Image-Line has announced that FL Studio 8 is now available. An extensive list of changes follows...
Additions:
- New Slicex drumloop slicing generator plugin.
- New SynthMaker modular environment.
- FL finally supports MIDI SysEx input, and handles basic MMC functions.
- Added error message at startup when MMX or SSE1 is not found.
- Cleartype not forced on anymore for mixer labels for Win9X platforms.
- Right-clicking splitters (browser, piano roll, playlist) for spare position.
- Project browser: can show/hide plugin editors from the generators/effects folders.
- Generator smart disable is now compatible with threaded rendering.
- Added mouse wheel support to popup menus & combo selectors.
- Added some extra mouse buttons support.
- Added (manual) plugin editor thumbnails to project browser.
- Sinc interpolator now faster (64point sinc now usable realtime).
- New slope modes for LP/HP/LS/Peak/HS bands in Parametric EQ 2 plugin.
- New 'multilink' option for quicker remote control assignment, creation of multiple automation clips, etc.
- Added 'Edit whole mapping' to Remote control part of the project browser.
- Optional stereo waveform display in playlist.
- Re-implemented CME UF keyboard support (although MIDI feedback sometimes makes no sense).
- Parameter smoothing now works for relative knobs or other incremental MIDI controls too.
- Improved parameter smoothing.
- Can now define absolute increment steps in MIDI remote control window.
- Playlist->Edit->Shift left/right now works for audio clips too (including using control surface jogs).
- Added full support for the Mackie Control Universal.
- Improved support for some controllers.
- Improved 'undo knob tweaks' to support tweaking several parameters at once without slowing down.
- Love Philter: piano keys assigned to patterns.
- Tweaking controls on VST(i)s now show a hint message in FL's hint bar (when possible).
- Wave Candy: fixed some bugs & added Vista window background blur.
- Updated to LAME 3.97.
- Improved latency compensation 'Set from' option.
- Rendering with latency compensation.
- Added slip editing in playlist clips, as well as little changes in resizing tools.
- Improved accuracy of MIDI input recording under high GUI CPU load.
- Can now move effect slots around using the mouse wheel.
- FL (& some FL plugins) now support .ogg format.
- Introducing 'Selected' mixer track, to which the selected mixer track is routed, and in which you.
- Place visual effects or a recording Edison.
- Ctrl+E to quickly open an audio editor in a mixer track, or Shift+E to open an audio logger.
- Added score logging feature, not to miss scored played while testing.
- Piano roll: added 'Select at random' to select 10% random notes, for variations.
- Playlist: clip source selection now in titlebar, and clips panel now on top by default.
- One-click audio recording now prompts to record in Edison.
- Improved RAM usage meter for some systems.
- Can now resize multiple playlist clips at once.
- Caps lock function changed to allow resizing of notes from left side in piano roll.
- Added recording filter (right-click record button).
- Newbie enhancement: snapping is on by default.
- Newbie enhancement: browser snapshot now defaults to slot 1.
- Newbie enhancement: window menu icons replaced by holly down arrows.
- New spectral view in monitor panel.
- DrumSynth: added call to SendPatchToEngine to Voice_Release, to temporarily fix a release.
- Problem when multiple voices are active.
- Automation now displayed in pattern clips, improved event editor display.
- Channels in piano roll channel selector are now sorted by channel group.
- New list of available patterns when right-clicking the pattern selector.
- Patterns named '-pattern name' now act as separators in lists.
- Added OGG Vorbis rendering target.
- Added randomize & humanize to multilink menu.
- Default audio device changed to ASIO4ALL.
- Newly-recorded patterns now added as pattern clips (when in song mode).
- Fruity DX10: mod init and sustain calculations now also take sample rate into account.
- Changed piano roll keyboard modifiers a little (see help file) to add a new SHIFT+click to add note in resize mode.
- Added 'Send previous/next to selected channel' option in browser. Works well with extra mouse buttons too.
- Default peak meters scale bottom changed to -70dB, alternate scale down to -50dB.
- Introducing FL-chan in wallpapers.
- Newbie enhancement: 'save as' icon blinks once 5min after the last save, then each 30sec after 10min.
- Changed generator multithreaded processing method a little.
- Adapted wav file loader for more bad interpretations of a bad format.
- Mapped incoming "all notes off" MIDI message to panic.
- Removed obsolete '16.8' version of the 32Bit wav rendering.
Edison:
- EQ, blur & reverb tools now remember their envelope editor settings.
- Unselects when live selection is too short (<150ms), and added live selection as published parameter.
- New fancy waveform display mode, and option to export display to bitmap file.
- Added stereo waveform display.
- New slave sync, pause button, transport active when not playing, support for control surfaces and keyboard.
- Input (to slice or for sampler preview).
- Can now link notes to markers/regions (for use in Fruity Slicer).
- Added "Undo mix (spectral)" and "Paste mix (spectral)" features.
- Added keyboard (to note or to slice) preview.
- Added 'quick rename (all)' option to rename all regions to drum names.
- Edison & Sytrus now captionize themselves when starting a sample drag.
- New Tools->Send to playlist as audio clip, to send the clip to the playlist at selection, linked to the same.
