What's new in Sound Byte 4.7.7 Beta 7
Aug 16, 2018
- Added an item to the Action menu to reset highlighted carts. When volumes are locked, the mouse wheel can no longer adjust a cart volume. Fixed a bug that caused the cart volume to drop to zero if a playing cart was clicked. Fixed a bug that prevented cart options from being opened if Fade In was enabled. Fixed a bug that caused a cart to stop playing immediately and not Fade Out. Alt-Shift-Control click on a cart will play it with a fade in, starting from the time of the last fade out
New in Sound Byte 4.7.7 Beta 6 (Apr 24, 2018)
- When volumes are locked, the mouse wheel can no longer adjust a cart volume. Fixed a bug that caused the cart volume to drop to zero if a playing cart was clicked. Fixed a bug that prevented cart options from being opened if Fade In was enabled. Fixed a bug that caused a cart to stop playing immediately and not Fade Out. Alt-Shift-Control click on a cart will play it with a fade in, starting from the time of the last fade out
New in Sound Byte 4.7.7 Beta 4 (Feb 22, 2018)
- Fixed a bug that caused the cart volume to drop to zero if a playing cart was clicked. Alt-Shift-Control click on a cart will play it with a fade in, starting from the time of the last fade out..
New in Sound Byte 4.7.7 Beta 1 (Nov 3, 2017)
- Alt-Shift-Control click on a cart will play it with a fade in, starting from the time of the last fade out.
New in Sound Byte 4.7.6 (Nov 3, 2017)
- Added the ability to change the racks menu order (Organize Racks).
- Bug fix - the menu would disappear after archiving/unarchiving racks under Windows.
New in Sound Byte 4.7.5 (Nov 3, 2017)
- Added an option to not use QuickTime in the Windows version, with reduced functionality.
- Added window to search racks for carts with specified text in their title.
- Command-K toggles the Talk Button on and off.
- Cart color can be set by state.
- Changes to preferences window layout.
- Carts can be ordered vertical or horizontally, or alphabetically, when dropped onto the rack window.
- Bug fix - cart start aborts other carts playing now works across all open racks and respects the fade setting.
- Bug fix - drawing of progress indicator for medium sized carts.
- Bug fix - if both “fade in” and “queue cart” were enabled, the cart would immediately play, instead of being queued.
- Improved redraw of carts when the rack window is resized
New in Sound Byte 4.7.2 (Aug 11, 2015)
- Bug fix – carts marked to loop will now not restart after they fade out.
- If racks were previously displayed on an external monitor that is no longer connected, they will be displayed on the main monitor the next time Sound Byte is run.
New in Sound Byte 4.7.1 (Jul 2, 2015)
- Added display of MIDI channel and note in lower center of cart.
- Bug fix – cart titles were not always displayed in bold when they should be. PLAYED text for carts changed in color, positioned behind other cart text.
- PLAYED text now displayed after the cart finishes.
- Bug fix – playlists added to carts were not always working correctly.
- Added a spreadsheet option to log on a per cart basis, and some other options.
- Bug fix – carts playing backwards did not always correctly stop playing.
- Sped up quitting the app.
New in Sound Byte 4.7.0 (Mar 17, 2015)
- Bug fix – Clicking on playback buttons in an empty playlist could cause a crash.
- Bug fix – Mutliple carts could not be added to a rack at the same time (Windows only)
New in Sound Byte 4.6.4 (Sep 23, 2014)
- Bug fix – delays and pauses in playlists were not always being saved
New in Sound Byte 4.6.3 (Jul 30, 2014)
- Added a checkbox in the Preferences window to enable the serial port popup menu.
- Bug fix – the channel for the MIDI Abort note was not being saved.
New in Sound Byte 4.6.2 (Jul 30, 2014)
- Bug fixes for the iPhone/iPad remote control app.
New in Sound Byte 4.6.1 (Jun 30, 2014)
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash under Windows when re-ordering entries in a Playlist.
New in Sound Byte 4.6.0 (Jun 20, 2014)
- Changed MIDI channel numbering to start at 1 rather than 0.
- Bug fix – preserved volume setting of queued carts when playback was stopped early.
- MIDI control now includes support for channels.
- Added MIDI triggers for various commands.
- Log file now includes the length of the sound file.
- Carts that will be reloaded on play are opened from a copy now, so the sound file can be over- written by other apps.
- Added insert cart.
- Added delete cart.
- Added option to not mark individual carts as PLAYED.
- Added option to force reload of sound file when a cart is played, both in prefs and cart options.
- PLAYED text on carts that have been played is more subtle in color.
New in Sound Byte 4.5.0 (Jan 29, 2014)
- Added marking of played carts
- Added an option to disable played carts to preferences
- Added cart text color and bold
- Alphabetizing rack is now not case sensitive
- Added option to drop the serial port DTR and RTS lines when a cart is paused.
- Added a management menu item to disable cart clicks
- Enlarged active area for dragging a cart.
- Bug fix - carts would not fade in when triggered by MIDI.
- Bug fix - could try to set in/out times on a playlist in a cart, which would cause a crash
- Bug fix - MIDI control not working when multiple racks were open.
New in Sound Byte 4.4.0 (Mar 26, 2013)
- Added the preferences option to copy sound files to Sound Byte
- Added the preferences option to track the number of times a cart is played
- Added the preferences option to set cart duration to 00:00 after it is played
- Added the Lock Settings... option to the Edit menu
- Fixed a bug with clicking on a cart fading in not stopping the cart playback
- Fixed a bug with audio channels not being correctly routed for some types of sound files.
New in Sound Byte 4.2.0 (Mar 26, 2013)
- Added the Set In/Out Window
- Added fade in setting in cart options
- Action -> Set Fade Rates now only affects open racks.
- Page Up and Page Down keys now take you to the previous and next rack.
- The documentation is now opened by menu command shift H.
- Fixed a bug that didn’t allow the output channel of mono sound files to be properly set.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash under Windows, if the Preferences window is opened after maximizing a cart rack window.
New in Sound Byte 4.1.0 (Jul 23, 2010)
- Added rack archiving
- Several additions for future versions of the iPhone/iPad remote control apps
New in Sound Byte 4.1.0b1 (Jul 6, 2010)
- Adds archiving of racks and sound files so you can back them up, or easily transfer them between machines