Rationale 0.2, free JI composition software

[Bad Mutha Hubbard]

I've just released Rationale version 0.2, for composing in extended
just intonation.
http://rationale.sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rationale

Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, not tested on other platforms.
Requires Python 2.5 and Csound.

Features:
-instant tonal center change by hitting T; hit G to return to 1/1;
-regions, so different notes can have different tonal centers;
-notebanks, so you can instantly switch the bank of ratios available;
-Csound, OSC, and Soundfont output;
-transpose selected notes by dragging them vertically;
-independent vertical and horizontal zoom;
-arbitrary quantization and tuplets with a few keypresses.

And lots more. I hope to be posting a tutorial vid in a few days, as
there are a lot of features that are easier to understand by seeing
than reading.

I'm not a professional programmer, so please save your work
frequently, and let me know if you have questions or find bugs. And
before doing serious work, try saving a few test files to make sure
you can! I've worked my ass off to fix many, many bugs, but I expect a
few got by me, especially for Mac.

If you tried my previous program, JIsequencer, a couple years ago,
you'll find this is far more stable and useful, you just have to get
Python and Csound set up all right first. I'm happy to help with that
if I can.

Hope you get some use out of it!


-Chuckk Hubbard

http://www.badmuthahubbard.com

[Cody Hallenbeck]

Thanks so much for working on this Chuckk! I use jisequencer all the
time, and I look forward to rationale growing. I'll send you bug
reports on OSX 10.5.6. As with the Rational 0.1, if it's not working
on OSX, then I can just run it on a Linux virtual machine.

[badmuthahubbard]

That would be great, Cody. Last version didn't work at all on Mac,
but this one should be 1000x better. The most obvious thing I've
noticed is that the time cursor bar doesn't move by itself; if you
move the mouse around it goes, but for some reason the screen doesn't
update unless the user is interacting with the computer. Unfortunate,
but it shouldn't affect the sound. I hope that's the biggest issue.
I've noticed no issues on Linux so far.

-Chuckk

On May 4, 11:24 pm, Cody Hallenbeck <codyhallenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks so much for working on this Chuckk! I use jisequencer all the
> time, and I look forward to rationale growing. I'll send you bug
> reports on OSX 10.5.6. As with the Rational 0.1, if it's not working
> on OSX, then I can just run it on a Linux virtual machine.
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Bad Mutha Hubbard
>