Re: PHASEX-0.12.0-beta3

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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
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