History

v4.8.6.2 (June 30, 2008):
Added the number of checkmarked Moods or Scenes to each marquee’s timer progress bar when in that mode.

Changed the label above the soundfiles list to include a color background for highlighting the text.

Fixed an "out of bounds" error when changing Themes after updating from an old version (before v3) of SonicMood.

Fixed a bug that caused fast Moods to stall when the Mood timer changed from a slow Mood to a fast Mood.

Fixed a bug that caused the SonicMood window's listboxes to not be sized right if SonicMood starts "zoomed" to a small size and is then "zoomed" to its normal size.

Fixed a bug that caused the Progress Bar Mode display to overlap the elapsed and total time values in the marquee if the timer was on and the SonicMood window was "zoomed" to its small size.

v4.8.6.1 (June 23, 2008):
Added a "Get Playing Mood" button to the EditMoodsWindow. Clicking the button will switch the edit to the currently playing Mood. Also made the "Show Current Mood" (⌘L) MenuItem (under "File" menu) global. It will work when you're in another window.

Made changes to the way notes are timed to be more efficient.

Made some changes to the way notes are started to avoid the pause when a Mood with long instrument sustains is changed to a Mood with short sustains.

Changed the “Save Changes Delay” time (General page of the Preferences window) so its minimum is 10 seconds, not zero.

Fixed a BIG bug that could cause an "out of bounds" error if the "Create a Mood" middle slider was set one tick up from "Moody". This would cause the Instrument Group “Square Lead” to be selected. Only problem was THERE IS NO Instrument Group called "Square Lead"...

Fixed a bug that causes "zoom" (clicking on green “+”) to maximize window instead of going small after running a previous version of SonicMood.

Fixed a bug that could cause a "Nil Object Exception" when SonicMood does its automatic file save.

Fixed a bug that could make SonicMood not well cadenced, especially with “fast paced” Moods.

v4.8.6 (June 12, 2008):
Refactored several major components of SonicMood to reduce the code size a bit, lower the chance of bugs, and make future changes easier.

Changed the way Soundfiles and Scene files are handled so they're kept in a centralized location. Both sets of files are located inside the “Application Support/SonicMood” folder inside the user’s Library folder. The Soundfiles are located in the "Soundfiles" folder and the Scene files are located in the “Scenes” folder. PLEASE NOTE: There is a bug in the PowerPC version of OS X v10.4.10 (fix = update to 10.4.11) that causes the initial copying of Scene files to the new location to fail. The original five Scenes will be substituted instead.

Improved the “drag & drop” behavior for the Moods list and soundfiles list. You can now drop a folder containing other folders of soundfiles and even including Mood files and they will all be copied to the appropriate places and the Mood files will be added to the current Mood file.

Added a separator between the Scales and the Patterns lists in the "Mood Info/Edit" window so their respective heights are adjustable.

Made the Time Of Day window resizable, and changed its Mood selector from a “ComboBox” to a “Popup Menu” to avoid problems with Moods with similar names.

The Time of Day minimum play time (“For at least”) and repeat interval (“Repeat every”) settings are remembered if they were changed by the user.

For the Time of Day and the Sleep and Wake timers, the digit last selected in each of the time fields is remembered. The user can press Tab and Shift-Tab to switch between the time fields and (in the case of the Time of Day window) the schedule list. Control-left/right arrow will move the highlighted selection digit between the days, hours, minutes, and seconds entries for each time field.

Made the Scene List Window into a sheet window and limited its width to 600 pixels or the Scene Window width, whichever is smaller. Changed the Scene window’s marquee slightly.

Made the green "+" button zoom either to a compact size or full-screen, depending on a Preferences setting on the windows page.

Holding the shift key down while using the mouse to adjust either the Instruments or the soundfiles volume setting from the SonicMood window will now change the volume of all the Moods.

The “log” volume setting on the “General” page of the “Preferences” window is now a checkbox. The user can select a volume increment for the log volume setting now.

Improved the behavior of the Mood timer so it doesn't start if the current Theme is empty of Moods.

Changed the word "Marked" to "Checked" for the Mood and Scene timer display, etc.

Changed both registration window's placement setting so they appear in the middle of the screen.

Made a number of other “under the hood” improvements to SonicMood.

Fixed a bug that prevented the display of the changing sleep/wake/TimeOfDay timer digits when an arrow button is held down.

Fixed a few minor bugs relating to the way the Time of Day window worked.

Improved the way the Mood and Scene timer progress bars look and work.

v4.8.5.3 (May 13, 2008):
Fixed a bug that caused a crash if a Mood is dragged to a new position in the Moods list.

Fixed a bug that fails to enable the soundfile controls (play/pause time, volume, pan) when a soundfile is selected (checked) in the "Mood Info/Edit" window soundfile list, if editing a Mood that's not the one currently playing.

Fixed a bug that caused an "Out of Bounds Error" under certain conditions when a soundfile was "unselected" in the soundfile list.

Corrected a small bug that failed to highlight the Mood (or last Mood if more than one) when copied over to another Theme.

Increased the default width of the soundfiles column in the Moods list from 200 to 300 pixels.

Made a slight cosmetic change to the EditMoodsWindow soundfiles page.

v4.8.5.2 (May 7, 2008):
The "register" menu item (under "Help") is no longer disabled if the user is registered. Instead, it changes to read "Register Again?" and allows the user to re-register (under a different name, for example).

Modified the behavior of SonicMood when a Mood file is added. If a Mood in the added file has the same name as one in the current file, then that Mood's settings will replace the settings of the Mood in the current file.

Changed the drag & drop behavior for Mood files and soundfiles. The default behavior is now to copy a file (add it) to a Mood file or a soundfile folder. Hold the "command" (⌘) key down to replace the Mood files or a soundfiles folder.

SonicMood now allows soundfiles or soundfile folders to be dropped onto the Moods list.

Made a change that keeps a soundfiles' selection unchanged if an added Mood isn't using any soundfiles. Also allows for adding new selections of soundfiles if they're not already in the Mood (soundfiles merged).

Made a slight change to the "soundfiles" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window. Changed the soundfile Min and Max Pause time from 120 seconds to 240 seconds.

Increased the length of sound motion for both the Instruments and the Soundfiles on the "sound motion" page from 30 to 60 seconds.

Added more note patterns.

Made a change so a Mood won't stop playing when a Mood file is added as long as the added file doesn't contain the same Mood that's playing.

Changed the logarithmic volume fade to be more like the way a logarithmic volume control works (i.e., powers of 10 change in volume).
Also improved the logarithmic volume slider change and the volume slider tickmark representation.

Made a slight change to the marquee display of the Mood name and Mood file name.

Opening a sheet window no longer causes floating windows to "hide." That behavior worked around a bug that's been fixed with our updated compiler.

Fixed two olds bugs that caused the current Mood to start playing over if any Moods were removed from a Theme or any Mood except the Mood that's playing was removed from the "All Moods" Theme.

Fixed a BIG bug that had the effect of mixing and scrambling the Mood settings and the Mood names. So if a file with more than the default 28 Moods was added to another file those Moods really got scrambled!

Fixed a bug that causes multiple soundfiles to be merged with the same name if their parameters are different.

Fixed a bug that caused the Mood timer progress bar to keep going after time had elapsed if either the current Theme was empty or the Mood Timer Mode was "list" and no Moods were checked.

Fixed a bug that caused an added Mood file to not have it's soundfile parameters correctly set for display in the "Mood Info/Edit" window if the window was open when the Mood file was added.

Fixed a bug on PowerPC-based Macs that causes Mood volume and pattern to be zero under certain circumstances.

v4.8.5.1 (April 24, 2008):
Fixed a bug which affects registered users who were running a version of SonicMood earlier than version 4.5.0. Their user name might become scrambled causing them to have to re-register.

Fixed a bug that caused Mood file data from earlier versions of SonicMood to not be copied over to the new version properly.

v4.8.5 (April 21, 2008):
Changed the free demo time limit from 30 days to 14 days of "actual use". Users demoing an earlier version will have their trial period reset to 14 days. Also, until SonicMood is registered its main window's titlebar displays the number of days left in the trial.

Added two new Moods: "Japanese Wind Chimes" and "The Ocean".

Added a big "Pause" button window that's Global Floating. It's semi-transparent until the user moves the arrow cursor over it. By clicking the button, the user can easily pause SonicMood (make it quiet) even when SonicMood isn't visible. The window includes the "Master Volume" slider too, so overall SonicMood volume can be adjusted here. Note that this window used to be the "Restart Info" window, which indicated when the next restart would take place. Since restarts (which occur every 24 hours to circumvent a bug in QuickTime) are transparent to the user, this window has been re-purposed.

Made a significant improvement in the way Mood files are handled when they are added to the current Mood file. More care is taken in handling Themes, musical scales, schedules, and other Mood-related items.

Added an option for Notes and note timing to be selected based on different criteria, instead of just randomly, on a per-Mood basis. Selections are made from the "Mood Info/Edit" window, "Notes" page, and note "patterns" can be selected / added / changed from the "Scales / Patterns" page.

Made some improvements to the way Instruments were used during the generation of sounds.

Reduced the size of the "Now Playing" PushButton on the "Mood Info/Edit" window so it looks like a PushButton again under Leopard.

Changed the way the volume fade works by using time, not volume, to track the fades. "Fading" includes the fade up/down of the overall (Master) volume when changing Moods (fade down of overall volume only occurs if the Mood is changed by timer). It also includes the way soundfile volumes fade up/down (settings on the "soundfiles" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window), and overall volume fade up/down during a wake/sleep event.

All the fades now occur with a logarithmic volume change.

As an option, the volume slider scale can be logarithmic or linear. The user can change the scale in the Preferences window, General page.

Added a menu item to the Windows menu to display the simulated piano keyboard. The key velocity, instrument, and whether the current Mood's instruments are selected or not are now saved. Also, now there's a checkbox for "Hold Notes". If checked, notes are held until the mouse leaves the keyboard area, otherwise they're only held until the mouse button is released. This setting is also saved.

Added the ability to record the piano keyboard onto a MIDI file, along with the SonicMood generated instruments.

The Instrument volume setting that's controlled by the slider on the main window is now kept separately for each Mood.

The musical scale octave range is now saved for each instrument and Mood. The setting is made via a slider on the "Instruments" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window. Previously the octave range setting was saved with each Scale.

When Mood files are added and some Mood names already exist, the case of the names is ignored and the settings of the added Moods are used, replacing the settings of the same-named Moods in the current Mood file.

Added a save of the Mood file and prefs file before doing the "Reset All".

Removed text from the checkbox above the "note patterns" listbox in the edit window, and changed behavior so that just double-clicking on a pattern will enable the "pattern" note selection method and select the pattern.

Changed slider and up/down arrow controls so the cursor changes into a "finger pointer" when it is over the control, just like the button controls. Added an option in the Preferences to turn this behavior on or off.

Changed the name of the slider on the left side of the SonicMood window from "note pacing" to "Mood tempo" to better convey its purpose.

The user can now add a Mood when a Theme other than the "All Moods" Theme is selected.

Made it so you can use the File menu to create / open / add / save a Mood file from anywhere, not just the main window.

Added a “font size” setting in Preferences that changes the size of text in the lists and marquees.

Added access to on-line help (http://www.sonicmood.com/SonicMoodHelp.htm) from the Help menu. This is most useful to users running OS X 10.3.9 since the on-line help is identical to the built-in help available to Tiger and Leopard users.

Added a "restore" capability to items in lists.

Eliminated the "Random Key Change" checkbox on the "Notes" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window by allowing a KeyChangeAmount slider setting of 0 (zero).

Changed the gain in the MIDI volume for each instrument to possibly reduce speaker distortion for some users.

Each Mood can now have its own setting for the amount of key change that's set on the "Notes" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

Made some improvements to the way the MIDI synth is loaded to reduce the possibility of errors.

The "Pause button", "Chimes", and "Colors" windows now all have custom titlebars whose colors match the window color.

Modified the "colors" window to display the color bars separately for each instrument, in 3 columns.

Added numbers (#1, #2, #3) to the Instrument names on the "Instruments" and "Notes" pages of the "Mood Info/Edit" window, to indicate their relationship.

Added a delete synth button to the "Mood Info/Edit" window, synth page.

Added a "Add Scene File(s)..." menu item (and contextual menu item) to the Scene window. Allows multiple pictures to be loaded.

Added the word "<- timer ->" to the "progress bar" area in the marquee on the main window to indicate what that area represents.

Rearranged the columns for the "Time of Day" and the "Timer" in the Moods list. Also removed the columns for the Scale and key.

Changed what's displayed in SonicMood's marquee. Now the top line is the Mood name and the Mood file name. The 2nd line is the Instruments, Scale and key, and soundfiles. The SonicMood window's titlebar now just says "SonicMood".

Changed the Scene window so there's a smooth color gradient all the way down.

A bug in Leopard causes mouse clicks on sheet windows to not register if a floating window from the same app is open. Due to this, SonicMood's floating windows are temporarily hidden when a sheet window is opened, if you're running Leopard. Once the sheet window is closed, the floating windows reappear. This affects the Chimes, Colors, and Pause Button floating windows. Sheet windows that prompt for file or folder names or display messages only are not affected by this bug.

Fixed a bug that caused the right-arrow pointer to not be erased when a new pattern is created with no rows hilited and the new pattern row is double-clicked. Bug appears when the 2nd column is edited.

Fixed a bug that causes the "Mood Info/Edit" window's note pattern select button to list each pattern twice when another Mood file is added to the current Mood file. Also fixed a bug that kept the current note pattern text dim when the button first appears after the "pattern" note select method is chosen, if not editing the currently playing Mood.

Noted an incompatibility with the "Smart Scroll" System Preferences app and developed a work-around. The problem caused a window to "jump" if its title bar was clicked right after scrolling in the window.

Fixed a bug that caused selected timer digits to not be highlighted in the time setting controls like sleep/wake, etc. Revamped the way this is handled to achieve more consistent results.

Fixed a bug that sometimes kept the "time to event" from updating when an item in the schedule list was selected in the "play times" window.

Fixed a bug that caused the instrument's volume (slider on the SonicMood window) to be zero after a Mood is dropped onto the Moods list and that Mood is played.

Fixed a major bug that affected how selected Moods were saved and loaded when the original Mood file contained any "time of day" Mood play data.

Fixed a bug that caused the wrong settings to be to the first Mood in the list when a Mood file is loaded to added to an existing Mood file.

Fixed a bug that prevented deleting a Mood or Moods if the "Mood Info/Edit" window is open to any page.

Fixed a bug that caused a crash if the Mood that's playing is the last Mood and that Mood is deleted while the "Mood Info/Edit" window is open.

Fixed some bugs related to deleting Moods when the "Mood Info/Edit" window is open.


Fixed a bug that kept the SonicMood marquee's progressbar from displaying the minimum play time when a scheduled Mood ran while the Mood timer was running.

Fixed the control order for all edit window controls. Tab and Back-Tab (shift-Tab) now switches between Listboxes, EditFields, and ComboBoxes.

Fixed a bug that would cause SonicMood to try using a file that's dropped onto its application icon even if the file isn't a "Mood file".

Fixed a problem where the Moods file name wasn't being updated when the Moods file was changed via a drag and drop on the Mood's list.

Fixed a problem where if a Moods file was dropped on the app it was as if we were starting SonicMood from scratch. May also fix a crash when this happens.

Fixed a bug that would cause an "out of bounds" error crash if a Moods file was added to the existing file if the added Moods file had more "parameters" than the current file.

When a different Mood file was loaded (MenuItem "Open Mood File...") SonicMood wasn't changing to that Mood file's saved SoundfileFolder. Fixed.

Fixed a small bug that didn't display an added favorite instrument if we were viewing the favorite Instruments list on the "Instruments" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

Fixed a bug that didn't update the Instrument name on the "Mood Info/Edit" window's "Notes" page if an Instrument was changed on the "Instruments" page.

Fixed a bug that caused the note sustain value to be incorrect (too big) at start.

Fixed a bug that caused a "NAN" (Not A Number) to be displayed instead of the time on the "Time of Day" window under certain (rare) conditions.

Fixed a bug that prevented the "delete" key from working in the Time of Day window.

Fixed a bug that caused the "combo box" to be empty sometimes when the Time of Day window is opened. Also fixed a bug that prevented an "event" from being deleted from the list.

Fixed a bug that caused the Instrument volume to be zero if another Mood file was dropped on the Moods list. Also fixed a related bug that had the problem with normal Moods files.

Fixed a bug that kept the Moods list from scrolling when dragging a row to a new position and the list needed to scroll.

Fixed a bug that caused an "outline" to appear over a scene if it was dragged/dropped on top of another scene.

Fixed a bug that caused delete to not work under 10.4.x if deleting from the Time of Day list. Problem was that the "Are you sure?" prompt is on a sheet window, and so is the Time of Day window. Apparently a sheet window over a sheet window is ok in Leopard (10.5.x), but not Tiger (10.4.x). So the fix was to use a "box" window for 10.4.x.

Fixed a bug that prevented selection of synth's from the "Mood Info/Edit" window, synth page, add button.

Fixed a bug that caused the "window splitter" (left/right arrow) cursor to revert to just an arrow when the mouse button was clicked and held down.

Fixed a bug in the Edit menu display of the "Copy" menu item when listbox rows are highlighted vs when a listbox cell is being edited.

v4.8.1 (December 13, 2007):
Fixed several bugs which could result in crashes, one relating to Theme selection and the other associated with opening the "Preferences" window under certain conditions.

Improved SonicMood's error handling and report capabilities. Added OS version, Mac version (PPC or Intel), CPU freq, other user computer info, to the error message.

SonicMood now closes the colorpicker window when the "Preferences" window is closed.

Made sure instruments and soundfiles are "turned on" (not muted) for older (v4.0.0, etc.) versions that didn't have a mute capability.

Added multiple item delete capability to the list in the TimeOfDay schedule window. Also fixed a bug that failed to refresh the "Play Time" Column of the Moods list in the SonicMood window after changes were made in the schedule.

Got rid of the rectangular box outline when dragging Moods, Themes, etc.

Fixed a bug that kept the sleep/TimeOfDay/wake toolbar buttons from having their color updated when selecting a window color using the color picker, if the "window" radio button was selected in the "Preferences" window.

Added "Add", "Update", "Delete" to the TimeOfDay window's contextual menu.

Fixed a bug that prevented the correct Theme from being displayed in the Moods list if the Theme had been dragged to a new position without being selected (highlighted) first.

Changed message prompts for the TimeOfDayControls "Delete" method prompt and the CreateMood "no name" error message from a "Modal Box" to a "drop-down sheet". This is the way all other messages are displayed.

Changed the behavior of the Themes list so that when a Theme is deleted, the highlight goes to the next Theme, not the previous.

Add ESC as a way to cancel a listbox cell edit and restore the original contents.

Fixed a few other listbox row drag and highlight issues.

Changed the Moods listbox sort so user rearrangements are preserved unless a column is explicitly sorted (by clicking on the column header).

Changed the Moods listbox sort so user rearrangements are preserved.

Fixed bugs in the "Preferences" window Scene page that caused a "Nil Object" exception if the SceneWindow wasn't visible and either the "Auto size the Scene window" check box or the "Auto size the Scene list" check box were clicked.

v4.8.0 (December 3, 2007):
Leopard compatible.

Made a change to the way registration is handled to allow for user names that contain "extended" characters like umlauts, etc. Also improved the code checking and developed a way to handle pirated codes.

Moved to a new "Help" system that uses Apple's "Help Viewer" to display HTML-formatted help.

Changed the default toolbar so the "Sleep" and "Wake" buttons are on the toolbar and the "back/play-pause/forward" buttons are back on the window. To accomplish this we added a provision that allows the toolbar to be re-initialized to a different set of items.

Added the capability to start Moods at specific times and repeat at specific intervals. To open the "Mood play time" schedule window a button was added to the toolbar and a menu item called "Mood Play Time" was added to the "Timers" menu. Finally, a new column was added to the "Moods list" that displays the "next play" time (or "not set") for each Mood.

Implemented a "Fade up volume" when switching Moods. It can be turned on or off and the time it takes the volume to fade up can be adjusted from the "General" page of the "Preferences" window.

Combined the instruments into one column in the Moods List.

The Moods list column sort direction and "mode" (ascending, descending, no sort) are now saved.

The SonicMood titlebar now contains the name of the current Mood file.

Made the left/right arrow keys select columns that are available for editing. Made ⌘E a global for editing any list cell that is available for editing. Removed the individual menu commands for editing Mood, Theme, and Scene cells. Moved the "Mood Info/Edit" Menu item from the "File" menu to the "Edit" menu and renamed it "Edit Mood (Info)". Removed the "Mood Info/Edit" Menu item from the "Mood" menu.

All lists now support "wraparound" when using the up/down arrow keys. The "page up", "page down", "home", and "end" keys now function properly as well.

Changed the look of the "Mood Info/Edit" window to accommodate the additions to the instrumental controls and some improvements to the way soundfiles are handled.

Added a contextual menu and an "Add Synth" button to the synths list on the "Synths" page. Also extended the "drag & drop" of synths on the list to allow dragging & dropping of multiple files.

The "control-left/right" arrow keys now change the selected instrument on the "Instruments" page. Also added a mute button for each instrument.

Changed the way the "Notes" page looks. Now, there's a group of three sliders (one for each instrument) in a common color for each setting. Added "Pitch Bend", "Modulation Depth", and "Volume Diminuendo" to the instrumental effects available. Each instrument can be controlled independently with one of the sliders. Also changed the "Key", "# Notes", and "Variations" sections.

On the "Soundfiles" page, extended soundfile "Play" time from 100 seconds to 240 seconds, and soundfile "Pause" time to 120 seconds. Added a new item ("remove missing soundfile(s)"), to the soundfiles list contextual menu. Changed the path file separator from ":" to "/" for the soundfile path display and moved the display down so it's just above the soundfile list. Also put both the soundfile path & the number of soundfiles selected on buttons that can be pressed to select a new folder and to refresh the soundfile list, respectively. Provided buttons for adding soundfiles or folders, or deleting soundfiles from the current soundfile folder. Also added a "Remove missing soundfile's reference" button. Finally, the length of a soundfile is now displayed to the tenth of a second, and the default soundfile play maximum time is set to roughly 3 times that length.

Changed the behavior for dragging a Mood file onto the Moods list so that it adds the Moods to the current Mood file if the "Option" key is held down, otherwise the Mood file will replace the current file as the file being used (which was the previous behavior). In addition, when soundfiles are dragged and dropped onto the soundfile list in the "Mood Info/Edit" window or the "soundfile folder path" field in the "Preferences" window, they can be added to the current folder if the user holds down the "Option" key.

Added a green "+" for drags where an object is being added to something, like Moods, Themes, Scenes, or synthesizers.

Added a round graphic with a "+" and the number of items (rows) being dragged between and within (row reorder drag) lists (10.4+).

Tweaked the looks of the "Preferences" window a little.

Replaced the modal color chooser with the mode-less floating color chooser for selecting window, marquee, button, and highlight colors on the "Windows" page. You can watch the effect on the windows, buttons, etc., as you change the color.

Removed the "transparency" sliders from the Scenes and Chimes pages and added a "Window Opacity (%)" slider to the Windows page. This slider controls the opacity/transparency of the SonicMood, Scene, Chimes, MIDI, and Mood Colors windows. Also removed the "Window Shadow" checkboxes and added one to the Windows page that updates the same windows as previously mentioned.

Changed the slider knobs from ovals to triangles to better indicate their settings.

Changed some of the button captions in message windows to better reflect what clicking the button means (instead of just "OK" all the time...).

Introduced a feature that limits window positions so they can't be accidently (or through a software glitch) positioned too far outside the screen's limits. This should work fine with multiple monitors (although it's only been tested with one or two monitors).

Added a "Reset All Size & Position" menu item to the "Window" menu. This is an emergency measure to be used only if a window is missing and presumed lost...

Changed the checkbox toggle key combination from ⌘-spacebar to ⌥-spacebar to avoid a conflict with the shareware program "LaunchBar".

If SonicMood throws an error, a "SonicMood Error" window now opens instead of just a Message Box. The window contains more information about the error and an offer to help compose and send an email to us with that information.

Made some internal changes to improve SonicMood's reliability and performance.

Fixed a bug in SonicMood's MIDI file format that caused MIDI files created by SonicMood to be unplayable on the latest versions of iTunes and QuickTime. The error given was "Mac OS error -208" (which means badFileFormat).

Fixed a bug that could potentially cause a crash if a Mood file was dragged and dropped onto the Moods list when the "Mood Info/Edit" window was opened to the soundfiles page, and the Mood file used a different soundfile folder that had fewer soundfiles than the current folder.

Fixed a bug that could cause an "Out of Bounds" error if the "Mood Info/Edit" window was open when a different Mood file was opened. If the Mood being edited was a higher number than the total number of Moods in the opened Mood file, the crash would occur.

Fixed a bug that sometimes would not update the "Mood Info/Edit" window when a different Mood file was selected.

Fixed a bug that caused the Scene window to use Live Resize even if it's off.

Fixed a bug that caused the Scene window's scene timer on/off button to indicate "off" if the timer was running with the window closed before it was opened.

Fixed a small bug that caused the currently playing Mood's row to not be highlighted when SonicMood first starts.

Fixed a bug that caused extra steps to be executed when Moods were copied to other Themes. This slowed the copy down and, if the "Mood Info/Edit" window was open, caused controls to jump around to the settings for each Mood as it was copied.

Fixed a bug that caused the "Preferences" window position to reset if the MIDI window is opened, then closed.

Fixed a bug that would cause the Sleep and Wake timer's initial "Time Until..." value to be set ahead 12 hours if the user was trying to set the Sleep/Wake time in the AM.

Fixed a memory leak that occurred when the graphic on one of SonicMood's toolbar buttons was changed. This only affected users running OS 10.4.9 or 10.4.10.

v4.7.6 (May 28, 2007):
Fixed a bug that caused a crash if the user tried to use "Create a Mood." SonicMood would crash when the "Create" button was pressed.

Made a minor cosmetic change to the MIDI window by combining the "elapsed time" settings and the countdown timer within one area of the window.

Fixed a bug that caused the default value for Mood timer to be 1 second for the Mood created by "Create a Mood".

Made the "Create" button the default in the "Create a Mood" window.

Made sure that Moods can only be added or "Created" if the "all Moods" Theme is selected and a Mood is highlighted.

Fixed a small bug that allowed the user to delete ALL the Moods by doing a "select all" and deleting... Now at least one Mood must stay.

Fixed a small issue where the highlighted Instrument row wasn't centered in the Instruments list in the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

Fixed a bug that kept the Tab key from working properly after the Mood name edit field was selected in the "Mood Info/Edit" window. Also fixed a bug that kept the spacebar from pausing the sound, and the arrow keys from working properly right after the Mood name was edited if the edit was ended by pressing the "enter" or "return" keys.

Changed the labels on the play/pause time sliders (SoundFile page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window) from min/max to minimum/maximum.

Increased the range of possible colors in the "Mood Colors" window.

Increased the range of the "Sound Motion" time sliders on the "Sound Motion" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window from 20 seconds to 30 seconds.

Fixed a bug that sometimes left a white "ghost" around cleared "Color bars" in the "Colors" window. Occurred especially when changing the musical scale.

Fixed (or worked around) a problem caused when an 8 bit per sample soundfile is played and we're running on Intel with OS X 10.4.9 (don't know about later versions of OS X yet...). The sound becomes "statically" or "noisy" and all the other soundfiles are affected and sound the same. The fix is to limit the soundfiles in the list to only those that are at least 16 bits per sample, if we're running on Intel. All the soundfiles supplied with SonicMood are 16 bits so this is actually a very minor problem.

Fixed a bug that kept proper slider settings from being set on entry to the Soundfiles page of the "Mood Info/Edit" if no soundfiles were checked.


v4.7.5 (May 16, 2007):
Added the option (in Preferences) of a "unified" toolbar/titlebar appearance and added a toolbar to the SonicMood, MIDI recording, and Help windows. Changed the appearance of all three windows significantly. The SonicMood toolbar can be modified by the user.

Added a proper search field to the Help window's toolbar. Improved the speed with which Help topics are displayed.

Rearranged items on the "Window" page of the Preferences window, added a button color selector, and added "Window Color Themes" which the user can add to or change. The themes are a quick and easy way to customize the color scheme of the windows which use color.

Added shading to the colors of all windows that have colored backgrounds, and made improvements to the way marquee color shading is done.

Improved the contrast between the button text/symbols and background, and sliders text and background. Improved the text contrast in the Help window, too.

Added a "Copy" menu item to the "Edit" menu for the Help window so the user can select and copy Help text to the clipboard.

Enabled cut/copy/paste for various editable cells in lists such as the Moods list, etc. Pressing the ESC key while editing an editable cell now restores the original cell contents.

The Mood and Scene timer values can now be edited directly in their respective lists. The standard "click-pause-click" method can be used, as well as selecting "Edit Mood Timer" or "Edit Scene Timer" from the "Mood" or "Scene" menu or their list's contextual (right/control-click) menu.

Improved the way the Scene List window works when changing scenes using the keyboard shortcut.

Added a "Bring All to Front" Menuitem to the "Window" menu.

Added "Play Soundfiles" (command-Y) and "Play Instruments" (option-command-Y) to the Controls menu to toggle the playing of the soundfiles and instruments for the currently playing Mood. Removed the "speaker" from the toolbar and replaced it with a small round button just right of the soundfiles slider. The button is green while soundfiles are playing and red when they're stopped. Also added an identical button just left of the instruments slider.

Added contextual menus to the MIDI recording and Help windows.

The MIDI recorder now records only the relative volume settings for the individual Instruments. The "instruments" slider volume is no longer included in the recording. This change prevents the recorded sound from accidentally being set too low.

Control-spacebar now toggles the checkbox in the soundfile list that's on the soundfiles page of the Mood Info/Edit window.

Changed the way the Mood and Scene timers work so that if they're running, clicking the "previous" or "next" button changes the Mood/Scene based on the "Mood/Scene Play Order" setting (Shuffled, Listed, Marked).

Improved the method that insures windows placed off the screen are returned to the screen the next time they're opened. The method now takes into account whether the toolbar is visible or not.

The "About..." window now shows the user's registration code, the version that was current when the user registered, and when (if ever) an update will require an upgrade fee.

Adjusted the height of the "About..." window depending on whether the user has registered (and there's extra info to display) or not.

Changed the minimum size of the SonicMood window to 380w x 190h.

Changed the name of the "note energy" slider to "turbulence", and lowered its default start up value from 5 to 2 so things are a little more sedate for first time users.

Made a change in the way SonicMood accesses the Quicktime library to work around a bug discovered on a Mac Pro.

Fixed a bug in the selection of the Mood and Scene timer values. Was using the current Mood/Scene, not the highlighted one.

Fixed a bug that prevented the "Mood" menu's "Reset Mood" selection from properly restoring the highlighted Mood's settings. The fix also improves the way the "Mood Info/Edit" window's "Cancel" function works.

Fixed a bug that caused the wrong Theme to be highlighted if a drag from the Moods list wasn't completed.

Fixed a bug that caused the number of Themes to be selected for editing instead of the Theme name, if "Edit Theme Name" was chosen from the "Mood" menu.

Fixed a bug that kept the "Paste" menu item (either on the menu bar or the contextual menu) from being enabled after a Mood "Copy".

Fixed a bug that caused highlighted Help topic search results to lose their red highlight if the font size was changed.

Fixed a bug that would potentially crash SonicMood if another Mood file was merged with the current one, the last Mood was played, and then SonicMood was restarted.

Fixed some bugs related to the "Settings apply to all Moods" checkbox setting on the Soundfiles page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

Fixed a bug that kept the selected Mood row from being properly centered in the "Moods List".

Fixed a bug that ignored a change in the Mood if the default Mood file was loaded.

Fixed a bug which caused the wrong Mood to be highlighted when a different Mood file is loaded.

Found a solution to a bug that required all SonicMood program windows to be brought to the foreground when a picture file was dropped on the Scene window in order for the picture to display. Now a file can be dropped on the Scene window and the window will stay in the background. This keeps the SonicMood windows from covering up folders containing picture files, etc.

Fixed a bug that causes the Scene window size to not be saved (or restored) properly if the window is closed before SonicMood is shut down.


v4.7.0 (December 18, 2006):
SonicMood is now a Universal Binary.

Removed the "Zoom" button at the upper left corner and replaced it with the green "+" Zoom button on the titlebar. Clicking the green "+" causes the Zoom behavior (compact window / normal window) to occur.

Rearranged the SonicMood window to accommodate the display of any Sleep and Wake times. All of the buttons in the window are now custom and more in keeping with SonicMood's style. The label on the slider on the right side has been changed from "note intensity" to "note energy" to avoid confusing it with a sound volume setting.

The Marquees (information displays at the top center of the window) for the SonicMood and Scene windows have been changed. They feature "scrolling" text when the information is too long to fit. They also "roll over" to display multiple textual items on one line. The overall look is more three-dimensional due to a subtle shading.

Improved the way the Chimes window animation works - it is smoother now. The need for an "Animation Rate" slider in the Preferences has been eliminated.

Improved the Sleep and Wake timers so that the CPU % doesn't jump up when the volume is transitioning during waking or going to sleep. Fixed a crash that could occur if the user Quit SonicMood while it was waking or going to sleep. Also fixed a problem if the Sleep or Wake timer hadn't expired and SonicMood was quit. On restart later the timer would be confused and SonicMood would hang. Also improved the usability of the Sleep and Wake timer windows.

Improved the MIDI Record timing and reduced the CPU load while recording. Also improved the Record window's appearance.

Improved the way Themes are highlighted in the Themes list when Moods are dragged there from the Moods list.

Changed the Edit/Info window to a document window. If the window is open when SonicMood quits, it will re-open the next time SonicMood runs. The same is true for the SceneList window (shows a list of the Scene names).

Improved some error handling.

Improved the way glyphs (small icons) look in the Command menu.

Managed to reduce the average "% CPU" load slightly.

Made a change in the way the user's registration code is verified when SonicMood starts. The code is now checked against the version number of the running program. Anyone who has already registered SonicMood, or anyone who registers a version prior to the release of version 5.0.0, will be unaffected by this and will get "free upgrades for life" (the code you have now will continue to work with all future versions). Users who wait and register after the release of version 5.0.0 (which won't be out until sometime next year) will have free upgrades for two major version changes. So if they register version 5.1.1, they'll be able to run all versions thru v7.1.1, but to run v7.1.2 and later will require a new registration code. To get the new code the user will just pay a small upgrade fee (probably about half the full price). The code they receive will be good for another two major version changes starting with the version that's current when they upgrade.

Fixed a bug which kept a newly "drag & dropped" picture from displaying in the Scene window if the window didn't have the focus. When dragging a picture onto the window, the window now gets the focus and the picture is displayed promptly.

Fixed a bug that caused the displayed value of MIDI record time to stop at 35 min and 47 seconds, although the recording continued.

Fixed a bug that kept the information in the "Mood Info/Edit" window from updating when a Mood was deleted.


v4.6.0 (October 6, 2006):
Improved the way musical note timing is accomplished. Moods continue playing even when a menu is displayed or windows are moved and resized.

Made some changes to the sound generating algorithms to improve the overall effect.

Added "sleep" and "wake" timer buttons to the SonicMood window.

Added a Logo with the "Peace Pigeon" button and the words "Sonic" and "Mood" on either side. Clicking on the "Peace Pigeon" button causes a randomly selected Mood from the current Theme to be played.

