This section of the User's Guide records the changes that have been made at each major and minor
release of the Beatnik Editor, beginning with version 2.0. There's a section for each major release
and its related minor releases.
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The current release of the Beatnik Editor is version 2.1. If you're using an earlier version of the
Beatnik Editor, you should update to the latest.
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Version 2.1
Beatnik Editor version 2.1 is a minor maintenance release with a few new features, released in
June of 2001. To date there have been no maintenance releases for version 2.1.
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What's New in Version 2.1
General Changes
- Player Window: New controls
- Mute and Solo button behavior changed:
- To change multiple buttons at once, click on one button and then drag across the rest of
the desired buttons.
- To turn all 16 Mute buttons on or off at once, click the word Mute to the left of the buttons.
- To turn all 16 Solo buttons on or off at once, click the word Solo to the left of the buttons.
- Song Position Dial behavior changed:
- Clicking a position on the dial makes the current Song start playing from that position.
- Tempo Display is now updated continuously.
- Session Window: New context menu commands
- Make Instrument Using and Make Song Using command dialogs now include a
checkbox option for the Specify Root Key value. This allows you to preserve the
Samples' original Root Keys in the newly created Instruments, if desired.
- All Tabs: New Get Resource Usage command in the context menu displays the
selected Song, Instrument, or Sample's total size in bytes.
- The displayed size includes the uncompressed sizes of all dependent objects; for an
Instrument, this will be the Instrument resource plus all Samples used in the Instrument.
For a Song, the size will include all Instruments it uses, plus all the Samples
used by those Instruments.
- Instruments Tab: New Show Empty Instrument Slots command in the context
menu turns display of empty slots on and off.
- Sample Editor Window: New sample rate menu
- Added a new Sample Rate menu to make it easier to pick a standard sample rate
(48000, 44100, 36000, 22050, or 11025 Hz). To set a different sample rate, select
Other and type in a number in Hz.
- Make Instrument and Make Song dialog boxes: New option
- Added a new checkbox to the Specify Root Key field. This gives you the option of
preserving the Root Keys of your samples when creating a new Instrument or
Song from them via the Make Instrument Using and Make Song Using commands.
Mac OS Changes
- No Sequencer Needed for Live MIDI Input - You no longer need to use a MIDI sequencer to
route a connected MIDI controller (such as a keyboard) to the Beatnik Editor's Live MIDI
Input. Just select the device in the Preferences dialog.
- Pop-Up Help - Now displays `ToolTip' style pop-up help tags for onscreen items, similar to
the Windows version.
- Minimum System Requirements changed:
- Mac OS 8.5 no longer supported; 8.6 minimum
- PPC 604e processor no longer supported; 604 minimum
- Minimum processor speed increased to 180MHz
- Hard Disk use reduced from 15 MB to 8 MB
- Web Browser minimum version reduced from 4.5 to 4.0 (for online help)
- Added Microsoft Internet Explorer and AOL browser (for online help)
Windows Changes
- Minimum System Requirements changed:
- Minimum processor increased from Pentium 133 to Pentium Pro 200
- Hard Disk use reduced from 15 MB to 7.3 MB
- Web Browser minimum version reduced from 4.5 to 4.0 (for online help)
Bug Fixes
- When the Player Window is set to 8-bit audio output, the list of available audio file export formats
should not have included the MPEG formats.
- The commands Make Instrument from Sample and Make Song from Sample were disregarding
the sample's Root Key.
- Attempting to export a single Sample as an RMF file could cause a crash.
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