tunafish 1.4 ...

[pHz]

has been released ...

... and a 1.4.1 bugfix (minor GUI thing) posted ...

http://www.brambos.com

slainte rob

[Maniah]

No ASIO support yet?

[brambos]

... and a 1.4.1 bugfix (minor GUI thing) posted ...

Yeah, thanks for pointing out where that slip of the finger was. I think I've never fixed a bug and updated a release faster than tonight... From A-HA! to release in less than 3 minutes

cheers,

Bram

[brambos]

No ASIO support yet?

I promised I would try and get that into 1.5... First I wanted 1.4 online because it contained some fixes and features that I didn't want to be kept out until I've figured out ASIO support.

So.. to answer your question: not yet. But I've just installed ASIO4ALL on my development laptop and ASIO it's going to be in 1.5 (fingers crossed that I get it working properly).

cheers,

Bram

[MattmaN]

Yeah ASIO would be a big plus for the Fish.
Out of the box it's easy to get a grip on,and this helps attract newbies.
Asio will keep them using it long after the newb factor has worn off.
Support for multi-out vsti would attract even more people to this app by the way.
Overall I like the way your going with this app.
The market is already saturated with complex hosts that take months even....years? to learn.
Yet Tunafish has room to grow,and still remain a user friendly host thanks to it's well laid out interface that promotes fast,and intuitive composition.
Keep up the good work Bram.

[funkychickendance]

Overall I like the way your going with this app.
The market is already saturated with complex hosts that take months even....years? to learn.
Yet Tunafish has room to grow,and still remain a user friendly host thanks to it's well laid out interface that promotes fast,and intuitive composition.
Keep up the good work Bram.

I agree. He's on to something here. I haven't decided just how i'll integrate this with my workflow, but it's clearly very useful -- and extremely well-suited -- for quick sketching of simple songs with a few tracks. The MIDI out is a good function, too.

For bigger stuff, Podium looks appropriate. Or rather, it would if I could make any sense of the initial set-up.

/funx
"B-wear the unobviyus"

[andreas1999]

i've been using cubase sx 2 for a long time now and just recently decided that i don't need MORE features to create music, i need less features. i get bored real easily and i want to use a sequencer that can get my track done fast. i'm going to try this tonight when i get home. but some more screenshots for the website would be nice

[Maniah]

But I've just installed ASIO4ALL on my development laptop and ASIO it's going to be in 1.5 (fingers crossed that I get it working properly).

[hyperborea]

Just tried the demo but experienced a BIG latency problem
Strange because with my other host ( MiniHost and Traction 2 all work fine )

To bad because it really looks promising.

[funkychickendance]

Just tried the demo but experienced a BIG latency problem
Strange because with my other host ( MiniHost and Traction 2 all work fine )

To bad because it really looks promising.

Yup, that's what the ASIO chat above also reflects. Apparently, it's on the "to do" list, so we'll just have to be patient...

Meanwhile, where's SQ4-II?? Now, that sucker I do want to test drive...

/funx
dys-funx-yunnel

[hyperborea]

Thanks for the info Funkychickenda, I'll wait for the next version and try it again.

[Maniah]

Meanwhile, where's SQ4-II??

yeah what's going on with that? A promised release was scheduled before the end of '05.

[goldbaker]

I just started using Tunafish. More as a composition tool than a sequencer, really, and I find it really easy to work with. After messing around with Cakewalk and various notation programs, Tunafish was the best $30 I've spent on music software in a long time. I sent a comment to the developer about possibly adding the option of increasing/decreasing velocity of all notes within a selected area -- that would pretty much make up for the lack of volume envelopes. (I know, I know, I can always record the controllers.) It might be nice to have the option of working in other time signatures (triplets, 3/4 etc.), but there are pretty obvious workarounds for this.

It's been real stable so far, and I love it.

[dudd]

hi brambros.
first i very much liked the direction you took with moonfish and tunafish. minimalistic, easy, reduced to the necessary. thats what fascinated me with sid music too. its maximum 3 sounds at once, but the music that can be pulled out of this is amazing, and never "overcrowded" in any aspect. i think thats with modern sequencers i tend to overcomplicate everything.
and so i see a definate need for a minimalistic up-to-date sequencer. not only for me. alot of other people are overwhelmed by "choices" and "buttons" and "possibilities". i hope so;)
so the approaches you took with tunafish and moonfish seem both very good. i think if you meet them in the middle, and add a little well thought out extras, then you could have another classic host, that will rule and that people are happy to pay for.

and now i am looking for a moonfish / tunafish crossover with following specs:

- minimalistic interface in switchable fullscreen mode, most ideally skinnable
- instrumentbased on samples / single vsti patches
- asio
- full midi automation
- 3 tracks maximum
- step sequenced with some grid and shuffle options
- patternbased

like in moonfish, samples/vsti patches are not bound to a track, so they can be placed at every free step on each of the three tracks.
patterns are bound to channels, so to put up a song you can edit the pattern list of each three channels.
each step should have different options, like vibrato, filter, pitch bend, and maybe even a vst fx.
much like the c64 trackers, crossed with vsti, midi and sampling collection support.

so give them minimalists the only host theyll ever need;)

but at the end its just something for the book: "my dream sequencer"

dont forget it, maybe someday its out
greetings