On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:52:32AM -0700, William Weston wrote: > Announcing the new public beta release of phasex! All phasex users > are encouraged to upgrade. Since the days of 0.11.1, all known bugs > and many annoying quirks have been worked out, making > PHASEX-0.12.0-beta3 is the most stable, best sounding, and most > studio friendly release yet: > > * Fixed all currently known crash issues and build issues. Code has > been updated for newer versions of gcc, gtk, and glibc. Realtime > threading issues have been fine-tined, using realtime locks where > appropriate. The build system has been fixed up for newer > distributions and includes default optimizations for the entire x86 > family (run './configure --enable-arch=foo', where foo is an > architecture supported by your version of gcc). > > * Sound quality has been greatly refined by reshaping envelope > curves (eliminating pops and clicks), adding hermite interpolation > to the chorus (removing fuzziness from chorus), adding fine tuning > to oscillator frequencies and FM amounts, adding sampled oscillators > (currently with Juno-106 and vocal samples), fixing portamento > and key triggering logic, and more. > > * The JACK code has been reworked to allow multiple instances with > persistent instance numbers and resilience to JACK crashes and > restarts. > > * The GUI has been refined slightly, with a new color scheme, patch > folders in the file dialog shortcuts list, and a couple slight > optimizations to the knob code. > > * There's more. See http://sysex.net/phasex/beta for details if > you're that curious. > > Since 0.12.0-beta2, fixes have been implented for GTK >= 2.16 > (fixing Fedora 11 builds), the max polyphony has been turned into a > runtime configurable setting, and the build system and default > architecture specific optimizations have been fixed up some more. > > Source tarball and arch specific Fedora 11 RPMS are now available > for download: > > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0beta3.tar.gz > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.src.rpm > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i386.rpm > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i586.rpm > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i686.rpm > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.athlon.rpm > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.amd64.rpm > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.x86_64.rpm > http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.ia32e.rpm > > Build reports and bug reports, and package build files for all > distributions are highly welcome. This is the final beta for > 0.12.0. Any build and crash issues reported in the next two weeks > will be fixed for the 0.12.0 stable release. Please direct any > feedback to weston@xxxxxxxxxx > > The latest version of phasex can always be found at: > > http://sysex.net/phasex > > For those of you who use git: > > git clone http://sysex.net/git/phasex.git > > Thank you all for your support, feedback, and contributions over the > years, helping to make PHASEX what it is today. > > > Happy music making! AWESOME! I've gotten a lot of use out of this synth, and I've just downloaded/built/installed the latest version. So far so good. Will have a play with it over the next few days. Thanks again! -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
