More docs done

Progress. Got the docs for "After Bar=EOF" done.

Tomorrow I'll start to package the new 16.06 version. If no problems come up it should be posted on Sunday.

Progress

I finally found time to finish the doc part for the QRiff plugin. Now, I have to write up the After Bar=EOF addition, run a few tests ... and then ... then ... we can release version 16.06. It will be an important day in the history of music :)

More AFTER

I mentioned the other day that I had written a little quarter tone plugin. Only thing about it was that it left tracks detuned at the end of a song. So ... had to do something about that :)

I added a EOF option to the AFTER command. Now, you can set a bunch of commands to execute at the end of a file. In my case, it's to "retune" the tracks being used for quarter tones.

Hope you'll be able to use it for other tasks.

I'm officially setting a feature freeze! I hope to release a new stable version, 16.06 early next week. Stay tuned!

Quarter tone support

I had a request the other day about quarter tone support. Quarter tones are (mostly) used in middle eastern music and are very interesting.

The problem with them is that the western instruments we are used to just don't really support them. Well, MMA to the rescue ... well, sort of.

I hacked out a little plugin which takes a standard Solo RIFF line and parses it into separate tracks with the quarter tones in their own track. Then, during play, the quarter tone track is adjusted.

Using multiple tracks, with some detuned, permits this to work on the majority of existing synths. Even cooler is that it's yet another example of plugins in action.

This is not a finished project. More a proof of concept than anything else. I'm hoping that the fellow who made the original request will run with the code and make really useful. If one of you want to work on this I can put you in touch.

New version 15.12.c

Okay testers! I've finally gotten the new test version up for you. This version has the AFTER command which lets you set a command line for future execution. If you use macros to set your melodies you'll find this handy.

The version also introduces new bugs while fixing others :)

Get it at: http://mellowood.ca/mma/downloads.html#developer

AFTER docs

Wrote some docs for the AFTER command. I think they even make sense!

Having a bit of lunch now and then I'm going into town to do some street playing on my saxophone. Fun.

Will review the docs and example files tomorrow and hopefully get a developer tarball put together then.

Changed AfterBars to just "After"

So nice to have all my stuff running again. The "server is gone" was just one of many tech issues I had to deal with over the last few weeks. Hopefully, that was the end and I can just enjoy the rest of 2016. Yeah ... right.

I got a bit of time today to play with the AFTEBARS command. I've decided to change the name of the command to just AFTER. Not only is it shorter, but it makes more grammatical sense as well. Seemed silly to have statements like "Afterbars Bars...". Plus, I'm thinking that there might be other triggering events we can add at a later date.

I've got to write some docs for this and another example. Then I'll push out a developer version.