Hi All,

I've placed a bug fix release of blue at:

http://www.csounds.com/stevenyi/blue

This version fixes a bug with the mixer's display of volume. All blue users who have downloaded 0.121.0 are recommended to upgrade to this release. This release also has two new features listed in the change log below.

Thanks!
steven

[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 0.121.1<
[released 2008.02.16]

Steven Yi-----------------------------------------------------------------------

blue

[new] - Added "Always Render Entire Project" option to Project Properties
for disk renders; if checked, will render to disk as if the render
end wasn't set and as if rendering from time 0 regardless of what
values are used in render start/end which still affects realtime
playback

[new] - added optional color theming: if blueTheme.properties is found in
the user's .blue directory, values will be used to set blue's colors
for theme; colors normally used are:

primary1=198,226,255
primary2=153,153,204
primary3=204,204,255
secondary1=102,177,253
secondary2=63,102,150
secondary3=38,51,76
black=240,240,255
white=0,0,0

all eight of the above properties must be defined in the
blueTheme.properties if the theme file is to be used; color values
are equivalent to RGB with range 0-255 for each color

[fix] - Mixer was not correctly setting slider positions when loading or
switching to a project

Hi All,

I'd like to announce the 0.121.0 release of blue, available at:

http://www.csounds.com/stevenyi/blue

This release contains a number of fixes and implementations of feature requests, as well as new support for csLADSPA project settings (works with import from CSD and export to CSD).

Many thanks to Michael Bechard for his code contributions as well as to Atte, Menno, Andrzej, and all the others who reported bugs and feature requests.

Thanks and enjoy!
steven


>Notes for 0.121.0<
[released 2008.02.12]

I recently wrote a short article on doing physical modeling of a microtonal flute in realtime with csound5. The instruments were designed on linux, but you can change the header to use whatever command line flags you use on your mac or windows setup to run csound5 in realtime.

Today's blog is on SineBox: a "music box" like instrument that plays itself. Once a user starts SineBox with a single i-event in the score, SineBox creates instances of itself, generating multiple sine tones over time. This may not be the most musical piece of Csound technology ever conceived of. It can, however, be molded to fit a wide range of uses, musical and otherwise.

Click here to download.

Hi All,

I'd like to announce version 0.120.0 of blue is now available at:

http://www.csounds.com/stevenyi/blue

This version has a number of bug fixes since 0.119.0 and all users are encouraged to upgrade.

Many thanks to Menno, Atte, Mark, Michael, and other blue users for their feedback and bug reports!

steven

[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 0.120.0<
[released 2008.01.16]

Steven Yi-----------------------------------------------------------------------

blue

[new] - modified Instrument edit area to show same kind of label of "Editing
Library Instrument" as was implemented for SoundObject editing in
0.119.0

[new] - added shift-F2 shortcut to BlueEditorPane so if over an opcode, will
try to open up the example CSD from the manaul for that opcode and
display the example

[new] - added 01_funky.blue example to blue/examples/general folder

[new/updated] - blueShare - when selecting an instrument or Effect to
export, will now pre-populate description text field for import from
instrument/effect's comments text field; user is still able to
modify the description text field to summarize or truncate the
information before submitting

[new/updated] - replaced using BlueTextArea with JTextArea for Comment text
in Instruments and UDO's; the text is no longer highlighting for
Csound code (which didn't make sense really) as well as has line
wrapping enabled for long lines

[updated] - rearranged Orchestra manager editor so that the User Instrument
Library and project orchestra is now held on the left while the
instrument editor area now takes up the entire right hand side of
the split pane, giving more room to the instrument editor.

[updated] - updated /blue/examples/scripting/feldman.blue to newer version
using new instruments (b64 SID emulation and triangle wave
instrument), also updated comments and layout to more modern blue
usage (for example, used Mixer system instead of hand done routing)

[fix] - Parameters for Effects were not being cleared when copies were
pasted

[fix] - When reopening projects with soundObjects or instruments that had
an empty name, would cause a null pointer exception

[fix] - When reopening projects with GenericScore soundObjects that had
an empty score, would cause a null pointer exception on score
rendering

[fix] - When opening files using commandline args to blue, absolute version
of file was not used and soundObject freezing would not work

[fix] - When working with named instruments, programmatic adding of
instruments was problematic due to poor checking of instrument ID's

[fix] - Opcode Completion and search for opcode manual entry or example did
not filter out "(" parenthesis when looking for word where text
caret was, therefore did not lookup functions correctly (i.e. ampdb)

[fix] - Loading of pre-0.94.0 projects was broken, fixes made and plans for
frozen upgrading tool for pre-0.94.0 in the works for later release

[fix] - CSD import for 'Import Score and Split into SoundObjects by
Instrument Number' method was broken

I have to say, having the ability to blog at cSounds.com is both exciting and weird. And even better, it gives me a place where I can do additional shameless self promotion. :) So without further ado...

Read The Infamous mcseq @ The Csound Blog

It also just occurred to me that everyone can now have their own Csound blog here at cSounds.com. Which is way cool!

Happy New Year and Welcome to the NEW 2008 cSounds.com!

Thanks to the incredible initiative, talent, dedication and expertise of our brilliant new administrator - Cesare Marilungo,
over the next few weeks and months, you will enjoy a new look, a new organization, and *many* new features, resources and
developments here at cSounds.com!

Soon you will be able to blog, post, host and share your Csound instruments, music, utilities, scripts and more....
right here on the site itself.

Also, we will be hosting and featuring the free resources and Activities of the OLPCsound Community of developers and users
- Activities, Applications, Samples, MIDIfiles, and more - from and for the Children of the World!

As the reach of Csound grows through you and your work and the OLPCsound initiative, in 2008, cSounds.com will become a more active place to meet, correspond, collaborate and share.

Your input, suggestions and feedback will be more important than ever. Help us make this online resource even more useful, helpful, and inviting.

As always, Thank *YOU* for your support - and especially - for your instruments, algorithms, opcodes and music!

Wishing you all a very productive, creative and Happy New Year,

Dr. B.