Little Lotta Fixes

Release Notes for Seq66 v. 0.99.16 2024-12-03

Fixes for NSM (session manager), build-file updates, and better PPQN
and recording handling. A lot of little issues found and fixed, too.

• Fixed issue #128 with expanded recording not working. The expansion
  is now continual, not waiting for a MIDI key to be struck.
• Merged a fix from a pull request (issue #130) to update the
  "*.desktop" files.
• Fixed issue #131 re faulty NSM interactions introduced in version
  0.99.11, plus other related issues:
  • NSM (agordejo or nsm-legacy-gui) would show two clients: "qseq66"
    and "seq66" when adding only the "qseq66" client.
  • Saving via a remote NSM Save command or by the File / Save menu
    would not clear the modified flag.
  • Closing the session would not remove any external editor windows.
• The main window now reflects the current record-loop style and
  new-pattern option as read from the 'usr' file.
• Fixed the pattern editor so it reflects buss and channel settings
  made from the grid slot popup menu.
• Fixed the display of tunes with various PPQNs such as 120 in the
  pattern editor.
• Fixed zero-length notes caused by quantized recording.
• Some automation actions need to work whether the action is "on" or
  "toggle". Fixed these 'ctrl' actions:
  • Save session (under NSM) or the MIDI file.
  • Record style select.
  • Quit.
• Added "Clear events" to the grid slot popup menu.
• Enhancements to pattern-editor note copy/paste.
• Added 120 PPQN to the list of supported PPQNs.
• Fixed File / New plus File Save overwriting the previous loaded
  file.
• The main window now reflects the current record-loop style and
  new-pattern option as read from the 'usr' file. But note:
• Renamed [new-pattern-editor] to [pattern-editor] in the 'usr' file.
• The Quantized Record button in the pattern editor steps through
  None, Tighten, Quantize, Notemap, None.... Prettied-up the icons,
  too.
• Added CONFIG_DIR_NAME and cleaned up configure.ac. This macro
  differentiates between client name and config directory name.
  Updated the Makefile sources. Do "./bootstrap --full-clean".
• Updated the PDF documentation re the Import/Export functionality
  etc.
• Upgraded the color palette code.
• See NEWS and ChangeLog for full details.

GUI Cleaner and Build

See RELNOTES, NEWS, and the README.

Elliptical Sniptography

See RELNOTES and NEWS.

The Prodigal Sun

See RELNOTES and NEWS. This release is represented only by a tag; no packages or Windows build are included. Provides only a couple minor feature updates and fixes. It's been a long time coming because of work on other projects (Cfg66 mainly).

FreeBSD Looming Clang

Release Notes for Seq66 v. 0.99.12 2024-01-13

• Fixed clang support and FreeBSD builds.
  • Using clang-12 and clang-16 to find errors and warnings
    that g++ did not detect, re issue #124.
  • Modifying configure.ac and make-files to support this
    compiler. However, it does not define QT_CXXFLAGS and
    QT_LIBS in FreeBSD. Therefore...
  • ... Added a qbuild.sh script to replace the old qbuild (bash)
    script and to be used instead of autotools in FreeBSD.
  • Seq66 builds and runs, but currently detects only software
    MIDI ports running under JACK.
• Added an autogen.sh script to use with basic UNIX shells like
  dash.
• Fixed the processing of SysEx and Meta events.
  • Reading and writing in the MIDI file upgraded.
  • Display SysEx and text in the event editor.
  • Added new 'rc' option to skip, recover, or abort from bad
    running status in MIDI files. See the trilogy.mid contributed
    file.
  • Handle unterminated SysEx messages (Dixie04.mid).
• Fixed issue with building the command-line version with "portmidi".
• Fixed a one-character buffer overflow in portmidi.c. Thanks,
  valgrind!
• Fixed bugs in --option log=file.
• Fixed Q button not working to set keep-queue status.
• Fixed queued-solo functionality.
• Upgraded the Event editor Dump output.
• Disabled the grid-solo option as redundant.

