[LAA] Laborejo Release 0.6 - Beta phase has started

Laborejo, Esperanto for "Workshop", is used to craft music through notation. It is a Lilypond GUI front-end, a MIDI creator and finally a tool collection to inspire and help you compose. Laborejo 0.6 is released. It now has an internal soundfont (and sfz) engine, comes with a lightweight General Midi sample set and supports jack midi outputs. New Midi-In implementation. Parameters and values for both engines are separated. You can use the same file for big orchestrated playback with gigabytes over gigabytes of sampled instruments and external synthesizers and maintain a parallel General Midi version which can be played back even if the samples are not there or running (laptop, work in a train, "just compose for 10 minutes", send it to friends for a preview etc.) This marks the end of the Alpha phase and beginning of the Beta phase. That means the current features are enough to make and handle a reasonable range of music and notation and also that the save format is now stable. If you manage to save a file you will be able to load it in later versions. Versions from now up to 1.0 will be only bug fixes and improvements: Stability, Performance, Documentation, Convenience as well as Look&Feel. (There are a few new features I would like to see in 1.0, but these are convenience features that do not disturb the save format or internal data format. Read-Only) Documentation and Translation can now be based on a somewhat stable program. Yes, there will be documentation. Cross Platform versions, stand-alone/portable packages and collaboration with distribution package maintainers is now on the Roadmap. Further information and instructions Connect to Laborejos Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus! https://www.facebook.com/Laborejo https://twitter.com/#!/Laborejo https://plus.google.com/b/116744898976321238325/ Screenshot: http://www.laborejo.org/images/screenshots/latestscreenshot.png Download: https://github.com/nilsgey/Laborejo/tarball/0.6 Dependencies and Compilation instrunctions: http://www.laborejo.org/Download Start the GUI Editor with: ./laborejo-qt For commandline parameters: ./laborejo-qt --help and the Collection Editor with: ./laborejo-collection-editor Then use the number- and cursor keys for immediate success! Check Help->Manual for navigational and note/rest entry keys. Everything else is in the menus. Greetings, Nils http://www.laborejo.org