Hi We are pleased to announce the release of rakarrack 0.5.8 Equinox, a summer gift. This is a major feature release, but we have also fixed many old bugs. We know that today is a Solstice, but we think that Equinox is a better definition for this version because we have worked diligently since release of 0.4.2, and 0.5.8 for us is like the start of a new cycle in the development of Rakarrack. Releasing on a Solstice is simply because this is a good reason to celebrate if you're a musician with preference for free open source software. http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net NEWS New Bank File format, we include a utility "rakconvert" to convert Bank files to the new format. New Effects: Valve, Dual Flange, Ring, Exciter, Expander, DistBand, Arpie, Shuffle, Synthfilter, VaryBand, Convolotron, Looper, MuTroMojo, Echoverse, CoilCrafter, ShelfBoost, Vocoder, Sustainer, Sequence, Shifter, StompBox, Reverbtron, Echotron. New Features: Tap Tempo. Upsampling using libsamplerate by Erik de Castro Lopo. Downsample intesive CPU effects. Upsample Waveshapper. ACI Analog Control Interface. Waveshappers: M.Saw, Compress, Overdrive, Soft, Super Soft, Gard Compress, Lmt-NoGain, Hard Compress, FET, DynoFET, Valve1, Valve2, Diode clipper. LFO Modulation: M.Saw, L.Fractal. Improvements: GUI DC Offset Filter at the input. Tuner Callibration Auto Connect jack input ports. GUI and bug fixes. The rakarrack team: Josep Andreu - Ryan Billing - Douglas McClendon - Arnout Engelen -- Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>