Nootka 2.0.2 has a few important news: Importing entire musical scores In spite of Nootka still supports only single voice, when the app is opening musicXML format file with entire musical score, then an import dialog window appears, displaying every score part and its voices as a separate melodies. User may select what to open […]
Continue ReadingFinally, after a few years of tinkering Nootka Two is ready.The credo of this release is “rhythms” because this Nootka simple score editor can handle rhythms and audio input analyzing algorithms can detect it along with note pitches.It may sounds trivial but this gives wide spectrum of new possibilities in practicing musical score reading with […]
Continue ReadingMost of changes in this release are bug fixes. But there are a few visual improvements. Chart tip can be clicked to show complete melody of question When melody is longer score can be scrolled and all notes are highlighted displaying correctness. Fixed displaying note names over instrument during exercises To improve association of a […]
Continue ReadingAt this point every user of older versions is encouraged to switch to this version. Below some highlights of the release: Improved way of zooming instrument to select note on it It occurs on mobile devices when instrument preview is too small to be handled by touch. Now, the entire instrument is magnified to be […]
Continue ReadingIt was planed to be RC (recent candidate) release but still there is some “dirty” work to do. So let’s keep naming convention – it is beta yet. RC next time. Here are some news implemented in this release: ‘Got It!’ texts about important Nootka features In some places Nootka can be complicated to manage, […]
Continue ReadingNew 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 […]
Continue ReadingFinally, after intensive work and long delay then (hard times around) second beta version is ready for testing.It is quite functional now but needs polishing.So use it intensively, please. Improved viewing exam results Charts work and look more smoothly and takes less memory, especially for exams with many answers. New chart window has handy drawer […]
Continue ReadingIt was a little unexpected to release another bug fixing version of the “old” 1.4 branch instead of polishing the new Nootka 2, but there was a sudden need for that – to work with pupils students more online this days. So here it is: – small improvements for other instruments than guitars: Nootka plays […]
Continue ReadingThis release is a big breakthrough comparing to the “old” branch 1.4.6. Almost everything is new, but first of all it brings: – rhythms support Now, Nootka can play melodies with rhythms and score can be easily edited with that. Also rhythms are detected from the air, so Nootka is able to verify does a […]
Continue ReadingAfter long time (comparing to previous) an update was released. With small enhancements and bug fixes. – Nootka speaks Slovenian Grega made it! Thank You a lot! – A new approach to listen to an user When user plays exercise and he played wrong note, Nootka waits for correct one and only then moves to […]
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