Tone2 has released FireBird+ v1.5, a major update including oscillator and filter expansions.

New features:

• 26 new multi-Oscillators including 6656 waveforms: WV Pulse 25%, WV Pulse 12%, WV Comb 2, WV SawIO, WV Ohh, EL Squ Multi 2, EL Squ Flange, EL Alpha 3x, EL PWM Double, PD PeekSine, EL Flange 3, SO Ambie 3, SO Ambie 4, SO Electro 2, SO Beaum, BR Trumpet2, OR Ice EX, PE Drumpipe, VO Breakbeat, VO Melody, VO Sound is..., VO Maximum..., VO Virtual..., VO Sex Drugs..., VO Drumloop 3, VO Drumloop 4.
• 16 new filters: LP Analog2, LP Moog, LP Elliptic, HP Elliptic, HP Analog, BP Analog, BR Analog, EQ Peak 1, EQ Peak 2, EQ Block, Vocals2, VOC A, VOC U, VOC E, VOC I, VOC O.
• 3 new ARP rhythms.
• Additional MIDI CCs supported: 2: Analog, 7: Main volume, 21: OSC1 tune, 22: OSC2 tune, 23: OSC1 fine, 24: OSC2 fine, 25: OSC1 volume, 26: OSC2 volume, 28: Filter key follow, 71: Reso, 72: Reso, 74: Cutoff, 116: Drive, 91: Effect par1, 92: Effect par, 102: Filter env attack, 103: Filter env decay, 104: Filter env sustain, 105: Filter env release, 106: Filter env velocity, 107: Filter env send, 108: Volume env attack, 109: Volume env decay, 110: Volume env sustain, 111: Volume env release, 112: Volume env velocity, 113: Volume env pop, 114: LFO send.

Further improvements:

• Lower CPU usage.
• Reduced CPU spikes.
• Updated english handbook.
• Smoother sound on FAT4x.
• Less memory needed (4MB).
• Smaller dll file.
• Windows Vista registry compatibility: HKEY_CURRENT_USER is used instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

Changes:

• MIDI CC 11 (expression pedal) changed to 115

Fixes:

• FireBird did not load if MSVCR71.dll was missing in Windows. This file is not longer necessary.
• Fixed a random crash which was caused by loopmode "???????".
• Cubase switched to bypass on heavy CPU load.
• Cantabile compatibility.
• Phrazor compatibility.
• Sonar and others: FireBird did not produce sound if interface was closed.
• Renoise and other hosts: Stop/Play in host caused a CPU spike and audio dropouts.
• The first patch "welcome" was clicking.