New:

• Mac OS X version.

Improved:

• New Standard color theme.
• Better DPI scaling.
• All versions now support .aif files (was Pro Plus only)
• Onscreen MIDI keyboard now works while MIDI Keyboard Splitter window is visible.
• Mousewheel on small strips on left/right side now scrolls mixer sections vertically.

Fixed:

• "Bridged" VST plugins received incorrect tempo information.
• Master Limiter's RMS meter didn't work at 192 kHz samplerate.
• A couple of other fixes.

New:

• 64 bit version.
• Both 32 and 64 bit versions support 32 and 64 bit VST plugins.
• RMS level meter added to Master Limiter.

Improved:

• Dirac Pro pitch shifting/time stretching is now twice as fast.
• Pianoroll: more vertical zoom levels.
• The "Insert" button is now called "Ripple".
• Easier error reporting: "Send Now" sends the report over the internet without requiring an email program like Outlook.

Fixed:

• "Export tracks as audio files" crashed if MIDI track selected.
• VST plugins didn't respond to multi-touch screens.
• A couple of other fixes.

Release 6.41 (June 7, 2011):

Fixed:

• "Add Click Track" produced MIDI file with wrong tempo information.
• Creating track from chords produced MIDI file with wrong tempo information.
• Score editor: double dotted notes could lead to rests being optimized out too agressively.

Release 6.4 (May 23, 2011):

New:

• MIDI Note Velocity editor.
• Track audio/MIDI data appears in automation editors (Pro Plus edition), Automated Fader effect and Song Editor.
• "Export tracks as audio files" tool.
• VST window: F5 key reloads plugin, settings are preserved.
• VST folder customization using MtStudioLinks.txt files (include/exclude folders or plugins).
• Scrubbing in automation editors (Pro Plus edition), Automated Fader effect and MIDI controller editors.
• ACIDized wav files dropped on audio editor now match song tempo.
• Onscreen Keyboard: string instruments can be capoed.
• Input button can optionally open audio device control panel (if available).
• Last transport start position appears on Overview Bar as "dynamic marker".
• Last recording start/stop positions are available from Transport Options menu.

Improved:

• MIDI editors: Piano/Score/Drum tabs instead of the small P/N/D buttons. "Wave" editor is removed but can be enabled again in Preferences window.
• Automation editors (Pro Plus edition) and MIDI controller editors appear tabbed.
• A couple of editor buttons (Repeat, Export etc.) have been merged into a new "More" button. The Preferences window can make them all visible again.
• Audio files dropped on audio editor are now converted to song samplerate.
• Transport start and stop buttons are merged into a single button.
• Onscreen keyboard and BPM tapper: improved timing accuracy.
• Stereo Merger and Sample Rate Converter can now be cancelled.
• Touchscreen support: various improvements in order to enhance usability.
• .aiff files can be opened without renaming to *.aif (Pro Plus edition).
• Convolutor detects file samplerate on loading IR file.

Fixed:

• Click track and chord tracks are updated when time signature changes.
• Click Track uses MIDI channel 10 by default again.
• Clicking Master's Mono button makes song "modified" and therefor saveable.

Various other improvements and fixes.

Release 6.32 (January 24, 2011):

Fixed:

• Some VST plugin windows were too small in version 6.31 (Albino 3 for example).
• The Pitch Bend Range setting, introduced in version 6.3, now has no effect on Waldorf VST plugins because Largo uses the MIDI RPN controllers for other purposes.

New:

• VST windows better support plugins that change size.
• VST GUIs get scrollbars if they're too big for the window/screen so they're still useable.
• VST windows: SideChain boxes are now on the right rather than on the left. Looks better and saves space. (Pro Plus edition).
• Lite edition: Added fade in/out to MultitrackStudio Instruments "demo" noise bursts. Hopefully this stops people thinking it's a bug.

Fixed:

• Sampler: keys had wrong pitch if pitch bend range not equal to 2 semitones.
• MultitrackStudio Instruments: loading preset that includes track effects could cause error.
• Multi MIDI editor: drum instrument selector could cause error.
• Cosmetic issue in Contact window method selector.
• VST output mixer wouldn't close with escape key.

New:

• MultitrackStudio Instruments: built-in General MIDI sounds.
• MIDI pitch bend range can be adjusted.
• Undoing "tweakable edits" now undoes the last tweak only, rather than all tweaks.
• Some effects use significantly less CPU power if there's no audio signal present.

Fixed:

• Could not create medium-quality mp3 files using Lame_enc.dll.
• Score editor: 8va setting wasn't read from song file.
• mp3 files starting with corrupted frames now open.
• A couple of other bugs.

