[Buzztard-user] buzztard project status 01/12/2009

[Stefan K. <en...@ho...>]

hi,

I made a nice change to the pipeline graph builder - It now uses a fixed
internal format (float 32bit). This allows us to avoid plugging audioconvert
elements in wires and machines. Now we plug them only if the machine cannot
support the internal format. This gives 7 -> 1 sec speedup for load & play of
e.g. Aenathron.bmx.

In general also plain to wav rendering is now quite fast. On my AMD64 @ 1.8GHz
the 11:45 min song renders in 45 sec. and on my Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz it
takes 28 sec.

The rest of the month I spent a lot of time on project maintenance, improving
the api-docs and writing more test. Regarding the latter, I got the test
coverage improved a lot. Writing automated tests for some areas is quite tough
though.

Then I also made a small change in the UI. All context menus can now be invoked
via a popup menu button in the toolbar above (machine, pattern and sequence
view), this makes it more usable on touchscreen devices.


Have fun,

buzztard core developer team
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