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Highlights:For Bitwig Studio 2.5, we chose a few select features that were either requested or inspired by our community (that’s you). Some features lean toward performance. Others streamline audio editing. And a few help you find what you need faster. Like a good seasonal gathering, there is a little something for everyone so take a plate and dig in
- Clip blocks
- Audio slide
- New device: Note FX selector
- Better finding, zippier interface
- New sound content: Analog Waves
Beta 7
ImprovementsRegression Fixes
- Add new plug-in hosting modes to sandbox plug-in manufacturers or to keep multiple instances of the same plug-in in the same sandbox
- Update the plug-in preferences to make it clearer how the plug-in hosting modes work
macOS: some old VST plugins that have both Cocoa and Carbon GUI will now open windows with the more modern Cocoa GUIBeta 6
- macOS: some VST plug-in windows are empty or have shifted content
New featuresImprovements
- macOS: Pinch-zooming using trackpad for zooming in all timeline editors (including Arranger) and in the Sampler waveform display
Fixes
- New mappable shortcuts: "Turn On", "Turn Off" and "Toggle On / Off" to set the bypass state of selected devices
- Plug-in windows better restore their position and size
Regression Fixes
- Plug-in window for Melodyne VST3 could only be opened once
- When hosting plug-ins in the engine process, the engine could leak memory
- Some VST3 plug-ins could crash when being deleted
- Engine crash when connecting to projects that were saved with certain Browser states
- Initial size of "Delete used files" dialog was too small
Beta 5
- VST3 plug-ins could receive the wrong transport playback state flags (playing or recording)
- MidiOut.sendMidi() control surface API was broken
ImprovementsFixes
- Support VST3 parameter default values
- Support VST3 plug-ins dynamically changing their list of parameters at run-time
Regression Fixes
- When showing the popup browser from the device chain '+' button, the browser's width can only be resized on the left side, but should be resizable on the right side instead
- HW Instrument device does not apply selected midi channel to CC automation
- Dragging an audio event to the clip launcher of a grouped track to create a new scene may crash the app
- Activating / deactivating per voice option in modulators is not undoable
- When copying a device to the clipboard and then pasting it again any choices in source selectors are lost (e.g Dynamics device or a plug-in with a side chain input)
- Engine sometimes crashes when moving an automation lane from one clip to another on the clip launcher
- Fixed various issues with VST3 plug-ins that don't strictly follow the spec
- Parameter automation gets smoothed after device wakeup but should jump immediately to the correct value
- Setting sample rate in other applications gets blocked by Bitwig Studio on macOS
- Channel was ignored for MIDI messages sent via MidiOut.sendMidi() control surface API
- Prevent control surfaces from sending MIDI system messages via MidiOut.sendMidi() which is intended for channel messages
- Engine could crash in some rare situations when a plug-in crashed even though it was sandboxed
Beta 4
- The transport position inside a plugin may randomly jitter when Bitwig Studio's transport was stopped
- A VST 2 plug-in that incorrectly asks for the VstTimeInfo outside of its audio processing function could potentially crash
- A VST 2 plug-in that incorrectly tries to send MIDI output events outside of its audio processing function could potentially crash
- Several note device not working after reloading project / changing audio engine settings
- Dragging an effect track into a nested track group might crash
- When duplicating a track group the nested groups inside the track group would not get duplicated
- APC40 mkII maximum volume setting was inverted
- Some audio interfaces and aggregate devices were not working correctly on macOS
ImprovementsFixes
- When entering a textual value for a VST 3 plug-in parameter allow user to enter this in the parameter's actual unit instead of a normalized value 0...1
- Add new DPI aware setting on Windows that decides if Windows will automatically scale plug-ins that are not DPI aware
- Reduce the OS resources we allocate for each plug-in (we no longer allocate a new shared memory area for each plug-in)
- When deactivating a plug-in (either directly or when deactivating its track) unload the plugin
- When using U-he VST 3 plugins also show the h2p preset files in the browser for them and when dragging an h2p file use the VST 3 version instead of VST 2 if it is present
Regression Fixes
- Support io bus and latency changing notifications for plug-ins correctly and fade in/out their audio when this happens
- Regression since beta-2: on macOS some plugin windows look empty when opening the first time
- Crash when sliding content in launcher clip on Windows when "Tablet" or "Master/Detail" display profile is active
- Crash when invoking action to toggle note editor layer locking on layer that can't be locked
- Crash when dragging after double-clicking in velocity editor if the mouse was not moved before second click (to draw linear ramp)
