ColourCopy 1.0.2, MFM2 2.5.1, Twangström 1.0.2 public beta UPDATED to RC2 16742

[tasmaniandevil]

Hello everyone,

the update bonanza continues with new release candidates of ColourCopy, MFM2 and Twangström.

Once these are good to go, we'll try to get updates for Repro, Presswerk and Zebra Legacy ready as soon as possible.

Main improvements:

* CLAP support for ColourCopy and Twangström (MFM2 already has it since version 2.5.0)
* native Apple silicon AAX support for the Pro Tools community
* our experimental key control feature
* VST2 to VST3 migration support
* boat loads of bug fixes and framework improvements

Downloads:

ColourCopy 1.0.2 RC2 16742 Mac updated 2024-10-09
ColourCopy 1.0.2 RC2 16742 Win updated 2024-10-09
ColourCopy 1.0.2 RC2 16742 Linux updated 2024-10-09

MFM2 2.5.1 RC2 16742 Mac updated 2024-10-09
MFM2 2.5.1 RC2 16742 Win updated 2024-10-09
MFM2 2.5.1 RC2 16742 Linux updated 2024-10-09

Twangström 1.0.2 RC2 16742 Mac updated 2024-10-09
Twangström 1.0.2 RC2 16742 Win updated 2024-10-09
Twangström 1.0.2 RC2 16742 Linux updated 2024-10-09

Improvements:

* Supports the latest macOS versions (Sonoma/Sequoia)
* Support for CLAP
* Native Apple silicon support for Pro Tools (AAX)
* VST3 SDK updated to 3.7.8
* Key control (experimental feature)
* Improved dialogue handling
* Added 50% & 60% GUI scaling options
* VST2 > VST3 migration support for hosts using the IPluginCompatibility interface
* Linux install-script improvements
* Browser: added option to show/hide folders
* Browser: saving search results now supports drag & drop
* Browser: save dialogue description and usage fields now scroll while entering text
* Browser: drag & drop folders onto smart folders to assign tags
* Improved parameter automation in Pro Tools
* Registration dialogue automatically purges unsupported characters
* Windows installer comes with an uninstaller
* Windows installer remembers last used options
* Windows installer blocks installation to ProgramData location
* Twitter link replaced with Mastodon in u-he menu

Fixed Bugs:

* Fixed: VST3 crashes in Digital Performer related to plugin GUI
* Fixed: dialogues could appear behind plugin GUI in Cubase (Windows only)
* Fixed: Windows UI scaling was messing with dialogue positioning
* Fixed: using CMD+A in dialogues made the GUI disappear in Logic
* Fixed: aborted preset save operation could lead to wrong metadata being displayed in the inspector
* Fixed: using the "duplicate" option in the browser could crash if permissions were missing
* Fixed: Renoise no longer needs the "enable keyboard" option for menus to work
* Fixed: plugin focus no longer needed for dropdown menus to work (Mac only)
* Fixed: problem when loading the init preset immediately after loading the plugin (Mac only)
* Fixed: plugin stayed mono when using the "Mono > Stereo" option in Logic under native silicon
* Fixed: GUI glitch when switching to smaller GUI size (Pro Tools only)
* Fixed: problem when automating parameters with identical names (Pro Tools only)
* Fixed: preset search input field did not receive mouse input (Pro Tools only)
* Fixed: scroll wheel not working on second display under some conditions (Windows only)
* Fixed: installer now scaled correctly on high-resolution displays (Windows only)
* Fixed: preset overwrite dialogue was not showing up (Linux only)
* Fixed: default author was set to preset name in presets (Linux only)
* Fixed: auto-versioning feature wasn't working (Linux only)
* Fixed: right-click preset selection frame wasn't disappearing (Linux only)
* Fixed: input field was empty when editing preset search result (Linux only)
* Fixed: double-click on menus could lead to crash (Linux only)
* Fixed: dialogues always opened at the left edge of the screen (Linux only)
* Fixed: dialogues could be opened multiple times (Linux only)
* And more ...

Special Notes:

* Key control is an experimental feature. You can join the discussion in this thread: viewtopic.php?t=611856
* This is the last version that includes VST2 support on Mac, Windows and Linux.
* This is the last version including 32-bit support on Windows.

As always, have fun and let us know if anything doesn't work as expected.

