What's new in Stargate DAW 24.02.2
Jan 29, 2024
- Hardware Dialog: Gracefully ignore audio device names that cannot be decoded
- to UTF-8. Fixes an issue that prevented Stargate from being used on some computers.
New in Stargate DAW 24.02.2 Alpha 2 (Jan 25, 2024)
- Hardware Dialog: Gracefully ignore audio device names that cannot be decoded to UTF-8, instead of crashing.
New in Stargate DAW 24.02.2 Alpha 1 (Jan 24, 2024)
- Hardware Dialog: Gracefully ignore audio device names that cannot be decoded to UTF-8, instead of crashing.
New in Stargate DAW 24.02.1 (Jan 21, 2024)
- Piano Roll: Make resizing multiple notes consistent with other Stargate event editors. Instead of forcing all selected notes to the same length, resize relative to their original length.
- Piano Roll: New note parameter: Pitch. Sharpen or flatten each note within 1.0 to -1.0 semitones
- Piano Roll: Fix SHIFT+drag resize being limited to a minimum of 1x quantize size, now limited to a minimum of a 128th note
- Piano Roll: New action: Find Keys and Scales.
- Find all possible keys and scales that the notes in a sequencer item could be a part of. Create a melody by ear, then find potential keys/scales to build the melody around.
- Piano Roll: Add new scale: All. Root note + all white notes
- Transport: More consistent icon sizes and alignment between buttons
- Transport: Replace Host combobox with a toolbar icon
- Sequencer: Fix cases where deselected items can become selected again .deb package: Fix for Ubuntu 23.10
- Welcome Screen: Better readability and style for the project history list
- Fix crash when attempting to run a 2nd instance of Stargate, before the
- "Already running, you must stop the first instance" message can be shown
- Linux AppImage: Fix regression where "Install to start menu" action no longer worked
New in Stargate DAW 24.01.1 (Jan 2, 2024)
- Plugin Rack, menu button: Move to left side, use icon, for consistency with other tabs
- Audio Items: SHIFT+drag to position, resize and stretch freely without quantize
- Piano Roll: SHIFT+drag to position or resize notes freely without quantize Piano Roll: Fix ALT+click drawing not moving the item + hung note if previewing
- Panic Button: Replace weird icon with slightly less weird icon
New in Stargate DAW 23.12.1 (Nov 26, 2023)
- Tracks: Move the plugins button out of the menu onto the track panel
- Track Menu Panel: Better layout and cosmetic improvements
- Sequencer: Fix Select{Right,Left,All} actions not working if right-clicking
- on an empty space instead of on an item
- Main Track: Fix missing controls on track panel
- Message Box: Fix label not showing in some cases
- Item Editors: Move horizontal scrollbars to the top, to match the layout of
- the seqencer
- Item Editor: Hint box improvements
- Preset Manager Widget: Add missing hint box hints for menu
- DAW: Add normalize option to render dialog
- Linux AppImage: Compatibility improvements on many systems
- Linux AppImage: Upgrade to Python 3.11
- More consistent use of fonts and font sizes throughout the application, avoid
- using system fonts and/or sizes to the greatest extent possible
- Hint box: Smaller font, more room for text, some controls have been given
- longer, more detailed hints to use the additional space
- Hint Box: Fix bottom alignment in transport layout being smaller than the top
New in Stargate DAW 23.11.1 (Nov 2, 2023)
- Improved UI performance, reduced UI process CPU usage, faster start up times
- AppImage: Better compatibility on some systems
- Item Editor: New menu action: 'Open Plugin Rack For Item'
- Project Save As Dialog: Add label explaining how it works
New in Stargate DAW 23.09.1 (Sep 11, 2023)
- Item Editor: Fix solo and loop resetting after an editing action
- Item Editor: Clear solo and loop on closing a project
- Fixes a bug where the looped region markers overwrite the previous
- region markers if the project is closed while item editor loop or solo
- engaged.
