From alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com Sat Mar 24 10:14:46 2018 From: alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:14:46 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <155ca815-3a55-8613-457c-00c7122fcec3@mindworkshop.com> Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) Contents: 1. *Voice Manager* 8 Revision 2 2. *?PNG MNG Construction Set* 8 Revision 3 (second notification) 3. *?GIF Construction Set Professional* 8 Revision 4 (additionalnotification) 4. *?Graphic Workshop****Professional* 8 Revision 6 (additionalnotification) 5. New Reviews at *Storm Gods* 6. ?Replying to this Message and List Removal * Witchier than a "my other car is a broom" bumper sticker.* ** *(Click on the book.)* ** Voice Manager 8 Revision 2 The Yamaha DX7, TX7, reface DX and the Korg Volca FM synthesizers are amazingly cool... among other things because their voices can be programmed to make them sound like pretty much anything you can imagine. In the event that you're not feeling very imaginative, there's also a voice-sharing community from which to download buckets of fresh sounds for them. Alchemy Mindworks' Voice Manager will keep track of banks of synthesizer voices, allowing them to be saved as permanent disk files. It also embodies an intuitive voice editor, and numerous other tools to make these instruments totally rock. If you play keyboards, we invite you to check out Voice Manager. Voice Manager 8 has been updated. This release: * Adds support for the Yamaha DX7 and TX7 synthesizers, and their modern progeny, theamazing Korg Volca FM. Download thousand of free voice banks from the web, organize and modify them to suit your needs and upload them to these iconic synthesizers with Voice Manager. (If you're unfamiliar with the Volca FM, we invite you to check out our review of it. Please see the New Reviews at Storm Gods item in this posting, below.) * Updates the Audition window to support silent uploads, instant performance and a clickable toy piano keyboard for immediate gratification. * Fixes a number of bugs in the reface DX voice editor window. * Speeds up the MIDI communication throughout the application. * Allows for manual selection of the synthesizer and MIDI ports, to get around unusual hardware that previously confused Voice Manager's automatic detection logic. * Adds assistance buttons to the initial registration key windows. Click on the question marks if you discover yourself to be lost. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. ("Reface DX" is a trademark of Yamaha Corporation, as are "DX7" and "TX7." Alchemy Mindworks has no business affiliation with Yamaha Corporation. The names reface DX, DX7, TX7 and Yamaha are used herein for descriptive purposes only. "Volca FM" is a trademark of Korg Inc. Alchemy Mindworks has no business affiliation with Korg Inc. The names Volca FM and Korg are used herein for descriptive purposes only.) PNG MNG Construction Set 8 Revision 3 (second notification) PNG MNG Construction Set 8 has been updated. This release: * Addresses several security issues in the JPEG library used by PNG MNG Construction Set. It's our understanding that the previous version of the JPEG library used by PNG MNGcould have allowed a maliciously-crafted JPEG graphic to execute arbitrary code on a host computer. The world includes some really scary people. PNG MNG has been rebuilt using the latest - and wholly secure - JPEG functionality. We'd like to urge all users of PNG MNGto update to this release ASAP. Don't close this message 'til you've clicked on the appropriate button below. * We've also updated the ancillary JPEG reader to be aware of the presence of EXIF metadata in the JPEG files it reads and adjust the orientation of the resulting pictures if they were taken with a camera held in something other than the traditional landscape position. * Adds assistance buttons to the initial registration key windows. Click on the question marks if you discover yourself to be lost. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. Upgrades If you have previously registered or upgraded to PNG MNGConstruction Set 7, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license. * NOTE:* If you're currently running PNG MNGConstruction Set6 or PNG MNGConstruction Set 7, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the current release to address the JPEG archive vulnerability described above. Users of PNG MNGConstruction Set7 can upgrade to version 8 for half price. While the half-price upgrade path from the version 6 software has expired, our upgrade e-commerce page will accept half-price upgrades from users of PNG MNGConstruction Set 6 for the next two weeks. If you see a message therein to the effect that upgrades are only available for version 7 and 8, you can safely ignore it. Click on the huge blue button below. GIF Construction Set Professional 8 Revision 4 (additional notification) GIF Construction Set Professional 8 has been updated. This release: * Addresses several security issues in the JPEG library used by GIF Construction Set Professional. It's our understanding that the previous version of the JPEG library used by GIF Construction Set could have allowed a maliciously-crafted JPEG graphic to execute arbitrary code on a host computer. The world includes some really scary people. GIF Construction Set has been rebuilt using the latest - and wholly secure - JPEG functionality. We'd like to urge all users of GIF Construction Set to update to this release ASAP. Don't close this message 'til you've clicked on the appropriate button below. * We've also updated the ancillary JPEG reader to be aware of the presence of EXIF metadata in the JPEG files it reads and adjust the orientation of the resulting pictures if they were taken with a camera held in something other than the traditional landscape position. * Adds assistance buttons to the initial registration key windows. Click on the question marks if you discover yourself to be lost. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. Upgrades If you have previously registered or upgraded to GIF Construction Set Professional 7, you can upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license. * NOTE:* If you're currently running GIF Construction Set Professional 6 or GIF Construction Set Professional 7, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the current release to address the JPEG archive vulnerability described above. Users of GIF Construction Set Professional 7 can upgrade to version 8 for half price. While the half-price upgrade path from the version 6 software has expired, our upgrade e-commerce page will accept half-price upgrades from users of GIF Construction Set Professional 6 for the next two weeks. If you see a message therein to the effect that upgrades are only available for version 7 and 8, you can safely ignore it. Click on the huge blue button below. Graphic Workshop Professional 8 Revision 6 (additional notification) Graphic Workshop Professional 8 has been updated. This release: * Addresses several security issues in the JPEG library used by Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications. It's our understanding that the previous version of the JPEG library used by Graphic Workshop could have allowed a maliciously-crafted JPEG graphic to execute arbitrary code on a host computer. The world includes some really scary people. Graphic Workshop itself and the library called by its ancillary applications to read and write JPG files have been rebuilt using the latest - and wholly secure - JPEG functionality. We'd like to urge all users of Graphic Workshop to update to this release ASAP. Don't close this message 'til you've clicked on the appropriate button below. * We've also updated the ancillary JPEG reader to be aware of the presence of EXIF metadata in the JPEG files it reads and adjust the orientation of the resulting pictures if they were taken with a camera held in something other than the traditional landscape position. While Graphic Workshop itself has handled this function for years, now the applications that come bundled with it - such as Presentation Wizard UltraLight, e-Paint UltraLight and Montage - do so as well. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. Upgrades If you have previously registered or upgraded to Graphic Workshop Professional 7, you can upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license. * NOTE:* If you're currently running Graphic Workshop Professional 6 or Graphic Workshop Professional 7, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the current release to address the JPEG archive vulnerability described above. Users of Graphic Workshop Professional 7 can upgrade to version 8 for half price. While the half-price upgrade path from the version 6 software has expired, our upgrade e-commerce page will accept half-price upgrades from users of Graphic Workshop Professional 6 for the next two weeks. If you see a message therein to the effect that upgrades are only available for version 7 and 8, you can safely ignore it. Click on the huge blue button below. New Reviews at Storm Gods The Storm Gods product review blog has been updated with new reviews. Storm Gods - product reviews by the staff of Alchemy Mindworks - features objective reviews of the things we've bought. It might betray a significant collective character flaw, but we buy a lot of stuff. For the most part, we research our purchases carefully. Storm Gods will share our choices and our experiences with them. Please click on the following huge blue button to visit the Storm Gods page. Click on Recent Posts when you get there for the latest reviews. Unlike product review pages with larger staff and actual production budgets, Storm Gods is based exclusively on items we would have bought anyway. No compensation was provided to us by their manufacturers - not that we'd necessarily have objected if they'd tried - and as such, all the reviews at Storm Gods are wholly unbiased. Alchemy Mindworks has no affiliation with any of the manufacturers mentioned at Storm Gods - in most cases, we never even filled in the warranty cards. 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