Bitwig Studio has been updated to v2.2.
Highlights include:
- With Ableton Link, Bitwig Studio syncs perfectly and effortlessly to a multitude of software solutions, including an entire ecosystem of mobile apps.
- A new Time Shift device allows for creative timing adjustments anywhere in your device chain.
- Get creative in modulation heaven with 4 new modulators: Polynom, Quantize, Audio Rate, Sample and Hold.
- The On-Screen Keyboard Panel is now available in all display profiles.
- New display profile: Studio/Touch.
- Lots of fixes and improvements, check the full change-log below.
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New:
- Ableton Link support.
- Time Shift Device.
- Sample & Hold Modulator.
- Quantize Modulator.
- Audio Rate Modulator.
- Polynom Modulator.
- Dual Display (Studio/Touch) profile.
Improved:
- Improved Audio & Note Playback Engine.
- Add a smoothness parameter to MIDI clock slave.
- Remember sample auto preview and synchronize to song tempo from the sample preview in the preferences.
- Allow user to edit templates they have created by opening the project file in the template folder.
- Add pan swap to the Tool device.
- Better user experience for configuring Audio Devices.
- Better workflow for selecting clips & time in the arranger to show content in the editor.
- MIDI Clock Slave catches the tempo faster on Continue.
- Added Single Trigger option to ADSR & AHDSR modulators (useful only in mono-mode).
- When clicking on arranger clips, the note editor (clip mode) should only scroll if alt modifier was pressed.
- Rename some Livid instrument scripts so they all have a distinct name.
- Add MIDI Learn button to the MIDI modulator.
- Add an option to release Note Latch playing notes when the transport is stopped.
- Update plugin window title in real-time.
- Show device and track name in VST window title area on macOS.
- Always show name on arranger clips (instead of only custom names).
- Sampler's start and loop region is now polyphonic.
- Added touch keyboard to both single display profiles.
- Let Macro and Macro-4 be polyphonic.
- Remember zoom level per clip.
- Make HW CV Instrument wider.
- Let the comb filter go down to 20 Hz.
- Add smoothing to Step Modulator.
- Improve zoom to fit for clip launcher note editor.
- Support DPI Aware plug-ins on Windows (if they implement PreSonus Plug-In Extensions).
- Removed legato for raw audio and made working with sample play stop (in seconds) vs event end (in beats) more clear.
- The search field from the library on the side panel should be the same for each content type.
- Controller API: make auto-detection work for multiple connected devices of the same model.
- It is now possible to set the cross-fade length used when looping audio clips.
- Improved compatibility with HiDPI plug-ins on Windows.
- It is now possible to use more than one MIDI controller of the same model (e.g. Launchpad) at the same time.
- Scripting API: new API to copy slots or scenes.
- Sampler now supports audio rate pitch modulation.
- If a plugin takes a long time to scan notify the user and give them the option to skip that plugin.
- Better support for resizing of plug-in windows.
- Smooth/Glide for the step sequencer.
- Remember plugin window position.
- Improved Arturia Keylab 25/49/61/88 scripts.
Fixed:
- Out of memory error when parsing some u-he preset files.
- Engine crash sometimes when switching projects.
- APC40 MKII version 1.0 by Akai crashed while using the cue knob.
- Potential crash when dragging audio file from spotlight.
- Deleting nested return track in certain corrupted projects could cause a crash, these are now automatically repaired.
- Crash when saving remote controls.
- Painting of automation preview sometimes crashes.
- Transposing notes using arrow keys sometimes erases other notes when passing over.
- Double-clicking a dot in Blur device places dot outside the dynamic display box.
- When moving multiple notes with the same key over other notes using arrow keys, the existing notes might get truncated in some cases.
- Duplicating a track does not properly duplicates the track's output routing.
- Overlapping notes in MIDI files are not imported correctly.
- VST3 ModuleEntry () was not called on Linux.
- QuNeo not auto detected on Linux.
- Setting a clip's loop length to very small values causes the playhead to escape the looped region and play audio outside of it.
- "Save Preset To Library" dialog: TAB key doesn't switch from Tags to Preset description (+ [SUG] "Category" selector).
- Copying automation to clip launcher needs finer threshold for streamlining points, to avoid that straight sections result in a sloped section if points are very close.
- Impossible to stop queued clip before it launches.
- Undo history breaks if you move an automation point and hit the right mouse key while doing so.
- Timing of resulting bounce is not accurate when tempo automation is used.
- "Poly" button in ADSR modulator: tool-tip says "Single Trigger".
- File/Close doesn't work nor shortcut ctrl+W.
- Deleting note effects while playing can result in stuck notes.
- Crash when importing multiple audio files using drag and drop to an empty project.
- VST3 plugins may fail scanning in some cases.
- Automation of Diatonic Transposer mode shift doesn't quite match up with the actual values.
- Raise the maximum number of HW audio channels from 128 to 256.
- Pen tool right-click to delete notes does not work without moving the mouse in drum editor.
- Steps Modulator: when Loop is OFF, Modulator jumps back to the first step after completion of the cycle, instead of staying on the last step.
- Modulator mapping visualization would disappear when folding and unfolding the modulators while editing a remote controls page.
- Shot mode in sampler didn't play the sample the first time.
- ALSA: improve recovery when sound card is brutally disconnected.
- Delete key does not update the text field in large text editor (e.g: preset's description).
- Drum machine only has 127 slices while it could have 128.
- Scrolling note editor when clicking on arranger clips does not work correctly the first time.
- Preview player made a hung-buffer noise if you selected a sample/file which was missing but still in the index while playing back another one.
- Sample preview sometimes clicked at the beginning.
- It was possible to create shorter loops than the minimum allowed size by dragging a short clip from the arranger to the clip launcher.
- Fix problems with using projects after they have been saved as a template.
- Window wants to become bigger than screen when opening clip content editor in EDIT panel layout with 300% scaling.
- Time shift shouldn't be automatable & modulatable.
- Fix some devices default settings and default preset.
- Reporting tempo 0 to VST plug-in instances.
- Modulation mapping visual indication would disappear after folding/unfolding chains.
- Recording note clip launcher playback to the arranger doesn't update the recorded clip when editing the source clip.
- Clicking in track group background on the arranger results in broken looking note editor if group master contains no audio clips.
- Using the ALT-modifier in the clip launcher to bounce a clip during drag & drop was moving the original (should be a copy).
- Regression: command for setting loop region to time selection area does not work until an event is selected.
- Regression: field value flickers when adjusting start time of arranger clips in inspector.
- Note modulator doesn't affect notes before they play.
- Notes in first loop iteration are not rendered correctly if clip content start marker is at the same location as the loop end.
- Engine crashes if there is an error initializing audio output.
- Engine crash when connecting engine to a project that contains a bypassed HW Instrument.
- Crashes from Changing Audio Sample Rate.
- Delete button works like backspace in text editor.
- Values Can Not Be Confirmed via Numerical Block Enter Key.
- Consolidating clips with RAW audio in them results in the audio playing outside of the clip boundary.
- Automation bug in large project.
- Button to enable automatic size of audio lanes is sometimes not visible when it should.
- Crash when layer editing in a hybrid track with audio background.
- Bounce/In Place freezes when external clock is being received.
- Saving as template could break the current document (missing samples).
- Sampler not keytracking correctly.