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[Cs-dev] Revised release notes for 5.18

Date2012-08-27 09:40
Fromjohn ffitch
Subject[Cs-dev] Revised release notes for 5.18
incorporating changes since last.

Still to do: check Spanish translations and possibly add more French.
Look at other languages

==John ffitch


Notes for 5.18
==============

This is mainly a bug-fixing release but with a number of new opcodes and
enhanced features. 



New Opcodes:
    log2 function to calculate logarithm base 2
    joystick to read input values (Linux only)
    platerev, a physical model from Stefan Bilbao
    vbap opcode is a generalisation of the various fixed number of
        channels
    vbapg opcode is like vbap except just calculates gains
    pwd opcode to obtain the working directory
    readf/readfi to read strings from a file
    centroid opcode (like pvscent but acting on audio signals)
    cosseg opcode, like linseg but with cosine interpolation
    cossegb opcode, like linsegb but with cosine interpolation
    cossegr opcode, like linsegr but with cosine interpolation

New Gen and Macros:
    NONE

Score
    A score may be omitted totally
  

Modified Opcodes and Gens:
      New features in partikkel
          - panning law for channelmasks can now be set using a
            function table (second optional arg to partikkel) 
          - new support opcodes partikkelget and partikkelset, to
            access and modify the internal mask indices of partikkel 
      follow2 was reworked do the i-rate and k-rate calculations are
          the same
      pvscent corrected as it returned half the correct value
      vbaplsinit can create more than one speaker layout which
          vbap/vbapg can use.  Also much better diagnostics on
          incorrect layouts

Utilities
        csbeats: internal fixes to remove crashing 
  
Frontends
      CsoundAc has seen considerable developments
  
Bugs fixed:
    dates could crash on 64bit architecture
    Some multicore interlocks were wrong
    Some files could be closed twice, leading to a crash
    
System Changes:
    Changes to  to allow spaces between words, and escaped
        characters. 
    Code changed so bison 2.6 can be used
    fout and fin use a better buffering strategy, and so are faster
    It is possible to specify just an orchestra with the --orc flag.
        Useful when a score is not needed
    added a --ogg flag for easy use of ogg/vorbis output
    It is assumed that libsndfile version 1.0.19 or later is available
    Added alsaseq real-time midi (see below)

API:
    NONE  

Internal:
     Many!  Some messages quietened, more defensive code etc
     Code speeded up in many places; hopefully not many bugs introduced

========================================================================
Alsaseq
=======

Memorandum about the syntax of the connections:

-M address_list
-Q address_list

where:

  address_list ::= address[,address,...]

  address ::= client_number[:port_number]
  address ::= client_name[:port_number]

  client_number and port_number are integers >= 0

  The default port_number is 0.

  client_name is a string where the first char is not a number

Example with `CsOptions':


-odac ; etc
-+rtmidi=alsaseq
;; The default name of the client is 'Csound'
-+alsaseq_client="Csound ALSA Sequencer Test"
;; If there are spaces in the name of the client,
;; we can put it between the "..."
-M 20,"USB MIDI Controller:1",128:3,keykit:1
-Q LinuxSampler,LinuxSampler:1

;; Also the follow is valid
;; -M "20,USB MIDI Controller:1,128:3,keykit:1"
;;
;; Here is an extreme example that uses the characters ','
;; and ':' in the name of the client.
;;
;;   -M "Uno\,Due\,Tre\:4"
;;
;; The name of the client is Uno,Due,Tre:4 and the port is 0.
;; Idem but the port is 1 (it also works without escape for ':')
;;
;;   -M "Uno\,Due\,Tre:4:1"
;;


==END==

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Date2012-09-13 21:16
Fromjoachim heintz
SubjectRe: [Cs-dev] Revised release notes for 5.18
i know it's much too late now, but i think it should be mentioned that 
UDO definitions can now have default k-rate arguments.


Am 27.08.2012 10:40, schrieb john ffitch:
> incorporating changes since last.
>
> Still to do: check Spanish translations and possibly add more French.
> Look at other languages
>
> ==John ffitch
>
>
> Notes for 5.18
> ==============
>
> This is mainly a bug-fixing release but with a number of new opcodes and
> enhanced features.
>
>
>
> New Opcodes:
>      log2 function to calculate logarithm base 2
>      joystick to read input values (Linux only)
>      platerev, a physical model from Stefan Bilbao
>      vbap opcode is a generalisation of the various fixed number of
>          channels
>      vbapg opcode is like vbap except just calculates gains
>      pwd opcode to obtain the working directory
>      readf/readfi to read strings from a file
>      centroid opcode (like pvscent but acting on audio signals)
>      cosseg opcode, like linseg but with cosine interpolation
>      cossegb opcode, like linsegb but with cosine interpolation
>      cossegr opcode, like linsegr but with cosine interpolation
>
> New Gen and Macros:
>      NONE
>
> Score
>      A score may be omitted totally
>
>
> Modified Opcodes and Gens:
>        New features in partikkel
>            - panning law for channelmasks can now be set using a
>              function table (second optional arg to partikkel)
>            - new support opcodes partikkelget and partikkelset, to
>              access and modify the internal mask indices of partikkel
>        follow2 was reworked do the i-rate and k-rate calculations are
>            the same
>        pvscent corrected as it returned half the correct value
>        vbaplsinit can create more than one speaker layout which
>            vbap/vbapg can use.  Also much better diagnostics on
>            incorrect layouts
>
> Utilities
>          csbeats: internal fixes to remove crashing
>
> Frontends
>        CsoundAc has seen considerable developments
>
> Bugs fixed:
>      dates could crash on 64bit architecture
>      Some multicore interlocks were wrong
>      Some files could be closed twice, leading to a crash
>
> System Changes:
>      Changes to  to allow spaces between words, and escaped
>          characters.
>      Code changed so bison 2.6 can be used
>      fout and fin use a better buffering strategy, and so are faster
>      It is possible to specify just an orchestra with the --orc flag.
>          Useful when a score is not needed
>      added a --ogg flag for easy use of ogg/vorbis output
>      It is assumed that libsndfile version 1.0.19 or later is available
>      Added alsaseq real-time midi (see below)
>
> API:
>      NONE
>
> Internal:
>       Many!  Some messages quietened, more defensive code etc
>       Code speeded up in many places; hopefully not many bugs introduced
>
> ========================================================================
> Alsaseq
> =======
>
> Memorandum about the syntax of the connections:
>
> -M address_list
> -Q address_list
>
> where:
>
>    address_list ::= address[,address,...]
>
>    address ::= client_number[:port_number]
>    address ::= client_name[:port_number]
>
>    client_number and port_number are integers >= 0
>
>    The default port_number is 0.
>
>    client_name is a string where the first char is not a number
>
> Example with `CsOptions':
>
> 
> -odac ; etc
> -+rtmidi=alsaseq
> ;; The default name of the client is 'Csound'
> -+alsaseq_client="Csound ALSA Sequencer Test"
> ;; If there are spaces in the name of the client,
> ;; we can put it between the "..."
> -M 20,"USB MIDI Controller:1",128:3,keykit:1
> -Q LinuxSampler,LinuxSampler:1
>
> ;; Also the follow is valid
> ;; -M "20,USB MIDI Controller:1,128:3,keykit:1"
> ;;
> ;; Here is an extreme example that uses the characters ','
> ;; and ':' in the name of the client.
> ;;
> ;;   -M "Uno\,Due\,Tre\:4"
> ;;
> ;; The name of the client is Uno,Due,Tre:4 and the port is 0.
> ;; Idem but the port is 1 (it also works without escape for ':')
> ;;
> ;;   -M "Uno\,Due\,Tre:4:1"
> ;;
> 
>
> ==END==
>
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