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author Chris Cannam
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Chris@2575 1
Chris@2594 2 Changes in Sonic Visualiser v4.2 (14 August 2020) since the previous release 4.1:
Chris@2575 3
Chris@2575 4 - Speed up startup, especially on Windows and especially when a lot
Chris@2575 5 of plugins are installed. Plugins are now scanned after the main
Chris@2575 6 window has been displayed, and the Transform menus are populated
Chris@2575 7 dynamically when the results are available.
Chris@2575 8
Chris@2580 9 - Fix incompatibility of 64-bit Windows build with Windows 7
Chris@2580 10
Chris@2484 11
Chris@2567 12 Changes in Sonic Visualiser v4.1 (18 June 2020) since the previous release 4.0.1:
Chris@2484 13
Chris@2484 14 - Support "dark mode" on Windows and Linux as well as macOS
Chris@2484 15
Chris@2484 16 - Add right-click (or Ctrl-click, on the Mac) context menus to the
Chris@2484 17 layer property tabs, pane zoom controls, and all dial controls,
Chris@2484 18 providing some basic edit and reset functions
Chris@2484 19
Chris@2484 20 - Provide format options when exporting layers to CSV, allowing
Chris@2498 21 control over column separator, header row, and timestamp format
Chris@2484 22
Chris@2567 23 - Permit and handle optional header row when importing from CSV
Chris@2567 24
Chris@2484 25 - Add export of spectrogram data to CSV formats
Chris@2484 26
Chris@2533 27 - Support doubling escapes for quotes in quoted CSV fields on import
Chris@2533 28
Chris@2533 29 - Fix truncated image export when exporting from spectrogram view
Chris@2533 30 that hasn't finished loading when the export is requested
Chris@2533 31
Chris@2498 32 - Fix failure to show parameter updates when changing the current
Chris@2498 33 program in a Vamp plugin that supports programs (e.g. Melodia)
Chris@2498 34
Chris@2502 35 - Fix inability of Windows builds to open https:// URLs
Chris@2502 36
Chris@2533 37 - Add references to Vamp Plugin Pack in "Find a Transform" results
Chris@2533 38 for plugins that are not yet installed but are available in pack
Chris@2533 39
Chris@2533 40 - Improve and tidy various aspects of OSC support, and update
Chris@2533 41 documentation for it
Chris@2533 42
Chris@2498 43 - Improve performance of peak-frequency spectrogram
Chris@2498 44
Chris@2484 45 - Fix missing undo/redo of layer renames
Chris@2484 46
Chris@2533 47 - Fix failure to audition effects plugins live, while adjusting their
Chris@2533 48 parameters in preparation for applying them - this worked in some
Chris@2533 49 cases, but not the most common ones; it should now work everywhere
Chris@2533 50
Chris@2421 51
Chris@2430 52 Changes in Sonic Visualiser v4.0.1 (10 Dec 2019) since the previous release 4.0:
Chris@2421 53
Chris@2421 54 - Fix nonsense vertical scale in NoteLayer when displaying a model
Chris@2421 55 with non-Hz scale (e.g. from an analysis plugin that outputs MIDI
Chris@2421 56 note values)
Chris@2421 57
Chris@2421 58 - Fix failure to open playback device when using macOS Catalina with
Chris@2421 59 certain audio devices
Chris@2421 60
Chris@2421 61 - Fix failure to make installed executables executable when
Chris@2423 62 compiling and installing the source package
Chris@2421 63
Chris@2211 64
Chris@2403 65 Changes in Sonic Visualiser v4.0 (25 Oct 2019) since the previous release 3.3:
Chris@2328 66
Chris@2335 67 - Add Box annotation layer type, typically used for time-frequency
Chris@2335 68 boxes to be annotated over a spectrogram. Because this introduces a
Chris@2335 69 new layer type into the session file format, the major version
Chris@2383 70 number has been bumped to v4.0. Sessions saved from v4.0 can still
Chris@2383 71 be opened in earlier versions of Sonic Visualiser, but any Box
Chris@2383 72 layers will not be loaded
Chris@2383 73
Chris@2383 74 - Fix behaviour of auto-align layers on top of waveform: they can now
Chris@2383 75 be aligned in the vertical scale, if they have a unit of V and the
Chris@2383 76 waveform is of a single channel in linear or dB mode
Chris@2383 77
Chris@2383 78 - Make the UI more readable in macOS "dark mode"
Chris@2383 79
Chris@2383 80 - Fix sluggishness in starting and stopping playback when using
Chris@2383 81 PulseAudio v13.0+
Chris@2335 82
Chris@2328 83
Chris@2345 84 Changes in Sonic Visualiser v3.3 (21 May 2019) since the previous release 3.2.1:
Chris@2211 85
Chris@2211 86 - Add support for reading the Opus audio codec on all platforms
Chris@2211 87
Chris@2211 88 - Add support for WMA and AAC formats on 64-bit Windows. (AAC was
Chris@2211 89 already supported on macOS.) Note that AAC support on Windows does
Chris@2211 90 not support "gapless" import, i.e. removing the encoder gaps at
