[LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.1.1 (futile duchess) released!

Cesare Marilungo cesare at poeticstudios.com
Sun Feb 17 17:11:05 EST 2008


Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> Hi LAUs,
>
> After some time in quarantine, meaning that it just passed almost 40
> days since its last public appearance, the frivolous debutante has
> matured a bit but not that much. Truth is, it is not quite healed and in
> fact, it is getting seriously bloated ;)
>
>   Qtractor 0.1.1 (futile duchess) has been released!
>
> Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-­track sequencer application, written in
> C++ around the Qt toolkit. Its primordial target platform is Linux,
> where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced
> Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to
> evolve as a fairly featured Desktop Audio/MIDI Workstation GUI specially
> dedicated to the personal home­studio. It sits confortably tagged as for
> the techno-boy bedroom home-studio. There's no genre segregation here,
> it also applies to techno-girls ;).
>
> Now seriously, it even has its own Wikipedia entry already:
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtractor.
>
> Back to business, these are the major highlights for this release:
>
> - Draft user manual, contributed by James Laco Hines.
> - Native Linux VST plug-in support.
> - Initial DSSI plug-in support (audio effects only atm.)
> - User configurable keyboard shortcuts.
> - JACK server auto-start.
> - Clip fade-in/out relative resizes.
> - Auto time-stretch now optional.
> - MIDI capture/record input quantize.
> - Major plug-in infrastructure rewrite.
> - Seamless plug-in drag-and-drop.
>
> Check it out, from the official project web site:
>
>   http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
>
> Direct link for the source tarball download:
>
>   http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.1.tar.gz
>
> The new user manual draft is also made available:
>
>   http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.1-user-manual.pdf
>
> Literal change-log follows. since the last 0.1.0 (frivolous debutante)
> alpha release:
>
> - After some great user demand, keyboard shortcuts are finally
>   configurable, as found provisionally under Help/Shortcuts...,
>   for the main application menu and for the MIDI editor as well.
>
> - Debian package gets SSE optimization disabled as default.
>
> - At least some transport actions get to be non auto-repeatable
>   when pressed for much too long, as Play and Record, avoiding
>   the tumbling imposed from the keyboard.
>
> - For the first time ever, jackd auto-start is now allowed (!).
>
> - OSC service support through liblo gets optional at configure
>   time, now leading the way to proper DSSI plug-in hosting.
>
> - All plug-in widget controls count are now capped to one hundred.
>
> - Plugin paths setup is now made available on the options dialog,
>   overriding each of respective default settings, as implicit from
>   the LADSPA_PATH, DSSI_PATH and VST_PATH environment variables
>   (see View/Options.../Display/Plugin Paths).
>
> - Clip fade-in/out lengths are now kept relative to tempo changes
>   and also to clip offset and length changes (clip resizes).
>
> - Automatic time-stretching for all audio clips when session tempo
>   changes, may now be disabled/enabled as a global session option
>   (see View/Options.../Audio/Playback/Automatic time-stretching).
>
> - Double-clicking on an empty area (de)selects all clips on track.
>
> - MIDI capture (record) quantization is now an option, possibly
>   handy for some jerky performance musicians, as the one found
>   in myself ;) (see View/Options.../MIDI/Capture/Quantize).
>
> - The global options dialog (View/Options...) has seen its Display
>   tab page being moved back and to the right.
>
> - Major rewrite of the plug-in infrastructure, adding primordial
>   support for DSSI and native VST plug-in flavors.
>
> - Drag-and-drop of plug-in instances are now allowed intra- and
>   inter-mixer strip chains, either on tracks or buses.
>
> - Turning track record off while recording is rolling was leaving
>   the session in a inconsistent recording status, now fixed.
>
> - A random but instant crash upon audition/pre-listening player
>   onset was hopefully fixed.
>
>
> Cheers && Enjoy
> --
> rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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>
>   
Just one thing: when I add some LADSPA effects to an audio track, I 
expect to hear them applied while recording/monitoring too. Most DAWs 
have this behaviour.

Apart from this, Qtractor is really promising.

Keep up with the good work.

-c.

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