jp, saw your work quite early on when i started working on mjoo, it is an interesting idea... care to put up some videos on e.g. youtube to help people understand what it's all about? On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 11:32 -0800, JP Mercury wrote: > Folks, > > http://freewheeling.sourceforge.net/ > > I am pleased to present FreeWheeling 0.5.3. This is a new release with > significant new features, and it has been ported to Mac OSX. > FreeWheeling now runs under PC Linux as well as PPC and Intel Macs, all > with the same fluid interface. > > I have begun to work with developers to help guide FreeWheeling's > evolution. There are fantastic possibilities and many stones that remain > unturned. Help is needed, in any form you can give. > > Where is FreeWheeling going? I see it becoming a tool for communities > working with improv, for solo artists to flesh out material, and for > performance. I hope that, with a new community of Mac users, these > possibilities will become more real. > > List of Changes > ------------------------- > > 2006-11-21 v0.5.3 > > Many thanks to Danni Coy, who has contributed very significantly to > this release. Actually, he did most of the work! > > New Features > ------------ > > * MAC OS X support > > FreeWheeling is now cross-platform. > A universal binary is now available for both Intel & PPC Mac > platforms. > > * Multiple Audio Formats > (Contributed by Danni- Thank You!) > > Save and load loops and live streams in > OGG, WAVE, AU, and FLAC. > > * OGG encoding quality setting in configuration > > * More flexible MIDI control of external synths. > > - Combination patches allow you to split one MIDI controller > into a range of zones. This allows you to control several > different sounds or softsynths from one MIDI control source. > > A combipatch defines the zones, as well as the output MIDI > port and channel that each zone sends to. You can also send > MIDI program and bank change messages for each zone, allowing > you to switch programs on external synths. > > All of this functionality is integrated into the patch browser, > so you can seamlessly control other synth apps and > sound modules from within FreeWheeling. > > See 'examples/combipatchdemo.xml' for an example > configuration. > > - Added 'suppressprogramchanges' option for patch banks > > With suppressprogramchanges=1, no MIDI bank and program change > messages are sent when patches are changed within a patch bank. > This is useful when you have a softsynth loaded with patches on > different channels and you merely want to switch channels- > each patch is mapped to a different channel, but you don't want > program change messages being sent to mess up your patches. > > Use this for banks of Linuxsampler channels. > > - Added 'separatechannels' option for patch banks > > With separatechannels=0, patches mapped to different channels > appear in the same patch bank. With this option, you can have a > collection of several patches on different channels that appear > together in one list for browsing. This is useful for sampling > synths where your patches are pre-loaded onto channels. > > With separatechannels=1, the old behavior is used. > The old behavior splits each channel into a separate bank. > This works well for DSSI softsynths, where many synths run on > the same port, but each channel accesses a different synth and > different set of patches. > > Fixes > ----- > > * MIDI thread now runs at high priority FIFO, rather than > low priority FIFO-- this may improve MIDI performance, > and hopefully will not affect stability. > > * Fixed configuration bug that broke 'CTRL+click' loop renaming. > > All the Best, and Happy FreeWheeling, > -JP Mercury > > > -- -- Leonard Ritter -- http://www.leonard-ritter.com -- http://www.paniq.org
