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BEAST/BSE 0.6.1 is out

Submitted by aersoy on Tue, 2004-03-23 11:35. Gnome Multimedia

BEAST/BSE version 0.6.1 is available for download at

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

Screenshots can be found at

http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots/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/

Also BEAST/BSE website now has a file archive section that you can upload/download songs, instruments and skin packages at:

http://beast.gtk.org/browse-bse-files.html

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 0.6.1:

Added suid wrapper which acquires nice level -20, then drops privileges
Improved latency/block-size handling of the synthesis engine
Fixed i18n bug which prevents demo song from loading in non-C locales
Added i18n support for enum values
Support for more note formats like Cis-1, C#-1, #C-1
SFI cleanups [Stefan Westerfeld]
Restructured sfidl and fixed lots of bugs [Stefan]
Switched core language binding to C++
Added support for per-part scripts
New harmonic transposition script which allows to convert between major,
minor, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian and locrian scales [Stefan]
Added experimetal pattern editor prototype
Added keybinding editor to preferences dialog
Added ComboBox widgets to the GUI
Updated Catalan translation [Xavier Conde Rueda]
Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac]
Updated Serbian translation [Danilo Segan]
Updated Dutch translation [Kees van den Broek]
FreeBSD fixes [Rasmus Kaj]
Lots of GUI fixes