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[ANN] Qtractor 0.8.4 - End of Summer'17 release!

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Yes, it's been like clockwork...

Every two months or so, you stumbled with a brand new dot release, code-named after some of the same adjective-plus-noun (or vice versa) code-names. You knew the thrill and yet it lands no more.

First, the code-naming joke has been just a parody--or was it the other way around?--to some well known Linux-distro alimalistic code-name series. Then on it got rogue into some directed puns--remember the date when BitWig Studio 1.0 was first released? Yeah, the "Byte Bald" was there for the pun, on the very same day :)

Well, that's all gone by now.

Northern hemisphere seasons are the new norm and that's about two main reasons: first, it's where I live; second, due to an undeniable global warming effect pervading the globe, all geographical temperate zones are simply on the edge of extinction. More or less in a couple of decades or so. For the sake of brevity, I will just leave it like paying homage to those natural concepts that are facing an inexorable fate.

And yet, there're still the good news:
  • Qtractor 0.8.4 (end of summer'17) released!
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Change-log:
- Assigned MIDI Controllers to plug-in's Activate switch are now finally saved and (re)loaded properly across sessions.
- Audio clip panning option property is now being introduced.
- Out-of-process (aka. dummy) VST plug-in inventory scanning now restarts automatically and resumes processing in case of a premature exit/crash; VST plug-in inventory scan/cache persistency is now in place.
- Desktop entry specification file is now finally independent from build/configure template chains.
- Updated target path for freedesktop.org's AppStream metainfo file (formerly AppData).
- Changing the View/Options.../Display/Custom/Style theme takes effect immediately unless it's back to "(default)".
- Slightly slower but better approximation to IEEE 32bit floating point cubic root ie. cbrtf().

Description:
Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt 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.

Website:
http://qtractor.org
http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
https://qtractor.sourceforge.io

Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor

Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/files

- source tarball: - source package: - binary packages: - AppImage packages: Git repos: Wiki (help wanted!):
http://sourceforge.net/p/qtractor/wiki/
- static rendering: - user manual & how-to's: License:
Qtractor is free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.


See also:
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Thanks for the continued releases!
I'm quite disappointed in myself for missing most of the satire and puns up to now, especially the Bitwig one.
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Many thanks for your share :) . I have a downlaod appimage and test on debian stretch 9 stable version. It work perfect,ciao

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little test with new version of qtractor 0.84 -

https://www.facebook.com/gennaro.giugli ... 179033051/ :wink: ciao

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new video - https://www.facebook.com/gennaro.giugli ... DYJeIrsG8c
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Hey Rui.
I know it may sound exotic, but can you replace those faders knobs?
They are too tiny in my opinion, and replacing them for bigger ones (line Mixbus or Reaper, or (name it)) will give a great mixing feel to an already BIG software!
Obrigado!
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scalawag wrote:I know it may sound exotic, but can you replace those faders knobs?
They are too tiny in my opinion, and replacing them for bigger ones (line Mixbus or Reaper, or (name it)) will give a great mixing feel to an already BIG software!
Obrigado!
thanks, you're welcome.

however (!) the fader knobs are in fact a function of the widget style in use--it usually inherits from your desktop environment you're under, same for colors.

you can try for yourself whether any of the other style themes available on your system suits your taste: check it out on View > Options... > Display > Custom style theme...

on the other hand, going skeuomorphic is not quite my thing, although sometimes i can't resist temptation :)
have a read: Why are there so many knobs in Garage Band?

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hi Rui it's possible a little donation for qtractor with paypal ? :wink:

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rncbc wrote:
scalawag wrote:I know it may sound exotic, but can you replace those faders knobs?
They are too tiny in my opinion, and replacing them for bigger ones (line Mixbus or Reaper, or (name it)) will give a great mixing feel to an already BIG software!
Obrigado!
thanks, you're welcome.

however (!) the fader knobs are in fact a function of the widget style in use--it usually inherits from your desktop environment you're under, same for colors.

you can try for yourself whether any of the other style themes available on your system suits your taste: check it out on View > Options... > Display > Custom style theme...

on the other hand, going skeuomorphic is not quite my thing, although sometimes i can't resist temptation :)
have a read: Why are there so many knobs in Garage Band?

cheers
It's more because most of us don't have a Control Surface and have to use the mouse. It will be much easier to catch the knob if it was bigger, hence my suggestion.
I'm using the Fusion theme and it's quite nice.
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rncbc wrote:all geographical temperate zones are simply on the edge of extinction. More or less in a couple of decades or so.
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
Your vst work is fine, the fear mongering politics not so much.

99% of the kids playing in this end-of-summer snow, agreed it's cold.
(The other kid thought it was very cold)

https://www.fsvisimages.com/images/phot ... _large.jpg

All the important orbits are eliptical, hence climate perpetually changes.
All the big oceans have currents effected by the fiery volcanic core
of the earth, with unseen unstudied undersea volcanos erupting, and myriad vents
perpetually releasing boiling liquids, with tektonic plates raising and lowering
sundry sea-level readings...
...needless to say, both the arctic and antarctic worlds have great but non-uniform
volcanic activity beneath them, and the ice comes and goes,
currently it's growing rapidly

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/19/ ... ow-record/

And no thermostat has yet been found on the sun, the rogue furnace
subject to it's own cycles of eruptions and dormancies, hence ice ages
have come and gone long before the industrial age, and the physics of
perpetual change will dictate the climate, and we will actually survive
the weather, despite the bleetings of rich hucksters, money-grubbing
dictatorships, and the tax-grant monied parasites in labcoats

Consensus is the opposite of science.
Nobody hires a climatologist if the world isn't
coming to an end.
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gennargiu wrote:hi Rui it's possible a little donation for qtractor with paypal ? :wink:
i guess the "donate" button in the project page is still an option: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/

cheers && thanks
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rncbc wrote:
gennargiu wrote:hi Rui it's possible a little donation for qtractor with paypal ? :wink:
i guess the "donate" button in the project page is still an option: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/

cheers && thanks
Thank you Rui, I was able to make a small $ 5 donation for the Qtractor project, continue with the same enthusiasm to go ahead in development, hello :wink:
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gennargiu wrote:I was able to make a small $ 5 donation for the Qtractor project, continue with the same enthusiasm to go ahead in development, hello :wink:
Thank YOU.
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Huge fan of Qtractor! Impressed by how well this AppImage works. What is the catch? Is there any benefit to not using an appimage?

This pops up in red in the about tab... not sure why:
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (libmad) file support disabled.

Thank you very much for your continued work on Qtractor!
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Kel wrote:Huge fan of Qtractor! Impressed by how well this AppImage works. What is the catch? Is there any benefit to not using an appimage?
the catch is that the AppImage does NOT come with libJACK--you have to install JACK on your own, which is something some AppImage purists may argue that it busts the whole concept.
Kel wrote:This pops up in red in the about tab... not sure why:
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (libmad) file support disabled.
it means that MP3 files are not supported, due to distribution restrictions on the libMAD decoding library.

besides that, no more catches to worry about ;)
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