What's new in SonoBus 1.7.2
Dec 11, 2023
- Made the use of the universal font optional (defaulting to off), because it was causing slowdowns on some systems. Only enable it if you need to have universal language character support.
New in SonoBus 1.7.1 (Nov 30, 2023)
- Added dedicated button on main window for getting to VDO.Ninja group video link (for those who didn't even know it was there!)
- Fixed VDO.Ninja link generator, Open in browser now operates properly (which it never did)
- Fixed font size issue on Windows
- Other minor fixes
New in SonoBus 1.7.0 (Nov 28, 2023)
- Added "Suggest New Group" feature. From the group popup (the button just below Connect showing group info) a new item was added that lets you pick who from the currently connected group you would like to join you in a new group, makes the request and connects you to the new group. If the others accept they will immediately connect to the new group with you. This feature can be used in the situation where you are in a public group, but would like to continue to play/talk with a subset of them in a new private (or public) group, with the least amount of effort.
- Added Reset All Jitter Buffer button (near the bottom next to FX) with keybinding (cmd/ctrl-J)
- Added additional features to the VDO.Ninja link generator, allowing you to create links for both webcam and screenshare usage, which you can use at the same time in multiple browser windows/tabs. Also, an option was added to generate the link so that your content is only pushed, viewing no one... which can be handy if you are using both webcam and screenshare at the same time, and pick one to not view anyone.
- Added LV2 plugin for Linux (could be other platforms too if people request it)
- Added Soundboard volume control and send-to-group controls at the bottom of the Soundboard
- The used font now supports all translated languages, so you can use Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text in names or chat messages, even if the app isn't set for that language. It has fewer other symbols, however.
- Added an option (and made it the default to on) to make the Mute controls in the Input Mixer and the overall input mute at the top be respected when recording yourself. Before the self-recordings would include the input even though they were muted. You can get back to the old way with a new option in the recording options.
- Fixed drag and drop of files onto Soundboard
- Fixed user scrolling area size issue
- Fixed occasional crash on record
New in SonoBus 1.6.2 (Feb 26, 2023)
- Fixed bug with server reconnect that was causing ghost users/groups and other strangeness
- Fixed location of soundboard settings files on some platforms
New in SonoBus 1.6.1 (Jan 18, 2023)
- SonoBus 1.6.1 Release Notes:
- Soundboard: added Play Next as a sample end playback option (along with stop at end, and loop at end), so now you can make a soundboard act like a playlist
- Fix recording file location issue, which broke recording in 1.6.0
- Fix auto-scrolling issue in the Chat panel
- Fix issue when IP blocked person leaves group
- Added some VDO.Ninja link options which further prevent audio use there
- From 1.6.0:
- Added support for private chat messages. Press the dots menu near the bottom right of the chat page to start a private chat with someone in your current connected group.
- Can now drag to reorder samples in a Soundboard
- Improved visibility of actively playing soundboard samples
- Soundboard sample gain now changes immediately when dragging slider
- Added toggle for default numeric hotkey trigger for soundboard
- Added button to apply sample options to all other samples in the current soundboard in the sample editor.
- Added support for VDO.Ninja link generation for the group. Get to it from the group name button near the top. VDO.Ninja is a very flexible free high-quality web-based video streaming system.
- Saves/restores input mixer Mute state
- Added support to save plugin default options (which are used with new instances).
- Added show/hide group password button
- Reconnect to Last Group feature now works properly in a plugin when the UI isn't shown
- If the connection server goes down, now automatically attempts to reconnect to it
- Now hides connected users' IP addresses by default in the receive options popup (lower right of user strip), click the area to show
- Added Block by IP feature, to prevent any user from a certain IP from communicating with you in a group. You can get to that feature by clicking in the Send Quality area popup (lower left of user strip).
New in SonoBus 1.6.0 (Jan 7, 2023)
- Added support for private chat messages. Press the dots menu near the bottom right of the chat page to start a private chat with someone in your current connected group.
