Bremmers Audio Design has released version 10.3 of MultitrackStudio for Windows and macOS. The user interface has been improved to make working with MultitrackStudio faster and smoother.
Changes:
- User interface has been refreshed.
- Preferences window has Layout setting with Desktop/Laptop/Classic/Custom options.
- Mixer sections can now have 3, 4, 5 or 6 effect slots (the 4 and 5 options have been added).
- Small buttons are larger.
- Preferences window has Name Width setting to control width of track name boxes.
- Track editors can now be opened by clicking the Editor Preview pane.
- Audio editor data appears much faster. It also works better with looping.
- The level meters are now between the Rec buttons and the faders.
- You can now right click a meter to change its size (Small / Large / Huge).
- Effect/Instrument slots now show the first 4 or 5 characters of the plugin name instead of "VST" etc.
- Effect Bypass buttons can be toggled by clicking the bottom left corner of the effect slot.
- On larger screens the transport controls are in the middle instead of on the right, so they're closer to the track Rec buttons etc.
- The current value of knobs (and faders) appears above the knob rather than below, so they're no longer covered by a mouse pointer, pencil or hand while moving the knob.
- You can use Click...Shift+Click to toggle buttons on a range of mixer sections. Applies to Play, Rec, Mute, Edit and Collapse buttons and the Editor Preview panes.
- Some names changes: "Cycling" is now "Looping", "Content Panes" are now "Editor Preview panes", "VST Scaling (ugly) " is now "Plugin Scaling (blurry) ".
- Windows: VST plugins can be scaled individually, so you don't have to use the "Plugin Scaling (blurry) " option from the Preferences window.
- Windows 11: updated menus, fixed some missing round window corners.
- Windows: now requires Windows 7 or newer.
- Improved VST3 window resizing.
- Compressor: curve and history displays more accurately represent what's going on for Vintage and Vintage Warm programs.
- Audio track data that appears on the Overview Bar while scrolling editors now takes the track editor's vertical zoom setting into account.
- MultitrackStudio Remote: audio track data that appears during rewind/FF now takes the track editor's vertical zoom setting into account.
- The Loop button is now disengaged automatically if it was engaged automatically. This happens when you've used Alt+draw to define the loop region, and when you've pressed F6 to play the selected part of an editor.
- Added L+Left/Right keyboard shortcut to go to loop start/end point.
- Editor right click menus now have 'Play Looping' (F6) option to loop selected part.
- Overview Bar / Grid Bar: Removed the 'click-and-drag' way of loop region selection (nobody liked it).
- Overview Bar / Grid Bar: Drawing loop range with Alt (or L) modifier now also works outside the thumb. And it can now be used while tracksport is running.
- Overview Bar / Grid Bar: Double click to start now also works outside the thumb.
- Overview Bar shows the current editor view area while the editors are scrolling horizontally.
- Pianoroll: step recording works a bit different: Ctrl/Cmd=add note, Shift=add rest, Alt=reverse direction.
- Some keyboard shortcuts / mouse modifier keys changes to make them easier to memorize ('A'=All, 'C'=same Color, 'L'=Loop).
- Dropping MIDI files with SysEx-only streams on editors works better.
- MIDI file import: markers are ignored if there are more than 20.
- Fixed some VST3 and LV2 plugin bugs.
- Fixed: Matrix Keyboard produced notes with extremely low velocity.
- Fixed: MultitrackStudio Instruments: "Strength" knobs didn't work.
- Many other small improvements and fixes.
Users who purchased MultitrackStudio after October 28, 2013 are entitled to lifetime free updates. Older versions can be upgraded: $39 (Pro) / $23 (Standard).