Tracktion Universe 2022: Meet The Team

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Tracktion Universe 2022: Meet The Team

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List of what's new in W12. A few things on the list are already in W11. They were supposed to be W12 features but we snuck them into late builds of W11.

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New Waveform 12 Features
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UI
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* New colour editor to adjust UI appearance (with 20+ presets)
* Bolder, higher contrast UI
* Unified properties and actions panel
* New dedicated actions side panel
* Master channel strip added to mixer
* Added new plugin buttons to arrange track mixer area
* Option to show full length loop markers
* Added master track to arrange and mixer areas
* Improved arrange track plugins layout

New Engine
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* Completely rewritten audio engine
* Perfect PDC in all routing configurations
* Reduced CPU load (25% typical)
* Better support for modern machines with a high number of CPU cores

Control Surfaces
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* Added support for Icon control surfaces
* Control surfaces can trigger actions in current quick actions bar

Plugins
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* Add up to 16 plugins on the master bus (up from 4) 

**Instuments**
* Bass Synth
* Rompler
* Micro Sampler

**Effects**
* Compressor
* Gate
* Limiter
* Chorus
* Phaser
* Stereo Delay
* Distortion
* Non Linear Reverb
* Plate Reverb
* Natural Reverb
* Impulse Response
* Phaser
* DJ EQ
* DJ Filter
* Single band EQ
* Three band EQ
* Eight band EQ (with adjustable slope and mid/side mode)
* Guitar IR

**Utility**
* AB Switch
* Mono
* Mid/side splitter
* Spectrum analyser
* MIDI CC
* MIDI Note Name

Audio
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* Added remove silence

MIDI
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* Fold: notes in key, notes in use, named notes
* Improve MIDI zooming on first use
* Added MIDI shortcuts: playGuideNotes, midiNoteUp, midiNoteDown, splitNotes3, selectNextNote, selectPrevNote, selectNotes
* Add knife
* MIDI Typing: floating onscreen MIDI keyboard
* Added ability to drag MIDI clips and MIDI clip presets into existing clips
* Added scroll bars to MIDI editor
* Basic hotkeys like scroll and zoom now affect MIDI editor if it has focus
* Added drum grid to MIDI editor
* Added MIDI event list editor
* MIDI CC now follows notes when moved/copied
* Added randomisation to velocity, pitch, start, length and CC value
* Improved CC editing, can be copied and pasted between types
* Added MIDI strum. Drag notes with shift

Step Clips
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* Moved step clips into MIDI editor
* Added step probability
* Step clips and be reordered
* Step clip fold mode

Multi Sampler / Drum Samples / Micro Drum Sampler
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* Add clear, icon and colour to pad context menu
* Added two FX buses

Quick Actions
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* Multiple rows of quick actions can now be added to the arrange window
* Icons can be added to buttons for quick visual reference

Browser
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Added a new browser side panel with different sections.
* Plugins now default to order by manufacturer
* Tag cloud can be closed if not needed
* Tag cloud only shows tags present in results
* Search now searches results from the current selection
* Results appear in a tree structure based on disk order
* Favourite tags are displayed as coloured indicators in results
* Selecting and dragging a single plugin/preset/file will drag it in to the Edit
* Selecting and dragging multiple files will add them as new sequential clips or on new tracks
* Additional colums can be shown by right clicking the menu bar (name, tags, location, size)
* Clicking column headers changes the sort order of results
* The "Show folders" button can be disabled to view all results in a flat list
* Folder openness will be remembered when switching categories
* Selected items show a preview at the bottom of the browser
* Shortcuts are available to show the browser and focus on the search field

*Favourites:*
* Tags can now be favourited and these favourite tags will appear in this list
* Selecting a favourite in this list shows all items with that tag
* Favourite tags can be assigned colours for quick visual recognition

*Categories:*
* Library content has been split up in to several categories: Plugins, Presets, Racks, Samples and Clips
* Selecting a category shows results from this category in a tree structure based on disk location or order criteria (as in the case of plugins)
* Additionally, results from all categories can be shown using the "All results" category

*Smart Lists:*
* Smart lists contain automatically populated content
* Edits and Projects can now be consolidated to import files outside the project folder
* "Packs" contain files from installed content packs
* "Edit" contains files in the the current Edit
* "Project" contains files from the Project the current Edit is from
* "Recent" contains recently used plugins 

*Bookmarks:*
* Bookmarks appear in this list and will display as a tree structure in the results
* There is an "Add folder" button to quickly add folders to view

Plugin Selector
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* Browser can be used as the popup plugin selector with search-as-you type

[Kott]

fantastic

will we see the vst3 linux version of F'em, Biotek, Collective ?

[Watchful]

These are some very nice additions, well beyond what's covered in the video. Also delighted to see a couple of my requests seem to have been added, so thanks!

[Stuttaton]

Many excellent ideas in this list!

[FigBug]

fantastic

will we see the vst3 linux version of F'em, Biotek, Collective ?

I know vst3 is currently being worked on, I'd assume for Linux too.

[boomt]

Well excited for some of the MIDI improvements. Great work!

[imstre]

Great! Thanks!
licensees will have to pay?

[Watchful]

There's usually a steep discount for new version releases, with no charge for interim releases.

[Cepheus]

Weird, people seemed to have missed the announcement of a new synth by Dawesome: Novum


Novum is sample manipulation synth, that seems to extract transients from samples. I wonder if the tech is somewhat related to Eventide Physion. If I understand Peter right, Novum can generate content for Abyss. Hope this synth also sports the great MPE implementation like Abyss. Looking foreward to this.

[Steve Bolivar]

When they talk about collaborators in the video it makes me think they should do something with WaveDNA/Liquid Music. Their demo video for Liquid Music 1.7.0 Project Clips and Track Selector is done in Waveform. Might be a nice way to beef up the midi composition tools in Waveform.

[fedexnman]

I kinda think .... . They are still waiting on Jules , but Jules still can't let the cat out of the bag . Whatever it is ? Glad to see Waveform is still being developed . I know there was talks of a new plugin format coming out . I know Waveform has had it's problems with buggy plugins over the years that would work in other hosts but NOT Tracktion/Waveform . I hope this company sticks around .

[BushmasterM4]

Yeah, I like Tracktion, I mean Waveform. I learned on T3 back in the day. But all releases since have been buggy when it comes to plugins. Especially many of my Waves and Slate plugins. And I keep upgrading in hopes it will come around.

[pough]

Looking forward to this update!

[classic]

Looking forward to this update!

Me the same.
It has some strange.......charakteristics every now and then and I could not find out what it was.
Crashing here and there and that makes it not very trustworthy for me.
Hope this changes some times.
Like its workflow very much.