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- This release contains the 2002.05.03 version of Anvil Studio by Willow Software.
- It replaces the old versions named ast98xx.zip/exe, mstudioZ.exe.
-
- mstudioZ.exe and AST0009.EXE are self-extracting setup files.
- AST0009.ZIP is the equivalent ZIP file (run the program SETUP.EXE).
-
- Anvil Studio is a "Freeware" program that runs under Windows 95, Windows 98,
- Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000.
- It supports multi-track recording, composing, and editing of music
- using AUDIO, MIDI, and sampled percussions.
- Audio effects include delay, pitch change, filtering, and reverse.
- Anvil Studio is designed to work with optional accessories from
- Willow Software such as sheet music printing, piano exercises,
- ear training exercises, and voice-pitch analysis.
-
- Requires 16 meg RAM (32 meg for Audio recording), and a Sound card.
- To run under Windows NT 4.0, it requires Microsoft's NT Service Pack 3,
- available for download from Microsoft's WEB sites at:
- ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/ussp3/i386/
- or
- ftp://198.105.232.37/fixes/usa/nt40/ussp3/i386/
-
- While Anvil Studio is free of charge, it is copyrighted material,
- and can only be redistributed without modification.
-
- If you have questions or setup problems, please see if a newer
- version is available at our website:
- www.AnvilStudio.com
-
- or download and run our Setup Diagnostic tool from:
- www.AnvilStudio.com/DrSetup.exe
- (It is very small and just take a few seconds to download.)
-
- or contact us by email at:
- support@AnvilStudio.com
-
- or by mail at
-
- Willow Software
- P.O. Box 60122
- Shoreline, WA
- 98160-0122
-
- New features in the 2002.05.03 version include:
- o Added "Edit This Sample" as a right-mouse-button popup menu to the
- Rhythm and Piano Roll editors.
- o Fixed problems with File / Export Mixed Audio
- o It was sometimes leaving temporary files around.
- o It would do nothing the third time it was invoked under certain circumstances.
- o It was not defaulting to stereo out when Stereo Out was checked.
-
- New features in the 2002.05.02 version include:
- o Added new item to Edit menu: Insert MIDI Controller Event
-
- New features in the 2002.05.01 version include:
- o Staff editor now has Clef styles for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto,
- Tenor, and Baritone, Treble and Bass.
- o Added checkboxes to the View / Options / Audio screen:
- Disable Anvil Studio's Soundcard Volume Control
- (so it always defers to the Windows Volume control), and
- Disable Windows Mixer Interface
-
- Fixed problems in the 2002.04.05 version include:
- o The Remove Note popup menu item was not working.
- o Sometimes triplets were not being displayed properly.
-
- New features in the 2002.04.04 version include:
- o Help / Upgrade Anvil Studio and
- View / Anvil Studio Upgrade menu items automatically download and run
- upgrade setup programs, making it easier to upgrade to new versions
- of Anvil Studio and its optional accessories.
- o Added a checkbox to the Options / MIDI screen named
- "Close MIDI Out when not in use" which is helpful if you here very
- short notes when entering them on the Compose screen.
- When it is set, however, it ties that MIDI Out port up so that
- other applications running at the same time cannot use it.
- o Fixed Problems:
- o In Piano Roll and Rhythm editor, dragging a note that extended beyond
- the end of the screen shortened the note.
- o In Piano Roll and Rhythm editor, if note started to the left of the screen,
- the remaining right part of the note was not visible either.
- o Since version 2002.03.01, the Chord Name popup menu item was never enabled.
- o When recording audio, it would some times erroneously say that there was not
- enough memory, or that there was less memory available than there really was.
-
- New features in the 2002.04.03 version include:
- o Uses Windows Audio Format Converters to import/export WMA, MP3 or other audio formats.
- o Can import audio files with different formats (bits per sample, samples per second)
- and mix them together.
- o Fixed a bug that was preventing different samples from overlapping.
-
- New features in the 2002.04.02 version include:
- o Added an option to Edit / Set Record+Play Start+End Times menu item to have
- the selected range of notes to Loop until the stop button is pressed.
- This is useful if you want to practice playing along with a selection repeatedly.
- o Added pop-up menu items to Shift Lyrics Left/Right.
- o Added Snap-to-grid icon to Rhythm and Piano Roll editors.
- o Added button to View / Options to reset all options to factory-default settings.
- o Fixed a problem in version 2002.03.07 where it would report
- Runtime Error 380 after a 4-string bass fretboard was selected.
-
- New features in the 2002.03.07 version include:
- o Made guitar fretboard tunable
- o Added Edit menu item "Repeat selected notes in a Loop" and improved the
- documentation for Piano Roll and Rhythm Editor to make it easier to
- repeat sections.
- o Fixed some layout bugs with displaying notes on the staff and printing
- sheet music.
-
- New features in the 2002.03.01 version include:
- o Added Create Metronome Click Track to Track menu
- o Added Guitar style to Compose window's Style list
- o Added option to keep MIDI Out ports open all the time, to eliminate clicking or short sounds
- when used with some software wavetable synthesizers
- o Fixed Problems:
- o In some rare cases, chords appeared differently when printed than displayed on the screen.
- o Fixed SMPTE Master/Slave mode (industry terms - not ours...) so that you can have two machines
- running Anvil Studio, one as master, one as slave, and the master controls the slave's position
- and tempo when playing and just positioning. This works when Anvil Studio is connected to
- another sequencer via MIDI cables as well.
-
- New features in the 2002.02.01 version include:
- o Fixed problems:
- Since version 2001.10.01, it sometimes inserted undesired rests between
- measures that included a time-signature change.
- o Works better on multi-user systems, using My Documents / My Music
- as the default folder.
- o MIDI performance has been improved, most notably on slow systems.
-
- New features in the 2001.12.07 version include:
- o Added a Grid option to the Staff editor.
- If you want more precise control over the time where you drag notes,
- change this Grid field to any value other than <b>-- no grid--</b>.
- The staff will be divided by equally-spaced vertical grey lines.
- This makes it easy to drag a note from the palette,
- or an existing note from the staff, to the exact time position you want it.
- o When drawing beamed notes on the staff, the beam lines now slope.
- o The tempo field can now be set more precisely (e.g. 120.08 beats/minute)
- o Fixed Problems:
- o Fixed a problem that caused Audio and MIDI tracks to sometimes play out of sync.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2001.12.03 version include:
- o Add Sounds button when adding a loop no longer forces all loops to be displayed.
- o Eliminated some runtime errors 80041039 errors when playing MIDI files.
- o Added a Font... button to the View / Lyrics so multi-lingual lyrics can be edited.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2001.11.10 version include:
- o Print-Sheet accessory was sometimes unnecessary drawing arcs
- at the end of some staff lines.
- o US428 interface was not working unless MIDI Manager accessory was installed.
- It now works in the free version of Anvil Studio.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2001.11.08 version include:
- o In version 2001.11.06, the following warning was given when exporting mixed audio:
- "Your audio source does not appear to be currently set to Microphone or Line-In."
-
- New features in the 2001.11.07 version include:
- o Clicking the time field lets you set the exact song position,
- with audio sample or SMPTE frame accuracy.
- o Added more right-click pop-up menu options to the Loop editor.
- o Per-track Pan slider controls are always visible on Mixer screen
- if the screen is large enough.
-
- New features in the 2001.11.06 version include:
- o Added options that let Anvil Studio act in MIDI Master or MIDI Slave
- Sync modes, so Anvil Studio can control the tempo of external MIDI
- sequencers and drum machines, or be controlled by them.
- o Mixer screen lets you change volumes, mute, instruments while a song
- continues to play.
- o Per-track fader slider controls are always visible on Mixer screen
- if the screen is large enough.
- o When creating new Instrument or Rhythm tracks, rests are inserted
- into the new track so the song's current position remains the same.
- o Zoom-in / Zoom-out buttons on Piano Roll and Rhythm editor.
- o More than one track's SOLO attribute can be set, effectively muting
- all other tracks.
- o Select All button added to Add Sounds dialog to make it easier to add
- all drums to a rhythm editor's grid.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Returned View / Mixer controls for soundcard Synth and Audio volume
- so they don't default to full volume each time Anvil Studio starts.
- o Synth/Wave soundcard volume were always defaulted to full on startup.
- o Now it remembers the last value you set it to when you re-load a song
- or create a new song.
- o If you add or remove loops from a song, and
- you don't save the song while the Rhythm or Piano Roll editor is visible, and
- you later save the song while the Rhythm or Piano Roll editor is NOT visible,
- some of the loops will not be saved properly.
- o Changing the Time Signature on a track with loops could result in
- a crashing runtime error.
- o When using the File / Export Mixed Audio... menu item, it would
- sometimes display a harmless error message and fail to restore
- the selected Audio input.
- o Fixed some metronome bugs
- o Fixed error 80042401 when trying to record from Line In / CD with
- some sound cards.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2001.11.03 version include:
- o Returned View / Mixer controls for soundcard Synth and Audio volume
- so they don't default to full volume each time Anvil Studio starts.
- o Synth/Wave soundcard volume were always defaulted to full on startup.
- Now it remembers the last value you set it to when you re-load a song
- or create a new song.
- o If you add or remove loops from a song, and
- you don't save the song while the Rhythm or Piano Roll editor is visible, and
- you later save the song while the Rhythm or Piano Roll editor is NOT visible,
- some of the loops will not be saved properly.
- o Changing the Time Signature on a track with loops could result in
- a crashing runtime error.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2001.10.08 version include:
- o When using the File / Export Mixed Audio... menu item, it would
- sometimes display a harmless error message and fail to restore
- the selected Audio input.
-
- New features in the 2001.10.07 version include:
- o Added options that let Anvil Studio act in MIDI Master or MIDI Slave
- Sync modes, so Anvil Studio can control the tempo of external MIDI
- sequencers and drum machines, or be controlled by them.
-
- New features in the 2001.10.05 version include:
- o Mixer screen lets you change volumes, mute, instruments while a song
- continues to play.
- o Per-track fader slider controls are always visible on Mixer screen
- if the screen is large enough.
- o Fixed some metronome bugs
- o Fixed error 80042401 when trying to record from Line In / CD with
- some sound cards.
-
- New features in the 2001.10.04 version include:
- o When creating new Instrument or Rhythm tracks, rests are inserted
- into the new track so the song's current position remains the same.
-
- New features in the 2001.10.03 version include:
- o Zoom-in / Zoom-out buttons on Piano Roll and Rhythm editor.
- o More than one track's SOLO attribute can be set, effectively muting
- all other tracks.
- o Select All button added to Add Sounds dialog to make it easier to add
- all drums to a rhythm editor's grid.
-
- New features in the 2001.09.02 version include:
- o Improved the Piano Roll and Rhythm composers to:
- o support loops
- o select, cut, copy and paste any notes - not just single measures
- o with Multi-View accessory, you can now view multiple tracks,
- where before that was only possible with the Staff composer
- o loops can refer to notes, other loops, samples, or Riffs
- o support 1/128th notes
- o you can decide exactly which drums to include in the editor,
- rather than having 4 tabs of drums and one tab of samples
- o Added option to print bar numbers in versions with the Print-Sheet accessory.
- o Added option to display volumes as ranging from 0 to 127 instead of 0 to 100.
- o Fixed problems:
- o In some situations, it would display a note over the top of a rest.
- o With time signatures other than 4/4, it would display whole-measure
- rests incorrectly.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2001.07.06 version include:
- o Using a high-pass filter on audio tracks with 8-bit samples
- (e.g. Phone-quality) could cause the program to crash.
- o With some soundcard drivers (LynxOne for example), it would
- crash during program initialization.
- o It now displays Clef / Key Signature / Time Signature instead of
- Clef / Time Signature / Key Signature.
-
- New features in the 2001.07.04 version include:
- o Anvil Studio now supports the Tascam US-428 External Mixing console.
- o When moving the mouse over notes on the staff, the equivalent keys
- on the piano keyboard are highlighted.
- o Added menu item that splits a stereo audio track into two mono tracks.
- o Mixer screen now lets you change audio tracks between Mono and Stereo
- without erasing the track.
- o Versions with Print-Sheet accessory can now print Rhythm tracks as
- standard sheet music.
- o Added keyboard shortcuts that change the default note duration.
- o Fixed a problem that caused a Runtime Error 50003 on some systems.
-
- New features in the 2001.06.03 version include:
- o Added guitar fret window as alternative to entering notes by piano keyboard.
- o On Piano Roll and Rhythm editor, you can now enter notes of varying durations
- simply by pressing the mouse button where the note is to start, and releasing
- the mouse where the note is to end.
- o Added EQ native effect
- o Supports time signatures xx/16
- o Added ability to import a small section of a large .WAV file:
- see File / Import Audio / import part of file.
- o Fixed bugs:
- o It failed to load some .WAV files (especially some created by CyberRecorder),
- giving a File Format error
- o When exporting a Stereo .WAV file with MONO tracks, using Auto Volume control,
- it sometimes introduced distortion into the resulting .WAV file.
-
- New features in the 2001.05.03 version include:
- o Added controls to the bottom of the View / Mixer screen to make
- it easier to configure soundcards for playback and recording.
- o Simplified the steps for mixing a song down to a single .WAV file.
- (just select Export Mixed Audio from the File menu.)
- o Added several subjects to the Help / How Do I... and Common Problems... menu items.
- o Added a Default Note Volume control to the View / Options screen.
- o Fixed bugs:
- o It sometimes failed to load DirectX effects properly.
- o Selecting notes on the Compose screen and changing their volume
- sometimes had an undesired effect on the way the notes were displayed.
- o When editing a rhythm track or piano roll, if multiple edits were
- made quicly within a repeat block, it could cause the block to get
- repeated inaccurately. This problem has been fixed, but if this happened
- to one of your songs, just set the repeat count to 1, edit the block
- to be the way you want, and reset the repeat count.
- o Sometimes, audio tracks with a timeshift > 92 where not mixed in.
-
- New features in the 2001.04.02 version include:
- o Added "Test MIDI Connections" button to the View / Synthesizers screen
- to help isolate problems with playing or recording with MIDI devices.
- (For MIDI-Manager versions, this was added to View / Synthesizers / MIDI Scope).
- o Added Edit / Set Record+Play Start+End Times menu item, so you can select
- a range of an audio track, select this menu item, and control which
- range will get recorded (for a punch-in), and/or played.
-
- New features in the 2001.04.01 version include:
- o Ability to assign Ctrl+<space bar> as shortcut, and ability to assign
- any shortcut key to insert a space.
- o Note beaming rules were improved for 2/4, 3/4, 6/8 and 9/8 time signatures.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Editing some MIDI controller values (e.g. Legatto, Sustain) with the Pro-Mix
- accessory's MIDI Effects pop-up menu could sometimes result in Overflow runtime errors.
- o Editing tempo with the Pro-Mix accessory could result in error message:
- "Error: One or more Instrument or Rhythm tracks in this song is not assigned to a synthesizer."
- when attempting to play the song.
-
- New features in the 2001.03.08 version include:
- o Ability to assign Ctrl+<period> as shortcut, and ability to assign
- any shortcut key to toggle whether or not the next inserted note is dotted.
- o New tracks are created with same time signature and key signature as previous track.
- o Fixed Problems:
- o Double-Bar or Repeat notation after two or more measures of rests
- was getting drawn too early in the score.
- o When switching time signatures, it sometimes became impossible
- to tie a note from one measure to the next.
-
- New features in the 2001.03.07 version include:
- o Added Note Popup shortcut to compliment the existing Note Properties shortcut.
- o Shift-right-click now deletes a note on a Rhythm track or Piano roll.
- o When Pro-Mix is installed, a MIDI Effects pop-up menu is available
- when you right-click a note, allowing finer-resolution control.
- o Fixed problems:
- o It was sometimes not choosing the best default MIDI Out port
- o Pro-Mix sometimes limited tempo range to 127 beats-per-minute instead of 300.
- o Fixed case where Pro-Mix could cause invalid subscript runtime error.
- o Was not displaying enharmonics properly for some minor keys
- o Since version 2001.03.01, Anvil Studio's mixer generated high-pitch
- noise when playing audio tracks to stereo output if Enable MMX Signal Processing
- was enabled on the Options / Audio page.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2001.03.06 version include:
- o In version 2001.03.05, if you try to make the last measure of
- a track repeat, it crashed with a runtime null pointer error.
-
- New features in the 2001.03.05 version include:
- o DirectX Effects properties can be altered while the song is playing.
- o On Composer screen for Piano Roll and Rhythm tracks, notes can be
- dragged and resized with the mouse.
- o Fixed problems:
- Since version 2001.02.07, multi-track audio recording with Multi-Audio 4/8
- would crash with some hardware configurations.
-
- New features in the 2001.03.02 version include:
- o You can now double-click on files of type .MID in the Windows Explorer
- and have them loaded by Anvil Studio.
- You can right-click on files of type .MID and select the Play pop-up menu item
- and have them played by Anvil Studio.
- o Fixed problems:
- o On Windows 2000, when playing audio tracks without DirectX, pressing
- the Stop button could cause the system to hang in versions since 2001.02.01.
- o In versions since 2001.02.01, playing Audio tracks was sometimes not releasing
- memory, which could cause your system to become slower and slower and unresponsive.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2001.02.05 version include:
- o Full-Screen rhythm tracks sometimes caused a Subscript-out-of-bounds runtime error
- on screens with 1600 x 1024 pixels.
- o If Anvil Studio's setup program was run from a folder that had another file named setup.exe,
- a setup program for the other program would get run instead.
- o Fixed problems:
- Version 2001.02.xx failed with an Illegal Instruction on 486 processors.
-
- New features in the 2001.02.04 version include:
- o Audio mixing is faster.
- o Improved Audio Reverb effect.
- o Right-click on sample names to edit their properties.
- o Rhythm page can be edited while the song is playing, making it easier to experiment with rhythms.
- o Fixed problems:
- o File / Export Mixed Audio sometimes generated noise at the start or end of the created file.
- o The Print-Sheet accessory has an improved Conductor's score.
- o When printing on some printers, staff "decorations" were not being printed.
-
- New features in the 2000.12.06 version include:
- o Added Normalize as filter-kind to maximize an audio-track's "head-room".
- o Fixed problems:
- o PC-Keyboard didn't map to notes for full-screen Piano Roll or Rhythm editor.
- o Fixed some filter-related bugs.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.12.04 version include:
- o Changing the pitch of an audio track could result in Overflow errors.
- o Band-Pass filtering problems were fixed.
- o Maximum Audio track time-shift was increased to 30 minutes (1800000 msec).
- o Edit / Insert at the end of an audio track was causing extra blank sound to
- be added to the end of the audio track.
- o When loading a sample-set on the Rhythm screen, the samples can now
- be used immediately.
-
- New features in the 2000.12.02 version include:
- o Added Full-Screen checkbox to Piano-Roll and Rhythm composers
- so the editing grid fills the entire screen.
- o Improved the speed and quality of the Audio-track's Filter function.
- o Added Audio Filter that Zero-averages a wave, adjusting each
- sample up or down so that the entire wave's average is zero.
- o Increased the number of Audio Samples to:
- 15 when Multi-Audio 1/8 is installed, and
- 30 when Multi-Audio 4/8 is installed.
