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A new step release with significant usability improvements.
Feature Enhancements:
- Audio Engine 4.6.3
- Harmony inspector at same place with same look on all pages
- Track headers visible next to phrase editor for easier navigation
- File Dialog: Drop any file on an emulated file dialog to go there
- Library: Drop one or more MIDI files on library sidebar for import
- Library: Ability to divide take into equally sized parts
- Import: Add switch to use simple division by measures of tracks ("Simple")
- Import: Ability to set a default sound for all tracks
Resolved Bugs:
- Parameters not always converted when dropped on a parameter outlet
- Parameter Inspector: Snap input to scale switch was dead
- Take not copied with phrases to other container
- Live chord detection should wait a bit until a new chord has settled
- Harmony preview not rendered with Sketch instruments when it should
- Library: Drop container or snippet truncates Harmony to length of Figure
- Factories: Did not respond to keyboard shortcuts
- Fixed issues with scheme editing and undo
- Fixed issues with polytonality layers
Other Changes:
- Library: Don't play preview after adding a phrase
- Scale selection preferences should be editable on inspector only
- Plugin Window: Spacebar should start playback at current container/selection
Thu, 2023-12-28 - 11:31 Permalink
Harmony inspector at same place with same look on all pages
This may not sound like a huge improvement but it really makes a difference. While I was working more frequently with Synfire during the past months, I observed that I had to think too much about where I can make a quick change to Harmony without switching the page. On the Progression page, the inspector was at the bottom with a different layout. On other pages it was on the sidebar. Some things could be done here, but not there.
Now you just select something in any Harmony view and reach to the sidebar where all aspects of Harmony can always be changed.
While surfing a Palette, the current harmony is shown on the same inspector, too (albeit some items are read-only). The harmony can be altered as needed and then dragged to the progression.
Same for a running playback (all read-only, of course).
And the Harmonizer.
Thu, 2023-12-28 - 12:24 Permalink
Is it an internal instrument (soundcase?) or a plugin?, I've been recently been coming up against a possibly similar issue where the preset for a vst kept reverting back to it's first preset, eventually I figured that the problem was the device description > Programs > sound properties > Program. My mistake is that I don't like to set up most vsts with their programs as with some of them (i.e. dexed) I'm still working out a preset list from a huge library of files downloaded from the internet, (aside from lazyness) . What I do is just set up 1 channel and preset in the device description and change as the arrangement requires, which I have recently found out is a mistake. I set the program to "None" and that seems to have alleviated the issue so far.
I'm still learning this area of synfire but will invest a little more time figuring out the device descriptions and variants etc.
