[LAA] [ANN] MusE 2.0 released

Hello everybody! Finally it has happened, nearly two years from the last stable release we are ready to present to you the final MusE 2.0 version. A lot has happened and changed, still the migration from 1.1 to 2.0 should be quite easy and definitely worth it. The big changes since 1.1 are as follows: * Moved to qt4, this affects the visuals and potentially improved portability * Graphical automation in the arranger * A new score editor * MusE now defaults to using midi through Jack, -A enables native alsa support * New style MDI gui with a bunch of configuration options to satisfy all tastes * Redone midi editing tool dialogs with lots of new functionality * Lots and lots and lots of internal small and big changes to improve stability, speed and functionality * PSIIF support (support for: probably something important I forgot) A much condensed list of changes since the last beta are as follows: - Sync fix: MusE now records tempo changes from externally clocked midi. - Finally! Audio controller playback has smooooth frame resolution even with large audio buffers. - Feature: Midi control of audio paramters. - Lots of automation improvements - Switched to use JACK midi - Added: -A switch: "Force inclusion of ALSA midi even if using Jack". - Lots of leaks removed - Added colorhints to iR and oR routing buttons - Templates: File dialog: Lots of changes - Lots of widget focus fixes - Allow loading of DSSI synths in LADSPA browser. - Midi editors: Added "Delta Mode" button to Note Info toolbar. The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/tags/muse_2_0/ChangeLog?revis… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Also a big thanks to everybody who has helped translate, find and fix bugs and otherwise been lending a helpful hand! Happy creating/recording/playing/arranging with MusE! The MusE Team ps. And stay tuned for the inevitable 2.0.1 release ;) ds. -------------------------- MusE 2.0rc2 Hello everybody and a happy new year! The final release is now in sight, here is one (hopefully) final release candidate, rc2. Quite a bit of polish has been done in the gui and some under the hood fixes for various audio and midi data handling. Crunched list of improvements: - New super-glue feature - Global Cut: Fixed crashes with markers. Re-did marker section in structure.cpp:adjustGlobalLists(). - Fixed drag and drop cloning parts - bad reference count in PartCanvas::moveItem() - File Open dialog: Start with song data and configuration. - New 'Duplicate tracks' Edit action, and dialog. Post-cleanups. TODO: Copy plugins, fix copying parts - Audio strip prefader now controls audio. - Fixed: Annoying ladspa browser issues. Leak: Dialog was not destroyed. Sorting. Save complete state - Fixed long-time graphics corruption issue: Large areas of desktop erased to background. - New: Midi routing matrix! No more clumsy routing menu items. Currently for Midi Track iR and Audio Input iR solo routes - Improved: Midi ports list now fills automatically at start - List only writeable ports in track list output port column and midi track info combo box. - Jack midi devices now save an additional required rwFlags xml tag. - Midi ports dialog: Auto dis/connect the stated default channels when selecting a device. - Complete Spanish translation from Cristian Ramos - Improved: Project save dialog: Now has quick save as Template. Separate project/result paths shown. Editable project folder. - Added: Project directory in global settings dialog. - Changed: In File Dialog, 'User' initial prepend path changed to muse ./config path. So user files + templates are shown. - Fixed: Template directory changed from /home/templates to muse config directory. Support for old files included. - Fixed: DSSI synth audio inputs. This means dssi vocoders, samplers etc. should work now - Re-write: Fixed audio mixing, meter processing. Audio, and meters, for all mono <-> stereo route combinations work sensibly now. - Window titles of ladspa and dssi plugins now have track name prefix to help identify them. - Added "Unused Devices" menu to the arranger's port popupmenu for rapid device selection The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/branches/release_2_0/ChangeLo… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Please report any findings either to one of the following Mailinglists: http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Muse_ml The bug tracker at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93414 The forum: http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/lmuse/ Have fun! The MusE Team -------------------------------------------------------------- MusE 2.0rc1 Hello everybody, Getting close to the new year, better hurry with the christmas shopping! Not that this has anything to do with new MusE releases even though one could consider it a christmas present. :) Since the last beta relentless bugfixing has taken place and lots and lots of feature improvements in preparation for releasing 2.0 sometime soon (tm). Crunched list of improvements: - added sane configuration defaults to muse - added MDI-like and borland-like user interface - improved copy paste with paste dialog - Lots of new internal namespaces e.g. MusEArranger and MusEMixer - gui widgets with new look, especially in mixer - score editor improvements - reworked midi tools - Popup menus: If stay-open mode, space triggers item and double-click simulates return - Changed midi track info patch popup behaviour. Now stays open for auditioning patches - Changed editor 'ctrl' controller popups. Split instrument/other (+ common controls!) + show ctrl numbers - Changed mouse wheel behaviour in graphical editors except the score editor - Added dialog to remove unused wave files - Changed default imported midi song type to GM + lots more bugs squashed, improvements, code reorganizations The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/branches/release_2_0/ChangeLo… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Have fun! The MusE Team -------------------------------------------------------------- MusE2beta2 - second beta of MusE2 built on Qt4 Changes: - One rather nasty bug where plugins did not restore their settings on song load was fixed. Also please note that this release can be installed along side with muse1.1. The binary is called muse2. Have fun and please report any findings to the mailinglist or the forum at: https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/lmuse/ The MusE Team ---------------------------------- Hello everybody, Time for another mark in the MusE bark. We are pleased to announce that MusE 2.0beta is currently available for download and as per usual a number of fixes and new additions were added along the way. MusE now sports a score editor (again! it's been a long time) and lots of gui love, not to speak of all under-the-hood improvements and optimizations. In it's current state MusE should be quite usable though there is definitely going to be more fixes. Here is a selection of changes in no particular order, see the ChangeLog linked below for the complete unedited truth. - Feedback parameters added to LADSPA GUIs - Added new score editor - Song loading stability fixes, some crashes removed - Improved ladspa and dssi controller responsiveness - Lots of graphical improvements to arranger, part drawing, gradients, text drawing - Added more routing choices: Synth to Wave track, Wave track to Wave track etc - DSSI synths can now show generic LADSPA GUI as well as native - Improvements to midi-only audio-stub (dummy audio) - More shortcuts added to Arranger - Support for custom LADSPA DSSI GUIs, such as those generated by FLAM http://vagar.org/code/projects/flam. - Fixed problems with midi event list editor, e.g. problems selecting items while pianroll open. - Added: Pianoroll controller graph items can now be selected/highlighted. - Parts are now drawn while recording and also midi events visible in the parts - Added new edit mode CURSOR MODE in drum editor - added simple part drawing while recording, does not draw events or waveform - detect samplerate and warn if samplerate isn't same in song and system - Added show/hide track-types buttons to arranger - Added progress dialog for loading projects - Fixed drag & drop for plugins and drag presets from outside muse into a plugin - Support for multiple drops of files to arranger, e.g easy import of a bunch of wave files - Fixed Organ synth crashing - Persisten store of toolbar locations for main window and editors - Fixed MusE failing with some non-RT kernels - added cut/copy/paste and keyboard shortcuts to wave editor - fixed regression with Bounce to File and Bounce to Track - Increased playback MidiFifo size from 512 to 2100, to accommodate large block sends, - Fixed Jack Midi 'lost event' messages due to full buffers. - fixed panic button - Completed soloing system (after 4 years). Support chaining Midi Port/Audio Out -> Audio In - Support for editing audio automation on tracks - Added right-click on track ARM buttons, now enables/disables all tracks of it's kind - Added transport position "Shift + +/-" keys, for no snapping - fixed deicsonze synth patch loading - Added default velocity controllers to pianoroll and drum edit - Appearance part color names now can now be edited - Mixer label colours can now be edited in the appearance settings - more wallpapers - Fixed focus stealing of transport - new project creation dialog - Midi track info added to pianoroll - Added fancy background selection widget with live preview to Appearance Settings The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revisio… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Have fun! The MusE Team -------------------------------------------------------------- Hello everybody, Time for another mark in the MusE bark. We are pleased to announce that MusE 2.0beta is currently available for download and as per usual a number of fixes and new additions were added along the way. MusE now sports a score editor (again! it's been a long time) and lots of gui love, not to speak of all under-the-hood improvements and optimizations. In it's current state MusE should be quite usable though there is definitely going to be more fixes. Here is a selection of changes in no particular order, see the ChangeLog linked below for the complete unedited truth. - Feedback parameters added to LADSPA GUIs - Added new score editor - Song loading stability fixes, some crashes removed - Improved ladspa and dssi controller responsiveness - Lots of graphical improvements to arranger, part drawing, gradients, text drawing - Added more routing choices: Synth to Wave track, Wave track to Wave track etc - DSSI synths can now show generic LADSPA GUI as well as native - Improvements to midi-only audio-stub (dummy audio) - More shortcuts added to Arranger - Support for custom LADSPA DSSI GUIs, such as those generated by FLAM http://vagar.org/code/projects/flam. - Fixed problems with midi event list editor, e.g. problems selecting items while pianroll open. - Added: Pianoroll controller graph items can now be selected/highlighted. - Parts are now drawn while recording and also midi events visible in the parts - Added new edit mode CURSOR MODE in drum editor - added simple part drawing while recording, does not draw events or waveform - detect samplerate and warn if samplerate isn't same in song and system - Added show/hide track-types buttons to arranger - Added progress dialog for loading projects - Fixed drag & drop for plugins and drag presets from outside muse into a plugin - Support for multiple drops of files to arranger, e.g easy import of a bunch of wave files - Fixed Organ synth crashing - Persisten store of toolbar locations for main window and editors - Fixed MusE failing with some non-RT kernels - added cut/copy/paste and keyboard shortcuts to wave editor - fixed regression with Bounce to File and Bounce to Track - Increased playback MidiFifo size from 512 to 2100, to accommodate large block sends, - Fixed Jack Midi 'lost event' messages due to full buffers. - fixed panic button - Completed soloing system (after 4 years). Support chaining Midi Port/Audio Out -> Audio In - Support for editing audio automation on tracks - Added right-click on track ARM buttons, now enables/disables all tracks of it's kind - Added transport position "Shift + +/-" keys, for no snapping - fixed deicsonze synth patch loading - Added default velocity controllers to pianoroll and drum edit - Appearance part color names now can now be edited - Mixer label colours can now be edited in the appearance settings - more wallpapers - Fixed focus stealing of transport - new project creation dialog - Midi track info added to pianoroll - Added fancy background selection widget with live preview to Appearance Settings The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revisio… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Have fun! The MusE Team -------------------------------------------------------------- MusE 2.0alpha Hello everybody, we have a present for you, a new release of MusE. The alpha indicates this is an early version so it's mainly - a teaser to spread the word. - an early adopters build. - to welcome developers who want to port MusE to other platforms. MusE has now been completely ported to the Qt4 architecture and we (mainly Tim and Orcan) are busy to make it even better than before, lots of gui stuff being reworked. MusE now also sports a new version of the DeicsOnze, DX11 emulating softsynth, up from version 0.2 to 1.0. The homepage has received a new look that we hope will give a better indication of what MusE is and does. Do visit http://muse-sequencer.org. The full changelog is available at: http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revisio… Find the download at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/ Happy Holidays! The MusE Team