terminatorX ChangeLog Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Alexander König Version 3.82 * the position of the audio control scrollbars is now saved within set files and restored upon loading. * fixed a liblrdf related issue resulting in use of previously free'd memory. * rendered a new knob with the wonderful povray - all images are now distrbuted in gdk-pixbuf-csource'd form in the src/icons directory. * added an extra "File/Load Audio File" menu item as new users would always try to load an audio file via "File/Open". * fixed compilation issues with g++ >= 3.4. * added reverse mapping of MIDI parameters which can be turned on/off via the parameter menu. This allows setting up a MIDI controller as a crossfader. * in order to have a SPAM protected online version of the ChangeLog this document is now generated from XML sources. * merged a patch from Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk> that fixes big endian audio playback with ALSA. * applied a fix from Juha Erkkila <erkkila@cc.jyu.fi> that makes tX work on systems that don't have procfs mounted. * added an optional Dry/Wet control for all LADSPA plugins. Simply click on the plugin's label to add or remove the additional control. * added an additional stereo effects queue that allows loading stereo LADPSA plugins. The stereo effects are located below the mono effects - to add a new instance press the "Stereo FX" button and select the plugin of your choice. * fixed the plugin menu - empty categories no longer get a menu entry * plugins that do not qualify as realtime capable will now be disabled. * I'm fed up with terminatorX related security postings, so the old suid-root method had to go. To achieve realtime scheduling you now have three options: + a) run terminatorX as root (obviously dangerous and not recommended) + b) build terminatorX with capabilities enabled and install it suid-root. Due to the use of PR_SET_KEEPCAPS this will work on Linux _only_ + c) use the JACK backend with "POSIX draft capabilities" (see jackd manpage) * loading sets with missing LADPSA plugins no longer crash tX. * fixed a bug that made reading error messages impossible with the load dialog open. * the engine now handles audiodevices that break down when already in playback mode more gracefully. This really necessary when jack decides to kick us out. * all vu meters are stereo now. Having a mono widget for a stereo thing just didn't make any sense anymore. * modified the render loop to comply with LADSPA V1.1: 0 db is now at 1.0f. This makes a lot of plugins work with terminatorX that haven't worked with previous releases. * data send to the JACK backend no goes through the "Anti-Clip-Device", too. Unless you #define TX_DO_CLIP of course. * I've drawn some new icons with the cool inkscape. They're now being built into terminatorX as gdk-pixbuf c-source code, so they actually do alpha blending. * wrote support for gtk+'s new FileChooser widget - will be enabled automatically when configure finds a gtk+ >= 2.4.0 * fixed the buffer overflows detected by c0wboy <c0wboy@tiscali.it> in his outsiders-terminatorX-001.txt advisory. * support for gtk+ startup notification. * "README.GNOME" was outdated so it had to go. * merged parts of a patch graciously contributed by Adam King <aking@lgh.com.au> + simpler min/maximization for the control panels + bugfix for sequencer menu crash + the panel formally known as "Trigger" is now known as "Playback"> * added cpu-overload detection - currently disabled Version 3.81 * JACK doesn't seem to like SCHED_FIFO clients so I added a little test that will set SCHED_OTHER when jack output was selected. This will work for true root or a capabilities-enabled suid-root binary only. * removed the disfunctional "Cancel" button from the load-progress dialog. * switched default MIDI mapping to non-destructive. (previous settings will not be overwritten now). * added a default MIDI mapping accessible via the "Turntables" menu. The actual mapping is documented in the manual. * fixed a bug that caused enabling sync-client setting via MIDI to fail. * when compiled with rt-scheduling suppport terminatorX will now display the resulting scheduling policy in the "About" dialog. * if terminatorX was setup to use realtime priority for the audio engine thread but you dont want it - disable realtime scheduling in the Preferences dialog. This works with capabilities _ONLY_. * if you don't want to confirm program termination every time you can now disable "Ask for Quit confirmation" in the Preferences. * added support for Linux' POSIX capabilities. This allows a suid-root installed terminatorX binary to drop root privileges much earlier than with the old approach (so it should be more secure). Requires the libcap library. * obligatory documentation updates - clicking on the sub-sections should now work. * removed gtk+ 1.2 cruft - terminatorX now compiles with gtk+ 2.2 and *_DISABLE_DEPRECATED macros enabled. To verfiy that you can run configure with --disable-deprecated. * terminatorX now has a JACK backend. Currently it works like this: on startup tX will connect to the JACK daemon - if the daemon is not available on startup JACK output is not available. When the audio engine is turned off, tX emits silence via the JACK ports, so you can leave the ports connected. * sick of green - you can now configure the colors terminatorX should use for the audio display as well as the vu meters in the Preferences dialog. * hopefully fixed wrong setting of the master volume when loading set files. * some ALSA installations seem to core on snd_pcm_hw_params_free() after sound device init. So freeing the hw_params can now be explicitly disabled in the Preferences - if terminatorX crashes right after hitting the "Power On" button it might be necessary to activate this for your ALSA setup. This probably results in a tiny memory leak - but on leak vs core you might decide for leak. Note: I even enabled the leak by default now. * fixed a bug that caused turntable 1 to get the focus on entering Mouse Grab mode even when it's audio panel was minimized. * MIDI mappings can now have "bounds", meaning that the incoming MIDI signals can modify the parameter within the given range only. * introduced a new way of assigning MIDI controllers to parameters: simply right-click on a parameter's control: a menu with "MIDI Learn" and "Remove MIDI Binding" will pop up - select "MIDI Learn" and send the corresponding MIDI event. * fixed a bug in the MIDI callback thanks to David Hamilton <daham2@student.monash.edu> * running suid root (the old way) was reported exploitable by Andrew Griffiths <andrewg@felinemenace.org> - the described environment variable based exploit was fixed - however there are possibly other ways to exploit it. So the old method of running suid root has been disabled by default. On Linux systems you really should use the capabilities based approach (see above). If really want to use the old suid-root solution run configure with --enable-suidroot. * often, you record events and mess things up - in this case I'd often prefer dropping the complete take instead of recording a bad perfomance - which is why you now can activate "Confirm Recorded Events" from the "Sequencer" menu. When enabled terminatorX will ask whether to actually record or drop the events created for the last take. The setting for this flag is stored in your ~/.terminatorXrc. * introduced a new "Sequencer" menu that allows to delete events of a specific type (all, all for certain turntable, all for a certain parameter) from the sequencer. Events can be deleted for the complete song, upto the current song position or from the current song position. Yeah, I know, termintorX is lacking a proper event-editor here, so where's your patch? ;) * switching the X11 mouse cursor when the user has to wait for terminatorX to finish some operation * fixed a sequencer bug: the events for master pitch and volume weren't erased correctly when another set was loaded * fixed FreeBSD issues with the configure script * fixed compilation issues for gcc 2.95.x Version 3.80 * I've invested quite some time in valgrinding this release, among other things a major mem leak showed up - the sample memory wasn't being free'd correctly which is now corrected along with many other things. valgrind is a very helpful tool indeed. * Added a new Pitch Calculator that allows adjusting a turntable's pitch to that of the master turntable. This makes synchronizing finely cut loop samples really easy * XML based set files can get rather huge when they contain a lot of sequencer events - to solve this terminatorX now uses zlib to save compressed set files if enabled in the preferences dialog. * I hacked support for Steve Harris' cool liblrdf - if you've got that library setup correctly and you use Steve's wonderful plugin collection with RDF description you should get a nicely structured menu when clicking on the "FX" button. All plugins not categorized through RDF files go to the "Unclassified" category. * I'm no longer including the html and ps versions of the manual - it's now attached in it's XML/DocBook source and will be installed via scrollkeeper. terminatorX offers a menu entry to start gnome-help to display the manual. * Reworked the Preferences dialog - I now use glade-2 to create that code - I'm fed up with copy'n'pasting gtk+ code so now I'll let glade-2 do this whereever possible. The glade project files are included with this tarball in case you want to mess with them. * Switched to a fixed blocksize (1 ms) for rendering. This finally allows to playback set files with events recorded on machines with small buffer sizes on slow machines with large buffer sizes. The buffersize of the audiodevice has no effect on the "operating" blocksize anymore. Note that the samlping rate has a - very small - effect though. Depending on the sampling rate terminatorX will try to find a blocksize that fits exactly 1 ms - while this is easy for "straight" sampling rates (22000 32000 48000) this results in "44.1" samples for 44100 Hz. * Finally hacked a native ALSA backend. It's in "Works For Me" TM state. * Added "Remove Binding" button * MIDI now uses a GIOCallback so the effect of MIDI controllers is visible even without the audio engine turned on. * Reworked the mastergui for better usabilty and less space consumption, yes, terminatorX now features a boring menubar - which helps using it on small displays quite a bit, and should be easier to handle for first-time users. * Implemented a suggestion from Darrick Servis <darrick@dcn.davis.ca.us> that stops clipping in the mixer routine. The outgoing signal is now limited as it should be, which improves the output quality for signals too loud significantly. * MIDI mappings are now stored within the (new) tX set files. * Applied a patch from Arthur Peters <amp@singingwizard.org> which brings preliminary MIDI support to terminatorX. This is realized via the ALSA sequencer interface, so in order for it to compile you have to have the ALSA devel packages installed. ./configure will autodetect them. * Fixed a bug in XML serialization that dropped strings' contents. * You can now hit "F11" to turn fullscreen mode on/off - this will help using terminatorX on small DJ laptops. Note that the key will have no effect in scratch mode - hit it before you enter grab mode. This feature requires a NETWM compliant window manager. * terminatorX now stores set files as XML documents, too - so terminatorX has become terminatorXML finally. Note: for sets with a large number of events recorded into the sequencer - the XML based set files can grow significally larger than the old ones (see "compression" above) * The old code to support the obsolete binary tX file formats has now been scheduled for deletion. It's been moved into the tX_legacy* source files and it will be built only when "--enable-legacy" was used on configuring terminatorX (which is the default). Expect this to become disabled and then totally removed from the sources in future. * Enhanced audio data display - you can now zoom into the audio signal, which should allow much more precise scratching with larger audio files (ie complete tracks). On playback terminatorX will scroll the displayed area to ensure you always see the area of the sample in which you're currently scratching on. * I have not backported the new code to the old gtk+ 1.2 - so this release no longer builds with gtk+ 1.2 - you have to upgrade to gtk+ Version 2 to be able to build terminatorX. * fixed a nasty gcc 3.2 compilation bug - thanks to Adam Duck <duck@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> and other reporters Version 3.73 * Fixed a compilation bug ocurring on big endian systems only. * Fixed the built-in wav loading routines for big endian systems (again). * Finally traced down and fixed a long outstanding bug in the dial widget, the background of the dials is now drawn correctly. * Ported terminatorX to gtk+ Version 2. The code for gtk2 will be enabled when gtk2 is detected by configure. To force terminatorX to use the good old gtk 1.2.x (x>=5) run configure with the '--disable-gtk2' switch. WARNING: gdkxft-users: gtk2 applications segfault when preloading libgdk_xft.so! So unset LD_PRELOAD and set GDK_USE_XFT=1 instead. * Applied a patch from Adrian that brings lots of new stuff: + Debian package support (removed - Mike Furr now maintains an official Debain package for terminatorX) + enhanced GNOME integration + a manpage for terminatorX * Included another gcc3 fix thanks to Gregor Riepl <seto-kun@freesurf.ch>> * Improved configure's compatibilty - it should detect pthreads more reliably and it should detect ladspa.h when located in /usr/local/include without /usr/local/include being contained in the include path. * This release should compile and run on FreeBSD systems and possibly OpenBSD, too. Thanks for help and testing this goes to Tilman Linneweh <tilman@arved.de> . * Sequencer now refuses to play when no events available - and displays a dialog that suggests running the audio engine. * De-uglified the terminatorX note dialog. * Fixed gtk+2 signals for load file dialog * Pre-listen support for mpg321 * Added a new auto-hiding "panel-bar" to which turntable control and audio panels can be minimized to. * Cleaned up the turntables' audio panel for better looks and easier usage * Rewrote the engine thread completely - unlike before the engine thread is created on startup and kept alive until termination. * terminatorX can now be run suid root - and it might even be safe. After creating the engine thread both terminatorX threads drop root privileges before evaluating any parameters or reading/writing files, etc. The problem is the pthread "manager thread" is out of control of terminatorX code - so I cannot tell that thread to drop privileges. * Fixed Drag'n'Drop for GNOME 2 * To enhance the loading of audiofiles terminatorX now contains code to use mad (MPEG Audio Decoder), libvorbis and libaudiofile directly instead of pipeing audio data through mpg123, ogg123 or sox. As a result the new routines bring following advantages: + tX loads audiofiles significantly faster + tX now honours the samplerate of an audiofile (by adjusting the pitch of the turntable) + tX provides much better feedback on the loading progress Although the old loading-methods are still available (and piped loading has been improved, too) I highly recommend installing the libraries above as the new routines simply work better. * Deleted tons of old outdated code in tX_engine.cc and tX_mastergui.cc Version 3.72 * Applied a patch from Matthew Evans <activesx@hotmail.com> that introduces support for Ogg Vorbis audiofiles. It requires ogg123 > RC2 and sox to work. Autodetection is supported via configure (--enable-ogg123). * Experimental support for input devices other than the core-pointer under XFree86 > 4. This uses the xsetpointer executable that comes with XFree86. configure should autodetect this correctly, in case it doesn't use the --enable-xetpointer switch. * Adrian sent me a patch introducing two new buttons: mute and solo. As it didn't fully harmonize with the sequencer I rewrote parts of it and added new functionality to the turntables: They can now be switched to mix_solo or mix_mute - these settings affect current mixing only - their values will neither be saved nor will changes to those control be recorded in the sequencer - if you want to record muting events either use the mute button from the turntable's trigger menu, the keyboard short-cuts (alt/strg), or your middle mouse button. * fixed a bug that produced corrupt wavfiles on big endian machines * some minor fixes to make terminatorX compile with newer gcc releases * Well, I am allowed to change my mind, aren't I? Anyway, 3DNow! is back. Nevertheless newer gcc releases seem to have a bug in handling movq and the current 3DNow! stereo implementation does not seem to be very efficient. So use --enable-3dnow only if you want to help me improve perfomance. * Modified the mpg123 loader in order to make it work with mpg321, too. mpg321 lacks support for mpg123's -m switch ("singlemix") therefor mpg?2?'s output is now piped into sox to convert the signal to mono. For this reason mpg?2? support now requires sox to be installed, too. * added a workaround for a gtk+ bug that causes empty labels when strings contain umlauts - unluckily my name features one of these so I had to write this workaround. Version 3.71 * applied a big patch from Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de> . This patch includes: + compile fixes for the newer gcc releases + enhancements to the commandline switches (try --help for more details) * the bigNewThang (TM) is STEREO output. The Pan-Buttons now actually do what you'd expect them to. Therefore your soundcard must have stereo support of course but I guess in 2001 this really shouldn't be a problem, right? The recorded wavfiles will now be stereo wavfiles of course. Note that stereo output means double audio-bandwith, so if you tuned your old terminatorX setup to smallest latency you might get clicks now. You can easily fix this by increasing the buffer size in the options dialog by one - this will result in the same latency as before btw. * The echo effect has undergone some enhancements to profit from the new stereo output. It's signal will now be mixed seperately so you can choose a different stereo panorama position for the echo signal. So the new echo effect now features it's own PAN-knob. This does have some sideeffects though, for more details on this check the manual. Additionally the echo effect now has it's own volume setting to influence the dry/wet ratio of this effect. * Some LADSPA effects tend to create NAN (Not A Number) float values under certain conditions. This is bad as all following operations will result in NANs, so there will be no audio output no more. Now I will not introduce code to check for NANs as this is a waste of CPU-power, producing NANs is IMHO a faulty behaviour for LADSPA plugins and it should be fixed in there. Now a problem with the previous release was that the echo and lowpass effects "ate" those NANs resulting in NANs in those effects' buffers. So once a NAN got in there these effects caused the whole audio output to mute (forever). Which is why I now introduced some code to clear the buffers in echo and lowpass whenever you dis- and reenable them. * The GUI does have two master vu-meters now. The turntable's still have one vu-meter only. Note that the echo-signal is *not* included in the turntable's vu-meter now, as it's mixed seperately. * The 3DNow!