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Harry van Haaren from OpenAV has just posted an update on Fabla 2's progress along with a nice demo of some of it's capabilities. Check it out!

Ardour has just seen a new major release, version 4. Since the last release, there have been over 4,000 commits.

Ardour has seen a lot of infrastructure work and now uses a new graphics engine (cairo) for the editor window. You can now also use other audio backends other than JACK, for example you could use ALSA, although JACK is still the recommended backend.

Rui Nuno Capela has been on a pre-LAC2015 release frenzy with his Q-stuff suite of software. In the past week he has released updates for QjackCtl, Qsynth, Qsampler, QmidiNet, QmidiCtl and of course Qtractor. You can find full details about these releases over at rncbc.org.

The Calf team have just announced the release of version 0.0.60 of the very popular Calf Studio Gear plugins.

There are many bug fixes, new plugins as well as new features.

There are 16 new plugins included in this release, bringing the total number of Calf plugins up to 45. The new plugins are as follows -

Version 0.9.5 of Giada Loop Machine has been released. This version, codename 'Nabla Symbols', has a number of refinements, as well as permanent MIDI mapping.

Carla has just seen it's fourth beta release. This release is mostly focused on bug-fixing but there are some interesting new features.

The highlights are:

• Updated plugin skins
• New experimental plugins
• MOD GUI Support

Also of note is a new MIDI sequencer plugin. This is experimental and in it's early stages but it is an interesting addition all the same.

Markus Schmidt has posted a new video demonstrating the many plugins of the Calf Studio Gear suite. The Calf developers are currently working towards a new stable release. The version of Calf used in the screencast is 0.0.60pre2+. Check it out!

A brand new plugin, an envelope filter, has been added to the Calf Studio Gear plugins. This is still a work in progress but is hoped to be included in the up and coming 0.0.60 Calf release.

Features include -