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Slashing the Feature Creep

One thing this version of Cantabile has suffered from is a serious dose of feature creep. Mostly this was made worse by the much longer than expected time it took to write the new user-interface.

Anyway, in an attempt to combat this I've culled the rather lengthy list of ideas down to a more cohesive and reachable target.

This is what's left to do:

  • Sub-sessions (see previous post)
  • Enhance Quick Sessions to allow specifying a session and a sub-session for each entry.
  • Ability to send MIDI clock (receive is done, send is not)
  • MIDI Note Assignments - ability to assign MIDI notes similarly to how controllers can currently be assigned.
  • Ability to solo/mute and unload media players.
  • Anything else ever hinted to, thought about, promised or whatever is not going to make it. I've just got to draw the line.

Then there's the unfinished bits:

  • Disabling synchronisation of audio files to external clock (it's a problem bigger than I want to solve right now).
  • Possibly removing the offline renderer - it mostly works but doesn't really belong in Cantabile.
  • Re-writing the entire help (can't wait to do that - NOT)
  • Updating the purchase ordering pages/website, license key generation etc... and,
  • lots of testing...

Posted on July 28, 2008

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