Since Nov. 1st, HighC weekly downloads have increased tenfold. The website is now receiving thousands of download requests for HighC and I had to upgrade my ISP account to be able to accommodate the load. This must be because of this nice HighC review in Portuguese.
A survey asking all users to provide their impression about HighC is launched. The objective is to assess the feasibility of a commercial version (20 to 60 dollars) of HighC, with more professional or more entertaining features.
A draw among the first 200 completed answers will grant 5 free copies of HighC. The winners will be announced here and/or notified by email by mid-december.
There will still be a free version, whose export features and playback rate will be limited, but which should stay fully functional and will still benefit from the other improvements.
The survey is not really getting answered as fast as I would like: I still need about 100 answers before deciding where to go next. This means a new version will probably not be out before mid-february.
On the positive side, I am testing FM and amplitude modulation in HighC: the early results are very impressive.
On november 20th, I launched a survey to investigate future directions for HighC. It turns out that the survey has not had as many replies as I wanted (got 124 instead in 2.5 months when I wanted to have 200), but, now that version 2.0 is out, I feel like I have to call for a end of that survey and declare the winners. I said there would be 5 winners out of the first 200 respondents, so, since there are less respondents, I pulled only 4 at random, and granted one on a personal choice.
So the winners are (randomly chosen among the registered users who responded):
Those five will soon receive a personal email on how to collect their registration key. And, if you want a free "pro" license, don't forget you can get a free license by posting in the samples' section of the forum...
In order to avoid multiple votes, the voting instructions are a bit arcane: you need to copy a unique ID generated for you, then follow a link on the page, then, paste the unique ID at the end of the link to access the voting page. Once this is done, just click on the "HighC" radio button and press "Send".