Performous 0.6.1 released

[aave000]

EDIT: Now in 0.6.1, see a couple of posts down.

Performous band game version 0.6.0 was just released.

Why should you care / what sets it apart from the rest?

• Solid and mature singing
• All scoring has the same maximum, so comparing e.g. bass player and singer is possible
• Support most things in the MIDI format, such as solo sections, drum fills, BREs and multiple vocal tracks
• Original features such as the possibility to use webcam as a background or play with MIDI drums
• Most instruments are auto-detected - no need for button configuration
• Ohloh.net analyzes us as having "Large, active development team" and "Established codebase"

Ok, so what's new in this release?
Quite a lot, see the changelog below (note that it scrolls):

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*  Gameplay
          o Multiple vocal track support (no duet yet)
          o Toggleable karaoke with songs that have separate song and vocal tracks
          o Solo parts for guitars
          o Big Rock Endings
          o Drum Fills (with God Mode for drums)
          o Instrument hit timing indicator
          o Lefty-mode for guitar and drums
          o Join menu for difficulty/track configuration
    * Audio system completely rewritten
          o Single backend: PortAudio v19 (no more plugins)
          o Can still use jack/pulse/alsa etc. through PA
          o Easier to maintain, simple architecture
          o Different bugs and workarounds than before
    * Configuration
          o Sorted to category submenus and displays multiple items at once
          o Ingame audio config with no need to restart Performous (except when audio devices hang)
    * Controllers
          o More controllers are autodetected and supported properly
          o XML config file allows adding/modifying controller types without touching C++
          o MIDI drum support (build-time option)
    * Song browser
          o Song filtering by instrument type (F5-F8)
          o Song parsing improved for faster loading and other improvements
          o Uses less memory due to notes not being loaded before entering a song
    * Miscellaneous
          o Webcam support (build-time option)
          o Graphical improvements and more random backgrounds
          o SVG caching system (menus load muuuch faster once cached)
          o Notification system (more UI feedback)
          o ss_extract now supports all SingStar PS2 DVDs (PS3 is not supported)
          o Translation updates, including config localization
          o Detailed verbosity controls via new logging system
          o Hordes of other tweaks and fixes


Currently there is binaries for Ubuntu and Windows (special thanks for jstump91 for contributing the initial cross-compilation script!). OSX and other linux distributions follow, when the packagers catch up (or you can compile from source yourself).

Homepage with the announcement: http://performous.org/
Screenshots: http://performous.org/screenshots.html
Downloads: http://performous.org/install.html
Wiki/documentation: http://wiki.performous.org/

[amak11]

wow, basically this is a RB-like/DDR clone. I probly wont download, but wow, im impressed

[Patacho]

Ok guys, this is awesome to be the 0.6.0 version. Congratulations.

[aave000]

Thanks for the positive comments!

We released a fresh 0.6.1, which most notably fixes problems with non-ASCII characters in device names under Windows. The rest of the changes can be read from the release announcement at the homepage. The links in the first post still apply.

Cheers!

[DesertDiamond]

This is nice, keep up the great work.

[aave000]

This is nice, keep up the great work.

Will do

Currently the most significant progress has been made in a branch that modernizes the graphics code getting rid of the fixed function pipeline in favor of shaders. Even though it's quite far, the next release will probably still use the old code, as the newer stuff excludes old hardware (or not so old, but with crappy drivers).

Also, Performous 0.6.1 is now packaged in Arch Linux (community) and Debian + Ubuntu 11.04. We also have rpms for Fedora 14.

[pedetentous]

Hi there! Is there any hope of having Performous load notes-unedited.mid files? I noticed that a lot of the Rock Band songs don't recognize a vocal track when loaded in Performous. But it does register when I rename the unedited file as notes.mid. I'd hate to have to do that for all my files though, since that could potentially mess up FoFiX right? But I would like to be able to use Performous to just sing the songs if I'm not in the FoFiX mood. I find that the pypitch processor works MUCH better for me in regards to singing. Thank you so much for your time!

Ped

[aave000]

Hi there! Is there any hope of having Performous load notes-unedited.mid files? I noticed that a lot of the Rock Band songs don't recognize a vocal track when loaded in Performous. But it does register when I rename the unedited file as notes.mid. I'd hate to have to do that for all my files though, since that could potentially mess up FoFiX right? But I would like to be able to use Performous to just sing the songs if I'm not in the FoFiX mood.

For anyone interested, this was discussed here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/perfor ... ic/4034646

I find that the pypitch processor works MUCH better for me in regards to singing. Thank you so much for your time!
Ped

What do you mean by that? Pypitch is better than Performous, pypitch is better than some other detection code in FoFiX or was that just a typo? AFAIK, pypitch is basically Performous' code wrapped to Python.