[LAA] Qtractor 0.7.4 - The Tackiest Gluon released!

Ahoy there! Qtractor 0.7.4 (the tackiest gluon) has been released! Y'all know the drill... 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: - Eye-candy warning: muted/non-soloed tracks are now shaded over the main thumb-view. - Faster and crispier VST plugin editor (GUI) idle cycles. - Fixed all core processing when any plugin has more audio outputs than channels on a track/bus where it's inserted. - Added one decimal digit to all percentage input spin-boxes on the MIDI Tools dialog. - Added brand new and global option to disable the so called "catch-up" default behavior (cf. View/Controllers.../Sync). - Fixed some track control issues related to MIDI Controllers generic mapping (cf. View/Controllers...). - Try making Help/Shortcuts... dialog window modeless, as far as under MIDI Controller, Inputs/Outputs Connections window also gets accessible enough. - Fixed some vertical scrolling and play-head line re-drawing glitches introduced by the recent unlimited slack to editing beyond current contents length on main tracks view. - Added one decimal digit to the Pitch-shift spin-box on audio Clip/Edit... properties dialog window. - Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData. - Fixed local keyboard shortcuts on the Files organizer widget actions and context-menu. - Improved Mixer multi-row layout (patch by Holger Marzen aka. bluebell, thanks). - Fixed the Ctrl+drag/cloning left of a clip when towards near the beginning of session. 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-0.7.4.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE Tumbleweed): http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.4-22.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm - wiki (on going, help still 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/1000 Enjoy && Have (lots of) fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela