[LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.7.7 - The Haziest Photon is out!

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Hi everybody,

On the wrap of the late miniLAC2016 at c-base.org Berlin (April 8-10) 
[7][8], where this Yet Same Old Qstuff* (continued) workshop [9] 
babbling of yours truly (slides, videos[10]) was taken place.

There's really one (big) thing to keep in mind, as always: Qtractor [1] 
is not, never was, meant to be a 'do-it-all' monolith DAW. Quite frankly 
it isn't a 'pure' modular model either. Maybe we can agree on calling it 
a 'hybrid' perhaps? And still, all this time, it has been just truthful 
to its original mission statement--modulo some Qt [2] major version 
numbers--nb. it started on Qt3 (2005-2007), then Qt4 (2008-2014), it is 
now Qt5 full throttle.

It must have been like start saying uh. this is probably the best dot or 
rather beta release of them all!

Now,

   Qtractor 0.7.7 (haziest photon) is out!

Everybody is here compelled to update.
Leave no excuses behind.

As for the 'mission statement' coined above, you know it's the same as 
ever was (and it now goes to eleven years in the making [11]):

   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.

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-0.7.7.tar.gz
- source package:
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm
   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.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

Change-log:
- LV2 UI Touch feature/interface support added.
- MIDI aware plug-ins are now void from multiple or parallel instantiation.
- MIDI tracks and buses plug-in chains now honor the number of effective 
audio channels from the assigned audio output bus; dedicated audio 
output ports will keep default to the stereo two channels.
- Plug-in rescan option has been added to plug-ins selection dialog (yet 
another suggestion by Frank Neumann, thanks).
- Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant given 
that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido Scholz, thanks).
- Immediate visual sync has been added to main and MIDI clip editor 
thumb-views (a request by Frank Neumann, thanks).
- Fixed an old MIDI clip editor contents disappearing bug, which 
manifested when drawing free-hand (ie. Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw is on) 
over and behind its start/beginning position (while in the lower view pane).

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

[7]  miniLAC, a more compact, community-driven version of the yearly 
Linux Audio Conference
      http://minilac.linuxaudio.org

[8]  c-base.org, Berlin
      http://c-base.org

[9]  Yet Same Old Qstuff* (continued) workshop

http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/index.php/Workshop#Yet_Same_Old_Qstuff.2A_.28continued.29

[10] slides: 
http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/index.php/File:Lac2016_qstuff_slides.pdf
      videos: http://media.ccc.de/v/minilac16-yetsameoldqstuff

[11] Siskel & Ebert - "This Is Spinal Tap"
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc


See also:
   http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1033


Enjoy && Have fun.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela