Bjt2 has updated their free Crescendo plugin to version 1.0.70 with various enhancements and bug fixes:
- Introduced programmable MIDI sequencer mode.
- Introduced a secondary input, to be able to perform sidechaining in all configurations.
- Added song time and sequencer time (if activated) next to polyphony in debug mode.
- Added host song time and host flags next to polyphony in debug>=2 mode.
- Bug fix:
- Correctly sync the internal clock with the host clock.
- Correctly detect if the DAW is in play mode.
- MIDI messages generation.
- Dynamic allocation of some buffers.
- Changed SENDSx behaviour: same as OUT except that after POST step their values are lost.
- Allowed multiline instructions.
- Expanded and reworked the manual.
Enhancements from previous versions:
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Crescendo can now be used as a VST MIDI effect. Detailed instructions in the manual.
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UI tweaks, performance enhancement and bugfixes (resource leak).
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Added version, build type, sample rate and block size to some debug messages.
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Performance enhancement: merged further IFs in critical code, inlined some functions and tweaked some compiler parameters.
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Bugfix: given a name ("Temperament") to the temperament VST Var.
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Added variable arguments, C's printf style functions support in the parser: ("format string", ...).
- Added OSCG ("format string", ...) general oscillator function.
- Deprecated functions covered by OSCG and put them in Appendix B of the manual.
- SoundFont import: use the new OSCG function. Add the temperament VST VAR. Warning: in a future release deprecated functions will be deleted. Reimport all the SoundFont files.
- Introduced FREQ0 and GAIN0: plain, not modulated values.
- Performance enhancement (merged some IFs in critical code).
- Compiled with faster flags.
- Cosmetic fixes (disabled theme on buttons) and performance enhancement (deleted redundant redraws) on the UI.
- VST var linked with temperament now shows temperament name, to aid in choosing temperament with config window closed. Autosetting the VST var parameters (min, max, scale type).
- Debug messages reworking.
- Removed UTF-8 BOM quirk.
- UTF-8 support in most UI strings (your source text file must be in UTF-8).
- Reworked manual.