- o When a song is done playing, it now leaves the cursor at the
- end of the song, to make it easier to edit the end a song being composed.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Songs with an UpBeat at the start were sometimes displaying
- noteds inacurately after the first screen.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.11.04 version include:
- o A bug was introduced into version 2000.11.01 that prevented
- changing key signatures in the middle of a track.
- o Dragging notes to the staff could not be undone, and caused the
- song's current position to get reset to the start.
- o Changing volume of a selected group of notes sometimes changed
- the volume of the first note that followed the selected group.
-
- New features in the 2000.11.03 version include:
- o Each audio track and sample has its own delay attributes instead of
- global delay attributes applying to all tracks and samples.
- o Fixed problems:
- o After changing the song's position to anywhere but the start of
- the song, it would sometimes produce no sound until it was rewound to the start.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.11.02 version include:
- o Anvil Studio was locking up the Audio CD Player the whole time.
- It now just locks it when the View / CD Player menu item is selected.
- o Overflow errors occurred with some dual-monitor systems when
- displaying the Rhythm editor in full-screen mode.
- o Comments for Track 0 can now be edited by selecting
- Comments from the View menu, and setting the Track field to None.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.11.01 version include:
- o Improved the mechanism for loading SoundFont (.SF2) files.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.10.03 version include:
- o Loading SoundFont (.SF2) files sometimes failed.
- o On rhythm tracks and when using Piano Roll view, it was not
- possible to quantitize selected measure - only the entire track.
-
- New features in the 2000.10.02 version include:
- o Added option to record and play MIDI System Exclusive messages
- o Added access to multiple SoundFont patches on Rhythm Tracks.
- o Fixed problems:
- o When programs saved on the View / Perform menu's screen included
- a Rhythm Tool with over 256 notes, the program could not be
- reloaded. Now the tool's property can have an unlimited number of notes.
- o Some lyrics caused note stems to disappear.
- o An extra initial bar was being drawn for keys other than C Maj.
- o Since version 2000.07.01, if two notes in a chord were both staccato,
- the staccato dots were drawn under both of them instead of just one.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.09.02 version include:
- o The View / Lyrics menu item was causing bits and pieces of the last
- verse to be copied to additional, non-existent verses.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.09.01 version include:
- o Fixed some problems with File / Repair Song that allow it to repair
- more kinds of badly-formatted midi files.
- o The Reverse menu item has been accidentally disabled in the Edit menu
- since version 2000.06.01
- o Fixed a problem where the Pro-Mix accessory was causing runtime
- errors when you clicked beyond the end of an audio track that was shorter
- than other tracks in the song.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.07.02 version include:
- o In 2000.07.01, a bug was introduced that caused Anvil Studio to crash
- with Overflow Error.
-
- New features in the 2000.07.01 version include:
- o Added option to disable background texture in Help window.
- o Rhythm Track editor now works with recorded rhythm tracks.
- In the past, it worked with composed tracks, but not recorded tracks.
- o Added Record No Rests to MIDI tab of View / Options menu
- When this option is set, the duration of notes is not determined
- by when a note is released, but by which notes are still
- down when a new note is pressed. This sometimes produces more pleasing
- results when recording a score for display as sheet music.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Some items were invisible if the Windows Control Panel Display Scheme
- had a black background.
- o Sometimes, when a note's property was set to move it to the other clef,
- if it was a dotted note, the dot got drawn to the left of the note.
- o It was not displaying lyrics for some Karoke (.kar) files.
- o Changing "Enable HTML help" on the View / Options page sometimes
- caused Anvil Studio to crash.
- o Items created on the Composer page by Edit / Insert Notation were
- sometimes drawn in the wrong location.
- o Track names and other properties can now contain umlots and other
- European characters in the ANSI range 128 to 255.
- o Fixed a rare stem direction bugs and a rare rest-drawing bugs
- o When inserting notes after an Upbeat, the upbeat got moved.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.06.01 version include:
- o In previous versions, when a new track was created, it would
- have no Program Change message, but default to whatever program that
- synthesizer associated with the track's channel.
- Now, each new track has an explicit ProgramChange(0) event,
- which on most synthesizers, defaults to Accoustic Piano.
- o Some errors were fixed in the Music Drills accessory.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.05.06 version include:
- o Some problems with scrolling by moving cursor with arrow keys.
- o Several note-display problems.
-
- New features in the 2000.05.03 version include:
- o Added Edit / Insert Notation / Up Beat menu item
- o Fixed problems
- o Improved Print-Sheet accessory's Conductor's Score so that
- measure lines and note stems line up for all tracks.
- o Fixed a header font problem with the Print-Sheet accessory.
- o Stems line up better between treble and bass clefs.
- o Had trouble changing time signature or key signature at the start
- of several measures of rests.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.04.10 version include:
- o Triplet-half-notes and triplet-quarter-notes were not being drawn correctly.
- o Some note stems were not being drawn
- o Sometimes, it displayed error message "can't display modeless form when modal form is active"
- o For versions since 2000.01.01, when Pro-Mix accessory was used to alter audio Pan or Volume,
- the resulting mix was not played back accurately, or overflow errors
- o Fixed some problems with displaying enharmonic notes
- o Added documentation to Help menu for loading SoundFont files.
-
- New features in the 2000.04.04 version include:
- o Added Note Properties keyboard shortcut to the View / Options menu
- o Fixed problems
- o Stems of 8th note chords were not being drawn properly since version 2000.01.01
- o The File / New and Track / Create menu items sometimes caused the initial track to be marked as disabled.
-
- Fixed problems in the 2000.04.02 version include:
- o Add option to not use Windows Swapfile for audio mixing.
- o On systems with low memory, rewind, record, play buttons were sometimes
- displayed incorrectly.
- o Songs with more than 4 minutes of sampled rhythms could result in
- a silent rhythm track.
-
- New features in the 2000.03.11 version include:
- o Right-click keyboard to cause key notes to be displayed.
- o Allows triplet chords
- o Added time signatures for 9/8, 3/8, 6/4, 9/4, 4/2
- o Fixed problems
- o It was sometimes displaying small rests inaccurately
- o Fixed a bug that could result in the program ending when using DirectX pluggins
-
- New features in the 2000.03.08 version include:
- o Added ability to print Composer Score if Print-Sheet accessory is installed.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Pressing the VU button before the REC button causes audio track Sync problems.
- o The File / Export MIDI 0 menu item was merging all notes into a single
- MIDI channel.
- o All versions since and including 2000.02.05 had a bug that caused
- the Volume and Pan controls on the Rhythm Track's Edit Samples dialog
- to not behave properly, sometimes resulting in Overflow errors.
