Sagan Technology Releases Metro 7.1

Sagan Technology has released Metro 7.1.

New to version 7.1:

• Revolution Arpeggiator
  • Multiple simultaneously running independently assignable arpeggiators. Each track can be assigned to one of the eight arpeggiators.
  • Each arpeggiator step can revolve up and down one or two different musical scales or chords.
  • Compatibility with Korg Triton arpeggiator including import of Korg Triton arpeggiator system exclusive data.
  • Velocity modes: key, relative and absolute.
  • Fixed note method for drum patterns.
  • Alternate Strumming (flam) makes it easy to switch flam at each arpeggiator step.
  • Flam can be specified at each arpeggiator step for customized strumming.
  • Pattern changing/looping make it easy to create long patterns or programmable arpeggiator pattern changes such as key switching.
  • Remote control events can be used for pattern switching and can be configured via MIDI learn.
  • Each pattern can have an independent base scale.
  • Keys modes, specifies if notes are sounded in addition to arpeggiated notes and more.
  • Arpeggiator presets can be saved individually or as a complete set.
  • Keyboard window is resizable horizontally.
  • Expand pattern command.
  • Ties in the arpeggiator window are more intuitive now.
  • Legato duration step will play until another step plays the same tone or until the end of the pattern.
  • Dragging MIDI files to arp window selects fixed note method if initiated in a drum view.
  • 100's of presets included.
  • Transport's 'Stop' button stops arpeggiator latching.
  • Much more.
• Remote Control events are now in three user selectable and independent categories; Persistent, Document and Arpeggiator events.
• The onscreen keyboard window step velocity is saved with the Metro document.
• Contextual 'View' menu in the mixer window allows mixer channels to be viewed via 'Show All', 'Hide MIDI', 'Hide Audio', and 'Hide Selection' commands.
• Mixer Channels can be rendered via the Mix Or Render Tracks dialog.
• Background color for continuous data view can be specified in the general preferences dialog.
• Swing is ignored if the quantize is a quarter note or greater.
• Plug-ins with no GUI look better in the plug-in rack.
• Menu item to add 'new aux buss' in the output popup of the instantiated effects window.
• Help tags for the keyboard window.
• Default number of undo steps increased to 48.
• Alt (option on Mac) + Shift quantizes selection to note editor quantize settings.
• Double-clicking on the punch-in or metronome buttons in the transport opens the respective dialog.
• Metronome clicks sounds.
• Rescan audio devices in the Digital Audio setup dialog (New for Windows only).
• Horizontal mouse scrolling can now be emulated by user specified buttons configured in preferences. (windows).

Fixed in this version:

• MIDI Thru was ignoring a track's transpose setting.
• Copying and pasting tracks unassigned to any mixer channels would sometimes not preserve the original tracks output port.
• Better plug-in compatibility.
• Better cross platform compatibility.
• Increased stability.
• Recording with the selection filter enabled would produce unexpected results.
• Sample rate conversion would not work properly in some cases.
• Virtual Instruments note on and note off are ordered more precisely when they start and end on the same MIDI clock.
• Expand track loops was off by one MIDI clock per iteration.
• It was possible, in certain rare cases that a note would lose some of its parameters when dragging its pitch up and down.
• Count-off was not working if a plug-in was placed on an aux buss or a mixer channel.
• It is now possible to drag MIDI files from other programs to the keyboard window arpeggiator section.
• Plug-in Bypass was not always working properly.
• In chain mixing of multiple zero audio input plug-ins was not always working properly.
• A crash could have occurred when opening older Metro documents if 'ignore window positions' was selected from the switches menu.
• Transpose Markers works properly now.
• Revert would fail for Metro stationery documents.
• Mix or Render initiated from the sections window now works as expected.
• System exclusive recording was using 16-bits for the size, effectively limiting the size to a maximum of 64k. (Windows).
• Trim overlapped notes, in the duration dialog, was not implemented. (Windows).
• Metro Preferences have been moved to an easier to find place, in the "SaganTechnology" folder, now found within the mydocuments folder. (Windows).
• Numerous other bug fixes.