BEAST - Music Composition and Synthesis
From Testbit
| Beast Home: | http://beast.testbit.eu | |
| IRC Channel: | #beast on GimpNet | |
| Email: | Beast Mailing List and List Archive | |
| Forum: | Use the Mailing List Web Gateway or our Wiki | |
| Feedback: | Wiki Discussion pages | |
| Translations: | Translate Beast at transifex | |
| Bug Reports: | Beast Bug List and New Bug Report form | |
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What's New?
Monday 25th March 2013, BEAST 0.8.0 Release
This release opens a new development branch which focuses on improving interoperability and feature integration. A new dependency on Rapicorn is introduced, which can be found here: http://dist.testbit.eu/rapicorn/
- Tarball: beast-0.8.0.tar.bz2
- Reference documentation: Version 0.8.0
- Changes: NEWS file.
Saturday 19th January 2013, BEAST 0.7.8 released
Beast version 0.7.8 is now available.
Christmas left a lot of time to have a run on a number of ancient quirks with the Beast code base. A number of orphan fixes are incorporated and the entire code base is ported to compile as C++11. This opens up the door for some UI, scripting and middleware improvements that have been in the queue for too long already. Before we get to that, here's what's probably the last release of the 0.7 branch with all its glory fixes.
Let us know what issues you run into, we take every complaint from UI hurdles you encounter to stability issue or regressions with old BSE files.
This release does away with some recently reported issues and clears our patch backlog. We'll happily take new patches. ;-)
- Tarball: beast-0.7.8.tar.bz2
- Reference documentation: Version 0.7.8
- Changes: NEWS file.
Thursday 25th October 2012, BEAST 0.7.6 released
BEAST/BSE version 0.7.6 is available from the download section.
- BEAST tarball: beast-0.7.6.tar.bz2
The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in our forums like this Beast Wiki or the mailing list.
This release is largely a bug fix release that improves stability and interoperation with system libraries. The NEWS file has the exact change list, so enjoy the new code and please report all bugs encountered.
Saturday 09 April 2011, BEAST 0.7.4 released
BEAST/BSE version 0.7.4 is available from the download section.
- BEAST tarball: beast-0.7.4.tar.bz2
- This release integrates the bse-alsa driver for which no seperate package is now needed.
The 0.7 development series of Beast focusses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in our forums like this Beast Wiki or the mailing list.
The 0.7.4 release integrates the bse-alsa package, several speedups, important bug fixes and translation updates. The NEWS file has the exact change list, so enjoy the new code and please report all bugs encountered.
Friday 10 September 2010, BEAST 0.7.2 finally out
BEAST/BSE version 0.7.2 is available from the download section.
- BEAST tarball: beast-0.7.2.tar.bz2
- ALSA driver: bse-alsa-0.7.2.tar.bz2
The 0.7 development series of Beast focuses on improving usability and ease of music production. Feedback is very much appreciated, please take the opportunity and provide your comments and questions in online forums like the Beast Bugzilla or the mailing list.
The 0.7.2 release provides new plugins and instruments, and a long list of bug fixes, improvements and translation updates. The NEWS file has the exact change list, so enjoy the new code and please report all bugs encountered.
Wednesday 21 October 2009, Recent Happenings
Due to a variety of reasons Beast development has stalled for quite some time. Recently, Stefan Westerfeld has kicked off some new work and fixes are slowly trippling into the Beast tree again. In particular, he brought win32 builds into a much better shape and worked on the remaining 0.7.2 release todos.
