Bjt2 updates free Crescendo programmable VST plugin to v1.0.70 for Windows

9th November 2023

Bjt2 has updated their free Crescendo plugin to version 1.0.70 with various enhancements and bug fixes:

Introduced programmable MIDI sequencer mode.
Introduced a secondary input, to be able to perform sidechaining in all configurations.
Added song time and sequencer time (if activated) next to polyphony in debug mode.
Added host song time and host flags next to polyphony in debug>=2 mode.
Bug fix:
- Correctly sync the internal clock with the host clock.
- Correctly detect if the DAW is in play mode.
- MIDI messages generation.
- Dynamic allocation of some buffers.
Changed SENDSx behaviour: same as OUT except that after POST step their values are lost.
Allowed multiline instructions.
Expanded and reworked the manual.

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.