New in Stargate DAW 23.08.1 (Aug 4, 2023)
- Sequencer: global solo and mute buttons: Now the buttons toggle solo and mute
- on all tracks instead of just clearing it, remembers which tracks were
- previously soloed or muted and can restore the previous settings after
- clearing
- Sequencer: Better icon for horizontal scroll follows playback cursor
- Item editor: Add a button to toggle looping the current item
- Item Editor: Add a button to toggle soloing the track of the current item
- Item Editor: MIDI Channel combobox: Add asterisk next to channels containing
- one or more MIDI events, allows the user to see at a glance which cnannels
- already contain events
- Fix various bugs when closing a project without closing the app and then
- creating/opening another project
New in Stargate DAW 23.07.1 (Jul 22, 2023)
- Sequencer: Glue: If unselected items are between selected items, also glue those. Fixes the previous behavior of gluing as requested and then truncating the items
- Tracks, Items: Fix inconsistency in minimum naming lengths. Require track names to be at least 2 characters, reduce minimum length of an item name to 2 characters to better accomodate Asian languages
- Sequencer: Set as first beat of song: Fix inconsistencies in selected items after the move is complete by clearing the selection
- Transport: logic improvements, fix bugs when doing weird things with the transport buttons
New in Stargate DAW 23.06.1 (May 23, 2023)
- Windows, M1 Mac: Add support for the SBSMS time stretching and pitch shifting algorithm (Linux and Intel Mac already had support for SBSMS). Many fixes and improvements to SBSMS
- Hardware MIDI devices: Fix disconnecting after the output track has plugin changes
- Sequencer: Fix items being unexpectedly deleted during a copy/move operation where they are put in the exact same position as an identical item. This includes just CTRL+clicking one or more selected items
- Tempo Marker: Fix sequencer selection changing after editing
- Update Software Dialog: Close Stargate if the user chooses to download a new version, prevents installer errors when files cannot be replaced because the application is still open
New in Stargate DAW 23.05.3 (May 16, 2023)
- Windows, Linux, MacOS: Fixed many locale-related crashes and other bugs on non-US-English locales. Stargate DAW now works well on all languages and regions that have been tested. The only known issue is that Rubberband time stretching may not work on Windows on files with non-English characters, which we will be working with them to fix later.
- Item Editor: Replace menu buttons with toolbars
- Audio Items: Hide the stretch handle when choosing no time stretching, or an algorithm that does not support stretching
- Windows: Fix project corruption bug when dragging audio files from the project folder into the project
- Song List: Fix various bugs
- Piano Roll: Fix note previewing on wrong track if using ALT+F to switch between 2 items
- Sampler1: Organize MonoFX groups better in automation dropdown
New in Stargate DAW 23.05.2 (May 8, 2023)
- Sequencer: Replace menu button with more intuitive toolbar
- MacOS: Fix keyboard shortcuts not showing in context menus
- Audio Items context menu: New action: Reset Time/Pitch, reset time
- stretching to default un-stretched, un-pitched state
- Wave Editor: Add FX transport button to toggle the plugin rack on or off
- Check for updates: Show the installed and available version numbers
- Linux build, install, packaging: Many fixes and improvements
New in Stargate DAW 23.05.1 (May 1, 2023)
- DAW Render: Fix small amount of extra audio being rendered at the end of the file.
- Sequencer: Fix items starting on the same beat as a tempo marker displaying notes and audio at the incorrect tempo in a project with multiple tempos
- Audio Items: Fix bug where changing the timestretch mode of an already stretched item to Time (Affecting Pitch) would stretch the already stretched file instead of the original, multiplying the stretch factor
- Linux: AppImage: Fix on Fedora 38, possibly others (unknown change in F38 broke library linkage, did not affect F37)
New in Stargate DAW 23.04.2 (Apr 23, 2023)
- Changelog:
- Fix: Regression where offline rendering failed
- Windows: Fix bug where changing the time stretch algorithm of a stretchedaudio file caused the file stretch factor to multiply itself at each change
- Metronome: Fix change in downbeat pattern 1000 beats after the last tempo/tsig marker
- Metronome: Add a keyboard shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+M)
New in Stargate DAW 23.04.1 (Apr 20, 2023)
- DAW: Add a metronome
- AppImage: Revert to PyQt5 from PyQt6. This seems to make it work much more reliably on many Linux distros
- Sequencer, item context menu: New actions, select all items, to left or right of the mouse cursor, for a track.
- Sequencer, automation context menu: New actions, select all, select left, select right for current selected automation parameter in track.
- Linux: rpm, deb packages: Upgrade the build server from Debian 10 to Debian 11. This will result in better quality packages, but will no longer work on pre-2020 era Linux distros.
- Linux: rpm, deb packages: Install everything to /opt/stargate instead of /usr, symlink desktop files in. Cleaner, more self-contained install.
- Compile C code as C17 standard, previously compiled as C11
New in Stargate DAW 23.03.1 (Mar 9, 2023)
- Sequencer timeline context menu: Reorganize into sub-menus
- Sequencer timeline context menu: Various new actions to select all items in the song or a subset based on the position of the right click
- Sequencer timeline context menu, "Set as First Beat of Song": Fix automation not moving with sequencer items
- Tempo/TimeSignature markers: Fix various cosmetic issues in the sequencer and timeline when using markers, especially when doing tempo ranges
- Sequencer automation: Fix cosmetic issues with automation points that are selected
- Minor fixes
New in Stargate DAW 23.02.2 (Feb 28, 2023)
- Fix bug where audio items start/loop at the wrong offset if playback starts in the middle of an audio item and the host sample rate differs from the audio file sample rate
- Fix popping noises on playback looping and tempo changes while playing audio items (only during playback, this did not seem to affect renders)
- CPU/latency optimizations, especially on older/weaker hardware