December 9th, 2011· Fixed bug where contraption preset window would spontaneously disappear when one of the contraption editor button tooltips displayed and then hid.
· Fixed bug in audio settings where setting devices to None was not remembered after restarting AudioMulch. Instead, the default device and all channels would be selected at next startup.
· Fixed bug/crash assertion failure "DRAG_STATE_NONE" when trying to drag 5Combs contraption editor while pitch selection window was visible.
· Fixed bug where selection of AIFF files was not possible during the "locate missing sound files" process.
· Improved scroll wheel behavior in properties pane. Scroll wheel no longer gets stuck on individual controls while scrolling the whole view. Scroll wheel now only acts on number editors when they already have input focus. Scroll wheel never acts on combo boxes and FilePlayer/Recorder location bars.
· Mac: improved stability of MIDI clock sync generation output. It was stuttering or unreliable with some MIDI devices.
· Fixed intermittent bug on Windows where evaluation period was indicated as expired immediately after first installation.
September 7th, 2010· Fixed bug where documents that used a missing VST plugin would load with an arbitrary placeholder VST rather than warning that the plugin was missing.
· Fixed bug where a LoopPlayer with an automation mute change at the beginning of bar 1 wouldn't recognise the mute change until bar 2 when playing from start or exporting.
· Fixed bug in Arpeggiator where selecting only one note in Random and UpDown Direction mode would play more than one note. Made Random Direction mode more uniformly random.
· Fixed bug where changing Settings/Preferences for MIDI sync offsets or MIDI generate sync device would cause MIDI control and chase sync to stop functioning until you restarted AudioMulch, disabled/reenabled these functions, or selected a different MIDI device.
· Fixed crash if you quit while a contraption preset window was visible.
· Windows: Fixed bug where View > Windows Volume Control menu item didn't work on Windows Vista and Windows 7
· Fixed bug where opening a document and saving it with Save As... would not add the original document to the Reopen/Recent Items menu.
· Fixed Play and Record buttons on File Players and Recorders so that you can right-click and choose Automate, Quick-map MIDI etc, even when the buttons are disabled because no file is selected in the contraption.
· Fixed bug where the patcher contraption input/output info tooltip was not hidden correctly after connecting a patch cord. Tooltips are now updated while connecting/reconnecting patch cords.
· Fixed bug in pattern editors (Drums, Bassline, SouthPole, Arpeggiator) where you couldn't easily scroll or zoom past bar 32 unless there were pattern triggers present near the end of the pattern -- the sequence length was ignored.
· Fixed bug in Bassline where you couldn't always see the note name cell text if you were zoomed in too far.
· Fixed bug where automation lines weren't always highlighted correctly when you hovered the mouse cursor over them (e.g. minimum line for Range parameters)
· Streamlined layout of Parameter Control window
· Prevent multi-file Player and Recorder contraption editors from being resized beyond the maximum useful height.
· Changed increments on MIDI sync offset number boxes to increment by +/- 1ms (previously 200ms)
· Refined button and label text in Settings/Preferences dialog box and elsewhere.
August 6th, 2010New Features:
· Added support for non-4/4 time signatures, time signature changes and custom rhythmic units.
· New rhythmic matrix pattern editors for Arpeggiator, SouthPole and Bassline.
· New dynamics processing contraptions: Compressor, Limiter and NoiseGate.
· Added Audio Unit plugin support on Mac OS X.
· New light grey color scheme (selectable from Settings/Preferences > Appearance).
· Updated help files including MIDI control and contraption reference pages. Added glossary.
Enhancements:
· Sped up program start up by adding plugin scan caching including progress bar and text in splash screen.
· Support for hot-plugging MIDI devices.
· Added parameter control context menus to the Metasurface (right-click Metasurface) and main window transport controls (right-click transport buttons, and metronome icon for Tempo mappings).
· Added double-click on contraptions in contraption palette to create new contraptions.
· Added right-click Create Contraption and Help context menu items to new contraptions palette.
· Added contraption editor context menu items for Close/Close all/Close all but this; added shift-click close button to close all.
· Included property names in contraption editor knob and slider popup value tool tips.
· Added Recall button to contraption presets grid.
· Added Close Sound File button to LoopPlayer and BubbleBlower. Added ability to close sound files in Drums with Ctrl-click or Right-click > Close Sound File.
· Added HH:MM:SS.sss elapsed / total displays to file players and recorders (replaces old display of duration in seconds).
· Beats are now divided into 48 subdivisions (previously 12), to allow finer-grained grid snapping in Drums and Automation.
· Added 64th and 64th-triplets to the list of standard rhythmic units.
· Added 10 channel variant of multi-file players and recorders.
· Allowed use of enter key (Ctrl-Enter) to create new Metasurface snapshots after typing a snapshot name.
· Changed some default settings for new installations: automation grid visible, patcher input/output tool tips visible, audio enabled on startup; status bar visible.
· VST generic plugin editor now displays up to the first 8 parameters by default instead of the first 3.
· The preset pop-up for a contraption now scrolls when it is displayed so that currently selected contraption preset is visible.
· Windows: Audio, midi and network devices are disabled/enabled on APM suspend/resume (i.e. the audio device closes when the computer goes to sleep).
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed SDelay to update the delay time when the tempo changes when using tempo-synced delays.
· Fixed bug where WAV and AIFF sound files were saved with incorrect internal size fields. This caused warnings when opening the files in some audio editors (e.g. Goldwave).
· Fixed bug where SDelay delay time combo boxes didn't have the correct range set when you first opened the editor (was possible to set delay time in semiquavers beyond 32, for example).
· Fixed bug where locating a missing soundfile in SoundIn, FilePlayer, SoundOut or FileRecorder wouldn't cause the contraption play button to be enabled (it would stay disabled and you couldn't click it).
· Fixed loading of track status indicator icons in CanonLooper (previously they weren't displaying).
· Improved handling of display range and zooming in Drums contraption pattern editor.
· Fixed bug where timeline maximum zoom level was dependent on zoom level when window was resized.
· Fixed bug in BeatProcess.amh where thumb could go negative.
· Fixed help file not displaying for AuxIn and AuxOut above 7.
· Fixed bug where sometimes pasting into patcher from another document would locate the pasted fragment way off the screen (now pasted selection always appears in the centre of the patcher).
· Removed the ability to automate Clock.Start (because it didn't make sense)
· Disabled slide-out of Patcher new contraptions palette while patcher pop-up menu is visible.
· Fixed bug where altering values in a Drums contraption while the contraption changed preset in automation playback would crash with the following error: "Invalid parameter passed to (null), (null), (null) line 0".
· Fixed input labels on RingAM contraption: they used to say Left and Right when they should have said Carrier and External Modulator. Similar fixes to M2Bus, M2Mixer, P2Mixer, MNoiseGate etc.
· Fixed isAbsolute() assertion failure crash when loading old documents which had been saved in the root of a drive (e.g. D:).
· Fixed bug where VST parameter name cleaning would crash if parameter name only contained spaces (caused a Starplugs plugin to crash).
· Mac: fixed bug where plugins protected by PACE iLok copy protection would hang and you couldn't click through their authorisation screen.
Cosmetic Refinements:
· Positioned patcher output port info tooltips below ports so they don't obscure the contraption.
· Improved appearance of 10Harmonics, Shaper, SSpat plots.
· Fixed AMNumberEdit to render in a more consistent style.
· Added '+' to Arpeggiator Osc 2 Transpose items to indicate upwards transposition
· Fixed color of '>>' (show more) buttons in toolbars, and hide and undock buttons in Patcher and Automation pane (on Windows they were black and not visible against the dark background).
· Fixed timeline tooltips to not display beyond the borders of the timeline they are associated with.
· Made patcher connection bundle handle resemble a green circle instead of a red rectangle.
· Added tool tips to level meters.
· Fixed glitchy contraption pane scrolling.
· Improved error message text when enabling MIDI when no devices are selected.
· Added instruction text to Metasurface pane when no snapshots have been placed.
· Indicate that the current document has unsaved changes in the window title area (using an asterisk on Windows, dot in close button on Mac).
· Improved "Do you want to save changes?" dialogs by using Save/Discard buttons instead of Yes/No. Similar for Locate Missing Sound Files dialog box.
May 7th, 2010· Fixed hung notes and/or plugin crashes when using VSTi plugins controlled by MIDI. The bug occurred when MIDI data is received on multiple MIDI channels simultaneously and the plugin Receive Channel is set to a single channel (i.e. not "None" or "All").
· Fixed intermittent crash when displaying a VST generic editor while audio is running: "assertion failed: slider != 0"
· Fixed rare crash while previewing a sound file in the open sound file dialog: "assertion failed: lastAlloc_->Blocksize()==size"
November 3rd, 2009· Fixed crash bug when loading AudioMulch 1.0 documents that contain Drums contraptions with MIDI-controlled or automated channel volumes.
· Fixed bug where you wouldn't be prompted to save changes before closing the document if the only change you made was renaming contraptions.
· Fixed bug where VSTs with a MIDI output and no audio output would receive incoming MIDI messages twice.
· Windows: Fixed "cannot load sqlite database driver!" error while trying to access the help file on some machines.
· Fixed bug where LoopPlayer, FilePlayer, etc. would sometimes not show the question-mark icon when AudioMulch could not find the sound file.
· Fixed glitch where the sound file name in LoopPlayer, FilePlayer would sometimes be abbreviated with "..." even when there was space for a longer name.
· Fixed bug where the Notes window was given focus after loading a document, so you couldn't immediately use transport key-shortcuts (because they would type in the Notes window instead).
· Fixed bug where you couldn't close the Set Value dialog box by pressing the Enter key.
· Fixed bug where triggering Clock.GoToStart via MIDI didn't update the transport position on the GUI if the clock was stopped.
· Fixed document switcher to scroll back to top when a new document set is Opened, on New, and on Clear All.
· Fixed patcher display glitch where some ports would remain incorrectly colored after reconnecting patch cords.
June 30th, 2009· Fixed crash in patcher when ctrl-drag-duplicating a contraption and immediately docking it into another contraption without releasing the mouse. Crash only occurred when Show Contraption Input/Output Info was enabled and mouse was released over one of the new contraption's input or output ports.
· Fixed bug where Export to Sound File function would not terminate (it exported until the disk was full) if an automated clock stop marker was encountered while prerolling or exporting.
· Fixed bug where pressing the Return (Enter) key when editing parameter values in number editors and Metasurface snapshot and contraption preset names would cause the clock to stop and go to start rather than completing text editing. Also changed number editor behavior so Space bar starts/stops the clock even when a number editor has focus.
· Fixed bug where typing numbers into a number edit in some places (e.g. Parameter Control window) would enter the numbers in reverse order (right-to-left).
· Fixed bugs where tempo automation always defaulted to 120 bpm and did not pick up current tempo when first enabled, nor would it record tempo changes from the GUI (it would record tempo changes from MIDI).
· Fixed bug where choosing Change Color... for a Metasurface snapshot, then pressing Cancel in the Select Color dialog box always made the snapshot black.
· Fixed bug where SoundIn Sync mode didn't function correctly in all File Recorder contraptions.
· Fixed bug where MIDI mapping curve editor in the Parameter Control dialog would not allow insertion of new breakpoints on vertical line segments including at the left and right edges of the editor.
· Fixed bug where automation scroll bar would not take loop end and selection end location into account so you couldn't drag the scroll bar thumb to the loop end and had to use the arrow buttons.
· Mac: added additional audio i/o buffer size settings to the Audio Driver page of the Preferences dialog box (previously this setting was fixed at 256 samples.)
· Mac: fixed bug where selecting sample rates used sample-rate-conversion instead of switching the hardware sample rate. This should resolve problems with glitches at low CPU loads and high sample rates e.g. 96kHz.
· Mac: fixed bug where non-hardware "virtual" MIDI devices were not available (e.g. from Numerology and OSCulator).
· Mac: fixed issues with number edit boxes being too tall (eg in Parameter Control window).
· Mac: removed close button on Preferences dialog box window header to avoid confusion with OK vs. Cancel behavior.
· Mac: fixed graphical glitches around the edges of SSpat and Shaper contraption editors.
· Mac: added command-shift-f5 keyboard shortcut to refresh VST Plugins list.
· Mac: changed VST enumeration algorithm to only load bundles with .vst extension.
· Windows: fixed bug where Select Sound File dialog for recording and export did not display on some Windows XP systems.
· Windows: fixed bug where Reaper's ReaRoute ASIO driver did not appear in the device list.
· Windows: fixed VST GUI window creation bug which resolves issues with Bidule VST freezing/crashing at startup or during use.
· Windows: fixed implementation of VST audioMasterPinConnected which was causing "assertion failed currentOps_!=0" with some plugins including TinyGod Pegger 3.
· Windows: fixed handling of VST GUIs which change their size using the non-standard method of directly resizing their parent (e.g. Schwa Olga).
· Added Rename menu item to Metasurface snapshots context menu.
· Fixed Export to Sound File dialog box to remember the preroll duration setting from the last time it was displayed.
· Fixed bug where piano keyboard pitch selection popup window didn't show the correct note name when it was displayed (always showed C#8).
· Fixed broken links to Crossfader and Frosscader help pages.
June 19th, 2009· A new Patcher with advanced drag-and-drop patching and MIDI routing (see below).
· MIDI and automation control for Clock transport (tempo, stop, start) and Metasurface interpolation.
· Enhanced Drums contraption with 8 channels and a new pattern editor supporting arbitrary length high-resolution patterns.
· New "Startup Actions" settings allow you to enable audio, MIDI, transport, sync, and to load documents when AudioMulch starts.
· Expanded multichannel audio I/O capability to support up to 256 channels in each direction and improved compatibility with consumer multichannel audio interfaces using DirectSound and Windows Multimedia drivers.
· Increased audio processing efficiency.
· Various work-flow improvements
May 15th, 2007· Fixed display of ASIO control panel which could cause the Settings dialog to disappear and freeze the user interface with some audio interfaces.
· Fixed clicking when muting/unmuting Arpeggiator.
· Fixed assertion failure bug when Right-clicking on a contraption preset button and selecting Parameter Modulation.
· Fixed intermittent crashes when muting and unmuting LiveLooper tracks in clock-sync mode.
· Fixed Sqrt domain error when modulating Arpeggiator OscBalance with the Metasurface.
· Fixed bug where clicking OK to rename a contraption to its old name displays an error.
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