What's new in Charlatan 2.0 Beta 3
May 5, 2015
- BUGFIX crashes on AMD systems
New in Charlatan 2.0 Beta 2 (May 5, 2015)
- BUGFIX not loading in some hosts
- BUGFIX note hanging after switching voice modes
New in Charlatan 2.0 Beta 1 (May 5, 2015)
- completely rewritten DSP engine resulting in roughly 50% (!) CPU savings in polyphonic mode
- unison mode with upto 7 voices and stereo spread. Even with 7-voice unison, CPU usage is very bearable
- major GUI overhaul
- additional LFO waveforms
- stereo noise
- some more presets
- mostly compatible with presets for Charlatan 1.x (*)
New in Charlatan 1.4.1 (Jun 5, 2013)
- BUGFIX: DCO mode with Osc2 square/pulse wave was broken
New in Charlatan 1.4 (Jun 3, 2013)
- noise source now separate from Osc 1
- Osc 2: narrow pulse wave
- LFO: extended rate range
- GUI update
- BUGFIX: potential crasher
- more presets
New in Charlatan 1.3 (Jan 12, 2013)
- Velocity Sensitivity for both envelopes
- GUI: darker background color along with other refinements
New in Charlatan 1.2.2 (Jan 7, 2013)
- BUGFIX: no sound with poly mode and multiple instances in Renoise (possibly other hosts, too)
- misc. internal improvements
New in Charlatan 1.2.1 (Jan 7, 2013)
- ring modulator: perform DC blocking at output rather than inputs
- envelopes: reduce minimum decay/release time to 4ms
- less excessive smoothing of filter cutoff parameter (adaptive to audio buffer block size): allows more accurate automation
- GUI: change color of version text to light gray (for people changing background color)
- minor filter tweaks
- minor envelope tweaks
- support Cockos VST extension to display correct parameter values in automation envelope lanes in REAPER
- compiled with latest version of Microsoft(R) compiler: possibly improved Windows(R) XP compatibility
New in Charlatan 1.1.3 (Nov 26, 2011)
- BUGFIX: corrected placement of nonlinearities in 4-pole lowpass filter. Mainly noticable with high resonance.
- Filter key tracking: account for glide and pitch bend
- introduced slight pitch tuning error of voices in polyphonic mode
- Detune parameter is now nonlinear to make it easy to dial in small values
- minor tweaking of presets
New in Charlatan 1.1.2 (Nov 8, 2011)
- Handle MIDI program change
- BUGFIX: aliasing artifacts of triangle oscillators at very high pitch
- smoothing of filter cutoff parameter to eliminate artifacts when doing fast manual sweeps
- BUGFIX: regression which broke compatibilty with older hosts such as Cubase SX
- some more presets
New in Charlatan 1.1.1 (Oct 6, 2011)
- BUGFIX: crash in Live with multiple instances
New in Charlatan 1.1 (Oct 6, 2011)
- improved 4-pole filter sound and time-varying behavior by introducing more nonlinearities, at the expense of higher CPU usage.
- BUGFIX: properly report automatable parameters. Fixes crash in Orion/bug in Cubase.
New in Charlatan 1.0 (Sep 27, 2011)
- enhanced factory preset banks
- small fixes and performance optimizations
New in Charlatan 1.0 RC 1 (Sep 27, 2011)
- BUGFIX: Crash in Orion
- Changed preset management to "chunk-based". Required for compatibility with Orion; might also have other advantages in future releases.
- Changed PITCH DETUNE parameter behavior when OSC2 SYNC is active so that the overall pitch stays in tune
- updated/enhanced presets
- Filter: minor tweaks
New in Charlatan 0.9.5 (Sep 27, 2011)
- BUGFIX: crash on load in MuLAB
- BUGFIX: force immediate oscillator phase locking after enabling/disabling ringmod or sync
New in Charlatan 0.9.4 (Sep 27, 2011)
- 64-bit version
- circular mode for knob controls (determined by host settings)
- filter cutoff knob now has a default value (double-click) which allows to play self-oscillation in-tune (with key tracking = 100%)
- pitch tune and pitch bend range knobs now can also be fine adjusted by holding down shift key
- OSC2 sync now also works when OSC1 is set to noise
- gentle prefiltering of ring modulator inputs for less harsh sound
- handle "all notes off" MIDI message
- organized presets into different banks; more presets (thanks Teksonik)
- BUGFIX: denormal issue in envelope generator
- BUGFIX: regression regarding parameter labels in host default GUI
- BUGFIX: potential crash in MiniHost
New in Charlatan 0.9.3 (Sep 27, 2011)
- support for VST preset banks with 32 presets
- LFO: sample & hold waveform
- LFO: new switch mod wheel -> LFO intensity
- new switch VELO: velocity -> mod envelope intensity
- changed bandpass filter from 4-pole to 2-pole
- output is now stereo to improve compatibility with some hosts
- reverted behavior of filter mod pot
- increased max. pitch mod depth from 2 to 4 octaves
New in Charlatan 0.9.2 (Sep 27, 2011)
- BUGFIX: wouldn't produce sound in VSTHost
- BUGFIX: change FXP-preset file extension to lower case. Required to be readable by Psycle!
- BUGFIX: releasing pitch bend after note off results in initial pitch sweep at next note
- include REAPER preset file (presets\Charlatan_default)
- GUI: pots can now be set to their default value either via double-click or ctrl-left click
- GUI: new background color. Fixes eye cancer.
- GUI: changed labels Osc2 detune->tune and Pitch master->tune
- Osc1 shape mod: envelope and square-wave LFO are now unipolar
- Various changes to modulation behavior. Presets have been adjusted.
New in Charlatan 0.9.1 (Sep 27, 2011)
- now has a single VST program (rather than none like before) needed to allow preset loading/saving in some hosts like VSTHost