Greetings, just one third time! Qtractor 0.9.13 (spring'20) is released! Change-log: - All meters background color are now customize-able (cf. View/Options.../Display/Meters, color level "Back"). - Automatic mixer grid layout (multi-row) is now in effect permanently--being an option no more. - Always show plugins and meters on track list/left pane as permanent standard now. - LV2 UI Request-value feature/interface support has been implemented. - Audio output monitoring meters are now shown/hidden auto-magically on MIDI tracks and/or buses--no need for some user preference option anymore (ie. View/Options.../Plugins/Instruments/Show audio output monitoring meters, is now gone). - Default track height has been slightly increased. - Track / Duplicate Track... now also takes a MIDI track's audio meters setting into account. - VST3 plug-in support introduced. (EXPERIMENTAL) - Fixed first bar/measure position drawing on the time-scale/grid across time-signature changes on the MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) (hopefully fixing issue #245). - Plugins and meters on track list/left pane, are now being set on as default--maybe going stapled in some near future ;) - Make man page compression reproducible (after request by Jelle van der Waa, while on the Vee-Ones, thanks). - Avoid resetting top or left position when zooming with mouse pointer is in main tracks or MIDI clip editor (piano-roll) views. - Make libaubio a build dependency on Debian/Ubuntu; also fix cross-build check to sizeof(float). - Bumped copyright headers into the New Year (2020). Description: 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.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.13.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.13-54.rncbc.suse.src.rpm - binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed): https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.13-54.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm - AppImage [7] package: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.9.13-54.x86_64.AppImage Git repos: https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git Wiki (help wanted!): https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ - static rendering: http://qtractor.org/doc http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc - user manual & how-to's: https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf 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.org https://qtractor.sourceforge.io http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development https://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit https://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture https://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work https://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere https://appimage.org/ See also: https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2078 Enjoy && Stay safe! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela