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Kangas Sound Editor Changelog

What's new in Kangas Sound Editor 4.2.0

Jul 1, 2014
  • Fix to prevent a dialog 'Kangas Sound Editor Install.app is damaged and can't be opened'.
  • Changes to new installation sample database.
  • Made the extent of Recorded Sound boxes sensitive to the Volume multiplier field in the containing Sequence box.
  • Fixed bugs with .WAV sound file handling.

New in Kangas Sound Editor 4.1.0 (Jul 1, 2014)

  • Bug-fixes and improvements to WavePlayer.
  • Improvements in the handling of Recorded Sound boxes.
  • Clicking on the 'Tracks' node now functions as a 3-way toggle.
  • Single quote and backslash SQL syntax errors fixed.
  • New installs now include examples of the four additional graph types introduced in version 3.2.0.
  • Improved error report when an attempt to insert duplicates into the database is made.
  • Fixed bug in sound-engine graph calculations in Compute Stereo and Recorded Sound.
  • Improved format of fields shown in Duration dialogs.
  • Fixed bug in Sound engine when the bits-per-sample is not an exact multiple of 8, and another when the bits-per-sample is exactly 8.
  • Waveform, Amplitude and Pitch views handling of 'Cannot locate intermediate file' messages improved.
  • Closing the program and starting a new composition now only prompt the user if there are unsaved edits.
  • The user actions of load/re-load composition, delete composition and XML import of a composition no longer have the side effect of closing track nodes and associated views.
  • Fixed bug with setting the Composition parameters from its dialog and then saving.
  • Fixed bugs that prevented successful XML import of a composition.
  • Fix to bug where Waveform, Amplitude, Pitch, Channel and Master views were not always cleared on new composition or change of composition.

New in Kangas Sound Editor 4.0.0 (Jul 1, 2014)

  • Inclusion of WavePlayer, an internal audio player.
  • Track 0 enhancements, including computation of Master track.
  • Improvements to Waveform, Pitch and Amplitude views.
  • Reuse sound and intermediate filenames facility added.
  • Computation of child sound and intermediate files added. Configure sound file parameters dialog improved.
  • Improvements to Variations dialog.
  • The 'Time ruler start' on the toolbar is now a spinner field. Sound-box properties 'beeping' bug fix.

New in Kangas Sound Editor 3.2.2 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • Changed to save main window preferences only if the user confirms he/she wants to close the program. An unnecessary refresh of the Properties view has been removed. Changes to better deal with a Sequence box which while selected, goes off Edit view. A bug resulting in incorrect display of UNNAMED COMPOSITION in the title bar for a named composition in Aqua look-and-feel has been fixed. Added code to better handle a switch from MIDI to non-MIDI pitch on a composition. Updated installer instructions relating to MySQL. Improved display of Variations. Fixed bug in volume/duration calculation for Repetition Groups.

New in Kangas Sound Editor 3.2.0 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • New graph types 'Square root', 'Cube root', 'Power' and 'Geometric sequence' have been added. An octave/note selector for the MIDI start pitch of Sequence boxes has been introduced. Numeric fields in the Properties window now have spinners for incrementing or decrementing values, and sliders for major or minor adjustments to values. Graph evaluation has been improved, including a fix of a possible divide by zero error. Bugs in the rendering of Waveform, Amplitude and Pitch views, including a failure for these to be resized properly, have been fixed. Property window fields now have a cream background colour (previously white). Links to web pages in the Help on the Web dialog have been updated, fixing some links which had become broken in the process. The operation of dragging Sequence boxes has been made smoother, by fixing a bug which resulted in the Properties window being re-displayed needlessly. Registry keys for this program are now stored under a key of com->kangasound in the Java preferences section of the registry; previously there was a possibility of a key conflict with another Java program.

New in Kangas Sound Editor 3.1.0 (Dec 29, 2010)

  • Precision of numbers displayed and input-able with Graphs, Anti-harmonic Bases
  • and Variations has been increased from 3 to 6 decimal places, precision of
  • Harmonic/Anti-harmonic factors has been increased from 3 to 8 decimal places.
  • A new display-only column 'Frequency Multiple' and an additional
  • validation check on save have been introduced to Anti-harmonic Bases.
  • Graphs,Harmonics, Anti-harmonics, Anti-harmonic Bases and Variations have a new color scheme, and their finder dialogs have a new slider control 'Axis detail
  • level'.
  • Axis labels now have a grey, semi-transparent background to improve their readability whilst not totally obscuring the data.
  • Rendering of Anti-harmonic and Anti-harmonic Bases has been improved.
  • A bug in the XML import of 'Keep intermediate file' flags has been fixed. A bug relating to the input/validation of columns '
  • Initial interval' for Variations has been fixed.

New in Kangas Sound Editor 3.0.1 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • Fix release for Mac OS X Leopard, fixing a bug whereby the Kangas Sound Editor installer failed to launch even when a valid Java SE 6 VM is present on an Intel 64-bit machine.

New in Kangas Sound Editor 3.0.0 (Nov 10, 2010)

  • XML import/export facility added, allowing Kangas Sound Editor users to
  • collaborate with and build on the work of other Kangas Sound Editor/QI users.
  • Improved cross-platform functionality, targeting Mac OS X and Linux.
  • Improvements to the installation program.
  • Edit Panels now have vertical scroll bars if needed, and have a white
  • background.
  • New functions to delete tracks, and copy/move/delete a range of Sequence boxes
  • have been added.
  • An indicator (*) now appears next to the composition title if there are
  • unsaved edits.
  • Edit Panel tree-nodes are now topmost for a given track.
  • New configurable parameters are: Default Edit View duration, Property view
  • width, Transparent toolbar icons, Host name and Port number (the last two
  • allow MySQL server and Kangas Sound Editor to run on different computers).
  • Toolbar buttons and search buttons have redesigned icons.
  • The Sequence button is now topmost/leftmost in the toolbar (depending on its
  • orientation).
  • General improvements have been made to dialogs.
  • "Help on the web" and About dialogs are now modeless, and have been
  • redesigned.
  • Main program dividers now remember their location.
  • Properties toolbar displays the track number of the displayed properties, but
  • is no longer draggable.
  • Bugs in Nimbus look-and-feel fixed.

New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.8.0 (May 13, 2009)

  • Improvements in the handling of volume changes for
  • Repetition Groups, including introduction of new field
  • 'Cumulative volume'
  • Installer/Uninstaller improvements.