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Transcribe! Changelog

What's new in Transcribe! 9.40.0

Jan 3, 2024
  • We have reorganised the menus.

New in Transcribe! 9.30.2 (Jul 28, 2023)

  • Fix a minor bug.

New in Transcribe! 9.30.1 (Jul 11, 2023)

  • Fix some minor issues.

New in Transcribe! 9.30.0 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • Added support for separate Stem files (i.e. stem files in multiple separate files, as opposed to multiple sound tracks in a single file which we have supported for some time). Accessed via the Stem Files command on the File menu. If you don't know what this means then you probably don't need it, but bring up the Manage Stem Files dialog and press the Help button if you want to find out.
  • In the Keyboard Shortcuts and MIDI Shortcuts dialogs you can now sort the list by command category or command name as well as by keystroke or midi command as before.
  • We now have a "Recent Folders" submenu on the File menu, making it easy to load files from folders which you have used recently for sound or transcription files.
  • The Volume slider in the lower toolbar now has a text panel readout showing 0 - 100.
  • If the current EQ corresponds to a preset then we now show a message in the EQ page of the Fx window to say so.
  • When editing the text of a text block you can now use shift-enter in the text box to end the dialog as if you had pressed OK.
  • Mac: some minor fixes to keyboard shortcuts, e.g. the "Clear" key can now be used (the key to the left of the "=" key on the number keypad). And also fixed a weird bug using the asterisk key as a shortcut with a German keyboard. And restored the standard Command-comma shortcut for Preferences.
  • The percent speed slider in the lower toolbar now displays decimal places in the text! (why didn't it always?). (This is if you have typed a number with decimal places in the Speed page of the Fx window)
  • The "Sound File Info" window is now called the "Transcription Info" window, and we have removed the "Open from this folder" buttons because they are no longer needed - use "Recent Folders" instead.
  • The commands EQPreset01 - EQPreset09 are now called EQPreset1 - EQPreset9 for consistency with other numbered commands. If you have programmed a keyboard shortcut for any of these you will need to use the Keyboard Shortcuts command to set it to the new name, sorry.
  • Various other minor changes and bug fixes.

New in Transcribe! 9.30 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • Added support for separate Stem files (i.e. stem files in multiple separate files, as opposed to multiple sound tracks in a single file which we have supported for some time), and various other improvements.

New in Transcribe! 9.25.1 (Mar 22, 2023)

  • Version 9.25.1 for Windows was released 22 March 2023 to fix a couple of minor issues.

New in Transcribe! 9.25 (Mar 20, 2023)

  • If the Transcribe! main window is wide enough then we stretch the speed slider and allow up to 200% speed, and we add a cents (hundredths of a semitone) slider in addition to the semitones slider. Of course it has always been possible to get these effects in the audio effects window.
  • We have overhauled the keyboard shortcuts system. We now allow the previously hard-wired shortcuts (like F1 and '.' and 'M' etc) to be reprogrammed just like any other keystroke, and if a menu command corresponds to a keyboard shortcut then we display the shortcut on the menu as an accelerator (in the past we only displayed those hard-wired ones). Also we now distinguish between some keystrokes which we used to regard as identical, e.g. PageUp/Down on the main keyboard, and PageUp/Down on the Num keypad. If you have programmed a shortcut for one of those keys then you may need to reprogram it if you want it to work for the other one of the pair.
  • We have added a "Quick setup for pedals which pretend to be keyboards" button in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog with ready-made setups for 1-button, 2-button, and 3-button pedals, and the Vidami 5-button pedal. The Vidami pedal is specifically designed for musicians, it has controls for switching between different speeds and different loops, and can trigger ten commands not five, because each button generates a different character for a tap and for a longer press.
  • Some new commands, useful with pedals. You will need to program a keyboard shortcut if you want to use them: SpeedButtonCycleLtoR & SpeedButtonCycleRtoL to cycle through the speed buttons. Also PlayCueToggle & PlayReviewToggle needed for the Vidami pedal, and if you want to do Cue & Review using global shortcuts on Windows (which do not produce a key-up event).
  • In the keyboard shortcut & MIDI shortcut dialogs you will see a new option at the bottom: "Change the keystroke for a shortcut which already exists" and "Change the MIDI controller for a shortcut which already exists". These enable you to take an existing programmed shortcut and change the command which triggers it (instead of deleting the old shortcut and creating a new one).
  • "Display as Mono" is now on the View menu where it always should have been, instead of being a Preference. This means that it is now saved in your transcription file. You can still set a Preference for newly loaded sound files by using Preferences - New Windows - "Set defaults from current window".
  • Added a metronome clicks on/off switch on the Misc page of the Fx window and on the Play menu, and you can create a shortcut for the PlayClicksToggle command if you want. See the Help for the Misc page for more info.
  • Added a command on the Play menu for switching loop delay on/off, and you can create a shortcut for the PlayLoopDelayToggle command if you want. The amount of delay is set on the Preferences - Playback page.
  • The "Speed Up" command (Play menu) now saves its settings between sessions, like a Preference.
  • Various other minor changes and bug fixes.

