Bitwig Studio ChangeLog

Thank you for downloading Bitwig Studio 2.1.3.
This document lists the changes since previous versions of Bitwig Studio.

Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.1.3

Released on 18.07.2017.

FIXED	Potential engine crash on macOS when unplugging audio interface while being used.
FIXED	Copying a deactivated track would reactivate the copied track (instead of keeping it deactivated like the source track).
FIXED	Regression: splash screen is missing or an old one gets displayed on Windows.

Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.1.2

Released on 13.07.2017.

FIXED	Engine crash when calling pluginHostCrashed on a plug-in which was already removed from document.
FIXED	Crash in Keyboard + 8 Device Knobs (CC 20-27) script.
FIXED	Internal routings to sub channels are not preserved copying a group track to another project, or saving to the browser, or when using copy and paste.
FIXED	Modulating the note echo can result in exceeded velocity range.
FIXED	After hiding all columns in Popup Browser, there is no way to get them back.
FIXED	Plugin-host scanned plug-ins as VST3 if the path contained the string "vst3" anywhere. (so including /vst32/).
FIXED	Sustain pedal was read wrong when imported from MIDI files.
FIXED	App crashes on startup on Ubuntu 17.04 when using 4.10.0-24 kernel but works on 4.10.0-22 kernel.
FIXED	Audio waveform renders incorrectly when dragging a time selection on arranger.
FIXED	Double-clicking a dot in Blur device places dot outside the dynamic display box.
FIXED	Crash when dropping note one pixel above the highest note editor key.
FIXED	Devices inside deactivated group don't re-activate.
FIXED	If output track of group is dectivated by navigating inside the group it is no longer possible to reactivate it once you've navigated out of the group.
FIXED	Deactivated groups in saved project didn't reactivate sends when reactivated.
FIXED	App does not start on certain windows machines if certain registry keys are missing.
FIXED	Regression since 2.0: stretching audio events at their left margin leads to unexpected results when event ends before sample end.
FIXED	PDC graph error in 2.1.1.
FIXED	Slicing raw audio may create sample resources with negative sample start locators.
FIXED	Snapping to onsets does not work for raw audio events.
IMPROVED	Changing buffersize of Jack on the fly (e.g using jack_bufsize command) does not update the buffer size of the audio engine.

Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.1.1

Released on 26.05.2017.

FIXED	VST plugin folders with umlaut characters cause a scan fail for the containing plugins on Windows.
FIXED	Regression: Korg M1 Le plugin can no longer be scanned on either Mac or Windows.
FIXED	Dragging clip from arranger that has start marker not at time 0 to clip launcher results in incorrect automation being played back.
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	Arranger waveforms do not visually reflect clip fade-out on raw audio material.
FIXED	PDC graph error in 2.1.
FIXED	Engine crashing when connecting to document containing deactivated HW Devices.
FIXED	Crash when loading certain projects that contain group tracks.
IMPROVED	Muting a clip and then undoing the mute shows the clip as unmuted but the engine does not play it.
IMPROVED	Transpose notes octave up from "Clip" menu cannot be undone.
IMPROVED	Support native windows resizing for VST3 plug-ins on windows.

Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.1

Released on 15.05.2017.

NEW	APC40 MKII script (rewritten in Java).
NEW	Add quantize to Math modulator.
NEW	AMP Device.
NEW	New controller scripts for Nektar Technology products: LX25+, LX49+ and LX61+ .
NEW	MIDI slave support for transport sync.
NEW	Java API for development of custom control surface drivers.
FIXED	MIDI Song Select sends improperly formatted messages.
FIXED	In drum edit mode, the pen tool deletes the wrong notes.
FIXED	Crash sometimes when closing the popup browser with a control surface connected.
FIXED	Keylab 49 controller crashes when switching parameter pages.
FIXED	Crash when dropping device in device chain.
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	Crash when trying to adjust fades on mixed selection of clips and meta clips.
FIXED	Adding devices with plugin latency to the FB FX of delay 4 breaks PDC graph.
FIXED	Dragging the DSP performance graph window to another display makes it disappear.
FIXED	Auto-suspend of some plugins is causing audio glitches.
FIXED	Selecting effect tracks from right to left using shift modifier and dragging to main track area can crash Bitwig Studio.
FIXED	Fix some devices crash on old Windows systems.
FIXED	Note Harmonizer reacted to slow if the harmony side-chain switched at the same time as the incoming notes.
FIXED	Mouse cursor does not scale on Linux when changing the display scaling in preferences.
FIXED	Plugin presets not shown after loading project.
FIXED	MTC framerate is not initialized properly on document load.
FIXED	Drag and drop does not work with Spectrasonics Stylus RMX on windows.
FIXED	Memory leaks when painting automation points.
FIXED	Polysynth: there is no beating with unison = 2, and in this case unison act as a DC Offset.
FIXED	ASIO: audio device is not properly restarted when the buffer size is changed via the ASIO configuration panel.
FIXED	Akai MPK49 script crashes when pressing Shift and Play.
FIXED	Many notes playing polysynth voices with long release time crash audio engine.
FIXED	MIDI Program Change might loose the note if it happens at the same time as the program change.
FIXED	Possible to get the automation editor to lose the panel with the free-run settings & co.
FIXED	Bouncing files causes a "Missing Files" notification.
FIXED	"Open containing folder" shown as "action.open_containing_folder.name".
FIXED	Eraser skips over notes when moving fast.
FIXED	Automation events may jump to different time or value when moving events via arrow keys.
FIXED	Control Surface API: ClipLauncherSlot.isStopQueued().get() reports true event if this slot is not playing.
FIXED	Crash when nudging selected automation events after changing selection.
FIXED	Value of automation point still shown when switching to another application.
FIXED	VST3 device state can't be loaded for all waves plugins.
FIXED	VST3 plugin states were saved with fxb extension instead of vstpreset.
FIXED	Midi messages could be received before a controller has loaded its preferences.
FIXED	When using clock slave and the tempo goes jitters around 100 BPM the size of the toolbar also jitters.
FIXED	CursorDevice created for a track in a track bank does not work.
FIXED	VST3: Notes sent to Halion 6 didn't play correctly.
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	Drag-copying notes using time selection tool in clip launcher note editor does not repaint the drop area correctly.
FIXED	Potential crash when opening old projects.
FIXED	Crash when stepping through pad scale layouts on Maschine Jam controller.
FIXED	Controller API: Cursor.selectFirst/Last not working in some situations.
FIXED	Popup notification for a remote control shows the name of the target not the renamed remote control when adjusting from a controller.
FIXED	Step modulated DC offset does go to sleep when not being in focus.
FIXED	Halion 6 VST2 version does not work in Bitwig Studio 2 on windows.
FIXED	MIDI Clock Offset now use the same direction as Audio Recording Offset: positive values means earlier.
FIXED	Controller API: not possible to receive notes on multiple inputs with different masks.
FIXED	Controller API: Parameter.name() not updated for parameters that are not remote controls.
FIXED	MIDI Clock slave was too slow to catch up.
FIXED	Hiding and showing the layered editor sometimes results in the window being resized to an enormous size and showing distorted graphics.
FIXED	Bad performance when scrolling through file browser for files that are on a network.
FIXED	Regression on macOS in alpha-2: some VST-2 plugins with resizable window have incorrect size after opening the second time.
FIXED	Transport.isAutomationOverrideActive() does not notify callbacks when it changes.
FIXED	Regression: VST3 state wasn't stored correctly.
FIXED	Different MTC framrates don't have any effect.
FIXED	Note end might incorrectly show the masked-by-clip indicator when entering notes on triplet grid.
FIXED	ASIO didn't work with Realtek driver when using automatic sample-rate.
FIXED	Play stop marker on raw audio events not draggable when being zoomed in.
FIXED	Scrollbar in midi learn section block the delete button for mappings.
FIXED	Raw audio events might not get played for the expected duration when loading old projects.
FIXED	VST3 window resizable flag is interpreted incorrectly on macOS.
FIXED	Show presets for legacy devices by default.
FIXED	Note Latch: toggle and velocity mode do not work properly.
FIXED	Behavior / Bounce bit depth setting has no effect.
FIXED	iZotope Iris VST2 plugin window content looks shifted after resizing and then re-opening window.
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	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	MIDI Program Change: fix PDC in the chain.
FIXED	Deleting time range in raw audio event does not work correctly.
FIXED	Editing MIDI CC device knobs, requires to remove the CC prefix.
FIXED	Engine crash on bounce.
FIXED	Crash sometimes when deleting a drum chain with a controller connected to the drum machine.
FIXED	Crash when copying integer value automation to clipboard and clicking in another integer value automation lane.
FIXED	Crash when pinning device cursor for a control surface in the IO panel.
FIXED	Too much smoothing on note expressions.
FIXED	Midi CC device sends unwanted messages when scrolling through the CCs.
FIXED	On some windows machines the icons never show up due to trying to load Java assistive technologies.
FIXED	Under certain circumstances an extra note will be played outside clip boundaries.
FIXED	Crash when deleting beat marker by double-clicking on it in some cases.
FIXED	Crash when erasing notes in drum editor.
FIXED	Transposing multiple selected notes using keyboard shortcuts cuts existing notes when "passing through".
FIXED	Changing play offset for unlooped clips in inspector creates additional overlapping clips.
FIXED	Unsupported format for WASAPI on Windows 7/8.1 if no sample-rate was selected.
FIXED	Cakewalk Z3Ta2 instant crash with VST3.
FIXED	ASIO: Turning off the HW FX power button causes odd feedback behavior/noise.
FIXED	Halion VST3 plugin does not remember its window size on macOS.
FIXED	Differences in Transient Detection between 44,1 and 96khz files.
FIXED	Crash when using scroll wheel in Zynaptic plugins on macOS.
FIXED	Incorrect vst2 channel interpretation for plugins which do not implement effGetOutputProperties.
FIXED	Range of indexed controls was too big.
FIXED	Content of 32-bit VST plugin window may loose relation to parent window when switching to another application on macOS.
FIXED	Potential crash when copying data to the clipboard on macOS.
FIXED	Potential engine crash on macOS when changing sample rate or buffer size on slow hardware devices.
FIXED	Spectrum Analyzer takes a lot of time to initialize on Windows.
FIXED	Crash when opening old projects in some cases.
FIXED	MTC sends invalid messages.
FIXED	Crash when adjusting value of two equal-timed automation events via inspector.
IMPROVED	Primary device for a controller will automatically select first instrument if there is one otherwise the first device.
IMPROVED	Don't allow Javascript controllers access to the standard Java API via Nashorn's Java support.
IMPROVED	Control Surface API: add a way to determine if 2 ObjectProxies refer to the same object.
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	Added Select All action to edit menu.
IMPROVED	Configure the MIDI Clock offset in milliseconds.
IMPROVED	Chain device can now output notes.
IMPROVED	PDC: Monitoring latency less influenced by other tracks.
IMPROVED	Improved workflow for tracks which are routed to a note/MIDI destination (mute/solo/meters).
IMPROVED	Add a velocity knob to the note sidechain.
IMPROVED	Allow to paste events from the clipboard over selected events.
IMPROVED	Show playback follow button in each timeline editor panel (bottom right).
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.
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.