NEWS.md

In ProTrackR: Manipulate and Play 'ProTracker' Modules

ProTrackR v0.4.3 (Release date: 2023-02-15)

• Added pkgdown website and README
• switched to RMarkdown mode for roxygen2 documentation

ProTrackR v0.3.8 (Release date: 2023-08-22)

• Updates to comply with latest CRAN policies and Roxygen2 standards

ProTrackR v0.3.7 (Release date: 2020-02-03)

• Fixes to modArchive functions, due to changes to their API

• Fix in structure and examples to pass CRAN tests.

• Fix in validation functions in order to support changes in latest version of R

ProTrackR v0.3.6 (Release date: 2019-02-06)

• Added modLand helper functions.

• Reading and writing 8svx samples with read.sample and write.sample is now implemented using the AmigaFFH package, which has a more robust implementation of Interchange File Format handlers.

• Added a 'mix' argument to the 'modToWave'-method. When set to FALSE, the method can now return all individual channels (without mixing them).

• The 'playWave'-method was updated such that it also accepts multi-channel waves (WaveMC), in order to make it compatible with the modification specified above.

• Available documentation on which of the 4 channels are mixed to the left and right audio output channel respectively is inconsistent. This version will assume that channels 1 and 4 (or 0 and 3 using Amiga indexing) are mixed to the left channel and channels 2 and 3 (or 1 and 2 using Amiga indexing) are mixed to the right channel. This means that the output channels are now swapped compared to earlier versions of this package.

• There was a bug in the implementation of the 'porta to note' effects (3 and 5), it is now fixed.

• Added a new implementation of the generic 'as.raw' method, which allows to convert PTModule objects into raw data. Also added a 'rawToPTModule' method to achieve the inverse.

• Endianess should have been set to "big" instead of "little" (whoops), luckily, this has no consequences as all data are read as raw data. I have corrected the code nonetheless

• Minor corrections to manual

ProTrackR v0.3.5 (Release date: 2017-10-14)

• Added functions to exchange pattern data with MODPlug tracker.

• Endianness is explicitely set to "little" when reading and writing samples and modules. As all data is read and written as raw, this should not affect the package functioning.

• Removed unnecessary print statement from PTBlock routine.

• Fixed a bug in the 'rawToCharNull' function.

• Fixed a bug in the 'modToWave' routine that caused an error under rare conditions.

• Setting stereo.separation to 0 was not handled correctly in 'modToWave' routine. Channels were not mixed before converting to mono. This is now fixed.

ProTrackR v0.3.4 (Release date: 2016-11-25)

• added a "fix.PTModule" method that attempts to fix a module object when it is not conform ProTracker specs...

• period limits for the porta effects have been fixed

• inverted the logical interpretation of the 'verbose' argument, as it was incorrect in earlier versions.

• added and modified several of the 'modArchive'- functions, for better support from modarchive.org

• modified S4-object validation functions such that they run faster.

• modified 'write.module'-method such that it will write modules much faster

• fixed bug in 'read.module'-method and modified it such that it will read modules much faster.

• fixed bug in 'loopStart<-'-method

• fixed bug in 'loopLength<-'-method

• fixed bug in 'patternOrder<-'-method

• fixed bug in 'appendPattern'-method

• fixed bug in 'volume<-'-method

• fixed bug in 'waveform<-'- and 'waveform'-method

ProTrackR v0.3.3 (Release date: 2016-03-26)

• Minor correction in manual.

ProTrackR v0.3.2 (Release date: 2016-03-25)

• Minor corrections in manual.

ProTrackR v0.3.1 (Release date: 2016-03-25)

• Modified the playing routine such that the porta effects can't slide period values below that of note B-3 or above 856. Period values are cut-off at these values after processing the other effects as well. Thanks must go to Olav Sørensen (who created a Protracker v2.3D clone for modern machines, https://16-bits.org/pt.php) for confirming these software and hardware limits.

• Resampling routine in the modToWave-method is rewritten. It should be faster now.

• The 9xy command is now implemented such that it emulates the ProTracker 'offset bug'. Therewith, the player routine now passes 'ptoffset.mod' test.

• Bug in resampling of samples in 'modToWave'- routine is fixed.

• 'modArchive' functions are added to the package.

• Effect commands 'E4x' and 'E7x' are now implemented in the player routine.

• Implementation of effect command '5xy' is fixed.

• In the previous release, some generated wave data ended up out of range in the mixing procedure. This is now fixed.

• The 'playWave'-method is modified such that it returns an 'audioInstance'-object (audio package) allowing control over the playback.

• Minor corrections/improvements to the manual

• Mixing when some tracks are turned off is fixed

ProTrackR v0.2.3 (Release date: 2015-11-07)

• Minor corrections in manual to pass CRAN checks.

ProTrackR v0.2.2 (Release date: 2015-11-07)

• Minor corrections in manual to pass CRAN checks.

ProTrackR v0.2.1 (Release date: 2015-11-07)

• 'clearSamples'-method was added to the package.

• 'clearSong'-method was added to the package.

• 'modToWave'-method was added to the package

• 'playingtable'-method was added to the package

• 'playMod'-method was added to the package

• 'playWave'-method was added to the package

• 'resample'-function added to the package to avoid 'seewave' dependency (which is not available for all platforms).

• 'waveform'-method now includes additional arguments: 'start.pos', 'stop.pos' and 'loop'

• removed 'utils' import...

• 'name' method, for PTSample objects, incorrectly returned raw representation of the sample name instead of a character representation. This is now fixed.

• 'playSample' was printing the names of additional (...) arguments in previous release. This was meant as a test and this behaviour was not intended for the release. It has been removed.

• A section on ProTracker effect commands is added to the manual

• Some minor corrections were made in the manual

ProTrackR v0.1.3 (Release date: 2015-09-25)

• Some more minor fixes to pass CRAN checks.

ProTrackR v0.1.2 (Release date: 2015-09-25)

• Minor fixes to pass CRAN checks.

• In the 'playSample' method, the 'finetune' argument is now correctly passed to the 'noteToSampleRate' function. Before, it was only possible to play at the finetune specified for a sample.

• Correction in the validity check for objects of S4 class 'PTSample': wlooplen is allowed to have a value of zero when the sample is empty.

• The prototype of the S4 class 'PTSample' is changed to set the wlooplen value to zero.

• The slot descriptions for wloopstart and wlooplen in the 'PTSample' documentation contained errors that were corrected.

• The 'loopLength<-', the 'PTSample-method' and 'read.sample' methods were modified to handle the adjustments to the 'PTSample' class.

• Removed superfluous argument 'value' from the 'patternLength' method

ProTrackR v0.1.1 (Release date: 2015-09-25)

First release:

• Provided the basis for importing, exporting and manipulating ProTracker modules.

• Basic playing routine, playing the samples in the module only (not the module itself).

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