Hi All,
We are happy to announce the Spring 2010 Issue of "Csound Journal" is
now available. You can read online or download at:
http://www.csounds.com/journal/
Many thanks to the authors for submitting their wonderful articles! We
hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we did!
Jim Hearon and Steven Yi
Hi All,
I’d like to announce that blue 2.1.0 is now available from:
http://blue.kunstmusik.com/
This release features the initial phase of MIDI support for blue,
where blue will take in MIDI input, map key/velocity (can use Scala
tuning files here), and generate Csound notes for realtime playing.
When used with the Csound API, this adds an extra dimension to using
blueLive to help more quickly work on creating patches with
BlueSynthBuilder instruments as well as just for working out musical
ideas. (The manual entry for blueLive describing the current state of
things is available at
http://blue.kunstmusik.com/manual/html/blueLive.html ; please
disregard the out of date image of the UI).
There were also a number of bug fixes and features implemented that
were a direct result of user feedback through blue’s bug tracker and
feature request tracker. Many thanks to the users who participated in
giving this valuable feedback!
Thanks and enjoy!
steven
[CHANGE LOG]
Notes for 2.1.0<
[released 2010.06.09]
Steven Yi———————————————————————–
blue
[new] – Added Steven Yi’s "Reminiscences" and Brian Wong’s "Tritium Tea" to
examples/pieces folder
[updated] – moved blueLive buttons for starting/stopping and all notes off
to and application toolbar
[updated] – moved blueLive MIDI input to Input Settings Top Component
[updated] – BSBDropdown is now automatable; when set to automatable, will
use the index of the selected item rather than the value set for
that item, and will also generate a a k-rate signal
[updated] – Scale selectin panels now have a popup menu (triggered by right
mouse button) that has a "Reset (12TET)" option to reset the scale
to the default 12TET tuning
[updated] – When using "Save as" or doing a save when closing a
file, if the
save is designated over an existing file, blue will ask for
confirmation from the user
[updated] – BSB Knob – when editing value in textfield, now starts off with
text selected for easier editing (RFE 3006108)
[updated] – Added text color setting in options for pfields (RFE 2970509)
[fix] – Closing project did not ask user to save file
[fix] – blueLive: when using API, no longer tries to update render time
[fix] – blue Application Log was using black on black text, changed to use
white text
[fix] – default creation of codeRepository was broken, resulting in opcode
popup not properly creating itself if existing codeRepository not
found
[fix] – opening the blue manual did not work when blue was installed into a
directory where there were spaces in the path name (Bug 2982079)
[fix] – opening the blue manual did not work for the OSX release
[fix] – opening the csound manual and opcode help did not prepend "file://"
if opening from the local file system, also would have errors if
spaces were in the path (Bug 2981573)
[fix] – score expression parser was calculating values using integers
instead of floats i.e. [1/3] was returning 0 instead of 0.33333
(Bug 3006243)
* muO is a Squeak-based musical composition environment, with Csound support.
The newest version features too many improvements to detail, more documentation and nicer fonts (it is now built on the brand new 4.1 version of Squeak)
Get it there:
http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm
There is an updated ready-to-go image, so trying it is one click away.
* Surmulot is the system integrating Emacs/Csound-x and Squeak/muO via local TCP/IP.
Get it there:
http://www.zogotounga.net/surmulot/surmulot.html
It is provided for Windows as a plain zip archive including Emacs 23.2 and Squeak 4.1 (two amazing programming environments), the latest Csound-X and muO, Timidity and more (including Csound 5.12 itself). All is self-contained in a folder that can be copied or deleted at will, no change being made to the environment or the registry; this will not fuss with your own installation of Csound, Emacs or anything else. Here again, trying it is only one click away. Looks like I found my sales pitch π
Stef