Release of Music Processing Suite 1.7.0

Posted on 11th July 202011th July 2020 by dave

Music Processing Suite 1.7.0 was released on July 11, 2020.

New Features and Enhancements:

Updated Eclipse platform to version 2020-06 (4.16)
Implemented new MusicXML 3.1 model and parser based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). It is still in an experimental state and can be activated in the MPS preferences.
Enhanced order in which keys are displayed in analysis overview tables
Analysis output files are now refreshed/displayed already before graph PDFs are generated, so they can already be browsed before PDF generation is finished

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue when comparing rare harmonies (e.g. Bbb) according to their circle of fifths position
MusicXML-related options were not properly set when running composition crossovers and folder-based music analysis. Options are now passed properly.
Fixed a bug which caused note references not to be resolved in the default (western) tonal system instance

Release of Music Processing Suite 1.6.1

Posted on 29th February 202029th February 2020 by dave

Music Processing Suite 1.6.1 was released on February 29, 2020.

New Features and Enhancements:

Bugfixes:

Aligned times in time-dependent analysis data files (some started at t=1, now all start at t=0)
Fixed bug which caused fractions and tuples not to be exported as floating point numbers in CSV files
Fixed toolbar button for composition crossover

Posted on 20th November 201920th November 2019 by dave

Music Processing Suite 1.6.0 was released on November 20, 2019.

New Features and Enhancements:

Updated Eclipse platform to version 2019-09 (4.13)
Enhanced generated LilyPond markup: MPS now inserts barlines and line breaks after each measure.
Analysis Result View can now be opened using the context menu when right-clicking an analysis folder (i.e. a folder ending with _Analysis).

Bugfixes:

All file write operations are foreced to use UTF-8 as encoding (before the system’s default encoding was used which lead to issues on Windows because the default encoding is not UTF-8).
Fixed inconsistencies in SVG library (Batik) dependencies
Fixed problem when notes contained in chords were tied to the corresponding notes in the next chord
Analysis Reports: Legends of overview plots do not overflow pages anymore
Analysis Reports: Missing lines are now visible in harmonic overview plot
Analysis Reports: Integers are not rendered as floating point numbers anymore
Analysis UI: Fixed transparency for 3D plots in analysis result view
Added missing command associations with the MPS category

Posted on 22nd September 201918th April 2020 by dave

Music Processing Suite 1.5.1 was released on September 22, 2019.

New Features and Enhancements:

Charts / plots / graphs displayed in the analysis results view can now be exported as .jpg, .png and .bmp images
Added option to enable/disable implicit harmony analysis (derives harmonies from simultaneously audible pitches)
Added new harmony-related extraction features:
- Simplified Harmony Distribution
- Harmony Duration Distribution
- Harmony Distribution Dependent on Beat
- Harmony Distribution Dependent on Duration
- Simplified Implicit Harmony Distribution
- Implicit Harmony Change Beat Distribution
- Implicit Harmony Duration Distribution
- Implicit Harmony Circle of Fifths Distance Distribution
- Implicit Harmony Distribution Dependent on Duration
- Simplified Implicit Harmony Distribution Dependent on Duration
Harmony plot axes are now sorted according to the circle of fifths, both in the MPS UI and PDF analysis reports
Added export of note/rest/measure count analysis data
Added export of instrument-related analysis data
Improved capitalization of analysis result folder, report folder and report file name.
Progress view is automatically opened for potentially long-running jobs
Added documentation for analysis results browser view
Added overview table for all available analysis features in the documentation
Added documentation for algorithmic composition and crossover features
Improved documentation for run configurations in general
Improved Context-sensitive search UI labels

Bugfixes:

Several issues regarding harmony plots were fixed. The harmony to axis position mapping was enhanced.
Analysis result view in MPS can now generate plots even if CSV file data is escaped for LaTeX processing
Score option “Omit Short Instrument Names” only worked for non-percussion instruments, this now affects percussion staves as well
Added automatic adjustment of short-indent in LilyPond files if short instruments name overflow pages
Fixed a problem regarding measure alignment in context layer models
Fixed NullPointerException when merging implicit harmony data in case implicit harmony analysis is disabled
Fitness function configurations were not found when running an evolutionary composition for the first time. The related resource refresh problem was fixed.

Notes:

The capitalization of folder and file names was adjusted for analysis result folders (*_Analysis) and analysis report folders/files (*_Analysis_Report). If you have existing anylsis folders containing _analysis or _report and re-run analysis jobs, an error will occur because Eclipse resource names are not case-sensitive. In this case, you have to either rename your resource names to _Analysis and/or _Report, respectively, or delete the existing folders before you run the analysis or report generation again.