New in Transcribe! 9.21 (May 6, 2022)

  • Fixes some minor bugs.

New in Transcribe! 9.20 (Feb 27, 2022)

  • Windows: we now include GStreamer as part of xscsetup.exe, not requiring a separate install. We already did this for the Mac in version 9.1.
  • MIDI: we now offer another way of using continuous controllers, where you can "Select Response Type" - "Commands". This means that Transcribe! commands can be generated every time a specific value is seen from the control. This is useful with controllers that have a "relative" or "endless" mode. Click the Help button in the relevant dialog for more info.
  • We now allow Import/Export of EQ presets (to a text file). This is for transferring presets to a different computer. Also you can now rename EQ presets, which wasn't possible before.
  • New command "Fit Text Zone Height" on the Text menu. It adjusts the window height so that all the text blocks are shown.
  • Mac: if you have transcription windows open in different Spaces, then pressing the Fx button will show the Fx window in the Space you are on (rather than switching to the Space where the Fx window already was).
  • New command TextBlockNewCurrent which places it at the current point always. You will need to program a keyboard shortcut to use it.
  • Various other minor changes and bug fixes.

New in Transcribe! 9.10 (Jun 5, 2021)

  • Changes:
  • Mac: we now have a native build for Apple Silicon (M1 processor) machines, which means you have to choose the right version. In fact the Intel version will also run on Apple Silicon machines but obviously you get better performance with the Apple Silicon version. ALSO we now include GStreamer as part of the Transcribe! Mac download. This has the advantage of convenience and of avoiding confusion about which GStreamer version to use with which Transcribe! version. The only drawback is that the download is bigger: 50 MB (Intel) or 43 MB (Apple Silicon).
  • By popular request, you can now have whatever speed buttons you want (in the range from 5% to 200%), in the upper toolbar. See Preferences - Toolbar for how.
  • CPU usage while playing is now somewhat less, but you can make it lower still by selecting "Reduced CPU" in Preferences - General. This doesn't affect the audio or video, it merely reduces the frame rate of screen redrawing, meaning that scrolling of the waveform or movement of the play position indicator will be less smooth. This is helpful if you are using your laptop on battery power, or want to stop the fan running.
  • We introduced a change in 9.00 which was that maximized transcription windows (e.g. double-click the title bar) would be restored to normal (non maximized) size when you switch transcriptions. This proved to be unpopular so we have now returned to the old way which is that they stay maximized.
  • Metronome clicks: fixed a bug which was, in the last version clicks only worked properly when play speed was 100% !
  • We can now read "mogg" Ogg Vorbis files (multi track Ogg Vorbis audio).
  • New command on the View menu to "Show All Sound Tracks" (for media files with multiple sound tracks).
  • Changing the soundtrack in the Sound File Info window now changes the actual soundtrack in the View.
  • Two-finger pinch & zoom on trackpads, for zooming the waveform, previously worked on some combinations of OS and trackpad but not all. It now works on rather more devices, let me know if it doesn't work on yours (if your trackpad does work for pinch & zoom in other applications).
  • New commands MarkerNewSectionCurrent, MarkerNewMeasureCurrent, MarkerNewBeatCurrent which place the new marker at the current point (red triangle) always.
  • New commands for 10-second selection adjustments (previously 5 was the biggest). You will need to program keyboard shortcuts to use these.
  • The "Export Text Blocks" command has been renamed as "Export Markers and Text Blocks" and moved from the Text menu to the File menu.
  • Various other minor changes.

New in Transcribe! 9.00 (Mar 26, 2021)

  • For this release I've bumped the version number to 9 because there are some substantial changes here, and because we were running out of 8.x version numbers.
  • The Windows version is now 64-bit and therefore requires 64-bit Windows 10. Also if you want to use GStreamer with Transcribe! (for viewing video, and other things) then you will need to install the 64-bit version of GStreamer which we provide at www.seventhstring.com/resources/gstreamer.html. And don't forget to delete the old GStreamer version before installing the new one, as explained on that page.
  • We will keep version 8.80.1 available for those few people still running 32-bit Windows 10.
  • The Mac version requires macOS 11 on Intel or Apple Silicon. We will keep version 8.75.2 available for people running macOS 10.15 or earlier.
  • The Linux version is now 64-bit only, see the Download page on the website for details. We will keep version 8.80 available for people running 32-bit Linux. I know from the download statistics on the website that very few people are running 32-bit Linux these days.
  • As usual, it is free to existing users.
  • Changes:
  • We now support media files that have multiple sound tracks (e.g. in different languages). Transcribe! will load all the sound tracks and you can select which one you want on the View menu. It has always been possible to have multiple views of a sound file by using the Split command on the View menu and this now becomes especially useful as you can have multiple views with each view showing a different sound track.
  • When you save a transcription (xsc) file, we now save the state of all your views (if you have used the Split command and have multiple views) instead of just the currently active one.
  • The "Reload last transcription at launch" Preferences option is now called "Reload open windows at launch" because that's what it now does. It loads all of the transcriptions that were open when you last shut down the app, instead of just the most recent one. On the Mac this also applies to when you shut down the computer and it asks whether to re-open windows when logging back in.
  • We now save the window size when you save a transcription file. I don't know why we didn't always do this.
  • With GStreamer we can now read various media files that didn't work before, particularly webm files.
  • On videos we can now display subtitles in the usual way, overlayed on the video. This applies to "integral" subtitle tracks from within the video, and also external subtitle files (e.g. srt files). This may not be very relevant to musical transcription, but not everyone is using Transcribe! for music only. This feature is accessed via the View menu of the Video Viewer.
  • On Windows if you open a track on an audio CD then it will now copy the track to a temporary file, which works much better than playing it directly from the CD as we used to. We've also removed the "Copy sound file" command which was mainly for copying tracks from CD. If you want to use Transcribe! to copy a track from a CD then you can load the the track and "Export sound file".
  • A new option in Preferences: "Paused playback point follows selection" meaning that if you are paused and you adjust the selection or current point in any way then the paused playback point will be moved to the start of the selection. This is useful for people who want to use the paused point as their "current point".
  • New commands for adjusting selection by 500ms and 30ms. You would need to program a keyboard shortcut to use them. The idea about 30ms is that with a video this is more or less frame-forwards and frame-backwards, depending on the exact frame rate of the video.
  • Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.80.0 (Nov 12, 2020)

  • In terms of features this is a minor update, however on the Mac it is the first version to specifically target macOS 11 (Big Sur). We will keep version 8.75.2 available for people running earlier versions of macOS.
  • The Windows version requires Windows 10.
  • The Mac version requires macOS 11. We will keep version 8.75.2 available for people running macOS 10.15 or earlier.
  • For the Linux version, see the Download page on the website for details.
  • As usual, it is free to existing users.
  • Changes:
  • Video: when you drag the slider in the Play Controls toolbar of the Video Viewer it sets the current point. But now, if you drag with the control key pressed (command key on Mac) then it will play from the selected point without changing the current point or selection. This is analagous to control-click (command-click on Mac) on the waveform of the main window, which also plays from that point without changing the selection.
  • Pedals: we are now compatible with the IN-USB-2 version 15 foot pedal. See here for more information.
  • mp3 files with data errors: we should now be able to read these in their entirety, instead of stopping at the point where the error is.
  • Added more speeds to the pop-up menu you get when you right-click (control-click on Mac) the speed buttons in the upper toolbar.
  • New commands SpeedPlus5/SpeedMinus5: Increase/Decrease speed by 5%. You would need to program a keyboard shortcut to use them.
  • Fixed an obscure bug reading marker positions from version 6 xsc files. Very few people have any xsc files that are so old.
  • Mac: drag-n-drop from the Music app should now work better. It used to be necessary sometimes to "Show in Finder" and then drag the track from Finder. However you can still only drag-n-drop tracks which are actually present on your hard disk.
  • Mac: fixed a problem loading files from pCloud file storage, where the filename has non-ascii characters.
  • Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.75.2 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • This removes one of the features added in 8.75 which turned out to be a bad idea - see the release notes for 8.75 for details. And it fixes (I hope) a bug which could cause the names of MIDI devices to be displayed as blank.

