- New way of detecting note duration (rhythms)
Pitch detection in Nootka is based on code from Tartini project. It has worked pretty good so far for detecting note pitch. But for detecting note onset and its end it uses frequency changing method which is not suitable for instruments with fading out sound like guitars or piano. So new algorithm was written that detects note duration by volume change of audio signal. With this pretty good pitch detection of Tartini it brings Nootka creed “…to play scores” on a new level.
But still, Nootka is able to detect what was really played only, guessing what user intended to play is not done yet, but who knows, maybe someday…
- Exams can handle multiple rests and tied notes
If some user has to play a melody with a few rests in a row or a couple of tied notes, how Nootka would detect those multiple rests? (Even if that example is not written quite properly in the score notation sense, there are other real cases occurring in scores not that rarely). Now it works, all such cases are supported.
- Exam melodies can be reordered and number of repeats can be set
When melodies of an exam are imported from musicxml, there is an option to ask them in order and with declared number of repeats. And order of the imported melodies is editable then. Just hold a melody for a while and drag it or select it and use arrow buttons.
Also, if range of key signature is chosen, during the exam/exercise melody will be transposed to randomized key for the range.
More over, as you can see on image above, some configure pages of level creator are disabled (left pane grayed pictures) because their options are not suitable for this kind of exercise/exam – just to make the level creator more clear.
- Again available for Mac
After a few years of break Nootka Mac Os *.dmg bundle is available. But intensive testing is needed, so any feedback is appreciated.
- Fixed Linux AppImage
It seems to work on most of available distributions, either on X.org or Wayland sessions.
- Bug fixes: plenty…
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See previous entries about news in Nootka 2 here