[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.2 - The Tacky Gluon beta release

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Season greetings y'all,

As cheesy as it might go, as a must already,

   Qtractor 0.7.2 (tacky gluon beta) is out!

Quite frankly, there's nothing really stopping you from an upgrade or 
rather update to taste! :)

   Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application 
written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux, 
where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the 
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main 
infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio 
workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

Major highlights for this dot release are:

* MIDI Track/Instrument bank/programs menu (NEW)
* VST plug-ins preset/bank (FXP/FXB) files support (NEW)
* Duplicate track menu command (NEW)
* XRUN status bar indicator (NEW)

And, of course, Qtractor [1] is now built to Qt5 [2] as per configure 
default.


Hope you enjoy.


Website:
   http://qtractor.sourceforge.net

Project page:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor

Downloads:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files

- source tarball:
   http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2.tar.gz

- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
   http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm

- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
   http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm
   http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm

- wiki (help wanted!):
   http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/

Weblog (upstream support):
   http://www.rncbc.org

License:
   Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, 
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) 
version 2 or later.

Change-log:
- Yet another audio/MIDI time drift correction fix, now giving it some 
slack while turnaround looping on tempo changes.
- Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix platforms.
- MIDI Track/Instrument cascading pop-up menus have been added, to main 
and MIDI clip editor windows.
- VST Plugin preset/bank files support (FXB/FXP) is now being integrated 
to the generic Plugin/Properties widget dialog.
- Added new Track/Duplicate menu command.
- Added simple XRUN red indicator to status bar.
- Make sure program change/presets are not selected on possibly 
multi-timbral instrument plugins when inserted on a MIDI bus.
- Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
- Fixed a potential crash-bug on first enabling either once the audio or 
MIDI metronomes.


References:

[1]  Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
      http://qtractor.sourceforge.net

[2]  Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
      cross-platform application and UI development
      http://qt.io/

[3]  JACK Audio Connection Kit
      http://jackaudio.org

[4]  ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
      http://www.alsa-project.org/

[5]  Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work
      http://linuxaudio.org

[6]  GPL - GNU General Public License
      http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

[7]  Qtractor Git repository on github.com
      http://github.com/rncbc/qtractor

[8]  Qtractor Git repository on sourceforge.net
      http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code


See also:
   http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/975


Hope you enjoy && have fun.
-- 
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela