Music Processing Suite 1.12.0 was released on August 26, 2022.

Note: since version 1.11.0, MPS requires Java 17 to run. It is recommended to download a Java 17 JDK for your operating system from Zulu.

New Features and Enhancements:

• Updated Eclipse base platform to version 2022-06

Bugfixes:

• MusicXML Processing:
  • Fixed NullPointerException that occurred if MusicXML files did not contain an identification element
  • Fixed NullPointerException that occurred if MIDI instrument definitions did not contain certain elements such as midiProgram
  • Fixed an issue that resulted in incorrect context layer model representations if rests were modeled as chords

Music Processing Suite 1.11.0 was released on May 22, 2022.

Important note: MPS now requires Java 17 to run. It is recommended to download a Java 17 JDK for your operating system from Zulu.

New Features and Enhancements:

• General:
  • Updated Eclipse base platform to version 2022-03
• MusicXML Support:
  • MPS now supports MusicXML 4.0
  • MusicXML score export now includes chord symbols
  • Improved internal caching of instrument associations
• Sentiment Analysis:
  • Sentences are now also divided at semicolons
  • Removed VADER sentiment analysis framework since CoreNLP provides much better results for lyrics
• Music Analysis:
  • The analysis view is opened automatically if not already opened after music was analyzed
• Miscellaneous Enhancements:
  • Automatic detection of external applications now includes the AppData/Local and AppData/Roaming folders on Windows
  • If an external application can not be located, additional details about searched paths is available in the displayed dialog
  • Composition files can now have the extensions *.mcl or *.mc2l
• Documentation:
  • Updated documentation regarding Java requirements
  • Rhythm documentation was enhanced with an example containing tied notes and minor issues were fixed
  • Old keyword tonalCenter was consistently replaced with key

Bugfixes:

• MusicXML:
  • MusicXML parser did not process bass notes of harmonies in all cases
  • Fixed a bug which caused wrong instrument associations of percussion instruments while loading MusicXML files
  • Simultanous percussion notes and percussion rests are now correctly placed in MPS streams
  • Fixed a “ripple effect” during instrument detection that caused instrument names to be considered similar depending on the sequence of instruments that were provided
  • Fixed NullPointerException if note head information is not present
  • MusicXML parser: poet was not read correctly
  • MusicXML export: composer was written to output instead of poet
• Sentiment Analysis:
  • Fixed race condition when starting external CoreNLP server – first request sporadically resulted in java.net.ConnectException
  • Connections to CoreNLP servers are now always released even if the response cannot be parsed – in previous versions this could cause the client to block indefinitely
• Miscellaneous Bugfixes:
  • Fixed spelling of Mandolin (it’s not Mandoline) on the UI and in LilyPond include file names that are required to generate fret board diagrams
  • Fixed a NullPointerException that happend while automatically searching external applications on Windows
  • CoreNLP could not be located automatically on Windows because MPS looked for the wrong JAR file name
  • Fixed java.lang.Error: SWT Resource was not properly disposed when closing the analysis view

Music Processing Suite 1.10.1 was released on January 28, 2022.

New Features and Enhancements:

• Enhanced automatic software detection on various operating systems, especially MuseScore detection on Linux
• Analysis View: Column widths of the table displaying the raw data are automatically adjusted to the optimal width whenever new data is displayed
• Analysis Report PDFs containng aggregated plots (collection or corpus scope) use simplified harmonies for harmony-related plots (otherwise plots become much too confusing)

Bugfixes:

• Enhanced environment configuration for LaTeX compiler runs in order to avoid frequent error message sh: tput: command not found and tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
• Fixed incorrect path for LaTeX executables on Windows in documentation

Music Processing Suite 1.10.0 was released on January 12, 2022.

New Features and Enhancements:

• Upgraded Eclipse platform to version 2021-12 (4.22)
• Analysis enhancements:
  • Lyrics can now be analyzed even when distributed over multiple voices
• Enhancements for analysis report PDFs:
  • Sentiment analysis plots now visualize durations of sentences with the corresponding start and end times
  • Sentences in sentiment analysis plots are numbered and listed below the plots
• UI enhancements:
  • Multiple pieces can now be selected and analyzed simultaneously
  • There is now a preference to select the default score generation application (MuseScore or LilyPond)
• Support for power chords when resolving harmonies
• Internal enhancements, optimizations and dependency upgrades

Bugfixes:

• Lyrics containing special characters like quotes and semicolons are now stored and loaded correctly in CSV files
• Charts exported from the analysis view in MPS were flipped vertically. This has been fixed.
• Fixed an issue which caused context harmonies to be chosen as key in generated scores
• Fixed errors like java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The value '6/4' is invalid. when loading fitness function configurations containing distributions for time signatures
• Corrected JVM command line parameter for Java 16+