-Optimizations are gone. And they'll proabably never come back as I don't have time to maintain the same algorithm twice. * The documentation has been updated to meet the new features. A lot of typos have been fixed as well. Version 3.70 * this list may be incomplete * This release brings support for LADSPA plugins. These plugins can be inserted into any turntable's effect chain at any position. You can edit the the effect sequence with the two tiny blue arrows. The builtin effects reside in the same effect chain as LADSPA plugins, but unlike LADSPA plugins they cannot be removed (nor multi-instanciated). The LADSPA plugins have to "fit" into the effect chain, which is why terminatorX supports *mono* plugins (plugins that have one audio-in and one audio-out port) only. For the plugin's control ports, termintatorX supports all HINTS except for LADSPA_HINT_LOGARITHMIC. Some control ports might be hard to handle as LAPDSA control ports can have very wide value ranges. It is possible to enter precise values though. Get LADSPA and the CMT plugins from http://www.ladspa.org. All parameters for LADSPA-plugins are "sequencable parameters", so you can record parameter-change events for the plugin's knobs just as for the standard parameters. * GUI re-design to support dynamic plugin GUIs. The audiofile-display is now seperated from the turntable's controls. The groups are split in to panels which can be minimized if not required (orange arrow). The panels' minimized-status will be saved within the set files. To add a plugin effect into the turntables effect chain click on the "FX"- button and choose the plugin of your choice. To get more info on the plugin effects click on their panel's label. NOTE: The panning-control is not working yet. It'll work as soon as stereo is done. * As always when introducing something new, the set-file file-format has changed. * The parameter-to-mouse-axis mapping has been moved from hardcoded to dynamic. You can now map any parameter that's considered "mappable" to the mouse-axis of your choice (for each turntable separately). This is true for the control ports of LADSPA-plugins, too. * Josh Steiner <joschi@eds.org> has joined terminatorX development. For this release he has added some startup parameters for terminatorX, some of them aiming for future MIDI support, and therefor not functional yet. Run "terminatorX --help" to get more details. * I know write the "manual" in SGML with the DocBook DTD. The distribution contains the HTML and the postscript version. These transformation have been created using James Clark's jade (DSSSL-processor) and Norman Walsh's DSSSL stylesheets for DocBook. * Removed obsolete "number of vtts"-option from the options dialog. * Applied a patch from Josh that fixes running the soundfile editor for files including a blank in their filename. * New tooltips for the complete GUI. Version 3.61 (unreleased) * applied a tiny patch from Atsushi Yamagata <yamagata@plathome.co.jp> to set locale on startup. Version 3.60 * terminatorX has a sequencer now. Warning: with the current design the sequencer will correctly play back recorded events only when the buffer size (of the audio device) is set to the same size as it was when recording the events. I know this is annoying and I will try to find a solution to this. Please take a look at the README to find out how the sequencer works. * fixed a bug causing the lowpass filter produce a constant signal * fixed the load file / drag'n'drop segfault bug * fixed the prelisten zombie processes bug * fixed the segfault on termination bug (with the audio engine running) * hacked the mixer code to use 3DNow! too. This improves 3DNow! performance gain from previously ~6% to more than 20% (depending on compiler optimizations) * extended the set-file-format to allow storing of sequencer events. This release allows loading old tX-sets too. * some gui icons. Choose Text/Icon / Icon only / Text only display of these icons in the Options dialog. You'll have to restart tX to see the changes though. * "soundfile-editor support": Enter the soundfile-editor of your choice in the tX-Options dialog (Still looking for an editor? Checkout Dave's Linux Sound and MIDI Pages: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/). Click the edit button in the Main-Panel to start your editor with the turntable's soundfile - edit ;) - save and click the reload button. * big endian bug fixes by Scott C. Knight <scknight@indiana.edu> * --enable-benchmark will now produce a benchmark binary. This takes a set file as a parameter (that set file should autotrigger all tables, else the benchmark will measure how fast tX can generate zeros ;) WARNING: the benchmark binary is not a usable terminatorX binary. * a new dial-widget. I created this for the upcoming GUI-redesign - and decided I let you debug it right now ;) If you don't want it run configure with the --disable-dial switch. * some gui redesign. The volume scales are now located near their corresponding "flash"-widget. This release fits into very small windows - so it should be usable on smaller displays as well. * Adrian told me configure doesn't have to check for glib after checking for gtk+ - I guess he's right so the glib-test has gone. * more minor fixes Version 3.55 * implemented "sequenceable parameters" (see tX_seqpar.