Minuet, a KDE application for music education, calls for testers
5 hours ago
- Redesigned responsive interface for desktop and mobile with new navigation drawer and exercise browser.
- Interactive guides for first-time users covering melodic, rhythmic, singing, and clapping exercises.
- New settings page with grouped controls for practice, sound, and microphone, including advanced detection options.
- New melodic interval exercises combining ascending and descending intervals in mixed and compound groups.
- Read and sing mode allows practicing intervals and scales with voice, providing pitch and timing feedback.
- Read and clap mode for rhythm exercises with input meter, silence calibration, and timing tolerance settings.
- New rhythm categories with rests for listening and clapping, ensuring distinct answer choices in listening mode.
- Increased platform support: Android builds now use FluidSynth, macOS builds for Intel and Apple Silicon, initial iOS support.
- Under-the-hood updates: SMuFL notation rendering, improved FluidSynth and Aubio microphone analysis, and code reorganization.
- Installation instructions for CI builds on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, with notes on iOS and FreeBSD.