Bjt2 updates free Crescendo programmable VST plugin to v1.0.68 for Windows

31st October 2023

Bjt2 has updated their free Crescendo plugin to version 1.0.68 with various enhancements and bug fixes:

UI: custom knobs instead of sliders: click for focus, pageup/down, home/end, mouse wheel for moving or mouse click&drag for accelerated move for fine tuning.
UI: custom knob position is floating point instead of integer, for higher precision.
UI: knob diameter, label font size, border color and inner color are configurable.
UI: default font Tahoma 16 DLP (8 points), bold.
UI performance enhancement: removed duplicated redraws.
UI is DPI aware: rescale font size with DPI changes. SETFONT size value is the font size at 96 DPI.
UI is DPI aware: interface size, controls size and position, UIMOD values are rescaled with final font size. Given values are for font size = 16 DLP at 96 DPI.
Soundfont import modified to support the new UI features: reimport the files.
Force rounding of integer VST Vars when moving them.

Enhancements from previous versions:

Crescendo can now be used as a VST MIDI effect. Detailed instructions in the manual.
UI tweaks, performance enhancement and bugfixes (resource leak).
Added version, build type, sample rate and block size to some debug messages.
Performance enhancement: merged further IFs in critical code, inlined some functions and tweaked some compiler parameters.
Bugfix: given a name ("Temperament") to the temperament VST Var.
Added variable arguments, C's printf style functions support in the parser: ("format string", ...).
Added OSCG ("format string", ...) general oscillator function.
Deprecated functions covered by OSCG and put them in Appendix B of the manual.
SoundFont import: use the new OSCG function. Add the temperament VST VAR. Warning: in a future release deprecated functions will be deleted. Reimport all the SoundFont files.
Introduced FREQ0 and GAIN0: plain, not modulated values.
Performance enhancement (merged some IFs in critical code).
Compiled with faster flags.
Cosmetic fixes (disabled theme on buttons) and performance enhancement (deleted redundant redraws) on the UI.
VST var linked with temperament now shows temperament name, to aid in choosing temperament with config window closed. Autosetting the VST var parameters (min, max, scale type).
Debug messages reworking.
Removed UTF-8 BOM quirk.
UTF-8 support in most UI strings (your source text file must be in UTF-8).
Reworked manual.