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🪕 New style: bluegrass
- 25 bluegrass grooves: boom-chuck, Carter scratch, Flatt and McCoury G runs, crosspicking, Scruggs-style roll, train, gospel, newgrass…, plus 3 plain grooves without runs to play over
- 7 progression templates: I-IV-V, breakdown, ragtime, gospel, fiddle tune, mixolydian I-bVII, minor i-bVII
- 6 bluegrass example songs (Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Salty Dog Blues, Rocky Top, Man of Constant Sorrow…): 90 songs in total
- 3 plain blues grooves (
blues/plain,plain-strum,plain-slow): root, fifth and chord, no boogie or walking
🔊 Audio engine
- renders at 48 kHz, the native rate of the Salamander drums: cymbals more open (+2.5 dB above 12 kHz)
- band-limited FFT resampling for pitch shifts, cached SFZ maps: faster renders (Back in Black 3.4 → 2.6 s)
- humanized guitars: every note slightly detuned (±4 cent) and with varying level, like a real player
🎸 Fender is the default guitar
The Fender solid body (FreePats, CC0) is now the default for every style and setup downloads it with the Gretsch
(first download ~460 MB). Gretsch, Epiphone and acoustic are still there with guitar:.
📖 Documentation website
https://wdog.github.io/backingtrack/: tabs, sub-menus, search, dark Dracula theme, in English and Italian.
One page per groove style and per example style. The README is now short (90 lines) and links to the site.
📦 Installer and update
The installer says which version it installs (Updating backingtrack 1.3.0 → 1.4.0), backingtrack update shows
the version change at the end.
🇮🇹 In breve: nuovo stile bluegrass (25 groove, 7 modelli di giro, 6 brani) e groove blues semplici; motore
audio a 48 kHz, render più veloci e chitarre umanizzate; Fender chitarra predefinita; sito di documentazione
https://wdog.github.io/backingtrack/it/ con menu e ricerca, README corti; installer e update mostrano la versione.