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Last edited: Sep 30, 2015

Changes in Bitwig Studio 1.2.0​

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NEW Automatic quantization of recorded notes.
NEW Pop-up Browser: Context sensitive browser that enables more convenient and faster browsing of devices, presets, samples, multi-samples and clips, and allows to audition choices before inserting.
NEW Customizable keyboard mappings including MIDI controller support.
NEW Jack support including Jack Transport on all platforms.
NEW Group Tracks.
NEW Double-size clip slots in mixer view.
NEW Support for high resolution displays on OS X (Retina) and Windows (High-DPI).
NEW Multi-touch support on Linux.
NEW Per-project action mappings for MIDI controllers (both raw MIDI and via controller scripts) and computer keyboard.
NEW Inspector for devices - makes it more convenient to keep overview about modulation mappings.
NEW Oscilloscope device.
NEW Add ALSA support.
NEW Support for new MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) specification.
NEW Added side-chain to ring modulator device.
NEW Add template support.
NEW Delay-4 device.
FIXED If you load a project that makes use of a sample that is part of a library pack, but the pack is currently not installed on the machine that loads it, you'll get the message: "This file is available in the package manager. Would you like to download and install it?" Bug: If you click "Yes", nothing happens.
FIXED Controller API: track position observer should take navigation context into account.
FIXED Macro section displays "Default Preset" after loading a saved VST preset.
FIXED Dragging arranger time to clip launcher should make slot empty if no content on arranger.
FIXED Saving of VST plugin states crashes the plugin host on Windows.
FIXED Icons for file types do not show up in file manager after installing Bitwig Studio on Ubuntu .
FIXED Application icon no longer shows for Bitwig Studio on Ubuntu.
FIXED Some equalizer bands could go below 20Hz.
FIXED Add action to show plugin device window.
FIXED Sends of single device chains don't get muted if you mute the main channel.
FIXED LFO Phase parameter stopped working when Retrig is on.
FIXED Application crash when ungrouping a group track containing a track which routes notes to the track group output.
FIXED Crash if rescan of plugin in plugin error list window took some time and window was closed before plugin scan completed.
FIXED Engine on Mac OSX crashes sometimes if a plugin crashes.
FIXED Arranger cue markers and loop region should always show the events from the top level group.
FIXED Crash when showing context menu for a modulation source that is modulating a parameter that is not available (eg if plugin not loaded).
FIXED Routing choosers show the device preset name instead of the name of the device.
FIXED Crash when consolidating clips on the arranger while the note editor is looking inside one of the clips being consolidated.
FIXED Engine crash related to sends of nested device chains.
FIXED Instrument Track input chooser button shows empty string when selecting renamed controllers for the first time.
FIXED When dragging multiple audio files from the browser and using Ctrl key to put them in one track the files were still put in separate tracks.
FIXED Controller API: crash when calling addDeviceCountObserver on device bank of cursor track.
FIXED Shortcut modifiers are shown wrong on different operating systems (eg "super" on Mac).
FIXED Controller API: accessing sends of drum pads does not work.
FIXED Potential crash when no insertion layer is selected in layered note editor.
FIXED Rare crash when dragging and dropping clips in the clip launcher.
FIXED Controller API: some device parameters are not included in the direct-parameter-id list, but their values are reported.
FIXED Big clip height does not resize the group's scene header in the mixer.
FIXED When removing a library location it does not get removed from the search results if the cursor is currently inside that location.
FIXED Controller API: add selectInEditor to device interface.
FIXED Controller API: select functions in CursorDevice not working for nested VST plugins.
FIXED Audio engine can't connect to new projects sometimes when dragging tracks from one project to the project tab bar.
FIXED Not possible to select a waveform background in layered note editor.
FIXED Crash when in mixer view and cursor is in mini device chain and arrow right from last track when the effect tracks are not visible.
FIXED Dragging a no looping clip from the arranger to the clip launcher does not set the correct loop region.
FIXED Showing the input/output section in the arranger resulted in the track names getting shorter.
FIXED Search field is not focussed when opening Popup Browser via Drum Machine.
FIXED Occasional crash when dragging empty scenes in clip launcher.
FIXED Filtering of control surface shortcut in preferences did not work.
FIXED Project folder not named correctly when saving project with a dot in filename.
FIXED ASIO: Not all different bit-depths were properly supported + crash with buffer-size of 2048 samples.
FIXED When saving clips or presets and clicking ok the last tag in the tag field would not be committed if the user had not typed space after it.
FIXED Saved scenes would output to "No output" and could not be previewed in the browser.
FIXED Impossible to create Smart Collections within a folder on Windows machines.
FIXED Sometimes when making a shortcut assignment that is already made to another shortcut the message is not shown explaining this.
FIXED Crash when dragging 2 empty scenes in clip launcher after the last scene in the clip launcher.
FIXED Crash sometimes when moving cursor for the any file result of a filter column in the browser.
FIXED Crash sometimes when double clicking recently used document in file browser.
FIXED Wrong solo behavior for sends when tracks are routed to another track instead of master.
FIXED Crash when working with mappings in old documents that contains plugins that can't be found.
FIXED Occasional crash when closing document while having controller connected.
FIXED Zooming in clip content note editor does not take loop region of empty clips into account.
FIXED Controller script does not reach the maximum value if they overflow the range 0..127.
FIXED When dragging in a MIDI file with tempo automation ask the user if they want to import the tempo from the clip or not.
FIXED Controller API: crash when grouping, ungrouping or deleting group tracks in some cases.
FIXED Controller API: "any" filter item should be part of the list of items.
FIXED Controller API: crash when calling session.addIsActiveObserver.
FIXED Duplicate does not work for Effect tracks.
FIXED Links to web site from help menu did not work on Linux.
FIXED Tag input field doesn't create tags from pending text input when losing focus.
FIXED Notes which are cut off by the same key had a note length jitter when using large buffer sizes in the bitwig instruments.
FIXED Controller API: crash when using selectNext/Previous with named device cursor.
FIXED Time selection in the arranger timeline header area does not work.
FIXED Remember state of popup browser when browsing for samples or multi samples for a sampler.
FIXED Clip launcher clips we're slowly drifting apart due to accumulating rounding error.
FIXED "Copy value to all layers" and "Copy modulation to all layers" don't work correctly in some situations.
FIXED Adjusting time/secs of a beat marker by dragging inspector value is not applied.
FIXED Crash when openning a document from native file manager before the main window of the application was shown.
FIXED "Plugin windows follow current track" always opens VST GUI on primary screen, regardless on which screen it was open.
FIXED Stopping the playback in the middle of a sustain-pedaled note playing creates hanging note.
FIXED Unable to drag individual tracks for a document from the file browser.
FIXED Window disappears from screen on Windows sometimes.
FIXED Glitches when pitch sliding with organ with non-multiple-of-4 buffersizes.
FIXED Retriggering the same key from midi is unreliable in 1.2.
FIXED It was possible to create a feedback loop by moving a VST Instrument from a group track onto one of its child tracks, if the child track's output was routed to the VST as MIDI.
FIXED Engine crashes when connecting to document when a scene file is selected in the browser.
FIXED Renaming a track in the inspector creates an undo step for every single character entered.
FIXED Renaming a device does not create an undo step.
FIXED Crash when shift-selecting multiple launcher clips in note editor layer list.
FIXED The same shortcut can be added multiple times to a single action and application would crash when deleting the shortcut mappings.
FIXED Crash when dragging an empty MIDI clip into the application.
FIXED Application crashes when trying to save clip to browser in some projects.
FIXED Pasted notes are not inserted into the correct layer in layered note editor.
FIXED Deleting or installing a VST while app is running does not cause the preset browser to update with the change.
FIXED Can't activate the audio engine on OSX if set sample rate is set to automatic.
FIXED Controller API: old preset related functions are not working anymore.
FIXED ASIO: Issue switching sample-rate.
