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Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.11
Released on 21.06.2016.
| FIXED | Workaround for compiler bug that caused crashes sometimes when repositioning or resizing a popup-window |
| FIXED | Browser collections would disappear if the contained the '/' character. Now don't allow characters that are not valid in file names to be used when creating a new collection and show an error message if the user does this. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.10
Released on 16.06.2016.
| NEW | Support for Hercules P32 DJ controller provided by Jürgen Mossgraber. |
| FIXED | Crash when replacing a launcher clip with key assignment and then triggering the key. |
| FIXED | Crash when showing popup browser for a device where the device sort mode was saved in the project as vendor but on loading the new sort mode is by location. |
| FIXED | Sends of group tracks are not audible when soloing the return track. |
| FIXED | Saving a preset that embeds two different files with the same name is not possible. |
| FIXED | Auto/Pre/Post setting for sends of Drum machine layers resets after saving and loading the set. |
| FIXED | Send of subtracks in groups are not muted when soloing other tracks. |
| FIXED | Crash when openning a project that had a track group scene and a clip selected on the clip launcher when it was last saved. |
| FIXED | Workaround for bug in OSX El Capitan that causes full-screen GUI painting being slow when using certain graphics chips (13" Retina Macbook Pro). |
| FIXED | When you have VST window open and load a new VST from pop-up browser, the first plugin's window is on top of the newly inserted plugin. |
| FIXED | Duplicating an audio event in arranger note editor results in overlapping events. |
| FIXED | Window positions of multi monitor setups are not restored on OSX when quitting and restarting app. |
| FIXED | When openning very old projects where the plugin states were stored as separate files in the project folder the plugin states would not be found. |
| FIXED | On Windows the engine can crash but leaves child plugin host processes around causing complete lockup of the application. |
| FIXED | Open u-he plugin while playing an automation GUI triggers automation override. |
| FIXED | Stretch modes do not pass phase cancellation with Raw mode when playing back at original tempo. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when dragging tracks and automation in the source tracks is deleted while we are dragging them. |
| FIXED | Bouncing a scene or meta clip creates a track inside the group track instead of alongside it. |
| FIXED | Roll over play button and overview are not shown on bwscene files. |
| FIXED | Double kick bug in Clip Launcher. |
| FIXED | When moving a window between screens with different scaling factors the window could get into a flickering state where the window couldn't decide which screen it belonged to. |
| FIXED | Pop-up windows and context-menus had the wrong scaling-factor in certain multi-monitor setups. |
| FIXED | Certain files are not accepted due to a problem parsing tags. |
| FIXED | Crash on OSX when trying to paint popup window. |
| FIXED | Audio input channels are mapped to wrong hardware channels on OSX when using audio device that has inputs for audio output and a separate device for audio input. |
| FIXED | Sometimes, the DSP Performance Graph cannot be moved until it is resized first. |
| FIXED | Text input on Linux only uses default keyboard layout - changing layout does not work. |
| FIXED | Caps lock is sometimes inverted when entering text on Linux systems. |
| FIXED | Controller Surface API: ChannelBank.scrollSends* methods may do nothing. |
| FIXED | Control surface API looks weird on Linux. |
| FIXED | Added workaround for Roland plugins which didn't work properly in sandboxed hosts. |
| FIXED | Sluggish GUI response in some situations on OSX El Capitan. |
| IMPROVED | Improved compatibility with Seaboard RISE and EQUATOR. |
| IMPROVED | Move the tags column in the popup browser so it is next to the category column to which it closely relates. |
| IMPROVED | When searching in popup browser show hit count for all tabs. |
| IMPROVED | Controller Surface API: add ChannelBank.scrollToSend(position). |
| IMPROVED | Performance: Showing the popup browser with a very large sample library (close to 1 million sample files) would take a while to list the devices even though the samples tab wasn't shown. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.9
Released on 05.04.2016.
