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This document lists the changes since previous versions of Bitwig Studio.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.13
Released on 13.08.2014.
| IMPROVED | Various improvements in Arturia KeyLab scripts. |
| IMPROVED | Minor style tweak in controller API documentation. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging a drum pad to another drum pad. |
| FIXED | Regression: automation recording inserts additional points with default value or does not work in some cases. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.12
Released on 12.08.2014.
| IMPROVED | JavaScript stub generator for Controller API needs latest updates from TeotiGraphix repository. |
| FIXED | Copying or duplicating a plugin device with automation in a clip does not duplicate the automation for parameters in the plugin device |
| FIXED | Moving a nested device chain could cause weird problems/crashes if the chain's mixer had automation for some of it's parameters (eg volume or pan). |
| FIXED | Dragging a nested device chain (with automation to a mixer parameter for the chain) to a new track would leave the document in a broken state and cause crash on save |
| FIXED | Note editor piano keyboard doesn't audition keys until a note is added to the clip. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.12 RC1
Released on 08.08.2014.
| IMPROVED | MIDI output on OSX sends always 3 bytes data, but should send only one byte in case of realtime data and two bytes in case of channel pressure and program change. |
| IMPROVED | Added javascript stubs for syntax-completion of the controller API within your IDE when developing scripts. Thanks to Michael Schmalle (Teotigraphix) for contributing the code for generating it, and thanks to Trappar for initial inspiration of Michael's project by providing hand-written API stubs. |
| FIXED | Crashes when adding/removing removable media and performance lock-ups on windows. |
| FIXED | Loud audio blowouts using the E-kick device with certain parameter settings. |
| FIXED | Regression: changing shuffle time needs audio engine restart to take effect in 1.0.11. |
| FIXED | MIDI clock sync does not work on Linux. |
| FIXED | Hidden directories are not scanned for VSTs, even when specifically added as location. |
| FIXED | Package manager list of packages could sometimes look broken when switching back and forth between the online and DVD packs. |
| FIXED | Crash if search indexes somehow get corrupted or truncated. |
| FIXED | Slicing an audio clip unwarped on the arranger to a drum or multi sampler would create incorrect slice playback clip in the drum track if the clip being sliced did not start at time 0 |
| FIXED | Slice to drum machine does not create slice for the last onset. |
| FIXED | External Instrument: change of MIDI channel requires audio engine restart to take effect. |
| FIXED | Korg NanoKontrol2 script has a problem with switching devices. |
| FIXED | Dragging a clip launcher note selection to a new clip does not work anymore. |
| FIXED | Resizing start of reversed raw audio event affects event end time in some cases. |
| FIXED | Adaptive timeline grid mode should be disabled when the user changes grid subdivisions. |
| FIXED | Device Macros: when set to bipolar and automated, curve editing is broken after project reload. |
| FIXED | Zooming and adjusting timeline grid settings using keyboard shortcuts does not work on certain keyboards. |
| FIXED | Note editor piano keyboard plays notes on wrong track after moving clip to another track while keeping clip selection unchanged. |
| FIXED | Piano roll keys in layered editing play wrong track. |
| FIXED | Doubling content of selected arranger clip also unselects it, thus makes the note editor lose it. |
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. |
| FIXED | Undo not available in certain conditions. |
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 due to somehow being able to drag an empty selection of device layers |
| 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 | Occassional crash when dragging over an automation lane in the arranger clip launcher |
| FIXED | Various rare and random crashes when displaying the GUI. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging a layer device with layers from a main track onto an effect track |
| FIXED | Crash when occassionally dragging clips between tracks on the arranger with the single track insert modifier pressed. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when working with rectangular selection. |
| 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. |
| FIXED | Crash when stretching start of audio event after order of beat markers got incorrect somehow. |
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 | 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. |
| FIXED | Copying muted notes creates unmuted copy. |
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. |
| 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 | Drum machine sends didn't update the track processing ordering correctly, causing glitches/delays |
| FIXED | Engine crashed on windows computers with AMD E-350 processor |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Audio engine crashed sometimes when deleting a VST plugin device with it's window open on Mac OSX |
| 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. |