17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
1:55 p.m.
Hi all,
I've committed to SVN an update to arpage which fixes a problem in which
arpage would not recognize a note-on event with zero-velocity as a note-off
event.
If anyone is experiencing problems with MIDI keyboards apparently not
sending note-offs, you should probably pick this up from the SVN repository.
But having said that, I'll probably have a dot release within a few days so
that I can get the fix into the PPA.
If anyone has ideas for something (simple!) they want added/fixed, let me
know and I'll try to get it into the dot release.
Thanks,
Mark Vitek
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Mark Vitek <straypacket(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
The second development release of arpage is available on sourceforge in
source tarball and SVN formats:
Tarball: http://sourceforge.net/projects/arpage/
SVN: https://arpage.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/arpage/branches
https://arpage.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/arpage/tags
I'd like to thank everyone for the feedback I received on 0.1 - Please
check this out and let me know what you think, or if you have problems
building/running.
The UI is still dead-boring GTK, but I've read back over the LAD threads
regarding audio-oriented UI libraries and I'm thinking of investigating
libproaudio with the next release.
The 0.2 Development release adds:
- Smaller UI - probably not Netbook friendly yet, but getting closer :)
- UI should be dependent upon GTK+ 2.12 (rather than 2.16 as with the first
release).
- An additional executable named "zonage" which allows the MIDI note input
to be split into 4 ranges.
This is useful for routing sections of your MIDI keyboard to different
JACK inputs - e.g. route the lower half to arpage, and the upper half to a
"lead" sound, so you can "solo" over the arpeggiator.
- The ability to have a pulse duration (time between note-on and note-off)
be longer than the interval between pulses (time between note-on and
subsequent note-on).
This is useful when routing the output of one arpeggiator to the input of
the next arpeggiator. Experiment and hear it :)
- Noticeable decrease in the number of stuck notes (I haven't experienced
ANY with this version yet).
Basic features/requirements (same as 0.1 Alpha):
- svn / tarball only for now
- gtkmm-based, so dev packages for gtkmm and friends are needed to build
(and obviously jack)
- I've only built it on Ubuntu Studio (karmic) 64bit. I'm looking for
others to let me know if it builds/runs elsewhere.
- requires JACK time master to be rolling for the arpeggiators to do
anything. Qtractor and Seq24 have worked well for me.
- will pass midi events thru when JACK time master is not rolling.
- 4 arpeggiators with transpose, interval, range, note duration selectable
thru UI.
- Each arp has it's own JACK midi in and out port, so you can cascade
arpeggiators.
- Preliminary support for scales and modes - all of them are not correct,
but try major, dorian, diminished and augmented for starters :)
It sounds great with each arpeggiator driving an instance of calf mono.
Check out the ogg/mp3 clip on sourcefourge.
Thanks all,
Looking forward to any and all feedback.