JJazzLab 5.0.0 preview for BETA-TEST
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New features
jjSwing rhythm with real walking bass
Practice jazz standards with more realistic bass and drums ! Walking bass uses hundreds of non-quantized patterns from famous bass players, drums are more varied. Drums and bass can be adjusted independently. Current version supports 4/4 (3/4 is coming next). jjSwing was designed with the internal FluidSynth.
Track overrides
This new rhythm parameter lets you use tracks from different rhythms/styles. In the image below we override the 8beat.t160.sty bass track by a bossa-nova track.
Customizable chord progressions
Define your own chord progressions and easily insert them.
Chord auditioning and improved chord type selection
To audition a chord symbol use ctrl+shift click on it, or press M to audition all the selected chord symbol(s).
Quickly hide a rhythm parameter
Use the compact view mode settings to display the rhythm parameter again.
Chord display transposition for sax players (or other transposing instruments)
Old mechanism is replaced by a more natural one: actual music is unchanged but displayed chord symbols are transposed.
User tracks can now be muted in song parts
Add possibility to associate a scale to a chord symbol in the bar edit dialog
(use the chord symbol edit dialog for more options)
Other improvements and bug fixes
See list below.
5.0.0 details
Enhancements:
[enhancement] jjSwing: new swing rhythm with intelligent walking bass many drums variations #560
[enhancement] Add possibility to mix rhythms, eg use Samba rhythm but take the bass from the pop rhythm #485
[enhancement] Add possibility to input ready-to-use (customizable) chord progressions #565
[enhancement] Let user hide a RhythmParameter directly from the song structure editor #558
[enhancement] Enable chord auditioning in the chord leadsheet editor #531
[enhancement] Improve chord selection via popup menu #530
[enhancement] When possible try to auto-fix chord missing at section start #607
[enhancement] Improve chords display for transposing instrument players (sax, ...) #534
[enhancement] Enable installation on arm64 #540
[enhancement] Notes editor velocity panel: improve display of notes with same position #603
[enhancement] Make loop zone color more noticeable in the notes editor #589
[enhancement] 1 new default Yamaha style #559
[enhancement] Enable vertical zoom with ctrl-shift-mouse-wheel in leadsheet and song structure editors #551
[enhancement] Improve chord symbols quantization mechanism #547
[enhancement] Switching between a binary or ternary rhythm should automatically change off-beat chord positions. #537
[enhancement] Show a "low quality" warning when playing song with the default Windows synth #542
[enhancement] Disambiguate song part names showed in notes editor #545
[enhancement] In mix console, disable Send GM/XG/... menu commands when FluidSynth embedded synth is used #538
[enhancement] Add markers for each song part in exported Midi file #178
[enhancement] Hide the "dummy rhythms provider" from rhythm selection dialog #533
Bug Fixes:
[bug] Wrong default file name when exporting to audio different songs #605
[bug] Notes editor: on Linux it's difficult to resize a small note using mouse dragging #602
[bug] Exception when using chord type C13b9b5 or C13#9b5 #601
[bug] Exception when jumping to next/previous/start song part (F1/F2/F3 keys) while EasyReader is shown #600
[bug] Exception when setting notes editor's loop zone beyond ruler's left/right bounds #594
[bug] NC chord not recognized in bar editor #586
[bug] In editors, always-enabled actions (e.g Paste) not started via kbd shortcut if no selection #582
[bug] Right-click on chord sometimes drags the chord instead of just showing popupmenu #575
[bug] Exception when removing a bar after end of chord leadsheet #566
[bug] Null-pointer exception when trying to import musicxml song with tempo changes & different time signatures #564
[bug] IllegalArgumentException in SS_EditorClientProperties with adapted rhythm Id #555
[bug] Build errors on 4.1.2 when trying to build with maven#554
[bug] Zoom sliders for chord leadsheet editor are disabled when JJazzLab starts with last song preloaded #552
[bug] Chord leadsheet editor bars not updated when a startOnNewline-section is removed #550
[bug] Cannot reopen Song Part Editor after closing it – no menu or UI option #549
[bug] Music generation exception when 2 rhythms with identical names (from different files) in the rhythm database #548
[bug] Error when redoing a section time signature change #544
[bug] Restoring a normal chord via the Interpretation submenu does not always work #539
[bug] In score editor, when required, add accidental for notes anticipated from the previous bar #532
[bug] UI corruption under Windows + NVidia card #529
[bug] Exception when cloning a track as user track if a section lacks a start chord symbol #525
[bug] Changing annotation font/color in Options/Theme have no impact #521
Download
https://github.com/jjazzboss/JJazzLab/releases/tag/5.0.0-win-linux
Consult the installation instructions
Mac version will be added later.