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Bug FixesSunday 20th February 2011 If you use the new antialiasing export video option with the 3D bounce to export your animation as a video - the exported frames show only a quarter of the image you should see (top left quarter) and you get a memory leak as well - fixed Wednesday 9th February 2011 With the skin, if you have gradient fill switched on for plain background skin colour, then you may see dark lines at top and left of many of the check boxes and text in the window - fixed If you save a skin with the buttons hot highlighted in a colour, then re-open it, may see them hot highlighted in another colour - because of confusion of the colours for all the windows and the colours for the main window. It was tricky to decide what to do there about backwards compatibility. But on assumption that if you used the feature perhaps more likely to have saved the skin and not re-opened it again, then uses the saved colours rather than the colours you would normally get on re-opening it. Also the distinction of hot highlight colour in the last upload wasn't backwards compatibile (should use the pressed colour if an older skin is read) - fixed. Other minor bug fixes Tuesday 8th February 2011 Access violation which can occur in rare situations when you have 2D anti-aliasing switched on for the skins (as it is by default in Windows 7 and Vista). Also another access violation which can occur in rare situations. Various other minor bugs. Sunday 6th February 2011 Access violation if you use textures for the bouncing balls with the new 2D Shapes option Saturday 5th February 2011 Not showing seed etc. numbers above red arrows in new seed, scale etc. windows. If you use Shift + F4 when you have either the skins buttons or skin animations window visible - then after that, keeps reshowing it even if later hide and do the Shift + F4 again - fixed. Text overflowing to left and right of the keys in the PC Keyboard Player - fixed. Go silent briefly option doesn't switch off the notes - you don't notice this for non melodic percussion but notice for sustained notes. Various bugs fixed for the Wave Shape Player options to make a new wave shape instrument fixed Also some very minor bugs in the Colours window. Friday 28th January 2011 The option: "For each section, step in by" in was buggy when you had 2 or more bouncing balls per section and set it to something other than the default of 100% then the parts would overlap or have gaps between them - fixed The conducting pattern option Show for part with most beats
- does for least beats immediately after you make a rhythm using time signatures - though when you reselect from the drop list shows part with most beats as expected - fixed by adding a new field "Most recent time signature beats per measure parts with most subdivisions" to the More version of the Conducting Patterns window - so it keeps a record of the parts with most beats as well as the parts with least beats for each time signature. Splashes in wrong place for 1/4 conducting pattern, also for bounce inside ovals - both have the splashes at left hand side of the window instead of the ticks - fixed. In some circumstances the animations were using a lot more CPU than they should In the window you use to change the skin font - for some fonts e.g. Helsinki (new musical font which comes with Sibelius) which have no glyphs for most letters, then the sample text still does a preview anyway showing all the letters even ones not in the font. Actually the way it does it is to use the Tahoma font (on Windows 7 anyway) - but of course when you click Apply to see effect in the skin itself then you just get the music glyphs and many characters not shown at all. Bounces not aligned properly with the bouncing balls for 2D bounce inside ovals with polyrhythms Some minor glitches and alignment issues e.g. tiny gap at top of the vertical line that shows the volume in the main window, and a few buttons and controls fractionally out of alignment. When you click on the part at top left of the Tempo dial to change to another part - the text colour changes right away but the background colour of the tempo dial doesn't change until you move the mouse out of the hover area For the option to auto pan by position in chord wasn't auto panning notes correctly for broken chords for the chord progression Option to show measure at the top of the 2D bouncing balls didn't show up in the export to video Check box in the installer about the Bach musicological font rather easy to switch off (maybe looks as if you need to be a musicologist to install it??). Symptoms - after install you don't see musical notes, just strange symbols instead. So, changed the check box to read: "Install Bach 4.1 Font - NEEDED TO SHOW MUSICAL NOTES" which hopefully will deal with this issue. Many other minor bugs and gui layout glitches fixed. Friday 14th January 2011 Another incorrectly played chord : Cm13dim11 Last upload was preset to show animated sky in 3D - which then shows the sea animation of just a single wave - should be preset to show skin as the sky - fixed. Thursday 13th January 2011 Chord progression player played some chords incorrectly including: C9#5, Cmaj6/7, C9aug5 Various very minor bug fixes mainly to do with visual appearance.
Friday December 31st, 2010 With the tap out a rhythm metronome, rhythm gets played back at wrong tempo. Also for tap at tempo in case where the tempo dial is set to show the same tempo for all the parts ditto. When you apply swing to some of rhythms for the drum and dance metronome then doesn't work as expected Friday December 24th, 2010 With the tap out a rhythm window, the option for any letter to end last tap of the measure wasn't working so you lost the last beat of the tapped out rhythm - fixed.
Splashes slightly out of alignment for conducting patterns for mixed meters - fixed. Numerous other minor bug fixes Tuesday November 30th, 2010 In Windows 7, When you switch on SMOOTH EDGES (anti-aliasing) in More version of Bounce Preferences (Ctrl + 220) then lines which should be one pixel wide are instead faded in colour and two pixels wide - techy details: because of antialiasing, Direct 2D uses fractional pixel coordinates and to get a one pixel wide line from e.g. (0,0) to (0,100) as usually done you need to add 0.5 to all the coordinates in order to draw the line along the centre of the row of pixels ((0.5, 0.5) to (0.5, 100.5)) otherwise it spreads it out over two rows in attempt at antialiasing In 2d Bounce, if set to textures for e.g. the SKY image, and position is anything except TILE then the CPU usage may be very high - It's because of a routine I use called StretchBlt which is rather slow and gets called to stretch the image for every frame and is used for all the options apart from "tile". In the Play Script (Ctrl + 171) - when you silence or enable a part - the auto scripted instruction had no effect - fixed If you have a repeat within another repeat and the inside repeat starts after the outside one, then wasn't playing it correctly - fixed.zs Thursday October 28th, 2010 When run in Vista you may get a messsage every time the program starts up, something like: Application failed to start because d2d1.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem d2d1.dll is the dll used for Direct2D on Windows 7. This is used for smooth lines and edges for the 2D graphics when supported. If you don't have it, in some versions of Vista, you might get this message. XP also doesn't have it but normally lets the program run anyway without an error message, so it's a Vista issue. - fixed Thursday October 7th, 2010 Found a memory leak in the 3D bouncing balls animation (very small, just a few bytes per frame). Other very minor bug fixes Tuesday September 28th, 2010 For rhythms such as 5/4 over 6/8 etc - for some combinations of the rhythms one of the measures is played with the wrong number of beats, e.g. 3 instead of 6 When you set one of the parts to play chords and label the beats with the chords for the beat - e.g. if set to measure beat - any of the other parts will show as beats numbered consecutively even if it is a part with subdivisions. E.g. in 4/4 with subdivisions, instead of counting it as 1 & 2 & ... will count as 1 2 3 4 ... Some other minor bugs. Sunday September 26th, 2010 Skin colours for e.g. bouncing balls background don't update immediately when you change skin - fixed. Reset All these colours - in the Colours window (Ctrl + 7) has no effect - fixed. When you open a previously saved project, doesn't recover the colours from the project unless you select User Specific settings in the Project Options window - fixed. A few settings not recovered from saved projects - fixed. Bounces slightly out of alignment with the ticks for some rhythms (e.g. mixed meters set to count as a single measure) - fixed. Saturday September 18th, 2010 In Animated skin - recorded sound and colour wheel hue flicker occasionally, and other minor bugs for animated skin Confused beat labels if first beat gets set to 0 length on click and drag - fixed. With the Mixed Meters like 3 +2 / 4 metronome, if you set it to Count beats as sub-beats with numbers for measures in Add More Rhythms (Ctrl + 217) then the beats are counted correctly as sub-beats - but the measures are all counted as 1 so it counts as e.g. 1 1 instead of 1 2 - fixed. Friday September 3rd, 2010 When you uninstall - and if you didn't choose the option to add file associations during the install - you get several error messages with the message "Administrator Priviledges needed". Actually the bug is that it shows this message when it shouldn't. Since there is no association to remove, then there is nothing to be done so no message should be shown to you. But I missed out a line of code so that it shows the same message it does if you try to remove the file association and fail. Some other minor bug fixes. Tuesday September 1st, 2010 If any of the bouncing balls is hidden, for option for sound to follow bouncing balls, sound no longer stereo pans. Probably would expect it to still stereo pan even with balls hidden, and sounds good like that - so now does
Swing metronome - standard settings should be set to Shuffle Entire Measure in Swing Preferences so e.g. you get the emphasis on beats 2 and 4 for jazz accents in 4 beat measure - also for pro metronome
