[Rosegarden-devel] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden-4 v0.2.0 released

[Richard B. <bo...@bo...>]

I got bored.  Here's the announcement - I'll do LAD, ALSA etc in about half an
hour (just leave a bit of time for SF to propagate) and you guys can do the
usual places that you do.

Oh, I'll update the web page in CVS too and then perhaps Chris you could upload
at some point?

I need a drink.

B

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The Rosegarden development team would like to announce the release of
Rosegarden-4 v0.2.0 - a sequencer and music notation editor for Linux.

This is a pre-beta release and while not yet stable enough for end-users it
has many interesting features and is suitable for Audio and MIDI recording,
playback and editing and notational composition.  The project is approaching
a beta testing phase and this release represents a first step towards
completion of all major parts of the intended functionality.

For the source tarball, mailing list, FAQ and developer and end-user information
please go to the project homepage:

  http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/

Major features of this release:

- Multiple mono audio tracks supported through JACK with audio VU meters
- Some significant improvements to notation layout of simple
  contrapuntal staffs
- WAV file loading/saving including BWF format peak files
- Audio Manager dialog: sortable list of audio files in projects including
  child segments
- Configuration pane for notation editor
- Audio VU meters including live preview of audio levels
- "smooth-move" modifier (Shift) for matrix tools
- Event list view with event type filtering and event editing
- Support for PitchBends, Controller events, also better but not yet complete
  support for System Exclusives, Pressure events.
- Various new notation commands (Cut and Close, Untie Notes)
- Sweep selection of Segments on main canvas
- Sweep selection and multiple event movement on matrix view
- Progress dialogs
- Semi-automatic syncing of audio and MIDI using JACK latency sliders
- Audio segment splitting, including auto splitting to a threshold
- Event playback on selection movement in Notation and Matrix view
- Track addition/deletion
- Added tempo ruler to main window as well as notation window
- Non-destructive Segment resize (through Segment end markers)
- Rescale Segment command
- Initial support for user-configurable notation styles, such
  as different note head shapes and tail count.  Provided
  a selection of default styles that can be applied in the
  notation editor.  (No style editor yet, edit the XML files.)
- Rather flaky support for grace notes
- Text annotations in cute yellow boxes in notation
- Slashes now available on note stems
- Notation can now show notes that needed smoothing quantize
  in another colour (namely, green)
- FAQ and the beginnings of the first Help documentation
- Set tempo event to length of segment
- Audio visual preview - waveform shown on Segments 
- Incomplete support for BWF files
- Build admin/ directories tidied.
- Repeating Segments improved