Chris@2211 91 start and end of the stream
Chris@2211 92
Chris@2260 93 - Add ability to choose the field separator when importing CSV and
Chris@2260 94 CSV-like files, if more than one possible candidate separator is
Chris@2260 95 found in the file
Chris@2260 96
Chris@2260 97 - Fix crash when closing session or starting a new session while
Chris@2260 98 calculating alignment of multiple audio files
Chris@2260 99
Chris@2260 100 - Fix crash when running certain plugins that call for
Chris@2260 101 frequency-domain input at non-power-of-two block sizes
Chris@2260 102
Chris@2260 103 - Fix wandering left edge of measure-tool rectangle while dragging
Chris@2260 104 out the area
Chris@2260 105
Chris@2260 106 - Ensure that plugin stderr debug output is logged to the SV log file
Chris@2260 107
Chris@2002 108
Chris@2345 109 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 3.2.1 (07 Jan 2019) since the previous release 3.2:
Chris@2175 110
Chris@2175 111 - Fix failure to record from built-in microphone on macOS 10.14
Chris@2175 112 (caused by lack of microphone permission request text)
Chris@2175 113
Chris@2175 114 - Fix crash when closing SV or starting a new session during recording
Chris@2175 115
Chris@2175 116 - Fix crash on exit in some builds that disable OSC support
Chris@2175 117
Chris@2175 118 - Fix flashing effect when scrolling certain configurations of colour 3d
Chris@2175 119 plot layer leftwards
Chris@2175 120
Chris@2175 121
Chris@2345 122 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 3.2 (07 Dec 2018) since the previous release 3.1.1:
Chris@2002 123
Chris@2048 124 - Add ability to zoom closer than one sample per pixel, so as to see
Chris@2048 125 the interpolated signal level between samples
Chris@2048 126
Chris@2110 127 - Add oversampling control to the spectrogram and spectrum layers
Chris@2110 128
Chris@2110 129 - Highlight and label frequency peaks in the spectrum as the mouse
Chris@2110 130 rolls over them, when enabled in the parameter area
Chris@2110 131
Chris@2002 132 - Add feature to convert and import audio from a CSV data file
Chris@2002 133
Chris@2048 134 - Add some new colour maps, and restore the old Blue on Black one
Chris@2048 135
Chris@2110 136 - Speed up spectrum rendering at high resolutions
Chris@2110 137
Chris@2048 138 - Fix failure to pass Nyquist bins correctly to
Chris@2048 139 frequency-domain-input Vamp plugins in some circumstances
Chris@2048 140
Chris@2110 141 - Fix sometimes incorrect shortcut associations for new-layer menu
Chris@2110 142 items
Chris@2110 143
Chris@2139 144 - Various other rendering improvements and bug fixes
Chris@2110 145
cannam@1948 146
Chris@2345 147 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 3.1.1 (14 Aug 2018) since the previous release 3.1:
cannam@1948 148
cannam@1948 149 - Fix failure to record correctly into an empty session with certain
cannam@1948 150 audio drivers
cannam@1948 151
Chris@1958 152 - Fix failure to run LADSPA plugins at all, except with some unusual
Chris@1958 153 path layouts
Chris@1958 154
Chris@1958 155 - Fix failure to silence sonified notes when rewinding backwards or
Chris@1958 156 jumping back from a loop endpoint
Chris@1958 157
cannam@1948 158 - Fix macOS .dmg image so as to use older HFS+ filesystem for compatibility
cannam@1948 159
Chris@1871 160
Chris@2345 161 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 3.1 (14 July 2018) since the previous release 3.0.3:
Chris@1871 162
Chris@1871 163 - Add Plugins tab to Preferences dialog, from which you can review
Chris@1871 164 the plugin load paths and see which plugins were loaded from which
Chris@1871 165 locations, and also customise load paths (though the various path
Chris@1871 166 environment variables are still supported)
Chris@1871 167
Chris@1935 168 - Stream the export of audio data and other CSV data so that
Chris@1935 169 very large exports don't hang the UI or run us out of memory
Chris@1935 170 (thanks to Lucas Thompson)
Chris@1935 171
Chris@1935 172 - Ensure vertical scale appears for auto-align layers when there is
Chris@1935 173 nothing else to auto-align them to
Chris@1935 174
Chris@1871 175 - Fix another long-standing Windows-platform wide-char/utf8
Chris@1871 176 conversion problem, with environment variable naming and contents
Chris@1871 177
Chris@1871 178 - Improve handling of incomplete session loads, i.e. situations where
Chris@1871 179 the audio files referred to by a session could not be found -
Chris@1871 180 previously the session could be re-saved immediately thus losing
Chris@1871 181 the audio reference; now at least we disable Save (enabling only
Chris@1871 182 Save As) and show a warning
Chris@1871 183
Chris@1871 184 - Update pane and layer menu shortcuts so that the
