Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer - rncbc.org

●●●●Mixer●●●23. ConclusionClip PluginsPitch­Shifting of Individual Clips Paste Repeat CommandClip LinkingMixer PresetsMixer Fader GroupsEffect Aux Send/Returns (pseudo­plug­in)As fundamental as is, Qtractor might be just some clone of earlier and existing software,being blatantly one of the Cakewalk's [11] Pro Audio series. It is however more than that,when regarded from the free open­source software development point of view, much likesome cauldron framework, user­oriented, programmable, pattern sequencer, eventuallytargeted as a potential toolbox and workbench for easy, direct, live music­making andexperimentalism24. AcknowledgementsI am grateful to the free software open­source community in general and to the Linux Audiodevelopers and users in particular, who dedicated their valuable time to the development andsupport of free audio and MIDI software, being Qtractor just one humble manifestation ofsuch class of human endeavor.Qtractor is free / open­source software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under theterms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.Qtractor logo/icon is an original work of Andy Fitzsimon, borrowed from the public domainopenclipart.org gallery.All or some product names mentioned in this document may be trademarks of theirrespective holders.25. References[1] Qtractor ­ An Audio/MIDI multi­track sequencerhttp://qtractor.sourceforge.net/http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor/[2] Qt 4 ­ C++ class library and tools for cross­platform development andinternationalization.http://www.trolltech.org/products/qt/[3] JACK Audio Connection Kithttp://jackaudio.org/[4] ALSA ­ Advanced Linux Sound Architecturehttp://www.alsa­project.org/[5] libsndfile ­ C library for reading and writing files containing sampled soundhttp://www.mega­nerd.com/libsndfile/[6] libvorbis ­ Ogg Vorbis audio compressionhttp://xiph.org/vorbis/qtractor­0.1.3­user­manual 25 of 38