sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi v2.5.0

v2.5.0 - 'Craft'

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Monday 13th April, 2015
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This release comes with support for Minecraft: Pi Edition installed on the Raspberry Pi. You can now create music with Minecraft visuals or even code up a synth score in Minecraft blocks and read and play the score from Sonic Pi! Another exciting aspect of this release is much improved editor functionality for navigating around and manipulating code via keyboard shortcuts. This means that live coding just got a lot more fun. The keyboard shortcuts are based on the standard shortcuts provided by GNU Emacs - the oldest and most powerful text editor in use by wizard programmers today.

Breaking Changes

• invert_wave now defaults to 1 everywhere. I found I always inverted
  the wave every time I used a synth/fx where wave inversion was
  key. This seemed like such a better default I've broken compatibility
  for it. Apologies if this has affected you.
• The flanger FX now defaults the optional arg stereo_invert_wave to
  1.
• Renamed FX ring to ring_mod to reduce the potential for confusion
  with the ring datastructure.
• Tab now indents current line or selection rather than inserting a
  useless tab character.

New

• Support for programming Minecraft Pi Edition.
• sync now accepts multiple cue ids and will sync on the first matching id.
• New fn pitch_ratio for converting a midio note to a frequency
  ratio. Useful for tuning samples.
• New fn line for creating a line from start to finish with a specific
  number of slices.
• New fn spark for displaying lists of numbers in a fancy text-graph
  (▁▃▅▇) in the log.
• On stop, amplitude of output slides down over 1s to silence for a
  smoother transition.
• sample_duration now scales result based on current BPM.
• range now accepts optional args: inclusive: and step:.

GUI

• German translation of GUI and tutorial. Simply open Sonic Pi with a
  machine with a German localisation setting.
• Display GUI fully maximised when opening for first ever time.
• Workpace indexing now starts at 0 to match standard programming indexes.
• New shortcuts - M-< and M-> for switching workspaces.
• Many new Emacs-based code navigation and editing shortcuts. See
  the shortcut cheatsheet in the built-in tutorial for more information.
• Increase height of doc and error panes.
• Improve error pane colour scheme.
• Auto-align now trims whitespace from start and end of buffer.
• Add preference toggle to hide/show line numbers.
• Documentation now supports semantic formatting and highlighting.
• Docsystem tabs are now positioned at the bottom for better navigation.
• New preference to hide/show line numbers in editor.

Synths & FX

• New FX - :pitch_shift

Bug Fixes

• Fix OSC lib to properly encode multibyte chars such as UTF8
• Fix sporadic issue on some platforms when trigging percussive sounds
  within a reverb FX caused a serious audio overload.
• Add missing fn metadata for *_sample_bpm
• Fix synth metadata for FX :bpf.
• Fix arg metadata for use_sample_pack_as
• Rings now pretty print themselves as (ring 1, 2, 3) rather than [1, 2, 3].
• C-k keyboard shortcut now copies text into the clipboard.
• Scales and chords now return actual rings rather than ring-like
  things.
• Improve Ring Mod FX arguments
• Exceptions created within with_fx are now raised correctly.

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