[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.8 - The Snobby Graviton is out!

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Qtractor 0.7.8 - The Snobby Graviton is out!
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So it's first solstice'16...

The world sure is a harsh mistress... yeah, you read that right! <a 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress">Heinlein's 
Moon</a> have been just intentionally rephrased. Yeah, whatever.

Just about when the UK vs. EU is there under close scrutiny and sizzling 
winds of trumpeting (pun intended, again) coming from the other side of 
the pond, we all should mark the days we're living in.

No worries: we still have some feeble but comforting news:

   Qtractor 0.7.8 (snobby graviton) is out!

Nevertheless ;)

   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.

Change-log:
- MIDI file track names (and any other SMF META events) are now 
converted to and from the base ASCII/Latin-1 encoding, as much to 
prevent invalid SMF whenever non-Latin-1 UTF-8 encoded MIDI track names 
are given.
- MIDI file tempo-map and location markers import/export is now 
hopefully corrected, after almost a decade in mistake, regarding MIDI 
resolution conversion, when different than current session's setting 
(TPQN, ticks-per-quarter-note aka. ticks-per-beat, etc.)
- Introducing LV2 UI Show interface support for other types than Qt, 
Gtk, X11 and lv2_external_ui.
- Prevent any visual updates while exporting (freewheeling) audio tracks 
that have at least one plugin activate state automation enabled for 
playback (as much for not showing messages like "QObject::connect: 
Cannot queue arguments of type 'QVector<int>'"... anymore).
- The common buses management dialog (View/Buses...) sees the 
superfluous Refresh button finally removed, while two new button 
commands take its place: (move) Up and Down.
- LV2 plug-in Patch support has been added and LV2 plug-ins parameter 
properties manipulation is now accessible on the generic plug-in 
properties dialog.
- Fixed a recently introduced bug, that rendered all but one plug-in 
instance to silence, affecting only DSSI plug-ins which implement 
DSSI_Descriptor::run_multiple_synths() eg. fluidsynth-dssi, hexter, etc.

Website:
   http://qtractor.sourceforge.net

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

Downloads:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
- source tarball:
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8.tar.gz
- source package:
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm
   
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm

Git repos:
   http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code
   https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git
   https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git
   https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git

Wiki (on going, help wanted!):
   http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/

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.

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


See also:
   http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1057


Enjoy && Have (lots of) fun.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela