RipX DAW Version Changes

v7.1.1 changes (16th April 2024) – Windows Only

Bug Fixes

Fixed crash when close and re-open RipX DAW before activating

v7.1.0 changes (20th March 2024)

Improvements

FX
- Simple single FX panel for all level, pitch, time and preset/combo effects, automatically sorted into alphabetical order for quick reference
  - To create effect presets, now right-click effects and choose ‘Create Preset’
- FX parameters now listed one per line, rather than all in one line – to allow for future extension of FX capabilities.
- Quick Panel replaced with Find Panel, for searching all FX, Sounds and Loops.
  - When search term is empty, shows all FX and Sounds applied to the current selection
  - Press Enter to apply top item, or use Cursor Up/Down to select alternatives first
  - Recently used effects now available from new Context bar – see below
  - Cmd/Ctrl+F shortcut and Edit menu item added
  - Find now checks Sound Palette/Folder name too
  - Find now checks alternative names for effects. For example Reverb>Echo, Vibrato>Wobble, Shift Formant>Smurf, Delay>Echo, Reverse>Backward, Saturation>Distortion, Flanger>Phaser
- Disabled auto-expanding of effects panels and sub items as could be distracting
- Vibrato now begins at note onset, even for layer/time/group effects
- Increased max temporal effects per rip to 65535.

Installation
- RipX DAW is now installed with access for all users, so that can be used easily on college computers

Editing
- Context bar shown when a selection is made for quickly applying commonly used effects, duplication, transfer notes to last layer etc
  - Auto-disappears when moving cursor away from it, or when scrollingClicks on the rest of the window when pop-up menus open are now handled immediately, plus mouse pointer changes for rest of the window
  Bars/beats/time selections can now be clicked and reordered from the bar area at the top.
  - Hold Cmd/Ctrl to copy the regionClick+drag Zooming in/out can now be done by dragging vertically on the loop bar, as well as from the bottom time bar
  Tempo and Time Signature are now sliders for quicker setting
  - More time signature choices addedClick on Tempo slider background to show original dialog box
  Improved undo buffer storage and processing – faster and much lower disc usage for many operations
  - Applies to effects applied at layer, group and note levels, note pitch changes, barlines, time sigs, group rename, bar markers, musical scale, layer editsMac: Significantly reduces chance of macOS quitting RipX for writing large amounts of data to disc.
  When Duplicating time selections, the copy is snapped to beats if close enough, which makes it easier duplicating beats/bars multiple times where tempo varies slightly (Windows: if Alt not held down)Un-collapsed group title bar no longer rendered when not hovered/selected
- Changing time signature now maintains tempo

Playback & Recording
- Click Track/Metronome moved from Layers Panel to right of transport
  - Improved sound falling on barline
- Improved sound quality of applied Sounds during playback
- Removed Practice Clips from Rips to simplify UI
- Enlarged Layers panel Solo buttons so quicker to spot
- New icon for Master layer that differs from Layers panel title
- Removed real-time stretching of Sounds to fill notes to improve playback performance

Export
- Much faster audio Export, especially where Sounds have been used

Ripping
- Ripper Options dialog: Added ‘Separate Instruments’ option to all versions so can quickly import audio that does not need instrument separation
- Mac: If using M1/2/3 and macOS Monterey or earlier, GPU ripping is disabled as high-frequency noise can be created.
  - About dialog shows ‘DISABLED, UPGRADE MACOS’
General
- Pop-up menus now appear more smoothly
- Can now zoom out to several times song length to make easier to copy and paste sections later in track
- Improved appearance of panel title bars and spacing above first entry
- Improved appearance of Layers ‘Add’ entry
- Added dividers separating ‘Master’ and ‘Add…’ from the individual layers in the Layers panel
- When open/show a rip, it is now visible selected in the rips panel
- Pre-load Sounds when add/select a layer
- Imported MIDI file note volume now matches export
- Mac: Limited max autoscroll speed
- Improved spacing of time at bottom of screen and bars/beats at top
- Render group name in a light shade of group colour
- Updated manual
- Updated interactive help

Bug Fixes

Fixed opening of some WAV files from MPCs
Mac: Fixed occasional hang at end of selection playback
Mac: Fixed crash on macOS 10.12 Sierra
Windows: If ASIO playback driver selected, fixed slight pauses clicking back on main window after menu shown
Fixed double-click bar selection in Edit Unpitched Tool
Mac: Fixed missing ‘Recent’ and ‘Other’ headers under Layers panel>Add
MIDI notes out of RipX editing range moved into range by octaves
MIDI track names now used instead of MIDI channels for layer names
Windows: Updated Export to show error if combined folder/filename are too long, to prevent crash
Audio files with very long names now rip sensibly
Fixed alignment of recorded MIDI entry to beats
Fixed sound played when not recording and changing selected layer
Improved MIDI recording responsiveness for first note played
Fixed occasional incorrect metronome sound
Fixed showing effects applied to groups correctly after undo/redo
Fix playback of initial step-time note
Fixed incorrect/lost layer/time effects when opening a rip on another machine
Fixed issue with corrupted RipList if a rip name is the maximum allowed length
Fixed issue with rip being extended by a bar each time it’s played to the end
Mac: Fixed automation lane edits not updating rip display
Mac: Fixed issue pressing Backspace in Find panel box deleting selected notes
Allow Cmd/Ctrl+Z/Y undo/redo when Find panel has input focus
Fixed zoom speed clicking and moving cursor up from time line at bottom
Mac: Fixed issue with pitch changes not sounding when moving notes up/down with keyboard
Potential undo crash fix
Mac: Fixed difficult to see sharps/flats in guitar chords
Fixed potential crash rendering automation lanes when changing the displayed rip
Fixed mouse-wheel scrolling to end of newly imported MIDI file
Fixed potential MIDI importing crash
Metronome now only played on beats for compound time sigs
Fixed hiding/showing Find panel
Improved tempo adjustment sound quality
Tests for activation before showing onboarding messages, otherwise skips some due to panels not being created
Fixed: First Click of the metronome isn’t audible when playing
Windows: Pauses for a second when DirectX device is lost to reduce chance of a crash releasing objects
Mac: Fixed L and M keystrokes being applied to main rip when entering in Find panel
Mac: Fixed transferring notes to a different layer using M keyboard shortcut and from the quick pop-up bar

v7.0.2 changes (5th December 2023)

Improvements

Better automatic Audio Input ripper setting chosen for user layer names

Bug fixes

Mac: Fixed screen rendering glitches on some Macs with 3^rd party graphics cards
Fixed playback of slowed down drums and percussion
Fixed occasional drop out of percussion during playback
Fixed potential crash closing a rip
Fixed potential crash doing Undo/Redo
Fixed Ripper Options time start/end entry for Single Instrument panel
Unedited rip copy (used for Edit>Reset functions) now renamed when main rip renamed

v7.0.1 changes (14th November 2023)

Improvements

Improved screen rendering speed of longer rips and related potential slowdown of playback
Mac: RipLink AudioSuite plug-in now runs natively on Apple Silicon
Windows: Added Lowest Latency option to File>Preferences for improved latency. If you experience playback issues such as slow down or clicks, turn it off (returns latency to RipX v6 level).
Windows: Improved recorded audio sync to playback

Bug fixes

Mac: Fixed issue where start-up could take a long time
Fixed potential crash recording audio
Fixed crash exporting note selection
Fixed Filter Notes hiding notes when Straight Notes displayed (or zoomed out)
Fixed stem.mp4 saving

v7.0.0 changes (7th November 2023)

Improvements

Improved AI Music Generator integration:
- The Music Generator button opens links to AI Music Generation services (shows a dialog box the first time explaining what will happen), where you can enter text descriptions for music to be created at the prompt.
- RipX DAW will detect when the first file is downloaded and bounce in the Dock/highlight in the Taskbar
- Click RipX DAW in the Dock/Taskbar and the ripper dialog will be automatically shown to rip all newly downloaded audio files.
- Mac: Now requests permission to access Downloads folder when choosing to perform AI Music Generation, to ensure RipX DAW is able to detect newly downloaded audio
- Moved Music Generator button from Rips Panel title to main toolbar for better visibility when rip open
Effects & Sounds:
- Much improved Instrument replacement using Sounds Panel
  - Further Sound replacement improvements
    - Improved rhythm
    - Improved replacement of high percussion
    - Samples now stretched to fill longer notes where necessary, leaving attack unchanged
    - Noise reduction for poorer original note quality
- Much improved Filter Notes Effect to produce cleaner MIDI files on Export
  - Now controlled by a percentage rather than dB level
  - ‘Filter Notes’ option added to Export dialog for MIDI export to automatically apply Filter Notes at 50% during export. If require a different filtering level, can apply to Master layer beforehand.
- One-click effect and sound selection
  - Clicking a Sound will remove other ones set. Ctrl+click sounds to mix in more sounds (or use slider)
  - Adding Level, Shift Pitch, Shift Formant, Shift Time, Clip Start, Stereo Panning, will add an effect with 0 adjustment with automation lane displayed, so can quickly add fades, slides etc
  - Shows all effects applied to a note/group using a similar UI to time selections, so can easily switch between automation lanes and parameters
  - When select notes/groups show the automation lane selection panel, so it’s always obvious what has been applied. Can still double-click to also show the lane
  - Draws effect icons in automation lanes (especially for when limited horizontal space these will be visible)
  - Slide Pitch effect when applied to whole layer now works individually on each note, as not useful sliding off into infinity
  - Can hover automation lane selection panels to show lane temporarily
  - Fade-in automation lane on hover
  - Highlights notes and groups for hovered/selected automation lanes
  - Disabled Effects and Sounds auditioning during playback
- Selected effects and sounds now made visible in panels as different selections are made.
  - When select Draw Sound mode, Sound Panel is opened with current Sound selection expanded and visible
    - Panels and Sound Palettes opened automatically are also collapsed automatically when effect not applied to selection. Panesl and Sound Palettes opened by user remain open
    - If user adds an effect, the panel or entry stays open, even if opened automatically
  - Selecting an effect automation lane also makes specific effect visible in panel
  - If an effects panel is temporarily opened automatically, and an edit is made to an effect within, it stays open
- Added Quick Panel for effects and sounds, containing commonly used effects by default, plus Search feature
  - Commonly used Effects and Sounds are added automatically to the list
  - Can also drag effects and sounds to list to add manually
  - Can remove effects/sounds from list by right-clicking and choosing item from menu
  - Fixed height so doesn’t jiggle around as different effects shown for different selections
  - Temporarily expands panel if collapsed and search started
  - No longer auto-add Sounds to Quick Panel as fills up with them too easily (they can still be dragged into it manual)
  - Can now drag Loops to Quick Panel
- Added Search icon to Quick Panel to allow effect/sound names to be typed in and shortlisted
- Can now drag an Effect onto Rip to apply to current selection/layers
- Show Hall, Room etc description for Reverb setting
- Vibrato effect slider now moves more slowly at lower values making it more sensitive at lower values
- Effects highlighted in panel when used, even if they are applied, but value set to 0 (so can make automation lane adjustments around 0)
- Level Effect now goes down to minus infinity (zero level)
- Can now create a new rip with a given Sound or Effect by clicking an effect/sound or dragging an Effect/Sound to the empty Rip region
- Chorus Effect
  - Implemented
  - Default one-click settings are now 15% and x2 for a more traditional chorus effect.
  - Random variation of pitch and timing now only occurs above 20%
- Flanger Effect
  - Implemented
- Saturation Effect
  - Implemented
- Dragging effects slider to a zero value when automation lane is set no longer removes it.
- No longer previews effects during selection playback
- Automation:
  - Cleaner appearance
  - Removed duplicate name rendering for time automation lanes
  - Narrower by default
  - More transparent
  - When pull up top of automation lane, expand it
  - Highlights automation parameter hovered and selected
  - Cleaner edges when clicking and dragging
  - Automation lane selectors for all selected layers (or all if Master) now shown and individually editable, so can compare over multiple layers
  - Show level at top of automation lane when dragging outside the border
  - No longer shows selectors for muted layers, unless they are selected
  - To allow for more selective editing of effects in the panels, especially when Master or multiple layers selected, for time and layer selections, Effects Panels now show either:
    - Levels for effects which apply to exactly the selected layers
    - Or, if an automation lane is selected, shows levels for effects which apply to exactly the same layers that lane applies to
  - Can now hover/click in the area where no effect shown to show/select the last effect in the list
- Sounds and Loops panels now have open/shut folders at top level
- Each Loop now has the loop icon
- Sound and Loop icons now colourised – clearer in Quick search
- Compression Effect: now makes up lost gain
  - Applies less auto-gain to lower levels when compressing
  - Removed auto-gain
  - One-click setting changed from -20dB to -10dB
- If Sound applied at a lower level (note is lowest level, followed by note group, time selection and layer) then if level is lower than 100%, it now gets mixed in with any Sounds applied at higher levels
  - If add full level sound to a group, no longer mixes in sound from a parent group
- Adds loop from Loops Panel entirely into Loops layer if present and selected
- Keep Sound and Loop folders open after renaming/removing a Sound or Loop
- Loops dragged on from Loops Panel now always get placed in the Loops layer, creating one if it doesn’t already exist
- Combo effect components can now be selected to make their automation lane editable (requires combo to be applied to something already)
- Combo effect components now use same icon colouring as main combo
- Auditions selected audio when removing an effect so can toggle between within and without effect
- Removing effect also keeps automatically opened panel open, so can put effect back again easily
- Improved Flanger effect. Second parameter now specifies the maximum detuning in cents of the secondary audio.
- Now updates Sound and Loops Panels when open/add new RipList (user Sounds and Loops are referenced from RipLists)
Recording:
- ‘Computer Keyboard’ Input device added for playing ‘MIDI’ using the standard computer keyboard.
  - Use top 2 rows of letter keys for white/black keys
  - Use Cursor Down to use a lower octave range, or Cursor Up for a higher octave range
  - Current range highlighted in on-screen keyboard, along with the keys to press for each note
  - Pads sound funny – whilst being loaded as played using default?
  - Play without updating cursor (S) shortcut now Shift+Spacebar
  - Record (R) shortcut now Option+Spacebar (Mac) / Ctrl+Spacebar (Windows)
- Audio/MIDI within new recordings is now grouped to manage them more easily and make edits more quickly
  - Group is selected once recording stops so can instantly play back and apply effects etc
- Step Time recording (when rip / Layer Panel or Effects/Sounds Panels have input focus). Play using MIDI or computer keyboard and notes are placed at cursor, with position set to next visible beat when note ended. Use right cursor key to skip a visible beat.
  - Snaps note end to beat marker (if near by)
  - Shows played keys on keyboard
  - Input focus now implemented for the purpose of switching between Step Time input and MIDI Practice Mode.
    - Press Esc or click on back of toolbar to clear input focus (so can practise a MIDI performance)
      - Pressing Esc no longer clears Loop Marker
    - Click on Rip to set input focus to rip (playing MIDI will be step-entry)
    - Keeps input focus with rip unless using search box
    - Shows Step Time icon always if selected
- When recording notes (using step-entry or otherwise), Sounds and Effects are no longer applied to the individual notes.
  - Instead, where no Sound is applied, a default Sound is automatically played for the given Layer
  - If a Sound is applied at the Note-level, any Group-, Time Selection- and Layer-level Sounds applied are ignored
  - If a Sound is applied at the Group-level, any Time Selection- and Layer-level Sounds applied are ignored
  - If a Sound is applied at the Time Selection-level any Layer-level Sounds applied are ignored
- When Drums or Percussion layer selected, MIDI/Computer Keyboard entry now places drum and percussion sounds (which can then be dragged vertically to be re-pitched
  - For Kick, Snare, Toms, SFX layers, only sounds of each of those types are placed
- Shifted real-time playback of notes entered during recording forwards by the latency so beginning not missed (no adjustment is made when played back after recording)