- o Several other minor bug fixes.
-
- New features in the 2000.03.03 version include:
- o Added View Lyrics menu item, so that an entire track's lyrics
- can be edited at the same time.
- o Added more entries to the Help menu.
-
- New features in the 2000.03.01 version include:
- o Print Sheet accessory now lets you specify different fonts for each of:
- Header, Footer, Lyrics
- o Fixed problems:
- o When copying a measure that had a tie-note to the next measure,
- it was copying the NoteOn event, but not the NoteOff event, resulting
- in a note with infinite sustain. It no longer copies partial notes.
- The File/Repair Song menu item repaires such songs.
- o When trying to delete a NoteOn event that had no matching NoteOff
- event, there were situations in which the program could stop responding (i.e. crash).
-
- New features in the 2000.02.05 version include:
- o Added File menu item that exports the current song as a MIDI-Format 0 song.
- o Fixed problems:
- o It was possible to get the CopyMe accessory into a state where
- it did not advance when the correct keys were pressed.
- o It does a better job of adjusting for DirectX latency (delays).
- so that when DirectX introduces latency, instrument and audio tracks stay in sync better, and
- recorded audio tracks stay in sync with played-back audio tracks.
- o It sometimes generated Overflow errors when playing back with DirectX effects
- o It sometimes generated Bad Parameter errors when changing pitch of an Audio selection
-
- New features in the 2000.02.01 version include:
- o With Print-Sheet accessory, Lyrics can now be displayed and printed with
- treble-only or bass-only Clefs.
- Also added ability to add a page-number-offset to printed pages, so that
- song can more easily be printed as part of a book.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Now loads and imports ShortCuts to files properly.
-
- New features in the 2000.01.09 version include:
- o Added Edit / Insert Notation / Double Bar and Text...
- so that you can insert and drag arbitrary text of any font anywhere on the staff.
- o Fixed problems:
- o On systems with other programs that installed an invalid ComCtl32.ocx
- Anvil Studio would generate the error message:
- run-time error '339':
- component 'comctl32.ocx' not correctly registered: file is missing or invalid
- Anvil Studio now uses mscomctl.ocx instead of comctl32.ocx
-
- New features in the 2000.01.08 version include:
- o The Mixer page now supports zoomed-out copying and pasting multiple measures from track to track.
- This is especially useful for rhythm tracks and Piano Roll tracks, since they previously only
- allowed single measures to be copied and pasted.
- o Better support for half-duplex sound cards.
- o Fixed problems:
- o If several samples were played at the same time, all samples on a rhythm track
- were sometimes played back with nearly silent volume when the mixed tracks were played.
- o If 9 or more samples were added to a rhythm track, it could sometimes result in
- a high-pitched pinging sound whenever the 9th or 10th samples were played.
- o It sometimes displayed "Can't show modeless form" error message.
-
- New features in the 2000.01.06 version include:
- o Faster real-time mixing and more responsive VU meters
- o Fixed problems:
- o In version 2000.01.03, right-mouse click on loopback button caused runtime error.
-
- New features in the 2000.01.03 version include:
- o Added per-track and master playback VU meters
- o Track / Clone menu item failed for audio tracks when Composer window was visible.
- o Added new Master Audio Volume control to Mixer page.
- o Added note properties popup menu to the Rhythm and Piano Roll pages.
-
- New features in the 2000.01.02 version include:
- o Added a new Note Popup Menu item that makes it easier to shift
- the start time of a note on the staff.
- o Added ability to set MIDI Ticks per Beat on the Options page.
- o Sped up editing of long tracks.
- o Added a decibel side-bar that shows units on the Audio Composer window.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Unless a device was explicity set on the Metronome page, attempts
- to start the metronome resulted in an error message.
- It selects a reasonable synthesizer as the default metronome device.
- o Pro-Mix accessory sometimes generated an overflow runtime error.
- o On Windows NT with no Internet Explorer installed, it failed with
- runtime error 53.
- o For some printers, need to set Printer Option 1 on the Options page.
-
- Fixed problems in the 1999.12.02 version include:
- o Printing was inaccurate since version 1999.11.02 on versions with
- HP Deskjet printers.
- o Crashed with Runtime Error 6 on systems with dual display monitors.
- o When Pro-Mix was installed, it sometimes crashed with Runtime Error 6
- when editing a long song.
- o The Dynamic symbols mf and mp were not displayed properly on the screen
-
- Fixed problems in the 1999.11.07 version include:
- o Print-Sheet accessory spools more efficiently
- o Pro-Mix controller window is more accurate when Staff is visible
-
- New features in the 1999.11.06 version include:
- o When playing a song, cursor on staff stays over current note, rather than next note.
- o When changing note duration, added option to shift following notes.
- o Metronome is now in sync with song's tempo-map rather than a constant tempo.
- o Audio tracks display beats and measures based on songs tempo map rather than
- based on constant tempo.
- o Added MIDI Effects note popup menu to the Pro-Mix accessory, so that MIDI Effects
- can be edited with better resolution for the duration of a note.
- It is particularly useful when you want to bend the pitch of a note from
- its current value to a desired pitch.
- o Added Tempo Map to Edit menu when the Pro-Mix accessory is installed, so that
- you can "tap" in the song's tempo to be consistent with an existing Audio track.
- o Fixed problems:
- o An out-of-stack-space error that sometimes occurred when selecting a range of notes.
- o A note spacing problem
- o When Echo MIDI Events was set true, some delays were introduced.
- o Optimized Multi-Audio 4/8 to eliminate clicks and pops that sometimes
- occurred on slower machines.
- o For recorded Instrument tracks, it was sometimes displaying notes as dotted
- eight notes which would more accurately be displayed as quarter notes.
-
- New features in the 1999.11.02 version include:
- o Supports time signature changes in the middle of a rhythm track
- and Piano Roll track, the same as it already does for an Instrument track.
- o Added Prima Volta and Seconda Volta symbols
- o Added more answers to frequently asked questions.
- o Fixed problems:
- o It was displaying some enharmonics incorrectly.
- o Fixed some Copy/Paste bugs
-
- New features in the 1999.10.05 version include:
- o Added symbols for: Trill, D.C., D.S., Segno, Coda, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff
- o Added Edit / Paste Special menu item, that allows you control exactly\
- what gets pasted.
- o Added ability to insert dotted notes in rhythm track and piano roll.
- o Added button to rhythm track and piano roll that inserts a rest.
-
- New features in the 1999.10.04 version include:
- o Recognizes SoundFont-compatible sound cards such as SoundBlaster-Live
- and provides access to the card's current instrument settings.