New:

• MP3 encoding: a "lame_enc.dll" file in the "Program Files\MtStudio" folder can now be used for MP3 encoding. This feature was added because ACM codecs may not work properly in 64 bit Windows.

Fixed:

• Some small fonts looked bad with Windows DPI settings between 96 and 112.
• Song files (.hdr) had issues with some Asian Windows versions.
• Audio/MIDI devices settings couldn't be saved on a (very) small number of computers.
• Chord and Lyrics windows: the Keybrd button was present even if not in touchscreen mode.
• Clicking overlapping markers has been improved.

Release 6.2 (April 20, 2010):

New:

• Mid/Side Effect (Pro Plus edition only).
• Vocal Removal effect preset.
• MIDI "Key Aftertouch" support.
• "Bass" MIDI instrument, which offers fingered and picked bass guitar sounds.

Improved:

• The Guitar Amp effect sounds much better and is significantly more CPU-efficient.
• The Saturator effect has been redesigned.
• The Electric Piano instrument sounds better and features a new "Sticky Hammers" instrument.
• Better soundfont compatibility.
• "File Save" dialogs now use the file type you think it does.
• VST output mixer gets scrollbar if the channels don't fit the screen.

A couple of bugs have been fixed.

Release 6.1 (March 9, 2010):

New:

• Vocal Pitch Correction (in audio track editors).
• Track editors can stretch or 'warp' parts. Both audio and MIDI.
• Audio pitch shifting (in audio track editors).
• Tempo editor can optionally change tempo of audio tracks.
• Audio/MIDI editors can reverse selected part.
• VSTi plugins can run 'bridged' (out-of-process). This can be used to utilise more than 2 GB of RAM on 64 bit systems.

Audio pitch shifting, time stretching and Vocal Pitch Correction are powered by DSP Dimension's Dirac Pro technology.

Improved:

• .aem files: you can now browse for any missing edit files.
• Audio scrubbing tries to keep original pitch.
• MIDI: improved handling of overlapped unison notes (in MIDI files and while playing back)
• Pianoroll: "Join Previous Notes" is now "Merge Notes", and can merge more than two notes.

A couple of bugs have been fixed.

The lower editions now have some features which used to be Pro Plus only. Most notably, scrubbing is now in all versions, and the Professional edition now comes with the Wheel Organ and Electric Piano.

Release 6.01 (December 22, 2009):

Fixed:

• Sidechaining VSTi outputs to tracks sometimes didn't work (Pro Plus edition).
• Multitouch screens: scrolling the main window vertically could change the track order.
• .lst files (made with version 4 or older) could be deleted when undoing the first edit.
• Dragging a MultitrackStudio effect over a Jamstix VSTi window would lead to errors.

Release 6.0 (October 22, 2009):

New:

• Touchscreen support. Multi-touch on Windows 7, single-touch on older Windows versions.
• Onscreen MIDI keyboard, works with (multi)touch or computer keyboard.
• Manual audio input channel assignment (optional)
• VistaSound driverset can optionally work in "pull mode". This works better when CPU usage is high. Not all drivers will support this correctly.
• Half-speed recording: VariSpeed now can not only be set to -200..+200 cents, but to -1400..-1000 cents as well. (Pro Plus edition only)
• Notation Settings window has 8va/Normal/8va bassa switch.
• All text fields support Unicode, so all international characters can be used in track names etc. Song files are still compatible with older versions.
• Automation editors can now add 4 dots in one go, to quickly attenuate or amplify a part. Similarly, MIDI controller editors can add 2 dots.
• Automation / MIDI controller editors show value of dot under mouse pointer.
• Automation / MIDI controller editors: you can now type a new value of the selected dot.
• Automation / MIDI controller editors: dots can be 'amplified', changing the vertical distance between the dots.
• Automation editors now show the actual parameter values rather than 0..100. VST plugins need to supply their own GUI and implement part of the Cockos VST Extensions for this to work. (Pro Plus edition only)
• Editors support Ctrl key + mouse wheel to zoom in/out. The left hand part of pianoroll and audio editors zooms vertically.
• Tooltips appear while dragging mixer sections to make it more clear where the section will go.
• Resizing track editors: screen is updated on-the-fly now
• Resizable windows have a dotted triangle in the bottom-right corner.

• Guitar Amp effect is more CPU efficient when used "live", to make it more usable on slower machines. Less oversampling is used. (Pro Plus edition only)
• Track faders and controller/automation editors are larger at high DPI settings (these were the only things not scaling yet).
• Audio devices can have up to 96 channels now (was 64).
• Add Audio Track window: "Number of tracks" box appears if audio in device has at least 4 channels (was 8). (Pro Plus edition only)
• Other improvements and somes fixes.

Note: Version 6 no longer works with Windows 95/98/ME.

Release 5.21 (May 25, 2009):

Fixed:

• Setting "Send sync code" in the "MIDI Out Device Option" window to "MIDI Clock" caused exception errors when starting the transport or closing MultitrackStudio.
• Drum editor: couldn't select note by clicking if not scrolled up all the way.

Release 5.2 (May 18, 2009):

New:

• Major improvements in notation editor (better horizontal note spacing, multiple buttons to add now notes, keysignature changes, more tuplets etc.).
• MIDI event editors now have 3 modes: Select Part, Select Notes and Add Notes.
• MIDI controller and automation editors now have 3 modes: Select, Add and Draw.
• Multi MIDI Editor now features notation and drum editors.
• Practice mode to use software instrument, guitar amps etc. without recording them.
• Pianoroll/notation editors: lasso shows name of lassoed chord, if any.
• Dragging audio/MIDI between tracks now snaps to the original position if you're close.
• "Export MIDI Tracks" can optionally include lyrics and/or markers in the MIDI file.
• Number of first bar can be -9..1, allowing for various numbers of count-in bars.
• Audio and Pianoroll editors can zoom vertically.
• Editors: mouse pointer behaves more in line with Windows standards (when dragging etc.).
• Editors can do standard Windows style "click at start, Shift-click at end" selecting.
• Effects can be bypassed quickly by clicking the slot while keeping the B key down.
• Tuner effect redesigned for better visibility from a distance. New per-note offsets let you create custom tunings.
• Tested on Windows 7 (both 32 and 64 bits).

• Add Click Track: "Accent on Beat One" is now "Bar Accents", and does a bit more to make the click track sound more pleasing.
• Time signatures can be typed instead of using the up/down buttons.
• "Extract temp from track": beats can represent 3/8, 7/8 etc. (not just 1/8, 1/4 etc.).
• Drum editor: notes appear like diamond shapes.
• Drum editor: "select similar notes" can now work on selected notes only.
• Multi MIDI Editor (pianoroll): notes of active track appear in front, this makes editing overlapping notes easier.
• Multi MIDI Editor: up/down arrows scroll the editor vertically.
• "Delay before recording" window remembers time value.
• "BPM Tapper" now works with mouse.
• Clicking an empty effect slot pops up selector (even if you didn't click the down arrow).
• Various other minor improvements.

• MIDI editor scrubber works better when zoomed out by a large amount (Pro Plus edition only).
• "Revert to Version" is more robust.
• A couple of other fixes.

Release 5.12 (March 26, 2009):

Fixed:

• Improved VST compatibility (EMU Proteus / Emulator).
• Song Editor: pasting could lead to incorrect Chords and Lyrics.
• VistaSound driverset: fixed crash-waiting-to-happen with multichannel audio playback devices.
• Patch Editor no longer creates superfluous empty backup copies.
• A couple of other fixes.

Release 5.11 (February 11, 2009):

Fixed:

• MIDI Quantize: problem with "Keep Note Off" quantization type.
• Import audio/MIDI file: optional samplerate conversion worked with .wav files only.
• Improved VST compatibility (DFH, D16 plugins).
• Multiple monitors: mousewheel didn't work on all monitors with some setups.
• Multiple monitors: position of window is now correctly remembered, even if it's maximized.
• A couple of other fixes.

Release 5.1 (October 31, 2008):

New:

• The outputs of multiple output VSTi plugins (the ones having an Output Mixer), can now be sidechain sources. You can use this to route the outputs of a drum plugin to multiple mixer tracks. (Pro Plus edition only)
• VST effects having more than 2 inputs now get a Side Chain box just like the Dynamics/Compressor/NoiseGate effects. The second input pair receives the sidechain signal.
• VST instruments having audio inputs also get a Side Chain box. You can now, for example, use vocal pitch correction plugins in an Instrument Slot and use the track's pianoroll to enter the correct notes. (Pro Plus edition only)
• Some VST plugins come with a proprietary "sidechain input" plugin. The latter can now be loaded in the effect's "Sidechain Input" box to ensure correct behaviour on multiple-CPU machines. (Pro Plus edition only)
• Effects loaded in an effect's Side Chain box can now use side chains as well. (Pro Plus edition only)
• Effects in a multiple output VSTi's output mixer can now use side chains (Pro Plus edition only).
• The Effect/Instrument Selectors hide VST plugins which can't be used as effect/instrument respectively. They learn automatically.
• DX plugins which aren't an instrument now appear in the Effect Selector only, and not in the Instrument Selector.
• "DMO" (DirectX Media Objects) effects are no longer supported because they cause too much trouble (version 5.0 dropped support on Vista already).
• New cycle transport option: "Cycle selected part of focused track".
• Drum editor: Select All button is now enabled even while individual notes are selected.
• Search boxes now have 'clear' button.
• VistaSound driverset (for WASAPI drivers) now supports multichannel recording, and compatibility has been improved significantly.
• AsioSnd driverset can optionally use MMCSS (on Vista).

• Voxengo Elephant VST plugin crashed.
• Transport failed to start under certain (rare) sidechaining conditions on multiple-CPU machines (Pro Plus edition only).
• Some older VST plugins which don't provide a GUI of themselves failed to update the knobs on loading a preset.
• Song Templates: tracks could end up in wrong folder (Pro Plus edition only).
• Level meters on effect windows could stop working while using Soft Monitoring when soundcard buffersize is low.
• A track's "Alternate Take in new track" option now disengages the track's Play button.
• A couple of other fixes.

Release 5.02 (September 11, 2008):

Fixed:

• The Wizard's track recording options crash if there are no tracks in the song.
• The Sampler makes stereo 24 bit samples sound as mono if it's not playing at the root note (Pro Plus only).
• Saving MIDI tracks as audio ("freezing software instruments") doesn't work correctly if it's a stereo audio file.
• Some help file/manual corrections.

Release 5.01 (September 4, 2008):

Fixed:

• The effect/instrument selectors would crash if the number of DX plugins on your computer exceeds the number of VST plugins.

Release 5.0 (September 2, 2008):

New:

• Carefully redesigned to make it easier and faster to use.
• Color themes: 3 new ones, and 2 classic ones.
• Song Editor (insert or remove parts affecting "everything": tracks, markers, tempo / time signature, chords, lyrics, automation)
• Multiple notes can be selected simultaneously in MIDI editors using either Ctrl key or new lasso.
• Multi MIDI editor: work with multiple tracks in a single pianoroll.
• The new .aem file format allows for much faster audio editing than the .lst files did. Existing .lst files can still be read.
• MIDI controller editors appear in track instead of separate window.
• Mouse wheel can scroll editors vertically if mouse is over editor.
• Files are no longer truncated at the point where recording starts (ie. if you record over the first minute of a two minute track the second minute will still be there). You can no longer inadvertently lose audio recordings this way.
• Sound on Sound Recording: recording without erasing what's already there.
• Song templates (Pro Plus edition only)
• Multiple Solo: multiple tracks can be soloed simultaneously.
• New effect / instrument selectors.
• Main window remembers position/size and whether it's maximized or not.
• All effect and instrument windows have a "Presets" button. The presets no longer appear on the Shelf.
• Effect and instrument slots have down arrow which pops up newly designed selector. Effect and instrument no longer appear on the Shelf.
• Add Track menu replaces all mixer section related Shelf features.
• Groups and Effect Returns can be added, removed and re-ordered while the transport is running.
• Level Meters can optionally be twice as big.
• Disabled ("grayed out") items show tooltip explaining why they're disabled.
• Native Vista File Open/Save dialogs are now used on Windows Vista, instead of the old-style windows dialogs.
• VST Output Mixer improvements: Solo and Mute buttons, Volume faders and Pan knobs can be automated (Pro Plus edition), Channel numbers equal the plugin's numbers.
• "Expand related sections only": expand all mixer sections contributing to the sound of a track or group, and collapse all other sections.
• Master Limiter gain reduction is shown in effect slot itself.
• An imported audio file's samplerate can optionally be converted if it doesn't match the song's samplerate.
• Markers in imported .wav files can optionally be imported.
• Songlist bar now has Play All button: can be turned off to avoid going to the next song inadvertently.

• Songlist Properties window no longer opens all songs in order to read its properties.
• VSTi automation timing resolution is now 4 times as accurate.
• The Autodetect Keyboard feature now automatically detects you're recording two tracks using two MIDI keyboards and will let you do so without you having to turn it off.

• Audio punch-in recording related bug.
• Some DXi plugins weren't recognized.

Release 4.31 (December 5, 2007):

New:

• Support for Frontier Design's AlphaTrack control surface.

• Multiple Core CPU support: all instances of some "bad" VSTi plugins are now run on a single processor to work around their flaws.
• Hardware Control Surface still works if another program is active.

• Convolutor's Mix button wouldn't mix mono input to the right stereo channel if a stereo IR was used.
• Multiple Core CPU support: effect sidechaining could lead to buffer-underrun messages if softsynth tracks where involved (Pro Plus edition).
• The "Mix down to file" option caused an error message if the Punch button was on.
• Random noise when using VSTi plugins which expect audio input.
• A couple of other fixes.

Release 4.3 (April 30, 2007):

New:

• Cycle Recording: recording multiple takes automatically. Works for both normal and punch-in recording.
• Improved punch-in recording: you now can hear the existing parts before and after the punch-in region while recording. The recorded signal can be monitored all the time or in the punch-in region only. (Works for audio and softsynths, not for external MIDI synths).
• Pro Plus edition: Compressor, Dynamics and Noisegate effects in tracks can now use other tracks as sidechain trigger.
• Pro Plus edition: Guitar Amp has been overhauled for more realistic, less brittle, sounds. There are now three mic positions to choose from.
• Doubler now models tape based artificial doubletracking. Also allows for sixties style phasing/flanging.
• Some effects now use significantly less CPU power if there's no audio signal present. This includes the Guitar Amp and the Convolutor effect, which are the most cpu hungry ones by far.
• Loading a Multi Effect in a slot now loads the effect that was present in the slot in the Multi Effect.
• Dragging a Mixer Section to the Effect Presets shelf section creates a Multi Effect preset containing all the mixer section's effects.
• Unified Effects Selector: all effects appear in one list which can be text-searched. This includes the native MultitrackStudio effects,VST and DX plugins, Convolutor impulse responses and effect presets.
• New "Electric Piano" synth (Pro Plus edition only).
• Wheel Organ sounds more realistic (Pro Plus edition only).
• Create simple sampler patches easily: you can now drag a part from an audio track editor, an audio clip from the shelf, or an audio file from Windows Explorer to a Synth Slot. A sampler patch will be created from the audio part automatically.
• Sampler can import sfz files (OGG compressed audio files not supported).
• Dragging a Track to the Synth Presets shelf section creates a Synth preset with the track's effects included.
• Unified Synths Selector: all synths appear in one list which can be text-searched. This includes the native MultitrackStudio synths,VSTi and DXi plugins, sampler patches and synth presets.
• Audio and MIDI files can be dropped on track editors. This is very useful for plugins like EZdrummer.
• Audio edits can be removed from .lst file in a track's properties window.
• Mixdowns are now compensated for the delay which may be introduced by effects in the Master section (like the Master Limiter), so any track bounces are in perfect sync.
• The VistaSound driverset (for WaveRT drivers) now supports multichannel playback (not recording) in the Pro Plus edition. It's now included in the MultitrackStudio installer and it's the default driverset on Vista.
• 32 bit floating point .aif files and AIFC-type fixed point .aif files supported (Pro Plus edition only).
• Audio engine can now use up to 8 CPUs.

• 32 bit .wav files didn't properly clip overloaded signals.
• CPU usage indicator now works in Vista even if not running as administrator.

Release 4.21 (January 30, 2007):

Fixed:

• Deleting a punch-in recording immediately after recording it could cause an error later on.
• VST plugins which pop up a "demo expired" message instead of loading caused an error.
• Audio track editors didn't always automatically paint waveform.
• Fixed incorrect effect send assignment in UC33 control surface preset.
• Pressing the space bar ("start/stop") while keeping the arrow left/right key ("rewind/fast forward") down caused an error.
• An audio effect could sometimes be removed from the mixer section when creating a preset.
• Dragging an effect which is inside a Multi Effect to the slot which contains the Multi Effect caused an error.

A couple of other minor fixes.

Release 4.2 (November 6, 2006)

New:

• Effect windows no longer disappear when you click the transport buttons / overview bar / mixer faders etc. There can still be only one effect visible at a time.
• Optional light background theme for editors.
• Tracks: File name boxes can have different colors for better overview. The track's editor will use this color as well.
• "Paste" now uses the needle position (which equals the transport position) instead of the start of the selected part.
• Copy/Paste buttons on controller editors, automation editors en Automated Fader effects. Data can be exchanged between these editors.
• You can now doubleclick MIDI notes and patterns to edit them (instead of using the EDIT button). Doubleclick Markers and Labels to rename them.
• Groups and Effect Returns can be re-ordered using drag-and-drop, just like Tracks. Works only if transport is stopped.
• Tempo editor: Automated Faders, automation data and markers are updated if the tempo is edited.
• Tempo and Time Signature editors have Copy, Paste, Repeat, Delete and Cut buttons.
• Markers and Lyrics from MIDI files can be imported.
• Mouse scrollwheel can scroll selector lists and vertical scrollbars.
• MIDI File Merger tool, merges all MIDI tracks in one MIDI file. This is intended for moving the MIDI tracks to a notation program.
• Shelf can stay folded out (click the "screw holes").
• Presets of mixer sections (including Tracks).
• Triplet of 8th and 16th items in shelf's Midi Notes section (to add triplets easily).
• "Select Left" and "Select Right" options on editor popup menus.
• Truncate File option on audio track editor's popup menu (truncates file destructively).
• Drum editor: toggle between single-instrument and all-instruments by clicking instrument name.