Beta 3
- Default preset for a plug-in was not loaded when adding a plug-in
- Reverb device could produce invalid sound in some cases in 2.5 Beta 3
- Some VST 3 plug-ins failed to load that had a side chain input (e.g GHz Volf Compressor 3 and Toneboosters EQ 4)
- Step Mod device was not working anymore
ImprovementsFixes
- Clarify the next action chooser by adding separators
- Remember which section was expanded in the side panel browser
- APC40 mkII: you can now double tap sends, user and bank button to have them stay on (it was already possible by using shift)
- APC40 mkII: the main track bank is not following the selected track anymore
- APC40 mkII: new option to control the send effect (via device controls) when the send is latched (via shift or double tap)
- APC40 mkII: better indications for sends and pan
- APC40 mkII: shift + track select to configure the default launch quantization
- Extension API v8: add setter for the clip launch quantization and the default quantization setting
- Extension API v8: add clip launch to Q setter
- Clip Launcher: Loop length of recorded Clips should be quantized to bars, not ticks
Regression Fixes
- VST3 on Linux did not remember the size of the plugin window
- Sometimes the track's mute might introduce a click sound
- Automation now repaints correctly when changing timeline tool
- Opening a project that had a file selected in browser and auto preview option enabled would start playback of the selected file when the project was loaded
- Crash when adding a scene after navigating into a group
- Setting an instrument layer chain to solo and deleting it, leaves the rest of the chains muted
- Steps modulator: with high amount of steps, miniature view does not display current step anymore
- Changing sample rate on Apogee's Ensemble Thunderbolt device does not work correctly on macOS (thanks to Apogee for helping out!)
- Potential crash when trying to move audio event in locked layer (audio editor in clip content mode)
- Duplicate Clip function refers to wrong clip length in some cases
- Plug-in windows are not opening on top of main Bitwig Studio window when that is in full-screen mode on macOS
Beta 2
- Crash when duplicating notes
ImprovementsFixes
- The states of Browser panels are saved for projects and templates
- Expanded Browser folders are remembered
- Better categorization of actions in the shortcuts editor
- Shift-clicking a group track's folder icon will expand or collapse all folders at the same level
- Sets VST3 channel information (helps handle how certain plug-ins functions)
Regression Fixes
- Consolidate now continues clipped notes when there are notes on other keys/channels
Beta 1
- Bit-8 device: was only outputting one channel when width was set to 100%
- Reversed raw audio events might get shifted when resizing left clip boundary
- Mouse interaction for creating new fades on audio clips/events was obscured
New Features
Improvements
- Slide-content editing gesture, for shifting the content of clips from the Arranger Panel (and audio events from the Detail Editor Panel)
- Concept of clip blocks, for addressing different groups of Launcher clips with new Next Action options
- New device: Note FX Selector, for setting up multiple note FX layers and dynamically switching between them
Fixes
- Optimizations on Mac, providing much improved application launch time and better overall performance
- When dragging the start or end of Arranger audio clips, contained audio events that overlap are also adjusted
- Changing the tempo of audio events via the clip inspector also resizes the clip
- Follow Playback option is now set locally within each timeline editor panel
- Can now zoom to the current selection by pressing the Z key (pressing it a second time zooms out to the full length of the current editor)
- Zooming in and out is faster in the Arranger Timeline Panel
- When audio files are added to the arrangement as Raw audio, clip length matches the audio file
- When searching in either Browser, closer matches are sorted to the top of the results
- Quicker scanning of plug-ins, including less chance that plug-ins will show dialogs during scanning
- Ability to filter out plug-ins that exist in different versions (by preferring 64 bit over 32 bit, and/or VST 3 over VST 2) in either Browser
- Option to temporarily show filtered plug-ins in either Browser
- Added numerous functions (available as user-defined shortcuts) for navigating and controlling your arrangement
- All selector devices (Instrument Selector, FX Selector, Note FX Selector) now display which layers are currently active and which are suspended
- Record buttons in the Clip Launcher Panel are now shown in red
- AKAI APC40 mkII: added option to "scroll by pages" as default (making "scroll by one track" the option when holding SHIFT)
- Clip scaling actions (such as Scale 50% and Scale 200%) also scale the clip's loop bracket and start/stop markers
- Event snapping in the audio editor is improved when snapping to event boundaries
- Sustain pedal data is now properly imported from MIDI files
- MIDI clock is no longer offset when pre-roll is in use
- The note editor was sometimes unavailable after opening a project