command enters the stage (see Edit/Clip/Split) about
> splitting the current (selected) clip at the current playhead
> position (red cursor line).
>
> - Creating new clips from scratch is now finally permitted (see
> Edit/Clip/New...); additionally, the clip properties dialog is
> now also allowing for changing the filename (and track/channel
> as special to MIDI clips).
>
> - Record armed tracks are now properly monitored and fed through
> their own output audio bus on mix-down, which includes plug-in
> effects processing.
>
> - The files widget get alternating coloured rows.
>
> - VST plug-in preset values are now being restored properly;
> individual parameter changes are now being queued for the
> also convenient undo/redo command pattern.
>
> - Some audio clip buffer-sync tweaks have sneaked in, improving
> and fixing the rendering of full-overlapped, integrally cached
> and/or offset clips altogether.
>
> - Stuffed one primordial shot on XInitThreads() at the main head,
> and let native VST plug-ins start behaving as they should, or
> not; this might be in fact problematic and dangerous for people
> who won't ever try the JUCE based plugins as from JUCETICE
> (http://www.anticore.org/jucetice), due to some broken locking
> mechanism in xcb; thanks anyway to mighty kRAkEn/gORe@JUCETICE
> for this precious hint and from who knows best.
>
> - True deterministic session length update has due fixed.
>
> - Track menu has new accessible actions:
> Track/Inputs - show current track input bus connections;
> Track/Outputs - show current track output bus connections;
> Track/State/Record - arm current track for recording;
> Track/State/Mute - mute current track;
> Track/State/Solo - solo current track;
> Track/Navigate/First - make current the first track;
> Track/Navigate/Previous - make current the previous track;
> Track/Navigate/Next - make current the next track;
> Track/Navigate/Last - make current the last track;
> Track/Move/Top - move current track to top;
> Track/Move/Up - move current track up;
> Track/Move/Down - move current track down;
> Track/Move/Bottom - move current track to bottom;
>
> - View menus have new accessible actions:
> View/Zoom/In - horizontal and vertical zoom-in (Ctrl +);
> View/Zoom/Out - horizontal and vertical zoom-out (Ctrl -);
> View/Zoom/Reset - reset both zoom levels to default;
> View/Snap - select current snap-per-beat setting;
>
> - Plug-in forms don't auto-open on session reload anymore.
>
> - Keyboard shortcuts icon item (Help/Shortcuts...) sneaks in.
>
> That's all folks. For the time being... :)
>
> Cheers && Enjoy
> --
> rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

Sounds nice, at least the releases name :)
Got to really try it again, in the sense of using it for something more
or less productive.
My techno-boy bedroom home-studio needs a serious kick in the ass.
If Qtractor can help with that it's beatiful.

Regards
        mufu whateva

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