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Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.14
Released on 10.11.2016.
| FIXED | Accessing files (projects, samples, plugins) is slow on some macOS computers depending on network configuration, which happens especially on fresh macOS Sierra installations. |
| FIXED | Controller mappings in the mappings browser are sorted in a weird way. |
| FIXED | Crash when copying scene to end of scene list for a nested track group. |
| FIXED | Crash when loading some projects that contained plugins with nested chains that contained devices that routed to other parts of the project. |
| FIXED | Crash if inserting content using popup browser into a slot on the clip launcher and deleting the track while the popup browser was open. |
| FIXED | Controller API: deprecated API for switching device presets does not get updated to the lastest selected preset when switching presets using the browser in the GUI or the new browsing API. |
| FIXED | Controller API: only create clips in group track slots when master track slots are shown instead of group scenes. |
| FIXED | Controller API: clip launcher scenes should report if they have content just like slots do. |
| FIXED | Controller API: add clip color observer to clip interface. |
| FIXED | Engine crashes sometimes on OSX when terminating audio engine. |
| FIXED | Crash when changing note length in some circumstances. |
| FIXED | Recalling saved Hardware FX preset with popup browser crashes audio engine. |
| FIXED | Regression: It is possible to drag arranger clips to a negative time on the arranger. |
| FIXED | Crash if screen configurations change while the application is quitting. |
| FIXED | Controller API: quantizing clips via controller API should be independent from event selection. |
| FIXED | Controller API: send observer stop reporting after deleting effect track. |
| FIXED | Bars:Beats:Tick:Percentage discards leading zeros in the percentage value when editing a beat time in the inspector. |
| FIXED | Controller API: Clip.setStepSize has no effect when not connected to a clip. |
| FIXED | Windows: Snapping app window to sides or up (for fullscreen) is buggy. |
| IMPROVED | When showing popup browser for insertion after a note effect select note effects and instruments by default. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: add functions to Clip interface that enable clearing all step sequencer steps or all steps in a given row. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: made it possible to observe the number of clips per scene in the scene bank interface. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: add function for transposing notes to clip interface. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: provide access to owner track in clip interface. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: add function for quantizing notes to clip interface. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.13
Released on 24.08.2016.
| FIXED | Crash when undoing the move of a drum pad to a new track with a macro mapped to the pad's volume. |
| FIXED | Copying a scene between 2 projects does not copy nested chain sends correctly and the nested effect track names are also not copied. |
| FIXED | Recording clip launcher automation still records into the first clip if you start a second one. |
| FIXED | Dragging a layer or drum chain to a new track still leaves macros mapped to volume, pan or send of the layer. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when undoing the moving of a track to the effect track area. |
| FIXED | Changing the start time of a clip using the inspector destroys track automation on mouse up. |
| FIXED | Automation thinning sometimes didn't work when writing clip launcher automation. |
| FIXED | Crash when parsing metadata out of plugins that write lots of data and get into an infinite loop (e.g some versions of the RapidComposer.vst plugin on Mac OSX). |
| FIXED | Rare crash when parsing metadata out of a Bitwig multi sample file. |
| FIXED | Potential fix for "White Screen" problem experienced by some Windows users. |
| FIXED | Regression: Recording automation into a new clip on the clip launcher causes automation points to be written at an incorrect time. |
| FIXED | Entering in invalid file name characters for the exported audio file name causes strange problems when exporting. |
| FIXED | Regression: tempo in beat marker inspector shows always -0. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.12
Released on 20.07.2016.