- Mixer track as Edison.
- New drum(loop) stretching tool (& paste replace (drum)), with improved gaps filling.
- CTRL+DRAG drums from one instance to another, to replace drums in a loop with drums from another loop.
- Slide option now works on markers/regions too.
- Hold right-shift to move markers more accurately (temporary zoom).
- New phase editing feature in Edison's EQ.
- Added middle note & score detection.
- Improved smoothness when recording for several minutes.
- New 'dual view' mode showing both waveform & spectrum.
- Added tools->sequencing->send to selected channel, to quickly send audio to the selected channel.
- Without dragging (mainly for Fruity Slicer).
- Changed spectral display's windowing to Kaiser.
- New support for region types, and grid aligned to first downbeat marker.
- New tempo detector that gives better results for fixed-tempo songs.
- Added 'Time format' menu to display time regardless of the grid mode.
Dashboard:
- Fixed scroller freeze issue.
- Edit string dialog now pops up on correct screen.
- "send value" for patch control no longer generates an exception.
- Messages are no longer added to a buffer to be sent during processing.
FPC:
- Invalidate synthpanel on resize, to avoid graphical glitch when resizing the editor with "Show window.
- Contents while dragging" off in Windows.
- Mouse wheel now changes pad.
- Some cosmetic changes.
- Pan envelope is now bipolar.
- Fixed some save dialog glitches.
- Fixed envelope handling.
- Added wave preview in open dialog.
- Small UI changes.
- Better behaviour when samples are missing.
- Changed direction for changing pads from mouse wheel.
- Fixed MIDI loop loading, it now takes into accounts the steps per beat.
Video Player:
- Do nothing in TVideoViewer.AcceptMediaSample to prevent creeping cpu usage.
- Moved position updates from Process to Idle function, to save some cpu usage.
- Detached video will now keep playing if the plugin editor window is hidden.
- Added "Ignore tempo changes" option.
- Fix to prevent rising cpu usage.
- "render fast" is now the default.
Fruity Wrapper:
- "Export all programs as Cubase presets" saved the current program in every file.
- Fixed new implementation of ProcessParam to avoid "integer overflow" exception when adding an.
- Automation clip.
- Added hint when plugin parameter changes.
- Some fixes in ProcessParam.
- Now flushes plugin (inactive/active) in the PlugIOChanged callback.
- Don't send "all note off" message for effects.
- The fixed size output buffer for effects are now initialized to zero before processing.
- Now call AllocBuffers when the blocksize changes.
- Renamed menu items for saving/loading fst and fxb files to "VST" instead of "Cubase".
- Added "Send note off velocity" option.
- Implemented support for sysex messages sent by the plugin (untested).
- Let FL re-read key names when updateDisplay message is received from VST plugin.
DirectWave:
- Fixed bug showing save program dialogs.
- Added file compatibility options to (global) options dialog.
- "gain" control on zone tab now defaults to 0.0dB again.
- "gain" control on zone tab is now multiplied to the volume instead of added.
- Updated downloader implementation.
- Double-click on zone (or zone index) now opens sample tab.
- Now need to right-click on sample scroll bar to zoom.
- Fixed drag&drop crash.
- Made library scan (for popup menu) a lot faster.
- Fixed browser resizing from config dlg.
- Fixed behaviour of browser expansion with multiple instances.
- Changed volume and velocity implementation.
- Re-implemented soundfont support, now supports 24bit soundfonts.
- Fixed resizing in FL version, made it more spec-compliant in VSTi version.
- Some VST specific improvements.
- Fixed crash in VSTi when opening/closing browser because of incorrect FL version check.
- Effect switches on the zone page now also act according to the "global" switch.
- Improved demo mode save/restore for VSTi version.
- Fixed window size bug (browser open/closed) when opening editor.
- Fixed ogg import, made it use 32bit float samples instead of 16bit int.
- Restructured files, recompiled.
- Fixed "full range" behaviour for selectors.
Bug fixes:
- Bugfix in envelope point snapping.
- Bugfix in Sytrus unison sub.
- Bugfix: quick quantize no longer resizes playlist clips.
- Bugfix in stretching engine.
- Bugfix in monophonic mode combined with Fruity Slicer plugin.
- Little bugfix in Edison's looping tool & trimming option.
- Little bugfix in Sytrus envelope release combined with sustain level.
- Fixed weird bug importing corrupted playlist data from FL6 projects.
- Fixed keystrokes not getting to FL when mixer was detached & focused.
- Fixed strange bug with ASIO.
- Fixed little bug when reordering mixer tracks.
- Fixed crash when closing FL while project browser was open.
- Fixed tiny browser bug.
- Fixed bug in WaveShaper & Sytrus bipolar to unipolar mapping conversion.
- Fixed rare arpeggiator bug.
- Fixed problem loading some VST 2.4 plugins.
- Fixed crash in Vista when Data Execution Prevention is on.
- Fixed some possible deadlocks when MIDI-controlling parameters.
- Fixed little bug in Fruity Slicer's note dump.
- Fixed little problem in MIDI input window.
- Fixed big bug in wav file loader when regions have comments.
- Fixed thread-locking issue with multiple smoothed up remote control combined with visible project.
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