MiniHost - Changes since v0.7:
- Dozens of bugfixes.
- Multi channel plugins with finally work.
- Completely rewritten ASIO buffer fill routine.
- Many many parts of the ASIO engine changed, hopefully for the better.
- New features: MIDI-Tools (arpeggiator, chord maker, chord analyzer, step-sequencer).
- Better method of arranging presets in menu.
- Settings windows now also displays data format of ASIO channels.
- Preset name can optionally be shown in title bar.
- MIDI Thru option for plugins added, if activated, incoming MIDI data (either external MIDI, file player, computer keyboard or virtual keyboard) is sent to the selected MIDI output as well, including all chord/arpeggiator/sequencer notes.
- Virtual keyboard now plays glissandi on left button, chords on middle button and single notes (+CC) on right button.
- New feature: VSTSpy for analyzing VST plugins.
- Added new option to downmix multi channel plugins to stereo.
- WAV playback also possible when no plugin is loaded.
- Option to unload plugin back in the menu.
- Last program location is now also saved and loaded.
- Many new shortcuts.
- Loading of non-VST DLLs gives a proper error message.
- Some bugfixes for virtual keyboard.
- Sticky notes on virtual keyboard fixed.
- You can now use the CTRL key on the virtual keyboard to select held-down notes manually .
- Loading/unloading should now work perfectly.
- Now also supports audio inputs.
- Changing buffersize in ASIO control panel is now immediately effective.
- New (floating) options window, it display info about the current ASIO driver and allows adjusting the volume of the WAV playback, overall volume and the tempo sent to the plugin.
- Improved focus of computer keyboard,.
- QUERTZ/QUERTY keyboard layouts available for US and UK support.
- Keyboard octave setting now also in the menu.
- VST MIDI output available, including support for VST MIDI plugins.
- MIDI input/output can also be disabled.
- Virtual keyboard is now dockable to plugin GUI, optionally velocity sensitive and now displays incoming notes, no matter if played on computer keyboard, from MIDI file or from live MIDI input.
- Virtual MIDI keyboard can now additionally generate 2 MIDI CCs based on the horizontal and vertical movement of the mouse.
- MIDI playback can optionally be looped.
- WAV files are now played at correct pitch.
- WAV file can also be unloaded.
- WAV file looping is now optional.
- Drag n' drop support for fxb/fxp files and DLLs.
- New menu structure.
- Added PDF manual.
- Added icon to the exe file.
- Application allows optional parameter on command line which specifies plugin to load.
- Drag n' drop of DLLs files on the MiniHost.exe file in Windows Explorer starts MiniHost and loads the selected plugin.
- New features: preset manager and preset randomizer.
- You can now use the ± keys to step through the presets.
- Current preset is now checked in the preset list.
- Presets can now be renamed by pressing F2 or choosing the rename option in the preset menu.
- You can now select multiple files in the preset manager (using shift and ctrl keys) and save them in one go as separate FXP files.
- You can now load multiple FXP files at once (by selecting them with ctrl/shift in the FXP load dialog) the presets will be placed in the order they were selected at the current preset location.
- Preset name and preset number can be read from the FXP filename.
- You can drag n' drop preset from the preset manager window to Windows Explorer, it will then automatically create proper FXP file(s) there.
- You can also drag FXP files from any Explorer window to a preset in the preset managers list, which will then be loaded at the current location.
- Preset randomizer with easy script language included, allows you to create custom randomizers for each plugin.
- Preset mutation implemented for easy creation of variations.
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