• Exception errors caused by VST plugins can do less harm.
• WinSound driverset: better audio recording/playback synchronization.
• Windows Vista (RC2) compatibility.
• MultitrackStudio can be used by "limited account" Windows users. Multiple users on a computer now have their own preferences and song folders etc.
• Better "High DPI" behaviour: almost all user interface elements enlarge if you increase the Windows DPI setting.
• Audio to MIDI conversion: note length is more accurate.
• RMID (RIFF MIDI) type MIDI files can be opened.
• BWAV (Broadcast Wav) .wav files can be opened.
• Several speed improvements (GUI painting, MP3 files appear in track editor faster etc.)
• VST windows can grow bigger than the initial size (for Albino 3 VST plugin).
• Pro Plus: Automation editor: parameters appear in a list instead of in the menu if there are more than 16 parameters. This makes plugins with many parameters easier to use.

• Pro Plus: the sidechain menu of Compressor etc. detects adding/removing Effect Returns again (was broken in 4.1).
• Patterns are saved in .mpt files again (was broken in 4.1).

Various other improvements and fixes.

Release 4.1 (May 29, 2006)

New:

• Hardware control surface support.
• Mixer sections can be collapsed to save space.
• Level meters of recording audio tracks: righthand segment flashes if overload occurred. Rightclicking resets it.
• 24 bit losslessly compressed .gjm and .gjs audio files (Pro Plus Edition only).
• Chords and Lyrics. Can be displayed in almost any editor
• Pianoroll: While selecting a part: if the selected notes make a chord the chord's name is displayed.
• Pianoroll: added big size view
• Click Track Generator and Tempo Editor: tempo values can be entered by tapping on the space bar.
• The intensity (brightness) of the green displays and editors is adjustable.
• 'Mouse Modifiers' to edit individual notes quickly (volume, duration etc., or even 'expand to chord').
• Drum Editor: delete, drag or change volume of similar notes in similar bars simultaneously.
• Audio engine takes advantage of dual core CPU.
• Toggle Play, Rec, Mute or Edit buttons of all tracks simultaneously (use Ctrl key)
• VST/DX windows: click the 'metal' to return keyboard focus to MultitrackStudio (if plugin has taken it).

• New improved help system.
• Yellow hint balloons appear at more convenient locations.
• Selector windows (the VST plugin selector etc.) can be resized.
• Convolutor effect works faster when used 'live', or when using an Intel CPU (it was fast on AMD already).
• Notation Editor: better 'cleaning up' of non-quantized notes.
• Notation Editor: added Tenor and Alto clefs.
• MIDI file resolution doubled.
• Improved VST plugin compatibility (Jamstix).
• Various other improvements and minor fixes.

Release 4.02 (December 20, 2005)

Fixed:

• Normalizing a silent part caused an error.
• Notation editor: clicking an extremely short note (like 1/256) hangs the program.
• Some DirectX plugins weren't recognized.
• Saving MIDI tracks as audio: MIDI controllers at the start of the file were ignored sometimes.
• “Multiple stream” MIDI files: the track editor sometimes showed old data.
• Sampler used more memory than necessary.
• Pro Plus edition only: rare but nasty error that bothered some SoundBlaster Live! users (but could happen with any soundcard in theory).
• A couple of other minor fixes.

Release 4.01 (October 25, 2005)

Fixed:

• A lot of VSTi / DXi plugins had timing problems or missed notes in playback mode.

Release 4.0 (October 18, 2005)

New:

