Keyboard layouts

• New: Find meantone-based keyboard layouts for any EDO
• Improvement: Include tuning program in MTS sysex message

EDO analysis

• New: Print step sizes, keyboard layouts and note names for any EDO scale

Keyboard control and SF3

• New: Play notes using your (ISO) keyboard
• New: Decode and render SF3 soundfonts

Render SF2 soundfonts

You can now play back sampled sounds by providing a soundfont file location on the command line, e.g.:

microwave -s /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

This feature is driven by FluidLite.

Minor improvements

• Improvement: Add more convenience API functions
• Deletion: KeyMap::root_at_a4 – Use KeyMap::root_at(NoteLetter::A.in_octave(4)) instead

Move CLI to a new crate

The CLI has been moved to the new crate tune-cli.

New waveforms

• New: Add new synthesizer waveforms

Virtual piano UI

A virtual piano UI has been added which can be installed using the following command:

cargo install microwave

Better CLI and note letters

• CLI

  • New: scale command to be piped to dump, diff or mts
  • New: Integration tests
  • Improvement: Better scale dump

• API

  • New: NoteLetter and Octave abstractions
  • More: Standard trait implementations

More CLI and API features

• CLI
  • New: Display fractional approximations of ratios
  • Improvement: Highlight the root key of a scale
  • Change: Command rank2 is symmetric (the 0th iteration is implicit)
• API
  • New: Function nearest_fraction to find fractional approximations of ratios
  • New: Traits Pitched, PitchedNote and Tuning
  • New: Struct PianoKey which is unpitched while Notes are pitched
  • More: Documentation
  • Change: Function create_rank2_temperament_scale is symmetric (the 0th iteration is implicit)