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This section of the User's Guide records the changes that have been made at each major and minor release of the Beatnik Editor, beginning with version 2.0. There's a section for each major release and its related minor releases.
The current release of the Beatnik Editor is version 2.1. If you're using an earlier version of the Beatnik Editor, you should update to the latest.
Version 2.1
Beatnik Editor version 2.1 is a minor maintenance release with a few new features, released in June of 2001. To date there have been no maintenance releases for version 2.1.
What's New in Version 2.1 General Changes Player Window: New controls Mute and Solo button behavior changed: To change multiple buttons at once, click on one button and then drag across the rest of the desired buttons. To turn all 16 Mute buttons on or off at once, click the word Mute to the left of the buttons. To turn all 16 Solo buttons on or off at once, click the word Solo to the left of the buttons. Song Position Dial behavior changed: Clicking a position on the dial makes the current Song start playing from that position. Tempo Display is now updated continuously. Session Window: New context menu commands Make Instrument Using and Make Song Using command dialogs now include a checkbox option for the Specify Root Key value. This allows you to preserve the Samples' original Root Keys in the newly created Instruments, if desired. All Tabs: New Get Resource Usage command in the context menu displays the selected Song, Instrument, or Sample's total size in bytes. The displayed size includes the uncompressed sizes of all dependent objects; for an Instrument, this will be the Instrument resource plus all Samples used in the Instrument. For a Song, the size will include all Instruments it uses, plus all the Samples used by those Instruments. Instruments Tab: New Show Empty Instrument Slots command in the context menu turns display of empty slots on and off. Sample Editor Window: New sample rate menu Added a new Sample Rate menu to make it easier to pick a standard sample rate (48000, 44100, 36000, 22050, or 11025 Hz). To set a different sample rate, select Other and type in a number in Hz. Make Instrument and Make Song dialog boxes: New option Added a new checkbox to the Specify Root Key field. This gives you the option of preserving the Root Keys of your samples when creating a new Instrument or Song from them via the Make Instrument Using and Make Song Using commands. Mac OS Changes No Sequencer Needed for Live MIDI Input - You no longer need to use a MIDI sequencer to route a connected MIDI controller (such as a keyboard) to the Beatnik Editor's Live MIDI Input. Just select the device in the Preferences dialog. Pop-Up Help - Now displays `ToolTip' style pop-up help tags for onscreen items, similar to the Windows version. Minimum System Requirements changed: Mac OS 8.5 no longer supported; 8.6 minimum PPC 604e processor no longer supported; 604 minimum Minimum processor speed increased to 180MHz Hard Disk use reduced from 15 MB to 8 MB Web Browser minimum version reduced from 4.5 to 4.0 (for online help) Added Microsoft Internet Explorer and AOL browser (for online help) Windows Changes Minimum System Requirements changed: Minimum processor increased from Pentium 133 to Pentium Pro 200 Hard Disk use reduced from 15 MB to 7.3 MB Web Browser minimum version reduced from 4.5 to 4.0 (for online help) Bug Fixes When the Player Window is set to 8-bit audio output, the list of available audio file export formats should not have included the MPEG formats. The commands Make Instrument from Sample and Make Song from Sample were disregarding the sample's Root Key. Attempting to export a single Sample as an RMF file could cause a crash.

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