[LAA] Qtractor 0.6.6 - The Lazy Tachyon is out!

And finally, for the wrap of the pre-LAC2015@JGU-Mainz [1] release party, no other than the 'crown jewel' of the whole Qstuff* bunch ;) Qtractor 0.6.6 (lazy tachyon beta) is out! Release highlights: * LV2 and VST plugins GUI position persistence (NEW) * MIDI clip editor record/overdub note rendering (FIX) * VST plugin recursive discovery/search path (NEW) * VST-shell sub-plugins support (FIX) * also some old and new lurking bugs squashed. Qtractor [2] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework. 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. Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.2): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 13.2): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.i5… http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.x8… - quick start guide & user manual (see also: the wiki): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf - wiki (help really wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5]) version 2 or later. Change-log: - MIDI clip record/reopen to/from SMF format 0 has been fixed. - LV2 and VST plugins GUI editor widget position is preserved across hide/show cycles. - Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData [6]. - Added a "Don't ask this again" prompt option to zip/archive extrated directory removal/replace warning messages. - MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) gets lingering notes properly shown while on record/overdubbing. - Current highlighted client/port connections are now drawn with thicker connector lines. - Fixing segfaults due to QClipboard::mimeData() returning an invalid null pointer while on Qt5 and Weston. - Return of an old hack/fix for some native VST plugins with GUI editor, on whether to skip the explicit shared library unloading on close and thus avoid some mysterious crashes on session and/or application exit. - Force reset of plugin selection list when any of the plugin search paths change (in View/Options.../Plugins/Paths). - Recursive VST plugin search is now in effect for inventory and discovery on path sub-directories (VST only). - Non-dummy scannig for regular VST, non-shell plugins, were doomed to infinite-loop freezes on discovery, now fixed. References: [1] LAC2015@JGU-Mainz - Linux Audio Conference 2015 The Open Source Music and Sound Conference April 9-12 @ Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Germany http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/ [2] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [6] AppData Specification http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/879 Enjoy && keep the fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela