jmc escribió:8.5 beta coming up this week. Some of the (+200) updates/fixes/additions :
- Ogun: synthesizer specialized in metallic timbres.
- Gross Beat: beat rearranger effect.
- Autogun: synthesizer based on Ogun.
- Fixed dropping mixer presets onto mixer tracks failing to select the right mixer track when shown at the bottom.
- Fixed crash when closing FL when playlist was shown & toolbars were detached.
- Fixed undocking annoyances in the browser.
- Fixed slow undocking of toolbars in Vista.
- Fixed Vista blur visible when hiding Wave Candy windows.
- Fixed OS error when song was running and returning from Vista's logging window or screensaver, while autoscrolling was on.
- Fixed hang when opening FL's main menu while holding accelerator keys in Vista.
- Fixed bug in Flangus & Flangus in Sytrus.
- Added workaround for missing characters in font used to display old GUI-less VST's.
- Updated timers to Vista-preferred ones.
- Fixed erratic cursor visible for a short time after dragging from browser in Vista.
- CPU meter no longer shows 99% when audio is temporarily suspended (was often reported as a bug).
- Fixed visual bug when detaching windows in Vista.
- Fixed crash when reloading projects through ALT+x shortcut, while a plugin is detached & focused.
- Fixed bug in multipoint envelope processing.
- Fixed crash through weird mouse click combo on the plugin preset buttons.
- Fixed annoyance in browser's 'show only one folder content'.
- Fixed problem when loading Maximus presets made with a specific version.
- Fixed some playlist key combo weirdnesses.
- Fixed not release defaulted to zero for some functions (step edit, piano roll dumps, etc).
- Fixed piano roll flam tool that wasn't starting with the right settings.
- Improved piano roll playback tool (can't miss tiny notes with fast mouse slides anymore).
- Fixed little thing in mixer's menu.
- Step edit mode: improved behavior when going backwards while holding notes.
- EQUO: fixed wrong FX send track display when reloading projects.
- Fixed possible hang in playlist Insert space/Delete space functions.
- FL ReWire: now uses tick position for ppq calculations instead of sample position
- Cancelling audio clip's "fit to tempo" detection dialog now cancels the fitting.
- Edison: snapping to zero-crossing (improved for mono samples) now allows to select edges of sample.
- Maximus: fixed display glitch for bands that are switched off.
- Sytrus: mouse wheel on pitch ratio selectors now behaves better.
- No more problem locating project files over networks.
- FPC: fixed pause point for layer pan and tune knobs
- Wrapper: update interfaceless parameters in the GUI thread instead of the mixer thread
- Wrapper: dropping fxb and fxp files on the title bar of the plugin window and on the step sequencer button now works
- Fixed playlist automation clip display bug.
- Slicex: fixed little declicking glitch for specific cases.
- Fixed problem with hint system in plugins.
- Fixed little stretching glitch in some cases when a downbeat marker is present.
- Fruity Reeverb: store parameter changes in selected program instead of the first one
- Video Player: fixed loading some settings
- Wave Candy: added rounded corners size selector, made Vista blur look better, made preset switching faster.
- Improved multithreaded generator performances.
- Improved audio performances in Windows Vista.
- No one really asked, but auto scrolling state is now saved & restored.
- Updated compiler (D2007), drag&drop component, IPP library to latest versions.
- Added Janko layout to typing-to-piano keyboard option.
- Maximus now significantly faster.
- Plugin picker: thumbnail hint now shows all of the plugin's categories (also selected through arrows or mouse wheel), + other improvements.
- Added multithreaded mixer tracks processing, and moved CPU settings to the audio panel.
- Added global smart disable checkbox & new aligned tick lengths checkbox.
- New debug log in settings window.
- Can now double-click on effects in plugin picker.
- Added multithreading to effects processing.
- Can now drop effect presets onto mixer tracks & channels, mixer track presets onto effect slots and channels, channel & generator presets onto mixer tracks & fx slots.
- Shift+F8 now brings plugin database.
- Automation and Humanizing presets folders relocated to the Scores folder.
- Can now drop automation FSC's onto piano roll (when a controller is selected).
- Added access to Windows file shell menu from browser item menu.
- Added new browser folder icons & new 'Recent files' browser folder.
- Added starting & (approximate) working time information in project info window.
- Controls (in FL & FL plugins) now properly support Vista's window rescaling (font size).
- FL now accepts file drops in copy, move & link modes.
- Alt+drag from browser = force drag in 'link' mode.
- Dropping file onto the 'Open audio editor' shortcut button now opens it in a new audio editor.
- Dropping file in 'move' mode (e.g. from Edison/Slicex/Sytrus) onto browser moves file to browser folder it's dropped on.
- Wave Candy now behaves better when 'Stay on top' & 'On desktop' are off
- Added scrollbar for zooming to Fruity Envelope Controller in key & vel mapping modes.
- New browser 'Sort by -> Group' option to put most important folders on top (sort group in .nfo files).
- Song info window now shows up while loading project.