Sunday August 29th, 2010 First beat of measure for 4/4 with 4 subdivsiions is slightly too long (e.g. by 20 ms) It was doing a bit of unnecessary extra stuff at the end of the first subdivision in the measure. Just needed to remove a line of code and it is okay now. Unlock window uses main window text colour and background texture Woodgrain skin has blue text for all windows apart from main window - meant it to be maroon - fixed. Text in the center of the tempo dial gets too small to read when it is small - it's the same with any of the windows - but with tempo dial with only one text field in it, you might well want to resize it very small. So made it so no matter how small the window is, you can't make the text in the center any smaller than four fifths of the system font (for now hard coded but could make that configurable). Slow to change to / from More versions of Record to File window - fixed. minimalist version of Bounce preferences window should have option to start bounce when you play the notes as something you may well want to switch on / off early on when using the program. If you go to Options | Split main window - should show the tempo dial and 2D bouncing balls when you split it, resized so that they fill the screen together - instead just shows the main window - fixed. Thursday August 26th, 2010 The bouncing lyrics only work if you show the lyrics text window - recently introduced bug - fixed Bouncing lyrics and lyrics bouncing on words both get confused and miss out words for rhythms with skipped beats - now fixed by c hanging the word mid beat for skipped beats. - fixed For Flamenco clock, if you use the Accents or lilt volumes, then emphasizes the 6th, 8th and 10th beat okay but doesn't emphasize the 3rd beat with volume accents (though of course still reinforced by extra beat on another instrument) - fixed. Other very minor bugs not worth mentioning, you mightn't even notice them if you encountered them just slightly confusing in minor ways. Monday August 23rd, 2010 Auto set file name in not getting the name from the lyric first line if it is a single line lyric When you use the option to right click to set the instrument for a beat individually - if you set the same instrument for two different beats, one of them gets set to "(none)" Shows wrong numbers for the Flamenco metronome if set to show bouncing numbers or bouncing number words Some glitches in the option to stereo pan to follow the bouncing balls - particularly, often stereo pans to wrong locations in animation export, also sometimes when you adjust the audio sync. especially if set to play the visuals early rather than late, and in other situations too. Splashes show in wrong place for rhythms like 4/3 for conducting patterns - though the ball bounces in 4/3, the splashes are in 3/3 First note of last measure may get skipped for option to complete the last measure for animation save. Sunday August 8th, 2010 Keeps reshowing the help window and repositions the main window when you change to a different metronome Audio conversion to real audio in Record to File (Ctrl + 11) doesn't work with current version of RealProducer without tweaking - it needed a couple of extra command line arguments - now added as standard Bug in the lyrics for "Lavender's blue" making the bounces go out of sync. with the time signature (a couple of extra ~s in the wrong place) If you click on standard settings button (probably any button that displays a message box) when BM Pro hasn't got the focus, then message appears behind the main window When you do the standard settings for one of the Pro metronomes then switch on Swing, sets the swing - does switch on the swing okay but if you immediately you go to the Adjust Swing, Beats or Seed for part window, the numbers are shown as swing 200 to 200. If you switch on REVERSE ORDER PARTS for time signature rhythm in Bounce Preferences (Ctrl + 220) with "except for bar beat" switched off, then the bar beat gets shown even when Bar Beat Ball is unchecked Shows the tempo incorrectly for some polyrhythms with fractional beats per measure - e.g. the golden ratio rhythm when you reverse order the parts for the time signature rhythm Some other very minor bug fixes. Monday August 2nd, 2010 Numerous bug fixes. Too many to list here - I do have a list of them (as notes, with code snippets and full of programmer's jargon and routine names etc - so not readable by anyo ne else "as is") - but it would be a long and very dull read to put it here even if I edit it to make it more readable by others. Nothing especially major but many things that might be minor nuisances. Basically if you found something that didn't work quite as it should in Bounce Metronome Pro, there's a good chance it has been fixed in version 4.1. If you still find any bugs then be sure to let me know. After all the work on developing many new features in the earlier updates of the last year or so, this was an opportunity to go over it again thoroughly and I found a surprising number of things to fix, more than I expected. I have tests to prevent this happening. In fact, the main one is to play all the presets for all the metronomes and vary the most important settings for each metronome. This turns up the most important bugs since the most important thing is that the metronomes should play and sound correctly and typical bugs are be immediately noticeable because the