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- This release contains the 1999.06.01 version of Anvil Studio by Willow Software.
- It replaces the old versions named ast98xx.zip/exe, mstudioZ.exe.
-
- mstudioZ.exe and AST9901.EXE are self-extracting setup files.
- AST9901.ZIP is the equivalent ZIP file (run the program SETUP.EXE).
-
- Anvil Studio is a "Freeware" program that runs under Windows 95 and Windows NT.
- It supports multi-track recording, composing, and editing of music
- using AUDIO, MIDI, and sampled percussions.
- Audio effects include delay, pitch change, filtering, and reverse.
- Anvil Studio is designed to work with optional accessories from
- Willow Software such as sheet music printing, piano exercises,
- ear training exercises, and voice-pitch analysis.
-
- Requires 16 meg RAM (32 meg for Audio recording), and a Sound card.
- To run under Windows NT 4.0, it requires Microsoft's NT Service Pack 3,
- available for download from Microsoft's WEB sites at:
- ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/ussp3/i386/
- or
- ftp://198.105.232.37/fixes/usa/nt40/ussp3/i386/
-
- While Anvil Studio is free of charge, it is copyrighted material,
- and can only be redistributed without modification.
-
- If you have questions or setup problems, please see if a newer
- version is available at our website:
- www.AnvilStudio.com
-
- or download and run our Setup Diagnostic tool from:
- www.AnvilStudio.com/DrSetup.exe
- (It is very small and just take a few seconds to download.)
-
- or contact us by email at:
- support@AnvilStudio.com
-
- or by mail at
-
- Willow Software
- P.O. Box 60122
- Shoreline, WA
- 98160-0122
-
- New features in the 1999.06.01 version include:
- o Added Sync button so Recording and Playing can be triggered by
- external MIDI devices.
- o Added abillity to:
- o insert Slurs, Crescendos, Decrescendos, and Repeat symbols.
- o insert chord labels at the top of the staff
- o insert Time Signatures and Key Signatures in the middle of a track.
- o On the Compose page, notes can now be dragged up and down
- the staff to change their pitch.
- Notes can be dragged to the bottom of the screen to delete them.
- o Added Lock Score checkbox to the Compose page so that you
- can experiment with notes on the keyboard without inserting them
- into the score.
- o The new default is for DirectX to be disabled, since it
- results in "Device in use" errors on some systems.
- It is automatically enabled when you press the FX or DirectX buttons.
- o With Multi-View accessory, you can now copy and paste between
- two instrument tracks on the compose page.
- o Added options to disable Full-Duplex test, and to disable DirectX
- o Colors are now adjustable on the Options page.
- o Does a better job of sharing Audio out devices with WaveTable synthesizers
- like Yamaha SXG50.
- o Fixed problems:
- o fixed several DirectX related problems that resulted in Device-in-use errors
- and quite audio tracks. These problems first appeared in version 1999.05.05.
- o when deleting measures on Rhythm tracks, or from a Piano Roll,
- extra rests were sometimes inserted.
- o dragging staff notations over lyrics sometimes appeared jerky
- o changing duration with Note Properties sometimes had no effect
- o It failed with error 80041015 on systems with no MIDI In devices
- o Since version 1999.05.01, key signatures had been drawn with sharps
- even when they should have been flats
- o There was a problem with audio Pitch modification
- o Pro-Mix control editing wasn't working properly when
- Compose page was set to Piano Roll format.
- o Duplets through Septuplets on and Compose-Piano Roll and Rhythm pages
- weren't aligned properly.
- o Enhanced the Repair Song menu item.
- o Numerous other small problems were fixed.
-
- New features in the 1999.05.07 version include:
- o Made initialization faster.
- o When displaying lyrics, key signatures and triplet lines
- in the bass clef were off.
- o Added item to Options page to disable Full-Duplex sound card testing.
-
- New features in the 1999.05.06 version include:
- o You can now view and edit a track's lyrics.
- The 1999.05.04 version of the Print Sheet accessory now includes
- option to print lyrics.
- o Added ability to quantitize a selection of notes rather just the entire track.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Works better with Helf-Duplex sound cards
- o Added Port Latency properties to get around synchronization
- problems that occurred when using WaveTable MIDI synthesizers.
- o Fixed some minor score display problems
- o Enabling/Disabling an Audio track wasn't causing all audio tracks to get re-mixed,
- causing it to seem to have no effect.
- o It was initializing Audio Volume to be very low.
-
- New features in the 1999.05.02 version include:
- o Added support for DirectX Audio pluggins. See the Mixer page for details.
- o Pressing Ctrl key while entering a note is a shorthand for making
- the new note a dotted note.
- o When changing an Instrument track to a Rhythm track, you can
- retain notes as drum notes rather than erasing them.
- o Fixed problems:
- o Tempo editing with Pro-Mix accessory was not working with
- Midi-1 files.
- o clicking on notes on the record page could sometimes result in
- an Invalid Parameter error.
-
- New features in the 1999.04.06 version include:
- o Added option to record each MIDI channel to its own track, rather
- than recording all recorded MIDI channels to the currently active track.
- This lets you record up to 16 MIDI tracks simultaneously.
- See the Options page for details.
- o Fixed problems:
- o On systems with very large disks, recording an Audio track
- could result in an Overflow error.
- o The menu item: File/Truncate Song.../From start to current position
- was not working properly for Instrument and Rhythm tracks.
- It was deleting the correct notes, but not shifting the remaining ones,
- leaving a silent gap.
- o Pasting notes from one track to another was not updating the notes
- MIDI channel, which caused the pasted notes to continue to play
- the previous track's instrument.
- o On some machines, Multi-Audio 1/8 was only able to record and mix
- 4 tracks instead of 8.
-
- New features in the 1999.03.15 version include:
- o Added more help information
- o Fixed problems:
- o Edit/Quantitize was moving track to end of the song, and left
- progress bar on screen.
- o On Compose page, wasn't allowing hand to be positioned
- over a rest.
- o Runtime errors would sometimes occur when run on 800 x 600
- screen with Multi-View or Combo-Pack accessories.
-
- New features in the 1999.03.09 version include:
- o Made Play and Record buttons faster when song has audio tracks.
- o When stopping & restarting a song in the middle, Audio and Midi
- tracks were sometimes being played out of sync
- o Fixed problems:
- o Mixer's Save Mix button caused overflow error for long songs
- o staff display problem related to deleting rests
- o File / Repair Song now works with a wider-range of
- badly-formatted MIDI files
-
- New features in the 1999.03.06 version include:
- o Added "solo" field to track list on Record page
- o Fixed problem where:
- o It would inappropriately warn about recording audio to a ZIP drive.
- o It would reverse "Drum row" fields for sampled rhythms
- o When loading song with Sampled Rhythms, it would needlessly say
- "If saved, file will be saved in a new format."
- o It sometimes generated "Reference beyond wave data" when playing
- back sampled rhythm tracks.
- o Mixer page's Copy to new audio track sometimes failed.
-
- New features in the 1999.03.05 version include:
- o Warns before any attempts to record audio to floppy or ZIP drive
- o Fixed problem where:
- o it sometimes crashed on systems with no CD-Rom drive.
- o it sometimes added noise or crashed or had sync problems
- when Mixer's page had Stereo Output checked while playing
- recording and then playing a Rhythm track that had Sampled audio.
-
- New features in the 1999.03.03 version include:
- o Fixed bug that caused MIDI and Audio tracks to be out of sync
- when playing MIDI through a software-based WaveTable synthesizer.
- o Added keyboard-shortcut for controlling note duration on the
- Compose page.
- o Fixed some bugs with the Edit/Quantitize Track menu item
-
- New features in the 1999.02.04 version include:
- o Internet Explorer is no longer required.
- o Better memory management for Audio recording, resulting in longer tracks
- when Multi-Audio accessory is installed.
- o Compose page has new button that lets you sing the note to be inserted.
- o For screens larger than 800 x 600, Record page now shows:
- o Mixer controls (Pan, Volume, Delay), or
- o Zoomed-out view of notes and wave data for all tracks at the same time
- o up to 25 tracks of information displayed at the same time instead of 10
- o Option to play notes as mouse moves over them on the staff
- o Much faster loading and scrolling of large MIDI files
- o Compose page for Rhythm tracks and Piano Roll now support
- Duplet, Pentuplet, and Septuplet notes
- o Added Diatonic option to Transpose menu
- o Added ability to save Cue points for all tracks, including Audio tracks
- o Added ability to delete Cue points
- o All new cue points will get updated as notes before them are
- inserted and deleted
- o The following problems were fixed:
- o Mistakenly reported the error:
- "Unable to perform this operation because it would result in
- two notes of the same pitch being played at the same time on the same track."
- o Transpose Selection wasn't transposing the last NoteOff event.
- o When real-time mixing 8-bit audio samples mixer played a noisy mix.
-
- New features in the 1999.01.06 version include:
- o Enabled scrolling selection on Compose page
- o Enabled Piano-Roll view of Instrument tracks with repeating measures
- o Enabled Cut/Copy/Paste on Rhythm tracks
- o Added lead-in and accent sounds to metronome
- o Added option to save MIDI files as MIDI type 1, so they can be loaded by
- other composing programs.
- o Made importing a long .WAV file faster.
- o Added PC-Keyboard -> MIDI-Keyboard user interface for Instrument tracks
- o Added PC-Keyboard -> Drum user interface for Rhythm tracks
- o Added Pitch Bend and Channel Pressure to Pro-Mix set of controllers
- o The following problems were fixed:
- o some overflow errors in Compose page for long audio tracks.
- o When audio recording was started while song was not positioned
- at the start of the track, it sometimes introduced noise at the
- start of the track.
- o bug was preventing recording and mixing Audio tracks longer
- than 8 minutes.
- o "Edit/Quantitize Track" was converting a Rhythm track to an Instrument track.
- o "Edit/Split into single channel tracks" menu item sometimes failed.
- o out of memory errors when loading some songs with empty tracks.
-
-
- New features in the 1998.12.04 version include:
- o Fixed several Audio-related bugs
- o Improved accuracy of Tempo Map
- o Added ability to paste Stereo to Mono and Mono to Stereo
- o Added nested page tabs
- o File/Import Audio From... menu was sometimes not working correctly
- o Added ability to transpose selected notes on the staff
-
- New features in the 1998.12.02 version include:
- o With Pro-Mix accessory, you can now edit a song's Tempo map as
- well as any MIDI control value over time.
- For Audio tracks, with Pro-Mix, you can edit Pan and Volume over time.
- o Now supports real-time mixing of Audio tracks, when Multi-Audio
- accessory is installed.
- o Added Audio VU meters to the Record page.
- o Added ability to "punch-in" to re-record over mistakes in audio tracks.
- o With the Multi-Audio 4/8 accessory, you can simultaneously record
- up to 4 Audio tracks at the same time.
- o Added Options page for setting various options, and allow you
- to control Anvil Studio's Record/Play/Stop functions remotely using
- MIDI controllers.
- o Added ability to record Audio's Left or Right channel by itself.
- o You can now click on the Time field to display time in SMPTE or
- Measure:Beat:Ticks format.
- o The following problems were fixed:
- o Edit/Split track into single-channel tracks was not working.
- o Deleting a section of notes on the Compose page sometimes hung the machine.
- o On Windows NT, minimizing Anvil Studio's window resulted terminated the program.
- o On Compose page for Rhythm track, Tempo setting was not accuratly calibrated in Beats-Per-Minute.
- o With some Audio cards, starting the song from anywhere other
- than the start of the song caused all MIDI tracks to play Piano instruments.
