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• amber 1.3.1 released!

  This release fixes a lot of bugs in the audio processing of amber, and should get rid of most of the clicks and distortion we had in previous releases. I am still working on getting the updated Mac OS X GUI (that runs the new back end and includes a help menu) up on Sourceforge, so please check back soon for that. For now, you should be able to compile this new version and run it off the command line with flags or a config file. It also should be compatible with gcc 4. Please let me know if you run into any problems. Enjoy! --Jenny

  posted by supergirl 1160 days ago

• amber 1.3.1 file released: amber-1.3.1.tar.gz

  AMBER CHANGELOG maintained by Matthew McCabe <mlm@escapement.net> and Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz <bernarjf@email.uc.edu> --------------- 1.3.1 06/01/06 -- Code cleanup: standardizing data member names (beginning with _), moving all includes to the header file, standardizing pre-processing directive names (_AMBER_H_), removed unused variables -- removed the interpolate Graph methods in the graintracker class--they were inefficient and slightly inaccurate. Now current grain size and density are calculated by a weighted average of initial and final -- fixed scaling algorithm to call fabs(float absolute value)--solves some clipping problems 1.3.0 -- a few changes to accomodate gcc 4.0 -- implements the scaling algorithm. All output files will be scaled to a volume of 0.99 -- adds two new examples and a sound file (lowsinefull.aiff) called for in previous examples -- fixes the mixing grain generation method, so that more than two files are mixed in equal proportion and there is no click at the end of the shorter file -- fixes the envelope morphing method; a faulty loop was preventing evolution to the MorphEndEnvelope 1.2.0-pre1 -- fixed a problem where the window following got messed up, and the random numbers by which the grain is selected got reversed, causing a crash -- added support for 24 and 32-bit files, as well as 16-bit -- -ld (linear density) and -lg (linear grain size) command line options are deprecated. these don't really make any sense as you can specify grain size and density with other parameters. -- the directive in the config file for the amplitude envelope is now 'Envelope' when using one envelope type for the entire grain spray. 1.1.2 -- complete rewrite of the main granulator code -- it's now much shorter and easier to understand. also fixed a problem where the first grain got written in the wrong position in the output stream. -- kind of fixed convolution code -- it seems to work but gives very wierd results. -- now, instead of writing the output file in chunks, amber will hold all of the output samples in memory until processing is complete, and then write the file out. this will allow me to add some normalizing code, and other post-processing. -- removed the pan options, operating under the assumption that anyone who is going to use this program knows how to apply panning. this may return later in the form of some kind of stereo-ization of the final output, i'm not sure. send me suggestions. 1.1.0 (unreleased) -- amber now requires libsndfile. all the crappy code from that textbook we used is now gone. -- slight changes to accomodate compiling with GCC 2.9x and 3.1 -- removed Gain option from both the command line and config files. this will be resurrected at some point in the future, but for now it's more important to fix these distortion problems. -- amber now supports more than 5 input files. specify the -fn option multiple times on the command line, or use the InputFile directive in the config file. 1.0.5 - 1.0.6 (unreleased) -- can't remember what i did. 1.1.0 will be better. 1.0.4 -- Microsoft Visual C++ does not conform to the C++ scope standards fixed loop variable declarations so it works - thanks to Peter Burns -- removed 'amberscript' from the source tree because it's dumb and the graphical version is in the works -- changed everything from using char arrays to using std::string. it's much more fun. 1.0.2 -- convolution algorithm (graingen type 4) is now efficient, as opposed to the extremely long runtime of the previous version. -- fixed compilation problems with certain versions of GCC and EGCS due to a typecasting bug in graintracker.cpp -- added USAGE to clear up confusions about the parameters. 1.0.0 -- initial release with crappy convolution algorithm

