Sensomusic has announced version 4.0 of Usine, which will be released "soon" complete with touch-screen technology. A demo video is available.

Usine v4.0 will feature more than 100 improvements, including:

• Touch screen management.
• 16 audio in/out.
• Clear/save/open current track command in the main menu.
• New possible location for Interfaces builder windows: patch or parent patch.
• New rack mode : 'grid', 'rack' or 'play all'.
• Customizable layouts for all displayed controls (set the colors you want to all controls).
• Reset + reset values in steps modules (step, step-midi, lines, switches, points, array).
• No more auxiliary busses order limitations.
• Expand module command in patches (see manual).
• Some PianoRoll improvements.
• Clear current CC curve in PianoRoll.
• More quantize options in the sampler/ grainSampler :2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16 bars.
• New command in the main menu to hide all the popup windows (tab] key).
• New mapper curve module design (shows now a cursor to display the current position).
• New Audio Selector sub-patch in the module library.
• New Wave Display sub-patch in the module library.
• Better record (direct to disk) engine.
• Better multi-thread optimization.
• More precise Send MIDI Time Clock module in the Library.
• New conductor module more powerful; see compatibility notes.
• The color of the line in the remote panel is the same than the control color.
• At the startup of Usine, the last main window position is memorized.
• Debug mode in the setup for user modules developers.
• More precise schedule in the mouse down outlet of the separator/panel module.
• The audio out is cleared when a patch activation is turned off.
• 'visible' inlet/outlet in the Interface Builder module.
• The mapper curve can process audio flow (see 'audio quality' parameter).
• A sub patch can be locked to prevent modifications.
• The master section shows only actives in/out.
• New 'default value' parameter in faders, knobs.
• Preview workspaces/patches info's in the the browser window.
• The conductor now saves all the patches of the grid in rack mode (not only the selected patch); see compatibility notes.
• The 'show remote' button is visible in grid mode (not only in patch design mode).
• French Quick Start.

Fixed bugs:

• Fader MIDI Note, Fader Vertical, Curve of Points are not stored in the conductor.
• Bad CoeffToDb module initialization.
• Most of reported bugs fixed.

Compatibility notes:

• The new interface control/conductor panel module is not compatible with older version.
• Because of the new save procedure in the conductor, you can have some small compatibility problems with older versions.