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lmms - 0.4.1

Published by tobydox over 9 years ago

LMMS 0.4.1 Release Notes

Version 0.4.1 is a maintainance release of the 0.4.x series. It fixes most of the bugs found in 0.4.0. Furthermore various components have been improved to work more reliable and/or userfriendly. Thanks to all who helped making up this release (especially those who kept up testing and reporting bugs)!

Changes:

heavily improved Piano-Roll:
- support for editing panning for individual notes
- easy selection of notes
- easy move of selected notes
rewritten FLP import filter which now works properly and imports about 70% of
settings in an FLP file:
- support projects from FL Studio 3 to 8
- import volume, panning, pitch and FX channel for instrument tracks
- import various settings (such as reversed sample) into AudioFileProcessor
- import FX mixer settings and effects
- import automation data
- import channel- and pattern names
- import volume and panning settings of individual notes
- copy patterns from layer master to all layer children
- map more instruments to various LMMS instruments
- fixed importing steps/dots
- fixed scaling factor of various controls
rewrote wide parts of LVSL (LMMS VST Support Layer) backend:
- win32: fixed crash when using VST plugins which do not have a GUI
- support more VST plugins (Linux+win32) thanks to a new threading model
- suppress warning message when loading KarmaSynth VST
- try more symbol names for entry procedure
in TripleOscillator per default set sub-octaves for Osc2 & Osc3
minimal step of volume and panning knobs now is 0.1 instead of 1.0
added Japanese localization files
added STK support to win32 version
various GUI performance tunings

Bugfixes:

fixed saving/loading automations on basic effect controls
fixed loops when adding a controller to a model which is linked to another
model (e.g. knobs in stereo LADSPA effects)
fixed crash when loading a certain soundfont for a second time
fixed crash when trying to load preset files and required plugin is not
available
fixed glitch with autoscroll buttons in Song-Editor, Piano-Roll etc.
fixed a bug where automation pattern was disabled when editing first point

lmms - 0.4.0

Published by tobydox over 9 years ago

LMMS 0.4.0 Release Notes

After 15 months of hard work we're proud to announce the availability of LMMS 0.4.0, the Qt4-based successor of the 0.3.x series. Thanks to all who helped making up this release (especially those who kept up testing and reporting bugs)!

Most of the core parts were rewritten and the whole application was ported to Qt4. This results in a cleanly designed core, much better performance, higher stability, platform interoperability (LMMS is now running on MS Windows and Apple's OS X too), and of course a lot of new features.

Most important new features:

New artwork and style: LMMS 0.4.0 looks modern, professional, and uniform
FX-mixer: Now you can route the output of each instrument-track into
one of 64 FX-channels
Heavily improved automation: Freely usable automation-tracks and patterns
Controllers: All knobs can be controlled live by one of the controllers:
- MIDI-controller
- LFO-controller
- Peak-controller
Enjoy SoundFont files directly in LMMS using the new SF2-Player plugin
Create chiptune music with the new SID and PAPU plugins
Watch your sounds with the new SpectrumAnalyzer-plugin
Export your projects at arbitrary samplerates with oversampling of up to 8x
LMMS now takes advantage of multiple cores/CPUs by using worker-threads
Time signatures other than 4/4 are now supported
Triplet notes can be used
Render your projects without any GUI/X11 in console mode
A selection of best LADSPA plugins is shipped with LMMS (mainly concerns
Windows version)
Basic PulseAudio support (although ALSA is still recommended)
cmake-based build system allowing faster builds and greatly improved
platform interoperability
Improved XML-based file format (not readable by 0.3.x)
Integration of the popular ZynAddSubFX synthesizer as a LMMS plugin
(Linux users will find it in the "LMMS extras" package)
Heavily improved support for importing MIDI files

Before doing anything, please remove any old version of LMMS you've installed! Also make sure your distribution ships at least Qt 4.3.0. Having installed Qt >= 4.4.0 is recommended.

Basic instructions on how to get this release up and running.

a) Users of Ubuntu may want to download ready-to-use binary packages by adding

 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tobydox/ubuntu intrepid main

 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tobydox/ubuntu hardy main

to their /etc/apt/sources.list and run "apt-get update" and "apt-get install lmms". The "lmms-extras" package (containing ZynAddSubFX as a LMMS plugin) is available too and can be installed easily by running "apt-get install lmms-extras".

b) Users of other Debian-based distributions may want to run

dget http://ppa.launchpad.net/tobydox/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lmms/lmms_0.4.0~ppa-1.dsc --build

If all build dependencies are met you'll find ready-to-use DEB-files afterwards.

c) Users of other Linux distributions will have to compile LMMS on their own which luckily is not that complicated anymore. First grab the source tarball from [1] and extract it. Then do the following steps:

 cd lmms-0.4.0
 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
 make
 sudo make install

After running the cmake command you should look at the summary page which tells you about missing dependencies. It's desirable to have all of them installed to fully enjoy LMMS. After issueing the last command you should be able to run LMMS by invoking "lmms".

d) Users of Apple's OS X basically will have to do the same as described in c) except that you will have to install xcode and macports before. A recent installation of Qt4 (>= 4.3.0) is required as well

e) Users of MS Windows simply have to grab the installer from [1] and launch it. An optimized build for 64 bit Windows (hopefully) will be available soon.

Now enjoy LMMS! If you encounter any bugs, please submit them at our bugtracker [2]. If you made a cool song with LMMS it'd be great if you'd share it with the community by uploading it to the LMMS Sharing Platform (LSP)at [3].

More information is available at [4].

Greetings from a happy
Toby and LMMS developer team

[1] https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105168
[2] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105168&atid=640434
[3] http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp.php
[4] http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/

lmms - 0.4.15

Published by tobydox over 9 years ago

LMMS 0.4.15 Release Notes

We're glad to announce the availability of LMMS 0.4.15. This version is a maintainance release of the 0.4.x series. It only contains fixes for bugs and regressions in the previous release. Thanks to all who helped with making up this release (especially those who kept up testing and reporting bugs)!

Changes in detail:

Core:

Windows: Fixed exporting to files with non-ASCII characters in name
AutomationPattern: initialize with current value of first object
Chords: fixed major pentatonic
Properly cancel file export if opening output file failed
InstrumentTrack: fix freeze when forwarding MIDI events to instrument

Plugins:

Sf2Player: preserve custom track name when loading settings
AudioFileProcessor: make playback cursor configurable
AudioFileProcessor: fix crash with reversed samples

Misc/Build related:

Updated PortAudio DLL and added custom fix for crash on some Win7 systems
Updated GCC and Qt

lmms - 1.1.2

Published by tresf over 9 years ago

New fixes in 1.1.2: (2015-02-10)

Fix pops and clicks introduced with new mixer (Bug #1662)
Fix 0% export bug affecting certain languages/locales (Bug #1496)
Fix Watsyn shows wrong selection after switching instruments (Bug #1526)
Fix Nescaline crash when playing very high notes (Bug #1492)
Fix AudioFileProcessor wave display bug (Bug #929)
Fix various memory leaks

Features and fixes in 1.1.0: (2014-12-23)

New FX Mixer
- New chainable FX channels
- Unlimited FX channels
- Better labeling of dummy effects
- Improved performance
- New temposyncable delay FX plugin
New Instruments:
- Nescaline - Nintendo Entertainment System(R) sound emulator
- Watsyn - Advanced wavetable synth
- Monstro - Advanced triple oscillator synth
- Carla - Audio plugin host (Linux only)
Instrument Enhancements:
- AudioFileProcessor - Adjustable loop points
- Kicker - Temposyncable envelope, higher max; distortion enhancements
- LB302 - Fix note sticking, playback bugs
Demos/Presets
- Cleaned up dated demo tracks
- Updated ZynAddSubFX instrument presets from Zyn team
- Added, removed and updated presets for TripleOsc, LB302, Organic and SID, Monstro, Watsyn, BitInvader
UI Improvements
- Piano Roll:
  - Ctrl + Left/Right Arrow keys now moves selected notes by one bar
  - Shift + Up/Down now moves selected notes by one semitone
  - Fixed theme artifacts caused by improper uninstall/upgrade
- Added /Volumes to sidebar and open dialog for Mac
- Added Chinese/Japanese, updated Italian and German translations
Enabled toggling of knob scale in context menu (Linear/Logarithmic)
Added ability to record automations
Added support for undo/redo in Piano Roll
Bug Fixes
- Fixed various memory leaks
- Misc branding fixes
- Autosave/save prompt fixes
- Better cursor positioning (hand, automation tracks, loop markers)
- Fixed soundfont chorus/reverb settings
- Fixed a bug that caused the pitch range being ignored on project load
- Minor UI fixes
- Added build support for OSX 10.7 "Lion"

Known issues with this release:

Windows
- Software fails to load on some systems (Please see bug #1173)
- No sound/distorted sound on some systems (Forum topics #604 #283)
Apple
- Runs on OS X 10.7 "Lion" and higher only (Please see bug #1270)
- MIDI controllers do not work on Apple (Please see bug #1153)
- VST plugins (.dll) do not work on Apple (Please see bug #698)
- SoundFonts (.sf2) do not work on Apple (Please see bug #649)
- Projects open to a blank project every time when opened from Finder or Desktop (Please see bug #665)
- ZynAddSubFX "Show GUI" button does not work on Apple (Please see bug #703)

lmms - 1.1.0