JambaLaya MIDI Performance Software For Macintosh OS X

Not sure why but Snow Leopard broke the display of Audio Unit user interfaces that are written in Carbon (which is still, sadly, most of them). It has taken a bit of time to hunt down a solution. 1.3.3 is it. Cocoa Audio Units worked fine.

1.3.3 also includes enhancements that add a level of hierarchy to the Instrument and Effects menus that groups plugins by manufacturer. This reduces clutter for people who have a lot of plugins.

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Apart from several performance tuning improvements, version 1.3.1 has a new preference "Automatic Mute on Zero Volume". When enabled, sliding a channel fader to zero will mute the track and the instrument on the track will stop consuming processor cycles.

Also included are several improvements in the behavior of the mute button to work around problems with some Native Instruments plugs. As always, be sure to test it out before taking it to a gig.

It took a little longer than expected but the Snow Leopard compatibility release is up. This is a free update for all users. Key features include better support for Cocoa based Audio Units with resizable windows (Apple Delay Unit for instance), a fix for saving under Snow Leopard where documents that contained songs without lyrics or notes would fail to save cryptically, and a fix for a crashing on exit problem introduced with new application termination behavior.

People wondering if JambaLaya is compatible with Snow Leopard need wonder no more. It "mostly works" but there are a few issues and they are being worked on. Expect to see an update soon available over the usual mechanisms.

Tiger support will continue for a bit longer as it is possible to build Tiger compatible programs on Snow Leopard.

Stay tuned.

I've received reports off and on of a problem with Jambalaya starting up but never showing a document. There's actually a bit of controversy around the Apple CoreAudio team about why this is, but the workaround is pretty easy. So now, this should be fixed.

Current users shouldn't notice anything - new users with certain audio hardware should find JambaLaya much more userful.

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