- Can now drag to reorder samples in a Soundboard
- Improved visibility of actively playing soundboard samples
- Soundboard sample gain now changes immediately when dragging slider
- Added toggle for default numeric hotkey trigger for soundboard
- Added button to apply sample options to all other samples in the current soundboard in the sample editor.
- Added support for VDO.Ninja link generation for the group. Get to it from the group name button near the top. VDO.Ninja is a very flexible free high-quality web-based video streaming system.
- Saves/restores input mixer Mute state
- Added support to save plugin default options (which are used with new instances).
- Added show/hide group password button
- Reconnect to Last Group feature now works properly in a plugin when the UI isn't shown
- If the connection server goes down, now automatically attempts to reconnect to it
- Now hides connected users' IP addresses by default in the receive options popup (lower right of user strip), click the area to show
- Added Block by IP feature, to prevent any user from a certain IP from communicating with you in a group. You can get to that feature by clicking in the Send Quality area popup (lower left of user strip).
New in SonoBus 1.5.1 (Mar 30, 2022)
- Added new Soundboard feature... try it out by pressing the "grid" button
- Near the top right, next to chat. Soundboards allow you to instantly play
- Different sounds to everyone in a session with multiple playback options.
- You can set up your own samples and organize them into multiple soundboards.
- This is especially useful for podcasting and it is extremely fun in casual
- Calls, or for quick access to backing tracks, etc. Thanks to Sten Wessel
- And Hannah Schellekens for the contribution of this new feature!
- Ighlights FX buttons when reverb sends are active
- Saves state for recently browsed dir location
- Added monitor delay main toggle button in input mixer which turns off/on
- Monitor delay for all input groups at once.
- Add tooltip for long user names
- Shows "not recommended" for the send qualities below 96kbps/ch
- Fix initial sync met to host bug in plugin
- Fix bug with apply to all for recv quality option
- Revert thread priorities to how they were in prior releases (to solve
- Issues discovered on RasbPi systems)
New in SonoBus 1.4.9 (Jan 16, 2022)
- Added metronome option to sync from file playback. This assumes that you
- Manually set the metronome to the correct tempo for the file and that the
- Start of the file is exactly on the beat.
- Fixed MP3 file reading issue on Windows introduced in 1.4.8
New in SonoBus 1.4.6 (Jun 4, 2021)
- Added input reverb effects, which allow you to add reverb to your input channels that get sent out to others (and heard by you). Currently the reverb will only be sent to others when Send Stereo or Send Mono is selected (not Send Multichannel). Find the reverb send level for the input channel group in the FX button popup in the input mixer. The reverb parameters themselves are in the "In Reverb" button at the top of the input mixer.
- Now the reverb buses (both input and output reverb bus) default to be at full level, while the default reverb sends for each channel are all the way down. So if you want reverb on your input (input or monitored), or on a connected user, you will need to turn up the reverb send from the FX (or M.FX).
- Added accessibility support for blind or vision-impaired users on Mac and Windows. There are potential improvements planned for the future, but this is much better than the non-existent support before!
New in SonoBus 1.4.5 (Apr 15, 2021)
- Now makes separate self-record files for each input group
- Added option to record self pre or post FX
New in SonoBus 1.4.4 (Apr 14, 2021)
- Fixed elapsed recording time when only others are recorded
- Fixed self recording so it captures all input channels
- Prevent illegal filenames so that recording doesn't fail
- Fixed initial file playback UI so it correctly restores based on current plugin state
- Updated Spanish and Japanese translation
- Added SonoBusInstrument VST3, which will work in instrument slots on DAWs that limit multi-output support to instruments only
- Added native Apple M1 support for Mac version
New in SonoBus 1.4.3 (Apr 2, 2021)
- Fixed bug when using file playback and recording simultaneously
- Added return-to-start button for file playback (keybinding is 0)
New in SonoBus 1.4.2 (Mar 26, 2021)
- Added Auto Jitter buffer adjust drop rate threshold option
- Prevent user leave/join messages in chat in public groups
- Simplified update check download
- Fixed layout of public group page
- Updated some visual elements (time sliders, etc)
- Updated translations
New in SonoBus 1.4.1 (Mar 24, 2021)
- New Features:
- Multi-channel (>2) support added. Allows you to select any number of active inputs and outputs.
