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I’m very excited to release the final 1.0 version of the software. This represents pretty much everything that I had envisioned for the program, plus some extra things beyond what I was planning.

Now on to 2.0!

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I started into reading the autobiography of John Stuart Mill, and am finding it very interesting. You can get a free copy of the text off of the wonderful Project Gutenberg site. In his autobiography he recounts how he was schooled by his father at home. It is an impressive thing that […]

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I added in the tuning exercise that was suggested by Ulrich Herbst. I also added the capability to select different MIDI sounds even if your sound card refuses to tell what sounds it has available. This is probably the last release before I do a final 1.0 and start digging into the 2.0 […]

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I just can’t leave well enough alone so I added in some more tweaks to make it even nicer for the 1.0 release.

I’ve added in the following:

Chord arpeggiation - just seems like a nice idea
Set root note - so you can lock all of the intervals, chords, scales to start on the same note, good […]

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This is the release that has all of the major functionality in it that will exist in the 1.0 version. Hopefully in the next week or two the final 1.0 version will be done, which means documentation and installers for both Windows and OS X will exist (currently there is no documentation and no […]

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Over the past month or so I’ve had an eye opening experience reading a book that the author has so graciously put the full text of online. I have since bought said book because I feel it is an important writing to have laying around my house so that others might get a chance […]

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I’ve finally found some free time (thanks to my employer having some down time between projects) to update my eartraining software some more. I call it EarToner. I made it an open source, freely available program so other starving musicians can take advantage of the program.

Probably the biggest deal about this release is […]

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