New Visorc beta release now available
| Date | 1997-10-15 18:00 |
| From | Dave Perry |
| Subject | New Visorc beta release now available |
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The new beta version of visorc is available for testing by
members of the CSound mailing list at
I will hopefully have a US website up soon.
I have been using this version of VisOrc to compose during the
last few weeks (Its basicaly the first time I've really used the program) and
have produced some interesting results. Below is a list of
additional notes on problems encountered and some work around
solutions.
Firstly the bugs...
Problem : Error reported when trying to save
instrument.
Cause : Name of instrument contains a colon characted eg
"Untitled:2"
Solution : This is a problem when you use more than one
instrument as VisOrc automaticaly names instruments using the format
"Untitled:x". This is not a fatal crash,
you can rename the instrument and resave.
Problem : Fatal DOS4GW error when compiling
Cause : Seems to be caused by certain versions of
Csound
Solution : Use Gabriel Maldonado's version of
Csound, at the moment VisOrc Requires this version,
future releases should be more flexible.
Problem : Cannot delete Operator units
Cause : Inefficient and convoluted coding
Solution : Don't delete them and watch out for the next
version
Problem : Compiler does not seem to produce WAV
files
Cause : Because VisOrc cannot detect when CSound finishes
compiling it does not know when to update the file listbox in the
compiler.
Solution : Click on the directory listing when Csound finishes
and the file appears
Problem : IF units
Cause : not tested
Solution : Please test them
Problem : I use the score formula
but It does not seem to affect my notes
Cause :
Formula only works on notes you input after activating the formula
Solution : Wait for the Score functions
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Other bits and pieces
You cannot delete Pfields once you have created
them, only reassign them
Only 6 pfields per instrument in this release I'm
afraid
The score is pretty shaky at the moment,
It works OK if you use it in a particular way (Ie. the way I tend to use
it) but as there is no real documentation at the moment to explain, I
expect people to have lots of problems with it or simply ignore it.
On this point,
if you do not enter any notes in the score, the instrument plays a default
note of 6 seconds.
Lots and lots of little (and big) things
missing...
I really only learnt Csound while programming VisOrc so you
might notice how a feature of Csound you find useful or even absolutely
essential has been left out. This is simply because I haven't
had time to find out about it yet, so please write to me with your
problems (hopefuly not of a personal nature:), and ideas on how we can
improve the software.
cheers,
Dave Perry
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