Hi all, I just thought I'd give you a quick heads up that Overtone 0.7 has been released. It represents around 6 months worth of solid work (~500 commits) and we're really rather pleased with how far we've come. I'm especially pleased to welcome our new committers. Without these people (and also all the long-standing trench-dwelling committers) Overtone wouldn't be such an exciting and fun project to hack on:
* Damion Junk * Jacob Lee * Fabian Steeg * Michael Bernstein * Ian Davies Now, I thought I'd run you through some of the aspects I'm most thrilled about: ## Tap into Quil Overtone now ships with the tap cgen. This little gem packs way above its weight. It essentially gives you the ability to reach into any aspect of the SuperCollider synth engine and tap the values flowing through. These values are then magically swapped into an atom which you can then deref from Clojure-land and do what you will with the contents. This is awesome for hooking Overtone up with visualisation libraries such as Quil. ## Freesound trickery Overtone core hacker Kevin Neaton has been working wonders with our Freesound support. For those not in the know, freesound.org is an open-source sound sample database full of creative-commons licensed sound snippets. Kevin has been working with these guys to improve their support for large sample bundles, and as a result the sampled-piano samples are now hosted on freesound.org. This should prove to be a lot more reliable than the previous solution. Also, he's added search capability right into the REPL - so no need to leave the comfort of your Clojure prompt in order to explore the huge world of free samples out there. ## MIDI event stream On boot, Overtone now hooks up to any connected MIDI device and broadcasts all events onto the global event stream. This makes working with your MIDI keyboard and controllers easier than ever. We're really enjoying the event stream and feel there's a lot more potential to discover with it. So, what are you waiting for? Create a new lein project, add "overtone 0.7.0" as a dependency, start a REPL, and start making sounds. As always, the cheatsheet is your honourable guide to the plethora of functionality at your disposal: http://cloud.github.com/downloads/overtone/overtone/overtone-cheat-sheet.pdf For those that like peering into the murky details, here's the more lengthy changelog: https://github.com/overtone/overtone/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md Happy Hacking! Sam --- http://sam.aaron.name -- http://sam.aaron.name -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
