On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:24:08 +0000Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc@xxxxxxxxx> 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 homestudio. 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 moreor 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 _______________________________________________Linux-audio-user mailing listLinux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
