What's new in Nootka 2.0.2
Aug 17, 2021
- Ukulele
- Importing entire musical scores:
- In spite of Nootka still supports only single voice, when the app is opening musicXML format file with entire musical score, then an import dialog window appears, displaying every score part and its voices as a separate melodies. User may select what to open in the application.
- Also any of those separate voices can be transposed, divided for smaller fragments and if it has chords – one of the chord note can be selected.
- It can be very handy when creating exercises from user scores.
- Support for compressed musicXML format *.mxl:
- Either opening and saving scores in this format is possible from now.
- Along with importing musical score parts it gives many new possibilities when learning how to play user favorite pieces and creating exercises and exams based on them.
- Transposing notes in the score:
- Either to key or by interval. Can be also used during creation of levels with melodies to adjust the melodies for instrument and user abilities.
- Other:
- Bug fixes
New in Nootka 2.0.0 (Jul 26, 2021)
- The credo of this release is “rhythms” because this Nootka simple score editor can handle rhythms and audio input analyzing algorithms can detect it along with note pitches.
- It may sounds trivial but this gives wide spectrum of new possibilities in practicing musical score reading with the application.
- And now, Nootka is not only for guitarists. Support for piano, bandoneon and saxophones was added.
- And entire visual part was rewritten: to be more coherent with mobile applications, to be more handy in use and to look better.
New in Nootka 1.4.6 (Aug 21, 2019)
- Nootka speaks Slovenian:
- Grega made it! Thank You a lot!
- A new approach to listen to an user:
- When user plays exercise and he played wrong note, Nootka waits for correct one and only then moves to the next one. Previously user had to play entire melody then it was checked. And of course that functionality was not removed. It is next step practice, after this new one.
- Support for new Android versions:
- To accomplish Google requirements for Android applications, Nootka ask for device file system permission when necessary. Also packages are available for arm64-v8a and x86_64 under Android. Also other internal adjustment were made to work better with newer Android sweeties.
- A few bug-fixes:
- Repaired crash after exam summary and keep notes of generated melody inside clef range.
- Keep in line with Linux standards:
- This is more for packagers. /usr/share/icons/hicolor paths are used for icons and appdata.xml was added.
New in Nootka 1.4.5 (May 10, 2019)
- Added Hungarian translation - Thanks for Gábor!
- Fixed paying issues during exercises - Pitch detection is properly switch on/of when question is sound to listen to and answer is to play it on an instrument.
- Stylus support
- On touch screens stylus can be used along with touch - it requires Qt 5.9. On Android it works from 4.2 version (Jelly Bean)
- Fixed possible reasons of random crashes on Android
New in Nootka 1.4.4 (May 10, 2019)
- Completed German translation - Many thanks for Renato!
- Fixed crash when instrument other than guitar was used - It was very annoying, in some situations opening settings dialog finished with application crash. Now it works well.
- Other small things
New in Nootka 1.4.3 (May 10, 2019)
- Discovered memory leaks were patched
- [Android] - attempt to fix random crashes
- There were a few reports about Nootka crashing related to audio input stack. Possible reason was removed.
New in Nootka 1.4.2 (Feb 21, 2017)
- BUGS FIXES:
- Don't stop pitch detection after playing a note
- Avoid false update messages
New in Nootka 1.4.1 (Jan 20, 2017)
- BUGS FIXES:
- Fixed issues with note range in custom created levels
New in Nootka 1.4.0 (Dec 28, 2016)
- Single version for Desktop and Android:
- This version bump is mostly because of this. Now all builds go from the same branch of code.
- Comparing to previous stable releases there were big code refactoring, and goods of c++11 are used widely. Android versions benefited of those from very beginning, and now Nootka for all supported platforms uses it.
- Melodies are more... melodic:
- There is a new method to randomize notes in generated melodies, so melodies are more realistic and exercises are closer to real pieces.
- Melody can be generated (composed) from a few selected notes:
- There is a new option in the level creator to select custom set of notes. It could be in example pentatonic scale.
- If key signature range is set, select notes will be transposed into random keys.
- Improved GUI elements:
- Due to adjustments Nootka look to mobile requirements, desktop version also got some improvements.
