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Qtractor 0.5.9 - The Juliet Quebec release
6 June, 2013 - 17:30 — rncbc
Qtractor 0.5.9 (juliet quebec) is now released!
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
http://www.rncbc.org
Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.
As an anticipated summer delight...
Release highlights:
- NSM support (NEW)
- Audio buses plugin state restoration (FIX)
- MIDI channel file merge/export (FIX)
- MIDI editor rescale mode (NEW)
- German translation (NEW)
Cheers && Enjoy.
Website:
Project page:
Downloads:
- source tarball:
qtractor-0.5.9.tar.gz - source package (openSUSE 12.3):
qtractor-0.5.9-6.rncbc.suse123.src.rpm - binary packages (openSUSE 12.3):
qtractor-0.5.9-6.rncbc.suse123.i586.rpm
qtractor-0.5.9-6.rncbc.suse123.x86_64.rpm - quick start guide & user manual:
qtractor-0.5.x-user-manual.pdf
Weblog (upstream support):
License:
Change-log:
- Auto-incremental version numbering of backup session files; brand new versioning mode option added.
- Fixed one long as ever MIDI file export bug, which was about washing all self-induced MIDI bank-select (CC#0, CC#32) and program-change (PC#) events into MIDI channel 1, regardless of the source track/channel.
- Fixed initial sample-rate settlement on plugin chains for all tracks and buses whenever a session file original sample-rate differs from the current audio device engine (ie. JACK).
- New German (de) translation added (by Guido Scholz, thanks).
- Now accepting JACK transport tempo and time-tignature changes while in slave transport mode.
- Fix ref-count and auto-removal of created files that result from clip merge/export when session is closed but not saved.
- MIDI track instrument bank/program selection, from plugin UIs that support it, is now effectively and complete.
- Custom connections for dedicated audio outputs from all plugin chains in MIDI tracks or buses are back in business, hopefully restored gain on session load (ticket by yuba, thanks).
- Track Properties dialog now dirty after any plugin related change (another head-up by yuba, thanks again).
- Tempo Map/Markers dialog is not set initially dirty anymore.
- Audio buses plugin state's persistence were found AWOL: while being properly saved as usual, were being restored to default on every session reload (as noticed by yuba, thanks).
- NSM (Non Session Management) support is being introduced.
- The MIDI clip editor (aka. piano-roll) gets a brand new rescale mode: ctrl+dragging the right edge of a note now rescales all times and duration of all the subsequent selected notes (after an interesting idea/ticket by Joel Leclerc, thanks).
- The new MIDI clip editor rescale mode also applicable to event values (eg. note velocities, pitch-bend), while ctrl+dragging the edges of an event vertical bar.
- VST plugin (GUI) idle timer makes a comeback.
- Hard-wired LV2 UI selection order for plugins which supply more than one option (lv2_external_ui gets always honored first then, as provided via libsuil, X11, GTK and last but not least, Qt4).
Have (lots of) fun.
Comments
About NSM...
OK, so first I just wanna tell you good job! :)
And second... it seems this update is not available in KXStudio yet :(.
OK, but what I was really wanting to ask is about NSM(non session manager). Basically, the idea is that you create a new NSM session for EVERY project/song, right? Since I use the SVN before this(the one we talked about in that other thread), Qtractor already is working perfectly with NSM, but I noticed that you can't change the Qtractor session/project after? You can't change the name, or click "save as"? OK... so I guess I have to come up with a name from the start? And have one NSM session for every single song I make? I'm just wondering, I'm not that used to using session managers, but I was using NSM because I didn't have to set everything up everytime... but maybe I just hadn't understood how people normally use session managers? As I said... one session per song?
EDIT Oh, I just noticed that you can duplicate an NSM session and enter a different name for it(well, wouldn't you have to? lol). So that way, if you start out with no idea of what you want to make(:)) you can just create an NSM session called "nothing" and then later duplicate that session and call it "an awesome song!"... or something :). Yeah, I know, this has nothing to do with Qtractor, sorry...
EDIT2 OK... that didn't work very well. Nothing was saved :(. OK, I'm not gonna talk about NSM anymore, good job, and bye :).
re. About NSM...
most of the (non) issues about NSM are due on specific
non-session-managerimplementation and to the fact that this is the only one to date--i have a hunch there won't be any other, in times to come :)yes, File/Save As... is permanently disabled when qtractor is run under NSM mode. that's mandated by protocol (see Non Session Management API for details).
also, File/Open... is semantically equivalent to new+import as it doesn't change the session name nor it's current session directory, which is explicitly mandated by NSM API, yet again.
cheers
ps. i confess that i haven't tested all non-session-manager functions on earth but only the most fundamental ones. sure there might be some rough edges still 'round there--i'm no frequent flyer of the NSM airlines either, so don't blame me for the turbulence ;)
Just a heads up, you may have
Just a heads up, you may have realized this by now, but latest Qtractor build is in KXS PPA ... as well as the latest NSM. Looking forward to experimenting with NSM a little later but for now, Rui, I love Qtractor and I'm messing with it every day.
Really great job!
Really great job!
well done :)
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