Audio Mixing And Manipulation Project

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.2

Notes:
AMaMP Core 0.2 Readme
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Welcome to the AMaMP Core 0.2. AMaMP is a cross-platform audio engine developed
with standards compliance, portability and performance in mind. AMaMP is open
source and Free software, released under the GNU GPL license.


FEATURES
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* Cross-platform audio engine known to compile on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OSX
  and Sun Solaris.
* Provides mixing of PCM wave files accross all platforms according to an
  instruction file
* Non-destructive trimming, volume change and panning
* Output to soundcard on Windows and Linux
* IPC mechanism to control the core from other applications and support for
  stop instruction.
* Language bindings for C, Visual Basic and Perl (C & Perl work on Windows and
  POSIX compliant platforms). Look in the bindings folder.


FILES RELEASED
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amamp-core-0.2.zip contains the source, language bindings and a Win32 binary of the core.
amamp-core-0.2.tar.gz contains the source and language bindings.


Changes:
VERSION 0.2
* Added proper build tools including Configure script and makefile
* Added output to soundcard on Windows and Linux
* Added IPC mechanism for message exchange with the core
* Error messages and debug messages brought in line with IPC specification
* Memory usage greatly improved - now uses much less
* I/O layer greatly improved for scalability, with small performance gain
* Added support at the engine level for potentially unlimited channels and
  the BaseChannels keyword
* Added language bindings for C, Visual Basic and Perl.
* Added a basic test harness
* Test-compiled the core on BSD, Mac OSX and Sun Solaris
* Other smaller fixes and improvements

VERSION 0.1
* Tokenizes and parses AMaMP input/instruction files
* Mixes wave files on Windows and Linux, with sample rate/bit-depth conversion
* Non-destructive, mix time volume changing, panning and trimming
* Multiple output with output chains