10.09.2010 BEAST/BSE release 0.7.2 available

See: http://blogs.testbit.eu/timj/2010/09/10/10-09-2010-beastbse-release-0-7-2-available/ (page moved)

BEAST/BSE and BSE-ALSA version 0.7.2 are available for download:

    http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/beast-0.7.2.tar.bz2
    http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.7/bse-alsa-0.7.2.tar.bz2

BEAST is a music composition and modular synthesis application. The “Bedevilled” portion of the names has no religious background, please refer to the About page for more details.

    Homepage:           http://beast.gtk.org/
    Downloads:          http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/
    Feedback:           http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/

The 0.7.2 release provides new plugins and instruments, and a long list of bug fixes, improvements and translation updates.

TRANSLATORS: Please help us to improve the BEAST translations at Transifex.

Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.2:

  • Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL, use AS-IS license for examples
  • Module changes and additions: ArtsCompressor – Relicensed to LGPL with permission from Matthias Kretz BseContribSampleAndHold – Relicensed to LGPL with permission from Artem Popov DavXTalStrings – Use deterministic random numbers for unit tests BseNoise – Improved random number generator
  • Switched to autogenerated ChangeLogs
  • Error bell can be muted in beast preferences dialog
  • Added multisample creation/editing command line tool: bsewavetool
  • Support adjustable volume, pitching and drum envelopes in .bsewave files
  • Added Retro Acoustic drum kit [Tim, Stefan]
  • New loadable Instruments/Effects:
    - BQS Bass Drum E8012 [Tim, Stefan]
    - BQS Slow Hum [Stefan, William DeVore]
    - FSM Fresh Water Bass instrument [Krzysztof Foltman]
    - FSM Growl Bass instrument [Krzysztof Foltman]
    - FSM Synth String Sweep [Krzysztof Foltman]
    
  • Added support for loading 32bit and 24bit PCM-format WAV files
  • Added support for gcc-4.4 and automake-1.10
  • Added support for guile-1.8, guile-1.6 remains as minimum requirement
  • Various fixes, improvements and much improved test coverage.
  • Bug fixes: #452604, #468229, #344388, #451086, #450724, #454121, #491552, #450490, #441936, #336766, #433431, #474332, #474244, #456879, #456408, #424897 [Tim Janik, Stefan Westerfeld]
  • Migrated translation support to use awk, sed and po/Makefile.am.
  • Updated German translation [Mario Blättermann]
  • Updated Italien translation [Michele Petrecca]
  • Updated Occitan translation [Yannig Marchegay]
  • Updated Brazilian Portugues translation [Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle]
  • Updated British English translation [David Lodge]
  • Updated Spanish translation [Jorge Gonzalez]
  • Updated Slovenian translation [Andrej Znidarsic]
  • Updated Danish translation [Joe Hansen]
  • Updated French translation [Bruno Brouard]
  • Added Norwegian bokmal translation [Kjartan Maraas]
  • Added Ukrainian translation [Maxim V. Dziumanenko]

Overview of Changes in BSE-ALSA 0.7.2:

  • Fixes for automake-1.10 builds
  • Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL

UPDATES: Updated translator instructions and uploaded a new release tarball with build fixes.