Chris@1871 185 waveform/spectrogram/etc shortcuts (Shift+G etc) operate on the
Chris@1871 186 source model in the currently-selected pane rather than the main
Chris@1871 187 model. This is a backward-incompatible change but is a far more
Chris@1871 188 intuitive way for the function to work
Chris@1871 189
Chris@1935 190 - Use dark background for bright colours in time-value/note/etc
Chris@1935 191 layers as well as e.g. waveforms - this is how it was always
Chris@1935 192 "intended to" work, but it is a backward-incompatible change
Chris@1935 193
Chris@1871 194 - Make "Select All" select the whole span of everything that exists,
Chris@1871 195 not just the main model
Chris@1871 196
Chris@1871 197 - Add horizontal scale to Spectrum layer
Chris@1871 198
Chris@1871 199 - Improve spacing and labelling of vertical log scales
Chris@1871 200
Chris@1871 201 - Update build system for better Cap'n Proto version support and to
Chris@1871 202 use Repoint for code management in the repository
Chris@1871 203
Chris@1871 204 - Various other bug fixes
Chris@1871 205
Chris@1702 206
Chris@2345 207 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 3.0.3 (25 May 2017) since the previous release 3.0.2:
Chris@1702 208
Chris@1702 209 - Improve decisions about where and how to label vertical scales
Chris@1702 210
Chris@1702 211 - Update build support material and documentation to reflect the
Chris@1702 212 official release of Cap'n Proto 0.6 (which we can now use rather
Chris@1702 213 than depending on git builds)
Chris@1702 214
Chris@1669 215
Chris@2345 216 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 3.0.2 (25 Mar 2017) since the previous release 3.0.1:
Chris@1669 217
Chris@1669 218 - Fix crash when changing parameters for spectrum view
Chris@1669 219
Chris@1669 220 - Fix incorrect measure tool crosshairs in spectrum view
Chris@1669 221
Chris@1669 222 - Update Russian and Czech UI translations (thanks to Alexandre Prokoudine
Chris@1669 223 and Pavel Fric respectively)
Chris@1702 224
Chris@1658 225
Chris@2345 226 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 3.0.1 (12 Mar 2017) since the previous release 3.0:
Chris@1658 227
Chris@1658 228 - Fix crashes with MIDI devices and speedup/slowdown control on Windows
Chris@1661 229
Chris@1658 230 - Update MIDI input driver layer
Chris@1447 231
Chris@1661 232
Chris@2345 233 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 3.0 (07 Mar 2017) since the previous release 2.5:
Chris@1447 234
Chris@1516 235 - Add ability to record audio, and ability to change the audio device
Chris@1516 236 for playback or recording in the preferences
Chris@1447 237
Chris@1447 238 - Add complete support for high-resolution (Hi-DPI or retina)
Chris@1511 239 displays, including for layer data rendering as well as UI controls
Chris@1511 240 and icons. This makes the biggest difference when using a retina
Chris@1511 241 Mac, on which previous versions did not render layer data at retina
Chris@1447 242 resolution, but it also improves scaling and rendering of UI
Chris@1447 243 elements on Hi-DPI displays on Windows and Linux
Chris@1447 244
Chris@1451 245 - Add ability to export scalable (SVG) image files
Chris@1451 246
Chris@1447 247 - Run plugins in a separate process, so that if a plugin crashes, it
Chris@1447 248 no longer brings down Sonic Visualiser with it. In every other
Chris@1447 249 respect the behaviour should be unchanged
Chris@1447 250
Chris@1447 251 - Scan plugins on startup in a separate process, and report on any
Chris@1447 252 that crash or won't load
Chris@1447 253
Chris@1527 254 - Add ability to open, display, and analyse very long audio files (of
Chris@1527 255 more than 2^32 sample frames)
Chris@1527 256
Chris@1447 257 - Change mp3 file loading so as to compensate for encoder/decoder
Chris@1447 258 delay and padding (using "gapless playback" logic). While this is a
Chris@1447 259 real improvement, unfortunately it does mean that the initial
Chris@1447 260 padding in mp3 file load has changed from previous versions, which
Chris@1447 261 may mean some sessions saved in previous versions are no longer
Chris@1447 262 correctly aligned. It's not a great idea to use mp3 as a file
Chris@1447 263 format of record, because of differences like this between
Chris@1447 264 decoders. The previous behaviour is still available as a preference.
Chris@1447 265
Chris@1470 266 - Add new Hybrid normalisation type for spectrogram and colour 3d
Chris@1470 267 plot layers. This normalises each column to its peak value and then
Chris@1470 268 scales the normalised values by the log of the peak in order to
Chris@1470 269 restore some distinction in scale between columns with different
Chris@1470 270 levels. It can provide quite visually clear results.
