Fedora 18 Update: muse-2.1-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1283
2013-01-23 00:36:04
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Name        : muse
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.1
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://www.muse-sequencer.org/
Summary     : Midi/Audio Music Sequencer
Description :
MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities. It can
perform audio effects like chorus/flanger in real-time via LASH and it supports
Jack and ALSA interfaces. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio
for Linux.

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Update Information:

Happy new year everybody and happy new MusE release!
We've tried hard to break tradition and release somewhat quicker than what we usually been able to.
So without further ado, here we are with a shiny 2.1 release.

Assortment of topics worked on this time around are:
* Native VST support, first drop: effect rack isn't supported yet and some synths are misbehaving a bit but it should be usable.
* New type of drum track with easier instrument handling
* Improved Wave Editor.
* Improved midi import/export
* Longtime wierdness in MusE, song-type is finally removed
* Improved: Deicsonze soft synthesizer: Fixed crash, bugs, added ladspa plugins
* Added: Request from forums: Auto-start Jack upon MusE startup.
Command-line disable switch -J added
* Added aftertouch controller handling
* Piano KB and drum list show coloured dots when per-pitch controllers
exist or have data.
* Improved: Instrument Editor (controller tab): Redesigned. Fixed MANY bugs
* Improved: Midi controller graph 'Ctrl' popup menus now unified (cascading).
* Improved: built-in templates and removed lots of unneeded definitions
* Improved: Velocity graphs. Icon for showing per-note or all velocities
* Improved: Piano KB has current selected note (yellow). For
velocity/polyaftertouch/other per-note ctrls
* Added 'speaker' icon to drum edit. And drum list and piano keyboard
now obey the 'speaker' icon
* Improved: Multi-port (aka multi-channel) midi import and export
* Added Gain knob on channel strip for audio tracks
* Changed WaveTrack and AudioInput to create mono tracks instead of stereo
* Added: Informative text on Undo/Redo buttons/menu text/tooltips
("Undo AddTrack" etc).
* Fixed CR:3567893 Play Event on note creation
* Bug 3555569, 3555572: New informative ERROR, WARNING and HINT
messages in cmake build script.
* Bug 3555581: No synths listed in Edit menu: main.cpp: Move
initMidiSynth() ahead of MusE.
* Feature request 3565102: FLAC audio file import.
* Fix for forum topic "Ordering of simultaneous events".
* Summer sleep is over! plugins can now be grouped
* Finished the Sysex Editor in the Instrument Editor.
* increased zoom range in arranger, reversed zoom in wave editor
* Internal fluidsynth and simpledrums search project dir for missing sounds to ease portability, and if no sounds are found a load file dialog is shown

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ChangeLog:

* Sat Jan 19 2013 Orcan Ogetbil <oget[DOT]fedora[AT]gmail[DOT]com> - 1:2.1-1
- MusE-2.1
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update muse' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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