🚀 What's New in bellplay~ 0.2.7-beta (2025-01-18)

New Features

Transcription: New @metadata argument in transcribe function to include custom llll data when exporting score as an llll file.
OSC Integration: Support for sending/receiving OSC messages to communicate with the bellplay~ plugin for VSCode.
Score Appearance: New @showdynamics argument in scoreconfig.
New functions:
- New gcd and lcm functions with list support.
- New getchar and symlen functions.
- New ezsampler function for quickly building basic samplers.
- New audio processing commands: fromdiffs and todiffs.
New Built-in Media: Added built-in samples (flute.wav, viola.wav, guitar.wav) and a new tutorial: basic sampling.

Graphical User Interface (GUI):
- Automatically checks for new updates/version of bellplay~.
- Updated about tab with bell tutorials and Discord community information.
- Improved color contrast for selected/unselected notes in score.
- More consistent theme which includes console (now named bell window).
- Improved layout for drop-down menus.
User Interaction Enhancements:
- Buffer inspector now supports previous/next control via left-right arrows keys.
Development:
- Source code is now compatible with Max 9.

Export/Import Enhancements:
- export now supports new parameters for mp3 files: bitrate, vbrmode, and format.
- importaudio introduces a @usecache argument for improved caching/memory usage.
scale() Function: New @slope argument.
Buffers: Now include min, max, maxabs, and rms as default properties.
Sampling: samplelist supports multi-sampling, and samplebpf uses an accurate slope implementation.

Resolved a bug in samplebpf that improves performance for large break-point functions.
Fixed misalignment between score and waveform when using @process in render.
Corrected a misnamed variable in scoreconfig definition.

Replaced sortbykey with sortbykeys, offering support for multi-column sorting.