From: Sam B. <sam...@ya...> - 2008-07-01 16:47:39
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i'm drooling already for the new LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha! will compile it as soon as i can free up some time. have been showing this program to professionals that use live&others, and have been impressed with it & my eeepc! anyway, went to a yamaha tenori-on show ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SGwDhKTrwU ) thought it could be a really cool plugin, especially for touch screens! keep up the good work! --- On Tue, 7/1/08, lmm...@li... <lmm...@li...> wrote: From: lmm...@li... <lmm...@li...> Subject: LMMS-devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 1 To: lmm...@li... Received: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 10:50 AM Send LMMS-devel mailing list submissions to lmm...@li... To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to lmm...@li... You can reach the person managing the list at lmm...@li... When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of LMMS-devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha (Tobias Doerffel) 2. Re: [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha (Tobias Doerffel) 3. Re: [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha (Ray Rashif) 4. Re: [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha (A. Tres Finocchiaro) 5. Re: [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha (Paul Giblock) 6. Re: [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha (Ray Rashif) 7. Re: [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha (Tobias Doerffel) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:34:15 +0200 From: Tobias Doerffel <tob...@gm...> Subject: [LMMS-devel] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha To: lmm...@li..., lmm...@li... Message-ID: <200...@gm...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi folks, after months of hard work we're proud to announce the availability of LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha, the Qt4-based successor of the 0.3.x-series. Thanks to all who helped making up this release! Fundamental changes happened, resulting in a clean core-design, much better performance, more stability, platform-independence and of course a lot of new features. Most of the core parts were rewritten and the whole application was ported to Qt4. Besides much nicer and less code, this finally enables us to provide win32-compatibility (ready-to-use win32-builds are available at download-page [2]). Most important new features: * FX-mixer: now you can route each instrument-track into one of 64 FX-channels * heavily improved automation: freely usable automation-tracks and -patterns * controllers: all knobs can be controlled live by one of the controllers: - MIDI-controller - LFO-controller - Peak-controller * use SoundFont-files directly in LMMS via the new SF2-Player plugin * watch your sounds with the new SpectrumAnalyzer-plugin * export your projects at arbitrary sample-rates with oversampling of up to 8x * new artwork and style: LMMS 0.4.0 looks modern, professional and uniform * LMMS now takes advantage of multiple cores/CPUs by using worker-threads * time-signatures other than 4/4 are supported now * triplet-notes can be used * render your projects without any GUI/X11 in console-mode * CAPS- and TAP-plugins shipped with LMMS * basic PulseAudio-support * more consistent file-format Hope I didn't forget something important - feel free to complete this list ;-) Basic instructions on how to get this release up and running: 0. remove old LMMS-installations and make sure /usr/lib/lmms and /usr/local/lib/lmms are empty 1. Download lmms-0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2 from [2] 2. Extract it and go into lmms-0.4.0-alpha 3. run './configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug CXXFLAGS="-g" CFLAGS="-g"' and satisfy all dependencies, configure tells you about 4. run 'make' 5. become root and run 'make install' 6. start LMMS either via the according program-menu or by invoking "lmms" 7. participate in our project-contest by writing one or more cool projects which make use of as many as possible of the new features 8. upload your project(s) to LSP [3] 9. see your project(s) as part of the final 0.4.0 release if you belong to the winners of our contest! Anyways this is an ALPHA release, meaning it's neither bug-free nor 100% stable. Now it's your task to discover and report all bugs in this release. Please use the bugtracker at [1] for this. If possible, please include a full backtrace: $ gdb /usr/bin/lmms ... (gdb) r <Enter> ... ... <do whatever crashes LMMS> ... ... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread ... (LWP ...)] ... (gdb) thread apply all backtrace The output of this command is interesting for us! That's all so far. [1] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105168&atid=640434 [2] https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105168 [3] http://lmms.sf.net/lsp.php Have fun! :) toby -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:26:46 +0200 From: Tobias Doerffel <tob...@gm...> Subject: Re: [LMMS-devel] [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha To: lmm...@li... Cc: lmm...@li... Message-ID: <200...@gm...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 02:34:15 schrieb Tobias Doerffel: > Most of the core parts were rewritten and the whole application was ported > to Qt4. Due to a small mistake, the official source-tarball will only compile with Qt 4.4 - apply the attached patch to make it also work with Qt 4.3: tar xjf lmms-0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2 cd lmms-0.4.0-alpha patch -p0 < lmms-0.4.0-alpha_qt-4.3_compat.diff Hope that helps. toby -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lmms-0.4.0-alpha_qt-4.3_compat.diff Type: text/x-diff Size: 412 bytes Desc: not available -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:45:23 +0800 From: "Ray Rashif" <sch...@gm...> Subject: Re: [LMMS-devel] [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha To: "Tobias Doerffel" <tob...@gm...> Cc: lmm...@li..., lmm...@li... Message-ID: <291...@ma...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Great news, great work, great speed! I can hardly wait for the final release now, but this time I'm testing this on win32 ;) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:40:42 -0400 From: "A. Tres Finocchiaro" <tre...@gm...> Subject: Re: [LMMS-devel] [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha To: "Ray Rashif" <sch...@gm...> Cc: lmm...@li..., lmm...@li..., Tobias Doerffel <tob...@gm...> Message-ID: <e90...@ma...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 This sounds like a major breakthrough! Looks like the wiki is a little outdated now! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMMS If anyone has some QT4 screenshots, send them my way. -Tres On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Ray Rashif <sch...@gm...> wrote: > Great news, great work, great speed! I can hardly wait for the final release > now, but this time I'm testing this on win32 ;) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Lmms-users mailing list > Lmm...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-users > > -- - Tre...@gm... ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:03:21 -0400 From: "Paul Giblock" <dr...@gm...> Subject: Re: [LMMS-devel] [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha To: lmm...@li..., lmm...@li... Message-ID: <748...@ma...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 It's true. The wiki needs work. I spent some time last night re-arranging the site and adding stubs for the new features and plugins. Everyone is encouraged to replace the screenshots. As it is a rather tedious undertaking. -Paul On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:40 AM, A. Tres Finocchiaro <tre...@gm...> wrote: > This sounds like a major breakthrough! > > Looks like the wiki is a little outdated now! :) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMMS > > If anyone has some QT4 screenshots, send them my way. > > -Tres > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Ray Rashif <sch...@gm...> wrote: >> Great news, great work, great speed! I can hardly wait for the final release >> now, but this time I'm testing this on win32 ;) >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It's the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php >> _______________________________________________ >> Lmms-users mailing list >> Lmm...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-users >> >> > > > > -- > - Tre...@gm... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Lmms-users mailing list > Lmm...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-users > ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 22:34:46 +0800 From: "Ray Rashif" <sch...@gm...> Subject: Re: [LMMS-devel] [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha To: pg...@gm... Cc: lmm...@li..., lmm...@li... Message-ID: <291...@ma...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Ok I just downloaded the win32 version on XP SP3, and it looks fantastic! Now can somebody please recommend me a good screenshot utility for Windows? The ones I've found are all crap. This is the blurry result - http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/7550/lmmswin32introdq9.png - I guess it's the bad old LCD with that Windows machine, ey? Btw if you take the screenshot of FL Studio and compare these 2 side by side, they look almost the same. This can be good and bad, but personally for me - it's great. Anyway, a couple of things (maybe) worth mentioning directly here for the benefit of everyone watching lists only for updates. This is concerning win32 port only, if anyone cares. == Virus detected by AVG == file=bitinvader.dll name=Win32/Heur, detected on open == Settings Cosmetic Bug == Help/"?" tooltip box shows on click but blank: http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1152/lmmswin32tooltipbugrm1.png == Other Cosmetic Bugs == Option/selection box default values are not centred: http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/9325/lmmswin32selectorbugxv8.png Master faders/sliders for pitch and volume have a rectangular canvas slightly visible; similar bug seen in using different Qt styles on Linux: http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/7081/lmmswin32pixbugns4.png == Performance == Spectrum visualiser and playhead slow/lagging on playback. Sweeping across the keyboards in both the sequencer and plug-in swiftly does not produce a flurry of notes; lags regardless of latency settings. Clicking on My Presets > VeSTige > Factory files --> Default.cs.xml crashes LMMS == Suggestions == VST(i) browser a la LADSPA browser ASIO..? But please, put this last in the TODO list. I'll attack back with bugs from the Linux native version soon and that's where the priority should be. All in all, great, great job and keep up the gut work. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:50:14 +0200 From: Tobias Doerffel <tob...@gm...> Subject: Re: [LMMS-devel] [Lmms-users] LMMS 0.4.0 Alpha To: lmm...@li..., lmm...@li... Message-ID: <200...@gm...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Am Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 16:34:46 schrieb Ray Rashif: > Ok I just downloaded the win32 version on XP SP3, and it looks fantastic! > Now can somebody please recommend me a good screenshot utility for Windows? > The ones I've found are all crap. This is the blurry result - > http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/7550/lmmswin32introdq9.png Looks ok here :) > == Virus detected by AVG == > file=bitinvader.dll > name=Win32/Heur, detected on open lol... :D > == Settings Cosmetic Bug == > Help/"?" tooltip box shows on click but blank: > http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1152/lmmswin32tooltipbugrm1.png Noticed it too - but it's not blank, it's white font on bright yellow background :D style.css needs to be adjusted accordingly. > == Other Cosmetic Bugs == > Option/selection box default values are not centred: > http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/9325/lmmswin32selectorbugxv8.png Gonna fix that. > Master faders/sliders for pitch and volume have a rectangular canvas > slightly visible; similar bug seen in using different Qt styles on Linux: > http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/7081/lmmswin32pixbugns4.png Dunno, whether this can be fixed without bad hacks.. > == Performance == > Spectrum visualiser and playhead slow/lagging on playback. Hm works fine under Linux, gonna check later. > Sweeping across the keyboards in both the sequencer and plug-in swiftly > does not produce a flurry of notes; lags regardless of latency settings. > > Clicking on My Presets > VeSTige > Factory files --> Default.cs.xml crashes > LMMS Yeah - no VeSTige-plugin/VST-support under win32 yet. > == Suggestions == > VST(i) browser a la LADSPA browser > ASIO..? Why ASIO? :p Doesn't work well the way it is now? toby -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. 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