Aye! The Qstuff* Pre-LAC2018 [16] release frenzy is now officially started... * QjackCtl 0.5.1 * Qsynth 0.5.1 * Qsampler 0.5.1 * QXGEdit 0.5.1 * QmidiNet 0.5.1 Enjoy the first batch, more to come! ** QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface [1] ** QjackCtl 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released! QjackCtl is a(n ageing but still) simple Qt [6] application to control the JACK [7] sound server, for the Linux Audio infrastructure. Website: http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net https://qjackctl.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.1-30.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.1-30.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qjackctl/qjackctl-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qjackctl/code https://github.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qjackctl.git Change-log: - Half a decade later, recent new custom entries may now get removed from Session Infra-client list. - Some rather old, better said "Cambric explosion era", user preference options have been ditched altogether: Display / Time Format; Display / Shiny glass light effect; Display / Connections/Draw connections and patchbay lines as Bezier curves; Misc/Configure as temporary server. - A brand new and way long overdue connections Graph widget is finally introduced, only to be accessible through the context menu at this time. - Extended multi-selection is now supported on all Connections client/port lists, allowing for multiple (dis)connections at once. - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the display server platform is not X11. - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side. ** Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface [2] ** Qsynth 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released! Qsynth is a FluidSynth [9] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework [6] using Qt Designer. Website: http://qsynth.sourceforge.net https://qsynth.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.1-12.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.1-12.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qsynth/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsynth.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsynth.git Change-log: - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the display server platform is not X11. - Fixed deprecated calls to fluid_synth_get_channel_info(), fluid_synth_set_midi_router() and fluid_settings_getstr() (as signaled on libfluidsynth >= 1.1.9). - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side. ** Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface [3] ** Qsampler 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released! Qsampler is a LinuxSampler [10] GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework [6] using Qt Designer. Website: http://qsampler.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsampler/files - source tarballs: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.1.tar.gz - source packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.1-25.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.1-25.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qsampler/qsampler-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qsampler/code https://github.com/rncbc/qsampler.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qsampler.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qsampler.git Change-log: - Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the display server platform is not X11. - Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes. - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side. - Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog. - Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app. ** QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor [4] ** QXGEdit 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released! QXGEdit is a live XG instrument editor, specialized on editing MIDI System Exclusive files (.syx) for the Yamaha DB50XG [13] and thus probably a baseline for many other XG devices. Website: http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.1-12.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.1-12.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qxgedit/qxgedit-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qxgedit/code https://github.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qxgedit.git Change-log: - Corrected wrong handling of the MULTIPART Detune parameter. - Trying to get CC14 MSB+LSB (course+fine) running status on, no matter whether each pairing event are under 200ms apart. - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side. ** QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast [5] ** QmidiNet 0.5.1 (pre-lac2018) is released! QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA-MIDI [8] and JACK-MIDI [7]) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast [14] and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI [15] for Windows. Website: http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet/files - source tarball: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.1.tar.gz - source package: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.1-14.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary packages: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.1-14.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage packages: http://download.sf.net/qmidinet/qmidinet-0.5.1-2.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qmidinet/code https://github.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git https://bitbucket.com/rncbc/qmidinet.git Change-log: - A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side. License: All of the Qstuff* are free, open-source Linux Audio [11] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later [12]. References: [1] QjackCtl - A JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net [2] Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface http://qsynth.sourceforge.net [3] Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface http://qsampler.sourceforge.net [4] QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net [5] QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net [6] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [7] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [8] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [9] FluidSynth - A SoundFont Synthesizer A real-time software synthesizer based on SoundFont 2 specifications http://www.fluidsynth.org [10] LinuxSampler - The Linux Sampler Project A modular, streaming capable, realtime audio sampler http://www.linuxsampler.org [11] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [12] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [13] Yamaha DB50XG http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/may96/yamahadb50xg.html [14] multimidicast - sends and receives MIDI from ALSA sequencers over network http://llg.cubic.org/tools/multimidicast [15] ipMIDI - MIDI over Ethernet ports - send MIDI over your LAN http://nerds.de [16] LAC2018@c-base_Berlin, June 7–10 2018 https://lac.linuxaudio.org/2018/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1911 Enjoy && have (lots of) fun! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela