Re: [LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) released!

wow! This is starting to look amazing. Nice manual. You are starting
off on the right foot... Although I wish it transcends the "bedroom".
Professional alternatives are needed too.

Are you thinking about implementing volume, pan and effects automatization?

Cheers and congratulations!

Hector

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> After another quarantine period, I am pleased to announce (yet) another
> maintenance release of my flag-ship toy, Qtractor, an Audio/MIDI
> multi-track "bedroom" sequencer for the techno-boy (and girl:).
> Probably, the major feature highlight for this release, is the new
> optional support for in-place audio clip pitch-shifting through Chris
> Cannam's Rubber Band Audio Time Stretcher library. This one alone just
> closes the gap on the techno-boy/girl bedroom-studio prospects, so let's
> move along, nothing really new to see here :) However, given there were
> many inner changes in the audio rendering engine everything might just
> sound a lot less glitchy than previous releases. Therefore, everybody is
> welcome to upgrade. And please, don't be shy ;)
>
> Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) has been released!
>
> Grab it while visiting the project pages:
>
> http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
>
> Here's some direct links to the most wanted pieces:
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.3.tar.gz
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.3-user-manual.pdf
>
> And don't (ever) forget to drop by, over the upstream :)
>
> http://www.rncbc.org
>
> As usual, the complete change log is worth a look too, for the record:
>
> - As one may find convenient sometimes, the global time display
> format (frames, time or BBT) may now be changed on the main
> transport time spin-box context menu.
>
> - Left-clicking on the track list number column now toggles all
> track content clip selection.
>
> - Prevent audio-buffer initialization mashups when editing short
> audio clips while playback is rolling and within clip region.
>
> - Audio peak files gets a bit simplified, dropping the peak frame
> count from its header; peak waveform graphics are now rendered
> as straight lines when over the end of audio file.
>
> - The drop-span option (View/Options.../Drop multiple audio files
> into the same track) now also applies when importing tracks (as
> in Track/Import Tracks/Audio...) to concatenate multiple audio
> clips into one and the same new track.
>
> - Audio and MIDI meter level colors are now user configurable (as
> global configuration options, View/Options.../Display/Meters)
>
> - First attempt for Qt4.4 build support, regarding the bundled
> atomic primitives, which have changed upstream as advertised
> (thanks to Paul Thomas, for spotting this one first time).
>
> - Record monitor switch is now an accessible button option on all
> track mixer strips; for visual consistency, the old bus "thru"
> switch button has been renamed to "monitor".
>
> - Force track-view position reset to origin on session close.
>
> - Fixed segfault on inserting an external file into files widget.
>
> - Mixer splitter sizes are now better saved/restored when closed.
>
> - Track record monitoring is now a state option, being toggled
> from the Track/State/Monitor menu; applies both to audio end
> MIDI tracks: when set all input will be pass-through to the
> current assigned output bus, including track plug-ins chain.
>
> - Session dialog gets split in its own tab components, between
> descriptive, time and view configuration ones.
>
> - Drifting correction among audio and MIDI engines is now back,
> but avoided while recording or should it be while looping?
> (EXPERIMENTAL REGRESSION)
>
> - Time-stretching percent value gets its semantics inverted,
> as thought consistent with ones general sense for relative
> stretching ie., lower to shrink and higher to make longer.
> this is a major up-side-down change and should affect all
> sessions saved with time-stretched audio clips.
>
> - Slack space in main tracks and MIDI clip editor views are now
> proportional to viewport width, leaving enough room for drag
> and moving content past the current session length, specially
> at the lower zoom levels.
>
> - Clip end time is now also shown on tool-tip.
>
> - When armed for recording, MIDI tracks are now monitored and
> filtered through their own output bus, thus having the same
> behavior as audio tracks; this also implies that all record
> armed tracks won't playback their current content material
> when recording is engaged and rolling; track mute and solo
> states are now honored on record monitoring.
>
> - Audio clip pitch-shifting makes its first appearance, with
> the optional help from Chris Cannam's RubberBand library.
>
> - A new MIDI editor tool is available: note/pitch randomize.
>
> - Avoid (re)setting the default session directory if a session
> cannot be open or loaded for some reason.
>
> - Another nastiness bites the dust: a subtle but progressive
> drifting has been swept away from the audio buffer looping;
> zero buffer flushing is now also taken into account, which
> was the cause for serious drifting on time-stretched clips.
>
> - A major digital audio processing bug was tamed: audio clip
> fade-in/outs are now linearly piece-wise applied, even at
> the clip edges, giving a much smoother rendering and thus
> mitigating the nasty click-and-pop artifacts that were in
> fact due to some early design optimization with a poor and
> sloppy implementation.
>
>
> Cheers && Enjoy
> --
> rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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