What's new in Sweet MIDI Player 2.7.4
Nov 27, 2017
- Change - Renamed the "Auto Detect Chord" function into "Auto Compute Chord" to avoid confusion
- New - The "Auto Compute Chord" function is greatly improved
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.7.3 (Feb 14, 2017)
- New - Exporting to audio now uses the selected DLS/SF2 file
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.7.2 (Sep 6, 2016)
- New - Support for some more non standard MIDI Lyric/Text files
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.7.1 (Aug 4, 2016)
- Maintenance update - minor internal corrections and fixes.
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.7.0 (Apr 16, 2016)
- New - Auto detection of chords
- Bug fix - Metronome click could possibly go out of sync for certain MIDI files
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.6.6 (Sep 8, 2015)
- New - Support for Yamaha FX chords
- Bug fix - MIDI files with tempo changes didn't work as is should
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.6.5 (Aug 20, 2015)
- New - Chord display in the Text/Lyrics view
- Change - Much faster Text/Lyrics parsing + support for more non standard MIDI Lyric files
- New - MIDI Volume value now displayed during movement of the Volume slider
- Bug fix - Core MIDI output selection could possibly display MIDI input device name
- Bug fix - The selected Core MIDI input device didn't stick between launches
- Change - Now requires OS X 10.7 or better
- C++11 rules!
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.6.4 (Feb 16, 2015)
- Change - Better display of some more non standard MIDI Lyric files
- Bug fix - Sys Ex messages wasn't sent out to the selected Core MIDI device
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.6.3 (Feb 16, 2015)
- Bug fix - Corrected a bug which made single track format 0 files not being converted into format 1 files
- Change - Support for files with corrupt "Key Signature" events (rare but possible)
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.6.2 (Jan 9, 2014)
- New - More support for "non standard" Karaoke MIDI files
- Change - Now requires OS X 10.5 or better and Intel computers - PPC computers are not supported anymore
- Change - Better error checking for damaged MIDI files
- Bug fix - First note event on tick 0 in bar 1 would possibly not be played
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.6.1 (Aug 6, 2013)
- Change - Better error handling for unsupported MIDI messages when using the DLS Music Device
- Bug fix - Loop was set to off when loading a new song when in playlist mode
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.6.0 (May 28, 2013)
- Bug fix - Zero length text events could cause a problem when saving a MIDI file.
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.5.9 (Feb 12, 2013)
- Bug fix - Certain note on and off events could possibly be reversed
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.5.8 (Jan 3, 2013)
- Change - Improved lyrics display for many MIDI Karaoke files
- Bug fix - Fixed a crash that occurred when saving files (affects OS X 10.4 only)
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.5.6 (Sep 13, 2012)
- New - Now possible to change master volume, reverb and tuning for the DLS Music Device (MIDI Menu -> Music Device Settings)
- New - Support for saving as AAC/M4a audio file
- Change - Better support for Audacity Lame MP3 encoder
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.5.3 (Feb 20, 2012)
- New - Better support for Karaoke MIDI files with stray text events
- New - More support for "non standard" Karaoke MIDI files
- New - Support for MIDI files with 0xF7 "escape events" (very rare)
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.5.2 (Dec 12, 2011)
- New - Support for extremely long MIDI files
- New - The Karaoke display now supports "Marker" events
- Change - Minor corrections in the Karaoke display
- Change - Better support for "non standard" Karaoke MIDI files
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.5.1 (Sep 19, 2011)
- New - Spacebar may now toggle between Pause/Continue (Preferences setting)
- New - Automatic insertion of missing controller events
- Change - Better support for damaged/faulty MIDI files
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.5.0 (Jun 6, 2011)
- Change - Better behavior when using the "Mute" and "Solo" buttons during playback
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.9 (Mar 16, 2011)
- Change - Much faster loading of MIDI files
- Change - Button icons are now resized according to the current zoom setting
- Bug fix - Fixed a font drawing issue in the Karaoke screen
- Bug fix - Zoom menu item check marks were not updated correctly
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.8 (Feb 9, 2011)
- New - Escape key acts as Loop on/off command
- New - Key commands for the zoom choices
- Bug fix - Saving as an audio file could possibly affect the currently loaded MIDI file
- Bug fix - Now displays correct song length after editing
- Bug fix - Didn't work OK if using Apple's "Magic Trackpad"
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.7 (Oct 11, 2010)
- Bug fix - Better support for very long files.
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.6 (Aug 6, 2010)
- Bug fix - Minor fix in Load MIDI File
- Bug fix - Drag/Drop from iTunes was broken
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.5 (Feb 26, 2010)
- Bug fix - Minor fix in Load MIDI File
- Change - Now requires OS X 10.4 or later
- Change - PPC version needs a G4 or G5 processor
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.4 (Dec 21, 2009)
- New - Saving as a MP3 file provided you have the free Lame MP3 encoder installed.
- Change - Better behaviour when running with multiple monitors.
- Change - Finally changed the display name from "Sweet MIDI X" to "Sweet MIDI Player".
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.3 (Oct 16, 2009)
- Change - Now supports files available on external discs or networks.
- New - Added a "Recent Playlists" menu item in the File Menu.
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.2 (Aug 19, 2009)
- Bugfix - The "DLS Music Device" didn't work on "Snow Leopard".
- Change - Now converts any bank change messages into bank 0 if using the DLS Music device (banks other that 0 will make drum sounds).
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.1 (May 19, 2009)
- New - Now stores left and right locator values when saving a MIDI file.
- Bugfix - Some key commands didn't work on laptops.
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.4.0 (Sep 29, 2008)
- New - Karaoke display.
- New - Key commands for setting the left and right locators.
- New - Added an "Edit Sequence Name" item in the Edit Menu.
- Change - Looping is now also possible when the Jukebox is enabled.
- Change - Now checks for too long MIDI files.
- Bugfix - Didn't handle multiple text events with the same time position correctly.
- Bugfix - Mixer controls didn't always update correctly if changed during playback.
New in Sweet MIDI Player 2.3.4 (Apr 11, 2008)
- New - Save as Audio FIle now also supports Unicode characters no need to save the MIDI file before converting to audio