Re: [LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.7.2 - The Tacky Gluon beta release

From: Yassin Philip <xaccrocheur@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Dec 10 2015 - 20:21:54 EET

On 10/12/2015 16:34, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> Season greetings y'all,
>
> As cheesy as it might go, as a must already,
>
> Qtractor 0.7.2 (tacky gluon beta) is out!
>
> Quite frankly, there's nothing really stopping you from an upgrade or
> rather update to taste! :)
>
> Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application
> written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux,
> where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the
> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main
> infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio
> workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.
>
> Major highlights for this dot release are:
>
> * MIDI Track/Instrument bank/programs menu (NEW)
> * VST plug-ins preset/bank (FXP/FXB) files support (NEW)
> * Duplicate track menu command (NEW)
> * XRUN status bar indicator (NEW)
Wow! I can't wait to test that :)
>
> And, of course, Qtractor [1] is now built to Qt5 [2] as per configure
> default.
>
>
> Hope you enjoy.
I know I do, thanks a lot ; Hey did you see that
<http://libremusicproduction.com/tutorials/qtractor-quickstart> by the way?

Phil
>
>
> Website:
> http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
>
> Project page:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
>
> Downloads:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
>
> - source tarball:
> http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2.tar.gz
>
> - source package (openSUSE 13.2):
> http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm
>
> - binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
> http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm
> http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm
>
> - wiki (help wanted!):
> http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
>
> Weblog (upstream support):
> http://www.rncbc.org
>
> License:
> Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software,
> distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL
> [6]) version 2 or later.
>
> Change-log:
> - Yet another audio/MIDI time drift correction fix, now giving it some
> slack while turnaround looping on tempo changes.
> - Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix platforms.
> - MIDI Track/Instrument cascading pop-up menus have been added, to
> main and MIDI clip editor windows.
> - VST Plugin preset/bank files support (FXB/FXP) is now being
> integrated to the generic Plugin/Properties widget dialog.
> - Added new Track/Duplicate menu command.
> - Added simple XRUN red indicator to status bar.
> - Make sure program change/presets are not selected on possibly
> multi-timbral instrument plugins when inserted on a MIDI bus.
> - Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
> - Fixed a potential crash-bug on first enabling either once the audio
> or MIDI metronomes.
>
>
> References:
>
> [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
> http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
>
> [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
> cross-platform application and UI development
> http://qt.io/
>
> [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit
> http://jackaudio.org
>
> [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
> http://www.alsa-project.org/
>
> [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work
> http://linuxaudio.org
>
> [6] GPL - GNU General Public License
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
>
> [7] Qtractor Git repository on github.com
> http://github.com/rncbc/qtractor
>
> [8] Qtractor Git repository on sourceforge.net
> http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code
>
>
> See also:
> http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/975
>
>
> Hope you enjoy && have fun.

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