FIXED Soloing group with subgroups doesn't play/solo the subgroups.
FIXED Controller API: opening application panels such as browser should not try to focus them first.
FIXED Shift and right click to open popup browser on favorites should work in empty space too not just directly over the + button.
FIXED Controller API: cannot select first device in chain via cursorDevice.selectPrevious().
FIXED Wrong default value for Step MOD (32/1).
FIXED Files embedded in clips were not extracted into the project folder when dragged into project.
FIXED Crash when switching documents with some controllers connected.
FIXED Crash when control script connects to a plugin device under some circumstances.
FIXED Soloing tracks routed to hardware outputs does not mute other tracks routed to the same output.
FIXED Time and value fields are missing in note expression event inspector.
FIXED Inspector shows old button style for mute and solo buttons when clicking on a layer device chain.
FIXED Rare crash when selecting device via controller API.
FIXED Controller API: crash when switching VST presets on controller.
FIXED Macro doesn't receive name when mapped to 'enable bipolar' button of an LFO.
FIXED Bouncing a clip on a track in a group to a new track should create the new track within the group.
FIXED Context menu for a track in a track group shows a blank line instead of the item to show popup browser.
IMPROVED Allow to rename devices.
IMPROVED Better support for touch and pen input devices.
IMPROVED Modulation mappings from polyphonic sources to monophonic destinations.
IMPROVED Attack and sustain modulation sources for Transient Control device.
IMPROVED Better font rendering.
IMPROVED Arpeggiator now analyses incoming note expressions and applies them to generated notes.
IMPROVED Stronger highlight for played keys in piano roll editor.
IMPROVED Add graph to dynamic devices, such as Audio Mod, Compressor, Dynamics, LFO Mod, Peak Meter, Gate and Transient Control.
IMPROVED Display the band's frequency in EQ-2 and EQ-5 devices.
IMPROVED Clips on Master and Effect tracks can only be dragged to pre-existing audio or instrument tracks. .
IMPROVED Shortcut changes: "B" for popup browser, "Alt-B" for side panel browser.
IMPROVED When saving a scene, prefill dialog with scene name.
IMPROVED Add VST 64 bit and VST 32 bit file types to the device popup browser.
IMPROVED Controller API: add observer that reports if a device is a plugin.
IMPROVED Buffer sizes don't need to be limited to power-of-two values on OSX anymore.
IMPROVED Add note retrigger option to Step MOD.
IMPROVED Add context menu entries for deleting clip automation to editor background, launcher clip overview and automated parameter controls.
IMPROVED Focus should not change unless user is making a selection or clicking in empty area of a panel.
IMPROVED When saving a project always collect files that are in another project folder to the one we are saving.
IMPROVED Controller API: add function to toggle PreRoll.
IMPROVED Controller API: allow to navigate items in browser filter columns with nested entries as a flat list.
IMPROVED Controller API: add access to siblings of a track.
IMPROVED Controller API: track bank should allow to navigate flat track list, so that simple controllers work with tracks groups.
IMPROVED Controller API: cursorBrowserItem.selectNext/Previous should perform selection instead of only moving the cursor.
IMPROVED Added "Note Steal Release Time" parameter to sampler to let the user control what happens when a note is cut-off by the same key. (useful for cymbals).
IMPROVED Added jitter meter to the DSP Performance Graph which will shows how stable the audio processing scheduling is. If its not in the single-digit percentages try another buffer size.
IMPROVED The user can tell Bitwig Studio to forget about deleted projects in the recent document list.
IMPROVED Remember the next track color.
IMPROVED Shift + Click on the meter's peak value resets all the meter's peak values.
IMPROVED Controller API: fixed direct parameters should be listed before dynamic direct parameters (e.g. in layer device).
IMPROVED Controller API: add option that controls if siblings track bank contains effect tracks and master track. .
IMPROVED MMC transport support for generic controller scripts.
IMPROVED Controller API: allow to specify whether track cursor looks at flattened tracks, nested tracks, or as shown expanded in the GUI.
IMPROVED Optimized the WASAPI implementation for Windows 10.
IMPROVED No way of knowing the tuning (in note) of a tune-related parameter other than by changing its value (therefore detuning it).

 

There's quite some improvement :D

 

Every new version is better than previous... nice