On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:44:24AM -0700, William Weston wrote: > Greetings, > > Thank you for all your great feedback on the last two betas! > phasex-0.12.0-beta4 addresses all of the concerns brought up so far: > > Velocity: Many of you have noticed that velocity and aftertouch > were completely unsupported. Now, velocity (with aftertouch) can be > mapped to directly to oscillators and LFOs (by setting the source), > used as a modulation source (adjust volume w/ AM or pitch w/ FM), or > mapped to the filter in the filter-lfo section. > > GUI: Some of you mentioned that the colors were too dark with too > little contrast, so now there are four GTK theme options: Dark > (original purple background), Light (orange background), System (use > the system GTK theme), and Custom (choose any gtkrc file for your > theme). There have also been issues with getting phasex to fit on > small screens (usually netbooks). The knob images have been trimmed > down vertically (just blank pixels), and the padding between widgets > has been almost completely cut out. The font can be selected in the > preferences. Additionally, a true fullscreen mode has been added. > It is now possible to fit phasex into an 800x600 desktop. > > Atom processors: Compiler optimization flags for the Intel Atom > processors have been added to the build system. Run './configure > --enable-arch=atom' to build for the Atom. To force 32- or 64-bit > builds, use 'atom32' or 'atom64'. It built quickly and easily with that flag on my EEE. > > The rest is just small tweaks and bugfixes, such as fixing the > segfault on quit issue, fixing all the compiler warnings, minor > updates to the build system, new menu items, etc. > > As I don't have access to a netbook right now, please let me know > how it works out with the Atom or other low-power CPU, or on any > machine with a screen smaller than 1024x768. Of course, feedback > from the rest of you is highly welcome, too ;-} > Many of my old patches break up and create Xruns on my little 1.6Ghz EEE. A few of them work fine though. The new layout and look-and-feel is much better for a netbook. Everything fits on the screen now, much nicer. > Visit http://sysex.net/phasex/beta for source tarball, Fedora 11 > RPMS, or Fedora 8 RPMS. Thanks! I played around with it for a few minutes, and made this little sketch: http://www.archive.org/download/KenRestivoArchivePart2/padmix.ogg Great synth, fun to play with, and really easy to come up with interesting sounds using it. Thanks again for writing and maintaining it! -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
