Ahoy! Stepping up to Summer'15 release frenzy stage scene, in it's fourth and hopefully last act, Qtractor 0.7.0 (muon base beta) is out! 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. As a major highlight to this release, there's the advent of regular MIDI controllers mapping/assignment to main application menu command actions, just like normal PC-keyboard shortcuts, is being introduced (cf. main menu Help/Shortcuts...). Have a 'hotta' Summer'15 ;) Enjoy. Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.2): http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE 13.2): http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm - wiki (help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [6] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5]) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds. - Revised MIDI Controlllers catch-up algorithm. - Mixer multi-row layout gets a little bit of a fairness fix. - Non-continuous MIDI Controllers now have their Hook and Latch options disabled as those are found not applicable, - As an alternative to PC-keyboard shortcuts, MIDI controllers are now also assignable and configurable for any of the main menu command actions, all from the same old configuration dialog (Help/Shortcuts...). - Fixed missing Track and Clip sub-menus from Edit/context-menu that were found AWOL ever since after the Lazy Tachyon beta release (> 0.6.6). - An off-by-one bar position (as in BBT, bar, beat and ticks) has been purportedly fixed as long as LV2 Time/Position atom event transfer goes. - French (fr) translation line to desktop file added (patch by Olivier Humbert, thanks). - A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore sub-routine is now in effect. - Improved MIDI clip editor resilience across tempo and time-signature changes. - Keyboard shortcuts configuration (Help/Shortcuts...) now lists complete menu/action path where available. - Fixed in-flight VST plugin editor (GUI) resizing. - Added support to LV2UI_portMap extension, found really handy for the cases where you have multiple plugins with different port configurations and a single common UI to drive them all (pull request by Hanspeter Portner aka. ventosus, thanks). References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [6] http://linuxaudio.org See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/917 Enjoy && keep the fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela