[Qtractor-devel] [ANN] Qtractor 0.7.1 - The Meson Dope beta release
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[Qtractor-devel] [ANN] Qtractor 0.7.1 - The Meson Dope beta release
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From: Rui N. C. <rn...@rn...> - 2015-10-09 17:40:09
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Hey, Here's to all southerners for whom the so called Summer'15 didn't made much sense... Beg your pardon yet and again, but it's that time of year when grapefruit is about ripening, pretty fast and maybe late, at least on the northern hemisphere. No worries: harvesting has already been carried away. So it's your call now, wether it makes for ugly bad wine or, pretty good vinegar... "Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine so that I may wet my mind and say something clever." --Aristophanes never mind, Qtractor 0.7.1 (meson dope beta) is released! Now, for the clueless: Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. 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. And for the ones who can aptly tell a TL;DR apart from a hangover: Besides the incidental bug-fixes and proverbial business-as-usual stance for this dot release, the most probable and hopefully significant news about it, is that this will the last to build against Qt4 by default. The time has come to move on up to Qt5. Remember that a Qt5 build is and has been possible already for ages now but somewhat relegated on a subpar status due to the once lack of support for all non-Qt5 LV2 plug-ins GUIs out there. Not anymore! Starting from this very release onwards there's this so called <em>native</em> LV2 GTK2 and X11 UI support on Qt5. Also thriving, drobilla's libsuil is being updated to par just that as well. So things are all aligning up nigh. A special note to the voluntary packager: if you choose, for any reason you may find commendable, to build, package and distribute a Qt5 build (via ./configure --enable-qt5 ...) please be sure that every LV2 plug-ins around that take Qt as its UI framework are also build, packaged and distributed on the same premises, otherwise they might just fail and crash Qtractor [1] on show. Among those are of course the one comprised by the 'Vee One Suite', namely synthv1 [9], samplv1 [10] and drumkv1 [11], of course. Also as a(nother) side note: It has been for quite some time there's an alternate github.com [7] repository which is kept in sync with the sf.net one [8]. However, this doesn't mean that the Qtractor [1] project is about to migrate to brand new hosting whatsoever: the original upstream source code repository is, will be, as ever was, always kept somewhere else still in this world and universe. It's a Git [12] world out nowadays and as the mottos says, --everything-is-local, --distributed-is-the-new-centralized ;) Enjoy. Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files - source tarball: http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.1.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 13.2): http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.1-19.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE 13.2): http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.1-19.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm http://www.rncbc.org/archive/qtractor-0.7.1-19.rncbc.suse132.x86_84.rpm - wiki (help wanted!): http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/ Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6]) version 2 or later. Change-log: ... References: [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer http://qtractor.sourceforge.net [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for cross-platform application and UI development http://qt.io/ [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit http://jackaudio.org [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work http://linuxaudio.org [6] GPL - GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html [7] Qtractor Git repository on github.com http://github.com/rncbc/qtractor [8] Qtractor Git repository on sourceforge.net http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code [9] synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer http://synthv1.sourceforge.net/ [10] samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler http://samplv1.sourceforge.net/ [11] drumkv1 - an old-school drum-kit sampler http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/ [12] Git distributed version control system http://git-scm.com See also: http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/960 Enjoy && have fun. -- rncbc aka. Rui Nuno Capela |
