LMMS Changelog

What's new in LMMS 1.3.0 Alpha 1

• Changes in the source tree(for who building LMMS from source):
• Move some 3rd-party code to submodules (#3930, #3931, #3940, #3946, #3957, #3960, #3962, #3965, #3970, #3996, 0850b78, #5182, 924743d, #5724, #5755)
• Plugins(new/upgraded):
• New instrument: Xpressive plugin (#3259, #3772, #4089, #5217, #5586)
• Upgrade Calf LADSPA plugins to 0.90 (#3987)
• The new version of Spectrum Analyzer (#4950, #5160, ef99c53)
• Add the vectorscope plugin (#5328)
• Bitcrusher: allow non-integer bit depth (#5407)
• New features:
• Add FLAC export (#3731, #5501)
• Allow resizing sample tracks from left (#3487, #4008)
• Support SF3 soundfont(.sf3) files (#3895)
• Add ghost notes feature (#4575, #4812)
• Rendering looped sections multiple times on export (#4639)
• Step Recording feature (#4544)
• Support FX Mixer for sample tracks and add controls to sample track window (#3866)
• Add a save option to discard MIDI connections (#5021)
• Allow drag&drop samples on sample tracks (#5043)
• Enhanced snapping in song editor (#4973, #5401)
• Add saving/loading marked semitones in piano roll (#5146)
• Add vertical zoom to piano roll (#5442)
• Allow VST preset preview (#5441)
• Show VST parameter string (#5321)
• Add basic support for LV2 (#4899, #5517, #5691, #5783)
• Automatically assign a midi input device to the selected track (#5499)
• Implement portable mode (#5561)
• Enable mixer color-coding (#5589)
• Enable track-wide color coding (#5573, #5780)
• Feature: Glue notes in piano roll (#5721)
• Fixes bug with cloning Automation Tracks (#5732)
• Support Carla on Windows (#5713)
• Support JACK on Windows (#5716)
• Add auto-highlight scale and key selection (#5196)
• Bug fixes:
• Fix sndio endianness issue on OpenBSD build (#3716)
• Fix arithmetic overflow in timeline widget (#3701, bcdb5ec)
• Fix time display inconsistency between seconds/ticks (#3711, 4b36ba9)
• Fix debug builds crashing when previewing notes (c9c22e4)
• Remove audio artifacts when automating the Equlizer parameters (#4260, 4fd8ecd)
• Fix soundfonts without patch 0 making no sounds by default (#5084)
• Fix "Mark/unmark all corresponding octave semitones" crash (#5137)
• Fix vertical piano somtimes ignoring fast mouse clicks (#5262)
• Fix undefined beahvior from uninitialized values (#5413)
• Piano roll: fix stuck vertical cursor (#5200)
• Fix crash on CLI rendering (#5579)
• Fix wrong lengths of exported tracks when tracks have different lengths (#5348)
• Finer knob step size for LADSPA effects (#4574)
• Fix "Remove unused channels" ignoring sample tracks (#5559)
• Fix garbage in exported audio caused by resampling (#5552)
• Fix mute state not saving when soloed track exists (#5565)
• Fix the outer border for the instrument track (#5594)
• Fix metronome playing when song is paused (#5612)
• Fix for Icons and comboboxes mismatch in arpeggiator in Instrument Editor (#5623)
• Fix FM or heavy PM in TripleOscillator result in odd output (#5651)
• Fix MIDI import ignoring some tracks (#5653)
• Fix crash on opening project files from a .zip file on Windows (#5677)
• Fix for Mixer volume percentage labels are off by a factor of 100 (#5661)
• LB302: Use consistent cutoff frequency on mulitple sample rates (#5618)
• Fix sample clips cutting at the beginning in some cases (e5f1007)
• Fix crash/freezing after rendering when using soundio/JACK (#5681)
• Fix bugs with one instrument track window mode (#5808)
• UI changes
• Move the search bar on top of the file browser for sidebar pages (#3657)
• Make pattern names easier to read (#3691, #3704)
• Save/load the track height (#3692, #3840)
• Improve UI behavior on drag-moving tracks (#3878, e8debf9)
• Restrict playing notes on the keyboard of the Piano Roll editor to left-clicks. (#3771)
• Improve About dialog and export dialog (#3826, aad98d7)
• Improve the plugin browser UI (#3773)
• Use "Set value" as dialog title on typing values (#4063)
• Use themed file dialogs everywhere (#4298)
• Responsive "Effects chain" & "User controller" LEDs (#4297)
• Allow setting/moving points at the left edge of automation editor grid (#4323)
• Zooming with mouse wheel center (#3835)
• Reorder the main windows' buttons & shortcuts (#3938)
