Sequitur Release Notes
Sequitur 2.1.2 (Haiku version) Release Notes
- Fixed crash on exit due to static destructor not releasing MIDI endpoints.
- Fixed missing icons in Filters window, due to Haiku BBitmap::Archive(xxx, false)
not saving data.
- Files are now saved with the standard MIDI Mimetype "audio/midi", rather
than the original "audio/x-midi".
- FilePanels are now smarter: they only list files with a MIDI Mimetype
(one of audio/midi, audio/mid, or audio/x-midi), and remember the directory a file
was last loaded from when using "Save As" (rather than always going "back home").
- Various internal restorations and rewrites were needed for Haiku, but the
resulting performance should be unchanged.
Sequitur 2.1.1f Release Notes
- Feature: The control change strip view in the track window can now signify
which controls actually have events in the tracks. To turn this feature on,
go to song window File->Preferences, select the Views tab, expand All Views,
expand arp:Default, select Control Change, and check the Run report box.
- Feature: Added a new page in the Edit Device window, Filter. This page contains a single property, the Input Filter. You can select from any installed filters in your system. When you do, any input device on the track will run events through this filter before anything else in the input pipeline, or recording.
This feature has a very specific purpose: If you have a single controller keyboard
that you switch between various devices, you can set up an input filter for each
device that maps the controls to those appropriate for the device. In this way, a
single keyboard transparently controls all of your devices -- and, additionally, devices can be shared with writing partners who have different keyboards.
To make use of this, you must do three steps:
1. Determine what control changes the knobs on your keyboard transmit. The
information should be in your keyboard's manual, or you can use the Console filter.
2. Create a multi filter (Windows->Filters then Filter->New). Typically, this
filter will be a single Controller Map that translates your keyboard controllers into controllers for a single device. Create a multi filter for each device in your studio.
3. Open each device you created a multi filter for, and in the Filter page, assign
the multi filter as the input filter.
Note that when you assign the multi filter, that multi filter is copied to the device for the duration of the session. This means that changing the multi filter will not result in any changes -- you have to assign it again (or restart Sequitur). Also, if you delete the multi filter it will disappear from the device.
- Feature: You can now drag and drop the song position during playback.
- Optimization: The track windows were redrawing during editing and
playback even if they were minimized.
- When pasting CC events into a CC view, it reassigns the control number to
the current view. So you can paste CCs to different views now, see.
- Fix: When recording during a long song, the scrollbar in the song window's phrase view could be reset so that it became inactive.
- Fix: When recording, events that were piped to different tracks were still recorded in the original track.
- Fix: Pressing the rewind button when record was active would turn it off.
- Change: Zero on the numeric key now is just a shortcut for the rewind button -- i.e. doesn't stop playback if it's going.
- Filter change: Console filter can specify what information to print.
- New filter: Controller Range
Sequitur 2.1 Release Notes
Sequitur 2.0 Release Notes
Sequitur 2.0 includes an extensive set of new features over previous versions. If you're familiar with past incarnations, here are some highlights:
- Tools are now completely user-modifiable and extensible, and have extensive possibilities for interacting with MIDI data.
- Filters can now be created by users with no C++ knowledge, via the multi filter.
- Device definitions can be created for any of your MIDI devices.
- New 'motions' concept abstracts pitch, velocity and controller information, helping to easily experiment with new dynamics and melodies.
- A new strip view, the Bank / Program Change, makes it easy to work with multiple banks on your synthesizer.
- The height of tracks in the song window can be changed, and their phrases can be labeled.
- Track windows can switch between different tracks, or even operate on multiple tracks simultaneously.
- Many new and improved filters.
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last modified 03 August 2002