[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.9 - A Snobbier Graviton release

So it's the last equinox'16... And the last of the Qstuff* End of Summer'16 release parties [7][8]. Qtractor 0.7.9 (snobbier graviton) is now released! Release highlights: * Audio/MIDI metronome anticipatory offset (NEW) * Current clip highlighting (NEW) * SFZ sample file archive/zip bundling (NEW) * MIDI transpose Reverse tool (NEW) * MIDI (N)RPN running status and NULL support (NEW) * MIDI Controllers catch-up algorithm (FIX) * MIDI track Instrument menu (FIX) * JACK shutdown and buffer-size changes (FIX) 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: 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-0.7.9.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.9-27.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.9-27.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.9-27.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm Git repos: http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ 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. And the boring complete change-log follows: - JACK buffer-size change handling has been deeply improved, now doing an immediate session restart, while preserving all external connections as much as possible. - Introducing an audio and MIDI metronome anticipatory offset, kind of latency compensation, to respective option settings cf. View/Options.../Audio, MIDI/Metronome/Offset (latency). - Fixed LADSPA plug-in preset switching, incidentally broken as NOP, ever since late Haziest Photon's crash-landed. - MIDI Track/Instrument cascading menus have been found empty broken on Qt5 builds, now fixed. - MIDI RPN/NRPN running status and RPN NULL reset command are now supported (input only). - Fixed a sure immediate crash on removing audio buses that are current targets of any active Aux-send inserts. - Fixed yet another old bummer that was reaping off assigned MIDI controllers on existing track's gain/volume or panning controls, when adding any single new track. - Fixed missing feedback on MIDI controllers assigned to any of monitor, record, mute and solo track/bus state buttons. - Eye-candy warning: the current clip, not necessarily the one currently selected, is now highlighted with a solid outline; linked MIDI clips are also highlighted with an alternate dashed outline. - SFZ file conversion, and bundling of the respective sample files, is now supported when saving as zip/archive (*.qtz). - Fixed track monitor, record, mute and solo dangling states, on Track/Duplicate command. - Slight regression on the LV2 State Files abstract/relative file-path mapping, trading QFileInfo::canonicalFilePath() for QFileInfo::absoluteFilePath(), and thus skipping all symlink dereferences in the process. - Fixed a one first linking/ref-counting glitch, affecting recently recorded MIDI clips which might have their initial clip length still un-quantized to MIDI resolution (BBT). - A brand new and discrete MIDI clip editor command tool has been added: MIDI Tools/Transpose/Reverse. - Discretely fixed MIDI Controllers catch-up algorithm. - Fixed a borderline mistake on plug-in parameter port index mapping to its corresponding symbolic name, especially if newer plug-in versions are loaded on older saved sessions. 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 [7] The QStuff* End of Summer'16 Release http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1696 [8] Vee One Suite 0.7.6 - The Eleventh beta release http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1699 See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1700 Enjoy && Have (lots of) fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela