Changelogs:Today is a good day.
We're proud to announce Bitwig Studio 2.2 to the world, and with it the next step on our journey together. This update is packed with plenty of fixes and improvements, as well as exciting new features. Here are the highlights:
Learn more... https://www.bitwig.com/en/17/bitwig-studio-2_2.html
- Bitwig Studio now supports Ableton Link technology: Sync multiple instances of Bitwig Studio over the network, and to a range of music software, including a growing number of iOS and Android apps
- Make fine grained timing adjustments anywhere in your device chain with the new Time Shift device
- Get creative in modulation heaven with 4 new modulators: Polynom, Quantize, Audio Rate, Sample and Hold
- The On-Screen Keyboard Panel is now available in all display profiles
- New display profile: Studio/Touch
- New sound content: 3+ GB of multi-sampled instruments and presets. Rare Organs and Keys and a Bösendorfer Grand Piano, plus legendary 606 drum machine sounds.
The beta testing phase starts now, and we aim to release the final version in October, 2017.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2 Beta 8
Released on 29.09.2017.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2 Beta 7
- FIXED Using the ALT-modifier in the clip launcher to bounce a clip during drag & drop was moving the original (should be a copy).
- FIXED It was possible to create shorter loops than the minimum allowed size by dragging a short clip from the arranger to the clip launcher.
- FIXED Regression: Maschine JAM button grid does not show notes in step mode.
Released on 27.09.2017.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2 Beta 6
- FIXED Link synchronization started with an offset when connecting it a second time.
- FIXED The onscreen keyboard wasn't using the quantization settings properly when used by mouse.
- IMPROVED When clicking on arranger clips, the note editor (clip mode) should only scroll if alt modifier was pressed.
- IMPROVED Always show name on arranger clips (instead of only custom names).
Released on 26.09.2017.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2 Beta 5
- FIXED Regression in 2.2: Overdub recording in arranger on top of looping clips would cause them to play out of sync.
- FIXED Setting a clip's loop length to very small values causes the playhead to escape the looped region and play audio outside of it.
- FIXED Window wants to become bigger than screen when opening clip content editor in EDIT panel layout with 300% scaling.
- FIXED Fix some devices default settings and default preset.
- FIXED Modulation mapping visual indication would disappear after folding/unfolding chains.
- FIXED Regression: command for setting loop region to time selection area does not work until an event is selected.
- FIXED Saving as template could break the current document (missing samples).
- IMPROVED Improve zoom to fit for clip launcher note editor.
- IMPROVED Its is now possible to set the cross-fade length used when looping audio clips.
Released on 22.09.2017.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2 Beta 4
- FIXED Regression: crash when moving all notes in the same lane using the arrow keys.
- FIXED Regression in Beta 4: Overdub recording is broken.
- FIXED Regression in 2.2: Crossfading just before the second clip's loop does not work correctly.
- FIXED Preview player made a hung-buffer noise if you selected a sample/file which was missing but still in the index while playing back another one.
- FIXED Deleting note effects while playing can result in stuck notes.
- FIXED File/Close doesn't work nor shortcut ctrl+W.
- FIXED Crash when importing multiple audio files using drag and drop to an empty project.
- FIXED Regression: field value flickers when adjusting start time of arranger clips in inspector.
- FIXED Modulator mapping visualization would disappear when folding and unfolding the modulators while editing a remote controls page.
- FIXED Shot mode in sampler didn't play the sample the first time.
- IMPROVED Made Tempo more stable when using Ableton Link.
- IMPROVED Added Touch Keyboard to dual/triple-monitor profiles.
Released on 19.09.2017.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2 Beta 3
- FIXED Add L/R/M/S selector to Audio Rate.
- FIXED Controllers are not able to change or read the tempo when Ableton Link is enabled.
- FIXED Sample preview sometimes clicked at the beginning.
- FIXED Transposing notes using arrow keys sometimes erases other notes when passing over.
- FIXED Copying automation to clip launcher needs finer threshold for streamlining points, to avoid that straight sections result in a sloped section if points are very close.
- FIXED Regression: Keyboard input was broken for some plug-ins on Windows.
- FIXED Time shift shouldn't be automatable & modulatable.
- FIXED Regression in 2.2: Preview player doesn't always stop.
Released on 15.09.2017.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2 Beta 2
- FIXED Crash when saving remote controls.
- FIXED Automation bug in large project.
- FIXED Duplicating a track does not properly duplicates the track's output routing.
- FIXED Improved compatibility with HiDPI plug-ins on Windows.
- FIXED Recording note clip launcher playback to the arranger doesn't update the recorded clip when editing the source clip.
- IMPROVED Plug-in window snapping on Windows is now threshold-based.
Released on 14.09.2017.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.2 Beta 1
- FIXED Sometimes playback would start at the wrong beat-time on Windows when using Ableton Link.
- FIXED Metronome sometimes missed clicks when Ableton Link was activated.
Released on 13.09.2017.
- NEW Sample & Hold Modulator.
- NEW Ableton Link support.
- NEW Added Dual Display (Studio/Touch) profile.
- NEW Time Shift Device.
- NEW Audio Rate Modulator.
- NEW Quantize Modulator.
- NEW Polynom Modulator.
- FIXED Engine crash when connecting engine to a project that contains a bypassed HW Instrument.
- FIXED Engine crash sometimes when switching projects.
- FIXED Note modulators still don't affect notes before they play.
- FIXED When moving multiple notes with the same key over other notes using arrow keys, the existing notes might get truncated in some cases.
- FIXED Values Can Not Be Confirmed via Numerical Block Enter Key.
- FIXED "Save Preset To Library" dialog: TAB key doesn't switch from Tags to Preset desicription (+ [SUG] "Category" selector).
- FIXED Sampler not keytracking correctly.
- FIXED Delete button works like backspace in text editor.
- FIXED Bounce/In Place freezes when external clock is being received.
- FIXED Delete key does not update the text field in large text editor (eg: preset's description).
- FIXED Steps Modulator: when Loop is OFF, Modulator jumps back to the first step after completion of the cycle, instead of staying on the last step.
- FIXED ALSA: improve recovery when sound card is brutally disconnected.
- FIXED Crash when layer editing in a hybrid track with audio background.
- FIXED Consolidating clips with RAW audio in them results in the audio playing outside of the clip boundary.
- FIXED Button to enable automatic size of audio lanes is sometimes not visible when it should.
- FIXED Reporting tempo 0 to VST plug-in instances.
- IMPROVED Let the comb filter go down to 20 Hz.
- IMPROVED Smooth/Glide for the step sequencer.
- IMPROVED Better support for resizing of plug-in windows.
- IMPROVED Support DPI Aware plug-ins on Windows (if they implement PreSonus Plug-In Extensions).
- IMPROVED Better user experience for configuring Audio Devices.
- IMPROVED Remember plugin window position.
- IMPROVED Make HW CV Instrument wider.
- IMPROVED The search field from the library on the side panel should be the same for each content type.
- IMPROVED Added Single Trigger option to ADSR & AHDSR modulators (useful only in mono-mode).
- IMPROVED Update plugin window title in real-time.
- IMPROVED Scripting API: new API to copy slots or scenes.
- IMPROVED Remember sample auto preview and synchronize to song tempo from the sample preview in the preferences.
- IMPROVED Let Macro and Macro-4 be polyphonic.
- IMPROVED Add pan swap to the Tool device.
- IMPROVED Better workflow for selecting clips & time in the arranger to show content in the editor.
- IMPROVED Added touch keyboard to both single display profiles.
- IMPROVED Sampler's start and loop region is now polyphonic.
- IMPROVED Sampler now supports audio rate pitch modulation.
- IMPROVED It is now possible to use more than one midi controller of the same model (e.g. Launchpad) at the same time.
- IMPROVED If a plugin takes a long time to scan notify the user and give them the option to skip that plugin.
- IMPROVED Improved Arturia Keylab 25/49/61/88 scripts.
- IMPROVED Improved Audio & Note Playback Engine.
- IMPROVED Removed legato for raw audio and made working with sample play stop (in seconds) vs event end (in beats) more clear.
Actually that was a complain...
