Thank you for downloading Bitwig Studio 1.0.11.
This document lists the changes since previous versions of Bitwig Studio.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.11
Released on 15.07.2014.
| NEW | Support for Arturia KeyLab controllers. |
| IMPROVED | Added NoteInput.sendRawMidiEvent method to controller API. |
| FIXED | Control-mapping indication get stuck on the devices for some scripts. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when trying to activate the engine for a document that is being closed. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when deleting a launcher clip. |
| FIXED | Hot plugging and removing discs did not correctly update in the file browser tab. |
| FIXED | Bouncing a multi-selection of clips would sometimes hang the engine. |
| FIXED | Undo stops working when using the knife tool in an automation lane. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.11 RC1
Released on 10.07.2014.
| NEW | Added support for UDP (User Datagram Protocol) to the controller API |
| IMPROVED | Allow sorting of devices in the device browser based either on vendor or location. |
| IMPROVED | On Mac OSX updating a plugin would not cause the cached information for a plugin to be invalidated so the old information would be used. |
| IMPROVED | Improved Export Audio dialog. |
| FIXED | Certain wav files couldn't be loaded. |
| FIXED | Crash when browsing a file that has unicode surrogate pairs in its name. |
| FIXED | Very rare crash when browsing some plugins. |
| FIXED | Crash when occassionally dragging clips between tracks on the arranger with the single track insert modifier pressed. |
| FIXED | Crash due to somehow being able to drag an empty selection of device layers |
| FIXED | Occassional crash when dragging over an automation lane in the arranger clip launcher |
| FIXED | Crash when selecting a controller note input for a hybrid track and then selecting an audio note input and then undoing |
| FIXED | Crash on startup if vst-metadata file is corrupted |
| FIXED | Openning the package manager always causes a rescan of repositories and forgets about the currently installing packs. |
| FIXED | Cancelling the save dialog for a modified document when quitting means it is no longer possible to quit the application |
| FIXED | Opening the user guide on non-Ubuntu Linux may cause the application to hang until the user guide is closed. |
| FIXED | Not possible to change order of tracks after loading project with hidden effect tracks. |
| FIXED | Disarming a track while a clip is recording in clip launcher does not stop the clip from recording. |
| FIXED | Occasional errors when saving plugin states that should not be errors. |
| FIXED | Launchpad does not update lights when switching modes on Linux. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging a layer device with layers from a main track onto an effect track |
| FIXED | Various rare and random crashes when displaying the GUI. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when working with rectangular selection. |
| FIXED | Crash when stretching start of audio event after order of beat markers got incorrect somehow. |
| FIXED | Very rare crash when using the knife tool in note or automation editor. |
| FIXED | Crash when adjusting curvature of expression events. |
| FIXED | Regression: crash when setting note start to selected warp marker. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.10
Released on 19.06.2014.
| FIXED | Crash when using CNTRLR script that was using a hidden controller API method. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when showing a plugin loading error message. |
| FIXED | Crash when showing context menu in file browser for a folder when there are no bookmarks. |
| FIXED | Regression: 1.0.9 would complain about insufficient disk space when installing packs on a fresh system. |
| FIXED | When scrolling a device chain with many devices the devices towards the end of the chain would not show their name |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.9
Released on 13.06.2014.
| FIXED | Vengeance VMS stereo VSt plugin shell only shows one plugin instead of multiple. |
| FIXED | Memory was leaked when searching in the browser. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.9 RC3
Released on 11.06.2014.
| FIXED | Glitch VST does not show the plugin window on Linux. |
| FIXED | On Windows updates in the browser could be incorrect when modifying files. |
| FIXED | Crash when moving expression segment with cmd/ctrl modifier. |
| FIXED | Crash when adding expression event to multi-selection by shift-clicking on it (regression). |
| FIXED | Showing expanded device popup menu does not close the compact device menu. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.9 RC2
Released on 10.06.2014.
| FIXED | Pressing delete on a library location in the browser would delete the library location from disk instead of removing it as a library location to be indexed |
| FIXED | Uninstalling a package did not remove the files from the browser |
| FIXED | VST plugin devices were mixed alphabetically with the folders they were in |
| FIXED | Double-click audio event header to split event only works in clips that start at time zero. |
| FIXED | Layered note editor in clip mode does not paint notes in locked layers ghosted. |
| FIXED | Clicking above or below a note in folded note editor would audition the note if audition is enabled. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.9 RC1
Released on 04.06.2014.
