spectmorph-0.2.0 has been released. This is the first version that supports sound morphing, and some really interesting sounds can be created with this version; there are examples on the web page. Overview of Changes in spectmorph-0.2.0: ---------------------------------------- * implemented user defined morphing using a MorphPlan consisting of operators - graphical representation of the operators - graphical editing of the MorphPlan - implement actual morphing (in per-operator per-voice module object) - added MorphPlanSynth/MorphPlanVoice, which allow running MorphPlan's easily - added LPC (linear prediction) during encoding, and LPC/LSF based morphing * BEAST plugin: - added GUI required for editing a MorphPlan - support four output channels, as well as two control inputs - delay compensation plugin (to compensate SpectMorph delay) * JACK client: - support GUI MorphPlan editing * added sminspector (graphical tool for displaying SpectMorph instruments) - zoomable time/frequency view - configurable (FFT/CWT/LPC) time/frequency view transform parameters - spectrum, sample, LPC visualization - graphical loop point editing - allow storing changes in .smset files (for editing loop points) - play support via JACK * improved smtool (old name: smextract); its now installed by default - lots of new commands (like "total-noise", "auto-volume", ...) - support .smset as input (in addition to .sm); command is executed on all .sm files in the .smset * added shared libraries for gui and jack code * new integrated memory leak debugger (to find missing delete's) * support ping-pong loops * doxygen API docs updates * migrated man pages from Doxer to testbit.eu wiki (and use wikihtml2man.py) * performance improvements What is SpectMorph? ------------------- SpectMorph is a free software project which allows to analyze samples of musical instruments, and to combine them (morphing). It can be used to construct hybrid sounds, for instance a sound between a trumpet and a flute; or smooth transitions, for instance a sound that starts as a trumpet and then gradually changes to a flute. Also interpolating between two samples of the same instrument (different attack velocity of a piano) could be interesting. SpectMorph is implemented in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL version 3 SpectMorph is still under development. This means: * the fileformat is not yet stable - instruments or morph plans may not work with newer versions of SpectMorph * the algorithms for synthesizing sounds are still under development - newer versions may sound different To sum it up: if you compose music using SpectMorph, don't expect newer versions to be compatible in any way. Links: ------ Website: http://www.spectmorph.org Download: http://www.spectmorph.org/downloads/spectmorph-0.2.0.tar.bz2 There are many sound samples on the website, which test morphing between instruments. -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan