It's alive! Qtractor 0.6.7 (lepton acid beta) is out! Release highlights: * MIDI instrument rendering on audio export (NEW) * MIDI clip editor view/event criteria persistence (NEW) * MIDI clip editor resilience on record/overdub (FIX) * Generic plugin form position persistence (NEW) * JACK Transport/Timebase master option (NEW) and yet more tiny lurking critters swatted ;) Well, the major highlight to this release is in fact this brand new and way long overdue feature, seamlessly integrated to the faithful and regular audio track export function: MIDI track instrument plug-in rendering and mix-down (aka. freeze) is now real, as long their audio output goes onto selected buses, aka. stems, mix-groups, whatever a mix/mastering head would name it! nb. on the (very esquisite) Qtractor arch-model parlance, those are just called "audio output buses" and that ain't gonna change, any time soon, so stop it! A word of caution must be told by now: dedicated (JACK) audio output ports are off-the-grid, so sorry. Maybe this silently makes a notch towards the DAW epitome, though Qtractor still claims to be just a plain and honest sequencer--with yet another DAW-like feature addition--the same as it ever was. Nuff said. 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.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.2): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 13.2): http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.i5… http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.7-17.rncbc.suse132.x8… - wiki (help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ 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 [5]) version 2 or later. Change-log: - MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) position, size, and view/event type criteria are now persistent, across session and user preferences application state. - Generic plugin form widget position is now also preserved across open/save session cycles. - MIDI clip editor resilience is about to get an improvement, fe. it doesn't close on stopping record/overdub anymore. - Introducing (JACK) Timebase master setting as an option to Transport mode (cf. View/Options.../General/Transport/Timebase). - LV2 plug-in MIDI/Event support now slanted for deprecation. - Spanish (es) translation added, by avid Reyes Pucheta. - It's live: audio track export (cf. Track/Export Tracks/Audio...) has been deeply refactored to finally include MIDI track/instrument plugins rendering (aka. freeze) on selected audio output buses on mix-down. (EXPERIMENTAL) - MIDI file player now does (N)RPN 14-bit controller events. - Track properties dialog output bus switch fix/optimization; also fixed multiple DSSI instance reference count on close. - Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds. - German (de) translation update (by Guido Scholz, thanks). 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] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/894 Enjoy && keep the fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela