Welcome to Virtual Drummer 3.1, a Quicktime-based drum machine for MacOS computers!
Getting Help
I strongly recommend you turn on balloon help if you are having trouble understanding a Virtual Drummer feature. After that, go to the Virtual Drummer web site, and read the Virtual Drummer FAQ. Finally, feel free to email me with your concerns.
System Requirements
System 7.1 or greater, with the Drag Manager and Thread Manager on versions less than 7.5
Quicktime 2.5 or greater
Contacting the Author
I encourage you to send in bug reports, suggestions, and comments about Virtual Drummer. Many of the features in Virtual Drummer are the direct result of feature requests by users. I try to answer all my mail, but at times am overloaded, and may not respond to a feature request(help requests are given priority). However, all feature requests are read, and will be given consideration.
email : jnichols@plinet.com
www : http://www.plinet.com/~jnichols/
phone: (303) 338-8516
Mail :
Jon Nichols
3150 S. Tamarac Dr. #D302
Denver, CO
80231
Version History
Version 3.1
-Fixed bug in undoing add drums
-Note properties dialog no longer comes up off screen when control clicking near the edge of the screen
-Added an Add Drum… menu item for adding drums without drag and drop. Some users were confused as to how to add drums.
-Added support for the Contextual Menu Manager(PPC only).
-Cursors now change to reflect actions
-All volume controls are now edit fields so that incrementing/decrementing the volume is much faster.
-Lots of cleanup internally
-Added menu items and keyboard equivalents for zooming
Version 3.0.1
-Fixed bug where pressing delete with no measures selected would crash the application
-Fixed problems opening version 2 files
-Fixed some misspellings
-Fixed some bugs relating to relative volumes
-Fixed problem with radio buttons in some properties dialogs
-Fixed bug with finder icon
-Fixed a few undo bugs, where undo would be available for operations that couldn't be undone
Version 3.0
-Support for time signatures
-Support for tempos on a measure by measure basis
-Support for note and drum volumes
-MIDI Import/Export
-Windows Menu
-Ability to drag more than one drum from the palette to the song
-Start playing at any measure
-Go to any measure
-Adding a measure scrolls to where measure is placed
-Support for inserting measures
-More balloon help support
-All windows save their position
-Undoable operations
-Change drums already in the set
-Licks can be played
Version 2.1
-Threaded playing.
-Cut, Copy, Paste.
-Drums window saves its position.
-While making a selection, score now scrolls, so its possible to select a larger number of measures.
Version 2.0.2
-Fixed a number of problems with File I/O.
-Improved drawing performance significantly on large songs.
-Added remaining 16 General MIDI Instruments.
-No longer crashes on startup when Quicktime is not installed.
-Fixed major bugs that occurred when drawing very large songs.
Version 2.0.1
-Fixed a number of problems that occured when launching by opening a document:
-drum list window didn't show up
-splash screen didn't display
-mouse tracking didn't occur properly resulting in values being left in the info section at the top of the main window
-Fixed a bug where dragging multiple measures without copying would result in the measures being placed in the wrong places.
-Dragged measures are now selected after they're dropped.
-Changed the Licks menu item in the file menu to Drumlets.
-Fixed a bug that could cause crashes while editing when measures were divided by 30 or more.
Version 2.0
-Complete rewrite
-Drag and drop interface
-Customizable drum sets
-Drumlets palette
-Quicktime 2.5 support
-Quicktime export support.
Version 1.0b2
Fixed up BigBang. Renamed Virtual Drummer. Version 1.0 was never released, because there were too many internal problems with the application to be able to consider it a final version. Also, Quicktime had problems with drum sounds, so at that time, Virtual Drummer was nothing more than a toy.
Version 0.5
Initial public release. Named "BigBang". Released as a technology release, open for comment.