-
- New features in the 1998.10.08 version include:
- o Added staff style control to display 1 or 2 treble or bass clefs
- o Displays notes outside staff limits
- o The Echo MIDI Events checkbox now has an effect even when not Recording.
- o Added File/Truncate menu to easily shorten the duration of .MID files.
- o Added File/Merge Song menu to allow copying tracks between .MID files.
- o Fixed several bugs, including:
- o program crashed when changing Mixer's Synth Volume while song played
- o When Record page is visible, notes get echoed only to the active track's synth
- o a key signature problem that affected the Music Drills accessory,
- o program didn't work properly with Sound Cards that only support
- MIDI and not Audio,
- o the Compose page for a Rhythm track didn't work with screen
- resolution > 1024 x 768.
-
- New features in the 1998.09.05 version include:
- o Added VU meter to the Audio Compose page.
- o Fixed problems that caused the program to crash when:
- o overlapping notes were inserted into a Rhythm track.
- o System had no Audio Input device installed.
- o Editing the Rhythm Tool's properties on the Perform page.
- o Changing key signature to a minor key.
-
- New features in the 1998.09.02 version include:
- o Added per-track Pan (balance) controls to mixer page.
- o Enabled the following features when optional Multi-Audio accessory is installed:
- o Ability to record several MONO audio tracks and mix them to stereo.
- o Ability to mix several audio tracks to one new audio track.
- o When dragging a note to staff in key of D, it is now always added as a note
- in the current key, rather than being displayed with an accidental.
- o When composing a rhythm track, various note durations are now supported.
- o Some bugs were fixed on the Compose page related to right-mouse note properties.
- o Added control over the number of notes per line when the Print Screen
- accessory is installed.
- o Fixed bug that misnamed some key signatures,
- e.g. D major was called D sharp major.
-
- New features in the 1998.08.07 version include:
- o Now Echo's to SoundCard while recording MIDI.
- o New tools have been added to Anvil Studio's Compose page,
- including popup menu control of individual note properties including:
- pitch, duration, volume, stem direction,
- staccato, and tie-to-next-note.
- o Several errors were fixed including some related to how
- accidentals get displayed.
-
- New features in the 1998.07.07 version include:
- o Better tools on the Compose page.
- o select, cut, copy, paste notes on the staff
- o drag notes from the Note palette to the staff
- o remove individual notes and change note attributes
- by clicking on the notes with the right-mouse button.
- Attributes include "Tie to next note" and "Staccato"
- o Fixed problem that prevented editing properties of Rhythm tool on perform page.
- o Fixed problem that caused error message when recording pitch bend events
- o Added check box to Synths page that controls synthesizer's
- LocalControl setting.
- o Several other errors fixed
-
- Bugs fixed in the 1998.06.24 version include:
- o Better memory management for Audio recording.
- o Rhythm tool on Perform page is more precise.
- o Fixed Perform Page demo programs Rhythm.prg and Sample1.prg
- o Fixed bug with Edit/Quantitize menu.
- o old .WAV files were being left on the disk every time a new
- Audio track got recorded.
- o the Audio Lab page was broken.
- o Several minor problems were fixed.
-
- New features and bugs fixed in the 1998.05.20 version include:
- o Enables optional accessory for printing high-resolution Sheet music.
- o Supports Stereo Audio (the previous versions were limited to Mono).
- o Create a single .WAV file by mixing all Audio and Sampled Rhythm
- tracks with the Delay effect applied.
- o Fixed several bugs, including some Setup bugs.
- o Now runs on Windows NT 4.0.
-
- Features that were added and bugs fixed in the 1998.04.22 version include:
- o Added more context-sensitive help.
- o Fixed bug where Help information sometimes got blanked out
- on machines with Internet Explorer version 4.0.
- o The Back Page arrow failed to work in some situations.
- o MIDI recording had some problems with synths that generated
- Clock and Active Sensing MIDI events.
-