- Input Mixer added to control how the inputs are mixed and grouped for sending and for monitoring. Can now choose to send to others in Mono, Stereo, or Multichannel (all active inputs sent to others). When you are receiving multichannel from others, allows you to choose how to mix them locally, including optional independent volume/pan/mute/solo. It's a lot of new stuff here.
- Input effects are now per channel as configured by grouping
- Full gate/compressor/eq effects now available per user track (and even per channel there if desired)
- You can route remote users to specific outputs (if you have activated them, or are using the plugin in multi-bus capable host)
- Can now insert Audio Unit plugin in "instrument" slots so you can get access to multi-bus outputs on hosts like Logic...
- Added minimal/full view mode choice... to let you hide the statistics areas of connected users for a cleaner look. You can toggle the full view for all, or individually by clicking on the user name
- Recording filenames now include group name
- Added support for MP3 playing on platforms that didn't have it
- Initially mute incoming audio of new connections while they are auto-adjusting jitter buffers until stability is achieved.
- Added Default User Volume level in options (fixed in 1.4.1), which determines the initial volume new connecting users get when they haven't been seen before.
- Text Chat added, for another way to communicate within a group during a session. URLs posted in chat messages can be clicked to open the links in a browser.
- Self-monitoring delay (and backing track delay) options to help overcome latency related rhythmic issues.
- Added Group Latency Match feature
- Added command line options to start sonobus and immediately connect, or to load a saved setup, along with basic "headless" operation mode for power users.
- Initial translation support for several languages... still a work in progress.
- Many bugfixes
- WARNING - using Send Multichannel in a group with users of the older version of the app will crash the old application... this is unfortunate, but also a good incentive for them to update!
New in SonoBus 1.4.0 (Mar 23, 2021)
- New Features:
- Multi-channel (>2) support added Allows you to select any number of active inputs and outputs
- Input Mixer added to control how the inputs are mixed and grouped for sending and for monitoring Can now choose to send to others in Mono, Stereo, or Multichannel (all active inputs sent to others) When you are receiving multichannel from others, allows you to choose how to mix them locally, including optional independent volume/pan/mute/solo It's a lot of new stuff here
- Input effects are now per channel as configured by grouping
- Full gate/compressor/eq effects now available per user track (and even per channel there if desired)
- You can route remote users to specific outputs (if you have activated them, or are using the plugin in multi-bus capable host)
- Can now insert Audio Unit plugin in "instrument" slots so you can get access to multi-bus outputs on hosts like Logic
- Added minimal/full view mode choice to let you hide the statistics areas of connected users for a cleaner look You can toggle the full view for all, or individually by clicking on the user name
- Recording filenames now include group name
- Added support for MP3 playing on platforms that didn't have it
- Initially mute incoming audio of new connections while they are auto-adjusting jitter buffers until stability is achieved
- Added Default User Volume level in options, which determines the initial volume new connecting users get when they haven't been seen before
- Text Chat added, for another way to communicate within a group during a session URLs posted in chat messages can be clicked to open the links in a browser
- Self-monitoring delay (and backing track delay) options to help overcome latency related rhythmic issues
- Added Group Latency Match feature
- Added command line options to start sonobus and immediately connect, or to load a saved setup, along with basic "headless" operation mode for power users
- Initial translation support for several languages still a work in progress
- Many bugfixes
- WARNING - using Send Multichannel in a group with users of the older version of the app will crash the old application this is unfortunate, but also a good incentive for them to update!
New in SonoBus 1.3.2 (Feb 19, 2021)
- Fixed bug where input mute/gain was ignored with only 1 input channel
- Fixed level issue when sending as mono to others
- Fixed clicking/distorted issue when using certain audio buffer sizes, esp on windows. All the tips about having to use 1ms divisible audio buffer sizes was due to this bug... so you shouldn't need to do that anymore.
- Fixed issue when changing user name before connecting to public group
- Added "Sliders snap to mouse click" option, for those who prefer the sliders to jump to the clicked position