rhythm doesn't sound right, or the bouncing balls aren't in sync. with them, or some other obvious buggy behaviour occurs. The presets take you through the main features of the program so it is a reasonable coverage of the code as well. You can get sporadic bugs that happen on rare occasions only, but just playing the presets through turns up the most common types of bug. As this is going on the debug version of the program will check various things and alert me if any error occurs. There are other self validating tests as well that pop up alerts while I'm working on the program. For instance when a bug occurs, and I fix it, then I may put various diagnostic alerts and other checks into the debug code to help trap similar bugs as soon as possible or to warn about the conditions that lead to them or are diagnostic of them. Then also I have projects saved from previous bug reports which I can test to check that they are still okay. But it takes a while to do the tests - even with the automated tests you have to run the code responsible in order to get the alert about it - and when you have lots to do you, and so much more that you want to do and haven't programmed yet - sometimes you don't run the tests as thoroughly as you should sometimes. Probably I should spend at least a couple of days just running tests after a fairly major update - and just trying out the metronome presets and main features thoroughly. Anyway, now with version 4.1, I feel that I now have a good reasonably bug free basis to build on for future updates, so in future it should be more bug free, hopefully. Wednesday June 30th, 2010 With the new feature to the if you select - the rhythm changes okay but doesn't update the time signatures and subdivisions numbers in the main window and in The feature in the More version of the Tempo Dial Options window was preset to UNSELECTED. This means that the notation in the tempo dial didn't update when you changed the rhythm. Reason it happened is - used to always do it automatically. When I added a new check box to let you decide if you want it to happen or not, forgot to preset the check box to selected. When you save a midi file directly (rather than record as you play) with the option to pan to follow the bouncing balls switched on, the saved midi file doesn't pan at all - this is relevant if you want to make the sound to accompany a video of the bouncing balls - or just want to make a midi file with this form of panning When you change the tempo, the "Quarter note =" fields in don't update to show the new tempo - same also applies to the same fields in the More version of Lots of other minor bug fixes. Tuesday June 22nd, 2010 If you use the Render to File option in and use that to make an audio file to merge with the video in - then often you get the notes in the recording get out of sync with the visuals. It turned out to be to do with the option in - a hidden option I hadn't thought was necessary to let the user configure. What happened was that you got any audio drop outs while playing it in order to render it - there would be no glitches in the rendered recording - but the timing of the notes would get changed to take account of the gaps you got while playing. Also even without audio drop outs - it took a moment or two to just start the recording at the start of the file and that time also got subtracted, so making first note slightly too short and so putting all the other notes out of sync. Fixed by switching off the compensation while rendering. Also made it visible for user to adjust in More version of the window. Fixed numerous other bugs and minor glitches. Wednesday June 2nd, 2010 When you set it to label subdivisions, then they may be labelled incorrectly for the polyrhythm metronome e.g. 1 a a a a a instead of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (treats entire measure as one counting unit) - fixed For the option to label the first row only, if the first row is hidden no labels are shown - updated so it labels the first Visible row - fixed If you use the Set Pulse check box for the Drum metronome - then when you exit and then restart the program it gets unchecked. This is because the metronome rhythm was getting remade when the program starts up - that is if set to automatically remake the rhythm if changed - was because it treated the font setting and colour changing done by the program at start up to make sure the rhythm is displayed correctly (e.g. with the musical font) as a user edit - fixed. The auto set file name for the animation export should truncate at the ! for rhythms for the Drum and Dance metronome that have comments and wasn't doing that - fixed. If you switch on / off any of the checked menu items in the menus for any of the windows apart from the main window, then the menu gets reshown as it should - but with no visible change in the check state. After moving mouse away from the menu then reshowing the menu you see that it has actually changed but not immediately (works okay in main window menu) - fixed. Fixed a bug that could cause occasional glitches of various types - hard to categorise, but might include access violations. If the is outside the range of 0 to 800 in then you get no sound in the saved