[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.5 - The Hazy Photon is out!

Rui Nuno Capela rncbc at rncbc.org
Mon Mar 21 17:02:50 UTC 2016


Hello everybody!

   Qtractor 0.7.5 (hazy photon) is out!

It comes with one top recommendation though: please update, at once, 
while it's hot! :)

Highlights for this dot/beta release:

* Overlapping clips cross-fade (NEW)
* MIDI Send/Return and Aux-Send insert plugins (NEW)
* Generic and custom track icons eye-candy (NEW)

Some other interesting points may be found in the blunt and misty 
change-log below.

And just in case you missed it before,

   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 (since last tacky release):
- Beat unit divisor, aka. the denominator or lower numeral in the 
time-signature, have now a visible and practical effect over the 
time-line, even though the standard MIDI tempo(BPM) is always denoted in 
beats as quarter-notes (1/4, crotchet, seminima) per minute.
- Fixed an old hack on LV2 State Files abstract/relative file-path 
mapping when saving custom LV2 Presets (after a related issue on Fabla2, 
by Harry Van Haaren, thanks).
- Default PC-Keyboard shortcuts may now be erasable and re-assigned (cf. 
Help/Shortcuts...).
- New option on the audio/MIDI export dialog, on whether to add/import 
the exported result as brand new track(s).
- Introducing brand new track icons property.
- Old Dry/Wet Insert and Aux-send pseudo-plugin parameters are now split 
into separate Dry and Wet controls, what else could it possibly be? :)
- Brand new MIDI Insert and Aux-Send pseudo-plugins are now implemented 
with very similar semantics as the respective and existing audio 
counterparts.
- Implement LV2_STATE__loadDefaultState feature (after pull request by 
Hanspeter Portner aka. ventosus, thanks).
- Plug-ins search paths internal logic has been refactored; an 
alternative file-name based search is now in effect for LADSPA, DSSI and 
VST plug-ins, whenever not found on their original file-path locations 
saved in a previous session.
- Finally added this brand new menu Clip/Cross Fade command, aimed on 
setting fade-in/out ranges properly, just as far to (auto)cross-fade 
consecutive overlapping clips.

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-0.7.5.tar.gz

- source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed):
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.5-23.rncbc.suse.src.rpm

- binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed):
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.5-23.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.5-23.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm

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

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

Weblog (on going, 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.

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/1022


Enjoy && Keep the fun, always.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela


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