Fwd: [LAA] Qsynth 0.3.3 Knobs Galore!

[Jay Vaughan]

A really nice release of a qsynth .. some nice updates in the  
featureset.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org>
> Date: July 11, 2008 12:43:43 AM GMT+02:00
> To: linux-audio-announce at lists.linuxaudio.org
> Subject: [LAA] Qsynth 0.3.3 Knobs Galore!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Thanks to Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas and Guido Scholz, this Qsynth release
> is now a reality. Main new features are a the new rotating knob style
> options, first full translations, German and Spanish and last but not
> least, there's this Windows(TM) all-in-one package available (includes
> FluidSynth port) for your (sick:) pleasure only. Please read below the
> brilliant notes from Pedro about this breakthrouth release. Yes,
> before's too late:
>
>   Qsynth</a> 0.3.3 (unstable-qt4) is out!
>
> For the clueless, Qsynth is a Qt GUI frontend application to the
> excellent FluidSynth (http://www.fluidsynth.org) soft-synth library
> implementation for the SoundFont 2 specifications.
>
> Available from the usual place:
>
>   http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth
>
> There's the change log for this point release:
>
> - Due to some trouble with newer Qt >= 4.4 applications regarding font
> size configuration, a new global user option is now available to the
> rescue: Options.../Other/Base font size (default is no-op).
>
> - Knobs: graphic styles are now QStyle derived classes, which are
> assigned to the knobs using QWidget::setStyle(). Three styles  are
> implemented in this way, supporting also the legacy QDial:
> * Our former look, tweaked and ported from Sonic Visualizer.
> * A port of the new look implemented by David Garcia.
> * Another ported widget style, designed by Giuseppe Cigala.
>
> - Spanish translation added.
>
> - Attempt to load Qt's own translation support and get rid of the ever
> warning startup message, unless built in debug moderr; also  
> introducing
> the very first and complete German translation (patching transaction  
> by
> Guido Scholz, thanks).
>
> - Messages file logging makes its first long overdue appearance, with
> user configurable settings in Options/Logging.
>
> - Only one application instance is now allowed to be up and running,
> with immediate but graceful termination upon startup iif an already
> running instance is detected, which will see its main widget shown up
> and all engines started automatically (Qt/X11 platform only).</li>
>
> Notes about the Windows(TM) package:
> (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qsynth/qsynth-0.3.3-setup.exe)
>
> * It is a bundle of Fluidsynth 1.0.8 (patched) and QSynth 0.3.3,
> compiled in Windows with MinGW 3.4.2 and Qt 4.4.0. The package  
> includes
> all the required libraries except DirectX-9, which should be installed
> before. The setup program itself was created with NSIS 2.37
> (http://nsis.sf.net)
>
> * The patch for Fluidsynth (attached) was needed to allow QSynth to
> specify the name of a MIDI port to be opened other than the first one.
> The patch was sent to the Fluid-dev mailing list, but maybe we could
> offer it also in the QSynth web site? Link to the mailing list  
> message:
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/fluid-dev@nongnu.org/msg00816.html
>
> * Users should not expect the same functionality level in Windows
> compared to the Linux version. In windows it is not possible to  
> connect
> the MIDI out from one program to the MIDI input of another  
> application.
> QSynth/Fluidsynth needs to read MIDI events from a real MIDI device,  
> as
> a keyboard. For something similar to the ALSA sequencer routing
> capabilities, you can try MIDIOX/MIDIYoke (http://midiox.com)
>
> Cheers && Enjoy
> --
> rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
>
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Jay Vaughan