  posted 1160 days ago

• amber 1.3.1 file released: amber-1.3.1.tar.gz

  AMBER CHANGELOG maintained by Matthew McCabe <mlm@escapement.net> and Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz <bernarjf@email.uc.edu> --------------- 1.3.1 06/01/06 -- Code cleanup: standardizing data member names (beginning with _), moving all includes to the header file, standardizing pre-processing directive names (_AMBER_H_), removed unused variables -- removed the interpolate Graph methods in the graintracker class--they were inefficient and slightly inaccurate. Now current grain size and density are calculated by a weighted average of initial and final -- fixed scaling algorithm to call fabs(float absolute value)--solves some clipping problems 1.3.0 -- a few changes to accomodate gcc 4.0 -- implements the scaling algorithm. All output files will be scaled to a volume of 0.99 -- adds two new examples and a sound file (lowsinefull.aiff) called for in previous examples -- fixes the mixing grain generation method, so that more than two files are mixed in equal proportion and there is no click at the end of the shorter file -- fixes the envelope morphing method; a faulty loop was preventing evolution to the MorphEndEnvelope 1.2.0-pre1 -- fixed a problem where the window following got messed up, and the random numbers by which the grain is selected got reversed, causing a crash -- added support for 24 and 32-bit files, as well as 16-bit -- -ld (linear density) and -lg (linear grain size) command line options are deprecated. these don't really make any sense as you can specify grain size and density with other parameters. -- the directive in the config file for the amplitude envelope is now 'Envelope' when using one envelope type for the entire grain spray. 1.1.2 -- complete rewrite of the main granulator code -- it's now much shorter and easier to understand. also fixed a problem where the first grain got written in the wrong position in the output stream. -- kind of fixed convolution code -- it seems to work but gives very wierd results. -- now, instead of writing the output file in chunks, amber will hold all of the output samples in memory until processing is complete, and then write the file out. this will allow me to add some normalizing code, and other post-processing. -- removed the pan options, operating under the assumption that anyone who is going to use this program knows how to apply panning. this may return later in the form of some kind of stereo-ization of the final output, i'm not sure. send me suggestions. 1.1.0 (unreleased) -- amber now requires libsndfile. all the crappy code from that textbook we used is now gone. -- slight changes to accomodate compiling with GCC 2.9x and 3.1 -- removed Gain option from both the command line and config files. this will be resurrected at some point in the future, but for now it's more important to fix these distortion problems. -- amber now supports more than 5 input files. specify the -fn option multiple times on the command line, or use the InputFile directive in the config file. 1.0.5 - 1.0.6 (unreleased) -- can't remember what i did. 1.1.0 will be better. 1.0.4 -- Microsoft Visual C++ does not conform to the C++ scope standards fixed loop variable declarations so it works - thanks to Peter Burns -- removed 'amberscript' from the source tree because it's dumb and the graphical version is in the works -- changed everything from using char arrays to using std::string. it's much more fun. 1.0.2 -- convolution algorithm (graingen type 4) is now efficient, as opposed to the extremely long runtime of the previous version. -- fixed compilation problems with certain versions of GCC and EGCS due to a typecasting bug in graintracker.cpp -- added USAGE to clear up confusions about the parameters. 1.0.0 -- initial release with crappy convolution algorithm

