{"id":3031,"date":"2015-01-12T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2015-01-12T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T16:20:51","slug":"clarion-2-1-modern-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/3031\/clarion-2-1-modern-times","title":{"rendered":"Clarion 2.1: Modern Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clarion 2.1 is available now from the Clarion home page<\/a>. I also intend to submit this version to the Mac App Store, for what will be Clarion’s debut on the store.<\/p>\n

Clarion is Red Sweater’s utility for practicing the recognition of musical intervals (the distances between two pitches). It’s the oldest of my shipping apps, and over the past several years I had lost sight of how far into disrepair it had fallen. Very cool features such as its ability to customize from a variety of built-in synthesizer sounds were no longer functioning. I’ve brought that back in Clarion 2.1:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

Additionally, Clarion had not seen any updates since the advent of Apple’s high-resolution “Retina” displays. I’ve updated the graphics in Clarion’s main quiz window to look sharp on these screens:<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/p>\n

The playful VU-meter-styled gauge in the middle of the screen reflects your overall accuracy for a given quiz session. Up until now, the “needle” just jumped to its new location whenever you made a guess, but starting with 2.1, the needle animates smoothly to the new location, making a further approximation of its real-world equivalent.<\/p>\n

Complete list of changes in 2.1:<\/p>\n