Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > Hi LAUs, > > After some time in quarantine, meaning that it just passed almost 40 > days since its last public appearance, the frivolous debutante has > matured a bit but not that much. Truth is, it is not quite healed and in > fact, it is getting seriously bloated ;) > > Qtractor 0.1.1 (futile duchess) has been released! > > Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in > C++ around the Qt toolkit. Its primordial target platform is Linux, > where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced > Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to > evolve as a fairly featured Desktop Audio/MIDI Workstation GUI specially > dedicated to the personal homestudio. It sits confortably tagged as for > the techno-boy bedroom home-studio. There's no genre segregation here, > it also applies to techno-girls ;). > > Now seriously, it even has its own Wikipedia entry already: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtractor. > > Back to business, these are the major highlights for this release: > > - Draft user manual, contributed by James Laco Hines. > - Native Linux VST plug-in support. > - Initial DSSI plug-in support (audio effects only atm.) > - User configurable keyboard shortcuts. > - JACK server auto-start. > - Clip fade-in/out relative resizes. > - Auto time-stretch now optional. > - MIDI capture/record input quantize. > - Major plug-in infrastructure rewrite. > - Seamless plug-in drag-and-drop. > > Check it out, from the official project web site: > > http://qtractor.sourceforge.net > http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor > > Direct link for the source tarball download: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.1.tar.gz > > The new user manual draft is also made available: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.1-user-manual.pdf > > Literal change-log follows. since the last 0.1.0 (frivolous debutante) > alpha release: > > - After some great user demand, keyboard shortcuts are finally > configurable, as found provisionally under Help/Shortcuts..., > for the main application menu and for the MIDI editor as well. > > - Debian package gets SSE optimization disabled as default. > > - At least some transport actions get to be non auto-repeatable > when pressed for much too long, as Play and Record, avoiding > the tumbling imposed from the keyboard. > > - For the first time ever, jackd auto-start is now allowed (!). > > - OSC service support through liblo gets optional at configure > time, now leading the way to proper DSSI plug-in hosting. > > - All plug-in widget controls count are now capped to one hundred. > > - Plugin paths setup is now made available on the options dialog, > overriding each of respective default settings, as implicit from > the LADSPA_PATH, DSSI_PATH and VST_PATH environment variables > (see View/Options.../Display/Plugin Paths). > > - Clip fade-in/out lengths are now kept relative to tempo changes > and also to clip offset and length changes (clip resizes). > > - Automatic time-stretching for all audio clips when session tempo > changes, may now be disabled/enabled as a global session option > (see View/Options.../Audio/Playback/Automatic time-stretching). > > - Double-clicking on an empty area (de)selects all clips on track. > > - MIDI capture (record) quantization is now an option, possibly > handy for some jerky performance musicians, as the one found > in myself ;) (see View/Options.../MIDI/Capture/Quantize). > > - The global options dialog (View/Options...) has seen its Display > tab page being moved back and to the right. > > - Major rewrite of the plug-in infrastructure, adding primordial > support for DSSI and native VST plug-in flavors. > > - Drag-and-drop of plug-in instances are now allowed intra- and > inter-mixer strip chains, either on tracks or buses. > > - Turning track record off while recording is rolling was leaving > the session in a inconsistent recording status, now fixed. > > - A random but instant crash upon audition/pre-listening player > onset was hopefully fixed. > > > Cheers && Enjoy > -- > rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > Just one thing: when I add some LADSPA effects to an audio track, I expect to hear them applied while recording/monitoring too. Most DAWs have this behaviour. Apart from this, Qtractor is really promising. Keep up with the good work. -c. -- www.cesaremarilungo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