| NEW | Integrate u-he presets into the browser and allow hot-swapping of u-he presets and devices in the popup browser. |
| FIXED | Notes which start at the exact time when the clip ends would sometimes play even though they shouldn't. |
| FIXED | Clips that contain lots of notes are very slow to select when selecting clips on the arranger. |
| FIXED | Note painting is incorrect for a note that starts in one clip and continues in the next. |
| FIXED | TextEditor does not calculate properly the cursor position when the string starts with whitespaces. |
| FIXED | Engine crashes when switching to another project before the plugins in the current project have finished loading. |
| FIXED | Random application crashes on OSX. |
| FIXED | Open containing folder for a VST plugin on Mac results in error. |
| FIXED | When editing arranger clip automation, lots of track automation events at clip end are created. |
| FIXED | Can't undo assignment of a preset to a VST plugin when assigning preset within Bitwig Studio (e.g from browser). |
| FIXED | Regression: Possible to get feedback loops in some rare cases due to recent PDC changes in 1.3.8. |
| FIXED | Controller API: createCursorDevice returns null when being called without argument. |
| FIXED | Regression in 1.3.8: note end might be painted one pixel off. |
| FIXED | Dragging boolean clip automation onto numerical automation crashes app. |
| FIXED | When replacing plugin using popup browser and selecting a preset of another device and then pressing ok 2 devices are inserted in the chain. |
| IMPROVED | Default quantization setting should be 16th instead of adaptive editor grid. |
| IMPROVED | Improve library indexing times for subsequent launches of the application. |
| IMPROVED | Search for ffprobe/ffmepg or avprobe/avconf on Linux. |
| IMPROVED | ROLI Searbord RISE: Added MPE pitch bend range control in script preferences and send the range on the right channel. |
| IMPROVED | Improve the category detection for u-he presets based on the folder they are found in. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.8
Released on 21.03.2016.
| NEW | Added Post Recording Actions to clip launcher which are activated after a specified duration has been recorded. This can be used to record clips of a predetermined fixed length as well as to record multiple takes automatically to multiple clips. |
| FIXED | Crash when changing drum machine preset for another preset using the popup browser and having previously selected a pad that does not have a chain in the preset selected. |
| FIXED | Muted clips are not visually distinguishable from unmuted clips in clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Creating a clip in the clip launcher using different time signature than 4/4 still creates a clip with 4 quarters duration. |
| FIXED | When importing MIDI files the clip length should be calculated from the content instead of from MIDI metadata. |
| FIXED | When opening timeline context menu only update time selection when clicking outside of selected time range, otherwise delete command will not work correctly for automation. |
| FIXED | Exporting MIDI file should ignore muted notes. |
| FIXED | Zoom to fit leaves too much space in timeline editors. |
| FIXED | Clip launcher note editor sometimes jumps to time before content start when stopping playback with playback follow enabled. |
| FIXED | Moving multiple continuous clips with "automation follows clips" activated creates unneccessary automation dots at the boundries of the clips. |
| FIXED | When clicking on header area of a drum note lane that does not contain notes, it should also reset the time selection to avoid accidental deletion with standby time selection. |
| FIXED | Instrument notes are not truncated at the clip boundry when consolidating. |
| FIXED | Pasting text from the clipboard on OSX does not work. |
| FIXED | Free running automation is not shown correctly in content preview section of launcher clips. |
| FIXED | When there is a long list of items that needs to be scrolled in a menu it is not possible to select menu items using touch that are not visible. |
| FIXED | Changing track color while detail editor being open does not repaint notes. |
| FIXED | Macro section displays "Default Preset" after loading a saved VST preset via the popup browser into an existing VST plugin. |
| FIXED | Projects with editors set to triplets don't show correct value in grid subdivision fields. |
| FIXED | Notes in drum MIDI files that have zero length should be interpreted as 16th when importing into Bitwig Studio. |
| FIXED | Controller API: Crash when creating named device cursors from onMidi callback. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when using device layer bank. |
| FIXED | Effect track is called audio track in context menu. |
| FIXED | On Linux the window shifts down by the size of the title bar each time the application is started. |
| FIXED | Crash if bouncing a track region in place and before the bounce has completed deleting the track. |
| FIXED | Moving notes by a tiny amount using the inspector creates lots of duplicates. |
| FIXED | Some devices get clipped along the bottom edge when scaling is not 100%. |
| FIXED | Playhead starts in wrong position and not from the blue play marker after bounce. |
| FIXED | Importing corrupt midi files that have track names that contain the null character results in a project that cannot be opened once saved. |
| FIXED | Dragging a track from one project to another that referered to a sample that was collected and saved on a different machine in the source project would not find the samples when dropped in the destination project. |
| FIXED | When saving a new clip the BPM is set to 110 and not the project's current tempo. |
| FIXED | Not possible to move the loop start for a clip beyond bar 250 using inspector but dragging loop region allows this. |
| FIXED | Undo history breaks if you move an automation point and hit the right mouse key while doing so. |
| FIXED | Sometimes engine crashes on OSX when connecting to document. |
| FIXED | OSX engine crash when scanning certain audio devices. |
| FIXED | Regression: pasting text does not work on OSX. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when deleting a track or moving it out of it's group. |
| FIXED | Crash when trying to select parent device via controller API. |
| FIXED | Automation recording would be turned on by punch in or end of pre-roll if "Write Automation on Record" setting was on in preferences but this should only apply when the user manually turns on the record button. |
| FIXED | Controller API: selecting layers in device layer bank does not work correctly. |
| FIXED | Controller API: allow to launch either group track scenes or the clips of the group's master track via clip launcher interface. |
| FIXED | Controller API: observer for clip launcher slot selected state does not report correct value when pointing cursor track to another track. |
| FIXED | Favouriting an item in the browser column scrolls back to the selected item in the list. |
| FIXED | Pinning device for a selected preset in popup browser would not allow unpin if the plugin no longer existed. |
| FIXED | Hardware FX does not report latency to PDC. |
| FIXED | A duplicated audio track reverts to the first hardware input if the source track had another hardware input selected. |
| FIXED | Crash when duplicating additive tempo modulation points inside a clip on the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Potential crash when deleting time in arranger. |
| FIXED | Controller API: siblings track bank sometimes not scrolls to the correct section when selecting tracks. |
| FIXED | Using forward slashes ("/") in track names leads to the creation of subdirectories when exporting audio. |
| FIXED | Sensitive area for dragging start/end of events is too small on hi-res displays. |
| FIXED | Controller API: devices on group tracks are not accessible using cursor device. |
| FIXED | Controller API: macros of devices in FX slots cannot be accessed when slot is closed in the GUI. |
| FIXED | Dragging automation time selection for clip modulation resulted in wrong preview and wrong data inserted on drop. |
| FIXED | If you get an error saving a project when closing it the project should not be closed. |
| FIXED | Controller API: cursorTrack.addCanSelectNextObserver reports the same value as addCanSelectPreviousObserver. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when selecting parent device using Push4Bitwig script. |
| FIXED | Triplet notes were getting truncated during playback when shuffle is on. |
| FIXED | When opening a project containing a VST the preset name always says "Default Preset" instead of the last selected preset the VST had when saved. |
| FIXED | Regression: License registration window for u-he plugin is broken. |
| FIXED | Overdubbing of launcher clips is broken. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when calling selectFirstInSlot on named device cursor. |
| FIXED | Pitchbend does not get converted to note expressions anymore. |
| FIXED | ASIO: Crash with a buffer-size of 2048 samples when using a Steinberg audio interface. |
| FIXED | Clicking on clip launcher scene clears the note editor content in tablet mode. |
| FIXED | Stop button on group track in clip launcher is not lit, so looks like you can't press on it. |
| FIXED | If you bounce a note clip that is recorded with preroll all bounces contain one bar of silence at the beginning of the bounced audio file. |
| FIXED | Recording with punch in and pre-roll causes clips to be recorded on the arranger with negative time. |
| FIXED | Audio engine always crashes if user selects weird buffer sizes on ALSA. |
| FIXED | Pasting of clip modulation inserts wrong data. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when diving into FX layers using Push4Bitwig script. |
| FIXED | Note length changes whe single-clicking inspector note length field for a multiselection. |
| FIXED | Eraser tool affects all layers in layered audio editor instead of just the target layer. |
| FIXED | Using punch out results in instrument track recording stopping slightly before the loop end. |
| FIXED | Controller API: cursor device does not work on tracks that have been created by a track bank. |
| FIXED | When dropping raw audio events into a clip the successive audio event sometimes gets deleted. |
| FIXED | When clicking + button in a drum pad and selecting the same device as the last one inserted in the drum machine the device would not be inserted in the pad. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when trying to access MIDI port with invalid index. |
| FIXED | Crash due to being able to create a feedback loop by moving tracks between track groups that would cause more than one feedback loop. |
| FIXED | Potential engine crash on OSX when scanning core audio hardware devices. |
