New Musagi 0.24a (unofficial) available.

[cellulofr]

Hi all, my brother and me made a new version of musagi that add some new little features, but not big change like Taron with Musagi [t.168] that improve the sound :


DOWNLOAD: musagi_0.24a.zip (Source code include in the SRC folder).


What's new in Musagi 0.24a build:

(WARNING there is a bug when closing Musagi, it will stay in the memory after closing, you need to kill the processus of the Musagi executable to remove Musagi from the memory,
to do it in WIn XP: push Ctrl+Alt+Del and in the processus tab, search "Musagi_0.24a.exe", right-click on it and close the processus.)


- Added Autosave feature with button in the main window, the time (in seconds) can be set in the config.txt file.
See the time of your files in the "autosaves" folder to know the last file saved .

- Added Warning dialog box when closing Musagi, you can save your work before closing Musagi.

- Fixed zoom behavior issue.



What's new in Musagi 0.24 build:


- Added new button "Zoom UI" in the main window shortcut key "TAB", no more editing config.txt to doublesize the UI.

- Added the "Help" button in the main windows, that launch directly the manual and tutorial html page in your internet browser.

- New documentation all in one.

- Modified the ramp choice colors bar, now is more colorful.

- Added the loaded file name of the song in top of the main window.

- Added new default skin, mix of available skins to make this new skin.

- Added detection of custom skin folders available in the skins folder, no more only 3 skins detected, i hope we can see more skins now.

- Swapped Play and Loop buttons with Load song and Save song buttons in the main UI.

- Added the taron's pack songs. Thanks Taron!

- Added the last stable release of Portaudio v19 (january 2014) instead of Portaudio v18 (Musagi 0.23) at www.portaudio.com/download.html, based on the work of Stan for musagi-stqn for linux at bitbucket.org/stqn/musagi-stqn/downloads.


For Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 (8.1).


Screenshot:


It's all !

I say thanks to my brother that coded these new little features after all my requests this improve a little more musagi. It's all i want to see in Musagi to be comfortable.

This new version will be available soon on my homepage, when i finish the translation of musagi in french with the manual and tutorial made by DrPetter, and make more test.

Musagi 0.24a is compiled with "Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows Desktop".


Just for information : Musagi 0.24a can open songs files made by Musagi 0.23 and vice versa but can't open songs files from Musagi [t.1.68] made by Taron.

Maybe it's the first and final update of Musagi 0.24a, because we don't have knowledge programing like Taron to change instruments or make new big things inside Musagi that change the format of Musagi.

Final words: thanks to DrPetter to make this cool little program.


Hey Taron, can i bundle your musics made in Musagi 0.23 inside Musagi 0.24a ?

[taron]

Once it's truly ready for release, of course you can bundle my songs with it!

I would be happy to incorporate your brothers changes into my version, see how well it sits together. My favorite aspect is actually the ZOOM and the song name on the title bar. Those things I definitely would've wanted. The color thing is fine, but I personally enjoy the way my version looks just the way it is, hehe. Wouldn't want it too punchy in the colors, but it's nice to have that option, of course.

Well, BIG THANKS to your brother and you for presenting this. ROCK ON!

[cellulofr]

Thanks Taron for your songs, i hope you can find the sound problem for musagi 0.24 see my PM.

For the zoom button i will add the shortcut key "TAB".

[taron]

Done! Problem solved!

[tugBUT]

I'm definitely looking forward to this!

[taron]

Hey tug, keep in mind that v0.24 is essentially a more comfortable v0.23. None of the sound improvements and expansions, nor editing improvements (multi selection usage) of [t1.6x] are part of it, yet. I will see what I can do to somehow combine it all, but for now it'll essentially be a revisit of the original. I love the [ZOOM] button and info in title bar, though.

[cellulofr]

- Added the shortcut key "TAB" for the Zoom.
- Added the missing merge of the new color in the little square of the instruments/effects list.
- Added Portaudio v19 instead of v18, we don't know if it's better or no, the sound is same.

Actually we encounter some random bugs that close Musagi, we need to make more test, to make a stable release.

[cellulofr]

Now the Portaudio v19 work fine in musagi, for the compilation we don't need to add the command /Qifist in visual c++, we have changed some code in XNES and CHIP instruments relative to the float waveform sample code because we encounter some bugs in the sound, maybe the cause is the new portaudio, for the moment all songs sound like the official musagi 0.23.

[cellulofr]

-Moved Play,loop,save song and load song buttons. See the screenshot.

[taron]

That's fantastic. I did that in the beginning, too, changing the waveform routines to work properly with standard rounding, but encountered some other troubles that had me go the QIfist route instead. But now that you've got that fixed, that's wonderful! Ride on! You could update me on the source as well, I'd like that.

Great work and greetings to your brother!

[cellulofr]

Hi Taron, for the moment is not perfect, i have find new bug sound again, when i make my test with your music pack some music crash on musagi 0.24 but work fine in musagi 0.23, musagi is very strange because some time the music go crazy and stop musagi, after relaunching musagi the same music work good, i think musagi hate to load a range of music files, i see that when i test several music, maybe it don't clear enough the memory or it's another thing, bad random bug.

[taron]

AHA! See, that's what I mean by "other troubles". I've had the same idea and ran- most likely- into the same issues. No worries. Musagi really needs a fundamental rework, which just can be too much. Even DrPetter thought so and rather started something new instead. But I still think that musagi has a certain something which cannot easily be replaced. It would simply be something different. That's why I kept updating my version, accepting some of the kinks. I would still love to get it at least more stable, but it's good not to expect too much.
I still think the most problematic things are in the string handling, because it identifies many things by their "names". This might cause the initialization problems, that I believe exist. Depending on how you start musagi or load a song, it can crash or work. If you mime musagi and start it by loading a song, musagi can fail. If you load a new song over a song you were playing before it can crash, but if you load the new song first all is well. One could think it's a "clean up" issue, but I'd rather look at the whole initialization process.
Maybe one day we'll figure it out, hehe, and that'll be a fantastic day!

[cellulofr]

You are right Taron, musagi need to be redone from zero to have better stability, actually musagi is good enough to make cool tunes with theses issues, i have make more test with musagi 0.24, i believe the 0.24 have new bugs sound in fact i can reproduce the same bug sound in musagi 0.23 using songs taron 28, 40 and 29 for my tests, in spite of the fact the new portaudio, it's really a problem in the code.


EDIT: After some tests again when i load the song taron56, the tempo is not the same in 0.24 and 0.23 it's when the file is loaded the first time, i see only 1 unit but the sound is same, strange thing again and i think now musagi 0.24 is more stable than 0.23, i have changed some settings in the VS express to compile, i have more difficulty to crash musagi after loading songs files to play them but musagi 0.24 need more testing during the whole processus to create a song. The release coming soon with the source code.

EDIT2 : fixed bugs in gin_xnes file again, no more crash with the song taron number 46.

[cellulofr]

I all, sorry for the long delay with no news, i can say musagi 0.24 will be release soon, i have integrate the last portaudio stable release dating of 30 01 2014, sometimes waiting is benefit, i have make new tests in musagi with the taron's songs, i don't have anymore upper charge in the cpu usage percentage in Musagi, but Musagi can always crashing but rarely now. stay tuned.


EDIT: what name is better for this version: Unofficial Musagi 0.24 or Musagi 0.24 ?

[cellulofr]

I found a new bug in the part instrument dialog box, when i enter a new note in the pattern of the instrument, the little black square is not aligned on the grid under the mouse cursor need to investigate before make the release.