New in Transcribe! 8.74 (Jul 30, 2019)

  • Various improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.73 (Apr 8, 2019)

  • Main new features are metronome clicks and scrubbing.

New in Transcribe! 8.72 (Mar 25, 2019)

  • Main new feature is Undo/Redo for marker and text block operations.

New in Transcribe! 8.71.1 (Jan 24, 2018)

  • This is a very minor change, the only difference is that the license agreement is displayed before doing the install rather than afterwards.

New in Transcribe! 8.71.0 (Jan 5, 2018)

  • This release has some significant enhancements, and some bug fixes.
  • Changes:
  • We've added a new feature, the "Loop Line", which appears in the main transcription window. "Show Loop Line" on the View menu will display the "Loop Line" above the profile and also in the Navigation Bar if this is shown. The loop line displays the same positions and loops that you see on the Misc page of the Fx window, but it can be more convenient to access them this way. You can click the loop line to select a loop or right-click (control-click on Mac) to create, edit, and delete loops (using a popup menu).
  • New command LoopStoreInsert - this stores the current position and selection as a loop in the list on the Misc page of the Fx window. It creates a new loop and inserts it in sorted order into the existing list of loops. The "New Loop From Selection" command in the popup menu of the Loop Line uses this command, but you can also program a keyboard command if you want to.
  • You can now use the mouse wheel for scrolling the list of stored loops on the Misc page of the Fx window.
  • Optional fat play position indicator for better visibility. See Preferences - Playback.
  • The Speed Up command on the Play menu can now be told to measure in seconds instead of in repeats. This means that you spend an equal amount of time at each speed, rather than having an equal number of repeats at each speed.
  • We've added a compressor/limiter to prevent 16-bit overload distortion. It's on by default, in Preferences - Playback. When compression is operating, it will appear as a red line under the volume slider in the lower toolbar.
  • Added a "Reposition this Window" command on the Window menu, for if the window is too big, or off screen, or whatever.
  • Removed the click at start of notes played on Transcribe's piano keyboard.
  • Raised the limit on script file size from 100kB to 1MB - yes someone complained it was too low!
  • Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.70.0 (Jun 16, 2017)

  • This release is fairly minor, but is needed to fix a significant bug sometimes affecting video export, and also a Linux issue.
  • Changes:
  • Video Export: fixed bug causing some video exports to have a weird warbly sound (actually caused by excessive audio compression).
  • Mac: although Transcribe! 8.6 abandoned many obsolete technologies, there was one which slipped through the net. We have now abandoned the Carbon Component Manager for hosting Audio Units (deprecated since OS 10.11), in favour of the current AudioUnit API's.
  • Added a Preference (off by default) to go to sleep after a specified number of minutes of inactivity to reduce power consumption. Once sleeping, you may find that Transcribe! will not respond to some events such as pedals, until you click on the window to wake it up. Note the Help Viewer and Video Viewer windows also use processing power and are not affected by this feature.
  • When you use <spacebar> in the Fx window to bring the main window to the front, it will now trigger the command currently configured for the spacebar. Previously it always triggered PlaySpacebar, which would be wrong if you had changed the command triggered by the spacebar.
  • New command PlaySpacebarDelayStart which will start playback after a delay, to give you time to prepare yourself before playback starts. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it - see the Help for "Playback start delay" in Preferences - Playback.
  • New command RecentFilesClearNoVeto (you will need to program a keyboard command to use it).
  • Linux: we would crash if your distro defaults to the Wayland compositor (because we require X11). This should now be fixed as we request the X11 back end regardless of what the default might be. This applies, e.g, to Fedora 25.

New in Transcribe! 8.64.0 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • This is a bugfix release to fix issues reported in version 8.62.

New in Transcribe! 8.63.0 (Aug 26, 2016)

  • Windows: mp3 files which used to load instantly were taking a few seconds to load. They should now be back to their usual rapid load speed.
  • Fixed anomalies in directions of scrolling, particularly when using sideways two-finger scrolls on a touchpad, and when using "Scroll direction: natural" on a Mac.
  • Affecting only a small number of people: Mac & 64-bit Linux would produce a "wxWidgets Debug Alert" at launch (caused by faulty data in the Preferences file). Should be fixed.

New in Transcribe! 8.62.0 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • The biggest single change in this new version is the adoption of GStreamer on Windows & Mac, and the abandonment of QuickTime. This means that on both Windows & Mac you will need to download GStreamer if you want to handle video, but I hope that video handling will be improved. In the past I've often had emails from people telling me that a video plays jerkily, and I have to advise them to use video editing software to save the video in a different format. This works but is not ideal. With GStreamer I hope that many videos will play better, but also Transcribe!'s Video Export command now works in a quite different way. Regardless of the original format of the video, Video Export will always save in a format which I hope is portable and will play smoothly in Transcribe! (mp4 with H264 video and aac audio, with frequent iframes, and a bitrate similar to the original). So now if you have a video which plays jerkily, the solution is to use the Video Export command to create a copy of it, and then load that instead. Also the Video Export command used to be available on Windows & Mac only, but is now available on Linux too.
  • With GStreamer you can now load some sound & video file formats which wouldn't load before, such as Flash Video (flv), and Windows Media (wmv, wma) on the Mac.
  • With GStreamer you can export sound files in a variety of different compressed formats such as m4a, mp3, ogg. See Preferences - Export.
  • Fixed bug where loading a file in a script with "Auto play on load" turned on caused the script to abort.
  • When you open a transcription file which uses a sound file which cannot be found (because it's been moved or deleted), T! will look in the location of the most recent sound file opened to see if it can find it there instead, and if it's there then T! will offer you this to see if you want it. This can be a time-saver if you have moved a folder full of sound files to a different location, or a different machine. If it still doesn't find it then it will immediately bring up the Import Sound File dialog.
  • Windows: we no longer support reading any media files protected by DRM (digital rights management). This might be a step backwards but my impression is that DRM is not much used for audio these days (Amazon & iTunes don't use it), it's more for things like Netflix.
  • New command on Markers menu to equal-space selected markers : see the Help for details.
  • New commands TimestampCopyCurrentPoint & TimestampCopyPlayingPoint which copy the timestamp of the current point or the playing/paused point so you can paste it elsewhere. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it. It's under the "Markers and Navigation" category.
  • New WindowVideoToFront command. Brings the video window to the front, though depending on OS it may not really bring it to the front, it may merely cause the taskbar or dock icon for the video window to flash, asking for attention. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it.
  • New command PlayFromMousePointer. This will play from the place where the mouse pointer is, without actually needing to touch the mouse, and without changing your current position or selection. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it.
  • New command SelectionMakeAll (select whole track). You will need to program a keyboard command to use it.
  • New command PlaySelectionDelayStart (play, with a delay before starting). The amount of delay is set in Preferences - Playback - "Playback start delay" (which affects only this one command). See the Help for this Preferences item for more info about how to use it. You will need to program a keyboard command to use it.
  • In response to a request, I was going to add a command which would create a new text block and immediately start editing it, until I realised that you can already do this by programming a keyboard command as OnPress: TextBlockNewSilent, OnRelease:TextBlockActiveEdit
  • Piano notes no longer play when side-to-side dragging the piano keyboard.
  • Added the note frequencies table to the Help.
  • Increased maximum number of transcriptions shown in Window menu to 32
  • Horizontal zoom using control-arrow (command-arrow on Mac) or the menu commands will now hold the current point (red triangle) in place if it is on screen (rather than the point in the centre of the display as before).
  • New "Check for Updates" command on the Help menu.
  • Many other minor bugfixes and improvements.

New in Transcribe! 8.61.0 (Aug 1, 2016)

  • The most important thing about this release is the move from QuickTime to GStreamer on Windows & Mac.

New in Transcribe! 8.41.0 (Sep 29, 2014)

  • This is a bugfix release to fix some minor but irritating issues that have cropped up due to changes Apple have been making in OS 10.9 and the forthcoming 10.10.