| FIXED | Audio on Windows creates pops, crackles and slurring in 1.3.6 but worked in 1.3.5. |
| FIXED | Regression: Notes are sometimes getting played twice (note from start of loop creeps in at end) when a clip is looping . |
| FIXED | Control Surface Scripting API does not open anymore from help menu in 1.3.6 on windows. |
| FIXED | Controller API: potential crash in siblings track bank (Push4Bitwig script). |
| FIXED | Audio Engine crash when reading from disk failed. |
| IMPROVED | Added support for track and instrument name metadata to MIDI file import. |
| IMPROVED | Much lower memory usage and better overall application performance on OSX. |
| IMPROVED | Don't have separate browser, inspector, mapping browser for each mode (PLAY, EDIT, ARR, MIX) in the tablet profile. Instead just one for all of the modes. |
| IMPROVED | Support Jack input and output latency compensation. |
| IMPROVED | Show path to selected file in popup browser and make it clickable to select a parent folder. |
| IMPROVED | Rescan plugin option not available for shelled plugins and only shown in presets browser not in device browser. |
| IMPROVED | Made touch-tap recognition more reliable on Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 and other devices with very high pixel-density. |
| IMPROVED | Improved algorithm used for delay-compensation including fixes for modulation routing and complex side-chaining. |
| IMPROVED | Touch: The radial gestures menu for devices in the device chain is now only available from the device header, as it was too easy to move/copy devices by accident. . |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.6
Released on 05.02.2016.
| NEW | Implement Choke for the Drum Machine. |
| FIXED | Drum choke is not consistent. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when making a ranged selection in the browser when the search term changed and the anchored position is no longer in the list. |
| IMPROVED | Made pencil tool smarter - it now lets you move and extend notes/clips without having to switch to the arrow tool. |
| IMPROVED | Improved WASAPI perfomance. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.5
Released on 03.12.2015.
| FIXED | If you have only one empty project (tab) open, save the project and immediately create a new project, the previous one will close. |
| FIXED | Dragging a track from the browser that contained a VST into empty project after fresh startup would not load the plugin due to missing plugin state. |
| FIXED | Engine crash when switching documents. |
| FIXED | Dragging notes from multiple clips in arranger with copy modifier will copy some notes and move others when dropping onto an existing clip. |
| FIXED | Volume, pan and CC automation should follow clips when dragging to other tracks if follow clips is active (currently only does so if device chain is identical). |
| FIXED | 32bit plugins with carbon windows don't open their window on OSX 10.11. |
| FIXED | Named device cursors should be updated to an existing device if possible when deleting a device. |
| FIXED | Regression in 1.3.4: mouse cursor sometimes disappears on OSX. |
| FIXED | Arpeggiator plays a full note when the gate is at 0%. |
| FIXED | Crash when changing velocities using pencil tool in audio event area of hybrid track. |
| FIXED | When saving a project and changing the list of tracks/track groups in that project the browser would not update with the new list of tracks. |
| FIXED | Mouse cursors don't look sharp on OSX computers with Retina screen. |
| FIXED | If Preroll is active, clip launcher clips already record during the preroll time. |
| FIXED | Loop marker for clips on the arranger are not shown in the correct place and moves when zooming in and out. |
| FIXED | Searching for letters and numbers (e.g. "7A") in files would not find files that have that in their name. |
| FIXED | Track header width might be different from state before saving after opening project. |
| FIXED | Next actions on clip launcher don't work in some cases. |
| FIXED | Transpose expression zoom-scrollbar does not line up with timeline content by default in audio editor. |
| FIXED | Dragging a track out of a deactivated group hangs the engine. |
| FIXED | Controller API: device.addPresetCategoriesObserver/addPresetCreatorsObserver are not updated correctly. |
| FIXED | Icon that indicates launch quantization on clip loop bar is invisible when loop region is not selected in an unlooped clip. |
| FIXED | Removing stop button from clip slot should also remove record button. |
| FIXED | Dragging clip end in track note editor enables looping instead of just extending the clip end. |
| FIXED | VST window size is wrong in Melodyne 4 beta version on OSX. |
| FIXED | Folded lanes in note editor do not line up with the headers in tablet display profile. |
| FIXED | Synced LFOs are not perfectly synced. |
| FIXED | Bug in OSX 10.11 LaunchServices causes Bitwig Studio to start only once (added workaround). |
| IMPROVED | Fold state for drum machine clips shows note name in front of the pad name. |
| IMPROVED | Raised silence threshold used by auto-suspend of plug-ins, as it was below the background noise of several popular plug-in effects. |
| IMPROVED | Add action to toggle the showing and hiding of all automation lanes on the arranger and shift clicking automation icon in track header changes for all tracks in its group track. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.4
Released on 27.11.2015.
