Bitwig Studio updated to v2.2

Bitwig Studio has been updated to v2.2.

Highlights include:

• With Ableton Link, Bitwig Studio syncs perfectly and effortlessly to a multitude of software solutions, including an entire ecosystem of mobile apps.
• A new Time Shift device allows for creative timing adjustments anywhere in your device chain.
• Get creative in modulation heaven with 4 new modulators: Polynom, Quantize, Audio Rate, Sample and Hold.
• The On-Screen Keyboard Panel is now available in all display profiles.
• New display profile: Studio/Touch.
• Lots of fixes and improvements, check the full change-log below.

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New:

• Ableton Link support.
• Time Shift Device.
• Sample & Hold Modulator.
• Quantize Modulator.
• Audio Rate Modulator.
• Polynom Modulator.
• Dual Display (Studio/Touch) profile.

Improved:

• Improved Audio & Note Playback Engine.
• Add a smoothness parameter to MIDI clock slave.
• Remember sample auto preview and synchronize to song tempo from the sample preview in the preferences.
• Allow user to edit templates they have created by opening the project file in the template folder.
• Add pan swap to the Tool device.
• Better user experience for configuring Audio Devices.
• Better workflow for selecting clips & time in the arranger to show content in the editor.
• MIDI Clock Slave catches the tempo faster on Continue.
• Added Single Trigger option to ADSR & AHDSR modulators (useful only in mono-mode).
• When clicking on arranger clips, the note editor (clip mode) should only scroll if alt modifier was pressed.
• Rename some Livid instrument scripts so they all have a distinct name.
• Add MIDI Learn button to the MIDI modulator.
• Add an option to release Note Latch playing notes when the transport is stopped.
• Update plugin window title in real-time.
• Show device and track name in VST window title area on macOS.
• Always show name on arranger clips (instead of only custom names).
• Sampler's start and loop region is now polyphonic.
• Added touch keyboard to both single display profiles.
• Let Macro and Macro-4 be polyphonic.
• Remember zoom level per clip.
• Make HW CV Instrument wider.
• Let the comb filter go down to 20 Hz.
• Add smoothing to Step Modulator.
• Improve zoom to fit for clip launcher note editor.
• Support DPI Aware plug-ins on Windows (if they implement PreSonus Plug-In Extensions).
• Removed legato for raw audio and made working with sample play stop (in seconds) vs event end (in beats) more clear.
• The search field from the library on the side panel should be the same for each content type.
• Controller API: make auto-detection work for multiple connected devices of the same model.
• It is now possible to set the cross-fade length used when looping audio clips.
• Improved compatibility with HiDPI plug-ins on Windows.
• It is now possible to use more than one MIDI controller of the same model (e.g. Launchpad) at the same time.
• Scripting API: new API to copy slots or scenes.
• Sampler now supports audio rate pitch modulation.
• If a plugin takes a long time to scan notify the user and give them the option to skip that plugin.
• Better support for resizing of plug-in windows.
• Smooth/Glide for the step sequencer.
• Remember plugin window position.
• Improved Arturia Keylab 25/49/61/88 scripts.

Fixed:

• Out of memory error when parsing some u-he preset files.
• Engine crash sometimes when switching projects.
• APC40 MKII version 1.0 by Akai crashed while using the cue knob.
• Potential crash when dragging audio file from spotlight.
• Deleting nested return track in certain corrupted projects could cause a crash, these are now automatically repaired.
• Crash when saving remote controls.
• Painting of automation preview sometimes crashes.
• Transposing notes using arrow keys sometimes erases other notes when passing over.
• Double-clicking a dot in Blur device places dot outside the dynamic display box.
• When moving multiple notes with the same key over other notes using arrow keys, the existing notes might get truncated in some cases.
• Duplicating a track does not properly duplicates the track's output routing.
• Overlapping notes in MIDI files are not imported correctly.
• VST3 ModuleEntry () was not called on Linux.
• QuNeo not auto detected on Linux.
• Setting a clip's loop length to very small values causes the playhead to escape the looped region and play audio outside of it.
• "Save Preset To Library" dialog: TAB key doesn't switch from Tags to Preset description (+ [SUG] "Category" selector).
• 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.
• Impossible to stop queued clip before it launches.
• Undo history breaks if you move an automation point and hit the right mouse key while doing so.
• Timing of resulting bounce is not accurate when tempo automation is used.
• "Poly" button in ADSR modulator: tool-tip says "Single Trigger".
• File/Close doesn't work nor shortcut ctrl+W.
• Deleting note effects while playing can result in stuck notes.
• Crash when importing multiple audio files using drag and drop to an empty project.
• VST3 plugins may fail scanning in some cases.
• Automation of Diatonic Transposer mode shift doesn't quite match up with the actual values.
• Raise the maximum number of HW audio channels from 128 to 256.
• Pen tool right-click to delete notes does not work without moving the mouse in drum editor.
• 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.
• Modulator mapping visualization would disappear when folding and unfolding the modulators while editing a remote controls page.
• Shot mode in sampler didn't play the sample the first time.
• ALSA: improve recovery when sound card is brutally disconnected.
• Delete key does not update the text field in large text editor (e.g: preset's description).
• Drum machine only has 127 slices while it could have 128.
• Scrolling note editor when clicking on arranger clips does not work correctly the first time.
• 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.
• Sample preview sometimes clicked at the beginning.
• It was possible to create shorter loops than the minimum allowed size by dragging a short clip from the arranger to the clip launcher.
• Fix problems with using projects after they have been saved as a template.
• Window wants to become bigger than screen when opening clip content editor in EDIT panel layout with 300% scaling.
• Time shift shouldn't be automatable & modulatable.
• Fix some devices default settings and default preset.
• Reporting tempo 0 to VST plug-in instances.
• Modulation mapping visual indication would disappear after folding/unfolding chains.
• Recording note clip launcher playback to the arranger doesn't update the recorded clip when editing the source clip.
• Clicking in track group background on the arranger results in broken looking note editor if group master contains no audio clips.
• Using the ALT-modifier in the clip launcher to bounce a clip during drag & drop was moving the original (should be a copy).
• Regression: command for setting loop region to time selection area does not work until an event is selected.
• Regression: field value flickers when adjusting start time of arranger clips in inspector.
• Note modulator doesn't affect notes before they play.
• Notes in first loop iteration are not rendered correctly if clip content start marker is at the same location as the loop end.
• Engine crashes if there is an error initializing audio output.
• Engine crash when connecting engine to a project that contains a bypassed HW Instrument.
• Crashes from Changing Audio Sample Rate.
• Delete button works like backspace in text editor.
• Values Can Not Be Confirmed via Numerical Block Enter Key.
• Consolidating clips with RAW audio in them results in the audio playing outside of the clip boundary.
• Automation bug in large project.
• Button to enable automatic size of audio lanes is sometimes not visible when it should.
• Crash when layer editing in a hybrid track with audio background.
• Bounce/In Place freezes when external clock is being received.
• Saving as template could break the current document (missing samples).
• Sampler not keytracking correctly.