On 12/30/2012 05:42 AM, William Weston wrote:
Yes, your eyes are working correctly. This is v0.14.96. Some things are worth the wait. I know it's been a while, but I haven't forgotton about PHASEX...
Great! Congrats with this new release!
New Features: - Multitimbral (1 thread per part).
So this means starting multiple instances has become unnecessary?
- Session bank (very much like the patch bank). - Jack Session. - Stereo- and Multi- outputs for JACK.
Nice!
- ALSA PCM audio. - JACK MIDI.
Another nicety!
- ALSA Raw MIDI. - Generic MIDI (/dev/midi support). - MIDI clock for timestamping and queuing events. - Active Sensing. - New oscillator waveforms. - Portamento for Osc Transpose events. - FM oscillator latching. - New LFO parameters. - Moog (24db/octave) filter. - Fast fade-out mono retriggering. - Interpolated oscillator table lookups. - Ability to run with no GUI.
This is very welcome too.
- JACK MIDI / ALSA Raw / ALSA Seq connections in menus. - Widescreen layout mode. - New preferences dialog w/ nearly all settings. - New knobs. - Pure 64-bit math in builds with --enable-cpu-power=4. New Features from Anton Kormakov: - LASH. - MIDI Hold pedal. - JACK Transport.
And the Panic button?
Overall, I am pleased with where PHASEX has arrived. In the past, I had always been disappointed with PHASEX and its shortcomings, and for many reasons. Until now. The code is cleaner and easier to work on. Most of the old bugs have been replaced with more intelligent design. On an -rt kernel, xruns are a thing of the past. Sound quality is cleaner. GUI is much more responsive. Dependence on the command line is kept to a bare minimum. Sessions can be managed with ease. Per part memory and CPU utilization has decreased vs. multi-instance v0.12.x. Timing is almost as good as it gets (sample accurate for JACK MIDI, near sample accurate for ALSA seq, and almost as good as your hardware will allow for ALSA raw MIDI.)
Cool! No more drifting arpeggios :)
This version is fully tested with Fedora 17 and 18, and should be just as trouble free on any Fedora >= 14 or CentOS >= 6.0. At some point next month, I'll be rebuilding my RAID and dedicating some space to running other distributions. Until then, a request goes out for build reports from other distros, especially Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, and Mint. There's still time to get build files from other distros into the git tree before v0.15.0 comes out.
I have a source package ready for Ubuntu 12.04 but I can't build it yet because of the current issues with Jack1. I could try building against Jack2 but then I can't test it myself because I don't use Jack2.
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