What's new in Helio Workstation 3.10
Apr 3, 2023
- Added built-in metronome, toggled by Control + M hotkey, each time signature now has its own editable metronome scheme
- Added an option to select the MIDI output device
- Added an option to scale the UI x1.5 or x2
- Made the update checks optional
- Updated the app icon
- Fixed renaming or recoloring multiple tracks in the pattern roll
- Minor fixes: double click on a tempo track opens "set one tempo" dialog, fixed some grid arrangement glitches and inaccurate time signature alignment, fixed zooming out in large projects, fixed inactive notes blocking double-clicks on the roll
New in Helio Workstation 3.9 (Mar 17, 2022)
- Added per-track time signatures: hotkey Alt + F2 to add a time signature anchored to track's position
- Made retrograde hotkey work in the pattern roll, re-ordering all selected clips backwards for each row
- Implemented auto-fitting the roll view range by zooming it out until it "clicks"
- Added support for nonoctave tunings (only affect the built-in instrument at the moment)
- Minor tweaks: more conventional right click menu behavior on multiple selection, improved aligning the dragged clips in the pattern roll, long-overdue UI fixes for smaller phone screens
New in Helio Workstation 3.8 (Mar 17, 2022)
- Added in-scale transposition commands, hotkeys Alt + Up and Alt + Down
- Implemented recording MIDI from a 12-tone keyboard in any temperament
- Improved the pen tool: delete notes and clips with right mouse button
- Improved the knife tool: merge two clips into one or join notes with right mouse button (long tap on mobile platforms)
- Added "save preset" button in the key signature editor
- Mini-map improvements: draw a zoom region with left mouse button and pan the stretched mini-map with right mouse button
- Minor tweaks: allowed "natural" scrolling in the rolls on macOS, improved file choosers for mobile platforms, updated 19-edo settings, re-ordered the edit modes a bit
New in Helio Workstation 3.7 (Aug 7, 2021)
- Made the playback loop markers draggable
- Added 19-edo to built-in temperaments
- Added keyboard mapping presets menu (with some built-in multi-channel mappings for Pianoteq), allowing to save your own presets
- Lasso improvements: added a cool selection range dashed indicator in the roll headers and fixed selection behavior when deselecting items with Alt
- Mouse wheel control improvements: added support for mice with dual-axis wheels and added a separate "vertical zooming by default" UI option
- Fixed missing note-offs when editing, which broke some VST3 plugins
- Facelifted the default color schemes
- Minor convenience tweaks: global zooming with Alt modifier key, toggling mini-map mode with a click at scroller's free area, transposing by perfect fifth or equivalent with Control + Shift + Up/Down hotkeys
New in Helio Workstation 3.6 (May 24, 2021)
- Fixed VST3 plugins showing black screen and made minor improvements in instrument management
- Fixed loading the invalid audio settings (which caused issues when using JACK)
- Fixed the audio setting page not always updating correctly
- Many minor UI tweaks: made "move notes" menus more convenient so that closer clips are shown first, fixed tooltips in the chord tool, fixed updating with the editable scope in velocity map, fixed the pen tool behavior on mobile platforms
New in Helio Workstation 3.5 (Apr 19, 2021)
- Disabled all network-related features on mobile platforms
- Added two UI flags for better control over mouse wheel behavior, notably for using mouse wheel for panning instead of zooming by default
- Added UI option to disable most of the editor animations
- Added UI flag to change the bottom mini-map appearance (toggled by B hotkey)
- Added tooltips to sidebar buttons
- UI improvements: fixed the pattern roll not updating with time signature changes, prettied up the cut point marks for the knife tool and note resizers on mobile platforms
- Implemented duplicating automation tracks in the pattern roll
- Fixed the project length being calculated incorrectly for rendering
- Fixed font scanning so the app shouldn't freeze on the very first run
New in Helio Workstation 3.3 (Dec 27, 2020)
- Added initial support for custom temperaments, the default list includes 22-EDO and 31-EDO; added commands to switch temperament or convert a piece into any other temperament
- Added keyboard mapping page for instruments, allowing to overcome the limits of MIDI 1.0 for microtonal music, or just to re-map any key for whatever purposes
- Forgive me father, for I have synthed: removed the built-in piano samples to reduce binary size (my OCD appreciates this immensely), and added a simple sine-like synth which works in any n-tone equal temperament out of the box; it sucks, but hopefully it will be improved in future
- Added a command to switch to the most visible track/clip in the viewport, hotkey F3
- Fixed note previewing for some instruments: now it sends note-off events after a delay
- Minor UI tweaks: made animations a but shorter and sharper, fixed several focus issues when deleting tracks, the resizable edge in note components now depends on the note width
New in Helio Workstation 3.2 (Oct 21, 2020)
- Added tempo dialog with "tap tempo" control, invoked either by clicking at tempo track nodes, or by hitting "Set one tempo" menu item in project->refactor menu or tempo track context menu
- Fixed the old and super annoying rows tiling bug in OpenGL mode
- Context menus in the sequencer are now only available via long right-click: instant rclick menu often gets in the way when misclicking / trying to switch to another track
- Playback: will compute states of all present CC automations at the playhead position and apply them when playback starts, which helps a lot if you use pedal tracks or similar automations
- Orchestra pit: if some instrument hasn't loaded properly (e.g. plugin file missing), then the last valid instrument settings will be preserved in hope that it can be loaded correctly in the next launches; invalid instruments are shown as greyed out in the orchestra pit page, they also can be deleted, or made valid by adding a plugin node
- Key signature dialog: right-click on any key will play the key
- Lots of UI updates: tidied up the project info page and the dashboard, updated the colours list and the breadcrumbs control
New in Helio Workstation 3.1 (Sep 23, 2020)
- Fix iOS deployment script.