The Qstuff* Spring'16 Release Frenzy

On the wake of the miniLAC2016@c-base.org Berlin, and keeping up with tradition, the most venerable of the Qstuff* are under so called Spring'16 release frenzy.

Enjoy the party!

• QjackCtl 0.4.2
• Qsynth 0.4.1
• Qsampler 0.4.0
• QXGEdit 0.4.0
• QmidiCtl 0.4.0
• QmidiNet 0.4.0

Details are as follows...

QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface

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

Git repos:

Change-log:

• Added a brand new "Enable JACK D-BUS interface" option, split from the old common "Enable D-BUS interface" setup option which now refers to its own self D-BUS interface exclusively.
• Dropped old "Start minimized to system tray" option from setup.
• Add double-click action (toggle start/stop) to systray (a pull request by Joel Moberg, thanks).
• Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
• System-tray icon context menu has been fixed/hacked to show up again on Plasma 5 (aka. KDE5) notification status area.
• Switched column entries in the unified interface device combo-box to make it work for macosx/coreaudio again.
• Blind fix to a FTBFS on macosx/coreaudio platforms, a leftover from the unified interface device selection combo-box inception, almost two years ago.
• Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
• Late French (fr) translation update (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).

License:

Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface

Qsynth is a FluidSynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer.

Git repos:

Change-log:

• Dropped old "Start minimized to system tray" option from setup.
• CMake script lists update (patch by Orcan Ogetbil, thanks).
• Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
• System-tray icon context menu has been fixed/hacked to show up again on Plasma 5 (aka. KDE5) notifications status area.
• Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
• Messages standard output capture has been improved in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
• Regression fix for invalid system-tray icon dimensions reported by some desktop environment frameworks.

License:

Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface

Qsampler is a LinuxSampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer.

Git repos:

Change-log:

• Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.
• Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
• Messages standard output capture has been improved again, now in both ways a non-blocking pipe may get.
• Single/unique application instance control adapted to Qt5/X11.

License:

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.

Git repos:

Change-log:

• Prevent x11extras module from use on non-X11/Unix plaforms.
• French (fr) translations update (by Olivier Humbert, thanks).
• Fixed port on MIDI 14-bit controllers input caching.

License:

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.

Git repos:

Change-log:

• Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.

License:

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.

Git repos:

Change-log:

• Allegedly fixed for the socketopt(IP_MULTICAST_LOOP) reverse semantics on Windows platforms (as suggested by Paul Davis, from Ardour ipMIDI implementation, thanks).
• Added application keywords to freedesktop.org's AppData.

License:

Enjoy && keep the fun, always!