New in Transcribe! 8.40.0 (Feb 11, 2014)

  • There are no massive new features here, but a number of small improvements and fixes:
  • Export Split Sound/Video : there is now a "Measure marker ends split track" checkbox. It used to be the case that a measure marker would always end a split track but this can be a nuisance if you have already placed lots of measure markers.
  • Marker dragging: if you hold down the command key (control, on Windows/Linux) as you release the mouse button then you can move multiple markers. If there is a selection and you drag a marker which is in that selection, then you will drag just the markers in that selection. Otherwise you drag them all.
  • There is now a separate volume control for cue/review in Preferences - Playback. Set the slider to maximum to get the same as the normal playback volume. However it is often preferable to have cue/review be a bit quieter.
  • Timeline - added finer divisions than one second, when there is room.
  • Added Preferences - General - Mouse Wheel Sensitivity setting. This is particularly useful with the Mac "magic mouse" which can be hyper-sensitive to the mouse wheel sometimes. When editing the text of a text block, you now get the correct font, the same font that it will be displayed with.
  • Video Viewer:
  • Added "Vertical Flip" to the Video Viewer (on the Video Viewer "View" menu). This is for guitarists and possibly others: Vertical Flip can present you with the same view of the fingerboard that you have yourself when playing : when you watch a guitarist playing, the highest pitched string is the lowest in your field of view. But when you play and look at the fingerboard, the highest pitched string is the highest in your field of view.
  • In the Video Viewer if you held down a keyboard shortcut (which you might well do e.g. with 'c'ue or 'r'eview) then you could get a backlog of keystrokes which would take a while to clear. This should now be fixed.
  • Some videos have always played jerkily and the best solution is to change the video encoding. However I hope some of these problem videos may now play better than before.

New in Transcribe! 8.31.0 (Nov 8, 2012)

  • Export of compressed sound files (by popular request)
  • When exporting or recording sound files, you can now choose compressed
  • sound formats (instead of only offering uncompressed wav or aiff as we
  • did before). On Windows & Mac we use m4a, which means that on Windows
  • you will need to install QuickTime (it's a free download from Apple).
  • On Linux we default to Ogg Vorbis but this can be changed.
  • See Preferences - Export, for compression settings.
  • And see the FAQ for comments about why m4a rather than mp3.
  • Video Viewer : the "Zoom" menu is renamed as "View", and on it you will find a new "Mirror" command which flips left-right. This can be handy e.g. with saxophone or guitar, where it puts the instrument and player's fingers the same way round as your own, as if you were looking at yourself in a mirror.
  • Recent Files - when you select one but it doesn't exist, we remove it from the Recent Files list.
  • The "Speed Up" command:
  • fixed glitch where it would stop briefly each time it went around now works properly with "Playback loop delay" (Preferences).
  • bug fixed : if you were already playing then SpeedUp would not take immediate effect. Now it does.
  • added keyboard shortcuts to the 4 spin controls in the dialog.
  • you can now pause and resume the speed up sequence (using the Pause button in the lower toolbar, or the ',' key). Though the use of any other command will still abandon the sequence.
  • You can now pause & resume any script without aborting it, using the Pause button in the lower toolbar, or the ',' key).
  • Though the use of any other command will still abandon the script.
  • New command ScriptWaitLoops(int), makes the script wait until a
  • specified number of loops have been played. Can only be used in a script.
  • If a transcription has a not-found sound file then if you drag-n-drop or actually open by any means) a sound file, Transcribe! offers the option to import it into the current transcription rather than starting a new transcription.
  • Export and Import Foot Pedal Commands (File menu).
  • These commands are very useful if you want to have different pedal setups for different purposes. With these commands you can save multiple different setups to files named e.g. "speech_pedals.txt" and "music_pedals.txt" or whatever, and then switch between them by importing the appropriate one.
  • Also, the Export & Import commands for shortcuts are no longer directly on the File menu, instead they are now buttons in the relevant dialog (e.g. "Keyboard Commands..." is on the File menu, and if you select it then you will find "Export" and "Import" buttons in the resulting dialog).
  • You can now save Fx settings with loops on the Misc page of the Fx
  • window. Press the Help button on that page for more info. This means you can, e.g, have a loop button not only set the position and length of the loop, but also the speed at which it is to be played (or the volume, or any other Fx setting you want).
  • Improved (less cryptic) reporting of global keyboard shortcuts in the "Keyboard Commands" dialog.
  • If you drag the splitter to hide the piano keyboard, save the transcription, then later load into a window of a different size, there was a tendency for the piano to partially reappear. Should now be fixed.
  • As you may know, keyboard shortcuts don't work in the Fx window due to the confusion this would cause, as the Fx window also uses keystrokes for its own purposes. However by popular request I have relented in the case of since this keystroke is not needed in the Fx window, and it is one of the most commonly used keystrokes for starting and stopping playback. So now, the spacebar can be used in the Fx window : it will bring the current transcription window to the front (like the key) and will start or pause playback in the usual way. Note this does mean that you can't type a space in the "At" and "Selected" boxes of the Misc page, but you don't need to.
  • When selecting which command to attach to a shortcut, you can now
  • double-click the listbox.
  • Export Split Sound File : there were various oddities that could happen if you used explicitly named section markers to name the split tracks, and if you used characters that are not allowed in filenames.
  • This should now be fixed, and we replace illegal characters with
  • underscores.
  • It has always been the case that tab/shift-tab activates the next/previous text block, but would do nothing if there was not already an active text block. Now, if there is no active text block, tab/shift-tab will activate the text block after/before the playing, or paused, or current point.
  • A section or measure marker with blank text now has an empty box
  • instead of no box.
  • Video Viewer : fixed bug where, when loading a second video, it would sometimes get confused and end up with two viewers running, and a failure to load the video.
  • Resetting bar numbering with e.g. "(99)" now works whether or not "number measures continuously".
  • Marker auto subdivision: the default division option is now 4
  • instead of 2.
  • Shift-clicking a marker now extends the current selection to the marker, and then shift-dragging naturally brings the selection with it.
  • When Quitting : the "Do you want to save changes" dialog, if you have multiple transcriptions with unsaved changes : there is now a check box that says "Apply this choice to all remaining unsaved transcriptions?".
  • On the Fx EQ page, the ranges for some of the preset instrument EQs have been extended at the top end. You'll need to press the Defaults button on that page to get the altered settings.
  • New commands which will place new markers at each end (hence "EE" in the name) of the current selection. MarkerNewSectionEE, MarkerNewMeasureEE and MarkerNewBeatEE. (You'll have to create keyboard shortcuts if you want to use these).