Chris@1470 271
Chris@1447 272 - Add function to subdivide time instant layers into regular
Chris@1447 273 intervals (and its inverse)
Chris@1447 274
Chris@1447 275 - Add new preference for default colour scales
Chris@1447 276
Chris@1578 277 - Add a basic ability to zoom (in the frequency axis) to the spectrum
Chris@1624 278
Chris@1447 279 - Switch to using combined level/pan controls in layer property boxes
Chris@1447 280 and for the main volume control
Chris@1447 281
Chris@1520 282 - Make CSV file reader better able to handle files with varying
Chris@1520 283 numbers of columns
Chris@1520 284
Chris@1516 285 - Fix a number of problems on Windows with loading and saving some
Chris@1516 286 file formats to filenames not representable in system codepage
Chris@1516 287
Chris@1520 288 - Add "What's New" dialog
Chris@1520 289
Chris@1527 290 - Finally switch the Windows build to 64-bit by default (with
Chris@1447 291 adapters to run either 32- or 64-bit plugins)
Chris@1451 292
Chris@1447 293
Chris@2345 294 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.5 (23 Oct 2015) since the previous release 2.4.1:
Chris@1072 295
Chris@1072 296 - Add unit-converter dialog, for converting between various pitch and
Chris@1072 297 timing units
Chris@1072 298
Chris@1072 299 - Fix failure to reload note layers from session file
Chris@1072 300
Chris@1072 301 - Use a more sensible scale for the play-speed dial
Chris@1072 302
Chris@1072 303 - Fix crash when importing very wide CSV files
Chris@1072 304
Chris@1072 305 - Fix generation of wrong layer type from some CSV files
Chris@1072 306
Chris@1072 307 - Fix failure to export last instant in a time-instant layer
Chris@1072 308
Chris@1457 309
Chris@2345 310 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.4.1 (01 Oct 2014) since the previous release 2.4:
Chris@876 311
Chris@876 312 - Fix a crash when rendering certain colour 3d plot layers
Chris@716 313
Chris@1457 314
Chris@2345 315 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.4 (01 Sep 2014) since the previous release 2.3:
Chris@714 316
Chris@776 317 - Add support for left/right scrolling using a two-finger touchpad
Chris@776 318 gesture (where available)
Chris@776 319
Chris@716 320 - Make the octave numbering into a configurable option, and change
Chris@716 321 the default. Previously Sonic Visualiser labelled middle-C as "C3";
Chris@716 322 now it labels middle-C as "C4", a more common standard in the world
Chris@776 323 outside MIDI sequencer software. The previous system is available
Chris@776 324 as an option in the Preferences. This affects only the visible
Chris@776 325 labels: there is no change to analysis or to the file format
Chris@714 326
Chris@714 327 - Sonify time-value layers. Any time-value curve whose scale unit is
Chris@714 328 set to Hz will now acquire a playback toggle control; this control
Chris@714 329 is off by default, but if it is switched on, the curve will be
Chris@714 330 played back using a variable-frequency sound generator
Chris@714 331
Chris@714 332 - Add support for playback of note layers with non-MIDI frequencies
Chris@714 333 (formerly the note playback was limited to exact MIDI pitch)
Chris@714 334
Chris@714 335 - Change the default playback sample for note layers from piano to an
Chris@714 336 electric piano with sustain. The piano sample is still available,
Chris@714 337 and any sessions saved using it should continue to use it
Chris@714 338
Chris@867 339 - Add a cancel button for Vamp plugin processing: currently,
Chris@867 340 cancelling a transform results in a part-complete layer rather than
Chris@867 341 removing the results
Chris@867 342
Chris@790 343 - Add keyboard shortcuts to cycle the current layer (in addition to
Chris@790 344 the existing ones to cycle the current pane)
Chris@790 345
Chris@790 346 - Fix various bugs related to layer ordering: layer tabs re-ordering
Chris@790 347 themselves randomly when new layer added, layers being ordered
Chris@791 348 randomly when saving and reloading a session
Chris@790 349
Chris@848 350 - Fix incorrect interaction with non-Unicode usernames when creating
Chris@848 351 temporary and template directories on Windows
Chris@848 352
Chris@714 353 - Shade the start and end of the main audio file, to make them easier
Chris@714 354 to see for files that start or end in silence
Chris@714 355
Chris@714 356 - Speed up rendering and scrolling in time-value layers
Chris@714 357
Chris@714 358 - Make it possible to import CSV files directly into Note layers by
Chris@714 359 adding Pitch as a data type in the CSV file import dialog
Chris@675 360
Chris@856 361 - Fix play pointer jump to wrong frame when clicking on row in the
Chris@856 362 layer edit dialog
Chris@856 363
Chris@848 364 - Fix problems with keyboard shortcuts when using Qt5 on OS/X. This
Chris@848 365 is the first release in which the official builds use Qt5 for all
Chris@848 366 platforms.
