Sagan Technology has announced that Metro v6.4.1 Pre-Release is now available.
New to this version:
- Improved Leopard (OS X version 10.5) compatibility.
- Keyboard window fully supports note entry via the Macintosh keyboard, mouse wheel support for modulation, multiple velocity entry methods and more. Also useful for step entry.
- Duplicate command. Copies and pastes data without using the clipboard.
- Support for note nudging in the graphic editor when in average velocity view.
- The drum view of the graphic editor now defaults to using note names and displays them in decreasing pitch order.
- Recent file menu has been increased from 35 to 75.
- Support for shift-tab when entering chords to go backwards.
- Support for Shift-[ and Shift-] to extend the selection and include the previous or next note respectively.
- Support for the Esc Key to deselect note events in the graphic editor.
- Support for nudging the durations of selected notes in the graphic editor with Command arrow keys.
- Recently used plug-ins are saved immediately after instantiation instead of on exit.
- Grids now display at triplet intervals in the graphic editor when the triplet (3) is selected.
Fixed in this version:
- Better support for track insert plug-ins. The audio output of the plug-in will only mute now if all the tracks assigned to this plug-in are also muted.
- Floating windows are consistently marked with a 'ƒ' in the windows menu if they are visible.
- A Plug-in edit windows visibility is restored properly for undo/redo.
- Moving the selection by option arrow keys was broken in 6.4
- Double clicking in the tracks window presents a more appropriate view in the graphic editor.
- A remote crash could occur after playing the jukebox if a plug-in was instantiated.
- The sequence name is not erroneously overwritten when importing MIDI files.
- When zooming out in the graphic editor, the Bar header numbers can now span more than one bar. Previously they would disappear. This makes it much easier to recognize the bar even when zoomed out.
- Wait for note mode while in audio sync.
- Auto repeat keyboard events are processed much more quickly.
- The tempo was erroneously being changed when importing audio in some cases.
- Switching apps during mixdown could cause the tempo to erroneously change in certain cases. This would adversely impact the mix.
- VST presets were not being imported because of endian issues on MacIntel machines.
- Improved VST and AU plug-in support.
- Dragging a plug-in from an aux buss to a track or visa versa could have resulted in the plug-ins output not being set. This would mysteriously silence the plug-in in some cases.
- The enter, Esc and return keys now work in the destructive plug-in editor dialog.
- Canceling the qualification dialog would cause the recent plug-ins menu to be cleared.
- Playing audio through an aux buss now works more reliably.
- Improved plug-in latency compensation.
- Faders volume knobs were being positioning incorrectly in the mixer window when chasing master volume.
- A crash could occur when recording long sysex messages on certain MIDI devices.
- Better support for restoring plug-ins after a paste operation, especially across documents.
- Assigning remote control effects parameter to bypass now works.
- Works around a bug in NI's B4 plug-in.
- Better support for changing an AU's input and output counts and also restoring them upon document load.
- Undoing certain operations could cause a crash.
- Inserting a note by using the pencil key over the vertical keyboard would in some rare cases fail.
- Much smoother graphic editor horizontal scroll wheel support.
- A crash could occur if a section was deleted while not playing.
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements.
- Sidechaining on a mono audio track was not working properly.
- Sidechaining pre-fader was broken if the sidechain was on an aux buss.
- A crash could occur when more than 128 outputs were active.
