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[0.6.1] - 2022-03-15

Added

  • Backspace operation for pattern editor.
  • #7 - Add icon for MacOS app (thanks @jtakakura)

Changed

  • Erasing a note will also erase the instrument column
  • Moved Song order editor toolbar to the left of the order grid, also added Song menu actions to the toolbar.

Fixed

  • #5 - Pattern Crash When Switching Songs

[0.6.0] - 2022-03-03

Added

  • Command line argument parsing, you can now open a module on application startup
  • General tab in Config dialog for changing basic settings.
  • Appearance tab in Config dialog for changing fonts, colors and other settings
  • Keyboard tab in Config dialog for changing keyboard layout and editing keybinds, as well as shortcut key sequences.
  • Colors for the audio scope and graph editors are now customizable
  • Autosave. Disabled by default, enable in the General tab in Config.
  • Jxy effect for setting the global volume scale.
  • Menu action in Tracker for reseting the global volume (Tracker|Reset global volume)
  • Context menu for pattern editor
  • Action for replacing all selected instrument columns with the current instrument (Edit|Replace instrument)

Changed

  • Combined the Sound and Midi tabs in the Configuration dialog (Sound + MIDI)
  • AZERTY keyboard layout uses French AZERTY
  • QWERTZ keyboard layout uses German T3
  • CascadiaMono is no longer the default font
  • (Windows) Consolas is now the default font, falling back to Courier New if not available
  • No longer using dock widgets, Instruments + Waveforms are now located to the right of the pattern editor.
  • Pattern editor row numbers can be displayed in decimal (default is hexadecimal)
  • Cursor wrap can now be disabled in General settings
  • Hxx effect (set sweep register) now works.
  • Crash save filename no longer using colons in the timestamp (this resulted in using an illegal filename on windows).
  • Follow-mode is now accessible from the Tracker menu
  • Selecting an instrument/waveform will switch to that item in its editor if it is open.
  • Module properties dialog can now be opened via Ctrl+P

Fixed

  • Issue with Instrument Editor not properly updating when changing instruments
  • Hitting enter in the sequence editor line edit opens the Wave editor
  • Bug when saving a new module overwrites the last opened one instead of prompting the user for a new location.
  • Song editor not updating on song change.

Removed

  • Synthesizer quality setting in Sound configuration

[0.5.0] - 2021-09-10

Added

  • Instrument + Waveform list views for selecting/adding instruments/waveforms
  • Effect columns can now be hidden/added for each track
  • Multiple song support, modules can now store 1-256 songs
  • Backwards compatibilty for 0.0 (Rev A) modules
  • Tempo calculator dialog (Song > Tempo calculator...)
  • Crash handler. Attempts to save a copy of the module after a fatal error
  • Module properties dialog for editing the song list, module information and framerate/system.
  • Song next/previous actions for changing the current song
  • Song selector in Sidebar for selecting the current song
  • Comments dialog for editing module comments
  • File menu now shows a list of recently opened/saved modules

Changed

  • Back to using miniaudio instead of RtAudio for audio playback
  • Trackerboy is now SDI instead of MDI (only one module can be open at a time).
  • Initial window size is set to a maximum of 1280x720
  • Module file format is now at 1.0 (Rev B)
  • Config file is now more human friendly
  • Redesigned header for the pattern editor
  • Reduced spacing between columns in pattern editor
  • Rewrote OrderEditor using a custom widget instead of QTableView + OrderModel
  • Instrument and Waveform editors are now dialogs instead of docks.
  • Octave decrease/increase shortcut changed from numpad / * to Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+]

Fixed

  • issue #2 - Exx not taking immediate effect (also fixes V0x and I0x not taking immediate effect as well)
  • issue #3 - PulseAudio hang

Removed

  • Module tree view (replaced by instrument and waveform docks)
  • Instrument select toolbar (functionality replaced by selecting an instrument in the instruments dock)
  • Patterns and Tempo spinboxes in Song settings editor

[0.4.0] - 2021-07-07

Added

  • MIDI support. You can now use a MIDI input device to input notes / preview instruments
  • Order editor has increment/decrement and set operations again
  • Oscilloscope visualizer
  • Icons for cut/copy/paste

Changed

  • 32-bit builds are now supported
  • Using RtAudio instead of miniaudio for audio playback
  • Some improvements to the audio diagnostics dialog
  • Fxx effect changes the speed immediately now (previously it only took effect on the next row)
  • Status bar is now updated with speed/tempo, time elapsed and position of current song being played.
  • Cursor row is locked when playing in follow-mode
  • Selecting an order while playing in follow-mode jumps to it

Fixed

  • Crash when creating new module on linux
  • Copy/Paste bugs when copying effect columns

[0.3.1] - 2021-06-23

Changed

  • Play and stop shortcut only triggers when pattern editor has focus

Fixed

  • Note previews not working right on CH4
  • Current track not updating in order editor

[0.3.0] - 2021-06-22

Added

  • Note previews when inputting notes in the pattern editor
  • Pattern repeat mode
  • Step mode playback
  • Input toolbar (set the octave and edit step)
  • Instrument toolbar (combobox for the current instrument)
  • Song menu, contains actions for adding/removing orders
  • Sidebar widget, combines song settings + order editor
  • Icon for configuration
  • Keybinds for tracker actions (play, stop, etc)
  • Add "play and stop" shortcut (pressing enter plays, pressing it again stops)

Changed

  • No longer need to have record mode on when deleting, transposing, etc (record mode now only applies to setting notes, instruments and effects)
  • Arpeggio editor graph is now centered at 0
  • Moved stuff from PatternEditor to separate toolbars
  • Renamed Delete action in Edit menu to Erase
  • View menu is now between Tracker and Window
  • Fix "set volume on trigger" checkbox not updating when changing instruments
  • Fix pattern previews not showing up on module load
  • Fix order move up/down actions not disabling/enabling when user changes patterns
  • Setting a note cut does not set the instrument column

Removed

  • PatternEditor toolbar (now is part of the main application toolbar)
  • Order increment/decrement and set controls

[0.2.0] - 2021-06-15

The project has changed dramatically since the last release so changes will not be listed for this version.

Here's a quick list of features:

  • Open/save modules, can have multiple modules open at once
  • Edit pattern data via keyboard (OpenMPT style keybindings, will be configurable in later versions)
  • Transpose selection by note/octave or by a custom semitone offset (Ctrl+T)
  • Reverse selected rows (Ctrl+R)
  • Cut/Copy/Paste pattern data using system clipboard
  • Mix paste (only the unset columns get set to the pasted data)
  • Move pattern data via drag n drop
  • Music playback, pattern cursor follows the current playing row
  • Edit waveforms visually via a graph control, by selecting a preset or by manually entering waveram data
  • Edit instrument sequences visually
  • Instruments and Waveforms can be previewed using the piano control (or by keyboard).
  • Undo/Redo functionality for song order and pattern editing.
  • Audio diagnostics dialog (Help > Audio Diagnostics) for debugging sound output / buffer issues.

[0.1.0] - 2020-09-20

Added

  • The main UI has been started
  • Wave editor dialog, user can edit waveforms and preview them using a piano control
  • Configuration dialog, user can select an audio device, set buffer size and volume
  • Instrument editor dialog
  • DeviceManager and DeviceTable classes in the audio library
  • demo_device_manager demo lists all available host api and output devices

Changed

  • PlaybackQueue can use any portaudio device instead of the default one
  • Reorganized library header folders
  • MusicRuntime only updates "locked" channels
  • Rewrote Engine class to use MusicRuntime class

Removed

  • File class
  • Old ui code (instedit)

[0.0.6] - 2020-08-09

Added

  • song_demo, demonstrates playback of a Song
  • Engine class, handles playback for Songs and sound effects
  • FrequencyControl, frequency effect logic for channels 1, 2 and 3
  • Note lookup table for channel 4, NOTE_NOISE_TABLE
  • MusicRuntime, handles song playback (replaces SongRuntime + PatternRutime + TrackRuntime)
  • NoteControl, handles note triggers and cuts with an optional delay.
  • PatternCursor, utility class for random access/iteration of a Pattern
  • RuntimeContext struct, utility struct containing Synth and Table references
  • Timer class, used for tempo/speed

Changed

  • Fixed warnings for ubuntu build
  • Mixer no longer uses sigma approximation when calculating the STEP_TABLE, this was done as an experiment and also worked as a low pass filter. Filtering will be done elsewhere in the future.
  • added utility method Synth::setFrequency
  • added several new effects. Effects are now categorized by pattern, track and frequency.

Removed

  • InstrumentRuntime, TrackRuntime, PatternRuntime and SongRuntime classes. These are being replaced with the newly added classes in the engine folder.
  • Q53.hpp, replaced by Speed.hpp

[0.0.5] - 2020-04-24

Added

  • PatternMaster class, container for all tracks in a Song
  • Synth::reset() and for all APU components also

Changed

  • Instruments are now a sequence of commands, 1 command per frame
  • All runtime classes have been rewritten to use the new pattern format
  • Song serialization has been rewritten to use new pattern format
  • File format signature changed so that it starts with a non-printable character
  • TrackRuntime and InstrumentRuntime are now template classes
  • Patterns function like FamiTracker's, a pattern is a combination of resuable track data
  • Pattern is now a tuple of Track references
  • Order is now a POD struct of track ids, one for each channel
  • Track no longer behaves like an iterator and now contains data
  • pattern demo now plays a recreation of national park from pokemon G/S/C
  • implemented writeAll method in PlaybackQueue
  • PlaybackQueue uses standard library for sleeping instead of using Pa_Sleep
  • Synth methods now have noexcept and const qualifiers where applicable
  • Fix issue in Wav writer, where the sample count in the fact chunk was incorrect for multichannel data.
  • The Mixer and Synth sampling rates can now be changed
  • SongRuntime is now single-use, or, you can no longer set a new song

Removed

  • Instruction struct, no longer needed
  • PatternRuntime::reset()

[0.0.4] - 2020-04-01

Added

  • Wav class, for writing wav files (only supports 32-bit float format)
  • Generator class, base class for PulseGen, WaveGen and NoiseGen
  • PulseGen class, similar to the previously removed PulseChannel
  • WaveGen class, similar to the previously removed WaveChannel
  • Mixer class, adds bandlimited steps to left/right channels
  • Sequencer class, similar to the previously removed one

Changed

  • Minimum required C++ standard is now C++17
  • PlaybackQueue uses float samples instead of int16_t
  • Synth was rewritten to use emulation based synthesis, generates samples on a per frame basis.
  • Synth can now read and write APU registers
  • reset() renamed to restart() in synth APU components
  • setRegister renamed to writeRegister
  • Sweep has its own shadow register and now longer uses the channel's on trigger (this behavior now matches the hardware)
  • Sweep and Envelope register contents get applied on restart

Removed

  • include/trackerboy/synth/utils.hpp, no longer being used
  • libtrackerboy/synth/test_Osc.cpp, was unused
  • Osc, PulseOsc and WaveOsc, since we are now using emulation based synthesis

[0.0.3] - 2020-03-09

Added

  • More test cases for File
  • tests for Table<T>
  • misc/genstep.py, similar to gensinc.py, generates bandlimited step sets for Osc
  • implementation for WaveOsc
  • NoiseGen, buffered version of NoiseChannel
  • Envelope, moved code from EnvChannel here (will replace EnvChannel)
  • Sweep class, replaces SweepPulseChannel
  • HardwareFile struct (replaces ChannelFile)

Changed

  • Fix exception being thrown when attempting to insert into table of size one less than maximum
  • Rewrote Osc class. Subclasses must edit the delta buffer manually instead of using deltaSet.
  • Osc no longer uses sinc sets. It uses bandlimited steps instead, similiar to blargg's http://www.slack.net/~ant/bl-synth/11.implementation.html. Osc::generate uses floats for samples instead of int16_t. Samples range from -1.0-1.0, exceeding both limits due to overshoot (so volume will need to be adjusted or clipping will occur).
  • Mixer no longer emulates terminal volume/panning (tracker doesn't use it)
  • Mixer works with sample buffers as opposed to individual samples from each channel
  • Length counters are no longer emulated by the Synth
  • Mixer and Sequencer were moved into Synth, as only the synth used these internally.

Removed

  • Osc::deltaSet as only WaveOsc needed this method
  • Osc::setMute and Osc::muted, replaced by Osc::disable and Osc::disabled
  • misc/gensinc.py no longer needed, replaced by genstep.py
  • Channel, EnvChannel, PulseChannel, SweepPulseChannel, WaveChannel, NoiseChannel, ChannelFile, Mixer and Sequencer classes

[0.0.2] - 2020-02-05

Added

  • File::loadTable<T> method
  • uint16_t overload for correctEndian
  • Destructor and copy constructor to Table<T>
  • Table<T>::insert methods
  • Table<T>::clear
  • Version struct + operator overloads

Changed

  • Rewrote implementation for Table<T>, no longer uses std::unordered_map Uses a vector for the item data, and a 256 uint8_t array that maps an id to an index in the vector. Allowing for faster lookups but a slight performance loss when removing items.
  • Refactored pattern_demo.cpp and File.cpp to use new Table implementation
  • table size is now a 2 byte field when saving/loading
  • add setSpeed() overload to calculate speed from tempo/rpb settings. Song no longer calculates speed when tempo or rpb is set.

Removed

  • Table<T>::add, Table<T>::set, as these methods are no longer needed as the insert methods should be used instead.

[0.0.1] - 2020-02-01

Added

  • This CHANGELOG.md file to serve as a changelog for any new features, removals deprecations and so on for the project as a whole.

Changed

  • README.md, added a roadmap section to list planned features and the order in which they are worked on.
  • ORGANIZATION.md, added a guideline to use unix style newlines in all files
  • CMakeLists.txt, updated project version to v0.0.1