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.
