Sagan Technology has updated Metro, Metro LX and Metro SE to v7.3.3.
New to this version:
- All demo versions allow saving to a single file named 'MetroDemoDoc'.
- Rhythm Explorer Lead Generator for creating guitar style leads and melodies. And preference dialog tabs. 4 years in development. Here is the newest audio example
- Lead Generator add preset dialog.
- Rhythm Explorer note insert range now stored for each track.
- Rhythm Explorer preferences saved with Metro document.
- Plug-in option: Close edit window before plug-in.
- Plug-in option: Defer set chunk.This defers restoring the plug-in data until after its editor is opened.
- Plug-in option: Edit window must be opened, set by default.
- Plug-in option: outputs always connected.
- Plug-in option: Hide.
- Plug-in popup adds submenu for 'Recently Discovered' plug-ins.
- Plug-in popup adds submenu for 'Most Instantiated' plug-ins.
- If there are more than one plug-in instantiated, the popup menus adds submenu for editing and clearing each individual plug-in.
- Markers can be shifted by bar, beat and clock now as well as SMPTE bits.
- Right clicking on a pattern in the Rhythm Explorer after generation allows access to information about that pattern.
- Ability to show only used automation parameters in the automation popup of the graphic editor.
- Rhythm Explorer lead generator options in the marker dialog: lead scale, sync to track, density and motif.
- A next button has been added to the marker dialog.
- Increased the maximum number of chords and scales to 64.
- Mixer channel automation reflected in real time.
- Audio normalize dialog allows normalizing of channels independently.
- Added a duration popup, indicated by a triangle, to the note event dialog.
- With the command key pressed (control on PC), solo or mute affects all selected tracks.
- Option in transpose dialog to confine transposed notes to marker chord or lead generator scales.
- Enhanced file type support in the jukebox.
- Option to synthesize vibrato by using a user specified controller data and converting it to pitch bend.
- Copy does not affect undo/redo.
- A secondary view type of a track is remembered. When a second instance of a track appears in the graphic editor the secondary view type will be the default.
- Subsections can now have a bar offset. This means you can set up a subsection to start at any measure in the parent section.
- Option to layer first stereo output from the instantiated effects window.
- New PPQs of 864 and 1728, which are divisible by 9.
- When the Rhythm Explorer is active, keys 0-8 select the Rhythm Explorer pattern.
- Rhythm Explorer jam mode causes the pattern to automatically advance to the next pattern and when it reaches the last pattern it will automatically regenerate new patterns.
- Rhythm Explorer's 'use last' button renamed to 'Regenerate'.
- Rhythm Explorer adds a 'previous 8' button which allows the previous 8 patterns to be recalculated using the same random seeds that were used when they were originally calculated.
- The 'j' key toggles Rhythm Explorer jam mode.
- For popup menus with a large amount of items, the page number is shown in the menu.
- Save incrementing the file name has been changed such that there is a single menu item for this in the file menu. The previous item in the switches menu has been removed.
- Much improved navigation in the list editor using the arrow and tab keys.
- Much improved support for bank changes.
- Much improved support for program name lists that start at 1 (e.g. Yamaha).
- The looping dialog box now has a check box to allow insertion/deletion of time when the number of loops is changed.
- The revolution arpeggiator now sports accompaniment mode whereby all arpeggiators change at the same time.
- Dragging MIDI data from the graphic editor to the revolution arpeggiator is now supported.
- The plug-in window now has an option to 'not record-enable' depending on the type of the plug-in. This is useful if you do not want record enable to be changed when instantiating, for example, a drum type plugin.
Fixed in this version:
- Inserting pitch bend using the pitch bend dialog would sometimes fail and other times could be very coarse.
- Catches access violations in plug-ins on close. Previously Metro would crash. Windows only.
- When in chord entry mode, the graphic editor was not always positioned correctly.
- Better plug-in compatibility.
- Plugged some memory leaks.
- Selecting cue1 - cue4 would position the graphic editor in editing mode.
- Was not updating plug-in version numbers properly in some cases.
- Was sometimes stopping prematurely in Rhythm Explorer record mode.
- Possible crash dragging section in sections window.
- Opening old Metro documents containing notation data in 64-bit environment could have been problematic.
- Jukebox controls could disappear in some instances.
- Pasting into text fields was not always working.
- Master volume was not erasing properly in some cases.
- Pressing a key on a MIDI keyboard controller would not always set the pitch of the selected note in the list editor.
- It was possible the audio files could be loaded even though they had the incorrect number of sample bits.
- Sections window was not updating times properly.
- Was not inserting time when pasting multiple tracks using ripple edit.
- Better Bluetooth audio support.
- Better Mac OS X 12.12 support.
- Bypassing plug-ins on the master channel was sometimes problematic.
- Cancelling from the qualify dialog could have caused a crash.
- Adding a new mixer channel now observes the current view visibility.
- The menu item 'insert on new track' in the plug-ins window was incorrectly placing the selected plug on a mixer channel.
- Setting the loop button in the graphic editor or tracks window now causes the playback position to jump immediately to the correct position.
- Changing a file from the links dialog from AIF to CAF or visa versa could have caused problems.
- Paste And's transpose option was broken.
- Rhythm Explorer was not working properly when initiated from the tracks window.
- Aux pop up in mixer window was not always popping up.
- Improved support for SysEx in an external MIDI stream.
- Was not drawing tracks window correctly while recording.
- Miscellaneous other fixes.
