[LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

[Albert Graef]

On 03/01/2012 07:40 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> So here it goes: Ardour is a full fledged, pro-level DAW and, for crying
> out loud on its own, the flagship of the free/open-source pro-audio
> fleet and movement, not only Linux anymore nowadays.

It goes without saying that Ardour offers an abundance of features, but 
Qtractor's MIDI support is very good, its audio support is more than 
just adequate, and its big plus is that it's so easy to learn and use. 
Also, despite the "alpha" sticker that you keep putting on it, it's been 
working very well for me. In any case, we can be happy that we have both. :)

Now what's still needed is full-fledged OSC support. I mean not just 
automation, but real OSC tracks with full recording, playback and 
editing capabilities a la MIDI. We've briefly discussed this on the 
Qtractor mailing list, and I think that I've read somewhere that Ardour3 
has been designed with that in mind as well. But are there any concrete 
plans to add an OSC track type to Ardour? That would be a killer 
feature, at least for me.

> * Panic command button (NEW)

Can you read my mind? :) I was about to ask for this, and now you've 
already implemented it! Nice.

One thing I've been wondering about... Could you please elaborate on 
what exactly the --enable-lv2-state-files configure option is for? That 
was marked as experimental in previous svn revisions, and is one of the 
very few options which are disabled by default.

Rui, thanks for all your hard work, and see you @ CCRMA!

Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
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