Re: [LAU] [ANN] Qtractor 0.1.2 (frantic dame) is out!

Season greetings, As (almost) everybody knows already, or ought to, Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ on the Qt4 framework and Linux is about its native platform. Thus, JACK and ALSA are the main infrastructures that fit to purpose, respectively for audio and MIDI. Also a known fact is that this is nothing more than my pet, hobby, spare-time-burner, whatever project, but... it's actually my own dogfood where digital music making and (re)creation matters. Yep. I still have this sublime hope to make it evolve as a fairly featured Desktop Audio/MIDI Workstation, one special and dedicated to the personal home­studio. As joked many times before, it's perfectly tagged for the techno-boy bedroom home-studio, but techno-girls can also apply ;). You tell me. Qtractor 0.1.2 (frantic dame) is out! As obvious as in any respectable easter egg ;) This time, some important fixes have sneaked in and other are surely popping and will be lurking out. Main ones go down like this: * You can finally create new clips from scratch. * Track record monitoring with audio effects applied. * New Track/View menu items, all shortcut configurable. * Overlapped clips rendering hopefully fixed. * Improved MIDI editor selection. * New clip-split command. * VST plug-in parameters are now undo/redo-able (mostly). You can grab the new stuff from the usual project site: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Direct download links: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.2.tar.gz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.1.2-user-manual.pdf Wait, please take a note: if you ever feel you're having something to say, a heads-up call or just a direction to point, do not ever hesitate in having your worries known upstream. Please, feel welcome at my http://www.rncbc.org Now the plain change-log follows, since she was just a futile duchess: - Session length fixed (yet again) while extend recording; also improved follow-playhead switching while playback/recording. - Whitespace sanitization gets leaner for all recorded filenames. - Run-time SSE optimization detection has been improved while on configure; additionally, IEEE 32bit float specific optimizations have also sneaked in. - SSE optimization is now featured over all audio monitoring, and most specially on audio bus buffering, lowering the CPU burden a bit while doing track and bus gain, pan, metering and mix-down. - Fixed MIDI clip move into new track, preserving the original channel, bank and program whenever possible. - Fixed session cursor seeking, specially regarding overlapped clips, once gain. - The MIDI editor gets new menu access to current MIDI clip track (see File/Track/Inputs, Outputs, Properties); selection of MIDI events has also been improved, specially regarding overlapped note events. - Clip split command enters the stage (see Edit/Clip/Split) about splitting the current (selected) clip at the current playhead position (red cursor line). - Creating new clips from scratch is now finally permitted (see Edit/Clip/New...); additionally, the clip properties dialog is now also allowing for changing the filename (and track/channel as special to MIDI clips). - Record armed tracks are now properly monitored and fed through their own output audio bus on mix-down, which includes plug-in effects processing. - The files widget get alternating coloured rows. - VST plug-in preset values are now being restored properly; individual parameter changes are now being queued for the also convenient undo/redo command pattern. - Some audio clip buffer-sync tweaks have sneaked in, improving and fixing the rendering of full-overlapped, integrally cached and/or offset clips altogether. - Stuffed one primordial shot on XInitThreads() at the main head, and let native VST plug-ins start behaving as they should, or not; this might be in fact problematic and dangerous for people who won't ever try the JUCE based plugins as from JUCETICE (http://www.anticore.org/jucetice), due to some broken locking mechanism in xcb; thanks anyway to mighty kRAkEn/gORe@JUCETICE for this precious hint and from who knows best. - True deterministic session length update has due fixed. - Track menu has new accessible actions: Track/Inputs - show current track input bus connections; Track/Outputs - show current track output bus connections; Track/State/Record - arm current track for recording; Track/State/Mute - mute current track; Track/State/Solo - solo current track; Track/Navigate/First - make current the first track; Track/Navigate/Previous - make current the previous track; Track/Navigate/Next - make current the next track; Track/Navigate/Last - make current the last track; Track/Move/Top - move current track to top; Track/Move/Up - move current track up; Track/Move/Down - move current track down; Track/Move/Bottom - move current track to bottom; - View menus have new accessible actions: View/Zoom/In - horizontal and vertical zoom-in (Ctrl +); View/Zoom/Out - horizontal and vertical zoom-out (Ctrl -); View/Zoom/Reset - reset both zoom levels to default; View/Snap - select current snap-per-beat setting; - Plug-in forms don't auto-open on session reload anymore. - Keyboard shortcuts icon item (Help/Shortcuts...) sneaks in. That's all folks. For the time being... :) Cheers && Enjoy -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela