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FreeWheeling is an audio tool for live looping. FreeWheeling is an audio tool for live looping. It provides a highly configurable, fluid user interface for instrumentalists to capture loops in real-time. Based on the JACK, ALSA, and SDL libraries, it integrates with FluidSynth, a software synthesizer.Freewheeling empowers the trance of immediate creativity by bringing us into a circular process. Time is utterly relative, and we are freed from the future-oriented mindset of product sequencing. If inspiration flows, later arranging and editing on a timeline can be done with other tools.What's New in This Release:New Features:· MIDI sync transmit· Toggle-able sync transmit on definable output ports· A friend of mine who is an avid Ableton Live user asked me to collaborate with him. I realized that this was a perfect opportunity to develop MIDI sync. Freewheeling already syncs via the Jack transport, but Ableton and other hardware sequencers are not Jack-aware. As of this version, Freewheeling transmits MIDI sync on definable MIDI outs. By default, MIDI clock is sent to the first MIDI output. To send MIDI clock, you must first enable it-- Go to the sync panel (shift+F1) and press shift+F2. MIDI Sync Transmit is now enabled (the light glows). Now, you can begin playing, and create a pulse. You can either tap the pulse tempo, or you can record a loop and use it as the pulse tempo. Once the pulse begins, Freewheeling starts the external sequencer at bar 1. If you deselect the pulse (F6 for free timing), Freewheeling will stop your external sequencer. Any pulse you select will begin transmitting MIDI sync. Freewheeling does not yet receive MIDI sync, so you can't yet use Ableton as tempo master. * Selecting and working with multiple loops You can now toggle (t) and fade (MIDI CC89) volume of several loops together. You can select loops by right clicking on them, or by shift+clicking on them, or by shift+pressing their trigger. You can select all playing loops by pressing the keypad asterisk. You can select all idle loops with shift+kp asterisk. Ctrl+kp asterisk inverts the current selection, and alt+kp asterisk unselects all loops. This is the first step towards having multiple scenes of loops that you can trigger/fade between. * New configuration allows MIDI control of: Undo- CC#51 Patch bank changing by fader- CC #88 Patch bank changing by buttons- CC #53 / #54 * Continuously variable feedback for overdubs You can now change the loop feedback during overdubbing. You can realtime vary the amount of the loop that is fed-back into itself. The current feedback level is shown on-screen. By default, MIDI CC#87 controls the loop feedback. The feedback controls are configurable in .fweelin.rc, here: < !-- Which MIDI controller # controls overdub feedback. -- > < declare var="VAR_overdubfeedback_midicontrol" type="int" init="87"/ > < declare var="VAR_overdubfeedback" type="float" init="0.8"/ >· New configuration allows browsing via MIDI program change I developed this config for the CME-UF8 master controller, which has a rotary encoder that sends MIDI program change messages. With the new config, a MIDI program change knob can be used to spin through scenes, loops, or softsynth patches. Also, controller #50 is configured to act as a shift key for faster scrolling through browsers.· Save Current Scene (F7) now overwrites an existing scene. · Save New Scene (shift + F7) forces a new scene to be created. When overwriting, sequential backups are made with the extensions '.backup.1' '.backup.2' etc. Scene file data is very small. Loops are stored separately, so there is no duplication of unmodified loops.· Sync panel can now be toggled with Shift-F1 Defaults to OFFFixes:· Better stability in Event Manager- should fix crashes · Deliberate MIDI output of events now follows the ports and channels you specify. Incidental echoing of MIDI events follows the settings from the current patch. · Fixed crash on repeat loading of scenes/loading of large scen· No more console-dependent startup questions when a new version is installed.· Library path can now be specified relative to home folder (for example, ~/fw-lib)· Stream out now shows size in mb, for less frantic update
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