MusicDevelopments has updated RapidComposer to v2.9. The update contains dozens of new features, like the long-awaited melody harmonization, rewritten VST plug-in, and the new note inspector with transformations on selected notes, as well as bug fixes and stability improvements.
Improvements:
- Harmonization of melody using two different algorithms.
- Brand new VST plug-in which communicates with the application through a bridge.
- The new note inspector lets you conveniently edit the properties of multiple notes, with several transformations on selected notes.
- Improved rhythm editing.
- New variation: 'Simplify Phrase' to make the rhythm simpler of any phrase.
- New variation: 'Adjust Note Lengths v2' for fine control of note lengths, even with envelopes.
- New variation: 'Add Chord Notes' which is similar to 'Add Interval' but adds only chord notes.
- New variation: 'Extract Rhythm'.
- Ghost copies can be moved to other tracks. This opens new possibilities in the program.
- It is possible to specify the length of the rhythm to allow rhythmic repetitions for longer phrases.
- 'Join Notes' has a new option to inhibit joining notes at chord boundaries.
- 'Add Interval' offers interval of 'second'.
- New note mappings: 'Bass note+semitones' and 'Bass note+scale steps'.
- The application can send certain keystrokes to the VST host in VST bridge mode.
- It is possible to use 'Render Phrase With Variations' on absolute phrases.
- Octave is not shown in chord names on the master track when using Roman Numeral notation.
- Chord inversion is displayed on the master track using less space to improve readability.
- New phrase generator preview button to play back all other tracks with the phrase.
- 'Apply' button is enabled when you edit a phrase from the phrase inspector.
- 'Add To Clipboard' button added in the phrase editor.
- Dragging the piano keyboard vertically and zooming (Ctrl-drag) works in the Phrase Editor and Phrase Inspector.
- The master track inspector opens when you right-click on the master track header.
- Pressing Shift during moving or resizing notes will ignore the snap setting.
- The Idea Tool has a new setting to leave existing track configuration untouched.
- Note lengths are not expressed in beats any more. Quarter note (1/4) is used as a 'beat'.
- [VST] fix a crashing bug during MIDI import.
- Bug fix: the state of some VST plug-ins were not saved in the history (program change was not always detected).
- Bug fix: a MIDI file importing problem when tracks with the same name and channel were treated as one track fixed.
- Bug fix: sometimes the window became very wide when the application started.
- Other fixes and increased stability.