  posted 1160 days ago

• amber 1.3.1 file released: amber-1.3.1.tar.gz

  AMBER CHANGELOG maintained by Matthew McCabe <mlm@escapement.net> and Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz <bernarjf@email.uc.edu> --------------- 1.3.1 06/01/06 -- Code cleanup: standardizing data member names (beginning with _), moving all includes to the header file, standardizing pre-processing directive names (_AMBER_H_), removed unused variables -- removed the interpolate Graph methods in the graintracker class--they were inefficient and slightly inaccurate. Now current grain size and density are calculated by a weighted average of initial and final -- fixed scaling algorithm to call fabs(float absolute value)--solves some clipping problems 1.3.0 -- a few changes to accomodate gcc 4.0 -- implements the scaling algorithm. All output files will be scaled to a volume of 0.99 -- adds two new examples and a sound file (lowsinefull.aiff) called for in previous examples -- fixes the mixing grain generation method, so that more than two files are mixed in equal proportion and there is no click at the end of the shorter file -- fixes the envelope morphing method; a faulty loop was preventing evolution to the MorphEndEnvelope 1.2.0-pre1 -- fixed a problem where the window following got messed up, and the random numbers by which the grain is selected got reversed, causing a crash -- added support for 24 and 32-bit files, as well as 16-bit -- -ld (linear density) and -lg (linear grain size) command line options are deprecated. these don't really make any sense as you can specify grain size and density with other parameters. -- the directive in the config file for the amplitude envelope is now 'Envelope' when using one envelope type for the entire grain spray. 1.1.2 -- complete rewrite of the main granulator code -- it's now much shorter and easier to understand. also fixed a problem where the first grain got written in the wrong position in the output stream. -- kind of fixed convolution code -- it seems to work but gives very wierd results. -- now, instead of writing the output file in chunks, amber will hold all of the output samples in memory until processing is complete, and then write the file out. this will allow me to add some normalizing code, and other post-processing. -- removed the pan options, operating under the assumption that anyone who is going to use this program knows how to apply panning. this may return later in the form of some kind of stereo-ization of the final output, i'm not sure. send me suggestions. 1.1.0 (unreleased) -- amber now requires libsndfile. all the crappy code from that textbook we used is now gone. -- slight changes to accomodate compiling with GCC 2.9x and 3.1 -- removed Gain option from both the command line and config files. this will be resurrected at some point in the future, but for now it's more important to fix these distortion problems. -- amber now supports more than 5 input files. specify the -fn option multiple times on the command line, or use the InputFile directive in the config file. 1.0.5 - 1.0.6 (unreleased) -- can't remember what i did. 1.1.0 will be better. 1.0.4 -- Microsoft Visual C++ does not conform to the C++ scope standards fixed loop variable declarations so it works - thanks to Peter Burns -- removed 'amberscript' from the source tree because it's dumb and the graphical version is in the works -- changed everything from using char arrays to using std::string. it's much more fun. 1.0.2 -- convolution algorithm (graingen type 4) is now efficient, as opposed to the extremely long runtime of the previous version. -- fixed compilation problems with certain versions of GCC and EGCS due to a typecasting bug in graintracker.cpp -- added USAGE to clear up confusions about the parameters. 1.0.0 -- initial release with crappy convolution algorithm

  posted 1160 days ago

• amber 1.3.1 file released: amber-1.3.1.tar.gz

  AMBER CHANGELOG maintained by Matthew McCabe <mlm@escapement.net> and Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz <bernarjf@email.uc.edu> --------------- 1.3.1 06/01/06 -- Code cleanup: standardizing data member names (beginning with _), moving all includes to the header file, standardizing pre-processing directive names (_AMBER_H_), removed unused variables -- removed the interpolate Graph methods in the graintracker class--they were inefficient and slightly inaccurate. Now current grain size and density are calculated by a weighted average of initial and final -- fixed scaling algorithm to call fabs(float absolute value)--solves some clipping problems 1.3.0 -- a few changes to accomodate gcc 4.0 -- implements the scaling algorithm. All output files will be scaled to a volume of 0.99 -- adds two new examples and a sound file (lowsinefull.aiff) called for in previous examples -- fixes the mixing grain generation method, so that more than two files are mixed in equal proportion and there is no click at the end of the shorter file -- fixes the envelope morphing method; a faulty loop was preventing evolution to the MorphEndEnvelope 1.2.0-pre1 -- fixed a problem where the window following got messed up, and the random numbers by which the grain is selected got reversed, causing a crash -- added support for 24 and 32-bit files, as well as 16-bit -- -ld (linear density) and -lg (linear grain size) command line options are deprecated. these don't really make any sense as you can specify grain size and density with other parameters. -- the directive in the config file for the amplitude envelope is now 'Envelope' when using one envelope type for the entire grain spray. 1.1.2 -- complete rewrite of the main granulator code -- it's now much shorter and easier to understand. also fixed a problem where the first grain got written in the wrong position in the output stream. -- kind of fixed convolution code -- it seems to work but gives very wierd results. -- now, instead of writing the output file in chunks, amber will hold all of the output samples in memory until processing is complete, and then write the file out. this will allow me to add some normalizing code, and other post-processing. -- removed the pan options, operating under the assumption that anyone who is going to use this program knows how to apply panning. this may return later in the form of some kind of stereo-ization of the final output, i'm not sure. send me suggestions. 1.1.0 (unreleased) -- amber now requires libsndfile. all the crappy code from that textbook we used is now gone. -- slight changes to accomodate compiling with GCC 2.9x and 3.1 -- removed Gain option from both the command line and config files. this will be resurrected at some point in the future, but for now it's more important to fix these distortion problems. -- amber now supports more than 5 input files. specify the -fn option multiple times on the command line, or use the InputFile directive in the config file. 1.0.5 - 1.0.6 (unreleased) -- can't remember what i did. 1.1.0 will be better. 1.0.4 -- Microsoft Visual C++ does not conform to the C++ scope standards fixed loop variable declarations so it works - thanks to Peter Burns -- removed 'amberscript' from the source tree because it's dumb and the graphical version is in the works -- changed everything from using char arrays to using std::string. it's much more fun. 1.0.2 -- convolution algorithm (graingen type 4) is now efficient, as opposed to the extremely long runtime of the previous version. -- fixed compilation problems with certain versions of GCC and EGCS due to a typecasting bug in graintracker.cpp -- added USAGE to clear up confusions about the parameters. 1.0.0 -- initial release with crappy convolution algorithm

