8 Apr 2009 ensonic   » (Master)

buzztard

We're heading for a 0.5 release! Most planned features are done and thus its time for testing. I've added some more unit tests. Especially for the dynamic editing, which now finally seems to work quite fine.

I added more keyboard shortcuts to support the workflow people might know from buzz. There is one to start playback from cursor-position and several for cycling through the comboboxes in pattern editor. I started to work on the play-notes functionality in pattern editor too. One can play notes while editing if song is playing already. Need to play the song in a idle-loop otherwise. Also need to figure the horrible latency I get.

One feature that was missing compared to buzz, is that buzz also shows parameters (volume, panorama) of incoming connections in the parameter view. We have this now too.

I also refactored some code in the machines and made monitoring more flexible. As a result the level-meters in the toolbar are now post-gain. Means if you change the volume you see the level-changing accordingly.

Last change of the month is some eye candy. The icons in the machine view don't become blurry when zooming anymore. I also added some simple effects to show the state (desaturizing them or making them half transparent).

LJ has part two of the buzztard article</b> online. Its an interview and tells you all you never wanted to know a bout me and the project.

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