beast-0.5.4-rc1.tar.gz

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

Hello everyone.

There's a new release candidate tarball of the upcoming
0.5.4 release at http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.5/testing/.
The full URL is:

        http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.5/testing/beast-0.5.4-rc1.tar.gz

We would apprechiate if people test compiled and test ran this candidate,
try velocity editing and try the .bse files files in test/ etc.
Please report any problems you encounter to beast@gnome.org.

As usual, here's the list of required dependencies
to get the tarball running:

GnomeCanvas (GNOME-2.0):
        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnomecanvas/
Gtk+-2.0:
        ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/
Guile-1.6:
        http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
Ogg/Vorbis (at least version 1.0):
        http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download/
MAD (BSE was developed against libmad-0.14.2):
        http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/


Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.5.4:

* Ported and improved synthesis module from David A. Bartold:
  DavSynDrum - Synthetic drum generator
* Added support for control event editing
* Added per-note velocity and fine-tune editing
* Added support for per-track and per-song special effects
* Some GUI polishing
* Fixes to compile on NetBSD
* Miscellaneous bug fixes

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ciaoTJ