Howdy all,
Doggiebox 1.0.5 is now available for download. This latest update brings
a couple of new features and a number of bug fixes. Notably, several
issues that were causing crashes for people should be eliminated.
Here is the complete list of changes since 1.0.4:
- Added a new preferences option, "Allow final sounds to decay
completely". The default setting is on, which maintains the standard
behaviour where Doggiebox intelligently lets sounds (e.g. crash cymbals)
decay at the end of song. However, if you are exporting patterns for use
as loops, you can now turn this off to achieve output of precise duration.
- Added support for cut/copy/pasting of drums (with all attributes, e.g.
sound, name, and icon) in the drum kit editor.
- Improved the play/stop button so that response during playback is now
instant, instead of sometimes briefly hanging.
- Improved handling of the licence registration key so that it is now
automatically recognised for all user accounts on the computer.
- Fixed a bug that caused Doggiebox to truncate the last beat of each bar
by a fraction of a second. While imperceivable under normal
circumstances, this was causing problems for people exporting files to
use as loops, etc.
- Fixed a bug where drum kit reconciliation did not work properly under
Mac OS 10.3.
- Fixed a bug where the position indicator would sometimes stop moving in
mid-song during playback.
- Fixed a bug where selecting a different drum kit while editing a song
would sometimes affect only some of the drums.
- Fixed a font dependency that could cause mysterious non-behaviour under
some circumstances.
- Other minor fixes for Mac OS 10.1 compatibility (the playback indicator
now works instead of crashing; a hang after exporting should be eliminated).
- Changed the keyboard shortcut for Preferences from cmd-; to cmd-, in
respect of Apple human interface guidelines.
- Added a few additional sounds to Ben's Premier Kit.
Due to bugs in the current version of Stuffit Expander in dealing with
permissions in .sit files, I'm bundling Doggiebox this time as a .bz2
archive. Stuffit Expander will handle it fine though (I've tested with
both 7.0.3 and 8.0), and it affords slightly better compression to boot.
Grab it at <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox.bz2>.
Enjoy,
-ben
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Ben Kennedy, chief magician
zygoat creative technical services
613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628
http://www.zygoat.ca