| FIXED | When dragging track groups between different projects it was possible that content would be inserted into the wrong track sometimes. |
| FIXED | If user tried to create a multisample file from files that were not in wav it would create an invalid multisample file - now convert the file to wav first. |
| FIXED | When recording automation into a clip on the clip launcher that is using free-run and has different loop region to the clip the automation points are recorded at the wrong time. |
| FIXED | Clicky sound in drum-machine with peak-limiter on FX slot if the buffer size is an odd number. |
| FIXED | When overwriting a template that had previously been saved in an earlier version and then opening the newly saved template, the newly saved changes would not be seen unless Bitwig Studio was restarted. |
| FIXED | Crash in certain cases when switching between clip launcher and arranger automation editor when arranger clip automation is free running. |
| FIXED | Crash due to AutoOpeningAndClosingFileSystem scheduling a timer task when the timer has been canceled (probably due to the application shutting down). |
| FIXED | Turning solo-as-cue off while a track was cued was breaking stuff. |
| FIXED | Undo history problems when editing samples in multisample mode. |
| FIXED | Sends are incorrectly added to nested chains inside a layer device (that is not a top level device) in the device chain when loading a project. |
| FIXED | Possible to get feedback loops in a project in certain cases when moving devices from a track to a group track's output. |
| FIXED | Controller API - issue with NoteInput methods during the first script instantiation after adding the device in the preferences. |
| FIXED | Regression since 1.3.10: Solo buttons in FX Layer device don't work if it is placed into another container. |
| IMPROVED | Add a button to "leave group" from the mixer view. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.11
Released on 22.06.2016.
| FIXED | Browser Collections will disappear upon restart if their names contain certain characters. |
| FIXED | Occasional crash when a pop-up widow is moved and resized due to a compiler error. |
| FIXED | Roland System-1 VST freezes when clicking on the 'Patch' button. . |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.10
Released on 16.06.2016.
| NEW | Support for Hercules P32 DJ controller provided by J?rgen Mossgraber. |
| FIXED | Text input on Linux only uses default keyboard layout - changing layout does not work. |
| FIXED | Sometimes, the DSP Performance Graph cannot be moved until it is resized first. |
| 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 | Certain files are not accepted due to a problem parsing tags. |
| FIXED | On Windows the engine can crash but leaves child plugin host processes around causing complete lockup of the application. |
| FIXED | Duplicating an audio event in arranger note editor results in overlapping events. |
| FIXED | Open u-he plugin while playing an automation GUI triggers automation override. |
| FIXED | Crash on OSX when trying to paint popup window. |
| FIXED | Caps lock is sometimes inverted when entering text on Linux systems. |
| FIXED | Send of subtracks in groups are not muted when soloing other tracks. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when dragging tracks and automation in the source tracks is deleted while we are dragging them. |
| 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 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 | Stretch modes do not pass phase cancellation with Raw mode when playing back at original tempo. |
| 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 | 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 | Saving a preset that embeds two different files with the same name is not possible. |
| 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 | Roll over play button and overview are not shown on bwscene files. |
| FIXED | Bouncing a scene or meta clip creates a track inside the group track instead of alongside it. |
| FIXED | Sends of group tracks are not audible when soloing the return track. |
| FIXED | Auto/Pre/Post setting for sends of Drum machine layers resets after saving and loading the set. |
| FIXED | Window positions of multi monitor setups are not restored on OSX when quitting and restarting app. |
| 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 | Crash when replacing a launcher clip with key assignment and then triggering the key. |
| FIXED | Controller Surface API: ChannelBank.scrollSends* methods may do nothing. |
| FIXED | Added workaround for Roland plugins which didn't work properly in sandboxed hosts. |
| FIXED | Control surface API looks weird on Linux. |
| FIXED | Sluggish GUI response in some situations on OSX El Capitan. |
| 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 | Improved compatibility with Seaboard RISE and EQUATOR. |
| 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 | Engine crashes when switching to another project before the plugins in the current project have finished loading. |
| FIXED | Can't undo assignment of a preset to a VST plugin when assigning preset within Bitwig Studio (e.g from browser). |
| FIXED | Clips that contain lots of notes are very slow to select when selecting clips on the arranger. |
| FIXED | Controller API: createCursorDevice returns null when being called without argument. |
