Release Notes

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This document lists the changes since previous versions of Bitwig Studio.

Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.15

Released on 13.10.2014.

IMPROVED Show progress when auto-detecting controllers.
IMPROVED Made auto-detecting of MIDI controllers faster.
IMPROVED Add support for AKAI EWI controller.
IMPROVED Add keyboard shortcut for zoom to fit (Cmd/Ctrl+0).
IMPROVED When a disk-streaming buffer-underrun occurs (for instance when jumping to a location in a sample which could not be predicted), a fade.in is now applied when the streaming catches up to prevent clicks.
IMPROVED Updated scripts from Livid Instruments.
FIXED Plugin's window header is sometimes out of screen on Windows.
FIXED Add SysEx probe command to control surface console.
FIXED Parameter names not shown for UAD (and some other) plug-ins.
FIXED Freeze when moving MOD device within another MOD device's FX chain.
FIXED EQs could blow-up when using extreme Q values with four-pole LP/HP filters.
FIXED UAD plug-ins all get the title "UAD powered plugin" when added to the device chain.
FIXED Improved Linux MIDI support - Virtual MIDI now works.
FIXED Crash when undoing the deletion of an automation lane for an indexed value atom.
FIXED Crash if using the bounce modifier and deleting the destination before the bounce completes.
FIXED Hybrid audio/MIDI interface M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 not recognized as MIDI device in Linux.
FIXED Overdubbing notes in the clip launcher does not end the undo operation when the user turns off the overdub button.
FIXED Crash when dragging arranger clips with automation follow in some circumstances.
FIXED Selecting automation points on the arranger using rectangular selection tool is extremely slow even when zoomed in on small part of the automation.
FIXED OSX gatekeeper trouble introduced by OSX 10.9.5 and 10.10 Preview.
FIXED Auditioning is too loud when changing velocity of notes.
FIXED NI Maschine drag and drop from plugin into the host does not work.
FIXED Crash on OSX when switching display profile while an audio interface is configured that is not available anymore.

Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.14

Released on 11.09.2014.

IMPROVED Add context menu to device macros to swap the macro with another macro.
FIXED VST plugins don't open GUI anymore when dragged to the second screen on windows.
FIXED Crash when pasting various clip and time selections into a drum pad.
FIXED Deleting a track that is being recorded into would stop the undo history and saving of documents from working.
FIXED Crash when copying tempo automation to the clipboard and then moving the paste cursor into volume automation lane.
FIXED Regression from 1.0.13: bipolar macro mappings work only in one direction.
FIXED Crash when undoing track deletion in some circumstances.
FIXED Launchpad: launching scenes confuses orientations in mix-orientation mode.

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 Regression: automation recording inserts additional points with default value or does not work in some cases.
FIXED Crash when dragging a drum pad to another drum pad.

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 Crash when dragging a layer device with layers from a main track onto an effect track.
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 Copying or duplicating a plugin device with automation in a clip does not duplicate the automation for parameters in the plugin device.
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 Regression: changing shuffle time needs audio engine restart to take effect in 1.0.11.
FIXED Loud audio blowouts using the E-kick device with certain parameter settings.
FIXED Crashes when adding/removing removable media and performance lock-ups on windows.
FIXED External Instrument: change of MIDI channel requires audio engine restart to take effect.
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 Crash if search indexes somehow get corrupted or truncated.
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 Slice to drum machine does not create slice for the last onset.
FIXED Korg NanoKontrol2 script has a problem with switching devices.
FIXED Doubling content of selected arranger clip also unselects it, thus makes the note editor lose it.
FIXED Device Macros: when set to bipolar and automated, curve editing is broken after project reload.
FIXED Piano roll keys in layered editing play wrong track.
FIXED Adaptive timeline grid mode should be disabled when the user changes grid subdivisions.
FIXED Resizing start of reversed raw audio event affects event end time in some cases.
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 Dragging a clip launcher note selection to a new clip does not work anymore.

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 Bouncing a multi-selection of clips would sometimes hang the engine.
FIXED Rare crash when deleting a launcher clip.
FIXED Rare crash when trying to activate the engine for a document that is being closed.
FIXED Hot plugging and removing discs did not correctly update in the file browser tab.
FIXED Undo not available in certain conditions.
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 Improved Export Audio dialog.
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 Allow sorting of devices in the device browser based either on vendor or location.
FIXED Certain wav files couldn't be loaded.
FIXED Crash on startup if vst-metadata file is corrupted.
FIXED Crash when selecting a controller note input for a hybrid track and then selecting an audio note input and then undoing.
FIXED Cancelling the save dialog for a modified document when quitting means it is no longer possible to quit the application.
FIXED Crash when browsing a file that has unicode surrogate pairs in its name.
FIXED Occasional errors when saving plugin states that should not be errors.
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 Very rare crash when browsing some plugins.
FIXED Openning the package manager always causes a rescan of repositories and forgets about the currently installing packs.
FIXED Crash when occassionally dragging clips between tracks on the arranger with the single track insert modifier pressed.
FIXED Launchpad does not update lights when switching modes on Linux.
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 Various rare and random crashes when displaying the GUI.
FIXED Rare crash when working with rectangular selection.
FIXED Regression: crash when setting note start to selected warp marker.
FIXED Crash when adjusting curvature of expression events.
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.

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 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.
FIXED Crash sometimes when showing a plugin loading error message.

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 On Windows updates in the browser could be incorrect when modifying files.
FIXED Glitch VST does not show the plugin window on Linux.
FIXED Showing expanded device popup menu does not close the compact device menu.
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).

Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.9 RC2

Released on 10.06.2014.

FIXED VST plugin devices were mixed alphabetically with the folders they were in.
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 Double-click audio event header to split event only works in clips that start at time zero.
FIXED Clicking above or below a note in folded note editor would audition the note if audition is enabled.
FIXED Layered note editor in clip mode does not paint notes in locked layers ghosted.

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 Windows documents folder location problem.
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 Issues with buffer-sizes over 256 samples.
FIXED Key tracking in sampler does not have any effect when assigned.
FIXED Modulation pie in sampler shows wrong values when played if parameters are mapped to polyphonic modulators.
FIXED Not possible to overdub clip launcher clips that are longer than the current arranger loop-.
FIXED Add ability to configure "My Library" location and show it by default in the browser.
FIXED Copy modifier used to switch between dragging multiple files as single or multiple tracks was broken.
FIXED Repeated text characters are not typed on Linux.
FIXED Cursor device in Akai MPKmini script does not work as expected.
FIXED Problem with selecting devices in Korg nanoKontrol script.
FIXED Reversing a clip has no effect on raw audio events.
FIXED Copying muted notes creates unmuted copy.
FIXED Insert silence does not move automation.
FIXED Muted state of notes is not visualized in folded note editor.
FIXED Wrong time offset when moving onsets in later clip loop iterations in arranger note editor.
FIXED Time selection has wrong range when selecting expression events or beat markers in arranger note editor.
FIXED Note editor layers might still be visible after clips/tracks get removed due to undo operation.

Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.8

Released on 05.05.2014.

FIXED Modulated value pie was not shown correctly for some values.
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 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 EQ2/5 display now show modulation.
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 Use pixel threshold for adjusting note length and velocity using pencil tool.
IMPROVED Individual note-length memory per track.
IMPROVED Note pencil tool should disconnect mouse cursor during dragging to avoid limitations of movement.
IMPROVED Can't drop MIDI file on existing track.
FIXED Wrong default value for Step MOD (32/1).
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 Midi drag&drop from microtonic didn't work on windows.
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 MIDI file export.
NEW Automatically backup the state of plugins every minute when the engine is not playing.
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 Audition notes (if enabled) when adjusting note velocity.
IMPROVED Improved efficiency of monitoring library locations when new files are copied or deleted from library locations.
IMPROVED Better VST keyboard handling on windows.
IMPROVED Remember last note length when using pencil tool for notes.
IMPROVED Avoid note start jumping when using note pencil tool.
IMPROVED Audition notes when clicking on them (if enabled).
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 Importing type-0 MIDI files should split events into different tracks based on MIDI channels.
IMPROVED Importing MIDI file should consider tempo meta events.
IMPROVED Importing MIDI file should consider track name metadata.
FIXED Saving a clip with a device containing a layer device in a slot would crash.
FIXED Crash when reversing very long files.
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 Bouncing sometimes missed notes if it was started at the exact same location as the transport last stopped.
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 Crash when saving plugin state for a plugin that is no longer in the document.
FIXED Novation Launchpad does not work on Linux.
FIXED Crash when moving clip from effect to non-empty master track.
FIXED Stretching audio events might result in overlapping events.
FIXED Changing velocity in piano roll editor via Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Drag should also work when the target note is not selected yet.
FIXED Rare crash when double-clicking on clip in clip-launcher to show its contents.
FIXED Dragging note or audio event start can result in overlapping notes.
FIXED Note velocity cannot be changed by dragging not with modifier if note is not selected.
FIXED Random crash when tooltip hides on Mac OS X.
FIXED Crash when splitting at onsets, then quantising to wider grid than event lengths, then dragging event start.

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 Drum channels cannot be expanded in the mixer for a document after openning another document and closing the new one.
FIXED If audio engine crashes during a recording then leave the project in a sensible state.
FIXED Crash when copying a plugin device to clipboard then pasting in the browser to save a preset.
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 Exporting audio as wav in floating point format creates a file with garbage audio.
FIXED Engine crashed when moving a track or drum chain to a different track with send active.
FIXED Image line VST GUIs don't work in 1.0.5 but did work in previous versions.
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 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 when duplicating a drum machine that had modulation mappings to a drum pads mixer controls (eg pan and volume).
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 Using avprobe instead of ffprobe for Ubuntu 14.04 compatibility.
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 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 if custom cache location has been configured but does not exist and can't be created at that location.
FIXED Crash when tapping ctrl with nothing focused.
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 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 Keyboard input from VST-windows on windows is now redirected to the main application window.
IMPROVED Show automated button in plug-in parameter list now also include modulated parameters.
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 Camel Audio Alchemy doesn't remember its data directory.
FIXED Automation and time-info PDC doesn't work as expected.
FIXED Saving an existing project to a new directory doesn't copy over the plugin-states.
FIXED the automation one is fixed, for the devices one we have a separate report. .
FIXED Crash when starting note drag and drop with an invalid selection.
FIXED GUI glitches on Mac OS X.

Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.0.3

Released on 27.03.2014.

FIXED Some audio interfaces doesn't get detected.
FIXED Crash when toggling solo for a drum pad in a drum machine that is in a slot of a container device.
FIXED Crash when reading SF2 files with a sample index which is out of range.
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 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 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 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 when painting automation in lane that is not in the track anymore.
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 Better selection and mouse interactions in multisample editor.
IMPROVED Speed up tempo detection for long files.
IMPROVED Better onset detection.
IMPROVED Limit preview note playing when draggin notes to 0.5s.
IMPROVED Preference for setting the default volume of new tracks (default -10dB).
IMPROVED Better tempo detection.
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 Dragging a slot in mid/side split to other slot creates a layer device in the destination slot.
FIXED Export audio with clip launcher active exports the clip launcher not the arranger.
FIXED When cancelling a multi clip bounce in a single track you need to cancel each bounce separately.
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.