New Feature Alert - Beat Box Ahoy

If you look on out the right hand side of traveling OpenSebJ train you can see a preview of the latest and greatest feature to join the already well prepared feature set - a beat box. Yes finally the simplest and yet one of the most creatively powerful tools for the modern day samplig man (or lady) has joined the ranks of the sampling, sequencing creation otherwise commonly known as OpenSebJ. As you can see from the lovely screen shot it is a basic yet clean interface, like a cool night breeze on a sea side coastal city some where south of Hobart. Yes the graceful tool can all be yours if you lay down 0 dollars - you heard right nothing, nada, zero, zilch and that's right there's also nothing to pay latter - you even get access to use the source code as you like!

If you want to hear what the above screen shot sounded like - grab it here

Guess which open source audio program, just got an audio graph

So here's the news, OpenSebJ has got a wave mapper built in, while some what of a standard feature for audio applications in general, it's a milestone and worth celebrating none-the-less. Thanks go to Aravind for the hard work and research required to get this all going within the interface.

So if you have some spare time and feel like contributing to the project, now is a fantastic time to get in touch and get involved. We are always looking for Alpha/Beta testers, suggestions, comments, designers, audio engineer's etc. Not sure how you can contribute? Drop us a line any way - I'm sure we can find something ;-) Let us know what you think and what you want to see us looking at next!

Can't Install SQL Server Express 2005?

Maybe it's to do with the interesting system requirements it has, coupled with the not so helpfully error reporting on setup failure. Tonight I discovered that SQL Server Express won't install on a machine where the Protected Storage Service is set to manual. Interestingly though you can't easily find this relationship with the error message of "ParseBootstrapOptionsAction".

For more information see this post Error installing Express Edition with VS2005 Standard
Or the actual Knowledge Base Article

Version Alpha 0.06 Release - Beta coming soon

OpenSebJ version 0.06 has been released, this means that an official beta is getting close and will be released soon. Only a few features are outstanding before OpenSebJ will take off the Alpha shackles and make a Beta.

In this release a new feature has been included which you (probably?) won't find any where else - a position record straight to the multi track sequencer has been included. All you need to do is assign the samples to a key - open the lay down window hit the Key Record button, play and then tap out your beat.

I haven't kept up with the commercial software but I think this feature has a chance to rival the their products positions.

"System.NullReferenceException"

Bizarre, somehow when I run OpenSebJ through the C# Express 2005 IDE, I can click "Select File" on the record window and have no issue but once I run the program outside of the IDE (Either the Debug or the Release version) I can follow exactly the same operation and get a "System.NullReferenceException". I've found the offending part of the program but have only so far caught it - I would like to debug it further but it's rather difficult without the use of the debugger ;-)

Any ideas?

Version 0.05 Released

Version 0.05 Released - Download OpenSebJ, the Open Source real time editing tool, here!