[LAA] Qtractor 1.5.0 - An End-of-Year'24 Release

Hi all, Qtractor 1.5.0 (end-of-year'24) is released! Change-log: - Clip/Cross Fade may now apply to all (multiple) selected clips. - Fixed the status-bar session and MIDI clip length BBT format, when in presence of multiple tempo or time-signature changes. - Introducing MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) new Transport/Step/Note/Backward and Forward menu actions, to move the play-head to previous and next note events, respectively. - MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) menu Edit/Select Mode/Edit On, Off and Draw actions are now self-toggled when triggered. - Plug-in presets menu: now sorted alphabetically. - When summoned from the menu, the View/Tempo Map-Markers... dialog positions itself to the current play-head location, instead of the absolute beginning of the timeline. - Introducing new application custom theming option: View/Options.../Display/Options/Custom/Icons theme (directory or folder). - After a shameful long time, adding a brand new audio clip via the Clip/New... dialog, is now finally fixed and functional. - Mixer: reduced track names up to first line break. - Double-click on slider for default value, replicating the behavior of middle-click. - Fxed bug: Aux Send loses state when reordered in a strip. - Create/Add new bus below that which is used as source in View/Buses dialog. - Mitigate truncated bus names in Aux Send Bus dialog. - Fixed yet another old bug regarding the flush of all pending MIDI Note-Off events when playback stops, shuts-off or panics, especially relevant when playback is resumed anywhere but the absolute beginning of the timeline (and also after a first loop turn around). - Schedule an actual and complete refresh on main View/Refresh..., especially when changing a custom color theme palette on-the-fly. Description: 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. Website: https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.x86_64.AppImage - Flatpak [8] package (thanks Hubert Figuière): https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qtractor Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki: https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: https://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf 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 https://qtractor.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ [8] Flatpak, next-generation technology for building and distributing desktop applications on Linux https://flatpak.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2706 Cheers && Keep the fun! - - - rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela