Radium 6.9.98 released

[kjetil]

Most work this time has been spent upgrading notes to the new internal data structure, but this work is in progress and has so far not been included into the master branch.

This release features many 3rd party library upgrades. Most importantly, Qt is upgraded from 5.15.2 to 5.15.3, JUCE is upgraded from 6.1.4 to 6.1.6, and Faust is upgraded from 2020-12 to latest version 2.37.3.
VST3 plugins on Linux should work better now, but other things might work better as well.

The most notable new feature this time is the new "glissando" mode in the Song Preferences to simulate pitch changes for instruments that don't support that. This feature can for instance be used to quickly create funny-sounding glissandos by automating the pitch of playing notes:

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Besides this the release contains a few number of bug fixes.

Radium seems to be in a very stable condition now, so Radium V7 should be released soon.



Changes 6.9.97 -> 6.9.98:

• Build: Upgraded Qt from 5.15.2 to 5.15.3.
• Build: Upgraded lots of system libraries for
  all three platforms.
• Windows: Include a general README.txt file.
• Windows 32bit: Include the FaustDev instrument. By
  mistake, the FaustDev instrument had not been
  included before now.
• Song properties/Instruments/Editor: Add options to
  simulate pitch changes by sending out discrete
  glissando notes. Enabled by default in new songs
  for instruments that don't support changing pitch
  of playing notes.
• Editor: Fix some harmless but annoying error
  messages sometimes popping up right after loading
  a song.
• Audio: Fix notes not stopping for some instrument
  when changing the pitch of a currently playing
  note.
• JUCE: Upgrade from 6.1.4 to 6.1.6
• Build: Fix compiling with clang 13.
• Faust: Update to Faust 2.37.3
• Editor: Don't set random sample for all selected
  instruments when pressing SHIFT+R. This keybinding
  belongs in the mixer only.
• Instruments: Remember highest instance number from
  last time when loading songs. The instance number
  is used when autocreating instrument names.
• Build: Fix shebangs (bandthedoge)
• JUCE: Don't enable jassert in RELEASE mode
  (fixes crashes in VST3 plugins on linux.)
• Editor/Sequencer: Paint nodes correctly when they
  are selected.
• Editor/Sequencer: Paint thicker borders on high
  DPI screens.

[kjetil]

Radium 6.9.99 released.

A quicker-than-usual release to fix a crash bug (rare, but still).

This will be the last release before V7.


Changes 6.9.98 -> 6.9.99:

• Editor: Make it possible to add keybinding for all
  menu entries in the "(click me)" track header menu,
  including opening the "(click me)" menu itself.
  It's still not possible to configure keybinding for
  currently used instruments though, but it's far
  from straight forward how such keybindings would
  work.
• GUI: Create different set of keybindings when
  opening the "From instrument/effect" menu depending
  on what the instrument is used for. For instance,
  when opening the menu from the "(click me)" menu,
  you also want to let the keybindings assign the
  instrument to the current track, not just create
  the instrument.
• Timing: Fix rare crash that reportedly can happen
  when drawing up the sequencer after inserting lines
  in the editor, and possibly other situations. Bug
  seems to have been introduced in V6.9.86 or some
  time after.
• GUI: Add entries to also select from the list of
  most frequently used instruments in the various
  insert-instrument menus (in addition to select
  from plugin manager/preset/etc.)
• Editor: Fix painting correct background for the
  velocity nodes related to whether the nodes are
  current or not. Bug probably introduced in
  V6.9.80.