I’m happy to release CoGe 1.0 Beta 2 version. After a few months since the initial Beta 1 release, there are many changes under the hood and on the user     interface, so this version aims to the stability and to make the UI more user friendly - check the Changelog below. The bad news – and i hope you guys will appreciate it – 10.5 Leopard no longer supported. It’s because i want to release new versions more often, and don’t have time to working on the 10.5 compatibility. Sorry for that.

Don’t forget the recently check the forum for new modules, there are many new things not included with the main release – just because those stuffs requires 3rd party plugins.

One more things: if you create a snapshot with the new built-in function, are has a video made with CoGe feel free to post that stuff to the CoGe Flickr and the CoGe Vimeo Groups.

Download: Projects Google Code page

Changelog:

What’s new:

• multi-window layout
• windows are resizable on Y
• window collapse/expand
• resizable preview window
• user definable clear color on the main output
• user definable start-up state (loads an internal stored project)
• adds ‘playerChanged’ input for Players
• right-click windows content re-ordered, now moduls on the top
• adds snapshot creation feature
• adds ‘meausePosition’, ‘bpm’, ‘currentBeat’ inputs for Mixers
• adds ‘Find Missing Files with Spotlight’ feature

Fixes:

• crashing on New Project
• tearing when rendering to an FBO
• wrong preview priority after startup
• crashing when dragging a button cell
• crashing if control module doesn’t has ‘bpm’ input port
• crashing on project load
• right-click windows shows only QC files
• issues on event forwarding to compositions
• too large sliders on Master FX
• issues when swapping Media Slots

… and some other misc/minor  changes/fixes

The 3rd B-Seite Festival in Mannheim starting today with many interesting workshops and other shedules. One of them is the 3 day long Quartz Composer workshop by QC guru  – and CoGe beta tester – Pixelnoizz. Another interesting one is the CoGe workshop by CoGe beta tester Lucy Benson. Lucy will using and introducing the upcoming CoGe Beta2 release – which version needs some more work before releasing as a public release, but will released with 2 weeks. So, people at B-Seite Festival will the firsts how can testing and using the new upcoming  CoGe release.

I’m sure the whole festival will be great, thanks for Benjamin and his friends to organize it! So, if you are in Germany in the next 7 days, don’t miss the festival!

I’m happy to release the first public beta from CoGe 1.0! There are tons of changes, new things, improvements, so this is a very-very new CoGe. I’m actually busy with making documentations about the project – so, at the moment, this version is for people how wants to discover unknown territories

Project now hosted on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/coge