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Greetings,

The gang of three old-school software instruments, aka. Vee One Suite, comprised of synthv1, as one polyphonic synthesizer, samplv1, a polyphonic sampler and drumkv1, as one drum-kit sampler, are now being released in their eighth official beta iteration.

All still available in dual form:

• a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support;
• a LV2 instrument plug-in.

Change-log:

• A brand new LFO BPM control parameter is being introduced, as a subordinate to LFO Rate, with follow/sync to current transport/host option (BPM=Auto).
• LFO Sync (free running) mode option has been introduced.
• A fourth DCF type has been added: a vocal Formant filter.
• A third DCF slope/type has been added: the RBJ's bi-quad.
• Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
• Introducing brand new OUT FX Send parameter per engine.
• Introducing brand new DCO, LFO Ring Mod(ulator) parameters (synthv1 only).
• Special value (0=Off) added to DCO1,2 and GEN Glide knob spin-boxes (synthv1 and samplv1).
• Fixed an old bug that caused an immediate crash on triggering any sample key/element with its (exclusive) Group parameter set to anything but "Off" or "1" (drumkv1 only).

Yup, that's true:

QjackCtl is a(n ageing but still) simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server, for the Linux Audio infrastructure.

Change-log:

• Probing portaudio audio device in a separate thread (by Kjetil Matheussen, thanks).
• Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
• Regression fix for invalid system-tray icon dimensions reported by some desktop environment frameworks.
• New hi-res application icon (by Uttrup Renzel, Max Christian Pohle, thanks).
• System tray icon red background now blinks when a XRUN occurs.
• Desktop environment session shutdown/logout management has been also adapted to Qt5 framework.
• Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
• Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
• Override-able tool-tips with latency info (re. Connections JACK client/ports: patch by Xavier Mendez, thanks).
• Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
• French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).

License:

From the footnote department: for quite some time there's an alternate github.com repository which is kept in sync with the sf.net one. However, this doesn't mean that the QjackCtl project is about to migrate to a 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.

Enjoy && keep the fun!

Yep, it is.

All Q-stuff is now set to build on Qt5 by default.

No worry, no hurry, chicken curry :)

cheers

ps. everyone is free and revert to Qt4 nevertheless, just do it by ./configure --enable-qt4 ... at your own risk though;)

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,

Now, for the clueless:

Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) 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 be the last to build against Qt4 by default.

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 native 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 on show. Among those are the ones comprised by the Vee One Suite, namely synthv1, samplv1 and drumkv1, of course.

Also as a(nother) side note: It has been for quite some time there's an alternate github.com repository which is kept in sync with the sf.net one. However, this doesn't mean that the Qtractor 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 world out nowadays and as the mottos says, --everything-is-local, --distributed-is-the-new-centralized ;)

Enjoy.

Hello?

Summer'15 release frenzy is not over yet!... well, it's only over on the equinox anyway...

QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast

QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA-MIDI and JACK-MIDI) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows.

Website:

http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net

Project page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet

Downloads:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidinet/files

• source tarball:
  qmidinet-0.3.0.tar.gz
• source package:
  qmidinet-0.3.0-8.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm
• binary packages:
  qmidinet-0.3.0-8.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm
  qmidinet-0.3.0-8.rncbc.suse132.x86_64.rpm

Change-log:

• System tray icon now blinks on network send/receive activity.
• Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
• Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
• Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.

QmidiCtl - A MIDI Remote Controller via UDP/IP Multicast

QmidiCtl is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast (http://llg.cubic.org/tools) and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows (http://nerds.de). QmidiCtl has been primarily designed for the Maemo enabled handheld devices, namely the Nokia N900 and also being promoted to the Maemo Package repositories. Nevertheless, QmidiCtl may still be found effective as a regular desktop application as well.

Website:

http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net

Project page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl

Downloads:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmidictl/files

• source tarball:
  qmidictl-0.3.0.tar.gz
• source package:
  qmidictl-0.3.0-7.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm
• binary packages:
  qmidictl-0.3.0-7.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm
  qmidictl-0.3.0-7.rncbc.suse132.x86_64.rpm

Change-log:

• Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
• Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
• Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.

QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor

QXGEdit is a live XG instrument editor, specialized on editing MIDI System Exclusive files (.syx) for the Yamaha DB50XG and thus probably a baseline for many other XG devices.

Website:

http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net

Project page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit

Downloads:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qxgedit/files

• source tarball:
  qxgedit-0.3.0.tar.gz
• source package:
  qxgedit-0.3.0-6.rncbc.suse132.src.rpm
• binary packages:
  qxgedit-0.3.0-6.rncbc.suse132.i586.rpm
  qxgedit-0.3.0-6.rncbc.suse132.x86_64.rpm

Change-log:

• Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.
• Prefer Qt5 over Qt4 by default with configure script.
• Complete rewrite of Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
• A new top-level widget window geometry state save and restore sub-routine is now in effect.
• Added "Keywords" to desktop file; fix passing debian flags on configure (patches by Jaromír Mikeš, thanks).
• Fixed for some strict tests for Qt4 vs. Qt5 configure builds.
• Added application description as freedesktop.org's AppData.

Have (lots of) fun, always!

Summer'15 signing off.