Season greetings y'all, As cheesy as it might go, as a must already, Qtractor 0.7.2 (tacky gluon beta) is out! Quite frankly, there's nothing really stopping you from an upgrade or rather update to taste! :) 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. Major highlights for this dot release are: * MIDI Track/Instrument bank/programs menu (NEW) * VST plug-ins preset/bank (FXP/FXB) files support (NEW) * Duplicate track menu command (NEW) * XRUN status bar indicator (NEW) And, of course, Qtractor [1] is now built to Qt5 [2] as per configure default. Hope you 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-0.7.2.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.2): http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE 13.2): http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.2-20.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 [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. Change-log: - Yet another audio/MIDI time drift correction fix, now giving it some slack while turnaround looping on tempo changes. - Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix platforms. - MIDI Track/Instrument cascading pop-up menus have been added, to main and MIDI clip editor windows. - VST Plugin preset/bank files support (FXB/FXP) is now being integrated to the generic Plugin/Properties widget dialog. - Added new Track/Duplicate menu command. - Added simple XRUN red indicator to status bar. - Make sure program change/presets are not selected on possibly multi-timbral instrument plugins when inserted on a MIDI bus. - Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script. - Fixed a potential crash-bug on first enabling either once the audio or MIDI metronomes. 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] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] Qtractor Git repository on github.com http://github.com/rncbc/qtractor [8] Qtractor Git repository on sourceforge.net http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/975 Hope you enjoy && have fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela