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Jackbeat News
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New release: 0.7.4
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- A bug which may prevent to load samples have been fixed

Olivier Guilyardi - November 29rd, 2009

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New release: 0.7.3
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- Tracks can now be reordered
- A buffer overflow and a bug preventing to load some jab files have been fixed

Olivier Guilyardi - November 23rd, 2009

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New release: 0.7.2
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- Jackbeat now runs on Windows in addition to Mac OS X and Linux
- Track solo controls have been added, OSC bindings included
- Minor file access and user interface bugs have been fixed

Olivier Guilyardi - June 26th, 2009

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New release: 0.7.0
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- The GUI has been re-designed for the pleasure of the eye and more ergonomy
- New shortcuts, knobs and waveform animation bring more interactivity
- OSC is now supported with a fair amount of methods and events
- Mac OS X integration has been much improved
- ALSA, CoreAudio and PulseAudio are now directly supported in addition to JACK
- Several bugs and usability issues have been fixed
- The internal architecture has been improved

Olivier Guilyardi - April 29th, 2009

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New release: 0.6.2
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- The export framerate and sustain handling can now be customized
- The pattern can be edited using the keyboard
- The GUI has been improved and fixed
- Optional support for the Phat Audio Toolkit is available
- Some audio processing and JACK issues have been fixed
- Simple drum kits are now available from Jackbeat's homepage

Olivier Guilyardi - January 10th, 2008

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New release: 0.6.1
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- The sequence can now be exported as a WAV file
- The intel 64bit platform is supported
- VU meters now use full color scale
- The user interface has been improved and several issues fixed
- The code has been optimized and some random krash fixed

Olivier Guilyardi - March 1st, 2007

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New release: 0.6
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- The drummachine interface is more interactive and features VU meters
- The JACK realtime thread now uses ringbuffers, for syscall-free operation 
- Support for Mac OS X is now complete
- Various other minor issues have been fixed
- Jackbeat is now available through Subversion

Olivier Guilyardi - November 24th, 2006

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New release: 0.5.4
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- The JACK client name handling has been improved
- Errors are now better detected and reported
- Usability has been slightly improved

Olivier Guilyardi - October 20th, 2005

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New release: 0.5.3 
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- A set of basic command line options is now supported
- A few bugs that disturbed the user experience were fixed
- The debugging output was slightly improved

Olivier Guilyardi - September 14th, 2005

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New release: 0.5.2 
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- A ennoying bug that forbade jab files containing empty tracks to load
  has been fixed.
- The helpful segfault handler is unfortunately not very portable,
  it has caused troubles on the powerpc and is now only included when
  compiling on the i386 architecture.
- The current graphical animation which is heavy due to a design problem,
  is now refreshed at a much lower rate, as a cpu-friendly workaround.

Olivier Guilyardi - June 20th, 2005

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