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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, funk to funky. Yawn. Cut the non-sense, there's no burial service nor Bowie's song here. Just blowing some aging stuff, maybe giving the patine that it deserves ;) Almost one long year has gone by and sadly enough, there's no big new and flashy features to show off. But, nevertheless,

Qsynth 0.3.5 is out from the closet!

Hope you enjoy the (not so big) news :) Have fun.

Description:

Qsynth is a FluidSynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. FluidSynth is an excellent command line software synthesizer based on the Soundfont specification.

Website:

http://qsynth.sourceforge.net

Project page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth

Downloads:

• source tarball:
  qsynth-0.3.5.tar.gz
• source package (openSUSE 11.2):
  qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.src.rpm
• binary packages (openSUSE 11.2):
  qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.i586.rpm
  qsynth-0.3.5-2.rncbc.suse112.x86_64.rpm
• binary packages (Ubuntu 9.10):
  qsynth_0.3.5-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_i386.deb
  qsynth_0.3.5-2.rncbc.ubuntu910_amd64.deb

Change-log:

• Initial widget geometry and visibility persistence logic has been slightly revised as much to avoid crash failures due to wrong main widget hidden state.
• General source tree layout and build configuration change.
• Most modal message dialog boxes (eg. critical errors) are now replaced by system tray icon bubble messages where available.
• Reverb and Chorus parameter ranges have been revised to match and comply with fluidsynth back-end (libfluidsynth).
• Fluidsynth channel info and unset program interfaces are now in use where available (libfluidsynth >= 1.1.1, EXPERIMENTAL).
• Global configuration state is now explicitly saved/committed to disk when Options dialog changes are accepted and applied.
• Output peak level meters get their long deserved gradient look.
• Automatic crash-dump reports, debugger stack-traces (gdb), back-traces, whatever, are being introduced as a brand new configure option (--enable-stacktrace) and default enabled on debug build targets (--enable-debug).
• Added Czech (cs) translation, contributed by Pavel Fric.
• The channel preset selector (Channels/Edit...) has been seriously crippled for ages, only showing the presets of the last loaded soundfont, now fixed.
• Minimum number of MIDI channels allowed on engine setup has been dropped from the old value 16 to as low as 1 (one), not that it makes a difference, as (lib)fluidsynth internals just rounds it to the nearest multiple of 16 anyway.
• Cleanup to knobs source, simplified from redundant stuff.

Weblog (upstream support, yours truly):

http://www.rncbc.org

License:

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

Cheers && Enjoy.