- New (optional) big hint bar, showing progress more clearly when loading projects or processing lengthy stuff.
- Improved envelope point decimation (used in automation-to-automation clip & Sytrus/Ogun).
- Can now drop audio files onto most envelope editors (does same as audio analysis).
- Playlist now sticks to right edge when browser is resized.
- 'Close all windows' now closes detached windows too, and added 'Close all unfocused windows' option, to keep the focused one open.
- Missing plugin warning (now only once per plugin type) now the same for wrapped VST's.
- Added browser hovering helper for too large items.
- Envelope step editing now works with snap off, with point decimation.
- Added level scaling & point decimation tools to envelope editor (in plugins).
- Shift+mouse wheel to quickly zoom browser.
- Extended browser extra search folders to 30 entries.
- New (fortunately optional) project data folder setting.
- Fruity WaveShaper: gutter is now clickable.
- Playlist Edit->Insert / Delete space now cuts through playlist clips.
- Plugin picker now features categories.
- Enlarged playlist & piano roll time bar, playlist panels are not swappable anymore.
- Piano roll / playlist local menu (F3 or extra mouse button) now lists editing modes.
- FL's audio displays now show proper region purpose colors.
- Right-clicking playlist items no longer deletes them (hold halt to do so). (removed?)
- Playlist: extra mouse button brings clip source selection popup.
- Fixed (I think) infamous invalid playlist clips bug.
- Added random color option for patterns, made playlist clip focus selector update along with default item.
- Added useful colors menu to name edit dialog (right-click color button for random color).
- Audio clips are auto-colored when dropped (& playlist track is auto-colored when clip is dropped on it).
- Added 'Select by selected source' in playlist, to select clips of patterns or channels that are selected.
- Brand new playlist track naming & tools for better song organization.
- Mixer icons now available to channels (& playlist tracks).
- New playlist 'behind clips' modes (& old bevelled mode is gone).
- Playlist auto-focuses clip type when current clip source changes.
- Improved playlist clips display at small sizes.
- Added 'Deselect' & handy 'Select time around selection' option.
- Added a couple of new mixer icons.
- Improved 'Best fit' & 'On selection' zoom presets (will zoom on selected items if no time selection exists).
- Improved note & clip deletion (won't miss events when rapidly deleting) & fixed little bug in note deletion from note properties.
- Added note & clip muting.
- Improved note & clip moving/resizing detection.
- Added note & playlist clip grouping (works on selecting, moving, resizing, deletion, muting, shifting using mouse wheel).
- Recorded audio clips in loop recording mode are now muted, instead of the associated channel.
- Added 'group notes' option to piano roll chop, arp & flam tools.
- Improved vertical scrollings in event editor / piano roll / playlist.
- Middle click now works as panning & works vertically as well in piano roll / playlist, and made it work in event editor as well.
- Alt+mouse wheel on playlist now vertically zooms in-place (like ctrl+wheel on time).
- Added support for Korg nanoKEY, nanoPAD & nanoKONTROL controllers.
- Added button for portamento (just like for slide) to piano roll.
- Piano roll / playlist: right alt + right click to quick quantize a single note / clip start position, end position, or both (works in slip edit mode too).
- Piano roll / playlist brush mode now works better for note / clip lengths that aren't quantized.
- Improved Edison's resampling (for even better prefilter transition).
- Added 'Only with selection' & random seed options to PR articulate tool.
- Added 'Center' knob to piano roll / event editor level scaling tool.
- FL built-in tempo detector changed to alternate (constant tempo) one.
- 'Make unique' on automation clips now copies (preserves) the link to the control(s).
- Right-clicking the piano roll 'select' button brings the select menu.
- Ctrl+Shift+right click in playlist zooms on a single clip (handy to edit automation clips).
- Improved oversampling quality & speed (Sytrus, Fruity WaveShaper, etc).
- Groove quantizer: can now delete notes too (by just setting velocity to 0 in templates).
- New 'Riff machine' piano-roll tool (see Tools in main menu as well) to create riffs by blending various templates & settings.
- Sytrus: added new 'improved' & 'even' unison distribution modes (see options menu).
- MIDI input messages are now logged (only when log window is visible).
- Number of insert tracks upgraded to 99, for a total of 105 mixer tracks.
- Slicex: right-clicking slice output selector now brings a popup listing mixer track names.
- New Fruity Stereo Shaper plugin (for stereo splitting and effects).
- Audio files recorded from FL's mixer now embed tempo information (the tempo at the time of recording).
- Last tweaked parameter menu moved from plugins to FL's Tools menu.
- New 'Tools->Last tweaked->Override volatile link...' to set up a MIDI knob that always controls the last tweaked parameter.
- Multilink to controller's LED popup now applies to the last
- tweaked params if the list is empty.
- Wave Candy / Fruity Dance: anim window popup now features 'View settings' to bring up the actual plugin editor.
- Fruity Dance can load user sprite sheets.
- New 'Claw machine' score tool in piano roll (works well along with Slicex).
- PR/PL/EE, and Edison/envelope editors: new autoscrolling when hitting edges while editing.
