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<general>
<heading>Welcome to the terminatorX website!</heading>
<subtitle>
<nopara>Bookmark this site as
- <link ref='http://www.terminatorX.cx'>www.terminatorX.cx</link>. It's
+ <link ref='http://terminatorX.cx'>terminatorX.cx</link>. It's
located on
<link ref='http://42.fht-esslingen.de'>
42.fht-esslingen.de</link></nopara>
sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.ogg, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs
scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime
effects (buit-in as well as
- <link ref='http://www.ladspa.org'>LADSPA</link> plugin effects), a
+ <dblink id="ladspa"/> plugin effects), a
sequencer and MIDI interface - all accessible through an easy-to-use
gtk+ GUI.
<bold>This sofware is designed to run under Linux, FreeBSD and the
like</bold>. If you have more questions read the
- <link ref='faq.html'>FAQ</link>/<link ref='doc/index.html'>Manual</link>/<link
- ref='http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/quicktoots/toots/tx_toot/tx_toot1.html'>Tutorial</link>/<link ref='COPYING'>LICENSE</link> and if you have further questions,
+ <dblink id='faq'/>/<link ref='doc/index.html'>Manual</link>/<dblink id='tutorial'>Tutorial</dblink>/<dblink id='license'>License</dblink> and if you have further questions,
suggestions, patches,
- <link ref='scratches.html'>scratches</link> send me a
+ <dblink id='scratches'>scratches</dblink> send me a
<link ref='mailto:alex@lisas.de'>mail</link></para>
</text>
</general>
<news>
<newsitem>
- <newsheader date='April 03'>
+ <newsheader date='April 18'>
<link ref='download.html#Current Version'>terminatorX 3.80</link> and
<link ref='aseqjoy.html'>aseqjoy 0.0.1</link></newsheader>
<newstext>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Finally terminatorX has a
- <bold>native</bold>
- <link ref='http://www.alsa-project.org'>ALSA</link>
+ <bold>native</bold> <dblink id="alsa"/>
<bold>backend</bold>. See the new
<italic>Preferences</italic> dialog and the online manual for
details. The ALSA and the OSS backends now both support operating
at an
<bold>arbitrary sampling rate</bold>.</para>
</listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <screenshot filename='shot-3.80-1.png'>
+ <nopara>Scrolling audio data, a menubar and even less space consumption
+ for small displays.
+ </nopara>
+ </screenshot>
+ <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The audio data display is now
<bold>zoomable</bold>. This helps scratching large audio files
<name>Arthur Peters</name>
<email>amp@singingwizard.org</email>
</person>. The MIDI interface is based upon the
- <link ref='http://www.alsa-project.org'>ALSA</link> sequencer API,
+ <dblink id="alsa"/> sequencer API,
so you'll have to connect terminatorX' input port to an output
port of your choice with either
<screen>aconnect</screen> or for example the
a turntable's parameter click the
<italic>MIDI Mapping</italic> button.</para>
<para>In order to test the new interface I hacked a little tool
- called
- <link ref='aseqjoy.html'>aseqjoy</link> that emits MIDI controller
+ called <dblink id='aseqjoy'/> that emits MIDI controller
messages based on Joystick motion.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>I added a little
<bold>pitch calculator</bold> that allows adjusting the playback
speed of a turntable to that of the master turntable so it easy
- very easy to synchronize loops now. Note that this feature is
- proabably useless.</para>
+ very easy to synchronize (<italic>precisely cut</italic>) loops now.
+ Note that this feature is
+ probably useless with large audiofiles (like complete songs).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Advancing the use of XML: many XML-related bugs have been
</itemizedlist></para>
<para>This release has seen quite some
<link ref="http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj">valgrinding</link> so it
- should run rather stable and a major mem leak has been fixedm, too.
+ should run rather stable and a major mem leak has been fixed, too.
Unlike 3.73 this one compiles with gcc > 3.0 with
<screen>-Wall</screen> and
- <screen>-Werror</screen> enabled.</para>
+ <screen>-Werror</screen> enabled. Well, the version number ends in a
+ zero, which means lots of new code with possibly lots of new and yet
+ undiscovered busg.
+ </para>
</newstext>
</newsitem>
<newsitem>
<link ref='download.html#Current Version'>terminatorX
V3.73</link> available,
<link ref='http://www.debian.org'>Debian</link> inclusion + a
- <link ref='http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/quicktoots/toots/tx_toot/tx_toot1.html'>
- tutorial</link></newsheader>
+ <dblink id="tutorial"/></newsheader>
<newstext>
<para>Aside of fixing numerous bugs, the new release does have some
new features:
too, but I don't plan to support it much longer.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <screenshot filename='shot-3.73-1.png'>
- <nopara>Minimizing controls to save space</nopara>
- </screenshot>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>I reworked the GUI a bit in order to make terminatorX fit
<person>
<name>Adrian</name>
<email>adrian@lisas.de</email>
- </person>terminatorX now has a
+ </person> terminatorX now has a
<bold>manpage</bold>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
<person>
<name>Tilman Linneweh</name>
<email>tilman@arved.de</email>
- </person>for testing.</para>
+ </person> for testing.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Many other fixes.</para>
<person>
<name>Mike Furr</name>
<email>mfurr@debian.org</email>
- </person>is now maintainer of the
+ </person> is now maintainer of the
<link ref='http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/terminatorx.html'>
terminatorX Debian package</link>. So if you're a Debian user you may
want to
<person>
<name>Brian</name>
<email>bredfern@calarts.edu</email>
- </person>has created a wonderful step-by-step
- <link ref='http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/quicktoots/toots/tx_toot/tx_toot1.html'>
- "terminatorX TOOT" tutorial</link> - reading that will accelerate the
+ </person> has created a wonderful step-by-step
+ <dblink id='tutorial'>
+ "terminatorX TOOT" tutorial</dblink> - reading that will accelerate the
creation of your first scratch considerably.</para>
</newstext>
</newsitem>
<newsitem>
<newsheader date='31 Jul'>
- <link ref='turntable.html'>Turntable gallery</link> online and a fresh
- <link ref='scratches.html'>scratch</link></newsheader>
+ <dblink id='turntables'>Turntable gallery</dblink> online and a fresh
+ <dblink id='scratches'>scratch</dblink></newsheader>
<newstext>
<para>I finally managed to hack the website's DTD and XSLT stylesheet
to support the
<person>
<name>Brian</name>
<email>bredfern@calarts.edu</email>
- </person>- a California based terminatorX DJ - has contributed a very
+ </person> - a California based terminatorX DJ - has contributed a very
cool scratch for the
- <link ref='scratches.html'>scratches section</link>. It's just an
+ <dblink id='scratches'>scratches section</dblink>. It's just an
excerpt of a complete drum and bass set that is available at Brian's
<link ref='http://asapien.org'>website</link> - which seems to be down
currently. In case it doesn't come up again I'll mirror the complete
<para>Hope everybody had a nice start into 2002, these are the
changes that come with terminatorX release 3.72 (for details check
the
- <link ref='ChangeLog'>ChangeLog</link>):
+ <dblink id='changelog'/>):
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Thanks to a patch from
git://lisas.de / terminatorX.git / blobdiff