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DTAB V1.03 Update Released |
By Kevin Picone 26,Jun,2011 |
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DTAB V1.03 Update Released
The Dtab V1.03 upgrade is finally released, as you can no doubt tell from the history bellow, there's lots of new additions and functionality tweaks. Our focus for V1.03 has been on improving the feel of the editing environment, the Doc's and the Drum Tab importation features just to name a few.
So we highly recommend updating !
History
Changes since the last major release.
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Scroll Wheel Note selection in main editor. Scroll up/down to step through the available note heads for each staff line. |
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Scroll Wheel navigation, scroll up/down through song (When not over current bar) |
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Basic Scroll Wheel support to Some windows |
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Added tempo value to the title of the tempo edit form |
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Fixed the ugly resizing, so the main form smoothly clips when reaching its min width and height |
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Added user preference to define the direction of the scroll wheel when scrolling through the note heads. |
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Added a note hover feature to the edit window |
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Added external staff line and note head names |
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Added option to disable/enable note head hovering |
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Snare Rim Shots now have double the snare hit during playback, so its thicker than an a regular accented hit. |
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Included DTAB Script Engine and hooked it into the web import process |
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Importer Rule Set Parsing. Users can insert special tags in to Drum Tabs to control how the Dtab Importer is to remake the Staff Line and note heads which allows the user to save the Tab (with rules) and import it later at will. |
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Added form for user to define rule set. |
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Added some support for the importer to accept colon characters as bar dividers as some tabs use colons in the staff line header/ row end and pipes for any middle bars. The importer now just has better logic for deal with such rows. You can
remap the colons as pipes | using the rules. |
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Added solo section name to the import section detection. |
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Replace section name detection with faster version |
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imported songs automatically clip to the physical bar length. |
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support to decodes single spaced 1/8th note triplets in 4/4 time during import. |
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Importer removes loaded/download tabs containing ASCII tab character. The formatter assumes that tab characters are aligned to 8 character bounds as per NOTEPAD |
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Importer can attempt to guess the timing on bars the don't include a count and exceed the expected bar size by one. |
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Importer supports the dash song name convention. Ie Band-SomeBand Tabber-Bill |
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Importer uses its own default rule set when none appear in the tab. |
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Importer can detect "play X times" tags above bars. |
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Importer detects played as triplet tags. This makes the bar decoder remap any 3/4 sized bars (without counting) as 4/4 triplets. |
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Importer turns player off when importing |
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Import Rules now support a pre-processing Replace function. This allows users to replace strings in the tab body prior to importing. The replace occurs inside the import, not in tab import text window. |
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Import can detect repeats blocks wrapped within the {} chrs |
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Beta Test versions can now have a built in expire date. |
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Added some Short cut labels to the ADD section dialog. Intro, Verse, Chorus, Solo, Bridge, End |
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Added click on section headers to edit them. |
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Added click on the song details to pop the edit info dialog |
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Download Page to the import Tab |
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Save tab adds the tab to the file history |
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Save tab perform and pre-scan of the tab looking for a possible Song & Artist name |
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Tempo dialog has some quick tempo suggestions |
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Delete wasn't fully hooked up on the rule window. |
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Added net connection detection, if no connection is found the download and auto update features default to off. |
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Edit section was sizable for some bizarre reason |
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Added a Remove from history button to the Reload dialog. It doesn't delete the file, just the file listing in the history. |
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Dragging a Tab onto the main window is now added to the history |
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Web Upgrade Checker Defaults to Monthly |
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Web Importer Form + Script Engine. |
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ESC key can toggle the editor dialogs on/off, Giving a full screen mode edit area. |
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The bar edit and play back controls now center in the form when its resized. |
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The Key mapping form is now wider so it handle all the different sounds. |
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The Second bass drum/hi hat foot line had a typo in it.. Dunno how long that's been there.. :( |
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Tempo search could overflow if a new track was imported and current bar was beyond the song length |
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Importer could overflow the temp song buffer when writing repeated bars from the temp buffer to the song output buffer |
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Importer could skip the opening bar dividers on some multi bar repeats |
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Various forms weren't being closed, if the main window was. |
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Edit Section has a typo on the cancel button. |
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Edit Section didn't refresh the render view port. |
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Time Sig selection was using combos rather and list boxes |
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Cut and pasting on the Import Tab window would trip a download query if a link was in the text |
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The current bar label was black on win7 machine, replace it with a picture box |
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The loader didn't init the default tempo when loading old DTAB format 0 files. So they would default to 120bpm. |
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Import didn't always activate the correct staff lines in the edit window. |
Upgrading For Registered Users
If you've already a registered DTAB user, simply download the new version and install it over your current install. If you're upgrading from a version older than Dtab V1.00, just be warned that DTAB V1.03 doesn't automatically use your old preferences. So you'll have enter your tabber name & registration information again.
A Decade of DTAB (GALLERY)
Since DTAB has been around a long time, 10 years in fact. Making it the oldest automated Drum TAB editor on the PC, most likely any platform for that matter. To celebrate this, I've posted a bit of gallery on my facebook page.
DTAB GALLERY on FaceBook
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