What's new in Kangas Sound Editor 4.2.0
Jul 18, 2014
- (Windows & Linux). Changes to new installation sample database. Made the extent of Recorded Sound boxes sensitive to the Volume multiplier field in the containing Sequence box. Fixed bugs with .WAV sound file handling.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 4.1.0 (May 9, 2014)
- Bug-fixes and improvements to WavePlayer. Improvements in the handling of Recorded Sound boxes. Clicking on the 'Tracks' node now functions as a 3-way toggle. Single quote and backslash SQL syntax errors fixed. New installs now include examples of the four additional graph types introduced in version 3.2.0. Improved error report when an attempt to insert duplicates into the database is made. Fixed bug in sound-engine graph calculations in Compute Stereo and Recorded Sound. Improved format of fields shown in Duration dialogs. Fixed bug in Sound engine when the bits-per-sample is not an exact multiple of 8, and another when the bits-per-sample is exactly 8. Waveform, Amplitude and Pitch views handling of 'Cannot locate intermediate file' messages improved. Closing the program and starting a new composition now only prompt the user if there are unsaved edits. The user actions of load/re-load composition, delete composition and XML import of a composition no longer have the side effect of closing track nodes and associated views. Fixed bug with setting the Composition parameters from its dialog and then saving. Fixed bugs that prevented successful XML import of a composition. Fix to bug where Waveform, Amplitude, Pitch, Channel and Master views were not always cleared on new composition or change of composition.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 4.0.0 (May 9, 2014)
- (HjemmePC release). Inclusion of WavePlayer, an internal audio player. Track 0 enhancements, including computation of Master track. Improvements to Waveform, Pitch and Amplitude views. Reuse sound and intermediate filenames facility added. Computation of child sound and intermediate files added. Configure sound file parameters dialog improved. Improvements to Variations dialog. The 'Time ruler start' on the toolbar is now a spinner field. Sound-box properties 'beeping' bug fix. Installation bug fix for 64-bit Windows machines.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 3.2.0 (Oct 2, 2013)
- New graph types 'Square root', 'Cube root', 'Power' and 'Geometric sequence' have been added.
- An octave/note selector for the MIDI start pitch of Sequence boxes has been introduced.
- Numeric fields in the Properties window now have spinners for incrementing or decrementing values, and sliders for major or minor adjustments to values.
- Graph evaluation has been improved, including a fix of a possible divide by zero error.
- Bugs in the rendering of Waveform, Amplitude and Pitch views, including a failure for these to be resized properly, have been fixed.
- Property window fields now have a cream background colour (previously white).
- Links to web pages in the Help on the Web dialog have been updated, fixing some links which had become broken in the process.
- The operation of dragging Sequence boxes has been made smoother, by fixing a bug which resulted in the Properties window being re-displayed needlessly.
- Registry keys for this program are now stored under a key of com->kangasound in the Java preferences section of the registry. Previously there was a possibility of a key conflict with another Java program.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 3.1.0 (Dec 29, 2010)
- Precision of numbers displayed and input-able with Graphs, Anti-harmonic Bases and Variations has been increased from 3 to 6 decimal places, precision of Harmonic/Anti-harmonic factors has been increased from 3 to 8 decimal places.
- A new display-only column 'Frequency Multiple' and an additional validation check on save have been introduced to Anti-harmonic Bases.
- Graphs, Harmonics, Anti-harmonics, Anti-harmonic Bases and Variations have a new color scheme, and their finder dialogs have a new slider control 'Axis detail level'.
- Axis labels now have a grey, semi-transparent background to improve their readability whilst not totally obscuring the data.
- Rendering of Anti-harmonic and Anti-harmonic Bases has been improved.
- A bug in the XML import of 'Keep intermediate file' flags has been fixed.
- A bug relating to the input/validation of columns 'Initial interval' for Variations has been fixed.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 3.0.0 (Nov 9, 2010)
- XML import/export facility added, allowing Kangas Sound Editor users to collaborate with and build on the work of other Kangas Sound Editor/QI users. Improved cross-platform functionality, targeting Mac OS X, and Linux (especially Ubuntu).
- Improvements to the installation program, which now includes the previously separate database setup script.
- Edit Panels now have vertical scroll bars if needed, and have a white background.
- New functions to delete tracks, and copy/move/delete a range of Sequence boxes have been added.
- An indicator (*) now appears next to the composition title if there are unsaved edits.
- Edit Panel tree-nodes are now topmost for a given track. New configurable parameters are: Default Edit View duration, Property view width, Transparent toolbar icons, Host name and Port number (the last two allow MySQL server and Kangas Sound Editor to run on different computers).
- Toolbar buttons and search buttons have redesigned icons. The Sequence button is now topmost/leftmost in the toolbar (depending on its orientation).
- General improvements have been made to dialogs. "Help on the web" and About dialogs are now modeless, and have been redesigned.
- New dialog "Configure all parameters" added (this is called "Preferences" in Mac OS X).
- Main program dividers now remember their location.
- Properties toolbar displays the track number of the displayed properties, but is no longer draggable.
- Bugs in Nimbus look-and-feel fixed.
- Bug in MySQL password recognition fixed.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.8.0 (Dec 8, 2008)
- Improvements in the handling of volume changes for Repetition Groups, including introduction of new field 'Cumulative volume'. Installer/Uninstaller improvements.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.7.0 (Sep 27, 2008)
- Tooltips for boxes in Edit view have been introduced.
- Finder and system info dialogs now remember their size and location on screen.
- 'Default use MIDI pitch numbers' configuration check box now defaults to checked, ie MIDI pitch numbers is now the default scheme.
- 'Show' check boxes on finder dialogs now default to checked.
- Fixed bug in scrollbar activation for Sequence and Sound properties, that could result in the bottom property 'Keep intermediate file' being awkward to access.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.6.0 (Aug 25, 2008)
- This version uses double precision numbers in the database throughout, requiring a database upgrade script to be run if upgrading from a prior version. Selection of sequence boxes, chord group boxes etc is now done with a single mouse button press. A bug which caused graph, harmonic and other dialogs to go into the background on pressing the Save button has been fixed.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.5.1 (May 23, 2008)
- This version fixes a bug introduced in 2.5.0, whereby attempting to display graphs, harmonics and other non-text entities in a finder dialog resulted in the dialog 'hanging'. A problem with the installer build, which resulted in the installer being significantly larger than it should be, has also been fixed.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.5.0 (May 12, 2008)
- Implements pitch views using a fast fourier transform algorithm, and amplitude views using root mean square calculations. Track zero channel limits are now possible. The 'simple reps' function now allows volume adjustments, leading to reverb/echo effects on sounds. Also in this version are new menu functions for opening/listing tracks, and getting Kangas Sound Editor help on the web.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.4.1 (Oct 1, 2007)
- This version fixes a bug with computations involving the 'Raw sound file start ofs' field of Recorded Sound boxes, which previously produced correct results only with integer values of this field.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.4.0 (Sep 5, 2007)
- This version introduces optional channel limits (for a distortion effect), a function that allows the sound files of a composition to be exported, improvements in the behaviour of the progress dialogs, improvements in the rendering of grids, a increase in the maximum number of decimal places captured for numeric property values from 3 to 6, and computation of tracks now computes all sequence boxes, not just the ones currently in the scrollable edit view.
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.3.1 (Aug 13, 2007)
- This version fixes bugs in the new functionality (Wave and Channel views) introduced in the previous version
New in Kangas Sound Editor 2.2.0 (Apr 30, 2007)
- This version adds allows MIDI pitch numbers to be used for the start pitches.