| FIXED | Crash when changing buffer size in preferences. |
| FIXED | Recorded notes were sometimes assigned the wrong pressure value if the controller never sent a poly pressure event on that key. |
| FIXED | Quit commad gets disabled on OSX after invoking once and choosing cancel in project save dialog. |
| FIXED | Arranger object snapping should be off by default. |
| FIXED | Hardware Instrument device is not letting the sound thru after you open the project until you see the device itself or trigger a note in this track. |
| FIXED | Possible to create a feedback loop in a project by copying a dynamics device receiving from a track group into one of the tracks in the group. |
| FIXED | Duplicating multiple audio events across multiple clips with time selection only duplicates last audio events. |
| FIXED | Mouse cursor sometimes does not reappear after moving automation point on OSX. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.3
Released on 20.11.2015.
| FIXED | Right-aligned value texts in DSP meter windows are jumping because of text length changes. |
| FIXED | OSX plugin windows do not support double resolution on Retina displays. |
| FIXED | VST plug-ins without any outputs at all weren't recognized. |
| FIXED | Crash when changing audio driver on Windows. |
| FIXED | When quantizing notes the maximum shuffle amount of 100% shifts notes too much. |
| FIXED | Possible to leave a radial gesture menu on screen when dragging into the onscreen keyboard and releasing finger. |
| FIXED | Crash when creating a new project when specified template file does not exist. |
| FIXED | ROLI RISE works with BWS devices, but not with Equator VST. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.2
Released on 18.11.2015.
| NEW | New LFO shape: random smooth. |
| NEW | Allow MPE mode to be forced on for legacy VST plug-ins which doesn't support the MPE canDo check. |
| FIXED | Crash if using the bounce modifier and deleting the destination before the bounce completes. |
| FIXED | Crash when turning on loop mode with touch interaction. |
| FIXED | Resizing end of audio events that are partly masked by the clip leads to wrong event length. |
| FIXED | Regression in 1.3.1: window positioning and scaling can get wrong on OSX when hot-plugging screens while Bitwig Studio is running. |
| FIXED | Audio editor in track mode shows wrong track after bouncing an arranger time region. |
| FIXED | Erase tool does not always work for erasing audio events in the arranger note editor. |
| FIXED | Plugins or controllers could break undo history if they started changing parameters but not invoking the corresponing end-change. |
| FIXED | Group tracks cannot be moved using touch. |
| FIXED | Automatic sample rate does not work for ALSA backend. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging a layer device (or a layer of a device) from one project to another's track header without pressing the copy modifier when the destination project has more effect tracks than the source project. |
| FIXED | Numbers in file names are not matched when searching in browser if they appeared directly after a letter without a space (or other punctuation character). |
| FIXED | Bouncing was using the wrong sample rate for some WASAPI configurations. |
| FIXED | Unknown category in device browser shows empty list. |
| FIXED | Controller API: using more than one named cursor device does not work correctly. |
| FIXED | Not possible to drag and drop a pattern from Machine (standalone) to Bitwig Studio on OSX. |
| FIXED | Crash when selecting a project with the mouse and at the same time pressing the close button for the project with touch. |
| FIXED | ALSA backend does not silence channels that we are not outputting to resulting in distortion. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when trying to select FX slot while device is not present. |
| FIXED | Note sources are shown as "not configured" when removing and adding a control script which it belonged to. |
| FIXED | Waveform overview is missing after bounce and bounce in place when sample rate is set to automatic. |
| FIXED | Changing tempo for multiple clips in inspector only gets applied to the cursor clip. |
| FIXED | Inspector switches between drum chain and device info when clicking on different Drum Machine pads. |
| FIXED | Search indexes would become corrupt when deleting files from the index due to a notification from the file system of file being removed. |
| FIXED | Window layout glitches on OSX when skipping over tracks quickly. |
| FIXED | Quantizing notes with shuffle may result in deleted notes. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when deleting tracks quickly while having certain controllers connected. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging clip on arranger that is being deleted by another clip that is being recorded over it. |
| FIXED | Some notes get unselected after quantize and undo. |
| FIXED | Tablet mode: there is no easy way to add samples that are not in the Library (e.g. from project folder) to instruments. |
| FIXED | It's not possible to scroll horizontally with the scrollbar in clip launcher using touch or pen (tablet display profile). |
| IMPROVED | Ability to drag multiple files onto a Collection. |
| IMPROVED | Flanger's 'Mix' is not a percentage. |
| IMPROVED | Onscreen keyboard now shows note velocity, timbre, pitch and pressure adjustment for all notes that are being played. |
| IMPROVED | Make the onscreen keyboard and computer keyboard much more responsive for note input. |
| IMPROVED | Improved application performance when using many drum chains. |
| IMPROVED | Improved VST auto-suspend and added visualization in the mixer when devices are processing / sleeping, which c an also be clicked to toggle the enabled state of devices. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.1
Released on 06.11.2015.
| NEW | Added controller script for Seaboard RISE. |
| NEW | Adjustable layout scaling that is remembered per screen. It can be configured in the display section of preferences dialog. The display profile settings have moved there as well. |
| FIXED | When having a 64 bit and a 32 bit plugin on OSX open clicking on one plugin window hides the other. |
| FIXED | Moving drum machine slot contents can cause multiple pad presets for the same key. |
| FIXED | Crash when moving track with group send automation out of a group then undo. |
| FIXED | Tablet mode: touch keyboard / drum pads doesn't change when in preview mode. |
| FIXED | Visual artifacts appears after switching from tablet to small display profile with 175% scaling. |
| FIXED | Size of DSP performance graph flickers in some cases on OSX. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging output chains from a plugin and dropping in empty space on arranger. |
| FIXED | Bounce-in-place result in empty clip if play-head is after the clip and enough plug-in latency was used. |
| FIXED | Note editor layer name can become too wide. |
| FIXED | Automation to a nested device chain's send knob remains when moving the device containing chain into a slot (which deletes the send). |
| FIXED | Moving (or copying) an instrument layer into a slot of a device after the instrument layer (eg LFO Mod) does not delete the send knob on the layer. |
| FIXED | Automation override (green arrow) doesn't get turned off after deleting the lane which was overridden, also the green dot stays on parameter. |
| FIXED | Moving a device which had send automation for a nested device chain into a slot did not delete the modulation but did delete the send leaving modulation to a non-existant send knob. |
| FIXED | Controlling send amount via controller API does not work correctly after reordering FX tracks. |
| FIXED | Add context menu to tree widget's radial touch interaction. |
| FIXED | Automation lanes on arranger don't line up with track headers when track groups are folded. |
| FIXED | Allow users to select a dual or triple monitor profile even if they only have a single display. |
| FIXED | Playback does not work until manually removing audio input bus on OSX when choosing audio input from external hardware and then starting the app later without that hardware. |
| FIXED | Automation record mode touch does not behave different than latch when tweaking VST gui controls. |
| FIXED | Playhead is missing when viewing automation of clips from the Clip Launcher. |
| FIXED | VST window gets moved when opening from secondary screen on OSX. |
| FIXED | Resizing the GUI does not paint correctly on OSX computers with retina display. |
| FIXED | Tooltips sometimes painted wrong when scaling on retina display. |
| FIXED | Menus sometimes require 2 touches to activate menu items. |
| FIXED | Changing presets in a VST that has multi outs causes crashes if the presets remove output chains. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: renamed setUseMultidimensionalPolyphonicExpression to setUseExpressiveMidi and updated it to take the pitch-bend range as a third parameter. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.0
Released on 20.10.2015.