recording. This is a Timidity feature, so just added a message to explain to the user what happens and warn if you enter a number outside the range. Friday May 28th, 2010 You may get an access violation on rare occasions - fixed. Various other minor bug fixes. Wednesday May 19th, 2010 If you use an accent or similar in the description of the rhythm, before the ! e.g. "Compás", this is for the rhythm edit for the drum metronome, then it gets shown as a musical note, symbol or rest instead of an accent - reason is because the musica l font uses symbols for the musical notes where the accents and other characters are located in a normal font. Fixed by using a different font for the text before the ! Counting subdivisions wrongly for some complex rhythms with Set Pulse switched off - discovered it with the Flamenco Compás with subdivisions into sixteenth notes. File | Save As Project - saves in folder for most recent animation save if you did the animation save with the option to automatically save a project for the saved animation. You don't want this to happen because you want to remember the location where you last opened or saved projects you made yourself, not the location for automatically saved projects you just need on rare occasions e.g. to recover the settings for a previously saved animation For the and if you set it to count beats and subdivisions, then the last beat in the Flamenco Compas rhythm is counted as 5 a instead of 5 & Shows beat numbers all as e.g. 4 (or whatever the number of beats in the bar is) for the new option start count at number of beats in bar when set to beats without subdivisions - fixed. Some other minor bug fixes UNFIXED BUG - for Vista or laterThis next bug unfortunately is an unfixed bug and with no plans to fix it (I think it is the only known unfixed bug in BM Pro as of writing this). Fixing it will be tricky, and I'll probably give that a miss for now since hardly anyone will be affected by it. Symptoms:In Vista, if you put more than about 5460 characters (depends on the font and the character) into a single line drop list or edit text window then the text goes blank. No solution to this, just have to work around it and make sure any text areas that need large amounts of text normally are multi-line and set to word break (text vanishes if multiline without word wrap). It's rare to need to do this though. Situation where I found it happening - if you show a New Scale window (Ctrl + 5, e.g. for the Fractal Tune Metronome) - then set the scale to 0.1 cents - then click Expand - then the text will go blank because it needs about 15 K characters, each quite a few pixels wide for the standard gui font, which takes you well over the 32K pixel limit. DETAILS about why it happensSame thing happens with other programs - either goes blank - or else the program auto truncates (e.g. to 256 characters). E.g. happens with drop lists in Internet Explorer - though FireFox seems to be okay presumably has its own custom control which doesn't use this method. It is due to a 32K pixel limit on pre-composed glyphs - all text areas in Windows Vista displayed using the standard text controls for Vista go blank if the text to be displayed needs a display area wider than 32K pixels before scrolling - see SetLimitText() in a CEdit in Vista does not work (I'm not actually using a CEdit here, but same principle applies). Doesn't happen in XP because it doesn't do pre-composed glyphs.
See the post to find out more. Is this an issue with XP as well?From this quote, it seems XP still has a 32 K pixels limit on the width of the text but it only applies to the text that fits into the display area not the entire line - so not an issue with XP unless you use an ultra high resolution display. Ordinary home displays are nowhere near this resolution at present but some high end displays do approach or exceed it. The highest display resolutions available today can go over this limit e.g. 35,640 by 8,000 pixels for the Hiperspace Wall at NASA for instance is more than 32K (32,768) pixels using OptiPortal. (list of other high resolution multiple tile displays here). In principle you might also be able to go as wide as you like with the Mersive technology which lets you merge together any number of projectors to make truly huge display areas. Screen shot here So maybe some time in the future we will see displays as high resolution as this at home. Anyway, it seems if you used a display like that then a text area which spread right across the wall from left to right and full of text all the way along, it would go blank even in XP with standard controls because it would be too wide for the standard edit control to paint. But currently it is really only an issue for Vista or later on typical display resolutions. Wednesday May 12th 2010 For bounce inside (or outside) ovals, when you skip all the beats except one in a rhythm, then in the 3D bounce the ball does a complicated motion with an extra sway to it instead of just going up and down or back and forth. What it was is that when you have two or more bounces, you need to shift the ball away from the oval by the radius of the ball, so that the edge of the ball touches the oval on the bounce rather than its centre. The direction of that shift varies as the ball goes around inside the oval. When bouncing in just one direction on a single impact point then you don't need to vary the direction of the shift - and the extra sway was caused by varying the direction of the shift when it didn't need to be done. Bounces for innermost of several concentric ovals were smaller than you'd expect - fixed. This bug fix changes the way the feature works in the More version of . So changed the preset value for that to 100 instead of 500. The old 500 value is too large anyway for measure beat bounce inside ovals (i.e. for parts with one beat to the measure), though about right and roughly equivalent to the new version when you have a rhythm with lots of beats, all except one of them skipped. So not sure what to do there. If it was a valuable feature to keep the old way of doing things I'd add in a special check box, but as it is seems best just to update to new way of doing the bounces, and forget any values entered there by users before, which is likely to create a similar effect since main reason someone might want to tweak this before was to deal with the old buggy behaviour. So hope this is okay. If you tweaked it for some other reason, you'll need to do it again with this new version as I can't think of any easy way to do that automatically. However it is a very minor and probably rarely used feature so hope not many will be affected by this. If you adjust individual beat times after setting up a fractional polyrhythm (rarely used feature) - the number field in the centre of the tempo dial shows a very large value for the tempo - e.g. 500 times the expected tempo and if you click on the tempo dial to set tempo - then rhythms gets very slow indeed. in 3D shows too many dots for the g^2 especially and also g and g^3 in 1 g g^2 g^3 When you use + or - on the num pad to play or silence all the beats, the tool tip to show what you did shows the key pressed as e.g. 'm' instead of '+' which is confusing - fixed. Check box Reverse order parts for time signature rhythms has unexpected effect if used for the Drum and Dance Metronome. It remakes it as a rhythm for a time signature instead of the expected rhythm - fixed Other minor bug fixes. Wednesday May 5th 2010 Minor bug fixes Thursday April 29th 2010 When you ask me for and get a second test drive - if you start the test drive after the previous one has expired, it still shows as test drive expired (from the old test drive) so you can't use your second test drive key On first save script after install, saves into program folder instead of scripts sub-folder When you split the Car Tunes metronome window using Options | Split then the ball bouncing on the lyrics may not bounce so smoothly - same for Lyrics window shown with any of the metronomes When set to use the fast timer in the Bounce Preferences (More version of the window), then bouncing ball on lyrics doesn't work except in main window (& not when split) When you have "auto rescale textures to fit individual windows" selected - doesn't auto rescale the texture to the height of the About window - and ditto for the Start Test Drive, Buy Now or Unlock window Friday April 16th 2010 In 11/4 with two subdivisions, the bouncing ball visuals skip back half a beat between 8 1/2 and 9 beats in the bar - was due to rounding errors in calc of ( 15/22 ) * 15 For the Fractional Polyrhythm Metronome or Fractional Harmonic Metronome - If you change the rhythm while it is playing with fractional beats per measure (e.g. PI beats per measure etc) the bouncing balls may get out of sync. with the sound - gets back in sync when you stop play and start it again. Also when you set the bouncing balls to follow a conducting pattern with fractional beats per measure, the splashes may splash in the wrong place Other minor bug fixes Monday April 12th 2010 When the ball bounces in 3D with elastic bounce switched on, the baton lengthens momentarily at the moment of the bounce - fixed. (It also squashes like the bouncing ball but that looks okay somehow, so left it like that for now). For 3D bounce set to bounce inside ellipse, if set to show "cone only" then the tip of the baton doesn't quite touch the ovals (or the dots on the ovals) for any of the beats after the first beat - fixed. Other minor bug fixes Wednesday March 31st 2010 in main window shows as e.g. beat QUARTER NOTES and DOTTED EIGHTH NOTES when it should say beat QUARTER NOTES and TRIPLET EIGHTH NOTES Tuesday March 30th 2010 Missing the centre circle in the tempo dial around the number - newly introduced bug with the last upload (removed it for the bare bones tempo dial and accidentally removed it for the normal tempo dial at the same time) Monday March 29th 2010 For Bouncing Ball Colours - in Colours (Ctrl + 7) - when you scroll down the text, the colour patches to left of the text should scroll down as well - don't. Record to File window - Record Control button just brings up the volume mixer on Win 7 - because there is no Record Control in Win 7. Now brings up the Sounds applet from the control panel so you can go to the Recording tab to adjust what you want to record from (microphone, "what you hear", etc). Other very minor bug fixes. Thursday March 18th 2010 If you change the main window to full screen (e.g. with Escape key shortcut) - then change metronome with it still full screen - it doesn't fill entire screen. Conducting pattern for 6/8 with two subdivisions per beat wasn't as intended - fixed Sound out of sync with animations for Export Animation for rhythm cycles - fixed. Bugs in the way the rhythm cycles were displayed in the 2D bouncing balls window - should show all the rhythms in the cycle across the bottom of the window - but wasn't doing that any more - newly introduced bug - fixed. Many other minor bug fixes. Thursday February 25th 2010 Not replacing some US note names with UK note names when set to show UK note names. E.g. shows "quarter notes" instead of "crotchets" etc. Shows program name twice in main window caption. When you adjust the lilt volume in main window, adjusts the lilt volume for all parts. You can still adjust volume for individual parts in ... This is probably what user will expect to happen. - fixed Pause button stops the sound but doesn't stop the visuals in the 3D window if the rhythm is very fast - fixed Some bugs in the print and page setup Monday January 15th 2010 Fixed a number of minor bugs of a techy nature - most users will rarely encounter them and may very well not notice them if they do. m@ndritst@r@1954Also fixed a sporadic access violation that may occur very rarely for the 3D bouncing balls. Also fixed many very minor bugs in the way the skins worked Also fixed some bugs in the animation save. Particuarly - the sound had a 0.1 second delay so the sound was a bit after the visuals in the animation - unless you set this delay to 0 in the Midi File Options window. Also some of the details of the sky for the 3D visuals you see in the program itself didn't get saved to the video - fixed. Installer for: 11th January 2010 Monday January 11th 2010 Fixed minor bugs in sync of visuals with the sound played especially on slower machines. Installer for: 11th January 2010 Monday December 28th 2009 Fixes some bugs in the synchronisation of the sounds played with the visuals. Also Ctrl + Shift + Z undo doesn't work for skipped beats - fixed. Installer for: 28th December 2009 Monday December 21st 2009 Many minor bug fixes and improvements in the synchronisation of the sound with the bouncing balls. Installer for: 21st December 2009 Thursday November 26th 2009 Minor bug fixes November 24th 2009 The new tap timing option used the time for the most recent frame for the bouncing balls instead of interpolating and using the actual time of the tap when between two frames. This makes the tap timing much less accurate than it can be. Fixed. Other minor bug fixes. November 5th 2009 Program may stop responding in some situations when you browse for a new file to change the sky texture - fixed. When you move the mouse over the 3D bouncing balls with the 3D hot highlighting switched on the animation may pause until you stop moving the mouse - this was because it was hit-testing the 3D scene for every position of the mouse, which could be many times a second with fast movement. Fixed with more efficient hit testing. The highlighting feels just as responsive but the animation isn't interrupted. November 4th 2009 Uses a lot of CPU when paused showing a movie, similar to amount used when playing it - fixed. About window shows operating system as Vista when it's Windows 7 - fixed. Stack fault when reading some previously saved projects - fixed. November 3rd 2009 Resource leak while showing subtitles in srt format - fixed. November 2nd 2009 If you enter a rhythm such as 4 8/5 (polyrhythm, without the 1 for the bar beat) in the Fast numerical entry window, then play the bouncing balls with sound, the bouncing balls vanish after two bars - fixed The bounce back option wasn't working correctly with polyrhythms - fixed. November 1st 2009 Sorry - with the last upload yesterday, you got an access violation if you tried to load a .ts file - it's because with the new video options you can use a .ts video format file as an animation for the sky, bouncing balls etc, so when you open it via the Open dialog, it tried to read the .ts file as a video file - but then later in the code assumed that it was a Tune smithy file - basically got confused about what type of file it was opening. To deal with it I've just disabled reading of .ts video files for now if you try to open them via File | Open - something probably not many will need to do. This is something that will need a bit of thought to do properly but an immediate fix was needed. Also fixed some other minor bugs. - fixed. Thursday September 24th 2009 The Goto and Label script instructions weren't working - fixed. When you use the Get Project button in avi window, adds .tsProj to the old avi file name then when you save the animation then you get error message and won't save the animation and you see that the file extension has changed. - fixed. Tuesday September 22nd 2009 Fixed many minor bug fixes in the 3D visuals to do with exact synchronisation of the bounces with the dots mainly to do with the bounce outside or inside ellipses. - fixed Glitchy tool tips for the Part number you can click on at the top of the tempo dial - fixed. Thursday September 3rd 2009 Fixed many minor bug fixes in the 3D visuals to do with exact synchronisation of the bounces with the dots mainly to do with the bounce outside or inside ellipses. Fixed bugs and improved the layout for the Song Car Tunes bounce on lyrics. Fixed a number of bugs in the Song Car Tunes metronome, especially - the Split version of this window didn't work properly and obviously also the user would want to see the lyrics with the bouncing ball for this metronome rather than the bouncing balls as a separate display, for the preset layout for the main window split into separate windows - fixed. Numerous bug fixes, mainly to do with the visuals and the bouncing lyrics particularly. Too many to list individually, most also are either minor, or for rarely encountered situations. To give an example - with the bouncing words, in the 2D window, the splash shadows didn't perfectly shadow the splashes, they would start too small and then expand slightly out of sync with the originals. Quite a few of the bugs indeed are to do with the Car Tunes and Bouncing Words, or minor user interface glitches, minor alignment issues and such like. Fixed a minor issue to do with the 3D bouncing balls - you might not see the tempo dial in some circumstances (for me, it happened in Windows 7 but it was to do with minor details of how OpenGL worked so I think most likely that it turned up because I had a slightly different OpenGL setup after installing windows 7 on the computer) - anyway, now fixed. Friday August 21st 2009 In the 3D bounce window, you may find that there is no tempo dial shown (and no clouds texture in the sky) - fixed. Saturday August 15th 2009 Fixed a number of bugs, particularly to do with the 3D view, mainly to do with the beat numbers and words. Sunday August 9th 2009 Fixed a number of bugs, particularly to do with the 3D view, and the bounces inside ellipses. Monday July 6th 2009 More very minor bug fixes for the Car Tunes Lyrics with bouncing balls main window metronome. Friday July 3rd 2009 Minor bug fixes for the Car Tunes Lyrics with bouncing balls main window metronome. Wednesday July 1st 2009 After adjusting the slider for swing, if you press any key, mouse keeps warping to slider to show tip - fixed. On edit lilt volumes for all, lilt changes instead of lilt volumes - fixed Could add text "- silenced" to silenced parts in BB display - Done When you edit the text in , if set to play harmonic metronomes, the display for the bouncing balls doesn't update immediately to new rhythm. Updates when you move the mouse over the bouncing balls display - fixed Other minor bug fixes. Saturday June 27th 2009 Several minor bug fixes. The Tap for rhythm shortcuts weren't working - because they interfered with the silence / play shortcuts - fixed. Monday June 22nd 2009 Numerous minor bug fixes. As this is also a major revision of the layout of the program, it's probably not that useful to list them individually. Monday May 18th 2009 If you open a previously saved rhythm, though the rhythm plays correctly, and bounces are displayed okay, sometimes the blocks below the bouncing balls in the main window or bouncing ball window don't look right - fixed. Access violation if you show a window using Ctrl + the title for the window for some windows, e.g. Ctrl + "undo" (only happens for some windows) - fixed.
Thursday April 30th 2009 Some of the windows don't show in Windows 98. The spin controls don't show up in Windows 95 - fixed. Minor glitches in the user interface - e.g. check boxes shown which should be hidden because they aren't relevant to the current selections. Accessibility bug - for screen reader users or those who use the keyboard instead of the mouse - if you use the button to play an arpeggio using the currently highlighted CSound instrument, then the Csound INstruments window loses the keyboard focus. You need to use Alt + Tab to get back to the window to stop the sound - fixed. Fixed some bugs in the tab order, and made some of the text in the window tab-able which helps with navigation for screen reader users - if you read it in a screen reader then now you can read the text in its proper order rather than all at once. Example, the text "Counting in threes" in the main window is now a text control you can tab to and is in the tab order just before the controls it applies to, i.e. the 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8. Fixed some duplicate shortcuts - two uses of the same shortcut key in the same window. Thursday April 16th 2009 The O icon for Organise Windows at top right of all the windows below the I icon was invisible in Windows 95 or Windows 98 - fixed. A couple of rarely used windows (including the separate Set Tempo window in the no graphics layout duplicating the tempo fields in the main window) couldn't be shown in Windows 98 - fixed. Some very minor display glitches in the Record to File (Ctrl + 11) and Midi File options (Ctrl + 12) - fixed. If you record a rhythm to a midi file with changing tempo switched on, then when you end the recording, the main window tempo has got set to the tempo at the end of the file - instead of resetting to the start tempo as it should - fixed. Other very minor bugs.
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