[linux-audio-user] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.0

BEAST/BSE version 0.7.0 and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.0 are available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.7/ or http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/ This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. BSE-ALSA is an ALSA driver for BSE. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org The "Bedevilled" portion of the names has no religious background, refer to the About page for more details: http://beast.gtk.org/about A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ GUI skins, example sounds and instrumets for BEAST/BSE as well as screenshots can be found at: http://beast.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots/index.html The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in online forums like the Beast Help Desk, Beast Bugzilla or the mailing list, all of which can be reached through http://beast.gtk.org/. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.0: * Renamed scheme shell to bsescm * Optimized core functions for MMX/SSE with runtime CPU detection * Fixed CPU profiler to work with newer Linux kernels * New probing code for optimized volume meters and FFT scopes * Plugins/Module changes: StandardOscillator - Added semitone transposition function FreeVerb - Fixed distortions due to subnormal handling GusPatchEnvelope - Better approximation of GUS Patch envelopes [Stefan] Adder - Deprecated in favour of BseSummation Constant - Number of output channels reduced to 4 DavSynDrum - Fixed retrigger logic [Stefan] * Added support for MMX/SSE-optimized plugins * Converted runtime documentation system to use a local web browser * Relicensed all example scripts and BSE files under an "AS IS" license * New loadable Instruments/Effects: BQS Organ BQS SynDrum BQS Fretless Bass [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Queek Synth BQS MoogSaw Bass [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Merp Pad BQS Compressor [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Reverb [Stefan Westerfeld] BQS Saturation And Reverb [Stefan Westerfeld] * Major code reorganizations, only one library is installed now: libbse * Vastly extended test coverage of many core mechanisms * Moved source base to automake-1.9 and added support for gcc-4.2 * Lots of major and minor fixes and improvements * Bugzilla issues resolved: #337703, #342186, #343301, #340386, #340307 * Updated Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger] * Updated German translation [Hendrik Richter, Jens Seidel] * Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador] * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac] * Updated Italian translation [Petrecca Michele] * Updated Catalan translation [Gil Forcada] * Updated Dutch translation [Vincent van Adrighem] * Updated Swedish translation [Daniel Nylander] * Added Nepali translation [Pawan Chitrakar] Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.0: * Build fixes for BEAST-0.7.0 * Moved source base to automake-1.9 and added support for gcc-4.2 -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan