Master’s thesis and new release!

As previous posts announce, latest developments were driven by my Master’s Thesis held in the University of Granada. Last week I defended it and now I am, officially, a software engineer The document is written in English; it is the best description available of all the new core refactoring and an interesting read if you want to contribute to the project.

Download Master’s thesis

Also, a new release was made including lastest advancements in the core library and some small user level improvements and fixes. You can download it here.

Changelog for Psychosynth 0.2.1

• Now real-time priority is properly acquired for the audio
  thread in POSIX systems whenever possible.
• New modular synthesis engine included in the framework &emdash; not
  yet used by the UI, providing:
  • Hierarchical patches. One can have a full patch inside one
    node that may be later store and or loaded from the hard drive.
  • Any kind of signal can be processed now.
  • Multiple output and input ports can coexist.
  • Plug-in system is much easier to implement on top of the new
    system.
• New code uses some new C++0x features implemented in new
  compilers only. With this release, GNU Psychosynth requires GCC
  4.6 to compile.

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