| IMPROVED | Better support for generic MIDI keyboards. |
| IMPROVED | Improved time-stretching sound quality. |
| FIXED | Key tracking in sampler does not have any effect when assigned. |
| FIXED | Not possible to overdub clip launcher clips that are longer than the current arranger loop- |
| FIXED | Modulation pie in sampler shows wrong values when played if parameters are mapped to polyphonic modulators. |
| FIXED | Windows documents folder location problem. |
| FIXED | Issues with buffer-sizes over 256 samples |
| FIXED | VST host process on linux used main as entry point instead of VSTPluginMain. |
| FIXED | Using the "apply project tempo" button in the beat marker inspector caused undo/redo to stop working. |
| FIXED | Tool device causes loud clicks when toggling the phase invert buttons. |
| FIXED | Add ability to configure "My Library" location and show it by default in the browser. |
| FIXED | Repeated text characters are not typed on Linux. |
| FIXED | Copy modifier used to switch between dragging multiple files as single or multiple tracks was broken. |
| FIXED | Problem with selecting devices in Korg nanoKontrol script. |
| FIXED | Cursor device in Akai MPKmini script does not work as expected. |
| FIXED | Note editor layers might still be visible after clips/tracks get removed due to undo operation. |
| FIXED | Time selection has wrong range when selecting expression events or beat markers in arranger note editor. |
| FIXED | Wrong time offset when moving onsets in later clip loop iterations in arranger note editor. |
| FIXED | Copying muted notes creates unmuted copy. |
| FIXED | Reversing a clip has no effect on raw audio events. |
| FIXED | Insert silence does not move automation. |
| FIXED | Muted state of notes is not visualized in folded note editor. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.8
Released on 05.05.2014.
| FIXED | Modulated value pie was not shown correctly for some values |
| FIXED | Changing the length of multiple selected notes spread over multiple clips in track note editor behaves erratic. |
| FIXED | Visual glitch in preview when drawing expression events over multiple audio events using pencil tool. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.8 RC3
Released on 28.04.2014.
| IMPROVED | Note pencil tool should disconnect mouse cursor during dragging to avoid limitations of movement. |
| IMPROVED | Can't drop MIDI file on existing track. |
| IMPROVED | Use pixel threshold for adjusting note length and velocity using pencil tool. |
| IMPROVED | Individual note-length memory per track. |
| IMPROVED | Changed default install location for windows installer not to include the version number, which was causing shortcuts to the executable to stop working after upgrading |
| IMPROVED | Allow release-candidate builds to be installed in without uninstalling the normal builds on windows |
| IMPROVED | Added symmetry control to distortion device which controls the mix of even/odd harmonics |
| IMPROVED | Added Slope control for the decay of the E-Hat device |
| IMPROVED | Better solo behavior for return tracks |
| IMPROVED | EQ2/5 display now show modulation |
| FIXED | Wrong default value for Step MOD (32/1). |
| FIXED | Midi drag&drop from microtonic didn't work on windows |
| FIXED | External instrument didn't send MIDI CC to the selected channel |
| FIXED | Sampler playback was missing the first 7 samples of the attack |
| FIXED | metadata with sub-paths (shell plugs-ins/soundfont patches) no longer work |
| FIXED | When adjusting note velocity, only audition changes when auditioning is actually enabled. |
| FIXED | Hanging note when auditioned track changes while a key on the piano roll keyboard is pressed. |
| FIXED | Quantize regression: quantizing a chord kills all but one note. |
| FIXED | Crash when moving track with clips into FX section and then moving it out again. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.8 RC2
Released on 22.04.2014.
| FIXED | Random crashes when using library |
| FIXED | Crash on startup of fresh install |
| FIXED | Recover the latest state of a plugin when recovering documents |
| FIXED | Crash when exporting empty arrangement as MIDI file. |
| FIXED | There's no way to remove a bookmark from the browser. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.8 RC1
Released on 21.04.2014.
| NEW | Automatically backup the state of plugins every minute when the engine is not playing |
| NEW | MIDI file export. |
| IMPROVED | Importing type-0 MIDI files should split events into different tracks based on MIDI channels. |
| IMPROVED | Importing MIDI file should consider track name metadata. |
| IMPROVED | Importing MIDI file should consider tempo meta events. |
| IMPROVED | Allow to adjust note length and velocity when inserting notes via double click and drag. |
| IMPROVED | Allow velocity adjustment when drawing notes using pencil tool by dragging vertically. |
| IMPROVED | Audition notes when clicking on them (if enabled). |
| IMPROVED | Avoid note start jumping when using note pencil tool. |
| IMPROVED | Remember last note length when using pencil tool for notes. |
| IMPROVED | Improved efficiency of monitoring library locations when new files are copied or deleted from library locations. |
| IMPROVED | Audition notes (if enabled) when adjusting note velocity. |
| IMPROVED | Change the minimum LFO rate in various devices to 0.01Hz and minimum synced rate to 32/1 |
| IMPROVED | Normal sustain pedal behavior |
| IMPROVED | Better VST keyboard handling on windows |
| FIXED | Crash when reversing very long files |
| FIXED | Saving a clip with a device containing a layer device in a slot would crash |
| FIXED | Bouncing sometimes missed notes if it was started at the exact same location as the transport last stopped |
| FIXED | device controller mappings didn't reload correctly after saving them |
| FIXED | Split at onset wasn't limited to the range of the selected event(s) |
| FIXED | PDC for meters & automation limited to 32768 samples |
| FIXED | Graphical glitch in note expressions |
| FIXED | Novation Launchpad does not work on Linux. |
| FIXED | Crash when saving plugin state for a plugin that is no longer in the document |
| FIXED | Removing a directory under a library location that started with the same name as another directory alongside it would remove indexed information for the other directory too |
| FIXED | Dragging note or audio event start can result in overlapping notes. |
| FIXED | Changing velocity in piano roll editor via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Drag should also work when the target note is not selected yet. |
| FIXED | Stretching audio events might result in overlapping events. |
| FIXED | Crash when splitting at onsets, then quantising to wider grid than event lengths, then dragging event start. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when double-clicking on clip in clip-launcher to show its contents. |
| FIXED | Random crash when tooltip hides on Mac OS X. |
| FIXED | Crash when moving clip from effect to non-empty master track. |
| FIXED | Note velocity cannot be changed by dragging not with modifier if note is not selected. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.7
Released on 14.04.2014.
| FIXED | Closing u-he plugins using the button inside our device chain would cause the plug-in to crash (on windows) |
| FIXED | Solo and then un-solo of a track with send caused weird crackling sound |
| FIXED | Possible deadlock when opening window on windows |
| FIXED | Crash when copying a plugin device to clipboard then pasting in the browser to save a preset |
| FIXED | If audio engine crashes during a recording then leave the project in a sensible state |
| FIXED | Drum channels cannot be expanded in the mixer for a document after openning another document and closing the new one |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging arranger notes that no longer exist in the project |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.6
Released on 08.04.2014.
| IMPROVED | Redirect keyboard input that is not consumed by VST plugins to the app on Mac OS X. |
| IMPROVED | Reopen VST plugins with same window position as before on OSX. |
| FIXED | Image line VST GUIs don't work in 1.0.5 but did work in previous versions |
| FIXED | Engine crashed when moving a track or drum chain to a different track with send active |
| FIXED | Exporting audio as wav in floating point format creates a file with garbage audio. |
| FIXED | Engine crashed on windows computers with AMD E-350 processor |
| FIXED | Drum machine sends didn't update the track processing ordering correctly, causing glitches/delays |
| FIXED | Dragging files from the browser that no longer exist on the file system would leak threads causing an eventual out of memory error |
| FIXED | When saving a document wirte it to a temp file first and then move it in case there is a crash when saving - it won't destroy the document |
| FIXED | Crash if saving a project with a nested plugin that was missing. |
| FIXED | Crash if dragging device and insertion point is to a point in the chain that then changes because devices are removed during the drag and drop |
| FIXED | Crash invoking menu item when the original widget is no longer shown |
| FIXED | Dragging a layer from an outer layer device to the layer list in a layer device within the outer layer device crashes |
| FIXED | Crash when duplicating a drum machine that had modulation mappings to a drum pads mixer controls (eg pan and volume) |
| FIXED | Crash when tapping ctrl with nothing focused |
| FIXED | Crash if copy automation for a parameter with discrete possible values and clicking in an automation lane that does not have discrete possible values |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging a device on top of another device that is the same device and the device dragging on top of has modulations |
| FIXED | Crash if custom cache location has been configured but does not exist and can't be created at that location. |
| FIXED | Using avprobe instead of ffprobe for Ubuntu 14.04 compatibility. |
| FIXED | Crash when duplicating a drum machine that had modulations into a device in one of the drum pads |
| FIXED | Manual mapping to a parameter did not get removed when deleting a track |
| FIXED | Drawing a note with the pencil tool and pressing escape leaves the note playing |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging end of audio clip in master track. |
| FIXED | Crash when splitting events using key command in empty clip. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.5
Released on 31.03.2014.
| FIXED | Crash when touching some plugin parameters in their plugin window (crashes in 1.0.4 only). |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.4
Released on 30.03.2014.
