[LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.9 - The Juliet Quebec release

As an anticipated summer delight... Qtractor 0.5.9 (juliet quebec) is now released! Release highlights: * NSM support (NEW) * Audio buses plugin state restoration (FIX) * MIDI channel file merge/export (FIX) * MIDI editor rescale mode (NEW) * German translation (NEW) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.9.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.9-6.rncbc.suse123.sr… - binary packages (openSUSE 12.3): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.9-6.rncbc.suse123.i5… http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.9-6.rncbc.suse123.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: - Auto-incremental version numbering of backup session files; brand new versioning mode option added. - Fixed one long as ever MIDI file export bug, which was about washing all self-induced MIDI bank-select (CC#0, CC#32) and program-change (PC#) events into MIDI channel 1, regardless of the source track/channel. - Fixed initial sample-rate settlement on plugin chains for all tracks and buses whenever a session file original sample-rate differs from the current audio device engine (ie. JACK). - New German (de) translation added (by Guido Scholz, thanks). - Now accepting JACK transport tempo and time-tignature changes while in slave transport mode. - Fix ref-count and auto-removal of created files that result from clip merge/export when session is closed but not saved. - MIDI track instrument bank/program selection, from plugin UIs that support it, is now effectively and complete. - Custom connections for dedicated audio outputs from all plugin chains in MIDI tracks or buses are back in business, hopefully restored gain on session load (ticket by yuba, thanks). - Track Properties dialog now dirty after any plugin related change (another head-up by yuba, thanks again). - Tempo Map/Markers dialog is not set initially dirty anymore. - Audio buses plugin state's persistence were found AWOL: while being properly saved as usual, were being restored to default on every session reload (as noticed by yuba, thanks). - NSM (Non Session Management) support is being introduced. - The MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) gets a brand new rescale mode: ctrl+dragging the right edge of a note now rescales all times and duration of all the subsequent selected notes (after an interesting idea/ticket by Joel Leclerc, thanks). - The new MIDI clip editor rescale mode also applicable to event values (eg. note velocities, pitch-bend), while ctrl+dragging the edges of an event vertical bar. - VST plugin (GUI) idle timer makes a comeback. - Hard-wired LV2 UI selection order for plugins which supply more than one option (lv2_external_ui gets always honored first then, as provided via libsuil, X11, GTK and last but not least, Qt4). See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/664 Have (lots of) fun. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org