  posted 1160 days ago

• amber 1.3.1 file released: amber-1.3.1.tar.gz

  AMBER CHANGELOG maintained by Matthew McCabe <mlm@escapement.net> and Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz <bernarjf@email.uc.edu> --------------- 1.3.1 06/01/06 -- Code cleanup: standardizing data member names (beginning with _), moving all includes to the header file, standardizing pre-processing directive names (_AMBER_H_), removed unused variables -- removed the interpolate Graph methods in the graintracker class--they were inefficient and slightly inaccurate. Now current grain size and density are calculated by a weighted average of initial and final -- fixed scaling algorithm to call fabs(float absolute value)--solves some clipping problems 1.3.0 -- a few changes to accomodate gcc 4.0 -- implements the scaling algorithm. All output files will be scaled to a volume of 0.99 -- adds two new examples and a sound file (lowsinefull.aiff) called for in previous examples -- fixes the mixing grain generation method, so that more than two files are mixed in equal proportion and there is no click at the end of the shorter file -- fixes the envelope morphing method; a faulty loop was preventing evolution to the MorphEndEnvelope 1.2.0-pre1 -- fixed a problem where the window following got messed up, and the random numbers by which the grain is selected got reversed, causing a crash -- added support for 24 and 32-bit files, as well as 16-bit -- -ld (linear density) and -lg (linear grain size) command line options are deprecated. these don't really make any sense as you can specify grain size and density with other parameters. -- the directive in the config file for the amplitude envelope is now 'Envelope' when using one envelope type for the entire grain spray. 1.1.2 -- complete rewrite of the main granulator code -- it's now much shorter and easier to understand. also fixed a problem where the first grain got written in the wrong position in the output stream. -- kind of fixed convolution code -- it seems to work but gives very wierd results. -- now, instead of writing the output file in chunks, amber will hold all of the output samples in memory until processing is complete, and then write the file out. this will allow me to add some normalizing code, and other post-processing. -- removed the pan options, operating under the assumption that anyone who is going to use this program knows how to apply panning. this may return later in the form of some kind of stereo-ization of the final output, i'm not sure. send me suggestions. 1.1.0 (unreleased) -- amber now requires libsndfile. all the crappy code from that textbook we used is now gone. -- slight changes to accomodate compiling with GCC 2.9x and 3.1 -- removed Gain option from both the command line and config files. this will be resurrected at some point in the future, but for now it's more important to fix these distortion problems. -- amber now supports more than 5 input files. specify the -fn option multiple times on the command line, or use the InputFile directive in the config file. 1.0.5 - 1.0.6 (unreleased) -- can't remember what i did. 1.1.0 will be better. 1.0.4 -- Microsoft Visual C++ does not conform to the C++ scope standards fixed loop variable declarations so it works - thanks to Peter Burns -- removed 'amberscript' from the source tree because it's dumb and the graphical version is in the works -- changed everything from using char arrays to using std::string. it's much more fun. 1.0.2 -- convolution algorithm (graingen type 4) is now efficient, as opposed to the extremely long runtime of the previous version. -- fixed compilation problems with certain versions of GCC and EGCS due to a typecasting bug in graintracker.cpp -- added USAGE to clear up confusions about the parameters. 1.0.0 -- initial release with crappy convolution algorithm

  posted 1160 days ago

• File released: /amber/1.3.1/amber-1.3.1.tar.gz

  posted 1160 days ago

• Code committed

  supergirl committed patchset 25 of module amber to the amber: a granular sampling tool CVS repository, changing 1 files

  posted by supergirl 1160 days ago