[LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.1.2 (frantic dame) is out!

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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:24:08 +0000
Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org> wrote:

> Season greetings,
> 
> As (almost) everybody knows already, or ought to, Qtractor is an 
> Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ on the
> Qt4 framework and Linux is about its native platform. Thus, JACK and
> ALSA are the main infrastructures that fit to purpose, respectively
> for audio and MIDI.
> 
> Also a known fact is that this is nothing more than my pet, hobby, 
> spare-time-burner, whatever project, but... it's actually my own
> dogfood where digital music making and (re)creation matters. Yep. I
> still have this sublime hope to make it evolve as a fairly featured
> Desktop Audio/MIDI Workstation, one special and dedicated to the
> personal home­studio. As joked many times before, it's perfectly
> tagged for the techno-boy bedroom home-studio, but techno-girls can
> also apply ;). You tell me.
> 
>    Qtractor 0.1.2 (frantic dame) is out!
> 
> As obvious as in any respectable easter egg ;)
> 
> This time, some important fixes have sneaked in and other are surely 
> popping and will be lurking out. Main ones go down like this:
> 
>    * You can finally create new clips from scratch.
>    * Track record monitoring with audio effects applied.
>    * New Track/View menu items, all shortcut configurable.
>    * Overlapped clips rendering hopefully fixed.
>    * Improved MIDI editor selection.
>    * New clip-split command.
>    * VST plug-in parameters are now undo/redo-able (mostly).
> 
> You can grab the new stuff from the usual project site:
> 
>    http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
> 
> Direct download links:
> 
>    http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.2.tar.gz
>    http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.2-user-manual.pdf
> 
> Wait, please take a note: if you ever feel you're having something to 
> say, a heads-up call or just a direction to point, do not ever
> hesitate in having your worries known upstream. Please, feel welcome
> at my
> 
>    http://www.rncbc.org
> 
> Now the plain change-log follows, since she was just a futile duchess:
> 
> - Session length fixed (yet again) while extend recording; also
>    improved follow-playhead switching while playback/recording.
> 
> - Whitespace sanitization gets leaner for all recorded filenames.
> 
> - Run-time SSE optimization detection has been improved while on
>    configure; additionally, IEEE 32bit float specific optimizations
>    have also sneaked in.
> 
> - SSE optimization is now featured over all audio monitoring, and
>    most specially on audio bus buffering, lowering the CPU burden a
>    bit while doing track and bus gain, pan, metering and mix-down.
> 
> - Fixed MIDI clip move into new track, preserving the original
>    channel, bank and program whenever possible.
> 
> - Fixed session cursor seeking, specially regarding overlapped
>    clips, once gain.
> 
> - The MIDI editor gets new menu access to current MIDI clip track
>    (see File/Track/Inputs, Outputs, Properties); selection of MIDI
>    events has also been improved, specially regarding overlapped
>    note events.
> 
> - Clip split command enters the stage (see Edit/Clip/Split) about
>    splitting the current (selected) clip at the current playhead
>    position (red cursor line).
> 
> - Creating new clips from scratch is now finally permitted (see
>    Edit/Clip/New...); additionally, the clip properties dialog is
>    now also allowing for changing the filename (and track/channel
>    as special to MIDI clips).
> 
> - Record armed tracks are now properly monitored and fed through
>    their own output audio bus on mix-down, which includes plug-in
>    effects processing.
> 
> - The files widget get alternating coloured rows.
> 
> - VST plug-in preset values are now being restored properly;
>    individual parameter changes are now being queued for the
>    also convenient undo/redo command pattern.
> 
> - Some audio clip buffer-sync tweaks have sneaked in, improving
>    and fixing the rendering of full-overlapped, integrally cached
>    and/or offset clips altogether.
> 
> - Stuffed one primordial shot on XInitThreads() at the main head,
>    and let native VST plug-ins start behaving as they should, or
>    not; this might be in fact problematic and dangerous for people
>    who won't ever try the JUCE based plugins as from JUCETICE
>    (http://www.anticore.org/jucetice), due to some broken locking
>    mechanism in xcb; thanks anyway to mighty kRAkEn/gORe at JUCETICE
>    for this precious hint and from who knows best.
> 
> - True deterministic session length update has due fixed.
> 
> - Track menu has new accessible actions:
>    Track/Inputs - show current track input bus connections;
>    Track/Outputs - show current track output bus connections;
>    Track/State/Record - arm current track for recording;
>    Track/State/Mute - mute current track;
>    Track/State/Solo - solo current track;
>    Track/Navigate/First - make current the first track;
>    Track/Navigate/Previous - make current the previous track;
>    Track/Navigate/Next - make current the next track;
>    Track/Navigate/Last - make current the last track;
>    Track/Move/Top - move current track to top;
>    Track/Move/Up - move current track up;
>    Track/Move/Down - move current track down;
>    Track/Move/Bottom - move current track to bottom;
> 
> - View menus have new accessible actions:
>    View/Zoom/In - horizontal and vertical zoom-in (Ctrl +);
>    View/Zoom/Out - horizontal and vertical zoom-out (Ctrl -);
>    View/Zoom/Reset - reset both zoom levels to default;
>    View/Snap - select current snap-per-beat setting;
> 
> - Plug-in forms don't auto-open on session reload anymore.
> 
> - Keyboard shortcuts icon item (Help/Shortcuts...) sneaks in.
> 
> That's all folks. For the time being... :)
> 
> Cheers && Enjoy
> --
> rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

Sounds nice, at least the releases name :)
Got to really try it again, in the sense of using it for something more
or less productive.
My techno-boy bedroom home-studio needs a serious kick in the ass.
If Qtractor can help with that it's beatiful.

Regards
	mufu whateva