Release of Music Processing Suite 1.5.1

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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.
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