New in Transcribe! 8.20 (Aug 29, 2011)

  • Piano Roll view of note guesses (by popular request):
  • This displays note guesses from left to right, time-aligned with the waveform view. On some kinds of material this can be very useful, on other material not so useful. You can also get a popup menu showing chord guesses at any point, and choose a chord guess to insert as a new text block in the text zone. There is a new "PianoRoll" main menu and you can read all about it in Help - Menus - Piano Roll.
  • You can now adjust a selection merely by clicking near the end, or drag the whole selection around by clicking in the middle:
  • Press the shift key if you don't want this to happen. The cursor shape will tell you what's going to happen. Also, double-click will always collapse the selection regardless. This all seems rather more intuitive to me, than the old way when you had to use the shift key to extend a selection.
  • Gradual speed up (by popular request):
  • You'll find this on the Play menu. This is for people who are using Transcribe! for play-along practice. It causes Transcribe! to play repeatedly with gradually increasing speed.
  • Tweaked handling of QuickTime videos so some videos may now play and export which didn't work before.
  • Control + mouse wheel now zooms in and out, like many other apps.
  • Fit Whole File now remembers the previous horizontal zoom and position, and restores it when "fit whole file" is turned off.
  • Fixed bug in scroll bar scaling going wrong when using Windows 7 "Aero resize".
  • When closing an unsaved transcription, the "Would you like to save" dialog is now of the standard type ("Save" / "Don't Save") with the standard shortcuts.
  • New commands PlayFromStart, PlayFromNamedMarker, PlayFromSeconds for playing from the specified place without changing the current point or selection. These are for configuring as keyboard shortcuts or in scripts if you want to.
  • You can now adjust the sliders in the lower toolbar by clicking on the icons at either end of the slider.
  • New option in Preferences - Fret Display, whether to show fret info when you right-click the Piano.
  • New option for Text Blocks : adjust text block width to fit the text.
  • You can right-click on the chord guessing box in the spectrum view, for a popup menu to insert chords into the text zone.
  • It could sometimes happen that rapid twiddling of the mousewheel, or of a midi continuous controller, could cause a logjam of messages to build up, resulting in a delay while they were handled. This should be ok now.
  • Various other minor bugfixes and changes.
  • The price has been reduced to $39 (was $50)

New in Transcribe! 8.10 (Aug 5, 2010)

  • It has video export, font selection in text blocks, and many other small improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 8.00.3 (Dec 9, 2009)

  • A whole new layout and look, along with various improvements to sound file handling, some new commands, and various other improvements and bugfixes.

New in Transcribe! 7.51 (Feb 14, 2009)

  • Improved loop-store capability, Video Viewer "always on top" mode (on Windows), dB calibration lines, "Time Line", many other small improvements.