Fantastic!!!

On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 3:31:28 PM UTC-5, Sam Aaron wrote:
>
> 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 
>
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> http://sam.aaron.name 
>
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