Thank you for downloading Bitwig Studio 2.1.1.
This document lists the changes since
previous versions of Bitwig Studio.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.1.1
Released on 26.05.2017.
| FIXED | VST3 device state can't be loaded for all waves plugins. |
| FIXED | Mouse cursor does not scale on Linux when changing the display scaling in preferences. |
| FIXED | Plugin presets not shown after loading project. |
| FIXED | Auto-suspend of some plugins is causing audio glitches. |
| FIXED | CursorDevice created for a track in a track bank does not work. |
| FIXED | Note Harmonizer reacted to slow if the harmony side-chain switched at the same time as the incoming notes. |
| FIXED | When selecting clips on the arranger and dragging over the track header area clips start becoming unselected. |
| FIXED | Drag and Drop not working on Linux if absolute mouse mode is enabled in the preferences. |
| FIXED | Automation events may jump to different time or value when moving events via arrow keys. |
| FIXED | Crash when stepping through pad scale layouts on Maschine Jam controller. |
| FIXED | Engine crash on bounce. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when deleting a drum chain with a controller connected to the drum machine. |
| FIXED | VST3: Notes sent to Halion 6 didn't play correctly. |
| FIXED | Crash when loading certain projects that contain group tracks. |
| FIXED | Engine crashing when connecting to document containing deactivated HW Devices. |
| FIXED | VST plugin folders with umlaut characters cause a scan fail for the containing plugins on Windows. |
| FIXED | Arranger waveforms do not visually reflect clip fade-out on raw audio material. |
| FIXED | PDC graph error in 2.1. |
| FIXED | Dragging clip from arranger that has start marker not at time 0 to clip launcher results in incorrect automation being played back. |
| FIXED | Regression: Korg M1 Le plugin can no longer be scanned on either Mac or Windows. |
| FIXED | When dragging first onset to create beat marker in second audio event after splitting the event, the marker gets created in the first audio event instead. |
| FIXED | Engine may crash on Mac when trying to send notes to MIDI hardware that is not connected anymore after opening old projects. |
| IMPROVED | Control Surface API: add a way to determine if 2 ObjectProxies refer to the same object. |
| IMPROVED | Don't allow Javascript controllers access to the standard Java API via Nashorn's Java support. |
| IMPROVED | Support native windows resizing for VST3 plug-ins on windows. |
| IMPROVED | Transpose notes octave up from "Clip" menu cannot be undone. |
| IMPROVED | Muting a clip and then undoing the mute shows the clip as unmuted but the engine does not play it. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.1
Released on 15.05.2017.
| NEW | Add quantize to Math modulator. |
| NEW | APC40 MKII script (rewritten in Java). |
| NEW | AMP Device. |
| NEW | Java API for development of custom control surface drivers. |
| NEW | MIDI slave support for transport sync. |
| NEW | New controller scripts for Nektar Technology products: LX25+, LX49+ and LX61+ . |
| FIXED | MIDI Song Select sends improperly formatted messages. |
| FIXED | In drum edit mode, the pen tool deletes the wrong notes. |
| FIXED | Crash when dropping device in device chain. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when closing the popup browser with a control surface connected. |
| FIXED | Keylab 49 controller crashes when switching parameter pages. |
| FIXED | Bad performance when scrolling through file browser for files that are on a network. |
| FIXED | Behavior / Bounce bit depth setting has no effect. |
| FIXED | Hiding and showing the layered editor sometimes results in the window being resized to an enormous size and showing distorted graphics. |
| FIXED | Bouncing files causes a "Missing Files" notification. |
| FIXED | Controller API: Parameter.name() not updated for parameters that are not remote controls. |
| FIXED | Note Latch: toggle and velocity mode do not work properly. |
| FIXED | MTC framerate is not initialized properly on document load. |
| FIXED | MIDI Clock slave was too slow to catch up. |
| FIXED | Akai MPK49 script crashes when pressing Shift and Play. |
| FIXED | Many notes playing polysynth voices with long release time crash audio engine. |
| FIXED | VST3 plugin states were saved with fxb extension instead of vstpreset. |
| FIXED | Controller API: not possible to receive notes on multiple inputs with different masks. |
| FIXED | Possible to get the automation editor to lose the panel with the free-run settings & co. |
| FIXED | Show presets for legacy devices by default. |
| FIXED | Selecting effect tracks from right to left using shift modifier and dragging to main track area can crash Bitwig Studio. |
| FIXED | Different MTC framrates don't have any effect. |
| FIXED | ASIO: Turning off the HW FX power button causes odd feedback behavior/noise. |
| FIXED | ASIO: audio device is not properly restarted when the buffer size is changed via the ASIO configuration panel. |
| FIXED | VST3 window resizable flag is interpreted incorrectly on macOS. |
| FIXED | Potential crash when opening old projects. |
| FIXED | Launcher audio clip plays silence if previously played clip ended with a fade out on a contained event while then next clip starts inside the events and both events have identical settings and refer to the same sample. |
| FIXED | In drum editor, dragging in the background always erases notes independent of the selected tool. |
| FIXED | Cakewalk Z3Ta2 instant crash with VST3. |
| FIXED | Halion VST3 plugin does not remember its window size on macOS. |
| FIXED | Note end might incorrectly show the masked-by-clip indicator when entering notes on triplet grid. |
| FIXED | Midi messages could be received before a controller has loaded its preferences. |
| FIXED | Transport.isAutomationOverrideActive() does not notify callbacks when it changes. |
| FIXED | iZotope Iris VST2 plugin window content looks shifted after resizing and then re-opening window. |
| FIXED | Regression: VST3 state wasn't stored correctly. |
| FIXED | Drag-copying notes using time selection tool in clip launcher note editor does not repaint the drop area correctly. |
| FIXED | Regression on macOS in alpha-2: some VST-2 plugins with resizable window have incorrect size after opening the second time. |
| FIXED | Controller API: Cursor.selectFirst/Last not working in some situations. |
| FIXED | Crash when nudging selected automation events after changing selection. |
| FIXED | Transposing multiple selected notes using keyboard shortcuts cuts existing notes when "passing through". |
| FIXED | Popup notification for a remote control shows the name of the target not the renamed remote control when adjusting from a controller. |
| FIXED | Unsupported format for WASAPI on Windows 7/8.1 if no sample-rate was selected. |
| FIXED | Control Surface API: ClipLauncherSlot.isStopQueued().get() reports true event if this slot is not playing. |
| FIXED | Eraser skips over notes when moving fast. |
| FIXED | Play stop marker on raw audio events not draggable when being zoomed in. |
| FIXED | "Open containing folder" shown as "action.open_containing_folder.name". |
| FIXED | Under certain circumstances an extra note will be played outside clip boundaries. |
| FIXED | When using clock slave and the tempo goes jitters around 100 BPM the size of the toolbar also jitters. |
| FIXED | Drag and drop does not work with Spectrasonics Stylus RMX on windows. |
| FIXED | Sometimes automation points jump to different value when adjusting value via arrow keys. |
| FIXED | Not possible to create a smart collection in the multi samples tab. |
| FIXED | ASIO didn't work with Realtek driver when using automatic sample-rate. |
| FIXED | Memory leaks when painting automation points. |
| FIXED | Adding devices with plugin latency to the FB FX of delay 4 breaks PDC graph. |
| FIXED | Fix some devices crash on old Windows systems. |
| FIXED | Crash when using scroll wheel in Zynaptic plugins on macOS. |
| FIXED | Deleting time range in raw audio event does not work correctly. |
| FIXED | When drawing automation with pencil tool while being zoomed-in very far into the timeline, the resulting events get thinned too much on mouse up. |
| FIXED | Editing MIDI CC device knobs, requires to remove the CC prefix. |
| FIXED | Incorrect vst2 channel interpretation for plugins which do not implement effGetOutputProperties. |
| FIXED | MIDI Clock Offset now use the same direction as Audio Recording Offset: positive values means earlier. |
| FIXED | Raw audio events might not get played for the expected duration when loading old projects. |
| FIXED | Value of automation point still shown when switching to another application. |
| FIXED | Scrollbar in midi learn section block the delete button for mappings. |
| FIXED | MIDI Program Change might loose the note if it happens at the same time as the program change. |
| FIXED | Halion 6 VST2 version does not work in Bitwig Studio 2 on windows. |
| FIXED | Dragging the DSP performance graph window to another display makes it disappear. |
| FIXED | Step modulated DC offset does go to sleep when not being in focus. |
| FIXED | Range of indexed controls was too big. |
| FIXED | Polysynth: there is no beating with unison = 2, and in this case unison act as a DC Offset. |
| FIXED | Midi CC device sends unwanted messages when scrolling through the CCs. |
| FIXED | Content of 32-bit VST plugin window may loose relation to parent window when switching to another application on macOS. |
| FIXED | MIDI Program Change: fix PDC in the chain. |
| FIXED | Crash when deleting beat marker by double-clicking on it in some cases. |
| FIXED | Crash when trying to adjust fades on mixed selection of clips and meta clips. |
| FIXED | On some windows machines the icons never show up due to trying to load Java assistive technologies. |
| FIXED | Crash when pinning device cursor for a control surface in the IO panel. |
| FIXED | Changing play offset for unlooped clips in inspector creates additional overlapping clips. |
| FIXED | Too much smoothing on note expressions. |
| FIXED | Crash when copying integer value automation to clipboard and clicking in another integer value automation lane. |
| FIXED | Crash when erasing notes in drum editor. |
| FIXED | Crash when opening old projects in some cases. |
| FIXED | Potential engine crash on macOS when changing sample rate or buffer size on slow hardware devices. |
| FIXED | Potential crash when copying data to the clipboard on macOS. |
| FIXED | Spectrum Analyzer takes a lot of time to initialize on Windows. |
| FIXED | MTC sends invalid messages. |
| FIXED | Crash when adjusting value of two equal-timed automation events via inspector. |
| IMPROVED | Improved workflow for tracks which are routed to a note/MIDI destination (mute/solo/meters). |
| IMPROVED | Configure the MIDI Clock offset in milliseconds. |
| IMPROVED | When trying to adjust the value of automation events further than the limits of the value range via arrow keys, it takes the same amount of steps to move it back. |
| IMPROVED | PDC: Monitoring latency less influenced by other tracks. |
| IMPROVED | Allow to paste events from the clipboard over selected events. |
| IMPROVED | Chain device can now output notes. |
| IMPROVED | Show playback follow button in each timeline editor panel (bottom right). |
| IMPROVED | Primary device for a controller will automatically select first instrument if there is one otherwise the first device. |
| IMPROVED | Added Select All action to edit menu. |
| IMPROVED | Add a velocity knob to the note sidechain. |
| IMPROVED | Better erase tool in note editor. |
| IMPROVED | Note Latch Device not working properly in several modes after preset reload or engine restart. |
| IMPROVED | MIDI Clock Slave: stabilize the tempo variations. |
| IMPROVED | Show a notification if we get an unbalanced PDC graph with a submit action that sends the PDC file in the bug report. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.3.16
Released on 13.03.2017.
| FIXED | Crash when adjusting value with touch interaction. |
| FIXED | Differences in Transient Detection between 44,1 and 96khz files. |
| IMPROVED | Add support for Nektar LX+, GX and SE49 controllers. |
| IMPROVED | Backported improved Solo behaviour from Version 2 (Local Solo Option). |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.0
Released on 03.03.2017.
| NEW | VST3 plugin support. |
| FIXED | When stretching end of audio event, a new beat marker is inserted each time at the event end. |
| FIXED | When reloading a project, plugin note destination are not listed anymore. |
| FIXED | Phase is inverted when recording audio from an external source using ASIO at 24-bit. |
| FIXED | Note information is not passed on to VST Post-FX chain. |
| FIXED | Wrong size of preferences tab titles when switching between screens. |
| IMPROVED | Document/GUI application process is now 64-bit on windows. 32-bit versions of Windows are no longer supported. |