[LAU] [ANN] setBfree v0.8

G'day. setBfree is a MIDI-controlled, software synthesizer designed to imitate the sound and properties of the electromechanical organs and sound modification devices that brought world-wide fame to the names and products of Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie. http://setbfree.org https://github.com/pantherb/setBfree It's been over 18 months since the last release and setBfree just reached another major milestone: It now features a proper GUI that allows to configure various aspects that have previously only been accessible via text config files (the config and program file-format itself has not changed). The GUI is available as LV2 and standalone jack application and the old tcl/tk prototype UI was removed for good. visit https://vimeo.com/130633814 for a demo. The 2nd big change was reworking the Leslie: The horn now spins counter-clockwise (same as the real thing) and we finally managed to track down the aliasing noise that was audible during acceleration and deceleration. Since various users play guitar and some even cello through it, an animated LV2 GUI was added for the whirl-speaker emulation and it has also been made available as standalone jack client. Advanced settings such as microphone angle, position, horn radius, etc are now also exposed (both for the organ as well as the LV2). The UI looks like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pantherb/setBfree/master/doc/b_whirl.png Other notable changes include new addition of presets for Kurzweil and Korg CX3 and updates to portability (ARM-CPU/RPi, Windows + OSX versions). The full list of over 300 changes since 0.7.5 is available as git log. Binaries for Intel platform, GNU/Linux, OSX and Windows are available from https://github.com/pantherb/setBfree/releases/latest though for Linux most distros will pick this up as usual. Many thanks to Axel 'the C.L.A.' Müller and Jean-Luc Nest who provided valuable feedback and inspiring music during the development cycle. happy playing, robin + will