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previous versions of Bitwig Studio.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2
Released on 11.10.2017.
| NEW | Ableton Link support. |
| NEW | Time Shift Device. |
| NEW | Sample & Hold Modulator. |
| NEW | Quantize Modulator. |
| NEW | Audio Rate Modulator. |
| NEW | Polynom Modulator. |
| NEW | Dual Display (Studio/Touch) profile. |
| IMPROVED | Improved Audio & Note Playback Engine. |
| IMPROVED | Add a smoothness parameter to midi clock slave. |
| IMPROVED | Remember sample auto preview and synchronize to song tempo from the sample preview in the preferences. |
| IMPROVED | Allow user to edit templates they have created by openning the project file in the template folder. |
| IMPROVED | Add pan swap to the Tool device. |
| IMPROVED | Better user experience for configuring Audio Devices. |
| IMPROVED | Better workflow for selecting clips & time in the arranger to show content in the editor. |
| IMPROVED | MIDI Clock Slave catches the tempo faster on Continue. |
| IMPROVED | Added Single Trigger option to ADSR & AHDSR modulators (useful only in mono-mode). |
| IMPROVED | When clicking on arranger clips, the note editor (clip mode) should only scroll if alt modifier was pressed. |
| IMPROVED | Rename some Livid instrument scripts so they all have a distinct name. |
| IMPROVED | Add MIDI Learn button to the MIDI modulator. |
| IMPROVED | Add an option to release Note Latch playing notes when the transport is stopped. |
| IMPROVED | Update plugin window title in real-time. |
| IMPROVED | Show device and track name in VST window title area on macOS. |
| IMPROVED | Always show name on arranger clips (instead of only custom names). |
| IMPROVED | Sampler's start and loop region is now polyphonic. |
| IMPROVED | Added touch keyboard to both single display profiles. |
| IMPROVED | Let Macro and Macro-4 be polyphonic. |
| IMPROVED | Remember zoom level per clip. |
| IMPROVED | Make HW CV Instrument wider. |
| IMPROVED | Let the comb filter go down to 20 Hz. |
| IMPROVED | Add smoothing to Step Modulator. |
| IMPROVED | Improve zoom to fit for clip launcher note editor. |
| IMPROVED | Support DPI Aware plug-ins on Windows (if they implement PreSonus Plug-In Extensions). |
| IMPROVED | Removed legato for raw audio and made working with sample play stop (in seconds) vs event end (in beats) more clear. |
| IMPROVED | The search field from the library on the side panel should be the same for each content type. |
| IMPROVED | Controller API: make auto-detection work for multiple connected devices of the same model. |
| IMPROVED | It is now possible to set the cross-fade length used when looping audio clips. |
| IMPROVED | Improved compatibility with HiDPI plug-ins on Windows. |
| IMPROVED | It is now possible to use more than one midi controller of the same model (e.g. Launchpad) at the same time. |
| IMPROVED | Scripting API: new API to copy slots or scenes. |
| IMPROVED | Sampler now supports audio rate pitch modulation. |
| IMPROVED | If a plugin takes a long time to scan notify the user and give them the option to skip that plugin. |
| IMPROVED | Better support for resizing of plug-in windows. |
| IMPROVED | Smooth/Glide for the step sequencer. |
| IMPROVED | Remember plugin window position. |
| IMPROVED | Improved Arturia Keylab 25/49/61/88 scripts. |
| FIXED | Out of memory error when parsing some uhe preset files. |
| FIXED | Engine crash sometimes when switching projects. |
| FIXED | APC40 MKII version 1.0 by Akai crashed while using the cue knob. |
| FIXED | Potential crash when dragging audio file from spotlight. |
| FIXED | Deleting nested return track in certain corrupted projects could cause a crash, these are now automatically repaired. |
| FIXED | Crash when saving remote controls. |
| FIXED | Painting of automation preview sometimes crashes. |
| FIXED | Transposing notes using arrow keys sometimes erases other notes when passing over. |
| FIXED | Double-clicking a dot in Blur device places dot outside the dynamic display box. |
| FIXED | When moving multiple notes with the same key over other notes using arrow keys, the existing notes might get truncated in some cases. |
| FIXED | Duplicating a track does not properly duplicates the track's output routing. |
| FIXED | Overlapping notes in MIDI files are not imported correctly. |
| FIXED | VST3 ModuleEntry() was not called on Linux. |
| FIXED | QuNeo not auto detected on Linux. |
| FIXED | Setting a clip's loop length to very small values causes the playhead to escape the looped region and play audio outside of it. |
| FIXED | "Save Preset To Library" dialog: TAB key doesn't switch from Tags to Preset desicription (+ [SUG] "Category" selector). |
| FIXED | Copying automation to clip launcher needs finer threshold for streamlining points, to avoid that straight sections result in a sloped section if points are very close. |
| FIXED | Impossible to stop queued clip before it launches. |
| FIXED | Undo history breaks if you move an automation point and hit the right mouse key while doing so. |
| FIXED | Timing of resulting bounce is not accurate when tempo automation is used. |
| FIXED | "Poly" button in ADSR modulator: tool-tip says "Single Trigger". |
| FIXED | File/Close doesn't work nor shortcut ctrl+W. |
| FIXED | Deleting note effects while playing can result in stuck notes. |
| FIXED | Crash when importing multiple audio files using drag and drop to an empty project. |
| FIXED | VST3 plugins may fail scanning in some cases. |
| FIXED | Automation of Diatonic Transposer mode shift doesn't quite match up with the actual values. |
| FIXED | Raise the maximum number of HW audio channels from 128 to 256. |
| FIXED | Pen tool right-click to delete notes does not work without moving the mouse in drum editor. |
| FIXED | Steps Modulator: when Loop is OFF, Modulator jumps back to the first step after completion of the cycle, instead of staying on the last step. |
| FIXED | Modulator mapping visualization would disappear when folding and unfolding the modulators while editing a remote controls page. |
| FIXED | Shot mode in sampler didn't play the sample the first time. |
| FIXED | ALSA: improve recovery when sound card is brutally disconnected. |
| FIXED | Delete key does not update the text field in large text editor (eg: preset's description). |
| FIXED | Drum machine only has 127 slices while it could have 128. |
| FIXED | Scrolling note editor when clicking on arranger clips does not work correctly the first time. |
| FIXED | Preview player made a hung-buffer noise if you selected a sample/file which was missing but still in the index while playing back another one. |
| FIXED | Sample preview sometimes clicked at the beginning. |
| FIXED | It was possible to create shorter loops than the minimum allowed size by dragging a short clip from the arranger to the clip launcher. |
| FIXED | Fix problems with using projects after they have been saved as a template. |
| FIXED | Window wants to become bigger than screen when opening clip content editor in EDIT panel layout with 300% scaling. |
| FIXED | Time shift shouldn't be automatable & modulatable. |
| FIXED | Fix some devices default settings and default preset. |
| FIXED | Reporting tempo 0 to VST plug-in instances. |
| FIXED | Modulation mapping visual indication would disappear after folding/unfolding chains. |
| FIXED | Recording note clip launcher playback to the arranger doesn't update the recorded clip when editing the source clip. |
| FIXED | Clicking in track group background on the arranger results in broken looking note editor if group master contains no audio clips. |
| FIXED | Using the ALT-modifier in the clip launcher to bounce a clip during drag & drop was moving the original (should be a copy). |
| FIXED | Regression: command for setting loop region to time selection area does not work until an event is selected. |
| FIXED | Regression: field value flickers when adjusting start time of arranger clips in inspector. |
| FIXED | Note modulator doesn't affect notes before they play. |
| FIXED | Notes in first loop iteration are not rendered correctly if clip content start marker is at the same location as the loop end. |
| FIXED | Engine crashes if there is an error initializing audio output. |
| FIXED | Engine crash when connecting engine to a project that contains a bypassed HW Instrument. |
| FIXED | Crashes from Changing Audio Sample Rate. |
| FIXED | Delete button works like backspace in text editor. |
| FIXED | Values Can Not Be Confirmed via Numerical Block Enter Key. |
| FIXED | Consolidating clips with RAW audio in them results in the audio playing outside of the clip boundary. |
| FIXED | Automation bug in large project. |
| FIXED | Button to enable automatic size of audio lanes is sometimes not visible when it should. |
| FIXED | Crash when layer editing in a hybrid track with audio background. |
| FIXED | Bounce/In Place freezes when external clock is being received. |
| FIXED | Saving as template could break the current document (missing samples). |
| FIXED | Sampler not keytracking correctly. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.1.4
Released on 11.09.2017.
| FIXED | Rare audio engine crash during audio playback. |
| FIXED | Automation override was enabled when turning automated knobs also when stopped. |
| FIXED | ASIO: The Int16LSB and Int24LSB formats resulted in noise for inputs. |
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.1.3
Released on 20.07.2017.
| 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 | Crash in Keyboard + 8 Device Knobs (CC 20-27) script. |
| FIXED | After hiding all columns in Popup Browser, there is no way to get them back. |
| 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 | 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 | Plugin-host scanned plug-ins as VST3 if the path contained the string "vst3" anywhere. (so including /vst32/). |
| 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 | Possible to somehow get two modulators in one cell on a modulator grid. |
| FIXED | Regression since 2.0: stretching audio events at their left margin leads to unexpected results when event ends before sample end. |
| FIXED | Snapping to onsets does not work for raw audio events. |
| FIXED | PDC graph error in 2.1.1. |
| FIXED | Slicing raw audio may create sample resources with negative sample start locators. |
| 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 | 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. |
| FIXED | VST plugin folders with umlaut characters cause a scan fail for the containing plugins on Windows. |
| 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 | AMP Device. |
| NEW | Add quantize to Math modulator. |
| 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 | In drum edit mode, the pen tool deletes the wrong notes. |
| FIXED | MIDI Song Select sends improperly formatted messages. |
| FIXED | Keylab 49 controller crashes when switching parameter pages. |
| FIXED | Crash when dropping device in device chain. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when closing the popup browser with a control surface connected. |
| FIXED | Mouse cursor does not scale on Linux when changing the display scaling in preferences. |
| FIXED | Selecting effect tracks from right to left using shift modifier and dragging to main track area can crash Bitwig Studio. |
| FIXED | Plugin presets not shown after loading project. |
| FIXED | Fix some devices crash on old Windows systems. |
| FIXED | MTC framerate is not initialized properly on document load. |
| FIXED | Note Harmonizer reacted to slow if the harmony side-chain switched at the same time as the incoming notes. |
| 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 | Crash when nudging selected automation events after changing selection. |
| FIXED | Control Surface API: ClipLauncherSlot.isStopQueued().get() reports true event if this slot is not playing. |
| 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 | 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 | Halion 6 VST2 version does not work in Bitwig Studio 2 on windows. |
| FIXED | Step modulated DC offset does go to sleep when not being in focus. |
| 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 | Transport.isAutomationOverrideActive() does not notify callbacks when it changes. |
| 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 | Regression: VST3 state wasn't stored correctly. |
| FIXED | Note end might incorrectly show the masked-by-clip indicator when entering notes on triplet grid. |
| FIXED | Different MTC framrates don't have any effect. |
| 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 | 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 | Raw audio events might not get played for the expected duration when loading old projects. |
| FIXED | Deleting time range in raw audio event does not work correctly. |
| FIXED | Note Latch: toggle and velocity mode do not work properly. |
| FIXED | Show presets for legacy devices by default. |
| 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 | iZotope Iris VST2 plugin window content looks shifted after resizing and then re-opening window. |
| FIXED | Crash sometimes when deleting a drum chain with a controller connected to the drum machine. |
| FIXED | Crash when pinning device cursor for a control surface in the IO panel. |
| FIXED | ASIO: Turning off the HW FX power button causes odd feedback behavior/noise. |
| FIXED | Cakewalk Z3Ta2 instant crash with VST3. |
| FIXED | MIDI Program Change: fix PDC in the chain. |
| FIXED | VST3 window resizable flag is interpreted incorrectly on macOS. |
| FIXED | Midi CC device sends unwanted messages when scrolling through the CCs. |
| FIXED | Under certain circumstances an extra note will be played outside clip boundaries. |
| FIXED | Transposing multiple selected notes using keyboard shortcuts cuts existing notes when "passing through". |
| FIXED | Unsupported format for WASAPI on Windows 7/8.1 if no sample-rate was selected. |
| FIXED | Differences in Transient Detection between 44,1 and 96khz files. |
| FIXED | Editing MIDI CC device knobs, requires to remove the CC prefix. |
| FIXED | Scrollbar in midi learn section block the delete button for mappings. |
| FIXED | Behavior / Bounce bit depth setting has no effect. |
| FIXED | Engine crash on bounce. |
| FIXED | Crash when copying integer value automation to clipboard and clicking in another integer value automation lane. |
| FIXED | Too much smoothing on note expressions. |
| FIXED | On some windows machines the icons never show up due to trying to load Java assistive technologies. |
| FIXED | Crash when deleting beat marker by double-clicking on it in some cases. |
| FIXED | Changing play offset for unlooped clips in inspector creates additional overlapping clips. |
| FIXED | Halion VST3 plugin does not remember its window size on macOS. |
| FIXED | Dragging the DSP performance graph window to another display makes it disappear. |
| 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 | Adding devices with plugin latency to the FB FX of delay 4 breaks PDC graph. |
| FIXED | Auto-suspend of some plugins is causing audio glitches. |
| FIXED | VST3: Notes sent to Halion 6 didn't play correctly. |
| FIXED | Crash when trying to adjust fades on mixed selection of clips and meta clips. |
| FIXED | Crash when erasing notes in drum editor. |
| 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 | Allow to paste events from the clipboard over selected events. |
| IMPROVED | PDC: Monitoring latency less influenced by other tracks. |
| IMPROVED | Add a velocity knob to the note sidechain. |
| IMPROVED | Chain device can now output notes. |
| IMPROVED | Improved workflow for tracks which are routed to a note/MIDI destination (mute/solo/meters). |
| IMPROVED | Show playback follow button in each timeline editor panel (bottom right). |
| 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. |
| IMPROVED | Better erase tool in note editor. |
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.
| 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 | Note information is not passed on to VST Post-FX chain. |
| FIXED | Phase is inverted when recording audio from an external source using ASIO at 24-bit. |
| 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. |