Hi everybody,
On the wrap of the late minilac2...@c-base.org Berlin (April 8-10)
[7][8], where this Yet Same Old Qstuff* (continued) workshop [9]
babbling of yours truly (slides, videos[10]) was taken place.
There's really one (big) thing to keep in mind, as always: Qtractor [1]
is not, never was, meant to be a 'do-it-all' monolith DAW. Quite frankly
it isn't a 'pure' modular model either. Maybe we can agree on calling it
a 'hybrid' perhaps? And still, all this time, it has been just truthful
to its original mission statement--modulo some Qt [2] major version
numbers--nb. it started on Qt3 (2005-2007), then Qt4 (2008-2014), it is
now Qt5 full throttle.
It must have been like start saying uh. this is probably the best dot or
rather beta release of them all!
Now,
Qtractor 0.7.7 (haziest photon) is out!
Everybody is here compelled to update.
Leave no excuses behind.
As for the 'mission statement' coined above, you know it's the same as
ever was (and it now goes to eleven years in the making [11]):
Qtractor [1] is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application
written in C++ with the Qt framework [2]. Target platform is Linux,
where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK [3]) for audio and the
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA [4]) for MIDI are the main
infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio
workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.
Website:
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor
Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files
- source tarball:
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7.tar.gz
- source package:
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.src.rpm
- binary packages:
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.i586.rpm
http://download.sf.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.7.7-25.rncbc.suse.x86_84.rpm
Git repos:
http://git.code.sf.net/p/qtractor/code
https://github.com/rncbc/qtractor.git
https://gitlab.com/rncbc/qtractor.git
https://bitbucket.org/rncbc/qtractor.git
Change-log:
- LV2 UI Touch feature/interface support added.
- MIDI aware plug-ins are now void from multiple or parallel instantiation.
- MIDI tracks and buses plug-in chains now honor the number of effective
audio channels from the assigned audio output bus; dedicated audio
output ports will keep default to the stereo two channels.
- Plug-in rescan option has been added to plug-ins selection dialog (yet
another suggestion by Frank Neumann, thanks).
- Dropped the --enable-qt5 from configure as found redundant given
that's the build default anyway (suggestion by Guido Scholz, thanks).
- Immediate visual sync has been added to main and MIDI clip editor
thumb-views (a request by Frank Neumann, thanks).
- Fixed an old MIDI clip editor contents disappearing bug, which
manifested when drawing free-hand (ie. Edit/Select Mode/Edit Draw is on)
over and behind its start/beginning position (while in the lower view pane).
License:
Qtractor [1] is free, open-source Linux Audio [5] software,
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL [6])
version 2 or later.
References:
[1] Qtractor - An audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
[2] Qt framework, C++ class library and tools for
cross-platform application and UI development
http://qt.io/
[3] JACK Audio Connection Kit
http://jackaudio.org
[4] ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
http://www.alsa-project.org/
[5] Linux Audio consortium of libre software for audio-related work
http://linuxaudio.org
[6] GPL - GNU General Public License
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
[7] miniLAC, a more compact, community-driven version of the yearly
Linux Audio Conference
http://minilac.linuxaudio.org
[8] c-base.org, Berlin
http://c-base.org
[9] Yet Same Old Qstuff* (continued) workshop
http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/index.php/Workshop#Yet_Same_Old_Qstuff.2A_.28continued.29
[10] slides:
http://minilac.linuxaudio.org/index.php/File:Lac2016_qstuff_slides.pdf
videos: http://media.ccc.de/v/minilac16-yetsameoldqstuff
[11] Siskel & Ebert - "This Is Spinal Tap"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc
See also:
http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/1033
Enjoy && Have fun.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
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