BEAST - Your Solution for Music Composition and Synthesis

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What's New?

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.

Wednesday 12 March 2008
Fantasy III Contest

The Fantasy Project is an annual challenge. Each artist who participates can create his own song, as long as he uses the lyrics given below ("Jean Lucs Poem") unchanged. All styles of music, such as classical, blues, rock, metal, rap, dance, techno, house, ... are welcome.
Fantasy III Contest
Fantasy II Results

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 online forums like the Beast Help Desk, Beast Bugzilla or the mailing list.

Many new features went into this release and lot of normal bugfixes and one security bugfix:
* Fixed SUID security vulnerability by validating success of seteuid/setreuid, related security advisories, describing the vulnerability: Translation updates were made to italian. The Release NEWS section has the exact change list, so enjoy the new code and please report all bugs encountered.

NEWS Archive

Older news entries are archived in the Ancient News section.