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Status Report: Digibooster Professional 3
« on: May 02, 2009, 05:48:48 PM »
APC&TCP respondible for the distribution and development of the music software Digibooster Professional 3 wants to give you an overview of the development of the new version as stated on 19th January 2009 in the news.



First of all we have to say that the program is being rewritten from scratch opening new opportunities which haven't been possible with the old sources of Version 2.xx or at least without an unacceptable amount of work. The program structure can be enhanced now and designed with more efficiency in mind.

playback routine

The implementation of the playback routine on the basis of Digibooster Professional version 2.xx in the new version 3 is nearly finished. Smaller effect commands like Sxx (Pitch up/down) or Lxx (setting of envelope position) and the DSP echo effects parameters (Vxx, Wxx, Xxx, Yxx, Zxx) must be implemented yet. Once we have done that the new playback routine will equal to 100% the one of version 2.xx on the new basis.
Moreover the new playback routine will be very portable having a positive effect on the portability to non AmigaOS compatible platforms.
Furthermore the new playback routine will be 100% independent of AHI.

Digibooster Professional 3 GUI

The basic GUI functions like
* trackerraster
* instrument list
* edit options (new, delete, change, ...)
are already implemented.

In addition the programm will run with several tasks (tracker, player, ...).
Visual customization using different skins will be possible too.

DigiRoller

This external program will enable you to render music files to complete AIFF or WAV files. It will be made available to the community for open testing shortly. Please note that this isn't the final version.

At this point we would like to advise you of the support forum of Digibooster Professional. Everyone interested in the development and integration of new ideas is welcome to take part at the discussions.

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Re: Status Report: Digibooster Professional 3
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2009, 05:58:29 PM »
This is looking good. What version of AmigaOS will this run on?

Please keep the old school looking interface!
 

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Re: Status Report: Digibooster Professional 3
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2009, 06:09:21 PM »
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This is looking good. What version of AmigaOS will this run on?

The call for betatesters had a list:
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Amiga Classic 68k (AmigaOS 3.x)
Amiga Classic PPC (AmigaOS 4.0)
AmigaOne (AmigaOS 4.x)
Sam440EP/Flex (AmigaOS 4.x)
Pegasos 1/2 (MorphOS 1.x / 2.x)
Efika (MorphOS 1.x / 2.x)
AmigaOS Emulation (Amithlon / WinUAE)


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Please keep the old school looking interface!

Well, as it uses MUI it can be configured to look whatever you like it to.
 

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Re: Status Report: Digibooster Professional 3
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2009, 08:48:28 PM »
Dont want to sound harsh, but after all these years yet another announcement.
 

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Re: Status Report: Digibooster Professional 3
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2009, 08:55:16 PM »
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Dont want to sound harsh, but after all these years yet another announcement.

Where?
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Re: Status Report: Digibooster Professional 3
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2009, 09:27:41 PM »
The playback routine does not use AHI.
Correct?
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Re: Status Report: Digibooster Professional 3
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2009, 09:43:24 PM »
The playback routine does not use AHI. Correct?

Not exactly. It does not depend on AHI mixing and resampling, as the old one. The playback routine just synthesizes stereo downmix at any choosen sampling frequency. Then this downmix may be passed to AHI for playback, but can be directed to a file, or may be fed to DirectSound if the routine is running on Windows for example... DigiBooster 2.x AHI dependency was main reason for lack of good replayers for non-Amiga systems, now it will change.

Of course DigiBooster 3 uses AHI for playback, to support as many soundcards as possible (someone on amiga-news.de got it wrong it seems...). But it does not depend on AHI, so for example rendering a module to file is possible without AHI installed in a system.

I hope it is clear now.