[Bluemusic-users] [announce] blue - 0.104.0

[Steven Y. <ste...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I've put out a new release of blue available at:

http://www.csounds.com/stevenyi/blue

This release brings the next phase in the Mixer system and introduces
the new Effects system. Effects have user-editable for Csound code and
User-Interface, exchangable through blueShare, and usable on any mixer
channel.  At this point, I would encourage users to use the new Mixer
system in their work.  Documentation with screenshots are available
here:

http://csounds.com/stevenyi/blue/usermanual/html/mixer.html

While there's still more to do (Sends, and hopefully one day,
automation), focus for the next rounds of development will be shifting
to the FlowGraph instrument  that was introduced into CVS by Ugur
Gurney (a graphical instrument building system with boxes and lines,
in the style of pd and reaktor).

I'd like to thank those on the blueusers mailing list who were
gracious enough to test the beta release and offer feedback, and I'd
like to especially thank Michael Bechard for his involvement in
discussing the implementation of the Mixer.  I'd also like to thank
those involved with Ardour, which I referenced quite a bit in
determining blue's mixer design.

Also a big thanks to everyone who reported bugs and requests.  blue is
much better off for them!

Thanks and enjoy!
steven


[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 0.104.00<
[released 2006.03.14]

Steven Yi------------------------------------------------------------------=
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blue

    [new] - Effects System added to Mixer; create graphical UI's and code w=
ith
            Csound to create Effects which can be added pre-/post-fader to =
mixer
            Channels, SubChannels, and Master channel; Effects are created =
and
            managed in the Effects Library, and one can trade Effects throu=
gh
            blueShare (please view updated documentation on the Mixer for m=
ore
            information)

    [new] - Mixer option for Extra Render Time added; user can set to add e=
xtra
            time end of score here so that effects with time delay (such as
            reverbs) will have enough time to finish out processing

    [new] - added limited undoability on add/remove of instruments in orche=
stra;
            will not work if instrument id changes, good for undoing an
            immediate mistake

    [updated/fix] - when rendering CSD to disk or file, use disk render set=
tings
            which also prevents blue timepointer instrument from being gene=
rated

    [updated] - examples/features/mixerText.blue renamed to mixer.blue; exa=
mple
            now uses Effect on Master channel as well as demonstrates using
            extra render time

    [fix] - Score Navigator was causing errant adjustments when resizing th=
e
            navigator dialog (thanks Francisco Vila for the bug report!)

    [fix] - BSB Vertical Slider was not correctly loading saved height valu=
e
            (Thanks to Kevin Welsh for the bug report!)

    [fix] - Mixer was outputing scientific notation for multipliers when fa=
der
            values were <=3D -60db (thanks Menno for the bug report!)

    [fix] - pasting of soundObjects from copy buffer after changing timelin=
e
            zoom caused incorrect start times for pasted soundObjects

    [fix] - Using Shift soundObject option sometimes resulted in
            NullPointerError if right after a selection made

documentation

    [updated/new] - Mixer documentation expanded to explain Effects system =
and
            Extra Render Time

    [updated] - Pch generation options for PianoRoll were further expanded =
upon
            to include information on the MIDI option