• Allow renaming of FX mixer channels with the F2 and enter keys. (#4348)
• Remove "What's This?" and update tooltips (#4128, #5173)
• Enable antialiasing in EQ's spectrum analyzer (#4416)
• Fix typo on MIDI import dialog (#4457)
• Add option to show note values on notes in Piano Roll (#4466)
• Allow variable-sized windows for instruments (#4906, 6e7c4a4)
• PluginBrowser: Tree layout and search bar (#4759)
• New icons for Monstro (#4943)
• FileBrowser: Backup expanded directories and restore that state when the tree is reloaded (#4930)
• Increase Mixer fader falloff speed (#5038)
• FadeButtons now remain partially lit as a note plays out (#4969)
• MDI Subwindow Decoration for VeSTige instruments (#2826)
• Fix renaming mixer channel from the context menu (#5083)
• Use mean-based logic for controlling loop points (#4034)
• Show the vertical scroll bar of song editor and bb-editor only if needed (#5102)
• Fix some spelling errors (#5151)
• Fix the visualization widget showing clipping color at exactly 0dB (#5162)
• Rewrite the setup dialog (#3820, 9f0baab)
• Remove maximize from Meter(Metro) menu (#5071)
• Add missing icons of File menu actions (#5183)
• Add close button to sidebar (#5133)
• Give focus to automation editor when the window gets the foucs (#5170, #5224)
• Increase File Browser Spacing (#4252)
• Fix spelling errors (#5385)
• Add "Open containing folder" to sidebar context menu (#5453)
• Disable dragging automation points after drawing line (#5315)
• Fix limitations when scrolling in automation editor (#5469)
• Add an option to move sidebar to right side of window (#5114)
• Add spacing above the oscilloscope (#5490)
• Adds a button to clone the BB track pattern (#5531)
• Adding a trail (gradient) behind the position bar (#5543)
• Make Pause hotkey Shift+Space (#5554)
• Removed the excessive margin in instruments' GUI (#5171)
• Add full screen/subwindow maximize shortcuts and remap other shortcuts (#5563)
• Remove warning color from oscilloscope (#5492)
• Center vertical scroll position when opening the Automation Editor (#5123)
• Change the background color of the selected text in a text box (#5628)
• Add keyboard shortcuts to preview/add sounds from sidebar (#5427)
• Add insert/remove bar buttons in Song editor (#5698)
• Better background color of the selected text (#5687)
• New visualization for disabled knobs (#5549)
• Better visualization for effect rack (#5766)
• Minor icon updates (#5588)
• Performance improvements:
• Disable EQ analyser when invisible to save CPU (#4399)
• Don't reload sample from disk when reversing (#5701)
• Other changes/improvements:
• Refactor shortcuts for song editor (#3649, #3796, #3832)
• Add a build option to debug floating-point errors (#3687, #4213)
• Add support for SDL2 (#3732, ec28a65, ff8de2d, e2a7587, 0196f31)
• Support building with MSVC and support 64bit VSTs on Linux (#4000, #4352, f245d74, adcc009, ac65fb9, 57c85f4, b7c0997, 1c5e374, #4505, #5180)
• Allow exporting empty projects (#4031)
• Copy/paste values to/from system clipboard (#4257)
• Add Performance logger and use on exporting (#3974)
• Give our threads names for debugging (#4356)
• Initialize peak controller with the base value instead of 0 (#4382)
• Added an uninstall target for make (#4448)
• Add wiki as submodule (#4588)
• Fix or remove wrong or useless debug printfs (#4745)
• Allow console output on Windows if available (#4719)
• Allow 32 for minimum buffer size in UI (#4336)
• Better Wine detection and support (af40c76, 8c4514f, #5211, d173f42)
• Play/record piano roll's chord notes (#4963)
• Allow playing muted pattern in the piano roll (#5134)
• Make undo for PianoRoll cut action possible (#5214)
• Remove global automation from MIDI import (#5223, f1831ff)
• Add activity indicator for sample tracks (#5477)
• Support NetBSD's OSS audio/midi implementation (#5277)
• Implement fade in to prevent TripleOscillator from clicking (#5199)
• Allows instruments to keep the MIDI channel information when forwarding (#5470)
• Consolidate error messages while loading project (#5269)
• Better minimum length when resizing notes (#5512)
• Add missing 1/96 quantization (#5304)
• Set default behaviour of playhead to