Neutrino is born! Despite some birthing pains, Neutrino 1.70 is in the wild and available for download now.

And so, to make it official: Neutrino is the new name for MachineCodex Software's flagship product, the app previously known as AudioCodex. So if you're new here, and you are reading through the older posts, they are one and the same.

It's been a long road to version 1.70. It feels fantastic to be able to take the wraps off and finally show off our extremely shiny and cool new player.

But hang on, I hear some of you say... what's with the new name? And what happened to AudioCodex versions 1.5 and 1.6? It's true that we have skipped a couple of point versions. It has been a long time between releases for our little player, we have to admit. So long, in fact, that AudioCodex no longer seemed relevant as a handle to describe the power and compact utility that our app has evolved into.

So what's new? I intend to take the next couple of blog posts to highlight a few cool things about Neutrino.

Multiple markers

AudioCodex included the concept of a loop, which is, of course, a section of a track that you can isolate to loop over for rote practice or whatever reason.

Neutrino allows you to define an arbitrary number of marker points for a track, and then to set up forward or backward jumps between them. You can, for example, skip over sections of a track that are not of interest, or set up multiple virtual loops for the tricky sections of a track that you want to repeat.

To create a marker, double click in the transport view at some point. If you are playing, this will cause playback to recue from this point, and a new marker will appear at your cursor.

Create a second marker in the same way. On the second marker, choose the Jump icon, and set Marker 1 as the target.

This configuration mimics the simple loops of AudioCodex.

if you reverse this configuration, you can set up a skip section by specifying a later marker as the target.

You can see all your markers and their properties in the Markers Inspector (Cmd-1).

You can add notes to your markers, so that they can serve as annotations or bookmarks. You can adjust the marker time using the steppers, at various period increments. Markers can also be locked in place so they can't be accidentally moved.

We intend to extend Markers in some interesting ways in future versions of Neutrino.

The best is yet to come...

Now that this landmark is passed, and Neutrino is out of the bag, we intend to be much more aggressive with updates. We anticipate the first few point releases will address the inevitable bugs that crop up. Please let us know in the Forums about any issues you may have. We really appreciate all the complaints, feedback and bug reports you've got - it allows us to prioritise our efforts to fix the most important issues first.

Until next time, we hope you enjoy Neutrino!