- FULL CHANGELOG:
- new method to make random melodies more... melodic
- melody can be randomized from selected notes, i.e. pentatonic scale
- added level with pentatonic scales
- solfege or letter note names can be selected during first run wizard
- improved look of sound views, better fit to high DPI screens
- BUGS FIXES:
- fixed positioning of tips with question content
- other small fixes
New in Nootka 1.2.7 (Aug 29, 2016)
- translated to Spanish language
- better method of handling input audio data, increased buffer size
- forwarding input to output works with every sound system now
- BUGS FIXES:
- fixed reason of random crashes when audio input started
- repaired starting exam with melodies from single note mode view
- file descriptions are translated under Mac Os Finder
- fixed deb package compatibility with Ubuntu 16.04
- other minor fixes
New in Nootka 1.2.6 (Jun 12, 2016)
- clicking melody note displays guitar position (only exercises)
- updated Russian translation
- improvements of scaling guitar image for different resolutions
- BUGS FIXES:
- fixed bug with doubled fingerboard on high resolution screens
- keep right-side note pane always visible, even at the staff end
New in Nootka 1.2.4 (Feb 18, 2016)
- reduced memory consumption of pitch detection process
- BUGS FIXES:
- Fixed crash when note name tip was invoked from temporary, auto added note segment
- Default color of enharmonic notes/names is set properly and approved when changed
- Resizing issues - fingerboard never goes out of a view
- other small fixes
New in Nootka 1.2.3 (Feb 18, 2016)
- BUGS FIXES
- During exams - don't run pitch detection after settings dialog was closed
- Fixed layout of exam results when note name is visible
- Additional staff lines are hiding properly
- Fixed conditions when 'correct' tool button is displayed
- Questioned note and corrected one might have distorted colors - fixed
- small fixes of translations
New in Nootka 1.2.2 (Feb 18, 2016)
- updated Russian translation
- added flick-able scroll (by mouse dragging) to windows with help
- BUGS FIXES:
- fixed crash related to hiding temp note segment at the staff end
- properly loading translations of guitar tuning
- fixed French translation
- fixed mistakes in Polish translation
- preventing of text selection in help windows
New in Nootka 1.2.1 (Feb 18, 2016)
- BUGS FIXES:
- fixed finger position validation - it might corrupt exam files
- properly hide disabled double accidentals buttons in note name menu
- fixed position of note name menu when it is moving between staves
- fixed compilation issues if missing c++11 flag
New in Nootka 1.2.0 (Feb 18, 2016)
- Nootka plays melodies
- updated on-line help
- unlocked help button(s) to opening related help sites
- improved displaying accidentals and neutrals in melodies
- BUGS FIXES:
- repaired and improved asking penalty melodies in exams
- fixed melody chart tip - correctly displays every attempt summary
- fixed and improved animations of accidentals from note to key signature
- intonation checking respects properly setting of accuracy level
- fixed issue when exam was corrupted due to wrongly reading it from a file
- fixed determining mistake types for melodies
- fixed chart issues when melodies are analyzing
- fixed a lot of small glitches
New in Nootka 1.1.7 RC 2 (Feb 18, 2016)
- improvements/fixes related to low latency and real-time audio
- updated Qt libraries to the latest version in Windows installer
- changed all static font sizes to system related sizes
- BUGS FIXES:
- proper clef rendering in question tips
- proper re-sampling when rate is bigger than 48000
- avoiding multiple calls of status messages for better performance
- fixed loading Qt translations and switching languages
New in Nootka 1.1.6 RC 1 (Feb 18, 2016)
- new, advanced settings for pitch detection
- workarounds to avoid pitch-detection of the same note twice
- other pitch detection improvements
- better support when audio input and output are different devices
- updated translations
- BUGS FIXES:
- updated RtAudio to latest git version - many bugs fixes
- tons of fixed bugs, mistakes and glitches...
New in Nootka 1.1.5 Alpha (Feb 18, 2016)
- detailed preview of melodies in charts
- added new tool button with menu to manage a score
- new, quick, click-less way for adding notes to a score
- improved pop-up for selecting note name over score
- a note from played exam melody can be selected to start playing from it
- improved look of sound meters widgets
- intonation accuracy can be set from intonation view
- first run wizard comes back improved - it is a plugin now
- improved user visible texts
- BUG FIXES:
- tons of fixed bugs, mistakes and glitches...
- Under the hood:
- external executable-s converted to plugins, loaded on demand
- audio device has single instance shared with external settings plugin
New in Nootka 1.1.4 Alpha (Feb 18, 2016)
- exam tips are storing their position when moved by user
- some icons changed
- BUG FIXES:
- fixed a lot of small glitches
- Under the hood:
- removed all 'extern' statements from libraries