Rayzoon releases Jamstix v1.6

Rayzoon has released version 1.6 of its virtual drummer VSTi Jamstix, featuring many enhancements and fixes.

Enhancements:

• 'Load Mapping' dialog now offers filtering, previewing and mapping contents listing.
• Added 'Random' button to mapping tab to randomize kick, snare and hihat selections.
• Added 'eMode' for use with ePak.
• Added 12 fills and 24 rhythms.
• 8th shuffle play now suppresses 16ths before quarters leading to better fitting fill and accent performances.
• When repeating an audio free jam, Jamstix now maintains decisions and repeats the jam identical unless 'Clear Arrangement' is used.
• MIDI key D5 (#86) now chokes the last hit crash, splash or china cymbals.
• Right-click on a rhythm name in the arranger now opens a menu with the options to load, name, remove or move the rhythm.
• Added new jam habit: if all quarter hihats are semi or open, notes generated by the 'Eighths' and 'Sixteenth' boxes will use semi instead of closed sounds.
• Added fill filters/limits to allow simplification of fill playback via an icon next to the 'Fill Frequency' slider.
• Improved voice reduction quality.
• Added arrows to sample list for easy 'step-through'.
• Improved semi hat, open hat and tom voice concurrency (apparent choking) with higher voice reduction levels.
• Increased limb transition time to the hihat when playing fills, intros or endings.
• Improved limb assignment logic to avoid high priority note dropping under certain circumstances.
• Suppresses rhythm change crash when switching muted rhythms.
• Added 'Mute Brain' automation parameter to allow manual silencing without choked notes.
• Single-bar liveloops are now possible.
• Rhythm changes to a rhythm with no kick on beat 1 will no longer allow the change crash/kick combo to be played.
• The preset menu for sub-hosted VSTi is now updated whenever the 'Preset' button is clicked.
• The following default values can now be set in the jamstix.ini file: FillFrequency, CymbalFrequency, Accentuation, Complexity, Funkiness.
• When locking a rhythm that is not active in the arranger with Jamstix paused, Jamstix no longer switches to the active rhythm.
• Jamstix now remembers last directory a sound DLL was loaded from.
• Jamstix no longer loads support data when scanned by Cakewalk VST adapter.
• Latency is now continuously updated to avoid synch problems when latency is changed in the host while JS is open.
• When used in Logic, a BarOffset of 10 is now automatically used.
• Mapping sample list now remembers last selection.
• Optional 'Accentuation' and 'CymbalFrequency' ini parameters now also influence default rhythm settings of accent and cymbal sliders.
• Mouse-over on hihat slots now shows velocity information.
• Implements some JamBassist integration.
• Funkiness can now be controlled via controller 50 and complexity via 51. Note that using these controllers makes the jam session un-repeatable so you need to record the Jamstix MIDI output if you want to capture the performance.

Bug-fixes:

• Fixed internal sounds loading when LateWSLoad active but 'MIDI Out Only' specified.
• Fixed voice release issues at very high latencies.
• Fixed closed hats playing at full velocity when choking semi or open hats.
• Fixed MIDI export BPM rounding issue.
• Fixed 'Always Ride' automation.
• Fixed only toms 1 and 5 being used with external sounds.
• Fixed volume displays including other outputs when using multi-out mapping.
• Fixed percussion checkboxes not showing active status when clicked with right mouse button.
• Fixed some missing note-off events in MIDI export and output when 'MIDI-Out Only' is active and some under circumstances are given.