April 5th, 2011· The software has been fully translated (including documentation) in French, and localized in Spanish.
March 10th, 2010· View > Set Background lets you import an image (png, gif, tiff) and use it as a background on your piece.
· This can be used either in the classroom, or to create guides on which you can show any kinds of marks to draw your sounds over.
December 10th, 2009· Improved look and feel in the waveform editors.
· Bug fixes in MIDI capture.
July 3rd, 2009· Printing functionality, enabling export to PDF file format
· Overview shows the cursor in all views during playback.
· Set the default pitch of imported sound samples (to correct potential pitch detection algorithm errors).
· Tune the sampled audio files.
· Audio file import in the FLAC format. FLAC is a lossless audio compression format that saves about 2/3rds of the original file size.
· Distribution reduced from 16 to 10Mb.
May 15th, 2009· A new waveform type lets you import an audio file and use its samples as a waveform. This lets you insert and transform complex sounds intuitively to create even richer soundscapes. This is accessible only to registered users.
· New library of sampled sounds. 35 samples, including classical instruments and drums.
· Shift + Play plays the viewed area only, not the selection. This lets you work on a section of the piece by zooming on it.
· Hidden sounds are not exported nor played anymore. This lets you export or here parts of your piece separately. Use in conjunction with tags.
· Scales are now stored in the library instead of the preferences, making it easier to handle custom scale definitions.
· Export Selection function.
· Polish localization.
March 2nd, 2009· A wide variety of filtered noise generators, to use as is or with modulations. Check the Waveform/noises library
· French language version. If you want to contribute to a version in your language, please check the forum.
· Time Controls toolbar.
· MIDI instruments are now slightly closer to the MIDI standard bank.
· Smart cut and paste: objects are pasted relatively to the location of the current selection, avoiding numerous sequences of move/paste/move/paste...
· Start time scale at 0.
· Default quality preference.
· Color mappings for waveforms follow a new, perceptually consistent, scheme.
· View/Show Lead Sound Attribute. lets you see the name of the waveform and envelope associated with a sound.
· Bug fixes, notably clicks heard on MacOSX, and bad redraws during playback on MacOSX Leopard and Windows Vista, ability to edit composite waveforms.
December 22nd, 2008· View - Show Pitch with Color: maps sound pitch to the hue, repeated for every octave. This lets one spot consonances, dissonances, and also find the tune in which you piece is played, as well as chord changes.
· Allow scale labels to be placed at the left, right, both sides of the score or none: go to Tools - View Inspector - Background - Label Position (set it to 0,1,2 or 3).
· Random waveform: an experimental noise waveform whose randomness is tied to the frequency of the sound.
· 3 preferences to let you adjust the calibration of the rendering algorithms to avoid skips on slow machines and setup of the maximal gain.
· Select from Duration..., Select from Level... actions.
· Paint tool allows moving backwards to reduce the duration of the drawn sound.
October 15th, 2008· Fixes a few late minute bugs.
October 9th, 2008· Piece Overview on multiple lines: see menu Tools - Overview
· The keyboard view shows the current position (in groups:bars:beats:ms)
· Snapping to precise time boundaries is much easier, this allows entering rhythms easily. (see the Alphabet sample in the forum)
· Current window configuration and settings are fully preserved from one session to the next.
September 3rd, 2008· The main new feature are the spectrum and waveshape viewers in the waveform full screen editors.
· Misc. bug and small features, in particular when editing patterns and composite waveforms, and when rendering composite waveforms.
July 3rd, 2008· The main new feature is the ability to edit patterns and composite waveform after they have been created.
· A library of composite waveforms examples has been added.
· The rendering of glissandi sounds is made more faithful to what is actually heard.
· Edition of waveshape waveforms and envelopes has been improved, allowing very precise tunings.
· There a few other small bug fixes here and there.
May 21st, 2008· There are a number of bug fixes, notably the View > Show Tooltips function now ensures that you can see the Hz and Time in seconds under the cursor at all times: this is particularly useful to enter curves that require a high precision.
· The most important new features are a new set of samples, and the "Make As Waveform" function that lets you turn a set of sounds into a composite waveform...
March 21st, 2008· versions 2.0 to 2.05 had a major redraw bug on MacOS X 10.5 Leopard that limited usability. Version 2.06 works around this (Apple) bug.
February 18th, 2008· The major technical improvement is a generalized scheme to handle modulation. Both low frequency and high frequency amplitude and frequency modulations are available with a single unified approach.
· Ability to set precise attack and release times for envelopes
· Patterns are a powerful mean
· More guidance when starting highc
· Reworked documentation
February 4th, 2008· compatibility issues with java 1.4 fixed.
· pitch scale with 0 reference fixed.
· Error while writing [rissetloop, prop, visualization] fixed.
· time scale: allow several colors for the bars and bar groups.
· adjust and warn about bad calibration of the renderer's time.
· reopen Piece reuses the last view settings.
· click on '-' in envelope or waveform editor to remove a library.
· edit FunctionalWaveform now operational.
· waveforms and envelopes can be edited in a separate full view pane.
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