Impro-Visor Changelog

What's new in Impro-Visor 5.16

May 15, 2012
  • This version improves real-time MIDI input, allowing recording of interleaved improvisations from the user and the computer.

New in Impro-Visor 5.15 (May 3, 2012)

  • This version adds melody importation from single tracks of a MIDI file to a leadsheet, updates the style pattern extraction feature, and provides a banner on the first launch which tells users important information, such as how to set MIDI devices.

New in Impro-Visor 5.12 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • This version adds volume specification options to the style specifications, changes the Style Editor and Piano Roll Editor to accommodate volumes, changes the layout of the Piano Roll Editor so the controls are at the top, allows percussion instrument names to be names rather than numbers, allows assigning of MIDI channels, and adds an option to send MIDI Bank 0 Select before notes (this is set in the MIDI Preferences panel).

New in Impro-Visor 5.10 (Mar 8, 2012)

  • This version improves style and style editing capability.
  • It improves MIDI selection capability.
  • It remedies bugs in the area of MIDI device selection and real-time MIDI capture, as well as a few others.

New in Impro-Visor 5.08 (Dec 4, 2011)

  • This version fixes a few problems with roadmaps.

New in Impro-Visor 5.07 (Oct 25, 2011)

  • This version fixed an issue on Linux and Windows, but not on Macs, where the brick dictionary would not scroll, making it impossible or inconvenient to inspect all of the bricks in the dictionary.
  • A small bug in the brick analysis algorithm was also fixed.

New in Impro-Visor 5.04 (Oct 9, 2011)

  • This version fixes a problem which caused swing to invariably be on, and the leadsheet not being completely saved in some edge cases.

New in Impro-Visor 5.03 (Oct 2, 2011)

  • Fixed a few issues.

New in Impro-Visor 5.01 (Sep 29, 2011)

  • A volume control and tempo slider were added to the roadmap view, and the roadmap interface was improved.
  • Roadmaps provide a view of the harmony of a piece in terms of chords and "bricks".
  • Impro-Visor analyzes leadsheet notation to produce them.

New in Impro-Visor 4.12 (Jun 24, 2010)

  • This version has new user-requested features.
  • The chord font size is now adjustable.
  • There is an "Early scrolling" option.
  • This release opens to full screen height rather than being only three staves.