*). This means the groundwork for the sequencer is done. Although this release does not yet feature a sequencer - there's still a profit: you can now see the GUI (e.g. the lowpass-freq slider) update while you change that value with your mouse in dga grab mode (e.g. up/down with the default X/Y-Control settings). * fixed (libmmx) mmx.h to work with gcc 2.95 and above * fixed compilation problems for big endian machines. still runtime probs reported though. * fixed configure-script as the new bash complains about == in string compares * fixed some gui segfaults * added an ugly GNOME-mimetype installer. This installs the ".tX"-mime type, an terminatorX-application icon and a ".tX"-icon. I could use some hints on how I could make automake install that instead of an extra script. (see README.GNOME) * added Drag'n Drop support. Works with the great gmc. Drop an audio file over the filename-button or the wavdisplay of a turntable to load it into that table. Drop an audiofile over the "Add Turntable" Button to create a new turntable and load that file into that turntable. Drop a tX-set file over the "Load Set" button to load the set. Version 3.51 * fixes the load_piped() compilation error if you use neither sox nor mpg123. Note that you have no "pre-listening" without mpg123 for mp3s and no "pre-listening" for any other file without sox. Version 3.5 * Yet another redesign ;) Oh well this project moved from c++/multithreaded to c++/singlethreaded, to c/multithreaded and now, finally, back to c++/multithreaded. This shows quite some foresight, I'd say ;) * Due to the redesign I had to change a lot (everything?) again so this document can impossibly hold all changes. but let's see: * tX now uses floats instead of doubles for a lot of parameters. Therefore the old .terminatorXrc.bin is now called .terminatorX3rc.bin to allow parallel use of older releases. But you'll have to configure the new release again the first time you run it. * tX now supports an unlimited no of turntables. The only limit is your display really. * Each of these turntables has their own pitch / volume settings and a dedicated lowpass and echo effect section. * You can now map mouse motion to a function of your choice (scratching/ volume/cutoff/echo-feedback and nothing) * Recording will now happen straight to disk. You'll have to specify a filename before you start recording. * You can sync the turntables to one master turntable. * There are two master settings for pitch and volume available to modify all turntables. The turntable pitch is relative to the master pitch. * You can save a complete set (of turntables and settings) to a .tX set file. The audiofile data will *not* be saved within that file, but it'll contain the absolut filename to these files. I know this makes the act of exchanging sets over the net more complex so if somebody wants to code set files with integrated audio data... ;) * The way audiofiles are loaded has been redesigned too: the builtin wav routines, the sox support and mpg123 are no longer connected. This means you can use mpg123 support without sox support and still have the builtin wav routines enabled. If you have the builtin wav reader and sox enabled, tX will try try to use the builtin routines first, and if they fail sox will be used as a fallback which is of course slower as you know... There's some support for Benno Senoner's brilliant 3.2-mmap() patch but the patch still needs to be ported. * You can now select which parameter to map to a mouse axis. * experimental 3DNow! support (works with gcc < 2.95 only) * tX-windows now have an icon, thanks Michael! Version 3.2 * implemented 2D-Scratching ;) You can now use the other axis of your mouse two modify the cutoff frequency of the lowpass filter (if enabled). The resonance factor can be set via the slider underneath "LP Filter". Seems to eat quite some CPU power though... * Updated THANKS, AUTHORS * as most people seem to use sox/mpg123 anyway and as I still get "I want mp3" emails I changed the configure script slightly: It now automatically enables the use of sox and mpg123 if these are available. If you still want 'em good old 16Bit/44.1Khz/Mono builtin routines you have to specify --enable-wavonly with your configure cmdline. * Prepared the tarball for the Win32 port. You can now compile tX with cygwin and the Makefile.cygwin in the src directory if you have all the required libs (gtk, pthreads etc...). The resulting exe will run BUT is completely unusable for now... Stou Sandalski <tangui@cell2000.net> and I are planning to make it usable in the future. * The About-Dialog now contains some info on how the binary was compiled Version 3.1 * Optimized audio-rendering code for speed (might run on some machines with smaller buffsize (-> lower latency) than pre-3.1) - Hey, tX now uses less than 10% CPU (says kpm) with mixing enabled on my i586-200MMX machine!! * "fixed" stdout-output. Due to the pipe-buffering realtime schratching can not be considered usable for now :( * Added config option --enable-scheduler, which will cause the terminatorX engine-thread to run with FIFO scheduling policy and highest priority. This might enable some machines to use smaller buffsizes. It requries root privileges though - either run terminatorX as root - or make terminatorX suid root WHICH IS A BAD IDEA FOR MULTI-USER SYSTEMS IF OTHER USERS CAN ACCESS THE BINARY ;) You only have to think about this when you experience buffer underruns with your desired latency. And it might not even help... * Rehacked the de-clicking (fading) code. The old one tried to be much more intelligent - and failed fading out the signal sometimes. The new code is much simpler (faster) and is much more reliable. * added common sense to the warp feature (f-key in scratch mode). The warping speed is still connected to the mouse speed but it's now adjusted to the sample size as well: you can warp through any sample completely with the same mouse distance. * added debug configure switch. Enables (very few) debug messages for now. I decided not to enable the old V2.X messages as they are sent to stdout, which would sound pretty strange to people who use the stdout-option. Version 3.02 * Fixed Adrian's name in the THANKS file. Sorry, Adrian. * Corrected Makefile.am for license.c that did not build correctly on some systems - Thanks to Michael Pruett <mikep@ugcs.caltech.edu> Version 3.01 * fixed a bug that caused terminatorX to crash without --enable-sox or mpg123input. Version 3.0 * Changed everything ;) * switched from C++ to C for gtk's sake * switched back two multithreading * implemented new gtk+ gui and dialogs * new mouse-sampling code now uses DGA's DirectMouse * implemented "initalizing"-support for XInput devices. * new (alpha) "pre-listening" feature in scratch/loop dialogs * hacked vtt for click-free audio. Might be problematic with big kernel level buffersizes but scratching with big buffsize is no fun anyway. * options are now stored in ~/.terminatorXrc.bin automatically (on exit) as well as windowsize and the last used filenames * terminatorX now comes with a configure script - no more Makefile hacking required (nor a good idea ;) ) * new wavdisplay-widget update frequency is now configureable * new position-display is much more visible which allows more precise scratching * new mute-feature allows you to silence the scratch-playback completely while the loop keeps playing (press either <m>-key or right mouse-button. * support for mouse buttons: + 1. (left) button: same as <SPACE>, do scratch + 2. (right) button: mute scratch + 3. (middle) button: stop * wrote support for sox and mpg123. This enables terminatorX to read close to any audiofile. You need to have sox and mp3 and this feature (as it is still alpha) needs to be enabled via configure-switches see INSTALL * licmak now is an awk script. Thanks Christian! I was also received two perl scripts (Thanks, guys!) but I now use the awk script as it is the smallest. * introduced <F>-key to "warp" through scratch-sample (just check it out) * dropped commandline arguments * dropped old X-Code + Mouse warping madness * bug fixes (less than bug introduces though ;) ) Version 2.4 (unreleased) * implemented a time counter * licmak now finally is what it should be: a perl script (licmak.pl) it was contributed by Adam Sjøgren <asjo@diku.dk> . Thanks! Version 2.3 * wavfile overreading fixed by Andrew C. Bul+hac?k <acb@zikzak.net> * Using portable type definitions now where required. If you don't have a <sys/types.h> on your system and your machines type sizes equal those of an X86-machine you can specify -DUSE_X86_TYPES in Makefile to compile without <sys/types.h> * Slight change in audiodevice-handling that fixes improper buffsize settings on some soundcards (e.g. GUS) * Implemented "keep device open"-feature. Needs to be enabled via the -DKEEP_DEV_OPEN switch in Makefile * Added some comments to the Makefile for easier editing * Added Big Endian support. Use -DBIG_ENDIAN_MACHINE for big endian hosts like ultrapenguin suns or linux ppc. There's also -DBIG_ENDIAN_AUDIO for big endian audio hardware (rare?) available, although proabably nobody will need this. * Changed mix behaviour: Mix is now automatically turned on on startup if the user has specified a proper loop file. (with the --loop or -l switch) * New mixing routine. You can now set the loop to scratch volume ratio with the cursor keys (left/right). If you modify the volumes while recording these action's will not be recorded. Saving happens with the currently set level. * Fixed README-Bug said <m> instead of <x> Version 2.2 * first released version * added colors, more standard use of X11 * added loop support * added statusbar with mode/status display * added commandline options and help (on usage and keys) * added raw/mixed save scratch feature * added licmak to include license into binary * new handling of XAutoRepeat, only turned off now when SPACE pressed * modified wave display (faster + nicer + incorrect (who cares anyway)) * Makefile fixed by Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de> * bug fixes Version 2.1 (unreleased) * added recording, playback of recording functionality Version 2.0 (unreleased) * moved from multithreaded to singlethreaded * position feedback * bug fixes Version 1.0 (unreleased) * mouse support * no more position display due to pthread/X probs * bug fixes Version 0.5 (unreleased) * first version * no mouse handling * accelerating vtt via sinus * multithreaded * sound aliasing