Version 0.15

Release Notes

Version 0.15 (release date: 2017-04-25)

New features:

• Streaming mode allows framewise processing of live audio input (#185)
• Exponential linear unit (ELU) activation function (#232)
• DBNBeatTracker can operate on live audio signals (#238)
• OnsetDetectorLL can operate on live audio signals (#256)

Bug fixes:

• Fix downbeat evaluation failure with a single annotation / detection (#216)
• Fix tempo handling of multi-track MIDI files (#219)
• Fix error loading unicode filenames (#223)
• Fix ffmpeg unicode filename handling (#236)
• Fix smoothing for peak_picking (#247)
• Fix combining onsets/notes (#255)

API relevant changes:

• NeuralNetwork expect 2D inputs; activation can be computed stepwise (#244)
• Reorder GRUCell parameters, to be consistent with all other layers (#243)
• Rename GRULayer parameters, to be consistent with all other layers (#243)

Other changes:

• SPL and RMS can be computed on Signal and FramedSignal (#208)
• num_threads is passed to ParallelProcessor in single mode (#217)
• Use install_requires in setup.py to specify dependencies (#226)
• Use new Cython build system to build extensions (#227)
• Allow initialisation of previous/hidden states in RNNs (#243)
• Forward path of HMM can be computed stepwise (#244)