[Jamin] **draft** [ANN] jamin-0.9.0 release

[Jack O'Q. <jo...@io...>]

  ** Please read these draft release notes carefully and send me
  ** corrections or improvements.

The second stable release (0.9.0) of JAMin - the JACK Audio Mastering
interface is now available for download.

JAMin is a GPL licenced, realtime mastering processor designed to
bring out the detail in recorded music and provide the final layer of
polish.  Every effort has been made to ensure a clean, distortion-free
signal path.  All processing elements use linear-phase filtering to
eliminate phase distortion.

JAMin runs on Linux using the JACK Audio Connection Kit, a low-latency
audio server.  JACK connects different applications to a single audio
device, also allowing them to share audio among themselves.

Homepage
        http://jamin.sourceforge.net/

Download
        http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jamin/jamin-0.9.0.tar.gz?download

Dependencies

  JACK >= 0.80.0	<http://jackit.sourceforge.net>
  GTK+ 2.0		<http://www.gtk.org>
  swh-plugins >= 0.4.6	<http://www.plugin.org.uk>

Also recommended but not required

  liblo >= 0.5		<http://plugin.org.uk/liblo>
        (JAMin uses this to support OSC scene change control)

Usage instructions
        http://jamin.sourceforge.net/Using_JAMin.html

Improvements since jamin-0.8.0

	* Limiter improvements:

          -- uses new fast lookahead limiter (LADSPA:1913) from the
          swh-plugins >= 0.4.6.  The old limiter had some undesirable
          sonic artifacts.

          -- changed order of final gain and limiter stages.

	* OSC control for scene changes:

	  -- accepts "osc.udp://localhost:4444/jamin/scene" messages

          -- new `jamin-scene' command sends them

	  -- new jamin-cont plugin (LADSPA:1912) sends scene change
	  messages to the JAMin process via OSC.  (This works with
	  ardour, ecamegapedal and applyplugin, but causes segfaults
	  in jack-rack when removed.)

        * Better bypass control

	  -- specific bypass controls for EQ and limiter

	  -- separate Active/Solo/Bypass for each crossover band

	* Global state settings saved in XML file.

        * Many bug fixes.

-- 
  joq