Thank you for downloading Bitwig Studio 1.3.0.
This document lists the changes since
previous versions of Bitwig Studio.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.0
Released on 20.10.2015.
| NEW | Multi-touch support for Windows and Linux. |
| FIXED | Audio engine crashes sometimes when launching a clip on the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Piz midi plugins can't be loaded anymore. |
| FIXED | Closing a document that has exceeded limitations in Bitwig 8-Track does not warn that changes will be lost. |
| FIXED | Controller API: cursor device does not work on track group device chains. |
| FIXED | Crash when opening a project that had a slot selected in the output track of a nested track group and the track group was not expanded. |
| FIXED | Crash when selecting track on hardware controller while closing document. |
| FIXED | No audio inputs shown if you select "none" as input device before selecting an aggregated device as output. |
| FIXED | Controller API: user and send controls cannot be used as source for manual mappings. |
| FIXED | Invalid multi sample files can crash the application when scanning library locations. |
| FIXED | Dragging a clip or a preset to the browser to save did not work if you hovered over the folder area in the side panel browser. |
| FIXED | LFO phase parameter doesn't work in synced mode with retrig off and playback running. |
| FIXED | Controller API: device.loadPreset(int) does not work anymore in 1.2.0. |
| FIXED | Using up/down arrows in popup browser moved the cursor but did not select the file in the list as well. |
| IMPROVED | VST windows are shown in front of other applications when Bitwig Studio is not active. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.2.0
Released on 30.09.2015.
| NEW | Automatic quantization of recorded notes. |
| NEW | Oscilloscope device. |
| NEW | Inspector for devices - makes it more convenient to keep overview about modulation mappings. |
| NEW | Pop-up Browser: Context sensitive browser that enables more convenient and faster browsing of devices, presets, samples, multi-samples and clips, and allows to audition choices before inserting. |
| NEW | Per-project action mappings for MIDI controllers (both raw MIDI and via controller scripts) and computer keyboard. |
| NEW | Support for high resolution displays on OS X (Retina) and Windows (High-DPI). |
| NEW | Customizable keyboard mappings including MIDI controller support. |
| NEW | Jack support including Jack Transport on all platforms. |
| NEW | Group Tracks. |
| NEW | Support for new MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) specification. |
| NEW | Double-size clip slots in mixer view. |
| NEW | Delay-4 device. |
| NEW | Add template support. |
| NEW | Add ALSA support. |
| NEW | Basic multi-touch support on Linux. |
| FIXED | Clip launcher clips we're slowly drifting apart due to accumulating rounding error. |
| FIXED | Instrument Track input chooser button shows empty string when selecting renamed controllers for the first time. |
| FIXED | Crash if rescan of plugin in plugin error list window took some time and window was closed before plugin scan completed. |
| FIXED | Engine on Mac OSX crashes sometimes if a plugin crashes. |
| FIXED | Crash when applying legato to raw audio events. |
| FIXED | Some equalizer bands could go below 20Hz. |
| FIXED | Icons for file types do not show up in file manager after installing Bitwig Studio on Ubuntu . |
| FIXED | Application icon no longer shows for Bitwig Studio on Ubuntu. |
| FIXED | Saving of VST plugin states crashes the plugin host on Windows. |
| FIXED | Macro section displays "Default Preset" after loading a saved VST preset. |
| FIXED | Arranger cue markers and loop region should always show the events from the top level group. |
| FIXED | LFO Phase parameter stopped working when Retrig is on. |
| FIXED | Application crash when ungrouping a group track containing a track which routes notes to the track group output. |
| FIXED | Crash when showing context menu for a modulation source that is modulating a parameter that is not available (eg if plugin not loaded). |
| FIXED | Moving track in or out of group track stops playback of clip launcher clip. |
| FIXED | Crash when consolidating clips on the arranger while the note editor is looking inside one of the clips being consolidated. |
| FIXED | If you load a project that makes use of a sample that is part of a library pack, but the pack is currently not installed on the machine that loads it, you'll get the message: "This file is available in the package manager. Would you like to download and install it?" Bug: If you click "Yes", nothing happens. |
| FIXED | Engine crash related to sends of nested device chains. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when calling addDeviceCountObserver on device bank of cursor track. |
| FIXED | Shortcut modifiers are shown wrong on different operating systems (eg "super" on Mac). |
| FIXED | Potential crash when no insertion layer is selected in layered note editor. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when dragging and dropping clips in the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Big clip height does not resize the group's scene header in the mixer. |
| FIXED | Controller API: add selectInEditor to device interface. |
| FIXED | Audio engine can't connect to new projects sometimes when dragging tracks from one project to the project tab bar. |
| FIXED | Not possible to select a waveform background in layered note editor. |
| FIXED | Dragging a no looping clip from the arranger to the clip launcher does not set the correct loop region. |
| FIXED | Crash when in mixer view and cursor is in mini device chain and arrow right from last track when the effect tracks are not visible. |
| FIXED | Showing the input/output section in the arranger resulted in the track names getting shorter. |
| FIXED | Search field is not focussed when opening Popup Browser via Drum Machine. |
| FIXED | Occasional crash when dragging empty scenes in clip launcher. |
| FIXED | When saving clips or presets and clicking ok the last tag in the tag field would not be committed if the user had not typed space after it. |
| FIXED | Impossible to create Smart Collections within a folder on Windows machines. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging 2 empty scenes in clip launcher after the last scene in the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Saved scenes would output to "No output" and could not be previewed in the browser. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when moving cursor for the any file result of a filter column in the browser. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when double clicking recently used document in file browser. |
| FIXED | Crash when working with mappings in old documents that contains plugins that can't be found. |
| FIXED | Zooming in clip content note editor does not take loop region of empty clips into account. |
| FIXED | Controller script does not reach the maximum value if they overflow the range 0..127. |
| FIXED | When dragging in a MIDI file with tempo automation ask the user if they want to import the tempo from the clip or not. |
| FIXED | Duplicate does not work for Effect tracks. |
| FIXED | Controller API: track position observer should take navigation context into account. |
| FIXED | Links to web site from help menu did not work on Linux. |
| FIXED | Tag input field doesn't create tags from pending text input when losing focus. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when using selectNext/Previous with named device cursor. |
| FIXED | Remember state of popup browser when browsing for samples or multi samples for a sampler. |
| FIXED | "Copy value to all layers" and "Copy modulation to all layers" don't work correctly in some situations. |
| FIXED | Solo for the source track does not work correctly when using VST side-chaining. |
| FIXED | Adjusting time/secs of a beat marker by dragging inspector value is not applied. |
| FIXED | Crash when openning a document from native file manager before the main window of the application was shown. |
| FIXED | Stopping the playback in the middle of a sustain-pedaled note playing creates hanging note. |
| FIXED | Unable to drag individual tracks for a document from the file browser. |
| FIXED | Window disappears from screen on Windows sometimes. |
| FIXED | Engine crashes when connecting to document when a scene file is selected in the browser. |
| FIXED | Renaming a device does not create an undo step. |
| FIXED | Renaming a track in the inspector creates an undo step for every single character entered. |
| FIXED | The same shortcut can be added multiple times to a single action and application would crash when deleting the shortcut mappings. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging an empty MIDI clip into the application. |
| FIXED | Pasted notes are not inserted into the correct layer in layered note editor. |
| FIXED | Deleting or installing a VST while app is running does not cause the preset browser to update with the change. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when deleting a track. |
| FIXED | Soloing group with subgroups doesn't play/solo the subgroups. |
| FIXED | Controller API: opening application panels such as browser should not try to focus them first. |
| FIXED | Controller API: cannot select first device in chain via cursorDevice.selectPrevious(). |
| FIXED | Bouncing a clip on a track in a group to a new track should create the new track within the group. |
| FIXED | Sends of single device chains don't get muted if you mute the main channel. |
| FIXED | Files embedded in clips were not extracted into the project folder when dragged into project. |
| FIXED | Crash when switching documents with some controllers connected. |
| FIXED | Crash when control script connects to a plugin device under some circumstances. |
| FIXED | Moving the currently playing scene stops clip launcher playback. |
| FIXED | Time and value fields are missing in note expression event inspector. |
| FIXED | Inspector shows old button style for mute and solo buttons when clicking on a layer device chain. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when selecting device via controller API. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when switching VST presets on controller. |
| FIXED | Context menu for a track in a track group shows a blank line instead of the item to show popup browser. |
| FIXED | When dragging a scene file to the clip launcher the preview did not update correctly when moving to a different scene. |
| FIXED | Shift and right click to open popup browser on favorites should work in empty space too not just directly over the + button. |
| FIXED | Edit file metadata does not work for bwscene files. |
| FIXED | Add action to show plugin device window. |
| FIXED | When removing a library location it does not get removed from the search results if the cursor is currently inside that location. |
| FIXED | When dragging multiple audio files from the browser and using Ctrl key to put them in one track the files were still put in separate tracks. |
| FIXED | Routing choosers show the device preset name instead of the name of the device. |
| FIXED | Dragging arranger time to clip launcher should make slot empty if no content on arranger. |
| IMPROVED | Display the band's frequency in EQ-2 and EQ-5 devices. |
| IMPROVED | Add graph to dynamic devices, such as Audio Mod, Compressor, Dynamics, LFO Mod, Peak Meter, Gate and Transient Control. |
| IMPROVED | Allow to rename devices. |
| IMPROVED | Better support for touch and pen input devices. |
| IMPROVED | Better font rendering. |
| IMPROVED | Modulation mappings from polyphonic sources to monophonic destinations. |
| IMPROVED | Attack and sustain modulation sources for Transient Control device. |
| IMPROVED | Clips on Master and Effect tracks can only be dragged to pre-existing audio or instrument tracks. . |
| IMPROVED | Shortcut changes: "B" for popup browser, "Alt-B" for side panel browser. |
| IMPROVED | When saving a scene, prefill dialog with scene name. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: add observer that reports if a device is a plugin. |
| IMPROVED | Add context menu entries for deleting clip automation to editor background, launcher clip overview and automated parameter controls. |
| IMPROVED | Arpeggiator now analyses incoming note expressions and applies them to generated notes. |
| IMPROVED | Focus should not change unless user is making a selection or clicking in empty area of a panel. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: add function to toggle PreRoll. |
| IMPROVED | Stronger highlight for played keys in piano roll editor. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: add access to siblings of a track. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: track bank should allow to navigate flat track list, so that simple controllers work with tracks groups. |
| IMPROVED | Added jitter meter to the DSP Performance Graph which will shows how stable the audio processing scheduling is. If its not in the single-digit percentages try another buffer size. |
| IMPROVED | The user can tell Bitwig Studio to forget about deleted projects in the recent document list. |
| IMPROVED | Remember the next track color. |
| IMPROVED | Shift + Click on the meter's peak value resets all the meter's peak values. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: fixed direct parameters should be listed before dynamic direct parameters (e.g. in layer device). |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: add option that controls if siblings track bank contains effect tracks and master track. . |
| IMPROVED | Clicking a track header now updates the note editor to show that track. |
| IMPROVED | MMC transport support for generic controller scripts. |
| IMPROVED | No way of knowing the tuning (in note) of a tune-related parameter other than by changing its value (therefore detuning it). |
| IMPROVED | When saving a project always collect files that are in another project folder to the one we are saving. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.1.11
Released on 28.08.2015.
| FIXED | Polysynth doesn't play the same sound when you want in repetition. |
| FIXED | Crash when loading MIDI file with tempo events. |
| FIXED | Open plugin GUIs don't disappear when deactivating the engine. |
| FIXED | Roland VSTs crash audio engine. |
| FIXED | Connecting Arturia BeatStep Pro breaks listing of connected MIDI controllers on OSX. |
| FIXED | Application might not start on OSX when a non-local URL is in the clipboard. |
| FIXED | Wrong raw playback with activated arrangement loop. |
| FIXED | Engine freeze when creating an audio track after loading a specific project. |
| FIXED | Tooltips would sometimes hang around on the screen when they shouldn't. |
| FIXED | Writing automation for switch parameters such as the sustain pedal was resulting in ramps instead of straight edges. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.1.10
Released on 18.07.2015.
| FIXED | Saving a clip that contained a VST plugin that had modulation for one of it's parameters would not restore the unmodulated value correctly when dragging clip back into a project. |
| FIXED | Engine crashes when overdub recording into multiple launcher clips that are triggered by follow actions. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.1.9
Released on 09.07.2015.
| FIXED | Deleting master track would not delete the master track but would stop audio output. |
| FIXED | Slicing reversed audio to Drum Machine does not work. |
| FIXED | Automation lanes with renameable parameters forget their name after save/load and display empty strings instead. |
| FIXED | Rare crash on Mac when file system notifies us of a file being removed in a folder we are monitoring. |
| FIXED | Default value for pitch bend automation is -100%. |
| FIXED | Inserting expression events at the end of a long raw audio event sometimes snaps to incorrect times. |
| FIXED | Playhead is not moving in absolute arranger clip automation editor. |
| FIXED | Selecting a bookmark location and then dragging clip or preset to the results are in file browser would save the clip to the default library location and not the bookmark location. |
| IMPROVED | Update scripts for Livid Instruments controllers. |
| IMPROVED | Link to support web site in help menu lands at home page instead of support page. |
| IMPROVED | Improve menu navigation using the keyboard. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.1.8
Released on 21.05.2015.
| IMPROVED | Sound Content and FM4 presets update. |