[gst-announce] ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.6.2

[Tim Janik]

BEAST/BSE version 0.6.2 is available for download at:

  ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.6/
or
  http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.6/

This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem
and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition
and modular synthesis application released as free software under the
GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix.
The project is hosted at:

  http://beast.gtk.org

A mailing list is available at:

  http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/

This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of
the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound
generation back-end separated from all GUI activities.

Outstanding new features include support for skins, many sample
file formats, MIDI file import abilities, an improved piano roll
widget, the track editor which allows for easy selection of
synthesisers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs
and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities.


Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.6.2:

* Rewrote scrollbar sizing, so tracks and parts are easily resizable
* Lots of small GUI enhancements and fixes
* Added CPU usage information view
* Enabled tooltips on menu items
* Rewrote logging, messaging and error reporting system
* Fixed attack time handling in SimpleADSR
* Added support for 1/32, 1/64 and 1/128 notes and quantization steps
* Added skin and row highlighting support to the pattern editor
* Adjusted skins (pacified some of the more disturbing ones)
* Added British English translation [Gareth Owen]
* Added Canadian English translation [Adam Weinberger]
* Added Brazilian Portuguese translation [Raphael Higino]
* Updated Catalan translation [Xavier Conde Rueda]
* Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac]
* Updated Dutch translation [Tino Meinen]
* Updated Croatian translation [Robert Sedak]
* Updated Spanish translation [Francisco Javier F. Serrador]
* Updated Russian translation [Alexandre Prokoudine]
* Updated Portuguese translation [Duarte Loreto]
* Updated Albanian translation [Laurent Dhima]
* Various sfidl fixes [Stefan Westerfeld, Tim Janik]
* First steps taken towards mixer infrastrukture
* Fixed user configurable debugging support
* Lots of adaptions to GLib/Gtk+-2.4


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ciaoTJ