SynthFont updated to v1.500

15th October 2010

SynthFont has been updated to version 1.500.

New features:

Much improved support for screen readers like JAWS from Freedom Scientific and the free NVDA.
Replaced some of Delphi's native StringGrids with Microsoft's ListViews and a number of Delphi's native SpeedButtons with normal buttons for better screen reader support.
You can now define a Default Scale Tuning (when no Arrangement is found).
New Mixer, with two alternatives Standard - similar to as before and Extended (available to registered users only) with four parameters available.
Press Ctrl+H to see a large number of new (and old) keyboard shortcuts. (This list is in the file "ShortKeys.txt").

Bug fixes:

A SoundFont Override was not correctly defined when preset was different from default.
SynthFont did not send Program Changed message to a MIDI out port.
SynthFont did not automatically save VST Effects program changes when saving the Arrangement.
Moving VST effects up/down while playing didn't work correctly.
Plus a multitude of minor issues ... to many to list here.

These original version 1.420 features are now available:

Bank change to a User Bank in live mode and the Bank Manager setting only "Either fine or coarse" selection (required for live mode).
New Playback volume levels display.
More buffers for playing live without ASIO.
The Volume Offset in SoundFont Overrides is now connected to each Preset and not to the track (which is necessary for tracks with more than one MIDI Program/Preset changes).