Ahoy!
Stepping up to Summer'15 release frenzy stage scene, in it's fourth and
hopefully last act,
Qtractor 0.7.0 (muon base beta) is out!
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.
As a major highlight to this release, there's the advent of regular MIDI
controllers mapping/assignment to main application menu command actions,
just like normal PC-keyboard shortcuts, is being introduced (cf. main
menu Help/Shortcuts...).
Have a 'hotta' Summer'15 ;)
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-0.7.0.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm
- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm
http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.0-18.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 [6] software,
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5])
version 2 or later.
Change-log:
- Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
- Revised MIDI Controlllers catch-up algorithm.
- Mixer multi-row layout gets a little bit of a fairness fix.
- Non-continuous MIDI Controllers now have their Hook and Latch options
disabled as those are found not applicable,
- As an alternative to PC-keyboard shortcuts, MIDI controllers are now
also assignable and configurable for any of the main menu command
actions, all from the same old configuration dialog (Help/Shortcuts...).
- Fixed missing Track and Clip sub-menus from Edit/context-menu that
were found AWOL ever since after the Lazy Tachyon beta release (> 0.6.6).
- An off-by-one bar position (as in BBT, bar, beat and ticks) has been
purportedly fixed as long as LV2 Time/Position atom event transfer goes.
- French (fr) translation line to desktop file added (patch by Olivier
Humbert, thanks).
- A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore
sub-routine is now in effect.
- Improved MIDI clip editor resilience across tempo and time-signature
changes.
- Keyboard shortcuts configuration (Help/Shortcuts...) now lists
complete menu/action path where available.
- Fixed in-flight VST plugin editor (GUI) resizing.
- Added support to LV2UI_portMap extension, found really handy for the
cases where you have multiple plugins with different port configurations
and a single common UI to drive them all (pull request by Hanspeter
Portner aka. ventosus, thanks).
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] GPL - GNU General Public License
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
[6] http://linuxaudio.org
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/917
Enjoy && keep the fun.
--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela
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