[LAA] PHASEX-0.12.0-beta3

Announcing the new public beta release of phasex! All phasex users are encouraged to upgrade. Since the days of 0.11.1, all known bugs and many annoying quirks have been worked out, making PHASEX-0.12.0-beta3 is the most stable, best sounding, and most studio friendly release yet: * Fixed all currently known crash issues and build issues. Code has been updated for newer versions of gcc, gtk, and glibc. Realtime threading issues have been fine-tined, using realtime locks where appropriate. The build system has been fixed up for newer distributions and includes default optimizations for the entire x86 family (run './configure --enable-arch=foo', where foo is an architecture supported by your version of gcc). * Sound quality has been greatly refined by reshaping envelope curves (eliminating pops and clicks), adding hermite interpolation to the chorus (removing fuzziness from chorus), adding fine tuning to oscillator frequencies and FM amounts, adding sampled oscillators (currently with Juno-106 and vocal samples), fixing portamento and key triggering logic, and more. * The JACK code has been reworked to allow multiple instances with persistent instance numbers and resilience to JACK crashes and restarts. * The GUI has been refined slightly, with a new color scheme, patch folders in the file dialog shortcuts list, and a couple slight optimizations to the knob code. * There's more. See http://sysex.net/phasex/beta for details if you're that curious. Since 0.12.0-beta2, fixes have been implented for GTK >= 2.16 (fixing Fedora 11 builds), the max polyphony has been turned into a runtime configurable setting, and the build system and default architecture specific optimizations have been fixed up some more. Source tarball and arch specific Fedora 11 RPMS are now available for download: http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0beta3.tar.gz http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.src.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i386.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i586.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.i686.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.athlon.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.amd64.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.x86_64.rpm http://sysex.net/phasex/beta/phasex-0.12.0-0beta3.fc11.ia32e.rpm Build reports and bug reports, and package build files for all distributions are highly welcome. This is the final beta for 0.12.0. Any build and crash issues reported in the next two weeks will be fixed for the 0.12.0 stable release. Please direct any feedback to weston(a)sysex.net. The latest version of phasex can always be found at: http://sysex.net/phasex For those of you who use git: git clone http://sysex.net/git/phasex.git Thank you all for your support, feedback, and contributions over the years, helping to make PHASEX what it is today. Happy music making! --ww