| NEW | Polyphonic modulation sources can now modulate monophonic targets. |
| NEW | Convert polyphonic aftertouch to note expression "pressure". |
| NEW | Added side-chain to ring modulator device. |
| NEW | Add template support. |
| NEW | Add ALSA support. |
| NEW | Multi-touch support for Windows and Linux. |
| NEW | E-Cowbell device. |
| NEW | Delay-4 device. |
| NEW | Added support for MIDI MPE mode for VST instruments. |
| 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 | Arranger cue markers and loop region should always show the events from the top level group. |
| 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 | 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 | Instrument Track input chooser button shows empty string when selecting renamed controllers for the first time. |
| 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 | Controller API: accessing sends of drum pads does not work. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when dragging and dropping clips in the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Controller API: some device parameters are not included in the direct-parameter-id list, but their values are reported. |
| FIXED | Big clip height does not resize the group's scene header in the mixer. |
| FIXED | Polysynth doesn't play the same sound when you want in repetition. |
| FIXED | Controller API: add selectInEditor to device interface. |
| FIXED | When bouncing a clip with a custom source the pre and post fader options showed a blank line. |
| 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 | Controller API: select functions in CursorDevice not working for nested VST plugins. |
| FIXED | Rare crash on Mac when file system notifies us of a file being removed in a folder we are monitoring. |
| 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 | 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 | Search field is not focussed when opening Popup Browser via Drum Machine. |
| FIXED | Occasional crash when dragging empty scenes in clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Project folder not named correctly when saving project with a dot in filename. |
| 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 | Sometimes when making a shortcut assignment that is already made to another shortcut the message is not shown explaining this. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when moving cursor for the any file result of a filter column in the browser. |
| FIXED | Colours of track headers & group are not saved in .bwscenes. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when double clicking recently used document in file browser. |
| FIXED | Wrong solo behavior for sends when tracks are routed to another track instead of master. |
| 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 | Controller API: "any" filter item should be part of the list of items. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when calling session.addIsActiveObserver. |
| 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 | Notes which are cut off by the same key had a note length jitter when using large buffer sizes in the bitwig instruments. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when using selectNext/Previous with named device cursor. |
| FIXED | Time selection in the arranger timeline header area does not work. |
| FIXED | Writing automation for switch parameters such as the sustain pedal was resulting in ramps instead of straight edges. |
| FIXED | Clip launcher clips we're slowly drifting apart due to accumulating rounding error. |
| 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 | Open plugin GUIs don't disappear when deactivating the engine. |
| FIXED | Crash when openning a document from native file manager before the main window of the application was shown. |
| FIXED | Dynamics device didn't react on SIDE-only signals. |
| FIXED | Default value for pitch bend automation is -100%. |
| FIXED | "Plugin windows follow current track" always opens VST GUI on primary screen, regardless on which screen it was open. |
| FIXED | Tracks created by drag & dropping clips to a new track were auto-armed but should not have been. |
| FIXED | Inserting expression events at the end of a long raw audio event sometimes snaps to incorrect times. |
| 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 | 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 | When dragging a hardware instrument preset to the empty track area the input selector is not correctly set. |
| FIXED | Controller API: direct parameters should not include macros and enabled state. |
| FIXED | Retriggering the same key from midi is unreliable in 1.2. |
| FIXED | It was possible to create a feedback loop by moving a VST Instrument from a group track onto one of its child tracks, if the child track's output was routed to the VST as MIDI. |
| FIXED | Engine crashes when connecting to document when a scene file is selected in the browser. |
| FIXED | Roland VSTs crash audio engine. |
| FIXED | Glitches when pitch sliding with organ with non-multiple-of-4 buffersizes. |
| 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 | Connecting Arturia BeatStep Pro breaks listing of connected MIDI controllers on OSX. |
| 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 | Application crashes when trying to save clip to browser in some projects. |
| 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 | Engine crashes when overdub recording into multiple launcher clips that are triggered by follow actions. |
| FIXED | Application might not start on OSX when a non-local URL is in the clipboard. |
| FIXED | Can't activate the audio engine on OSX if set sample rate is set to automatic. |
| FIXED | Controller API: old preset related functions are not working anymore. |
| FIXED | ASIO: Issue switching sample-rate. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Wrong default value for Step MOD (32/1). |
| 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 | Soloing tracks routed to hardware outputs does not mute other tracks routed to the same output. |
| FIXED | Moving the currently playing scene stops clip launcher playback. |
| FIXED | Wrong raw playback with activated arrangement loop. |
| FIXED | Inspector shows old button style for mute and solo buttons when clicking on a layer device chain. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when switching VST presets on controller. |
| FIXED | Engine freeze when creating an audio track after loading a specific project. |
| FIXED | Macro doesn't receive name when mapped to 'enable bipolar' button of an LFO. |
| 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 | Projects created in 1.1 that have automation for the cross fader mode cannot be opened in 1.2.0. |
| FIXED | Filtering of control surface shortcut in preferences did not work. |
| 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 | 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 | Controller API: user and send controls cannot be used as source for manual mappings. |
| 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. |
| FIXED | Clips that have "no-kick" tag appears in the result of search "kick". |
| FIXED | LFO Phase parameter stopped working when Retrig is on. |
| FIXED | Time and value fields are missing in note expression event inspector. |
| FIXED | Crash without report when editing raw audio clips due to bugs in version of Java bundled with Bitwig Studio on Linux. |
| FIXED | LFO phase parameter doesn't work in synced mode with retrig off and playback running. |
| 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 | VST windows are shown in front of other applications when Bitwig Studio is not active. |
| FIXED | Potential crash when no insertion layer is selected in layered note editor. |
| FIXED | Crash when shift-selecting multiple launcher clips in note editor layer list. |
| FIXED | Showing the input/output section in the arranger resulted in the track names getting shorter. |
| FIXED | No audio inputs shown if you select "none" as input device before selecting an aggregated device as output. |
| FIXED | Crash when selecting track on hardware controller while closing document. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when trying to activate the engine for a document that is being closed. |
| FIXED | Regression: muting a device following an instrument were causing silence/crackling in 1.1.3. |
| 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 | Rare crash when deleting a track. |
| FIXED | Audio engine crashes sometimes when launching a clip on the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Engine crash related to sends of nested device chains. |
| FIXED | Crash when loading MIDI file with tempo events. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when grouping, ungrouping or deleting group tracks in some cases. |
| FIXED | Moving track in or out of group track stops playback of clip launcher clip. |
| FIXED | Dragging a no looping clip from the arranger to the clip launcher does not set the correct loop region. |
| 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 | Remember state of popup browser when browsing for samples or multi samples for a sampler. |
| FIXED | Crash due to deleting automation lane for send when moving a track from one track group to another. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when moving notes by octaves in the inspector. |
| FIXED | Nested device chains didn't go to sleep leading to high CPU usage. |
| FIXED | Invalid multi sample files can crash the application when scanning library locations. |
| FIXED | Piz midi plugins can't be loaded anymore. |
| IMPROVED | Update scripts for Livid Instruments controllers. |
| 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 | Buffer sizes don't need to be limited to power-of-two values on OSX anymore. |
| IMPROVED | Add note retrigger option to Step MOD. |
| 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 | Allow a knob or CC to control a toggle button and define range in which toggle is on or off. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: add function to toggle PreRoll. |
| IMPROVED | Stronger highlight for played keys in piano roll editor. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: allow to navigate items in browser filter columns with nested entries as a flat list. |
| 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 | Controller API: cursorBrowserItem.selectNext/Previous should perform selection instead of only moving the cursor. |
| IMPROVED | Added "Note Steal Release Time" parameter to sampler to let the user control what happens when a note is cut-off by the same key. (useful for cymbals). |
| 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 | View settings in note editor should be remembered per-track. |
| IMPROVED | Link to support web site in help menu lands at home page instead of support page. |
| IMPROVED | Improve menu navigation using the keyboard. |
| 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 | MMC transport support for generic controller scripts. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: allow to specify whether track cursor looks at flattened tracks, nested tracks, or as shown expanded in the GUI. |
| IMPROVED | Optimized the WASAPI implementation for Windows 10. |
| 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. |
| IMPROVED | Add VST 64 bit and VST 32 bit file types to the device popup browser. |
| IMPROVED | Add context menu entries for deleting clip automation to editor background, launcher clip overview and automated parameter controls. |
| IMPROVED | Clicking a track header now updates the note editor to show that track. |
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 | Group Tracks. |
| NEW | Double-size clip slots in mixer view. |
| NEW | Basic multi-touch support on Linux. |
| NEW | Jack support including Jack Transport on all platforms. |
| NEW | Support for new MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) specification. |
| 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 | Add action to show plugin device window. |
| 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. . |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.1.11
Released on 28.08.2015.
| FIXED | Tooltips would sometimes hang around on the screen when they shouldn't. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.1.8
Released on 21.05.2015.
| IMPROVED | Sound Content and FM4 presets update. |