Here is a preview of Funiculus version 0.60. For a link to download the beta version (0.58), please scroll down to the bottom of the entry.
Standard Mode:
This mode is essentially the same thing as Funiculus 0.5.
Fretboard Mode:
This mode has a diagram of a fretboard. You first select an instrument/tuning, and then you play a string. Look at the diagram, at the string corresponding to the one you just played. If it's too flat, it will be a shade of blue. Too sharp, a shade of red. If you are in the ballpark, it will be greenish. You should switch to the pitch meter on top at this point to fine tune the string.
Clef Mode:
This mode simply represents the note you play on a musical clef.
About Mode :
Sorry, this is sort of anti-climatic...not much to this mode.
Early version:
Funiculus version 0.60 will be released soon (on Installer), but for those who wish to test the newest version,here is version 0.58 (for manual installation via SSH):
funiculus_0_58.zip (Update: see below)
There are plenty of known issues, but let me know of any you find anyway. (I haven't even tested the clef mode since I shifted the graphics around...I'm not sure it works yet in this new form.)
Update: The clef mode definitely doesn't work at this point...it will be easy to repair though.
Update: Here is version 0.59.5 for manual installation:
funiculus_0_59_5.zip
I corrected the typo I made in the source code concerning "Clef Mode", and so it should work now. And I've added a bunch of tunings. (Version 0.59.5 corrects a few tunings, for those of you who downloaded 0.59.0 in the two minutes it was posted.)
Tuning recommendations:
If you want to recommend a tuning to be included in the "fretboard mode", please post a comment or email me, naming the strings from top (physically...the string closest to the sky when a standard right-hander holds the instrument) to bottom. For each string, give the letter and the octave number (with Middle C equal to C4...remember that each new octave begins on C.) Don't forget to include the name of the octave and the instrument.
Here is an example:
Standard Guitar Tuning: E2, A2, D3, G3, B3, E4
Standard Mode:
This mode is essentially the same thing as Funiculus 0.5. Fretboard Mode:
This mode has a diagram of a fretboard. You first select an instrument/tuning, and then you play a string. Look at the diagram, at the string corresponding to the one you just played. If it's too flat, it will be a shade of blue. Too sharp, a shade of red. If you are in the ballpark, it will be greenish. You should switch to the pitch meter on top at this point to fine tune the string.Clef Mode:
This mode simply represents the note you play on a musical clef.
About Mode :
Sorry, this is sort of anti-climatic...not much to this mode.Early version:
Funiculus version 0.60 will be released soon (on Installer), but for those who wish to test the newest version,
There are plenty of known issues, but let me know of any you find anyway. (I haven't even tested the clef mode since I shifted the graphics around...I'm not sure it works yet in this new form.)
Update: The clef mode definitely doesn't work at this point...it will be easy to repair though.
Update: Here is version 0.59.5 for manual installation:
funiculus_0_59_5.zip
I corrected the typo I made in the source code concerning "Clef Mode", and so it should work now. And I've added a bunch of tunings. (Version 0.59.5 corrects a few tunings, for those of you who downloaded 0.59.0 in the two minutes it was posted.)
Tuning recommendations:
If you want to recommend a tuning to be included in the "fretboard mode", please post a comment or email me, naming the strings from top (physically...the string closest to the sky when a standard right-hander holds the instrument) to bottom. For each string, give the letter and the octave number (with Middle C equal to C4...remember that each new octave begins on C.) Don't forget to include the name of the octave and the instrument.
Here is an example:
Standard Guitar Tuning: E2, A2, D3, G3, B3, E4
The new beta seems to have corrected the issue on my phone so far. I opened it at 99% battery life and about an hour later still 99%.
Daniel: that's good news (tentatively). You might want to check under "Usage" in the iPhone settings menu...(after it's been fully charged since your last Installer download). Allegedly, if something is actively draining the battery, then the minutes your phone is in standby will register as "usage". I can't confirm this, but I do know on my setup (1.1.3), with no battery problems I've noticed, when I put the phone in standby for 3 minutes, I get the results one would expect: I will get 3 minutes added to the standby category and zero added to the usage category.
By the way, I'm about to put up version 0.59, which has the "Clef Mode" fixed after my stupid typo. I've added about 20 fretboard tunings as well.
Hhmm.. Strange.. I have issues runing the 0.58 version.
I normally just use installer.app to put everything out there for me, I think the only things I installed manually were telnet and samba.. but those aren't really normal apps, they're just things you run from the command line..
To install, I simply moved my /var/root/ROOT_Applications/Funiculus.app and moved it to some other folder.. Then I unzipped the zip on the phone, and moved the resulting folder into the place where the other one had been.
I go into my folder (using "categories") and use the same old launch button, and it seems like it's found everything, and is trying to run.. I see the Funiculus screen, with the new features showing up on it and everything, but it never becomes interactive.. (I never see a splash for the mic initialization.. I don't know if I should or not with this version.... None of the buttons on the screen work, and the meters don't respond to any noises I make.. After about 10-15 seconds I'm just dumped back at the springboard main screen.
I'm not sure, but I'm wondering if the problem has something to do with the way I installed it.. It seemed very straight forward, but I've never done a manual install..... and it sounded like it worked for someone else.. I didn't catch if their version was a 1.1.1 or not.
The new version doesn't have an "Initializing microphone" splash...it should go right into the app.
You have to make sure the permissions are set so stuff can be executed. I recommend using MobileFinder (available on Installer) to do it. Go to your applications folder and make sure the Funiculus.app folder has full execution. And then go into the folder and make sure the file called "funiculus" (the executable) also has the proper permissions.
I think I might post a blog entry on how to do this...enough people have problems with it that I think it would be useful.
If that's not the problem, let me know. One good way to figure out what the problem is is to run Funiculus from Mobile Terminal:
# cd /Applications/Funiculus.app
# ./funiculus
When it crashes, you will be back in MobileTerminal. You should see an error message on the screen.
OK.. I was being an idiot. The problem was indeed a permissions problem. It threw me off that I got a splash/opening screen, but I guess that's a PNG or something isn't it. It makes perfect sense now that I think about it. A quick "chmod -R a+x ." and everything worked great.. The usage doesn't tick when it should be off, and the new interface is great. I'll double check in the morning to make sure that the battery doesn't bleed away, but I really doubt that it will.
You da man!
battery life is great.. all night with not detectable drain..