| FIXED | TextEditor does not calculate properly the cursor position when the string starts with whitespaces. |
| FIXED | When editing arranger clip automation, lots of track automation events at clip end are created. |
| FIXED | Regression in 1.3.8: note end might be painted one pixel off. |
| FIXED | Random application crashes on OSX. |
| FIXED | Note painting is incorrect for a note that starts in one clip and continues in the next. |
| FIXED | Open containing folder for a VST plugin on Mac results in error. |
| FIXED | Regression: Possible to get feedback loops in some rare cases due to recent PDC changes in 1.3.8. |
| FIXED | Notes which start at the exact time when the clip ends would sometimes play even though they shouldn't. |
| 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 | Improve library indexing times for subsequent launches of the application. |
| IMPROVED | Default quantization setting should be 16th instead of adaptive editor grid. |
| IMPROVED | Search for ffprobe/ffmepg or avprobe/avconf on Linux. |
| IMPROVED | Improve the category detection for u-he presets based on the folder they are found in. |
| IMPROVED | ROLI Searbord RISE: Added MPE pitch bend range control in script preferences and send the range on the right channel. |
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 | Moving notes by a tiny amount using the inspector creates lots of duplicates. |
| FIXED | On Linux the window shifts down by the size of the title bar each time the application is started. |
| FIXED | Pasting text from the clipboard on OSX does not work. |
| 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 | Exporting MIDI file should ignore muted notes. |
| 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 | Changing track color while detail editor being open does not repaint notes. |
| FIXED | Notes in drum MIDI files that have zero length should be interpreted as 16th when importing into Bitwig Studio. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when deleting a track or moving it out of it's group. |
| FIXED | Not possible to move the loop start for a clip beyond bar 250 using inspector but dragging loop region allows this. |
| FIXED | Instrument notes are not truncated at the clip boundry when consolidating. |
| FIXED | Crash if bouncing a track region in place and before the bounce has completed deleting the track. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when using device layer bank. |
| FIXED | Free running automation is not shown correctly in content preview section of launcher clips. |
| FIXED | Phase is inverted when recording audio from an external source using ASIO at 24-bit. |
| 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 | When saving a new clip the BPM is set to 110 and not the project's current tempo. |
| 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 | Creating a clip in the clip launcher using different time signature than 4/4 still creates a clip with 4 quarters duration. |
| FIXED | Controller API: Crash when creating named device cursors from onMidi callback. |
| 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 | Regression: pasting text does not work on OSX. |
| FIXED | Muted clips are not visually distinguishable from unmuted clips in clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Projects with editors set to triplets don't show correct value in grid subdivision fields. |
| 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 | Undo history breaks if you move an automation point and hit the right mouse key while doing so. |
| 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 | Zoom to fit leaves too much space in timeline editors. |
| FIXED | When importing MIDI files the clip length should be calculated from the content instead of from MIDI metadata. |
| FIXED | Effect track is called audio track in context menu. |
| FIXED | Macro section displays "Default Preset" after loading a saved VST preset via the popup browser into an existing VST plugin. |
| FIXED | OSX engine crash when scanning certain audio devices. |
| FIXED | Sometimes engine crashes on OSX when connecting to document. |
| 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 | If you get an error saving a project when closing it the project should not be closed. |
| FIXED | Audio engine always crashes if user selects weird buffer sizes on ALSA. |
| FIXED | Controller API: cursorTrack.addCanSelectNextObserver reports the same value as addCanSelectPreviousObserver. |
| FIXED | Controller API: macros of devices in FX slots cannot be accessed when slot is closed in the GUI. |
| FIXED | Using punch out results in instrument track recording stopping slightly before the loop end. |
| FIXED | Triplet notes were getting truncated during playback when shuffle is on. |
| FIXED | Sensitive area for dragging start/end of events is too small on hi-res displays. |
| FIXED | Pitchbend does not get converted to note expressions anymore. |
| FIXED | Overdubbing of launcher clips is broken. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when trying to access MIDI port with invalid index. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when calling selectFirstInSlot on named device cursor. |
| FIXED | Controller API: allow to launch either group track scenes or the clips of the group's master track via clip launcher interface. |
| FIXED | Pinning device for a selected preset in popup browser would not allow unpin if the plugin no longer existed. |
| FIXED | Crash when duplicating additive tempo modulation points inside a clip on the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | When dropping raw audio events into a clip the successive audio event sometimes gets deleted. |
| 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 | ASIO: Crash with a buffer-size of 2048 samples when using a Steinberg audio interface. |
| FIXED | Controller API: observer for clip launcher slot selected state does not report correct value when pointing cursor track to another track. |
| 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 | Potential crash when deleting time in arranger. |
| FIXED | Controller API: selecting layers in device layer bank does not work correctly. |
| FIXED | Pasting of clip modulation inserts wrong data. |
| 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 | A duplicated audio track reverts to the first hardware input if the source track had another hardware input selected. |
| FIXED | Favouriting an item in the browser column scrolls back to the selected item in the list. |
| FIXED | Controller API: devices on group tracks are not accessible using cursor device. |
| FIXED | Hardware FX does not report latency to PDC. |
| FIXED | Controller API: siblings track bank sometimes not scrolls to the correct section when selecting tracks. |
| FIXED | Regression: License registration window for u-he plugin is broken. |
| FIXED | Note length changes whe single-clicking inspector note length field for a multiselection. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when diving into FX layers using Push4Bitwig script. |
| 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 | Using forward slashes ("/") in track names leads to the creation of subdirectories when exporting audio. |
| FIXED | Controller API: cursor device does not work on tracks that have been created by a track bank. |
| FIXED | Eraser tool affects all layers in layered audio editor instead of just the target layer. |
| FIXED | Recording with punch in and pre-roll causes clips to be recorded on the arranger with negative time. |
| FIXED | Dragging automation time selection for clip modulation resulted in wrong preview and wrong data inserted on drop. |
| FIXED | Controller API: crash when selecting parent device using Push4Bitwig script. |
| 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 | Controller API: potential crash in siblings track bank (Push4Bitwig script). |
| FIXED | Control Surface Scripting API does not open anymore from help menu in 1.3.6 on windows. |
| FIXED | Regression: Notes are sometimes getting played twice (note from start of loop creeps in at end) when a clip is looping . |
| FIXED | Audio on Windows creates pops, crackles and slurring in 1.3.6 but worked in 1.3.5. |
| 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 | 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. . |
| IMPROVED | Show path to selected file in popup browser and make it clickable to select a parent folder. |
| IMPROVED | Support Jack input and output latency compensation. |
| IMPROVED | Rescan plugin option not available for shelled plugins and only shown in presets browser not in device browser. |
| 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. |
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 | Mouse cursors don't look sharp on OSX computers with Retina screen. |
| 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 | Named device cursors should be updated to an existing device if possible when deleting a device. |
| FIXED | Crash when changing velocities using pencil tool in audio event area of hybrid track. |
| FIXED | 32bit plugins with carbon windows don't open their window on OSX 10.11. |
| FIXED | VST window size is wrong in Melodyne 4 beta version on OSX. |
| 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 | Searching for letters and numbers (e.g. "7A") in files would not find files that have that in their name. |
| 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 | Next actions on clip launcher don't work in some cases. |
| FIXED | If Preroll is active, clip launcher clips already record during the preroll time. |
| FIXED | Arpeggiator plays a full note when the gate is at 0%. |
| FIXED | Dragging a track out of a deactivated group hangs the engine. |
| FIXED | Engine crash when switching documents. |
| FIXED | Transpose expression zoom-scrollbar does not line up with timeline content by default in audio editor. |
| 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 | Regression in 1.3.4: mouse cursor sometimes disappears on OSX. |
| 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 | Controller API: device.addPresetCategoriesObserver/addPresetCreatorsObserver are not updated correctly. |
| FIXED | Track header width might be different from state before saving after opening project. |
| FIXED | Loop marker for clips on the arranger are not shown in the correct place and moves when zooming in and out. |
| 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 | Icon that indicates launch quantization on clip loop bar is invisible when loop region is not selected in an unlooped clip. |
| 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 | 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. |
| 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 | Fold state for drum machine clips shows note name in front of the pad name. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.4
Released on 27.11.2015.
| FIXED | Crash when changing buffer size in preferences. |
| FIXED | Quit commad gets disabled on OSX after invoking once and choosing cancel in project save dialog. |
| 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 | Arranger object snapping should be off by default. |
| FIXED | Recorded notes were sometimes assigned the wrong pressure value if the controller never sent a poly pressure event on that key. |
| FIXED | Duplicating multiple audio events across multiple clips with time selection only duplicates last audio events. |
| 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 | 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 | Possible to leave a radial gesture menu on screen when dragging into the onscreen keyboard and releasing finger. |
| 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 | OSX plugin windows do not support double resolution on Retina displays. |
| 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 | Crash when selecting a project with the mouse and at the same time pressing the close button for the project with touch. |
| 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 | Plugins or controllers could break undo history if they started changing parameters but not invoking the corresponing end-change. |
| FIXED | Automatic sample rate does not work for ALSA backend. |
| FIXED | ALSA backend does not silence channels that we are not outputting to resulting in distortion. |
| FIXED | Resizing end of audio events that are partly masked by the clip leads to wrong event length. |
| FIXED | Audio editor in track mode shows wrong track after bouncing an arranger time region. |
| FIXED | Controller API: using more than one named cursor device does not work correctly. |
| FIXED | Changing tempo for multiple clips in inspector only gets applied to the cursor clip. |
| 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 | Regression in 1.3.1: window positioning and scaling can get wrong on OSX when hot-plugging screens while Bitwig Studio is running. |
| FIXED | Unknown category in device browser shows empty list. |
| FIXED | Not possible to drag and drop a pattern from Machine (standalone) to Bitwig Studio on OSX. |
| FIXED | Group tracks cannot be moved using touch. |
| FIXED | Bouncing was using the wrong sample rate for some WASAPI configurations. |
| FIXED | Erase tool does not always work for erasing audio events in the arranger note editor. |
| 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 | Controller API: crash when deleting tracks quickly while having certain controllers connected. |
| 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 | Some notes get unselected after quantize and undo. |
| FIXED | Inspector switches between drum chain and device info when clicking on different Drum Machine pads. |
| FIXED | Quantizing notes with shuffle may result in deleted notes. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging clip on arranger that is being deleted by another clip that is being recorded over it. |
| 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 | Improved application performance when using many drum chains. |
| 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 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 | Crash when moving track with group send automation out of a group then undo. |
| FIXED | When having a 64 bit and a 32 bit plugin on OSX open clicking on one plugin window hides the other. |
| FIXED | Future: Crash when undoing the deletion of an audio clip in some situations. |
| FIXED | Moving drum machine slot contents can cause multiple pad presets for the same key. |
| 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 | Crash when dragging output chains from a plugin and dropping in empty space on arranger. |
| FIXED | Size of DSP performance graph flickers in some cases on OSX. |
| 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 | Add context menu to tree widget's radial touch interaction. |
| 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 | Automation record mode touch does not behave different than latch when tweaking VST gui controls. |
| 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 | Bounce-in-place result in empty clip if play-head is after the clip and enough plug-in latency was used. |
| 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 | Note editor layer name can become too wide. |
| 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 to a nested device chain's send knob remains when moving the device containing chain into a slot (which deletes the send). |
| FIXED | Controlling send amount via controller API does not work correctly after reordering FX tracks. |
| FIXED | Playhead is missing when viewing automation of clips from the Clip Launcher. |
| FIXED | Menus sometimes require 2 touches to activate menu items. |
| FIXED | Tooltips sometimes painted wrong when scaling on retina display. |
| FIXED | Resizing the GUI does not paint correctly on OSX computers with retina display. |
| FIXED | Changing presets in a VST that has multi outs causes crashes if the presets remove output chains. |
| FIXED | VST window gets moved when opening from secondary screen on OSX. |
| 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 | Convert polyphonic aftertouch to note expression "pressure". |
| NEW | Polyphonic modulation sources can now modulate monophonic targets. |
| NEW | Multi-touch support for Windows and Linux. |
| NEW | Added support for MIDI MPE mode for VST instruments. |
| NEW | E-Cowbell device. |
| NEW | Added side-chain to ring modulator device. |
| NEW | Delay-4 device. |
| NEW | Add template support. |
| NEW | Add ALSA support. |
| 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 | When bouncing a clip with a custom source the pre and post fader options showed a blank line. |
| FIXED | Closing a document that has exceeded limitations in Bitwig 8-Track does not warn that changes will be lost. |
| 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 | Automation lanes with renameable parameters forget their name after save/load and display empty strings instead. |
| FIXED | Moving track in or out of group track stops playback of clip launcher clip. |
| FIXED | Rare crash when dragging and dropping clips in the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | When removing a library location it does not get removed from the search results if the cursor is currently inside that location. |
| FIXED | Edit file metadata does not work for bwscene files. |
| FIXED | Application crash when ungrouping a group track containing a track which routes notes to the track group output. |
| FIXED | Arranger cue markers and loop region should always show the events from the top level group. |
| 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 | LFO Phase parameter stopped working when Retrig is on. |
| 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 | 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 | Controller script does not reach the maximum value if they overflow the range 0..127. |
| FIXED | No audio inputs shown if you select "none" as input device before selecting an aggregated device as output. |
| 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 | Dynamics device didn't react on SIDE-only signals. |
| 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 | When dragging a hardware instrument preset to the empty track area the input selector is not correctly set. |
| 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 | Soloing group with subgroups doesn't play/solo the subgroups. |
| FIXED | Shift and right click to open popup browser on favorites should work in empty space too not just directly over the + button. |
| FIXED | Controller API: opening application panels such as browser should not try to focus them first. |
| 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 | Occasional crash when dragging empty scenes in clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Project folder not named correctly when saving project with a dot in filename. |
| FIXED | Filtering of control surface shortcut in preferences did not work. |
| 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 | Crash when dragging 2 empty scenes in clip launcher after the last scene in the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Sometimes when making a shortcut assignment that is already made to another shortcut the message is not shown explaining this. |
| 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 API: crash when grouping, ungrouping or deleting group tracks in some cases. |
| 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 | Crash when loading MIDI file with tempo events. |
| 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 | Controller API: cursor device does not work on track group device chains. |
| FIXED | Clip launcher clips we're slowly drifting apart due to accumulating rounding error. |
| FIXED | LFO phase parameter doesn't work in synced mode with retrig off and playback running. |
| 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 | Open plugin GUIs don't disappear when deactivating the engine. |
| 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 | 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 | Controller API: user and send controls cannot be used as source for manual mappings. |
| FIXED | Crash when selecting track on hardware controller while closing document. |
| FIXED | Window disappears from screen on Windows sometimes. |
| FIXED | Controller API: direct parameters should not include macros and enabled state. |
| FIXED | Glitches when pitch sliding with organ with non-multiple-of-4 buffersizes. |
| 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 | Renaming a track in the inspector creates an undo step for every single character entered. |
| FIXED | Renaming a device does not create an undo step. |
| FIXED | Connecting Arturia BeatStep Pro breaks listing of connected MIDI controllers on OSX. |
| FIXED | Crash when shift-selecting multiple launcher clips in note editor layer list. |
| FIXED | Crash when dragging an empty MIDI clip into the application. |
| FIXED | The same shortcut can be added multiple times to a single action and application would crash when deleting the shortcut mappings. |
| FIXED | Engine crashes when overdub recording into multiple launcher clips that are triggered by follow actions. |
| FIXED | Deleting or installing a VST while app is running does not cause the preset browser to update with the change. |
| FIXED | Can't activate the audio engine on OSX if set sample rate is set to automatic. |
| FIXED | Application might not start on OSX when a non-local URL is in the clipboard. |
| 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 | Wrong default value for Step MOD (32/1). |
| FIXED | Crash without report when editing raw audio clips due to bugs in version of Java bundled with Bitwig Studio on Linux. |
| 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 | Context menu for a track in a track group shows a blank line instead of the item to show popup browser. |
| FIXED | Showing the input/output section in the arranger resulted in the track names getting shorter. |
| 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 | Clips that have "no-kick" tag appears in the result of search "kick". |
| 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 | 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 | Dragging a no looping clip from the arranger to the clip launcher does not set the correct loop region. |
| FIXED | Search field is not focussed when opening Popup Browser via Drum Machine. |
| FIXED | When dragging a scene file to the clip launcher the preview did not update correctly when moving to a different scene. |
| FIXED | Saved scenes would output to "No output" and could not be previewed in the browser. |
| FIXED | Impossible to create Smart Collections within a folder on Windows machines. |
| 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: 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 | Projects created in 1.1 that have automation for the cross fader mode cannot be opened in 1.2.0. |
| FIXED | Controller API: cannot select first device in chain via cursorDevice.selectPrevious(). |
| FIXED | Regression: muting a device following an instrument were causing silence/crackling in 1.1.3. |
| FIXED | Midi clock gets send during bounce. |
| FIXED | Wrong raw playback with activated arrangement loop. |
| 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 | Controller API: crash when switching VST presets on controller. |
| FIXED | VST windows are shown in front of other applications when Bitwig Studio is not active. |
| FIXED | Routing choosers show the device preset name instead of the name of the device. |
| FIXED | Crash when consolidating clips on the arranger while the note editor is looking inside one of the clips being consolidated. |
| FIXED | Engine crash related to sends of nested device chains. |
| 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 | Potential crash when no insertion layer is selected in layered note editor. |
| FIXED | Controller API: some device parameters are not included in the direct-parameter-id list, but their values are reported. |
| FIXED | Polysynth doesn't play the same sound when you want in repetition. |
| FIXED | Big clip height does not resize the group's scene header in the mixer. |
| FIXED | Controller API: add selectInEditor to device interface. |
| 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 | Rare crash when trying to activate the engine for a document that is being closed. |
| 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 | 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 | Audio engine crashes sometimes when launching a clip on the clip launcher. |
| 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 | 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 | Rare crash when deleting a track. |
| 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 | Controller API: add function to toggle PreRoll. |
| IMPROVED | Stronger highlight for played keys in piano roll editor. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: fixed direct parameters should be listed before dynamic direct parameters (e.g. in layer device). |
| IMPROVED | Arpeggiator now analyses incoming note expressions and applies them to generated notes. |
| 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 | Clicking a track header now updates the note editor to show that track. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: allow to specify whether track cursor looks at flattened tracks, nested tracks, or as shown expanded in the GUI. |
| IMPROVED | When saving a project always collect files that are in another project folder to the one we are saving. |
| IMPROVED | Allow a knob or CC to control a toggle button and define range in which toggle is on or off. |
| IMPROVED | Focus should not change unless user is making a selection or clicking in empty area of a panel. |
| 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 | Shortcut changes: "B" for popup browser, "Alt-B" for side panel browser. |
| IMPROVED | When saving a scene, prefill dialog with scene name. |
| IMPROVED | Add VST 64 bit and VST 32 bit file types to the device popup browser. |
| 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 | Add context menu entries for deleting clip automation to editor background, launcher clip overview and automated parameter controls. |
| 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). |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.2.0
Released on 30.09.2015.
| NEW | Automatic quantization of recorded notes. |
| 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 | Oscilloscope device. |
| 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. |
| NEW | Double-size clip slots in mixer view. |
| FIXED | Add action to show plugin device window. |
| FIXED | Saving of VST plugin states crashes the plugin host on Windows. |
| 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 | Dragging arranger time to clip launcher should make slot empty if no content on arranger. |
| IMPROVED | Allow to rename devices. |
| IMPROVED | Modulation mappings from polyphonic sources to monophonic destinations. |
| IMPROVED | Clips on Master and Effect tracks can only be dragged to pre-existing audio or instrument tracks. . |
| IMPROVED | Add graph to dynamic devices, such as Audio Mod, Compressor, Dynamics, LFO Mod, Peak Meter, Gate and Transient Control. |
| IMPROVED | Display the band's frequency in EQ-2 and EQ-5 devices. |
| IMPROVED | Attack and sustain modulation sources for Transient Control device. |
| IMPROVED | Better support for touch and pen input devices. |
| IMPROVED | Better font rendering. |
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. |