• Mix down to master 'offline' rather than in real-time.
• Playback the mixed down file easily.
• Most selector windows (like VST plugin selector) now have a 'search' box.
• 'Filling' of audio editors no longer blocks the user interface: you can continue your work while audio data is being read from disk.
• Edit operations can be canceled while they are being performed.
• A new folder is created for each new song automatically (you can specify a "base' folder in the Preferences window).
• Closing a new song without saving it optionally invokes the Find Unused Files tool, so you can delete your experiments.
• Overview Bar shows playback/editor position graphically. It also displays the markers.
• An editor's position indicator can now be moved using the mouse. The editors scroll horizontally automatically if necessary.
• Editors scroll horizontally (and vertically if it's a MIDI editor) automatically in response to mouse movements when dragging or resizing.
• Stick labels to mixer sections ('Reverb' to Effect Return etc.).
• Disk space indicator shows max. audio recording time left.
• Move data between track editors using drag-and-drop.
• Level meters are now stereo (if the audio signal is stereo). Clicking a meter pops up a much larger meter in a new window.
• Audio track editors show stereo channels separately (they can't be edited individually).
• Balloon hints (can be turned off in Preferences window).
• Use mouse wheel to control knobs, faders and up/down buttons.
• Keyboard Splitter and ASIO audio input/output control support presets.
• New "Tuner" effect to tune guitars etc.
• The Multitrack Editor shows individual tracks separately.
• MIDI controller editors support "free hand drawing".
• Tempo editor can import tempo from both audio and MIDI tracks. Now you can, for example, record handclaps along with your acoustic guitar track and extract the "beats" from the handclaps track.
• Audio can be converted to MIDI and vice versa. Just drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste between audio and MIDI tracks. (Audio to MIDI conversion works for monophonic signals only, MIDI to audio requires a softsynth.)
• MIDI tracks using a softsynth can be saved as audio. This can be used to 'freeze' the soft synth in order to reduce CPU usage.
• The sampler now supports sustain and release samples. The max. number of layers has been increased to 16. Legato and Brightness controllers are supported. Better handling of very large patches.
• Pieces of audio or MIDI data ('Clips') can be stored on the Shelf.
• "live" softsynth performances that weren't actually recorded appear on the Shelf, so you can recover them.
• New "Parallel Effect".
• "Center" rotary knobs by clicking them while keeping Shift key down.
• Windows DMO effects are available as DirectX effects.

• Automation of mixer (faders and knobs), effects (knobs) and VST/DX plugins.
• New "Guitar Amp" effect, emulates three vintage guitar amps.
• Improved live multitrack recording: you can now toggle all Rec buttons at once, add multiple tracks at once, and create a new instance of the current song.
• Now includes the Wheel Organ add-on.

• Improved editor layout: the score editor's clefs now appear on the left hand side.
• Score editor recognizes triplets.
• Added normalize function to audio track editors.
• Wheel Organ's Rotor effect has been improved.
• Editor mouse operations have a more 'relaxed' feel to them.
• Fixed rare bug where the program "forgot" to play audio edits, even though they where visible in the editor.
• Better mp3 acm codec compatibility.
• Many more improvements and fixes.

Release 3.11 (December 2, 2004)

Fixed:

• Fixed bug in audio track scrubber (Pro Plus edition only)
• Improved VST plugin compatibility. Waves plugins can now be used as VST plugins.
• Trying to merge stereo files crashed Stereo Merger tool.
• Some other fixes.

Release 3.1 (May 3, 2004)

New:

• Default-named audio/MIDI files or tracks can be created easily (from within a track or using the Recording menu).
• Tracks, Songs and Songlists can be renamed.
• MIDI file splitter (loads streams in separate tracks).
• All MIDI controllers are supported (except data entry and RPN).
• Knobs can be controlled by rotary or vertical mouse movements.
• MIDI editors: notes that are being added, selected or moved are audible.
• Manual compensation for soundcard driver with sync problems.

• Track editors: mouse operations are audible ("scrubbing"). Works on both audio and MIDI tracks.
• 176.4 and 192 kHz samplerates are supported.
• .aif files are supported.
• "Vintage Reverbs" impulse response files for Convolutor effect.

• Reverb effect: the four programs sound significantly better.
• Exciter effect: new oversampled algorithm for smoother sound.
• Master Limiter: sounds better (release time is program dependant).
• Convolutor effect: can now be used 'live', changing IR file no longer requires transport restart, added some controls.
• EQ effect: per-section bypass buttons, improved Low Mid and High Mid algorithms no longer affect treble frequencies.
• Tremolo effect: Stereo and Vintage buttons added.
• Saturation effect: improved tube and tape distortion modelling.
• Doubler, Phaser and Echo effect have been improved.
• Sampler: Pitch Wheel and Detune knob now affect playing notes.
• Samplerate Converter tool: better sound quality.
• Moving effect knobs produces less clicking noise.
• .wav files can now be up to 4 GB.
• Drum editor: dragging a note no longer changes its duration.
• Improved .gig file import, ASIO compatibility and DirextX plugin compatibility.
• Better graphics.
• MIDI punch-in recording works again (was broken in 3.0 version).
• Pasting stereo audio in mono track now works.
• Various other fixes and improvements.

