jMax

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 4.0.1

Notes:
Installation on Mac OS X:
 - requires Mac OS X 10.2
 - mount the disk image
 - copy the jMax application (to your desktop for instance)
 - once copied, double-click the jMax icon to start

Installation on Linux:
- the rpm have been built on RedHat 7.3
- we have split jMax into several RPMs:
-- jmax-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm : contains FTS server, packages and Java FTS client 
-- jmax-client-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm : contains only C++ and Python FTS client 
-- jmax-common-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm : contains only FTS server and packages
-- jmax-devel-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm : contains only FTS header and packages header
-- jmax-jack-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm : contains only Jack Audio Connection Kit support package
-- jmax-java-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm : contains only Java FTS client

Linux source compilation:
- do the following shell commands:
$ tar xvzf jmax-4.0.1.tar.gz
$ cd jmax-4.0.1
$ ./configure 
$ make 
$ make install
- if you want to compile with Jack Audio Connection Kit support, add --enable-jack when calling configure
$./configure --enable-jack 
$ make
$ make install

Changes:
- audio input in Mac OS X
- new audio configuration panel (Project->Edit Current Configuration)
- "Save As Default" menu for project and Audio/MIDI configuration
- templates are supported
- in~/out~ take an audiolabel name as argument
- C++ and Python client library under development
- clean sequence package
- detection of available audio devices
- several bug fixes
- remove obsolete documentation
- help patches are not complete
- new input~ object
- new fvec/ivec editors

Mac OS X:
- user project is $HOME/.jmax.jprj (to be changed)
- user configuration is $HOME/.jmax.jcfg (to be changed)

Linux:
- user project is $HOME/.jmax/default-project.jrpj 
- user configuration is $HOME/.jmax/default-config.jcfg
- detection of available Jack Audio Port (in Jack Audio Connection Kit support package)
- connection with Jack Audio Port inside jMax (new audio configuration panel)