- Sped up Layer slider updates from controllers, especially when a control adjusts multiple sliders
- Shows parameter value and highlighted slider text when adjusting using MIDI controller
- Layer and Input Panel sliders and Toolbar buttons can now be assigned to MIDI controllers even when Master layer not selected (still assigned as a Master effect however – so not dependent on a layer being selected)
- Different icons now used for disabled devices in Inputs panel
- No longer looks for a Timbre MIDI event to auto-set MPE on, instead compares the MIDI device name with known MPE devices.
- Added option to toggle Step Time on/off from Input Panel title cursor icon
- Mac: Fixed poor latency during MIDI recording
- Can now apply pitch bend when performing percussion from a controller (not MPE)
- Added Sustain Pedal support for MIDI controller input
- Auto-select Kick and Percussion drums when recording generic Drums layer (which separates out into Kick and Percussion)
- Disabled editing whilst recording and finishing off processing of audio recording to prevent potentially corrupted rips
- Fixed MIDI devices not appearing in Input Panel in first use after product activation
- Recorded notes no longer grouped in practice panel
- Increased duration of click on bar start in click track to make clearer
- Can no longer use cursor up/down on Computer Keyboard whilst keys played
- Various fixes
Groups:
- Original barline positions stored for each group for quick alignment to current BPM
  - Visible when hovering title of group
  - First barline snaps to beat marker when dragging position, or resizing start of group
  - Last barline snaps to beat marker when resizing end of group
- Can now drag ungrouped notes into opened groups (including from Sounds Panel) – the group is highlight by the mouse pointer
- Can now copy and paste notes into opened groups
Loops:
- Loops now contain separated sounds which can be edited, removed, duplicated and have effects applied
- When Loops dragged into a rip, rather than being placed wholly in a Loops layer, the layers within are kept, such as Kick and Percussion, making it easier to swap out instruments and make other edits to different parts
- Added Import Loops button to Loops title bar
- Added Add Loop button to Loops title bar
Playback:
- Much improved sound quality of slowed down drums & percussion
  - Improved slow down of newly placed high-percussion (affects newly placed Loops too)
- Playback level meter now vertically centred
- Windows: Reduced ASIO and Windows playback latency.
- Metronome/Click layer:
  - Button added to Layers Panel title to enable clicks during playback for audible alignment of samples and notes
  - Renamed Metronome to Click Track
- Implemented hard limiter on Master, to prevent overloading and clipping on playback and export
- When no Sound applied, now only chooses from stock Sounds for playback
- If in practice session, play using current rip’s and selected layer’s sounds and effects
- Disabled metronome during practice sessions
- Pressing Stop button when nothing recording/playing now rewinds to the start of rip/loop.
- Removed ‘Rewind to start’ button from toolbar to simplify now that the music generator icon has been added.
- Sounds shorted than 1.5 secs no longer stretched to fit notes as assumed as plucked
Rips Panel:
- Rips and selections of Layers from Rips can now be dragged to other Rips to add to their list of Layers that can later be clicked and dragged into the Rip being worked on
  - When a Rip (rather than its Layers) are dragged into another Rip, it is moved there. Hold Cmd/Ctrl to make a copy.
  - When using right-click>Remove Layer, if Layer was originally a Rip from the main list, it is reinstated there, if previously moved.
  - If choose to remove a Rip in the main list which is linked to in another Rip, it is instead hidden (so is still accessible from the other rip)
  - If choose to delete a Rip in the main list which is linked to in another Rip, it is removed from the other rip.
  - Practice Layer now always shown for expanded Rips so this can also be auditioned and dragged to the current Rip
- Made more difficult to accidentally drag a rip/effect into another by:
  - Reducing the size of the drop area
  - Highlighting a hovered entry in a different colour
  - Rendering less information
- When a rip has been dragged into another rip, right-clicking it shows ‘Return To Main List’ instead of ‘Remove From Rip’ and clicking that returns it to the main list without any further prompts.
- Disallow dragging an unsaved rip into another rip as could disappear
VST Import:
- Now features an Audition button to hear three notes of the sound spread over the specified pitch range before importing
- Added icons to Import Samples and Import VST Instrument RipScripts
Editing:
- No longer previews Rips in the Rips panel as could be distracting when scrolling through looking for a particular rip (still previews the layers within when hovered).
- Added shortcuts for 3^rd party AI Music Generator to main screen and Rips Panel title
- Can now undo a newly created rip to delete it (also works when creating a rip by clicking on a Sound/Effect)
- Auto-scrolls vertically when dragging out a selection rectangle when pitch zoomed in
  - Also for horizontal auto-scroll, speed is variable depending on distant mouse cursor is past edge of rip
- Also auto-scrolls through pitch when dragging a selection
  - Also for horizontal auto-scroll, speed is variable depending on distant mouse cursor is past edge of rip
- Now copies effects over when splitting/duplicating groups
- No longer groups single notes copied and pasted from one rip to another
- When selecting notes by clicking and dragging, or clicking individually (with or without Cmd/Ctrl held down) now intelligently selects (or deselects) the accompanying unpitched audio, where there is not a louder unselected note (that the unpitched audio might belong to).
  - Shift-clicking notes now selects/deselects additional notes (like Ctrl-clicking)
  - Cmd/Ctrl+Shift-clicking selects/deselects additional notes, but prevents unpitched audio being auto-selected.
- No longer displays unpitched audio at the bottom of the screen to avoid confusion and accidental clicking.
  - To e.g. reduce noise between notes, time select and apply Level Effect.
  - To edit, use RipX DAW Pro’s Edit Unpitched Tool.
- Duplicating a selection no longer stretches it to the duration of the bars being copied into. To do this, use Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+D instead.
- Put back clicking and dragging of notes in time selections, and now also auto-selects groups overlapping those time selections
- Now easier to reposition notes & groups to start of rip
- Faster dragging of Layers, Loops and Sounds onto a Rip
- PRO: Draw Sound tool:
  - Fixed: Default Sound applied for drawn samples when Layer has audio device currently selected
  - Fixed: Showing instrument for Draw Sound in Sound Panel, and updating as change Layer
  - Fixed: Stopped sound just placed being re-played when choosing a different sound or effect
- Added tip to Change Tempo dialog about dragging tops of bar markers to change tempo without stretching audio
- Replaced Select All Unpitched and Select All Pitched with Select All Notes as no longer make a distinction in normal editing
- Now allows copy and pasting of empty bars from end of rip into Master and insert pasting of bars copied from Layers into Master.
General:
- Updated name of product to Rip DAW to reflect the increased creative functionality.
- Replaced the module system (DeepRemix, DeepCreate and DeepAudio) with a clearer tier system: Layers (old DeepRemix), Creator (old DeepCreate | DeepRemix) and Complete (old DeepAudio | DeepCreate | DeepRemix).
- Added Search icon to Rips Panel to allow rip names to be typed in and shortlisted
  - Deselect all rips when entering Rips Panel search
  - Temporarily expands panel if collapsed and search started
- Improved usage of panels when very narrow
- Renders individual layers dB adjustment as minus infinity in Layers Panel, when set to minimum
- Now only shows more information in a panel title bar when hovered (for example the selection that effects will apply to)
  - Shows appended part in non-bold font (store only that in the panel object and use the function to get the basic name when rendering)
  - Shows current rip in hovered Layers panel title
- Filenames in exported stems and layers now show the Stem/Layer name before the track name
- Faster ellipsis rendering
- Added slight faded transparency to panels which becomes opaque when hovered
- Mac: Guitar chord flats and sharps now rendered using music symbols rather than # and b
- Screen rendering up to 2x faster
- Mac: Screen rendering using Metal and in own thread:
  - Fixes poor latency during MIDI recording
  - No longer necessary to switch macOS language to display e.g. Japanese and Chinese characters correctly
  - Adds progress bar during long tempo adjustments
- Added no-rip background
- Updated toolbar colour
- Highlights Panel title buttons when hovered
- Updated product icons, ripper dialog image, and About image
- PRO version: Now necessary to hold Cmd/Ctrl when dropping file onto RipX DAW to display ripper dialog with Single Instrument option
- Export dialog handles paths with disallowed symbols better
- When a Scale set, only show additional Scale buttons at bottom when hovered where they would be for each bar marker
- Updated panel title bar colouring to reflect new logo
- Added one-time help tips at start-up
- Updated default layer palette to go with UI
- Improved progress dialogs on Mac:
  - Displayed and Notes remain on screen in more situations
- Reduced memory usage required by pre-separation on CPU by shortening max section size
- Renamed MIDI items in Export menu to ‘MIDI – Detailed’ and ‘MIDI – Simple’ to make them clearer
- Auto-load sound folders as they are opened in panel, for instant preview and dragging onto rip
- Updated Manual
- Fixed RipX main window being sent to the back when Audioshop toolbar auto-hidden
- Widened activation dialog box so code always fits, and instructions on one line
- Disabled effects & layer panels and scale adjustment in deactivated RipX DAW Player
- Now transfer whole layer’s notes to another layer in Layers panel when nothing selected.
- Cleaned up presentation of Layers Panel
- If panel has search on, give focus to rip so can play immediately (e.g. for selecting an effect, or opening a rip)
- Fixed rendering brightness of notes with drums/unpitched sound applied
- Now shows notes belonging to selected layers brighter

Bug fixes

Mac: Fixed issue with determined playback position not synced correctly to actual playback (could cause metronome and recording not to accurately align with beat markers)
Fixed occasional issue with panel positions becoming corrupted after arranging
Fixed issue with ripping longer WAV files using WAVE_FORMAT_IEEE_FLOAT wFormatTag
Improved note splitting where time adjusted by effects
Fixed applying effects to Master rather than individual layers when all layers selected individually
Can now apply Master layer and time effects when no layer exists
Can now copy and paste empty bars
Fixed MIDI control assignment to Layer sliders and Toolbar buttons
Fixed crash that occurred when an instrument listed as a recently used instrument no longer is present
Prevent a loop being chosen as a default instrument for a layer
Fixed selecting of note groups for non-selected layers when dragging a selection rectangle
Fixed issue using some VST plug-ins that return an error when requesting window size
Fixed very occasional unpitched sound drop out during playback (Export was fine)
Fixed crash using imported VST samples straight after importing them
Fixed playback of selective frequencies in Edit Unpitched tool
Fixed double-clicking in Edit Unpitched tool to select bar
Fixed issue changing tempo with some notes ending up in wrong position
Group effects and automation lanes now divided correctly when groups split
Group effects and automation lanes now merged correctly when groups joined
Fixed crash switching to Edit Unpitched tool when some types of text on screen
Fixed adding default sound for layer if not present
Fixed application of effects to Sounds applied to layer or time levels
Fixed notes disappearing when low Level effect applied
Fixed note filtering to use original amplitude rather than with effects applied (which could include the filter itself)
Fixed amplitude of rendered notes when effects removed
Fixed time copy and paste of note groups
Fixed duplication of time containing note groups
Disabled clicking and dragging of time selections as not working correctly with groups
Fixed renaming new rips
Fixed duration of sounds dragged from Sound Panel when no rip currently open
During looped playback, fixed missed playback at start of loop, and additional playback of audio just after loop
Fixed full recording using computer keyboard when notes selected
Fixed: Disabled Rip Panel ‘Show in Folder’ item if rip not yet saved
Fixed: Prevent applying Loop from Quick Panel to a selection (legacy behaviour)
Fixed dragging sounds/loops onto rip where layer not yet active
Fixed Edit Unpitched tool drag selection crash
Fixed start of rip marker being incorrectly updated when dragging 3rd barline marker onwards
Fixed issue during audio recording when existing audio could stutter
Fixed macOS 11+ audio recording latency
Mac: Fixed rendering of keys on on-screen keyboard on smaller screens
Mac: Fixed texture colours/brightness
Ripper: Fixed distorted audio bug
Fixed: Stop Quick Panel being auto-opened/closed to show effects applied to current selection
Fixed: If an effects panel is temporarily opened automatically but Panel switched off in Panels menu, it is displayed, rather than leave a gap
Fixed issue with unpitched selection clearing when clicking an already selected note
Change Tempo: Fixed clipping of notes/adding empty time at start when rip begins with a partial bar
Fixed sustain pedal ending notes still pressed
Fixed issue with restricted earliest position of Sounds and Loops dragged onto a rip
Fixed renaming of Loop folders
Fixed sound replacement on audio note that has been reduced in length
Fixed automation lane positioning for stretched notes
Fixed formant adjustment being incorrectly applied to unpitched components of applied Sounds
Mac: Fixed detection of new wav/mp3 files in Downloads folder after user giving permission first time
Mac: Fixed missing playback time
Fixed incorrect right-hand border on Unpitched Tool frequency column
Fixed Alt+G group collapse toggle
Mac: prevent 15 secs freeze previewing another sound from a different unloaded Sound folder
Fixed bug where drum/percussion blobs could be sometimes drawn at the wrong pitch
Resets older device files to ensure no corrupt settings present

v6.4.1 changes (25th July 2023)

Bug fixes

Mac: Now correctly remembers playback device set in Preferences
Windows: CUDA now functional for cards with 8GB VRAM

v6.4.0 changes (21st July 2023)

Improvements

Speed Improvements:
- Mac Ripping: Up to 6x faster on Apple Silicon (M1/M2 etc)
- Mac Ripping: Up to 3x faster on Intel Macs
- Windows Ripping: Up to 2x faster
- Up to 2.3x faster Rip file opening, and 2.7x faster Rip file saving, with faster editing and undo/redo
Auditioning:
- Audition Rips, Layers (within expanded Rip in Rips Panel), Sounds and Loops by hovering them for a moment
- Expanding a rip in Rips Panel now lists its layers, for previewing and dragging to current rip
- Auditioning of Effects and Sounds during full playback is now delayed when hovered in a similar manner to Rip, Layer and Sound audio previews
Groups:
- Only selectable from its ‘title’ bar, so that it’s easier to edit notes within, set the playback cursor etc.
- Added group name
- Added collapse icon toggle
- Can now group/ungroup items within a group
- Can now duplicate items (Ctrl/Cmd+D, or Ctrl+drag) within a group
- Can now split groups within a group
- Can now resize groups going off screen, at edges of screen
Loops:
- Loop Panel loops are improved in sound quality. Note they can no longer be applied to a note (like a Sound or Effect). They are designed to be dragged from the Loops panel to the rip being worked on.
Effects:
- Reverb effect much improved, with more accurate early reflections and more realistic reverberation components
- Reverb repeats parameter can now be set up to 15
- Improved automation of Harmony and Chord effects
- Effects sliders no longer get stuck when dragging slowly within the snap-off region, allowing for more precise setting
Playback:
- The ‘S’ key now starts playback as well as stopping it (without moving the cursor), making it easy to experiment with edits
- Pressing ‘P’ now plays only the selected notes (if notes are selected)
- Auto-scroll during playback now scrolls when a certain amount of time near right edge, rather than a certain proportion of the window
- If loop set but playback position is outside it, auto-scrolling will now occur
- Now auto-playback always occurs on notes/groups regardless of their duration
- When note/group is auto-playing, can now click on one of the notes/groups being auto-played to stop the playback
- Now always renders playback cursor (not auto-play)
Editing:
- Selected notes no longer flash and are displayed with a higher contrast stereo-position shadow
- Can now resize notes going off screen at edges of screen
When adding a Sound and showing Master layer, add layer if necessary, but don’t exclusively select that new layer
Highest Quality checkbox removed from Ripper dialog: Now always Rips at Highest Quality, due to latest speed increases
Smooth transitions hovering notes and groups
Less frequent updating of note pitches on keyboard, and interactive help to reduce flickers on peripheral of window when editing audio.
If multiple rips selected, clicking one of them selects only it (previously deselected all)
Drums & percussion within selections and groups now stretched (previously just moved/clipped)
Improved playback quality of stretched kick drums
Playback optimisations (particularly for pitched adjusted long notes, and audio with reverb, vibrato, quantize, flatten, correct pitch, and reverse effects applied)
When click/editing notes & groups, auto-plays from start of screen, where they extend off screen, so easier to work zoomed in with longer objects
Set cursor to start of screen after loading, rather than start of rip
Now shows whether GPU available for Ripper in Help>About
Shows start and end time for hovered groups at bottom left
Removed ‘View> Audition Effects & Sounds’ menu item as now turn on by hovering over an effect/sound for a moment in a similar way to auditioning the audio within rips/layers/sounds
Sounds and Loops sorted into alphabetical order
Optimized Chord and Expand Pitch effects (improved playback etc)
Shows guitar chords when ‘acoustic’ in Layer name
Optimised playback of note selections
Can now right-click on time remaining during ripping for cancel menu
Less width taken up by time remaining when ripping
Updated manual, which now has a white background: Easier for viewing searches in browsers, and printing out if necessary
Simplified View menu – merging Barlines into Beat Markers, and Octave Guides into Semitone Guides, and moved Timeline to top, with Beat Markers
When right-clicking to show menu, auto-playback of notes/groups is stopped
Cancel auditioning of effects/loops etc when use scroll wheel
When using scroll wheel in panels, highlights entry being hovered
When loading a rip, ensures at least a full screen of the end of the rip is displayed (to prevent sometimes seeing a blank screen right at the end of a rip which may be confusing)
Mac: Improved scroll speed through panels using trackpad/magic mouse

Bug fixes

Fixed bug where ripper could fail sometimes on longer files in batch ripping on machines without a large amount of RAM
Fixed quiet noise sometimes appearing at the end of ripped tracks
Fixed incorrect default pitch set for one-shot sounds dragged from Sounds panel (could cause distortion of sound)
Fixed RipScript tooltips not being displayed when Interactive Help not visible
Windows: Detect correctly when move pointer from RipX to another app
Updated instructions in manual for adjusting bars (since v6.3, dragging the top end, rather than a handle at the bottom)
Reverb and delay now applied to unpitched sound
Show left-right arrow whilst using slider controls
Cancelling context menu with a click elsewhere no longer plays any selected audio, and does not have any other effect
Fixed area at top and bottom of panels being mistaken as part of main rip display
Show hovered time at bottom-left of screen when over automation lane
Ctrl+dragging a selection now remembers and expands on the previous selection correctly
Prevent flicker moving over Musical Scale, scrollbars and barlines in timeline
Windows: More responsive Close button
Now only checks for creating unpitched blobs on first opening of ripped file
When Exporting: Cleans up Layer names so they can be valid filenames
Fixed rendering of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean language fonts
Stopped playback line on screen jumping when pressing stop
Pop-up menus now appear more quickly, especially during playback
Faster responding menu hovering over items
Disallows invalid characters for rip and ripcut renaming
Fixed playback of notes with Sounds applied when starting part-way through them
Fixed issue with crash when deleting rip immediately after creating it

v6.3.0 changes (15th May 2023)

Improvements

When recording audio with Drums / Unpitched, audio made pitch and sound adjustable
- If record to a layer called Drums, Kick Drum and Percussion layers are automatically added and recorded drums are separated into these.
Note groups:
- Can now directly click and edit notes within a group, including right-clicking to Edit Harmonics (DeepAudio module)
- Note group boundary updated as notes within edited
- Hold Alt when clicking background of group to place cursor
- Hold Alt when dragging within group to make partial selections within
- Can now click and drag selections of multiple note groups
- Faster grouping of large selections
- Faster dragging groups in time
- Ensures always some space above large groups for creating time selections
- Removed ‘Show/Hide Grouped Audio’ from context menu to simplify the UI, and reduce confusion when notes become invisible.
- Faster selection of large groups
- Can now ungroup groups within time selections
- Now shows groups in layers even when group contains additional layers
Split tool/Split Here/Audio>Split Selection:
- Now splits groups
- Snaps to beat markers (unless Alt pressed)
- Split Here: Now deselects all notes to left of split time, even if not split
- Split Here: When on a group now deselects the left-side of the group, in line with splitting individual notes
- Can make time selection and choose Audio>Split Selection – Command/Ctrl+Shift+J.
- Removed ‘Split At Loop Marker’ from context menu to simplify the UI. Similar functionality can now be provided by making a time selection, and choosing ‘Split Selection’
- Significantly faster
Join tool/Edit>Join:
- Now joins groups
- Significantly faster
- Now joins contents of time selections
Added Reset Note/Selection to context menu
- Reset Selection now works with time selections, and resets whole rip if whole rip is time selected (e.g. ‘Edit>Select All Time’ done first)
Disabled auto-scroll for playback of selections
Removed red background during recording countdown
Added interactive help for Input device options
Added interactive help when hovering over the background of a panel
Shortened duration of metronome click to be less intrusive. Tip: During recording, ‘Metronome’ appears in the Layers panel and its level and panning can be adjusted from there.
Drums and percussion duration limited to one beat when dragged from Sound panel. Can drag right-edge to lengthen afterwards if necessary.
Now shows icon for instrument in Layers panel
Improved recognition of instrument types from names, used for choosing an instrument icon
When right-clicking to bring up a context menu and a menu is already open, now updates the context menu for the new position clicked at
Cursor, selection and loop positions now marked in horizontal scroll bar region
Added markers can now snap to visible beat lines within bars
Increased exported MIDI file note volume to more closely match the volume of original audio
Marginal tempo improvement in MIDI files
Added volume and expression control changes to MIDI files, plus sets panning to centre
Improved choice of layer when dragging Sound from Sound panel to rip when Master selected in Layers panel

Bug fixes

Fixed issue where audio recording did not stop correctly
Where the start of the first bar is before the start of the rip, loop markers and cursor/selection placements now snap to the start of the rip
Fixed Edit>Reset Selection for new rips
If Stems and Rips output folders become corrupted, or removed, they now become reset in Preferences.
Windows: Fixed beat line positions in timeline when window not maximized
RipScript Panel (DeepAudio):
- Fixed expanding RipScript category always affecting the first category
- Fixed showing ellipsis when RipScript has no keyboard shortcut
- Collapse status now remembered during and between sessions
- Update category in panel when RipScript saved
RipScript Editor: Fixed F3 search for next instance of string
Fixed occasional playback of selection double-clicking on window margins
Fixed not being able to drag group of notes when no time or note selection
Fixed issue with pitched drum notes being set to incorrect length, which could for example cause problems splitting
Fixed bugs when duplicating selections
When exporting MIDI, now uses volume adjustments set in the Layers panel
Fixed issue with use of scrollbar jumping after a zoom
No longer renders original panel position title bar when dragging panel
Fixed potential crash selecting note on button up
Fixed interactive help over panel borders and disabled popup menu items
Mac: Fixed interactive help when a RipScript widget left highlighted after hovering and moving away quickly

v6.2.5 changes (20th Apr 2023)

Improvements

Improved recognition of barlines and beats
Improved recognition of guitar chords
- Can also now select additional layers (on top of Guitars) to be included in guitar chord recognition
- Stores capo for each rip
- Left-click chord to toggle showing fingering and pitches used for chord symbols shown
Marking out a loop no longer changes the selection to a time selection, so it’s easier to adjust automation lanes of existing effects without adding a new automation lane.
- If the current cursor or selection is outside the loop, it sets the cursor to the start of the loop so playback begins from the loop.
Layer & Time selection Sounds applied now mix in with Sounds applied to individual notes
No longer auto-scrolls during looped playback
Can now deselect individual layers by Ctrl+clicking them
Swapped bars and timeline sections to be more in line with DAWs
- Added beat numbering at beat lines
Audioshop Draw Sound – now snaps note end to beat markers
Updated ‘Activate Free Trial’ menu item text when trial currently running to avoid confusion.
When closing a rip, if no associated file present (e.g. it was newly created and unedited), removes from rip list.

Bug fixes

Notes with Sound applied now correctly adjust to pitch when Auto Pitch To Scale on
Fixed stretched notes sounding distorted when Sound applied
When split grouped notes, now correctly shows the bounding boxes of the new groups
When clicking a note group, when multiple note groups selected, now correctly selects only the clicked group
Deselecting a note now correctly sets the cursor to the start of it
Fixed numbering of newly added rips with same name as existing rip
Fixed snapping time to start of rip (for example setting loop start)
Fixed issue with layers of same name becoming joined when reloading rip
Fixed issue with audio recording getting stuck at finishing-off stage
Reading/setting default tempo and time signature no longer fails when a rip has previously been unloaded and no rip open
Fixed showing newly imported RipScript in RipScript panel
Fixed issue where the overall amplitude for pitched percussion was not always set correctly
Fixed Harmonic Editor crash when selecting audio within pitched percussion note

v6.2.0 changes (23rd Mar 2023)

Improvements

Significantly improved separation quality, with new Highest Quality ripper option. (Ripping can take 1.5x to 3x longer with this turned on)
When guitar layers are selected, determined guitar chord symbols are now shown at the top of the rip. Hover to show the fingering in a chord diagram. Right-click symbol to loop through capo positions
Added Stereo Pass effect: Limits selected audio to the chosen stereo position with a 25% stereo window. This is especially useful for listening to individual instruments of the same type on a layer, which have different stereo positioning. For example, this often helps with separation of lead and rhythm guitar
Can now apply effects and sounds directly to a selected layer without making a time or note selection
- Reverted select all time double-clicking on layer
- To edit the parameters applied when adding/recording new notes, choose Audioshop Draw Sound tool, or adjust during recording
Improved automation lanes, especially for whole layers and time selections
- Now selectable individually along the bottom of the screen
- Shows value at mouse pointer at top of lane
- Miscellaneous cosmetic and functional improvements
- No longer scales with pitch scale, so retains position on screen when zooming in or scrolling pitch
Export dialog:
- Can now bulk save Selected Rips
- Added tip “Apply ‘Filter Notes’ effect to reduce unwanted notes” when MIDI options selected
Now only auditions effects and sounds during playback. Remember you can disable auditioning entirely from View>Audition Effects & Sounds
Dragging timeline and keyboard now scrolls as well as zooming
Added Shift Phase effect: for shifting phase up to 2PI
When reverb effect is set to 0.0secs and x1, it no longer reduces the level of the original audio, so plays an identical copy. This can be used in a combo with other effects following it, such as Vibrato and Shift Phase to produce phaser-style effects
New shortcut Shift+Spacebar starts/stops playback without updating the cursor position, useful for quickly replaying sections when trying out different edits
During playback, auto-scrolls earlier making it easier to read ahead
- Auto-scrolls more slowly to make the playback position easier to follow
- If playing back from clicking a note/note group, now doesn’t auto-scroll unless reaches far end of screen
It is now possible to trial DeepCreate and DeepAudio modules from an activated full DeepRemix/DeepCreate license
Can now adjust left/right-most points of loop marker at edge of screen where they go offscreen
Enlarged pitch names on keyboard
Auto-scroll dragging items in panels, plus auto-uncollapse when dragging and hovering over a panel title
Chord effect automation lane now adjusts pitches of chord notes (previous had undefined behaviour)
Pressing Space/Play when a note/group of notes is selected and no loop is set, now plays just the note/group of notes.
Automation lanes of Harmony effects within Combos now update the harmony type over time
Now loads default Sound Palettes and Loops from the installed RipX folder, and removes existing copies from Documents/RipX folder (where they were copied to previously)
Increased maximum Sounds per Sound Palette from 127 to 255
When an input device for a layer hasn’t previously been set, uses currently selected device
Prevented shortening of panel title bar names where buttons present but not shown
Massively sped up post-processing of ripped drum stems. Previously on long files (40+ mins), RipX could appear to have hung at 97%
Various UI tweaks

Bug fixes

Windows: Fixed jittery playback on-screen rendering
Fixed Stretch On/Off not appearing when automation applies to entire rip
Detect Musical Scale now ignores pitched percussion
Auto-scrolls once again during playback when dragging sliders
Auto-scrolls once again during playback when reaches end of loop when start of loop is not on screen
Fixed bug affecting saving combos with automation lanes
Various fixes to automation lanes and combo effects UI
No longer adds multiple copies of same layer name to ‘Recent’ layer list
Mac: Fixed issue with Bluetooth playback devices not being added to the list of Playback devices in preferences
Now resets combo internal effect parameter when double-clicked
Fixed: In looped playback, if wider than screen width now returns to loop start visually
Clip Start effect now controlled by automation lane
Fixed issue where could not load more than a few Sound Palettes at the same time if they each contained many sounds
Improved handling when attempts to import more than maximum number of samples per Sound Palette occurs
Prevent flashing between note and time selection text in interactive help
Improved handing of corrupted combos on loading RipX
When editing automation lane for a note or note group, now plays only on mouse up (was playing on mouse down too)

v6.1.0 changes (18th Jan 2023)

Improvements

New ‘Separate Guitar & Piano’ ripper option for improved guitar and piano separation, but with longer ripping time. If used with ‘Save Stems Only’ separate guitar and piano stems are created.
Click on selected Layer, or double-click on non-selected Layer now selects all audio.
- To reset the Layer slider value where double-click has effect of selecting all audio, you can now triple-click
Records audio and MIDI using loop markers
Can now press Record during playback to immediately start recording
When dragging a rectangle over notes to select them, auto-selects unpitched audio when all notes in a given time are selected, and shows a separate bounding rectangle.
Setting loop marker now sets/extends the time selection for easy application of effects and sounds
When dragging barline handles to set the beat grid, now only looks at notes from the selected Layers when detecting beats further into a song
Can now edit effects applied to time selections for individual layers when originally applied to all, or a larger set of, layers
Can now Shift-click in Layers panel to quickly select a series of layers
Right-click over multiple selected layers brings up menu to allow deletion of all selected layers
Improved quality of time stretching of unpitched audio
Select All added to layers menu
Right-click on a layer in Layers panel selects layer and shows menu for that layer
If playback/recording marker is outside loop, it plays/records from there
Selects and scrolls to show previous Rip being worked on when start new session
Snap loop marker to closest beat marker, no matter the distance
When clicking Solo for a selected layer, no longer deselects other layers (where more than one selected)
Musical scales now colour coded to the layers they apply to
Prevent MIDI practice recording when nothing playing and RipX not active app
Added Enable/Disable device to MIDI Input Device right-click menu.
Don’t scroll rip during playback if user scrolls away from the playback position
Improvements to effects and sounds panel title text to make what they apply to more obvious
When nothing selected and a layer selected, show red background for hovered/selected effects to indicate for new notes, not for any current selection
Reverted Select All to Select All Time for consistency
When Shift held down, always select notes rather than time when dragging selection rectangle
Show current RipList name in Rips panel title when not default RipList
At start-up, attempts to auto-detect MIDI surface controllers that send spurious MIDI Note On messages and turns them to Off. Does this if receives MIDI Note On within 2 seconds of start-up and device hasn’t been used for recording before. Select the device to re-enable it. Or click expand arrow and click ‘Off’ where can set MPE On/Off
Disabled ability to rename/delete the default sound palettes and sounds
Improved interactive help with information for double-clicking layers to select all time, and the difference and recommended use of time and note selections
Shifted unpitched audio at bottom of screen up a few pixels so not right next to zoom adjustment
Can now select time and create loop markers for recording past last barline
Tightened up curved edges in display
Updated loop marker colouring
Made vertical region thinner where does time selection rather than note selection when dragging selection rectangle over notes
Made selected notes clearer
Current playback/recording position shown in main scrollbar so easy to find if scroll away.

Bug fixes

Fixed ripping issue with gaps in very heavy drums/percussion
Fixed issue where drums/percussion could be ripped with reduced quality
Pitched Sound playback fix
VST ripping fixes
Fixed time selection effect saving bug (caused crash undo/redoing etc)
Mac: Fixed issue when recording & playing back using same audio-device
Fixed MIDI import when DeepCreate not activated
Windows: Fixed failed Stem export on Windows 11 version 22H2
Mac: Fixed audio recording issue where glitch could be present at end of recording
Fixed issue where device settings not saved correctly where both Audio and MIDI inputs available for device
Mac: Fixed mousewheel scrolling during recording
Fixes for applying musical scales to different layers
Fixed zoomed out/Straight Notes brightness
Fixed pitched percussion display brightness when zoomed out or Straight Notes on
When recording audio, intelligently decide whether to use stereo mix, left or right channel – e.g. where only one of two inputs used(previously it mixed both channels in this case, halving the level)
Prevented deleting a rip when finishing off audio recording
Fixed effect combos containing a sound placed after an effect like harmony, chord, reverb or delay, so that it only applies to that effect and not original note
Fixed harmony applied so that it matches the value shown in slider
Fixed 3^rd harmonies where additional pitch adjustment required to fit key
Prevented double-clicking timeline selecting bar
Fixed loop region when dragging left edge over right edge and vice versa
Fixed issue where notes going over the loop end marker are not updated when changing effects and sounds in looped playback
Fixed undo for clicking and dragging to draw on an automation lane when it’s not already selected
Mac: Fixed Chord effect number selection shown so doesn’t show undefined symbol
Prevented sound being selected as a default for recording when dragged onto rip
Prevented pitch shifting doing a partial semitone when near edges of editor ranges
Ripping fixes
Prevent quitting RipX when processing recorded audio
Prevent Ctrl/Cmd+C,V etc working in rip when input focus is in RipScripts, such as Export and Change Tempo
Changing Tempo now updates muted Layers too

v6.0.3 changes (6th Dec 2022)

Improvements

Improved playback engine
- Smoother effect and sample changes, especially when auditioning
- Fixed glitches with playing back notes with longer sounds applied
Can once again select all notes at a given time by dragging a loop
Draw unpitched audio much brighter at bottom of screen to make obvious it exists, in particular when applying Sound, it needs to be included in note selection, or use time selection
Cursor and selection background color now matches selected layers to make clearer editing affects those layers only
When nothing selected (so can choose sounds and effects to add new notes with) colours sound and effects grip red
Sounds applied to individual notes now unaffected by sounds applied to time selections they may be within
Tweaked reverb default values
Play notes & groups when their automation lanes edited
Made non-selected layers more transparent
Import VST Instrument dialog now defaults to every pitch in range C2 to B5
Can once again select an individual note within a time selection
Show all unpitched audio when View>Straight Notes is selected
Select automation lane for a time selection when clicking on its bar at the bottom of the screen if the effect is selected in the panels – helps to prevent accidental deletion of time when user may intend to reset/delete the effect
More efficient rendering of text outlines
Sample amplitude variation mix 50:50 with original audio
Resizing unpitched notes now extends/shortens rather than stretches them, useful for applying longer drum sounds
Applied unpitched sounds now change in pitch from original note to sample pitch as level increased.
Select All selects notes rather than time, if mainly recorded notes containing no original audio in selected layers.
When all time is selected, it is done from 0 seconds rather than score start
When time is copied and the start time is 0, the score start is used instead
When dragging a sound/loop from panel onto rip, now adds it to the first selected layer rather than try to create/select one based on the instrument name.
Dragging a loop onto the main area when no rip is loaded sets up the tempo for it
Don’t allow resizing ends of note when Fit To Bars effect is applied (correct usage is to adjust number of bars to fit, or remove that effect)
Auditioning sounds requiring loading no longer disturbs playback
Allow time selection to be transferred to different layer

Bug fixes

Fixed opening reverb, delay, quantize, flatten and correct pitch effects from pre-v6 rip files.
Fixed timing of delay and reverb when warp applied
Numerous Loops fixes
Fixed transparency of reverb/harmonies etc when layer not selected
Fixed brightness of pitched notes relative to unpitched
Fixed bar lengths of loops
Handles Fit To Bars effected notes correctly after Change Tempo
Fit To Bars now has one parameter only
Pitch To Scale no longer affects unpitched notes or loops
Windows: Fixed non-showing of activation code check messages
Fixed issue with gaps created when changing tempo

v6.0.2 changes (22nd Nov 2022)

Improvements

More optimised rendering of sounds onto audio
No longer stretches drums and percussion when changing tempo to be more natural sounding
Auto-un-collapse combos when created/added to in panels
Playback rendering improvements
Added option to disable MIDI input under device name in Inputs panel (cycle MPE Off>MPE On>Off)

Bug fixes

Fixed issue with misaligned drums/percussion, particularly from pre-v6 Rip files
Handles stopping audio recording before count down has finished correctly
Fixed crash that could occur when recording audio
Fixed selection of individual notes at the same time as other notes
Fixed rendering of sounds on existing audio when less than 100% level
Fixed selection of correct default sound for layers (e.g. not Bassoon for Bass)
Mac: Fixed highlighted keys for pitches during playback
Windows: Fixed issue where ripping files with a name finishing with a space or three dots (ie : “song .mp3”) and exporting stems (“for DJ” option) produced no files exported in the created folder.
Prevent splitting of notes with time effects (like Fit To Bars, Warp Time, Quantize Time and Shift Time)
Fixed playback ending when stop playback practice
Update panel and insert at correct position combos from other effects panels
Set timing effects correctly on pasting audio
Fixed sometimes incorrectly placed dragged effect within other panel
Fixed Fit To Bars timing when bar duration is variable (improves placing and duplicating loops)

v6.0.1 changes (18th Nov 2022)

Improvements

Can now set input device before clicking record when no rip/layers exist
Scroll to show input device when change layer
Smooth scroll panels
Mac: improved usage of trackpad/scroll wheel for panels
Better choice of default sounds for layers
Improved pitch adjustment of unpitched instruments
Set default sound for a layer when dragging a sound to it, and no default already exists
Auto-select layer when soloing it
Improved dragging of slider levels vs dragging the entry
Added Interactive Help for the Fit To Bars effect
Double-click loop markers to remove them
Can now add loop markers by dragging to the left
Can now edit notes in a time selection by dragging in pitch or time
Sets included loops to correct number of bars by default when dragging onto rip
No longer does sound/effects preview when nothing selected so easier to drag sounds and loops onto rip
More accurate volume of sounds replacing existing audio

Bug fixes

Fixed issue recording from stereo audio interface
Fixed Ctrl+A then ‘L’ to create loop from whole rip (wouldn’t play back)
Fixed potential hang
Fixed crash loading new sound palettes during playback/recording
Fixed keying Home to go back to start/start of Loop (all the time for Mac, and when not playing for Windows)
Fixed issue with panels not collapsing correctly
Fixed issue with long played MIDI notes disappearing
Fixed issue with notes not always being deleted, e.g. if muted, or if the time selection start is negative
Enabled more layer pop-up menu items when layer not selected
Fixed Layers panel ‘Add’ uncollapse scroll amount
Fixed issue with notes recorded from audio getting split up incorrectly
Fixed issue where multiple devices could end up assigned to layers and tricky to select correct one
Fixed issue where incorrect BPM shown at top right for new ripped
Fixed issue with incorrect duration shown for rip in Rips panel
Fixed issue with panel size adjustments getting stuck
No longer changes record button to pause when practice playing MIDI
Fixed crash exporting audio containing notes with harmonies, chords, reverb, delay