Musical Status/Timeline (New Piano Back-end)
I just finished rewriting the architecture of Musical’s piano system. I have not made a public release yet and the front-end isn’t yet different, but the back-end now supports any MIDI note and any of the 128 MIDI instruments. In the new few days (hopefully by the end of this weekend), I will be writing a new “Settings” interface for each of the pianos (2-octave keyboard and 3-octave scrolling) that allows you to choose which octaves you want the piano to use and lets you choose what instrument you want the piano to sound like! I hope to release this feature to all Musical Pro owners on or by Monday.
Also related to the piano, I have just gotten permission to include a nice collection of drum loops in Musical. I plan to try add them to the piano in the next week, so you will be able to choose a beat & tempo and play along. This too will be a free upgrade for all Musical Pro owners, and I will post more information in the next week or so, once I’ve started the implementation.
Finally, looking a bit further into the future, I’ve finished designing the interface for a simple melody/notation editor with MIDI export capabilities. The screen will be split between a miniature piano on the bottom and a musical staff on top, with buttons in between to choose note length, insert rests, etc. Expect more details (and possibly a preliminary release) in the coming weeks.
Oh, and I enjoy being spontaneous sometimes, so just because something isn’t on this list, doesn’t mean it won’t be coming out the next couple weeks (in fact, there will almost certainly be some surprises).