Hello everybody, 

We have a present for you, a new release of MusE.
The alpha indicates this is an early version so it's mainly
- a teaser to spread the word.
- an early adopters build.
- to welcome developers who want to port MusE to other platforms.

MusE has now been completely ported to the Qt4 architecture and we (mainly Tim and Orcan) 
are busy to make it even better than before, lots of gui stuff being reworked.
MusE now also sports a new version of the DeicsOnze, DX11 emulating softsynth, up from version 0.2 to 1.0.
The homepage has received a new look that we hope will give a better indication of what MusE is and does.
Do visit http://muse-sequencer.org.

The full changelog is available at:
http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revision=674

Find the download at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmuse/files/

Happy Holidays!
The MusE Team

- Feedback parameters added to LADSPA GUIs
- New score editor added
- Song loading stability fixes, some crashes removed
- Improved ladspa and dssi controller responsiveness
- Lots of graphical improvements to arranger, part drawing, gradients, text drawing
- Added more routing choices: Synth to Wave track, Wave track to Wave track etc
- DSSI synths can now show generic LADSPA GUI as well as native
- Improvements to midi-only audio-stub (dummy audio) 
- More shortcuts added to Arranger
- Support for custom LADSPA DSSI GUIs, such as those generated by FLAM http://vagar.org/code/projects/flam.
- Fixed problems with midi event list editor, e.g. problems selecting items while pianroll open.
- Added: Pianoroll controller graph items can now be selected/highlighted. 
- Parts are now drawn while recording and also midi events visible in the parts
- Added new edit mode CURSOR MODE' in drum editor
- added simple part drawing while recording, does not draw events or waveform
- detect samplerate and warn if samplerate isn't same in song and system
- Added show/hide track-types buttons to arranger
- Added progress dialog for loading projects
- Fixed drag & drop for plugins and drag presets from outside muse into a plugin
- Support for multiple drops of files to arranger, e.g easy import of a bunch of wave files
- Fixed Organ synth crashing
- Persisten store of toolbar locations for main window and editors
- Fixed MusE failing with some non-RT kernels
- added cut/copy/paste and keyboard shortcuts to wave editor
- fixed regression with Bounce to File and Bounce to Track
- Increased playback MidiFifo size from 512 to 2100, to accommodate large block sends, 
- Fixed Jack Midi 'lost event' messages due to full buffers. 
- fixed panic button
- Completed soloing system (after 4 years). Support chaining Midi Port/Audio Out -> Audio In
- Support for editing audio automation on tracks
- Added right-click on track ARM buttons, now enables/disables all tracks of it's kind
- Added transport position "Shift + +/-" keys, for no snapping
- fixed deicsonze synth patch loading
- Added default velocity controllers to pianoroll and drum edit
- Appearance part color names now can now be edited
- Mixer label colours can now be edited in the appearance settings
- more wallpapers
- Fixed focus stealing of transport
- new project creation dialog
- Midi track info added to pianoroll
- Added fancy background selection widget with live preview to Appearance Settings