| IMPROVED | Improved the VST plugin parameter list, including a joker entry which follows the selection in the plug-in GUI |
| IMPROVED | Added option to automatically show/hide VST-windows when switching tracks. |
| IMPROVED | Show automated button in plug-in parameter list now also include modulated parameters |
| IMPROVED | Keyboard input from VST-windows on windows is now redirected to the main application window |
| FIXED | Convert pitch-bend setting doesn't update when adding/replacing the first instrument on a track |
| FIXED | AHDSR envelope threshold of instant attack was lower than the minimum attack setting on the sampler |
| FIXED | Engine crash when bouncing/rendering/exporting with buffersizes smaller than 256 |
| FIXED | When modulation mapping mode is active pressing the mouse-wheel on a knob acts as a click |
| FIXED | Automation and time-info PDC doesn't work as expected |
| FIXED | Camel Audio Alchemy doesn't remember its data directory |
| FIXED | Saving an existing project to a new directory doesn't copy over the plugin-states |
| FIXED | Crash when starting note drag and drop with an invalid selection. |
| FIXED | the automation one is fixed, for the devices one we have a separate report. |
| FIXED | GUI glitches on Mac OS X. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.3
Released on 27.03.2014.
| FIXED | Crash when reading SF2 files with a sample index which is out of range. |
| FIXED | Crash when toggling solo for a drum pad in a drum machine that is in a slot of a container device |
| FIXED | Some audio interfaces doesn't get detected |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when stopping overdubbed looped clip recording on arranger. |
| FIXED | Pressing Esc when renaming a track still edits the track's name |
| FIXED | Crash when making arranger time selection and then dragging from the automation lane instead of the clip header |
| FIXED | Crash when scanning some shell VST plugins. |
| FIXED | Audio engine crashed sometimes when deleting a VST plugin device with it's window open on Mac OSX |
| FIXED | Crash when showing a popup window on Linux if the window manager sent focus in or out notifications to the popup window |
| FIXED | Crash if delete a track that user is droppig a clip onto before the clip has finished loading |
| FIXED | Preview warp marker are sometimes shown at the wrong location. |
| FIXED | Crash when reversing audio that has not finished loading. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging pitch expression event with shift modifier. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.2
Released on 25.03.2014.
| FIXED | Crash when adding a disk as a library location on windows |
| FIXED | Crash when using knife tool. |
| FIXED | Crash after dragging end of clip. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.1
Released on 24.03.2014.
| NEW | Allow mixer as complimentary panel in the EDIT mode. |
| NEW | Send note expressions to VSTs using GM2 spec (CA23 and SINGLE NOTE TUNING CHANGE, VST needs to canDo "receiveVstSysexEvent") |
| NEW | Better audio meters with optional K20 mode. |
| IMPROVED | Show progress of audio export somewhere. |
| IMPROVED | Limit preview note playing when draggin notes to 0.5s. |
| IMPROVED | Better selection and mouse interactions in multisample editor. |
| IMPROVED | Speed up tempo detection for long files. |
| IMPROVED | Better onset detection. |
| IMPROVED | Better tempo detection. |
| IMPROVED | Preference for setting the default volume of new tracks (default -10dB). |
| IMPROVED | Delete button should work in audio editors time selection without necessity to cut audio event. |
| IMPROVED | Dragging unlooped clip end should not turn on the loop on the clip until the mouse is released. |
| FIXED | Muting of sends form drum-machine solo is broken. |
| FIXED | Automation only works if visible on the gui when bouncing / exporting. |
| FIXED | Tracks that are stopped in the clip launcher don't behave correctly after loading a document |
| FIXED | Fixed randomly occuring engine crash related to sample-streaming |
| FIXED | Browsing multi samples in the multi sampler GUI does not work. |
| FIXED | Dynamics default preset broken. |
| FIXED | Bouncing a clip launcher clip that is currently playing results in clip continuing to play after the bounce, but it is silent. |
| FIXED | Tempo detection seems to be off by a factor of 2 for attached ogg file. |
| FIXED | Audio recordings on clip launcher interfere with each other. |
| FIXED | Session recording should write flat track automation value for lanes that launcher clip has no automation in |
| FIXED | When cancelling a multi clip bounce in a single track you need to cancel each bounce separately. |
| FIXED | Export audio with clip launcher active exports the clip launcher not the arranger. |
| FIXED | Dragging a slot in mid/side split to other slot creates a layer device in the destination slot. |
| FIXED | Dragging nested device chain that does not have its own mixer crashes. |
| FIXED | Automation is not saved in clips when dragged from arranger. |
| FIXED | Undo behaves erratic for EQ5 changes. |
| FIXED | Don't analyze onsets for audio files unless they get time stretched |
| FIXED | "Start transport on record" setting does not work if you use F9 to toggle record. |
| FIXED | Files or folders with non-ascii characters doesn't show up in browser on mac at all. |
| FIXED | Various improvements to editing raw audio events. |
| FIXED | Quintole and Septole Beat Grid Subdivisions are working as Straight and Triplet. |
| FIXED | Grid resolutions 1/1, 1/2 and 1/4 show the same 1/1 grid. |
| FIXED | Changing color of a clip on clip launcher or arranger does not update the color for the loop region and cue markers in the clip contents detail editor |
| FIXED | Clicking on a note in the layered track editor should make that note's track the cursor track in the layer list. |