Tonescape® Release Notes
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Welcome to the TONALSOFT™ Tonescape® release-notes page. Release notes for various Tonescape® releases and editions are available herein. Each release has its own section Release notes that are applicable for all releases are available at the top of this page.
IMPORTANT NOTE: As of the public release of the Den Haag version of Tonescape® (28 January 2007), TONALSOFT™ no longer officially supports any operating system other than Windows XP. Tonescape® Den Haag will probably install and run on Windows Vista, and may run on Windows 2000 or Windows 98, but no customer service is available for those OS.
All Releases of Tonescape®
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After the installation is complete, before running Tonescape® for the first time, be certain that you have Microsoft .Net 1.1 Service Pack 1 installed. Tonescape® will generate various errors if Service Pack 1 is not installed. You can install Service Pack 1 by using the Windows Update command that's built right into the Windows start menu. When running Windows Update, ensure that you have selected the .Net 1.1 Service Pack 1 to be installed.
Tonescape® Den Haag (first public release)
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If you were part of our support team and you're upgrading from the Catalina or Sun Dog versions of Tonescape® to the Den Haag version, you must first manually remove Catalina or Sun Dog (using the Windows Control Panel "Add/Remove Software"), and then run the Den Haag install file.
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All notes listed below under "Catalina" apply also to the Den Haag version, with the exception that the only supported operating system is Windows XP.
Tonescape® Catalina (Alpha)
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If you're upgrading from Sun Dog to Catalina, you must first remove Sun Dog, and then install Catalina.
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DO NOT TRY TO USE STAFF NOTATION! -- it is still under development and will be released with a future alpha version of Tonescape®.
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Tonescape® now exports MIDI files. Files are exported using the MIDI-file-format number 2, each musical part is placed in its own track. For now, since none of the standard media players exploits the power of the MIDI-port meta event, MIDI files are created to use a single port that's shared across all parts/tracks. This yields the standard 16-channel limitation.
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Numerous software issues have been fixed and are included in Catalina.
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Windows 98 incompatibilities have been fixed, although application performance is still slower than on Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional.
Tonescape® Sun Dog (Alpha)
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DO NOT TRY TO USE STAFF NOTATION! -- it is still under development and will be released with a future alpha version of Tonescape®. It's likely that your application will crash if you attempt to view your piece using staff.
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Obviously missing now, Tonescape® will export both MIDI and Wave files before it is released (update: Tonescape Den Haag does export to MIDI and Csound). For the time being, this Alpha II version can be used for editing tonespaces, tunings, and musical pieces. You can also perform real-time playback.
Error Fixes
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This release addresses the errors that have appeared within the workspace manager. We have fixed the known problems in the workspace and have added additional features to filter user-actions that might cause the workspace to be corrupted.
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On the MPE conductor, there were some problems using the SHIFT-drag command on either the volume or tempo line.
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There was a fatal error in the sequencer that appeared only when doing a "play-from-current-position".
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The section-rename command on the MPE-Outline had a fatal error in some instances.
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The widths of the musical parts, sections, part instances, and section instances were incorrectly computed to be wider than they should have been. Additionally, the same computation corrupted the width and horizontal position of the "zone" rectangle.
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There was an infrequent, subtle error detected within the code that manages two-dimensional display figures. The thrown exception incorrectly stated that a duplicate figure is being added to the 2-dimensional display.
Windows 98 Issues
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Don't use the "Stop Playback" button on the Win98 player toolbar. Using that button causes the application to freeze up. (Ah, remember the good ole days). For now, after you start playback, you need to follow through until the end. This problem is caused by some fault or difference in the way that threads are implemented in .Net on Win98 versus the other platforms.
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Tonescape® runs noticably slower on Windows 98 than it does with Windows 2000 or XP. Yes, on the same machine.
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Since Win98 has no GS Wavetable Synthesizer (standard with Win2k/WinXP), you're likely to have much poorer quality playback. For instance with a typical sound-driver that's installed with the SoundBlaster card, the SB PCI 120 drivers are obviously tinnier and thinner sounding than the GS Wavetable Synth.
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The fade-in effector for dialogs and on-screen editors doesn't work on Win98. All dialogs and on-screen editors appear abruptly.
