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[ANN] MusE 3.0.0 released

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MusE 3.0.0 released January 6, 2018

Hello all,

Can you hear it? No? Well, let me tell you, it’s that time again, more than three years has passed (unfortunately) since the last MusE release. Finally it’s time for a new one. And high time it is, the last stable release seems to not even start on many modern systems…

A selection of sorts, changes since the last stable release 2.2.1 are as follows (sorry it’s long):

* Switched to Qt5
* New Plugin Path editor in Global Settings:
* System-wide move to double precision of all audio paths
* LV2 fix for very slow right-click synth 'presets' ex. amsynth
* LV2 support PowerOf2BlockLength
* LV2 support FixedBlockLength
* Mixer makeover with lots of fixes
* Arranger Track Info panel complete makeover
* New: Persistent routes jack audio and midi routes.
* Multi-channel Audio Track routing
* Improved automation editing, no multi-point editing yet though
* Audio automation graphs undo support
* New wave drawing mode in arranger with a tiny outline of the wave file
* Added Native VST FX support (synths were already supported)
* Added support to resize notes and parts to the left with pencil tool
* Added live update of wave parts while recording
* Added Native VST shell plugins support
* Added recording restart function (CTRL+Space and SHIFT+space keeping the old)
* Auto resample imported wave files to project's sample rate
* Graphical Routing dialog redone and enhanced
* Routing popup menus for midi now allow Jack Midi routing
* Device List added to midi configuration, with 'Delete' button.
* Added multichannel support for SimpleDrums (+routing ability)
* Added lots of instrument definition files
* CPU and Audio DSP usage metering
* Midi transformer support for for randomizing events
* Added sample-rate change according to song file when using RtAudio
* Midi device processing implementation greatly improved
* External midi clock sync reworked
* Large System Exclusive (sysex) message support for ALSA
* Added support for RtAudio audio backend - primarily Pulse is supported
* Synths can now be selected as a midi input route.
* Much improved monitoring functionality
* ALSA support is now optional, can run in pure jack mode.
* Timer improvements, ALSA timer now first choice.
* Fluidsynth MESS synth plugin now propagates drum names using libinstpatch to drum editor
* Midi file export: Added missing Aftertouch, PolyAftertouch support
* Several host improvements to better support various plugin variants for LV2 and VST
* More LV2 extensions supported
* Lots of GUI Widget changes, several widgets switchable between knob and slider
* Various improvements to midi engine
* Greatly reduced CPU usage while playing and automation graph(s) showing.
* Some track arranger properties, like track channel can now be manipulated with multiple tracks
* Mixer strip order now rearrangeable
* Persistent routes for Jack
* Multi-channel Audio Track routing.
* Routing popup menus redone.
* Song file version handling improved
* Midi config dialog reworked
* "Normalize wave part" menu item for wave track parts
* Many new keyboard shortcuts, for instance mute and solo and operate mixer
* Bug #526 fixed: Crash on cut with scissors while master open
* Added instrument files for:
** Classic Cantabile SP-250
** Medeli SP4200
** Korg Krome (Bank Map KORG)
** Korg Krome (Bank Map GM2)
** Roland-MT32
** Lexicon-MX200
** Yamaha-Rex50
** Yamaha-Motif XS
And lots and lots of internal changes

For the complete list of changes see:
https://github.com/muse-sequencer/muse/ ... /ChangeLog

News section:
http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/News

Download:
http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Download

Demos page:
http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Demos

Forum is dead - use mailing list:
http://muse-sequencer.org/index.php/Sup ... ling_Lists

Some known issues that aren't dealt with yet:
* Add measure does not take automation into account, use Structure add instead.
* Unmuting a track during playback sometimes causes wierd sound offset issues, cured by stop/start
* Note on the first tick in a loop is not played
* Ctrl+C sometimes does not work for copying a part in the arranger, menu alternative works
* Automation edit db cue is wrong when editing

Keep on Rocking!
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Sweet!!
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Nice!!! Can't wait to get back home and try it out! :)

(I'm in the dorm with my Windows laptop. I have gear at home that I can't take with me with so many wires from my audio interface to my TC Electronics M-One XL and Roland Fantom XR.)

It's cool that Roland MT32 is added into MusE 3.0. I never had an MT32 in the past, though.
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wow!! used to be my favorite DAW for a long time.
can't wait it packaged, will build on arch right now :mrgreen:
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Would be nice to see MusE packaged as well, although it would be hard to find out which dependencies are required to compile muse3. I wanted to get started by doing apt-get build-dep muse and go from there, but build-dep would pull in jackd1 and remove jackd2, so I've had to manually specify packages to compile. The "muse" package is for MusE 2.1.

The reason I chose Ubuntu instead of Arch is the lowlatency kernel that works with nVidia proprietary drivers. The low latency kernel I could find for Arch is the Liquorix kernel and that takes too long for me to compile, not to mention having to uninstall the nvidia-lqx/nvidia-utils packages to compile a recent kernel, but I'm straying too far off-topic here.

I'm very excited for the release of MusE 3.0, that's all. It's my go-to DAW. The development version of MusE 3.0 helped me make music, thanks to MusE team!!!

