FASoft releases n-Track Studio v6.0 Beta

10th July 2008 - KVR Audio News

FASoft has released a beta version of n-Track Studio v6.0.

What's new in n-Track Studio v6.0:

Realtime crossfade between parts overlapped in timeline, crossfade option in timeline popup menu [New feature]
RMS Level meters, with RMS+Peak option and support for K-System metering [New feature] Allow for more accurate metering of audio loudness and enables monitoring using Bob Katz K-System, with presets for K-12, K-14 and K-20)
Signal Path View window [New feature] (Shows a realtime representation of the routing of audio signals in the audio engine, enables to intuitively alter signal routing parameters and connections)
Support for Wave64 file format [New feature] (Support for wave files that have length beyond the 2 Gb limitation of regular .wav file, using either .wav or .w64 extensions)
The program no longer requires Microsoft .NET to be installed and the 'Enable Microsoft .Net' setting in Preferences/Option can be disabled so that n-Track will not use .NET even if it is installed on the computer (a few UI features will be then disabled such as the Navigator window) [New feature]
Duplicate waveform dragging while holding down Windows key [New feature]
Per part volume knob in part properties box (that appears double clicking on waveform). Volume adjustment is visually to waveform [New feature]
Dragging a waveform beyond the end loops the wave file [New feature]
Angled edges of waveform frame, more angled when waveform end is open or looped [New feature]
Volume Envelopes: "Click adds node" toggle option to avoid inadvertently adding envelope nodes. When "Click adds node" is disabled "Add node" must be selected from popup menu [New feature]
Volume Envelopes: when "Click adds node" is disabled mouse drags envelope segments
Volume Envelopes: set selected node to Maximum, Center, Minimum context menu commands [New Feature]
Volume Envelopes: text entering of selected node value [New Feature]
Fixed Mixdown dialog box asking twice if you want to overwrite destination file [Bug fix]
Fixed mixer stripe selection toolbar and mixer buttons not updating when skin is changed [Bug fix]
When skin doesn't contain a button in multiple-buttons image files (e.g. ntrck4.bmp) program reverts missing button to default button in default skin image file [New feature]
Color of track name text in left track bar customizable via Skin dialog box [New feature]
Mixer Sliders customization based on slider type: "Track_Audio", "Track_MIDI", "Master", "Aux", "Group", "Instrument", "ReWire", "Surround_Output" with "SendVolume" for send sliders (e.g. Slider0Track_AudioSendVolume.png, Slider0MasterDown.png, SliderHover0Track_MIDI.png, SliderDown0Instrument.png) [New feature]
Track EQ window Minimize-Maximize button in place of "Show All EQ Controls" popup menu command [New feature]
Removed odd 'Create also an [Mp3/Wma/Ogg] version in Mixdown dialog box and moved output format selection in Save As file selection dialog box [New feature]
Toolbar button to toggle the 'Song Comments' window [New feature]
"Open Containing Folder" option in audio file right click context menu [New feature]
Wave file sizes are now expressed in Gb, Mb or Kb depending on size instead of always Kb [New feature]
Multiple external wave editors can be defined in the Settings/Preferences/Paths dialog box [New feature]
Transport buttons (Play, Rec etc.) can now have custom width defined in Skin.xml [New feature]
Improved program startup time [Optimization]
Fixed crash when importing MIDI files that have erroneous or corrupt information (e.g. some files exported by Hydrogen drum machine) [Bug fix]
Fixed 'Revert to last zoom' button having no action after 'Zoom All' command [Bug fix]
Fixed 'Voice-level activated recording' sometimes getting stuck always recording. Now it also disable 'auto-scroll timeline' (Ctrl+T). [Bug fix]
Fixed graphic redraw problem on Windows Vista of lower portion of CD Burn window. [Bug fix]
Fixed problem in CD Burn and Sampling Frequency Conversion window multiple-file file requester dialog box. [Bug fix]