Release 3.0 (October 22, 2003)

New:

• MIDI note editors now appear in Track editor instead of separate window.
• Notation editor.
• MIDI pattern editing.
• Dynamics effect (combined expander/compressor/limiter).
• Phaser effect.
• Sidechain effects on Noisegate and Compressor
• Graph on EQ.
• Tape type monitoring (play audio effects live, ASIO only).
• Multiple MIDI Out Devices (Professional: 2, Pro Plus: 4).
• In case of an error an error report will be generated that can be sent via email.
• The support email link now attaches a status report in order to improve support.

• Statistics display on limiter, compressor, dynamics and noisegate.
• Group and Effect Return sections can be routed to soundcard outputs.
• Track effect sends can be routed to sidechain inputs of Noisegate, Compressor and Dynamics effects in Group, Effect Return and Master sections to make ducking etc. possible.
• EQ features spectrum analyser.
• Built-in MIDI merger.

• Bars count from '0' (instead of '1'). Using the first bar for count-in the music will now start at bar '1'.
• Noisegate: fixed 'leak-through' when closed.
• Pseudo Stereo: comb mode works again (defect since version 2.0).
• Clicktrack Generator: can now override current tempo / time signature.
• Automated Fader: new events now added with single-click instead of double-click.
• Pianoroll and Drum Editor: easier operation.
• Better ASIO compatibility.
• Triplets added to Quantize function.
• Audio/MIDI editors: Dragging with CTRL button works as copy, dragging without CTRL works as move.
• Effects can be copied using Ctrl button
• Sampler: exclusive groups added, samples can be panned individually, so drum patches can be more realistic.
• Many more enhancements and optimizations.

Release 2.12 (January 15, 2003)

Fixed:

• MIDI Port and track editor no longer ignore MIDI controller 7/10 events at zero tick.
• Certain MIDI files ('format 0') no longer load with an unnecessary empty stream.
• Improved sf2 file compatibility.
• Trying to record more audio channels than available no longer leads to unpredictable behaviour.

Release 2.11 (October 14, 2002)

Fixed:

• MIDI files containing RPN values other than 0 or 1 could not be loaded properly.
• The Tempo Correction option caused problems with some MIDI editing actions.

Release 2.1 (July 31, 2002)

New:

• Includes wizard that helps new users.
• Supports VST plugins having multiple outputs.

• Pro Plus edition: Track's Save As and Export functions now work properly regardless of the file's bitdepth.
• VSTi/DXi plugins respond to all MIDI streams in the track.

Release 2.01 (July 3, 2002)

Fixed Windows 2000/XP soundcard driver problems (glitches in recordings / computer reset on program start).

Release 2.0 (July 1, 2002)

New:

• ASIO driver support.
• External MIDI sync (MIDI clock / MTC).
• Compensates for SoundBlaster Live! 44.1 kHz full-duplex problem.
• MIDI Port and Sampler have additional controls (DeTune, Reverb etc.).
• MIDI Port and Sampler patches can be selected using categories.
• Editors have Merge function.
• VST plugins read all fxb/fxp banks and presets (including 'chunks').
• DX plugins expose their static presets.

• Song files can exceed 64 kB.
• Wav files now have correct samplerate tag.
• All 16384 MIDI banks can be used (was 128).
• Better MIDI and SF2 file compatibility.
• Better VST and DX plugin compatibility.
• Various other improvements and fixes.

• 24/32 bit .wav file support.
• 88.2/96 kHz samplerate support.
• Multichannel recording (using ASIO driver).
• VariSpeed control.

Release 1.2 (February 21, 2002)

New:

• Master Limiter
• Easy access to Windows Record Control
• DXi (softsynth plugin) support
• MP3 support (Professional edition only)

• Better help and manual.
• Band effect can now have 2 or 3 bands and allows mono to stereo conversion.
• Values can be typed instead of using up/down buttons.
• Sampler: volume/expression affect playing notes, and their curves follow the MIDI specs (existing tracks using these controllers may need some adjustments).
• VST plugins can read .fxb preset files ('chunk' files not supported)
• Various other improvements and fixes.

Release 1.1.1 (February 14, 2002)

Lite edition only. Appeared on Computer Music issue 44 cover-CD. Identical to release 1.1, but with samples added.

Release 1.1 (December 5, 2001)

New:

• Drum Editor shows instrument names instead of notes.
• Enhanced click track generator.

• Program hangup on loading particular VST Instruments (Dynamo, Sample Tank, SR-202).
• Occasional program hangup on loading large sampler patches.
• Occasional program hangup on starting/stopping sampler (win 2000/XP).
• Tempo Editor (occasional unexpected behaviour).
• Note Display in Flanger, Doubler, Tremolo, Echo, Chorus and Vibrato effect.
• Some SF2 drum patches loaded incorrectly (instruments left out).

Initial release (November 9, 2001)