[Qmidiarp-devel] Release 0.5.1 on its way

[Frank K. <goe...@ya...>]

Hi,

I'm planning a new qmidiarp release within the next two weeks. There are a couple of new features and some quite some important changes under the hood mainly for working toward realtime compatibility with JACK.
I would like to know if qmidiarp still performs OK on different systems, on mine it does so far.

I attached the NEWS file additions below. Please give it a test drive by pulling and building from the git master branch, it's still time to do corrections and adjustments of the new features.

Cheers
Frank
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New Features
  o Global Storages have new features accessible through right-click
    on each storage location. You can choose if at pattern end another
    storage location is automatically selected and create dynamic pattern
    sequences.
  o Global Storage now has a position pacman indicator for each module
  o Clicking on the top button in the global store window now raises the
    selected module window
  o When Jack is not available at program start, show a message window
  o Introduce semitone shifts in Arp patterns (request 3574549 by gionnico)
  o Allow repetition of the 0 note within chords to stack notes when only
    a single note is played on the keyboard (request 3574549 by gionnico)
  o The module input-output panels on the left can now be hidden, this
    leaves some more space when running several modules side-by-side

Fixed Bugs
  o When starting from scratch, qmidiarp sometimes didn't start with
    internal clock
  o When editing an arp pattern while running, qmidiarp crashed when the
    pattern length reached zero
  o Deleting the last module sometimes crashed qmidiarp
  o Trigger mode sometimes caused hanging when a new note was received

General Changes
  o There have been many changes toward realtime compatibility under the
    hood. In particular, there are no more memory allocations/frees in
    the realtime component. As a side effect, QMidiArp uses slightly more
    CPU mainly due to not always optimal screen drawing.