[LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.7.8 - The Snobby Graviton is out!

[Louigi Verona]

Thank you, Rui!
On Jun 23, 2016 6:46 PM, "Rui Nuno Capela" <rncbc at rncbc.org> wrote:

> Qtractor 0.7.8 - The Snobby Graviton is out!
> -------------------------------------------
>
> So it's first solstice'16...
>
> The world sure is a harsh mistress... yeah, you read that right! <a href="
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress">Heinlein's
> Moon</a> have been just intentionally rephrased. Yeah, whatever.
>
> Just about when the UK vs. EU is there under close scrutiny and sizzling
> winds of trumpeting (pun intended, again) coming from the other side of the
> pond, we all should mark the days we're living in.
>
> No worries: we still have some feeble but comforting news:
>
>   Qtractor 0.7.8 (snobby graviton) is out!
>
> Nevertheless ;)
>
>   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:
> - MIDI file track names (and any other SMF META events) are now converted
> to and from the base ASCII/Latin-1 encoding, as much to prevent invalid SMF
> whenever non-Latin-1 UTF-8 encoded MIDI track names are given.
> - MIDI file tempo-map and location markers import/export is now hopefully
> corrected, after almost a decade in mistake, regarding MIDI resolution
> conversion, when different than current session's setting (TPQN,
> ticks-per-quarter-note aka. ticks-per-beat, etc.)
> - Introducing LV2 UI Show interface support for other types than Qt, Gtk,
> X11 and lv2_external_ui.
> - Prevent any visual updates while exporting (freewheeling) audio tracks
> that have at least one plugin activate state automation enabled for
> playback (as much for not showing messages like "QObject::connect: Cannot
> queue arguments of type 'QVector<int>'"... anymore).
> - The common buses management dialog (View/Buses...) sees the superfluous
> Refresh button finally removed, while two new button commands take its
> place: (move) Up and Down.
> - LV2 plug-in Patch support has been added and LV2 plug-ins parameter
> properties manipulation is now accessible on the generic plug-in properties
> dialog.
> - Fixed a recently introduced bug, that rendered all but one plug-in
> instance to silence, affecting only DSSI plug-ins which implement
> DSSI_Descriptor::run_multiple_synths() eg. fluidsynth-dssi, hexter, etc.
>
> 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-0.7.8.tar.gz
> - source package:
>   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
> - binary packages:
>   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm
>   http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.8-26.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
>
> Wiki (on going, help wanted!):
>   http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
>
> 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/1057
>
>
> Enjoy && Have (lots of) fun.
> --
> rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
>
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