[LAU] [ANN] The QStuff* Pre-LAC2018 Release Frenzy!

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Aye!

The Qstuff* Pre-LAC2018 [16] release frenzy is now officially started...

*  QjackCtl 0.5.1
*  Qsynth 0.5.1
*  Qsampler 0.5.1
*  QXGEdit 0.5.1
*  QmidiNet 0.5.1

Enjoy the first batch, more to come!


** QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface [1] **

  QjackCtl 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released!

QjackCtl is a(n ageing but still) simple Qt [6] application to control
the JACK [7] sound server, for the Linux Audio infrastructure.

Website:
  http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
  https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io

Project page:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl

Downloads:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl/files
- source tarball:
  http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.1.tar.gz
- source package:
  http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.1-30.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.1-30.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm
- AppImage packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage

Git repos:
  https://git.code.sf.net/p/qjackctl/code
  https://github.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git
  https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git
  https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git

Change-log:
- Half a decade later, recent new custom entries may now get removed
from Session Infra-client list.
- Some rather old, better said "Cambric explosion era", user preference
options have been ditched altogether: Display / Time Format; Display /
Shiny glass light effect; Display / Connections/Draw connections and
patchbay lines as Bezier curves; Misc/Configure as temporary server.
- A brand new and way long overdue connections Graph widget is finally
introduced, only to be accessible through the context menu at this time.
- Extended multi-selection is now supported on all Connections
client/port lists, allowing for multiple (dis)connections at once.
- Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the
display server platform is not X11.
- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.


** Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface [2] **

  Qsynth 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released!

Qsynth is a FluidSynth [9] GUI front-end application written in C++
around the Qt framework [6] using Qt Designer.

Website:
  http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
  https://qsynth.sourceforge.io

Project page:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth

Downloads:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth/files
- source tarball:
  http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.1.tar.gz
- source package:
  http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.1-12.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.1-12.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm
- AppImage packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage

Git repos:
  https://git.code.sf.net/p/qsynth/code
  https://github.com/rncbc/qsynth.git
  https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsynth.git
  https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsynth.git

Change-log:
- Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the
display server platform is not X11.
- Fixed deprecated calls to fluid_synth_get_channel_info(),
fluid_synth_set_midi_router() and fluid_settings_getstr() (as signaled
on libfluidsynth >= 1.1.9).
- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.



** Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface [3] **

  Qsampler 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released!

Qsampler is a LinuxSampler [10] GUI front-end application written in C++
around the Qt framework [6] using Qt Designer.

Website:
  http://qsampler.sourceforge.net

Project page:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler

Downloads:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler/files
- source tarballs:
  http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.1.tar.gz
- source packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.1-25.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.1-25.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm
- AppImage packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage

Git repos:
  https://git.code.sf.net/p/qsampler/code
  https://github.com/rncbc/qsampler.git
  https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsampler.git
  https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsampler.git

Change-log:
- Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the
display server platform is not X11.
- Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
- Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
- Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.


** QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor [4] **

  QXGEdit 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released!

QXGEdit is a live XG instrument editor, specialized on editing MIDI
System Exclusive files (.syx) for the Yamaha DB50XG [13] and thus
probably a baseline for many other XG devices.

Website:
  http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net
  https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io

Project page:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit

Downloads:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit/files
- source tarball:
  http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.1.tar.gz
- source package:
  http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.1-12.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.1-12.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm
- AppImage packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage

Git repos:
  https://git.code.sf.net/p/qxgedit/code
  https://github.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git
  https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git
  https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git

Change-log:
- Corrected wrong handling of the MULTIPART Detune parameter.
- Trying to get CC14 MSB+LSB (course+fine) running status on, no matter
whether each pairing event are under 200ms apart.
- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.


** QmidiNet -  A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast [5] **

  QmidiNet 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released!

QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives
MIDI data (ALSA-MIDI [8] and JACK-MIDI [7]) over the network, using
UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [14] and designed to be
compatible with ipMIDI [15] for Windows.

Website:
  http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net
  https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io

Project page:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet

Downloads:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet/files
- source tarball:
  http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.1.tar.gz
- source package:
  http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.1-14.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.1-14.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm
- AppImage packages:
  http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage

Git repos:
  https://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidinet/code
  https://github.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git
  https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git
  https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git

Change-log:
- A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.



License:
  All of the Qstuff* are free, open-source Linux Audio [11] software,
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
version 2 or later [12].


References:

 [1] QjackCtl - A JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface
     http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net

 [2] Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface
     http://qsynth.sourceforge.net

 [3] Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
     http://qsampler.sourceforge.net

 [4] QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor
     http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net

 [5] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast
     http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net

 [6] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
     cross-platform application and UI development
     http://qt.io/

 [7] JACK Audio Connection Kit
     http://jackaudio.org

 [8] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
     http://www.alsa-project.org/

 [9] FluidSynth - A SoundFont Synthesizer
     A real-time software synthesizer based on SoundFont 2 specifications
     http://www.fluidsynth.org

[10] LinuxSampler - The Linux Sampler Project
     A modular, streaming capable, realtime audio sampler
     http://www.linuxsampler.org

[11] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work
     http://linuxaudio.org

[12] GPL - GNU General Public License
     http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

[13] Yamaha DB50XG
     http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/may96/yamahadb50xg.html

[14] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over
network
     http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast

[15] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN
     http://nerds.de

[16] LAC2018 at c-base_Berlin, June 7–10 2018
     https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2018/


See also:
  https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1911


Enjoy && have (lots of) fun!
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela