Version 1064

     Features

No New Features For This Build

     Known Issues

- Restored the checkbox to allow you to turn off sound output through the MIDI keyboard for when autodetection fails.
- Improved the autodetection algorithm so that it doesn't make mistakes on keyboards as often (it will now work properly with the Yamaha PSR-295, which has different ID's on its input and output devices).
- Suppressed drum tracks when playing through a keyboard is detected, as they usually sound terrible EXCEPT for the PSR-295, which works as a special case. Most General MIDI drum tracks will now work properly on the PSR-295. We may want to add more options to allow configuration of drums on keyboards we've never seen before, but that's a different debate.

Version 1065

     Features

The primary change to this build is that the pseudo-notes theme uses realistic-looking notation on the short objects (half notes, quarter notes, whole notes, dotted notes, etc.).

     Known Issues

No Known Issues

Version 1066

     Features

- The notes theme has a new, light blue background.
- The staff rendering was completely changed to Chris's new "clef over the keyboard" style.
- Short notes render very differently. All three note types work (colored vs. uncolored), and extras like the color dropout challenge work as expected.
- The long notes are now in the "thick colorful tubes" style, with no stems.
- Chords look a lot better. Colored notes look a lot better.

     Known Issues

- The world screen has NOT been changed yet; it still has the old 'parchment' art for the preview. This will be fixed soon.
- We have not made any changes to note animations yet. There's still some debate over the best way to do this.
- The 42-pixel animation on long notes is not yet lined up correctly.
- We don't support inverted note stems, so some types of chords cannot display properly. In general, we don't support full notation, which means lots of things display a little strangely if you're used to reading music.

Version 1067

     Features

- The world screen for notes has new art, with proper thumbnails and object previews.
- The animation for long objects in notation mode is cleaned up.
- All long notes in all themes now have special art for 'head-only' notes (sixteenth notes). This is to avoid the 'cut-off' look.
- The three short-note styles all use the hatching rainbow bird as the note-hit animation. The egg color matches note colors.

     Known Issues

- We still don't support inverted note stems, which prevents certain chords from displaying correctly. More generally, a lot of our notation display will not perfectly match musical conventions.
- Notation is currently always done in horizontal mode. We are ignoring the "Horizontal mode" checkbox when in this mode.

Version 1068

     Features

- (Cosmetic) Clefs no longer bleed through to the options screens on the freeze menu.
- (Cosmetic) The hatching rainbow bird now hatches sideways (relative to the notes' motion), so that its orientation matches that of the original logo.

     Known Issues

No Known Issues

Version 1069

     Features

No New Features

     Known Issues

Some previous builds had an issue in which playing a song that is in a flat key and which contains an A-flat above high C with the short-notes theme turned on would freeze the game. This build fixes that issue.

Version 1070

     Features

- Many of the "no sound" problems should be fixed now (see issue 1612). This issue seems to appear when a single computer has had many different types of MIDI drivers installed -- a lot of the drivers conflict with each other, and confuse our software. The software should now be more difficult to confuse.
- Keyboard sizing is much more generic now. In advanced mode, you may select any keyboard size from 1 to 7 octaves.
- Many cosmetic bugs have been fixed. Note animations should be better lined up. The "piano roll" notation may be used in both vertical and horizontal mode.
- Formerly, if you went into the freeze menu, clicked and HELD the mouse on any button, then pushed escape, then released the mouse button, the game would crash. This is now fixed.

     Known Issues

No Known Issues

Version 1071

     Features

- There was a possible crasher in the metronome. It only showed up in the Debug build, but may have caused rare problems in the release build on certain machines. It is now fixed. This bug was not in Adminitrack, as far as I know.
- Some of the issues with selecting keys on the track screen have been fixed. It may not be perfect yet. (1618)
- Note label alignments were fixed. (1617)
- A boundary bug on the song selection screen was fixed. (1615)
- The audible metronome's timing was tweaked. It should feel a lot closer to the beat now, although this will vary somewhat depending on what instrument you're using. (1614)
- The time signatures have been fixed - no more 3/9 or 6/9. (1613)
- The "Horizontal mode" box is forced selected when you choose a note theme. It will return to its previous setting when you choose something else. (1610)

     Known Issues

No Known Issues