I used MusE 3.0 in three of my songs:
https://soundcloud.com/grayson-peddie

Heck! I do not mind using a next development version of MusE Sequencer! The development versions of any software that were not released as final won't stop me from making music. And that is what's cool and great about open-source! :) I could use a development version or stable version and that does not matter to me. If there's a next feature that could be very useful for MIDI production that is still in development, I'd be happy with that. It kind of reminded me of Project Gooseberry that if there's a feature needed for the open movie project, Blender will add it in and release the next version of Blender to the public. But then I don't think MusE team added features as they create music, do they? I mean, I only focused in MIDI portion of music composition and when I'm ready to bounce it down to audio, I used Ardour for that process and then used Mixbus to do the mixing. The workflow of MusE 3.0 is all that matters to me to do the job writing my song using a piano roll editor.
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GraysonPeddie wrote: The reason I chose Ubuntu instead of Arch is the lowlatency kernel that works with nVidia proprietary drivers. The low latency kernel I could find for Arch is the Liquorix kernel and that takes too long for me to compile, not to mention having to uninstall the nvidia-lqx/nvidia-utils packages to compile a recent kernel, but I'm straying too far off-topic here.
From a quick look over the arch kernel config it looks like it is a 'low latency' kernel - CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
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sysrqer wrote:
GraysonPeddie wrote: The reason I chose Ubuntu instead of Arch is the lowlatency kernel that works with nVidia proprietary drivers. The low latency kernel I could find for Arch is the Liquorix kernel and that takes too long for me to compile, not to mention having to uninstall the nvidia-lqx/nvidia-utils packages to compile a recent kernel, but I'm straying too far off-topic here.
From a quick look over the arch kernel config it looks like it is a 'low latency' kernel - CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
and here is the nvidia-rt driver.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-rt/
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sysrqer wrote:
GraysonPeddie wrote: The reason I chose Ubuntu instead of Arch is the lowlatency kernel that works with nVidia proprietary drivers. The low latency kernel I could find for Arch is the Liquorix kernel and that takes too long for me to compile, not to mention having to uninstall the nvidia-lqx/nvidia-utils packages to compile a recent kernel, but I'm straying too far off-topic here.
From a quick look over the arch kernel config it looks like it is a 'low latency' kernel - CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
The Archlinux default kernel is configured for PREEMPT, a so called low latency kernel, so no reason to reject on that account :)

It also has realtime patched kernels that are patched to work with nvidia drivers (use nvidia-dkms for best results).
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Thanks guys, but I don't want to sidetrack the thread here. I will give Arch another try with linux-rt kernel.
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GraysonPeddie wrote:Thanks guys, but I don't want to sidetrack the thread here. I will give Arch another try with linux-rt kernel.
I gather your original problem was which dependencies to install on *buntu, I used to have a list, I'll try to find it.
Also, I'm looking in the README and realize not all dependencies are listed, I'll fix that.
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Hi,many thanks for your upgrade :wink: but a version .deb ?

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spamatica wrote:
GraysonPeddie wrote:Thanks guys, but I don't want to sidetrack the thread here. I will give Arch another try with linux-rt kernel.
I gather your original problem was which dependencies to install on *buntu, I used to have a list, I'll try to find it.
Also, I'm looking in the README and realize not all dependencies are listed, I'll fix that.
I've updated the README with more dependency information.
The correct apt line to get all major dependencies (not the experimental ones) should be:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libsndfile1-dev libsamplerate0-dev\
libjack-jackd2-dev ladspa-sdk qt5-default qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools\
liblo-dev dssi-dev lv2-dev libsamplerate0-dev libsndfile1-dev git\
libfluidsynth-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev librtaudio-dev libqt5svg5-dev\
libinstpatch-dev
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gennargiu wrote:Hi,many thanks for your upgrade :wink: but a version .deb ?

gennaro
Do bug your favourite repository maintainer to update to the latest :), we will definitely support them to the best of our abilities.
As of now I don't think we can realistically provide our own packages though.
I will look into it though, I think at one point we had some packages..
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spamatica wrote:
spamatica wrote:
GraysonPeddie wrote:Thanks guys, but I don't want to sidetrack the thread here. I will give Arch another try with linux-rt kernel.
I gather your original problem was which dependencies to install on *buntu, I used to have a list, I'll try to find it.
Also, I'm looking in the README and realize not all dependencies are listed, I'll fix that.
I've updated the README with more dependency information.
The correct apt line to get all major dependencies (not the experimental ones) should be:

Code: Select all

        sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libsndfile1-dev libsamplerate0-dev\
            libjack-jackd2-dev ladspa-sdk qt5-default qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools\
            liblo-dev dssi-dev lv2-dev libsamplerate0-dev libsndfile1-dev git\
            libfluidsynth-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev librtaudio-dev libqt5svg5-dev\
            libinstpatch-dev
Thank you. Will give it a go.

Update: MusE 3.0 is working great for sure (I'm using Lumix theme).
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i've opened package update issue for KXstudio.
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