Qtractor 0.5.7 - The Hotel Sierra is open, come on in!

Greeetings,

Yeah. Not much to tell about the times I'm afraid. But let me wish you all a merry and great new year, following the one which end is nigh. Just in case you wanna party, feel welcome, by all means:

Release highlights:

• LV2 Options and Buf-size support (NEW)
• Location markers/bar (NEW)
• MIDI editor line-drawing (NEW)
• Punch & loop recording compatibility (FIX)
• Untangled LV2 UI parameter communication (FIX)
• Dropped libSLV2 support, honoring libLILV for good (FIX)

Website:

Project page:

Downloads:

• source tarball:
  qtractor-0.5.7.tar.gz
• source package (openSUSE 12.2):
  qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.src.rpm
• binary packages (openSUSE 12.2):
  qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.i586.rpm
  qtractor-0.5.7-4.rncbc.suse122.x86_64.rpm
• quick start guide & user manual:
  qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf

Weblog (upstream support):

License:

Change-log:

• Loop and punch in/out ranges may now get set simultaneously, may even overlap each other. However, punch in/out range recording will always prevail over any loop recording takes.
• LV2 Worker/Schedule now supporting multi-instance vs. single-UI scenarios.
• LV2 Options and Buf-size extension support added.
• Fixed an off-by-one-tick bug on MIDI file input which was leaving spurious zero-length runt notes at the end of a MIDI clip, if a note-on coincides with the ending/split point (on ticket issued by Jonathan H. Pickard, thanks).
• Good old SLV2 library support for LV2 plug-ins (libslv2) is now irrevocably deprecated, or better said, completely wiped-out from the LV2 host code, now considered extinct.
• LV2 UI parameter updates are now asynchronously detached from the source GUI widget thread, in attempt to improve cross-GUI-toolkit responsiveness, specially focused on LV2 plugins with a GTK based UI (eg. amsynth, triceratops, etc.).
• Make sure LV2 UI parameters (input control ports) get updated when loading a genuine LV2 state preset.
• Improved the (custom) tempo spin-box widget signal(ing) processing and dispatching.
• Show proper pointing cursor and location tool-tip while dragging any of the time ruler markers (including latest location markers/bar).
• On saving as an archive/zip session file (suffix .qtz) include only those files that are actually referenced by live clips arrangement.
• Ongoing integration of location markers infrastructure (time-scale and MIDI-file support).
• Free-hand/linear retouching of event values, while on the MIDI clip editor's view pane below the main piano-roll (eg. note velocities), is now possible provided the target events are selected, otherwise the usual painting edit sub-mode applies (cf. menu Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw).
• The MIDI clip editor now senses which target view pane has focus for general selection commands (cf. Edit/Select/None, All, Invert, Range) whether the main piano-roll or the event value (velocities) view.
• Mouse middle-button clicking is back in business on main track-view and on MIDI clip editor views (piano-roll) as an immediate play-head (re)positioning command or merge/reset the edit-head/tail cursors if Shift/Ctrl keyboard modifiers are pressed.
• Formerly protected, class qtractorClip::FadeFunctor is now public in an shot-in-the-dark attempt to fix clang builds (as reported by Jekyll Wu, thanks).
• Override all sub-classed widgets mouse-pointer event handlers to be isolated from base widget style and/or window management.

Enjoy!