New subject: Announcing PHASEX-0.14.96

30 Dec 2012

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  ----- Original Message -----
 From: Jeremy Jongepier

 On 12/30/2012 05:42 AM, William Weston wrote:
  Yes, your eyes are working correctly. This is
v0.14.96. Some things
 are worth the wait. I know it's been a while, but I haven't forgotton
 about PHASEX...

 Great! Congrats with this new release!

 New Features:
 - Multitimbral (1 thread per part).  
 So this means starting multiple instances has become unnecessary? 
Correct.  Multi-instance worked, but it was a pain.  Currently, number
of voices is set at compile time, so be sure to run configure with
--enable-parts=4, or however may parts you want to use.  More than two
parts per CPU core is not currently recommended, however.

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  - Session bank (very much like the patch bank).
 - Jack Session.
 - Stereo- and Multi- outputs for JACK.  
 Nice!

  - ALSA PCM audio.
 - JACK MIDI.  
 Another nicety!

  - ALSA Raw MIDI.
 - Generic MIDI (/dev/midi support).
 - MIDI clock for timestamping and queuing events.
 - Active Sensing.
 - New oscillator waveforms.
 - Portamento for Osc Transpose events.
 - FM oscillator latching.
 - New LFO parameters.
 - Moog (24db/octave) filter.
 - Fast fade-out mono retriggering.
 - Interpolated oscillator table lookups.
 - Ability to run with no GUI.  
 This is very welcome too.

  - JACK MIDI / ALSA Raw / ALSA Seq connections in
menus.
 - Widescreen layout mode.
 - New preferences dialog w/ nearly all settings.
 - New knobs.
 - Pure 64-bit math in builds with --enable-cpu-power=4.

 New Features from Anton Kormakov:
 - LASH.
 - MIDI Hold pedal.
 - JACK Transport.

 And the Panic button? 
I had already implemented this as the "Notes Off" button before reviewing
Anton's work.  This probably should be renamed.

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   Overall, I am
pleased with where PHASEX has arrived. In the past, I
 had always been disappointed with PHASEX and its shortcomings, and for
 many reasons. Until now. The code is cleaner and easier to work on.
 Most of the old bugs have been replaced with more intelligent design.
 On an -rt kernel, xruns are a thing of the past. Sound quality is
 cleaner. GUI is much more responsive. Dependence on the command line
 is kept to a bare minimum. Sessions can be managed with ease. Per
 part memory and CPU utilization has decreased vs. multi-instance
 v0.12.x. Timing is almost as good as it gets (sample accurate for
 JACK MIDI, near sample accurate for ALSA seq, and almost as good as
 your hardware will allow for ALSA raw MIDI.)  
 Cool! No more drifting arpeggios :) 
Unfortunately, I haven't got around to implementing LFO sync with the MIDI
clock yet, so there still may be some drift.  This MIDI clock currently
handles event timestamping and MIDI/audio/engine thread synchronization,
and does not yet handle phase sync.  If you're running on a fast 64-bit
processor, you can get better precision on the LFOs with a pure 64-bit
build (--enable-cpu-power=4).

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   This version
is fully tested with Fedora 17 and 18, and should be just
 as trouble free on any Fedora >= 14 or CentOS >= 6.0. At some point
 next month, I'll be rebuilding my RAID and dedicating some space to
 running other distributions. Until then, a request goes out for build
 reports from other distros, especially Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, and Mint.
 There's still time to get build files from other distros into the git
 tree before v0.15.0 comes out.

 I have a source package ready for Ubuntu 12.04 but I can't build it yet 
 because of the current issues with Jack1. I could try building against 
 Jack2 but then I can't test it myself because I don't use Jack2. 
Try v0.14.97-dev in git:

git clone -b v0.14.97-dev https://github.com/williamweston/phasex.git

I haven't been able to verify the jack1 fixes yet, but I'm very hopeful.

Cheers,
--ww

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