Bringing OrchView out of Beta
Project Blog | Project Updates | Félix Baril | December 1, 2021
Bringing OrchView out of Beta
We’ve been working extremely hard this year to bring OrchView out of beta. You can expect a new version of OrchView to be released at the end of the calendar year for all ACTOR team members.
The OrchView team (Baptiste Bohelay, Daimen Duncan and Félix Frédéric Baril) has been working in parallel with Stephen McAdams, Alfa Barri and Shi Tong Li to harmonize the OrchView data-format with the OrchARD data model. It is now possible to build OrchARD database entries using an OrchView file without having to go through data conversion. This is quite a significant milestone for the project.
Since the last OrchView update, many features have been added to the software, most notably:
New “Home” screen with instant access (within the software) to OrchARD, TOR and the Orchestral Grouping Effects taxonomy. Other resources will be added in the future.
New interface to instantly download OrchView files ready to annotate. There are currently over 15 OrchView files available to download, most in XML format.
Integrated help for each annotation tool for Orchestral Grouping Effects, support for an integrated user manual (in development)
Batch export of annotations to PDF and AIFF files
Ability to lock annotations to prevent them from being accidentally modified
Ability to force-draw an annotation entry on top of another one (without having to hide the previous annotation)
Ability to transfer (cut & paste) annotation entries to different instrument groups
Added automatic start-time and end-time entries for annotations (for OrchARD)
Performance improvements, annotated C++ code
The most important changes to the orchestration techniques analysis tools design includes new "Timbral Manipulations" tools (designed by Denys Bouliane, Dominique Lafortune and Félix Frédéric Baril).
We plan to have a beta version of the Orchestration Techniques taxonomy in OrchView for the next ACTOR Workshop.