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Avast ye lads!

The Qstuff* Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy continues... with a hotfix!

QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface

QjackCtl is a(n ageing but still) simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server, for the Linux Audio infrastructure.

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Change-log:

• Respect ALSA Sequencer support option also on Graph view.
• Regression to new Graph node/ports sorting comparator; also fixed multiple and many port removals, most probably causing it to crash due to double-free/delete potential.
• Fixed the automatic aggregation of new Graph client nodes that are split as either input or output only (ie. system, terminal, physical or otherwise non-duplex nodes).
• Added View/Zoom Range mode option to Graph tool.

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Enjoy && have keep the fun!

Aye!

The Qstuff* Pre-LAC2018 release frenzy is now officially started...

• QjackCtl 0.5.1
• Qsynth 0.5.1
• Qsampler 0.5.1
• QXGEdit 0.5.1
• QmidiNet 0.5.1

Enjoy the first batch, more to come!

QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt GUI Interface

QjackCtl is a(n ageing but still) simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server, for the Linux Audio infrastructure.

Website:

Project page:

Downloads:

Git repos:

Change-log:

• Half a decade later, recent new custom entries may now get removed from Session Infra-client list.
• Some rather old, better said "Cambric explosion era", user preference options have been ditched altogether: Display / Time Format; Display / Shiny glass light effect; Display / Connections/Draw connections and patchbay lines as Bezier curves; Misc/Configure as temporary server.
• A brand new and way long overdue connections Graph widget is finally introduced, only to be accessible through the context menu at this time.
• Extended multi-selection is now supported on all Connections client/port lists, allowing for multiple (dis)connections at once.
• Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the display server platform is not X11.
• A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.

Qsynth - A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface

Qsynth is a FluidSynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer.

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Change-log:

• Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the display server platform is not X11.
• Fixed deprecated calls to fluid_synth_get_channel_info(), fluid_synth_set_midi_router() and fluid_settings_getstr() (as signaled on libfluidsynth >= 1.1.9).
• A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.

Qsampler - A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface

Qsampler is a LinuxSampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt framework using Qt Designer.

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Change-log:

• Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the display server platform is not X11.
• Fixed device management dialog not responding to user changes.
• A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.
• Fixed minor memory leak in device management dialog.
• Fixed unnecessary latency when closing app.

QXGEdit - A Qt XG Editor

QXGEdit is a live XG instrument editor, specialized on editing MIDI System Exclusive files (.syx) for the Yamaha DB50XG and thus probably a baseline for many other XG devices.

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Change-log:

• Corrected wrong handling of the MULTIPART Detune parameter.
• Trying to get CC14 MSB+LSB (course+fine) running status on, no matter whether each pairing event are under 200ms apart.
• A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.

QmidiNet - A MIDI Network Gateway via UDP/IP Multicast

QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA-MIDI and JACK-MIDI) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows.

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Change-log:

• A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.

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Enjoy && have (lots of) fun!

Hello?

The change-log for this spring-time release goes as follows:

• New View/Options.../Plugins/Experimental/Show plugins on track list/left pane option is in effect on tracks that are tall enough in height for their plugins list to fit on the Bus column.
• Fixed a day-zero bug over the MIDI Insert (Send/Return) pseudo-plugin, which was duplicating MIDI events onto the next LV2 plugin in chain, causing strange hanging notes, mutes, retriggerings and what not.
• MIDI track and clip note min/max range display now fixed.
• MIDI Program Change events (PC) now have their proper program number as parameter, instead of value, on the internal MIDI event representation.
• Merging MIDI clips while on SMF Format 0 has been fixed: was merging always onto the same MIDI channel (2), most often the wrong one, resulting in an empty or blank clip.
• When importing from standard MIDI files (SMF), set track names from Mtrk TRACKNAME meta-events instead of filename.
• Avoid asking to save as to existing or just newly created clip file-names, whenever possible.
• Disable singleton/unique application instance setup logic when the display server platform is not X11.
• Whether to use native file browser/requester dialogs is now an effective option when launching under NSM session management (was once disabled initially).
• Content files are now saved as symlinks when saving to JACK and/or NSM session directories/folders.
• Trying to get CC14 MSB+LSB (course+fine) running status on, no matter whether each pairing event are under 200ms apart.
• Possible VST plug-in GUI reparenting hack/fix on Qt5/Xcb.

Ahoy there!

The Vee One Suite of so called old-school software instruments, synthv1, as a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer, samplv1, a polyphonic sampler synthesizer, drumkv1 as yet another drum-kit sampler and padthv1 as a polyphonic additive synthesizer, are once again released just before the season ends.

All available still in dual form:

• a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non Session management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support;
• a LV2 instrument plug-in.

The changes for this end-of-season goes as follows:

• Introducing Scala micro-tuning classes, borrowed, stirred and refactored from original Nick Dowell's amsynth code, all under the GPL umbrella, of course.
• An internal note-key/frequency indirection table is now in place, as a baseline for any micro-tuning implementations.
• Whether to use native file browser/requester dialogs is now an effective option when launching under NSM session management (was once disabled initially).
• Initializing and/or requesting a New blank preset doesn't open a sample file picker dialog anymore as it was more than nagging while under on NSM sessions. (applies to samplv1 only).
• Trying to get CC14 MSB+LSB (course+fine) running status on, no matter whether each pairing event are under 200ms apart.
• A little hardening on the configure (autoconf) macro side.

The Vee One Suite are free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

Hi there!

Almost 3 years after the last time, rtirq has been updated!

No big deal whatsoever just that scheduling policies and priorities are now reset/stop to SCHED_FIFO and 50, respectively. In fact there's no urge to update at all; the previous versions are still good to have around ;) It's just that things get a bit more politely correct on "reset" and/or "stop" modes.

The original packages available here:

nb. the rtirq init-script/systemd-service only makes sense on real-time preemptive (PREEMPT_RT) or threadirqs enabled GNU/Linux kernels.

Cheers && Enjoy!