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Questions about 2.1
There's been a bit of discussion about Cantabile 2.1 on the forum which has raised a few questions which I'd like to address.
Firstly, at this stage development of 2.1 is going to be pretty closed - mainly because I find this gives me more time to write code rather than talk about it. There's considerable overhead in making builds available to others and at this point that time is better spent elsewhere.
Regarding new features and time frame, I have pretty clear idea about both but I'm not committing to anything at this point. Partly because I need the freedom to balance features against time, but also because I recently read this - ZipIt - which struck a chord with me.
So why post anything about 2.1? Three reasons:
- As a record of Cantabile's development history.
- To let people know that new stuff is happening.
- To provide a way for some feedback before reaching the testing period.
So please, if you see something you like, dislike or have thoughts on - let me know. Just about everything planned for 2.1 is based on user feedback, so please keep it up.
OK, time for me to zip it... stay tuned.
Posted on April 9, 2010
New in 2.1 - Colored Racks
This is another simple enhancement that has been asked for a surprising number of times - the ability to give racks a custom color to make them easily identifiable:
I'm wondering now whether to allow the color be controlled by sub-sessions.
Posted on April 8, 2010
New in 2.1 - Delayed Sub-session Assignments
Starting out with something easy for 2.1, delayed versions of the MIDI assignments for sub-session loading:
Posted on April 8, 2010
Code Cleanup and a Broken Build
For a while now I've been slowly working my way through Cantabile's code base, cleaning up and restructuring large parts of it in preparation for the next version.
The bad news is that some of this cleanup inadvertantly made it into build 2053 resulting in some UI elements missing. As far as I know these are all resolved now in build 2055.
The good news is that this clean up work is pretty much complete and I think deserving of this:
This is not publicly available yet and functionally there's nothing new but that's coming...
Posted on April 7, 2010
RSS Feed Issues
Recently I've been getting reports of issues with the RSS feed for this blog, including duplicate posts in some readers and new posts not showing up in Google Reader.
After some investigation I think I've found and fixed the cause of this but in the process of fixing it may well have caused a new batch of duplicate posts to appear. Unfortunately there's not much I can do about that - sorry, please just ignore them.
Hopefully this issue is now resolved and the feed will work well with your RSS reader. If not, please let me know.
Posted on March 24, 2010