[LAA] Qtractor 0.5.7 - The Hotel Sierra is open, come on in!

Greetings, Yeah. Not much to tell about the times I'm afraid. But let me wish you all a merry and great new year, following the one which end is nigh. Just in case you wanna party, feel welcome, by all means: Qtractor 0.5.7 (hotel sierra) is open, come on in! Release highlights: * LV2 Options and Buf-size support (NEW) * Location markers/bar (NEW) * MIDI editor line-drawing (NEW) * Punch & loop recording compatibility (FIX) * Untangled LV2 UI parameter communication (FIX) * Dropped libSLV2 support, honoring libLILV for good (FIX) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.2): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.x8… - quick start guide & user manual: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf 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) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Loop and punch in/out ranges may now get set simultaneously, may even overlap each other. However, punch in/out range recording will always prevail over any loop recording takes. - LV2 Worker/Schedule now supporting multi-instance vs. single-UI scenarios. - LV2 Options and Buf-size extension support added. - Fixed an off-by-one-tick bug on MIDI file input which was leaving spurious zero-length runt notes at the end of a MIDI clip, if a note-on coincides with the ending/split point (on ticket issued by Jonathan H. Pickard, thanks). - Good old SLV2 library support for LV2 plug-ins (libslv2) is now irrevocably deprecated, or better said, completely wiped-out from the LV2 host code, now considered extinct. - LV2 UI parameter updates are now asynchronously detached from the source GUI widget thread, in attempt to improve cross-GUI-toolkit responsiveness, specially focused on LV2 plugins with a GTK based UI (eg. amsynth, triceratops, etc.). - Make sure LV2 UI parameters (input control ports) get updated when loading a genuine LV2 state preset. - Improved the (custom) tempo spin-box widget signal(ing) processing and dispatching. - Show proper pointing cursor and location tool-tip while dragging any of the time ruler markers (including latest location markers/bar). - On saving as an archive/zip session file (suffix .qtz) include only those files that are actually referenced by live clips arrangement. - Ongoing integration of location markers infrastructure (time-scale and MIDI-file support). - Free-hand/linear retouching of event values, while on the MIDI clip editor's view pane below the main piano-roll (eg. note velocities), is now possible provided the target events are selected, otherwise the usual painting edit sub-mode applies (cf. menu Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw). - The MIDI clip editor now senses which target view pane has focus for general selection commands (cf. Edit/Select/None, All, Invert, Range) whether the main piano-roll or the event value (velocities) view. - Mouse middle-button clicking is back in business on main track-view and on MIDI clip editor views (piano-roll) as an immediate play-head (re)positioning command or merge/reset the edit-head/tail cursors if Shift/Ctrl keyboard modifiers are pressed. - Formerly protected, class qtractorClip::FadeFunctor is now public in an shot-in-the-dark attempt to fix clang builds (as reported by Jekyll Wu, thanks). - Override all sub-classed widgets mouse-pointer event handlers to be isolated from base widget style and/or window management. Enjoy!-- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org