Toontrack Music updates EZkeys to v2.0.2

Toontrack has updated EZkeys to v2.0.2.

Changes:

• General:
  • If the EZkeys 2 core library is not installed, there is now an entry for it in the library menu anyway, under a separate header. Selecting it shows a dialog with a possibility to rescan for the library in case it gets installed while EZkeys 2 is running.
  • "Open Settings" has been added to the library menu.
• Song Track:
  • Notes that are automatically added because of chord changes are now humanized.
  • "Replace MIDI" and inserting new chord markers can now move syncopations.
  • Whenever chords are automatically added for a MIDI performance and the analysis finds a single long chord, it now adds a chord marker on every bar (or on a syncopation near the bar).
• Suggest Chords:
  • Whenever the Suggest Chords view is open and a selection on the song track makes Suggest Chords actually show chords, the song track items that are not part of the selection are dimmed.
• Grooves Tab:
  • In the Options menu in Grooves, there is now an option to exclude empty bars (without notes and CC) at the beginning and/or the end of grooves in User MIDI and linked folders.
  • Changing velocity now shows +/- on tooltip values to better emphasize that these values are relative and not absolute.
• Grid Editor:
  • In the pedal editor, there is now an option to merge blocks and another one to extend a block to the next chord.
  • The default keyboard shortcuts for zooming in/out vertically on Mac now use alt/option instead of shift (with plus and minus).
• Bandmate:
  • Grid lines have been added to the background of the tracks.
  • With an audio file loaded and "Drums" selected, changing the key signature will now transpose the chords and the output MIDI.
  • The "Skip All" has been removed from Bandmate's missing-file dialog since only one input file is supported.
• Settings:
  • A specific MIDI channel for MIDI input can now be selected.

Bug Fixes:

• General:
  • In Studio One on Mac with the "graphics hardware acceleration" option enabled, the EZkeys 2 GUI should no longer be slow and choppy.
  • In Logic Pro on Apple silicon Macs, MIDI Out should no longer cause crashes.
  • Changing presets or libraries with Program Change / Bank Select MIDI was very slow and would sometimes give unexpected results.
  • Changing presets while playing could in some cases cause a crash.
  • The MIDI Learn settings are now preserved when a library preset is loaded.
  • Cancelling "Save MIDI Learn Preset" would sometimes cause a crash.
  • Drag and drop is now properly disabled whenever a modal dialog is open.
  • Importing an EZkeys 1 project would create an extra undo event.
  • "dimb9" has been changed to "dim b9" in chord displays.
• Song Track:
  • The song track should now be better at finding the correct chords in user MIDI.
  • Adding user MIDI to the track could incorrectly split some of its notes.
  • Recording MIDI in existing blocks on the track could cause chords outside of affected parts to get reanalyzed.
  • Pedal values/curves were not imported properly from EZkeys 1 projects.
  • "Select Containing Folder in Grooves" would not work on song track MIDI from imported EZkeys 1 projects.
  • An ongoing Amount calculation will now get aborted by Replace MIDI, editing in Grid Editor and other ways of manipulating the MIDI.
  • Starting and stopping playback would cancel Amount and cause the knob/value to flicker.
  • Merging blocks could unnecessarily extend the resulting block.
  • Drawing MIDI blocks with the Pencil Tool under chords now adds new notes where there are chord changes as well as on bars.
  • Using "Replace MIDI" on certain user MIDI files could create silence when the MIDI got duplicated due to the track selection being longer than the file.
• Edit Chord View:
  • Clicking the info sign for "Adjust Notes to Scale" no longer toggles the function.
  • "Adjust Notes to Scale" can now split a note that stretches over several chords.
  • In some cases, changing chords would play a preview of wrong notes.
• Suggest Chords:
  • Changing the chord selection from Suggest Chords now properly updates song track components (Edit Play Style, etc.).
  • In many time signatures, Suggest Chords would never change the chord rhythm after bar 16.
• Grooves Tab:
  • Scanning for new sound libraries in the missing-library dialog no longer rebuilds the MIDI database (but looks for new MIDI libraries to add).
  • Adding a linked folder called "User MIDI" could cause the actual User MIDI folder to stop working properly.
  • Loading a project containing filter selections now properly grays out MIDI library folders that should be grayed out.
  • Adding user MIDI files containing no notes no longer causes the intensity values to become broken.
  • Grooves in User MIDI were not always transposed correctly when dragged to the song track.
  • While "Show Web Shop MIDI" is being activated, it is no longer possible to mark/unmark grooves as favorite, because that could cause a crash.
  • The "Show MIDI Files from Subfolders" option was not remembered between sessions.
  • Pressing Cancel in the Tap2Find view would render the Tap2Find drop zone preview silent.
• Grid Editor:
  • "Remove Overlaps" can now adjust notes that are not selected as well.
  • "Remove Overlaps" could cause some notes to get zero length.
  • Merging notes could make the MIDI unsorted, which would cause playback to behave strangely.
  • A note that had been merged with another note could be split again by dragging it.
  • CC values where not shown correctly in all cases depending on how the MIDI files got loaded to the song track.
  • Copy-dragging notes could make wrong notes get selected afterwards.
  • Copy-dragging blocks in the pedal editor did not work well.
  • Pasting in the pedal editor now selects the newly inserted block(s) and deselects the others.
  • It is now possible to undo a change of the Highlight Keys scale/mode.
  • Highlight Keys should no longer become activated when the key signature on the song track is changed.
  • Dragging notes and then pressing alt on Windows or alt+cmd on Mac before releasing the mouse button would create extra invalid notes that could cause crashes.
  • Auto-scroll in the Grid Editor would not work after marquee selection had been used.
• Bandmate:
  • Bandmate could fail to open a dialog after an audio file import followed by a preset/library change, which in turn could lead to crashes.
  • Trying to scroll horizontally in the grooves list using trackpad or shift+wheel would inadvertently cause the tracks to scroll.
  • Resetting a chord to original in the Bandmate track could cause other chords to get their inversions changed.
  • Chord detection of both MIDI and audio is now improved and more stable.
  • Chords from audio and MIDI are now more stable when track contents are moved.
  • Inserting short syncopated chords could sometimes render them uneditable.
  • Fixed a visual bug where borders of audio blocks would look thicker than those of MIDI blocks.
  • Tempo and time signature controls are no longer disabled when there is no output MIDI. Having a source that generated no search results lead to these controls being disabled, so it was not possible to change tempo and/or time signature to try to find results that way.