[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.0 - The Muon Base is out!

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Ahoy!

Stepping up to Summer'15 release frenzy stage scene, in it's fourth and 
hopefully last act,

   Qtractor 0.7.0 (muon base beta) is out!

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.

As a major highlight to this release, there's the advent of regular MIDI 
controllers mapping/assignment to main application menu command actions, 
just like normal PC-keyboard shortcuts, is being introduced (cf. main 
menu Help/Shortcuts...).

Have a 'hotta' Summer'15 ;)

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-0.7.0.tar.gz

- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
   http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm

- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
   http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm
   http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.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 [6] software, 
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5]) 
version 2 or later.

Change-log:
- Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- Revised MIDI Controlllers catch-up algorithm.
- Mixer multi-row layout gets a little bit of a fairness fix.
- Non-continuous MIDI Controllers now have their Hook and Latch options 
disabled as those are found not applicable,
- As an alternative to PC-keyboard shortcuts, MIDI controllers are now 
also assignable and configurable for any of the main menu command 
actions, all from the same old configuration dialog (Help/Shortcuts...).
- Fixed missing Track and Clip sub-menus from Edit/context-menu that 
were found AWOL ever since after the Lazy Tachyon beta release (> 0.6.6).
- An off-by-one bar position (as in BBT, bar, beat and ticks) has been 
purportedly fixed as long as LV2 Time/Position atom event transfer goes.
- French (fr) translation line to desktop file added (patch by Olivier 
Humbert, thanks).
- A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore 
sub-routine is now in effect.
- Improved MIDI clip editor resilience across tempo and time-signature 
changes.
- Keyboard shortcuts configuration (Help/Shortcuts...) now lists 
complete menu/action path where available.
- Fixed in-flight VST plugin editor (GUI) resizing.
- Added support to LV2UI_portMap extension, found really handy for the 
cases where you have multiple plugins with different port configurations 
and a single common UI to drive them all (pull request by Hanspeter 
Portner aka. ventosus, thanks).

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

[6] http://linuxaudio.org


See also:
   http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/917


Enjoy && keep the fun.
-- 
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela