Hello everybody, 

Time for another mark in the MusE bark. We are pleased to announce that MusE 2.0beta is currently available for download and as per usual a number of fixes and new additions were added along the way.

MusE now sports a score editor (again! it's been a long time) and lots of gui love, not to speak of all under-the-hood improvements and optimizations. In it's current state MusE should be quite usable though there is definitely going to be more fixes.

Here is a selection of changes in no particular order, see the ChangeLog linked below for the complete unedited truth.

- Feedback parameters added to LADSPA GUIs
- Added new score editor
- 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

The full changelog is available at:
http://lmuse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lmuse/trunk/muse2/ChangeLog?revision=877

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

Have fun!
The MusE Team