Chris@848 367
Chris@675 368
Chris@2345 369 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.3 (12 Dec 2013) since the previous release 2.2:
Chris@675 370
Chris@675 371 - Add a startup welcome dialog that also explains what SV makes
Chris@675 372 network connections for and allows user to forbid them
Chris@675 373
Chris@675 374 - Add "Export Audio Data" feature
Chris@675 375
Chris@675 376 - Show piano keyboard scale in note and time-value layers as well
Chris@675 377 as spectrogram, where vertical scale is log Hz; also show
Chris@675 378 numerical scale in note and region layers when not auto-aligned
Chris@675 379
Chris@675 380 - Speed up CSV file import and avoid showing crazily wide window
Chris@675 381 for CSV file format dialog when file has lots of columns
Chris@675 382
Chris@675 383 - Fix incorrectly saved window geometry when exiting from maximised
Chris@675 384 state
Chris@675 385
Chris@675 386 - Reduce number of timer wakeups when idle
Chris@675 387
Chris@675 388 - Add American English translation and make choice of translation
Chris@675 389 into a preference (defaulting to system locale)
Chris@675 390
Chris@675 391 - Permit installation to non-default location with Windows installer
Chris@675 392 build
Chris@714 393
Chris@608 394
Chris@2345 395 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.2 (31 July 2013) since the previous release 2.1:
Chris@608 396
Chris@608 397 - Build with support for hidpi ("retina") text on OS/X
Chris@675 398
Chris@608 399 - Fix very slow analysis when using Ogg or FLAC files decoded
Chris@608 400 via libsndfile
Chris@675 401
Chris@608 402 - Fix inaccurate scale auto-align between time-value layers and
Chris@608 403 others
Chris@675 404
Chris@608 405 - Fix failure to open files specified on command line (or via
Chris@608 406 Open With) on Windows
Chris@675 407
Chris@608 408 - Reset cyclical counters and switch back to navigate mode when
Chris@608 409 a new session is started
Chris@579 410
Chris@675 411
Chris@2345 412 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.1 (16 May 2013) since the previous release 2.0.1:
Chris@579 413
Chris@579 414 - Fix incorrect handling of FixedSampleRate outputs (Vamp SDK fix)
Chris@675 415
Chris@579 416 - Make it easier to see results from transforms that return a single point
Chris@675 417
Chris@579 418 - Make labelling clearer on time-value layers
Chris@675 419
Chris@579 420 - Add discrete-curve mode for time-value layers (for curves with gaps)
Chris@675 421
Chris@579 422 - Update code to build against Qt5
Chris@523 423
Chris@675 424
Chris@2504 425 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.0.1 (07 Mar 2013) since the previous release 2.0:
Chris@523 426
Chris@523 427 - Fix incorrect samplerate in reading m4a files on OS/X
Chris@512 428
Chris@675 429
Chris@2345 430 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 2.0 (16 July 2012) since the previous release 1.9:
Chris@512 431
Chris@512 432 - Support 64-bit builds on OS/X (using CoreAudio instead of
Chris@512 433 obsolete QuickTime audio file reader)
Chris@512 434
Chris@512 435 - Simplify RDF reading and fix some bugs. Now requires Dataquay
Chris@512 436 (http://breakfastquay.com/dataquay/) rather than using Redland
Chris@512 437 directly. Release builds use Sord/Serd rather than Redland
Chris@512 438
Chris@512 439 - Add a fullscreen mode on the F11 key
Chris@471 440
Chris@675 441
Chris@2345 442 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.9 (10 Oct 2011) since the previous release 1.8:
Chris@471 443
Chris@471 444 - Add session templates; save session as template; apply template to
Chris@471 445 session
Chris@471 446
Chris@471 447 - Tidy up the file open logic so as to remove the dialog asking how
Chris@471 448 to open a file, where possible
Chris@471 449
Chris@471 450 - Various bug fixes.
Chris@394 451
Chris@675 452
Chris@2345 453 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.8 (08 Apr 2011) since the previous release 1.7.2:
Chris@394 454
Chris@394 455 - Sonic Visualiser now registers as a file type handler on OS/X,
Chris@394 456 providing better integration with the desktop generally (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 457
Chris@394 458 - There is a new function to toggle all Time Rulers at once (key #)
Chris@394 459
Chris@407 460 - The CSV import dialog has been overhauled, allowing more flexible
Chris@407 461 selection of purpose for each column
Chris@407 462
Chris@394 463 - Text overlays are now easier to read on dark backgrounds
Chris@394 464
Chris@394 465 - Hidden layers are now ignored when exporting an image (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 466
Chris@394 467 - A crash when starting a new session or exiting the application
Chris@394 468 after loading a session with saved alignment data has been fixed
Chris@394 469
Chris@394 470 - The duplication of right-button menu functions when multiple files
Chris@394 471 were loaded has been fixed
Chris@394 472
Chris@394 473 - The layer-add menu functions now have shortcuts (Dan Stowell)
Chris@394 474
Chris@394 475 - The codebase has been reorganised into libraries and a configure
Chris@394 476 step added. It should be easier to build and maintain on OS/X and
Chris@394 477 Linux than previously, although it won't make much difference on
Chris@394 478 Windows.
Chris@394 479
Chris@397 480 - A Czech translation is now included (thanks to Pavel Fric).
Chris@397 481
Chris@675 482
Chris@2345 483 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7.2 (05 May 2010) since the previous release 1.7.1:
Chris@394 484
Chris@394 485 - The time-value layer now has an origin line and an option to
Chris@394 486 show derivatives (change from one point to the next) rather than
Chris@394 487 raw values
Chris@394 488
Chris@394 489 - A static initialiser race has been fixed, possibly fixing an
Chris@394 490 occasional crash on startup in Windows
Chris@394 491
Chris@394 492 - A crash when pressing Play straight after New Session has been
Chris@394 493 fixed
Chris@394 494
Chris@675 495
Chris@2345 496 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7.1 (22 Oct 2009) since the previous release 1.7:
Chris@394 497
Chris@394 498 - The RDF importer does a better job of assigning labels to layers,
Chris@394 499 layers to panes, and values to labelled regions
Chris@394 500
Chris@394 501 - Interactive editing in the Text layer benefits from the same
Chris@394 502 improvements as made in 1.7 to Note and Region layers
Chris@394 503
Chris@394 504 - The layer data editor window has a text search feature
Chris@394 505
Chris@394 506 - The main window status bar now shows the last label to have passed
Chris@394 507 the playback position in the current layer, at the right end of the
Chris@394 508 status bar
Chris@394 509
Chris@394 510 - The Russian translation has been updated (thanks Alexandre)
Chris@394 511
Chris@675 512
Chris@2345 513 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.7 (05 Sep 2009) since the previous release 1.6:
Chris@394 514
Chris@394 515 - A new "Insert Item At Selection" function on the Edit menu
Chris@394 516 can be used to create Note and Region layer items whose time
Chris@394 517 extents correspond to the current selection(s)
Chris@394 518
Chris@394 519 - Interactively editing points in the Note and Region layers
Chris@394 520 now works much more smoothly
Chris@394 521
Chris@394 522 - SV can now import MIDI files that use SMPTE timecode for event
Chris@394 523 timing (importing MIDI files using with the more common
Chris@394 524 timebase-based timing was already supported)
Chris@394 525
Chris@394 526 - Time values throughout the display may optionally be shown in
Chris@394 527 seconds and frames at various frame rates
Chris@1520 528
Chris@394 529 - A crash on exit in Windows has been fixed
Chris@394 530
Chris@394 531 - A very unobtrusive user survey is now included
Chris@394 532
Chris@394 533 - Various other bug fixes.
Chris@394 534
Chris@675 535
Chris@2345 536 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.6 (22 Jun 2009) since the previous release 1.5:
Chris@394 537
Chris@394 538 - The Colour 3D Plot layer now supports logarithmic vertical
Chris@394 539 scale and linear interpolation options.
Chris@394 540
Chris@394 541 - A new colour scheme (High Gain) has been added for spectrogram
Chris@394 542 and Colour 3D Plot, which improves readability for some data.
Chris@394 543
Chris@394 544 - Further performance improvements have been made to Colour 3D
Chris@394 545 Plot.
Chris@394 546
Chris@394 547 - Various other bug fixes.
Chris@394 548
Chris@675 549
Chris@2345 550 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.5 (16 Mar 2009) since the previous release 1.4:
Chris@394 551
Chris@394 552 - You can now insert time instants, time values, and notes using
Chris@394 553 a MIDI device during playback. If a time value or note layer is
Chris@394 554 current it will be used for insertion (giving a value equal to
Chris@394 555 the pitch class, or the played note, respectively); otherwise an
Chris@394 556 existing or new time instants layer will be used just as it is
Chris@394 557 when inserting instants using the PC keyboard. Using a MIDI
Chris@394 558 device should give better timing than using the PC keyboard.
Chris@394 559
Chris@394 560 - There is a new Activity Log window with a (purely informative) list
Chris@394 561 of events and user interactions that happen while SV is running.
Chris@394 562
Chris@394 563 - The spectrogram has somewhat improved graphical scaling, and
Chris@394 564 this is now the default (being much faster than the 4x oversampled
Chris@394 565 method). The previous default is still available as a preference.
Chris@394 566
Chris@394 567 - Visualisation of very dense colour plots (such as spectrograms
Chris@394 568 calculated by plugins) is substantially faster in this release.
Chris@394 569
Chris@394 570 - Spectrogram display is now faster in many circumstances.
Chris@394 571
Chris@394 572 - Alignment using the MATCH plugin is faster on OS/X than before.
Chris@394 573
Chris@394 574 - SV will take into account RDF plugin descriptions, if available,
Chris@394 575 in order to make somewhat better decisions about display of plugin
Chris@394 576 outputs (for example, placing segmentation data into a layer with
Chris@394 577 segmentation plot type).
Chris@394 578
Chris@394 579 - You can now switch layers by clicking on the spare area at the left
Chris@394 580 end of the pane that is also used for the current pane indicator.
Chris@394 581
Chris@394 582 - The vertical black lines dividing segments in the time value
Chris@394 583 layer's segmentation plot style are now optional.
Chris@394 584
Chris@394 585 - Several widget layout bugs on OS/X have been fixed.
Chris@394 586
Chris@394 587 - Several serious crashing, deadlock, and data corruption bugs have
Chris@394 588 been fixed.
Chris@394 589
Chris@394 590
Chris@2345 591 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.4 (05 Dec 2008) since the previous release 1.3:
Chris@394 592
Chris@394 593 - SV now has a Region layer type, used for display of features with
Chris@394 594 durations. It also supports Vamp v2.0 plugins that provide durations
Chris@394 595 for features.
Chris@394 596
Chris@394 597 - Layer data can now be imported from RDF described using the Audio
Chris@394 598 Features Ontology, as well as from the existing text file types. SV
Chris@394 599 can also export annotation layer data to RDF/Turtle, although in a
Chris@394 600 somewhat simplistic manner at present.
Chris@394 601
Chris@394 602 - You can search for transforms by text in the new "Find a Transform"
Chris@394 603 dialog. This searches both installed plugins, and plugins that have
Chris@394 604 not been installed but that have descriptions available on the
Chris@394 605 semantic web.
Chris@394 606
Chris@394 607 - You can now zoom and scroll vertically in the time-value, note,
Chris@394 608 and colour 3d plot layers.
Chris@394 609
Chris@394 610 - Sonic Visualiser can now load sessions from uncompressed XML files
Chris@394 611 as well as its own compressed-XML .sv format. Files with extension
Chris@394 612 .xml that contain suitable session data will be loaded as sessions.
Chris@394 613 Note that .xml extension files still do not show up in the default
Chris@394 614 file load filter. This is intentional, as there may be any kind of
Chris@394 615 data in them -- if you want to load uncompressed session files from
Chris@394 616 XML, you need to know you're doing it.
Chris@394 617
Chris@394 618 - Several crashes and other bugs have been fixed.
Chris@394 619
Chris@675 620
Chris@2345 621 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.3 (10 Jul 2008) since the previous release 1.2:
Chris@394 622
Chris@394 623 - There is a new spreadsheet-style data viewer and editor for
Chris@394 624 viewing and editing the data in some types of annotation layer.
Chris@394 625
Chris@394 626 - Alignments are now saved to the session file.
Chris@394 627
Chris@394 628 - The spectrogram layer is usually somewhat faster than it was.
Chris@394 629
Chris@394 630 - You can now hold Shift while dragging to move an item, in order
Chris@394 631 to override the initial drag resistance introduced in 1.2.
Chris@394 632
Chris@394 633 - The gross mis-labelling of time lines in the ruler has been fixed.
Chris@394 634
Chris@394 635 - There is a new, somewhat provisional PulseAudio output driver.
Chris@394 636
Chris@394 637 - Several other bug fixes.
Chris@394 638
Chris@675 639
Chris@2345 640 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.2 (20 Feb 2008) since the previous release 1.0:
Chris@394 641
Chris@394 642 - SV now supports time-alignment of multiple performances of a work
Chris@394 643 loaded at the same time. This option is enabled when the MATCH Vamp
Chris@394 644 plugin is installed. When alignment is switched on and more than one
Chris@394 645 audio file is open, SV will assume that all open files are
Chris@394 646 differently timed performances of the same work, and will calculate
Chris@394 647 time alignments for them. Playback will then play only a single file
Chris@394 648 at a time, and the playback cursors in other files will track at the
Chris@394 649 varying speeds to try to ensure that each is at the same point in the
Chris@394 650 underlying score. This enables effective comparison of several such
Chris@394 651 files, as well as a meaningful way to switch from one performance to
Chris@394 652 another during playback (ensuring that the switch happens at the
Chris@394 653 correct point in the performance being switched to).
Chris@394 654
Chris@394 655 - There is a new Image layer, which can display images from the
Chris@394 656 local filesystem or retrieved via HTTP or FTP.
Chris@394 657
Chris@394 658 - A new measurement tool has been added. With the measurement tool
Chris@394 659 selected, dragging in a pane draws a rectangle labelled with the
Chris@394 660 scale values for its start and end corners and its size. You can
Chris@394 661 have any number of measurements present at once; they are associated
Chris@394 662 with the top layer, their scale values depend on the scale for that
Chris@394 663 layer, and they are only shown when that layer is at the top and the
Chris@394 664 measurement tool is active. Measurements are saved and reloaded in
Chris@394 665 the session file. Drawing measurements can be undone and redone, and
Chris@394 666 a measurement can be deleted by hitting Del when highlighted. Note
Chris@394 667 that the measurement tool shows the scale values associated with the
Chris@394 668 pixel positions of the mouse when dragging, not any values associated
Chris@394 669 with actual features present in the audio or its analysis (e.g. the
Chris@394 670 values are not rounded to the nearest spectrogram bin).
Chris@394 671
Chris@394 672 - You can double-click using the measurement tool in the spectrogram
Chris@394 673 to get an instant measurement rectangle for a feature. This is a
Chris@394 674 purely graphical feature that works by calculating the boundary of a
Chris@394 675 contiguous region of pixels "similar to" the one you double-clicked
Chris@394 676 on; it does not use audio analysis. Adjusting the gain and colour
Chris@394 677 scheme etc of the spectrogram will (by design) affect the
Chris@394 678 measurements obtained this way.
Chris@394 679
Chris@394 680 - The spectrum can now optionally show frequency estimates of peaks
Chris@394 681 aligned with a piano keyboard along the horizontal axis (this needs
Chris@394 682 some refinement).
Chris@394 683
Chris@394 684 - The harmonic cursor in the spectrogram has moved from the Select
Chris@394 685 tool to the Measurement tool. There is now a similar harmonic cursor
Chris@394 686 in the spectrum. Both of them show more information as text
Chris@394 687 alongside the cursor than previously.
Chris@394 688
Chris@394 689 - There is a new Erase tool for erasing individual points from an
Chris@394 690 editable layer.
Chris@394 691
Chris@394 692 - Several keyboard shortcuts have changed -- all of the Alt+key
Chris@394 693 shortcuts now either use Ctrl or a plain keypress with no modifier,
Chris@394 694 to avoid clashes with window manager shortcuts and to make them
Chris@394 695 easier to use and remember
Chris@394 696
Chris@394 697 - The playback controls are now in a Playback menu as well as the
Chris@394 698 toolbar.
Chris@394 699
Chris@394 700 - There is a new key and mouse control reference under Help (or press
Chris@394 701 F2).
Chris@394 702
Chris@394 703 - You can double-click on a pane in navigate mode to jump to a time.
Chris@394 704
Chris@394 705 - All of the single-colour layers (waveform, time values etc) now
Chris@394 706 allow you to define your own colours as well as using the built-in
Chris@394 707 set. The colour of a layer is now shown next to its name on the pane.
Chris@394 708
Chris@394 709 - When you add a new single-colour layer it will use a default colour
Chris@394 710 that is not yet in use in another layer (if there is one).
Chris@394 711
Chris@394 712 - Single-colour layers can now optionally have black backgrounds (with
Chris@394 713 a set of lighter colours in the default colour palette that use black
Chris@394 714 backgrounds by default).
Chris@394 715
Chris@394 716 - There's a new Printer colour scheme in the spectrogram with only a
Chris@394 717 small number of grey shades.
Chris@394 718
Chris@394 719 - Vertical zoom in a log-scaled spectrogram is much more intuitive;
Chris@394 720 it now leaves the point that was in the centre of the visible area in
Chris@394 721 the centre after zoom, instead of the point that was in the centre of
Chris@394 722 the linear range corresponding to the visible area.
Chris@394 723
Chris@394 724 - You can now turn a colour 3d plot layer upside down by clicking the
Chris@394 725 Invert Vertical Scale button.
Chris@394 726
Chris@394 727 - There's a new Layer Summary window which shows the panes and
Chris@394 728 layer data in a tree layout. This is very simplistic at the moment.
Chris@394 729
Chris@394 730 - Each pane now has an [X] button at its top left, which removes that
Chris@394 731 pane when clicked.
Chris@394 732
Chris@394 733 - There's a new Solo play mode toggle button; when active, only the
Chris@394 734 currently selected pane is played. This is also the default when
Chris@394 735 time alignment is in use.
Chris@394 736
Chris@394 737 - Rewind/ffwd now stay confined to the selection if Play Selection is
Chris@394 738 enabled; also, the rewind and ffwd "one step" buttons are now enabled
Chris@394 739 even if there is no time instants layer for them to align to (they
Chris@394 740 align to the time ruler instead and so jump in steps of a size
Chris@394 741 dependent on the zoom level).
Chris@394 742
Chris@394 743 - You can now export note layers to MIDI.
Chris@394 744
Chris@394 745 - MIDI note velocity is partially supported. Note velocity is
Chris@394 746 retained when importing and exporting MIDI and is used in playback,
Chris@394 747 but it is not yet shown in the display and cannot yet be edited.
Chris@394 748
Chris@394 749 - You can now drag-and-drop files (of whatever type) onto SV from
Chris@394 750 other programs such as file managers or web browsers.
Chris@394 751
Chris@394 752 - mp3 files (and Ogg, but they aren't supported on Windows at the
Chris@394 753 moment) are now decoded in a background thread so you can see the
Chris@394 754 start of the track without waiting for the rest to decode.
Chris@394 755
Chris@394 756 - Mac builds of SV can now load AAC/mp4 files and anything else
Chris@394 757 supported by QuickTime.
Chris@394 758
Chris@394 759 - There is now an option to resample audio files on import if they
Chris@394 760 don't match the samplerate of the first file loaded. By default this
Chris@394 761 is switched off, as it affects the visible waveform. The default
Chris@394 762 behaviour is unchanged (play at the wrong rate). There is still no
Chris@394 763 option to handle multiple rates "correctly" (i.e. by resampling
Chris@394 764 on playback and showing the waveforms at different resolutions
Chris@394 765 according to each one's underlying rate) and there probably never
Chris@394 766 will be.
Chris@394 767
Chris@394 768 - SV can now open .m3u playlist files, though it's a hazardous thing
Chris@394 769 to do as it simply loads all the files in the playlist at once.
Chris@394 770
Chris@394 771 - SV now has various options for how to number tapped time instants
Chris@394 772 (bar/beat, plain counter, time in seconds, tempo etc).
Chris@394 773
Chris@394 774 - The official builds use Qt 4.3, which fixes some nasty
Chris@394 775 bugs in the file dialog that the version 1.0 builds suffered from.
Chris@394 776
Chris@2345 777
Chris@2345 778 Changes in Sonic Visualiser 1.0 (10 May 2007):
Chris@2345 779
Chris@2345 780 - First official release of Sonic Visualiser
Chris@2345 781