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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