- o Once again, improved Slur printing for versions with the Print-Sheet
- accessory, and added Fermata symbol.
-
- New features in the 1999.10.03 version include:
- o Added Riff menu items to the Edit menu, giving the ability to define and
- insert Riffs while composing. It is similar to having several clipboards.
- Some pre-defined rhythm track riffs are included.
- o Slurs print better
- o Fixed bug preventing Bank-Select-0 patch libraries from accessing upper banks.
-
- Fixed problems in the 1999.09.02 version include:
- o Fixed some problems related to the Print-Sheet accessory,
- including allowing slurs to get printed properly.
-
- Fixed problems in the 1999.08.08 version include:
- o Inserting a Staccato note was inserting an additional rest.
- o Audio playback was getting cut short when DirectX was enabled
- and no DirectX Filters where being used.
- o Some Music Drills menu items were disabled.
-
- Fixed problems in the 1999.08.07 version include:
- o Fixed "Reference to released object" error that sometimes occurred
- when inserting a note.
-
- New features in the 1999.08.05 version include:
- o Added Edit / Undo menu item when composing Instrument or Rhythm tracks.
- o Added Select All to Edit Menu for staff view of Compose page
- o Added Keyboard Shortcuts to the View/Options page, so you can
- keep your hands on the keyboard more, and on the mouse less
- while composing.
- o If you select a range of notes on the Compose page and adjust
- the compose page's volume, the volume for all selected notes
- will be set.
- o To insert a large number of rests in a staff, set the note duration to Whole note
- and double-click on the Insert-rest button.
- o Added button to hide Controllers on Compose page
- o Displays proper grid on Rhythm page for 7/8 or 9/8 time.
- o Dotted notes can now be beamed.
- o When creating a new track, the new track's Key signature and
- Time signature are the same as the previously active track.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Fixed several problems related to printing sheet music with lyrics
- o In version 1999.07.14, deleting the last note of a track
- sometimes caused "Runtime error 91".
- o Metronome used to only play accent notes for 4/4 time. Now, it follows
- the time signature of the active track.
- o Beamed 16th note followed by 8th was displayed as 2 beamed 8th notes.
- o In some key signatures, some notes not-in-key were drawn with sharps and flats
- instead of as natural.
- o When MIDI Setup accessory was installed, it was not automatically
- loading patch libraries since version 1999.06.03.
- o When deleting selection in treble clef or bass clef, but not both,
- if selection included rests, additional rests were getting inserted
- and note durations were getting changed.
- o For versions with Print-Sheet accessories before 1999.08.01:
- o The Lexmark 3200 Series ColorFine, and other printers that do support
- 600 dots per inch but not 300 dots per inch only allowed 9 staffs per page
- and not 4 or 6 staffs per page.
- o Runtime error occurred when staffs-per-page field was blank
-
- New features in the 1999.07.10 version include:
- o Added the following to the Note Properties dialog:
- o Force note to other clef
- o Display Enharmonic Note
- o Beamed notes can now include chords.
- o Fixed problems:
- o It was sometimes ignoring the first REC button press when
- recording Audio tracks.
- o A cut/copy/paste timing bugs was fixed.
- o When a single Audio track was recorded, the File / Export Audio
- menu item would sometimes create an empty file.
- o Was drawing accidentals incorrectly in a few instances.
-
- New features in the 1999.07.08 version include:
- o Replaced tabs at the bottom of the screen with menu items.
- o The Record and Mixer pages were combined into a single page.
- o On screens 800 x 600 pixels and larger, the compose page now
- displays the track list from the Record page.
- o It is now possible to select notes on only the Treble or Bass clefs,
- as well as notes on both clefs.
- o On the Compose page for Instrument tracks, you position the
- cursor by pressing the left or right cursor keys.
- You can extend a selection by holding the Shift key while pressing these.
- You can scroll to the start or end of track by holding the Ctrl key
- while pressing these.
- o Added Beam to Next option to Note properties
- Added "Enable Beam Lines on Compose Page" to Options page
- o Fixed problems:
- o In versions since 1999.07.01, it failed to work when Internet
- Explorer was not installed.
- o In versions since 1999.07.05, there were some staff-editing bugs.
- o It sometimes said machine was not fast enough for audio recording
- o It was drawing flats at wrong spot for some keys
- o Since version 1999.06.01, Out of memory (error 7) occurred
- after Piano Roll or Rhythm Composer was refreshed many times.
-
- New features in the 1999.06.06 version include:
- o Added Time Shift property to Audio Tracks, so that an Audio track
- can be set to start later than the rest of the song.
- This saves disk space for songs where the first several minutes of an
- audio track is to be silent.
- o Fixed problems:
- o MIDI recording is synced with the metronome more accurately.
- o On Piano Roll and Rhythm tracks, last note in measure sometimes got lost
- o Change Pitch for Audio Tracks would sometimes crash.
- o All columns on the Record page can be resized.
- o Pitch Change on Compose Page for Audio tracks was reducing volume.
- o Importing a stereo .WAV file to an audio track setting the
- track as stereo, but was failing to set the output audio port
- to stereo, causing it to be played as mono.
- o The following bugs occurred in version 1999.05.07, and are now fixed:
- o time Signatures of 6/8 and 12/8 were improperly displayed as 6/4 and 12/4.
- o the compose page for Piano Roll and Rhythm tracks did not allow you
- to change the time signature from 4/4.
-
- New features in the 1999.06.05 version include:
- o With the MIDI Setup accessory, patches from multiple banks of
- of a synthesizer can be accessed at the same time.
- o Fixed problem with PitchBend control in Performance ToolPack accessory.
- o Simplified settings for Sound Module tool on Perform page.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Lyrics sometimes over-wrote each other because they were spaced too closely.
- o No longer sets audio playback volume to maximum every time the program starts.
-
- New features in the 1999.06.01 version include:
- o Added Sync button so Recording and Playing can be triggered by
- external MIDI devices.
- o Added ability to:
- o insert Slurs, Crescendos, Decrescendos, and Repeat symbols.
- o insert chord labels at the top of the staff
- o insert Time Signatures and Key Signatures in the middle of a track.
- o On the Compose page, notes can now be dragged up and down
- the staff to change their pitch.
- Notes can be dragged to the bottom of the screen to delete them.
- o Added Lock Score checkbox to the Compose page so that you
- can experiment with notes on the keyboard without inserting them
- into the score.
- o The new default is for DirectX to be disabled, since it
- results in "Device in use" errors on some systems.
- It is automatically enabled when you press the FX or DirectX buttons.
- o With Multi-View accessory, you can now copy and paste between
- two instrument tracks on the compose page.
- o Added options to disable Full-Duplex test, and to disable DirectX
- o Colors are now adjustable on the Options page.
- o Does a better job of sharing Audio out devices with WaveTable synthesizers
- like Yamaha SXG50.
- o Fixed problems:
- o fixed several DirectX related problems that resulted in Device-in-use errors
- and quite audio tracks. These problems first appeared in version 1999.05.05.
- o when deleting measures on Rhythm tracks, or from a Piano Roll,
- extra rests were sometimes inserted.
- o dragging staff notations over lyrics sometimes appeared jerky
- o changing duration with Note Properties sometimes had no effect
- o It failed with error 80041015 on systems with no MIDI In devices
- o Since version 1999.05.01, key signatures had been drawn with sharps
- even when they should have been flats
- o There was a problem with audio Pitch modification
- o Pro-Mix control editing wasn't working properly when
- Compose page was set to Piano Roll format.
- o Duplets through Septuplets on and Compose-Piano Roll and Rhythm pages
- weren't aligned properly.
- o Enhanced the Repair Song menu item.
- o Numerous other small problems were fixed.
-
- New features in the 1999.05.07 version include:
- o Made initialization faster.
- o When displaying lyrics, key signatures and triplet lines
- in the bass clef were off.
- o Added item to Options page to disable Full-Duplex sound card testing.
-
- New features in the 1999.05.06 version include:
- o You can now view and edit a track's lyrics.
- The 1999.05.04 version of the Print Sheet accessory now includes
- option to print lyrics.
- o Added ability to quantitize a selection of notes rather just the entire track.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Works better with Helf-Duplex sound cards
- o Added Port Latency properties to get around synchronization
- problems that occurred when using WaveTable MIDI synthesizers.
- o Fixed some minor score display problems
- o Enabling/Disabling an Audio track wasn't causing all audio tracks to get re-mixed,
- causing it to seem to have no effect.
- o It was initializing Audio Volume to be very low.
-
- New features in the 1999.05.02 version include:
- o Added support for DirectX Audio pluggins. See the Mixer page for details.
- o Pressing Ctrl key while entering a note is a shorthand for making
- the new note a dotted note.
- o When changing an Instrument track to a Rhythm track, you can
- retain notes as drum notes rather than erasing them.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Tempo editing with Pro-Mix accessory was not working with
- Midi-1 files.
- o clicking on notes on the record page could sometimes result in
- an Invalid Parameter error.
-
- New features in the 1999.04.06 version include:
- o Added option to record each MIDI channel to its own track, rather
- than recording all recorded MIDI channels to the currently active track.
- This lets you record up to 16 MIDI tracks simultaneously.
- See the Options page for details.
- o Fixed problems:
- o On systems with very large disks, recording an Audio track
- could result in an Overflow error.
- o The menu item: File/Truncate Song.../From start to current position
- was not working properly for Instrument and Rhythm tracks.
- It was deleting the correct notes, but not shifting the remaining ones,
- leaving a silent gap.
- o Pasting notes from one track to another was not updating the notes
- MIDI channel, which caused the pasted notes to continue to play
- the previous track's instrument.
- o On some machines, Multi-Audio 1/8 was only able to record and mix
- 4 tracks instead of 8.
-
- New features in the 1999.03.15 version include:
- o Added more help information
- o Fixed problems:
- o Edit/Quantitize was moving track to end of the song, and left
- progress bar on screen.
- o On Compose page, wasn't allowing hand to be positioned
- over a rest.
- o Runtime errors would sometimes occur when run on 800 x 600
- screen with Multi-View or Combo-Pack accessories.
-
- New features in the 1999.03.09 version include:
- o Made Play and Record buttons faster when song has audio tracks.
- o When stopping & restarting a song in the middle, Audio and Midi
- tracks were sometimes being played out of sync
- o Fixed problems:
- o Mixer's Save Mix button caused overflow error for long songs
- o staff display problem related to deleting rests
- o File / Repair Song now works with a wider-range of
- badly-formatted MIDI files
-
- New features in the 1999.03.06 version include:
- o Added "solo" field to track list on Record page
- o Fixed problem where:
- o It would inappropriately warn about recording audio to a ZIP drive.
- o It would reverse "Drum row" fields for sampled rhythms
- o When loading song with Sampled Rhythms, it would needlessly say
- "If saved, file will be saved in a new format."
- o It sometimes generated "Reference beyond wave data" when playing
- back sampled rhythm tracks.
- o Mixer page's Copy to new audio track sometimes failed.
-
- New features in the 1999.03.05 version include:
- o Warns before any attempts to record audio to floppy or ZIP drive
- o Fixed problem where:
- o it sometimes crashed on systems with no CD-Rom drive.
- o it sometimes added noise or crashed or had sync problems
- when Mixer's page had Stereo Output checked while playing
- recording and then playing a Rhythm track that had Sampled audio.
-
- New features in the 1999.03.03 version include:
- o Fixed bug that caused MIDI and Audio tracks to be out of sync
- when playing MIDI through a software-based WaveTable synthesizer.
- o Added keyboard-shortcut for controlling note duration on the
- Compose page.
- o Fixed some bugs with the Edit/Quantitize Track menu item
-
- New features in the 1999.02.04 version include:
- o Internet Explorer is no longer required.
- o Better memory management for Audio recording, resulting in longer tracks
- when Multi-Audio accessory is installed.
- o Compose page has new button that lets you sing the note to be inserted.
- o For screens larger than 800 x 600, Record page now shows:
- o Mixer controls (Pan, Volume, Delay), or
- o Zoomed-out view of notes and wave data for all tracks at the same time
- o up to 25 tracks of information displayed at the same time instead of 10
- o Option to play notes as mouse moves over them on the staff
- o Much faster loading and scrolling of large MIDI files
- o Compose page for Rhythm tracks and Piano Roll now support
- Duplet, Pentuplet, and Septuplet notes
- o Added Diatonic option to Transpose menu
- o Added ability to save Cue points for all tracks, including Audio tracks
- o Added ability to delete Cue points
- o All new cue points will get updated as notes before them are
- inserted and deleted
- o The following problems were fixed:
- o Mistakenly reported the error:
- "Unable to perform this operation because it would result in
- two notes of the same pitch being played at the same time on the same track."
- o Transpose Selection wasn't transposing the last NoteOff event.
- o When real-time mixing 8-bit audio samples mixer played a noisy mix.
-
- New features in the 1999.01.06 version include:
- o Enabled scrolling selection on Compose page
- o Enabled Piano-Roll view of Instrument tracks with repeating measures
- o Enabled Cut/Copy/Paste on Rhythm tracks
- o Added lead-in and accent sounds to metronome
- o Added option to save MIDI files as MIDI type 1, so they can be loaded by
- other composing programs.
- o Made importing a long .WAV file faster.
- o Added PC-Keyboard -> MIDI-Keyboard user interface for Instrument tracks
- o Added PC-Keyboard -> Drum user interface for Rhythm tracks
- o Added Pitch Bend and Channel Pressure to Pro-Mix set of controllers
- o The following problems were fixed:
- o some overflow errors in Compose page for long audio tracks.
- o When audio recording was started while song was not positioned
- at the start of the track, it sometimes introduced noise at the
- start of the track.
- o bug was preventing recording and mixing Audio tracks longer
- than 8 minutes.
- o "Edit/Quantitize Track" was converting a Rhythm track to an Instrument track.
- o "Edit/Split into single channel tracks" menu item sometimes failed.
- o out of memory errors when loading some songs with empty tracks.
-
-
- New features in the 1998.12.04 version include:
- o Fixed several Audio-related bugs
- o Improved accuracy of Tempo Map
- o Added ability to paste Stereo to Mono and Mono to Stereo
- o Added nested page tabs
- o File/Import Audio From... menu was sometimes not working correctly
- o Added ability to transpose selected notes on the staff
-
- New features in the 1998.12.02 version include:
- o With Pro-Mix accessory, you can now edit a song's Tempo map as
- well as any MIDI control value over time.
- For Audio tracks, with Pro-Mix, you can edit Pan and Volume over time.
- o Now supports real-time mixing of Audio tracks, when Multi-Audio
- accessory is installed.
- o Added Audio VU meters to the Record page.
- o Added ability to "punch-in" to re-record over mistakes in audio tracks.
- o With the Multi-Audio 4/8 accessory, you can simultaneously record
- up to 4 Audio tracks at the same time.
- o Added Options page for setting various options, and allow you
- to control Anvil Studio's Record/Play/Stop functions remotely using
- MIDI controllers.
- o Added ability to record Audio's Left or Right channel by itself.
- o You can now click on the Time field to display time in SMPTE or
- Measure:Beat:Ticks format.
- o The following problems were fixed:
- o Edit/Split track into single-channel tracks was not working.
- o Deleting a section of notes on the Compose page sometimes hung the machine.
- o On Windows NT, minimizing Anvil Studio's window resulted terminated the program.
- o On Compose page for Rhythm track, Tempo setting was not accuratly calibrated in Beats-Per-Minute.
- o With some Audio cards, starting the song from anywhere other
- than the start of the song caused all MIDI tracks to play Piano instruments.
-
- New features in the 1998.10.08 version include:
- o Added staff style control to display 1 or 2 treble or bass clefs
- o Displays notes outside staff limits
- o The Echo MIDI Events checkbox now has an effect even when not Recording.
- o Added File/Truncate menu to easily shorten the duration of .MID files.
- o Added File/Merge Song menu to allow copying tracks between .MID files.
- o Fixed several bugs, including:
- o program crashed when changing Mixer's Synth Volume while song played
- o When Record page is visible, notes get echoed only to the active track's synth
- o a key signature problem that affected the Music Drills accessory,
- o program didn't work properly with Sound Cards that only support
- MIDI and not Audio,
- o the Compose page for a Rhythm track didn't work with screen
- resolution > 1024 x 768.
-
- New features in the 1998.09.05 version include:
- o Added VU meter to the Audio Compose page.
- o Fixed problems that caused the program to crash when:
- o overlapping notes were inserted into a Rhythm track.
- o System had no Audio Input device installed.
- o Editing the Rhythm Tool's properties on the Perform page.
- o Changing key signature to a minor key.
-
- New features in the 1998.09.02 version include:
- o Added per-track Pan (balance) controls to mixer page.
- o Enabled the following features when optional Multi-Audio accessory is installed:
- o Ability to record several MONO audio tracks and mix them to stereo.
- o Ability to mix several audio tracks to one new audio track.
- o When dragging a note to staff in key of D, it is now always added as a note
- in the current key, rather than being displayed with an accidental.
- o When composing a rhythm track, various note durations are now supported.
- o Some bugs were fixed on the Compose page related to right-mouse note properties.
- o Added control over the number of notes per line when the Print Screen
- accessory is installed.
- o Fixed bug that misnamed some key signatures,
- e.g. D major was called D sharp major.
-
- New features in the 1998.08.07 version include:
- o Now Echo's to SoundCard while recording MIDI.
- o New tools have been added to Anvil Studio's Compose page,
- including popup menu control of individual note properties including:
- pitch, duration, volume, stem direction,
- staccato, and tie-to-next-note.
- o Several errors were fixed including some related to how
- accidentals get displayed.
-
- New features in the 1998.07.07 version include:
- o Better tools on the Compose page.
- o select, cut, copy, paste notes on the staff
- o drag notes from the Note palette to the staff
- o remove individual notes and change note attributes
- by clicking on the notes with the right-mouse button.
- Attributes include "Tie to next note" and "Staccato"
- o Fixed problem that prevented editing properties of Rhythm tool on perform page.
- o Fixed problem that caused error message when recording pitch bend events
- o Added check box to Synths page that controls synthesizer's
- LocalControl setting.
- o Several other errors fixed
-
- Bugs fixed in the 1998.06.24 version include:
- o Better memory management for Audio recording.
- o Rhythm tool on Perform page is more precise.
- o Fixed Perform Page demo programs Rhythm.prg and Sample1.prg
- o Fixed bug with Edit/Quantitize menu.
- o old .WAV files were being left on the disk every time a new
- Audio track got recorded.
- o the Audio Lab page was broken.
- o Several minor problems were fixed.
-
- New features and bugs fixed in the 1998.05.20 version include:
- o Enables optional accessory for printing high-resolution Sheet music.
- o Supports Stereo Audio (the previous versions were limited to Mono).
- o Create a single .WAV file by mixing all Audio and Sampled Rhythm
- tracks with the Delay effect applied.
- o Fixed several bugs, including some Setup bugs.
- o Now runs on Windows NT 4.0.
-
- Features that were added and bugs fixed in the 1998.04.22 version include:
- o Added more context-sensitive help.
- o Fixed bug where Help information sometimes got blanked out
- on machines with Internet Explorer version 4.0.
- o The Back Page arrow failed to work in some situations.
- o MIDI recording had some problems with synths that generated
- Clock and Active Sensing MIDI events.
-