[LAD] Csound 5.15 release

Apologies for cross-posting. ====================== We are pleased to announce the release of version 5.15. The sources are on the standard Sourceforge location (https://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound5/csound5.15/) as both zip and tar.gz Platform packages will follow shortly, and the manual on Friday. ==John ffitch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes for 5.15 ============== New parser has been subjected to a great deal of work. It now has better checking of argument types and use, better diagnostics and increased functionality. We have only reached this stage in the last few days so we judge it prudent to leave the old parser as standard. We would be pleased if more users tried the new and gave the developers feedback. A major reorganisation means that there are many fewer plugins and most opcodes are in the base (about 1250 of them). A side effect of that is that leaving old plugins from an earlier release is a disaster, and so 5.15 will not load earlier plugins. The multicore system is now safe (ie maintains semantics) when zak, channels or table modification are made. New Opcodes: ftab2tab transfers between ftables and t-variables tab2pvs tsig - pvs conversion pvs2tab pvs - tsig conversion cpumeter-- not really new but now available in OSX (EXPERIMENTAL) ftresize and ftresizei allow resizing of existing tables. These will be permanent if the community feel they are useful. minmax opcodes hrtfearly, hrtfreverb opcodes New Gen and Macros: Code to allow GEN49 to be deferred [NB does not seem to work] Modified Opcodes and Gens: socksend and sockrecv no longer uses MTFU check and work on Windows mpulse changed so if next event is at negative time use the absolute value serial opcode now runs on Windows as will as Un*x out, out2, outq, outh, outo outx and out32 are now identical opcodes and will take up to as many arguments as nchnls. This replaces the current remapping of opcodes turnoff2 now polymorphic wrt S and k types (ie accepts instrumnet names) Utilities Bugs fixed: GEN42 fixed jacko: fixed a segfault removing the unused JackSessionID option doppler memory leak fixed transegr fixed in release mode when skipping most of envelope FLPack now agrees with manual max_k now agrees with manual hrtfreverb fixed atsa code now works on Windows in more cases tabmorph bug fixed fixed problem with user-defined opcodes having no outputs Various fixes to * ... */ comments System Changes: Various licence issues sorted Loris is no longer part of the Csound tree Memory leaks fixed If no score is given a dummy that runs for over 100 years is created All score processing takes place in memory without temporary files String memory now expandable and no size limitation #if #else #end now in new parser Adjustments to MIDI file precision in output On OSX move from Coreaudio to AuHAL Multicore now safe for ZAK, Channels and modifying tables New coremidi module Virtual Keyboard improved: 1) Dropdown for choosing base octave (the one that starts with the virtual key mapped to physical key Z). Default value is 5 which is backwards compatible. 2) Shift-X mappings which add two octaves to X mappings for a total of 4 octaves playable from the physical keyboard (starting from selected base octave). 3) Control-N / Control-Shift-N mappings to increment / decrement slider for control N. 4) Mouse wheel now controls sliders. tsig type for vectors tsigs and fsigs allowed as arguments in UDOs API: Minor version upped Internal: Very, very, very many! Dr Victor Lazzarini Senior Lecturer Dept. of Music NUI Maynooth Ireland tel.: +353 1 708 3545 Victor dot Lazzarini AT nuim dot ie