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RELEASE-NOTES
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This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound generation back-end separated from all GUI activities. Specifics can be found in the NEWS section.

Outstanding new features include support for skins, many sample file formats, MIDI file import abilities, an improved piano roll widget, the track editor which allows for easy selection of synthesisers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs, various scope types and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities.

Good starting points are the effects and instruments or the demo song shipped with BEAST, and of course the Quick Start Guide in the Help menu.

For uptodate information on BEAST development, please visit:

http://beast.gtk.org

Questions, comments, bug reports and similar stuff should be sent to:

mailto://beast@gnome.org