Cheers,
the u-he crew

[Hanz Meyzer]

I have a question regarding CLAP FX: Is there any functional benefit from using CLAP versions of effect plugins? Like improved performance, or actually more routing features or so? Thanks for insight

And btw. nice work, as always Hoping for Zebra Legacy being updated hehe

[Urs]

I have a question regarding CLAP FX: Is there any functional benefit from using CLAP versions of effect plugins? Like improved performance, or actually more routing features or so? Thanks for insight

And btw. nice work, as always

Thank you.

I think that Parameter Modulation is far superior to Parameter Automation. Latter is destructive, i.e. by erasing the automation lane one can not go back to the original parameter value. Whereas with CLAP's Parameter Modulation feature, one can.

In our CLAP releases, we try to make as many parameters available to Parameter Modulation as we can.

Hoping for Zebra Legacy being updated hehe

We're on it! If these releases get through quickly, we'll be posting public betas of Zebra 2 and Repro 1/5 rather soonishly. Those won't be 100% ready, but they'll add support for CLAP, AAX on AS for each plug-in, and MPE support for Repro-5.

[Hanz Meyzer]

Very cool! Thanks for the insight.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

I've done extensive regression testing in all DAWs using all possible plugin formats and these were good*. Time to move on and make these official and get RePro with MPE and re-orderable FXs out!

*This is a lie.

[Urs]

[Fannon]

We're on it! If these releases get through quickly, we'll be posting public betas of Zebra 2 and Repro 1/5 rather soonishly. Those won't be 100% ready, but they'll add support for CLAP, AAX on AS for each plug-in, and MPE support for Repro-5.

Looking so much forward to this! Thanks!

[MrJubbly]

As these three plugins are still in the public beta testing phase and also exhibit the following u-he 'Save Preset pop up screen' scaling bug. Could you please see if you are able to resolve that particular issue, before their official release? Thank you.

[yellowmix]

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[tasmaniandevil]

As these three plugins are still in the public beta testing phase and also exhibit the following u-he 'Save Preset pop up screen' scaling bug. Could you please see if you are able to resolve that particular issue, before their official release? Thank you.

We are looking into it. It seems the Windows scaling is scaling up the dialog windows to bigger sizes than it should.

[Alexander_D]

Nice. Any plans for the update of Presswerk BTW?

[tasmaniandevil]

Updates for Repro, Zebra Legacy and Presswerk are on the way. We hope to have a beta available in a week or so, if nothing goes wrong. There are still a few issues to solve for Repro and Presswerk, but those are mostly concerning the CLAP version. We plan to address these issues during the beta period.

[Alexander_D]

Updates for Repro, Zebra Legacy and Presswerk are on the way. We hope to have a beta available in a week or so, if nothing goes wrong. There are still a few issues to solve for Repro and Presswerk, but those are mostly concerning the CLAP version. We plan to address these issues during the beta period.

Sounds good! Thanks for the update!

[tasmaniandevil]

Hi all, we just posted new release candidates, RC2 16742, in the first post of this thread.
We fixed a small issue in Twangström's sidechain feature and improved the dialog scaling on Windows.
Please check it out, especially if you are using the Windows system's UI scaling feature, and let us know if anything looks horribly wrong when opening a dialog window such as the preset save dialog.
If all goes well (knock on wood), we hope for an official release some time next week.

[MrJubbly]

Hi all, we just posted new release candidates, RC2 16742, in the first post of this thread.

...and improved the dialog scaling on Windows.
Please check it out, especially if you are using the Windows system's UI scaling feature, and let us know if anything looks horribly wrong when opening a dialog window such as the preset save dialog.

All appears well. The dialog scaling issue I previously reported, appears to have been resolved with these RC2 updates. (see attached image).

u-he - dialog scaling fixed in 9.10.24 RC2 Updates.jpg

The dialog windows of these three plugins all now appear to scale correctly within Windows 11 with the system UI scaling set to 300% (4k native display).

Previously, with the earlier builds of these three (and also some other of u-he) plugins' most recent updates the dialog window was scaling to large to fit within the display. (as I reported here),

Thanks for fixing that issue with these RC2 releases and and for these latest updates.

Presumably, this same dialog window scaling fix will also work its way into the other recently affected u-he plugins (as mentioned in that linked post), in due course?