[Qtractor-devel] [ANN] Qtractor 0.6.6 - The Lazy Tachyon is out!

[Rui N. C. <rn...@rn...>]

And finally, for the wrap of the pre-LAC2015@JGU-Mainz [1] release 
party, no other than the 'crown jewel' of the whole Qstuff* bunch ;)

   Qtractor 0.6.6 (lazy tachyon beta) is out!

Release highlights:

* LV2 and VST plugins GUI position persistence (NEW)
* MIDI clip editor record/overdub note rendering (FIX)
* VST plugin recursive discovery/search path (NEW)
* VST-shell sub-plugins support (FIX)
* also some old and new lurking bugs squashed.

Qtractor [2] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written 
in C++ with the Qt4 framework. 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.

Website:
   http://qtractor.sourceforge.net

Project page:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor

Downloads:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files

- source tarball:
   http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6.tar.gz

- source package (openSUSE 13.2):
 
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm

- binary packages (openSUSE 13.2):
 
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm
 
http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.6.6-16.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm

- quick start guide & user manual (see also: the wiki):
   http://download.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf

- wiki (help really wanted!):
   http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/

Weblog (upstream support):
   http://www.rncbc.org

License:
   Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms 
of the GNU General Public License (GPL [5]) version 2 or later.

Change-log:
- MIDI clip record/reopen to/from SMF format 0 has been fixed.
- LV2 and VST plugins GUI editor widget position is preserved across 
hide/show cycles.
- Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData [6].
- Added a "Don't ask this again" prompt option to zip/archive extrated 
directory removal/replace warning messages.
- MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) gets lingering notes properly shown 
while on record/overdubbing.
- Current highlighted client/port connections are now drawn with thicker 
connector lines.
- Fixing segfaults due to QClipboard::mimeData() returning an invalid 
null pointer while on Qt5 and Weston.
- Return of an old hack/fix for some native VST plugins with GUI editor, 
on whether to skip the explicit shared library unloading on close and 
thus avoid some mysterious crashes on session and/or application exit.
- Force reset of plugin selection list when any of the plugin search 
paths change (in View/Options.../Plugins/Paths).
- Recursive VST plugin search is now in effect for inventory and 
discovery on path sub-directories (VST only).
- Non-dummy scannig for regular VST, non-shell plugins, were doomed to 
infinite-loop freezes on discovery, now fixed.


References:

[1] LAC2015@JGU-Mainz - Linux Audio Conference 2015
     The Open Source Music and Sound Conference
     April 9-12 @ Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Germany
     http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/

[2] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
     http://qtractor.sourceforge.net

[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] AppData Specification
     http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/


See also:
   http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/879


Enjoy && keep the fun.--
rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela