[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.5 - The Hazy Photon is out!

Hello everybody! Qtractor 0.7.5 (hazy photon) is out! It comes with one top recommendation though: please update, at once, while it's hot! :) Highlights for this dot/beta release: * Overlapping clips cross-fade (NEW) * MIDI Send/Return and Aux-Send insert plugins (NEW) * Generic and custom track icons eye-candy (NEW) Some other interesting points may be found in the blunt and misty change-log below. And just in case you missed it before, Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. 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. Change-log (since last tacky release): - Beat unit divisor, aka. the denominator or lower numeral in the time-signature, have now a visible and practical effect over the time-line, even though the standard MIDI tempo(BPM) is always denoted in beats as quarter-notes (1/4, crotchet, seminima) per minute. - Fixed an old hack on LV2 State Files abstract/relative file-path mapping when saving custom LV2 Presets (after a related issue on Fabla2, by Harry Van Haaren, thanks). - Default PC-Keyboard shortcuts may now be erasable and re-assigned (cf. Help/Shortcuts...). - New option on the audio/MIDI export dialog, on whether to add/import the exported result as brand new track(s). - Introducing brand new track icons property. - Old Dry/Wet Insert and Aux-send pseudo-plugin parameters are now split into separate Dry and Wet controls, what else could it possibly be? :) - Brand new MIDI Insert and Aux-Send pseudo-plugins are now implemented with very similar semantics as the respective and existing audio counterparts. - Implement LV2_STATE__loadDefaultState feature (after pull request by Hanspeter Portner aka. ventosus, thanks). - Plug-ins search paths internal logic has been refactored; an alternative file-name based search is now in effect for LADSPA, DSSI and VST plug-ins, whenever not found on their original file-path locations saved in a previous session. - Finally added this brand new menu Clip/Cross Fade command, aimed on setting fade-in/out ranges properly, just as far to (auto)cross-fade consecutive overlapping clips. Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.5.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.5-23.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.5-23.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.5-23.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor Wiki (on going, help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ Weblog (on going, upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1022 Enjoy && Keep the fun, always. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela