What's new in EventSoundControl 5.0.0
Apr 19, 2018
- General: Implemented MIDI-Input for controlling EventSoundControl from your MIDI hardware
- General: Hotkeys now work with modifier keys like Ctrl (Windows), Cmd (Mac), Alt and Shift
- Panic module: Respect here setted time for fadeout when stopping playlist player instead of the fade time setted in playlist player
- Jingle player module: Is now the "Button player"
- Playlist player module: Is now the "List player"
- Button player module: Implemented definable "actions" - other than playing audio - which can be executed on button
- Button player module: Implemented action "SendKey" on button to send a keystroke to another programm (yet Windows only)
- Button player module: Implemented action "ForwardHotKey" on button to forward the hotkey to another programm (yet Windows only)
New in EventSoundControl 4.1.0 (Apr 3, 2018)
- Jingle player: visualize fadeout (stopping) of items with new (lighter red) flashing color instead normal red color for playing items
- Jingle player: its now possible to give the whole player or jingle groups a default button layout
- Jingle player: its now possible to copy a button layout from another button from options menu
- Jingle player: font settings in button layout now are cross platform compatible
- Jingle player: import of m3u files via drag n drop from filemanager now possible
- Jingle player: import of whole directories with audio an m3u files via drag n drop from filemanager now possible
- Jingle player: import of audio and m3u files via drag and drop now also supported on macOS
- Jingle player: read comment tags from added files into internal comment field
- Playlist player: new "pause" function and button
- Playlist player: fix bug where app crashed on selecting to edit a song in context menu if selection changed while the menu was open
- Playlist player: allow to select what should be done at end of playlist (begin from start or switch to another playlist)
- Playlist player: import of m3u files via drag n drop from filenamager now possible
- Playlist player: import of whole directories with audio an m3u files via drag n drop from filemanager now possible
- Playlist player: allow copying of tracks between two playlist players via drag n drop
- Playlist player: allow deleting of tracks from playlists by del or back key
- Playlist player: allow editing of tracks title (description) and comment with editor
- Playlist player: import of audio and m3u files via drag and drop now also supported on macOS
- Playlist player: read comment tags from added files into internal comment field
- Webcaster: new "local server" implemented to allow use of EventSoundControl as remote audio source with other computers or third party software
- Webcaster: fixed problems on using multiple instances
- Mixer: sync captions of module channels with module captions (in case of multiple instances of the same module the caption was the same)
- General: fixed saving of module content (was broken in case of more than two instances of the same module)
- General: many little bugfixes, improvements and enhancements
New in EventSoundControl 4.0 (Mar 9, 2017)
- There were massive changes under the hood bringing new stability and usability of the software. Because it is a major release only the most important changes are noted here:
- System now controllable via OSC (a sample layout for touchosc you can find in the documents folder of EventSoundControl) which includes support for triggering jingley by midi devices (via OSCulator on mac for example)
- New hotkey system allows hotkeys for playlist player, panic and talkover too, not only jingle player
- All module content (audio file links, paths of streams etc) is now saved in eventset file instead of registry
- Drag and drop support for import of audio files in jingle player and playlist player
- Import of multiple files to jingle player at once via menu now possible
- Moving of sounds in jingle player between groups via menu now possible
- New fader module allows to control the volume of an output directly in main window without the need to show the mixer
- Audio editor now supports control of the gain for sounds in jingle player
- Playlist player now has its own playlists (saved in eventset file) with support of moving songs between playlists, export of playlists as m3u and random sorting of playlists
- In playlist player the use of the audio editor is possible to set start and end points
New in EventSoundControl 3.0.2 (Mar 9, 2017)
- playlist player: loads last loaded songs on startup
- jingle player: removed menu item "delete jingle group" because it caused a segfault
- licensing: don't use mac address because of problems with activations if network is disabled
New in EventSoundControl 3.0 (Mar 9, 2017)
- General: many bug fixes and performance improvements
- General: Modules, where it is useful, can be loaded several times (eg second playlist player)
- General: New module: Button for stopping all sounds
- General: Restructuring menus
- General: Change keyboard shortcuts to allow normal keyboard operation with TAB, Space and Enter of the program and for cross-platform compatibility.
- General: testing on system codecs for mp3 introduced. If not, mp3 can not be loaded anymore.
- General: Support for BASS plugins inserted for additional audio file formats.
- General: Support for multichannel soundcards under Windows also with system drivers (previously only ASIO)
- Playlist player: Menu control supplemented
- Playlist Player: Waveform display replaces timeline
- Jingle Player: Display for currently playing jingle group (s)
- Jingle player: height of the riders (jingle groups) now adjustable (for thick fingers)
- Jingle-Player: New Waveform-Editor allows free assignment of loop-points, loops no longer have to be cut perfectly
- Jingle Player: New comment field for jingles allows storage of comments to jingles. Displayed at "Mouse over Jingle-Button" as Tooltip.
- Jingle Player: The color and font of the label of jingles can be changed.
- Jingle Player: Jingles can be resorted by drag & drop (Ctrl / Cmd + left mouse button)
- Webstream Player: Enter the stream url directly in the window instead of in extra dialog