Qtractor 0.3.0

[Rui Capela]

Name: Qtractor
Version: 0.3.0
Type: KDE Sound Application
Depend: Qt 4.x
License: GPL
Homepage: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
More Info:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=56325

Description:
 Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework.
Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio
Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced
Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the
main infrastructures to evolve as a
fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation
GUI, specially dedicated to the personal
home-studio.

Changelog:
 0.3.0  2008-12-25 The Fluffy Doll

- Almost complete rewrite of the plugin
configuration and parameter initialization logic.
- MIDI bank/program selection is now taken into
account on plugins initialization and replication.
- Fixed initial parameter values for native VST
plugins.
- Track form plugin lists are now properly
(re)initialized when track type changes.
- Generic plugin forms now have the option to
show/hide the parameter widgets through the new
"Params" button.
- New auto-monitor toggle option (menu Track/Auto
Monitor): the current selected track is now set on
monitor and MIDI channel omni-mode automagically,
as a convenient workflow feature (kindly suggested
by Holborn).
- MIDI clip editor Tools menu is not disabled
anymore when there's no selection, drop-down menu
items are instead.
- Make all recorded clips to honor either the
punch-out or play-head accumulated position;
resolve all pending MIDI sequence note events on
record stop/close.
- Major silent move: audio plugins chain are now
applied in a pre-fader/meter basis as is usually
implied from the mixer strip layout ie. signal
flows from the top to the bottom.
- All MIDI buses may now have plugins inserted so
that multi-timbral synth/sampler plugins get
driven to their fullness.
- MIDI track plugin's dedicated audio output bus
may now be effective, as it seems, good old master
audio output bus was being used, no matter what.
- Paste-repeat command has been introduced, now
allowing to replicate and concatenate the
clipboard contents over the time-line, with a
given repeat-count and optional period (see menu
Edit/Paste Repeat... on the main and MIDI clip
editor windows).
- Normalize tool on MIDI clip editor got rewritten
from its previous brain dead, useless and utterly
wrong operation.
- All time offsets and lengths are now
zero-bar/beat based when displayed in the BBT
(bar.beat.ticks) format.
- MMC STEP gets adjusted to current snap-per-beat
setting.
- Fixed broken initial buffering that was randomly
crippling those audio clips that fit integrally in
cached and while on playback.
- Fix initialization of multiple instances of DSSI
plugins which implement run_multiple_synths (eg.
fluidsynth-dssi), preventing an instant crash on
activation.
- Exclude deprecated VST elements from
compilation.
- Export tracks dialog has new punch in/out range
option.
- Somehow realized that looping and
punch-recording are two mutually exclusive states,
at least until loop recording (ie. takes) gets
real.
- Fixed bug #2249291 - Crash on tempo change;
affecting the WSOLA based time-stretching on all
non-stereo audio clips.
- Incomplete audio peaks were being cached
prematurely, fixed.
- Make way for paste/dropping items from the
system clipboard over the main track view.
Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete of file items have now this
workaround fixed, wrt. Files widget keyboard
shortcuts, respectively.
- Clip gain/volume propriety is now in place and
reflected in audio clip waveform drawing in
particular.
- A new hideous progress bar is now lurking in the
main status line, as found convenient to display
progress of the also new clip tools (normalize,
export, etc.).
- Clip normalize tool is now available
(Edit/Clip/Normalise).
- Audio and MIDI clip file export is now available
as a tool (see Edit/Clip/Export...).
- Punch in/out (range) recording is now in
experimental shape, with minimal settings and
functionality, already accessible through the main
menus, transport toolbars and visible on main
tracks view and MIDI editors as magenta colored
line markers.
- External MIDI control events for channel volume
(7) and channel panning (10) are now handled
properly through session tracks.
- Session file templates make its debut with new
usability option, on whether new sessions are
created based on existing template file (see
View/Options.../Display/Session/New session
template; nb. session templates are just regular
session files but loaded and saved with no media
content (no clips nor files).
- Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark
color themes.
- Implicit attempt to flush all pending notes for
some, if not most plugin instruments (eg. VSTi),
on playback stop.
- Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to
openSUSE conventions.
- Internal refactoring alert: Session and Options
instances are now being redesigned as singletons,
preparing to get out of the way from the master
GUI/MainForm instance.
- Clip drawing methods refactored so let the
fade-in/out handles get seen with transparency
over the clip graphics content.
- Reset and continue looping even still when
continue past end transport option is not set and
playback is rolling.


0.2.2  2008-10-05  The Flirty Ditz
0.2.1  2008-08-30  The Fainty Diva
0.2.0  2008-07-18  The Frolic Demoiselle
0.1.3  2008-05-02  The Frugal Damsel
0.1.2  2008-03-23  The Frantic Dame
0.1.1  2008-02-16  The Futile Duchess
0.1.0  2008-01-05  The Frivolous Debutante