MIDI Tapper Beta 70 - New Feature: Harmonic Analysis

April 03, 2017

During the past this month, many bugs were found and fixed in MIDI Tapper, and overall performance was improved. Focus was however placed on the development of a new feature: 4-voice harmonic analysis. In summary, MIDI Tapper is now able to identify all sonorities existing in the SATB chorales written by Johann Sebastian Bach. This new feature was developed using a collection of MIDI files which will be included in a future MIDI Tapper update, along with searchable database functions.

A new chapter has been added to the documentation explaining the new analysis functions. The following diagram shows how Chord Symbols are used to identify complex sonorities.

The remaining details about this update are as follows:

• fixed handling of meta events in MIDI file exporting
• fixed portview width initialization for short files
• fixed MIDI Events list updating when events are edited in the Detail View
• fixed rewind not always moving to the first group
• improved speed of MIDI file importing
• improved MIDI Events list data display and editing
• source track data is now editable in the MIDI Events list
• added Conductor track for playing back source data
• added Batch MIDI File importing (importing multiple MIDI files at once)
• added 'Go to Window' menu to more easily manage multiple open projects
• updated Documentation (pdf)

Please download Beta 70 and send your feedback. Current beta license holders can login and go to the MIDI Tapper software page to download the update at no cost. New users can still try out the software for 2.99 €. The beta license remains valid through all following MIDI Tapper beta releases, and will serve as a discount coupon for purchase of the software after its official release.

Regards,
Aaron