New release of Common Music

Rick Taube hkt@guido.zkm.de
Fri, 24 Mar 95 14:50:22 GMT+0100


I've placed a new release of Common Music on ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu
and ftp.zkm.de.  The major new additions are:

o Three new ports in public domain lisps:
  1) NeXT/Intel in GCL-1.1, includes MIDI real time.
  2) SGI/IRIX5.3 in CMU Common Lisp
  3) SGI/IRIX5.3 in CLISP

o Capella GUI on Macintosh has been improved and highly optimized:
  1) New envelope editor supports various output formats, copy/paste.
  2) Listing browsers now work well with longer (2000+) sequences.
  3) Controls completely reimplemented to work better with color.
  4) New "Play..." item in MIDI submenu for playing Midifiles.
  5) New "Move" Worksheet for positional editing: swapping, rotating,
     shuffling, reversing, and so forth.

o New :MIX syntax for Oyvind Hammer's (oyvindha@notam.uio.no)
  realtime mixing program "mix" on the SGI, implemented by Anders
  Vinjar (anders.vinjar@notam.uio.no). Get mix from
  notam.uio.no:/pub/sgi.

o README's completely rewritten and reorganized.

o To accommodate the ever increasing number of ports, the build script
  has undergone some simplification and the build process has changed
  slightly. Here are the incompatible changes:
  1) For MIDI on NeXTstep anywhere, you must install MusicKit_4.1.1
  2) Nextstep 2.0 is no longer supported.
  3) AKCL is no longer supported (use GCL instead).
  4) The lisp build program no longer calls unix "make" to
     automatically compile c programs.  You get to do this
     yourself, see the new main README for further information.

-hkt