>
> Yes, your eyes are working correctly. This is v0.14.96. Some things
> are worth the wait. I know it's been a while, but I haven't forgotton
> about PHASEX... just had to put it on the back burner for some time
> while life moves on. After more troubles than I'd like to go into
> detail about with the old server, old hosting arrangement, the old
> bug-ridden codebase, old laptop, and life in general, I've come back
> to "finish" what I've started (as if software projects ever "finish"
> these days...). Over the past eleven months, I've taken the time to
> overhaul most aspects of the PHASEX source code. After two failed
> attempts at going multitimbral, and two mishaps with the laptop dev
> tree and was supposed to be v0.12.0, I decided to bump the version
> twice, start the new development with v0.14.x, and move on. Here's
> the short list of what's new since v0.12.x:
>
>
> New Features:
> - Multitimbral (1 thread per part).
> - Session bank (very much like the patch bank).
> - Jack Session.
> - Stereo- and Multi- outputs for JACK.
> - ALSA PCM audio.
> - JACK MIDI.
> - ALSA Raw MIDI.
> - Generic MIDI (/dev/midi support).
> - MIDI clock for timestamping and queuing events.
> - Active Sensing.
> - New oscillator waveforms.
> - Portamento for Osc Transpose events.
> - FM oscillator latching.
> - New LFO parameters.
> - Moog (24db/octave) filter.
> - Fast fade-out mono retriggering.
> - Interpolated oscillator table lookups.
> - Ability to run with no GUI.
> - JACK MIDI / ALSA Raw / ALSA Seq connections in menus.
> - Widescreen layout mode.
> - New preferences dialog w/ nearly all settings.
> - New knobs.
> - Pure 64-bit math in builds with --enable-cpu-power=4.
>
>
> New Features from Anton Kormakov:
> - LASH.
> - MIDI Hold pedal.
> - JACK Transport.
>
>
> Bugs Removed and/or Squashed:
> - The "bad PHASEX noise" is gone.
> - GUI widget sensitivity is fixed.
> - Notebook tabs behave properly (and quickly).
> - Patch loading bugs are gone.
> - MIDI program change works dependably.
> - Spurious envelope triggering pops are gone.
> - Offsets for neg. filter env. now calculated properly.
> - Chopped portamento slides are fixed.
> - Keytriggering for all keymodes is fixed.
> - Voice stealing works as expected.
> - Chorus phase balance issues have been corrected.
> - System lockup on shutdown is a thing of the past.
> - Denormals don't eat up all the CPU anymore.
>
>
> Code Overhaul:
> - Build system overhaul.
> - Reorganization of source code.
> - Rebuilt data structures for multimbral architecture.
> - New driver layer (engine relies on no libraries).
> - Replaced pthreads based buffer synchronization code.
> - New lightweight patch parser / patch format.
> - New thread-safe MIDI event queue.
> - Restructured engine, GUI, and MIDI code.
> - Almost complete separation of GUI and engine.
> (still need to separate bank changes from the GUI.)
>
>
> Sources are available via git:
>
> git clone
https://github.com/williamweston/phasex.git
>
> Number of parts is configurable at compile time (1-2 parts per core
> should be very dependable. Tested extensively with 8 parts on a
> quad-core.) As usual, YMMV:
>
> aclocal && autoconf && automake && autoheader
> ./configure --enable-arch=native --enable-parts=2
>
> Overall, I am pleased with where PHASEX has arrived. In the past, I
> had always been disappointed with PHASEX and its shortcomings, and for
> many reasons. Until now. The code is cleaner and easier to work on.
> Most of the old bugs have been replaced with more intelligent design.
> On an -rt kernel, xruns are a thing of the past. Sound quality is
> cleaner. GUI is much more responsive. Dependence on the command line
> is kept to a bare minimum. Sessions can be managed with ease. Per
> part memory and CPU utilization has decreased vs. multi-instance
> v0.12.x. Timing is almost as good as it gets (sample accurate for
> JACK MIDI, near sample accurate for ALSA seq, and almost as good as
> your hardware will allow for ALSA raw MIDI.) All or the major
> barriers to use that I've identified over the years have been
> eliminated. I can actually sit down and work on some of those tracks
> that got shelved due to bad timing. Of all the new features and code,
> I am most pleased with the new MIDI clock. (Anyone interested in
> timing of MIDI events and successive audio buffer processing cycles
> can enable timing debug with '-d timing'. Once I finish putting all
> my notes together, a detailed explanation of the MIDI clock will
> follow.) The rest of the new features should be self-explanatory to
> readers of linux-audio-dev, so I'll spare the details (unless of
> course anyone asks).
>
> Many thanks go out to Anton Kormakov for his work on PHASEX and his
> git repo, which appear to have served the community well in the time
> since the old server went down. And of course, I'd like to thank the
> regular posters to this list (and linux-rt-users) for sharing the
> knowledge that's made this release possible. A lot of you have
> dropped some hints over the years about what the design of PHASEX (or
> any synth) really needs to perform well (or at least to not perform
> badly). I've been listening, as a lot of the work this year is a
> result of finally getting around to a lot of the suggestions made by
> members of linux-audio-dev.
>
> So please, enjoy the new PHASEX. This release aims to be as bug-free
> as possible (and IMHO, v0.14.96 is already more stable and
> trouble-free than any previous version). As is usual with GPL'ed
> software, there's no warranty whatsoever and I'm not responsible if
> you blow out your speakers (or your hearing), but please don't let
> that hold you back from trying it out.
>
> This version is fully tested with Fedora 17 and 18, and should be just
> as trouble free on any Fedora >= 14 or CentOS >= 6.0. At some point
> next month, I'll be rebuilding my RAID and dedicating some space to
> running other distributions. Until then, a request goes out for build
> reports from other distros, especially Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, and Mint.
> There's still time to get build files from other distros into the git
> tree before v0.15.0 comes out.
>
>
> So what do we do, now that the world didn't end?
> Let's make some music!
>
>
> Cheers,
> --William Weston
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