megafont
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May 7, 2000
- megafont v1.22 beta now is available for download. This is probably the last beta and there will be no major changes in release. Don't kill me if it won't work at all. Together I hope we will work it out. But at present there is no manual or the description of new functions exists. Soon...
What's new:
• Interface slightly changed
• Many bugs fixed, there is no more serious memory leaks
• Ability to change mapping in realtime (for example, one GM bank to another)
• MIDI reset now works
• MIDI channels displayed in cached window (Kasper Olsson idea)
• User can save combined SoundFont files from Monitor or Mappings editor. You can use this function if you have Vienna installed (v2.3 works); otherwise you should use SFEDT32.DLL available on downloads page. Thanks to flipside for his request.
• Emagic Logic support (copying preset names to clipboard) (Kasper Olsson idea)
• Preview function in Editor is now more convenient to use
April 26, 2000
- There is one problem with w2k, LiveWare 2k and MIDI Yoke gathered together. When one trying to configure default MIDI output, choosing MIDI Yoke
for MIDI in "Sound and Multimedia Properties" and restarting Windows he get the
old A:SBlive! MIDI Synth as a default device again and again. There is a solution for this problem - editing 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\MIDIMap\CurrentInstrument' key. Program which does it automatically is available in Downloads. One can place it in Startup folder.
April 25, 2000
- New bug reported: Everything that one does in Mappings Editor will be applied only after megafont.exe reloaded. On every system. Will be fixed soon.
April 24, 2000
- Fixed bug when megafont wasn't able to restore itself from the tray. Thanks to Kasper Olsson who was not only the first to report about this bug but the one who really find a way to fix it. Fixed version is available as 1.21.7.
- Re:"Unload preset if unused for..." didn't work even in tynyfont 0.9.6. Now there is version available where this feature is finally works (I hope :) - 0.9.7 alpha. This is an intermediate version and not an object for bug reports.
April 23, 2000
- "Unload preset if unused for..." option never worked both in megafont and tinyfont. Now it's fixed and patched versions of both programs (1.21.6 and 0.9.6 accordingly) are available.
April 22, 2000
- "Don't displayed SoundFonts" bug fixed. (It turn out, that if you got any program installed which is associated with '.sf2' files, they can be displayed only if "Hide file extensions for known file types" checkbox in Explorer settings (View|Folder Options|View tab) is unchecked).
I fixed this bug and currently new fixed version of megafont (1.21.5) is available. People who don't want to download 300kb again might just change their Explorer settings or enter *.* in Files/Filter... box that was implemented in v1.21.
No more system descriptions needed.
- New main icon in v1.21.5.
April 19, 2000
- I got some reports that my program works. I like it :)))
- Strange bug reported: folder browser in mappings editor don't display SoundFonts. And still I have no idea where the problem is. So, if anyone expirienced the same problem please send me description of your system (including version of Explorer), for example SysInfo log.
- Fixed bug when tinyfont don't run at all (wrong compiler options).
- megafont now works with Windows 2000 and LiveWare for Windows 2000. There were some NT-related bugs fixed and new version (1.21 beta) is available. But it's not recommended to use it if you don't use NT since some code parts in v1.21 still in development and some functionality may absent. Use v1.21 only if you are encountered problems with v1.20 and NT/2000.
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