- PR/PL: new "snap to other events" mode (also works with ghosted notes).
- Event editor can now be aware of which plugin parameters appear 'centered' (supported by Sytrus so far).
- Some menu items (save plugin preset & score) can now be dragged around (like browser files).
- Added option to invert piano roll grid colors (for improved readability).
- Wave Candy: added new metering modes for loudness visualization.
- Can now drop channel data (samples, etc) onto piano roll (more intuitive for Slicex).
- Holding ALT while SHIFT-rescaling piano roll scores snaps rescaling ratio
- Missing project samples now located first in project folder, then only in last folder where previous missing data was found.
- Loading a project with missing samples now asks for the content downloader to locate them.
- Right-clicking the 'enable effect slots' mixer buttons now shows or hides editors of all plugins for that track.
- Fixed little Slicex resizing glitch.
- Slicex: improved realtime & offline in/out declicking.
- Incoming MIDI notes now have their MIDI channel mapped to the corresponding selected channel in FL
- Audio clips (& sampler channels): added various declicking modes in channel settings window.
- Envelope editor: improved tools.
- Ogun: new Create pad harmonics tool.
- Newbie enhancement: 'Start on input' feature is not saved/restored anymore.
- Can now export a piano roll to a MIDI file (notes only).
- Dropping audio clips onto playlist aligns them properly according to the downbeat marker (if present).
- FL Studio Edition users who have purchased Edison VST can now use the FL version in FL.
- Fruity Squeeze: adapted to be threadeable
- Fruity Multiband Compressor: adapted to be threadeable
- Fruity Scratcher: adapted to be threadeable
- Fruity Video Player: adapted to be threadeable
- FL Studio VSTi: added tray icon to easily show/hide FL window
- Edison: added new spectrum display gradients.
- Edison: right shift + mouse for tempo fine tuning.
- Edison: no more pops in sample playback when selecting.
- Edison: fixed tempo set to 1
- 0 when undoing in some rare cases.
- Edison: hint for tempo grid now properly follows downbeat marker.
- Edison now drags files in move mode, to avoid extra temporary files (when dragging from an Edison/Slicex/Sytrus to another, or between Slicex decks).
- Edison/Slicex: new 'Export regions->For sampler use...' that exports with marker middle notes, and improved export.
- Edison: new Regions->Detect beats option.
- Edison / Sytrus / others: added new envelope point modes.
- Edison: new 'Lossy normalize' option to maximize short samples without audible loss.
- Edison: setting sample to tempo-synced defaults the tempo (if not set yet) to the one of the host.
- Edison can now be maximized (double-click titlebar or press enter).
- Edison: changed file-based audio undo system (standalone versions were conflicting).
- Wrapper: fixed chunk size loading and saving bugs
- Wrapper: fixed updating the preset list for Attack when loading a Cubase preset
- Wrapper: don't save parameters if plugin has chunks but returns 0 for its chunk size
- Wrapper: small fix for interfaceless plugin labels
- Wrapper: fixed sysex implementation
- Wrapper: added option to steal keyboard focus from the plugin
- Wrapper: adapted to new drag and drop implementation
- Wrapper: buffers are now aligned better
- Wrapper: adapted effect version to be threadeable
- Wrapper: added "Record parameter changes" option
- Wrapper: added options screen to replace options menu
- Wrapper: implemented multiple inputs and outputs for effects
- Wrapper: multiple inputs and outputs now works with the "Use fixed size buffers" option
- Wrapper: can now load new "shell" plugins (WaveShell v5 and newer, mostly)
- Wrapper: minimize locked time when loading a plugin
- Wrapper: re-implemented saving and loading of settings to be more future proof
- Wrapper: optimized most buffer operations (copy/add/interlace/deinterlace)
- Wrapper: new look for interfaceless editor
- Wrapper: now loads VST 1 and DX plugins automatically, instead of FL's internal host
- Wrapper: fixes to save/load settings for Fruity Compressor and Fruity Blood Overdrive
- Dashboard: send controller values on playback start
- FPC: pad now triggers different velocity depending on vertical position of the mouse cursor
- FPC: added "Show GM note names" option to show/hide names in the note selection menu
- FPC: adapted to new drag and drop implementation
- FPC: added popup menu with mixer track names to output selector
- DirectWave: fixed crash when cancelling "Browse" button
- DirectWave: fixed sample loading from absolute paths
- DirectWave: more robust external bank import
- DirectWave: avoid "no disk in drive" message when loading samples
- DirectWave: small improvement to drag and drop
- DirectWave: fixed event handling for hosted VST plugin
- DirectWave: fixed browser update after clicking "Browse..." button
- DirectWave: increased maximum polyphony from 64 to 51
- voices
- DirectWave: added browser preview volume control
- DirectWave: added home button in browser
- DirectWave: browser paths are shortened when they're inside the content library folder
- DirectWave: added option to copy imported dwp and its samples to the content library folder
- DirectWave: re-arranged options window
- DirectWave: new import dll