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previous versions of Bitwig Studio.
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. |
| IMPROVED | Ability to drag multiple files onto a Collection. |
| IMPROVED | Flanger's 'Mix' is not a percentage. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Waveform overview is missing after bounce and bounce in place when sample rate is set to automatic. |
| 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 | Changing tempo for multiple clips in inspector only gets applied to the cursor clip. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Window layout glitches on OSX when skipping over tracks quickly. |
| 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 | Controller API: crash when deleting tracks quickly while having certain controllers connected. |
| FIXED | Tablet mode: there is no easy way to add samples that are not in the Library (e.g. from project folder) to instruments. |
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 | Crash when moving track with group send automation out of a group then undo. |
| FIXED | Moving drum machine slot contents can cause multiple pad presets for the same key. |
| FIXED | Crash when creating track, then undoing, then switching display profile. |
| 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 | Playhead is missing when viewing automation of clips from the Clip Launcher. |
| 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 | VST window gets moved when opening from secondary screen on OSX. |
| FIXED | Changing presets in a VST that has multi outs causes crashes if the presets remove output chains. |
| 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. |
| 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 | Delay-4 device. |
| NEW | Added support for MIDI MPE mode for VST instruments. |
| NEW | Add template support. |
| NEW | Add ALSA support. |
| NEW | Multi-touch support for Windows and Linux. |
| NEW | E-Cowbell device. |
| 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 | Moving track in or out of group track stops playback of clip launcher clip. |
| FIXED | Crash when consolidating clips on the arranger while the note editor is looking inside one of the clips being consolidated. |
| FIXED | If you load a project that makes use of a sample that is part of a library pack, but the pack is currently not installed on the machine that loads it, you'll get the message: "This file is available in the package manager. Would you like to download and install it?" Bug: If you click "Yes", nothing happens. |
| FIXED | Engine crash related to sends of nested device chains. |
| FIXED | 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 | Dragging a no looping clip from the arranger to the clip launcher does not set the correct loop region. |
| FIXED | Crash when in mixer view and cursor is in mini device chain and arrow right from last track when the effect tracks are not visible. |
| FIXED | 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 | 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 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 | Crash when loading MIDI file with tempo events. |
| 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 | Remember state of popup browser when browsing for samples or multi samples for a sampler. |
| 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 | Rare crash when selecting device via controller API. |
| 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 | Controller API: crash when grouping, ungrouping or deleting group tracks in some cases. |
| 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 | 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 | Support for new MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) specification. |
| NEW | Double-size clip slots in mixer view. |
| NEW | Basic multi-touch support on Linux. |
| NEW | Jack support including Jack Transport on all platforms. |
| FIXED | Some equalizer bands could go below 20Hz. |
| FIXED | Icons for file types do not show up in file manager after installing Bitwig Studio on Ubuntu . |
| FIXED | Application icon no longer shows for Bitwig Studio on Ubuntu. |
| FIXED | Saving of VST plugin states crashes the plugin host on Windows. |
| FIXED | Macro section displays "Default Preset" after loading a saved VST preset. |
| FIXED | 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. |