Added an "note intensity" slider (aka Turbulence) to the SonicMood window. Removed the "Turbulence" sheet window and the slider on the "Notes" page of the Mood Info/Edit window. Higher settings of "note intensity" will cause the MIDI instrumental notes to sound more frequently and with greater variation in their volume and pause/sustain timing.

Added a "Save Selected Moods..." menu item and ability. This item on the "File" menu allows the user to save some Moods to a file for sharing with others or for merging with another Mood file.

Added a "Live Resize" item to the Windows menu and a "Help Tags" item to the Help menu.

The "Colors" and "MIDI Recording" windows now observe the "Live Resize" setting on the "Preferences" window.

Added a toolbar to the "Preferences" and the "Mood Info/Edit" windows and got rid of the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons on the Preference window. Cleaned up the wording on some of the Preference window's checkboxes.

Changed "Accept" to "OK" on the Mood and Scene Timer sheet windows.

Changed the Chime and Color windows to global floating windows.

Increased the font size in the Help topics list to make it more legible, and removed the "Close" button at the bottom of the Help window.

Changed the "[no file]" button to read "Clear", increased the min/max pause/play times from 60 to 100 seconds, and added the length (in mm:ss) and format (mono/stereo) to the list on the Soundfiles page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window. If no soundfiles are selected, "---" is displayed now instead of "[no file]".

Added an option to let SonicMood choose a random starting volume for each soundfile when a Mood starts playing. Soundfiles for which the "Fade, play & pause enabled" checkbox isn't checked (on the Soundfiles page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window) are unaffected. The option can be toggled on the Soundfiles page of the "Preferences" window. It is "on" by default.

Added a "memory" to the Soundfiles page settings so that an individual soundfile's settings are remembered even if the soundfile is removed from a Mood (unchecked) and another Mood is subsequently edited. This should make adjusting soundfile settings much easier.

Checking or unchecking a soundfile or highlighting another row in the Soundfile list no longer restarts the sounds for all the other soundfiles. The Soundfile list's current (highlighted) row is remembered when changing Moods.

Changed the way soundfiles are defaulted to Moods when SonicMood is initialized or new Moods are created. Now there are 9 different combinations of soundfiles which are assigned to the various Moods during initialization. If these soundfiles aren't in the "SonicMood Soundfiles" folder SonicMood uses by default, then they won't be played, however. This folder of soundfiles can be downloaded on the "Downloads" page of this website.

Added "(not found)" in the Marquee after a Soundfile folder name if SonicMood doesn't find it.

Made the soundfile volume fade smoother by increasing the volume step update frequency.

Changed "Clear" to "Delete" in the "Edit" menu and all contextual menus. This is in line with the recent iTunes nomenclature change.

Put the Mood name back into SonicMood's titlebar and moved the Mood filename below the marquee and the SonicMood logo.

Made a few minor cosmetic changes.

Fixed several small bugs which caused some incompatibility with Rosetta on Intel-based Macs.

Fixed a small bug which caused the Scene window to not update after resizing if LiveResize was off.

Fixed a bug where if a soundfile was selected and none had been selected before, it was supposed to
start playing but it didn't.

Fixed a bug where the "Play" checkbox wasn't unchecked when the "No Files" button was clicked.

Fixed a bug which caused the Edit listbox column widths to not be saved.

Fixed a small bug which resulted in the "Mood Info/Edit" window's titlebar not being updated properly when a change to a Mood name was made.

Fixed a bug which caused the "Mood Info/Edit" window to be positioned at the extreme top left of the screen if the Preferences window had been opened.

Fixed a small bug that caused the menubar to flash during SonicMood's launch.

Fixed a small bug where the "Fade, play & pause enabled" checkbox was enabled even for soundfiles that weren't checked in the list.

Fixed a small bug that had the Help window opening under the SonicMood window. Now it opens under, but offset enough that it's visible.

Fixed a bug which caused the instruments to fall silent after the 24 hour restart.

Fixed a bug that would cause the soundfile sound to "jump" suddenly if the soundfile volume was adjusted during a volume "fade".

Fixed a bug that caused the name of a soundfile dropped onto the Mood or soundfile list to be improperly recognized.

Fixed a bug which caused soundfiles to start playing when the "Fade, play & pause enabled" checkbox was unchecked if "Play the soundfiles" was unchecked.

Fixed a bug which caused the soundfile fade to continue even after unchecking the "Fade, play & pause enabled" checkbox.

Fixed a bug which caused the page label to not be updated when changing pages on the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

NOTE: There are a few 10.2.8 (Jaguar) bugs I've been unable to resolve in this latest version. Because of this I'm (reluctantly) dropping active support for 10.2.8 and earlier.

v4.5.0 (June 18, 2006):
Added a "Sleep Timer" and a "Wakeup Timer". The volume is adjusted up or down as appropriate over a one minute interval, then SonicMood is either paused or un-paused.

Changed soundfile play so that up to 16 soundfiles can be played simultaneously. Each soundfile can have its own minimum and maximum play and pause durations, with a random variation. When it's time for a soundfile to go from playing to paused or vice-versa the volume changes slowly, over a user-adjustable time period.

Added the ability to have several "soft" synthesizers available. A new tab in the "Mood Info/Edit" window, called "Synths", allows the user to select a different synthesizer. New synthesizers can be added by dropping the synthesizer file (.DLS or .SF2) onto the list on that tab.

Added a "MIDI file record" capability. The "chimes" instrument sounds can now be recorded onto a MIDI file and later played using the Quicktime player or any other player that can play MIDI files.

Each of the three MIDI instruments for each Mood can have its own pause and sustain timing.

Changed the way the SonicMood trial works. Now trial users are only charged for the days they actually run SonicMood, instead of consecutive calendar days. Registration info is saved in the prefs file as before, but also saved in the Application Support folder.

Changed the registration window so the previous values of UserName and UserCode are entered in case the user tried to register but entered an incorrect value (typo or ?) and has to re-enter. This way they don't have to retype everything...

Added a random musical key change feature. Checking the box on the "Notes" tab of the "Mood Info/Edit" window will cause the musical key to change randomly at times determined by the note generator. The amount of key change (i.e., how far from the current key the change can go) can be set using the slider below the check box.

Added a picture drop capability to the imagewell on the SonicMood window.

Added a "Create a Mood" feature.

Added a "Color Window" that displays colored bars keyed to the instrumental sounds. This window replaces the "musical notes" that were displayed over the scene in the Scenic window.

Changed the SonicMood window so that all three volume sliders are visible. The slider knobs are now custom, and change color as the volume is changed to reflect the volume level.

The chimes window now shows the chimes with a little more space around them.

A Mood (or Moods) can now be copied to a Theme using a menu selection under the Mood menu. Drag and drop copy of Moods to Themes is still supported, of course.

The minimize state of all document windows is saved when SonicMood quits and restored when SonicMood is launched again.

All document windows can be opened or closed from the Dock menu.

Added a new menu, "Timers". The Mood, Scene, Sleep, and Wake timers are all controlled from this menu.

Command-T now opens the Sleep timer window instead of the Scene window. You now bring up the Scene window with Command-2, the Chimes window with Command-3, the Colors window with Command-4, and the Restart Info window with Command-5.

An automatic save of changes happens after a short delay. The delay time is now user changeable from the "General" tab of the Preferences window.

SonicMood now allows the user to force a save using Command-S ("Save Mood File" from the File menu).

The SonicMood window now indicates that changes have been made but not yet saved by putting a red dot in the center of the red "close box" at the upper left of the window. Changes are still saved automatically when the SonicMood program shuts down.

Made shade of timer progress bar background darker so it contrasts with progress bar.

Put name of the Mood being edited in the Titlebar of the Mood Info/Edit window. Tab and 'enter' keys can now complete an edit in the editfield at the bottom of the window.

In the Moods list, replaced "Lazy Daze" with "Forbidden City" Mood. Tweaked "Replicant Tears" a little.

In the Themes list, moved "Wine Time" to "Relaxing" and replaced it in "Meditative" with "Forbidden City".

Removed the 3 "octave" (8) columns from the MoodsListbox.

Fixed a minor bug so that the labels over the Help topics and Help Text are centered over their respective areas in the Help Window.

Fixed a minor issue that didn't preserve a thumbnail's aspect ratio in the SceneWindow button on the SonicMood window.

Fixed a bug that caused SonicMood to always start with the "All Moods" Theme, even when another Theme had been selected before last quitting.

Fixed a bug that caused SonicMood to think a "Favorite Instrument" wasn't deleted when it had been.

Fixed a bug which caused the # of Moods remaining in a Theme to overwrite the Theme name when a Mood in a Theme > 0 was deleted.

Fixed small bug where Command-F didn't always bring up the Turbulence sheet window.

Fixed a small bug that caused the chimes window resizing tab to disappear when the window's background color was changed.

Fixed a bug which caused a crash if a ResetAll was done while highlighting a Mood whose row number in Theme 0 (All Moods) was greater than the row it was on in the current Theme.

Fixed a minor bug which caused slider knob alignment with tick marks to be slightly off for the pause & sustain SuperSliders on the "Notes" tab of the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

Fixed a minor bug which didn't update one Turbulence slider when the other one was changed.

Other minor bugs fixed.

v4.1.1 (November 20, 2005):
Fixed a bug which would cause SonicMood to crash with an "Out of Bounds" error if the user selected "New Mood File" from the "File" menu and entered a name.

Fixed a bug under Jaguar (10.2.8) that caused the "Group Name" list on one of the "Inst" tabs of the "Mood Info/Edit" window to blank out if a row was clicked.

The simulated piano keyboard's instrument list is now updated if the "Current Mood" radio button is selected and the user changes one of the current Mood's instruments.

Improved the displayed resolution of new images added to the Scenes window.

Added an "Auto Size Window" capability to the Scene window. When this item is checked on the "Scene" tab of the Preferences window or selected from the Scene window's contextual menu, the window will size to fit each Scene as it's displayed.

v4.1.0 (November 14, 2005):
Updated the look of the SonicMood window.

Removed the lower volume control (the soundfile volume). The single slider now controls the Mood (master) volume, the Chimes (MIDI instruments) volume (when the Option key is held down), and the Soundfile volume (when the Control key is held down). Labels indicate which volume is being adjusted. The Soundfile volume is independent of the Chimes (MIDI instruments) volume. It's no longer a percentage of that volume.

Changed the "Mood pointer", the musical note at the left side of the current Mood in the Moods list. The new pointer is a speaker icon with sound waves emanating while the Mood is playing and no sound waves when paused. The button at the lower left of the "Marquee" uses the same icon to denote when the soundfile sound is on or mute.

Improved the way a highlighted Mood is displayed in the Moods list. The highlighted Mood row will be centered vertically in the Moods list, if possible, when the SonicMood window opens and when a Theme is selected.

Changed the play/pause button behavior so it doesn't "shade" when SonicMood is paused.

Clicking on the "Chimes", "Scene" (thumbnail picture), or "Get Info" ("i") buttons only opens their respective windows now. They are no longer a click once to open, click again to hide. But if you hold down the "Command" key while clicking, then the related window will be hidden. I've done this to make it easier to "reveal" a window that's been buried under other windows, while still allowing the flexibility of hiding the window by a button click.

An "Option double-click" (hold the Option key down while double-clicking) on a Mood in the Moods list brings up the "Mood Info/Edit" window to edit it, but doesn't change the Mood currently playing.

The "enter" key can now be used like the "return" key to terminate the editing of a list cell, or to select a list row.

Added a few new Moods: "Celestial Harmony", "Moonlight Magic", "Quiet Enchantment", "Space Sounds". Also added five "default" Themes: "Meditative", "Spiritual", "Relaxing", "Chimes", "Melancholy". Users of previous versions of SonicMood will have to do a "Reset All" from the "Mood" menu to see the new Moods and Themes.

The Mood play order, the Scene view order, and the soundfile folder name are now in a smaller font size below the Mood, Scene, and soundfile names respectively.

The Moods, Themes, Scenes, and Scales lists can now be sorted on most columns.

The drag rearrangement and deletion of Moods, Themes, Scenes, and Scales lists now supports multiple, possibly disjoint, selections.

Copying and pasting between Themes using Command-C and Command-V now supports multiple selections, just like drag and drop does. In addition, you can now "drag and drop" or "copy and paste" between any two Themes. The "Select All" (Command-A) option has been added to the "Edit" menu.

Added Edit/Cut (Command-X) to facilitate moving Moods around between Themes. Also added to the contextual menu.

Provided for a timer interval setting for each Mood and Scene. Added the display of the Mood and Scene timer interval settings on their respective lists.

Improved the operation of the Mood and Scene timers.

Changed the name of the "Mood Info" window to "Mood Info/Edit".

Added the ability to edit the Mood name in the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

Added a check for entry of a valid scale range in the "Mood Info/Edit" Scales list. Added more error checking and feedback to the Scales list editing process.

The "red highlight border" that indicates which column will be edited in the Scales list (Mood Info/Edit window, Scales tab) has been replaced by a background color. In addition, the Mood, Theme, and Scene names are now highlighted with the same background color. You may change this color from the Preferences window, Windows tab.

Improved the "cell click to edit" function. It now behaves more like iTunes, i.e. click once on a cell and then click again after a wait longer than the double-click delay but shorter than two times the double-click delay. And be sure "Click on a List Cell to Edit" is checked on the General tab of the Preferences window.

Changed the nomenclature of the soundfile from "background soundfile" to just "soundfile". On the "Mood Info/Edit" window, renamed the "Background" tab to "Soundfile" and the "Motion" tab to "Sound Motion".

Moved the Scenes to a separate window. Clicking the top rightmost button on the SonicMood window now opens a new window, the Scene window. The Scene list is now a drawer window which descends from the Scene window. The transparency and shadow state of the Scene window and Scene list drawer are adjustable from the Preferences window, Scene tab page.

Added the ability to reset the Scenes to their original defaults.

Added a Transparency slider and a "Shadow" checkbox to the "Chimes" tab page of the Preferences window. Using these you can "ghost" the Chimes window and see the desktop beneath it.

The Chimes window is now directly resizable using the "resize tab" at the bottom right of the window. Drag the tab to the new size and release. The resize slider has therefore been removed from the Preferences window. A Preferences item has been added to the Chimes tab: "Hide Resizing Tab"

Added "Show Chimes"/"Hide Chimes" to SonicMood's Dock menu. This allows you to show or hide the Chimes window without first switching to SonicMood.

Moved the "Max Soundfile Size" slider control from the Preferences window to the "Soundfile" tab page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

Changed the "Mood Info/Edit" window behavior so it will appear if hidden under other windows when "Get Info" is selected. Also changed the "Help" window behavior so it will appear if hidden under other windows when "Help" is selected.

Added a set of "Marquee Colors" buttons to the "Window" tab page of the "Preferences" window. The two horizontal color bands in the SonicMood Marquee and the one in the Scene window Marquee can be selected individually using these buttons. These buttons contain the color of the item they change. The window background colors are also now displayed on their respective buttons.

Added the shortcut "Control-Command-Z" to the "Zoom" menu item; it's the same shortcut iTunes v5 uses. Also added "Zoom" to the Dock menu and a "Zoom" button to the SonicMood window. Zoom is a toggle which makes the SonicMood window very compact, or normal sized.

Zoom now resizes and moves the SonicMood window smoothly.

Modified the SonicMood window behavior so that it remembers two positions on the screen. One position when it's normal sized, and another position when it's "Zoomed" small. That way the user can keep the "Zoomed" SonicMood window in a corner, say, and the normal sized window someplace else.

Added a "Search Stop" feature to the Help window. Click the "Search" button once to start a search. Click again to "Stop". Command-g can be used to start a search and Command-. can be used to stop a search in progress.

Changed the "Help" window Help Topics up/down key (when the Help Text has the focus) to shift-up/down arrow.

Text found by doing a search in the Help window is now centered vertically in the display.

Fixed a bug which kept "Copy" (Command-C), "Paste" (Command-V), and "Clear" (delete key) from working with more than one Mood at a time.

Fixed a bug which prevented the shift-up/down arrow key combination from highlighting multiple rows in the Moods list. You can now select a row (Mood) and then hold the shift key down while extending the selection using the up or down arrow key.

Fixed a bug which tried to delete a Theme instead of the current Scene when the delete key was pressed.

Fixed a bug which caused the digits on slider controls in the "Mood Info/Edit" window to get thicker when the slider was moved.

Fixed a bug which prevented the "Option-Left Arrow" and "Option-Right Arrow" keys from changing the Scene if the "Mood Info/Edit" window had the focus.

Fixed a bug which kept some items from being restored if "Cancel" was clicked while editing from the "Mood Info/Edit" window.

Fixed bugs which prevented the update of soundfile info (volume, pan, & soundfile) if editing a different Mood and "Change All Moods" is checked.

Fixed a bug under 10.2.8 (Jaguar) which could cause the Scales tab on the "Mood Info/Edit" window to go blank while moving up and down the Moods list via the up and down arrow keys.

Fixed a bug which caused the "% Volume Variation" ("Mood Info/Edit" window, "Notes" tab) setting to be used as a variation of the total volume instead of as a variation of a percentage of the total volume.

v4.0.0 (September 6, 2005):
Added the ability to transpose a Mood's scale to a new key.

Added a background soundtrack capability. This "ambiance" sound is played in a loop along with the Mood instruments. SonicMood supports MPEG3 (.MP3), AIFF (.AIFF), MPEG4 (.M4A), Quicktime movie (.MOV), and .WAV soundfile formats. Soundfiles can be "dragged and dropped" onto the Mood's list and the currently playing Mood will use that file. Also, the folder that soundfile is in will be used as the source for all soundfiles for that Mood file.

Added the ability to adjust the position of each instrument in the stereo soundfield. These "pan" settings are saved on a Mood-by-Mood basis. The "ambiance" soundtrack can also be panned.

Both Mood instruments and the "ambiance" sounds can now move dynamically in the stereo soundfield. The movement "velocity" and "type" (back-and-forth, random, echo) can be varied by the user.

Settings for the background sound and sound panning can be adjusted from the "Mood Info" window (click the "Get Info" button or select "Get Info" from the "File" menu).

Added the "Turbulence" setting to the "Notes" tab of the "Mood Info" window. It is still available from a sheet window by pressing "Command-F".

Added "OK" and "Cancel" buttons to the "Preferences" and the "Mood Info" windows. Clicking "Cancel" (or pressing the "Escape" key) undoes all changes made in the window.

Numerous cosmetic changes and usage improvements to the "Mood Info" window. Cosmetic changes and improvements to the SonicMood window and Chimes window.

Added the ability to change the size of the "Chimes" window. Also added a "chimes arrangement" feature so the chime tubes can appear in a row (linear) or in a circle.

Added a "Chimes" tab to the Preferences Window. On the tab are a Chimes window "Animation frame rate" slider, the "Chime Motion" slider (moved from the Chimes window), a "Window Size" slider, two "Chimes Arrangement" Radio Buttons, a "Background Color" button, and a "Uses main window color" checkbox.

Significantly improved the speed at which the SonicMood window re-opens when Command-1 is pressed or the SonicMood icon on the Dock is clicked.

Made some improvements to the Help System.

The key combination "Command-A" is no longer a shortcut for "About SonicMood". It was removed because it is not convention.

The key combination "Command-+" was added as a shortcut for "Add a Mood". The menu item "Add a Theme" was created and the shortcut key "Option-Command-+" was assigned to it.

Added the musical scale information to the "Moods file".

Improved the way file paths are handled, allowing for longer file path names and non-ASCII characters in the names.

Fixed a bug which caused problems with "New Mood File" and "Merge Mood File".

Fixed a bug which caused a "Nil Object Exception" if a Mood name was edited and then the delete key was pressed followed by the return key. This "zero length" Mood name would cause the crash.

Fixed a bug which caused an "out of bounds" error if an attempt to Add a Mood was made and no Mood was highlighted in the Moods List. Fixed several related bugs which would cause the same error if an attempt was made to Edit a Mood, Scene, or Scale name and it wasn't highlighted in its list. Also fixed a similar bug which could cause the "out of bounds" error if trying to add or delete an instrument to the "favorites" list if no instrument was highlighted.

Fixed a bug that prevented the open state of the Scene List Window from being recorded as SonicMood closed.

Fixed a bug which could cause the musical scale notes to be moved incorrectly when a scale was deleted.

Fixed a bug which would prevent the "Turbulence" control from having any affect.

Removed "Seashore" as a sound used by the default Moods since it doesn't sound right with Quicktime v7.

Other minor bug and Tiger compatibility fixes.

v3.2.2 (June 15, 2005):
Corrected minor cosmetic issues when running under 10.4 (Tiger).

The SonicMood window's visibility state is now preserved from launch to launch. In other words, if the main window is closed when quitting SonicMood, it will remain closed the next time SonicMood is launched. Of course it can be opened by pressing Command-1, by clicking on the SonicMood item in the Window menu, or (if no other SonicMood windows are open and the "Don't Open SonicMood Window on Dock Icon Click" box is unchecked in the Preferences window) by clicking on the SonicMood icon in the Dock.

Fixed a bug which prevented changes to the Moods settings (in the "Mood Info" window) from taking place immediately.

Fixed a bug which could cause the minimized state of the SonicMood window to become confused.

Improved Prefs file handling to prepare for changes coming in SonicMood v3.3.0.

v3.2.1 (April 5, 2005):
Fixed a "showstopper" bug which would cause SonicMood to crash with the message that it "went Out-of-Bounds in SetupMood.". The bug occurred if a new Mood was added, and then deleted while it was playing.

Fixed a minor bug in the chimes display which could cause a chime tube or two to "disappear" for a while.

Minor updates to the Help system and a cosmetic change or two.

v3.2.0 (March 31, 2005):
Made major changes to the internal program structure of SonicMood to provide more robust operation.

Finally you can close the SonicMood window and the application will not quit. Re-open the window by clicking on its Dock icon or pressing "Command-1". A Preferences option allows you to keep the old behavior (quit on SonicMood window close) if you desire.

Cycle through all open windows (e.g. Help, Preferences, Chimes, Mood Info, SonicMood) by pressing "Command-` (grave accent)" or "Shift-Command-` (grave accent)".

Added a "New Mood File" (Command-N) capability. "New Theme" is now (Shift-Command-N).

Added a "Mood File Merge" (Shift-Command-O) capability.

Removed the "back" and "forward" Scene buttons below the volume control. Option-click the "back" and "forward" Mood buttons, above the volume control, for the same effect.

Each instrument now has its own volume relative to the main volume. Changes are made from the "Get Info" (Mood Info) window, Instruments tab.

Added the ability to change the notes in a musical scale and to add new scales. Editing of notes is made easier by the use of a simulated piano keyboard. Notes can be played on the keyboard using any of the 128 available musical instruments.

Added a "Turbulence Control" that affects all the Moods globally. Reached from the "Mood" menu, or by pressing "Command-F", Turbulence acts as a kind of natural "wind" buffeting to make the sounds vary as chimes blown by a breeze would.

Modified the help window behavior so it re-opens when SonicMood launches, if it was open before. It will also go to the same help topic & line it was at before. There is also now an option to search all help topics, not just the currently selected topic. With the focus on the Help text field, pressing "Option-Up/Down" will select the previous/next help Topic. Pressing left arrow moves to the top of the current help text while pressing right arrow moves to the bottom.

SonicMood now remembers its paused/play state, and the last used Preferences window tab. It also records whether the SonicMood, Help, or Chimes windows were "Minimized" (to the Dock), and restores their state (Minimized or not) the next time SonicMood is started.

Modified the way Mood, Scene, and Theme names were edited. The old way worked by clicking on their names in the respective lists. This sometimes resulted in "unintended editing". The new method allows you to edit using a menu item or contextual menu. The "click edit" mode is still available, and is somewhat more robust. To use it just check "Click to Edit List Cells" on the General Tab of the Preferences window.

Added "alternating color band" highlighting of rows in the Moods, Themes, Scenes, and Scales lists.

When dragging a Mood to drop on a Theme, the target Theme row is now highlighted with a blue outline.

Contextual menus now indicate selection of an item by prefixing it with a check mark.

Can now toggle the check mark in the Mood and Scene list checkboxes using "control-spacebar".

The "Zoom" item on the "Window" menu is no longer marked with a check mark if "Zoom" is selected.

Made SonicMood's sound generation algorithm more robust so it can handle Pause and Sustain settings as low as zero. This can make for some very fast notes. This also permits making many more chords: Set Pause to 0, Sustain to 1 or 2 seconds (season to taste), pause/sustain variation to around 0%.

Increased the "volume variation" range from 20% to 50%. This control is found in the "Mood Info" window (File menu, "Get Info" item) on the "Notes Edit" tab.

Now when adjusting the volume control a little drawer opens with a digital display of the current volume. The drawer closes when the mouse cursor is moved away from the control. The drawer also appears when using the "iTunes compatible" "Command-UpArrow" and "Command-DownArrow" keys to raise and lower the volume. The drawer closes when the "Command" key is released.

Modified the behavior of all slider controls (volume control, etc.). Now when you click on or near and start to drag the slider button, the button doesn't "jump" to the mouse cursor. Instead, the button won't move until you start to drag the mouse. The slider button moves the same distance as the mouse cursor, so clicking near the button or slightly off its center won't cause the setting to change unexpectedly. The slider button will jump to the cursor if it's more than half the button's width away when you click.

After a ResetAll the Mood that was selected stays selected, if possible.

Made some minor cosmetic changes to improve SonicMood's appearance.

Removed the "Metal Windows" option. There are just too many problems rendering Metal Windows.

Improved file handling for better SonicMood versions compatibility.

Reduced CPU usage a little.

Added the REALbasic banner to SonicMood's "about" window.

Fixed a bug which would cause a crash the first time you ran v3.2 after using v3.0, if you'd added at least two more Moods. SonicMood would work on the second launch.

Fixed a bug which could cause a "Nil Object Exception in AdjPic" error if the Preferences window was open along with one other window besides the main window, and the main window was resized and then closed.

Fixed a bug which could cause the Preferences window to open under the menu bar when first opened.

Fixed a bug which prevented the selection of exactly 50, 150, or 250 seconds on the Scene timer slider.

Fixed a bug which affected Moods which were just added. Resetting a newly added Mood would result in that Mood's settings being scrambled.

Identified a bug which results in the sound from SonicMood vanishing after it has run continuously for over at least 24 hours (even if paused for some or all of that time). This has been traced to a problem in Apple's Quicktime and Apple has been notified of the problem. A workaround has been developed which automatically restarts (without actually quitting) SonicMood after 24 hours. This seems to reset the sound and is transparent to the user. If this restart is not desired, it can be disabled by the user from the "General" tab of the "Preferences" window.

Added a floating "data" window which shows when SonicMood first started, when the next restart will happen, and what the current time is. This window can be toggled on/off from the Window menu.

v3.1.0 (February 26, 2005):
Used for internal development only - never released.

v3.0.0 (January 14, 2005):
The Menu bar, Menu items, and Dock have been changed to be more "iTunes-like". Play/Pause is now toggled with the space bar. The arrow-keys work like they do in iTunes. The look of the SonicMood window is also more "iTunes-like". Right-clicking on the SonicMood icon in the dock displays a menu which is similar to the iTunes dock menu. There is a Preferences window.

The SonicMood window is resizable. It can be full-screen, small, or anything in between. If the Scenic picture is displayed, it's resized either with or without preserving the aspect ratio of the picture. Live resize is available, and is selected by default on speedy computers. A Metal window look is also selected by default on computers running OS X 10.3.x or above. Both can be turned on and off from the Preferences window.

Moods are selectable from a list of Moods. The list includes complete information about the Mood, like what instruments, musical scale, and timing are used. The information is contained in resizable columns. Moods can be rearranged within the list using drag and drop.

There is a Themes list. Each Theme can contain several to many Moods; use them to organize Moods into categories like "Favorites" and "Cheerful". More than one Theme can contain the same Mood. The user can add Moods to a Theme by dragging them from the Moods list or using "Copy" and "Paste" from the Edit menu. Themes can be rearranged using drag and drop.

The user can toggle between the Moods/Themes display and the scenic picture by clicking on a button which contains a "thumbnail" of the current picture. The relative size of the Moods and Themes lists can be adjusted using mouse drag.

Mood editing (changing instruments, timing, etc.) is done in a separate window.

The normal yes/no prompting for adding/deleting/reseting of Moods/Themes/Scenes can be turned off from the Preferences window.

The yellow "Help Tags", which appear when the mouse cursor "hovers" over an area, can be turned on or off from the Preferences window.

Contextual menus (control/right-click) are available for the Moods list, Themes list, Scenic picture, Scene list, and SonicMood window.

The Help System has been improved.

v2.0.4 (October 8, 2004):
Fixed a bug which prevented the "Chime Motion Slider" (in the Chime window) position from being saved.

Reduced the effect of the "Chime Motion Slider" so the chime motion isn't as extreme.

Added a "Change Background Color" item to the Chime window contextual menu (right-click or control-click on the chime window to see). Selecting this item brings up the "Colors Chooser" window. Select a new color for the window or click the "Cancel" button to keep the current color.

Made the Chime window a global floating window. It will stay on top of other windows (including the SonicMood window).

Rearranged the "Disclosure Triangles" for hiding/revealing the full SonicMood window and the Scenic picture. They are now in a more logical relationship with the window elements they're hiding or revealing.

v2.0.3 (September 9, 2004):
Tweaked the program to reduce CPU usage.

Fixed a bug which could cause a "Nil Object Exception" on startup.

v2.0.2 (August 31, 2004):
Added "In/Out" buttons for selecting/de-selecting each of the three possible instruments in a Mood. You can use this to isolate an instrument to determine what it sounds like, for example.

Added several items to SonicMood's dock menu. "right-click" on SonicMood's dock icon to get a list - choose to "Shuffle" to another Mood (a Mood is randomly selected and played), "Pause" a Mood, or go to the "Next Mood" or "Previous Mood". This can all be done while SonicMood is hidden.

Worked on the Help System to address issues some users have reported.

Fixed another "Quit" bug (similar to the one in 2.0.0) which manifests itself if the user Quits the app from the Dock.

v2.0.1 (August 20, 2004):
Fixed a BIG bug which caused SonicMood to ask you to re-register, or told you that your 30 days were up, if you quit SonicMood by selecting "Quit SonicMood ..." from the "SonicMood ..." menu bar instead of clicking on the "close box" in the SonicMood TitleBar.

v2.0.0 (August 19, 2004):
Added a "chime" window which displays chimes moving to the sounds. Added a "disclosure triangle" near the bottom to show/hide the "Chime Motion" slider.

Added a "License Type" entry in the "About SonicMood" window (Apple-A).

Added a "Show Scene Only" item in the "Scene" menu. Added a "disclosure triangle" in the scene area to show/hide the Scene Only view.

Added a "disclosure triangle" at the top left of the SonicMood window to replace the function of the "small" button. Clicking on this disclosure triangle will make the SonicMood window much smaller.

Can now "drag & drop" a picture or file (jpg, bmp, gif, tiff, png, photoshop, or pict) onto the scene area and it will display immediately. It becomes a permanent part of your scenic pictures. It is scaled to fit the scene area and the aspect ratio of the image is preserved.

In addition to the picture "drag & drop", you can drag & drop a "Mood" file (yellow note icon - if you've saved any) onto the scene area and SonicMood will use that Mood file. It's equivalent to selecting "Open Mood File" from the "File" menu and specifying that file to open.

You can now delete the "default" scenes (the ones which come with SonicMood) if you want.

Added a "Scene Timer" (in the "Options" menu). You can use it to cycle through all the Scenic pictures SonicMood has and you've added. It's like a "slide show". You can have SonicMood select the pictures randomly, sequentially, or you can specify which scenes to show.

For both the "Scene Timer" and the "Mood Timer", you can now click on a "Set" button in the group area (in top left of SonicMood window) to bring up the timer window for that timer.

Added an "Open Default Mood File" item on the "File" menu.

Added a tabbed panel to allow easy switching between the "Mood Edit" controls and the Scenic display. This replaces the "Controls" button. The "Options", "Show Controls" menu item is gone too.

Moved the "Add a Mood", "Delete Mood", and "Reset Mood" buttons to the bottom right of the "Mood Edit" tab. Their functions are also available under the "Mood" menu bar item.

If you add a new Mood, it is initially a "clone" of the Mood in effect before the "Add". Before this the new Mood would always be the same - tubular bells with generic control settings.

The names of the picture files you drop onto the scene area are now saved. A "popup menu" has been added below the "Mood" popup which lists the scenes. You can easily go to any scene by selecting it from this popup. You can also edit the scene names - change them to anything you like.

You can right-click (control-click) on the scene area and get a "context list" of things you can do. Most scene manipulation functions are available from this list.

The notes can now appear anywhere in the scenic picture.

Changed the default scenic pictures. There are now five (instead of six), but you can add your own. There are a few differences in the scenes and they fill the wider space better.

Eliminated the list of Moods in the Mood menu. It was causing too many problems and isn't really needed anymore with the Moods popup menu.

Removed the "Mood Timer" menu bar item. Folded the functions into the "Mood" menu bar item.

Fixed a bug which prevented the current Mood from being properly set up and displayed after opening a Mood file.

Fixed a problem with tick spacing on the slide controls which display tick marks.

Fixed a problem with the close buttons not working or not working properly on the Help and Chime windows.

Fixed a couple of display mode bugs.

v1.2.0 (July 29, 2004):
Fixed a major OS9 bug that prevented SonicMood from displaying all the scenic pictures. It could also manifest itself by causing an error when the user tried to display Help.

Changes in both versions (OS9 and OS X) include the ability to save and load different "Moods Files". You can now launch SonicMood by double-clicking one of the Moods Files (you can recognize them by their "yellow musical note" icon). The name of the Moods File is included on SonicMood's Title Bar (in parenthesis) along with the current Mood Name. There's also a considerable difference in the way SonicMood looks. The musical staff is gone, the notes just play over the top of the scene. The Edit Moods window is gone too. Now you just switch between the scenic picture with some minimal controls at the top of the window, and the window with all the controls displayed pretty much like they were with the separate Edit Moods window. Now you can change the background color to anything you'd like! You can still have the Metal appearance, too (OS X 10.2 or above). Also the SonicMood program icon has changed from "musical notes" to a white "peace dove" on a blue background.

v1.1.0 (July 16, 2004):
Major update to program. Added ability to edit Moods and create new Moods. Greatly improved help system. Lots of little performance and stability tweaks. Changed icon from "bonsai" to "upbeat notes".

v1.0.6 (June 15, 2004):
Removed bonsai & earth from pictures, fixed bug where controls weren't displaying with some configurations, more font changes.

v1.0.5 (June 10, 2004):
Controls re-arranged and grouped to make more understandable. Fonts changed for improved legibility. Help text amended to increase clarity.

v1.0.4 (June 6, 2004):
Moves all the controls off the "scenic picture" which improves the appearance and avoids some problems with control adjustments. Uses non-composite graphics mode now.

Other minor cosmetic changes and small bug fixes. Updated the help system. Moved the "Register SonicMood" menu item "Options".


v1.0.3 (June 4, 2004):
This version fixes a "crashing on startup" problem which some users have experienced. It also addresses a reported problem with setting the volume and selecting Moods from the Moods popup list.


v1.0.2 (June 1, 2004):
Changed the menu so that help is invoked with Apple-? and Apple-H now hides SonicMood. Ffew other small cosmetic changes.


v1.0.1 (June 1, 2004):
Set Fonts to default to System font. Changed from QuickDraw to Quartz rendering for OS X. Other minor changes.


v1.0.0 (May 29, 2004):
Initial release.

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