[Qtractor-devel] [ANN] Qtractor 1.5.0 - An End-of-Year'24 Release

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

Hi all,

   Qtractor 1.5.0 (end-of-year'24) is released!

Change-log:
- Clip/Cross Fade may now apply to all (multiple) selected clips.
- Fixed the status-bar session and MIDI clip length BBT format, when in 
presence of multiple tempo or time-signature changes.
- Introducing MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) new 
Transport/Step/Note/Backward and Forward menu actions, to move the 
play-head to previous and next note events, respectively.
- MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) menu Edit/Select Mode/Edit On, Off 
and Draw actions are now self-toggled when triggered.
- Plug-in presets menu: now sorted alphabetically.
- When summoned from the menu, the View/Tempo Map-Markers... dialog 
positions itself to the current play-head location, instead of the 
absolute beginning of the timeline.
- Introducing new application custom theming option: 
View/Options.../Display/Options/Custom/Icons theme (directory or folder).
- After a shameful long time, adding a brand new audio clip via the 
Clip/New... dialog, is now finally fixed and functional.
- Mixer: reduced track names up to first line break.
- Double-click on slider for default value, replicating the behavior of 
middle-click.
- Fxed bug: Aux Send loses state when reordered in a strip.
- Create/Add new bus below that which is used as source in View/Buses 
dialog.
- Mitigate truncated bus names in Aux Send Bus dialog.
- Fixed yet another old bug regarding the flush of all pending MIDI 
Note-Off events when playback stops, shuts-off or panics, especially 
relevant when playback is resumed anywhere but the absolute beginning of 
the timeline (and also after a first loop turn around).
- Schedule an actual and complete refresh on main View/Refresh..., 
especially when changing a custom color theme palette on-the-fly.


Description:
   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.

Website:
   https://qtractor.org
   https://qtractor.sourceforge.io
   http://qtractor.sourceforge.net

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

Downloads:
   https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
- source tarball:
   https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0.tar.gz
- source package (openSUSE Tubleweed):
   https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary package (openSUSE Tubleweed):
   https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.rncbc.suse.x86_64.rpm
- AppImage [7] package:
   https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-1.5.0-7.1.x86_64.AppImage
- Flatpak [8] package (thanks Hubert Figuière):
   https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.rncbc.qtractor

Git repos:
   https://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code
   https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git
   https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git
   https://codeberg.org/rncbc/qtractor.git

Wiki:
   https://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
- static rendering:
   https://qtractor.org/doc
   http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/doc
   https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/doc
- user manual & how-to's:
   https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.epub
   https://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-manual-and-howtos.pdf


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.


References:

  [1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
      https://qtractor.org
      https://qtractor.sourceforge.io
      http://qtractor.sourceforge.net

  [2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
      cross-platform application and UI development
      https://qt.io/

  [3] JACK Audio Connection Kit
      https://jackaudio.org

  [4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
      https://www.alsa-project.org/

  [5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work
      https://linuxaudio.org

  [6] GPL - GNU General Public License
      https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

  [7] AppImage, Linux apps that run anywhere
      https://appimage.org/

  [8] Flatpak, next-generation technology for building and distributing
      desktop applications on Linux
      https://flatpak.org/

See also:
   https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/2706


Cheers && Keep the fun!
- - -
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela