Blogging to Paradise

Well, we’re slowly moving toward the release of v4.8.0. We’ve caught some bugs and made a number of changes and (hopefully) improvements.

One of the improvements allows the user to set a “fade-up” time for the volume when changing Moods. It’s a very pleasing effect, I think. Another (that’s still in work) will allow the user to set a time of day for starting a Mood. Similar to the current “Mood Timer”, this one will let the user set specific times for Moods to play and how long to play or whether to repeat play. So the user could have a rousing Mood set to play early in the day to get things going, and later have more tranquil Moods play on into the evening… Lots of cool possibilities with this one, I think.

Some other improvements include more control over where Soundfiles go and how they get there. There’s more flexibility in the use of multiple Mood files and the saving and combining of them. We’ve added some more “special effects” to the instrument (MIDI) sounds - you can set “Pitch Bend”, “Modulation Depth”, and “Volume Diminuendo” for each of the three instruments in each Mood. In general there’s more capability and usability in Mood editing now.

You’ll find that v4.8.0 looks a little different, although the changes are fairly subtle. For example, the “Color Chooser” you get from the Preferences window is now a mode-less, floating window. There’s no more selecting a color and pressing “OK” to close the window before you see the effect of the color. Colors update in “real time” as you change them in the “Color Chooser” window. You can also change the overall transparency of the five main windows from opaque to nearly transparent.

There’s lots of other little improvements that I won’t go into here. We’re still working on a few features but anticipate the start of beta testing in the next few weeks, with a release around mid-September. This will be a free update for all registered users.