Farrago of Fixes and Features 0.99.11

• Added 8 more ui-palette entries, total of 32.
• Added display of the pattern input bus (if present) in the grid
  slot.
• Moved style-sheet options from 'usr' to the 'rc' file.
• Fixed errors setting style-sheet, palette, and mutes file in
  Preferences / Session. Now indicates when exit is needed.
• Added mute-group label ("MG") to main window.
• Fixing various playlist errors:
  • PPQN setting issue causing slow/fast playback. Cannot
    display 120 PPQN well, fix too intrusive at this time.
  • Segfaults due to not stopping playback before loading
    the next song, or basing calculations on missing values.
• Embarassing fixes:
  • The massive botch of the Set Master tab.
  • More Mutes tab fixes, including raising modify flag.
  • App exiting unceremoniously if "quiet" is set.
  • Issue in Song zoom with 1920 PPQN.
  • Odd bug breaking MIDI-control-out (display).
  • Preventing long redundant start-up error messages.
  • Solo feature. Unsolo before starting another solo.
  • Queue and keep-queue.
  • Not saving record-by-channel. Fixed record-by-channel.
  • Not modifying the song when pattern measures is changed.
  • Breakage of stopping song play at the end of song.
  • Bug in event-editor initialization.
  • Not applying note-length setting to step-edit.
• Added a pre-made MIDI file to use with record-by-channel.
• Added ways to toggle recording of multiple patterns.
• Added a record-by-buss feature.
• Can now paste a pattern into a new or another loaded MIDI file.
• When loading a MIDI file, the file dialog defaults to the
  last-used directory. Fixes made to this feature.
• Improved copy/paste for screen-sets.
• Added optional parameter to --priority option.
• Focus is now set immediately to seqroll and perfroll.
• --verbose now shows playlist actions on the console and prevents
  daemonization and logging to a file.
• Replaced the --inspect option with --session-tag for easy
  selection of another setup specified in sessions.rc. Also added
  the SEQ66_SESSION_TAG environment variable.
• Added showing program changes in slot button.
• Added showing text events in the data pane and all text events
  in the main Session tab. Fixed its Save Info button.
• Implemented "menu-mode" automation. It duplicates the function
  of the hide/show button, to toggle between hiding some main
  window controls and the main menu, and showing them.

Stuart Stylesheet 0.99.10

• Issue #117 Option to close pattern windows with esc key if enabled via a 'usr' option.
• Issue #118 Made virtual ports ports enabled via an option.
• Issue #119 "Quantized Record Active does not work" fixed. Live note/drum-mapping also fixed.
• Fixed an egregious error in drawing notes in drum mode.
• Fixed error in moving notes at PPQN != 192.
• Fixed bug preventing a song with triggers stopping playback at end of song. Fixes related to playlist-handling.
• Implemented drag-and-drop of one MIDI file onto the Live grid.
• Added the export of most project configuration files to another directory.
• Multiple tempo events can be drawn in a line in data pane and can be dragged up/down to change the tempo value.
• If double-click enabled, can open/create a pattern in the song editor.
• Many improvements and fixes to the Mutes tab.
• Added a "grid mode" to toggle mutes by clicking in the Live Grid. The new default mute-group-selection mode keystroke is "_".
• Opening the pattern editor reflects the recording mode and live pattern alteration selection (e.g. quantization).
• The main time display works better with high PPQN.
• Now scrolls automatically in time and note value to show the first notes in a pattern.
• Live-grid record-mode and alteration are applied when active pattern is opened for edit.
• Added more Qt style-sheets and UI palette items for more color control.
• Tightened the file-name handling in Session preferences.

Sally Segfault 0.99.9

Many fixes and a couple features as described in RELNOTES for 0.99.9.

Random Ralph

Release Notes for Seq66 v. 0.99.8 2023-08-27

Major changes in version 0.99.8

-   Issue #112: A new pattern now displays in the MIDI controller.
-   Issue #114: Adding display of shortcut keys to tool tips.
-   Added a Pattern tab to Edit / Preferences for more settings.
-   Added automation for the main window Loop L/R button.
-   Fixed seqroll drawing errors introduced in adding time-sig
    support.
-   Fixed incomplete data-pane refresh in scrolling with
    arrow-keys.
-   Fixed not setting up SIGINT, which prevented a proper shutdown.
-   Fixed a couple corrupted sample *.mid files.
-   Changing playlist setting enables Session Restart button.
-   Removed coloring of record-style and -mode buttons. Added
    coloring of event-editor "Store" button to denote saving is
    needed.
-   Refactoring quantization alterations for future upgrades. Added
    an option to jitter the notes in the seqroll.
-   Enforced that configuration files are stored in the "home"
    directory.
-   The usual raft of humiliating bug-fixes. See README.md.

Peter Playlist 0.99.7

-   Issue #110 follow-ons:
    -   Fixed saving tempo (BPM) in Windows when changed from main
        window. Caused by mixing a long and size_t; messed up in
        Windows builds.
-   Issue #111 follow-ons:
    -   Fixed initial time-signature drawing in data pane.
    -   Fixed errors in inserting a time-signature.
    -   Added a pulse (tick) calculator to iterate through
        time-signatures.
-   Fixed an important port-translation bug in output port-mapping.
-   Revamped the Playlist tab, as it was confusing and very buggy.
-   Added auto-play and auto-advance to play-lists.
-   Issue #102: Added Windows key-mapping to fix processing
    "native virtual" keys, such as the arrow keys.